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Five-star Matthew Hurt chooses Duke

By Andrew Donohue Associate Sports Editor

With Zion Williamson, R.J. Barrett and Cam Reddish all declaring for the NBA draft, Duke needs to reload its wing lineup. Friday afternoon’s announcement will go a long way towards filling those minutes with more star power.

Matthew Hurt announced his commitment to play for the Blue Devils at John Marshall High School in Rochester, Minn., opting for Duke in favor of his other three finalists, Kentucky, Kansas and North Carolina.

The 6-foot-9 forward is the second-ranked power forward in the Class of 2019, behind only Jaden McDaniels, who is projected to commit to Washington. Hurt will immediately address a glaring issue with last year’s Blue Devils: 3-point shooting ability.

The Rochester, Minn., native is not a standout athlete, but is extremely skilled with the ball in his hands and can create his own shot with ease. Hurt’s height enables him to launch shots from anywhere on the court, and he is capable of knocking down NBA-range threes consistently.

Hurt dominated his high school competition, finishing his career there as the all-time leading scorer in Minnesota history racking up 3,819 points. His senior year, he averaged 37 points per game along with 12.3 rebounds. The forward spent his summer playing for D1 Minnesota and averaged 17.1 points on the Adidas Gauntlet against other elite competition.

Photo: Courtesy of Duke University Archives; Graphic: Jeremy Chen | Graphic Design Editor The Blue Devil stands around a bonfire as part of a University pep rally before the Duke-North Carolina football game in 1950.

A look at the history of how the mascot ‘Blue Devils’ came to be

By Lexi Kadis Senior Editor

Forbes names Duke a top employer

By Ben Leonard Managing Editor

Forbes has named Duke University one of the top employers in the nation.

The University checked in at No. 30 overall on Forbes’ list of “America’s Best Employers 2019” and Duke University Health System checked in at No. 170. The University was only bested by two others in the education category—Stanford University and Harvard University. This is the fourth year in a row Duke has been named on the list.

Trader Joe’s ranked No. 1, with Southwest Airlines, Lilly, Costco, Garmin, Google and Stanford rounding out the top seven rankings, in that order. The rankings are for companies with 5,000 or more employees.

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Courtesy of Duke University Archives The Blue Devil poses with a cheerleader in 1938.

Grizzlies, polar bears and dreadnaughts, oh my! If not for The Trinity Chronicle, one of these could have been Duke’s mascot.

The history of the Duke Blue Devils traces back to the 1920s when the University was still known as Trinity College. At the time, the school did not have a singular nickname, so The Trinity Chronicle started a campaign in 1921 to select one.

But the first “Blue Devils” were not football and basketball fans, but rather French troops who fought during World War I. The Chasseurs Alpins—French soldiers who engaged in trench warfare in the French Alps—gained the nickname “les Diables Bleus” for their eye-catching blue uniform that included a cape and beret, according to Duke Archives. After the United States entered the war in 1917, bands of French Diables Bleus toured the country to raise money for the war effort.

As World War I came to an end, the Trinity College Board of Trustees decided to lift the 25-year ban on football.

In 1920, Trinity began playing in an intercollegiate football competition.

During its first season back, the football team was called a variety of names, including the Trinity Eleven, the Blue and White or the Methodists.

On Sept. 28, 1921, The Trinity Chronicle printed an editorial column that called for a new name to represent Trinity College and replace the assortment of nicknames that had cropped up during the football team’s first season.

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Third time is not the charm

Questioning the merit in merit scholarships

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Women’s tennis fell to North Carolina in the ACC championship match Sunday in Cary.

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EDITORIAL: Should Duke award $250,000 to students based on ‘merit’ rather than need?

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Cornell’s Dean Smith to Where will hundreds park head Duke University Press after Central Campus closes?

By Lexi Kadis

By Ben Leonard

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Dean Smith is taking over Duke University Press—no, not that Dean Smith.

Administrators announced in a news release Thursday that Dean Smith, director of Cornell University Press, will become the director of Duke University Press after Steve Cohn, the current director, retires this summer.

“I am honored and thrilled to be selected as director of Duke University Press,” Smith said in the release. “I look forward to working with my colleagues at the press and across the University to publish high-quality scholarship and advance the frontiers of knowledge in new and exciting ways.”

As director of Duke University Press, Smith will oversee the publication of about 140 books each year, along with 60 journals and several digital collections. Founded in 1921, the press is currently located in Brightleaf Square in downtown Durham.

Provost Sally Kornbluth said Smith will make a “wonderful new leader” in the release.

She praised his business acumen, extensive knowledge of the publishing industry and his focus on new technologies.

Through the course of his 30-year publishing career, Smith has prioritized the transition from print publications to web-accessible digital editions. During his time as director of Cornell University Press, the number of published eBooks increased from 350 to more than 3,000, and 150 open access texts were published on the Cornell Open website.

Smith helped revamp “Project Muse,” an online database for humanities scholarship,

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The Blue Zone, which is currently listed as having space for 1,350 vehicles, will eliminate vendors’ and contractors’ access to those spots to make room for students next semester. That change frees up enough space for the additional residents coming from Central Campus after it closes May 15, according to Beth Campbell,

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to include eBooks and journals.

He is the author of the book “American Boy,” which won the Washington Writer’s Prize and the Maryland Prize for Literature in 2001.

He also contributes poetry to the publications “Poetry East,” “Open City,” “The Virginia Literary Review” and “Gulf Stream.”

Smith will succeed Cohn July 1, 2019. Cohn has worked at Duke’s press since 1984, and has served as director since 1993.

Kornbluth also thanked Cohn for his time at the helm of Duke University Press in the news release.

“Steve has built the press into a national powerhouse that’s held in high esteem throughout the academic world,” Kornbluth said. “Steve has worked tirelessly to ensure the highest possible standards for the press.”

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Former Congressman, presidential candidate Ron Paul discusses libertarian values at Thursday talk

By Mona Tong Staff Reporter

To Ron Paul, there cannot be liberty if there are constant wars, an issue especially pertinent in the present century.

At a Thursday event on campus, Paul—School of Medicine ’61—argued that liberty is grounded in nonviolence and nonaggression, and that U.S. foreign policy should be based on the “golden rule” of not doing to other countries what the United States would not want done to itself.

The talk was co-sponsored by Duke Young Americans for Liberty and POLIS. “The purpose of government in a free society is to protect your freedom and your liberty,” said Paul, a three-time presidential candidate and former Texas congressman.

Paul noted that wars shaped his childhood. Staying curious about why these wars happened and what the Founding Fathers thought about war, he was able to continuously expand his thinking about what liberty and libertarianism truly meant.

The Founders had wanted the people, not the government, to make the decision about whether or not to go to war, Paul said. He criticized current and past governments for their over-involvement in wars and sectors of individual life and freedom.

Paul asserted that those who advocate for increased government involvement do not realize that that the freer the society, the more prosperous it is, and the freer the market, the bigger the middle class grows.

He added that many people are afraid of the increased individual responsibility that comes with reduced government, but that they should not be and should instead accept it.

Paul was also critical about the federal government’s role in regulating money and currency, expressing disdain for the government’s virtual monopolization of fiat currency.

“What I think we should do is get rid of at least 80% of the federal government, and we all would be better off,” he said at the end of the talk.

Specifically pointing to the elimination of legal tender laws, Paul said if the government did participate in a monetary system, currency values should be honestly set and all competing

Michelle Tai | Staff Photographer Ron Paul, a former congressman and presidential candidate, came to campus last week for a talk sponsored by the Young Americans for Liberty and POLIS.

currency forms should be legalized.

Paul also underscored the importance of being well educated about issues, staying curious for new and expanded knowledge and constantly sharing new ideas.

The former congressman said that he is confident that individuals can and should play a role in creating the change they wish to see as long as they are a participant in sharing and spreading ideas.

Patrick Petsche, a Republican candidate who lost the primary election for a North Carolina State House of Representatives seat, was invited by the Duke College Republicans to speak prior to Paul.

Petsche is also a strong proponent for individual liberty and spoke about his own platform and ideological values, echoing many of the libertarian values that Paul later emphasized in

his speech. He noted that apathy is dangerous to a republic, and everyone must be educated and engaged or else change doesn’t matter.

Paul explained that libertarians must be tolerant of other people, allowing them to do anything they want as long as they do not hurt others.

“I don’t want to think that you can’t change things because I think you can,” Paul said. “I think ideas have consequences and I think ideas come not from large groups of people or from the collective, they come from individuals like you that decide ‘This is good, I’m going to participate in this’ and do your best to understand it. If you understand it and present it, somebody will make use of it. Ideas do have consequences and I think our ideas are always progressing.”

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BROOMS OUT WOMEN’S TENNIS: FALLS TO UNC IN ACC TOURNAMENT • WOMEN’S GOLF: NO ACC CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE

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TIGERS TAMED

The Blue Devils’ hot streak continues with hard-fought sweep against Clemson

By Evan Kolin Staff Writer

In the bottom half of the ninth inning of the series finale, Duke left fielder Kyle Gallagher leapt for a highlightDUKE 9 reel catch over the leftCLEM 8 field fence, bringing back a potential gameDUKE 5 tying home run. with one CLEM 3 on And and two out, the Tigers’ designated DUKE 9 hitter Davis Sharpe CLEM 8 connected on another long fly ball to left field.

The freshman flipped his bat and pumped his fist, only for Gallagher to catch the ball about 10 feet short of the fence to end the game, securing the Blue Devils’ third victory of the weekend.

Duke swept No. 23 Clemson this past weekend at Doug Kingsmore Stadium in Clemson, S.C., winning all three games by a combined four runs.

The weekend marked the Blue Devils’ first series win against the Tigers since 1993, and first sweep since 1948.

“Really proud of our team and our coaching staff,” head coach Chris Pollard said. “Thought we showed a lot of resilience and toughness.”

With Sunday’s victory, Duke (24-16, 11-10 in the ACC) has now won nine of its past ten games

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Matt Mervis’ home run in the top of the ninth inning put Duke ahead for good Sunday. after losing three of its first four ACC series. The trajectory of the season has been eerily similar to that of the 2016 Blue Devils, a team that lost its first three conference series before turning it on late in the year for the program’s first NCAA Regional appearance since 1961.

But with the injuries Duke has faced over the course of the season, Pollard is proud of the way this year’s squad has been able to fight through despite not playing at full strength. “[The 2016 team] never had to overcome injuries,” Pollard said. “They got off to a slow start but it was really just the product of not playing well, whereas this team has had to overcome a lot with regards to injuries. A lot of

guys have really stepped up in spite of other guys getting hurt and that is what I am really proud of about this group.”

The series began with Ben Gross on the mound, whose emergence as Duke’s Friday night starter came as a product of Graeme Stinson’s extended absence. And while Gross has been typically lights-out in that role en route to a 3.18 ERA, he struggled this time around.

Clemson (25-15, 11-10) lit the 6-foot-1 righty up for six runs over the first four innings to take a 6-4 lead. But Gross settled down to blank the Tigers over his final two frames, keeping the Blue Devils in the game.

“It was not the dominant performance that

we’ve seen out of [Gross] over the previous four weeks,” Pollard said. “But it was gritty and the thing we liked was a clean scoreboard in the fifth and the sixth inning that kept us within striking distance when it could’ve gotten away from us on Friday night.”

A few innings later, Duke was down to its final strike, trailing 8-7 in the top of the ninth. But on a 2-2 count, freshman infielder Ethan Murray raked an RBI single to knot the score at eight.

And after Clemson made a call to the bullpen, sophomore catcher Michael Rothenberg gave the Blue Devils the lead with an RBI double to the gap in left-center field.

Overall, the duo went 12-of-24 throughout the series, forming a staple toward the bottom of Duke’s lineup that gives opposing teams no easy outs.

“We had guys step up throughout the lineup,” Pollard said. “Ethan Murray was really really good this weekend..it was neat just to get production and big at-bats from different guys” Junior lefty Bill Chillari provided Duke’s best start of the weekend on Saturday, tossing 4.1 innings of one-run ball. A first-run sacrifice fly pitted the Blue Devils down 1-0 early, but plated five runs between the fifth and sixth innings—powered by two RBIs each from Rothenberg and Chris Crabtree—to take a commanding 5-1 edge.

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

Duke falls to North Carolina in ACC finals

By Mitchell Gladstone Sports Features Editor

CARY, N.C.—Kaitlyn McCarthy had been in this position before. Nearly a year ago, the then-junior needed to pull out a crucial third set for Duke to bring home its first ACC title since 2012.

So, after failing to do so in 2018, McCarthy looked ready to flip the script and help the Blue Devils finish off a seemingly improbable comeback.

Yet, just six points after the senior doublefaulted and failed to hold serve down 4-3, North Carolina was celebrating once again.

The top-seeded Tar Heels held on for a 4-2 win, giving North Carolina a fourth consecutive ACC tournament title DUKE 2 at Cary Tennis Park 4 Sunday afternoon.

UNC No. 2 seed Duke failed to take the doubles point for the second time in three matches, a point that could’ve proved vital in the Blue Devils’ quest to end the Tar Heels’ conference dominance.

It was also North Carolina’s third win of the season against Duke, and there’s a very good chance the teams could meet once more in the Final Four in Orlando next month.

“UNC’s a great team, but I also think we’re a great team,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said.

“I love where our team is, even though we lost

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Maria Mateas lost in her match Sunday in the ACC tournament championship. like that. We proved to ourselves today that we can beat them.”

Neither the Blue Devils (23-3) nor Tar Heels (29-1) controlled things in doubles, at least early on. Duke lead on all three courts a few games in, but North Carolina would come back to take control on Courts 1 and 3, ultimately holding on for a pair of 6-3 wins to take the early advantage.

The momentum carried over into singles, and it looked like the Tar Heels might just run away with the victory. Margaryta Bilokin lost 3-6, 2-6 without much of a fight as classmate

Maria Mateas fell behind 2-6, 1-5 on Court 1.

With North Carolina grabbing four of the six first sets, the Blue Devils desperately needed to make some noise.

Fortunately, Ellyse Hamlin did just that, polishing off a 7-5, 6-1 win to get Duke on the board and extend the senior’s individual winning streak to a half dozen.

“Ellyse is such a fighter,” Ashworth said. “[She] did a great job of staying composed….

She’s been so solid for us over the last two years and never has any mental doubt when she

walks on the court.”

Mateas, in the meantime, clawed back to level her second set at 5-5, yet the Chapel Hill native failed to give herself a shot in a tiebreaker, unable to hold serve down 5-6. That put the Tar Heels within a point of the title.

Next door, Kelly Chen continued her battle.

After losing the first set in a tiebreaker, Chen would win 12 of the final 13 games to give the Blue Devils their second point.

It was a similar story for Meible Chi, who also lost a first-set tiebreaker to seventh-ranked Alexa Graham. Chi turned on the jets, cruising to a 6-3 second set win and the junior from Weston, Fla., looked to be on her way to a victory, leading 4-0 in the third.

But Chi would not get the chance to see out her win. The hoots and hollers from Court 4 came mid-point as North Carolina stormed over to celebrate with tournament MVP Cameron Morra, as she came from down a set to take out McCarthy.

“I was really proud of how Meible handled herself in coming back and not letting that first set affect her,” Ashworth said.

Duke, by virtue of its 13 ACC regular-season victories, earned a double bye, meaning the Blue Devils didn’t have to start their postseason run until Friday.

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WOMEN’S GOLF

Blue Devils fall short of 3rd straight ACC title

By Benjamin Chen Staff Writer

Coming off two straight ACC championship titles the past two seasons, Duke came into Greensboro, N.C., Thursday hoping to add to its collection of 21 conference title trophies.

But after a dominating performance from an in-state opponent and a tournament schedule change, the Blue Devils left the Sedgefield Country Club empty-handed.

No. 3 Wake Forest outpaced the field throughout the tournament to claim the championship, storming out of the gates with an 8-under-par first round that gave it a commanding lead it never relinquished. The Demon Deacons finished 14-under-par for a total score of 850, well above the runner-up, Florida State, which carded a 6-under-par 858.

After a relatively mediocre 4-over-par second round, No. 2 Duke rounded out the top three with a 4-over 868.

“Third is not what we came over here to achieve, so of course it’s disappointing,” Blue Devil head coach Dan Brooks said. “But we’ve got a lot of golf left in the season, and we’re going to get after it.”

Those second-round struggles came one day earlier than originally scheduled. The Friday leg of the three-day tournament was called off due to thunderstorms and inclement weather, moving the second round of the championship up to Thursday, immediately after the first round. As a result, all players had to play the full 18-hole course back-to-back, without much of a break in between.

Florida State took advantage with a 3-under 285 in that round to leap into second place, pushing the Blue Devils to fourth as Wake Forest extended its lead. Duke’s solid final round score of 287 was just enough for a third-place finish ahead of Virginia, but nothing more.

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Duke women’s golf did not pull off the ACC championship three-peat, and finished the weekend in third place. rolling—20 minutes later you’re teeing off again,” Brooks said.

“I would’ve loved to regroup after the first round but that’s not the way it was.”

Despite not leaving with a win, the Blue Devils had some excellent individual performances, with two players ending up in the top five. Junior Ana Belac’s third-place finish was tied for her highest all season, and she was one of just four individuals in the tournament to finish below par. The 36-hole pace on the first day did not faze her, as pars in Round One and Three were matched with a 4-under 68 in Round Two,

highlighted by a 10th hole eagle.

“She’s one of those players that just keeps getting better— from the beginning of her freshman year to now has just been a constant improvement,” Brooks said. “This is not a lot different from what she’s been doing—it’s a good finish, but she’s been playing this level of golf for a little while now.”

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Offensive struggles continue against North Carolina

By Jonathan Browning Staff Writer

After posting its lowest scoring output of the season against Notre Dame, Duke looked to turn things around against rival North Carolina and finally win against a top-10 team. The Tar Heels and their premier defense, featuring one of the top goalies in the nation in Taylor Moreno, had other ideas.

No. 13 Duke’s struggles continued against No. 3 North Carolina Saturday evening at Koskinen Stadium, 19 losing UNC 19-5—its scoring 5 lowest DUKE output of the season and their lowest scoring output since March 2, 2018 when the Blue Devils scored five goals in a loss to Stanford. In a rivalry that is, across most sports, historically close, it hasn’t been for the women’s lacrosse team, with the Tar Heels winning their ninth straight against the Blue Devils.

“I’m disappointed—I thought that we competed hard against UNC, certainly better than we did last week against Notre Dame,” said Duke head coach Kerstin KImel. “We knew what to expect, we worked hard all week in practice. [But] unfortunately we did not do a good job of falling back on our training tonight in the game.”

After an up-and-down 15 minutes to start the match that saw Duke trail by as many as

three, senior attacker Olivia Jenner and star sophomore attack Charlotte North scored consecutively to bring the Blue Devils within one goal at 4-3. But that’s as close as it ever was.

The Tar Heels rattled off five straight goals to end the half and followed it up with two more to start the second before Duke ever managed to get the ball between the pipes again.

“On our looks offensively [during that stretch], I don’t think we did a good job taking care of the ball and executing when we had the opportunities that we had,” said Kimel. “UNC’s offense is really potent and our gameplan with number three [Jamie Ortega] and number eight [Katie Hoeg], I thought at times it looked good and, at times, I don’t think that we executed that as well as we wanted to.”

It was a sloppy first half for the Blue Devils.

After averaging only 16 turnovers per game, Duke (9-7, 2-5 in the ACC) turned it over 12 times in the first half alone. Eight of those turnovers were caused by the Tar Heels, who only average seven caused turnovers per game.

For a defense that thrives between the posts, North Carolina looked elite all around against the Blue Devils, who struggled to get it across the field cleanly, going 9-13 on clears in the first half.

Duke’s carelessness with the ball stood in stark contrast to North Carolina (12-3, 5-2), which ranks No. 1 in the country in least turnovers per game. On Saturday, the Tar Heels had even less than their average, only turning the ball over nine times the whole game.

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Duke women’s lacrosse struggled to get anything going on offense against the Tar Heels.

“UNC is really aggressive and I thought there were just a couple opportunities where we didn’t do a good job of protecting our sticks, whether it was a draw win or trying to get the ball out in the clear,” said Kimel. “We carried ourselves into trouble too far before we tried to get ourselves out of trouble and it put ourselves in a position where we were

vulnerable to get checked.”

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Freshman Sam Hall cut the Tigers’ deficit in half with a two-run home run in the ninth, but Thomas Girard was able to shut the door to secure the series win.

Pollard said before the series that he would not determine the starter for the series finale until after Saturday’s contest, eventually deciding to roll with Cooper Stinson. But the freshman righty did not have his best outing Sunday afternoon, allowing seven earned runs across 4.2 innings. A six-run splurge provided the majority of the damage, transforming an 8-2 Duke advantage to a tie ball game.

Both bullpens, however, were dominant, with the contest staying tied until the top of the ninth. It was then that junior designated hitter Matt Mervis provided the deciding blow, springing a solo shot that would prove to be the game-winner.

Next, the Blue Devils will take on North Carolina Central Tuesday before traveling to Chestnut Hill, Mass. for a three-game series at Boston College. With the end of the regular season just under a month away now, Pollard is just trying to ride this hot streak as long as he can.

“We talk about earned confidence— the confidence you get from going through the struggles and coming out the other side of it tougher because of the experience,” Pollard said. “And that is what this team has now. They are battletested and they’ve gone through a rough patch and overcome it. They are playing very loose right now so not a whole lot to change—stay out of their way.”

make things a little more difficult from the get-go, playing indoors in Chapel Hill due to severe weather Friday night.

They dropped their first doubles point since their March 6 matchup with the Tar Heels, giving No. 7 seed Virginia an early advantage. But Bilokin and Chi made quick work of their matches, dropping just five combined games to give Duke a lead, and Mateas later finished off the 4-2 victory, taking her second-set tiebreaker to send the Blue Devils back to the semifinals.

Against third-seeded Florida State, Duke grabbed the doubles point with relative ease, only to fall behind 2-1 after McCarthy and Mateas fell in straight sets.

Chen and Bilokin then won for a second consecutive day, putting the Blue Devils back ahead, but a come-from-behind win by the Seminoles’ Emmanuelle Salas put all eyes on Court 5.

Hamlin, who had lost just twice in singles all season before Saturday, took the first set 6-3 and closed things out in a second-set tiebreaker to set the stage for a Tobacco Road rematch.

Duke will now have an extended break before the NCAA tournament begins. The selection show is set for April 30, when the Blue Devils will learn their opponents—it is expected they will host the first three rounds as one of the top eight seeds.

“We just have to stay sharp,” Ashworth said. “We don’t really have to change anything.”

five bogeys in the second round resulted they allowed North Carolina to score one in cards of 72 and 74, the sophomore more goal than they had in the first on six cleaned up her game by Saturday. fewer shots.

Boonchant’s third round was bogey-free For the second match in a row, Duke has with five birdies for a team-best 5-underfailed to post a double-digit scoring output, par 68. after only failing to do that once the rest “What’s great about Jaravee is she of the season. Its usually potent offense, didn’t feel that great on the driving which ranks 10th in scoring offense and range...and then she goes out and shoots features the second-highest goal scorer in 5-under,” Brooks said. “That’s what the country in North, has looked stagnant she’s capable of. She’s always had a great the past two matches. understanding that this is more of a “Offense is about being confident. And mental game than anything else.” right now [our kids] are struggling with Senior Virginia Elena Carta and their confidence,” said Kimel. “We need to be sophomore Miranda Wang followed at more dynamic and we are, that’s the thing, 5-over-par and 9-over-par for 17th and that’s the frustrating and disappointing 26th, respectively. Wang also notched an part. We are a really dynamic offense, we just eagle on her fifth hole of the tournament, haven’t shown it in the past two weekends her first on the season and just the second unfortunately.” of her career. Freshman Gina Kim didn’t One of the only bright points of the fare as well, starting off with a 7-over 79 night came on the draw. After badly losing in Round One before carding 77 and 74 the draw the draw to Notre Dame, 16-7, the for 14-over and 47th place overall.

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s current students begin rallying for LDOC and staking out the perfect study spot in Perkins for finals season, starry-eyed Blue Devil Days attendees are flooding campus once again.

While some prospective students are primarily evaluating the university based on the rigor of classes, the quality of the food in the Brodhead Center and general campus atmosphere, others are facing a far more daunting, deterministic metric: financial aid.

For p-frosh seeking need-based financial aid, the festivities of Blue Devil Days are partially clouded by anxious visits to the Karsh Office of Undergraduate Financial Support. Middle and working class prospective students are faced with the stressful task of weighing the promised benefits of Duke’s prestige against the astronomical cost of attending such an expensive university.

Many are likely wondering how they could possibly afford four years of attendance, how many summer jobs and work-study positions they would have to take on, and if it’s fair to ask their family to make sacrifices for a nearly $75,000 price tag. A weekend that should be about celebrating their years of academic excellence leaves many students feeling lost and worried if all their efforts could be rendered null and void by annually rising tuition.

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bankrolling a nonprofit venture or who had to work to afford standardized test fees possibly compete if there’s no variable for difference in resources?

While some students are unable to financially guarantee their academic future, their financially secure and talented peers can enjoy the possibility of receiving supplemental—but not as critical—financial support with their merit scholarships. The parameters for merit here are subjective, contextless and uncritical, calling the entire concept of meritocracy into question.

Furthermore, conversations around socioeconomic inequity would be myopic if discussions about racial inequity were absent. The selection process of Duke (B.N.) Scholars, Angier B. Duke (A.B.) Scholars, the merit scholars perpetuates academia’s chronic David M. Rubenstein Scholars, Reginaldo Howard underrepresentation of students of color, particularly Memorial Scholars, Robertson Scholars, Trinity Scholars, Black students.

This is painfully prominent in the A.B. Scholars University Scholars, North Carolina Math Scholars and Karsh International Scholars. These scholarships give full program, where there is clearly a dearth of Black/ monetary assistance to the recipient, typically in addition African-American students in the Classes of 2019to programmatic resources and professional assistance. 2022. The program describes the scholars as students They also give Duke a competitive edge when convincing who “are, by any measure, among the best in the exceptional students with many attractive options on nation—and the world.” The absence of Black students their table to choose Duke over the other comparable, in the program potentially upholds a narrative in which Black students could not be among the best more established Ivy League institutions.

However, a concerning facet of some of these well- nationally and internationally and can only exist known programs—like the A.B. Scholarship, B.N. as exceptional and meritable through the channel Scholarship and the Robertson scholarship—is that of a racially-specific program, like the Reginaldo they don’t necessarily account for need. While merit Howard Scholars Program. Broadly speaking, while can be measured by a number of qualities or actions, the distribution of scholarships certainly should the measurement of individual merit is complicated not be modeled after a quota system at the risk of by overarching unequal socioeconomic structures tokenizing marginalized students, the screening process for merit scholarships and disparate should try to target root causes resource access. of socioeconomic inequity by Depending on Conversations around partially making need-based immutable factors considerations. like generational socioeconomic inequity Other comparable elite wealth, school district universities—which Duke funding and family would be myopic if routinely tries to emulate obligations, students in nearly every other way— end up having discussions about racial strictly give out need-based widely differing inequity were absent. The financial aid. One could argue levels of access to the that the creation of merit tools and resources selection process of the scholarships by specific donors which allow them to demonstrate or hone merit scholars perpetuates makes them a permanent part of Duke financial aid. their abilities. As a academia’s chronic However, the university thinks result, a standardized they are properly treating the benchmark for underrepresentation of chronic issue of socioeconomic delineating academic inequity in higher education or personal students of color. through purely merit-based excellence doesn’t scholarships, then it is an accurately gauge iatrogenic treatment. Merit applicants, erasing scholarships decoupled from the differences in need-based considerations hurdles or personal exacerbate the existing challenges.

As it stands, merit-based awards can in part be the result condition. Consequently, Duke ought to make all of having funds to pay for college admissions advisors scholarships have a need-based component. Beyond who review your essays to make sure they are perfectly a short-term restructuring, a more genuine and crafted, or having a pricey tutor who will prepare you for holistic long-term vision would include divesting ACT, SAT and AP tests. Additionally, all those impressive from the idea that selective financial empowerment extra-curriculars, sports programs and eye-opening travel is empowerment for all, making material and experiences that characterize the applications of merit programmatic infrastructure accessible outside of the merit scholarship framework, and denouncing award winners certainly don’t come cheap.

Students who cannot afford such luxuries and still meritocracy as a myth. successfully fought to get their acceptance letters are left This was written by The Chronicle’s Editorial Board, questioning if their efforts were worth the struggle. How can students who attended schools without well-funded which is made up of student members from across the debate programs, who didn’t have parents capable of University and is independent of the editorial staff.

However, in contrast, other prospective firstyears who have been awarded merit scholarships or athletic scholarships are able to freely enjoy the weekend’s festivities with less anxiety. Duke is unique amongst its peers as the only institution in the top ten highest-ranking universities that offers full-ride merit scholarships. Duke gives out a number of prominent full-ride merit scholarships, including the Benjamin N.

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t seems like the cherry blossoms are in bloom for good this time. For the past month, we have been getting glimpses at what spring looks like at Duke. In the past two weeks, we have seen spring in full bloom and there is no going back.

Duke students know what to do this time of year—even firstyears who haven’t experienced spring on campus before. As soon as the temperatures plateau around 75 degrees and the clouds roll away, students hang hammocks, head to the gardens and repopulate the Bryan Center plaza. It seems like this resurgence of half-decent weather is gladly welcomed on campus.

Spikeball on the quad. Most of the year, I am forced inside.

It’s easy, then, to stay academically afloat. If I have to be inside, I might as well go to class or the library. I’d rather stick my head in the proverbial books that spend a minute in the frosty Durham winter. As a result, my grades spike as the temperature drops.

But then spring comes.

The sun peeks out from behind silver-lined clouds. My mood, like the temperature, begins to rise with every inch toward a sweltering summer. No longer am I forced to flee the dreary outdoors. No longer am I bound to a routine predicated on beating out my seasonal affective disorder. I feel reinvigorated. I feel renewed.

most other Duke students, take advantage of the weather. I hang my hammock in a hidden spot between my two favorite trees on campus. I pass frisbees with my friends in the gardens. I take long walks around the graduate schools. I spend entirely too long eating meals on the swinging benches on the BC plaza.

Not only are these activities fun for me, but they actually improve my mental health. For the past seven months, I have had to cope with overarching grayness of my life at Duke. Some of that grayness is reflected in my more pessimistic columns from the year.

Now that the sun has returned and made me less SAD, I have begun to enjoy my experiences on campus significantly more.

Ryan Williams COLUMNIST Yet, I write this article trapped inside of a lecture for a class that is almost completely self-taught. After this class ends, I’ll head out to another seminar where attendance is mandatory.

After that, I’ll head to a discussion section that only grants me two missed absences a semester. Most of the year I am willing to schlep myself from class to class even if only to take advantage of attendance points. But, when it looks this good outside, I find it painstakingly difficult to make it to class.

The decision is a pretty clear one: I could either go to class and save my grade, or go outdoors and save my emotional wellbeing. If we take a close look, we see the same sort of tradeoffs in many areas of Duke life—choosing between enjoying a night out with friends or studying for a test, for example. This decision is compounded in the spring, when the sun finally returns.

I, like many of my undiagnosed and potentially unaware peers, have a mild case of seasonal affective disorder. SAD, as it is appropriately abbreviated, brings about a state of melancholy due to unfavorable weather conditions—gray skies, rainy mornings and somber afternoons. Most of the year at Duke is laden with conditions ripe for my SAD-ness. Like clockwork, I fall into a routine to overcome the gloom that hits Durham every late September. I force myself to go to class because staying in bed would be worse for my mental health. I spend late nights in Perkins because I would be spending that time indoors anyways. Any fun I have with my friends takes place in the confines of our common room because the weather eliminates the possibility of frisbee or

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The only problem is that my shift in attitude does not reenergize me to end the semester strong—it does the opposite.

Where I used to feel like I had to go to class, I now feel like it is my obligation to skip class and actually have fun. Slowly but surely classes are skipped, midterms go unstudied for, and responsibilities are avoided. The impact on my academic life is substantial enough to remind me that I am still a student whose primary responsibility is to study. But, at this point in the semester, I am ready to risk it all to just go outdoors.

What do I do instead of what I am supposed to do? I, like

It is such a shame, however, that maximizing and enjoying my Duke experience has to come at the expense of GPA points stripped away for classes missed and assignments forgotten.

So, while it is the case that spring is on the rise and my GPA is about to fall, I know it is only temporary. When I return for my junior year things will turn gray and my performance in school will improve. What a sad reality.

Ryan Williams is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

Empathy in the face of tragedy

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ast weekend, I volunteered at the Duke Coalition for Preserving Memory’s annual Name Reading ceremony to commemorate the victims of the seven United Nations recognized genocides. During this event, hundreds of students and community members recited the names of individuals who were killed in these crimes against humanity for 24 consecutive hours on Abele Quad. As I read aloud the names of people who lost their lives in the Armenian Genocide, many thoughts went through my head. Why hadn’t I ever been taught

Elliott Davis COLUMNIST about this? How could I read posters describing genocides as “ongoing” and not be enraged?

What does “Never Again” mean if horrendous acts of ethnic cleansing continue to take place?

During my first year, I took a class called “Human Rights and World Politics” through the Kenan Institute of Ethics. Despite completing the course two and a half years ago, I continue to be disturbed by one of our readings. Samantha Power, who later became the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. under President Obama, wrote about the Clinton Administration’s failure to take action to stop the Rwandan Genocide despite being aware of the crimes against humanity occuring. President Clinton chose not to send in troops because of the calculation made than an American life was worth 85,000 Rwandan lives.

As the names and locations of killing targets, members of the Tutsi minority, were projected

over the radio, the United States failed to even disrupt the airwaves. National leaders must have figured that the American people would not deem engagement in such a “far away internal conflict” worthwhile. By the end of the genocide, over 800,000 Tutsis had been brutally murdered.

I was so angry learning about the U.S. decision, not just because of its deadly implications, but also because it demonstrated how easily the lesson of “Never Again” can be swept aside.

As I walked around the display at the Name Reading Ceremony, I became more and more disturbed. Beginning in 1915, the Ottoman Empire began rounding up, deporting and executing ethnic Armenians. According to the organization “United to End Genocide,” the combination of massacres, forced deportation marches and deaths due to disease in concentration camps is estimated to have killed more than 1 million ethnic Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks. However, the Turkish government denies this genocide ever occured, and I had barely heard anything about it.

During the Holocaust, the Nazis brutally murdered over 6 million Jews and five million non-Jews. Had the Nazis accomplished their goal, I wouldn’t be alive today, and you would only be able to learn about the Jewish people in history books. Yet, according to an article in The Atlantic, two thirds of the world’s population do not know the Holocaust happened or deny its gravity. The United States is not immune from this phenomenon; according a report completed in 2010 by a student at Harvard University, millions of Americans continue to deny the Holocaust.

A couple days after the Name Reading ceremony, I decided to Google search “current

genocides.” I found a headline from an article written in 2017 titled “5 genocides that are still going on today.” How is this possible? As someone who feels a responsibility to ensure “Never Again,” I was horrified to realize that five genocides are still being perpetrated: the Rohingya in Myanmar, the Nuer and other ethnic groups in South Sudan, Christians and Yazidis in Iraq and Syria, Muslims and Christians in the Central African Republic, and the Darfuris in Sudan. I began to wonder why these crimes have not received the public attention they deserve.

In recent days, there have been countless articles about the Notre Dame fire. I definitely understand how saddening this event is because of the religious and historic significance of the Cathedral, which I was fortunate to witness when visiting Paris last year. However, the indiscriminate slaughter of human beings simply because of who they are or what they believe is even more reprehensible, yet these event have not gotten nearly as much publicity.

The lack of attention may be due to two unfortunate reasons: ignorance and indifference. Because many of us are unaware of these ongoing events, it’s less likely for them to come up in conversations. This is definitely due, in part, to the media’s lack of coverage of these issues. But, as newspapers profit from providing content that people want to read, the absence of articles about the genocides underway suggests the second reason: indifference. If more people felt a greater sense of connection or responsibility to stop atrocities taking place across the globe, media outlets may be more inclined to cover them.

Just as some people dismissed the Rwandan

genocide as people far away killing each other, similar sentiments persist today. Individuals may feel that their voice won’t have an impact because of these events occurring beyond America’s borders or the lack of societal activism considered necessary to generate change. I understand the strength of this pressure, and I’m not immune to it—when I had planned to post on my Facebook about the Rohingya, I refrained from doing so. I was worried that many of my friends would be indifferent. Perceptions like these help explain how we are sitting idly by as genocide is occuring.

What should we do about this problem?

I believe the answer is feeling a greater sense of empathy for people across the globe. We should feel deeply concerned for people being persecuted for their identities, as they are human beings just like us. Ignorance is not bliss; we should strive to learn more about what’s going on in the world and speak out for people’s rights. We should bring these tragedies up with our friends to make them aware, post on social media, and call our members of Congress. These actions could lead to a domino effect, as others will become more informed and choose to do what they can to spread the word.

As members of the Duke community, we are all familiar with the ideal of “Knowledge in the Service of Society.” I can’t think of a better way to serve society than standing up for those whose lives are being targeted simply because of their identities. We can do our part to make “Never Again” not just a slogan, but a reality for people across the globe. It starts with us.

Elliott Davis is a Trinity junior. His column, The Optimist, usually runs on alternate Fridays.

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Coordinated bombing attacks targeting churches and upscale hotels across Sri Lanka Sunday left hundreds killed and wounded.

President Vincent Price issued a statement Sunday afternoon to the Duke community denouncing the bombings. The victims of the attack were worshipers attending Easter Mass at Roman Catholic churches and guests at highend hotels popular among foreign tourists, according to the New York Times.

“The tragic Easter Day attacks on Christians worshipping in Sri Lanka show again the horrible human cost of hate and violence,” Price wrote. “Our hearts go out to the victims, their families and the people of Sri Lanka at home and around the world, whose

BLUE DEVIL FROM PAGE 1 where rival forces are to be met and still there is no catchy name or appellation by which her representatives shall be known,” the column stated. “The time is at hand when something other than broad and indistinctive terminology needs to be applied, and just what that term or name shall be must be decided very, very soon.”

The student newspaper editors then started the search for a “catchy name” for Trinity College. This was a matter the “Chronicle intends to see through,” the column stated.

They organized an on-campus pep rally and encouraged all students to attend and to bring suggestions to submit to an executive committee.

On Oct. 12, 1921, The Trinity Chronicle reported nine names had been approved by the committee in another editorial column.

The proposed names were the Catamounts, Blue Titans, Grizzlies, Blue Eagles, Dreadnaughts, Badgers, Polar Bears, Royal Blazes and the Captains.

The newspaper editors favored names that included the color blue, which was the Trinity College school color.

“It is well if this can be included, although it is not altogether necessary,” the column stated.

The name Blue Devils gained recognition from some students but also criticism from others who feared it was a controversial name for a Methodist campus, according to the Duke Archives.

lives will be forever changed by this act of horrific cowardice.”

Price wrote that Duke stands by all students, faculty and staff who are from Sri Lanka as well as anyone else who may have been impacted, adding that “support is available to all who need it.”

As of 4 p.m. Sunday, more than 200 people were killed and at least 450 were wounded, the New York Times reported.

The attacks were on opposite coasts of the country, hitting two cities on the west coast—Colombo and Negombo—and one city on the east coast—Batticaloa.

Harindra Dassanayake, a presidential adviser in Sri Lanka, told the New York Times that the Sri Lanka government made a “unilateral decision” to turn off access to various social media networks—like Facebook, WhatsApp

and YouTube. The restrictions were imposed as a precaution to prevent further violence that could stem from the dissemination of misinformation and hate speech.

Thirteen suspects have been arrested in relation to the attacks, the New York Times reported.

From 1983 to 2009, a civil war endured between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil ethnic group. The Tamil militants were known for using suicide bombings. Hemasiri Fernando, the secretary to the Ministry of Defense, explained to the New York Times that “it has been 10 years since we last saw this kind of horror.”

“In this season of renewal, as we celebrate Easter and the holy days of many other faith Sujal Manohar | Photography Editor traditions, let us all hope and pray for the peace and healing that we so urgently need,” President Vincent Price sent the statement to the Duke community in an email Sunday.

Price wrote.

Despite the newspaper’s efforts, no one name was a favorite among students. On Oct. 19, 1921, the editorial “paragraphics” section of The Trinity Chronicle stated that “It was decided, after all, that the name suggested Friday night really was bad.”

The newspaper announced it was turning responsibility for the mascot search over to the Athletic Council November 1921. However, it seems that the Athletic Council was also unsuccessful in choosing a name.

Since the results of name-selection by student nomination and voting were inconclusive, the leaders of three campus publications—The Trinity Chronicle, The Archive and The Chanticleer—decided to select the name themselves.

The editors of The Archive and The Chanticleer decided to defer to The Trinity Chronicle, whose top editors began using the Blue Devil name.

William Lander, who was then editorin-chief of The Trinity Chronicle, and Mike Bradshaw, the newspaper’s managing editor, began to refer to athletic teams as Blue Devils in Fall 1922.

The first reference to Blue Devils was made in the newspaper on Oct. 4, 1922 in the headline “Guilford defeated to tune of seven touchdowns by Blue Devils.”

Through constant repetition, the name caught on, and the former Methodists became the Blue Devils.

Editor’s note: This article is a product of a service run by The Chronicle called Chronquiry.

A reader submitted a question, other readers Courtesy of Duke University Archives voted on the question and The Chronicle got A logo for women’s athletics in 1970 offered the answer. a different take on the Blue Devil.

Courtesy of the Duke University Archives The mascot stands at left alongside a Homecoming float created by the Durham fire department in 1935.

FORBES FROM PAGE 1 “External recognition helps to validate what we believe about our Duke colleagues and our work environment,” said Kyle Cavanaugh, vice president for administration, in a release.

Forbes based its rankings on anonymous survey data from 50,000 people, asking 35 openended questions about their work. They were asked about factors such as working conditions, pay and development opportunities.

In its “America’s Top Colleges 2018” rankings, Forbes dubbed Duke as No. 10 overall. That list puts Harvard at No. 1, followed

by Yale University, Stanford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University and Dartmouth College.

“Although Duke is constantly exploring opportunities to improve, we have some of the most talented individuals on the planet working in one of the best environments possible,” Cavanaugh said.

CENTRAL FROM PAGE 2 contractor and vendor access—which took up 250 spots—will open up 476 spaces.

Central Campus lots currently hold 776 parking spots, but only 375 undergraduate drivers had Central passes this year, Campbell wrote. Moving all 375 to West Campus would leave 101 free spots, assuming the numbers stay the same.

“The Blue Zone will have ample capacity to absorb undergraduates moving into the Hollows,” she wrote.

Campbell added that Parking and Transportation “will continue to monitor utilization through the fall and spring semesters.”

The Hollows will offer suite-style dorms to hundreds of students beginning in the semester of Fall 2019.

Joe Gonzalez, assistant vice president of student affairs and dean for residential life, told The Chronicle in February 2019 that the dorm was originally intended to hold 500 students, but due to an influx of students from Duke Kunshan University, 180 Hollows singles will be converted into doubles, pushing the total students housed in the Hollows to approximately 680.

Hollows suites hold four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a small living room and a kitchenette.

“I think students will really enjoy the environment. I think that the suite-style is very different from what we offer in the other buildings on West, and for some students, that environment will be exactly what they prefer,” Gonzalez said in February.

“It gives us more alternatives on West in terms of style of housing, and I think that’s a good thing.”