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What can NC expect from Hurricane Dorian?

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By Ben Leonard Features Editor

Hurricane Dorian, now a “catastrophic” Category 5 storm, is the strongest storm ever in the northwestern Bahamas with wind speeds of 185 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said Sunday at 5 p.m. The ever-shifting storm was scheduled to plow through Florida but has shifted course to veer over the Bahamas. It will continue to be a strong hurricane over the next few days. According to the National Hurricane Center, North Carolina is in the storm’s potential path. It is increasingly likely that North Carolina could get hit by hurricane-level winds and high storm surges along its coast. The state’s coast could see isolated areas of up to 15 inches of rainfall this week, with general rainfall expectations of 5 to 10 inches along the coast. Residents should monitor the storm, the Center wrote. Duke’s emergency management team is also tracking the hurricane and has been in touch with the Marine Lab, Vice President for Administration Kyle Cavanaugh wrote in an email to The Chronicle Saturday. Raleigh has a 21% chance of seeing winds of 39-plus miles per hour from Thursday morning through Friday morning, according to the Center. There is also a 3 percent chance of eventual 58-plus mph winds, it reported. There is still a lot of uncertainty about Dorian’s ultimate path in computer projections. Its center could make landfall in Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas or simply fade into the ocean, according to the Center’s projections. Currently, the Triangle area is projected to see 1 to 4 inches of rain. North Carolina declared a state of See DORIAN on Page 12

DUKE STOMPED BY ALABAMA

Simran Prakash | Assistant Sports Photography Editor Duke football played Alabama at the 2019 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. Final score was 3-42.

By Derek Saul Sports Editor

ATLANTA, Ga. — A miracle was necessary for 34.5-point underdog Duke to overcome a loaded Alabama team that returned the Heisman Trophy runner-up in quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and the most talented wide receiver in all of college football in Jerry Jeudy. From the start of Saturday afternoon’s matchup between the Blue Devils and Crimson Tide, BAMA 42 Duke made it DUKE 1 clear that if it were to pull off the monumental upset against an Alabama team that has made the national championship

Unfortunately for the Blue Devils, the game lasted longer than 15 minutes, and prognostications were correct. The superior talent of Tagovailoa—who finished with 336 total yards and four touchdowns—and Jeudy—who had 137 receiving yards—coupled with an ineffective Blue Devil offensive attack allowed No. 2 Alabama to prevail 42-3 in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. But for Duke, keeping the heavily favored Crimson Tide at bay for much of the game is as encouraging of an outcome as it could have expected. “[After] games like this, you go one of two ways: They set you back or you get better from them,” Blue Devil head coach David Cutcliffe See ROLLED OVER on Page 8

Scooter to doctor: Several suffer injuries By Ben Leonard Features Editor

Courtesy of the National Hurricane Center Meterologists recommend keeping an eye on Hurricane Dorian as it moves toward NC.

game each of the last four seasons, its defense would be the reason. Duke won the coin toss, electing to defer, bringing the vaunted Crimson Tide offense on the field. On third down of the opening drive, Koby Quansah—in the lineup despite suffering a fractured right thumb earlier this month—brought down Tagovailoa, ensuring a three-and-out for Alabama. On the Crimson Tide’s next possession, the Blue Devils forced a fumble, setting up a perfect opportunity for the Duke offense, starting at the opponent’s 26-yard line, but it did not cash in its golden ticket for points. For a quarter, a miracle seemed in the cards for the Blue Devils, with the score even at zero at the close of the first quarter thanks to that swarming Duke defense.

Durham’s recent electric scooter rollout has brought a fleet of them to campus for people to ride around on, but riders haven’t always stayed safe. Several people have fallen at Duke and suffered head injuries as well as at least one broken leg, according to Vice President for Administration Kyle Cavanaugh. None were students, to his knowledge. “While these scooters provide another short-distance transportation option, it is critical that people follow the safety precautions for their use,” Cavanaugh wrote in an email to The Chronicle. Duke Police incorporates ride-sharing

safety in its education programs, including those just given to first-year students, Cavanaugh added. By Durham’s ordinance that brought hundreds of Bird, Gotcha, Lime and Spin scooters to the city in June, riders are not required to wear helmets, just “encouraged.” Electric scooter injuries have spiked dramatically along with the surge of scootersharing services nationwide, according to a recent Rutgers University study. The number of people hospitalized with head injuries has jumped from 2,325 in 2008 to 6,947 in 2017, the study found. About 67% of patients with head injuries in the study weren’t wearing helmets. In a safety measure, Duke has required riders to walk scooters in main thoroughfares on campus like the East Campus Quad, the Bryan

Center Plaza and Abele Quad. Scooters are banned from the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, and they can’t be taken on buses. Technology in the scooters makes it so that scooters can’t be ridden in banned areas and are only walkable in those thoroughfare areas, Cavanaugh wrote. Two companies of the four companies with scooters in Durham have cooperated with Duke’s policies, Cavanaugh wrote—Spin and Bird. Other cities across the nation have struggled with riders leaving scooters in places that block walkways. Generally, most riders have been leaving scooters on the bike racks where they are required to be parked, Cavanaugh noted. Some scooters could be observed this week parked on sidewalks—not in bike racks—on East and West campuses.

Duke graduate and his long campaign

Get rid of the triple option

Planning Duke’s first Pride Invitational

Dan McCready is in the middle of a Congressional campaign, having to redo the first one. PAGE 2

Sports Editor Derek Saul argues why Duke football should stop using the “ineffective gimmick.” PAGE 6

Maryam Asenuga and Ivan Robles discuss the fulfilling experience of planning a LGBTQIA+ weekend. PAGE 11

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Duke alum Dan McCready prepares for special election By Bre Bradham Investigations Editor

Dan McCready, Trinity ‘05, is shaking hands with elected officials and taking selfies with supporters in between bites of a cheeseburger and potato chips. McCready, who is running for Congress to represent the 9th District of North Carolina, has never held elected office. But he’s dancing through the motions of campaigning at the Robeson County fairgrounds as if he’s done it all before. In fact, he has—McCready has been running for the office for more than two years. He lost last November’s general election by fewer than a thousand votes, but the N.C. State Board of Elections found evidence of election fraud by a political consultant working on behalf of his competitor and called for a redo. So he stayed on the campaign trail, holding town halls and events across the parts of eight counties that make up the district that stretches along the state’s southern border. “This has been a long campaign. Laura and I actually measure it in terms of the numbers of kids,” McCready said to an assembled crowd. “When we started we had three kids— we have four now.” But with the election Sept. 10, the finish line is getting close. “We ran a marathon together,” McCready to the crowd gathered at the Robeson County fairgrounds Aug. 29. “They added about 10 miles, and we are in the last lap.” At Duke, McCready majored in economics. After the terrorist attacks on 9/11, which took place when he was a first-year, he said he felt called to serve his country in the armed forces. Following college graduation, he joined the

Marines and then returned to North Carolina to launch a solar energy business. He and his wife Laura McCready, Trinity ‘03, now have four children. “Then I felt that calling again to serve when I realized really how divided our country has become, how dysfunctional Washington has become and what a need we have for new leaders,” McCready told The Chronicle after the Lumberton rally. Leading up to the November 2018 election, McCready was one of 13 Duke alumni running for Congress, and one of 11 who survived primary season to make the general election ballot. On election night, it looked like the Republican challenger Mark Harris had eked out a win against McCready by fewer than 1,000 votes. But the State Board of Elections declined to certify the race after there were allegations of election fraud against a consultant tied to Harris’ campaign, and in January 2019 North Carolina’s 9th District was the only one without representation when the new Congress was sworn in. In February, following a four-day evidentiary hearing, the State Board of Elections unanimously ordered a new election for the district after a “coordinated, unlawful and substantially resourced absentee ballot scheme,” according to a news release from the board. Harris decided not to run in the new election, but McCready stayed in. Mecklenburg State Sen. Dan Bishop, a Republican who has served in the state legislature since 2014, is now challenging McCready. Bishop’s campaign website notes that he “led the fight to put the Voter ID Constitutional Amendment on the ballot last November and

Bre Bradham | Associate Photography Editor Dan McCready is no stranger to the campaign trail, despite this being his first time running for public office.

has been A rated by the NRA for protecting our constitutional amendment rights.” Bishop was a sponsor of 2016’s controversial HB-2, known as the state’s “bathroom bill,” which prohibited transgender people from using bathrooms that do not align with the sex they were assigned at birth. Polling shows a tight race in the election, which is expected to be a signal flare for 2020. President Donald Trump won the district by 11 points in 2016—one of McCready’s common phrases is to put “country over party.” A poll conducted by Inside Elections, a nonpartisan analysis group, from Aug. 26-28 sampled 551 “likely” special election votes by

phone. It found that McCready had a 46% to 42% advantage against Bishop—a result within the poll’s 4.2% margin of error. The Charlotte Observer reported that both parties’ internal polling show a close race. “This is a race that’s going to come down to hundreds of votes,” McCready said after the Lumberton rally. “That happened last time—it was one of the closest and the toughest battles in the whole country.” Early voting has already begun in the race and will end Sept. 6. Alicia Jacobs and her family were outside an early voting site See MCCREADY on Page 12

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Researchers create app Duke prof. cricitizes Trump, to diagnose, treat autism Obama on countering extremism By Binisha Patel Contributing Reporter

Duke researchers have discovered that autism spectrum disorder could be detected and treated faster through innovations in machine learning. Geraldine Dawson, director of the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development, and Guillermo Sapiro, James B. Duke professor of electrical and computer engineering, have collaborated on a project to develop an app that captures toddlers’ responses to onscreen stimuli and analyzes the information for potential early signs of anxiety or autism spectrum disorder. “We are unique in our approach, and to the best of our knowledge the first to do so,” Sapiro wrote in an email. “We have also collected the largest data, and we have also proved for the first time a number of concepts, from feasibility to new potential biomarkers.” Although Dawson and Sapiro come from disparate fields of academia, their teams united to create a set of movies that elicit indicative responses such as facial expression and attention. Children can be shown the movies on devices like a tablet or phone, and the camera in the device tracks the child’s gaze and facial movements. Data from the devices is then analyzed and run through a set of algorithms developed by the team to estimate and quantify where the child is looking in order to assess the possible diagnosis of ASD. In a video with Amazon Web Services,

Dawson explains how the app can screen for ASD between 18 to 24 months of age, allowing for earlier detection and intervention, which can increase a child’s IQ by 17 points. In 2015, an early, free version of the app— Autism & Beyond—was released for iOScompatible devices. At the time, it wasn’t intended to be a diagnostic tool; rather, the researchers sought to check the reliability of facial expression video analysis and appbased questionnaires for screening for ASD and other development disorders. “We are developing scalable methods of observing and measuring behavior automatically that can be delivered on common devices,” Dawson wrote in an email. Dawson’s prior research centered on early detection and treatment of autism spectrum disorder through intervention on the developing brain. In the process, she demonstrated that symptoms of ASD could be screened for before an infant’s first birthday. Her laboratory studied differences in infantile brain activity associated with ASD and developed electrophysiological biomarkers that predict the severity of the disorder’s symptoms over time. Along with Sally Rogers, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of California, Dawson used the information gleaned from her research to develop and validate the Early Start Denver Model, the first comprehensive behavioral therapy regimen for toddlers diagnosed with ASD. In an article for JAMA Pediatrics, Dawson See AUTISM on Page 12

IT’S SO CREAMY

By Ben Leonard Features Editor

President Donald Trump’s “dehumanizing” rhetoric about an immigrant “invasion” inspired the recent shooting in El Paso, Texas, that left 22 dead, a Duke professor and terrorism expert argues. The suspect allegedly posted an antiimmigrant, white nationalist manifesto that echoed Trump’s “invasion” rhetoric just before the Aug. 3 shooting at a Walmart. Trump condemned the shooting and white supremacy, saying “hate has no place in America.” “The dehumanizing rhetoric he uses— saying that they’re bringing in disease or are criminals—is designed to stoke people’s anger and grievance with the ‘other’ in the society,” said David Schanzer, professor of the practice

at the Sanford School of Public Policy and director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security. “It’s much easier to engage in violence with people you think are less than human.” Trump wasn’t the only president who could have done more to fight all kinds of extremism, Schanzer argued. Schanzer recently released a report critical of the efforts of former President Barack Obama’s administration to counter violent extremism, arguing that Obama’s programs didn’t do enough to combat domestic white supremacist terror. However, Schanzer didn’t blame the Obama administration’s failures for white supremacist violence in El Paso and elsewhere. He was only willing to say that the former administration targeted people inspired by the Islamic State See EXTREMISM on Page 12

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CRIMSON CRUSHED WOMEN’S SOCCER: WINS ON GOLDEN GOAL • MEN’S SOCCER: TAKES HOME RENNIE INVITATIONAL TITLE

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For a half, Duke hangs under bright lights Abandon the triple-option By Conner McLeod

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ATLANTA—Under the bright lights, in a large sea of crimson—the Atlanta Falcons’ signature red seats didn’t help—Duke could have drowned in the powerful tide that is Alabama football. But for the first portion of the game, the Blue Devils rose to the occasion, and showed their loyal fans who traveled down to Atlanta, the Crimson Tide and the rest of the nation that Duke’s football program is not afraid of the pressure. If you told a severely uninformed college football watcher that Alabama and Duke were expected to play within a touchdown, they would have believed you for a while. The matchup between the Crimson Tide and the Blue Devils drew a crowd of more than 71,000 fans and the Mercedes-Benz Stadium’s atmosphere provided a sense of professionalism and excitement for both squads in attendance. After Alabama’s first offensive drive was thwarted by a Koby Quansah sack forcing a three-and-out, the eyes of everyone were opened as it appeared as though Duke’s defense might have been able to keep the team in the game. And when Alabama ended its first quarter of the season without any points on the board, confidence grew from the Blue Devil side of the field, proving that Duke deserves the respect of the college football world. “I saw a lot of good things about our football team we’ll build on, so we’ll move forward quickly obviously from this,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “We learned a lot about ourselves.”

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Dylan Singleton led the team in tackles with 13, which helped keep the Crimson Tide scoreless in the first period. Though the final score of 42-3 in Alabama’s favor is lopsided, it doesn’t tell the full story. In the first quarter, Duke’s backline was successful in getting to the quarterback and limiting Alabama’s run game. Seniors Quansah and Dylan Singleton ended the game with team highs 11 and 13 total tackles respectively. The Crimson Tide had a more-than-respectable 145 yards on the ground for the game, but the Blue Devils did make them work for it, as they only averaged 3.5 yards per rush. “We just had a lot of confidence in ourselves. We didn’t go into the game down on ourselves at all,” Singleton said. “We just tried to play hard and play fast and that’s what we did.”

Despite Alabama’s inevitable breakthrough at the beginning of the second quarter, Duke’s defense was able to make big plays when it needed to in the first half. With less than two minutes left in the second half, the Blue Devils forced yet another Alabama three-and-out to allow redshirt senior signal caller Quentin Harris to complete a two-minute drill for Duke’s sole score of the day. At times, Duke’s offense did appear to be spooked by the speed of Alabama’s athletes. But there were glimpses of greatness from Harris and his receiving core. Evidenced by a See BRIGHT LIGHTS on Page 9

MEN’S SOCCER

Pair of miracles save Blue Devils in opener By Glen Morgenstern Assistant Blue Zone Editor

Pigs flew and Satan went ice skating Friday night. After 4,403 minutes of college soccer, recent Blue Devil transfer Hassan Pinto finally notched the first goal of his college career in the first half of his first game with his hometown team. Meanwhile, Furman’s senior midfielder Rocky Guerra missed all 192 square feet of a college goal from less than two feet away in No. 10 Duke’s 1-0 auspicious season-opening victory against the Paladins at Koskinen Stadium. Pinto’s long0 FUR awaited left-footed 1 poke and Guerra’s DUKE irredeemable brain cramp in front of an empty net tested the realm of possibility. Even Blue Devil head coach John Kerr, now in his 12th year at the helm of Duke’s program, found himself equally shocked at both events. When told that Pinto’s goal was his first at the collegiate level, Kerr didn’t know how to respond. “That’s his first career goal?” exclaimed Kerr, shaking his head in disbelief. “Wow…. What a debut, huh?”

Miracle No. 2—which was preceded by another rocket off the left post—deserved no less recognition. Kerr was asked if Guerra’s inexplicable error could be attributed to a higher being. “Yes,” he replied. “We were very fortunate. We’ve had those kinds of things happen to us. It’s nice to be on the right side of that.”

Pinto, a senior defender and Durham native, had played his first three years of college soccer as the starting center back at Elon. He had only been back home for two weeks when he took the field Friday. In fact, he had only on the field for two minutes when his big chance suddenly appeared. See MIRACLES on Page 9

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Hassan Pinto scored his first collegiate goal Friday night to give Duke its first win of the season in the team’s opener.

ATLANTA—When Duke felt like it was out of options, it turned to the most tempting of options: the triple-option. Faced with the impossible task of toppling No. 2 Alabama, Duke head coach David Cutcliffe decided that desperate times called for desperate measures. With a new quarterback who had previously found more success on the ground than through the air and a talented crop of running backs, relying on the triple-option sounded like a good idea. Popular among undersized teams like Army, the triple-option—a style of offense where the quarterback can either keep it himself, hand it off or pitch it to a running back—was utilized by Duke throughout the first quarter of Saturday’s 42-3 season-opening loss to the Crimson Tide. While running a triple-option certainly caught everybody—including Alabama, fans and media—off guard, it was an ineffective gimmick, yielding no points for the Blue Devils, before Duke abandoned it for a more traditional offense. The triple-option should have no place in the Blue Devil playbook for the rest of the season, and its early implementation could mean that the Blue Devil offense is low on ideas. Duke certainly went for the element of surprise to open the season, but Alabama would not be deceived by trickery, with its supremely athletic linebackers still stifling the Blue Devil offense. “I don’t think they were prepared for it, but I don’t think anyone that we would go up against in the first game would have been prepared for that either,” Duke offensive guard Rakavius Chambers said. “There was a little bit of confusion with a team that goes from running normal spread offense to running triple option, and something that we haven’t shown ever before…. But they still held up well, and I think their linebackers and their defense eventually caught on and defended it pretty well.” The triple-option seemingly fit Duke’s personnel, but in reality, limited the offense’s potential. A byproduct of the running back-heavy option offense, the expected dynamic duo of Blue Devil running backs expanded into a trio, as Mataeo Durant and the more established pair of Deon Jackson and Brittain Brown all tallied seven carries. But the game-plan failed to get the backs open as receivers. The three running backs gained just 11 yards on six targets. “I was a little disappointed that we didn’t get a couple of things done more clearly with [the triple-option],” Cutcliffe said. “It’s something that we’re going to continue to tinker with because we’ve got some really good backs, and we’re going to try to find a way to run the ball better.” The move to the triple-option seems to also indicate a lack of confidence in quarterback See COLUMN on Page 8

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Blue Devils top Santa Clara on thrilling golden goal By Jonathan Browning Associate Sports Editor

Santa Clara may bear the name of jolly old Saint Nick himself, but it was Duke that left the game feeling merry, scoring the game-winning goal deep in the first overtime period. In their fourth game since Aug. 22 and their third straight against a top-20 team, the Blue Devils put together their strongest offensive game of the regular season, beating the 19thranked Broncos 3-2, with all three of their goals coming in the second half or overtime. It was No. 10 Duke’s second overtime game in the span of three days—for comparison, the Blue Devils only had two 2 overtime games all of SCU 3 last season. DUKE “I don’t know who the scheduler was, but he should be fired,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “But I could not be any prouder, I could not be any prouder of us. We’ve obviously struggled scoring goals and we’ve struggled creating opportunities but today we did both. I thought we played one of our best games of the year at times. I thought we possessed the ball, moved the ball, changed our point of attack - we did a lot of really good things.” With just minutes to go in the match, it looked like Duke would get its second win of the season, after breaking out of their goalscoring slump. But the soccer gods had other ideas. After Duke nearly scored an own goal on a clear attempt in the box, the Broncos decided to just go ahead and score what seemed like a heart-breaking goal at the time, putting it past Heinsohn in the right side of the net with just under two minutes left to play. The Blue Devils tried to wrap it up in regular time, but couldn’t find the right opportunity and, once again,

found themselves playing in overtime. Three minutes into overtime, a Stevens free kick was nearly headed in but sailed past the goal’s right side. After playing aggressive for the whole second half and into overtime, Pluck finally found another opening, rolling one toward the goal from just inside the box. It may have gotten there on its own, but McGuire was taking no chances, tapping it into the empty net to win the game. The Broncos cried for an offside call, but there was none to be found and the Blue Devils won on a golden goal in the 99th minute. Early in the season, defense has been the name of the game for Duke, holding its opponents scoreless for two out of the three games the team played before Saturday. But, over the same span, Duke (2-1-1) has been

held scoreless themselves. The first half against Santa Clara was much of the same, despite a number of close calls on both sides. The Broncos put the pressure on Duke’s side early, but were unable to convert an opportunity in the eighth minute. After that, Duke had several opportunities of its own, including a free kick right outside the box that sailed into the wall and a stellar cross into the box that would’ve gone into a wide-open goal had someone been able to put a head on it. The second half, however, was a different story. Perhaps after not playing each other since 1999, the Blue Devils and Broncos just needed to shake a little bit of dust off. Santa Clara (1-3) came out hot, nearly sailing a goal over Duke goalkeeper Brooke Heinsohn’s head less than a minute into the half. Nine minutes

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Marykate McGuire scored the game-winning goal for the Blue Devils in overtime ,Duke’s third score of the day.

later, the Broncos drew first blood, putting one past Heinsohn off a cross from the left side that was then headed in by Izzy D’Aquila. But Santa Clara’s lead didn’t last long, with sophomore midfielder Mackenzie Pluck rolling one past the defense into the bottom right corner five-anda-half minutes later for Duke’s first goal in over 260 minutes of match time. “I think that goal was needed for everyone,” Pluck said. “We were all kind of in this slump for scoring and one breakthrough was all we needed to get the momentum that we’d been wanting. We just had this ruthless mentality to score and not let up on defense.” After Pluck’s goal, the Blue Devils looked like a different team, beginning to play a much faster, aggressive game. Pluck nearly scored again just three minutes later, but the ball was just ahead of her. 12 minutes after the first goal, Duke struck again, this time with lone senior starter Ella Stevens finding the back of the net off an assist from sophomore Marykate McGuire. This came just minutes after Stevens was visibly limping across midfield. Stevens nearly scored again in the 80th minute but couldn’t turn around quickly enough in the box after getting mobbed by Broncos. “Everyone knows that Ella Stevens is a player that really makes us go,” said Church. “Her and Sophie [Jones] in the midfield really make us go, and so she’s marked by a lot of players so there’s not a lot of space for her. We used in her buildup, we used her in forward, but we need her forward. Ella’s just a big-time player so we need to get her in attacking spaces and spaces she can be more dangerous offensively.” The Blue Devils have been busy recently, but they’ll get their longest break of the season—a whopping four days—before playing again on Thursday at Koskinen Stadium against UNLV.

MEN’S SOCCER

Duke defends John Rennie Nike Invitational title By Andrew Donohue Associate Sports Editor

Duke had been bailed out by a higher power twice last Friday night with senior Hassan Pinto notching his first ever collegiate goal and then Furman conspiring to miss a wide-open game tying goal late in the game. It looked like their luck had run out against Cal State Bakersfield as, after a goal in the third minute put the Blue Devils ahead, a deflected pass ran straight to Cal State Bakersfield midfielder Niklas Korber in a clear offside position. The linesman’s flag stayed down however, and Korber coolly slotted the ball 1 into the back of the net CSUB 3 to tie the game. That DUKE coupled with two goals disallowed for offside had Duke fans frustrated for much of the afternoon as the Blue Devils struggled to find a winning goal. However, the Roadrunners’ resistance finally broke in the 75th minute after senior Daniele Proch buried a penalty kick to give No. 10 Duke a 2-1 victory and bring home the John Rennie Nike Invitational championship for the fourth consecutive year Sunday afternoon at Koskinen Stadium. “We had a lot of possession and we need

to improve our movement, our ideas and our execution,” Duke head coach John Kerr said. “When we did get in good spots, I thought the movement to get there was excellent, but the last ball, the last finish was off.” The game started out perfectly for Duke (2-0). Just three minutes in, senior Max Moser swung in a cross from the right side that senior Colby Agu headed into the back of the net. The controversy began just 10 minutes in after a through ball deflected off a Duke player directly to Korber, who was at least five yards offside. Everyone froze for a second, expecting a flag for offside to go up, but none came leaving Korber one-on-one with junior goalie Will Pulisic and the striker made no mistake. The linesmen were the Blue Devils’ worst enemy in the first half as Duke had two goals off free kicks ruled offside in a half that it otherwise dominated in terms of possession. Kerr shook things up at half time, taking off a defender to go three at the back and throwing on another attacker in search of the go-ahead goal. “I found it pretty easy to adjust,” Pinto said. “I played right back the first three years at Elon and then played right center back the first two games of preseason.” Pinto was a standout performer throughout the tournament and was named tournament

MVP thanks in large part to his winning goal on Friday. The transfer from Elon consistently drove forward down the wing in the second half, swinging in dangerous crosses. ““I think this is the first individual award I’ve gotten since middle school,” said Pinto of his tournament MVP award. “It’s awesome. I’m going to hang it up in my room.” The winning goal finally came deep into the second half as, after a slick one-two passing combination broke open the Roadrunner defense, sophomore Aeden Stanley was hauled down in the box, forcing a penalty kick. Proch stepped up and after a stuttering run up, blasted the ball into the right corner, sending the goalkeeper the wrong way. The Blue Devils were then able to see out the match from there without much difficulty as Cal State Bakersfield (0-2) offered little threat to the Duke defense outside of the lone goal. The Roadrunners were outshot 12-4 on the day and were unable to muster any last gasps of hope after the penalty kick sunk their chances. The victory means that the Blue Devils start the season out on the right foot after some inconsistent preseason performances. They will look to continue fine-tuning the offense next weekend where they will face off against both Harvard and Princeton before starting ACC play.

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Colby Agu scored the first goal for the Blue Devils.

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ROLLED OVER FROM PAGE 1 said. “I know in my heart of hearts that our team will get better from this. “Alabama is not good, they’re outstanding. They have a great offense without a doubt. When we needed to play at our best at times, we hung in there and could. But our defense just wore out with the offense not being successful.” The second quarter proved to be a different ballgame for the Crimson Tide. Originally reported to be suspended for the whole first half, Alabama running back Najee Harris entered the game to open the second quarter, immediately making an impact. On his first play, Harris broke free for 55 yards along the right sideline off a screen pass from Tagovailoa, but the play was negated due to holding. Despite the play not counting, it indicated a clear shift in momentum in favor of the Crimson Tide (1-0). A methodical 12-play, 80-yard drive resulted in the first points of the contest, giving Alabama a lead that it would not give up for the rest of the day. Things started to quickly unravel for Duke (0-1) in the third quarter. Though a pair of grabs from tight end Noah Gray put the Blue Devils into Crimson Tide territory, Duke turned it over on downs before putting itself out of contention. After having a nearly mistake-free first half, mental errors proved costly for the Blue Devils, ultimately putting the nail in the coffin for any potential comeback. Duke was plagued by a series of blunders in the third quarter, including two flags for having too many men on the field and a lost fumble. “You can’t turn the ball over, and you can’t get big penalties,” Cutcliffe put simply. “In the first half, although we weren’t very productive offensively, we were disciplined. We had two penalties the entire first half. and that’s how we knew we would have to play [to keep it close].” The most egregious of the third-quarter mistakes came from defensive tackle Edgar Cerenord, who was charged with a personal foul and ejected for stepping on Alabama offensive lineman Landon Dickerson. Although Cerenord’s penalty cost the Blue Devils 15 yards and a cog on the defensive line, there was nothing but love for the senior captain from his teammates. “We still have his back,” Duke linebacker Shaka Hayward said. “We love him. That’s our brother.” The Blue Devils debuted a new look offensively, relying primarily on the run and a triple-option offense. Quarterback Quentin Harris did not complete a pass for the entirety of the opening period, and the Blue Devils ran on 12 of their first 15 plays in the quarter. Harris finished with just 97 yards on 4.4 yards per attempt.

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Duke moved the ball most effectively when allowing Harris to let it fly. A seven-play, 69-yard drive resulted in a field goal—the Blue Devils’ first and only points of the day—capped the first half and was highlighted by a 37-yard strike from Harris to wide receiver Scott Bracey. “That felt great,” Harris said. “Taking some shots down the field is something we had talked about this week this week and to be able to connect to Scott there in a twominute drill was big for us.” Tagovailoa connected with Jeudy three times on Alabama’s first possession of the second half, which ended with the Hawaii native’s second touchdown pass of the game and a 21-3 Crimson Tide advantage. Jeudy did exit briefly with an injury, but quickly reasserted himself, taking a short toss from Tagovailoa 21 yards into the end zone to make it 35-3 at the end of the third quarter. Head coach Nick Saban took out the dynamic Alabama duo before the end of the third quarter, indicating the Crimson Tide’s confidence in victory. With the loss, Duke’s seven-year season opener winning streak is snapped. The Blue Devils will look to return to a .500 mark next week in its home opener against North Carolina A&T, an FCS team.

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Edgar Cerenord was ejected in the third quarter of Saturday’s contest for a personal foul penalty.

COLUMN FROM PAGE 6 Quentin Harris’ arm. Owner of a 51.5 percent career completion percentage, Harris will need to be much more accurate to keep drives alive, and the drastic offensive shift means that a vast improvement is increasingly unlikely. Harris has proven to be at his best when given the freedom to let it loose. Saturday’s sole scoring drive for the Blue Devils came when they moved to a more passheavy attack. On Duke’s field-goal drive to conclude the second half, Harris delivered a 37-yard strike to Scott Bracey, and drew a pass interference penalty on another deep ball, this time to Aaron Young. Should the Blue Devil offense make any noise this season, the triple-option will not be the cause. Harris needs to establish himself as a passer, an impossible task when running the option. It’s likely that Cutcliffe merely thought that surprising the Crimson Tide was the only way to put up some points on the fearsome defense. But if the triple-option stays as a consistent part of the Blue Devil offense, it could be a tough season in Durham.

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MIRACLES FROM PAGE 6 Defender Aedan Stanley whipped in a curling low cross from the left side in the 35th minute. Closest to the ball was midfielder Conor Kelly. Feeling the heat of a defender on his back, he flopped forward like a fish to backheel the ball to a streaking Pinto. A subtle glancing strike from the senior found the side netting and gave Duke (1-0) the early edge. He celebrated the goal with an enthusiastic demonstration of the Bull City hand gesture, bumping his fists repeatedly to make up for his otherwise empty offensive soccer resume. “It means everything to me,” Pinto said. “To get my first win in front of Bull City—my celebration sums it up. It’s the best feeling in the world.” Guerra’s fantastic blunder was only made possible because of inflamed Blue Devil forward Daniel Wright’s heated exchange with a Furman player he had just slammed to the ground—never a good idea when an incident takes place within 10 yards of the box. The yellow card allowed the Paladins’ Cole McLagan to fire a free kick on target, but diving Duke goalkeeper Will Pulisic deflected the ball off the left goalpost, causing it to land squarely at the feet of Rocky Guerra. Unimpeded by any pesky Duke defenders or the earthbound Pulisic, Guerra took a brief moment to take in the feng shui of the empty net before launching the ball nearly straight up. It bounced harmlessly off the crossbar and fell flat near the edge of the box, carrying the rest of Furman’s hopes with it. The rest of the match consisted of desperate attacking maneuvers by the Paladins (0-1), who were mostly well dealt with by the Blue Devil defense. This was interspersed with gratuitously rough play. The referee was for the most part content to let both teams play early in the game, calling just two fouls in the first 15 minutes. Each side consequently escalated their physicality level until it bordered on another sport, at which point the referee intervened. The Blue Devils return to Koskinen Stadium to take on Cal State Bakersfield Sunday at 2:30 p.m. with their odd

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match against the Paladins still very much on the brain. Whether Friday’s victory was a display of superior skill or an act of divine intervention, Duke will gladly take the win. But Kerr and his squad had better remember that godly benevolence can only extend so far to a team named after its greatest rival.

BRIGHT LIGHTS FROM PAGE 6 37-yard bomb to redshirt junior Scott Bracey and a solid stretch of completions to junior Noah Gray in the third quarter, the Blue Devils have the ability to put more points on the board against lesser competition in the future. Obviously, the outcome wasn’t what the Blue Devils wanted it to be, but their ability to keep it close with the second best team in the country for as long as they did bodes well for the future of their season, and the program as a whole. “I think our players will have a great memory, regardless of the outcome,” said an encouraged Cutcliffe. “I think more importantly maybe a hunger to put yourselves in these games, these atmospheres.” A few years ago, Duke would have looked even more outmatched than they did in a season opener against Alabama. But for a while Duke proved that it deserved to play on the same stage as the Crimson Tide. Duke has continued to make strides as a program in recruiting, player development and exposure, and this game should add to that progress.

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Student Voices Lessons in limitations

ack-to-school season has always been one of my favorite times of the year. I eagerly anticipate the return of routine and happy reunions with friends. And while I long for roots that I can put down longer than a few months at a time, I don’t mind packing and moving when it means the beginning of a bright new school year.

Please, please, please ask for help. It’s not that the people in my life underestimate me. It’s that they know me. They know that I live with chronic back and muscle pain, and that while I can lift most things, my body hurts much more when I chose to ignore that pain and overexert myself. They also know how I hate these limitations of mine, how often I push right up to the edge of what

When I got to Texas, my grandmother was frail, and bedridden, and unable to speak. Her little body stood in stark contrast to the person my dad and aunts fondly remember as larger than life, never seated, always moving—the person likely to ask “why aren’t you working?” when my dad would call her on a Saturday morning. To this person who has loved us since before she

I can do for fear of being perceived, by myself and by others, as needy, dependent, limited. So what did I do on Tuesday morning, as I packed the last of my still-ridiculous number of books into the car? Did I take the advice of the people who love me and know me and want what is best for me? Of course not. I moved in alone, huffing and puffing, pinching fingers and wondering if they were really going to tow my car after 45 minutes. Meanwhile, at least four wonderful friends called, texted, or asked me in person if I needed help. And maybe it was the way my back was feeling by about 3 pm, or maybe it was just how sweaty I was. Eventually, I let help in. My sweet friend Jake carried my heaviest loads. I was grateful for it. And I was reminded of what I have learned time and time again with this body of mine. I am limited. That statement alone is values-neutral. Everyone is limited by space, time, energy, capacity. But in a place like Duke, where our culture is such that we set few boundaries on our time, bodies, and minds, it is hard to remember that limitation is not something bad, but something normal. There is a limit to how much we can work, how much we can carry on our own, how much we can do without needing rest, love, and help. All our limits are different, and all are valid. When I woke up Wednesday morning, with shooting pains down my arms and legs from muscles that really disliked the part of my day where I decided it was a good idea to un-loft my bed all by myself, my mom had sent me a text. My grandmother was not doing well. As in, “We’re going to Texas tomorrow—do you want to come?” On Thursday morning, less than 24 hours later, I was on a plane to Dallas. Gladys Grantland (aptly titled “GG” or “Gigi”), was the daughter of sharecroppers. When she was in high school, she would go to school all day, then work all night at the town hosiery mill to pay for college. She had seen her baby sister die of diptheria when she was a child and she was driven by a desire to help people and ease suffering. She was a nurse for an astounding 61 years.

knew us, whose body had done so much good in the world, we sang old Baptist hymns. We laughed and told stories. We held her hand and stroked her hair. We stared into her big green eyes for what felt like hours. She died early Friday morning. I share with my Gigi an unmistakable nose, a sweet tooth satisfied by my grandpa’s (her husband’s) lifelong work as a baker, and the mild vices of drinking coffee and driving just a little too fast. (We have places to be!) I think I also share her need to be moving, to do as much as I can for the people I love. I’m conflicted in telling people that limitations are okay, boundaries are good, and self care is vital, knowing that Gigi prioritized the wellbeing of her family and community above her own needs for her entire life. But I also know that the ability to take care of myself in this way is a privilege, one Gigi fought for her children and her children’s children to have. I know that she loved me, and was proud of me, and that I was precious to her. I know that if we could talk now, she would remind me that it was a dream come true for her to see her grandchildren achieve their dreams. She would chastise me for thinking that anybody can do everything and would remind me that even her incredibly capable, beautiful body could not live and work and breathe forever. I know that I can’t do everything. I also know that the people around me will carry my loads alongside me. I need their love now, as I start the school year with a sore, aching heart and a sometimes sore, aching body. But I will be remembering this year, as I anticipate the day when I’ll pack my room into the car and leave here for the last time, that the best way I can honor my grandmother is to treat this body as sacred: limited, of course, but deserving of love all the same. What a privilege to carry such a legacy.

Liddy Grantland FEEL YOUR FEELINGS In fact, I consider myself so adept at the movein process, having now lived in five dorms (and two apartments, plus a bunkhouse) in the past four years, that I figured moving from my Durham apartment to my dorm would be a breeze. When I would mention my plan to transfer most of my earthly possessions from one place to another to friends and family, they all said the same thing in response.

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Eco-socialism or bust

his summer, like many summers in recent memory, was hot. July 2019 was the hottest month in recorded history. Greenland’s ice sheet lost 11 billion tons of ice in one day. Smoke from Amazon fires blotted out the sun in cities thousands of kilometers away. The ominous prognosis that we have only 12 years to prevent irreversible, catastrophic climate change, seems grim.

Annie Yang PLANTING SEEDS In the face of a phenomenon that promises to fundamentally change the planet and our relation to it and one another, many people respond understandably with anxiety. How can we go on with our lives like normal while the future is uncertain? When climate change is characterized as apocalypse, others feel overwhelmed and powerless to change anything. And perhaps most troubling, some believe that humans deserve extinction for what we’ve done to the environment (as though all of humanity shares equal blame for and equal consequences of climate change!). Instead of succumbing to despair or condemning humanity to extinction, we must organize. We must move purposefully to bring about transformative environmental and climate justice. To do this, we must also have a clear-eyed understanding of the root causes of this environmental crisis. Yes, climate change is driven by human activity—but not just any human activity. It is capitalism, working in tandem with white supremacy, settler-colonialism, and imperialism, that has threatened not just the environment but the lives of primarily Black, Brown, and Indigenous people all over the world. The Amazon burning is a stark example of this. The Amazon rainforest was purposefully set on fire to clear land for cattle ranching, displacing indigenous peoples and destroying the land that sustains them. Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsnaro has favored increasing agribusiness industry access to the Amazon at the expense of environmental conservation and Indigenous territorial integrity. Indigenous people make up 5 percent of the world’s

population and protect 80 percent of its biodiversity, putting them—and especially Indigenous women—on the frontlines in the struggle against exploitation and making them some of the most vulnerable communities to capitalism. The threat to the environment and native people is neither an unintended consequence nor a misguided error of this system. To fuel the insatiable demand for expansion and profits, the removal of native Amazonians and exploitation of their land for logging, mining, ranching, and other industries is integral to the functioning of capitalism. Capitalism provides the profit motive behind white supremacist, settler-colonial logics of dispossession and violence against Indigenous communities, their land, and their cultures. But before we blame exclusively Bolsonaro for the Amazon fires, we should examine the fact that the United States played a role in creating the conditions of this disaster. There is evidence that the Obama administration backed a soft coup in Brazil, which paved the way for a right-wing government friendly to US corporations (like BlackRock) and capitalist interests. This is just one example in an extensive and ongoing history of United States intervention and imperialism in Latin America that has consistently placed Western capital above workers, poor folks, people of color, Indigenous peoples, and the environment. So it is disingenuous to say that “we” are all responsible for climate change and then to condemn “us” to extinction when it is generally the Global North driving climate change and the Global South bearing the brunt of the consequences. According to the World Resources Institute, between 18502011, the United States was the single largest cumulative emitter of CO2, producing 27 percent of global emissions. European countries emitted another 25 percent. Data from the World Bank shows that OECD countries, whose 36 members are predominantly concentrated in the West, produce an average of 2.2 kg/capita/day of waste—double the next biggest waste-producing regions. All the while, Western nations have dumped millions of tons of their plastic waste in Asian countries like China, Malaysia, and Indonesia. And of course, the United States military is the biggest polluter on the planet. If we are going to get serious about addressing climate change at its root, we must also recognize that American militarism and imperial aggression have been not only the means for intervening in countries to install governments with capital-

friendly, environmentally-destructive policies, but also a direct contributor to climate change. The environmental crisis is not a rapidly-approaching future. The consequences of climate change are already here. People in the poorest countries of the world are already dying of heatstroke, hurricanes, and diseases. Some regions of India may become too hot for human habitation by 2100. This summer, in the middle of a 100 degree heatwave, Con Edison preemptively cut off power to low-income, predominantly Black neighborhoods in Brooklyn, New York. Because of environmental racism, low-income communities of color breathe polluted air, drink poisoned water, live next to waste facilities, and are thus significantly more vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change. All this points to the great urgency to get at the root of climate change if we want to enact transformative environmental justice. Solutions must be rooted in radical change—combating settler-colonialism that has displaced and killed Indigenous people and erased their cultures, combating capitalism which has fueled the destruction of the planet for profit, combating racism which positions Black, Brown, Indigenous people around the world as the communities most at risk to climate change. What we need is eco-socialism, rooted in an understanding of capitalism, racism, imperialism, and their intersections if we are to protect our homes and one another. We are living in the crossroads of history. We either devolve into fascism as Western capitalist nations adapt to climate change by further extracting resources from over-exploited countries and closing their borders to people displaced by instability and environmental disasters facilitated by the West. Or we choose eco-socialism and choose to struggle towards another world where our relationship with the environment is based on sustainable coexistence, where Indigenous peoples have full control over their land and their destinies, where Black and Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) everywhere can live in clean air, fresh water, peace, and prosperity. Annie Yang is a Trinity senior. Her column, “planting seeds,” runs on alternate Mondays.

What we learned from planning Duke’s first Pride Invitational

his weekend was perfect for me and was helpful to not only my decision to commit, but my mental health. I feel like here I can actually (and now already do) have a community of gay people which I’ve never had before, and without this weekend, I don’t think that would’ve been possible.”

Maryam Asenuga and Ivan Robles GUEST COLUMN

This quote from a participant of Duke’s 2019 Pride Invitational program reflects a sentiment that many of us may have felt as high school seniors: excitement to set foot on campus but apprehension about what joining the “Duke family” actually entails. As the turbulent period of high school exams and yearbook signing comes to a close, we end a chapter of our lives and begin writing a new story, full of exploration and newfound challenges. And this process is especially unique for those beginning to tackle questions about their sexuality and gender identity. As minority students ourselves, we were in the midst of embracing the singularities of our own stories when we began planning Duke’s first Pride Invitational. As we learned to overcome certain obstacles and form pockets of community where we felt safe, we realized that our collective experiences could be leveraged to make this transition into college a bit easier for those who came after us. This wasn’t a novel idea: programs like Latino Student Recruitment Weekend (LSRW) and the

Black Student Alliance Invitational (BSAI) have Finally, in April 2019, Duke welcomed long been connecting Latinx and Black students its inaugural Pride Invitational group. These with specially catered resources and programming. students had all followed very different paths We interacted with these programs ourselves and to reach this point, but arrived with a shared saw how participants arrived on campus with a eagerness to explore Duke and Durham and an cohort that they could lean on and already aware of open mindedness towards what the community what Duke provided. We recognized that a similar might offer them. They participated in a program for incoming LGBTQIA+ students could welcoming event at the CSGD, an “Honesty Hour” be crucial to their sense of safety and community at the Mary Lou Williams Center, a dinner at the at a time when many LGBTQ Center of of them are only just I feel like here I can actually (and Durham, a drag beginning to explore now already do) have a community show featuring their identities. local performers Such a program of gay people which I’ve never had Naomi Dix and had long been before, and without this weekend, Stormie Daie, just an unlikely an alumnx and possibility among I don’t think that would’ve been faculty brunch, Duke’s queer circles, possible. and finally, closing but in fall, 2017 we remarks from decided to forge this student participant President Vincent idea into a reality. on Duke’s first Pride Invitational Price. Just bright-eyed We watched sophomore Duke Student Government senators with delight as participants stood in a circle at the time, we could never have imagined the before heading out, laughing as they passed their rollercoaster ride that planning an invitational phones around to exchange numbers and follow program from scratch would entail. How could each other on social media. This was the small we convince Duke that, in order to make its community we had set out to create—the first goals of diversity and student safety a tangible sparks of a flame that will hopefully be stoked practice, this invitational was a necessity? How with each iteration of the program. could we convince high school seniors to expose Creating this program taught us how to themselves to an LGBTQIA+ college program tackle the web of Duke’s bureaucracies headat a time when being openly queer continues to on. We learned to compromise when necessary carry the risk of violence and shame? and defend our ideas when they were met with These questions planted themselves at the resistance. We discovered which administrators front of our minds as we began piecing the were our allies and which offices would elevate program together. We spent two years committed our work. We were grateful to have the support to planning: meeting with students and faculty, of the Office of Admissions and Center for exchanging countless emails, reaching out Sexual and Gender Diversity, but we knew to Durham groups, pursuing funding, and early on that we would be doing a lot of labor coordinating volunteers. on Duke’s behalf.

Duke is making its mark among its peers in promoting inclusion and safety for its LGBTQ+ students. Of course, despite the program’s rainbow aesthetic, we know that participants will eventually arrive on campus and confront a reality as queer students that will not always be rainbows and sunshine. Historically, the university has discriminated against its queer community and these effects still live on today. The invitational is born from this history and the need to combat its legacy. We hope this article might act as a call to others to join us in tackling these concerns and building a better program in the following years. We hope it serves as an institutional record for future student organizers and an anecdote of perseverance and patience in advocating for our communities, often in spite of resistance and deflection. We recognize that this invitational is just a small step in the right direction for Duke. But we are confident that its growth will allow LGBTQIA+ students to form unbreakable bonds to shield one another from societal discrimination. In acknowledging what Duke lacks and revealing what it has to offer, we can begin setting the foundation for what Duke can be. We want to thank the CSGD, the Office of Admissions, the LGBTQ+ Center of Durham, all our volunteers, and, of course, our participants for working in community to build a better Duke. Maryam Asenuga and Ivan Robles are Trinity seniors and co-creators of the Pride Invitational. Asenuga is the DSG Cabinet Director for Multicultural and Racial Outreach, and Robles is the DSG Vice President of Equity and Outreach.

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AUTISM FROM PAGE 3

and Sapiro explained that typical screening for ASD has traditionally relied on reports from parents—at pediatric well-child visits, caregivers complete questionnaires based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders about their toddlers’ behavior. If responses indicate a certain number of symptoms, children are referred to a clinician for diagnostic assessment. The researchers noted that these traditional reporting and observing methods are plagued by subjectivity—more subtle signs of ASD can be missed due to the lack of proper means to objectively evaluate them. “Current methods of screening rely on parent report and are not as accurate as we would like them to be,” Dawson wrote. “Some parents have difficulty reading or understanding the questionnaire.” Sapiro has spent most of his life working with computers and machine learning. His research interests include, but are not limited to, theory and applications in computer vision, computer graphics, medical imaging, image analysis and machine learning. The collaboration between Dawson and Sapiro could potentially change the course of ASD screening. The two researchers projected that in the future, their research will become more accessible for use in common and clinical settings. “We plan to validate and deploy some of our apps. This is one of the goals of our large clinical studies ongoing now,” Sapiro wrote. Currently, the app is being incorporated into clinical trials for novel ASD treatments. Funding from the National Institutes of Health is also allowing for thousands of 18-to-24-month-old toddlers seen in Duke clinics to engage with the app.

HURRICANE FROM PAGE 1

emergency Friday to help farmers and relief efforts. The growing hurricane was plowing through the Abacos Islands as of 2 p.m. Sunday and will hit Grand Bahama Island later Sunday, with storm surges currently as much as 23 feet. Wind gusts have gone as high as 220 mph, the Tampa Bay Times reported. The storm comes after North Carolina was swamped by multiple hurricanes last year, including Category 4 Hurricane Florence. It ultimately avoided Duke’s campus, but classes were canceled for several days.

MCCREADY FROM PAGE 2 in Pembroke Thursday, handing out flyers for McCready and giving people in the community rides to the site to vote. Campaign volunteer Peace Ajirotutu, a student at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, said she enjoyed the Lumberton rally. “I felt the rally was amazing today,” Ajirotutu said. “Actually I had butterflies because I really wanted to see Dan speak.” The race’s tempo may reach a crescendo approaching election day, as Trump visits Fayetteville—part of the district—Sept. 9 to campaign for Bishop. Talking with The Chronicle after the Lumberton rally, McCready said that he was ready for the final sprint. “We’re giving it everything we’ve got,” McCready said.

EXTREMISM FROM PAGE 3

and al-Qaeda and did not do enough to target those inspired by white supremacism. “You can’t draw a line between that cause and effect,” Schanzer said. “In some ways, we don’t really know if these programs are effective in preventing extremism. It’s all theory. It’s hard to say when something doesn’t happen, why it didn’t happen.” The FBI should dedicate more resources to infiltrate and surveil known white extremist and other extremist groups as far as the law allows, Schanzer said. His report, written with Joseph Eyerman, senior research methodologist at RTI International, details the Obama administration’s anti-domestic terror initiatives, which began in 2011. There was “no formally named program or set of programs” that Obama implemented, they wrote, but their report covered the Obama administration’s efforts to counter homegrown extremism. The Obama administration’s moves came after a wave of homegrown terror attacks, including a 2009 mass shooting that left 13 dead at a military base in Fort Hood, Texas. The programs developed gradually over the next five years, Schanzer and Eyerman wrote in their report. The administration’s efforts were well intentioned and worked in some ways, but they had several flaws, the researchers wrote. The principal flaw was failing to define goals, they argued. Some thought the purpose of the program was to have the community help identify at-risk individuals, but for others, its main point was to “build resiliency to extremism within communities whose members were vulnerable,” they wrote in the report. Messaging was also a problem they identified. Obama’s administration expanded its anti-extremism program during a time

The Chronicle when “concerns about the power and barbarism of ISIS” were high. This wasn’t great timing, they argued. “Many Muslim Americans felt as if the timing and the content of this announcement… linked their community, in the eyes of many Americans, with the rise of ISIS and cast a cloak of suspicion over them,” the researchers wrote. They found another flaw in using the FBI as a key player, calling it a conflict of interest for the bureau to investigate terror crimes while at the same time doing the work of “community outreach and engagement.” The initiative also failed to focus on engaging with Muslim American people, which “severely undermined” support for it among Muslim Americans. “They viewed the unidimensional focus of the Initiative as discriminatory and believed that it bolstered the false stereotype that Muslim Americans were more susceptible to violent extremism than other Americans,” they wrote. Finally, Schanzer and Eyerman contended that it was underfunded and “poorly structured.” However, the Obama administration’s anti-extremism work did have its upsides. The initiative boosted communication between “communities and federal agencies,” they wrote, which can help with crime prevention and helped spur creative new methods, including intervention for young people at risk. Once in office, Trump all but ended the Obama-era anti-extremism programs, they wrote. In an increasingly polarized country, Schanzer added that extremism will only get worse. Polarization is a “breeding ground” for extremism, he said. “As you have societies that are going a different direction, polarizing, we tend to blame the ‘other’ for bad things that are happening to us,” Schanzer told The Chronicle. “The more deep-seated grievances, the more radicalized people are and that’s the breeding ground for ultimately violent terrorism and extremism.”