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Frances Beroset The Chronicle Hearings for a lawsuit filed by a men’s soccer player suspended for sexual assault continued Thursday with testimony from a professor. Sophomore Ciaran McKenna, a member of the men’s soccer team, filed a lawsuit against the University after he was suspended for six semesters when the Office of Student Conduct found he had violated Duke’s sexual misconduct policy. He is alleging breach of contract, commonlaw fairness violations and negligence for what his lawsuit considers the University’s flawed decision to try him twice for the same alleged assault. James Coleman, John S. Bradway professor of the practice of law and faculty advisor to McKenna, testified both Wednesday and Thursday on McKenna’s behalf. Coleman is codirector of the Wrongful Convictions See SEXUAL ASSAULT on Page 4

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Courtesy of Duke Photography James Coleman is the John S. Bradway professor of law and co-director of the Wrongful Convictions Clinic at Duke.

This is what we all expected. Grayson Allen, Luke Kennard and Jayson Tatum showing off their shotmaking ability to carry Duke. Justin Jackson and Joel Berry II getting loose in transition to spark the Tar Heels. And an offensive display that came down to the game’s waning minutes. We got what we expected Thursday night, and it was an unlikely Matt Jones offensive rebound that might have saved the signature win the Cameron Crazies have been craving for so long. With his team up three, Jones corralled a Tatum miss with 37 seconds left that led to a Frank Jackson free throw and game-sealing defensive stop in No. 18 Duke’s 86-78 win against No. 8 North Carolina Thursday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Tatum

scored all 19 of his points after halftime to spark the Blue Devils in the second half, and Allen and Kennard combined for 45 points and nine triples, with Allen nailing seven of those himself. After Berry missed a contested reverse layup following Jackson’s free throw that made it 81-77, Tatum added a pair of free throws himself to put the game out of reach. And against the team that leads the nation in rebounding margin, it was the St. Louis native that led all players with nine rebounds as Duke won the battle on the boards 31-30. He also added a career-high five assists. North Carolina starting forward Isaiah Hicks missed the contest with a hamstring injury, but Allen, Kennard and Tatum played like the Blue Devils’ big three and Duke’s other players filled in the gaps in by far the team’s best performance of the season. See M. BASKETBALL on Page 6

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Students celebrate beating Jessica Van Meir named UNC with bonfire on quad Gates-Cambridge scholar Likhitha Butchireddygari The Chronicle After Duke defeated UNC Thursday night, The Chronicle caught up with students at the celebratory bonfire about their thoughts on the game: “First Duke game and it was amazing. It was my first time watching a full basketball game. Honestly, I’m not into sports very much, but I’m really glad to be a part of Duke’s culture now. Go Duke!”—first-year Ivan Robles “It’s nice to see that Coach K has returned to see a winning Duke team again.”—sophomore James Hwang “The sophomores have been waiting for this moment—the bench burning— for so long. It’s amazing.”—sophomore Brittany Day “I was only watching live updates from the library, but I felt like I was there the whole time.”—sophomore Jacob Baca

“It was awesome. Go Duke!”—junior Breanna Polascik “Joel Barry II got what he deserved. I’m very happy because he had to be taken down.”—first-year Maram Elnagheeb “I’m so happy that we won. This is like a dream come true because I love seeing us burn benches.”—junior Rachel Thompson “Duke is the best. I come from halfway across the globe. I come from f**king West Africa, and Duke is still the f**king best of it’s kind. Duke is still the best to exist. I’m sorry, but UNC tries but it can’t be as good as us. Duke is the epitome of the world. UNC can’t experience the beauty that is good.”—senior Sanmi Oyenuga “We are immortal right now. In this moment, we are all immortal.”— sophomore Preston Huang “I didn’t see any benches burn last year. And it such a let down... It was terrible. This feeling is just so cool, being out here, seeing the flames, freaking out.”— sophomore Spencer Flynn

Han Kang | The Chronicle Hundreds of Duke students stormed the quad to burn benches after Duke men’s basketball won against UNC Chapel Hill.

Claire Ballentine The Chronicle Senior Jessica Van Meir has been named a Gates-Cambridge scholar, the University announced Thursday. A public policy major with minors in psychology and gender, sexuality and feminist studies, Van Meir is one of 36 U.S. recipients from about 800 applications. The scholarship funds tuition and living expenses for scholars to complete a graduate degree at the University of Cambridge. “It felt really nice to know what I’m doing next year,” she said about learning she had been selected. “It’s a really great honor.” Next year, Van Meir—who is from Atlanta—plans to complete a master’s of philosophy program in development studies. She then hopes to work for the federal government in the State Department in diplomacy or civil service, she noted. The Gates-Cambridge Scholarship program—which was established in 2000 with a grant of $210 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—selects recipients based on their potential for leadership and commitment to improving the lives of others. At Duke, Van Meir has been an advocate for sexual assault prevention. After taking the class “Telling Stories for Social Change: Confronting Sexual and Domestic Violence at Duke and in Durham,” she created the club We Are Here Duke which works to address gender violence. She has also been a member of the Sexual Misconduct Task Force. This year, she founded a group called Duke Students Against Gender Violence, which facilitates collaboration between the many groups on campus that work to prevent gender violence. “There were a lot of groups working on these issues but not a lot of collaboration,” she said. “We have been trying to increase communication between student groups on the issue.”

Special to The Chronicle Van Meir said that she plans to pursue a master’s of philosophy in development studies at the University of Cambridge.

Van Meir also helped draft a letter of policy recommendations that was presented to the Sexual Misconduct Task Force and led to the creation of a new position at Duke for Title IX outreach and response. That position is now held by Victoria Krebs. She said her passion for addressing gender violence on campus stems from her experiences with a friend who was sexually assaulted during their first year and had a hard time with the reporting process at the University. “I wanted to work on addressing problems that she had encountered in the process and making it easier for sexual assault survivors to report,” Van Meir said. Van Meir has also interned with Project Transgender in Quito, Ecuador and participated in a DukeEngage independent project with ZanaAfrica in Nairobi, Kenya. In addition, she worked as a research assistant for Judith Kelley, Kevin D. Gorter professor of public policy, to study how the U.S. influences global human trafficking See SCHOLAR on Page 4

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Arts and Sciences Council debates changes to curriculum proposal Bre Bradham The Chronicle At its first meeting of the Spring semester, Trinity’s Arts and Sciences Council continued its ongoing discussion about the proposed new curriculum and was presented with a resolution to take a strong position against two of Trump’s executive orders. An updated draft of the curriculum was sent to faculty last week that features a number of changes from the earlier version released during the Fall semester, including the re-structuring of the first-year experience and the transformation of the “Signature Core” into “Foundations,” which will include courses in writing, a second language and quantitative inquiry. “I was here during Curriculum 2000. We know things like this do not happen often historically,” said Arlie Petters, dean of academic affairs and associate vice provost for undergraduate education. “So we are living in a special time.” Lee Baker, professor of cultural anthropology, sociology and African and African American Studies, noted that the philosophical purpose of the curriculum’s core design is a shift away from the distribution requirements model that currently guides students through Duke. The proposed curriculum changes seek to create a model that allows students to “make meaning” out of their time at the University and integrate their experiences into “something that is amazing,” Baker said. As it is currently proposed, the curriculum departs from its Fall 2016 version on the first-year experience.

Krista Stark | The Chronicle The new curriculum proposal, discussed at the council’s Thursday meeting, requires students to take a class in another language.

The committee pivoted from calling the structure for first-years “Duke Experience” to now labeling it as “Frameworks.” Before the end of their first year on campus, students would have to take three “thematically organized courses”—one in the social sciences, one in the natural sciences and one in the humanities. Participation in the FOCUS program could be a substitute for Frameworks. The other key shift is from a Signature Core to a Foundation, which students will need to complete by the end of their second year. A Foundation consists of one course that corresponds with current Writing 101 objectives, one course in a second language and one course that

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fulfills quantitative inquiry objectives. The shift to mandate a class in a second language is a notable departure from the position outlined in the last draft, in which students were required to fulfill one “Languages and Culture” requirement without necessarily taking a class taught in a language other than English. Joshua Sosin, associate professor of classical studies, expressed concern about whether the newly-termed Foundation will fulfill the University’s charge to adequately provide a holistic intellectual basis for students. He raised issue with the idea that forcing students to take a single course in an area would be sufficient to encourage further exploration—

comparing it to inviting his son to try cauliflower multiple times in the hope that he will like it someday. “I think you’re pointing to a fundamental divide among the faculty about to what extent we should be making students try certain kinds of things—and what are those certain kinds of things,” said Suzanne Shanahan, associate research professor of sociology and chair of the Imagining Duke Curriculum committee. “I think it’s not clear across the faculty what those things are, nor is the principle.” The requirement for a secondary depth of study was renamed as “Focused Inquiries.” A few contentious aspects were noted—including the elimination of prematriculation credits and the reduction of the credit/no credit option outlined in previous drafts. Currently, the committee recommends counteracting the removal of prematriculation credits by lowering the number of courses needed to graduate to 32, instead of 34. In departure from earlier drafts, the new one recommends only letting students declare four credit/ no credit courses, instead of six. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, associate professor of the practice in statistical science, expressed concern about the possibility of the credit/no credit model enabling grade inflation. Shanahan noted that the issue would be addressed in the implementation phase, which is being handled separately from the curriculum as a directional document, and that the goal of the model is to encourage “intellectual adventurism” among students. The committee tabled discussion of See COUNCIL on Page 4

SEXUAL ASSAULT from page 1 Clinic at Duke and chaired the Lacrosse Ad Hoc Review Committee, which was convened by President Richard Brodhead during the 2006 Duke lacrosse scandal to investigate the behavior of the lacrosse team. Paul Sun, an attorney for Duke, questioned Coleman for an hour. Although McKenna was present in court on Thursday, he did not testify. Much of the hearing focused on the two panels Duke convened to evaluate the case. The first three-person panel, convened in July 2016 by the Office of Student Conduct, found unanimously that McKenna was responsible for violating Duke’s sexual misconduct policy. It was facilitated by Leslie Grinage, former associate dean of students, according to court documents presented Thursday. The panel was not unanimously convinced, however, that the alleged victim (who is also a student) said “no” to the sexual encounter, although she claimed that she had. But Duke’s policy still requires affirmative consent by words or by action. The panel concluded that although the victim did not say “no,” she also did not verbally consent— making McKenna responsible for sexual misconduct. McKenna—with the help of Coleman— appealed the decision, relying largely on the panel’s finding that the alleged victim had not explicitly said “no” to the encounter. The University’s student conduct policy guarantees the accused student the right to a trained advisor. Coleman argued that the first panel’s finding that the alleged victim had not said “no” meant implicitly that her

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testimony was not credible. “By rejecting her claim that she said ‘no,’ they also rejected the associated action that she claimed occurred,” he said in court. The appeals panel found that there was procedural error in the first panel, which did not use the appropriate “reasonable person” standard to decide the case. The issue was then returned to the Office of Student Conduct to correct the procedural error. A second panel, convened in November 2016, found that not only had the alleged victim not given consent, but that she had also explicitly denied it. McKenna alleges, and Coleman argued the same in his testimony, that remanding to an entirely new panel violated the University’s student conduct policy. According to Coleman, the case should either have been settled by the appeals board or settled by the original panel, but not a new panel. Sun asked Coleman if he thought it was double jeopardy for the case to be tried again. Double jeopardy is a provision in constitutional law saying that a defendant cannot be retried for the same crime more than once. “It would be the equivalent of double jeopardy,” Coleman said. “Obviously, Duke isn’t directly, in the Constitution, subject to the due process clause. But I think it’s generally accepted that administrative hearings are supposed to reflect fundamental due process, and I think that double jeopardy is a fundamental concept, inherent in the notion of administrative fairness.” Coleman said that there “never should have been a second hearing panel.” At the end of his testimony, he said that Duke had failed in its responsibility to be fair to students.

“Duke has said that it would be fair to all of its students. It has said that repeatedly and in numerous places,” Coleman said. “I thought it was in the University’s interest to hear what was going on in this case, and I hoped that they would intervene and correct the situation before further damage was done.” Coleman said he went to Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, and Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director of the Office of Student Conduct, in hopes that they would correct an “error” to “avoid any damage to the plaintiff or to the University.” Substantial parts of Coleman’s testimony also involved casting doubt on the alleged victim’s credibility by questioning claims she allegedly made about being a virgin during the panel hearings. Coleman said there were other witnesses at the initial panel who claimed they had also had sex with the victim before this incident occurred. These students said when they had sex with the alleged victim, she had also said she was a virgin, which Coleman argued meant she was not credible. “You believe that other student over her?” Sun asked Coleman, to which Coleman responded “yes.” Sun argued that the alleged victim’s prior testimony backed her claim, but Coleman disagreed. “I believed [the other student witness] to be truthful,” Coleman said. “Therefore, assuming that he was truthful, that’s what I believed—that she could not be a virgin if he was telling the truth. And she did not dispute it at the hearing.” At the end of the questioning, Sun asked Coleman, “You maintain that the plaintiff is actually innocent of the

charge?” “I think he is, yes,” Coleman said. Judge Orlando Hudson will continue to hear arguments on Monday.

COUNCIL from page 3 absentee voting procedures in favor of extended debate on the curriculum, but it did hear the presentation of a resolution to address Trump’s executive orders on building a border wall between Mexico and the travel ban on seven countries. “I introduced the resolution because I thought it important that colleagues in the faculty governance body of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences take a position against these executive orders and in defense of all members of the Duke community,” said Frances Hasso, associate professor in gender, sexuality and feminist studies. Hasso said that she hopes to have an electronic vote on the resolution within a week. The committee plans to vote on the new curriculum in their next meeting, which is scheduled for March 9, Shanahan noted.

SCHOLAR from page 2 policies. She noted that Kelley has had a great impact on her time at Duke. “She’s been an incredible mentor to me and the first person at Duke who made me feel like my work mattered to someone,” Van Meir said. She also credited her professors in her “Telling Stories for Social Change Class”— Lynden Harris, who founded a local storytelling organization called Hidden Voices, and Madeleine Lambert, Trinity ‘08 and a professional actress—as being supportive of her efforts.

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Tatum puts poor first half in rearview mirror, shows full potential as stretch four Sameer Pandhare The Chronicle Through 20 minutes of play, freshman Jayson Tatum had shown all the signs of a freshman struggling with the intensity of the Tobacco Road rivalry. Dared to shoot from the perimeter, Tatum looked hesitant, forcing up tough shots on occasion and even getting a brief talk from head coach Mike Krzyzewski after missing a defensive assignment. It all added up to a scoreless first half in which the St. Louis native seemed nonexistent at times. “Me, Matt and Amile were all on him at halftime and coach was on him at halftime,” junior Grayson Allen said. “It’s plain and simple, we need him. He knows that, so he did a good job of responding.” Tatum’s answer out of the locker room was a 19-point second half, kick-started by a posterizing dunk on senior Kennedy Meeks that will likely haunt the Tar Heel big man for weeks to come. After notching his first field goal of the game with the highlight-reel finish, the freshman followed it up with aggressive drives to the basket for the remainder of the contest as Duke came away with an 86-78 victory. All 19 of his points came after halftime. “The coaches were challenging me to attack the rim strong,” Tatum said. “I got my opportunity and I fed off that. I wasn’t playing how I needed to be playing and Coach challenged me to play with more emotion.... If I just have fun and we just have fun, the rest will take care of itself.” The extra fire was evident as Tatum pumped his jersey and encouraged the

Jack White | The Chronicle Jayson Tatum scored all 19 of his points after halftime, including a highlight-reel jam over North Carolina forward Kennedy Meeks.

Crazies to get loud in the second half, even after it looked like Duke was teetering with North Carolina on a 15-3 run. With Allen checking out of the game at the 8:37 mark with four personal fouls, Tatum helped the Blue Devils keep the game at arm’s length until their star guard returned. After strong first halves by Luke Kennard and Allen helped pull the attention away from Tatum, the freshman’s takeover came with a mentality predicated on taking advantage of mismatches and refusing to settle for perimeter jumpers. Facing the slower Luke Maye or even the smaller Joel Berry II at times off of

switches, Tatum put his head down and got to the basket at will, placing even more pressure on a North Carolina defense ill-equipped to stop him. Tatum’s relentlessness earned him a game-high eight free-throws and gave the Blue Devils a go-to option it needed on offense. “We thought that he was going to have a good matchup out there on the perimeter,” Allen said. “Especially with his height, quickness and skill level, he really has a good matchup every game. We just want to keep kicking it to him and feeding him to have him make a play.” At 6-foot-8, the freshman possesses the

unique combination of size and quickness to make him one of the most versatile players in the nation. Although Tatum’s perimeter jump shot has lagged well behind what many expected, the forward’s ability to attack at the No. 4 spot in Duke’s small-ball lineup has helped the Blue Devils space the floor and it did so again Thursday. Lost in Tatum’s late explosion was the fact that the St. Louis native finished as the game’s leading rebounder against a North Carolina team that entered the game as the top-ranked team nationally in rebounding See TATUM on Page 6

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Jack White | The Chronicle Senior Matt Jones snatched a huge offensive rebound away from the Tar Heels with 37 seconds left that gave the Blue Devils the ball up three late in the contest.

On the stat sheet following the first Tobacco Road rivalry matchup of 2017, the rebounding column read: Duke 31, North Carolina 30. Although no one miss truly decided the game, one rebound in the Blue Devils’ 86-78 win Thursday swung the balance of the contest. With Duke leading 80-77, the Blue Devils worked the ball around on offense looking for a potential gamesealing bucket. But freshman Jayson Tatum’s 3-pointer clanked off the iron and the ball bounced long, giving both teams a chance to come away with possession. For the Tar Heels, squeezing the orange meant having the opportunity to

inch closer or tie the game. For Duke, a rebound meant the chance to run some more clock and ice a much-needed home victory against the ACC’s firstplace team. And when it comes to a game-defining hustle play, Duke knows there is one player it can always rely on. “I’ve been here long enough to where, that play could either win us the game or lose us the game, and for me, I just had to get the ball,” senior Matt Jones said. “It didn’t matter if I fouled or anything like that. I just needed to get it and luckily it bounced our way.” Jones did corral the board with 37 seconds remaining in the contest and quickly got the ball to freshman Frank Jackson, forcing the Tar Heels to foul in hopes of extending the game. With a See TOUGHNESS on Page 7

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M. BASKETBALL from page 1 “It was an out-of-body experience,” Tatum said. “I didn’t really know what to expect. I just knew it was going to be great…. It was just a great game for the whole 40 minutes— nobody was giving in and it just took a lot of hard work and playing together.” Much of that hard work included more of the lock-down defense that has powered the Blue Devils’ four-game winning streak— Duke (19-5, 7-4 in the ACC) held the Tar Heels to one field goal the final 7:30 of the game to preserve its ninth win in its last 12 games against North Carolina. Following a Kennard jumper that gave the Blue Devils the lead for good with 6:31 remaining, the teams went scoreless for more than two minutes before Tatum nailed a right-wing triple to make it 75-71 Duke. Despite picking up his fourth foul with 8:37 remaining, Allen then exploded for a dunk on the team’s next possession and splashed home a dagger 3-pointer from the left wing with 1:20 left to play after a deep Justin Jackson triple and Berry free throw brought North Carolina (21-5, 10-3) within two. During the Blue Devils’ winning streak, Allen has looked like a different player with his outside shot and aggressiveness, and that trend continued Thursday from the opening tip. The Jacksonville, Fla., native tied a career-high with seven 3-pointers— none bigger than his last one. “Grayson was like a man among boys tonight,” Kennard said. “Playing with four fouls and coming back and making huge plays—it was great.” Although Duke’s junior All-American fouled out on the ensuing possession and Berry cut it to three with a pair of free throws—one of the few times North Carolina converted from the line on a night when it went just 10-of-18 from the charity stripe—Jones, Frank Jackson and Tatum came up big down the stretch. Tatum’s 3-pointer with 37 seconds left was a wide-open look, but careened off the left side of the rim for the kind of long rebound that so often fuels the Tar Heels’ fastbreak game. However, before Berry could get there, Jones snatched the ball away in the Desoto, Texas, native’s latest career-defining, glue-guy moment. “It gave us a possession where—I thought Jayson’s three would go in, you know, [with] the crowd and everything, and then it didn’t,”

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Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Oh man, they’re going to get a [fast break]— and then Matt comes up with the ball. Big play. He’s one of those guys for four years—he’s just kind of an unsung terrific player for us.” The latest rendition of the Tobacco Road rivalry was a back-and-forth affair from the start, with North Carolina punishing the Blue Devils inside to take an early 19-14 lead. But Duke responded with an 8-0 run in a minute to grab the lead right back in a period that saw 13 lead changes and neither team lead by more than five. Frank Jackson was instrumental in the first of two Blue Devil 8-0 runs that happened in one-minute spans, knocking down a 3-pointer from the left corner and adding another mid-range jump shot. Although Jones and graduate student Amile Jefferson combined for just five points, Jackson finished with 11 points on 4-of-4 shooting to pick up some of the scoring slack. As was the case with Allen, his last point was the biggest, giving the team a twopossession cushion to protect with a free throw in the final 30 seconds. “I wish I made both of them, but I know the one was big and the other one was big too and [Jayson] hit some big free throws,” Jackson said. “We feed off our teammates’ energy and everyone brought it, including the [Cameron] Crazies. It was an electric environment and we all came together and had a great basketball game.” After Jackson put Duke up 22-19, the teams went back and forth before the Blue Devils used another 8-0 run to take a 51-43 edge early in the second half. As was the case all night, the Tar Heels came right back with their transition attack to take a 64-59 lead with 11:15 remaining following a 15-3 run. “We knew they weren’t going to lie down and back down. We knew they were going to come back because of how good they are,” Allen said. “We just had to make sure we didn’t back down either.” An Allen 3-pointer and Tatum layup quickly tied it, and the teams traded blows the rest of the night before the frantic finish. Following its most emotional win of the year to claw within one game in the loss column of first-place in the ACC standings, Duke is back in action Saturday afternoon against Clemson at home. “To finally just be a part of it and get a win—I can’t explain how good it feels,” Tatum said.

Jack White | The Chronicle Grayson Allen tied a season-high with seven 3-pointers, including a key triple with 1:20 left, before fouling out with 1:02 remaining.

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Jack White | The Chronicle North Carolina star guard Joel Berry II was held to 5-of-13 shooting and missed a key shot inside late in the game as well as two free throws.

TATUM from page 5 margin. After some questioned Duke’s ability to stay small against an imposing Tar Heel front line, Tatum once again proved to be the jack-of-all-trades, capable of adjusting well to any situation at hand. “The team might need you to bring something different depending on how the game is going and who we’re playing,” Tatum said. “One day, you might have to be a lockdown defender or get guys involved, get steals or something like that” Although his stats haven’t jumped off the page, perhaps the most positive sign for Tatum in Duke’s recent four-game winning streak has been his mental toughness. Despite being hampered by foul trouble in a tight win against Wake Forest, the freshman bounced back with his first career double-double in a win against Notre Dame. After taking just seven shots against Pittsburgh, Tatum stepped to the forefront, even if it took a half and what Matt Jones called “young men” talk to get it done. Whether it’s becoming accustomed to the pressure that comes with being a top recruit and likely one-and-done at Duke or the fact that the Blue Devils are finally whole, Tatum looked more comfortable on the floor with his teammates than he has all season. Back in the locker room, the comfort was even more evident as his teammates joked about his newfound fame as reporters crowded around the star of the night. “He’s a SportsCenter boy tonight,” Kennard said. “He’s going to learn and continue to get better. That’s what he wants to do—that’s why he came here.” Although the dunk on Meeks may be what Tatum will be remembered for when his Duke career is all set and done, the forward’s up-and-down season looks like its on an upswing once again. After fumbling away Duke’s last opportunity for a game-tying or winning basket against N.C. State, the freshman was glum following the most disappointing moment of his young college career. Almost two weeks later, Tatum exuded a wide grin as he stood at the middle of the locker room, knowing the Blue Devils are peaking and playing the way many expected them to before the season started.

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Duke’s ability to keep the Tar Heels at bay on the offensive glass—after head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s team allowed 27 offensive rebounds in Cameron a year ago—mirrored the same extra effort that translated to the Blue Devil defense. After North Carolina connected on eight straight field goal attempts early in the second half, Duke clamped down and held the Tar Heels to just a single made field goal in the last seven minutes of the game. North Carolina’s star duo of Joel Berry II and Justin Jackson was held quiet during the stretch and combined to miss four crucial free-throws on a night the Tar Heels shot just 10-of-18 from the charity stripe. Although North Carolina finished the game shooting 52.5 percent from the floor, the Blue Devils prevented the Tar Heels from beating them from Ian Jaffe | The Chronicle beyond the arc and opening up space Freshman Frank Jackson had 11 points on for Meeks and rookie Tony Bradley. 4-of-4 shooting, including two key buckets For the game, North Carolina hit just during an early 8-0 run. four of its 12 3-pointers and struggled extra dose needed to pull away in a backJack White | The Chronicle to generate good looks down the and-forth contest that saw nine ties and Sophomore Luke Kennard showed off his much-improved driving ability Thursday, finishing stretch—Duke has now locked down 17 lead changes. with 20 points on 8-of-15 shooting. “They’re good defensively. They four straight opponents to turn its can move very well at times,” North season around. from page 5 “Our defense is what’s going to Carolina head coach Roy Williams ultimately help us win games,” guard said. “They have a lot of guys that few clutch free-throws, the Blue Devils Frank Jackson said. “We’ve really taken are similar size-wise. I didn’t like our had a season-defining win against North that to heart the last couple of weeks.” rebounding. I didn’t like our lack of Carolina in their hands. Knowing that the speed of guards scoring inside. But I guess it’s North But the story of how Duke has hurt them at times this season, the Carolina-Duke. Kids are going to be outrebounded a Blue Devils relied really competitive.” North Carolina At times, the Blue Devils’ fire on hat play could either win heavily on their team that entered man-to-man trap defense has been questioned as the us the game or lose us the and continued to team has let teams roll to the hoop for the game leading the nation in game.... I just needed to get it. push the Tar Heels uncontested looks. rebounding margin But after taking down the ACC’s top — Senior Matt Jones on his big farther and farther has more than one away from the hoop. scorers in Pittsburgh’s Jamel Artis and rebound character. Despite the fact Michael Young a week ago and shutting The Blue Devils that North Carolina down Jackson and Berry late Thursday, stressed the importance of having five torched Duke in transition early in the Duke has shown their ability to put players rebound at a time against the game, the Blue Devils hung tough and in the extra effort and come up with Tar Heels, and it showed with Jones and eventually flustered the Tar Heels as hustle plays. guards Grayson Allen and Luke Kennard their shots stopped falling. Heading down the stretch of combining to account for nearly a third of At times when it looked like Duke the season, that could make all the the team’s boards. could fold, instead it came up with the difference. “That was one of our main focuses throughout the game—scouting report, everything,” Kennard said. “We rebound great as a group, we really did. We were hungry for the ball. We were really hungry for the ball. Wherever it was, we were right there to get it.” With graduate student Amile Jefferson battling foul trouble in the first half with a pair of early personals, Tatum set the tone for Duke on the glass as he used his size and athleticism to battle the ground-bound Kennedy Meeks. Tatum finished with a gamehigh nine rebounds just two games after he racked up 14 boards in his first career double-double against Notre Dame. “It was tough,” Tatum said. “It was a big point for us—rebounding— because they’re so big and it just took a lot of effort.” After being snake-bitten by injuries for much of the year, the injury luck took a bit of a turn in Duke’s favor when North Carolina starting big man Isaiah Hicks was ruled out for the game with a strained hamstring. Although Tar Heel head coach Roy Williams refused to use the senior’s absence as an excuse, the Blue Devils had life a little bit Jack White | The Chronicle easier without another 6-foot-9 big man Junior Justin Jackson scored 14 first-half points and cut a six-point deficit in half with a dagger 3-pointer, but the Tar Heels could not prevail with Isaiah Hicks out. roaming the interior.

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Duke gearing up to slow down electrifying duo Cole Winton The Chronicle The Blue Devils have made their mark this season on the defensive end, holding opponents to 54.2 points per contest with an aggressive matchup zone that has led to three top-20 wins at home already this season against teams that beat Duke last year. To increase that number to four, though, the Blue Devils will have to No. 20 Syracuse erase memories from one of their most vs. lopsided losses in No. 14 recent memory. Duke No. 14 Duke FRIDAY, 7 p.m. will host No. 20 Cameron Indoor Stadium Syracuse Friday at 7 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Stadium, with the winner grabbing third place in the ACC standings with just four games left in the regular season. The Orange destroyed the Blue Devils in the teams’ conference opener a year ago, lighting up the Carrier Dome in a lopsided 86-50 rout in which they canned 14 3-pointers. And with nation’s highest-scoring backcourt duo arriving in Durham for Friday’s matchup, Duke will need to be at the top of its game on the perimeter defensively to avenge last

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season’s embarrassing loss. Senior Alexis Peterson is fourth in the nation in scoring at 23.7 points per contest, and Brittney Sykes is not far behind at 19.1 per game. The duo averages more than 10 assists per contest and have combined to make 104 triples this season at nearly a 40-percent clip.

“It takes a team effort to guard Peterson as well as Sykes. They’re terrific guards,” McCallie said. “Obviously they shoot a million threeballs, and it’s just going to [take] an effort from everybody.” Behind Peterson and Sykes, the Orange (17-7, 8-3 in the ACC) average more than 80 points per contest and

will look to spread out the Blue Devil defense to open up driving lanes. But Duke (20-4, 8-3) has been much more disciplined closing out to shooters this year than at times in years past, with freshman forward Leaonna Odom’s length and quickness giving the back line of the zone more teeth and senior forwards Kendall Cooper and Oderah Chidom making life tough on opponents inside. Thanks to Odom’s versatility, McCallie has the luxury to play smaller lineups to match up with Syracuse’s quickness inside or go big and pound the Orange inside, where they struggle to defend the paint. The Blue Devils are top 10 nationally in scoring defense but their Friday opponent sits outside the 200 by allowing more than 66 points per contest. Syracuse routinely lets opponents score in the 80s and 90s, which is what it could take for Duke to pull out the win Friday night if the Orange got hot from distance. Luckily for the Blue Devils, redshirt junior Rebecca Greenwell has been on fire the past two games to complement Lexie Brown and give Duke a lethal backcourt duo of its own. The Owensboro, Ky., native has scored 42 points in her last two contests See W. BASKETBALL on Page 9

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When Milo Yiannopoulos was invited to speak at Berkeley last month, it was widely known that he had given a presentation at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee in December where he had projected a photograph of a transgender student in the audience and mocked her, saying “The way you know he’s failed is I can still bang him.” Any explicit threats of violence aside, Yiannopoulos’ speech had nearly the same effect a threat would. And while perhaps legally permissible, it was morally indefensible and

Editorial academically worthless. Concerningly, Yiannopoulos continues to be invited to speak at college campuses across the country by organizations parading their right to present alternative viewpoints and tendentious speakers despite the quality standard we posit. But the mere right to speak does not produce a claim to a university’s platform for speech. It should be self-evident that speaking engagements, particularly at prestigious universities, are an influential and symbolically important platform for ideas, the use of which has never been an

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conditions that could be easily treated in a primary care setting. Since many uninsured patients lacked the means to pay their ED bills after receiving their care, VCU was absorbing the the cost this care—which was all the more expensive since patients were seeking care in the ED instead of a clinic. This situation was resulting in longer wait times for all patients, uncoordinated care for the uninsured patients, and huge financial losses for VCU. There had to be a better way. In 2000, VCU created the Virginia Coordinated Care (VCC) program for uninsured indigent care patients. While not insurance, enrollment in VCC gives individuals who qualify for indigent care (free charity care) access to a primary care provider, assistance paying for medications, and limited access to specialty care. VCU pays for this outpatient care because, as a safety net hospital, they were already providing a great deal of free charity care to their indigent patients—non-urgent care in the ED, urgent care in the ED and inpatient hospitalizations. In fact, many patients were recruited into the program after presenting to the ED with a non-urgent complaint or after a serious exacerbation of a manageable chronic condition. The results, published in the journal Health Affairs, have been stunning. Proactively providing these patients access to a primary care doctor and necessary medications actually saved money for VCU in the long run. Hospitalizations and ED

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are clear. A patient diagnosed with cancer may be medically stable, with little risk of imminent death. Without treatment, the cancer will inevitably kill the patient, but not immediately. Thus, under EMTALA, the patient has has no right to curative chemotherapy or surgery. While a moral imperative exists to care for indigent patients—hospitals provided over $35 billion in charity care in 2015—there is no legal obligation to do so. Patients have a right to medical care only once disease has progressed to a critical juncture, when the disease is undoubtedly more difficult and costly to treat. Although the law requires EDs to provide only an evaluation and stabilizing care, many EDs exceed this threshold, providing non-urgent care to patients regardless of ability to pay, serving as the ultimate safety net of the American healthcare system. In a typical ED, 1 in 5 patients are uninsured or have no clear means of paying for care. While this is commendable, there are many reasons why EDs are poorly suited to serving as the safety net providers. Emergency departments are prepared diagnose and treat the most critically ill patients, providing access to a bevy of specialists and diagnostic modalities around the clock, resulting in high overhead costs. Providing care for a nonemergent condition (such as a rash or sinus infection) in the ED is many times more costly than providing that same care in a clinic. Furthermore, the ED has limited capacity for follow-up care and thus is poorly equipped treat chronic conditions. As frustrating as the status quo may be, independent experiments shed light on what a more functional system might look like. Situated in Richmond, the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center is the largest safety net provider in the state of Virginia. Several years ago an analysis showed that, among uninsured patients, 60 percent of ED visits were for

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n 2007, President George W. Bush repeated one of the most frustrating misconceptions in American healthcare. “[P]eople have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.” This statement reflects a deeply flawed but pervasive notion that limited access to care through an emergency room is equivalent to meaningful access to healthcare. In his statement, President Bush was referring to EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act), passed by the U.S. Congress in 1985 and signed by Ronald Reagan in 1986. The law mandates that all patients seeking care in an Emergency Department (ED) receive evaluation by a competent clinical professional; if an emergent medical condition is discovered, the patient must receive stabilizing treatment. The law was passed after extensive reports of “patient dumping” and “wallet biopsies,” where individuals were denied emergency care or transferred while medically unstable, because of their inability to pay. Dr. Ron Anderson, medical director of the ED at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas during the early 1980s, recalled “I would see patients transferred with knives still in their backs, or women giving birth at the door of the hospital, simply because they were uninsured.” Of course there are myriad subtitles to the law, and debate about the legal interpretation persists. However, limitations

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am Ovens always knew he didn’t want to be a worker bee. In fact, the New Zealand entrepreneur left his first post-university corporate job after only three months and moved, classically, to his parent’s garage to start building a business of his own. Which failed. His first business, a “reverse job board,” failed miserably after he spent nine months (and all of his money) on its development. His next two businesses followed suit. With a mounting pile of evidence supporting a claim to his own inadequacy, Ovens curled up into a tiny ball of Kiwi pain and wept… Only he didn’t. He kept plowing forward, using the insight he had gained from his three failed attempts to launch a successful online business consulting firm that, in the past four years since its inception, has made him

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do? You say, “Let’s make it five out of seven!” In a simple children’s game, your opponent will quickly lose interest and quit after you up the ante several times, but when the roadblock to overcome is life’s obstacles themselves you can keep on engaging in this sort of recurring challenge until you eventually win the day. It may take a dozen rounds before you are the winner, but at that point you can be the one who says, “No more, this game is over. And I win.” Finally, “never stop learning.” I borrowed this final strategy from the Entrepreneur article because I thought it was too essential to skip. “Thanks to the huge availability of information these days,” Ovens said, “any entrepreneur can teach him or herself just about anything…I read hundreds of books and taught myself

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resident Trump has a lot of work to do. Regardless of your feelings for him, his success in solving key issues that face our country is crucial for maintaining order, especially when it comes to national security. At this point, I think it’s fair to assume that terrorism is a legitimate threat to the tranquility and enjoyment of freedom within our democracy. Because ISIS is unique compared to its terrorist companions, the Trump Administration now inherits the incredibly hard task of winning the war on terror. Before making any suggestions, we must first look at what we are dealing with. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) is the world’s largest growing and most powerful Salafi jihadist militant group that has been responsible for committing devastating acts of terror across the globe. The group abides by the Sunni Islamic fundamentalist doctrine of Wahhabism, which has inspired

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a millionaire ten times over. He was so successful that Entrepreneur magazine wrote an article about him, titling it, “4 Tips from a 26-Year-Old Who Built a $10 Million Consulting Business.” I’m not here to rehash their story, though, because I have four tips of my own that I uncovered by reading between the lines of his story. The results of my research on Ovens and that Entrepreneur article will, hopefully, be just as helpful as their own words. The first lesson is this: know what you want. The New Zealand entrepreneur knew all along that he wanted to be selfemployed working in online business, and he kept his goal front and center. Quitting your first job post-college to go out on your own is a brave move, one that most won’t consider because it would mean leaving their comfort zone. We are so used to living in a regimented universe of school, school, school our entire lives that leaving that lifestyle behind for the unrestrained freedom of the self-employed is almost inconceivable. If your current path, however, is not taking you in the direction of your ideal future self then something needs to be done. Knowing your goals and keeping them in focus is a necessary But try different steps to get there. Success is unlikely to come at the beginning of whatever journey you take. No matter where you decide to go, there will be obstacles in your way. For Ovens, that was three failed businesses in the course of over a year. For you, that could be any number of unknowable and unforeseen circumstances. Only through perseverance and an ability to tackle the problem from a new and unique vantage point after attempt was Ovens able to eventually succeed, and only by virtue of the same characteristics will you earn the right to success yourself. Don’t give up too easily. I once heard it said that you should consider your journey towards your goals to be like a game of rock-paperscissors. You need to win three out of five rounds for a victory, but your opponent puts the first two rounds in the bag immediately. So, what do you

all about marketing, sales, accounting, strategy—even personal development methods. I knew that I needed to understand all of this if I wanted my business to work.” Ovens’ advice is particularly relevant to my audience (mostly college students) because we are full-time learners. Most of us consider “student” to be our job title, but it is easy to forget about the importance of learning things outside of “reading, writing and ‘rithmetic.” I won’t be able to grow my online business without putting in the man hours to research Google Adwords, Facebook Advertising, SEO and a dozen other foundational methods for online success. You won’t be able to reach your goals if you don’t devote yourself to becoming a master of your craft. Even if your goal is to graduate and go directly into the field you’re currently studying, you will only benefit (in measurable terms of job offers and salary-increases) if you can remove yourself from the current for a moment, think longterm and develop some supplementary skills through dedicated practice and learning. Do you want to make a million dollars? Even more? What are you willing to go through to get there? Sam Ovens certainly no longer lives in his parent’s garage. But he didn’t get out of there without a lot of effort and (most likely) pain. Neil Patel, whom Forbes has called one of the top ten online marketers and whom the Wall Street Journal described as a top influencer on the web, wrote about his time working on his own Internet marketing agency during college, “I personally was attending college during this time as a full time student while working 60+ hours a week. To top it off, I was traveling almost every week and speaking at over 50 conferences a year by this point.” What are you willing to do to make your life a success? Because if you don’t make up your mind to do whatever it takes, you will always end up behind the people who do. Jack Dolinar is a Trinity sophomore. His column, “more percent efficient,” runs on alternate Fridays.

ISIL and other global terrorist networks to start a “reform movement” toward implementing an ultra-conservative version of the Islamic faith. As a religious revivalist movement that works to bring Muslims back from “foreign accretions” that have corrupted Islam as a completely prescribed way of life, Wahhabism is quite strict in what it considers Islamic behavior. According to ISIL’s ideology, anyone who disagrees with the principles of Wahhabism is considered an infidel, and thus an enemy that the group feels it must wage jihad on. Essentially, scholars believe that this corruption of Islam is derived from the power, influence, and past imperialistic actions of Western Civilizations like the United States. ISIL was founded in 1999 by Jordanian radical Abu Musab al-ZarqawiIn, and it pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda in 2004. Under al-Zarqawi, the group participated in the Iraqi insurgency following the March 2003 invasion of Iraq by Western forces. Events like the Iraqi War and the Syrian Civil War have allowed ISIL to consume the resulting power vacuum left in the region. Contrary to popular liberal opinion, the group did not start because of the U.S. regime toppling and nation building initiatives undertaken by the Bush Administration. Instead, ISIL has a religious prophecy to fulfill. It is motivated by money, power, and world domination. Its hatred for others does not solely stem from the bombardment of drone strikes and military activity from Western nations. In 2014, ISIL proclaimed itself to be a worldwide caliphate with Abu Bakr al-Baghadi as its caliph. Although the international community does not acknowledge these declarations, there is no doubt that ISIL is a legitimate terrorist threat with influence that uses social media and the oil black market to its advantage. The most dangerous aspect of ISIL is its ability to indirectly create terror cells domestically in the U.S. and its allies. The attacks on San Bernardino manifested from the radicalization and overarching influence ISIL has on its followers. Its capability in conducting violent acts of terror has been displayed in Paris and Belgium. It injects fear into democratic societies by publicly displaying beheadings and genocide. ISIL is a threat to national security of America and its allies. Thus, in the name of protecting freedom, liberty and security, our newly inaugurated president must devise a strategy to help in the eradication of ISIL. Religious extremism

is similar to the fascist movements during World War II and the spread of communism during the Cold War; containment is not an option. We must forcefully eradicate this ideology. It is in the best interest of the Trump Administration to consider these goals in its foreign policy planning: Attack the purse. ISIL, unlike its Al-Qaeda predecessors, aspires to create an Islamic caliphate and expand its territorial control to rule large portions of Iraq and Syria. These ambitions require enormous amounts of funding, which provides a vulnerability that United States should exploit. During a speech and debate round in high school regarding the same issue at hand, I was highly criticized for proposing that ISIL must have its funding cut off. I was told that it was a weak point to make. I respectfully disagree. Foreign policy advisors and scholars actually agree with me to a large extent. Destroy anything that must do with ISIS receiving money from black market

oil sales. We need our intelligence to find ways to freeze their assets and sanction countries doing business with them. According to the New York Times, ISIL employs approximately 30,000 fighters, with 19,000 from 90 foreign countries, each receiving a salary of $500 a month. That’s an estimated total of 10 to $15,000,000 in employment per month and $180,000,000 per year. CNN reported that black market oil sales are ISlL’s main source of funding (about 30-40 percent), with an approximate revenue of one to two million dollars per day. Not only does eliminating this oil trade substantially decrease funding, but it prohibits ISIL from efficiently using weapons and tanks. Use diplomacy and leadership to assemble a strong alliance. Let’s make this clear. I don’t like Putin. But the Russian military should not be counted out of this coalition. Putin’s relationship with President Obama was contentious and abysmal. Hopefully, Trump can deliver and use Putin as terrorfighting asset. This same strategy of working with our not so friendly acquaintances (the USSR) helped us win World War II. It already appears that our relationship with Russia has improved. Most importantly, we will also need the full commitment of other European allies in this initiative. If we can’t identify them, don’t take them. This part is so critical. The FBI has stated numerous times that we do not have profiles on a significant number of refugees coming into our country. In my opinion, the ideas of people who support taking refugees in blindly are dangerous. It’s analogous to letting strangers in your house without taking precautions. A very large percentage of these people are most likely no danger to us at all. But we can’t take on the minute percentage that might be hiding amongst the people who are good. It just goes against common sense. The second an ISIS member enters our borders, we have lost. American lives should be the top priority for this policy. The Trump Administration must use other means of American humanitarian efforts to help these people, which I believe is entirely within the scope of our abilities. President Trump needs to be the leader that gets this done. I wish his administration the best of luck. Mitchell Siegel is a Trinity freshman.

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When Milo Yiannopoulos was invited to speak at Berkeley last month, it was widely known that he had given a presentation at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee in December where he had projected a photograph of a transgender student in the audience and mocked her, saying “The way you know he’s failed is I can still bang him.” Any explicit threats of violence aside, Yiannopoulos’ speech had nearly the same effect a threat would. And while perhaps legally permissible, it was morally indefensible and

Editorial academically worthless. Concerningly, Yiannopoulos continues to be invited to speak at college campuses across the country by organizations parading their right to present alternative viewpoints and tendentious speakers despite the quality standard we posit. But the mere right to speak does not produce a claim to a university’s platform for speech. It should be self-evident that speaking engagements, particularly at prestigious universities, are an influential and symbolically important platform for ideas, the use of which has never been an

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apolitical resource. In a less black-and-white example of free speech and protest, Charles Murray visited Duke in 2013 and was met with a walkout staged in protest of his controversial research on race, class and intelligence. On the one hand, the methods of this activism carried the consequence that protesters did not hear Murray’s presentation or take part in the question and answer session that followed. On the other, the war waged by progressive activism is not captured in any one moment or choice of method. In this case, protesters and their walk-out might have prompted a closer critical inspection of Murray’s research than any set of panel questions could have. A dismissal of this kind of protest must answer for the larger picture of what call-and-response looks like in academic and political spaces. The ways in which speakers interact with campus communities, as vibrant hubs of intellectual production and transmission, vary greatly. Many speakers are innocuous, but for those who are not, whose views border enough on toxicity or bigotry to at least merit more searching scrutiny, the right to speak cannot be mistaken for the right to address, especially not on platforms as symbolic as university campuses.

The myth of EMTALA

n 2007, President George W. Bush repeated one of the most frustrating misconceptions in American healthcare. “[P]eople have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.” This statement reflects a deeply flawed but pervasive notion that limited access to care through an emergency room is equivalent to meaningful access to healthcare. In his statement, President Bush was referring to EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act), passed by the U.S. Congress in 1985 and signed by Ronald Reagan in 1986. The law mandates that all patients seeking care in an Emergency Department (ED) receive evaluation by a competent clinical professional; if an emergent medical condition is discovered, the patient must receive stabilizing treatment. The law was passed after extensive reports of “patient dumping” and “wallet biopsies,” where individuals were denied emergency care or transferred while medically unstable, because of their inability to pay. Dr. Ron Anderson, medical director of the ED at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas during the early 1980s, recalled “I would see patients transferred with knives still in their backs, or women giving birth at the door of the hospital, simply because they were uninsured.” Of course there are myriad subtitles to the law, and debate about the legal interpretation persists. However, limitations

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conditions that could be easily treated in a primary care setting. Since many uninsured patients lacked the means to pay their ED bills after receiving their care, VCU was absorbing the the cost this care—which was all the more expensive since patients were seeking care in the ED instead of a clinic. This situation was resulting in longer wait times for all patients, uncoordinated care for the uninsured patients, and huge financial losses for VCU. There had to be a better way. In 2000, VCU created the Virginia Coordinated Care (VCC) program for uninsured indigent care patients. While not insurance, enrollment in VCC gives individuals who qualify for indigent care (free charity care) access to a primary care provider, assistance paying for medications, and limited access to specialty care. VCU pays for this outpatient care because, as a safety net hospital, they were already providing a great deal of free charity care to their indigent patients—non-urgent care in the ED, urgent care in the ED and inpatient hospitalizations. In fact, many patients were recruited into the program after presenting to the ED with a non-urgent complaint or after a serious exacerbation of a manageable chronic condition. The results, published in the journal Health Affairs, have been stunning. Proactively providing these patients access to a primary care doctor and necessary medications actually saved money for VCU in the long run. Hospitalizations and ED

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are clear. A patient diagnosed with cancer may be medically stable, with little risk of imminent death. Without treatment, the cancer will inevitably kill the patient, but not immediately. Thus, under EMTALA, the patient has has no right to curative chemotherapy or surgery. While a moral imperative exists to care for indigent patients—hospitals provided over $35 billion in charity care in 2015—there is no legal obligation to do so. Patients have a right to medical care only once disease has progressed to a critical juncture, when the disease is undoubtedly more difficult and costly to treat. Although the law requires EDs to provide only an evaluation and stabilizing care, many EDs exceed this threshold, providing non-urgent care to patients regardless of ability to pay, serving as the ultimate safety net of the American healthcare system. In a typical ED, 1 in 5 patients are uninsured or have no clear means of paying for care. While this is commendable, there are many reasons why EDs are poorly suited to serving as the safety net providers. Emergency departments are prepared diagnose and treat the most critically ill patients, providing access to a bevy of specialists and diagnostic modalities around the clock, resulting in high overhead costs. Providing care for a nonemergent condition (such as a rash or sinus infection) in the ED is many times more costly than providing that same care in a clinic. Furthermore, the ED has limited capacity for follow-up care and thus is poorly equipped treat chronic conditions. As frustrating as the status quo may be, independent experiments shed light on what a more functional system might look like. Situated in Richmond, the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center is the largest safety net provider in the state of Virginia. Several years ago an analysis showed that, among uninsured patients, 60 percent of ED visits were for

visits dropped, and over three years of enrollment, per patient expenditures decreased by 46 percent. As a medical student, there is nothing more outrageous than seeing a patient admitted to the hospital in the end stages of an easily, and often inexpensively, treated disease. The moral ramifications of such unnecessary suffering, death and disease are profound. Our current system strikes me as tragically inefficient and uneconomical, but more importantly, horrifically unnecessary. Even if you’re not concerned by the ethical implications of our current paradigm, you should be outraged that we are failing to take measures to reduce healthcare expenditures, leading to lower healthcare costs for all. In 2012, Mitt Romney, in an interview with the Columbus Dispatch, stated, “[w]e don’t have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don’t have insurance.” Evidence has shown that this is patently untrue. After a traumatic injury, controlling for confounding factors, uninsured patients are 2.8 times more likely to die than privately insured patients and have 80 percent lower odds of receiving care in a rehabilitation facility. Compared to insured patients, uninsured stroke patients experience greater neurologic impairment and are over 50 percent more likely to die. Access to care through EMTALA is not sufficient to prevent these deaths. Some self-righteous people hold up EMTALA because they are convinced that the wealthiest nation on earth does not allow citizens to die because of denied medical care. This confidence is misplaced. Lauren Groskaufmanis is a graduate student in the school of medicine. Her column, “the picture of health,” runs on alternate Fridays.

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am Ovens always knew he didn’t want to be a worker bee. In fact, the New Zealand entrepreneur left his first post-university corporate job after only three months and moved, classically, to his parent’s garage to start building a business of his own. Which failed. His first business, a “reverse job board,” failed miserably after he spent nine months (and all of his money) on its development. His next two businesses followed suit. With a mounting pile of evidence supporting a claim to his own inadequacy, Ovens curled up into a tiny ball of Kiwi pain and wept… Only he didn’t. He kept plowing forward, using the insight he had gained from his three failed attempts to launch a successful online business consulting firm that, in the past four years since its inception, has made him

Jack Dolinar SIMPLIFYING SUCCESS a millionaire ten times over. He was so successful that Entrepreneur magazine wrote an article about him, titling it, “4 Tips from a 26-Year-Old Who Built a $10 Million Consulting Business.” I’m not here to rehash their story, though, because I have four tips of my own that I uncovered by reading between the lines of his story. The results of my research on Ovens and that Entrepreneur article will, hopefully, be just as helpful as their own words. The first lesson is this: know what you want. The New Zealand entrepreneur knew all along that he wanted to be selfemployed working in online business, and he kept his goal front and center. Quitting your first job post-college to go out on your own is a brave move, one that most won’t consider because it would mean leaving their comfort zone. We are so used to living in a regimented universe of school, school, school our entire lives that leaving that lifestyle behind for the unrestrained freedom of the self-employed is almost inconceivable. If your current path, however, is not taking you in the direction of your ideal future self then something needs to be done. Knowing your goals and keeping them in focus is a necessary But try different steps to get there. Success is unlikely to come at the beginning of whatever journey you take. No matter where you decide to go, there will be obstacles in your way. For Ovens, that was three failed businesses in the course of over a year. For you, that could be any number of unknowable and unforeseen circumstances. Only through perseverance and an ability to tackle the problem from a new and unique vantage point after attempt was Ovens able to eventually succeed, and only by virtue of the same characteristics will you earn the right to success yourself. Don’t give up too easily. I once heard it said that you should consider your journey towards your goals to be like a game of rock-paperscissors. You need to win three out of five rounds for a victory, but your opponent puts the first two rounds in the bag immediately. So, what do you

do? You say, “Let’s make it five out of seven!” In a simple children’s game, your opponent will quickly lose interest and quit after you up the ante several times, but when the roadblock to overcome is life’s obstacles themselves you can keep on engaging in this sort of recurring challenge until you eventually win the day. It may take a dozen rounds before you are the winner, but at that point you can be the one who says, “No more, this game is over. And I win.” Finally, “never stop learning.” I borrowed this final strategy from the Entrepreneur article because I thought it was too essential to skip. “Thanks to the huge availability of information these days,” Ovens said, “any entrepreneur can teach him or herself just about anything…I read hundreds of books and taught myself

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resident Trump has a lot of work to do. Regardless of your feelings for him, his success in solving key issues that face our country is crucial for maintaining order, especially when it comes to national security. At this point, I think it’s fair to assume that terrorism is a legitimate threat to the tranquility and enjoyment of freedom within our democracy. Because ISIS is unique compared to its terrorist companions, the Trump Administration now inherits the incredibly hard task of winning the war on terror. Before making any suggestions, we must first look at what we are dealing with. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) is the world’s largest growing and most powerful Salafi jihadist militant group that has been responsible for committing devastating acts of terror across the globe. The group abides by the Sunni Islamic fundamentalist doctrine of Wahhabism, which has inspired

is similar to the fascist movements during World War II and the spread of communism during the Cold War; containment is not an option. We must forcefully eradicate this ideology. It is in the best interest of the Trump Administration to consider these goals in its foreign policy planning: Attack the purse. ISIL, unlike its Al-Qaeda predecessors, aspires to create an Islamic caliphate and expand its territorial control to rule large portions of Iraq and Syria. These ambitions require enormous amounts of funding, which provides a vulnerability that United States should exploit. During a speech and debate round in high school regarding the same issue at hand, I was highly criticized for proposing that ISIL must have its funding cut off. I was told that it was a weak point to make. I respectfully disagree. Foreign policy advisors and scholars actually agree with me to a large extent. Destroy anything that must do with ISIS receiving money from black market

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all about marketing, sales, accounting, strategy—even personal development methods. I knew that I needed to understand all of this if I wanted my business to work.” Ovens’ advice is particularly relevant to my audience (mostly college students) because we are full-time learners. Most of us consider “student” to be our job title, but it is easy to forget about the importance of learning things outside of “reading, writing and ‘rithmetic.” I won’t be able to grow my online business without putting in the man hours to research Google Adwords, Facebook Advertising, SEO and a dozen other foundational methods for online success. You won’t be able to reach your goals if you don’t devote yourself to becoming a master of your craft. Even if your goal is to graduate and go directly into the field you’re currently studying, you will only benefit (in measurable terms of job offers and salary-increases) if you can remove yourself from the current for a moment, think longterm and develop some supplementary skills through dedicated practice and learning. Do you want to make a million dollars? Even more? What are you willing to go through to get there? Sam Ovens certainly no longer lives in his parent’s garage. But he didn’t get out of there without a lot of effort and (most likely) pain. Neil Patel, whom Forbes has called one of the top ten online marketers and whom the Wall Street Journal described as a top influencer on the web, wrote about his time working on his own Internet marketing agency during college, “I personally was attending college during this time as a full time student while working 60+ hours a week. To top it off, I was traveling almost every week and speaking at over 50 conferences a year by this point.” What are you willing to do to make your life a success? Because if you don’t make up your mind to do whatever it takes, you will always end up behind the people who do. Jack Dolinar is a Trinity sophomore. His column, “more percent efficient,” runs on alternate Fridays.

ISIL and other global terrorist networks to start a “reform movement” toward implementing an ultra-conservative version of the Islamic faith. As a religious revivalist movement that works to bring Muslims back from “foreign accretions” that have corrupted Islam as a completely prescribed way of life, Wahhabism is quite strict in what it considers Islamic behavior. According to ISIL’s ideology, anyone who disagrees with the principles of Wahhabism is considered an infidel, and thus an enemy that the group feels it must wage jihad on. Essentially, scholars believe that this corruption of Islam is derived from the power, influence, and past imperialistic actions of Western Civilizations like the United States. ISIL was founded in 1999 by Jordanian radical Abu Musab al-ZarqawiIn, and it pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda in 2004. Under al-Zarqawi, the group participated in the Iraqi insurgency following the March 2003 invasion of Iraq by Western forces. Events like the Iraqi War and the Syrian Civil War have allowed ISIL to consume the resulting power vacuum left in the region. Contrary to popular liberal opinion, the group did not start because of the U.S. regime toppling and nation building initiatives undertaken by the Bush Administration. Instead, ISIL has a religious prophecy to fulfill. It is motivated by money, power, and world domination. Its hatred for others does not solely stem from the bombardment of drone strikes and military activity from Western nations. In 2014, ISIL proclaimed itself to be a worldwide caliphate with Abu Bakr al-Baghadi as its caliph. Although the international community does not acknowledge these declarations, there is no doubt that ISIL is a legitimate terrorist threat with influence that uses social media and the oil black market to its advantage. The most dangerous aspect of ISIL is its ability to indirectly create terror cells domestically in the U.S. and its allies. The attacks on San Bernardino manifested from the radicalization and overarching influence ISIL has on its followers. Its capability in conducting violent acts of terror has been displayed in Paris and Belgium. It injects fear into democratic societies by publicly displaying beheadings and genocide. ISIL is a threat to national security of America and its allies. Thus, in the name of protecting freedom, liberty and security, our newly inaugurated president must devise a strategy to help in the eradication of ISIL. Religious extremism

oil sales. We need our intelligence to find ways to freeze their assets and sanction countries doing business with them. According to the New York Times, ISIL employs approximately 30,000 fighters, with 19,000 from 90 foreign countries, each receiving a salary of $500 a month. That’s an estimated total of 10 to $15,000,000 in employment per month and $180,000,000 per year. CNN reported that black market oil sales are ISlL’s main source of funding (about 30-40 percent), with an approximate revenue of one to two million dollars per day. Not only does eliminating this oil trade substantially decrease funding, but it prohibits ISIL from efficiently using weapons and tanks. Use diplomacy and leadership to assemble a strong alliance. Let’s make this clear. I don’t like Putin. But the Russian military should not be counted out of this coalition. Putin’s relationship with President Obama was contentious and abysmal. Hopefully, Trump can deliver and use Putin as terrorfighting asset. This same strategy of working with our not so friendly acquaintances (the USSR) helped us win World War II. It already appears that our relationship with Russia has improved. Most importantly, we will also need the full commitment of other European allies in this initiative. If we can’t identify them, don’t take them. This part is so critical. The FBI has stated numerous times that we do not have profiles on a significant number of refugees coming into our country. In my opinion, the ideas of people who support taking refugees in blindly are dangerous. It’s analogous to letting strangers in your house without taking precautions. A very large percentage of these people are most likely no danger to us at all. But we can’t take on the minute percentage that might be hiding amongst the people who are good. It just goes against common sense. The second an ISIS member enters our borders, we have lost. American lives should be the top priority for this policy. The Trump Administration must use other means of American humanitarian efforts to help these people, which I believe is entirely within the scope of our abilities. President Trump needs to be the leader that gets this done. I wish his administration the best of luck. Mitchell Siegel is a Trinity freshman.

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