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‘WE’RE NOT GOING HOME’ Blue Devils escape Central Florida in final seconds

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Zion Williamson makes a layup and is fouled by UCF’s Tacko Fall, bringing the Blue Devils within one.

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COLUMBIA, S.C.—Zion Williamson, staring up at the game clock as it ticked down to 17 seconds, beckoned for a screen. But before it could come, the superstar freshman took two dribbles, barreling his way from the left wing to the charity stripe. Williamson then spun, sending his defender to the ground, before flying toward the rim and the outstretched arms of 7-foot-6 Tacko Fall. The ball floated. The ACC Player of the Year hung in the air. And, of course, the rock found its way through the nylon. Yet the job was not done. R.J. Barrett’s putback layup off Williamson’s missed free throw with 11.8 seconds remaining completed topseeded Duke’s improbable comeback as the Blue Devils surged from down four in the final two minutes to avoid a stunning upset and knock out No. 9 seed Central Florida with a 77-76 win. Williamson did it all for Duke Sunday at Colonial Life Arena, scoring 32 points and pulling down 11 rebounds for yet another doubledouble, but the Knights’ Aubrey Dawkins nearly gave UCF enough offense to send shockwaves throughout the college basketball world with 32 points of his own. Dawkins nearly had two more points, rimming out on a put-back tip in the final seconds that almost certainly would’ve given the Knights a win had it gone down. “These kids, my guys, hung in there. They hung in there because just the momentum of the tournament, what’s going on, you could be defeated right there, and instead, they hung in there,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “The will to win of Zion and R.J., you can’t measure it. It’s just there…. We’re a young group, but what they did right at the end of that game in willing us to win was just absolutely sensational.”

11.8 | UCF leads 76-75 Williamson misses the free throw, but R.J. Barrett’s rebound and putback gives Duke the lead at 77-76.

4.3 | Duke leads 77-76 UCF’s B.J. Taylor drives and misses a twopoint jumper.

2.9 | Duke leads 77-76 UCF’s Aubrey Dawkins tips the ball back up, but it rolls around the front edge of the rim and falls off, securing a Duke victory. Compiled by Nathan Luzum | Contributing Writer

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Charles York | Special Projects Photography Editor Zion Williamson racked up 32 points in the win against the University of Central See M. BASKETBALL on Page 8 Florida to lift the Blue Devils to the Sweet 16.

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University audits years of admissions Aminé to play LDOC RECESS

By Bre Bradham Editor-in-Chief

Duke is auditing the last several years of its admissions in the wake of the national higher education admissions scandal. No Duke coaches or administrators have been named in the incident. President Vincent Price fielded a question from Lee Baker, Mrs. Alexander Hehmeyer professor of cultural anthropology, about how Duke was responding to the admissions scandal that has rocked higher education in recent weeks during the Academic Council meeting on Thursday. “I’ll tell you that we’re not addressing it by putting our hands over our ears and saying ‘la, la, la,” Price responded. The president said that although he has confidence in Duke’s admissions, he is not letting that get in the way of fully reviewing the issue. “Everything I’ve seen in my time at Duke gives me

confidence that we are not engaged in the kinds of things that other institutions have been engaged in, but I don’t let my trust replace the need to verify that,” Price said. The FBI charged dozens of people—including university officials, coaches and parents—in an alleged scheme to illegally buy admission into college. The allegations included that students were admitted under the guise of being on sports team that they were not on and subverting standardized testing procedures to get students higher scores. “So what we’re doing right now is the Office of General Counsel has been working with athletics,” Price said. “In admissions, we’re going back and we’re auditing previous years. I believe we have covered four years so far, but we have not uncovered any instances that looked to us like they would be especially troubling.”

This year’s concert headliner is rapper Aminé, the LDOC committee announced Thursday. Additional acts include DJ Gryffin and pop duo Loote, as well as Small Town Records openers Simon White, a senior, and Sara Held, a sophomore. LDOC Committee Chair Serena Rivera-Korver, a sophomore, wrote in an email that artists were selected by a committee of diverse Duke students. “We are so excited to feature an equally diverse group of artists,” she wrote. Aminé is best known for his debut 2016 single “Caroline,”

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Supreme Court to hear N.C. case

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Column: Can you find community at Duke?

Rucho v. Common Cause, a gerrymandering case from North Carolina, will be argued Tuesday. PAGE 3

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Price discusses light rail controversy at Academic Council By Mona Tong Staff Reporter

At its March meeting, the Academic Council discussed Duke’s relationship with Durham following the University’s decision not to sign a cooperative agreement for the DurhamOrange Light Rail Transit Project. President Vincent Price initiated the meeting by giving his “state of the university” address. He reviewed the year’s faculty, student and institutional achievements, discussed recent and upcoming administrative changes and described Duke’s goals for the future. Afterward, the president fielded questions from faculty on the council. Questions moved the discussion towards the future of Duke’s relationship with Durham in consideration of Duke’s decision on the light rail. “The controversy over [the] light rail, in my view, is unfortunate for all kinds of reasons, principally because it’s being represented somehow as a withdrawal of Duke’s support for Durham, which I believe is a mischaracterization of what is happening,” Price said. “It certainly does not reflect any diminution of my view that we need to double down and strengthen our partnerships over time.” Price repeatedly stated Duke has an unwavering commitment to developing a strong partnership with the Durham community. He said that the University is working on how to use its resources to best serve the needs of Durham. Price also said that the light rail issue has a 20-year history and that Duke has raised concerns about the route throughout that history. He said the project has, and continues to have, issues, including funding challenges. He said that statements of Duke “killing” the project and of the decision being abruptly unforeseen and “last-minute” is not an accurate representation of the history. Price pointed out that Duke was not the only stakeholder that did not sign a cooperative agreement by the Feb. 28 deadline, citing the North Carolina Railroad for also not signing it. The president asserted that Duke has and will continue to

Courtesy of GoTriangle President Vincent Price discussed the University’s decision to not sign a cooperative agreement with GoTriangle at Thursday’s Academic Council meeting.

engage with community partners, such as GoTriangle and the Durham County Board of Commissioners, to build and maintain a strong relationship with Durham. Price said that he aims to keep reaching out to partners, to continue previous conversations about Durham affordable housing and to get into the community himself and spend time with residents so they can learn to trust Duke as an institution. “I don’t think it is to anyone’s advantage to turn this controversy into a Duke versus Durham issue,” Price said. The president said that the situation’s portrayal has left Duke with the challenge of convincing the community that it is sincere. “I am going to walk around for years in sort of a leg cast, until people become convinced that I am sincere and that Duke is

sincere. That is unfortunate,” Price said. “I don’t believe I created that, and honestly I don’t believe Duke necessarily created that. But it’s a reality, and now we have to deal with that reality while we move forward.” That will mean “more resolve, harder work” ahead, and being very clear about Duke’s commitment to the region, Price said. “My responsibility is to make decisions for Duke University and Duke Health, and to do them in a way that was grounded in appropriate consideration of the facts as I understand them, and not to respond to pressure—this is not the way any organization makes good decisions,” Price said. “And as the pressure mounted, I will be honest, it only steeled my resolve that we are on the right trajectory and not the wrong trajectory.” Bre Bradham contributed reporting.

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Supreme Court to hear gerrymandering Italian gov’t seizes professors’ boat after case with ties to Duke research it rescued migrants

By Stefanie Pousoulides University News Editor

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument of a North Carolina partisan gerrymandering case Tuesday. On Jan. 4, the Supreme Court announced that Common Cause v. Rucho would be argued in March. Duke researchers have been heavily involved in the case, as their research has been used by those challenging the North Carolina congressional map to show that it is unconstitutional. A three-judge panel for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina held in January 2018 that

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Oral argument for a N.C. gerrymandering case before the Supreme Court is set for Tuesday morning.

the Republican-controlled General Assembly fashioned an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander that violated nonRepublican voters’ rights of the First Amendment, Equal Protection Clause and Elections Clause. However, because it was already deciding two partisan gerrymandering cases that term, the Supreme Court granted a stay request on a federal district court’s order in Common Cause v. Rucho to redraw the 2016 congressional district map by Jan. 24. The two cases of Benisek v. Lamone and Gill v. Whitford were decided in June 2018, and map challengers in Common Cause v. Rucho addressed some of the concerns raised by the Supreme Court in August 2018, when the North Carolina case was heard again by a district court. The three-judge panel ruled that the North Carolina congressional map was an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander but now included an extensive section in its opinion on the congressional map’s district-level harm to voters, an issue that the Supreme Court highlighted in Gill v. Whitford. Now the question of whether the Supreme Court can hear partisan gerrymandering cases is once again in the air. Since 2013, Duke’s Quantifying Gerrymandering group has been leading partisan gerrymandering research, and its work has been used in Common Cause v. Rucho and Gill v. Whitford. Jonathan Mattingly, chair of the department of mathematics at Duke, has spearheaded the group since it began. Mattingly has also been the author of a report for Common Cause v. Rucho and testified for about three hours as an expert witness for the case decided in January 2018. Mattingly and Fritz Mayer, professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, lead a Bass Connections program at Duke called Gerrymandering and the Extent of Democracy in America. In January 2019, Common Cause and Duke’s Center for Political Leadership, Innovation and Service recently cosponsored a conference at Duke on the state of redistricting in North Carolina.

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Two Duke professors’ boat rescued 49 migrants from a rubber boat in the Mediterranean sea off the coast of Libya, but not without a cost. The Italian government, which has repeatedly denied non-governmental organizations’ rescue boats entry into its territory, seized the ship. Matteo Salvini, Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, said he wants to halt such vessels “once and for all” from transporting those rescued to his country. The migrants are now in Lampedusa, Italy, but should be able to “initiate the refugee application process.” The ship’s future remains uncertain as its captain has been accused of “aiding illegal immigration,” according to a DukeToday release. “The 49 migrants were chanting ‘liberte!’ ‘liberte!’ Freedom! Freedom! There were celebrating liberation,” said Sandro Mezzadra, co-director of the Duke’s Social Movements Lab and one of the boat’s owners. Italy doesn’t think this mission was a rescue. “This is abetting illegal immigration,” Salvini said, according to The Guardian. “It was all planned and they had organised this operation days before.” Along with a group of friends, Mezzadra and Michael Hardt, professor of literature and fellow codirector of the lab, bought the boat—the Mare Jonio— for 400,000 Euros. The boat has been working since last October to search for people in need of rescue near the Libyan coast. Italy has recently encountered a record for boat-riding asylum seekers, who Hardt said face a “graveyard” in the choppy waters. More than 1,600 people died on the sea in the first nine months of 2018. See BOAT on Page 4

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Price said, however, that there is a ways to go. “If you read this case, the principle player involved, they have been at work for about 10 years, so there’s a lot of ground to cover there,” the president said. “Prospectively, we’re asking ourselves ‘Are we vulnerable?’ Even if we’re doing everything right, do we have the necessary safeguards in place?’ Let’s learn from

Bre Bradham | Contributing Photographer Price spoke to Academic Council Thursday.

BOAT FROM PAGE 3 So the group decided to partner with nongovernmental organizations to partake in rescue missions. “We wanted to do something beyond resistance, something positive and unexpected,” Mezzadra said. The mission had seen some success in 2018. Italy had stopped saving boats in distress, but

this incident.” In the case that there is an issue with Duke’s admissions, Price said he wants to be the first to know. “If we do uncover something, my first goal is to know it before anyone else discovers it for us,” Price said. “I mean this quite seriously, because that is our responsibility. A good institution does discover these things before other people point them out, because they have a routine review.” The president also said that the Athletic Council—which reported to the Academic Council in Fall 2017 about athletes clustering in courses—reviews athletic admissions twice per year. This faculty involvement, Price said, is the University’s “strongest bulwark” against impropriety. “I’m feeling confident,” Price said. “But as I said, that is no replacement for making sure that we dig into it and learn everything.” Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, told The Chronicle Monday that the FBI has not contacted the University in relation to the case. “Duke has not been contacted [by the FBI] or in anyway implicated in this particular case,” Schoenfeld said. according to Hardt, after some pressure from the group, the government started saving migrants again. When the Mare Jonio had responded to distress calls, Italian officials jumped in to save the migrants. In October 2018, they did save 70 migrants on a rubber raft near Malta—but only once the Mare Jonio responded. “Apparently, the Italian government wants to make sure that our ship does not rescue migrants,” Hardt said.

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LDOC FROM PAGE 1 which reached number 11 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Chart. He released his first fulllength album “Good For You” in 2017 and was nominated as Best New Hip Hop Artist for the 2017 BET Hip Hop Awards. Gryffin calls himself a melodic house artist and has remixed songs like Tove Lo’s “Talking Body” and Maroon 5’s “Animals.” Loote is based out of New York City. The duo released their debut single “High Without Your Love” in 2017 and their first EP “Single” in 2018. The lineup was announced via a video post at 7 p.m., following a LDOC lineup release party in the Bryan Center earlier that day, which

benefited the Duke Children’s Hospital. LDOC, which will take place April 24, will feature its usual level of programming during the day, including student favorites like silent disco, chapel climbs and professional pancake art caterer DanCakes. R&B and rap artist Marc E. Bassy headlined LDOC last year after GoldLink canceled days before the show. Supporting acts included dance music trio Seeb, pop artist Quinn XCII and indie pop band Smallpools. The event was generally viewed as a success, despite rain that limited some daytime activities, like massages. “I hope all students will be able to find something in our lineup that appeals to them and makes them proud to be part of Duke,” Rivera-Korver wrote.

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‘IT ONLY TAKES ONE PLAY’ Botched alley-oop sets Blue Devils up for season-saving finish as last-second tip also rolls off the rim By Michael Model Sports Editor

COLUMBIA, S.C.—It felt like a classic Duke upset. Central Florida corralled a rebound off Tre Jones’ seventh missed triple of the night and was off in transition. Dayon Griffin lobbed it to Aubrey Dawkins for what looked like an exclamation-point alley-oop slam and a 76-70 edge with 1:49 left in the contest. But Dawkins could not grasp the ball as it sailed out of bounds. Had the Knights executed the slam or even laid it in, the storyline most likely would be one of a historic, shocking loss for the national title favorite in the first weekend of the tournament. Instead, Duke was able to fight back and escape, advancing to take on Virginia Tech in Washington Friday. “It’s called March Madness for a reason. Every game, any game, any team can go home. It just takes one bad night, one bad shot line,” Zion Williamson said. “If Dawkins had caught that lob, that would have put them up six, and who knows…it only takes one play to change the outcome.” The Blue Devils led 66-59 with 7:30 remaining, but the veteran UCF squad caught fire and put the nation’s top overall seed on the brink of elimination. The Knights drained three straight triples, Dawkins—the son of UCF head coach, former Blue Devil player and assistant Johnny Dawkins—then hit a stepback jumper for his 31st and 32nd points of the night, and 7-foot6 center Tacko Fall gave his team a 74-70 advantage with 2:08 remaining. Fall’s putback dunk off an offensive rebound was reviewed extensively as it appeared B.J. Taylor’s prior shot may not have hit the rim as the shot clock expired, giving head coach Mike Krzyzewski a chance to refocus his young team for the final stretch. “We had a lot of time,” Krzyzewski said. “On the court, I said, ‘Look, no matter what the decision will be made, there’s going to be eight

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Aubrey Dawkins crashed the offensive glass and had an uncontested tip-in attempt in the final seconds that would have given Central Florida a win, but the shot rolled around the rim and didn’t fall through the net. to 10, maybe more possessions in this game. And you guys were made for these two minutes and just be yourselves.’” Seconds after the botched alley-oop, the Blue Devils went to work. Cam Reddish, Zion Williamson and R.J. Barrett each proved they were made for the moment, draining a triple and a pair of layups as Duke regained the lead for good at 77-76. The Blue Devils have had to come back before to mixed results. Duke trailed Gonzaga by 16 in the second half before falling by two in the closing minutes. The Blue Devils erased a 23-point deficit in a win at Louisville and hung on against Wake Forest on Senior Night as a last-second layup rolled off the rim.

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Despite all of Zion Williamson’s highlight-reel plays and the Blue Devils’ team success this year, it almost came to an abrupt halt until they could breathe a deep sigh of relief.

“It was different from other games, where if you lose or if you win you have other games after that,” Jones said. “None of us were thinking that our season could be coming to an end. We were just thinking about what type of plays we were going to have to make to bring out the win.” Duke needed a little bit of luck in the closing seconds to secure the win. A Dawkins tip-in attempt off a missed triple from Taylor appeared to be halfway down before somehow falling off the rim. Barrett grabbed the ball, took two dribbles and chucked it in the air as the Blue Devils rushed the floor celebrating the victory. “It was almost like time stopped when that

ball was on the rim,” Williamson said. “I’m thinking, ‘Man, don’t go in.’ It came out and the ball kind of tipped all over the place and then the clock ran out.” It was almost over. Despite all the hype about Williamson’s highlight-reel dunks and the elite talent of the 2018-19 Blue Devils, Duke was just inches away from a shocking, disappointing upset and an abrupt end to the season. Instead, the Blue Devils will live to see another day. “I could be sitting right here telling y’all it was a great run,” Williamson said. “But it was very special and I hope we can go even further. “We’re living the dream and you’ve got to live in the moment.“

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Junior captain Javin DeLaurier missed two late free throws, but also grabbed a key offensive rebound that led to Duke’s game-winning 4-point possession.

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Duke unable to slow down Virginia attack in loss By Ben Feder Associate Sports Editor

Once the goals started coming, they did not stop. No matter what Duke head coach Kerstin Kimel tried, nothing was working. Two timeouts to try to halt the momentum just led to more goals, ones leaving Blue Devil goalkeeper Gabbe Cadoux helpless in net. By the time the first half ended, Duke had surrendered 12 goals, easily surpassing its season average DUKE 12 heading into the game. 17 Ultimately, the deficit UVA was too much for the Blue Devils despite garnering enough strength to mount a second-half comeback. No. 12 Duke dropped its first ACC contest of the season 17-12 against No. 7 Virginia at Klöckner Stadium Saturday afternoon in Charlottesville, Va. The Blue Devils managed to outscore the Cavaliers 8-5 in the second half, but could not find enough answers for Virginia’s attack, which featured five players with multiple goals. “Defensively, we were not sharp today,” Kimel told GoDuke.com. “To [Virginia’s] credit, I thought they were really outstanding in terms of how aggressive they were attacking the cage, and I don’t think we responded well.”

After a draw control victory and midfielder Abby Landry saved shot to start the game, Duke survived a five-shot onslaught from the Cavaliers, but could not pull off a successful clear attempt. And then the floodgates opened. Ashlyn McGovern started Virginia’s run of six straight goals to open the game, converting on one of the Cavaliers’ four free-position tallies of the day. After the first 10 minutes, Virginia had already notched six goals. An Olivia Jenner score did not stop the Cavaliers’ momentum, as they rattled off four straight. By the time the Blue Devils (7-3, 2-1 in the ACC) could get set on offense, it was 10-1. Then, Duke started to chip away at its deficit. By the end of the first half, the Blue Devils had cut the deficit to eight on the strength of freshman attack Eva Greco. Greco—who was starting in her second straight contest—found Lindsey Reynolds and Charlotte North for goals, and then notched her first-ever one in a Duke uniform to cap off the half. Although the Blue Devils were still struggling defensively to end the first half, Greco made sure the game did not get completely out of hand. Playing largely from behind the cage, Greco was able to use her height and feeding ability to kickstart Duke’s offense.

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Freshman Eva Greco, number 29, had the most productive game of her career Saturday with her first goal and four assists. Especially with Virginia (9-3, 1-3) manmarking North, who ranks second in the nation in goals, Greco had more space to make plays for herself and finished with a goal and four assists. “We just felt like we needed someone else who could distribute the ball, and [Greco] did a really good job,” Kimel said. “She just did

her job and that’s all we can ask for.” Coming out of the locker room at halftime, the Blue Devils were able to continue their offensive success from the last minutes of the opening period, going on a 6-2 run to bring the score to 14-10 with See W. LACROSSE on Page 9

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Blue Devils rout Cavaliers for 5th straight win By Winston Lindqwister Sports Managing Editor

Few teams in the NCAA have been as dominant as the Blue Devils this March. Outside of a loss to North Carolina early in the month, Duke has been on an absolute tear, slicing through ranked opposition with ease. And despite some momentary lapses, the Blue Devils looked as dominant as ever Sunday afternoon. No. 3 Duke took down No. 22 Virginia 6-1 at Ambler Tennis Stadium for its fifth straight win. After battling through tough matchups in doubles, 1 Blue Devil standouts UVA 6 Maria Mateas and DUKE Kelly Chen took care of business to set senior Kaitlyn McCarthy up for the game-winning point. “I don’t think we played a great match,” Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “When the points got close and there was clutch time, we played well, but we left a lot of points out there, especially in the doubles. We could’ve closed out the doubles a little earlier on some of the courts, and the singles too, we could’ve done a better job closing.” While the Blue Devils (15-2, 7-1 in the ACC) have been solid in doubles play throughout the season, Duke looked uncharacteristically sluggish out of the gates against the Cavaliers (12-5, 5-4). On Court 1, the No. 69 tandem of Chen and Ellyse Hamlin struggled to find any footing against the No. 70 pair of Chloe

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Kaitlyn McCarthy did not capitalize on multiple match points early in her second set of singles, but regrouped to win the last two games of the set and clinch the match. Gullickson and Amber O’Dell, falling behind 4-2 early. The Virginia duo clamped down for a definitive 6-3 win to put pressure on Duke’s other doubles teams, each holding a 5-4 advantage. Luckily for the Blue Devils, the No. 36 tandem of McCarthy and Meible Chi surged ahead to take its match 6-4, and Duke’s freshman duo of Mateas and

Margaryta Bilokin took two straight games to put the Blue Devils on the board with a 7-5 victory. Transitioning from doubles to singles, No. 15 Mateas showed no sign of slowing down, cruising through Vivian Glozman on Court 2. The Duke freshman put together four straight games before Glozman could take a game of

her own, finishing the first set 6-2. Although her Cavalier opponent managed to earn another game at the beginning of the second set, Mateas took control for a resounding 6-1 frame to put the Blue Devils up 2-0. “[Mateas] is playing her game a lot better,” Ashworth said. “She’s hitting the ball a little bit cleaner. She’s hitting through the ball. She’s somebody who has got a lot of power, and early in the season she wasn’t using that. She was trying to feel her way through matches, but even in practice she has been swinging a lot better and being more aggressive with shots and aggressive with opportunities.” No. 22 Kelly Chen was next to earn Duke a point, taking down No. 39 Meghan Kelley 6-2, 7-5 on Court 1. After trading the opening four games, Chen rallied for four straight to put away the first set. However, Kelley responded with a surge of her own in the second, taking a 5-3 lead. But behind sharp serving and incredible ball movement, the sophomore Blue Devil pulled together four straight games to ice the match. Although Bilokin surrendered a point to the visiting team with a 7-5, 6-3 loss on Court 6 to Camille Favero, McCarthy was able to keep Duke’s winning streak alive with the clincher on Court 5 against Sofia Munera. Like Mateas and Chen, the senior Blue Devil cruised in the opening set for a 6-1 advantage. However, despite having a 5-3 lead in the second and multiple match points, McCarthy struggled to close it out. Munera managed to knot the set See W. TENNIS on Page 9

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M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 1 As Dawkins’ last-gasp attempt fell toward the hardwood, Barrett grabbed the ball. He ran toward midcourt, and once the buzzer sounded, the Canadian chucked the ball into the air. “After the game, [R.J. and I] looked at each other and he looked at me and he said, ‘We’re not going home,’” Williamson said. “You don’t want to go home. I think it’s one thing to say you don’t want to go home, but when you’re actually in the moment, down four with two minutes on the clock, we could have easily panicked.” With just more than 11 minutes to go, Dawkins leveled the game at 54, throwing down an alley-oop to ignite the UCF faithful. The very next trip down, Knight guard B.J. Taylor canned a triple to give his team its first lead in nearly 15 minutes. And in a game that featured run after run, the Blue Devils responded. Duke (31-5) got a clutch triple from Williamson to knot things back up and start a 12-2 spurt as it extended the lead back to seven. “We were fighting for our lives,” Cam Reddish said. “Coach has been there for us, pushing us, giving us the confidence we need to go out there and perform and execute on both sides of the floor. We came together and fought to the very end.” UCF, fittingly, would answer with a 15-4 run, capped by a Fall dunk that was counted after a lengthy replay review. Although the Knights’ centerpiece played just 25 minutes, partly because of foul trouble, he made a massive impact while on the floor—UCF

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Tre Jones and the Blue Devils had to deal with 7-foot-6 Tacko Fall affecting their shots in the paint all night long. (24-9) packed the paint, allowing the Blue Devils to shoot from deep. For most of the game, the Knights left Tre Jones and Jordan Goldwire, both of whom entered the night shooting worse than 25 percent from beyond the arc, wide open. “It was very difficult,” Jones said of dealing with Fall’s presence. “We weren’t able to do a lot of things at the hoop. He was able to affect our shots a lot with how big he is and with his reach and everything…. [But] Coach talks to us all the time about poise. The big moments and things like that, none of us are afraid.” Duke struggled mightily to contain Fall in the opening minutes as the UCF center took over. He logged four points and three rebounds before the game’s first media timeout, giving

the Knights an early advantage. They sustained it by leaning on Dawkins. The redshirt junior couldn’t miss, getting six of his eight shots before halftime to go down. Dawkins, the son of UCF head coach and Blue Devil icon Johnny Dawkins, nearly did enough to help the Knights pull off what would have easily been the biggest win in UCF history, shooting 12-of-18 from the field and knocking down five 3-pointers. Instead, the Knights will go home to Orlando with a bitter taste in their mouths. “I love Johnny Dawkins, and the moments, the times that we’ve spent together building the program,” Krzyzewski said. “We’re family. I feel bad that they lost. I’m happy—it’s like a yin-and-yang here because they were

deserving of winning. They were so good, and I’m so proud that those kids played at the level of their coach.” Duke will now have just a couple of days to recover from its heart-pounding win before its heads to Washington for a rematch with fourth-seeded Virginia Tech in the Sweet 16. The Blue Devils came up short in their regularseason contest against the Hokies, falling 77-72 in Blacksburg, Va., last month. But that happened without Williamson. And Duke certainly now realizes it can’t take anything for granted. “Destiny is a big word,” Javin DeLaurier said. “But I definitely think there is somebody up there looking down and smiling on us tonight.”

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of the net. After a Virginia goal, North brought the margin back to four with 10 minutes left, but then two straight Cavalier goals cemented the victory for the home team. “The biggest thing is that we needed a reset button,” Kimel said. “Clearly, we dug ourselves into a significant hole in the first half, and mentality-wise, we just felt like we needed to get the girls thinking about a new half [and] doing the simple things well.” Duke will only have a few days to solve its defensive issues and prepare for Campbell, as it will travel to Buies Creek, N.C., for a Tuesday night affair against the Fighting Camels.

FROM PAGE 7 at 5-5, but McCarthy ultimately prevailed for the final two games, giving the home team yet another conference win. “We need to be a better closing team,” Ashworth said. “We did a really good job putting ourselves in position with scorers in some of the singles sets and some of those first sets. Midway through there, we took our foot off the gas a little bit. We can’t do that. We need to close as good as we start.” Chi and Hamlin had similar up-anddown matches, with both going to three sets. No. 14 Chi came through with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 victory on Court 3, and Hamlin took down Gullickson 6-1, 4-6, 6-1. The Blue Devils face a tough stretch ahead, where they will face three ACC foes on the road starting with Virginia Tech on Friday.

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ast Wednesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order that effectively halted capital punishment in the golden state. In a state with 737 individuals in death row—more than six in 10 of whom are Black or Latinx—with 25 who have exhausted their appeals, the deadline to sign off on their lethal injections would have been at the start of April of this year. Without Governor Newsoms’ moratorium on the death penalty, California would have resumed stateordered executions after a 13-year hiatus. As one of the 30 remaining states that continue to practice capital punishment, our state of North Carolina holds 141 prisoners in death row. More than 63 percent of them are people of color, despite the fact that they make up less than 30 percent of North Carolina’s population. Moreover, nearly 20 percent of those on death row were sentenced to death by all-white juries. The most recent addition in the row occurred less than four weeks ago. The state has not carried out an execution, however, since 2006. The faults that Governor Newsom’s cited in his decision against the death penalty emanate far beyond California’s borders. Here in North Carolina, more than 1,000 individuals have been sentenced to death row since 1910. In North Carolina, as in

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California, the arbitrary nature by which the death penalty is applied comes at the detriment of people of color. The chances of receiving the death penalty in this state increases 3.5 times if the defendant’s victim is white. Race is far from the only way to characterize capital punishment, but it is one for which such blatant statistics exist. The chance of incriminating the wrong individual also remains uncomfortably substantiated. Earlier

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this year, a federal appeals court ruled that Charles Ray Finch, who was sentenced to death row in North Carolina 42 years ago, was “actually innocent” of his murder charge. With the undercurrents of racism and unreliability that explicitly dominate the process, capital punishment creates a game of racial Russian roulette out of the criminal justice system that is supposedly meant to protect our citizens. Beyond North Carolina’s capital punishment policies, racial bias is the signature thread that winds throughout the state’s criminal justice system. In the state, black students are almost six times more likely to be arrested in school than their white peers—among the worst in the United States. This, in addition to the fact that half of all referrals to the criminal justice system come from schools, is representative of a state that falls just short of legally codifying the school to prison pipeline for children of color. Turning a blind eye to the disproportionate placement of people of color in prisons is unjust, yet remaining ignorant to the pathway towards execution that we push them toward is inhumanly cruel. The inhumanity of state-sanctioned killing

continues, however, to enjoy washed down portrayals in popular entertainment, such that most of us are more aware of who is sentenced to die in our favorite television show than in the state we reside in. Even worse, is the continued perpetuation of the myth that life-long imprisonment is a waste of taxpayer money, all while remaining ignorant to the fact that the death penalty costs higher—by more than a factor of 18 in California. Capital punishment is a barbaric precipice of a criminal justice system already marred by racism and classism. The central ethos to its existence— punishment for the killing of a life—is diluted by contradiction: If a person kills another, it runs contrary to the rule of law, yet when the state does it, it is the rule of law. Even more shameful than North Carolina’s continued practice of the death penalty, is our complacency towards it. For most of us, we view our transitory residence here by the context of the Duke bubble, wholeheartedly ignoring the blaring issues within our local and state governments that govern the community that we chose to be part of. Our status as Duke students extend beyond an Instagram bio headline. As students of Duke, we are students of Durham, students of North Carolina, and residents of state that possesses the authority to murder its citizens. As such, it is imperative that we progress the common interests of the community that has provided us a home. Or, perhaps, maybe it is true that we are nothing but a school where “the rich send their entitled children to trash the city.” This was written by The Chronicle’s Editorial Board, which is made up of student members from across the University and is independent of the editorial staff.

Letter: The price workers pay for no student benefit

very morning, as I rush out for my 8:30 class, I’m greeted by Tim and Martha, the housekeepers for my dorm. Every morning, those “hello”s and “how are you”s jumpstart my day and I’m consoled by the comforting smile of a familiar face. In September of 2018, The Chronicle published an article discussing changes to the hours of housekeeping staff. When I say I see Tim and Martha every morning, I mean every morning. They now work seven consecutive days every other week. Consequently, a student petition, which has now gained over 1,000 signatures, was issued, calling for the housekeepers to return to their previous MondayFriday schedule. Nevertheless, Duke’s attention has been drawn elsewhere, and our housekeeping staff are still suffering under the consequences of such an ineffective schedule change. From taking out the rotten fruit that stayed in a dormitory fridge too long, to cleaning up old coffee, to getting out the smell of last night’s puke, the employees work exceptionally hard to maintain cleanly spaces for us to live in. And yet, the ramifications of the past six months have fallen through the cracks in our institutional memory. I hope that Duke students care enough to

continue to be frustrated at the injustice done against the employees that look after them, who should be watching their kids, spending time with their families, and going to church rather than taking out the trash on a Sunday. I hope we continue to fight for an institutionalization of programs that promote appreciation, community, and discussion among students, administration and employees. Undeniably, HRL’s persistence in implementing the new schedule, despite the harm it has inflicted on staff, exposes the institution’s contemptuous treatment of its employees. President Price, I urge you to hold HRL accountable for working towards an effective, appropriate schedule. If you speak to any student, it is apparent how the new schedule has resulted in no liveable improvements for us. On the other hand, if you speak to any housekeeping staff, it is apparent how the new schedule has hurt their lives. Housekeeping staff make students feel part of the Duke community, and it is time to treat them like they’re a part of it too. Hadeel Hamoud is a Trinity first-year and a member of Duke Students and Workers Alliance (DSWA).

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ne of my New Year’s resolutions was to never stay up late for an assignment. It was a pretty unrealistic goal, especially for me. In high school, I wrote essay conclusions on the bus and came to class ten minutes late because I still had to print the essay out. I spent my weekends telling myself I would start my work right after

opinion column because I know it’s not as good as it could be. I have to take this house course because the course would qualify me for a club position that I want. I have to volunteer as a debate coach because I think everyone should have the opportunity to do debate and doing this work might help me get the job that I want this summer. I have to be the kind of person who has all

Sarah Xu COLUMNIST the Netflix episode ended, and my weeknights staying up to finish assignments that I meant to do over the weekend. I surprisingly managed to stick to this New Year’s resolution for the first few weeks of the semester. For the first time, I submitted a paper more than ten minutes before the deadline. I planned my days out hour-by-hour and did my readings on time. I thought I was doing great, that I finally had it together, until one afternoon when I came back from West to find my friends sitting outside my dorm. I had just spent an entire C1 ride staring at my planner and thinking about how I had two big projects due that week and not enough time to get them done. I told myself I would just talk to my friends for a couple minutes. When I asked them how they were, one of my friends said “I’ve done most of my work, so I basically have the whole afternoon free.” I was so jealous. I couldn’t remember the last time I spontaneously had a free moment or time to spare. I realized in that moment how exhausting it had been to have every hour of my day straining under the weight of all the work I should be doing, and to feel as though I didn’t have the time to make mistakes. It was so defeating to know that I had been careful and made good decisions, and still had so much work to do that I didn’t have the time to just sit outside and talk with my friends. I had done my best, and it still wasn’t good enough. My definition of “good enough” is based on all the standards I’ve set for myself. I have to do well in my statistics class because I might want to economics research next year and statistics is important for that. I have to spend another hour editing this

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into Duke. But goals are just a means to an end. We don’t get the grade or research position or job for their own sake, but to serve the scarily abstract things we want for our lives: happiness, knowledge, helping others, feeling as though we’ve made the most out of the opportunities we have. It’s completely illogical to feel as though my best isn’t good enough. By definition, my best is all I can do. If the thought of facing another week of work at Duke immediately makes me anxious, I’m taking on too much. I used to think that if I could get something decent done last-minute, I’d be practically unstoppable if I started my work early. The beauty of procrastination is that you never have to confront the fact that you might not be as talented as you think you are. When you fail, you can blame the all-nighter instead of a lack of ability. But I realized that good timemanagement doesn’t give you unlimited time, it just means you’re more intentional with your time. Instead of frantically deciding what standards to loosen because I only have two hours to do three assignments, I have to acknowledge that I don’t have the time or capability to do everything I want to and coldly eliminate the work that isn’t a priority. It’s hard, but it means that I can actually align the way I spend my time with what’s important to me. I can plan my day knowing there’s a difference between being ambitious and feeling as though I’m a failure if I don’t meet xyz standards. In a conversation between author Tim Ferriss and University of Houston professor Brené Brown, Ferriss asked: “How do you balance the wellbeing of having a mindset of ‘I am enough,’ versus...the discontent that seems to drive so many of those people to accomplish great things?” Brown replied: “I would bet you a lot of money that if we listed the names of ten people...ten competitive, ambitious, just like crazy fighters...you could tell me the five who are motivated from a place of being enough but wanting to strive for excellence and learning, and the people who are trying to fill a hole in their self-worth and who are dangerous.” When I came up against my own limits, I had to ask myself: Which of these people do I want to be? I hope you do the same. Sarah Xu is a Trinity first-year. Her column usually runs on alternate Thursdays.

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fter reading two fellow columnists’ articles concerning affiliation at Duke, I was disheartened. One columnist detailed his disappointment with his social experiences as an independent,

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and one columnist justified the exclusive nature of Greek life with the assertion of the exclusivity of life in general. While exclusivity and hierarchy are realities, there is no reason that Duke’s social climate need look like the rest of the world. In fact, I believe we as a student body, especially independents, have the power to make Duke’s campus an inclusive and welcoming place, even building it to be a microcosm of what we want our world to look like. This utopic world could be filled with diverse communities that aim to uplift one another, learn from one another, and come together during hardship. Fortunately, there are individuals at Duke who are working to build non-exclusive, non-hierarchical communities.Their actions both go against the grain of Duke’s social life and reflect the kind of student life that’s advertised at Duke. I spoke with Grant Besner (Trinity 19’), Ryan Bergamini (Pratt, ’19), Matt Wisner (Trinity ’20), and Mary Stuart Elder (Pratt ‘19). I asked Matt and Grant about their opinions on Duke’s social climate. Both attested to the vibrancy and strong sense of community from the first year experience in contrast to the exclusivity and even tribalism, as Grant said, of the ensuing years. Matt stated that “random

assignment to dorms (and now, roommates too) during freshman year created, in my experience, a social situation that was different from the rest of my time at Duke—one that allowed me to organically meet people and grow closer based on compatibility and shared interests rather than willingness to join some kind of social organization.” Ideally, this strong sense of community would continue to grow as students leave the gates of East Campus. On the contrary, it seems to dissipate as students funnel into selective housing and independents are plopped relatively randomly in West Campus dorms. Most residents in West Campus dorms barely know their own neighbors and dorms serve solely as a place to sleep rather than a vibrant community. As Grant noted, “Students indenting socially more with their first year dorm then by their West Campus housing... and if that isn’t indicative of the problem, then I don’t know what is.” I understand people’s preference for selective housing. Living surrounded by people in one’s fraternity, sorority, or SLG can serve as a social safe-haven. Accordingly, more than advocating for the end of selective housing, we as independents need to build the kinds of communities we would like to see. Given the isolation that many independent West Campus residents experience, the role of the RA is critical. Matt, Mary Stuart, and Ryan are all RAs. Matt reflected on his motivation to enhance the independent experience.“It became kind of an obsession of mine to almost prove that community could be built between a group of thirty people who had never met each other before—to show that Duke students don’t have to rely on some formalized membership to a social organization to find a healthy and fulfilling social situation,” he said. Building on this point, Mary Stuart reflected on RAs’ role in building community.

“Specifically in independent groups, you have the meshing together of all sorts of communities: athletics, SLGs, service organizations, Greek life, and more. But you also have students without defined communities. RAs have the responsibility of bringing all of these communities together in some way.” Matt, Mary Stuart, Ryan, and many other RAs show us that the role is more than that of one of a supervisor, they also serve to encourage community in places lacking of any sort of social cohesion. Similar to Grant and Matt, Ryan saw flaws in Duke’s current social scene that incentivizes students to seek refuge in exclusive groups. When I first met Ryan, I was struck by his passion for building community. He can be spotted every Sunday evening sitting in the Skillet amidst animated conversation with a different amalgam of people each week. This is what he calls The DSG (Duke Student Group, a play on Duke Student Government) Sunday Night Dinner. Sunday Night Dinner is a consistent time each week where Duke students can meet each other over food. According to Ryan, “If you want to be part of any community, it takes buy in. And the only buy in that DSG needs is for you to show up.” Ryan encourages all walks of life on Duke’s campus to join and even posts the open invitation in the “All Duke” Facebook group. Ryan is also heading the “CommunYT” efforts, which you may have seen on Instagram or around campus. The communYT was an initiative to encourage people to think about how they can bring the change they want to the campus. According to Ryan, the Young Trustee (the YT aspect of “CommunYT”) alone cannot create a greater community. Rather, it takes all of us to buy in the crate the greater Duke community that everyone says they want. I also asked Grant about his efforts to

build community. Grant’s efforts centered on K-Ville and Duke Conversations. He started the “K-Ville Common Room” due to his realization that K-Ville is the one place on campus where affiliation, year, gender, race and other identity factors seem to fade away. By providing a physical space in K-Ville to facilitate spontaneous interaction, he believed that he could do his part to build a stronger campus community. Grant also reflected on his efforts with Duke Conversations, of which he was president his junior year. Duke Conversations enables students and professors to eat dinner and provides a great model for students to meet and engage in meaningful and sometimes vulnerable discussions. This type of interaction fosters student interactions and engagement with people outside of their immediate social circles. “I’m a big proponent of the belief that community is a collective, inclusive institution rather than inherently exclusionary,” Grant said. “When we view everyone as being part of an ‘in-group,’ we open ourselves up to experience more of what Duke (and life) has to offer.” While the efforts by these Duke students are notable, I know there are many other people on campus striving to build communities in unconventional ways. Nonetheless, building community can start small, with actions as simple as getting lunch with classmates, texting that old first-year groupchat, and being friendly to people you barely know. The root of the idea is to break down the exclusive, hierarchical social barriers, to learn from those different from ourselves, and to grow collectively as a community. The longer we exist within homogenous circles, the longer we thwart our own personal and communal growth. Bella Miller is a Trinity junior. Her column usually runs on alternate Fridays.

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CAN’T MISS EVENTS MARCH 25-APRIL 14

Duke Performances: Black Atlantic Monday, March 25-Saturday, March 30

Black Atlantic returns to Motorco (and adds one concert at Baldwin Auditorium) in search of further cultural connections, this time with artists from South Africa, Congo, Uganda, Mali / Ivory Coast / France, Mauritania, Cuba, Niger, New York, and Brazil. In addition to the evening performances, the festival will feature a keynote by Derek Gripper and free public discussions and demonstrations with Noura Mint Seymali and local AfroBrazilian artist Caique Vidal. Pictured: Fatoumata Diawara performing March 26 at 8pm at Motorco Music Hall

EXHIBITION: POP AMERICA Thursday, February 21-Sunday, July 21 Nasher Museum of Art

MFA|EDA THESIS EXHIBITION Monday, March 18-Saturday, April 13 Duke and Durham

Antonio Dias, The Illustration of Art/Uncovering the Cover-Up, 1973. Screenprint and acrylic on canvas, 35.82 x 53.54 inches (91 x 136 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Galeria Nara Roesler, New York, New York and Rio, de Janeiro, Brazil. © Antonio Dias.

CIOMPI QUARTET WITH SUSAN FRANCHER Saturday, March 30 3 pm Baldwin Auditorium

Katie King (’18) a tangle of branches

FULL FRAME DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL Thursday, April 4 – Sunday, April 7 Durham

FACULTY FILMMAKER SPOTLIGHT Thursday, March 28 7 pm Rubenstein Arts Center

SPRING MAINSTAGE PRODUCTION: BAD ROADS Thursday, April 4-Sunday, April 14 Sheafer Theater

CHOREOLAB 2019 Friday, April 12 & Saturday, April 13 Reynolds Industries Theater

Brought to you by Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies, Dance Program, Music Department, Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Studies, Nasher Museum of Art, Program in the Arts of the Moving Image’s Screen/Society, Theater Studies and Duke Performances.