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Students report HDRL workers entering rooms unannounced Kenrick Cai The Chronicle How would you react if someone walked into your bedroom unannounced while you were getting dressed? Some Central Campus residents have had to figure out the hard way. In a March 22 post on the Fix My Campus Facebook page, sophomore Kathryn Mueller asked whether the maintenance staff could be told to knock on students’ doors before entering apartments. Multiple students commented on the post, reporting being walked-in on without a warning. “Me and a few other friends who live on Central have just had people unlock our doors and walk in unannounced,” Mueller wrote in the post. “It’s an invasion of privacy/ personal space and kind of scary to have people who aren’t your roommates just walk into your apartment unexpected.” Mueller told The Chronicle that the situation happened to her in December, but that she wrote the Facebook post after her friend experienced a similar incident earlier that day. “[The maintenance staff] just opened her bedroom door, and she was naked,” Mueller said. “It was kind of horrifying for her because she didn’t expect three 50-year-old men to be walking into her room unannounced.” Such intrusions are “common,” Mueller said, adding that four other students wrote comments on her Facebook post relaying similar experiences. Mueller’s post received more than 100 Facebook likes and reactions. She offered a relatively simple suggestion to

Chronicle File Photo Multiple students wrote on the Fix My Campus Facebook page that maintenance workers have walked into their apartments without knocking.

remedy the situation, saying that staff should knock on doors and give the residents some time to open the door. Andy Beville, director of facilities operations for Housing, Dining and Residence Life, said these incidents were “absolutely not” in accordance with protocol. “Is it possible? Sure. But that’s not how we operate,” he said. “My maintenance staff are

very conscious, very sensitive to the fact that they’re walking into people’s homes, and the protocol is that they knock twice, oftentimes three times, as loudly as they can.” Despite the protocol, Mueller said students sometimes did not hear any knocks on their doors. In some cases, the staff “walked into [students’] bedrooms, not even just their apartment in general.” Recounting her own

experience, Mueller said she had been sitting on her couch when she heard someone “struggling” to unlock the door as if they were trying to “break in.” “They didn’t knock, they just unlocked my door and then they walked in,” she said. “I was studying for my final later that day, and I just felt like it was kind of inappropriate for them to not warn me about that.” Students should receive an email notification one to two days in advance of maintenance staff entering an apartment, Beville explained. During the past three months, he said there have been errors in communication leading to incidents like the ones Mueller cited. He added that his staff is working to find new ways to communicate with students, such as through text messages or social media. “Emails, a couple of years ago, were a wonderful way to get students to respond and recognize that they’re receiving a message, but now it may not be the communication pathway that they would use most often,” he said. HDRL staff have been especially active on Central Campus in the past three months, Beville noted. They have been performing checkups such as indoor air quality tests and fire inspections, and he suggested that this may have contributed to the increase in complaints. Normally, Beville said, staff should only enter an apartment without email warning in cases of urgent facilities system issues—such as a malfunctioning chilled water supply or water leakages. See UNANNOUNCED on Page 6

LDOC 2017 to feature rapper Tory Lanez and pop singer Daya Claire Ballentine The Chronicle Rapper Tory Lanez will be headlining the Last Day of Classes concert this year, Duke University Union announced Friday. The lineup will also include pop artist Daya, electronic dance music group Cheat Codes and synthpop band Panama Wedding. LDOC committee co-chairs Dylan Posner and Brian Buhr, both sophomores, noted that they tried to create a blend of hip hop and pop in this year’s programming. “It’s going to be a great day, and we think our artists will really embody LDOC,” Posner said. They said that both Tory Lanez—whose hit “Luv” was nominated for a Grammy— and Daya are exciting performers who are playing at a lot of summer music festivals and are on tour right now. Daya is known for her vocals on the Chainsmokers’

song “Don’t Let Me Down,” which won a Grammy this year. This is the first time LDOC will feature a Grammy-winning artist—evidence of “the Duke difference,” Buhr noted. Posner and Buhr said they aimed to balance out the lineup with Panama Wedding, a more alternative group. “We also thought about how good these people are at performing live,” Buhr said. “That was a big consideration in these artists.” DUU announced the lineup Friday night at a karaoke competition at the Devil’s Krafthouse, which raised money for the Duke Children’s Hospital. This year, Posner explained that the LDOC committee is trying to include more members of the student body and is partnering with the Women’s Center and DuWell to increase safety. Another collaboration is with Sustainable

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Special to The Chronicle Rapper Tory Lanez was nominated for a Grammy this year, and pop singer Daya received one for her vocals on the Chainsmokers’ “Don’t Let Me Down.”

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basic luggage images one after the other, and that makes it very difficult for a human to focus and pay attention all the time for that rare event where a threat is present.” The proposed solution is an algorithm that could identify portions of the image appearing to contain threats. A security official would then review these select portions, thus significantly reducing the amount of work needed to be done and allowing the official to examine flagged regions of X-ray images with greater attentiveness.

Within two to three years, “deep learning technology” developed by Duke researchers could be in airports. Smiths Detection Inc.—a manufacturer of security detection devices—recently announced a partnership with the Pratt School of Engineering to develop a deep learning algorithm aimed at reducing errors in baggage X-ray screening. Commissioned by the Transportation Security Administration more than a year ago, the See SECURITY on Page 6 partnership brings together a research team headed by Lawrence Carin, vice provost for research, and Kristofer Roe, director of Smiths Detection Inc. “What we’re trying to do is to automate [X-ray screening],” Carin said. “To develop technology, which is called deep learning, that can automatically read those images and detect threats without any human intervention.” Deep learning is a “hot field” in machine learning, he explained, involving algorithms whose architecture is essentially a multi-layered neural network—a structure which might be present in the human mind as well, according to some studies. Although the technology does not seek to replace human intervention in the process of screening, there are advantages to reducing the amount of work that a human has to do when screening baggage, Carin noted. “A human today has to focus on the whole Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons image—most of which is not a threat, but the The team aims to develop a deep learning human has to look at everything,” Carin said. algorithm that can prevent human errors in “It can get quite monotonous to see the same screening baggage.

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Likhitha Butchireddygari The Chronicle The University joined an amicus brief Friday against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban. During his first days in office, Trump signed an executive order that temporarily banned citizens from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen from entering the country and indefinitely halted the refugee program for 120 days. Syrian refugees were blocked for an indefinite period of time. But a federal judge blocked the ban from going into effect, and Trump eventually signed a new version. The latest order excluded Iraq from the list of countries, and only halted Syrian refugee entry for 120 days. It also dropped language some perceived as prioritizing Christian refugees and exempted current visa holders and permanent residents. Nonetheless, a federal judge in Hawaii issued a nationwide halt to the second ban as well, a decision the Trump administration has since appealed. Duke—along with Princeton University, Harvard University, Yale University and several other peer institutions—filed a friend-of-the-court amicus curiae brief in this challenge. “Because amici seek to educate future world leaders, attract the world’s best scholars, faculty and students and work across international borders, they rely on their ability to welcome international students, faculty, and scholars into their communities,” the brief said. “In light of their educational missions, amici have

Chronicle File Photo The University joined an amicus brief with a federal court hearing a challenge to Trump’s revised executive order on immigration.

a strong interest in ensuring that individuals from around the globe can continue to enter the United States and share their unique skills and perspectives.” Last February, more than 80 Duke community members added their names to a letter opposing the first travel ban, and the University filed an amicus brief against original ban as well. In the brief, the universities advance the argument that international students are a fixture of campus life, and that universities See AMICUS BRIEF on Page 6

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Immigrants’ language can influence career choices later in life To find relationships between the immigrants’ linguistic background and the skills The Chronicle necessary for their eventual occupation, the researchers looked at four sets of skills—math There is a classic trope that Asians often and logic, interpersonal skills, communication choose careers in STEM fields—but why? skills and physical skills. Researchers have recently concluded that “The individuals that were more likely to certain immigrants are more likely than others have difficulties to acquire English are the ones to go into science, technology, engineering that are more likely to be performing tasks that and mathematics fields. Immigrants who are, relative to language, more intensive in arrived later in their childhood and who spoke math and logic, more intensive in interpersonal a native language that is markedly different skills and even more intensive in physical skills,” from English were more likely to enter into Rangel said. these occupations. The study was conducted The study primarily focused on children by Marcos Rangel, assistant professor in the who immigrated to the United States before Sanford School of Public Policy, and Marigee age 18, and the researchers made a further Bacolod, associate professor of economics at distinction about whether children came the Naval Postgraduate School. before or after age 10. “If you come really late from a place that is very far from English, in some sense, it is really hard to acquire the language you need to acquire,” Rangel said. “There’s [some] development psychologically that marks age 10 as the transition period when it becomes even harder to acquire a second language.” Regarding the classic stereotype of Asians choosing STEM careers, Rangel suggested that most Asian languages are linguistically farther from English than other languages. Out of the languages covered by the linguistic index, going from Vietnamese to English was quantified as the hardest. Rangel said that based on their study, choosing a math or science-heavy career instead of a humanities-based career could boil down to a matter of practicality. “When you go into this country, you have a starting point, and what happens is that for certain people, this starting point is already Courtesy of Duke Photography twisted in favor of math relative to language,” The study found that immigrants who arrived in the U.S. later in their childhood were more Rangel said. The study’s findings might also extend to likely to go into STEM fields.

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“Our initial hypothesis was that this initial key is very crucial for determining what trajectories people will take,” Rangel said, noting that their findings corroborated their hypothesis. To identify how immigrants’ cultural backgrounds affect career choices, Rangel and Bacolod merged census data with a linguistic index measuring how different an immigrant’s native language is from English. From the census data, they created an index of what skills were necessary for which job. For instance, a writer would need more communication skills, while math and logic skills were critical for a career in STEM. Rangel added that the index calculates differences between languages through the phonetic differences of words that have the same meaning.

Courtesy of Duke Photography Marcos Rangel conducted the study, which looked at relationships between immigrants’ native languages and their chosen careers.

first-generation American children if some of their native tongue is still being spoken at home by parents, Rangel said. Given recent rhetoric against immigrants, he added that the study also exemplifies how immigrants contribute to a nation’s economy through comparative advantage in certain skills. “The contribution of immigrants to this country is not really about one-dimensional levels of ability,” he said. “It’s that they provide relative competence on different things that they can do.” For Rangel, an immigrant himself, the study also helped him demonstrate why immigrants may seem so different from native citizens. “I’m trying to illustrate that there are rational obvious reasons for people to be what they are as adults, given what they face and the process of assimilation into this country,” he said.

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Fifteen years later, alums reflect on success of Mental Floss Caroline Brockett The Chronicle With article titles ranging from “11 Life Lessons from Alexander Hamilton” to “What is the Difference between a Crevice and a Crevasse,” Mental Floss draws 20.5 million unique users per month. But more than 15 years after launching the publication, Mangesh Hattikudur and Will Pearson, both Trinity ‘01, are preparing to move on from the venture they started as students. The pair had a unique journey into the publishing business. “The idea for a campus publication came up first, and that was Mental Floss,” Pearson said. “The idea that a history major could learn something in physics, and a physics major Special to The Chronicle could learn something in literature and so on.” As first-year students, the pair would chat with their friends Hattikudur and Pearson had the idea for Mental Floss while they were undergrads at Duke. on the first floor of Alspaugh residence hall about interesting

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Gene interaction tied to risk of Duke scientists create potential developing multiple sclerosis vaccine to prevent Zika virus The Chronicle

The Chronicle Variations in two genes could significantly increase the odds of developing multiple sclerosis, according to a new study by a team of Duke researchers. The scientists discovered a new interaction between a gene called IL7R—which past studies have demonstrated contributes to the likelihood of developing MS—and a gene that plays an important role in regulating it, called DDX39B. They hypothesized that a variation in these genes would produce a different protein—one more likely to cause MS. “If you happen to be an individual that has the variants of both genes, you have a much higher chance of developing MS,” said Mariano Garcia-Blanco, co-lead author of the study and chair of the department of molecular biology and biochemistry at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Garcia-Blanco explained that the study’s research focused on controlling the expression of “soluble IL7R,” or the soluble form of a receptor that is important in activating the immune cells causing the neural damage associated with MS. The difference between soluble IL7R and the standard IL7R protein is a portion of a gene known as an exon, which is the sequence of a gene’s DNA that contains information about the coding for a protein sequence. GarciaBlanco explained that the same gene could produce multiple versions of a protein in a process known as alternative splicing. “What alternative splicing does is akin to

genetic material, and so we tried it,” Haynes said. “It worked so well that we decided to challenge the monkeys with Zika, and they were 100 percent protected.” Researchers from the Duke Human The vaccine uses modified messenger RNA Vaccine Institute have helped develop a that prompts immunogen production against vaccine for the Zika virus using modified the virus. The genetic nature of the vaccine genetic material. makes it applicable not only to Zika, but also The Zika virus is spread through mosquito to HIV, malaria, hepatitis C, tuberculosis and bites and most commonly occurs in Africa other viruses. and Asia. Previously, there were no treatments “The properties of the RNA that we for the infection except for painkillers to developed are that it gives you very high and a alleviate symptoms. The new vaccine, which long duration of protein production, so we put is currently undergoing clinical trials with the immunogen in the RNA so when we inject human subjects, has already proven to be very the RNA into an animal, the RNA makes Zika effective in primates and monkeys. immunogen,” Weissman said. The project was a collaboration with researchers at the University of Pennsylvania See ZIKA on Page 6 and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “The vaccine works because it targets the molecule in the Zika virus to which antibodies that can neutralize the virus bind,” said Barton Haynes, Frederic M. Hanes professor of medicine and director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute. After hearing about a new immunization platform developed by Drew Weissman, professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Haynes approached Weissman to try it on primates. Haynes intended to use the genetic immunization method to develop an HIV vaccine, and inadvertently discovered its effectiveness on Zika. “We wanted to know if [Weissman’s] Courtesy of Duke Photography immunization would work in primates and Barton Haynes is the director of the Duke monkeys, and the genetic material that he Human Vaccine Institute, which developed had most readily available was the Zika [virus] the Zika vaccine.

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what an editor in the film industry can do,” he said. Just as a film editor can select which scenes of a movie to include in the final cut, proteins can control which pieces of a gene are used to make the final protein product. Garcia-Blanco noted that cutting out an additional piece of the IL7R gene is what produces the soluble IL7R protein, which causes MS. This is where the DDX39B plays its role. DDX39B produces the enzyme responsible for ensuring that the soluble form of IL7R is produced, Garcia-Blanco explained. See GENES on Page 6

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UNANNOUNCED from page 1 “If we have a hot water heater explode on us, which happens often, and it leaks into adjacent apartments, then we have to respond immediately because of the damage that can be caused by water,” he said. Junior Adriana Santomero wrote in a comment on the Facebook post that although she had contacted HDRL after a similar incident, apparently “nothing has changed.” Without any changes, Mueller said students feel “discomfort and annoyance” at HDRL’s handling of the situation. “We pay a lot of money to live where we do, and I feel like my apartment is somewhere I want to feel safe, and it just makes me feel uncomfortable when you hear about this,” she said.

SECURITY from page 2 More than a year ago, the TSA contacted Carin, who has worked in the field of deep learning, to ask if he was interested in developing the desired technology, and

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subsequently connected Carin’s research team with Smiths Detection Inc. For the last five months, Carin’s research team—composed of two graduate students and two post-doctoral students— has been working closely with Smiths Detection Inc. to “demonstrate feasibility” as part of phase one of the project. This has already been accomplished, Carin said. Phase two involves the translation of the developed algorithm to Smiths Detection Inc.’s systems at airports. Phases one and two are slated to be completed within the next 13 months, Carin noted. Although Carin’s team is responsible for developing the deep learning algorithm, Smiths Detection Inc. will provide data, systems and subject matter expertise, and will ultimately serve as the “translational arm” of the project. After demonstrating the capabilities in a setting “not exactly like an airport, but basically an airport,” the technology will appear in airports within two or three years, Carin explained. “Our goal is not to eliminate humans entirely, our goal is to improve the technology and allow humans to focus where they have unique capabilities,” he said.

GENES from page 5 “It’s not that the enzyme is defective or that there is a change in where the enzyme is,” he said. “What happens in those individuals is that they make less of the enzyme—they have lower levels.” Simon Gregory, co-lead author of the study and director of genomics and epigenetics at the Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, explained that because the two genes work so closely together, a variant in one can profoundly affect the protein produced by the other. Before more advanced research can be undertaken, GarciaBlanco noted that a much more accurate animal model of the disease must be created. Mice do not produce the same type of soluble IL7R as humans, so normal mice cannot be used in these types of studies. One focus, therefore, is to breed mice capable of creating more human-like IL7R proteins. Both Garcia-Blanco and Gregory said that they were hopeful that the research on these genes would help in the diagnosis and treatment of MS. “If we start identifying these sorts of relationships at a genetic level, then we can figure out what’s happening at a functional level,” Gregory said. However, the implications of these findings could extend far beyond multiple sclerosis. “What we’re talking about is not only applicable to multiple sclerosis, but we actually believe that it may be important for several other autoimmune disorders,” Garcia-Blanco said.

ZIKA from page 5 If approved, the treatment would be the first Zika vaccine to provide long-term protection against the disease without using a live virus. “What our thought was is that having an extended duration of protein production along with the lack of inflammatory activity of the mRNA—when you inject the RNA, it doesn’t induce inflammatory mediators—the combination of those two things would lead to a better immune response,” Weissman said. Weissman noted that the vaccine’s principal modification was a uridine base exchange in the RNA, which allowed it to be translated “about a thousand times better by cells in the body than by the standard uridine-containing RNA.”

AMICUS BRIEF from page 2 have a compelling interest in the “educational benefits that flow from student body diversity,” citing Supreme Court precedent in affirmative action cases. The brief notes that 47 percent of graduate students, 10 percent of undergraduate students and eight percent of faculty at the University are international. However, those numbers include individuals from countries other than the six named in the executive order. According to the brief, 37 individuals are from the six countries named in the order. Duke’s endorsement of these amici briefs has generated mixed reactions among community members and alumni. Two donors wrote a guest column in The Chronicle March 20, saying that they would cease their financial support of the University. They argued that the University was not taking seriously enough the security and safety of the country, which Trump has cited reasons for the order. On the other hand, several students and faculty members have expressed support for Duke’s actions to protect the international community.

LDOC from page 1 Duke and the Nicholas School of the Environment to make the day as environmentally friendly as possible. Their goal is for LDOC to be carbon neutral through an increased push for recycling. Buhr noted that the committee is looking to make daytime programing more robust and appealing to a wider audience. This year’s events include classics like bouncy castles and the silent disco along with a chalk wall and screen printing through a partnership with the Nasher Museum. Because the Chapel is open this year, unlike last LDOC, there will be massages on the Chapel steps, and students will be able to embark on a Chapel climb. Light programming on East Campus during the day might be offered as well, Posner said. With less than a month until LDOC, Buhr urged students to take advantage of April’s many DUU events like Old Duke and embrace this year’s LDOC motto—#finishstrong. “It’s an exciting time of year,” Posner said. “We just want everyone to really embrace what that means. The Duke community is something we all love and celebrate.”

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Guterding erupts in fourth quarter as Duke overcomes 6-1 deficit to blow past UNC Ben Leonard The Chronicle CHAPEL HILL—Facing its largest deficit of the season on slippery turf, Duke seemed sunk. But in hostile territory against the reigning national champions and their archrival, the inexperienced Blue Devils did not let a potential first-half knockout bury them. After an early defensive collapse left Duke behind 6-1, tied for its largest deficit of the season, the No. 12 Blue Devils came roaring back, winning seven straight faceoffs in the second and third quarters to seize DUKE 12 the momentum and 8 down No. 18 North UNC Carolina 12-8 Sunday evening at Fetzer Field. As its offense started clicking, Duke’s once-leaky defense tightened up, yielding just two goals in the final 42 minutes on the rare occasions it had to defend. It took the Blue Devils until eight seconds left in the first quarter to take their second shot of the game, but the dynamic duo of Justin Guterding and Jack Bruckner eventually rallied to lead the charge for Duke, combining for 10 points. Guterding scored the go-ahead goal to give the Blue Devils a 9-8 lead with 11 minutes remaining, and added two more goals with less than five minutes left to seal his team’s first ACC win. “Every weekend is a brand new challenge,” Duke head coach John Danowski said. “Being down 6-1 provided us another

Jack White | The Chronicle Star attackmen Justin Guterding and Jack Bruckner combined for seven goals and three assists Sunday. Their team closed the game on an 11-2 run.

challenge. Can you just take a deep breath, relax and make one play at a time? Those are the experiences you just can’t duplicate anywhere else but gameday.” Duke (8-3, 1-1 in the ACC) held the ball for all but 75 seconds of the fourth quarter thanks to senior Kyle Rowe’s dominance at the faceoff X, scoring five unanswered goals, including all three of Guterding’s to close the game. Rowe’s 17of-24 effort on faceoffs and the team’s defensive adjustments held the Tar Heels (5-5, 0-1) to just nine shots in the second half. Bruckner, the team’s leading scorer,

also chipped in with four goals to anchor the Blue Devils’ scoring attack, including Duke’s second goal of the game that started its 11-2 finish. “We’ve been playing now together for three years since freshman year and he’s my best friend,” Guterding said of Bruckner. “We just have that mojo I guess. I’ll put it on his stick and he’ll put it in the goal. He’s got probably the best hands in the country. He’s an unbelievable finisher and I love playing with him.” But it hadn’t always been that easy for

Danowski’s team, which struggled mightily on both sides of the ball out of the gates. In the early going, Duke still seemed out of sorts after a crushing loss to then-No. 6 Syracuse last weekend in which it squandered a late 11-9 lead before falling in overtime. North Carolina had struggled to put the ball in the net all season long, ranking a merely passable 33rd in the nation in scoring, but Duke had no answer for the Tar Heel offense initially. Six Blue Devil giveaways in first 18 minutes gave North Carolina plenty of opportunities— and it took advantage. The Tar Heels used a balanced offensive attack with five different scorers to take a commanding 6-1 lead early in the second quarter, using screens to confuse a normally physical defense. To make matter worse, Rowe and his teammates couldn’t secure possessions after faceoffs to start the game. Duke lost six of its first nine draws, not allowing its tattered defense to rest and leading to a 10-2 firstquarter deficit in shots. “I tip my cap to Carolina: they had a plan for how we were going to defend,” Danowski said. “Nobody wanted to make a play on defense. Everybody just wanted to cover their own guy and not switch and slide and recover to defend as a group, and Carolina took advantage of that. They shot the ball well, so we deserved to be down [that big].” But soon after, veteran Thomas Zenker forced North Carolina’s Justin Anderson to See M. LACROSSE on Page 12

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For the second straight game, the Blue Devils had to search for some magic inside the last minute. This time, though, there was none left in the bank for Duke with the game clock winding down, as attack Kyra Harney’s pass sailed high with 11 seconds left to give the Orange the ball back. With the turnover, No. 11 Syracuse eked out a 10-9 nail-biting victory against Duke Sunday afternoon at Koskinen Stadium in a physical affair. Senior attack Devon ‘CUSE 10 Parker provided the 9 game-winning tally DUKE with just more than five minutes left to give the Orange a 10-8 lead, and then they held on after surrendering senior midfielder Stuart Humphrey’s second goal of the game with 1:29 left to leave the Blue Devils wondering what could have been after a fifth straight ACC loss. Duke head coach Kerstin Kimel’s team had a chance to build momentum after upending No. 16 Elon with a late gamewinner Wednesday, but squandered late opportunities yet again. “It’s a set that we were trying to run that we have to run against a zone [defense], where there’s a couple of different looks that you can aim for, and unfortunately, we didn’t run it,” Kimel said.

With the strategy failing and the crowd becoming anxious, the Blue Devils (6-6, 0-5 in the ACC) turned to their top goal scorer—All-American midfielder Maddie Crutchfield, who was the hero in the 10-9 victory against Elon—to try to make something out of nothing. But as she drove to the net, two Orange defenders converged on her and forced a pass to Harney. The junior was nowhere close to scoring territory with less than 20 seconds left on the shot clock. As a Duke attacker cut right in front of the goal, Harney tried to force a pass into a tight window, and it sailed to Syracuse defender Kelsey Youmell, who ran out the clock. “[Harney’s pass] would have been a better look with that much time left and when we’re in those last 15-20 seconds, we also have other set looks that we can run and we ran them at half-speed and just did not execute them well,” Kimel said. “At that point, you just need to go to goal to get fouled and try to draw a foul and get put on the 8-meter.” Although the Blue Devils never led, they remained in striking distance for the majority of the game as their improved defense forced 19 Syracuse turnovers and held leading scorer Nicole Levy pointless and to only two shots. Duke man-marked her with defender Devon Russell, in addition to playing stout help defense against the Orange (9-4, 3-2). But none of that could have happened without the play of goalkeeper Gabbe Cadoux,

Neal Vaidya | The Chronicle Star attack Kyra Harney recently crossed the 100-goal mark for her career but committed a costly turnover on Duke’s final possession Sunday.

who matched a career-high with 10 saves in her second straight start after taking over for sophomore netminder Jamie Lockwood. Cadoux got off to a shaky start, surrendering a goal to junior attacker Riley Donahue on a free-position opportunity from a tough angle with one second left on the shot clock. However, the freshman rebounded in the second half, making several timely saves on golden opportunities for Syracuse to keep the deficit manageable.

“I came into the second half thinking, ‘I’m not going to think at all this half. I’m just going to play the game that I know how to play,’” Cadoux said. “I came in and that ended up working out better for me than the first half.” Both teams got off to a slow start in the opening period, with Syracuse drawing first blood on a Natalie Wallon tally just less than See W. LACROSSE on Page 12

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Duke drops 2 of 3 for third straight ACC series loss Mitchell Gladstone The Chronicle A little more than halfway through its season, Duke had yet to show itself as the same team that earned an NCAA tournament bid for the first time in more than half a century last year. And despite yet another scorching start to the weekend, the Blue Devils dropped a third straight ACC series, putting a postseason return in even further peril. Duke romped its way to a 14-0 victory against Pittsburgh Friday night at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, but the Blue Devils could not sustain 0 their PITT offensive DUKE 14 firepower in the final 15 innings of 9 the weekend. Duke PITT 8 grabbed an 8-5 lead DUKE Saturday before the 6 Panthers chipped PITT away to escape with 2 a 9-8 extra-inning DUKE win, and the visitors rode a strong eight innings from starter Josh Falk to take the rubber match 6-2 Sunday afternoon. The Blue Devils went hitless through 5.2 innings in the series final before a Chris Proctor single through the right side ended Falk’s no-hit bid—the Pittsburgh righty allowed just a pair of

hits on the afternoon, giving up one run and also tallying eight strikeouts. “You have to tip your hat—[Falk] pitched a really good ballgame. He threw his breaking ball for a strike a high percentage of the time,” Duke head coach Chris Pollard said. “Coming in, we knew his numbers—the hits per nine innings were really low—he pitched great today.” After both teams posted donuts through the first four frames, the Panthers (13-12, 6-6 in the ACC) put two runners on with just one out in the fifth, prompting Pollard to pull junior starter Ryan Day in favor of reliever Bill Chillari—who then allowed Pittsburgh leadoff man Jacob Wright to launch a three-run bomb into the second row of the right-field bleachers. As the Blue Devil offense struggled to get anything going against Falk, the Panthers added three more runs in the top of the eighth to extend their lead to six. Pittsburgh loaded the bases on two Duke walks before shortstop P.J. DeMeo grounded into an 6-4-3 double play and a pair of RBI singles doubled the Panther advantage. The Blue Devils (16-15, 5-7) added runs in the eighth and ninth innings on an RBI double by pinch hitter Peter Zyla and an RBI single from leftfielder Michael Smiciklas, but it was nowhere near enough to close the margin.

Mitchell Gladstone | The Chronicle Max Miller and the Blue Devils had an 8-5 lead after three innngs Saturday but could not generate any more offense, then were shut down Sunday to cap off another disappointing conference series.

“We gave them some free offense there in the eighth,” Pollard said. “That was the big difference in the ballgame because if you keep the scoreboard clean there in the eighth, we were eventually going to scratch a few across and get into the bullpen. Then all of a sudden, that ninth inning feels totally different.” Duke began the weekend with a near-perfect series opener against the

Panthers Friday night. Junior Mitch Stallings tossed his best game as a Blue Devil starter, posting seven shutout innings with just a pair of hits and walks surrendered. His eight strikeouts kept Pittsburgh at bay, yet the Duke bats mustered just one run of their own through the first five frames. See BASEBALL on Page 13

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With their four-game home stand coming to an end, the Blue Devils looked to preserve their perfect ACC record with wins against Pittsburgh and Clemson. And yet again, depth on the singles courts kept Duke unbeaten on its home court. The No. 17 Blue Devils blanked Pittsburgh 7-0 Saturday before running into a tougher challenge against Clemson Sunday 0 at Ambler Tennis PITT 7 Stadium. Luckily DUKE for Duke, junior CLEM 2 Samantha Harris and sophomore 5 Kaitlyn McCarthy DUKE crushed their singles opponents early against the Tigers, giving their team the momentum to close out a seventh straight conference win 5-2. “Every match we play is another opportunity,” Blue Devil head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “Every match we play is going to be tough and we know that. To win a match like today should help us next week when we go to Notre Dame and Boston College.” Even without star freshman Meible Chi—who had to sit out due to NCAA regulations regarding how many competitive matches individuals can play—Duke (13-3, 7-0 in the ACC) opened its weekend stretch with a routine

Chris Teufel | The Chronicle Despite failing to put her opponent away when she had a few chances Sunday, freshman Meible Chi sealed her team’s seventh straight ACC victory.

win against Pittsburgh (3-9, 0-8). The Blue Devils were fast off the doubles court, with McCarthy and junior Rebecca Smaller taking down their opponents 6-1 on Court 3. Seniors Chalena Scholl and Alyssa Smith weren’t far behind, taking down the Panthers’ top tandem of Callie Frey and Amber Washington 6-4 to seal the doubles point. Ashworth’s team kept cruising in singles, with No. 49 Harris setting the tone on Court 1 with a 6-3, 6-0 rout against Washington. No. 76 McCarthy continued

her recent surge by dominating 6-2, 6-0 at No. 2 singles, then 52nd-ranked senior Chalena Scholl clinched a fast victory against Audrey Ann Blakeley 6-3, 6-3. With the outcome already decided, sophomore Ellyse Hamlin extended her team’s lead with a 6-3, 6-4 win, and Smaller and Smith closed out tiebreakers to preserve Duke’s second shutout in its last five matchups. “We competed really well,” Ashworth said. “We played clean. One of the things I was happy about was that we didn’t

waste a lot of points. Especially knowing that we had a match the next day, we were as efficient as we could’ve been yesterday. That was definitely good to see.” However, after the Blue Devils breezed through the Panthers, Clemson (8-10, 3-6) proved to be a tougher test. Although Duke’s duo of Scholl and Smith looked as strong as ever with a 6-0 doubles win on Court 2, the rest of the Blue Devil tandems struggled. Clemson’s No. 50 duo of Ayan Broomfield and Marie-Alexandre Leduc broke a 3-3 deadlock against the 26th-ranked team of Chi and McCarthy to take the match 6-3 at No. 1 doubles. Harris and Hamlin also struggled throughout their contest, falling 6-2 to give Clemson the doubles point. “Clemson came out and just got on top of us,” Ashworth said. “It felt like it was an away match. They were so up emotionally and they were so loud and vocal—we have to do a better job when teams knock us back a little in the doubles.” Despite a disappointing showing in doubles, McCarthy and Harris were quick to bounce back in singles. McCarthy cruised past Fernanda Navarro 6-2, 6-1 to level the match, and Harris notched a similar 6-2, 6-3 victory to put Duke ahead. Scholl continued her dominant run in ACC play with a tight victory against Sydney Riley. The opening set was a backand-forth affair, as Scholl pushed past an initial 6-5 deficit to force a tiebreaker. See W. TENNIS on Page 13

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Raucous crowd helps Duke down Florida State Liz Finny The Chronicle After forfeiting three of nine matches Sunday at then-No. 2 Virginia with half their players sick or injured, the Blue Devils needed to get healthier with only six more regular-season dual matches to strengthen their NCAA tournament resume. Luckily for Duke, three of its players returned to deliver one of its best wins of the season. The Blue Devils bounced back from their 7-0 loss against the Cavaliers with a 5-2 win against Florida State Friday afternoon at Ambler 2 Tennis FSU Stadium. Senior TJ Pura and DUKE 5 sophomore Catalin Mateas returned from injury to contribute points in singles and doubles, and although freshman Robert Levine lost in No. 2 singles in his first match since Feb. 25 after dealing with mononucleosis, his return let his teammates play on lower courts and dismantle their opponents. Although the Seminoles are not quite in the top 25, a victory against a team the ITA ranked 27th in its latest poll should give head coach Ramsey Smith’s team plenty of confidence moving forward. “This is the healthiest and strongest lineup we’ve played all year,” said Pura, who delivered the match-clinching point

Jack White | The Chronicle Senior TJ Pura sat out last Sunday but was dominant in singles and doubles in his return Friday, with many of his fraternity brothers cheering him and his teammates on.

in singles. “It just puts us a step closer to making the NCAA tournament, which is all we’re focused on right now. We just have to stay humble, keep working hard.” Duke (11-7, 4-3 in the ACC) won a seesaw battle in doubles, with Pura and Mateas looking refreshed and trouncing Terrell and Terrance Whitehurst 6-0 on Court 3 and Florida State’s Jose Gracia and Lucas Poullain downing Blue Devil sophomore Jason Lapidus and junior Ryan Dickerson 6-2 to direct all eyes to Court 1.

With the crucial initial point at stake, Duke freshmen Spencer Furman and Nick Stachowiak stepped up as they have all season, breaking at 3-3 against Aziz Dougas and Guy Iradukunda and going on to prevail 6-4 thanks to some clutch serving from Stachowiak. The Blue Devil freshman tandem is now 15-1 in doubles this season. “That was a huge clincher, to win the doubles point,” Smith said. “[Furman and Stachowiak] break two to three times a set, which is pretty unbelievable.

They’ve been as good as I could’ve ever expected them to be.” Duke’s crowd was also likely as good as anyone could have expected Friday, with huge roars echoing around Ambler as Furman, Mateas and Pura all cruised to easy singles wins to put away the Seminoles (13-6, 3-2). Up to No. 76 nationally, Furman upset 52nd-ranked Dougaz 6-1, 6-2 on Court 1 to continue his strong singles play. No. 95 Mateas followed suit by routing Poullain 6-1, 6-1 at No. 3 singles, and Pura then clinched a ACC dual-match victory for the third time this year by taking out Rana-Roop Singh Bhullar 6-2, 6-2 on Court 5, where the cheers were especially deafening. “Those are all my fraternity brothers,” Pura said. “It meant the world for them to come out and support me like that. They were as big a part of the win as I was.” “They were respectful, incredibly loud, super supportive and they were only positive for us, nothing negative towards the opponent,” Smith added. “It was a really special atmosphere.” With the outcome decided, Dickerson added the Blue Devils’ fifth point with a 7-5, 6-0 win against Terrance Whitehurst at No. 6 singles. Both Stachowiak and Levine battled hard, but ultimately lost to their opponents. Levine took on Iradukunda on Court 2, coming close in both of his See M. TENNIS on Page 12

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Blue Devil women capture team title in home meet Winston Lindqwister The Chronicle With a strong performance at last week’s Raleigh Relays under their belt, the Blue Devils looked to build on their successes in this weekend’s Battle of the Blues. And thanks to dominant performances from the women’s team, Duke is hitting its stride at the right time heading into the heart of the season. In their first home meet of the season, the Blue Devil women took down No. 21 Michigan and North Carolina Saturday at Morris Williams Stadium. Led by an international record-breaking hammer throw from sophomore Stefani Vukajlovic and standout runs from senior Madeline Kopp, Duke tallied 75 points to the Wolverines’ 62 and the Tar Heels’ 59. Unfortunately for the Blue Devils, Michigan turned it around on the men’s side with a 101-point domination against the home team’s 54 and North Carolina’s 45. “It was a great meet,” Duke director of track and field Norm Ogilvie said. “All three schools really enjoyed it. We had spectacular weather today and we had some really good performances.... Michigan men competed well, Michigan women are really good as well—we were just a little better today.” The Blue Devil women started the afternoon with a highlight in the opening event—the women’s hammer throw. Vukajlovic smashed both the school and

the Bosnian record with a throw of 190 feet, 4 inches. Duke continued to shine on the field throughout the day. Senior Amarie Bremel posted a 159-foot, 11-inch throw to claim the discus title, and sophomores Sydnei Murphy and Jaida Lemmons took first and second in the long jump. Murphy’s best jump at 21 feet, 0.5 inches set a new school and stadium record. Although North Carolina took home the titles in shot put and high jump, the Blue Devils responded with a one-through-three sweep of the pole vault led by junior Madison Heath, freshman Laura Marty and freshman Chesney Ward. Rounding out the successes on the field, sophomore Domonique Panton took home the title in the triple jump for the second year in a row. On the track, Duke found itself in a much tighter battle against the Wolverines. The Blue Devil relay team of Murphy, Kopp, Panton and sophomore MacKenzie Kerr opened with a dominant 4-x-100-meter relay against Michigan, posting a time of 45.48 seconds to the Wolverines’ 46.57. Michigan responded in the 1,500 meters to take first and second, giving it an early lead. However, Murphy wasn’t about to let Duke fall too far behind in clocking the second-best time in program history at 11.70 seconds to claim the 100-meter dash. Kopp followed that up in the 400 meters by breaking a facility record at 52.91 seconds, staking her claim as one of only five Division I athletes this year to run the

Jeremy Chen | The Chronicle The Blue Devils got several standout performances in both running and field events en route to their first outdoor team title of the spring.

400 in fewer than 53 seconds. Although the Tar Heels claimed the 4-x-400-meter relay title, Kopp delivered a second outstanding performance in her leg as the anchor, circling the track in 52.3 seconds. “We tried to get [the women’s team] fired up for this one,” Ogilvie said. “When you get to compete against Michigan and UNC—top 25 teams in the country—it’s pretty easy to get fired up.” Although the men’s team struggled to get past the Wolverines, Duke still had some

standout performances. After Michigan swept both the men’s 4x100 meter relay and the 1,500 meter race, Blue Devil junior Jeremy McDuffie—also a safety on the football team—and graduate student Daniel Golubovic put Duke’s first points on the board by taking first and third in the 110-meter hurdles, respectively. The Blue Devils also found traction in the 800 meters, with senior Dylan Murphy taking See TRACK on Page 13

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Jack White | The Chronicle Senior Kyle Rowe’s dominance at the faceoff X turned the tide of Sunday’s rivalry game—at one point, he won 17 of 18 faceoffs to keep the Blue Devils in attack mode.

M. LACROSSE from page 8 turn the ball over, sending the Blue Devils streaking to the net and on an 11-2 run to close the game. “[The message at halftime] wasn’t about X’s and O’s—it was about just playing,” Danowski said. “We were tentative defensively. We weren’t communicating well, but once we settled in and played, we did better.” Despite his early struggles, Rowe won the ensuing faceoff and 17 of the next 18 to facilitate Duke’s offense. North Carolina entered Sunday’s game ranked seventh in the nation in faceoff percentage, but Rowe forced Stephen Kelly out of his job by the fourth quarter with the home team clinging to an 8-7 lead. “It was a complete team effort,” Rowe

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said. “On the faceoffs, the wings were unbelievably good tonight. We changed up our strategy a little bit after the first quarter and we started having more success. The communication was great.” Jack Rowlett replaced Kelly in the fourth, but it made little difference, as Duke ripped off five goals in the first eight minutes of the fourth quarter to send North Carolina fans filing into the aisles early. After the come-from-behind victory, Duke will return home to take on No. 1 Notre Dame Saturday and will look to carry the momentum into the back half of its conference slate. “You only have four ACC games,” Danowski said. “You only get four. So the games get more critical. Every other conference in college lacrosse play five. So they all become really important each weekend.”

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10 minutes into the contest—the Orange’s first shot of the game. Soon after Wallon’s goal, though, the Blue Devils responded right back on a highlight-reel effort by graduate student Jessie Ambrose. After receiving a feed from Crutchfield while streaking in front of the eight-meter marker, Ambrose flipped the ball behind her back with a defender on her back to beat freshman goalkeeper Asa Goldstock. The Orange went to the locker rooms after the first half leading 6-4, as they took advantage of Duke’s miscues during manup opportunities. Surprisingly, Syracuse actually outscored the Blue Devils 3-0 despite having a player sitting out, as Duke’s offensive struggles continued with a slew of turnovers that led to costly penalties deep in its own zone. Once Cadoux hit her stride, though, Kimel’s squad was able to keep answering almost every Orange tally in the second half, drawing the score even at seven apiece before an Alie Jimerson tally with 17:05 remaining gave Syracuse the lead for good. Unfortunately for the Blue Devils, their offense could not convert on enough opportunities for them to secure their first conference victory of the season. They will look to bounce back next week at No. 18 Boston College with only two conference games left and their NCAA tournament hopes hanging in the balance. “We really stressed coming into this game what a huge opportunity for us this was,” Kimel said. “I thought we prepared really well for Syracuse. It just didn’t end up showing on the scoreboard, which is a shame.”

sets before falling 7-5, 7-5. Stachowiak fell in similar fashion 7-5, 7-6 (8-6) in his match against Gracia. Although Levine lost, his return had Duke playing with as much confidence as it has in any of its ACC matchups. Many of its players were back on the courts they expected to play on entering the spring. “Since Robert’s been out with mono, he hasn’t had the proper preparation to play,” Smith said. “He went out there and really pushed a top guy, a nationally ranked player…. It was tough conditions out there, really windy. But he gave himself a chance, battled in both sets and was super positive. I think it just kind of spread to the other five guys.” The Blue Devils are still competing without a top-25 singles player in junior Nicolas Alvarez, who has missed the entire spring with a wrist injury. Needing more impressive performances like the one it put forth Friday, Duke will look to keep moving forward without Alvarez and build on its momentum next weekend at No. 15 Georgia Tech and Clemson. A win against the Yellow Jackets would do wonders for the Blue Devils’ resume— Duke is 0-6 in road matchups against top25 opponents this season. “Expectations have kind of been thrown out the window because we’ve had to deal with a lot of missing pieces,” Smith said. “But we’re staring to become more whole of a team and we’re getting healthier.... I feel like we’re ready to finish strong.” Sameer Pandhare contributed reporting.

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BASEBALL from page 9 From there, the red-hot Blue Devil offense came to life as it sent eight men to the plate in the sixth, bringing across four runs with a pair of doubles from Max Miller and Jack Labosky. The onslaught continued in the seventh and eighth innings—Duke’s first four batters reached base in the seventh before sophomore Griffin Conine blasted his first-ever grand slam and in the next frame, Herron smacked a three-run homer of his own to increase the Blue Devil advantage to 14-0. The win was the third for Stallings as the Atlanta southpaw picked up his second victory in as many weekends to move his season ledger 3-2. Advertise heretofor “If the you look over the past couple bestback results of weeks, we’ve swung the bat pretty well,”

Pollard said. “In this game, though, you’re not always going to swing it when the guy on the mound that’s facing you is throwing really well—even a hot club.” Duke’s offense kept attacking the Panther arms to start Saturday’s matchup as the Blue Devils tallied eight runs in the first three innings. Designated hitter Kennie Taylor and Conine blasted tworun home runs in the second and third innings, respectively, but with Pittsburgh notching five runs in the second and third innings off freshman Adam Laskey, the Blue Devils still trailed 5-4. With a Labosky double and a trio of RBI singles, though, Duke grabbed an 8-5 lead before the end of the third—a margin the Blue Devils would carry into the fifth before their bats went silent the rest of the way. The Panthers did not fade, however, scoring single runs in the fifth, seventh and ninth frames to level the contest at eight apiece and send the game to extra innings. Pittsburgh then recorded three straight one-out singles in the top of the 10th inning to bring across centerfielder Frank Maldonado. And with two swinging strikeouts in the bottom of the final frame, Duke went quietly to put a cap on its sixth ACC loss of the season. “We’re disappointed because we let [Saturday’s game] slip through our hands,” Pollard said. “We had a ballgame to win there and we didn’t do it.... [That’s] one we’d like to have back.” The Blue Devils will take a break from their regular-season slate as they return to downtown Durham Tuesday evening for a mid-week exhibition against the Durham Bulls, triple-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays, in the inaugural Battle of Bull City.

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The Pompano Beach, Fla., native breezed first at 1:50.73, followed by freshman Matt through the tiebreaker, then moved to Wisner in second and juniors Kyle Francis and 7-0 in conference matches by breaking a Jordan Burton taking fifth and sixth. 3-3 second set to prevail 7-6, 6-4. But Michigan swept both the 3,000-meter But although it was down 3-1, Clemson steeplechase and 3,000 meters, widening the kept fighting. gap between Duke and the Wolverines, and the From the first set, Daniela Ruiz Tar Heels took the 400-meter hurdles. gave Hamlin trouble on Court 6. “I’m very proud of our 800-meter runners,” Ruiz controlled the opening set with Ogilvie said. “The Michigan men are kind of a ease, taking an early advantage at 6-2. middle distance machine. They swept the 3K Although the Blue Devil sophomore and the 1,500. We went one-two and five-six in took the second set 7-6, Ruiz swung the 800—that bodes really well for our middle the momentum by prevailing 6-4 in the distance relays.” deciding frame. Luckily for the Blue Devils, Duke showed up Despite having multiple chances to seal on the field to keep the Tar Heels at bay. the victory at No. 2 singles, 25th-ranked Chi Senior Connor Hall won the pole vault struggled to put away No. 83 Broomfield. with a best jump of 16 feet, 7.5 inches, After Chi took the opening set 6-3, the and sophomores Rivers Ridout and Colt Clemson sophomore fought hard to win a Sessions took first and third, respectively, second-set tiebreaker, then overcame a 5-2 in the high jump. Although North Carolina third-set deficit to force another tiebreaker. swept the long jump, the Blue Devils came Luckily for Duke, Chi ended the drama right back in the javelin throw to take first, there, winning the deciding tiebreaker 7-3 third, fourth and fifth led by freshman to clinch the win. Michael Marsack. Smith closed out the weekend with Duke found one last win in the field thanks another nail-biter against Constanza to McDuffie, who triple-jumped 51 feet, 1.5 Gorches, shaking off a disappointing 6-4 inches to break the original meet record of 49 loss in the first set to take the second 7-5 feet, 9 inches. before ultimately winning the final set “On the men’s side, we beat our arch-rival 7-6 (9-7). UNC—that was kind of our goal,” Ogilvie said. The Blue Devils have yet to lose more “We knew Michigan had a fantastic men’s than two points halfway through ACC action, team, but we had people just really fight.” and will look to stay hot at Notre Dame and The Blue Devils will be back in action next Boston College next weekend. week at the Tennessee Relays, where they will “We needed a match like this,” compete for three days in Knoxville from Ashworth said. “We’ve had a couple where Thursday to Saturday. we’ve won fairly easily. We needed to play “For Tennessee, we’re going to take as The New York under Times Syndication Corporation a match where we were pressure onSales many people as we feel can be nationally 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 every court…. InFor theInformation long run, this match competitive,” Ogilvie said. “That’s the kind of Call: 1-800-972-3550 will benefit us a lot.” it is—a nationally competitive field.” ForRelease ReleaseSaturday, Monday, April 2017 For April 3, 1,field 2017

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n Sunday, the Editorial Board held an hour-long interview with President Richard Brodhead. Over the next three days, we will use his responses as a lens to examine three topics: Brodhead’s tenure and legacy at Duke, problems at Duke under Brodhead and the future of Duke after Brodhead’s retirement. Today, we begin the arc by discussing his tenure, history and legacy at Duke. We framed this part of the interview by asking Brodhead about his favorite Duke president. Prepared for the inevitable “Nan Keohane” or “William Few” answer, we were surprised when Brodhead instead told us that his favorite Duke leader was John Franklin Crowell. Crowell, he explained, had been a bold champion of change at Duke: appointed to the presidency at the young age of 29, Crowell revolutionized Duke (then Trinity College) by transforming it from a small schoolhouse in Trinity, North Carolina into the infant version of a research university in the much larger city of Durham. In a way, Brodhead has redefined Duke University in the same manner Crowell did. When Crowell relocated the university to a large city, he opened it up to the rest of the country, emphasizing the need for its broad interconnectedness. And although Brodhead has not

relocated Duke’s main campus to a bigger city, he has sought to open the university up to the wider world through the creation of Duke Kunshan University. DKU, Brodhead explained, serve two purposes: satisfying the hunger for rounded US-style education in China and allowing students from both the U.S. and China to cross-pollinate their deeply held [political] principles with firsthand experiences of foreign systems. We are especially interested in the second goal. Despite the dismay of many, our world is rapidly globalizing; as

Editorial such, it is critical for students to be able to move beyond monolithic ideas about foreign countries, including China, and grow to understand them better. Although we have previously criticized some efforts related to DKU, we acknowledge that within a broader context of global education at Duke, it plays an important role. DKU is, in that regard though, overshadowed by Brodhead’s signature program, DukeEngage. In Brodhead’s words, DukeEngage creates a model of education in which things that can only be learned in the classroom are merged with global knowledge that

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can only be learned outside the classroom. We concur. Although not all DukeEngage programs are equally valuable, DukeEngage, at its best, trains students to move seamlessly between world perspectives and academic lenses, an international paradigm that fits well into Brodhead’s outward pivot and satisfies our desires for a 21st century university. Although we have extensively discussed his international educational philosophy in this editorial, when we asked Brodhead about his favorite moment at Duke, it turned out to be markedly unrelated. The moment occurred in 2005 when he found out that the Duke Endowment had given the University $75 million as part of a challenge grant. We were surprised at his response, but Brodhead made clear that an outward focus for Duke need not mean inward neglect for its students and campus. We believe his legacy will positively reflect that sentiment. But it will not, as this editorial has largely been, be wholly positive. In tomorrow’s editorial, we will more critically discuss the persistence of scarring issues on campus during Brodhead’s tenure, and the lack of progress that was made on resolving many of them. This is the first of a three-part editorial arc inspired by our interview with President Brodhead.

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t’s a fact I enjoy repeating that until the 20th century there were no universities in Venice. Any young Venetians who wanted to study—or whose families wanted them to train to take on the family business—had to go to the mainland for higher education, far away from the city itself. The reason for this was that the administrators of the Venetian Republic did not want rebellious, ideological and idealistic youth protesting in the streets of the capital. This fact jumps to mind now because it illuminates an obvious truth: universities are, and always have been, hotbeds of anti-status quo sentiment. When I first sat down to write a reply to James and Wendy Ball’s letter to the editor I had to rapidly give up the attempt because, I realised, they didn’t have a single, central argument I could respond to. Rather, the missive comprised of multiple conservative complaints about Duke, its administration and the broader left wing climate on American college campuses. Though I should have just stopped there, the Balls’ characterisation of the university was based on a lot of misconception and poor reasoning and I am, unfortunately, a terrible pedant. Tragically, I couldn’t let their letter go unanswered—so I’m going to try and address some of their flatly incorrect

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all their collective political power, fallen some way short of transforming America into a communist paradise. There also seems to be a belief in the Balls’ epistle that their criticisms are apolitical—as though by supporting undocumented students, allowing Muslims to visibly worship and letting the Women’s Department challenge Trump, Duke is behaving in an improperly political manner. But politics and ideology are integral to everything a university does, and while doing these political things is at least entirely consistent with Duke’s fundamental mission, to not do them would be naked hypocrisy in the service of conservative ideology. If Duke believes anyone with the potential to flourish and contribute to the community deserves a spot at Duke regardless of their background, it would be wildly political to bar undocumented students. If Duke believes in religious equality and cultural exchange, it would be plainly political to stop the call to prayer on the quad— and of course it was in the end. (Also, side note: how could the attempt to have the adhan at The Chapel possibly be construed as Duke “advanc[ing] the activities of one favoured religious group at the expense of another”? I don’t want to worry the Balls, but if they’re concerned

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ideas in this letter. (Also, I should note before I continue—in direct contrast to the Balls, I am yet to donate any money to Duke and I relied heavily on financial aid through my time as an undergraduate. I hope this does not lessen my right to speak in their eyes.) The lynchpin assumption at the centre of Mr and Mrs Ball’s concerns is the idea that campuses have been lately infiltrated by nefarious left wing sentiment. As the story about Venice illustrates, radicalism and what we might anachronistically label progressivism are not new features of the academy. They weren’t new in the student protests of 1968; they weren’t new during the 1832 June Rebellion made famous by Les Miserables; they weren’t even new when The Great Butter Rebellion happened at Harvard in 1766—though that protest could reasonably be considered a little less political than the others. Universities are by their very nature young places and they will stay as such even while we as individuals grow older and more conservative. The ideas at the bleeding edge of leftist thought will change, however, and this might well make it seem as though the young are rapidly radicalising. While I apologise for any ideological vertigo this might cause you, I’m afraid it doesn’t actually point to any dangerous new trends on college campuses. Even the idea that faculty have suddenly been infiltrated by indoctrinating leftists is patently untrue—William F. Buckley decried that trend back in 1951 and goodness knows the graduating classes of ’51 through ’16 have, for

about one religion being more visible than others on campus, there’s a cross on the university logo and the Chapel bells ring twice for service every Sunday). Finally, if Duke believes in literally any notion of straightforward reasoning or common sense then they can’t stop their Women’s Studies Department from being wary of a president who literally admitted on tape that he gropes women without their permission. (Another quick aside— if Duke having a feminist Women’s Studies Department scandalizes you, just wait ‘til you hear about the Marxism and Society program). I’ve noticed that since I graduated in May, The Chronicle has removed the Disqus reaction buttons from their articles—probably a good thing, because otherwise I can only imagine the number of angry “Disagree” and “Really?” responses I’d have leering furiously at me from the top of this page. You are, of course, entitled to disagree with me; and indeed the Balls are welcome to stop donating to an institution they do not politically support. But I would urge them to reconsider. The points of contention they list are examples of the university moving towards, not away from, the fuller realization of its social mission—and if some political disagreements are enough to rupture their relationship with so cherished a thing for them as Duke, then perhaps it’s the Balls who’re participating in a socalled “climate of intolerance.” Bron Maher is a Duke 2016 graduate and a former Chronicle columnist.

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57 percent of Class Duke’s social justice troll of 2021 ‘really weird’ A

spokesperson from the Duke Office of Undergraduate Admissions announced Friday that a whopping 57 percent of the newly admitted class of 2021 is “really f****** weird.” The class of 2021 had already been declared “record-breaking,” with Duke receiving the largest number of regular decision applicants in its history. This presents a drastic shift in the makeup of the average Duke class, which has come to be known for their debauchery, extreme wealth and fratty personalities. The resumes of these newly admitted students report hobbies like fly fishing, beekeeping, molecular biology and lengthy charity trips to countries without villages full of children to take Instagrams with. This is a sharp divergence from the previously “average” Duke student, whose income and ego size typically are not offered on standard sliding scale evaluations. Many admissions officers were surprised

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tour guides alike to sell the school to prospect of applicants a “safe space” for those uninterested in the values Duke has long promoted, like binge drinking, partying, privilege and scandal. P-Wild applications are reportedly skyrocketing as the Duke student body braces itself for a newer, weirder class. Kim Cates is in talks with Duke Student Government to subsidize the admission prices of Shooters II saloon, noting that a sizable decrease in attendance could seriously threaten her business model. Burnett’s Vodka future markets in Durham are crashing, as investors quickly pull out of what they thought were secure bondlike investments. Campus Enterprise is reportedly considering shuttering their Enterprise Entertainment division, noting that with so many f*****g freaks, photographing parties “wouldn’t even be worth it anymore.” “Instead of pursuing these over eager

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at the end of their evaluation process to have garnered such a f****** weird class. One officer, who asked to go by his street name “Dream Crusher,” told Monday Monday in an anonymous meet-up on the roof of Cameron Indoor stadium that he was “actually kind of disappointed.” “We typically try to keep the weirdness to about 9 percent and quarantined off in the Edens quad,” he said. “But with a growing desire to diversify and some key mathematical errors made by our intern, we completely overcorrected and ended up with a number close to 57 percent. Truly unprecedented.” Dean of Admissions Christoph Guttentag, who only reads for the island of Manhattan, reported that only one student from Riverdale Country School was admitted. Though he typically focuses on schools like Stuyvesant, Horace Mann and Fieldston, he decided to switch it up this year. “The majority of the schools I visited lacked walls,” he told Monday Monday at a meeting timed to half the clocks he keeps in his expansive office collection. “I also focused on schools with alternative means of grading and ones which maximized the amount of time students got to discuss their feelings. One school from which we admitted nearly a dozen applicants grades their students by giving them hugs for the corresponding number of seconds to their number grade.” Other admissions officers were less exuberant about the new class. One admissions officer and former lower-tier state-school “frat bro” told Monday Monday, “As a group of dream crushing individuals, we decided we had made a mistake with the class of 2020. It was just much too fratty and normal. I mean look at Pike-and-Up’s rush numbers if you want to verify. We knew we needed to work to try and even out the number of weird students we enroll, we just didn’t think it would be this high.” The admissions office, led by initiatives from the Office of Student Affairs, have reportedly long been in pursuit of new students with blue hair, nose rings, a strong commitment to fringe faux-religions and who would otherwise be attracted to places like Brown University or Oberlin College. But recent efforts to expand arts programs and a revamp of the Medieval Renaissance Studies department have allowed admissions officers and student

Duke student expresses frustration with a lack of diversity in options for coffee on campus. In response, a peer creates a GoFundMe page to fund his annual “plantation vacation” to “fight exploitation of child labor in coffee plantations.” On his annual trip, he claims to find coffee beans that he uses to brew his own coffee. His recommendation to the distressed coffee-lover? Go to Colombia to find your own coffee beans. While you’re at it, help him fund his own trip. Another student explains how the printers in the Physics building create a loud distraction for people studying nearby. Again, the Dukie-on-a-mission to shut down “first-world” privilege, responds in the Facebook comments section of Fix My Campus. This time, he reacts by adding that the door to the Physics building similarly creates a disruptive noise. Therefore, we should get rid of the doors entirely. Our man-on-a-mission does not seek affirmation for his satirical posts, though he is inspired to continue with every “like” his comments received. Blowing things out of proportion excites him. His prior experiences with artistic expression begin and end with his time in a high school Jazz Band. He views his comments as an expression of his creative liberties, though he has no interest in journalism nor writing. Still, Jonah Santiago, a sophomore from Atlanta,

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While parents and students, alarmed and distraught by the notion of a freshman performing 100 surgeries, raised concerns to administrators, Jonah was studying diligently in Russia as part of his summer study-abroad program. What was intended as a joke about the overambitious nature of Duke students quickly turned into a fiasco when Jonah’s professor, who had been notified by staff back in the U.S., contacted him directly about the post. Jonah admits that his comments threatened the “integrity of Duke’s online image,” which now has administrators patrolling pages such as the Duke Class of 2020 page. Now he is a registered “troll” in the Duke database he claims exists. One of his deans had reached out because moderators did not know who he was, he claims. Now, he’s in “the system.” It is important to recognize Jonah’s genuine intentions; whenever a student does reach out in response to his satirical posts, specifically the freshmen curious about his alleged medical experiences, he connects them to resources and offers helpful advice about clubs to join. Jonah’s first post, the one that taught him how “people are super gullible and believe what they see on Facebook,” also offered a lesson on humor. “I make sure I’m not offensive and not

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freshmen try-hards, we’ve decided to target more of the weeping grad student type who see no end in sight and need a form of consolation,” one CE executive told Monday Monday. The FAC board is reporting a significant decline in the number of requests for Blue Devil Days hosts, as many new prospective new Blue Devils have opted to stay in their parents’ hotel so as not to miss the 7 p.m. PBS Newshour. Even the lacrosse team reported that some of their new recruits are really f*****g weird. An attackman out of Idaho will split his time in the weightroom and on the field with opera singing and organic vegetable gardening. Despite disappointment from the larger Duke community, the Quidditch team and certain SLGs are excited at the prospect of a flurry of new members who will eventually find solace in rousing common room debates about the digital mechanics of Bitcoin, the newest Pokemon Go! Techniques or whether or not gender is truly a social construct. However, VP of Government Affairs Mike Schoenfeld gearing up for a new host of unprecedented protests. Duke’s chief spokesman, who reportedly says a small prayer for no new Allen Building occupations to Tallman Trask’s god nightly, says his office is preparing for “doomsdaylike scenarios.” “We’ve never had this many f*****g weird kids before, so we can’t even begin to predict the things that are going to set them off,” he told Monday Monday in line for the West Union’s watery Nutella-branded crepes. “We’ve contracted the entire Development Office to be checking 4chan, the dark corners of Reddit and OccupyDemocrats. com hourly for anything that could cause a spark, but you just never know what’ll set one of these hippy vegan types off.” At press time, Vice President of Public Affairs Michael Schoenfeld was reportedly contacting all the Key 3 social chairs for a complete schedule of all their planned mixer themes, fearful that even a simple “Thots and Prayers” could spark a national debate about Duke’s heteronormativity towards virginal religious figures. Written while waiting for the Class of 2021 Roommate Search Facebook group to really heat up.

finds a way to write incisive satire that both entices and provokes a wide audience. When asked if his studies as a biomedical engineering student explain his fascination with skillfully and artfully construing reality as he put it, he admitted “creative writing is a little bit like engineering.” Upon the invitation of a friend, Jonah joined Fix My Campus, the Facebook page began by Duke Student Government. On it, students share concerns and suggestions of ways to “fix their campus.” The Facebook page connects students with a team of moderators who work hard to provide swift solutions. Not enough paper copies of the New York Times in the library lobby? Fix My Campus can translate that concern to those responsible for maintaining the newspapers. Vending machine broken in the Link? Fix My Campus can…fix that. Noticed discrepancies in portion sizes at West Union? A Fix My Campus representative can relay those concerns directly to Dining Services. In short, this Facebook group, with its nearly 5,000 members, makes for tangible improvements to campus life. It also makes for an opportunity to interject poignant remarks on a campus-wide forum. For Jonah, frustration with Fix My Campus brews not from what it does, but for what it brings out in certain individuals—a pervasive entitlement that allows students to think it’s okay to share their first world problems on a platform intended for issues that concern the wider student body. According to Jonah, posts about hardly-visible “Yield” signs and dangerous pavement tiles are important and appropriate for a campus-wide forum. Personal preferences, however, are not. In the summer of 2016 when incoming freshmen wondered about the sorts of classes they should take if they were entering college on a pre-professional track, Jonah saw an opportunity to comically welcome them to the myth of “effortless perfection.” So, in response to a hopeful pre-medical student’s advice-seeking post on the Class of 2020 page, Jonah commented to suggest the incoming freshman start practicing surgery. “There is nothing like having real world experience,” he quipped in his ostentatious comment. In his comment he claimed to have completed 100 surgeries in his freshman year alone, under the mentorship of a renowned radiologist at Duke Hospital. Duke administrators were not pleased by Jonah’s very first facetious post on a Duke Facebook page— to say the very least. Duke Reach, a systems-based outreach and support service housed in the Dean of Students Office, checked in with him after reports were made questioning his mental stability.

singling any student out.” Nowadays, Jonah’s posts are explicitly overthe-top to make clear his satirical intentions. The description for his Colombian “plantation vacation” GoFundMe page sought to achieve this. Nonetheless, one of Jonah’s own friends failed to recognize the post as satire. Beyond the faculty and staff reaching out in regards to the satire, Jonah’s work has been met with resistance from his own peers. While sometimes the original post author will appreciate his satirical comment, other times they will feel “kind of offended.” They will respond with a “way to make a mockery out of my misfortune;” still, for the most part, “most people enjoy it…. Those are the ones who find the humor in it.” Jonah believes that “satire, when done correctly, makes [people] challenge reality and consider the scope of human ability.” In this way, his writing is not that far off from art forms with the same potential. At the same time, he is happy continuing to post for the enjoyment of others. The happiness of others inspires him, and he admits to “kind of feeling like an entertainer.” As much as Jonah dislikes “small first-world problems,” and posts satirical entries about mission trips, he can admit that he is beyond innocent. If you see Jonah around on campus, ask him about his summer plans. He will gladly share details of his upcoming DukeEngage trip to Zhuhai, China. For a man critical of unsustainable service missions and students who are really “going [on DukeEngage trips] for the sake of tourism,” Jonah has a lot of cognitive dissonances he continues to confront. “I guess I’m part of the problem,” he reflected when asked about it. In China, Jonah will work with a young demographic he has worked with before as a volunteer at a summer camp in Georgia; there he taught coding and engineering to middle schoolers. Although he is critical of the “hypocrisy and façade of volunteer work”--the kind of façade that inspired him to create the fake GoFundMe for his “plantation vacation”--Jonah has a moral compass that relieves his own conscience. The title of Jonah’s summer DukeEngage program is “enriching the lives of children through arts education.” Before he leaves for his summer service trip, find Jonah—Duke’s very own social justice troll—in the comments section of Fix My Campus. There, he will be enriching the lives of Duke students who can appreciate the humor and ironies of our privileged concerns. Sabriyya Pate is a Trinity sophomore. Her column, “in formation,” runs on alternate Mondays.

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

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

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

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

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

President Brodhead, we need your leadership to help avert runaway climate chaos.

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