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Kennard gives Duke 3 early NBA Draft entrants Staff Reports The Chronicle With two rookies joining the ranks of Duke one-and-done freshmen recently, the Blue Devils will now have to try prepare for next season without their top scorer as well. Following a season in which he earned second-team All-American and unanimous first-team All-ACC honors, sophomore Luke Kennard became the third member of this year’s squad to declare for the NBA draft Thursday afternoon, following freshmen Jayson Tatum and Harry Giles. The Franklin, Ohio, native made a huge leap forward in his sophomore campaign after an inconsistent freshman year and put together one of the most prolific single-season scoring campaigns in program history. Kennard is expected to hire an agent and is projected as a mid-to-late first round pick in most mock drafts. His decision means that this is the third time since 1999 and second time in three years at least three Blue Devils have entered the NBA Draft early. “After considerable reflection, prayer and consultation with my family and coaches, I have decided to take the next step in pursuing my basketball dreams by entering the NBA Draft,” Kennard said in a release. “Being a member of the Duke basketball brotherhood is always going to be special to me. I have nothing but love and respect for everyone in the Duke program. I want to thank my coaches, teammates, the best fans in the game and

Jim Liu | The Chronicle Luke Kennard earned second-team All-American honors and is expected to be a top-25 pick in June’s NBA Draft following his breakout season.

everyone in Franklin for being by my side every step of this journey. I have a lot of hard work ahead of me, but I’m confident that I’m ready and have a great foundation for success at the NBA level.” Kennard’s season was punctuated by a signature 34-point performance at Wake Forest in January when he went 10-for10 from the floor in the second half and drained the game-winning 3-pointer with 6.6 seconds left.

Despite shooting just 4-of-18 in the Blue Devils’ two NCAA tournament games, he finished the year shooting 48.9 percent from the field and 43.8 percent from beyond the arc, which ranked second in the ACC. The 6-foot-5 guard also finished second in the conference in scoring at 19.6 points per game, and he finishes his Duke career with an 86.7 percent mark from the charity stripe that is second only to J.J. Redick in Blue Devil history.

As Duke was plagued by injuries and a lack of continuity throughout the season, Kennard was one of two players, along with senior Matt Jones, to play in all 37 games. He was the Blue Devils’ most consistent player all year and logged the third most minutes in the ACC at 35.5 per contest. “I’ve loved coaching Luke and having he and his family in our program,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said in the release. “Luke’s skill set is such a perfect fit for the way the NBA game has evolved and we’re all excited to see him flourish at the next level. He is a wonderful person who will immediately be an asset to an NBA team.” Kennard was a four-star recruit coming out of high school and was not expected to be a starter this year, but his breakout season has him among the most touted scoring guards in this draft class. With Kennard gone, Duke is now awaiting junior Grayson Allen’s decision. Allen is projected to be a second-round NBA Draft pick after a tough 2016-17 season but is on track to have completed almost all of his degree requirements next month. If Allen joins Kennard, Tatum and Giles in the draft, Krzyzewski’s program will have lost eight of its 14 scholarships and 83.1 percent of its scoring from last season. The Blue Devils have signed five-star forward Wendell Carter, five-star guard Gary Trent Jr. and four-star guard Alex O’Connell for next season. Five-star point guard Trevon Duval, five-star wing Kevin Knox and five-star center Mohamed Bamba are still on Duke’s radar.

Meet Rashmi Joglekar, next year’s GPSC president Likhitha Butchireddygari The Chronicle Rashmi Joglekar, a third-year Ph.D. student in the Nicholas School for the Environment, was recently elected president of the Graduate and Professional Student Council. Joglekar, whose one-year term begins at the end of this academic year, is a student in the Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health Program and is current vice president of GPSC. The Chronicle’s Likhitha Butchireddygari spoke with Joglekar about her goals, as well as issues facing graduates students at Duke. TC: What do you hope to accomplish in your term? RJ: I have three major platforms that I ran on. The first is unification. It’s really important to unify the graduate student body. Right now, we are in a post-union environment, which comes with its challenges because the belief of the relationship between students

and administrators is very disparate right now across campus. Last year, we were very focused on task-oriented issues, but this year it’s going to be more about changing the environment of graduate and professional students and their relationship with administrators. This will be part of unification, so trying to bring together those groups that feel differently about administrators by working together to voice their concerns. I also want to be sure that advocacy plays a huge role in this next year. That doesn’t just mean executive members advocating to administrators—that also means general assembly members advocating to administrators and the regular students advocating to administrators. All three of those levels. So, it’s going to be an important interplay between advocating on the different levels of students—student leaders, student representatives or actual students— and then administrators. The third thing is to empower the graduate

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and professional students. Right now, this kind of leads into unification. They don’t feel as if they much of a say on campus. So, we have plans to fund individuals to go make a difference on campus. We are incentivizing them through competition. We also want to have chances for students in the assembly and outside the assembly to meet with administrators and voice their concerns in more of a town hall setting. Those are just some of the ideas we want to bring forth next year. TC: What are some of the greatest issues facing graduate and professional students on campus? RJ: Right now, the greatest concern for graduate students is that they feel like their voice is not heard by administrators. They feel like their liberties are being taken away—the gym membership, not having dental insurance, not having wages guaranteed over the summer. See GPSC on Page 3

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Struggling with allergies Lead exposure could have this year? You’re not alone lifelong effects, study reveals Rob Palmisano The Chronicle When students come to Duke, they hope to have all kinds of experiences. But allergic reactions to plant sperm typically aren’t on the list. Pollen is the yellow, grainy substance that is the male genetic material of various plants and trees. It becomes an especially problematic issue in the Spring, as students are well aware. Students suffering from itchy or watering eyes, nasal congestion and fatigue are not alone this time of year. “I’ve seen a lot of people being more sick recently and complaining of allergies,” said senior Aibi Janat. Janat added that he does not have allergies himself, but that several of his friends have allergies that they “hate.” Some have adapted better than others. Linh Nguyen, a graduate student in economics, said she is so used to her recurring pollen allergies that they are not even a “big problem” anymore.

First-year Grace Smith noted that she has seen a change in overall campus health during this semester. Approximately 25 percent of the U.S. population on average has seasonal allergies, said Patricia Lugar, assistant professor of medicine at the Duke Asthma, Allergy and Airway Center in the School of Medicine. Most pollen is distributed evenly throughout campus, explained Jason Holmes, curator of the Doris Duke Center gardens. Visiting animals and insects, as well as the wind, facilitate the spread of pollen into neighboring environments. He said that most of the “yellow haze” around campus right now is coming from pine and oak trees. Small pollen grains from trees are likely to be carried by the wind for “miles upon miles” due to their small size, Lugar said. The microscopic size of pollen particles allows them to easily penetrate the cell layers of the nasal and respiratory airways, which Lugar explained “perfectly primes” See POLLEN on Page 3

Neal Vaidya | The Chronicle Experts explained that most of the pollen right now—causing itchy eyes and nasal congestion—is coming from pine and oak trees.

Nathan Luzum The Chronicle Medical professionals have long known that lead exposure is dangerous for one’s health—but according to a new study, this exposure could have lifelong costs. Researchers analyzed more than 500 children who had been exposed to leaded gasoline in their youth. The study revealed that children who had been exposed to lead scored several points lower on IQ tests and had a lower socioeconomic status than those who had not been affected or had less exposure. “What we found was that higher levels of lead exposure in childhood were associated with lower cognitive abilities at age 38,” said Aaron Reuben, a psychology graduate student. “And this sort of lower cognitive ability was accompanied by lower socioeconomic status.” The study examined a group of children born during the early 1970s in Dunedin, New Zealand. Vehicles in New Zealand

at the time still used leaded gasoline, making the location an optimal site to study childhood lead exposure. Blood samples were collected from 565 participants when they were 11 years old. “We knew that lead exposure is detrimental to development, but what we didn’t know is to what extent those detriments have lifelong consequences or if there’s sort of a recovery effect,” Reuben said. Reuben clarified that not only did leadexposed children’s IQ scores fall behind those of their peers, but some of the participants’ IQ scores were also lower in adulthood. Additionally, many affected children had lower salaries compared to those of their parents. Terrie Moffitt, Nannerl O. Keohane University professor in the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, noted that even minor differences in IQ can vastly change salaries. “Among baby-boomer Americans who have about-average mental abilities, an IQ See LEAD on Page 3

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LEAD from page 2 difference of 100 versus 105, which is similar to the 4.25-point deficit in individuals who had elevated lead levels, were compared on net worth near their age of retirement,” she wrote in an email. “Net worth was about $60,000 for adults with IQ of 100, and net worth was about $80,000 for adults with IQ of 105.” Reuben noted that prior lead exposure studies had difficulty separating the effects of lead from other debilitating circumstances such as poverty. Additionally, few prior studies had attempted to conduct a life-long study given the logistical challenges of following study participants. He added that the study is useful for analyzing lead exposure in the United States, although the situation in the U.S. is different from that in New Zealand. The New Zealand group had long-term consistent exposure to leaded gasoline, he said, while children in the U.S. have less frequent lead interactions. “We feel that our findings are going to be relevant for lead-exposed people anywhere, but they’re not going to necessarily tell us what the consequences of very low exposure are,” Reuben said. However, he expressed hope that the information could be extended to help those in the developing world who encounter leaded gasoline on a daily basis. Clinicians who are treating lead-exposed children could also benefit from this investigation, Reuben explained. He said he hopes that this study will alert policymakers to the severity of lead exposure and emphasized that lawmakers must examine long-term solutions to the problem. “Our findings suggest that people don’t recover,” he said. “You can detect cognitive impairment associated with childhood lead exposure years later.”

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more like financial aid—they have student loans and housing is an issue. Importantly this year, to address the student concerns in the general the immune system to trigger an allergic assembly of the student council, we are going to response. split. We are going to have subcommittees—one She also added that pollen affects all for professional student concerns and one for members of the Duke community, whether graduate student concerns—because they are so they come from within the country or from different in nature. But I think across the broad, abroad. especially for graduate students, it’s feeling like “If you’re from other regions, you their voice is not being heard. probably haven’t seen [our pollen], and after about two seasons we get large numbers of TC: What are some projects that GPSC has undergraduates, faculty and staff coming in worked on this year? to get checked out who have developed the RJ: The biggest thing that we did this year same recurring allergic reactions as lifelong was establishing the OneDuke Access Fund, residents,” Lugar said. and that was spearheaded by Marcus Benning. Lugar recommended a three-pronged The OneDuke Access Fund is a financial aid plan of attack for combating these allergies— program that’s run and funded by graduate avoidance, rinsing and topical treatments. She students. This takes money from the graduate said it is best to avoid outside exercise between student fee and gives back to graduate students the peak pollen hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. who are in need. This year, we’ve allocated Saline rinses and eyedrops can be useful when $10,000 for the fund. That means that $10,000 applied after prolonged outside activity. will be given away in $200 awards throughout Students should also roll the windows up the year to applicants who need money when they are driving, Lugar added, and keep for travel, for wardrobe, for interviews, for their apartment and dorm windows closed. school supplies if they are in need. It’s a really Holmes said that eating local honey could incredible program. It was incredibly exciting also quell allergies, because the honey helps to see it from the beginning stages, and then one’s body get used to the particular type of come to fruition. pollen in the area. He added that the most important thing students can do is reach out TC: What do you think is the role of to Duke Health. graduate and professional students in the “They understand that students come from broader campus community? all over the world, and so there will be new RJ: Graduate and professional students triggers,” he said. play a very important role on campus. They bring in research money, and they’re the next generation of scientists, doctors and scholars. from page 1 In terms of their interactions with faculty and staff, I think it’s critical for their development What’s interesting is that the issues of the graduate in education. In terms of their relationship students and the professional students are very with undergraduates, I think it’s very separated. different in nature. I’m a graduate student, so I There’s not very much interaction between understood the whole union movement. I was the undergraduate and graduate student part of the voting body. In terms of professional population in terms of activities or interests student issues, they are very different. They’re because I feel like we are at very different

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walks of life. But I do think that graduate and professional students are critical to driving the University. We bring in a lot of money. We are the innovators essentially. I think it’s a really exciting position to be in. TC: How do you think the University can better serve graduate students? RJ: I think the union movement started for a reason, and that’s because graduate students felt that their liberties were being taken away. They felt like they didn’t really have a voice when it came to administrators catering to their needs. I think because graduate students are so essential to the University, it’s essential for them to feel valued by administrators, and that will be one of our top priorities this year. TC: What do you mean by “they feel like their liberties are being taken away”? RJ: I think that graduate students felt that some of things that they were promised weren’t exactly being upheld. I personally have never experienced this, so I feel uncomfortable talking about it. But, I do know that some people have voiced those concerns. I think the common thread throughout all this is that certain things that graduate students have wanted for many years haven’t really been pushed to fruition— such as dental insurance and access to the gym— all throughout their five years or whatever their tenure is at Duke. I think that not being able to have those needs met after many years of effort is a signal that their efforts are not worthwhile in a sense. To be met with resistance for many years in a row is what is leading them to develop this opinion that administrators are not listening to them. So, it’s essential for representatives and leaders to take on this role and try to advocate for these issues. But, I think the most important lesson that we learned last year is that the students do want to have a voice and they do want to build this relationship with administrators to a point where if they ask for things, they’re actually heard and listened to.

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Blue Devils pass down longstanding pregame introductions and rituals Ben Feder The Chronicle Amid a season full of goalkeeper changes, turnovers, two top-20 victories and five ACC defeats, there has been little continuity for Duke head coach Kerstin Kimel, a rarity for the woman who has built the program from scratch since arriving in Durham in 1996. One aspect, though, will always remain constant for Kimel’s squads—their pregame introductions. Unlike players on most teams, the Blue Devils do not run out exactly when their names are called. In fact, senior attack Hayley Shaffer and junior All-American midfielder Maddie Crutchfield always sprint to the rest of their teammates far after either of their names is introduced over the PA system as part of the starting lineup. The same goes for every player, as the team forms an alley for the athletes to run out in twos together following a choreographed handshake. Most fans are confused by Kimel’s tactic, wondering why the Blue Devils choose to do it. For Kimel, though, it was an easy answer. “Our feeling is that it’s going to be a whole team effort on the field to compete and win a game,” Kimel said. “It’s been something we’ve done forever, and it’s supposed to be symbolic of the fact that we win and lose as a team, not as individuals.” Unfortunately for Duke, though, it has had to learn that lesson the hard way this season. The Blue Devils sit 6-6 overall and 0-5 in conference play, largely due to a lack of complete performances on both sides of the field. But there has been progress in recent games, as Duke upset then-No. 16 Elon 10-9 before suffering a heartbreaking loss to No. 11

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Syracuse by the same score. Younger players such as newly-appointed starting goalkeeper Gabbe Cadoux and midfielders Callie Humphrey and Catherine Cordrey have begun adjusting to the collegiate level, and the Blue Devils have improved as a result. The freshmen on the team all have to go through the same adjustments to get used to the pregame introduction process, which starts out rough, according to multiple players. The actual running out does not confuse the players—the tricky part is the handshakes that come before they join the rest of their teammates for the national anthem. Although there is definitely a learning

curve for some of the athletes, the pregame handshakes are something that the players have come to treasure. “There’s certain things as a coach that I think that you need to have a hand in and control and certain things that I think are really important for them to feel like they own, and that just happens to be one of them in our program,” Kimel said. The athletes have taken the freedom Kimel has given them and run with it ever since. Some routines are rooted in tradition, others are practiced, tweaked and altered ever so slightly as the games go on, and there are even improvisational themes for certain games, which Shaffer noted as being

challenging but humorous. Shaffer and Crutchfield’s handshake is one that has been passed down throughout the years, ever since she learned it from the previous player who sported Crutchfield’s No. 23—All-American defender Taylor Virden, a senior when Shaffer arrived on campus. But due to the tradition of the routine between Nos. 23 and 28, Virden brought Shaffer under her wing and taught her the pregame handshake, which Shaffer did the year after with Crutchfield. “You hit sticks with your right hand, and then you switch—you put your stick in your other hand,” Crutchfield said. “Then you grab [hands with your partner] with your right hand and then hit them to the ground and run out.” However some other duos on the team are in for a rude awakening in the first exhibition game of the season, like All-American senior defender Maura Schwitter and her partner were as freshmen. Schwitter described the process as similar to being thrown into the deep end of a pool before learning how to swim, as her and her partner—fellow senior defender Isabelle Montagne—were caught completely off-guard, much to the delight of the upperclassmen at the time. That first introduction comes as a culture shock for the freshmen, who could be seen practicing in their dorms afterward, Schwitter said. This year, though, Shaffer assumed her captain duties by notifying the previously unsuspecting freshmen of what to expect prior to their scrimmages in the fall and winter. “We definitely make it an effort to make the first game as [stress-free] as we can,” See W. LACROSSE on Page 8

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Top-10 showdown: Duke welcomes Notre Dame Alex Sanfilippo The Chronicle The Blue Devils flashed their potential by outscoring then-No 18 North Carolina 11-2 after a slow start en route to their first ACC win Sunday, with all facets coming together for a young but extremely talented group in Chapel Hill. But every week in league play brings a No. 4 new test, and Duke ND vs. cannot afford to rest on its laurels with another No. 10 title contender coming Duke to Durham. SATURDAY, Noon The No. 10 Blue Koskinen Stadium Devils will host No. 4 Notre Dame Saturday at noon at Koskinen Stadium hoping to take control of second place in the conference standings. No. 2 Syracuse is in control having already bested both Duke and

the Fighting Irish in one-goal thrillers to move to 3-0 in ACC play, and with the Blue Devils and Notre Dame—which was ranked No. 1 before its loss to the Orange—both at 1-1 against league opponents, Saturday’s top-10 tilt could have major postseason implications. With only five teams in the ACC, both squads only have one more league matchup after they rekindle their rivalry. The Fighting Irish were also ranked No. 4 in the last bout between the two teams, a 10-9 overtime victory for Duke in the semifinals of the ACC tournament. Many of the Blue Devils who tallied goals in that contest, including the dynamic duo of Justin Guterding and Jack Bruckner, return for what should be another exciting matchup with Notre Dame boasting one of the best defenses in the nation. “You go to Notre Dame, just like Duke, you expect to be excellent at whatever you do,” Duke head coach John Danowski said. See M. LACROSSE on Page 8

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Blue Devils seek key road ACC series victory Riley Pfaff The Chronicle When a college team gets the chance to play against a professional team, the game is typically geared toward the professional players who are using the game as a tuneup for their season. For Duke, however, a strong showing in its exhibition might turn out to be just the spark the Blue Devils need as they look to reverse a slow start to conference play. After nearly knocking off the Durham Bulls in an exhibition matchup Tuesday, Duke travels to Coral Gables, Fla., to take on an Duke uncharacteristically weak Miami team as it vs. returns to ACC play. Miami The teams will tangle Saturday at 7 p.m., SATURDAY, 7 p.m. Sunday at 2 p.m. and Alex Rodriguez Park Monday at 7 p.m. at Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field. The Blue Devils have now gone a week since their last win, a 14-0 blowout against Pittsburgh before the Panthers came back to win the final two games of the weekend series. However, Duke played well against the Bulls, and heads into the weekend knowing that if it were not for a close call at the plate Tuesday, it might have knocked off one of the most well-known minor league teams in baseball. But Blue Devil head coach Chris Pollard’s team needs to put together more consistent stretches against league foes. Duke has lost

three straight ACC series and has very few quality wins to its name as it readies to face a proud program coming off back-to-back College World Series appearances that now sits outside the top 25. “Probably the most impressive thing for me was the way we swung the bats, considering we don’t get a lot of practice during the year with wood in a live game setting,” Pollard said after Tuesday’s game. “I thought our pitchers did a really good job of pounding the strike zone. We played really good defense. I thought we played a good ballgame.” The Blue Devils (16-15, 5-7 in the ACC) will need a similar recipe to fare well against ACC talent. Duke took two of three from Virginia Tech in its opening conference series but has since lost two of three in subsequent weekend matchups with Wake Forest, thenNo. 20 Virginia and Pittsburgh. Although the Blue Devils have struggled at times on offense, it has generally been one of the strongest parts of their game this season. Sophomores Jimmy Herron and Griffin Conine are tied for the team lead in batting at .322 each, and as a team, Duke ranks sixth in the ACC in average and slugging percentage. Conine, in particular, has showed tremendous improvement in his second season, earning second-team midseason All-American accolades by leading his team in a slew of categories, including runs, RBIs and homers. Against the Bulls, it was junior star Jack Labosky who provided the only run for the Blue Devils, with his lone hit coming on a double to right-center field that nearly cleared

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Justin Bellinger had been out for several games due to injury before Tuesday’s exhibition against the Durham Bulls—his power could spark Duke if the junior can get on track.

the fence. Along with Herron and Conine at season, going 10-7 compared to 3-9 on the the top of the order, Labosky has been a force road. However, the Hurricanes dropped on offense this season, and his five home runs their last home ACC series against Wake are tied for second-most on the team. Forest for their first home ACC series loss “To be able to put a good swing on of the season. In 2015 and 2016, Miami that ball was a lot of fun and something to went a combined 70-11 in the friendly remember,” Labosky said. “As a whole team, confines of Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark we had a lot of fun with it.” Light Field. Duke hopes to continue the fun this A lack of offensive production has set weekend. The Hurricanes, typically an the Hurricanes back, with the team’s paltry annual contender in the ACC, have .206 batting average putting the unit last struggled so far this season and have lost in the ACC. The three-time defending three of their last five games heading into ACC regular-season champions will look The opener. New York Times Syndication Sales Friday’s series to Corporation Romy Gonzalez, Michael Burns and 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 Despite its struggles, Miami (13-16, 5-7) For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 See BASEBALL on Page 8 has been significantly atFriday, home April this 7, 2017 For better Release

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n Tuesday, the NCAA ended its boycott of North Carolina after the repeal of House Bill 2, the “bathroom bill” that pushed North Carolina into the national spotlight last year. The notorious bill has been replaced by a harshly-criticized compromise bill—which removes the infamous bathroom regulation but places a moratorium on local nondiscrimination ordinances until late 2020, effectively maintaining House Bill 2’s original prohibition of said ordinances. Today, we examine the political tradeoff made by Governor Roy Cooper who was elected to his position by a slim margin, in large part, by his campaign promise to repeal House Bill 2. Soon after the November election, Cooper was stripped of his gubernatorial power on many fronts by an uncompromising Republican supermajority in the State House and Senate, but he held powerful leverage in the form of North Carolina’s economic hemorrhaging as a direct result of House Bill 2. Despite this, given a decent political position and an electorate that understood and accepted the tremendous difficulty of repealing House Bill 2, he chose to compromise rather than continue to apply pressure, resulting in what has been called

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House Bill 2.0. Though he has since expressed his dissatisfaction with the bill, Cooper’s intentions in accepting this compromise have been unclear. If anything, this incident demonstrates the politics at play. Cooper was elected based on promised to repeal House Bill 2, a political buzzword that overshadowed everything else on his platform. Once he entered office, instead of addressing the root of the problem, he focused on only the most publicized portion of House Bill 2, employing a

Editorial campaign tactic for a job that necessitates placing substance over image. In doing so, he may have assuaged the portion of voters who voted to restore North Carolina’s public perception. But for the most affected and vulnerable portion of his constituents, those who voted with fear for their personal safety, there remains no legal protection against discrimination. This raises questions of whether Cooper truly opposed House Bill 2 or simply the reelection of Pat McCrory and whether he aims to protect his constituents or simply

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satisfy them. Cooper has compromised on the one piece of legislation he promised not to compromise on and has exploited votes of many activists who campaigned on his behalf in what appears to be opportunistic power play. In November, Cooper’s victory represented the end of a year-long battle for many. In some ways, we became complacent, having elected a Democrat to be governor of North Carolina. In doing so, we made the same mistake as Cooper. We viewed the highest public office of our state through a partisan lens and placed too much faith in a single politician and party. We forgot that electing Cooper into office was not the end of our civic duty. This duty requires us to continue fighting for our state, long after we cast our ballots at the polls. Cooper’s election failed to address the underlying problems of a state legislature that has no qualms about rescinding local governments’ abilities to establish nondiscrimination laws. For now, it remains to be seen if this compromise will reverse the economic damage of House Bill 2. Regardless, we should remain committed to protecting the rights of all our fellow North Carolinians and settle for nothing less.

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esterday morning, I sat in the balcony of the Carolina Theatre next to a row of sweet old white women. We exchanged pleasantries before our film began, crying together as scenes of violence, emotion, and heavily militarized policing flashed across the screen. The artful craft of documentary film is celebrated each year at the Full Frame Film Festival right here in downtown Durham, and we had chosen to kick off the 20th anniversary of the event by attending “Whose Streets?” “Whose Streets?” documents the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement immediately following the murder of Michael Brown Jr. in Ferguson, Missouri. It is a gripping and compelling story of activism, hope and a new generation of political organizing. It presents to its viewers a thoroughly new narrative on Ferguson: one that does not sensationalize “looting and rioting,” but rather focuses on the struggle of living in an effective police state and the strategies being used to fight it. Our audience even had the opportunity to speak with the directors of the film, to probe

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films to the masses. As Full Frame’s largest sponsor, Duke has been a huge source of support for the festival, which partners with our Center for Documentary Studies. Though the festival offers a student fellowship that offers budding filmmakers a chance to explore the weekend of documentaries, these spaces are limited and reserved for college students. Over the next few years, Duke should move to help Full Frame expand programs like the annual “Youth Screening” and “Teach the Teachers”, which bring the issues presented in modern documentary films to grade school teachers and students around the nation. Additionally, we can help to subsidize tickets and passes, so that less affluent community members are still able to be present and be a part of the crucial conversations that take place at Full Frame. And, perhaps most importantly, we students can advocate for the screening of such films right on campus. Through education beyond the classroom, we can find energy, motivation and new outlets for global and civic engagement. The anatomy of the festival is especially

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them and laud them and question them. This is not a rarity at Full Frame. The festival brings the most pressing issue of our day to life in film and creates critical conversations within the Durham community. I have been volunteering since my junior year of high school, just to get the chance to see a couple of life-changing films every year. It does a lot of good, and its attendees are brilliantly committed to absorbing new information that often sparks progressive action. Yet as I looked around the audience, I could not help but notice the overwhelming demographic of the festival. Most of the people filling the seats were like the group beside me: old and white. Not to discredit the gravity of the films nor the excellence of Full Frame, but the event suffers from an accessibility issue. The people who desperately need to see “Whose Streets” and other movies of the like are students, young people, poor people and many other peoples who weren’t in the audience yesterday. Passes are expensive and time is hard to come by, especially for young, working people. While it is exciting that old people get the chance to passionately discuss matters of race, gender, and global violence, it is the high school and college students of our generation who would benefit most from such discussions. Duke has a hand in the culture of Full Frame, and could play a major part in bringing these

potent in Durham, given its racial and economic history. However empathetic, kind and passionate the crowds of ex-hippy attendees are, they are not black kids living in Section 8, and are therefore less personally affected by the films on black activism that are often screened over the weekend. There is no shortage of topics in which to engage through film. In the years that I have attended Full Frame, I have learned about the Black Panther Party, The Nation magazine, a 28year wrongful incarceration, and Duke professor Dan Ariely’s research on dishonesty. Even a short introduction to these themes yields a spark of passion and deep thought in viewers, and if we could bring such films to marginalized youth across the country, we could inspire a generation of thinkers and doers. The creators of “Whose Streets?” are doing just that. Despite high honors from boujee film festivals like Full Frame, they acknowledge that in order for their film to fulfill its purpose, it needs to reach a wider audience. You can (and should) find it in theaters this August. Hopefully, Full Frame will follow its lead and expand its reach as well. Leah Abrams is a Trinity freshman. Her column, “cut the bull,” runs on alternate Fridays.

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The pursuit of wellness Maintaining goals, maintaining grades L

ife as a Duke student can feel surreal--from morning rock climbs and lunches with Nobel laureates to nights cheering on the most storied basketball program in college sports, capped off with twilights in Perkins. With the surplus of opportunities on our campus far outpacing the number of hours in a day, many students are told early on to “pick two”: school, sleep, and social life. Forget about every achieving all three. As a result, personal health and wellbeing often take a backseat on campus, as students race between scholastic and social extremes. These issues are neither new nor unique to Duke, and speak to a longstanding disconnect between macro-level services (e.g. student health, CAPS) and micro-level student needs (e.g. social wellness, mental health). With the university celebrating its third annual Mental Health Awareness Month in March, Duke Student Government (DSG) convened the Student Leader Steering Committee for an open conversation about the progress to date and challenges ahead for wellness initiatives on campus.

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Building on the framework and outcomes of previous meetings on construction, classrooms, the curriculum and intellectual engagement, DSG gathered student leaders from policy and advocacy organizations (e.g. NAMI, the Student Health Advisory Committee, and more) for a discussion with Sue Wasiolek, the Dean of Students. The committee recognized that the university has made tremendous strides with regards to personal health over the years. On paper, all the resources seem to be there – a 99,000 square foot fitness facility on West, periodic puppy therapy on the quad, mental health counselors available when students need them and a gleaming new student wellness building complete with patient services, a meditation garden and yoga classes. There are also significant options beyond student services. Multiple support groups exist to extend a helping hand to students struggling with depression or anxiety. Student organizations sponsor talks on self-care, stage acapella concerts in the library to alleviate stress, and table on the BC with free food and positive messaging. However, if Duke offers so much, why then do students continue to struggle with wellness? From binge drinking to depression, problems persist with significant consequences for students’ physical and mental health. Simultaneously, progress remains slow--not because the challenges with wellness are hidden from view, but because of a general apathy towards the array of passive and active programming on campus. The root cause is not a lack of capital, but rather an absence of culture. For too long, wellness was medicalized on campus. Student health existed on periphery of campus and students’ minds, with most individuals’ interactions limited to their free annual flu shot. Beyond doctor’s appointments, wellness never seems to make its way into the color-coded Google calendars of Duke students. Unhealthy habits can develop rapidly on a campus that puts the personal at the expense of the professional, from all-nighters to, physical inactivity, to poor eating choices. Consequently, most students access the resources on campus on a reactive basis, allowing administrators to only treat symptoms, but never the causes, of poor wellness at Duke. This frank discussion between students and administrators transitioned to a conversation

about how we as a community can better promote healthier living on campus. Reflecting on these challenges, we offer the following recommendations. First, we must work to institutionalize wellness at Duke. The new wellness center represents a significant step forward, bridging urgent and primary care while colocating physical (student health) and mental (CAPS) health. But a building – despite all its amenities, ambient lighting, and glass windows – is just a building. The first step was moving wellness to campus center; the next step is making wellness the centerpiece of our community. We call for the creation of “Wellness Fridays”--dedicated time during the week that makes use of the center’s role as a public space on campus to create a welcoming environment that promotes wellness as a cornerstone of campus life. Such an initiative would be reinforced by expanding the center’s diverse public health offerings for each of the six dimensions of wellness – from “koru” breathing classes which foster mindfulness to “composing yourself” courses which reduce stress.

e all have that friend who, for the life of them, cannot seem to fail at anything they try to do. Off the top of my head, I can think of at least three people I know who fall into that category: a Duke friend who transferred to MIT because he was offered a full ride, takes six classes per semester and still has time for research and startup projects; an Irish friend who is studying engineering at one of the best schools in the country and has still managed to represent Ireland on six international athletics teams (twice for field hockey and the tetrathlon and once each for ultimate frisbee and the pentathlon); and a Duke Pratt engineering student who (in his spare time) plays field hockey, is mastering every coding language he can get his hands on and even manages to practice the art of knitting. None of these individuals have sacrificed grades

you. [For me that’s] sometimes what I like. Sometimes other things.” I’ve read enough lifestyle design books to recognize the well-known adage behind his words—the things you don’t do are as important as the things you do do. Indiscriminate action is the basis for inefficiency. I myself try to take time at least once a month to sit down and explicitly write out my goals on a piece of paper, along with what I’m doing to achieve them. All too frequently, I find that I’ve drifted off course. If we are to achieve high levels of accomplishment in what we choose to do, we need to primarily do things that we like and to secondarily pare down our commitments so that we can focus on those things with all our power. Focus, in fact, is the key that my MIT maestro extolled to me in his text message responses (which he sent

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Second, we advocate for the consolidation of wellness resources. For information to percolate through the student body can be a challenge for any student group or administrative body. Gaps in communication persist, such as ambiguity whether walkin appointments at CAPS are allowed. We applaud the Student Health Advisory Committee’s current work at revamping the student health website and advocating for investment into mobile health plug-ins for the Duke Mobile app. Such efforts will hopefully trigger more widespread initiatives to promote awareness about wellness on campus. For example, administrators could collaborate with faculty-in-residence (FIRs) on East Campus to create wellness programs that foster self-care early-on in a student’s Duke career. Programming should better emphasize the other components of Duke’s “six dimensions of wellness”, such as integrating support systems for social culture and academic stress. Third, we hope that improving awareness will translate into better recognition about the serious consequences when wellness is neglected. For example, mental health challenges such as depression cannot be used as justification for submitting a shortterm illness form (STINF) for academic coursework. The suggestion that students might use mental health “excuses” to abuse the policy is nonsensical and non-unique – you can just as easily fake the flu to get out of class. Instead, creating a mental health STINF would lend both greater recognition to the challenges that 1 in 4 college students face, strengthen the sense of student community and institutional support on campus, and demonstrate that personal wellness in and out of the classroom is truly a priority at Duke. Similarly, we encourage more events like last year’s “Sleep Convention” for students to understand the seriousness of getting six to eight hours of sleep each night. We recognize that change will not happen overnight. But wellness in of itself is an incremental process – one achieved through small victories and daily progress, one fostered by the people around us and the environment that we live in. Improving campus life and culture should be a collaborative and inclusive process, and we hope that you will join us as we work to make Duke a healthier and happier place.

for extracurricular pursuits, nor have they given up on the special skills and activities that set them apart from the herd. So the million dollar question becomes: how do they do it? In elementary school my classmates and I were frequently reminded to “stay out of the Comparison Jungle” because “everyone has gifts and challenges.” That seems fine and dandy when you’re talking to a bunch of 10-year-olds, but real life is a Comparison Jungle. In the world beyond elementary school are people that I not only want to be comparing myself to (not simply out of masochism but because it will make me push myself to the limit) but who I will be compared to when it comes to things like job applications or anything else competitive. So what must I do to level the playing field and catch up with these Gods Amongst Men? After rigorously interviewing (sending a slew of text messages) back and forth with two of the aforementioned superstars, I have acquired from them some advice on how they succeed not only academically but also in the extracurriculars of their choice. “Only do stuff you enjoy is my usual motto,” my Irish friend told me. “Cause then it’s not a struggle… And you’re always excited to do the next thing.” Do what you love may seem like cliché advice, but sometimes things are cliché for a reason. I recently downgraded from a dual major in Computer Science and Math to a CS major and a Math minor because I realized that I actually couldn’t stand thinking about the amount of math I would have to do in order to succeed. If I wasn’t going to be excited to churn out mathematical proofs on a regular basis, there was no reason for me to grind my forehead against a cheese grater several days per week in order to get a fancy degree. “Know your priorities,” my friend added. “Know what’s important to

intermittently while flying a plane in the airspace over Puerto Rico). “Mind control is the key to efficiency… [because] it all boils down to focus. It’s gonna take much less time for [people] who’re 100% concentrating on the thinking process.” Tools for improved focus are many and varied, but some of them are universally applicable. One of them, in fact, complements the advice of my Irish mentor: focusing on fewer tasks is a recipe for improved focus on all of them. By reducing your breadth of activities your attention can go from an inefficient spread of shotgun pellets to the dead-center precision of a sniper rifle. Our ecosystem at university abounds with high performers. We all arrived here because we have unique talents and abilities that have consistently set as apart from the people around us. It’s as if the Comparison Jungle was stripped of almost all prey animals and was left full of jaguars, pythons, crocodiles and killer piranha fish. Each of us has the capacity to be a successful predator, but only if we can learn to focus on what we like with all our capacity. Another friend of mine, highly perfectionistic with a genius-level IQ (she was recently tested), reminded me that if we try and match the abilities of all the people around us (if I try to be as sporty as my athletic friends, as musically talented as my musician friends and as computationally correct as my mathematician friends) we’ll just burn out and succeed at nothing. The jaguars can’t try to be piranha fish and neither can the pythons and crocodiles switch places. Take some time to think about what you enjoy, figure out how to put yourself in the position to do it and then when you do, focus on the activity with all you have. Good things will follow. Jack Dolinar is a Trinity sophomore. His column, “more percent efficient” runs on alternate Fridays.

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Jack White | The Chronicle Veteran goalkeeper Danny Fowler and the Blue Devil defense will have their hands full against Notre Dame.

M. LACROSSE from page 4 “Whether it’s on the football field or basketball court, they expect to be great. They’ve got a great coaching staff, great tradition, and they’ve got great players. They have guys who have been in Final Fours, championships. They’ve played in big games and have been successful in them— they have a lot of confidence and chemistry. They were one goal away from being the number one team in the country.” Saturday’s matchup pits the ACC’s two best offensive weapons against its strongest netminder. Guterding and Bruckner are the ACC’s two best goal scorers and are just shy of combining for 100 points on the season after only 11 games. Standing in their way, however, is senior Shane Doss. Despite his slight frame of 167 pounds—well below the average for goalies—the Glen Ridge, N.J., native boasts a 3212 career record, in addition to sitting atop the ACC this year in both save percentage and goals against average at just 8.4. After starting slow against the Tar Heels, it will be crucial for the Blue Devils (8-3, 1-1) to gain momentum early. The Fighting Irish (52, 1-1) have outscored opponents 21-13 in the first quarter, their largest goal-differential in any quarter, and have given Duke’s high-powered offense fits in the past. “In the second half on both ends of the ball, we played much better,” Danowski said of the North Carolina game. “We need guys understanding their roles, attention to detail, all the basic coaching clichés, but they’re true. Offensively and defensively, we need to be on it

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at 12:01, right at the first faceoff.” Lacrosse’s version of special teams will play a pivotal role in differentiating the two sides this weekend, with Notre Dame boasting its own dangerous offensive trio with attackmen Ryder Garnsey and Mikey Wynne and midfielder Sergio Perkovic having combined for 40 goals and 22 assists this season. However, Duke has the potential to exploit Notre Dame’s biggest weaknesses— faceoffs and man-down defense—to keep the ball away from the best Fighting Irish scorers. Notre Dame ranks last in faceoff percentage in the conference, a reassuring sign after senior Kyle Rowe’s dominant performance against the Tar Heels—the ACC’s strongest faceoff team. Despite a 2-for-6 start, Rowe finished the evening 17-for-24, capably outmatching fellow senior Stephen Kelly. The Vienna, Va., native will battle yet another senior in Fighting Irish faceoff specialist P.J. Finley Saturday. Man-down defense has also plagued Notre Dame throughout the season despite the team’s early-season success. The Fighting Irish have allowed nine goals on 16 opportunities to opposing teams, and have gone just 9-for-27 when they have an extra player on offense. Manup chances were a relative non-factor against North Carolina—the teams combined for just four penalties—but were a big reason the Blue Devils fell at Syracuse March 25, making them a potential area to watch if the league’s leastpenalized team in Notre Dame slips up. “Possession of the ball is really important,” Danowski said. “The faceoff game and wing play will be important. Ground balls, chasing and hunting ground balls and picking them up—just like rebounding in hoops—is going to be huge. Offensively, we’re going to need to be patient, yet aggressive, which is easier said than done. Defensively, we need to win our individual battles and play well as a group, communicate well and help the goalie see.” With Danowski’s team next hosting No. 12 Virginia before taking on Marquette and hosting the ACC tournament, Duke could establish its status as a potential national title contender with more strong play leading up to the postseason. But inconsistency has marked the Blue Devils’ efforts against top competition this season, and they enter another top-five test hoping to put together a full 60 minutes. “I hate to keep harping on the youth concept,” Danowski said. “But these big games, Sunday night in Chapel Hill, there’s no substitute for that experience. I thought we grew as a result from the victory.” Riley Pfaff contributed reporting.

BASEBALL from page 5 Carl Chester—who average a .345 on-base percentage between them at the top of the lineup—to get to Blue Devil starters Mitch Stallings, Adam Laskey and Ryan Day. Duke’s weekend starters have struggled mightily, which could let the home team break out of its offensive slump and rely on its strong pitching staff to break the tie for fifth in the ACC Coastal Division. The Miami pitching staff has fared slightly better than its offense, posting a 4.06 ERA, eighth in the ACC and nearly a full point better than the Blue Devils’ 4.81 team ERA. For Duke to be successful on the road this weekend, it will likely need both its starters and relievers to work well throughout contests if the Hurricanes stymie the Blue Devil offense, as occurred Tuesday against the Bulls. The bullpen provided four innings of near-perfect work after starter Graeme Stinson put forth a performance to remember, giving up just one run on four hits spread across four innings. “Talent-wise, we’re as good as we’ve been on the mound, we just haven’t consistently been clean on the mound,” Pollard said. “We’re giving away a lot of free bases. We were really good tonight at pounding the zone, and that’s a good recipe for us moving forward.”

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Shaffer said. “We tell them the gist of it, but it’s impossible not to be a little surprised when you get out there and you see all the upperclassmen with their crazy routines.” Soon after, like others both before and after them, Schwitter and Montagne found a routine they fell in love with, making minute Mitchell Gladstone contributed reporting. changes as the games progressed to find the perfect combination. Regardless of all the individual handshake preparations, Kimel knows that the message has gotten across, whether through tradition or trial by fire. “They have fun with it. I think we can all take ourselves a little too seriously sometimes,” Kimel said. “‘Team first’ is one of the core values of our program, and that’s a physical, actual, symbolic gesture of that core value.” And for those who are a little more curious, keep an eye out for next year to see whether Crutchfield opts to continue the same pregame tradition with the new No. 28 after Shaffer finishes up her eligibility at the end of the season. “It’s one of those things where being a new freshman on the team, you’re just looking for moments to connect with people,” Crutchfield said. “Having Hayley and that Mitchell Gladstone | The Chronicle tradition to step into was really cool and such Quality pitching could go a long way toward a small thing that helped me integrate into helping the Blue Devils end their streak of the team. It doesn’t seem like much, but it three ACC series losses. was important as a freshman.”

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