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WHO KILLED LIGHT RAIL? The answer may be more complicated than just Duke

By Derek Saul Blue Zone Editor

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Daniel Jones’ journey from overlooked recruit to NFL quarterback is finally complete.

Almost four years after coming to Durham without a guaranteed scholarship, Jones became just the second Duke quarterback to be selected in the first round of the NFL Draft, going to the New York Giants with the No. 6 pick Thursday night. He joins Dave Brown, who was taken with a first-round selection in the 1992 supplemental draft, also to the Giants.

Jones is the first Blue Devil to hear his name called by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in the first round since 2015, when the San Francisco 49ers selected offensive guard Laken Tomlinson with the 26th pick.

Jones also is the program’s highest selection in the draft since 1987.

“Anytime you make a decision that is something you really want to do, you make a right decision,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “There’s a joy in watching players who have worked hard and been committed to the process. Daniel Jones embraces something we believe in here–real swag is no swag.”

This is not Duke head coach David Cutcliffe’s first time mentoring a highly drafted quarterback prospect. Touted as a quarterback guru, Cutcliffe was Peyton Manning’s offensive coordinator at Tennessee and Eli Manning’s head coach at Mississippi. Each of the Manning brothers were selected first overall in the NFL Draft, went on to win multiple Super Bowl titles and are likely future Hall of Famers.

On the Giants, Jones will compete with Eli Manning, Alex Tanney and Kyle Lauletta to earn playing time. Often compared to the Manning brothers, Jones will look to reach a similar level of NFL success.

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By Jake Satisky University News Editor

This story is part one in a two-part series about the Durham-Orange light rail. Part one will focus mostly on the non-Duke actors, and part two will concentrate on Duke’s reasons against signing the cooperation agreement.

Congressman David Price was “profoundly disappointed” when the light rail died.

Price expressed his frustration at the failure of a project that he said “voters, businesses and government leaders overwhelmingly supported” in a news release March 27, the day GoTriangle ended the light rail project.

Price has represented a portion of North Carolina’s Research Triangle in Congress every year except two since 1987, and he was a professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy prior to his tenure in the House of Representatives.

Price is the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies, which had the power to give approximately $1.23 billion to Durham and Orange Counties to help fund a light rail spanning from Durham to Chapel Hill.

The Durham-Orange County Light Rail Transit project (DOLRT) faced a number of hurdles in its lifetime. GoTriangle—the public transit authority in charge of the project—was working against a tight deadline, the North

Carolina Railroad hadn’t agreed to lease parts of its railroad corridor and costs were skyrocketing. And there was Duke, which was reluctant to sign a cooperation agreement and give up its land near the medical center by Erwin Road for the project.

Then the University sent a letter to GoTriangle Feb. 27 that all but killed the light rail.

“Notwithstanding these many good faith efforts, it has unfortunately not been possible to complete the extensive and detailed due diligence, by the deadlines imposed by the federal and state governments, that is required to satisfy Duke University’s legal, ethical and fiduciary responsibilities to ensure the safety of patients, the integrity of research and continuity of our operations and activities,” President Vincent Price wrote in the Feb. 27 letter to GoTriangle detailing why Duke would not sign the cooperation agreement.

The backlash was swift, with IndyWeek and the New York Times running pieces that pointed fingers at Duke for the light rail’s demise. But the University defended its choice, pointing to potential dangers to the medical center.

So who is to blame for derailing the light rail? If you ask Duke, the administration was clear for 20 years that building tracks 100 feet from the medical center was problematic, and GoTriangle wouldn’t

listen. GoTriangle would push back and argue that Duke has been an inconsistent, opaque negotiator that did not make its concerns clear until it was too late.

But the University was just one of many entities involved in the pathway to build a light rail connecting Durham to Chapel Hill.

“The issue is, it’s really fun and easy to blame Duke,” Executive Vice President Tallman Trask told The Chronicle in late March. “We’re the least of [GoTriangle’s] problems. They’re hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars over budget, even the inflated budget.”

Bill Bell, former Durham mayor and IBM senior engineer, described the DOLRT as an AND gate on a computer chip—every input had to come true for the output to be true. GoTriangle had secured cooperation from many of its partners, but in addition to Duke, it still needed Federal Transit Administration funding, state funding, local and private funding and the North Carolina Railroad Company (NCRR)/Norfolk Southern’s cooperation.

If everything didn’t break the right way, there would be no light rail.

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Barring formal process, Classroom Building’s name here to stay

By Maria Morrison Staff Reporter

Although the name Carr has been removed from above its entrance, the Classroom Building will remain the Classroom Building for the time being.

The name was formally changed in December 2018 after the Board of Trustees approved renaming the Carr Building to the Classroom Building. But, much to the confusion of those who made the initial renaming request– the history department, which is housed within the building–it is set to keep its new name until another formal request is made.

“The Board of Trustees voted to change the name to the Classroom Building,” wrote Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, in an email to The Chronicle. “While the university, and ultimately the Board of Trustees, may consider a new name in the future, there are no immediate plans to do so.”

This stood in contrast to what John Jeffries Martin, professor of history and chair of the history department, thought was set to happen.

Martin said he thought the Board was only “using the Classroom Building as a placeholder,” and would consider renaming it “once they [got] around to it.”

He referred to an email sent by President Vincent Price to the Duke community Dec. 1, which stated that the Board of Trustees had chosen to “revert to the building’s original name, the Classroom Building, until such time as a new name is selected.”

The question of whether or not it was appropriate for the building to be named for Julian Carr amplified after a speech Carr gave

at the unveiling of the Silent Sam statue in 1913 came to light. In the speech, Carr boasted of having horsewhipped an African American woman because she had “publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady.”

“The violence of his language [in the speech] was really shocking,” Martin said.

Carr served as a private in the Confederate Army in his youth. A wealthy man, he donated the land that is now East Campus to Trinity College, which later became Duke University.

The building which houses the history department was built in 1927, and was formally named after Carr in 1930.

Martin noted that the history department voted unanimously to change the name.

In the original request sent to the Board of Trustees, the history department also recommended that the building name be changed to honor Raymond Gavins, who died in the spring of 2016 after teaching at Duke for 46 years.

Gavins came to Duke in 1970 as the first African American faculty member in the history department. Before joining Duke’s faculty, he was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in history from University of Virginia’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1967.

Martin described Gavins as “a quiet, humble, and intellectually powerful figure” who dedicated his life and career to Duke.

“In his personal life and his scholarly life, [Gavins] was a pioneer. He was a significant scholar of the African American experience,” Martin said.

Despite the history department’s recommendation, the Board of Trustees decided to return the building to its original name of the Classroom Building.

The ultimate choice of renaming the

Charles York | Special Projects Photography Editor The Carr name has been covered on the Classroom Building. The history department has requested that it be renamed for Raymond Gavins.

Classroom Building still lies in the hands of the Board of Trustees. Richard Riddell, senior vice president and secretary to the Board of Trustees, confirmed in an email to The Chronicle that another request would have to be filed in order for the Board to reconsider the name of the building.

Nonetheless, Martin said he remains “hopeful that the building will be named after

Ray Gavins,” adding “if it is necessary for [the history department] to initiate a new request we will do so.”

“I am very encouraged that the president of the University put into place a process for the reconsideration of names of buildings and the context of monuments on campus,” Martin said. “In general, we are oblivious to what the names around us mean.”

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LDOC festivities see more EMS transports, less attendance

By Nathan Luzum Senior Editor

Wednesday’s Last Day of Class activities saw a decline in the number of students attending on-campus programming, LDOC Committee Chair Serena Rivera-Korver wrote in an email to The Chronicle.

Rivera-Korver, a sophomore, explained that students who did attend the activities seemed to enjoy the programming, despite cuts to the DUU budget for this fiscal year.

However, she mentioned that off-campus darties—daytime parties—decreased student participation in daytime DUU programming and the evening concert.

“A-team and the LDOC committee noticed that drinking had moved from West Campus to off-campus darties, which is a major concern,” she wrote.

This led to fewer students attending events such as the night’s concert, which was headlined by the rapper Aminé and also included Gryffin, Loote and Small Town Records performers Simon White, a senior, and Sara Held, a sophomore.

This year’s LDOC also saw four students requiring emergency medical services transport for health-related reasons—two students due to alcohol, one due to a fall from a skateboard and the other due to a minor hand cut from a glass bottle. No EMS

transports took place at last year’s LDOC, and two students were transported from LDOC festivities in 2017 for health-related issues.

Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, called LDOC “an extraordinary festival of fun” and credited student leaders and support staff for the day’s events. He is set to step down June 30, making this his last LDOC as a Duke administrator.

“For my final LDOC, I couldn’t have asked for a better experience. The weather was delightful,” he wrote in an email to The Chronicle. “The concerts were lively, entertaining and full of smiling students enjoying the great Duke spirit. Overall LDOC was safe, spirited, communal and fun!”

Junior Vivian Chen said that this year’s LDOC festivities were her favorite yet.

“The highlights for me were jamming out at the silent disco and when Aminé came on to perform,” she wrote in a message.

DUU also partnered with Duke Recreation and Duke Religious Life to provide activities on the Chapel Quadrangle before the concert, Rivera-Korver mentioned. She also wrote that it was “fun to see” students taking photos and videos next to large, cardboard “LDOC” letters arranged in various places around campus.

“I think it was a great day,” she wrote.

“Students really seemed to be interacting with our programming and enjoying themselves.”

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‘We didn’t have forever’: Wrestling with the state FROM PAGE 1 Building the light rails is not cheap. To complete the project, it required state and the federal government assistance. wrestling with the idea of a light rail for more The FTA committed about $1.25 than 20 years to deal with its rapid growth. billion to the DOLRT project, provided The area is one of the fastest growing in GoTriangle could cover the rest of the the country, featuring a business hotbed in $2.7 billion cost. When Charlotte, N.C., the Research Triangle Park and three major wanted to build its Lynx Blue Line, it research universities. secured 50% of funding from the FTA, For example, the Raleigh-Cary and approximately 25% each from North metropolitan area saw an 18.1% surge in Carolina and the local government. Thus, population from 2010 to 2017, and traffic Durham County Commissioner Ellen planners are preparing for another half Reckhow explained that GoTriangle million people within the next decade. believed it would be able to get half of the The fight to reduce traffic and connect remaining money from the state. people in a rapidly growing region has The North Carolina General Assembly been arduous yet persistent. In 1989, North had other ideas.

Carolina’s General Assembly created the In 2015, the legislature reduced how much Triangle Transit Authority to serve as the it would contribute to light rail projects to regional public transit authority for Wake, $500,000. After several years of lobbying and Orange and Durham counties. back-and-forths with the Republican-led In the late 1990s, the TTA devised plans General Assembly, GoTriangle finally got for a diesel rail line from the state to commit Raleigh to Durham. The The issue is, it’s really more money in the designs had an elevated fun and easy to blame summer of 2018.

The state would stop by Duke Hospital’s main entrance and a Duke. We’re the least of offer a maximum track continuing down [GoTriangle’s] problems. of $190 million, Erwin Road, Duke’s or around 7.7% of tallman trask the total estimated medical corridor. The EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT project cost.

University disapproved of the plans, however, The state said citing Erwin as its main problem. that all local funding must be in place by Trask said constructability and noise April 30, 2019 and federal funding must be from diesel were Duke’s two main concerns, ready by Nov. 30. The time constraints were “unprecedented,” Reckhow said. in addition to fears that the rail line would disrupt hospital operations.

Wib Gulley, Trinity ‘70 and general Securing federal funding from the counsel for GoTriangle from 2004-2015, Federal Transit Administration proved to said he believed the General Assembly had be a challenge as well. Facing rising costs, a partisan motivations.

“This is the Republican-led state change in the federal cost-benefit formula and weak FTA interest, TTA scrapped the legislature,” he said. “I think it’s important project officially in 2007. to note that because, for whatever reasons, From 2008-2009, the rebranded Triangle the Republican leadership of the General Transit worked with local governments to Assembly has been hostile to [DOLRT]. develop a regional plan for transit, including I think the fact that these two counties are the most Democratic in the state and [the buses, light rail and commuter rail. The General Assembly passed a law allowing legislature is] Republican is one thing.”

Triangle counties to put a half-cent sales North Carolina State Senator Floyd tax for transit on the ballot, which passed in McKissick Jr. told the Durham HeraldDurham and Orange Counties in 2011 and Sun that it took more than a week of work to reach a consensus with the General 2012, respectively.

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RAIL FROM PAGE 3 Assembly. He said legislators are more interested in seeing road infrastructure projects rather than light rail.

“First, you have people who are skeptical of mass transit, don’t believe the light rail system is needed and are afraid that it would soak up more money than is currently allocated for it,” McKissick told the Herald-Sun. Gulley added that he didn’t think North Carolina leaders understood the need for light rail in sprawling metropolitan regions such as the Triangle. As a result, GoTriangle suddenly faced a wide gap in fundraising it had to make up in a short time frame. GoTransit Partners— the fundraising arm of GoTriangle—was having trouble raising private money because the project’s success seemed unlikely.

“If we had forever to solve the problem, we could’ve solved the problems,” Bell—a GoTransit board member—said. “But we didn’t have forever.”

A tunnel to nowhere Gulley and Reckhow remained confident that had Duke signed the cooperative agreement, DOLRT’s future would still be bright. However, Reckhow did say that it wouldn’t have necessarily been smooth riding.

“We, in good faith, thought through the end of February that we could have proceeded if we had gotten the cooperative agreement from Duke,” she said. “But amazingly, just within 8 to 10 days after Feb. 28, we got some news that substantially hurt us, and then the project cost increases that came out of the risk assessment were $237 million.”

The additional cost estimates were a result of needing to build a tunnel in downtown Durham to accommodate the light rail without stalling downtown businesses.

NCRR—which operates the rail corridor

GoTriangle wanted to build its light rail on—and its main operating partner, Norfolk Southern, were two other partners DOLRT needed cooperation agreements from in order to proceed.

They were concerned with the light rail’s potential alignment in downtown Durham, especially at the Blackwell Street railroad intersection. As a result, GoTriangle proposed closing Blackwell Street and adding a pedestrian bridge so people could cross it.

That proposal did not go over well. Duke, the Durham Bulls and businesses in the American Tobacco Campus complained that closing Blackwell Street would choke them off from the rest of downtown Durham. Two board members from GoTransit resigned in protest.

Therefore, GoTriangle told the FTA in

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were more complete.

To make matters worse, the FTA said the agency did need to conduct an environmental review for downtown, and it estimated the new plan would add $237 million to the project—not including the 10% fund reserve the agency had to have in case they went over budget downtown.

Having to do the environmental review meant that the agency probably wouldn’t have submitted its FTA grant application on time to meet the state’s deadline.

So where does public transit go from here? In his news release, Price said he was “committed to working with local leaders” to move past the light rail’s setback and address the region’s transit needs.

“Doing so will require all stakeholders to put the long-term interests of our communities ahead of the narrow concerns that doomed this project,” he said in the release.

Reckhow also said she had not given up on mass transportation, and that GoTriangle and Durham County are devoted to finding a solution to the region’s transit woes.

No winners, all losers “We will be looking at whether there Bell compared the DOLRT project to a are aspects of the light rail project we can “a circle of dominoes. When one falls, the repurpose, ways to use the corridor we know rest come down.” To Bell, Duke was that first so well with different technology, are there ways domino to fall—taking down the entire project to do a blended situation,” she said. “We’ll be with it—but it wasn’t the sole factor that could looking at a variety of options.” have killed the light rail.

Millions of dollars added on to the cost estimates for the project due to the proposed downtown tunnel December it would build a tunnel underneath downtown Durham for the light rail. The agency had five months until the April deadline and 11 months until the November deadline.

GoTriangle asked the FTA if there would need to be another environmental review for the downtown tunnel.

And then the federal government shut down for 35 days.

GoTriangle didn’t hear back from the FTA until the first weekend of March, after Duke had sent its letter announcing the refusal to cooperate. The same day Duke said no, NCRR sent a letter stating that it would not sign on until the downtown plans

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The Chronicle’s beloved seniors and editors say goodbye to 301 Flowers

What is edit board?

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t’s a question that I have grappled with every day during my three years writing for The Chronicle. Of course, on the surface level, the answer should be clear.

As summed up on the editorial board’s FAQ page: we write consensus-based, unsigned editorials on a variety of issues on behalf of the greater body of The Chronicle. Editorial board

Alan Ko EDITORIAL BOARD CHAIR is independent of the news-making body of the newspaper, and does not represent the personal opinion of the editorin-chief nor does it represent the opinion of every person in 301 Flowers.

Simply put, we’re just a group of everyday students, hailing from all different walks on life on campus, who are tasked by the Chronicle with producing with collaborative, opinionated hot takes on news and other events at Duke.

Yet, even among staff members at The Chronicle, I found that the role of a campus newspaper editorial board can be pretty unclear: Are we actually part of The Chronicle? Who do we speak for? Does anyone actually read our content? Is editorial board going to be abolished?

On that note, during my tenure on editorial board, I’ve received countless emails from random alumni, angry readers, administrators, professors, and other individuals with inquiries that have nothing to do with my role in The Chronicle. Thank you to all the well-informed readers who mistakenly think I have the supreme authority to retroactively redact controversial news articles as a lowly editorialist who

has to fight for office space.

More fundamentally, however, I’ve realized that many people on campus really can’t differentiate between the different, diverse departments at The Chronicle, and have a tendency to lump everyone—including editorialists—under the magic umbrella term of campus newspaper. Never mind the distinct Duke-Coffeehouse bohemianism of Recess, the pseudo-frattiness of Sports, nor the pre-Law, button-down professionalism of News. Never mind the fact that each department functions mostly independent of one another, and possesses its own rich history as content producers for an organization in existence for 100-plus years. Something controversial gets printed—let’s say a news expose on Greek life or an editorial on the Israel-Palestine conflict—and pretty soon, the Panhellenic president is emailing the Recess editor on why we suck as a collective organization.

Setting aside this existential question of “What is edit board?” among friends, readers, and Chronicle peers, and my geriatric rant about confusion between departments on the part of readership, I guess I should talk about what editorial board has meant for me personally. I arrived on West Campus in the Fall of 2016 feeling somewhat isolated and disconnected from the rest of Duke. Most of the people who lived in my freshman hall rushed (I ended up going random for housing my sophomore year) and I didn’t really join any campus organizations my freshman year. During weekend nights, I mostly would sit on my bed watching old movies on my laptop while sipping cheap soju from the bottle.

For my sophomore year, I ended up having the same RA as I had in Blackwell, Lenny. Lenny actually served as the chair of the editorial board my freshman year, and encouraged me to apply. As is my style, I’m pretty sure I butchered my interview with the editorial board, but sure enough got on.

There was the usual baptism of fire, having to back-up my half-formed opinions to a group of well-versed students, and receiving back heavily edited drafts of poorly written editorials on my part.

Pretty soon, I was signing up to write every week, and looking forward to Sunday afternoon and Tuesday night editorial board meetings, as if they were the only times I could express my opinions on the various happenings of campus life. Editorial board became that niche I was looking for at Duke, something I could commit myself to while navigating a campus that I still very much felt alienated from.

As an introverted person of color, it became a safe space where I could air my frustrations and concerns at an institution that is still very much culturally and ideologically white despite maintaining a level of superficial diversity.

Over 200 editorials later, my time at The Chronicle has come to an end with this parting senior column, and with it, a four year experience filled with ups and downs. Yet, amidst it all, editorial board was one of the few stable places in my Duke experience.

If edit board continues to exist as a department in the future (which is debatable, considering the discomfort a group of opinionated students can present to certain readers on campus), readers and Chronicle staff will inevitably keep asking “What is edit board?” Answers will differ, but at least that means people are still reading.

Alan Ko is a history major who served as the editorial board co-chair for volume 113 and 114 of The Chronicle. As a recent graduate with a useless liberal arts degree, he plans to live in his mom’s basement for the next few months as he figures out his next steps before applying to graduate school.

I’m so glad I got lost in 301 Flowers

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et lost. Get lost in your classes, get lost in your extracurriculars. Just get lost, and sooner or later all the dots will connect.”

That was the advice that the alumni speaker gave to at least one-third of the Class of 2020—myself included—at Blue Devil Days three years ago. It stuck with me, immortalized in a cheesy Instagram post with a Chapel photo after I decided I was coming to Duke.

Bre Bradham EDITOR IN CHIEF I got lost the first time I was trying to find 301 Flowers—if you’ve ever tried to find our office, you know what I mean—but it took me about five minutes from walking through that door to know that The Chronicle was what I wanted to get lost in.

Earlier this month, I got to see the dots connect.

It was a little after 2 a.m. in mid-April and a group of Chronicle staffers was huddled next to the printing press at Triangle Web Printing, where the paper is printed two times per week. We watched as the printing staff loaded each metal proof into the press, as the ink flowed onto newsprint in bright hues.

I couldn’t wipe the goofiest smile off my face or stop myself from saying multiple times, undoubtedly to the mild annoyance of my friends, how awesome this was. After a year of leading a student staff responsible for making the paper twice weekly, I felt a swelling sense of pride at watching the magical step of text boxes on a computer turning into ink on newsprint—although It felt slightly less magical when I nearly slept through a class presentation later that morning.

At the most basic level, student journalism matters because colleges need to be held accountable and people need information to make decisions about their lives. But it more than matters—it’s essential because there are stories that need to be told, moments that need to be seared into institutional

memory and voices that need to be elevated.

And while those are meaningful mores, they feel distant at 3 a.m. when school assignments are piling up, the layout for the next day’s print edition seems interminably unfittable and your paper straw has become a soggy stick in your iced coffee.

In those moments, it’s not the high ideals of the fourth estate that drive you. It’s the handful of others still in the office, studying or culling the paper for errors, that pushes you to get the thing done. That’s why this is not a love letter to the importance of student journalism or the office space located in 301 Flowers—although I challenge you to find a better spot on campus—but to the people who bring it and our paper to life.

The Chronicle is more than the sum of its parts because it’s the product of hours of sometimes-thankless labor by students balancing their university lives with journalism.

It’s about something bigger than any individual one of us, because it’s the proud product of all of us.

When The Chronicle writes something, it reaches thousands of people in print and is offered up to our halfa-million monthly online viewers. We’re the first draft of this University’s history. With that comes power and deep responsibility. We don’t take it lightly. But why does it matter, and why do we pour hours of our lives during our time at Duke into this endeavor?

We held the administration accountable when it told housekeepers they would have to re-bid for shifts. We told the stories of two women who said they were sexually harassed by a professor. We also followed our men’s basketball team to Maui and shared students’ favorite recipes.

I’ll always remember Managing Editor Ben Leonard—in a sweatshirt, in 90-degree weather—running to chase a guy riding a bike down Main Street because he thought the man had a lead on a story, in the single best and funniest exercise (literally) of relentless reporting I’ve ever seen.

But I’ll also remember former Editor-In-Chief Likhitha Butchireddygari sprinting a circle around the office as we

all cried, screamed and jumped after the men’s basketball team eked out another heart-stopping win in the NCAA tournament, and the countless Cookout milkshake runs that led to a spreadsheet ranking some of the top choices.

We drove to Washington D.C. in the middle of the night to cover a Supreme Court case with ties to Duke research, and staff drove a few minutes from campus to test their luck at an escape room.

The Chronicle is occasional frisbee on the quad before production shifts, and late nights to study for exams after editing stories. It’s dropping everything in the middle of the day for breaking news, and it’s a staffer’s mom mailing cross-stitches halfway across the country for us to hang in the office.

It’s the best thing I’ve ever been a part of.

Former Editor-in-Chief Alison Stuebe described being editor best in 1995: “Looking back, I doubt that anything else would have forced me to scrutinize so closely who I am and who I want to become. I guess that’s what I came to college to learn.”

I’m so glad that, as a naive first-year, I stumbled into 301 Flowers. The students that pour their hearts into this paper have become family during the last three years, and I wouldn’t trade my time here for anything.

I hope everyone has the chance to get lost in something that gives you as much meaning and joy as The Chronicle has given to me this year. The dots, I promise, will connect.

Bre Bradham is a Trinity junior and was Editor-in-Chief of The Chronicle’s 114th Volume. She would like to thank Managing Editor Ben Leonard for being a constant source of good advice, and Sports Editor Michael Model for strong leadership. She would also like to thank Opinion Editor Frances Beroset for bringing kindness and patience to tough situations, and the team of News Editor Isabelle Doan and Senior Editors Nathan Luzum, Shagun Vashisth and Lexi Kadis for incredible news coverage all year.

Thanks to Likhitha Butchireddygari and Claire Ballentine, for showing her what leadership looks like and how to run a paper.

Finally, she would like to thank the staff of Vol. 114 for making 301 Flowers feel like home.

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The frontlines of protecting journalism

y four years at Duke University have been characterized by political tumult and global uncertainty, undergirded by a growing mistrust in journalism—and more fundamentally, disbelief in the truth. Attacks against reporters became more common, with both online criticism and physical violence increasing in recent years. The news became “fake news.”

Nationally, we think about this problem in

Ian Jaffe SPECIAL PROJECTS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR terms of our national and international news organizations. Many hold up organizations like the New York Times and the Washington Post as examples of respected institutions that can (mostly) be trusted, while criticizing others as biased and fake. Yet many of these views are similarly biased as the biases they claim to find in the news.

There is a growing movement to educate the public about the process of journalism and how articles—be they extensive investigations, short government pieces, food reviews, or sports gamers—end up on paper and on the screen for

anyone to read. But college newspapers have been doing this for decades. And journalism in the United States would not work without the work The Chronicle and hundreds of other college newspapers have done to give Americans an introduction to the news.

When I came to Duke as a first-year student, I did not have much of an interest in joining The Chronicle. I was interested in science and medicine and had no interest in journalism. A then-senior who was giving me advice about the different organizations on campus piqued my interest when he said that The Chronicle was terrible, and I should not join. As someone who is always curious, this comment had the opposite effect, spurring me to go to an information session the following day. Within a week, I had written my first article and taken photos of my first event (sadly, the newswriting part did not stick).

As I would learn over my four years, this senior was by no means the only person who took issue with The Chronicle. I always found it interesting to compare the problems people claimed The Chronicle had and the information I knew from being involved in the newspaper as a photographer. What I realized was that many of the problems people identified had more to do with them not understanding how a newspaper works or what the purpose of a newspaper is.

People did not understand how an editorial board works (which I can somewhat understand, since every paper seems to run their editorial board a bit differently). Some did not understand that if you do not want to be quoted by a reporter who properly identified themselves as a reporter, you have to ask to ask to be off-the-record or refuse the interview in the first place. Many did not understand that letters to the editor are typically not rejected for ideological grounds—the very foundation of a newspaper is freedom of speech. A few did not understand that newspapers will not simply talk to one source and follow that source’s narrative in a vacuum, without any external context.

In many ways, a core responsibility of The Chronicle is to correct these misunderstandings.

And I think we do a pretty decent job. I have seen our staff explain the inner workings of the paper to countless students on campus. Our opinion section has gone to significant lengths to differentiate editorials, columns, and letters and highlight what those categories actually signify. Our reporters regularly educate sources about how to interact with reporters despite it sometimes not being the best thing for them to do as far as “getting the story” is concerned.

Plus, The Chronicle—and college in general—provides a slightly lower stakes environment for mistakes to be made and

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Sid Bhaskara ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR I joined the sports staff on the Chronicle in part because of sheer serendipity. My R.A. was the blog editor and after we spent some time talking sports together, he encouraged me to come out and write about them. I only thought about writing at all after spending the entirety of my senior year of high school on Grantland, learning what it’s like not just to report on sports but to take genuine joy in describing the meaning in fandom, athletic marvels and culture. I’d be lying if I said that the 2015 NCAA title wasn’t a factor in my decision to come to Duke in the first place.

I’m certainly not saying anything new when I say that sports are the ultimate distractor.

When life gets tough or overwhelming, the tribalism associated with watching a 6’7” 19year old jump 48 inches to put an orange ball in a 10-foot hoop is enough to help forget even the most onerous issue.

So by some stroke of luck, I had someone encouraging me to write, a writing style I came to love and the perfect outlet to talk about one of the most extraordinary bits of culture that any student at any school could hope to write about— and that culture extends far beyond basketball.

I’ve had the opportunity to cover almost every sport Duke competes in, from football games in hurricanes, to sunsets in downtown Durham for baseball’s opening night and an electric Cameron Indoor Stadium following an ACC win. That said, I’ve had a soft spot for one sport in particular.

I started playing lacrosse late in my high school career and instantly fell in love with it. For the last four and half years, the opportunity to go run around, be part of a team and maybe even win a game has been the panacea for everything I do.

My luck struck again when I came to a university with one of the best lacrosse programs in the country. The opportunity to see the game I love played at the highest level and have its legendary coaches and players acknowledge me as someone

who knows the sport has been extraordinary.

I’ve been lucky to be in a position to help grow the game in my own way and equally lucky to see ACC Tournaments, rivalry games, iconic performances, record-breaking goals and a national runner-up season.

Sitting up there in the press box at Gillette Stadium, having driven three hours from home to see the most important annual event for the sport of lacrosse, every moment spent writing stories, tracking facts, editing, or standing outside locker rooms in frigid February weather was worth it.

I thank John Danowski for the small nuggets of wisdom he would pass on off the record, just asking about my life or high school lacrosse.

But none of those grueling and rewarding moments would have been possible if I wasn’t lucky enough to be part of another incredible team for four years. I’ve learned more about professionalism, responsibility, collaboration and proactivity from my time on the Chronicle staff than anywhere else in my Duke career.

It helps to have great editors like Amrith Ramkumar, Ryan Hoerger and Brian Pollack, who taught me all about being a committed and efficient writer. I have Sameer Pandhare, the aforementioned R.A. who got me on staff in the first place, to thank for teaching me how to turn dry story meetings into impromptu roasts or comedy routines.

Above all, I’ll miss Thursday night production when the paper printed on Fridays, watching basketball, Thursday Night Football or finishing the next day’s crossword with Hank Tucker and Mitchell Gladstone, my classmates. I’ll miss heading up to 301 Flowers every week at 10 p.m. only to leave at 1 a.m., the Chapel lit up behind me, glowing its confirmation of a job well done.

I’ve been blessed to collect the bylines that I have, and though just about anyone can do what I’ve done since a rainy Friday meeting in 2015, it’s been uncommon for most people to stick with it. Even I have seen my play slip a little from time to time, but as I’ve come to find over all my time at Duke, the most important thing is showing up. Not every endeavor leads to success, but as long as there’s an effort to show up and work hard, as every person writing a column like this has, you just get more chances to get lucky.

Sid Bhaskara is a senior Economics major who will fulfill every Duke student’s dream when he starts at a consulting firm in Boston this summer. He will, however, continue to tweet about Duke sports with pessimism.

Ian Jaffe is a graduating Trinity senior who will be working in emergency management before pursuing a career in medicine. He would like to thank Carolyn, Jack, Likhitha, Bre, Hank, Amrith, and Mitchell for all of the amazing experiences and wish Charles and Mary Helen the best of luck.

A labor of love

Just my luck he good people of the editorial section told me I could have 800 words to talk about my Duke Chronicle experience in no uncertain terms. 800 is a weird number. It enables one to say both a little and a lot.

Well, I guess I’m down to 751 now.

learned from. After all, being quoted on one’s opinion about the new restaurant on campus is hardly going to ruin anyone’s future. This is not to say that The Chronicle does not publish life-altering and important pieces.

There have been numerous investigations and scandals of national attention during my four years that would counter this narrative.

But these are the abnormal; The Chronicle is typically more focused on the hyper-local and transient in significance.

I have immense respect for and pride in the staff and editors of The Chronicle that came before me, the ones who shaped my experience at Duke, and the ones who will be here after I leave. For a group that is oftentimes misunderstood and has to spend a significant amount of time educating the public, they do an amazing job on the front lines of defending American journalism.

To the 301 Flowers crew, thank you for a spectacular four years of learning, growth, and mentorship. Keep on fighting the good fight.

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fell into arts journalism as a fluke, more than anything. I knew I wanted to write for the Chronicle coming into college, but I didn’t know which section I wanted to write for—or even, honestly, that there were different sections. And I certainly didn’t know that you

Christy Kuesel RECESS EDITOR could devote an entire section to a hodgepodge of music and film reviews, artist profiles and the most recent cultural happenings on and off campus.

At my first few Recess meetings, I was struck by just how interesting and knowledgeable all of the upperclassmen were: They all had evolved opinions on albums and movies I’d never heard of, or were writing senior theses, or knew exactly how to structure a campus arts piece or a review. But more than that, I was struck by how much they cared about the work they did, and how committed they were to sharing their knowledge with others, be it through writing articles themselves or mentoring freshmen like me. This level of commitment to something entirely nonacademic hooked me, and made me realize I could be a part of something truly special.

What made me stick with Recess, and eventually lead it, was the sense of wonder I got out of listening to sources talk about their art, and what drove them to make it. Looking back over four years, my favorite interviews haven’t been with the most impressive people, but with those who were so excited about what they were talking about that they couldn’t stop smiling, and I couldn’t stop smiling either. The entrepreneurs, filmmakers and photographers I’ve been able to interview have been some of the most infectiously enthusiastic people I’ve met. After all, no one goes into the arts for the money—you have to do it for love.

Duke can be scary and overwhelming at times, and being able to set aside a few hours each week to talk to artists, thinkers and dreamers made me see time and time again that Duke isn’t such a bad place after all. Interviewing so many people who were following their passions let me follow mine, right down a journalism path.

Unlike news and sports, plenty of Recess

stories aren’t begging to be written. We choose to write them, to dive into the impact of Durham theater closing, a new program supporting local community artists, a campus play bringing Ukrainian theater to Duke. We aren’t really holding the university accountable, but rather shining a light on what make Duke and Durham interesting.

Separately, they all seem a little eccentric, but together, they’re a mosaic of the arts and the incredible people working to bring them to life.

Of course, not all art is created equal. Looking through some old notes I took during an “arts criticism” Recess training session freshman year, I stumbled across a quote I wrote down: “Sometimes art sucks, and someone needs to say so.” It’s true—where you can find art, you can usually find criticism of it. But, as some of our esteemed editors pointed out a few months ago, isn’t taking the time to criticize something, to weigh its merits against its shortcomings, a form of love for the greater art form? I am constantly in awe of my fellow writers’ abilities to comb through an album or film and delve into its true meaning, or the mechanics that hold it all together, and come out with a balanced opinion of its value in a greater context.

And criticism doesn’t only apply to artists who will, in all likelihood, never open up a student newspaper in North Carolina. It applies to the institutions that hold Duke together, which need to be held to the highest standard. It isn’t enough to build another giant glass box to house arts programs; that box needs to be supplemented with resources and funding to support student artists and the local community. But, for the sake of fairness, it’s a start, and I’m excited to see how Duke’s arts scene develops long after I’ve left.

Any print issue of the Chronicle will include criticisms of Duke, as well as highlights of accomplishments of Duke students and faculty—and both are well deserved. But looking around 301 Flowers on any given Tuesday production night, seeing other staffers edit article after article and cobble together layout and accompanying graphics and images, it all just feels like a labor of love.

Christy Kuesel is a Trinity senior, English major and Recess editor for Chronicle v. 114. She’ll save most of her teary goodbyes for her final Recess editor’s note, but she’d like to thank her fellow section heads and everyone who helped make this volume her favorite yet. After graduation, she’ll be soul searching, couch surfing and job hunting— hopefully finding something in media!

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The time I became a real journalist

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ere is what you do not know about the press section of the Supreme Court of the United States.

A staff member leads reporters single file

Isabelle Doan NEWS EDITOR from the press room to the hallway. We walk in straight lines through the Supreme Court to a side door of the Courtroom. We’re ushered in according to a seat number.

More important reporters get to squeeze into alcoves at the side of the Courtroom. Less important reporters sit in the back, their view of the bench severely obstructed by massive marble columns. (I like to joke that it was an obstruction of justice.)

When I went to cover a Supreme Court case for The Chronicle, I was assigned a seat in the back. I was squeezed between two people, balancing on a too-hard wooden chair, with only my legs to lean on to take notes. Two Justices were visible, with a third perceptible if I craned my neck.

It was surely an uncomfortable experience—and yet it was the experience that reaffirmed my love for what I do at The Chronicle.

When first I entered the Supreme Court, I asked a security guard where press should go. He said to go to the left, and

I did, but I hesitated when I was faced with a barrier. The barrier occluded the hallway just enough so that a person could go around. But the message was clear—if you’re not supposed to be back there, don’t go back there.

After I stared at the barrier for a good minute, the security guard told me that I could just go around. But even then, when I went around the barrier and I saw the press room, I couldn’t go inside. Panic struck me. I felt an imposter—I wasn’t a journalist, not like the people milling about the press room.

I called Bre, our editor in chief and the person who had driven me up to D.C. When she picked up the phone, word salad spilled out of my mouth. I told her I couldn’t do it. I didn’t know what to do. There were real journalists in there.

Bre told me that didn’t matter. I had a place in there, and I should take it.

This year, I was news editor for The Chronicle, but it felt like a mantle I could never really fill. I’d never taken any journalism classes before or done any journalism outside this newspaper. I often wouldn’t trust my own judgement.

I took my first journalism class this semester, a science writing class filled with graduate students in the sciences and not a single student interested in career journalism.

One student asked the professor when someone becomes a journalist—after writing a single news article? If not, then when? Could the students consider themselves journalists?

The professor, knowing that I was a part of The Chronicle, asked me what I thought. I said, “I don’t know. I don’t

consider myself a journalist.” He told me that I shouldn’t say that—it denigrated all the work I’d done.

I recognize that now. My news department is all just students, who all have various aspirations of their own. But we’re all journalists, and that’s undeniably important when our work holds Duke accountable or informs the public.

This year, we’ve written stories that have enabled actual change at Duke, from injustice regarding housekeeping shifts to student insurance changes. And yes, we did that while taking biochemistry and working other jobs.

I haven’t devoted three years to The Chronicle because I want a line on my resume or because I need published stories to go into journalism. I’ve devoted almost 1200 hours to The Chronicle because I think this work is incredibly important, and because I love everyone who works in 301 Flowers.

I’ll cherish the time that I got to go to the Supreme Court, among many other opportunities that The Chronicle has given me. But above all, I’ll always treasure the three great years I’ve had as a writer and editor for this newspaper—the place where I got to become a real journalist.

Isabelle Doan is a Trinity junior studying public policy and biology. She served as news editor of The Chronicle’s 114th volume.

She’d like to thank her wonderful masthead. Shagun, for always knowing what to say. Lexi, for the long talks about the future.

Nathan, for always being supportive. Ben, for being the funniest person in the office. Bre, for the care she puts into every aspect of The Chronicle.

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A fairy tale I never imagined

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week or two after Duke won the men’s basketball national championship in Indianapolis in April 2015, I was in my room at my childhood home 10 minutes from campus when I googled future Final Four sites.

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I still wasn’t 100 percent sure where I wanted to go to college when I saw that the 2019 Final Four would take place in Minneapolis my senior year. I was well-versed in Duke basketball history and also mildly superstitious, knowing that Duke only ever wins in a city that ends in “-apolis.” It seemed like a sign that the stars were aligned for a storybook ending. I decided to come to Duke. A silly thing like that helped me make the best choice of my life.

I went through the motions of a national college search, wary of going to school so close to home, but I think my decision had actually been predestined for many years. Most 10-year-olds in the mid-2000s spent their free time reading Harry Potter. I read The Encyclopedia of Duke Basketball cover to cover. Name any book about the Blue Devils, and there’s a good chance it’s sitting on my bookshelf. I knew I would enjoy the basketball scene at Duke as a student, but I couldn’t have anticipated how it would shape my experience here.

I suspect something would have guided me to The Chronicle eventually, but I was lucky to have an early catalyst. The TA in my freshman seminar—Ryan Hoerger, the sports editor at the time—went to the White House to cover the 2015 national champions’ visit a couple of weeks into classes my freshman fall. Needless to say, that seemed pretty cool.

That’s all it took to dive into this labor of love, letting my life revolve around The Chronicle for most of my four

years here. Ask me about my favorite weeks of college, and by extension, my life, and they’re all Duke sporting events I covered—the 2017 ACC tournament, 2019 ACC tournament, 2017 PK80 Invitational and 2018 Athens Regional in the NCAA baseball tournament.

It culminated with a weekend in Washington to cover the

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Sure, I never saw a national championship as a student, but don’t feel sorry for me. I’ve been the luckiest college kid in America.

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NCAA men’s basketball East Regional a month ago. As I took my courtside seat on press row before the Blue Devils tipped off against Michigan State in the Elite Eight, I thought about that night in my room in 2015, before I had ever heard the names Zion Williamson and R.J. Barrett.

Everything I had imagined about 2019 was coming true.

Duke appeared to be the best team in the nation, featuring the most electric, charismatic college basketball player in recent memory. One more win, and the Blue Devils would be en route to Minneapolis.

Of course, it didn’t happen. Michigan State’s Cassius Winston dribbled out the final seconds of a one-point loss for Duke a few feet away from my seat.

Not all fairy tales have the ending you expect, but being there to cover that game in person was a different kind of storybook finish.

I didn’t go to Minneapolis like I thought I might when I was 17, but I did cover games for The Chronicle in New York, Portland, Washington, Pittsburgh, Charlottesville, Blacksburg, South Bend, Clemson, Atlanta, Louisville, Detroit, Winston-Salem, Raleigh, Chapel Hill and Shreveport.

I was a credentialed reporter three straight years for the men’s basketball ACC tournament, the best sporting event in the world for a fan growing up in North Carolina, and the Blue Devils and Tar Heels happened to meet in the semifinals all three times. Duke’s win against North Carolina this season was one of the most memorable in the rivalry’s history, and its whole run to the 2017 championship with four wins in four days was unparalleled.

There’s a glass-half-empty view that I’ll graduate as part of only the fifth class since 1986 never to see a men’s basketball Final Four appearance as Duke students. That’s not how I’ll look back on my four years. It ignores all the special games, characters and moments I’ve seen along the way.

I never thought I’d be on the court live-tweeting Duke cutting down the nets after two different ACC championships.

I never thought I’d have the chance to interview Mike Krzyzewski and some of the most talented players in the country about my favorite sport.

Sure, I never saw a national championship as a student, but don’t feel sorry for me. I’ve been the luckiest college kid in America.

Hank Tucker is a Trinity senior. He served as sports editor of The Chronicle’s 113th volume. He wants to thank Ryan, Amrith, Mitchell and Michael for sharing many of his favorite moments on press row with him and always being available to text or argue in person about Duke or the Red Sox. And he may never have met any of them without the love, support and lifelong brainwashing mission his parents successfully executed as Duke alumni themselves.

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Jones and Manning look to further cultivate mentor relationship

By Derek Saul Sports Editor

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—When Daniel Jones and Eli Manning see each other next, it will not be their first meeting.

After growing up watching Manning in the spotlight for years, Jones will be tasked with learning everything he can from the New York Giants’ incumbent starter as New York selected Jones to be Manning’s eventual replacement.

The comparisons are obvious between the new teammates—both are tall, strong quarterbacks with a quick release, and of course a shared college coach in David Cutcliffe.

But learing from Manning is not a new task for Jones. In fact, he has done it for years.

Through the Cutcliffe connection, Manning came to Duke for offseason workouts on numerous occasions, and Jones was always eager to pick Manning’s brain.

“They’ve already spent a lot of time around each other,” Blue Devil head coach Cutcliffe said.

“So while Daniel was here and [Manning worked out], Daniel’s eyes got big, and Daniel watched and begged to come into film studies [with Manning]. So they’ve been around each other, and are real comfortable with each other.”

Often noted as a quarterback guru, it was only a matter of time before Cutcliffe found his guy at Duke.

After coaching three top-five picks in the NFL Draft at the position—Heath Shuler, Peyton Manning and Eli Manning—in his stints as offensive coordinator at Tennessee and head coach at Mississippi, Cutcliffe kept a

low quarterback profile for much of his time in Durham. Since taking over for the Blue Devils in 2008, Cutcliffe did not attract anybody that could stack up to the Manning brothers. That is, until Jones came along.

Entering Duke without a guaranteed scholarship, Jones rose through the Blue Devil ranks quickly, getting the starting nod under center as a little-known redshirt freshman.

The 6-foot-5 signal caller shot up draft boards as quickly as he rose through the Duke depth chart, and was the second quarterback off the board in the draft.

And for Cutcliffe, who has now coached four top-10 picks at the most important position in football, the secret is simple.

“I think that coaching is trust. It’s relationships. If you gain trust and you build a relationship, you can coach quarterbacks as tough as you coach left tackles,” Cutcliffe said.

“If there’s another thing I’ve done good, it’s obviously I know how to pick em. If you pick the right ones, you’ve got a chance at being a good coach.”

Cutcliffe certainly picked the right ones in the Manning brothers. Peyton Manning won five MVPs, has the all-time passing yards record and is in the discussion for the greatest quarterback of all time. Although Eli Manning never quite reached the level his brother did, he still managed to win two Super Bowl MVPs and to put himself in the Hall of Fame conversation.

Now, Eli Manning faces a new challenge: grooming his successor. The mentor of both of the Mannings and Jones thinks that both are up to the task.

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“To live in that household, growing up [Eli] had to be a fierce competitor as the youngest son,” Cutcliffe said. “They both have that [competitive] temperament, which will serve Daniel well playing in the National Football League, period. And he will still be hungry, no different than Eli is, after 12 years, 14 years, 15 years. I never saw Peyton’s hunger change.

Daniel Jones has got that.”

If Jones is to have a Manning-esque career, he has a long way to go. While Jones put together some eye-opening performances in his time as a Blue Devil, he struggled to put it all together. For every game that he had like his career-capping six-touchdown, 423-passing yard effort in the Walk-On’s Independence Bowl, there was a game in which the Charlotte Latin School product struggled to make an impact, such as against Wake Forest last November, when he completed less than half of his passes and threw for only 145 yards.

In his three years as the starter, Jones completed 59.9 percent of his passes and averaged 6.4 yards per attempt. To put that into perspective, Kyler Murray, who went firstoverall to the Arizona Cardinals, completed 67.4 percent of his passes and averaged 10.4 yards per attempt, and Dwayne Haskins, who went 15th to the Washington Redskins, completed 70 percent of his passes and averaged 10.3 yards per attempt.

Although Murray and Haskins, the only other quarterbacks drafted in the first round of the 2019 draft, did play in more passing-friendly offenses in college, Jones certainly has work to do to prove he can start at the NFL level. And

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Jones started for three seasons at Duke.

Jones is ready to put in that work.

“There’s no one more excited than I am for this opportunity. No one’s going to work harder at it than I will,” Jones said. “My immediate goal is to be the best teammate I can. I am eager to learn and eager to work. I can’t wait to get to work.”

While many pundits and fans are skeptical, to say the least, of Jones going at No. 6, nobody can take away from Jones the fact that he improbably worked his way from an unknown to an NFL team’s quarterback of the future. Yet, Cutcliffe, who knows quarterbacks as well as anybody else, always saw it coming.

“There was never a doubt in my mind he was going to end up being a star,” Cutcliffe said.

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Blue Devils fail to overcome slow start in ACC semifinal

By Dilan Trivedi Associate Sports Editor

CHAPEL HILL — For the third straight year, Duke was knocked off by Notre Dame in the ACC tournament semifinals after winning the regular season matchup.

An inability to consistently win face-offs and numerous unforced turnovers on the offensive end—two issues that have plagued the Blue Devils all season—came DUKE 10 back to bite the team.

12 The third-ranked Blue UND Devils won just nine of 26 faceoffs and had 12 turnovers en route to a 1210 loss to the 11th-ranked Fighting Irish Saturday afternoon at the UNC Lacrosse stadium.

It was only fitting that a lost final draw and

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Brian Smyth won just nine of his 23 faceoffs.

a turnover ultimately did the Blue Devils in for the game. After trailing by as many as five in the third quarter, Duke slowly chipped away at the lead to cut the deficit to 11-10 following CJ Carpenter’s fourth goal of the contest. However, Brian Smyth could not secure the draw against Charles Leonard with 2:57 left in the contest and a foul on Terry Lindsay allowed the Irish to have an EMO opportunity with 1:27 left.

Although Cade Van Raaphorst blocked a shot with 67 ticks remaining to secure possession for Duke and an opportunity to tie the contest, a turnover by goalie Turner Uppgren on an attempted clear led to a Notre Dame empty net goal by Bryan Costabile—one of five tallies on the day—to end the Blue Devils’ hopes.

“Next time we lose, we collect the equipment,” head coach John Danowski said.

“We are disappointed just in general. Win or lose, we want to play a certain way and I think our lack of discipline was obvious today, our lack of fundamentals. And that’s on me, that’s on the head coach. I’ve done a very poor job with this group.”

The first quarter was representative of the game for the Blue Devils (11-4, 2-2 in the ACC) as they were shut down offensively by the Fighting Irish (8-5, 2-2) and forced to play defense for much of the first 15 minutes.

With Notre Dame securing all five draws, Matt Schmidt denying Duke three times at the net and the Blue Devils coughing up the ball four times, the Fighting Irish opened up a 3-1 lead with two Costabile goals. Three saves from

Uppgren and two caused turnovers from the Duke defense kept it in the contest. “[Notre Dame] was very relaxed from the beginning. I thought they knew they were going to win. They were very comfortable in their game plan,” Danowski said.

The second quarter started in the same fashion, with Notre Dame securing the draw, but Uppgren made a nice save before Van Raaphorst threw away the ball for the second time on the day, leading to an empty net goal for Wheaton Jackoboice.

“I thought our guys were panicky, they were jittery. We threw the ball away for a goal - we haven’t done that all year and we did it early and we did it at the end, in the second quarter and the fourth quarter,” Danowski said.

It appeared the tides were turning after the aforementioned gaffe with an unassisted EMO goal from CJ Carpenter, who has had a knack for timely scoring. A subsequent crease violation on the Irish nullified a goal, leading to a diving Carpenter finish to cut the deficit to 4-3 with just over 10 minutes left in the half.

But, the Irish responded by sandwiching a pair of goals on either side of a lone Nakeie Montgomery tally to take an 8-4 lead entering the break after a sloppy first half. The two squads combined for 17 turnovers, only six of which were caused. Notre Dame won 11 of the 14 draws, had nines saves and outshot Duke 2315 at the half.

“We have struggled all year facing off. Today

we faced off three different people. Their guy is terrific. He whooped us the last time we played them,” Danowski said. “But, the second half was even, it was 50-50. If we are 50-50 that is the goal, we love to be 50-50.”

Coming out of the break, the Blue Devils looked to explode as they typically do, outscoring opponents by 25 goals in the third quarter on the season. However, after an early Cameron Badour EMO goal to cut the deficit to three, the Irish did not let down, converting on two straight goals to extend their lead to five, the largest on the day. Duke responded with two goals of its own in the last four minutes but could not convert on an EMO opportunity in the last 30 seconds to mute some of the momentum and enter the final period still down 10-7.

The Blue Devils fought valiantly in the fourth but were unable to ultimately overcome their slow start. Duke had multiple chances to get the gap to one after cutting the deficit to two with 8:10 remaining but Schmidt remained a rock in cage to keep Duke at bay. The sophomore finished with 18 saves in a contest that featured top goalkeeping on both sides with Uppgren having 15 of his own.

With the loss, the Blue Devils will await their seeding in the NCAA Tournament.

Duke finished the regular season ranked No. 2 in RPI, and will be a formidable foe for any team, boasting four top-five victories on the year.

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our years ago, I believed I was destined to be a sports journalist. I would spend my after-school hours pouring through Duke’s journalism options, and when I first arrived on campus in 2015, I prioritized signing up for the Chronicle’s sports section.

The Chronicle soon became my only non-academic commitment, and I devoted so much of my free time trying to assert myself within the sports section. I still remember the thrill of seeing my first blog post—no matter how much it had to be edited (most of it)—publicized on Twitter and Facebook. I also remember my first article as a beat writer and my piece covering the men’s basketball team following Coach K’s return from surgery.

At some point in my first year, though, I realized that I didn’t have the same zeal I once had for journalism. That’s not at all a reflection of my experience writing for the Chronicle. It was just that, for me, writing had become a chore.

I knew that there were still some aspects that I thoroughly enjoyed—after all, there’s a reason I was initially so drawn to it in the first place. But it was difficult to isolate what I liked and didn’t like about writing, and subsequently, how I should move forward for my next

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Finally, I realized that I loved the creative aspect of journalism, rather than journalism itself.

I cherished, and continue to revere, the opportunity to convey my interpretation of any event, profile, or feature

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story. After isolating my thirst for creativity from the rest of the process, it became easy to choose my major in statistical science. With statistics, I can be just as creative in asking questions—this time with datasets instead of people.

So why did I stay with the Chronicle?

There’s a multitude of explanations: finishing something I started, not wanting to let others down, making lifelong connections and meeting people I otherwise wouldn’t have crossed paths with, and so many more.

But there’s another one that for some reason, I could never seem to shake. It’s not as if the other ones are invalid or don’t pertain to me—they do. But there’s only one principle reason. It’s why I have remained involved in the Chronicle as an associate editor, columnist, beat writer and social media editor for the past three years, and have devoted myself to my first extracurricular at Duke.

I wanted to make seven-year-old me proud.

I wrote my college essay on my passion for sports writing and the importance of truth. It had been something I had been subconsciously—and then consciously—working toward since I was seven years old when I would memorize Ben Feder will graduate this May with his B.S. in all of the baseball statistics on the back page of the New York statistical science. He is still pursuing opportunities in the Times’ sports section and then beg my father to quiz me. data science field, so feel free to offer him a job.

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I thought about that seven-year-old a lot when trying to figure out my role within the Chronicle. I sought a balance between other academic pursuits, outside passions and the commitment to sports reporting that I made to myself so many years ago. Yes, at seven I was more focused on playing in the MLB, but as I grew older, I focused my efforts solely on journalism.

It was not that I thought I would have wasted all that time I spent hammering obscure sports knowledge into my brain, and it wasn’t that I could not let go of the past—I just wanted to make the younger version of myself smile if he were able to peer into the future 14 years later.

I know it may seem like a ridiculous reason to continue committing myself to something I was not going to pursue in the future. But not everything has to be done with one eye on the future, and little by little, I started to enjoy writing again. I began taking pride in the little things that don’t necessarily pop out when sorting through my now-226 bylines, especially the work I have put in covering a struggling women’s lacrosse team the past four years and this column that received a decent amount of flack.

This vision of my younger self made every part of the process so much better. That’s not to say anything about writers who write to tell stories—that’s an amazing reason to report too. But for me, to be unapologetically Benjamin Aaron Feder, I needed to isolate the reason for continuing to do something that on its own was none too enjoyable for me.

And for that, I have to thank my seven-year-old self.

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ost 20-somes don’t have the chance to choose where they work. For many college students, the job hunt is littered with rejections of “I’m sorry” and promises to “keep in touch.”

And although I’ve been lucky enough to spend my last two summers in Philadelphia, my favorite office is here in Durham.

Mitchell Gladstone SPORTS FEATURES EDITOR Growing up, first in Charlotte and then Philly, I never missed a Duke basketball game. After the Blue Devils won their third national title in 2001, watching hoops alongside my dad was the routine in our house. I even got to see a couple of games in person, but none at Cameron Indoor.

I remember opening my family’s old red jewelry box during Hanukkah 2007 and seeing those two tickets for a game at what I will always consider the best venue in all of basketball, I flipped out. Duke beat Virginia 87-65, but the score didn’t matter. I was inside Cameron.

Little did I know, less than eight years later, that would be the place where I got to go to work.

Being a trombonist in the pep band and a men’s basketball beat writer, I got plenty of perks. I never slept a night in a tent, I never waited in line for a game—unless I chose to—and I didn’t have to cram into a crowded Section 17. But I also always had a job to do.

As a band member, I had to, for one, make sure I didn’t stick out like the mediocre instrumentalist I’ve always been.

More importantly, though, myself and the bones had the task of ensuring a safe trip across Coach K Court for the Blue Devil—a task that, each time, inevitably led to someone else figuring out that I was in the band.

Of course, my other role involved sneaking through the front row of painted bodies in the student section to my seat on press row. From center court, I wrote stories and sent out tweets, all while managing to never have my laptop destroyed by a ball or player diving into the stands.

Basically, all of what I did was outside the lines that separate the 4,700 square feet of hardwood from the rest of the building.

But I was in that building, a gym unlike any other—partially because of what it means to me and partially because of all the moments that have happened in there.

I’m lucky. Both The Chronicle and band have taken me places I probably wouldn’t have ventured to otherwise. As a freshman, I traveled south to Miami, only to write about women’s basketball missing 25 straight shots in a loss. Later that year, the band took me 2,220 miles west to Anaheim, and that didn’t go much better for the men on the hardwood.

Maybe I just wasn’t the good luck charm. I covered men’s basketball’s buzzer-beating loss in the Carrier Dome as a sophomore, going north to Syracuse, N.Y., and as a junior, I made my way to Omaha, Neb., only to write about Grayson Allen’s final game at Duke. And this year, the band brought me to Washington, D.C., where the Blue Devils’ season—and my two jobs—came to an end, at least for now.

Be it in Louisville or Pittsburgh, Charlottesville or Clemson, I got to work in environments that some might pay hundreds of dollars to experience. And yet, none of them were the same as the one that was a little more than 1,000 feet from my room.

Cameron Indoor Stadium is a different animal. I never wondered whether all 9,314 seats would be filled on a given night. The answer was always yes.

When I looked up to the rafters, I saw the memories from my childhood—wearing my black JJ Redick jersey in my driveway, only shooting from beyond my chalk-drawn 3-point arc, or sitting on the edge of my seat during the final minute of the 2010 title game, before running in circles around my dad’s apartment after Gordon Hayward’s halfcourt try bounced off the rim.

From the time the North entrance opens 90 minutes prior to tip until about an hour afterwards, when most everyone has cleared out, Cameron is just like you see on TV. It’s loud. It’s crammed. It’s crazy.

But I’ll always cherish my time in Cameron when it is empty, when you can hear a ball bounce—or maybe even the keys of a laptop being tapped.

I doubt I’ll ever have another office like Cameron Indoor Stadium. And if I do, let’s just hope I don’t find a way to break my foot in there, too.

Mitchell Gladstone is a Trinity senior and previously served as the V. 113 Sports Managing Editor. He’s shocked Hank made it through three years as his roommate, but is grateful for all the sports banter, and would also like to thank past sports editors Ryan and Amrith for opening so many doors at The Chronicle. Plus, he hopes the Eagles remain the adopted NFL team of the newsroom.

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The Chronicle regrets the error

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he Chronicle regrets the error.

That’s what we write when we issue a correction.

Why? Once the article is updated, why even note that it was corrected? Who cares about The Chronicle’s regret?

Well, for one, it’s transparent. It lets the readers know that prior information in the article was false. It also expresses wrongdoing and it accepts responsibility for that wrongdoing.

You’ve probably seen that correction in the pages of The Chronicle often enough that it’s lost its meaning. But, to me, these words are some of the most meaningful words we print.

Former Chronicle columnist Matthew King put it best when he wrote that we were living in a “remorseless age.”

At a national or global level, the zeitgeist is to avoid showing weakness.

But, are Americans, as individuals, actually remorseless? Of course not. We feel guilt and shame all the time. But I think sometimes we don’t allow ourselves to feel it enough.

For the past four years, I’ve seen and reported on the goings on at the University. It’s been the greatest experience of my life. I’ve gotten to write about people who are passionate about their school and their community, accomplished

amazing feats and inspired us to work harder.

But, I’ve also gotten to see us be complacent. I’ve seen us criticize Greek life at Duke all day long and at the end of that day, go home to our Greek section. Or say we don’t believe in hyperexclusivity, yet participate complicity in organizations that promote a hyperexclusive culture. Or probably the most

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Likhitha Butchireddygari FORMER EDITOR IN CHIEF

frequent, say we don’t believe in sexism or racism but stand silently by as we watch other students or workers be degraded by those systems.

I’ve always thought that the worst thing in this life is to be apathetic. Since coming to Duke, I’ve realized that the second worst thing is to be complacent. Being apathetic is not having values. Being complacent is not acting in accordance with your values. And in so many ways, when we allow ourselves to be complacent, we become complicit in structures that hurt others. If The Chronicle has taught me anything, it’s to constantly ask myself, ‘how am I complicit in things I inherently don’t believe in?’

I will be the first person to admit that I am complicit in global human trafficking or climate change because of the products I use. Or that I am complicit in the perpetuation of oppressive racist systems in our society. Or in participating in that millennial trope of neglecting my family. Or in propagating a culture obsessed with celebrity—yes, I watch The Daily Mail on Snapchat almost every day.

I can admit these things not because I am shameless. It’s quite the opposite. I am filled with shame for these things. I feel bad for being complicit in these ways and more.

But, I’ve accepted that it’s ok to feel bad. That’s the hard part. We don’t want to think that we’re not inherently good— if I’m complicit in all of these things, aren’t I… bad? What I’ve learned at The Chronicle is that accepting you have been “bad” is necessary for you to be better.

Because, ultimately, “The Chronicle regrets the error” is a moment of reflection. After three (sometimes more) rounds of editing, how did we make a mistake? After all, isn’t that what regret is about—How did we get here and how do we move forward?

Likhitha Butchireddygari is a Trinity senior and digital strategy director. She was editor in chief of the Chronicle’s 113th volume.

She would like to thank her partner-in-crime Frances, her mentors Chrissy Beck and Dean Rachael Murphey-Brown, and her friends for a spectacular four years.

Thank you, seniors! We love you and wish you the best.

David Rubenstein’s private equity firm is pushing poor people out of their homes

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’ve written for The Chronicle’s Editorial Board for almost my entire time at Duke. I’m proud of so many of our articles and can’t express in words how profoundly I love my Board members. Finally, after what’s felt like a lifetime, I’m leaving the University for good and have little intention of returning.

In lieu of the traditional senior column full of memorable anecdotes and/or spiteful resentment, I wanted my first byline to be this important editorial that failed to get published this year. In writing this introduction, I am thinking of and mourning the countless lives lost to the violence of capitalism and those who were displaced by cruel opportunists like David Rubenstein.

On April 7th, Last Week Tonight—the late night HBO talk show hosted by John Oliver—aired a piece on mobile homes.

The Youtube clip of the 15 minute segment has already amassed nearly five million views and focuses on exploitation of manufactured home owners by wealthy investment firms.

While those who live in mobile homes usually own their residence, they pay rent on the land it’s residing in.

In the past few years, private equity firms have been buying up mobile home parks and sharply increasing rent to astronomical levels for the majority low-income residents.

Because, as John Oliver points out, manufactured homes are not easy or cheap to relocate, poor residents on fixed incomes face eviction and homelessness as rent increases threaten to price them out of their mobile home parks.

Between clips of residents explaining that they’ve had to ration medication to keep up with rent hikes, a familiar face flashes once across the screen: David Rubenstein. A 1970 graduate, former Board of Trustees Chair, namesake of the

David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscripts Library, and financer of a scholarship program for low-income students, he’s best known on Duke campus for his philanthropy and staggering donations. However, Rubenstein is also a cofounder and co-executive chairman of the Carlyle Group, one of the largest private equity firms in the world with a self-

Sydney Roberts EDITORIAL BOARD CHAIR reported $216 billion in assets. While his accomplishments are well broadcasted, what you won’t hear in Rubenstein’s 2017 commencement address or read in Duke Today is how his investment firm has produced millions in returns for investors through “preying” on poor residents.

Private equity firms work by collecting large sums of money from the uber-wealthy to buy companies in hopes of changing them to turn a profit—often through maneuvers like laying off workers or, in the case of the Carlyle Group and manufactured homes parks, buying the community land and gouging low-income residents who can’t afford to move.

Carlyle group has also made its billions through “investing in the defense and national security markets.” One company the firm owns—Combined Systems International— manufactures tear gas that has been used in Egypt to disperse protesters and in Ferguson in 2014.

This reality of poor mobile home residents facing

homelessness and Black Lives Matter organizers being tear gassed to the financial benefit of Rubenstein’s investment firm is a far cry from the persona he has on campus as a benevolent philanthropist. These connections, in fact, throw the morality of accepting any of Rubinstein’s donations into question.

The danger of philanthropy is how the often violent origins of extreme wealth are obscured by occasional monetary donations. Rich individuals—Jeff Bezos, for example—who amass obscene sums of money through exploitation spend an incredibly small fraction of their wealth on charity projects and receive praise, while paying little to nothing in taxes. The fact that some of Rubenstein’s money is going to a handful of low-income students doesn’t change the fact that his wealth is in part collected through harming the poor and the result of a regressive tax policy that leaves solving social ills to the whims of the rich.

Philanthropy and charity can’t make up for the crushing structural income inequality that make possible Rubenstein’s unimaginable affluence, nor can it ethically compensate for the deeply immoral roots of that wealth accumulation.

I am not writing this with the belief that things will change. In fact, I’m fully aware this is more or less a practice of screaming into the proverbial void. But, I want this archived—to contribute to a paper trail cataloguing the shameful and irredeemable evil of David Rubenstein’s financial investments.

Sydney Roberts, Trinity ‘19, is the co-chair of the independent Editorial Board.

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