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obtained data from the beginning of last year for all contributors who listed Duke University as their employer. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign received the largest amount of money from these donors, and North Carolina Congressman David Price’s campaign received the largest number of contributions. Six individuals—including Dr. A. Eugene Washington, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of Duke University Health System, and Phail Wynn, vice president for Durham and regional affairs—donated the

Gautam Hathi The Chronicle Only a few Duke employees have donated the maximum amount of money allowed under federal law to election campaigns since January 2015, according to data from the Federal Election Commission. The publicly available Federal Election Commission data discloses all contributions to federal campaigns that are greater than $200. The Chronicle

maximum amount allowed under federal law to a campaign. “We have an obligation to try and elect the best possible candidates who are willing to run and willing to do public service,” said William Eacho, professor of the practice of public policy. “The simple fact is that it’s expensive to run campaigns, and they need our help.” Eacho—who came to Duke after a career in the private sector and an appointment as ambassador to Austria See CAMPAIGN DONATIONS on Page 4

Former head of alumni relations dies Saturday Staff Reports The Chronicle

Special to The Chronicle Laney Funderburk led alumni operations for 22 years and helped increase alumni programming.

Laney Funderburk, former senior alumni relations officer, died Saturday at age 77. Funderburk led Duke’s alumni operations for 22 years before retiring in 2004. During his tenure, Duke Magazine was established and the alumni education and travel program was expanded. Additionally, Funderburk is credited with revamping class reunions and increasing alumni programming. “Laney was an extraordinary leader of the alumni association for 22 years and for generations of alumni, he was the face of Duke,” said Sterly Wilder, associate vice president for alumni affairs, in a Duke Today release. “His loyalty and passion for Duke were unfailing and inspiring, and we continue to follow his example in our work today. Our

heartfelt sympathies go to his wife, Lois, and his children, who are all members of the Duke family.” After graduating from Duke in 1960, Funderburk worked with alumni affairs at Duke before becoming deputy secretary of the N.C. Department of Commerce and then chief of staff for Gov. James Holshouser. In 1982, he returned to the university to lead the alumni affairs office and was the longestserving director in Duke’s history. As director, Funderburk led the publication of Duke’s first directory of alumni and established the Duke University Black Alumni Connection. He is survived by his wife Lois Copeland Funderburk, whom he met when they were both students at Duke. Their daughter Lisa Carlisle Funderburk Miller and son Morris Laney Funderburk both hold Duke degrees as well.

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Duke University Health System will feature a program to address the unique needs of teenage cancer patients by the end of 2016. Using donations from the Duke Cancer Institute and other foundations, DUHS is in the process of planning the program’s services and hopes to unveil it before the end of this year, said Dr. Daniel Wechsler, associate professor of pediatrics, pharmacology and cancer biology. Junior Mark Schreiber, a cancer patient and member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, explained that his fraternity has raised more than $50,000 for adolescent cancer programs at Duke Health. “There are needs for children and adults that are totally different from people in our age group, but we don’t have specific resources for these people,” Schreiber said. Wechsler explained that teenagers with cancer face unique challenges such as managing classes, jobs and relationships while undergoing treatment. The main goal of the program will be to help teenagers with their journey through cancer, he said. Teenagers and young adults between the ages of 15 and 29 will be included in the program. Wechsler noted See TEEN CANCER on Page 12

Special to The Chronicle Dr. Daniel Wechsler noted that adolescents face unique difficulties in cancer treatment.

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Obama’s Chief of Staff McDonough explains foreign policy decisions David Wohlever The Chronicle Denis McDonough, chief of staff to President Barack Obama, discussed foreign policy and the Obama White House during an alumni weekend event Friday. McDonough was joined by Gen. Martin Dempsey, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Graduate School ‘84, in the event, which focused on balancing national challenges, high-stakes careers and U.S. foreign policy. McDonough explained that in his opinion, although Obama has received criticism for being an insular leader, he is thoughtful when attempting to solve America’s problems and tries to understand multiple points of view. “I think [the president] believes there is a right and wrong,” McDonough said. “I also believe that he does not think that he is the keeper of the right answer, but the right answer is ultimately out there. He’s extremely curious— tireless—which is something you want.” As chief of staff, McDonough is Obama’s highest ranking aide. He oversees the issues that come before the president and works

closely with Obama to direct the staff of the executive branch. Peter Feaver, professor of political science and public policy and the director of the program in American Grand Strategy, moderated the discussion. He pressed McDonough about whether Obama has become more candid in recent interviews especially by showing his frustration about various issues. McDonough said that he did not think Obama has become more frank, although he noted that Obama has been accepting more opportunities to speak with the media recently. He also responded to criticisms of the White House as insular by suggesting that some people involved in the decision-making process may feel shut out by the intense debates that occur in the White House. “Debates can get hot. And that’s okay … That makes policy stronger,” McDonough said. McDonough and Dempsey also noted that the United States’ foreign policy challenges have evolved greatly during Obama’s time in office, with continued challenging relationships with China and Russia and a struggle to slow North Korea’s increased hostility.

Matthew Rock | The Chronicle President Richard Brodhead introduced Denis McDonough, chief of staff to President Barack Obama, at Friday’s talk.

Dempsey explained that if he had the opportunity to try again, he would look for more solutions to the ongoing civil war in Syria. “It’s not because we didn’t try… It was such a dynamic situation… It’s some combination of the complexity, the opportunity cost that we would have had to pay,” Dempsey said. “This period of time was the same time we were beginning to worry about the Pacific, about Eastern Europe, and we’re still worried about North Africa and North Korea and Iran… If I had to do it over, I’d take another swing at it. I’m not sure I could come up with a different answer.” The Syrian situation, along with instability in Libya, are both difficult, McDonough noted. He said that Obama is saddened by the suffering of the Syrian people. However, he argued that the administration is implementing a policy that should help alleviate the crisis. “We have a strategy that’s going to require time,” McDonough said. “Ultimately, the most durable solution for Libya will have to come from Libyans, and the most durable solution for Syria will have to come from Syrians.” The conversation was followed by a questionand-answer session in which audience members

Matthew Rock | The Chronicle Gen. Martin Dempsey (right) used to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and currently teaches a course on campus as a Rubenstein fellow.

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Lemur Center to lose NSF grant, portion of funding Rob Palmisano The Chronicle A significant proportion of the Duke Lemur Center’s future funding is set to be terminated indefinitely. The center is funded in part by a federally-funded grant from the National Science Foundation—called “Collections in Support of Biological Research”—which was put on hiatus last month. The grant contributed $185,253 from April 2015 until March 2018 and has committed to $251,672 between July 2016 and June 2018, according to The Triangle Business Journal. Anne Yoder, director of the DLC and professor of biology, said that the funding withdrawal could potentially have adverse effects on the center’s work. “The CSBR fund has been absolutely critical for the continuation and advancement of research, engagement and conservation efforts of the DLC,” Yoder said. The Lemur Center’s $2.4 million annual operating budget comes from several sources—including the NSF grant, the University, donations, tours and merchandise and endowments, according to the center’s website. The center, which was established in 1966, has the second-largest population of lemurs in the world, outside of Madagascar. The grant was placed on hiatus by the Directorate for Biological Sciences as a result of the fiscal year 2017 budget request, according to the NSF website. The language from the budget request

Chronicle File Photos Duke Lemur Center Director Anne Yoder noted that the withdrawal of a National Science Foundation grant could have a significant impact on the center’s work.

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which are research, engagement and conservation. She emphasized the importance of spreading awareness of the cause in order to stir more philanthropic engagement, highlighting the center’s public tours as a reliable source of revenue. “The tours program represents a win-win because we’re making money

off the program while simultaneously spreading awareness of the cause,” Yoder said. “[The DLC] is the only place in the world, outside of Madagascar, where [tourists] can have that experience.” The CSBR currently provides funds to maintain and preserve biological specimens—a category that includes everything from fossils to living tissue collections. The program typically awards between $3 million and $5 million each year. The grant also contributed $195,711 to another North Carolina institution, the State Museum of Natural Sciences beginning April 1, 2015. Yoder identified a “national crisis” being faced in federal support for scientific research, although she said that the NSF is responding well to this situation. “They are reacting in an understandable way by reevaluating their priorities for the distribution of funding,” Yoder said. The living and fossil collections at the center, which are an accumulation of 50 years of expertise, are critical to advancing new knowledge and cannot be duplicated, Yoder said. She also said some of the research currently being conducted at the center—including studies on understanding disease transmission, primate brain functioning and climate change effects—are foundational in the scientific community. “Our investigators are deeply involved in both curiosity-driven basic science and in science that can be applied to the human condition,” Yoder said.

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CAMPAIGN DONATIONS from page 1 from 2009 to 2013—has collected donations, or “bundled,” for several political candidates, including President Barack Obama. Eacho has given $2,700 to the campaigns of Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen and Virginia Sen. Mark Warner in the past year. In total, Eacho has himself contributed more than $100,000 to various federal campaigns, political organizations and political committees since the late 1990s. Several other individuals working at the University have also given $2,700—which is the maximum an individual is allowed to contribute to a campaign under the federal campaign finance law—to various candidates. Approximately 25 individuals listing Duke as their employer have contributed $1,000 or more to a federal campaign, and approximately 100 have given $200 or more. Washington is the most senior University official Chronicle File Photo Dr. A. Eugene Washington, chancellor for health affairs, to have contributed more than $200 to a federal campaign since the beginning of 2015. He contributed donated $2,700 to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

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The Chronicle $2,700 to the Hillary Clinton campaign in November and has previously contributed to Obama’s presidential campaigns. Through a spokesperson, Washington declined to comment for this story. Wynn contributed $2,000 to the campaign of Deborah Ross, who is running for a U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina. Wynn did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Sarah West, Duke Forward associate vice president for strategic planning, contributed $2,700 to Clinton’s campaign in April 2015. West also declined to comment for this story. Few contributions of more than $200 from Duke employees have gone to Republican candidates or committees. None of the current Republican presidential candidates have received disclosed contributions from individuals listing Duke University as their employer. Olaf Von Ramm, Thomas Lord professor of engineering, was the largest Duke contributor to a Republican party or campaign since 2015, having donated a combined $2,500 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee in January and August 2015. Von Ramm did not respond to a request for comment. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has also received more and larger disclosed campaign contributions than Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign. Seventeen individuals listing the University as their employer have contributed more than $200 to Clinton’s campaign, and six of them contributed more than $1,000. Only seven individuals listing the University as their employer have contributed more than $200 to the Sanders campaign. Of those, only one—Dan Ariely, James B. Duke professor of psychology and behavioral economics—contributed more than $1,000 to the Sanders campaign. He initially contributed $5,000, but was refunded $2,300 since his contribution was in excess of the $2,700 federal limit. Ariely declined to comment except to confirm that he initially contributed more than $2,700 because he was not aware of federal contribution limits and later received a partial refund. Eacho said that he understands why only a relatively small portion of Duke employees have contributed more than $1,000 to federal campaigns. “University professors don’t make a lot of money,” he said. “I’d be surprised if that many were willing to write the full $2,700 maximum to a candidate. I can afford it, so to me it’s important, and I’ll write my checks and do what I think is the right thing to do.” Heather Setzler, a critical care physician assistant at the medical center, disagreed with Eacho, however. Setzler contributed $2,700 to Clinton’s campaign last year and volunteered for the campaign. She noted that although the contribution was a “real stretch” for her, she was surprised that political passion does not translate into financial contributions more often. “I’m actually quite surprised that more people don’t give the maximum amount, especially people that have a lot more money,” she said. “A lot of people say ‘rahrah,’ but you can’t get them to volunteer and you can’t get them to contribute.” Setlzer added that although she was initially unsure about donating a large amount of money to a political campaign, she thought her contribution was worthwhile after meeting Clinton at a fundraiser for donors. “I thought long and hard about [the contribution] because to be honest with you, it’s way above my price range,” she said. “I’m so glad that I did it. It was worth every cent.” Eacho noted that although he was not surprised to see small numbers of Duke employees contributing large amounts to federal campaigns, he wishes to see faculty more engaged in political discussions on campus. “I would love to see even more political engagement on the part of the faculty. I think people shouldn’t be afraid to voice their opinions,” he said. “I think citizenship is a responsibility. Part of that responsibility is not just getting out to vote but giving back, doing public service when you’re asked and supporting the political campaigns you think will do a good job when they’re elected.” Eacho added that he was not concerned that his political contributions would have an impact on his teaching or on his students’ perception of him. “I’m sure [my students] have all Googled me and read my Wikipedia page and figured out that I was involved in political fundraising, but to be honest it’s never come up. They’ve never asked about it,” he said. “The great thing about a University setting is that everybody’s respectful of others and you listen to all points of view. It’s up to students to develop their own.”

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Hurricanes rout Blue Devils to open and close series, but Duke smacks 3 homers in big Saturday win Mitchell Gladstone The Chronicle When the ball blasted off the bat of Miami’s Zack Collins, Duke center fielder Jimmy Herron sprinted toward the wall in right-center field, hoping to rob the Hurricanes’ leading hitter of a homer. But the freshman could not reel the ball in as it bounced off the top of the wall and into the right-field stands. The ball was just out of reach—and so too was a series victory for the Blue Devils. No. 1 Miami rolled to a 9-0 victory against Duke in Sunday’s rubber match at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, escaping Durham with its sixth consecutive series win and extending its Coastal Division lead to five games. Hurricane MIAMI 14 starting pitcher DUKE 2 Danny Garcia got the win, tossing seven MIAMI 5 scoreless innings, DUKE 12 striking out three and surrendering MIAMI 9 one walk, and DUKE 0 Collins’ three-run bomb in the third inning gave Miami an early 4-0 lead. From there, the visitors did not look back. “It was close,” Herron said. “I got to the fence a little bit late, so I had to kind of gather myself and jump. I think I missed it by about a foot, but he put a great swing on it.” The Hurricanes (29-5, 13-3 in the ACC) continued posting crooked numbers in the fifth inning—getting three more runs off of Blue Devil starter Brian McAfee—with five singles, including three in a row from Randy

Kristen Shortley | The Chronicle Freshman shortstop Zack Kone went 7-for-12 at the plate this weekend against No. 1 Miami, going 5-for-5 with a home run Saturday before adding two more hits in Sunday’s finale.

Batista, Carl Chester and Johnny Ruiz. The Miami trio each finished the day with a pair of hits and combined to score six runs. The visitors worked deep into the count, and though Duke (20-17, 7-11) only issued two walks Sunday after surrendering 11 free passes in Friday’s series opener, the Hurricanes went 8-for-15 with runners in scoring position. “One of the things they do really well—and this is a tip of the hat to their coaching staff— they’re so patient,” Duke head coach Chris Pollard said. “They take so many pitches that they force the issue of getting guys on base for [Collins and Willie Abreu] to hit. They are well-coached at what they do—they take a

ton of pitches, they’re going to make you have to throw the ball in the strike zone and if you don’t, they’ll get to first base.” McAfee (5-3) was not at his best Sunday— he lasted just five innings, allowing seven runs on 10 hits, both of which were careerhighs for the graduate student. The Bothell, Wash., native has a penchant for pounding the strike zone, and though his command was sharp, the nation’s top-ranked team put the ball in the right places. “At the end of the day, he pitched a lot better than the box score is going to indicate,” Pollard said. “His stuff was good and he threw the ball well. You take away the one pitch to Collins, we get off the field there in the third

with one run scoring and there in the fifth, it’s kind of a head-scratcher. They had three infield singles and a seeing-eye single—that was more bad luck than anything.” On the other side of things, the Duke bats went silent one day after the Blue Devils put up a dozen runs on scoreboard. Duke scattered just eight hits and went 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position against Garcia, as the Hurricanes’ ace lowered his ERA to 2.08. “I thought we took some good swings today,” Herron said. “We had some chances to string [hits] together and we didn’t do it, but [Garcia] has good stuff. He threw a lot of strikes and we put our bats on the ball, but they played great defense and he got in a rhythm.” Once again, it was the Blue Devils’ youth that showed up at the plate. Freshmen Herron and shortstop Zack Kone each had two hits and sophomore third baseman Jack Labosky slapped a double into center field, just escaping the grasp of Chester. Herron has now hit safely in 11 straight games, and Kone finished the series 7-for12 at the plate with a triple and a home run in Saturday’s 12-5 win. “We’ve got three freshmen and five sophomores playing every day for us,” Pollard said. “We don’t have a senior in the lineup, so those guys have grown a lot as players. We’re not as good as we’re going to be, but they’ve turned themselves into a really good lineup. The kids have learned to compete.” In the ninth inning, Duke closer Mitch Stallings came in for his first work of the series, but was late to cover first base on a grounder to first baseman Justin Bellinger, See BASEBALL on Page 9

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Duke downs Hoos, punches ticket to ACC tournament Seth Johnson The Chronicle After heading into the locker room knotted at five goals apiece, the Blue Devils put the pedal down in the second half and did not look back en route to clinching a spot in the ACC tournament. Despite a slow start, No. 16 Duke used a nine-goal outburst in the second half to down Virginia 14-8 at Klöckner Stadium in Charlottesville, Va., in both teams’ final shot at an ACC tournament bid. Senior midfielder DUKE 14 Deemer Class led 8 the way, scoring UVA three of his five goals in the fourth quarter to set a new single-season record for goals by a Blue Devil midfielder. With the win Sunday, Duke has not lost to the Cavaliers in the regular season since 2004, and Virginia falls to 3-16 in conference play since winning its most recent national championship in 2011. “When you win, you don’t think about the little things that didn’t go your way, but when you lose, you’re overanalyzing every single play,” Class told GoDuke.com. “We know that

we’re right there, so we’ve just tried to learn from every game—win or loss—and then keep moving forward and luckily we got this one here so that we can extend our play into the conference tournament and try and get those losses back.” In the closing moments of the third quarter, Duke (8-6, 2-2 in the ACC) looked like a team scrambling, set up on the brink of losing its third straight conference game. A turnover due to a shot clock violation in the final two minutes and sloppy offensive rotation on the final possession left the Blue Devils searching for answers. Duke blanked the Cavaliers (6-7, 0-4) for 16:13 spanning the second and third quarters but held just a slim 9-7 lead as the game came down to the final 15 minutes. Those 15 minutes turned into one of the Blue Devils’ best all-around quarters of the season. The offense came to life less than two minutes into the frame when sophomore attackman Justin Guterding snagged a pass from senior midfielder Chad Cohan and connected on a jump shot to give Duke its biggest lead of the game. Less See M. LACROSSE on Page 8

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Senior Deemer Class scored five goals in Sunday’s road win, breaking teammate Myles Jones’ single-season record for goals by a Blue Devil midfielder.

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Blue Devils finish third at ACC championship Drew Johnson The Chronicle GREENSBORO, N.C.—The Blue Devils will need to colelect themselves in preparation for more postseason action after coming up empty-handed Sunday, but do not need to look far for a source of inspiration. Despite a collection of solid performances Sunday, No. 5 Duke watched No. 17 Virginia hoist the ACC championship trophy for the second consecutive year, finishing in third place after posting a three-day score of 883. The Blue Devils played catch-up from the start at Sedgefield Country Club’s Ross Course as the Cavaliers opened up an 11-shot lead after 18 holes Friday and only distanced themselves from Duke throughout the 54hole tournament. Freshman Virginia Elena Carta and sophomore Leona Maguire tied for 10th place, but it was not enough to put their team in contention. The Blue Devils never challenged the Virginia lead, but Duke head coach Dan Brooks expressed no concern about his team’s ability to sharpen up in time for next month’s national championship. Following Sunday’s round, he said he reminded his team of what happened following the squad’s ACC championship loss last season—the Blue Devils went on to reach the national semifinals. “We don’t have any reason to hang our heads,” Brooks said. “We played a tough golf course and if everybody on your team is just a little bit off and [on] the other team everybody’s really hot, it can look like a big gap. It is a big gap and hats off to Virginia.” Carta’s impressive back nine

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Competing in her first ACC championship, freshman Virginia Elena Carta birdied three of her final five holes to finish tied with teammate Leona Maguire for 10th place.

headlined Duke’s final round, as the freshman sunk three birdie putts in her final five holes to carve out an even-par 72 and post the team’s lowest round for the second straight day. The Udine, Italy, native was tied for 11th through 36 holes and was positioned to lose ground after a three-over-par front nine, but used a hot putter down the stretch to salvage a tie for 10th place. Although Carta eventually found her touch on the greens late Sunday, she admitted that poor putting limited her success. The long-hitting freshman created short approach shots into Sedgefield Country Club’s heavily-sloped greens, but

could not consistently take advantage of those opportunities with the flat stick. “I hit almost 16 greens every day and they were really, really close to the pins, so I’m really happy with my long game,” Carta said. “Hitting [that] many greens, my putter was horrible and I need to work especially on the short putts because I can’t make [that] many mistakes.” Maguire joined Carta at five over par thanks to rounds of 70, 75 and 74. The defending individual champion ended Friday’s round in third place after birdieing three of her final four holes, but struggled early Saturday and Sunday—shooting a combined seven over

par on the front nine—to push herself into black numbers. Maguire earned the team’s only eagle of the week, though, as she chipped in from just off the green on the par-five 15th Sunday. “I haven’t been playing the way I want this week, my ball-striking hasn’t been there and you can’t really get away with it on a course like this,” Maguire said. “The big thing for us is just fine-tuning everything. I don’t think any of us played the way we would want this week, but I guess it’s better now than at nationals.” With no Virginia golfer shooting higher than 73 Sunday, it was difficult for any team to gain ground on the defending champions. The Cavaliers ran away with the team title for the second straight year, backing up last season’s 26-shot rout with an 11-stroke margin of victory against runner-up Wake Forest. Cavalier senior Laura Coughlin posted three under-par rounds en route to capturing the individual title—her first career victory—but will return home with more than just ACC bragging rights. During the post-round awards ceremony, Virginia football center John Pond proposed to Coughlin, ending her action-packed weekend with another piece of memorable hardware—an engagement ring. Duke junior Sandy Choi was the most consistent member of her team, posting three rounds of 74. The Seoul, South Korea, native earned the most pars of any Duke player with 35 but—like Carta— could not get anything going with the putter and netted just seven birdies in the event, the fewest of any Blue Devil. See W. GOLF on Page 9

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Skid continues as Duke drops 2 weekend home matches David Rieder The Chronicle Two years ago, the Blue Devils fought their way to a 5-2 upset of North Carolina on Senior Day to secure the second seed in the ACC tournament and end Fred Saba’s home career on a high note. The Tar Heels made sure there would be no such magic this time around. No. 5 North Carolina swiftly took down Duke 6-1 Sunday at Ambler Tennis Stadium, spoiling Senior Day for Josh Levine and Daniel McCall. The Blue Devils CLEM 4 dropped the first DUKE 3 five singles matches after conceding 6 the doubles point, UNC DUKE 1 and head into the postseason having lost four in a row, including three to teams ranked in the top seven in the country. Sunday’s win was the Tar Heels’ fourth straight against Duke, a streak dating back to the 2014 ACC tournament semifinals. “We were just trying to finish strong,” Duke head coach Ramsey Smith said. “Obviously we didn’t do that. UNC is a great team, and they beat up on us today. There’s

really not much else to say. They’re having a great season, and they’re doing a great job. We need to flush this down the toilet.” The Tar Heels (24-3, 9-3 in the ACC) dominated wire to wire, beginning with doubles. Anudeep Kodali and Ronnie Schneider crushed the Duke duo of Levine and freshman Catalin Mateas on court three, winning 6-1. McCall and freshman Jason Lapidus put up a better showing against North Carolina’s No. 29-ranked team of Jack Murray and Brayden Schnur on court two but still fell 3-6. Sophomore Nicolas Alvarez and junior T.J. Pura held serve with the No. 2-ranked team of Brett Clark and Robert Kelly on court one, but that match was stopped when the Tar Heels clinched the doubles point with the North Carolina duo leading 4-3. Singles was a lopsided affair on courts three through six, but the matches on the two top courts were tight contests. Alvarez, ranked No. 22 in the country, lost the first three games of his match to No. 29 Schnur but rebounded to win Duke’s only match of the day to stave off the sweep. “He’s come along lately the last couple matches. Overall it’s been a tough season for See M. TENNIS on Page 8

Sanjeev Dasgupta | Chronicle File Photo Sophomore Nicolas Alvarez was the lone Blue Devil to notch a singles win Sunday against North Carolina, heading into the postseason riding a three-match winning streak.

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Thompson, Clark set new school records in California Ali Wells The Chronicle Out on the West Coast, the Blue Devils had their best meet of the outdoor season, earning four national top-20 performances and breaking two school records—one four decades old and one less than four weeks old. Distance harrier Shaun Thompson and pole vaulter Megan Clark posted two of the top marks in the country, headlining Duke’s four-day trip to the Golden State for the Mt. Sac Relays in Norwalk, Calif., and the Beach Invitational in Long Beach, Calif. Clark rewrote her own record set at the Battle of the Blues two weeks ago with a new outdoor best of 14 feet, 11 inches, and Thompson shattered Robbie Perkins’ 40-year-old record in the 10,000 meters by nearly 10 seconds with a new NCAA top time of 28:47.48. “I’m pretty thrilled about it,” Thompson said. “When records stand that long, it really shows how competitive those people were. Robbie Perkins ran in the Olympic Trials in his heyday and was really a phenomenal runner all the way around.” Running in just the second 10-kilometer race on the track of his career, Thompson adopted a more aggressive strategy from his debut performance at the Raleigh Relays in March. Focusing on turning in even splits throughout the 25 laps, the

M. LACROSSE from page 6 than three minutes later, the senior midfield duo of Class and Myles Jones kept the run going when Jones found Class on a backdoor pass along the crease for a dunk into the net, putting the Blue Devils up 11-7. Virginia scored with nine minutes remaining to close the lead to just three goals, but never found the back of the net again. On the other end, Class and Jones were far from finished. Class reached four goals on the day with a low-to-high finish for his 40th goal of the season—tying the single-season mark—before capping off the game with the record-setting tally on his fifth goal with 4:43 remaining, another unassisted laser fired from his stick after freeing his hands atop the midfield space. Jones—who tied Robert Rotanz’s 40goal mark a season ago—beat Cavalier goalkeeper Matt Barrett between Class’ final two tallies with a high-to-low shot into the bottom left corner of the net. By the end of the contest, the seniors had combined for seven goals and four assists. “We knew we had to step up,” Class said. “When it’s potentially your last meaningful game, because the season is on the line, you don’t want to have any regrets, so you go out there and you just play hard.” But a strong finish on offense is nothing if the defense is not on the other end of the field putting in the

Jack Dolgin | The Chronicle Graduate student Shaun Thompson broke a 40-year-old school record this weekend in the 10,000 meters, crossing the line in 28:47.48—the fastest time in the NCAA so far this season.

Baldwinsville, N.Y., native found himself pushing the pace of the field from the front of the pack. Professional harriers Miguel Amador Montilla of Equipo Porvenir and Robert Cheseret pulled away from Thompson to battle for the lead in the final laps, but Thompson finished nearly seven seconds ahead of the next collegiate athlete across the line. His time stands as the fastest in the NCAA so far this season by more than six seconds. “This is a first for me—being the

coach of a number-one runner in the country. This is a big moment for our program,” Duke director of track and field Norm Ogilvie said. But Thompson said he believes he still has room to improve that time when he faces stiffer competition at the NCAA Southeast regional qualifier in May. With the meet back on the East Coast in Jacksonville, Fla., he also will not be fighting a three-hour time difference the next time he toes the line in his new signature event.

same effort. Following a strong stand against top-ranked Notre Dame last weekend, allowing just eight goals in a loss, Duke’s defense stepped up again to finish the game. Junior goalkeeper Danny Fowler held fast in the cage, registering six of his 13 saves in the fourth period despite 13 shots peppering the cage from the Cavalier offense. For the game, Virginia outshot the Blue Devils 47-36, but Fowler’s 61.9 save percentage kept the home squad at bay. “I think that defensively we’re getting better. I think we found some pretty good combinations. We’re getting healthier. We’re gaining a ton of experience,” Duke head coach John Danowski told GoDuke.com. “The combination of all those things makes what we’re doing really hard to quantify.” After downing the Cavaliers, Duke awaits the result of Saturday’s Notre Dame-North Carolina contest to determine its seed in the ACC tournament. The Blue Devils are slated as the third seed, but if the Tar Heels lose, there will be a three-way tie for the No. 2 seed with Syracuse behind the Fighting Irish. Until then, Duke will look ahead to No. 17 Marquette, which will make the trip to Durham to face off against the Blue Devils at Koskinen Stadium Friday at 7 p.m. “I’m very proud of the group for hanging in there,” Danowski said. “They’ll write their own story here—whatever it’s going to be—here at the end. Let’s see if we can get better for Friday night when we’re playing Marquette.”

M. TENNIS from page 7 him, but he’s playing his best tennis [now],” Smith said. “[I’m] really glad to see him keep his composure and beat a heck of a player in Schnur. That guy is one of the best guys in college the last couple years. [The win] should give Nico a lot of confidence.” After Alvarez won six of the last seven games of the first set, he and Schnur went back and forth in the second. Down 5-6, Alvarez held serve to force a tiebreak. He earned his first match point at 6-5 in the tiebreak, but Schnur defended his serve. Alvarez then won the next point before converting on his second match point, this one on his own serve. That match was the last to finish on the afternoon as the Lima, Peru, native helped his team avoid being swept for the second time this season. The Blue Devils (11-14, 4-8) previously lost 7-0 Feb. 7 at Michigan. “I’m pleased with the way I played, the way I competed,” Alvarez said. “I had lost to Schnur last year, so it’s definitely encouraging to beat him this year, and it also gives me confidence going into the ACC tournament.” Pura battled No. 28 Schneider on court two and put a scare into his Tar Heel rival after falling behind early. Despite losing the first three games of the match, Pura got back on serve before dropping the first set, 4-6. Schneider led 5-1 in the second and was serving for the match when Pura got one break back. He then held serve to pull back to within two games, tossing his racket and screaming as he pumped himself up. But Schneider refused to surrender a point in the final game and pulled

“The day of the race I naturally woke up at 4:30 a.m. their time,” Thompson said. “It was kind of annoying, trying to force myself back to sleep, but by 7:30 I couldn’t sit in bed any longer. But I still had 14 hours left until my race and didn’t know what to do with myself. Up until it was time for me to warm up, I was yawning.” Also competing against a weaker field in the top open section of the pole vault at the Mt. Sac Relays Friday, Clark cleared her opening height of 13 feet, 9 1/4 inches on her first attempt, guaranteeing herself a top-two finish. Her teammate Madison Heath was the only other competitor in a field of eight to manage the height. Both Blue Devil vaulters passed on the next height, and Heath took the runway again with the bar set at 14 feet, 1 1/4 inches—her personal-best height. But the sophomore had to settle for 13 feet, 9 1/4 inches and runner-up honors as Clark raised the bar again. Clearing 14 feet, 1 1/4 inches and 14 feet, 7 1/4 inches on her second attempts and 14 feet, 11 inches on her first, Clark cruised past her previous school record but remained second in the national standings. The Fort Benning, Ga., native nearly jumped to the top of the national leaderboard with a strong attempt at 15 feet, 3 inches, but grazed the bar. The duo took up their poles again Saturday at the Beach Invitational, but See TRACK & FIELD on Page 12 out the 6-4, 6-3 triumph. “Ronnie [Schneider] is super tough,” Smith said. “They’ve had some battles in the past. It was weird—it was a really close match, closer than the score. It was one of those things where he couldn’t quite break through on some of the bigger points. Like he always does, he competed great, gave himself a chance there and it was fun to see him fighting like he always does.” Duke failed to win a set or offer much of a challenge on any of the other courts. The four Blue Devils combined to win just one game in the second set of their other matches as Levine lost to No. 47 Clark 6-1, 6-0 and Kelly defeated McCall 6-1, 6-1. Murray won 6-3, 6-0 against Lapidus, and Duke sophomore Andrew DeJoy—playing his first ACC match of the season—was on the wrong end of a 6-2, 6-0 decision against North Carolina’s Blaine Boyden. Mateas—Duke’s usual No. 2 singles player—did not play singles Sunday after falling in doubles. The freshman was held out of last weekend’s loss at then-No. 6 Wake Forest with a lingering injury but returned to the court Friday against Clemson, where he lost in straight sets. The Blue Devils will return to the court in Cary, N.C., Thursday as they open ACC tournament action as the No. 10 seed against seventh-seeded Notre Dame at 1 p.m. Duke will be the underdog in that match, but Smith wants his players to focus on themselves. “All we can do is do everything we can in our power to prepare ourselves as a team and each guy individually to be ready to go Thursday,” Smith said. “We need to focus on us. We need to get better with us.”

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sparking a Miami rally that enabled the Hurricanes to add their final two runs and settle the game’s final margin. It was Kone, though, that gave his head coach one of the game’s bright spots for the Blue Devils in the bottom half of the final frame despite lining out to right field. “It’s 9-0 with the best closer in the league on the mound and he handled that at-bat like a senior,” Pollard said. “He didn’t give it away. It’d be easy to go up there and wave at a slider and come back to the bench and say, ‘It was a tough day.’ He competed and battled and had a really good at-bat there.” Despite its inexperience, Duke battled throughout the weekend against ACC-leading Miami. With a midweek contest at Liberty and a weekend series at Virginia Tech on the horizon, the grit and toughness the Blue Devils showed against one of the nation’s best teams will be critical as they look to stay hot on the road down the stretch. “Our bats have gotten better every weekend, so that’s something we to try to build on and hopefully we keep swinging it [well],” Herron said. “Our staff is always pretty good, so we should be in position to win some more games as the season goes on.”

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ear Dr. Monday, Between alumni weekend and away formals, I haven’t been able to find a guy under the age of 35 who’s down to hook up this entire week. I saw the article about the new PASH Center giving out free sex toys and can’t believe their timing is so on point—where do I pick mine up? Thanks! Sexually Frustrated Dear Frustratingly Sexual, What is it about college that suddenly makes talking about sex okay? Where I lived, we were taught the right

boys! Let’s do a straight-male-centric review of the products the Center stocks: Birth control—Not my problem, lol. Sex toys—I haven’t done all the research here, but I do know all buttstuff is gay. STI prevention—STI prevention when you’re a senior is a bit like trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together after a great fall. But is it wrong for us men to feel excluded when we’re constantly treated like sexual deviants? I’ve personally always been hurt by this, because outside of the occasional ass grab at Shooters I wouldn’t sexually assault a fly—do you really need to remind

Monday Monday YOU’RE WELCOME way—the girls were too ashamed to have sex, and the boys did their best to shove the girls right off that sexual moral cliff. As my grandpappy always used to say, “If a key opens a lot of locks, it’s a master key. If a lock gets open by a lot of keys, it’s a whore. Like your grandmother.” Like most Duke students, I’ve commonly joked that Duke Student Government is about as useful to me as a bag of dildos. Taking that criticism to heart, DSG decided to fund the Peer Advocacy for Sexual Health Center and drop 15 grand to give each student a whopping $3 dollar subsidy for “sexual health products,” because Stanford did it. Do you really need more of a reason? I don’t mean to sound cynical, but student protests over the past few months have me worried the new Center will be a hotbed for criticism. Will the sex toys be available in a variety of skin tones? Are the black dildos going to be longer than the white ones (which, by the way, is completely irrelevant to the performance of the sex toy ... or so I’m told)? Are these sex toys being made by free-range workers who are paid a minimum of $15 an hour? We barely survived the whole A-Ville protest, and I’d hate to think the new Center’s decisions will lead to another round of students pitching tents to the thought of social justice. Like any good group of elected officials, though, DSG knows that the people who elected them are blithering morons. In a letter to The Chronicle, they’ve taken a strong stance against critics of the Center, arguing that any criticism is due to students’ immaturity and discomfort around sex and reminding students that they’ve worked really hard on this, so we should just trust them. While this defense is the same one I used for my Student Conduct case about hosting a sex party, sometimes criticism comes just because you just had a horrendously bad idea. What’s worse is how the Center treats one of our most vulnerable minorities on campus—the straight

me to “get consent?” Sure, the “experts” claim 31 percent of Duke women are sexually assaulted, yet out of my thousands of hot female friends, not even one has ever come to me to tell me she’s experienced a sexual assault. Plus, where is all the outrage? Tallman Trask hits one lowly parking attendant with his car and there’s a weeklong sit-in, yet we have sexual assault victims by the thousands and we haven’t even had a bake sale or something? It’s simply beyond belief. If we’re ever going to tackle the hookup culture on this campus, we need to focus on its real victims. So how can we make the men on our campus feel a little more of the free love the new PASH Center is already sending the women’s way? Move the girls back to East! Sure, this may have all started with the decision to move the Women’s Center back to East Campus— what’s a quick bus ride to report your sexual assault, after all—but why stop there? Boy-girl relations have been fraught with conflict for years, and this one-state solution simply isn’t working. Taking this first step towards peace by re-separating the genders would be a small show of goodwill towards Duke boys, trading us the brand new West Union for safety from the random, awkward dry-humping we’re famous for. This might seem like a radical step, but let’s not forget Duke’s heritage—back in the good old days, Trinity College on West was for the men, and East Campus was for the women. A return to the values of the 1930’s would bring morality back to this campus and might finally make Duke a place where everyone, regardless of race or gender, can finally get along. And, hey, even if that doesn’t work out, at least I’ll have my three dollar anal beads. Dr. Monday would like to notify all Duke students that Mad Hatter’s is actually owned by the same people as Saladelia. You have been lied to.

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Yes or no: a guide to consent A school in search of a soul

would like to begin with a completely non-exhaustive list of things that do not imply consent to sexual activity: revealing outfits, a person’s sexual history, being a person’s friend, sharing alcohol, using Tinder, being a person’s date, making out at Shooters, having sex last week, having sex last night, hanging out at LDOC, sharing a bed, sharing a bed while naked, being naked in general, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. What does imply consent to sexual activity? Asking for consent and getting a

line, or you can’t tell how much they have been drinking? Then ask yourself these two questions: One, would this person have sex with me if they had not been drinking? Two, would I trust this person to drive my family, my dog, and me home right now? If you answer anything other than “of course!” then back off. Erring on the side of caution is always a better call. The so-called “gray line” should always raise red flags. It’s important to note that Duke specifically states that being intoxicated or incapacitated yourself “does not diminish

it pretty much anywhere on campus, close your eyes and listen. You’ll hear the sound of the University growing. The distant beeping of earth-moving trucks in reverse. The disembodied voices of construction workers. The far-off roar of engines steering cranes in new positions. Silence, you’d think, is the sound of stagnation. But listen closely, and you’ll be hardpressed to find silence anywhere. Duke, the superorganism, is seldom silent. In one sense, Duke has always been

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clear, definitive, freely given, enthusiastic yes. A good determiner? “F*** yes!!” That should be the level of enthusiasm to look for. If you aren’t getting an enthusiastic yes, then assume the answer is a no. LDOC, a triumphant punctuation to a stressful semester, is right around the corner. As students plan their day of drunken debauchery, few will likely consciously consider the Duke Sexual Misconduct Policy. Take this as a reminder: in all your inebriated reveling, consent to sexual activity is both expected and required. LDOC is not a day without consequences, and high alcohol consumption is not an excuse to commit sexual assault. As I cautioned at the beginning of this year, don’t touch the butt. LDOC seems as good a time as any to remind the Duke community of the standards of conduct that Duke requires. As Duke’s Sexual Misconduct Policy states, “Consent is an affirmative decision to engage in mutually acceptable sexual activity given by clear actions or words.” Let’s break that down. An “affirmative decision” means that you choose to come to an agreeable decision. Choice is the key here: you cannot come to an acceptable decision if you are given no other option. A “no” must always be available. “Clear actions or words” means that there is no doubt in your mind, not even a little bit, that the other person wants to get down and dirty with you. And, per Duke’s policy, if there is even a sliver of doubt, “it is essential that each participant stops and clarifies, verbally, willingness to continue.” This is especially critical, because studies have found that while men believe women give nonverbal consent 60 percent of the time, women say they give nonverbal consent only 10 percent of the time. That’s a huge mismatch of perceptions with potentially disastrous consequences. Let’s say that you got clear, affirmative consent. Next question: is there alcohol involved? Per Duke’s policy, consent cannot be given if a person is incapacitated by drugs or alcohol, even if they give what you think is a verbal yes. How do you know if they’re incapacitated? If the person is stumbling around, slurring their words, passed out or just looks really, really drunk, then they can’t consent to sexual activity. If you look at a person and think, “Wow, Susan is having a really rough night,” then instead of trying to engage in sexual activity with Susan, how about you get her a cab so she can go home. But what if it looks like more of a gray

one’s responsibility to obtain consent and will not be an excuse for sexual misconduct.” Internalize this. Because if you break it, the starting point of punishment is expulsion. And you have the potential to cause another human being immense pain. You may not like the Duke policy. You may think the Duke policy overreaches. You may have all sorts of unhappy thoughts about the Duke policy. That really couldn’t matter any less. When you decided to enroll at this institution, you became subject to its standards. This is the policy every one of us agreed to follow. Consent is the difference between sex that is wanted and the scars that will be left behind by sexual assault. One in five women will be sexually assaulted in college. Survivors of sexual assault are significantly more likely to experience mental health problems, commit suicide and drop out of school. As a survivor of rape and sexual assault, I can attest to the physical, mental and emotional scars that are left behind when we ignore consent. The lack of a no is not consent. The lack of pushing you away is not consent. Consent can never be assumed. If you aren’t given clear consent for sexual activity, Duke requires you to assume that the answer is a no. Consent really is not that hard. It just requires us to communicate. As Duke students we manage to communicate about everything else. We ask our friends for notes we missed during class instead of sneaking into their room and taking them. We ask professors for extra credit instead of hacking their computer system and giving ourselves additional points. We ask our friends for $5 when we forget the Shooters fee instead of stealing their wallets and taking the money ourselves. We use our words to ask for what we want. Like adults. And when we get a no, we don’t whine and complain about our sorry little lives until we either get a yes or we force a yes. There is no reason to lose our basic skills of communication when it comes to sex. Ask first, learn to take rejection, and accept the responsibility you have as a member of this community. Let’s have more “f*** yes!!” sex. I want to live in a world where all the sex that is had is sex that is wanted. And getting to that world just requires a simple question you can personalize a thousand different ways: “Do you want to have sex?” And accept the response. Dana Raphael is a Trinity junior. This is her final column of the semester.

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growing. The single-room schoolhouse of 1838 has become the massive research university of 2016. A series of strategic alliances—first with the Methodist Church, later with a Methodist family, the Dukes— allowed the young institution to grow and flourish through the 19th century. The college didn’t come to Durham until 1892. Duke wasn’t even called “Duke” until 1924. West Campus would not soar in gothic glory above the central Carolina pinelands until the 1930s. But, to be clear, the latest round of construction is unprecedented. West Union’s thick glass panels are still being lofted into place. A hulking parking deck is taking shape at the end of Science Drive. An arts building is rising on Campus Drive. We will soon break ground on a new East Campus residence hall. Not long ago, forbidding blue fences and towering red cranes stood on either side of Duke Chapel. (Has Duke ever celebrated an LDOC quite like this year’s “Last Day of Crane?”) President Brodhead describes our time on Duke’s campus as “the biggest building boom on campus since Duke was created.” Today, I offer my own answer to the question many of us have pondered while walking past the welders bending West Union into being, eating breakfast in a Marketplace redolent of sawdust and spackle or staring forlornly into the sometimes-open-but-always-cordoned-off doors to Duke Chapel: “What’s behind all this construction?” We’ve all heard the staid, conventional explanations for Duke construction. They say, “Duke is all about pioneering and innovation.” They say, “You’ll love the new spaces for vital student services.” They say, “Can’t you tell what progress looks like?” They say, “Glass boxes are the way of the future!” But behind the luster of “Duke Forward,” I suspect less lofty sentiments are lurking. I wonder if the construction is more cosmetic than transformational. Might it have less to do with a coherent vision of what we should become, and more to do with a nagging sense of inadequacy at what we are? Duke has always been a school with a chip on its shoulder. We have an Old World look and a new-money endowment. We’re younger than our lighter-blue rival down the road. We’ve never been in the Ivy League, though we crave the bogus rankings that show how impressively we measure up with those bastions of the Northeast. Duke will fail if we try to be another Yale. We can build all the spiraling neoGothic towers we want—we will not be Yale. We can make admissions ever more selective—we will not be Yale. We can funnel billions into our endowment— we will not be Yale. We can even poach our president from Yale—and we will not be Yale. We are setting ourselves up

for failure if our yardstick for success is to become the “Harvard of the South” or the “Stanford of the East.” That’s not because those expectations are too high—it’s because they’re too low. We shouldn’t settle for anything less than our highest potential. We must remain wholly Duke—authentically, irrepressibly Duke. We arrived at Duke in our adolescence, only to realize that we are not the only ones experiencing growing pains. Duke the institution is sharing in the same sensations many

of us are feeling as individuals: intense competition, discomfort about our roots, constant anxiety over status and position, validation only in metrics and rankings and existential uncertainty about who we are and where we’re going. Emerging from adolescence will mean preserving what is best in us while continuing to work on what we know we can improve. It will mean coming to peace with ourselves. Let’s build from what we already know Duke does well. We have thoughtful, dream-driven students who come from all over the world to study here. We have brilliant, accomplished faculty who for the most part genuinely care about undergraduates. We have a sylvan, sprawling campus. We have a medical system known the world over for groundbreaking research and restorative treatment. We have athletic achievement in spades, matched only by the school spirit it inspires. Above all, we have a sense of striving, the confidence that Duke’s best days aren’t behind us, but on the road ahead. Then, let’s tackle what we all know we can do better. Let’s expand financial aid, replacing loans with grants so that every Duke graduate can go confidently into the world without the burden of student debt. Let’s prioritize recruiting faculty who will teach with enthusiasm and mentor with verve. Let’s make sure that every student feels fully at home in a cohesive, diverse residential environment. (Does anyone else miss the East Campus experience?) Let’s reconcile our global reach with our local footprint. Let’s go out to support all our athletes, not just our famous friends on the men’s football and basketball teams. Keats once likened education to “soulmaking.” The student takes in the wisdom of the world and uses it to discover her ethical bearings or, to employ a word that has lately fallen out of fashion, her soul. Soul-making requires discernment. It demands a synthesis of the flaws and tensions and glories at one’s core. A more authentic Duke would use this latest round of construction to spark a season of soul-making. It’s time to embrace the creative tensions at Duke’s core: insecurity with what we are and yearning for what we can become, a Methodist past and an ecumenical present, the English liberal arts college and the German research university. The modern university emerged from the “Medieval Synthesis” bridging faith and reason (Eruditio et Religio, anyone?). As Duke matures, we must uncover a new synthesis blending the best of what we are with the most inspiring of what we can become. Until then, we’ll just be a school in search of a soul. Matthew King is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs on alternate Mondays.

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TRACK & FIELD from page 8 the second straight day of competition proved to be taxing. Clark finished third with a mark of 14 feet, 2 inches and Heath took 11th with a clearance of 13 feet, 6 1/4 inches. “For Megan at the Olympic Trials, she is going to have to go through a qualifying round and then come back two days later if she makes the finals,” Duke associate head coach Shawn Wilbourn said. “I wanted to prepare her a little bit for that and have her experience jumping in meets fairly close together.” Three Duke field athletes turned in season-best performances in Long Beach. Thomas Lang posted the top mark by a collegiate athlete in his best event, throwing the javelin 237 feet, 2 inches—good for 17th in the NCAA and first in the ACC. In the women’s hammer throw, freshman Stefani Vukajlovic earned a mark of 183 feet, 4 inches on her third and final attempt to move up to second on Duke’s all-time list. Capping off the weekend, redshirt junior Urina Harrell threw the shot put for a personal-best mark of 50 feet, 4 inches—her first time breaking the 50-foot barrier. The Blue Devils also recorded their share of highlights in the multi-events. After Wednesday’s first four events of the heptathlon, redshirt senior Teddi Maslowski was four points ahead of the day-one total from her school-record performance at the Mt. Sac Relays last year. But she felt the effects of the ankle injury she suffered during the indoor season in the long jump, landing at 18 feet, 11 1/2 inches—more than a foot shy of her program record. Maslowski recorded new personal-bests in both throws of the seven-event competition, the shot put and the javelin, and in the 200-meter dash en

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route to her 5,569-point final score, good for 16th in the nation. “Teddi had some injuries, so we haven’t been able to work on some of the technical events, especially the long jump,” Wilbourn said. “But I think that score is going to get us into NCAAs and not have to do another heptathlon so we can continue to let her ankle heal.” Competing in his first decathlon since his freshman campaign, junior Chaz Hawkins showed marked improvement in the 10-event contest after his stint as a sprint specialist. Hawkins recorded the fastest time of the field in the 100-meter dash, stopping the clock at 10.82 seconds, and the second-fastest time in the 400 meters in 48.64 seconds. His final total of 6,718 outscored his previous personal-best by nearly 350 points. Maslowski returned to the track Saturday to wrap up Duke’s trip to California with the lead-off leg of the 4-x-400-meter relay. She, Madeline Kopp, Mackenzie Kerr and Maddy Price finished in a combined time of 3:35.07—the fastest collegiate quartet in the field. The Blue Devils were only outrun by a TMBTC squad featuring Olympic medalists Allyson Felix, Dawn Harper-Nelson and Jeneba Tarmoh. Duke’s three 400-meter specialists had all competed in the individual race before the relay, with Price recording a new personalbest and the meet’s top collegiate time of 53.53 seconds. “They ran against the best 400-meter sprinter in the country, arguably [in the] world, with Allyson Felix,” Ogilvie said. “That was a great opportunity for them and they really came into their own. It was great to see Madeline Kopp back in top form—she split 52-point on the second leg and that’s very encouraging for things to come.” The Blue Devils host their second and final

TEEN CANCER from page 1 that people in this age range are caught in between two distinct stages of life— childhood and adulthood—which creates additional difficulties for them. “Teens are trying to figure out what to do with their lives personally and professionally,” he said. “They have tons of things going on.” Many adolescents struggle with balancing other commitments in their lives because of the lengthy treatments they have to undergo, which often require clinic visits multiple times a week or overnight hospital stays, he said. In addition, treatment can interfere with the ability of adolescents to separate from their parents and can have negative effects on their social lives, Wechsler explained. “When you’re younger, it’s not as much of an issue, but in high school or college, peers are really important,” he said. To address these problems, the program plans to include psychologists, social workers and recreational specialists who specialize in working with adolescents. They will assist patients in coping with their diagnoses and will also provide career counseling, Wechsler noted. Fertility specialists will also be available to help young adults if their particular treatment could impact their ability to have kids in the future, he added. “There will be physicians and physician supporters who are very familiar with the types of tumors and cancers that people in this age range get,” Wechsler said. Schreiber noted that the program is still in development and that the logistics are dependent on space and funding. He said that the doctors he has spoken with in DUHS are excited about his fraternity’s donation. Junior Petros Palandjian—president of Pi Kappa Alpha

fraternity—and senior Will Clark led the efforts to raise money on behalf of Schreiber and freshman Bobby Menges. The GoFundMe page raised $10,000 in the first seven hours after it was created and $20,000 in the first 24 hours of its activity. More than one month later, the fraternity has accumulated more than $55,000 in donations and surpassed its $50,000 goal. Although Pi Kappa Alpha initially was donating to Duke Children’s Hospital because the facility currently treats adolescents, Schreiber noted that he was excited that the group can now make a more specific contribution. Wechsler said that he hopes the new program will draw awareness to the prevalence of cancer in adolescents. Although between 40,000 and 50,000 adolescents are diagnosed with cancer each year, there is much more awareness about pediatric cancer, which affects only about 12,000 children annually, he explained. The idea of teenage cancer receiving little attention was also addressed during Vice President Joe Biden’s campus visit in February, when he discussed barriers to curing cancer with a panel of experts. One panelist, Niklaus Steiner—director of the Center for Global Initiatives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—shared the story of his daughter Sophie, who passed away at age 15 due to cancer. Steiner and his wife have since founded the Be Loud! Sophie Foundation to support adolescent and young adult cancer patients. Wechsler explained that because teenagers often think of themselves as invincible, they tend to ignore possible symptoms, which delays their diagnoses and makes the cancer harder to treat. “We want to increase awareness [of cancer] in the population of 15- to 29-year-olds but also in the community,” Wechsler said.

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