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Duke boasted a record-low regular decision acceptance rate this year, but how does the University compare to its peer institutions? The University accepted 7.3 percent of regular decision applicants and 9.2 percent of prospective students overall, including early decision applicants. These numbers constitute lower rates than last year’s 8.7 percent for regular decision applicants and 10.7 percent overall. The overall 2017 acceptance rate is comparable to that of University of Pennsylvania—also 9.2 percent. But Duke’s rate was lower—a typical indicator of selectivity—than Dartmouth University’s 10.4 percent overall admittance rate and Johns Hopkins University’s 11.8 percent rate. “I’m going to have to be honest and say I think we’re just staying competitive,” said Stephen Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education. “I think we’re at the highest level. Duke is in the sphere where the jockeying of rankings just doesn’t matter because the differences are so fine.” Christoph Guttentag, dean of undergraduate admissions, could not be reached for comment. Based solely on overall acceptance rate numbers, some peer institutions would seem to be more selective than Duke was this year. Stanford University admitted 4.7 percent of applicants, Harvard University admitted 5.2 percent and Northwestern University admitted nine percent of applicants. The overall yield—or the percentage of accepted applicants choosing to attend Duke rather than another institution—has been increasing the last several years. Five years ago, the University’s yield was 42 percent. That number rose to nearly 50 percent for the current sophomores in the Class of 2019 and 50 percent for the current first-year Class of 2020. These yield numbers include both regular and early decision applicants. “We’ve had to adjust our admissions because we now realize that more of the people that we are offering admissions to are choosing to come to Duke,” Nowicki said. “We’re now 50-50 with almost all of our

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the top of the list. “How do you know that somebody is a graduate of Harvard? Because they tell you. Because they’re using that as a sort of ‘I’m from Harvard, I must be better than you,’” he said. “How do you know somebody is a graduate of Duke? Because when March comes, we all wear our t-shirts. And it’s disarming.” Nowicki added that alumni drive a school’s reputation. Duke has an advantage over some peer institutions, he said, because its graduates are not “full of themselves.” The construction of a new dorm on East Campus is not likely to increase the acceptance rate at Duke, he added. “The new residence hall that’s being built is definitely not about increasing class size because it is completely about, in the long run, closing down [East Residence Hall], Jarvis and Epworth, because they’re just not

Alumni visiting campus this weekend were greeted by several changes—the renovated West Union, a new Student Health and Wellness Center and a new president-elect. Vincent Price, who will succeed President Richard Brodhead in July, addressed the Class of 1967 at the Washington Duke Inn Saturday. Alums had the opportunity to ask hard-hitting questions about the future of the University under his leadership. More than 150 alumni from the Class of 1967 attended the event, which was sponsored by Jack Bovender—Trinity ’67, Graduate School ’69 and vice chair of the Board of Trustees—along with his wife Barbara. “What is it that draws us to Duke?” Price asked the group. “What drew you to this campus 54 years ago? And, most of all, what brought us all together here this morning? Let me suggest an answer, a single word— community. Duke is a very special place.” He described Duke students as “a collection of dreamers and doers,” adding that the people on campus make the University so successful. Duke is currently in a perfect position to ensure its curriculum addresses today’s global challenges, Price said. He cited Duke Kunshan University’s innovative liberal arts model as an example of this. He also pledged to revitalize residential life at Duke and to “develop the finest college housing in the land.” The remainder of Price’s address was dedicated to taking questions from the floor.

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chief co-admits.” Still, the University’s yield rate lags behind a number of peer institutions. In 2016, the yield was 80 percent at Harvard, at least 64 percent at Penn and 53 percent at Dartmouth. “Yield is a factor that goes into rankings, and it’s a thing that high school counselors think about,” Nowicki said. “That’s not irrelevant, but I think Duke is at a point now where I think we don’t really need to care too much about that because we’re already getting some of the best students in the world.” Nowicki attributed the rising yield rate to the strength and reputation of Duke alumni. He recounted a public opinion survey of people with no ties to the “Ivy Plus” schools, which include the Ivy League schools, Stanford, the University of Chicago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Duke. When participants were asked whether they liked graduates of each university, Nowicki said Duke, and not Harvard, was at

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A smoothie-making bicycle, tabletop displays, a band and two Democratic legislators converged on Abele Quadrangle Sunday afternoon for the Environmental Alliance’s EarthFest. The theme of this year’s event was “Our Planet at a Crossroads,” explained firstyear Elliott Davis, who is involved with the Environmental Alliance. The event featured interactive games, information booths and speeches by two of Durham’s legislative representatives—U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield and State Sen. Mike Woodard, Trinity ‘81 and a business analyst in the University’s financial services division. “Your theme of ‘Our Planet is at a Crossroads’ is very fitting. Environmental protection is under great attack today,” Butterfield said. “Our vital protections are at risk—protections to our health and our air, our water and our communities are all at risk. And you know that as well as I do. We are most certainly at a crossroads. That’s why our job is not done, our commitment cannot waver.” Butterfield said he was renewing his pledge to fight against climate change and for environmental justice, explaining that sustainability and climate change are two of the most “challenging issues of our time.” He noted that North Carolina is a large producer of coal ash and that the negative effects of storing it disproportionately affect lowincome, minority communities. Legislatively, he said it is important to protect President Barack

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Obama’s Clean Power Plan. Woodard—whom Butterfield called “a dynamic leader in the North Carolina Senate”—also addressed Trump’s proposed retraction of some Obama-era environmental policies. He specifically took on a potential action that would undo regulations requiring car manufacturers to raise the efficiency of vehicles to 55 miles per gallon by 2025 and also critiqued Trump’s intention to cut the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget by 31 percent. “These are commonsense regulations that would provide clean air, energy See EARTHFEST on Page 4

Zhu said that what she loves about Duke is not only its entrepreneurial scene—“more than that it has a good everything scene,” she said. She added that she doubts she would have started Walla if she had not tried five other clubs on campus beforehand. “The attitude of ‘you can do anything’ is so prevalent here at Duke, and I think that is the biggest gift a university can give to its students,” she said. Zhu also noted that she has noticed the

The Raleigh-Durham area is one of the top 20 hubs for tech startups in the country, according to recent data from the Progressive Policy Institute and TechNet. Out of the top 35 metro areas for tech startups, Raleigh-Durham was named the 17th best hub—beating the neighboring city of Charlotte, which was named the 29th. The Institute used the Metro Startup Economy Index—a normalized count of See STARTUP on Page 4 job listings in the area that include the word “startup”—to rank the hubs in two lists. The “tech hubs” list included the top 10 startup focal points like San Francisco and New York, and the “next in tech” list included the cities ranked 11 to 35. “Many of these metro areas are not typically associated with startup growth but, in reality, have come to embrace startup culture—and they have the jobs to show for it,” the report noted. For student entrepreneurs like senior Judy Zhu, founder and CEO of the Walla app, the entrepreneurial culture and community at Duke have provided many business opportunities and a major support network. “I think the startup culture in the Triangle is awesome. It’s really tight-knit,” she said. “We call ourselves ‘the Silicon Valley of the South’ because there are so many talented people Courtesy of Duke Photography here and so many resources to the point At Duke, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship where I find similar networks here to what I Initiative’s Bullpen provides a space for would find in Silicon Valley.” entrepreneurs to meet and share ideas.

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He emphasized the importance of engaging with diversity as well as asking students to step outside their comfort zones. Price offered his stance on potential sources “As educators, we’re in the business of of funding for the University in response causing confusion,” Price said. “We ask people to a question about the Koch Foundation to get out of their comfort zones and think controversy at Wake Forest University. The differently. And if we’re doing that in our Koch Foundation, a conservative political intellectual work, we have a responsibility to organization, wanted to fund a center at do that in our social lives as well.” Wake Forest. But the Faculty Senate argued that accepting the money would allow the from page 2 foundation to influence academic decisions and thus compromise academic freedom. “It’s a question of ensuring that we are open independence and would save consumers minded,” Price said. “If funding comes with money when they are buying gas at their local strings attached, we will walk away if necessary.” station,” Woodard said. Price also discussed the recent failed Some of the groups represented at the attempt by graduate students to unionize, event included the Duke Lemur Center, the reiterating a position Brodhead has Carolina Tiger Rescue, Duke Recreation and emphasized while also stressing the Physical Education and the sponsors—the importance of listening to graduate students. Duke Environmental Alliance—which ran Graduate students’ relationship to the several of the interactive displays. University, Price said, is like that of students “We were excited to come out today to faculty, not employees to an employer. because people don’t always realize our direct “One indication of that is that we often connection to conservation in Madagascar,” spend very substantial sums of money said Megan McGrath, the education programs supporting their activities,” Price said. “This manager for the Lemur Center. is an investment in academic talent, and we Davis said that EarthFest was the Alliance’s value that relationship.” main event of the semester following their Responding to a question about how to Eco-Olympics in the Fall, and he estimated integrate diverse demographics on campus, that approximately 100 people had come by Price said residential communities offer through the first half of the event. opportunities for students to meet people Senior Isaac Rubin, director of unlike themselves. communications for the Environmental Creating a low-stress environment through Alliance, worked the group’s table on climate residential housing allows people to “see the refugees, which featured an interactive game human being before they encounter the with facts about people displaced by climate ideas,” he explained. change and natural disasters. “I think what we have to do is to ensure that “I think the general reaction to the game opportunity, because there are very few places so far has been one of surprise and shock,” in our lives where we have that opportunity Rubin said. “People know that climate change to directly encounter that much variety, that is a problem, but people are still a little bit much difference, to run into people who are ignorant about the substantive impacts it’s so unlike us, who don’t look like us, who don’t going to have on human beings and what that think like us,” Price said. means for the world.”

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STARTUP from page 2 underground entrepreneurial community growing recently—an observation also made by Megan Greer, the director of communications and outreach for the North Carolina State University Entrepreneurship Initiative. “I’ve seen the entrepreneurship landscape and community as a whole—N.C. State and Raleigh, Duke and Durham—really flourish in the last few years,” Greer said. “I think that there’s a lot of excitement and interest around entrepreneurship, and I’ve seen [N.C. State] collaborating more with the community in the last couple of years.” Greer explained that N.C. State offers space for students to pursue ideas in “The Garage”—an area where students can use rooms to meet or check-out equipment to fabricate their ideas. The Garage also hosts weekly “community office hours,” where area professionals come in to offer advice to students. The initiative has several community partnerships and sponsors a handful of recent alumni to live in the ThinkHouse in Raleigh to continue fostering their ideas after graduation. Greer said that the initiative’s resources and programming have impacted more than 1,200 students at N.C. State during the last academic year. “We’re creating a pipeline of fostering entrepreneurship while they are students at N.C. State and then there are places in the community, like American Underground and HQ Raleigh, that are ready to accept these talented entrepreneurs with open arms after graduation,” she said. At Duke, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative’s Bullpen serves as its downtown hub of entrepreneurial innovation. Marie-Angela Della Pia, the community director for the I&E Bullpen, said that the space has hosted 496 meetings since it

opened in September 2015. Della Pia explained that Duke offers a variety of ways for students to become involved in entrepreneurship—such as the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate, Melissa & Doug Entrepreneurs and the Duke Startup Challenge. She noted that entrepreneurship is not limited to technology or startups, but that “it’s really anyone who has an idea and wants to work on it.” The amount of effort people in the Triangle put into their entrepreneurship pursuits is what makes the innovative culture so special, Della Pia added. “I don’t know how to articulate it, but there’s an energy here and it’s sincere and it’s true,” she said.

ACCEPTANCE from page 1 suitable for residents living,” he said. Nowicki also explained that the administration has discussed expanding the class size, but the discussion has been tabled until the incoming President Vincent Price succeeds President Richard Brodhead in July. The early decision process at Duke has changed in recent years to make early decision applicants a greater portion of each class, Nowicki said. For example, early decision applicants this year are expected to make up 50 percent of the Class of 2021. He noted that this trend differs at various universities, but added that the University was not trying to manufacture lower acceptance rates for regular decision applicants. “There are some schools who play that game because it’s good for the rankings,” Nowicki said. “We made the decision explicitly that that’s not the game we’re going to play— we’re only going to admit students during early decision if they are as good as the last class during regular decision, which is a very high bar.”

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Bruckner’s hot start, strong defense power Duke to first top-5 win of 2017 Sid Bhaskara The Chronicle Facing a Notre Dame program that had upended the Blue Devils four straight times in Durham, Duke wanted to get off to a strong start with second place in the ACC on the line after falling behind 6-1 to thenNo. 18 North Carolina last week. And with senior Jack Bruckner leading the charge, the Blue Devils accomplished that goal handily for their first top-five win of the season. Bruckner posted a first-quarter hat trick to lead No. 10 Duke to an 11-8 win against the No. 4 Fighting Irish Saturday afternoon at a 8 packed Koskinen ND DUKE 11 Stadium. With a raucous crowd enjoying a physical battle, the Blue Devils took an early 4-1 lead, then scored the last two goals of the third quarter to seize a commanding 10-5 advantage. Bruckner finished with four goals on just seven shots, and senior goalkeeper Danny Fowler and the Duke defense suffocated Notre Dame’s star trio all afternoon long. “The first quarter was an emphasis all week,” Blue Devil head coach John Danowski said. “We practiced the first quarter segment for 10 to 15 minutes of every day. Just emphasizing three or four things that we thought we should focus on in that first quarter... then we give up a

Jeremy Chen | The Chronicle The Blue Devils shut down Notre Dame’s offense and got off to a fast start to seize second place in the ACC.

goal in the first minute, but the kids did a great job of handling that.” Despite facing a stiff challenge in covering Notre Dame stars Mikey Wynne, Ryder Garnsey and Sergio Perkovic, the Duke defense made life easy for senior Fowler, who shined again with 10 saves. The Fighting Irish trio was limited to six goals thanks to the considerable efforts of close defenders JT Giles-Harris, Brian Dunne and Cade Van Raaphorst. As the defense locked Notre Dame (5-3, 1-2 in the ACC) down on one end,

the Blue Devil offense got scoring from a platoon of players following Bruckner’s first-quarter explosion. After putting up solid numbers to this point in the season, freshmen Kevin Quigley and Reilly Walsh became genuine dodging threats from the top of the restraining box for the first time in their college careers. Both players displayed impressive shots on the run to beat both All-ACC goalkeeper Shane Doss and Owen Molloy, who entered in relief of the beleaguered Doss at the end of the first quarter with

the road team down 5-3. Duke (9-3, 2-1) found itself facing an early one-goal deficit when Wynne scored for the Fighting Irish less than a minute into the game, but the Blue Devils quickly found their bearings. Bruckner began his first-quarter tear by laying down a rocket shot to test Doss that found the right corner before the goalkeeper could even move. That theme continued, as Bruckner scored three of Duke’s first four goals with a variety of moves, from turnaround jump shots to dumping loose balls just past the goalkeeper and outside rips on the run. “We put a lot of emphasis on the first quarter after last week,” Bruckner said. “The [scout team defense] prepped us all week. When we’re shooting on [Blue Devil goalkeeper David McCann], we have to make sure to put it in the corners and good shots go. I think today we were just hitting them.” Notre Dame clawed back into the first quarter with goals from Perkovic and Garnsey, but once again, Duke had the answer. Although he struggled early, senior Kyle Rowe battled back to win a critical faceoff and get the ball to Walsh, who found himself with his hands free and room to put the ball past Doss in the far corner to give his team a 5-3 lead after 15 minutes. The second period was characterized See M. LACROSSE on Page 8

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Heading into Saturday’s game, the Blue Devils were on the verge of their worst start to a season in two decades. They sat at exactly .500 and were winless against teams that are still currently ranked. Sitting in the ACC’s cellar with only two regular-season league games left, it looked like time was running out for Duke to bounce back. But the Blue Devils’ win against No. 14 Boston College—a team that had won four DUKE 15 of its last five 12 contests heading BC into Saturday’s matchup—could be just enough to get Duke back on track and push the team into the 26-team NCAA tournament. Duke used seven different scorers to overcome a two-goal halftime deficit and secure a 15-12 upset against the Eagles at Newton Field in Newton, Mass. Saturday afternoon. Junior Grace Fallon and freshman Catherine Cordrey led the charge for the Blue Devils with three goals and an assist each, and All-American Maddie Crutchfield contributed a game and season-high six points off two goals and four assists to break the 100-point mark on her career. The junior became the 26th player in

program history to reach that total. “We had so many different people who were willing to be threats and go to goal,” Duke head coach Kerstin Kimel told GoDuke.com. “It’s a testament to the hard work we put in this week. A lot of kids spent a lot of time before and after practice working on their individual game, and I think it really showed today.” Although they managed to pull out the win in the end, the Blue Devils (7-6, 1-5 in the ACC) found themselves in an early rut and spent the majority of the game playing catch up. Boston College (10-5, 2-4) tacked on three goals through the opening 15 minutes before Duke graduate transfer Jessie Ambrose connected on a freeposition goal to finally put the Blue Devils on the board with 14:12 remaining in the opening period. Duke found some offensive success from there, answering after almost every Eagle score to prevent the home team from reeling off the same multiple-goal runs that have cost the Blue Devils all season. Although Boston College retained an 8-6 advantage heading into the locker room, Duke scored all six of its tallies in less than 11 minutes led by Crutchfield. And as was the case last week in games against then-No. 18 Elon and then-No. 10 Syracuse, the Blue Devils used intermission to make adjustments on both sides of the ball—particularly defensively. “We were scoring and we were getting

Jeremy Chen | The Chronicle Grace Fallon notched a hat trick Saturday as the Blue Devils took care of the ball when they needed to most for their first ACC win.

the looks that we wanted offensively, [but] we just were really disorganized off of the draw and out of transition,” Kimel said. “We made a couple of adjustments, [and] defensively we buckled down. That was probably the biggest thing coming out of half time, those simple adjustments.” Duke came out of the locker room firing on all cylinders, scoring two straight goals to knot the score at eight 7:08 into the period before the Eagles’ Laura

Frankenfield responded with 21:05 to go. But sophomore Olivia Jenner and junior Kyra Harney responded with quick back-toback goals to put the Blue Devils ahead for the first time with 18:35 left to play. Junior Kaileen Hart—who led the Boston College offensive effort with three goals and two assists on the day—tied the score once more with 13:18 to go, but the See W. LACROSSE on Page 9

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Fowler, Duke defense suffocate No. 4 Notre Dame Riley Pfaff The Chronicle A starting defense that includes a pair of underclassmen and just one senior might not seem to be the most likely group to be extremely disciplined or effective against some of the nation’s top teams. For the Blue Devils, though, that exact combination is proving to be not just effective, but dominant. Perhaps the most important factor in No. 10 Duke’s 11-8 win against No. 4 Notre Dame Saturday was the stalwart defensive effort put forth by the top scoring defense in the ACC. The starting trio of freshman JT Giles-Harris, sophomore Cade Van Raaphorst and senior Brian Dunne was nearly flawless through three quarters, working with senior goalkeeper Danny Fowler to hold the Fighting Irish to just two goals in the second and third quarters combined as their team pulled away. Since allowing 14 goals at then-No. 1 Denver, Feb. 18, the Blue Devils have allowed just 7.4 goals per contest and won seven of eight matchups. And with Duke’s offense firing on all cylinders in recent contests, the team’s defensive improvement could have head coach John Danowski’s squad playing deep into May after two consecutive NCAA tournament first-round losses broke a streak of eight consecutive Final Fours.

“We knew if we did our part, the offense was going to score. They’ve been playing phenomenal for the past couple weeks, so it was just like playing with each other and off of each other, using their momentum to catapult us on defense,” Van Raaphorst said. “It was a good team effort, as far as the chemistry we’re starting to build, and everyone just playing off of each other.” Entering Saturday’s contest with second place in the ACC on the line, the Blue Devils knew they could be in for a defensive battle. Notre Dame, known for its physicality on defense, was in the top 20 nationally in scoring defense by allowing just 8.3 goals against per game, just slightly more than Duke’s 8.0. With three primary offensive weapons in midfielder Sergio Perkovic and attackmen Mikey Wynne and Ryder Garnsey who account for almost all the Fighting Irish offense, Fowler and company were aware that containing the trio would be the key to the game. Perkovic in particular has been a thorn in the Blue Devils’ side of late, heading into the contest with eight goals in his last three matchups against Duke. “One of the things we were focused on this week was defending the knowns,” said Fowler, who finished with 10 saves, including five in the critical third quarter that saw Duke outscore Notre Dame 4-1. “You know Ryder Garnsey is great [with] low-angle shots and he’s a really good player

Jeremy Chen | The Chronicle Senior Danny Fowler made 10 saves Saturday, including three during a key third-quarter stretch that protected the Blue Devils’ four-goal lead.

that knows how to control his body well. Sergio Perkovic is definitely a bull, he’s got a great shot. Mikey Wynne is a great finisher, he’s sneaky and has a very high lacrosse IQ. But we know that we have the athletes to run with anybody defensively, and if we’re giving up shots that I can see and can save, then we have confidence.” The game did not get off to a great start for the Blue Devils, as Notre Dame scored

less than a minute into the contest on an underhanded shot from Wynne. However, the Duke offense picked up the defense almost immediately afterwards, scoring the next four goals to give the Blue Devils some separation and throw the momentum in favor of the home team. After the first quarter, the Duke defense See DEFENSE on Page 8

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The Blue Devils were not at their best this weekend at Notre Dame and Boston College, but pulling out road wins in conference play has just as much to do with toughness and winning the big points. And once again, Duke was the more mature team to preserve its unblemished mark in ACC action. The No. 15 Blue Devils squandered a 3-0 lead before getting a clutch victory from senior Chalena Scholl to 4 upend Notre Dame DUKE 3 4-3 Friday evening at ND Eck Tennis Pavilion 5 in Notre Dame, Ind., DUKE then overcoming a 2 2-1 deficit with four BC straight wins to knock off Boston College 5-2 Sunday afternoon at Flynn Recreation Center in Chestnut Hill, Mass. Although their teammates struggled at times, Scholl and sophomore Kaitlyn McCarthy remained perfect in ACC action in singles as head coach Jamie Ashworth’s team extended its overall winning streak to 11. Duke has not lost since Feb. 22. “These past two matches have just been mental battles,” Ashworth told GoDuke.com. “I don’t think we played great but we competed really well and were mentally the better team.” After Clemson’s upset victory in doubles last week, the Blue Devils (15-3, 9-0 in the ACC) got back on track against the Fighting Irish (16-5, 7-4).

Chris Teufel | The Chronicle Senior Chalena Scholl has not lost a singles match in ACC play and swung momentum in both matches this weekend with clutch three-set victories.

Duke’s tandem of sophomore Ellyse Hamlin and junior Samantha Harris cruised to a 6-0 victory on Court 3 before Notre Dame bounced back at No. 2 doubles with Brooke Broda and Allison Miller beating Scholl and senior Alyssa Smith 6-1. But the No. 35 tandem of freshman Meible Chi and McCarthy broke a 4-4 tie with two straight games to seal the doubles point. “We played a really good match at three,” Ashworth said. “We’ve been working with those guys really hard and they came out and played a great match. And getting the doubles

point today was huge for us.” It looked like the Blue Devils could be on their way to a rout when 24th-ranked Chi bested Broda 6-4, 6-1 and McCarthy dominated Zoe Spence 6-2, 6-1 to quickly make it 3-0. However, Notre Dame showed why it is in the top five in the conference, roaring back to knot the score. First, No. 71 Monica Robinson bested 65thranked Harris 7-5, 6-1 by taking control in the second set. Minutes later, Rachel Chong made it 3-2 by besting Hamlin 6-2, 6-4, and Mary

Closs won the biggest points against Smith on Court 5. She pulled out a 6-4 first set then controlled a second-set tiebreaker 7-2 to direct all eyes on Court 3, where No. 57 Scholl was battling Allison Miller. And for the second time this year, Scholl tipped a 3-3 match in her team’s favor. Despite dropping the first set 6-0, the Pompano Beach, Fla., native found her footing with a 6-2 second set, then broke a 2-2 tie in the deciding set by ripping off four straight games to seal the 4-3 victory. “She did a great job of putting that first set behind her,” Ashworth said. “Those first couple games of the second set were key. The most important game for her was the first one of the second set. She played a great third set too and she should be proud of that effort.” Although Boston College (8-10, 3-7) is in the bottom tier of the conference, the Eagles fought back Sunday after Hamlin and Harris and Chi and McCarthy gave Duke an easy point in doubles. On Court 1, Asiya Dair cruised past Harris—who has lost four of her past six matches—6-2, 6-1, and Lexi Borr pulled off a huge upset against Chi 6-1, 6-3 at No. 2 singles to put the home team in front. But as they have all season, McCarthy and Scholl righted the team’s ship. McCarthy struggled to create separation from Kylie Wilcox early on before gutting out a 6-4 first set and pulling out a secondset tiebreak 7-4 to make the overall score 2-2. For the second straight match, Scholl See W. TENNIS on Page 9

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Jeremy Chen | The Chronicle John Prendergast’s two third-quarter goals should give the Blue Devils more confidence in their midfielders’ ability to score.

M. LACROSSE from page 6 by more physical play, as the Blue Devils racked up several penalties but maintained their lead by holding the Fighting Irish extra-man unit to 0-for-4 for the game. Wynne and Duke sophomore Brad Smith scored the only goals of the second quarter as the intensity rose. After the first quarter was a coming-out party for Duke’s freshman midfielders, the third quarter belonged to midfielder John Prendergast. Taking a career-high 10 shots and a directive to be more aggressive to heart, Prendergast notched a pair of goals with deft movement in the midfield and a willingness to take shots on the run. The sophomore, who played sparingly last year, was able to stymie any Notre Dame momentum with his back-to-back goals,

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which were separated only by a quick score by Fighting Irish midfielder John Sexton and put the home team up 9-5. “The past few games, you’ve seen that we’ve switched up the [midfield] lines a little bit,” Prendergast said. “The lines are pretty balanced and athletic. Both of them space well for each other. I think that individual matchups were a key for this week with our middies just breaking down defensemen one-on-one, moving the ball forward and backwards and it showed in the scoreboard at the end of the game.” With a five-goal lead entering the final quarter, thanks in large part to a 20-15 edge in ground balls and Fowler’s ability to track Notre Dame’s favored outside shots, the Blue Devils suffered through sloppy play for the final 15 minutes. Duke turned the ball over five times in the closing period and allowed the Fighting Irish to draw closer. Although Perkovic scored just 40 seconds into the fourth quarter, the next goal for either team came 11 minutes later when Garnsey got inside of Van Raaphorst to beat Fowler low. But Bruckner answered shortly after to ice the game before the Fighting Irish managed to squeak one more goal onto the final line with a quick shot with just three seconds remaining. “We have more athletes that stepped up this year in Cade Van Raaphorst and JT,” Fowler said. “Everyone has taken their lacrosse IQ to the next level. Defensively, we have a solid plan every week and we have more confidence this year.” With momentum from two consecutive ACC wins squarely in hand, Duke will await No. 12 Virginia for its conference regular-season finale next week.

DEFENSE from page 7 really began to show its teeth. With Van Raaphorst matched up against Garnsey for much of the game, Notre Dame struggled to get its scorers going outside of the opening period, in which it scored three goals. The Blue Devils closed any open passing lanes and stood up the Fighting Irish when they tried to work the ball inside, keeping them from generating many clean looks—although Notre Dame’s leading trio combined for six goals, the rest of the team had just two tallies on 19 shots. The Van Raaphorst-Garnsey battle was one of the most critical one-on-one matchups of the game, and even though he did not play much last season, Duke’s sophomore held Notre Dame’s sophomore star to two goals and an assist. “It was a good matchup. Garnsey is a great player, and he got a couple on me and I got a couple on him,” Van Raaphorst said. “[I] tried to keep my hands on him and push him wide of the goal, before he got above the goal line, and Danny made some great saves on him and bailed me out a couple of times.” Playing the best lacrosse of his career, Fowler had another day to remember, allowing his defense to press up and take more risks. The Wantagh, N.Y., native put together a game-defining sequence midway through the third quarter. With the Blue Devils leading 9-5, Notre Dame found three clean shots on goal, desperately needing a goal to get back in the contest. But Fowler stood tall and made three impressive saves to keep the margin at four, leading to a Kevin Quigley goal on the next possession

The Chronicle to essentially end the game. In addition to Duke’s defensive starters, the Blue Devil defensive midfielders have been coming into their own. Freshman Terry Lindsay, junior transfer Sean Cerrone and veterans Thomas Zenker and Garrett Van de Ven as well as long-stick midfielder Ethan Powley all made contributions again Saturday to complement Duke’s close defenders. The result is that the Blue Devils seem to be peaking with the postseason rapidly approaching. “[The defensive development] is a culmination of a couple of new people.... You’ve got a couple of freshmen, a transfer, a sophomore, who are terrific athletes,” Danowski said. “And then you’ve got guys with experience.... It’s this combination of these older guys who’ve played a lot for us and the younger athletic guys. It’s growing.”

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Hamlin closed out the afternoon by claiming a third-set super tiebreaker against Jackie Urbinati after the pair split the first two sets 6-3. A short time after it looked like the home team could be in position for the upset, Duke was leaving with another relatively decisive victory without playing its best tennis. “It’s been great to know that we don’t have to rely on the same three people every one of our matches,” Ashworth said. “It would be great to win every match 7-0, but obviously that’s not going to happen. It was a good team effort and win or lose everyone did their job to the best that they could.” The Blue Devils will look to keep rolling in ACC play against Wake Forest and at Syracuse next weekend. Duke still has tough tests against No. 4 North Carolina and No. 6 Georgia Tech—the other team unbeaten in conference play so far— remaining, making the coming weeks critical in its quest for an ACC title.

W. TENNIS from page 7 shook off a rough first set and controlled the second and third frames, only dropping four games combined in the sets to down Dasha Possokhova 1-6, 6-2, 6-2. “[Boston College] definitely did [play good singles],” Ashworth said. “We got down on one, two and three there. The biggest thing was Chalena getting off to a good start on the second set. That gave us momentum there…. You have to put a hold on their momentum. It was huge for [Chalena] and huge for our team.” The Blue Devils finally hit their stride in the final two matches on the lower courts, with Smith and Hamlin taking down their competition to cap off the win. Smith fought through a 6-4 first set against Emily Safron before claiming a 6-3 second-set victory to make it 4-2.

Jeremy Chen | The Chronicle Freshman Catherine Cordrey continued her strong play—the Blue Devils scored six first-half goals in less than 11 minutes to get back into the game.

W. LACROSSE from page 6 Eagles could not pull back even again after sophomore Ellie Majure and Harney tallied goals set up by Crutchfield in the next two minutes. Boston College star Kayla O’Connor brought the team within 12-11 just 12 seconds removed from Harney’s goal before Duke held the Eagles scoreless for more than 9:30 and used goals from Fallon and Cordrey to seal the win. The Blue Devils’ uncharacteristically strong finish came down to freshman netminder Gabbe Cadoux, who had a career-high 11 saves in her third consecutive start. The Ellicott City, Md., native fended off a furious Boston College comeback attempt in the game’s waning moments, making three saves and allowing just one goal in the final five

minutes of the contest with the outcome all but decided. “Obviously Gabbe [Cadoux] came up huge at the end and was clutch for us,” Kimel said. “I’m just proud of the overall team. We’ve practiced well throughout the season, but it hasn’t always translated on game day. This week it did.” Duke will try to take the momentum from its much-needed victory to Evanston, Ill., for the team’s final road game of the regular season. The Blue Devils will face No. 17 Northwestern, which is 6-6 on the season and, much like the Blue Devils, has struggled to accumulate quality wins during the course of the regular season. “Moving forward, we have a great opportunity going out to Chicago next week,” Kimel said. “We’ll play a really tough Northwestern team who is probably in a little bit of a similar situation to [ours].”

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his past weekend, hundreds of Duke alumni ranging from the Class of 2012 all the way back to the Class of 1967 converged on campus for their respective class reunions. They encountered a university that has evolved more than just physically since their graduation. Walking through the newly renovated West Union, they would have seen countless faces of color — Asian, black, Hispanic and interracial students — among the mosaic of people gathered to dine and converse within the building. This might not have been the case during their time at Duke. Notably, the Class of 1967, Duke’s first integrated graduating class, had its 50th anniversary reunion this past weekend. It is hard to fathom that until five black freshmen enrolled at Duke in September of 1963, the university maintained a policy of prohibiting admission to African American students regardless of their academic ability. Quite often, as students at an elite, internationally well-regarded university, we forget the deep roots of institutional segregation that have plagued Duke’s past as a southern school. Duke’s early black undergraduates took leaps of faith when they matriculated to the school and began living on a campus that still flew Confederate flags and played Dixie during football games at Wallace Wade Stadium.

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Those students paved the way for future students of color to enroll at Duke. Students of color have now moved from making up less than five percent of Duke’s Class of 1971 to nearly half of the undergraduate student body in 2017. Duke Student Government’s past three presidents have been students of color, as well as our last three elected Young Trustee representatives. For a historically white university, we have come a long way since the days when nonwhite students were actively excluded from the Duke

Editorial experience. Those who argued in 1963 that Duke was being far too progressive in allowing “Negro” students to enroll at the university would now rightfully be seen as horrifyingly anachronistic. Despite remarkable improvements though, Duke is not where it should be. On campus, acts of racism and prejudice continue to manifest themselves both sporadically and on a day to day basis, whether it be through the casual invitation for a racist academic to speak on campus or through homophobic death threats being scrawled on a freshman dorm room.

Around campus and throughout the broader state of North Carolina, a law prohibiting local governments from passing non-discrimination ordinances remains in effect, the scar of a fight to dismantle HB2, a transphobic law we wrote treated many citizens like second-class persons. Despite such obstacles to progress, Duke will undoubtedly be a markedly different and improved place in 2067 when the Class of 2017 converges upon the Gothic Wonderland for their own 50th anniversary class reunion. Certain cultural behaviors, physical appearances and social attitudes exhibited within Duke’s student body in 2067 might seem unfamiliar and “un-Duke” to those graduating this year, feelings that many alumni are likely experiencing now given how much the university and culture have evolved over the course of fifty years. However, as future alumni, we should keep an open mind concerning the visions and goals of Duke’s future students and administration in captaining what will, for all intents and purposes, be a different institution fifty years from now. Duke will grow and change long after we say goodbye to the campus and those that come after our graduation will continue legacies of paving the way to a better and brighter university just as we have.

‘Mass Effect: Andromeda’: A failed social justice project?

remember back when I played God of War II on the Playstation 2, back before I earned that coveted platinum trophy in God of War III on the Playstation 3 that revealed a teaser website for the next title. I remember licking my chops at finally having another journey to embark on as Kratos, the series’ main character, considering how fervidly I played the first installment after an employee at my local GameStop tossed me a demo disc. Greek mythology captivated me in school, so naturally it was easy to pick up a stylized version that allowed me to walk around with Medusa’s severed head, petrifying enemies in their place. Ah, I remember back then. I also remember getting into a heated debate with a close friend of mine at the time. I thought it came out of nowhere, but it was actually triggered by the sequence in GoW II where Kratos recalled accidentally killing his family. The scene flashed by so fast I was certain I didn’t get a good

provided by a user who earned hundreds of likes for it, went as follows: “This is what happens to one of the most anticipated games of all time when you put millions of dollars behind a project run by a company which: hires people for diversity quotas instead of the ability to do their job; fosters a safe space making it hard if not impossible to criticize anyone’s work; makes a cosplayer, who has a video on her Linkedin admitting openly she hates men, the lead animator and; hires people who care more about shoehorning political and social agenda than the game.” The user goes on to meticulously list the ways that social justice motives warped Andromeda into the “mess” it was. After playing video games the last two decades and throughout the advent of online gaming, it’s safe for me to say that many of these “anti-anything-remotely-inclusive” gamers pervade a community already rife with sexism,

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glimpse, but sure as ever I asserted openly that “Kratos was Black”. As a gamer of color, I did all I could to back that claim up, considering the sparse number of heroes or heroines I could identify with at time, and even now, come to think of it. As “mounting evidence” suggested otherwise regarding the blade-wielding demigod, I threw in the towel. And that realization, for me, spawned years of grappling with the harsh reality that diverse main characters in games were going to remain few and far between. Fast forward to 2017 and we get a five year, $40 million project in Mass Effect: Andromeda that features characters of differing sexes and orientations, but that was almost immediately met with harsh criticisms. From its eerily captured animations, to the dry and sometimes cliché narrative, Andromeda received the kind of feedback you would expect from a highly anticipated title that failed to show up. But then the feedback turned to nefarious comments, which then evolved into a derisive social critique of the title and the developers behind it. After being sucked into the vitriol that is the comments section of anything, really, I found many gamers targeting the moral fiber of Bioware, the developers behind the game, as the culprit for Andromeda’s issues. One of the comments that struck me most in particular,

misogyny, and homophobia. While this is not at all a defense of Andromeda, something should be said regarding the attacks Bioware has received form scathing comments like the one above. The constructive criticism best suited for an instance like this is to comment on the engine, coding, and even story writing choices the team decided to make, not to compile a slapdash argument that speaks to your personal prejudices. Anyone with an Xbox Live (or PSN) headset and five minutes to spare can tell you the dozen or so examples of racially and sexually charged arguments that stem from seemingly trivial events. How then is it at all appropriate to target Bioware’s approach to diversity and equality and not the game itself, and then say that this is why they’ll crash and burn? How can falsely casting labels like “anti-white” onto a video game development team establish a sound argument of any kind? The game has its flaws, which are all certainly up for scrutiny, but for numerous gamers to make it an issue of social and racial divisiveness speaks to how uninviting video game communities have grown in recent years. Jamal Michel is a featured guest columnist. He is a Duke graduate and high school English teacher in Durham.

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Vegan Czar Larry Moneta Knocking and entering declares war on junk food I

fter a 24 hour closure for “repairs” over the alumni weekend, Duke students and alumni alike were shocked to find that every restaurant in the newly-renovated West Union had been repealed and replaced by the “vegan-only” restaurant, Sprout. Gone were the stations of Indian fare, the $10,000 pizza oven shipped over from Italy and the ramen station. All had been replaced by sprouts of the Union’s least popular vegetarian and vegan outlet, Sprout. The poké had been replaced with a “make-your-own-kale-salad” station, the café turned into an almond-milk-only station and the Faculty Commons succeeded by a farm-to-table tofu restaurant. According to YikYak, recent postings on the Duke “Fix My Campus” Facebook page and the two juniors recently back from Copenhagen whom I overheard on the C1, students are outraged that they’ve lost the

that the campus farm actually existed, as most only knew it as a sticker found on the laptop of the “edgy” TA who went to Bard for undergrad. However, because it’s only early spring, most of the vegetables will be shipped in from local places like “Ecuador” and “Costa Rica.” This shift in the West Union towards strict veganism is symbolic of a larger change on Duke’s campus towards freedom and diversity of thought. Moneta added that 2017 would bring a number of sizable changes to the gothic wonderland that students had begun to know and bemusingly despise. The university has already committed to destroying Central Campus and building a new center of campus by 2025, assuming that mold doesn’t sprout up and take over before then. “The mold is vegan too,” Moneta added excitedly.

s it hard to do? No. Is it hard for maintenance workers to do? Apparently. Multiple students on Central Campus have reported that maintenance workers have entered their apartments and even bedrooms without knocking. The maintenance department’s incompetence is nothing new—the handle for the middle shower in the Few HH104 bathroom is loose even though I filled out a repair request over a year ago. What’s new and far more concerning is how common the department’s workers disregard students’ privacy. Last month, a student posted on Fix My Campus about multiple occasions when maintenance staff entered her apartment without knocking. In December, she was studying for an exam in her living room when she heard someone struggling to open her apartment door. Just a few weeks ago, her roommate was in her room naked when three middle-aged men opened her bedroom door. These bizarre incidents are not exclusive

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dishes they had learned to love to hate. An anonymous first-year who proudly received a “B-” in Econ 201 last semester told Monday Monday, “I’d eaten Sitar every day for lunch for four months and I was only just now learning how to complain about the monotony of the Duke Dining experience to my friends and neighbors. What am I supposed to do now? The laws of supply and demand won’t keep this up. LMo will have to make the change back.” A small group of students have begun assembling in the upstairs teaching kitchen, demanding the Duke administration bring back the crepe station with the watery nutella at the very least, in addition to establishing a $15 minimum wage and abolishing all prisons in the contiguous United States. Tents have sprouted up in the past hour as more and more students join their protest, which was quickly dubbed “W-Ville” for continuity’s sake, even if it doesn’t rhyme with “K.” The administration has already begun alternative plans for the demonstration schedule on Earth Day by celebrity chef, Guy Fieri. When asked about the recent changes, Doctor, Vice President of Student Affairs, Grandfather, Email Enthusiast and Vegan Czar Lawrence Moneta, PhD, admitted he was “pretty excited about these changes.” “I’m not going to lie,” he told Monday Monday. “It was all me. The whole West Union? Yeah, it was me. Oh, and the vegan thing? It was me too. Did you know I’m a vegan?” He noted that the lack of soda in the West Union was his first step at total health domination. The Italian soda was a “cute” afterthought to try and appease the student body while he executed his real plan for making the student body subsist on a powerful, plant-based diet—free of dairy, processed sugars and meat. According to Moneta, most of the new eateries in the West Union will be sustained by the Duke Campus Farm which that weird P-Wild kid from down your hall goes to on occasion. Students were shocked to learn

He said the faculty council had made big plans to hire one conservative public policy professor before 2020, though political science professor and token Republican Peter Feaver had been told by President-Elect Vincent Price “not to hold his breath.” The change Moneta is most hopeful about, however, is the committee of students, faculty and staff he has been leading, titled, “Veganism: A Culture Under Siege.” An anonymous Duke Student Government Representative and McKinsey 2017 summer analyst on the committee added they were “incredibly excited about the findings,” which concluded that the “only way to properly establish a culture accepting of Veganism at Duke was to create a question on the application for admission.” They added that the application for the Class of 2022 will feature a dropdown menu in which students can choose their meat consumption identity. The common application will feature Carnivore, Pescetarian, Vegetarian and Vegan choices, in addition to a “write-in-your-own meat consumption identity.” Dean of Admissions and avid sunhat wearer Christoph Guttentag is hoping to use this method as a way of expanding the diversity of the class. The dean, who only reads applications for the exotic island of Manhattan, noted that the new question will distinguish the candidates from Horace Mann, Stuyvesant and Fieldston more distinctly, in addition to giving them direct insight into their parents’ earnings and potential Duke Annual Fund giving, despite a “need-blind” application. “You think a kid from Midtown who eats a ‘strictly green, ovo-vegetarian diet’ has parents who aren’t going to give $1,000 to Duke Forward in the coming year? Please,” Guttentag said, after ordering an unsweetened vanilla almond milk, holding the coffee. Written while enjoying day-old “vegan” pumpkin bread from Vondy.

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to the unlucky students from that apartment. Four other female students commented on the post reporting similar experiences. One student wrote that a maintenance worker came to her apartment to fix an issue with the bathroom, yet the worker opened her bedroom door without knocking. It is protocol for students to be emailed in advance of any non-emergency maintenance visits and for employees to knock before entering any apartments, which Andy Beville, the director of facilities operations for Housing, Dining and Residence Life, told The Chronicle. Clearly, that protocol isn’t being followed. Beville admitted that there have been communication errors the past three months, which could explain students’ reports that they didn’t receive any emails in advance of the incidents. This explanation is less compelling as an excuse for workers not knocking before entering apartments. That this behavior has gone on for at least a semester suggests either incompetence or worse when considering that all of the students who reported incidents on the Facebook post are female. Also concerning is that the administration has shown no effort to hold those responsible for these egregious violations of students’ privacy accountable for their actions. I can personally attest to the extent of this privacy issue. During my freshmen year, I lived in a corner room in Bassett. One of the windows opened onto the roof of a walkway connecting to Baldwin Auditorium—it’s a common route to climb Baldwin. The front of my bed was beneath this window. One spring day I woke up to the unpleasant sound of drilling. As I came to, I heard drilling again, but now fully awake, I realized just how loud it was. I turned around in bed and looked out the window to see why. When I looked outside my window, there were metal bars between me and everything outside of it. This is weird, I thought. I must still be asleep. Then, after

looking at the bars for a couple of seconds, I heard more drilling and looked where the sound was coming from. There was a man looking at me looking at him just a couple feet away. At this moment, I was concerned, but admittedly a little thankful that there were now metal bars between me, and this stranger at my second floor window. I was particularly thankful for the metal bars after I looked to my right and found a second man staring at me through my window. This is very weird and definitely isn’t a dream, I thought. I’d like to pause now to explain that at this point in my life, I slept with the blinds up in hopes that the natural sunlight would make it easier to get up in the morning. This is important for two reasons. First, it means that the maintenance workers could see me sleeping in my bed just a couple feet from them and still thought it would be a good idea to screw metal bars onto the window. The second is that natural sunlight does make it easier to get up in the morning, but the adrenaline rush from finding yourself almost naked and face to face with two

middle-aged men securing metal bars to your window is even more effective. Now, I am a lazy person, but I jumped out of bed that morning. I found the HDRL office and told the staff what I had woken up to. They apologized and said that the bars were not supposed to be installed until the summer when high school students would be living in the dorms. There are apparently too many liabilities from minors being able to climb Baldwin. I remember thinking at the time that the situation was very bizarre, but that since I’m male, it hadn’t quite crossed into the realm of creepy. I thought about how serious the issue would have been if a female student had been living there instead of me. I figured that the incident was isolated though and wasn’t worth following up on. It is clear today that this isn’t the case. These egregious and wholly unnecessary violations of privacy are far too common, and even more concerning, seem to primarily involve female students and male maintenance workers. The maintenance team is looking into new ways to contact students before maintenance visits to avoid these types of incidents in the future, Beville said. To aid them in this endeavor, I’d like to provide some practical and easily implementable solutions. Always knock on the door before entering. Do not open doors or enter rooms unless necessary. Post a notice on the apartment door the day before to inform students’ of upcoming maintenance work. And lastly, text students when maintenance workers will be entering an apartment. I can’t think of a decent excuse for not implementing any of these recommendations—texting is free after all—but I’m sure the administration could cook something up. Justin Koritzinsky is a Trinity senior. His column, “performance review,” runs on alternate Fridays.

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A Fracked Gas Power Plant at Duke University? The accelerating climate crisis requires leadership – and transparency – not an expansion of fossil fuels.

• The proposed Duke Energy power plant would increase campus greenhouse emissions by 61%. • It would increase local air pollution, barely improve campus power reliability and perpetuate the climate-destructive fracking boom. • Methane leaking and venting from US natural gas operations is making the climate crisis rapidly worse. It’s a key factor in the record-breaking, three-year global heat wave.

University leaders have rejected input from the Durham community. On-campus “stakeholder” meetings continue behind closed doors.

• A large excess of regional power means the plant would unnecessarily boost rates for all Duke Energy customers. • The University has many clean energy options, including huge solar potential at prices lower than it’s now paying for electricity. See NC WARN’s report on an alternate path for Duke University: bit.ly/2eSvrbV.

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Urge Duke University President Richard Brodhead to reject Duke Energy’s expansion of climate-wrecking fracked gas on campuses. Tell him the Durham community’s voice can’t be locked out of consideration: President@duke.edu.

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