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DUKE PSYCHIATRISTS SPEAK OUT Despite talk about President Donald Trump’s mental fitness, two psychiatrists maintain speculation is inappropriate

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By Lexi Kadis Senior News Reporter

North Carolina is just as divided during basketball season as it is during election season, according to a new poll by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic polling firm based in Raleigh.

The poll surveyed 839 voters from Jan. 19 to Jan. 21 to sample the state’s current political climate. In contrast to previous years, it found that 46 percent of state voters would choose the Democratic candidate compared to the 41 percent who would vote for the Republican candidate. The press release added that North Carolinians are pleased with Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper but unhappy with the progress made

by Republican President Donald Trump.

“With new maps, a popular Governor, and the energy of the voters on their side Democrats are almost certain to make gains in the legislature See POLL on Page 3

Courtesy of Duke Photography Marvin Swartz, professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences, said that inappropriate dialouge surrounding the president’s fitness could further stigmatize mental health.

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Two Duke psychiatrists caution that we may not have enough information to make judgments about President Donald Trump’s fitness despite national conversation centered around his mental and physical fitness to serve.

Recent discussions around the president’s mental fitness was at its peak last week when his doctor spent almost an hour taking reporters’ questions about his mental and physical health.

Marvin Swartz, professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences, co-authored a paper twelve years ago which found that 18 of the United States’ first 37 presidents met the criteria for a serious psychiatric disorder. But why the recent emphasis on the current president’s mental health? Swartz explained that one reason people may call Trump’s fitness into question is because his behavior has not generally followed decorum set by past presidents.

“I think his behavior in general decorum has been such that people are questioning his judgment and his impulsivity,” he said. “So I think it has to do with the fact that he seems to be kind of erratic and says things that seem to lack the kind of judgment

Fitness to be president is on a different axis or domain than whether one is ill or not.

MARVIN SWARTZ

By Bill McCarthy Staff Reporter

Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, Trinity ’90, has for months been stuck at the center of a political crusade concerning alleged anti-Trump bias within the bureau. This week, he found himself wrapped up in the headlines again.

On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported a May 2017 exchange in which President Donald Trump asked McCabe—who was acting FBI director at the time—whom he voted for in the 2016 presidential election.

The exchange occurred shortly after Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey on May 9. The report noted that Trump also scolded McCabe about the hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations that his wife Jill had received

during her failed Virginia state senate bid in 2015.

The Post’s article was the latest in a series of pieces highlighting McCabe’s strained relationship with Trump and other leading conservatives. The Chronicle dug into several earlier reports to produce a timeline of events surrounding the increasingly embattled Duke alum’s fateful few months.

Jill McCabe’s state senate bid In a July 2017 Twitter storm, Trump questioned Attorney General the decision of Jeff Sessions not to replace McCabe with another acting FBI director. He wrote that McCabe was a “Comey friend” and that his wife’s political ties to Hillary Clinton were compromising.

The tweets referred to Jill McCabe’s unsuccessful 2015 Virginia state

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senate bid. A Democrat, she received $207,788 from the state’s Democratic party and $467,500 from a political action committee associated with former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a political ally and close friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

The donations caused a headache for McCabe when they were unveiled in a October 2016 Wall Street Journal report.

At the time of the report, McCabe was tasked with overseeing the investigation into Clinton’s controversial private email server. But his own emails indicated that his wife’s campaign had ended three months prior to his promotion to deputy director, when he began oversight of the investigation.

Nonetheless, the Trump camp hollered bias, and has been making

and decorum you’d expect from a president.”

Jonathan Davidson, professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, co-authored a paper in 2009, which found that seven of the 18 United States presidents in office since 1908 showed hubristic traits. The paper notes that several past presidents have suffered from documented mental health issues—Roosevelt and Johnson had bipolar disorder and Kennedy suffered from Addison’s disease and amphetamine abuse.

Swartz showed similar findings in his case study regarding past presidents and their mental health. He said that Abraham Lincoln had serious depression during his presidency and that Richard Nixon suffered from alcohol abuse to the extent that his staff tried to keep him away from decision making in the evenings when he was drinking.

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Samantha Bee calls out Duke alumnus Stephen Miller on show

By Katherine Berko Senior News Reporter

On Wednesday night, a segment aired on the show “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” entitled “We Need to Talk About Stephen Miller.” During her monologue, Bee brought up Miller, Trinity ‘07 and a senior policy advisor to President Donald Trump, in the context of his undergraduate days at Duke and the biweekly column he used to write for The Chronicle.

She mentioned some of Miller’s famed controversial article topics including his lashing out against: “feminism, multiculturalism, immigration, Liberal professors [and] the war on Christmas.”

During the clip, Bee also featured Miller’s column, “Welcome to the Durham Petting Zoo,” in which he described his thoughts on the city and its relationship to Duke. In the article, Miller calls Duke “Durham’s lifeblood, plain and simple.”

Bee highlighted the end of the column, where Miller explained why he thought it was ridiculous that he was asked to write his dorm janitor a birthday card.

“I had struck up a few conversations with this janitor, but I knew she would not have expected a birthday card from me anymore than I would from her. Yet we were all supposed to send our birthday wishes to the janitor as though she had no friends or life of her own,” See MILLER on Page 3

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How the dengue virus may be covertly evading immune systems in humans

By Jenn Marsh Contributing Reporter

Although many diseases infect the body and overpower the immune system with speed and sheer force, the dengue virus seems to take a different approach, according to new Duke research.

Christopher Nicchitta, professor of cell biology and biochemistry and associate professor of pathology, is the senior author of a recent study showing how the virus covertly replicates in humans without triggering the

Courtesy of Duke Photography Christopher Nicchitta, professor of cell biology and biochemisty, authored a recent study about the dengue virus.

immune system. The trick to evading “The mosquito that carries the virus detection, his team showed, is for the is very well adapted to live in urban virus to hide and stealthily overtake environments,” Nicchitta said. “This is a major protein production site the easiest way to transfer the disease—in for the cell, called a very crowded the endoplasmic It is sort of the perfect Trojan place.” reticulum. danger horse. It goes in, slowly takes withThe “[Dengue] is this virus is a very real health over, emergency sensing that it replicates problem,” Nicchitta systems aren’t turning on, and inside the host said. “After billions cells of the body of viruses and the protein sensing networks undetected until hundreds of aren’t seeing a problem. it becomes large millions of years, enough to cause it has evolved to By CHRISTOPHER NICCHITTA problems. where it replicates time the PROFESSOR OF CELL BIOLOGY AND the BIOCHEMISTRY body very slowly to notices accomplish its goal its invader, the of spreading.” virus has already multiplied and infected Dengue—a lethal virus with the host. no medical cure—has a slow“It is sort of the perfect Trojan horse,” replicating, tiny genome that can lead Nicchitta said. “It goes in, slowly takes to excruciatingly painful symptoms over, emergency sensing systems aren’t in patients. turning on, and the protein sensing This virus spans over Central networks aren’t seeing a problem.” and South America, regions of Apart from the symptoms that are Africa and South Asia and has associated with dengue fever, the virus become more common in United is also a menace for its variability, he States territories of the past few noted. With four serotypes—which are years, according to the Centers for variations of the virus—it has the ability Disease Control and Prevention. to infect a host more than once.

Due to increased temperatures from “If you contract a different serotype global warming, the region in which of dengue, your immune system will now the mosquitoes that carry dengue recognize it...the antibodies produced inhabit is expanding, consequently by your immune system will bind to the increasing the virus’s range. Part of dengue virus and actually help it get into this global expansion has included See DENGUE on Page 3 urban centers, Nicchitta noted.

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Miller wrote, calling the situation an “insulting act of condescension.”

Bee chose to talk about Miller because of his anti-immigration stance and the way that his position as senior policy advisor to the president influences decisions on the matter. In her speech, she placed the blame of recent White House actions beyond just Trump, pointing fingers at Miller.

“Why has governing ground to a halt over protections for Dreamers that 86 percent of Americans support? Believe it or not, the answer isn’t entirely Trump,” Bee said. “His specific policy proposals are as empty as his Oval Office desk.

Those come from his senior policy advisor and political smallpox blanket, Stephen Miller.”

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Special to the Chronicle On “Full Frontal,” Samantha Bee takes aim at the views and policy proposals of Stephen Miller, Trinity ‘07, on immigration.

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Jack Dolgin | Contributing Photographer In a recent survey, more N.C. voters would choose the Democratic candidate for their state legislature seat.

FBI FROM PAGE 1 noise ever since. At Trump’s insistence, Sessions has been pressuring FBI Director Christopher Wray—who took over the position from McCabe in August 2017—to fire McCabe, who has returned to his role as deputy FBI director. However, recent reports stated that Wray calmed the pressure by threatening to resign if McCabe was removed. McCabe is rumored to be planning retirement after he receives full pension benefits in March 2018.

FBI official Peter Strzok removed by special counsel over anti-Trump texts The controversy resurfaced in December 2017 after a series of partisan text messages exchanged between top FBI employees during the 2016 primary season were released to lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The messages—which referred to then-presidential candidate Trump as an “idiot” and

FITNESS FROM PAGE 1 “The main finding is that presidents suffer rates of mental illness generally consistent with the general population,” Swartz said. “So their rates of things like depression, anxiety disorders and alcoholism—things like that— are generally concordant with rates of mental illness in the general public.”

Since the rate of mental illness among presidents does not differ from those among the general public, the conversation about presidential fitness should differ from simply asking whether that individual suffers from a mental illness, he explained.

“Fitness to be president is on a different axis or domain than whether one is ill or not,” Swartz said. “There’s plenty of people with mental

cells,” Nicchitta said.

Pathogens such as the virus associated with chickenpox lead to an immune reaction such that secondary exposure to a similar virus typically does not lead to serious infection. However, with dengue, he said, a secondary infection is accompanied by a much more severe immune response and can lead to death.

There is currently no cure for the virus.

Although a vaccine designed to prevent dengue once existed, the supposed cure did more harm than good, Nicchitta explained.

Nicchitta added that the group’s findings could one day lead to stopping the virus in its tracks.

“We are really interested in understanding how it is not turning on [the body’s] stress sensors,” Nicchitta said. “Maybe this is just a general strategy, and if it is, then we want to figure that out, understand how it is able to do that and see if there is a way to therapeutically disrupt that.”

the Tar Heels to 31 percent for the Blue Devils,” PPP wrote in its press release. 28 percent of those polled were not sure who they would root for in the game.

The poll also found that Clinton voters preferred UNC

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this year. The question is just how wide ranging the gains will be,” said Dean Debnam, president of PPP, in the press release. “Donald Trump and most of what he tried to do in his first year in office are unpopular in North Carolina, [and] that’s why Democrats are positioned to have their best election in the state since President Obama’s election in 2008.”

However, although the Democratic-Republican divide seems to have shifted, the historic split between Duke and UNC Chapel Hill has remained relatively the same, the press release noted.

“A lot has changed in North Carolina over the last decade that we’ve been regularly polling the state but there’s one constant: when UNC and Duke play each other in basketball in a couple weeks, 41 percent of voters will be pulling for

47 to 25 while Trump voters preferred Duke 38 to 35.

Comparatively, a survey conducted by The Chronicle before the 2016 presidential election found that approximately 6.4 percent of Duke students supported the Trump-Pence ticket at the time.

“douche” and called his potential victory “terrifying”— caused special counsel Robert Mueller to remove Peter Strzok, one of the FBI’s Russian counterintelligence experts, from his team.

One Strzok message—sent to FBI attorney Lisa Page— implicated McCabe in the politically tinged conversation.

“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office—that there’s no way he gets elected—but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” Strzok wrote. “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”

The messages prompted Trump to hurl another Twitter attack at McCabe and led a number of leading Republicans to publicly call for McCabe’s ouster.

The drama surrounding McCabe may be far from finished. The White House responded to The Post’s report by saying Trump’s conversations with McCabe were “limited” and “non-substantive.” But the report marks the latest chapter in the life of one of Duke’s most relevant alums.

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, Trinity ‘90, has reportedly had a strained relationship with President Donald Trump.

Percent of Trump voters that preferred Duke over 35 percent preferred UNC in recent poll

illness who are fit to do their jobs.” historical biographical sources—but even so, Both psychiatrists were also cautious he explained that biographical sources are about the prominence of public diagnoses. not the same as diagnosing someone after talking for an hour.

“Certainly in order to make a diagnosis in I don’t know that we’ve a medical sense you need to see the person or have enough information at hand upon got enough information which you have a good basis to come up with to come down with a your diagnosis,” Davidson said.

In light of recent efforts to publicly clear warning about diagnose the president, Swartz mentioned whether he’s a potentially the American Psychological Association’s Goldwater rule, which states that dangerous person. psychiatrists should not diagnose patients JONATHAN DAVIDSON they have not met in person. He said PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF PSYCHIATRY that the rule is especially relevant in the AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES context of psychiatrists are using their status as doctors to make a political point Davidson said that his research looked at past in presidential elections, which he noted is presidents and prime ministers by analyzing damaging to the trust that people put in

the field of psychiatry.

Swartz added that diagnoses from afar can be damaging because they undermine the patientphysician relationship of confidentiality and further stigmatize mental illness by insinuating that people who have mental illnesses may be unfit for their jobs.

As for Trump, Davidson was hesitant to say that there is enough public information to draw a conclusion about his mental fitness.

“I don’t know that we’ve got enough information to come down with a clear warning about whether he’s a potentially dangerous person or that he’s not going to be up for the job,” Davidson said.

On what role psychiatrists should play in determining fitness, Davidson noted that psychiatrists are not very good at predicting future outcomes.

“It’s unknown territory,” he said.

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Coming off a solid road win Tuesday against Wake Forest, Duke will return home Saturday in an attempt to take down the lone undefeated team remaining in the ACC in a marquee matchup.

The fourth-ranked Blue Devils will look to add another signature win to their resume when they battle with No. 2 Virginia Saturday at 2 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium. The matchup will mark the first top-five battle in Durham since Feb. 22, 2014, when then-No. 5 Duke defeated then-No. 1 Syracuse 66-60 after Orange head coach Jim Boeheim was ejected in the final minute for charging onto the court to dispute a call.

The Blue Devils enter Saturday’s contest with hopes of extending their five-game conference winning streak. Following a disappointing 1-2 start to conference play— during which Duke allowed its opponents to score more than 92 points per contest—the Blue Devils have found their rhythm with more use of a zone defense, preventing each opponent from surpassing the 75-point plateau in their winning streak.

“We’re getting better defensively,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said after his team’s

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Grayson Allen has never lost to Virginia and made a buzzer-beater to beat the Cavaliers the last time they visited Durham. victory against Wake Forest Tuesday. “We’ve just practiced like crazy with our footwork. They’re a young team—we didn’t have all that practice before. We had games and then breaks.”

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JACK SALT: 3.5 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 60.4 FG% ISAIAH WILKINS: 6.6 ppg, 6.9 rpg, 1.7 bpg KYLE GUY: 15.2 ppg, 42.6 3PT%, 88.9 FT% DEVON HALL: 12.7 ppg, 47.2 3PT%, 93.0 FT% TY JEROME: 9.3 ppg, 3.2 apg, 42.3 3PT%

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WENDELL CARTER JR.: 14.4 ppg, 9.2 rpg, 61.5 FG% MARVIN BAGLEY III: 21.6 ppg, 11.5 rpg, 60.7 FG% GARY TRENT JR.: 14.7 ppg, 43.1 3PT%, 89.1 FT% GRAYSON ALLEN: 15.2 ppg, 4.4 apg, 3.7 rpg TREVON DUVAL: 11.5 ppg, 6.0 apg, 1.6 spg

Projected lineups and statistics from 2017-18 season Marvin Bagley III and Wendell UVA DUKE Carter Jr. are far more talented 91.7 PPG: 69.2 and polished already than 72.7 PPG DEF: 51.6 FG%: veterans Jack Salt and Isaiah 46.9 51.0 3PT%: 39.3 38.1 Wilkins. The Blue Devils have FT%: 76.8 69.2 an easy advantage here and RPG: 43.0 33.0 will need to capitalize on it.

APG: 13.8 19.3 Devon Hall, Kyle Guy and Ty 5.4 BPG: 4.4 Jerome have all been steady 9.5 TO/G: 12.1 and impressive and are 61.2 73.4 POSS/40 MIN: shooting better than 42 percent The breakdown from deep. Duke has talent at Virginia’s pack-line defense may be as every position, but the Cavaliers suffocating as ever this season under head take the slim edge. coach Tony Bennett, but the Cavaliers have yet Eight Virginia players play at to play an offense anywhere near as explosive least 17 minutes per game, against the Blue Devils. Marvin Bagley III and De’Andre Hunter comes capitalizes on most of his limited chances, off the bench to average and Duke makes just enough shots to stretch 8.0 points. None of the Blue Virginia’s defense and come out on top.

Devils’ reserves score more OUR CALL: Duke wins, 67-63 than five points per game.

a key component to their recent ability to pull away from opponents, rather than let them hang around late in contests. With adequate defense, Duke (18-2, 6-2 in the ACC) has been able to capitalize on having the nation’s top scoring offense at 91.7 points per contest and faces an intriguing matchup against the nation’s strongest defensive unit. The Cavaliers surrender an average of just 51.6 points per contest—five fewer than the second-best defensive team.

Virginia (19-1, 8-0) has allowed its opponents to score more than 60 points in just three of its 20 games this season, and has never allowed more than 70, but the Blue Devils have never failed to reach that mark. And the Cavaliers have been unable to get a win against the Blue Devils in the last three seasons, usually due to an inability to create enough offense against fast-paced Duke teams.

Virginia could find itself in trouble again this time around, facing a strong size disadvantage against the Blue Devils’ dominant interior of freshmen Marvin Bagley III and Wendell Carter Jr. The duo has combined for 36.0 points per game and 20.7 rebounds per contest on the season.

The Cavaliers boast just three players taller than 6-foot-7 on their roster, and though their vaunted pack-line defense is built to clog the paint, they could find themselves in trouble against the nation’s third-best offensive rebounding team in Duke. At the other end of the floor, the Blue Devils will need to do a better job grabbing defensive boards off 3-pointers Saturday than they did against Wake Forest, when they were outrebounded by six.

“When you have long shots, there are longer rebounds,” Krzyzewski said. “We rely a lot on our big guys rebounding, and those balls

sometimes go 12 feet from the bucket. Our perimeter has to get down there.”

Getting rebounds and maintaining possession will be especially important against a methodical, slow-paced offensive team like Virginia. The Cavaliers tend to move the ball and search for one of their 3-point specialists in order to generate offense.

Sophomores Kyle Guy and Ty Jerome and senior Devon Hall have each made more than 42 percent of their shots from beyond the arc on the season, and a long offensive rebound off a missed three could potentially lead to a minute-long possession for the Cavaliers, who play at the slowest tempo of all 351 Division I teams.

For the Blue Devils to make the most of their limited possessions and exploit their size advantage, they will need to continue to get offensive production from the perimeter in order to space the Virginia defense, which helps into the paint to try to force contested jump shots.

Freshman Gary Trent Jr.—last week’s co-ACC Player of the Week—has been a difference maker for the Blue Devils amid senior captain Grayson Allen’s recent struggles. In his last four contests, Trent has averaged 21.3 points while shooting an efficient 67.9 percent from beyond the arc.

“The kid who has been unbelievable has been Gary,” Krzyzewski said last Saturday following Duke’s victory over Pittsburgh. “The kid has been playing like a senior. So poised, he’s letting the game come to him. He’s really playing well.”

Following the Blue Devils’ top-five matchup Saturday, Duke will face a rapid two-day turnaround before taking on Notre Dame Monday night at home in an attempt to carry its recent success into the second half of ACC play.

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Greenwell, Brown lead Blue Devils past Eagles

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After a crushing defeat Sunday afternoon down Tobacco Road, Duke looked to bounce back against a struggling ACC school with the help of a change to the starting lineup. But it was not the lineup shift that sparked the Blue Devils’ eventual double-digit run.

No. 18 Duke struggled out of the gate, but soon took control of the tempo en route to a 7550 victory against Boston College Thursday night at Cameron Indoor 50 Stadium. After giving BC 75 up a season-high 92 DUKE points in an overtime loss to North Carolina Sunday, the Blue Devils bounced back in a big way. Graduate student Lexie Brown exploded for 19 points and five steals, and classmate Rebecca Greenwell scored an efficient 19 points with only nine attempts from the field. “[Brown] does a really nice job in two different ways. She does a really nice job on the ball. She picked our point guard once,” Boston College head coach Erik Johnson said. “Off the ball, it’s kind of like the Deion Sanders rule, right? Don’t throw the ball in her area because she’s going to come get it.”

McCallie mixed up the starting lineup with graduate student Bego Faz Davalos— who did not enter the game against North Carolina—and sophomore Leaonna Odom

appearing in place of Greenwell and freshman Jade Williams. In the opening five minutes, a 3-pointer by Brown and a bucket from redshirt sophomore Haley Gorecki gave the Blue Devils an early advantage.

“Obviously, coming off a game that wasn’t very impressive and looking at rebounding and defense, practically in the full court, just a good hard look there [at the starting lineup],” McCallie said. “I feel like we have many players that can start. I don’t think there’s only five, I think there’s six or seven.”

But the Eagles used a 9-0 run on the backs of efficient low-post scoring to take a six-point lead. Then, the media timeout came around and everything changed. A 16-0 run and a high level of energy that was lacking late in the North Carolina defeat put Duke (16-5, 5-3 in the ACC) ahead for good. Brown’s 14 firstquarter points tied the school record for most individual points in a quarter.

“It’s important to start the game off super aggressive, kind of get the defense on their heels and then as the game settles,” Brown said.

“You kind of slow down and then find your spots and find your teammates.”

The barrage continued in the second quarter, as Duke extended its lead to 15 points midway through the period with stingy defense and a knack for picking the pockets of the Eagles. By halftime, Boston College (6-14, 1-7) had 13 turnovers, and it finished the game with 23. On the other hand, the

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Rebecca Greenwell needed just nine shots to score 19 points, leading the Blue Devils along with classmate Lexie Brown. turnover problem that plagued Duke against the Tar Heels improved, as the team finished with only 13 in the game, half as many as Sunday afternoon.

With 2:17 remaining in Duke’s overpowering first half, the Blue Devil faithful saw the debut of redshirt junior Sofia Roma, a transfer from Wagner. In her first possession on the defensive end, Roma grabbed a

rebound, and on the other end, she knocked down a jumper as the crowd erupted. A steal shortly afterwards added to Roma’s successful debut in the home whites.

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Gorecki puts injuries behind her as elite scorer

By Dani Schneider Staff reporter

An athlete’s career can end so suddenly with an injury, let alone back-to-back major injuries. Some never see the court again, and some return but never reach the same level of play as before.

But a select few find their way back to develop into the player they had always dreamed of becoming.

Two years and two surgeries seem like a lifetime ago for Haley Gorecki. The redshirt

sophomore had a rocky start to her Duke career. In her freshman season, the 6-foot guard played 14 games before she was sidelined with an injury in her right hip.

Gorecki had partially fractured her femur and went in for her first surgery.

When things started to look up and Gorecki was back on the practice floor, an injury from the past came back to haunt her.

Gorecki had hurt her shoulder during high school, and a screen in practice during her sophomore year at Duke reaggravated the injury and sent her back for yet another

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Haley Gorecki has bested her previous career high three different times in the month of January and scored 29 points at North Carolina last Sunday.

surgery. This time, Gorecki took the redshirt and sat out for the season. And thus began the road to recovery.

With injuries happening so early in her career, Gorecki went into recovery with plenty of eligibility remaining to play for her Blue Devils, making her desire to come back stronger than ever.

“Recovery was a bit little crazy,” Gorecki said. “My teammates and coaches kept pushing me to keep going. It also helped to have a goal in mind. To know that something bad happened, but now something good was going to happen.”

But recovery involves much more than just physically returning to a healthy state. Recovery has a lot to do with the mentality of how the player returns, and it took time for Gorecki’s confidence to come back to her.

“Being confident with everything and being confident with my body and knowing that nothing was hurt,” Gorecki said was a major part of her mental recovery. “But also you see everything from a different perspective, more of a coaching side of things.”

Her confidence paid off. Prior to her first injury, now two years ago, Gorecki was only averaging 4.5 points per game with a career high of 11 points. Now, Gorecki is exceeding that total in virtually every game she plays.

Gorecki’s season start out slow, with only one point in seven minutes against Grand Canyon in the season opener. But as the season progressed, and Gorecki played more and more, the confidence she had in herself became apparent. Now in the starting lineup

for 10 games in a row, Gorecki scored in double figures in seven straight games until facing Wake Forest Jan. 11, when she was contained to only five.

“It’s easy when you’re practicing against some of the best guards and being able to compete against Lexie [Brown] and Becca [Greenwell],” Gorecki said. “It’s been a long time, but they make it easy for me.”

It would not have come as a surprise for Gorecki to take a backseat again when Greenwell returned from an absence of about a month due to a knee injury, but instead, she has continually set herself new records to break.

After a then-career-high of 25 points Jan. 4 against Louisville, Gorecki quickly bested that with 28 points last Thursday at Virginia Tech. Her seven 3-pointers were the most by a Hokie opponent in Cassell Coliseum history, but once again, that was not enough.

Despite Duke’s loss at North Carolina Sunday afternoon, Gorecki led the team with 29 points, nine rebounds and six assists, her fourth time scoring at least 20 points this season alone.

Gorecki is now the second-leading scorer on the team in ACC play with 16.6 points per game through conference play, inching closer to preseason All-American Lexie Brown, and is knocking down 3-pointers at a 44.4 percent clip for the season.

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This framing of debate as an activity where one gains at the direct expense of the other naturally hinders the desire to converse politically with peers with differing viewpoints. Moreover, the stubbornness on the part of some students to hear views they perceive as wrong or amoral is particularly problematic when individuals have re-centered themselves to the left and right flanks of political belief, with both ends of the spectrum refusing to peer into the logic of the other.

Both wings of the political spectrum can often fall into the trap of moralizing the other side’s ideologies, rather than focusing on the political issues at heart: the most effective system of taxation, healthcare, etc. This

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fixation onto one end of the political spectrum with no desire to understand the other is understandable in such a divisive age but is, nevertheless, something that can hinder effective political discourse. The increasing salience of ideas like fascism and white supremacy are often cited by the left in order to justify a refusal to compromise with conservatives. Not only does this fail to consider the wide nuances of views espoused by “the right,” but such a dissenting attitude towards compromise can actually lead to the reification of perverse ideologies, as they take on a reactionary force

Editorial Board and pick up more disgruntled moderates along the way.

We should instead reframe political discourse around the idea that engaging genuinely with the ideas of those who you feel are amoral is not a form of agreement, but a necessary exercise in intellectual honesty and mutual understanding. Many will continue to disagree over hot-button issues vehemently, but an understanding that those on the other end of the spectrum do not carry maligned intentions is an important step toward more genuine, effective

political discourse. In such a politically tumultuous landscape, personal disagreements over significant political developments, like the Trump election, can destroy friendships on this campus. Nonetheless, such a reformed discourse does not imply that all ideas— the iniquity of racism for example—deserve a nuanced debate among conversing peers. However, as part of our Duke experience, we have a duty to question our peers in areas where we disagree or in which we do not feel as though certain arguments have strong logical foundations.

This piece alone stands little chance of altering Duke’s political culture overnight, but it remains our responsibility as Duke students to bring these issues to the forefront. Normalizing conversations over political issues outside of the current zero-sum paradigm dampens the fear of open discourse and facilitates greater understanding. We do ourselves injustice by allowing partisan demagoguery to affect our personal relationships and perceptions of one another’s morals.

Attributing immorality to one another’s political beliefs is a slippery slope into deadlock, and often emotional conflict, too. The danger, unsurprisingly, lies in how the issues over which we divide ourselves the most are the ones most desperately in need of cooperation and consensus.

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ver the weekend, high school basketball sensation and No.2 recruit in the country, Zion Williamson, committed to Duke.

Williamson has gained notoriety in the basketball community for his outlandish dunking ability.

Friday Friday OFF-BRAND MONDAY MONDAY Despite speculation that Williamson would commit to other programs such as The-School-Who-MustNot-Be-Named-(Not-By-Us-But-)By-Corrupt-NCAAOfficials-For-Being-Equally-Corrupt, Kentucky, Kansas and Clemson, Williamson chose to become a Blue Devil on Saturday. Williamson joins an already-stacked class of incoming players, namely top recruits R.J Barrett and Cameron Reddish. Duke’s powerhouse recruiting begs the question: what makes these superstar players chose Duke over other competitive programs?

The Chronicle got the inside scoop on these massively athletic 17 year olds’ decisions to play for Duke. Turns out, the factor that sealed the deal is surprisingly obvious.

When asked why he chose Duke, Williamson answered, “Oh easy. The grass. The impeccably kept lawn.”

A Skype conversation with the players revealed that an emphasis on the upkeep of Duke’s landscaping is really what attracted the high school seniors. “I mean, when you’re on the bus and see the flowers planted in the roundabout…That is what makes a school a number one basketball program,” said Barrett.

“Don’t forget about the new trees on East Campus,” said Reddish. “When I think about gazing out of my window in Wilson next year from the comfort of my double bed and multiple video game consoles, all I imagine are those willowy trees swaying in the wind.”

Williamson and Barrett nodded wistfully.

Williamson reminisced about his campus visit late last year. “Honestly, I was just so struck my the Emersonian beauty of the grass. I fell to my knees—mainly to get to see the grass from a normal person’s perspective—and I felt tears rising to my eyes. It was probably as thrilling as my dunk against South Thomas High School, which got over two million views on YouTube. Two million views is nice, but there’s no greater feeling than a billion blades of leafy grass staring directly into your soul.”

Williamson recounted wandering around West Campus, looking at the mixed patches of green and dying yellow grass. He said that the grass combined with the deliberately acid-washed buildings created the perfect basketball ambiance. “When I visited Kentucky, they made a big deal about it being the bluegrass state, but let me tell you, there was no blue grass in sight. I’m

assuming those are the sorts of lies recruiters use to get innocent young men to play for their programs.”

All three recruits spoke about their visit to Cameron and K-Ville. Each said that they noticed the pristine state of the lawn during their visit. When they were told that the grass in K-Ville has to be routinely replaced because of the destruction that tenting causes, the players understood. “We’ve all gotta make sacrifices.

I’m just glad Duke prioritizes funnelling money into landscaping first, and the basketball program second,” commented Reddish.

As the players began to attempt to shake hands and take a selfie with each blade of grass, a starving freshman crawled out from under one of their shoes, desperately asking for food points and a working printer in his dorm.

The freshman was locked inside Quenchers, where he unfortunately missed two tent checks and lost 11 of his closest friends.

The players said that Coach K works Duke’s landscaping into each of his pitches. He begins by outlining the history of Duke basketball, starting in 1980 (referring to all years before as “Dark Times”). He then spends the next two hours forcing the recruits to sniff samples of grass from various parts of campus.

He even pointed out that some Duke basketball alumni have gone on to be nature and science lovers because of it, including planetary whiz kid Kyrie Irving and Jay Williams, who must be smoking something picking against Duke all the time like he does.

The new players said that Coach K ends his presentations by giving each recruit a blade of Duke grass on a silver chain with the engravement, “The Grass is Greener for a One-And-Done-r.” As Coach K leans in to shake each recruit’s hand, and kiss his blades of grass goodbye, he allegedly whispers, “I learned how to make these from a Buzzfeed Nifty video.”

“I knew all of our work would be worth it,” said Duke Landscaping Chair Benjamin von Benjamin while sipping a mimosa and squirting ketchup on the giant snowball in front of West Union in a poor attempt at melting it.

“We have spent a massive fortune on grass. Like so much money,” he said. “Literally all of the Class of 2021’s tuition went towards pushing daisies for Parent’s Weekend. They were already planted, we just hired a bunch of guys to push ‘em around a bit, toughen ‘em up.

Coach K taught us that one.”

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In defense of Greek life

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n 2017, the Duke community suffered a tragic loss with the sudden passing of junior Bobby Menges after a battle with brain cancer. As his fellow bassist in the Duke Jazz Ensemble, I was Bobby’s friend along with many others who beloved him.

Mitchell Siegel TRUTH BE TOLD Beyond the university’s memorial service to remember and honor Bobby, brothers of Bobby’s fraternity, Pi Kappa Alpha, came all the way from Australia, Spain and other parts of the world to attend the funeral service in New York, exemplifying the incredibly strong support and connection they have with each other. PIKE brothers also continue to raise awareness and funds for cancer research. With the tradition Shave for Schreiber, Buzz for Bobby—named after both Bobby and senior Mark Schreiber—that has raised over $100,000 for cancer research over time, the fraternity engages the whole Duke and Durham community to support a cause that benefits the entire world.

A few of the PIKE brothers also kindly shared their personal experience and reactions with me in response to the news.

Many cried and were deeply saddened by the sudden loss of their close friend, but were able to feed off each other and the bonds of their brotherhood as a support system. Comforting each other brother in times of loss and agony, the actions of these PIKE brothers speak volumes about value of brotherhood and what it has meant to them since accepting their bids.

Today, it seems that the student body is forgetting about the virtues of Greek life displayed by the brothers of Pi Kappa Alpha. Students are instead preoccupied with broad misconceptions regarding the exclusion and lack of diversity within Greek Life.

This week, I decided to do some digging within my own fraternity (Alpha Epsilon Pi) along with critical reflection to discover if the current portrayal of Greek life at Duke was justified. This is especially pertinent given Duke’s plans to reform housing and its obsession over the issue of homogeneity in Greek life that have come to the spotlight during rush season.

There is much more to a fraternity or sorority than a bunch of dehumanizing and blank white faces as characterized by The Chronicle and many other Duke students.

The students of Greek organizations are human beings too, all with unique life experiences, personalities, and ways of thinking that far outweigh differences in skin color.

Using anonymous survey data as well as data shared by the AEPi fraternity, I also found that the common criticisms against Greek organizations and their living situations are often shallow generalizations. Sure, there may be some organizations that do not meet narrow standards of diversity set by many Duke students. However, statistics that reflect discrepancies in diversity compared to Duke’s student body by no means reflect proactive initiatives by Greek organizations to not admit certain people. Furthermore, the broad brushing depictions and statements about Greek life are inaccurate, and often perpetuate undeserving stigma to which Greek life opponents and critics would object when considering other organizations on campus.

It turns out that fraternities like AEPi actually adhere to Duke’s narrow standards of diversity, and help provide brothers with lifechanging experiences. For instance, AEPi is comprised of brothers who identify as heterosexual and homosexual. One brother even said in his response, “Without Greek Life, I would have never found my gay mentors who helped me through the coming out

process.” The data also showed that AEPi in total represents 24 different states and countries ranging from Kentucky to Switzerland to Singapore and many more. Furthermore, out of the 32 members that responded to the survey, 11 different religious preferences were given, with over 40 percent being Jewish. Given that AEPi is a nationally Jewish fraternity, this number isn’t terribly surprising. However, it still shows that fraternities can have a dominant presence of a minority group and still honor members with at least 10 other religious preferences.

AEPi and other organizations recognize that the financial situations of those rushing may present themselves as a barrier to entry.

Thus, payment and scholarship programs are put in place to ensure that organizations seek to include members based on their personalities and not their ability to pay.

Racially and ethnically, the AEPi fraternity mostly identifies as “White.” However, over 30 percent of brothers who answered were part of some racial minority that included categories such as “Hispanic,” “Asian,” “Indian,” “Black” and “Middle Eastern.”

In my opinion, these statistics are still an unjust evaluation of the true diversity that is present in Greek life. Yet a common criticism of selective living is that it is harder for the students involved to branch out and expose themselves to people with diverse backgrounds. Interfraternity Council President James Bradford even said, “When you are living on a hall with 30 white males, it makes it harder to have these experiences engaging with people different from yourself.” Contradicted by previously mentioned evidence, this argument is a fallacy that uses faulty generalizations about personal experiences that certainly don’t hold true for everyone in Greek life.

Furthermore, each person taking the survey was asked to provide a unique experience from his past. One wrote that he was a “firstgeneration college student from single parent household” while others talked about competing in a biology competition in Bali and running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain.

The point is that we are all unique. Our backgrounds and life experiences are not solely defined by statistical categorizations.

Still, criticism about diversity continues to be used to advocate for reforming the housing model. These proposed reforms impede the right to association, which is important to how we go about life and build both character and self-identity. It is in our nature as human beings to seek a sense of belonging. The experiment of random housing is performed by every new freshman class, yet the result is the same: students gravitate to the situation that is most appealing to them by joining Greek life, other selective living groups or independent housing.

Deconstructing the link between selective living groups and housing will do nothing but cause an inconvenience to those who desire their right to associate in the first place.

Lastly, Greek life is influential to the futures of its members. Greek life has personally helped me grow intellectually, spiritually and as a citizen of the Duke community. I have realized that what extends beyond the job connections are the personal connections that last a lifetime and serve to comfort me in dark moments.

The bonds formed by sisterhood and brotherhood can extend from picking out clothing together to becoming each other’s maids of honor and best men. No one denies that partying and social status are attractive aspects to Greek life. However, almost any brother or sister will tell you that it is comradery, sacrifice and love between one another that truly makes Greek life a special and lasting life experience.

Mitchell Siegel is a Trinity sophomore.

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here are twelve girls that live on my hall in my freshman dorm.

Seven of them are white. Six out of those seven white girls are the only girls on my hall who rushed sororities. This is a personal experience, but to me it seems

Victoria Priester ON THE RUN FROM MEDIOCRITY like a microcosm of those who choose to be involved in Greek life on campus. On the bus one day during rush week, I told a girl on my hall who wasn’t rushing about this observation, and added “Isn’t that weird?” She shrugged at me and said, “It’s kind of expected.”

Along with the start of sorority rush two weeks ago came an onslaught of jokes and commentary about how overwhelmingly white Greek life is. One meme that featured a blank white square as a photo, with the caption “Panhellenic rush events overtake West Campus. 2018. (decolorized),” got over 1K likes in the Duke Memes for Gothicc Teens page. And while it’s fun to joke about frats and sororities, the homogeneity and implied elitism that lies underneath the jokes is something that needs to become a larger part of campus dialogue. If this type of homogeneity among rush groups is “expected” but not preferred, perhaps we as a campus community should be doing more to change it.

Duke’s class of 2020 class profile is 28 percent Asian, 12 percent black or African American, 10 percent Hispanic and 1 percent Native American. Even if I could find statistics about the diversity of rushees in sorority recruitment, I fear they would only confirm my suspicions: an overwhelming majority are white women, with a handful of Asians and even fewer blacks and Hispanics. Everyone comes to college wanting to find groups of people with whom they feel they belong. To me, it seems off that given the wide diversity of the freshman class, almost only white students feel they will find their “home” within Greek life.

There are fraternities and sororities on campus that are historically black and recruit new classes when candidates are sophomores, However, while we call for diversity and inclusion, the separate existence of “black sororities” and “white sororities” seems like a piece of the 1950s that has stuck with Duke and other colleges into the 21st century like a stubborn wart. Separare Greek organizations for blacks and whites were most likely formed because of de facto segregation in American colleges even after institutions began to accept different races. But while Duke’s first black class matriculated 55 years ago, the integration of Greek organizations remains largely stagnant.

When my friend who is half black says he’s rushing fraternities, people ask him, “Oh, are you rushing a black fraternity?”

When I talked to a white friend about the lack of diversity I saw among sororities, she responded, “But don’t they have black sororities?” This isn’t an issue of “separate but equal” or not; rather, it is an issue of whether people are separate and content. They are separate and aware of the separation, but push it aside to focus on issues more easily fixed.

In an ideal world, I would have rushed sororities. One of the personal characteristics that I pride myself on is being able to become friends with almost anyone. Part of me wonders why I didn’t rush, even as I remain aware of the system’s kinks based on the computer algorithm that eventually places everyone into different groups.

But the reason I decided not to try sorority rush at all was because I felt a deeper sense of social distance from other rushees that I wasn’t sure my personality alone could accommodate. And it’s not just because sororities are primarily white—by way of the groups I’ve joined on campus and people with whom I’ve made genuine connections so far, the majority of the people I spend time with at Duke are white.

Beyond the factor of race, Duke itself is an elite institution that attracts students of privileged backgrounds by way of its selectivity and tuition costs. As a result, Greek organizations, with added dues and the concept of “legacies” based on relatives’ involvement in the organizations, seem like a higher concentration of socioeconomic and racial privilege in one section of campus life.

My impression might be completely based on the stereotypes about “sorority girls” that I’ve been fed through movies like Legally Blonde, or the Instagram profiles of Duke sororities and the girls I know in them, but I also haven’t seen much action undertaken to diffuse these stereotypes on campus.

If the diversity of the rush class does not increase, we cannot expect the diversity of the institutions themselves to change either. I acknowledge that as a student who chose not to have any Greek affiliation, I cannot be the one who actively tries to change the system from within it. But I also think—even for someone like me, who is an optimist to a fault—that if I had rushed and gotten one bid to a sorority, this would not have notably changed the system to reflect the diversity of Duke’s student body.

And while “diversity and inclusion” are grand words that are tossed around a lot and held in high esteem, who am I to demand that every institution at Duke be just as diverse, or more diverse, than its student body? I hold diversity and inclusion in such high esteem because I see exposure to people who are different than I am as a way to help solve some of the hardest problems that America and our world are facing.

Our own government can’t put aside its members’ differences in opinion long enough to decide on a budget that would save thousands of government employees from being unable to work during the government shutdown. This inability to agree could stem from a lack of exposure to differences in opinions. We must learn how to live with and build relationships with people who are different from us, and Greek life’s model could present the perfect way in which to do so.

Until we understand other people’s backgrounds and where they’re coming from, it’s harder to compromise. I am in no way saying that Greek life is the only way to meet people from different backgrounds; however, if it became one, it would be powerful. One of the hallmarks of Greek life are that as soon as you join, all of the other members become your “brothers” or “sisters.” You live together, you attend events and parties together, and alumni chapters connect members after their college days are over. Establishing these kinds of regular and familial relationships with people of different classes, races, religions and backgrounds would do a lot to bridge the divides between people who seemingly have nothing in common. Duke students should consider: if they will not step up to build these bridges, who will?

Victoria Priester is a Trinity first-year.

Her column, “on the run from mediocrity,” runs on alternate Fridays.

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“She’s coming along. She’s got some really excellent players around, whether it be Lexie or Becca or Haley—people to play with and to understand the intensity and the immediacy of the game,” McCallie said. “When she goes hard, it’s very, very effective. She’s got the highest shooting percentage of anybody on our team.

She’s a very, very efficient player, so we’ve just got to keep developing her and getting her excited about the role she can have.”

The third quarter was more of the same, as the Blue Devils extended their lead to 25 by the time the final period rolled around.

Odom registered six points in the quarter and

finished just as she started it, with a layup from the paint.

Brown, who knocked down three long balls, is now the ACC’s active leader for consecutive games with a made 3-pointer. After Lousiville’s Asia Durr did not make one Thursday and Boston College’s Milan Bolden-Morris also misfired on all four of her attempts, the honor resides with Brown.

The Blue Devils will look to continue their strong play on both ends Sunday afternoon as they travel to senior Erin Mathias’ hometown for a matchup against Pittsburgh at 2 p.m.

“It was great to have everyone contribute,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said.

“Great to have our first group out there and be aggressive, and I like that we got to the free throw line. Liked that we minimized turnovers. That’s so important.”

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