April 6, 2016 by Duke Chronicle

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‘WE ARE STAYING INDEFINITELY’ No end in sight to Allen Building sit-in after day five

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle The fifth day of the Allen Building protest featured even more tents outside the building and a visit from the Rev. William Barber II, president of the N.C. Chapter of the NAACP.

Amrith Ramkumar, Gautam Hathi and Rachel Chason The Chronicle Editor’s Note: A full timeline of the sit-in can be viewed on page 5. No progress was made Tuesday on the demands issued by students holding an Allen Building sit-in and the building will remain closed for regular business Wednesday. Administrators refused to continue negotiations with the protestors Monday until they vacated the building voluntarily, and protestors said they would not continue negotiations until Duke workers were part of the talks. The administration announced in an email late Tuesday night that limited access to Allen will be allowed Wednesday for Duke employees who work in the building. The protestors told The Chronicle Tuesday afternoon that they will continue the sit-in indefinitely until their demands are met. One sitin participant left the Allen Building to attend a national poetry slam competition Tuesday night.

During the day, protestors camped on the quad outside Allen Building played music, talked with professors and met with the Rev. William Barber II, president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP. Protestors also argued that administrators should not have closed the Allen Building even as the sit-in continued despite safety and security concerns voiced by the administration. “We are only staying in one hallway of the Allen Building where classes are not conducted,” junior Carolyn Yao, one of the nine students participating the sit-in, wrote in an email. “If the building reopens, students can enter and act out of their own volition, but we have repeatedly emphasized the peaceful and nonviolent nature of protesting for this cause.”

Building will be closed again for regular business Wednesday, but will be accessible for those who work in the building from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. via a side door. No visitors will be allowed, the second-floor administrative suite will be closed and classes in the building will continue to be rescheduled.

A recap of Tuesday’s events with most recent updates at the top can be viewed below. For full coverage with tweets, videos and pictures from Tuesday, visit dukechronicle.com.

9 p.m. One of the nine sit-in students, senior Amy Wang, announces she is leaving to go to a national poetry slam contest at the University of Texas at Austin. Wang says she plans to rejoin those inside the Allen Building if they are still there when she returns Sunday. The announcement came after the sit-in students read a poem in honor of the 100th hour of the sit-in. The “love poem” to the protestors outside Allen stated multiple times that, “We have already won.” The protestors hugged Wang as she exited the building. “This is what community looks like,” they chanted as she left.

11:50 p.m. Administrators announce that the Allen

4:45 p.m. Junior Carolyn Yao, a sit-in student, says

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the students are staying in the Allen Building indefinitely in a Q&A with The Chronicle, which can be fully viewed on page 2. Yao noted that students had not been in contact with administrators Tuesday and that the sitin students should not be the ones deciding what a good deal between the two parties would be. Rather, the workers personally affected by the negotiations should be the ones deciding, she noted. Administrators previously stated they would not reopen the Allen Building with the students inside for safety and security reasons, but Yao reiterated that the sit-in students do not prevent regular business from going on. 4:15 p.m. Barber attempted to enter the Allen Building but was denied access. Speaking with protestors outside the building, Barber said, “It does concern me that administration would not let two preachers in to pray.” After asking student leaders why they

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Sit-in student discusses protest, plans moving forward and security reasons. How could you guarantee that if the building reopens and many protestors outside can enter that there would be no disruptions? CY: To clarify, we are only staying in one hallway of the Allen Building where classes are not conducted. If the building reopens, students can enter and act out of their own volition, but we have repeatedly emphasized the peaceful and nonviolent nature of protesting for this cause.

Amrith Ramkumar and Gautam Hathi The Chronicle With negotiations between administrators and the Allen Building sit-in students halted, The Chronicle communicated with one of the nine students, junior Carolyn Yao, via email about the students’ plans moving forward.

TC: How are you handling classes this week? We have heard that you have been excused from all of your assignments—is this true?

TC: Administrators said that they made proposals in an attempt to address some of your demands regarding Darbi Griffith | Chronicle File Photo working conditions. Do you think those The nine sit-in students who have been inside the Allen Building since Friday said they have no proposals were helpful and have you plans to move despite administrators’ requests. considered them? CY: We only negotiated for two hours CY: Our academic deans are working with were but they focused on simply removing and touched on two of the demands, us to contact our professors (many of whom us from the building, hoping to finish all after which the administration halted have been supportive) to make academic demand discussion within a day or two. the process. accommodations. For some of us, our short Our initial goal was to meet all seven academic relief is ending tonight. demands according to workers’ needs. The TC: Are you satisfied by the apology administration only agreed to negotiate that Executive Vice President Tallman TC: What was the atmosphere like in with nine occupying students and selected Trask has given? the negotiations yesterday? Why specifically faculty members, but has denied workers CY: The demand was for a public does the statement say that administrators and other community members from apology. We worked with administrators do not understand your goals? joining the table. and showed willingness to compromise. CY: No different than the other The other demands related to Trask are still conversations we’ve had with administrators TC: Administrators have said that yet to be completed. before negotiation. We continued to they will keep the Allen Building closed See STUDENT Q&A on Page 12 explain how important these demands as long as you are inside for safety

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TC: Administrators have said that they need flexibility in your demands. Are you prepared to offer any? CY: We’re just the occupiers trying to bring attention to the demands—we are not the ones who should be deciding what is or isn’t a good deal. That should be determined by workers who have personal stakes in the outcome of these negotiations for demands. The admin isn’t allowing them input. We will continue the process when they recognize the worker voices that are critical for moving forward.

TC: How long are you willing to stay in Allen? Are you changing your plans or setup inside the building to accommodate a possibly longer stay? CY: We are staying indefinitely until our demands are met and are conversing among ourselves what our internal needs are to remain in closed-door occupation.

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The Chronicle: Are you still talking with administrators at all? Have they been in the Allen Building today? Carolyn Yao: Administration walked out of negotiations yesterday afternoon and refused to continue going over the six other demands. They have not been in contact about demands since. Dean Sue, however, came into the building today with staff to collect some materials from their offices. We reiterated to her the importance of continuing negotiation with the broader coalition and having workers at the table.

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Protestors hold press conference for outside media Tuesday liaison for DSWS, noted that the Rev. William Barber II, president of the The Chronicle North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, is interested in learning about the Protestors said in a press conference protest, meeting with the occupiers and Tuesday afternoon that the nine students petitioning to gain access to the Allen staging the Allen Building sit-in currently Building. have no plans to leave the building. Students will make a decision about Felicia Arriaga, a Ph.D. student in whether or not they will continue tenting sociology and member of Duke Students outside Allen in the cold weather, noted and Workers in Solidarity, read a statement Danielle Purifoy, a Ph.D. student in to the media reiterating the group’s environmental policy who participated in position that the administration has not negotiations with administrators Monday. acted “in good faith.” The statement Aaron Colston, a Ph.D. student in also repeated the protestors’ request history who participated in Monday for administrators to allow workers to night’s “teach-in” outside the Allen participate in negotiations and their Building, added that the students tenting position that closing the Allen Building outside Allen represent “a broad-based was unnecessary. The group published coalition” and that all students are the statement Monday evening. welcome. Several media outlets attended the Renee Adkins, former special press conference, events manager for which was held at PTS who wrote an hey are in the habit of email to President the intersection of Chapel Drive and Duke Brodhead protecting their own. Richard University Road. Jan. 15 describing a —Renee Adkins on Duke culture of “racism, “The decision to close the Allen admins harassment, retaliation building was made by and bullying” in the Duke,” Arriaga read department, spoke from the statement. “At no point did about her experience with discrimination members of DSWS request that the Allen at the press conference. Building be shut down for any purpose Adkins also spoke about the lack of or reason. Duke’s administration is consequences Executive Vice President simply choosing to close the building to Tallman Trask has faced after he hit disrupt classes and cast our campaign in contract employee Shelvia Underwood a negative light.” with his car and allegedly used a racial After reiterating that the sit-in students slur—which she described in her email have no plans to leave the building, to Brodhead. Anastasia Karklina, Trinity ‘14, Ph.D. “I don’t expect the administration that student in literature and African and we [currently] have to do anything about African-American Studies and a media this,” Adkins said. “They are in the habit

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Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Tuesday’s press conference began with Felicia Arriaga, middle, reading the statement Duke Students and Workers in Solidarity released Monday night about the Allen Building sit-in.

of protecting their own.” Adkins compared her own termination to the handling of Trask’s case—noting that she was fired for insubordination after asking her boss, Parking and Transportation Services Director Carl DePinto, to “please shut up.” She added that she believes current employees are still being subjected to discrimination and retaliation. “My hope today is that by this press conference, someone will not only listen, but they will hear and do something about this,” Adkins said.

Dante Strobino, an organizer at UE 150, the North Carolina Public Service Workers Union, expressed support for students and workers protesting, noting that similar instances of discrimination occur across the state. Strobino said his union supported the right of workers to organize, and reiterated the demand to raise the minimum wage for Duke workers to $15 per hour. Demoncio Akins, a PTS employee, also spoke at Tuesday’s press conference to express support for the sit-in students.

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Congratulations to the following students, organizations, faculty and staff, who have been nominated to receive Duke Universityâ€™s most prestigious campus-wide honors for student leadership and service. Awards recipients and nominees will be celebrated at In The Spotlight on April 21, 2016, 5 pm, Arts Annex. The event is open to the Duke community.

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Silver to speak at Class Day

Jaime Gordon The Chronicle Following the March 22 terrorist attacks in Brussels, Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, sent an email to students expressing his condolences to those affected by the bombings and support for Muslim students at Duke. After complaints from students that he did not address bombings in Turkey the week before, Moneta sent a second email apologizing for the “oversight” and stating that he abhors the attacks in Turkey and would like to offer an identical message of support to students affected by those bombings. He sent a third email March 27 expressing his condolences to students affected by a bombing in Lahore, Pakistan. The Chronicle’s Jaime Gordon sat down with Moneta to learn more about the decisionmaking process behind these messages. The Chronicle: What’s your strategy toward disseminating the University’s response to tragic events and letting students know that their emotions are recognized? Larry Moneta: You’re looking for science and this is more art. There are occasions when something rises to the level where there may be a statement from the University that goes out to all students, faculty and staff. There are also occasions where something doesn’t rise to a broader University message, and I might choose to send something just to the students. Often, [it is based on] the nature of the incident and whether I think students are going to be impacted. It gets harder, and the fact that I sent two out in a row probably reveals that it is harder. When I wrote to students after Katrina, that affected everybody living in and around New Orleans. It was more geographically

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Chronicle File Photo Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, sent students an email about the Brussels terrorist attacks but received backlash for overlooking bombings in Turkey that had occurred a week prior.

based. Weather doesn’t choose people based on race or identity. Bombings tend to have targeted audiences. Now, as more of the tragedies are politically based, it’s hard. I may not even know about some. I’ll get an email asking me why I didn’t write about a particular one and the answer may be I didn’t know. If the media bias is such that I am only made aware of what the media chooses to report on, it could be that I didn’t even know about a bombing. It’s trying to pick out occurrences that cross some, ill-defined threshold for impacting our community and being sensitive not only to students who are directly impacted, but also to students at large who would want to empathize and sympathize with victims. Now, it’s harder than ever. I could

send an email every day. TC: You mentioned media biases affecting your decisions. Are you taking steps to remedy this? LM: ‘Remedy’ presumes that one could fix it. ‘Mitigation’ is probably a better word, because I’m just doing my best. I’m just reading more and more and trying to expand my social media. I think students are more direct. Students are not shy about emailing me, and I respond to my own emails. When people point out things I missed, I take that seriously. I will acknowledge that students have pointed these things out to me. All we can do is our best. I promise never to be See MONETA on Page 12

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, Trinity ‘84, will speak at this year’s Class Day ceremony during graduation weekend, Nandita Singh, senior class president, announced in an email to seniors Friday afternoon. The first ever Class Day ceremony was held last year for graduating seniors to reflect on their Duke experiences and featured speeches from prominent University figures, including Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag and Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs. Silver was also on campus during graduation weekend last year, when he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the political science department. Silver, who took over as NBA commissioner Feb. 1, 2014, joined Duke’s Board of Trustees last July. The Trustees convene each May during graduation weekend. The University of Chicago law school graduate will not be the only notable basketball figure speaking during graduation weekend, as head coach Mike Krzyzewski will deliver the commencement address to the Class of 2016 May 15.

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Seventh-inning rally carries Blue Devils to third straight victory as Swart returns to mound Hank Tucker The Chronicle Duke head coach Chris Pollard hoped last Tuesday’s win against Liberty would be a “coming-out party” for his offense, and one week later, the Blue Devil bats still have not cooled off. Duke rallied from a four-run deficit to beat UNC Greensboro 7-4 Tuesday at Jack Coombs Field, scoring six of its seven runs with two outs to extend its winning streak UNCG 4 to three games. DUKE 7 Sophomore Justin Bellinger was 3-for-4 with three RBIs to lead the Blue Devils, and freshman center fielder Jimmy Herron added two doubles from the leadoff spot in the order. “I’m not sure that we were tough enough to do that a couple of weeks ago. It’s just a product of the maturation of our team and guys growing up and learning how to compete,” Pollard said. “I’m really proud of our club tonight, especially the job that we did there with two outs.” Trailing by one in the bottom of the seventh, Duke (15-14) had runners on first and second with two outs when freshman Zack Kone hit a grounder to first baseman Michael Goss that looked like it would end the inning. But Goss booted the ball into foul territory as Kone reached first safely to load the bases, and sophomore Peter Zyla lined a game-tying single into left field to complete the Blue Devil rally. Sophomore Michael Smiciklas then drew a bases-loaded walk to put Duke in

Izzi Clark | The Chronicle Center fielder Jimmy Herron hit two doubles as the Blue Devils came from behind to defeat UNC Greensboro 7-4.

front 5-4, and the Blue Devils tacked on two insurance runs in the eighth when Herron doubled to the gap in leftcenter field to lead off the frame and sophomore Max Miller and Bellinger followed with RBI singles. UNC Greensboro (23-7) struck first with four runs in the fifth inning on just two hits, as most of the damage was self-inflicted by the Blue Devils. Junior Ben Spitznagel hustled down the line to lead off the frame with an infield single, and 6-foot-10 southpaw James Ziemba walked the bases loaded. Spitznagel waltzed home for the first run of the contest on a wild pitch in the dirt, forcing Pollard to turn to senior Nick Hendrix in his bullpen.

After a sacrifice fly doubled the Spartan lead, junior Ryne Sigmon lined an RBI single that glanced off sophomore Jack Labosky’s glove at third base. Sigmon advanced to third on a botched pickoff play and scored UNC Greensboro’s final run of the inning on a passed ball. “You give up four-spots in baseball,” Pollard said. “You have to grind your way through it, you have to get off the field, you have to minimize it and then you have to be tough enough to have an answer.” The Spartans boast one of the nation’s most high-powered offenses, but matched their lowest scoring output of the season as Duke relievers

Kevin Lewallyn, Labosky and Mitch Stallings—who recorded his second save of the year—shut them down the rest of the way. Duke had an immediate response to the Spartans’ big inning in the bottom of the fifth, staging a two-out rally to trim the deficit to one. Sophomore Ryan Day singled on a slow roller to third base with one out, and advanced to second on a groundout before he crossed the plate when freshman catcher Chris Proctor roped a single into right. After a hit batter and a walk loaded the bases, Bellinger sliced a tworun double down the left-field line to get his team back in the game. “I’m just looking for away pitches off-speed because I know that’s what they’re going to give me. They’re not going to challenge me with fastballs inside,” Bellinger said. “Playing here in a little bit deeper of a park, my mentality is just to hit the ball hard on a line and just score runs—[with] guys in scoring position, expect off-speed, expect bad pitches, and that’s what I got.” The Blue Devils nearly tied the game in the sixth when a throw from third baseman Collin Woody skipped into right field on a ground ball by Herron, and Smiciklas tried to score on a mad dash from first base. The relay from Goss to the plate beat him by a hair to end the inning, but Duke had to wait just one inning to seize the lead. Graduate student Trent Swart started on the mound for the Blue Devils in his first appearance since March 19 after elbow irritation See BASEBALL on Page 9

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Quinn takes semester off to prep for Summer Olympics Jesús Hidalgo The Chronicle When Rebecca Quinn was a child, her parents told her that she should try different sports until she found one she loved the most. Her father, Bill, played rugby at Western Ontario, and her mother, Linda, played basketball at the University of Waterloo. But Quinn chose soccer. Little did she know that that decision would lead her to a series of memories with the Canadian national team, including earning a bronze medal at the Pan American games in 2015, notching a hat trick in an Olympic qualifier against Guatemala Feb. 16 and defeating Brazil 2-1 in the final game of the Algarve Cup last month. Quinn played only a few

seconds at the end of the tournament final and was on the same pitch with one of her childhood idols—Brazil’s five-time Ballon d’Or winner, Marta Vieira da Silva. “It’s always a great experience to participate in competitions with players that I’ve looked up to for all my time growing up. I did the walkout and [thought], ‘Oh my gosh, I’m playing against Marta.’ But after that, it’s game on,” Quinn said. “I loved watching them as I grew up and being on the same pitch with them is an honor but at the same time, I have a job to do and I have to take them like any other player.” But success always comes with sacrifices and Quinn’s case is no exception. The junior is taking this semester off to train with the Canadian national team to prepare for the upcoming Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Quinn did the same thing last

spring to train for the World Cup but was left off the roster, meaning the Toronto native will need an extra year to finish her college degree in biology. Skipping two semesters of classes might seem extreme, but she seems to have found a perfect balance between the international spotlight on the soccer pitch and her workload in Durham. “I think it’s great taking a semester off,” Quinn said. “My freshman year was difficult. I was [with] the international team a lot in the spring and I missed almost a month of school, which is crazy. So it’s good to have these concentrated periods where you can focus solely with the national team. And then in the fall, Duke was my main priority for all of it. It’s nice to be able to put your attention See QUINN on Page 9

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Blue Devils look to extend winning streak against Wolverines Sameer Pandhare The Chronicle After winning eight of their first 10 matches in ACC play, the Blue Devils have climbed into the top 10 of this week’s ITA rankings. Now Duke will try and see if it can stay hot against a stout nonconference opponent. After picking up a pair of weekend victories against Virginia and Notre Dame, the No. 8 Blue Devils will host No. 11 Michigan No. 11 Michigan vs. Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Ambler Tennis No. 8 Stadium. Duke Duke swept then-No. 12 WEDNESDAY, 1 p.m. Virginia 4-0 on the Ambler Tennis Stadium road Friday, before defeating Notre Dame 4-1 at home Sunday afternoon. “Our in-match energy level was a little bit better, especially against Notre Dame,” Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “Coming off a stretch where we were away on a Friday and home on a Sunday, it’s really easy to have a fatigue factor set in. I was really happy with our in-match energy and how they kind of supported each other on the courts and let that momentum carry from one court to the other when we got down a bit.” The Blue Devils’ meeting with the Wolverines (12-4) will likely feature numerous matchups between ranked opponents in singles action. Senior Beatrice Capra will face a stiff test when she battles No. 16 Ronit Yurovsky on court one. Ranked No. 25 heading into the match, Capra will look to get

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Senior Beatrice Capra will look to grab a win at the No. 1 singles spot when the Blue Devils host Michigan Wednesday.

a big win to catapult up the rankings and move above .500 against ranked opponents this season. Duke (15-3) will turn to No. 67 Chalena Scholl and No. 43 Kaitlin McCarthy in the No. 2 and No. 3 spots, respectively, with both looking to win their second consecutive matches. Michigan will counter with a pair of talented freshmen with Brienne Minor playing on court two and Kate Fahey competing in the No. 3 spot. Minor owns a team-best 25-7 mark this season, and Fahey heads to Durham with a ninematch win streak in tow. The Wolverines enter Wednesday’s match on a streak of their own as the team has reeled off five straight victories and remain unbeaten in conference play. When Michigan has faced off

against ACC opponents, the Wolverines have been up for the challenge with convincing victories against Miami and North Carolina—both ranked in the top 10—this season “We have to treat it as any other match,” Ashworth said. “It’s definitely a unique opportunity for both programs because we don’t play Michigan that often. They’ve beat UNC, they’ve beat Miami and those are our two highestranked teams, so there’s definitely some conference pride involved as well.” One of the biggest keys of the match for both teams will be seizing momentum early. The Blue Devils have come away with the doubles point in their last two matches and now stand at a perfect 13-0 when heading into singles play up a point.

But Duke will be tested by a Michigan squad that excels early as well. Despite being forced to use 12 different doubles lineups this season due to injuries, Michigan has yet to lose this season when securing the doubles point. The Wolverines went 6-0 in doubles play against Wisconsin and Minnesota this weekend behind the freshmen duo of Fahey and Minor in the top spot along with Yurovsky and junior Sara Remynse in the No. 3 spot. Michigan’s duo of Minor and sophomore Mira Ruder-Hook has led the way for the squad with six victories in the No. 1 spot and is ranked No. 16 entering the contest. “In the big matches this year that we’ve won…we’ve played really good doubles,” Ashworth said. “If we come out with a lot of energy at the start and show Michigan that we’re willing to compete for that doubles point, we’ll kind of let the results take care of themselves and see where we are after that. But if we come out a little flat, Michigan is definitely a team that could jump all over us in the doubles.” Wednesday’s match will mark the second of four straight contests at home for the Blue Devils. With the season slowly coming to a close and fatigue catching up to teams around the country, Duke will look to continue to capitalize by playing its best on its home court. “It’s all about time management at this time of the year,” Ashworth said. “Every team is a little bit fatigued and every team is a little bit tired, but at the same time every team is in the exact same situation.” Following the tilt with the Wolverines, the Blue Devils will host Boston College Saturday before taking on N.C. State April 12.

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After winning back-to-back tournaments, the Blue Devils struggled this week with the postseason rapidly approaching. No. 22 Duke finished seventh at the Hootie at Bull’s Bay Intercollegiate Tuesday, 29 shots behind tournament champion No. 14 South Carolina. The Blue Devils were paced by sophomore Adam Wood, who finished tied for 17th, with freshman Alex Smalley and junior Matt Oshrine close behind in 19th and 26th, respectively. Wood started off strong in Sunday’s opening round, finishing the first 18 holes tied for fifth with a three-under-par 69. But the Zionsville, Ind., native faltered in the second round, carding a threeover-par 75. In the final round, Wood could not create any separation on the leaderboard, and finished with a score of 72 to finish at even par for the tournament. The sophomore

finished at or under par for the 16th time this season. Throughout the final two rounds of play, Wood was chased by his teammates Smalley and Oshrine. After shooting even par during the first two days, Smalley could not get over the hump and shot a oneover-par 73 on the final 18 holes. Following his victory at the Seahawks Intercollegiate, Oshrine could not build on his recent play and finished at two-over-par for the tournament. The junior bounced back after a first-round 74 to shoot even par in the final two rounds of play. Juniors Max Greyserman and Alexander Matlari rounded out Duke’s lineup, with both players struggling in the final round. After using five birdies to finish with a team-low score of 70 Monday, Greyserman carded a score of 76 Tuesday to finish tied for 36th place at four-over-par for the tournament. Matlari struggled with consistency throughout the tournament shooting rounds of 74, 77 and 75 to finish tied for 60th with a score of 10-over-par.

With the Blue Devils splitting their team across two tournaments, Duke received solid performances from four players who competed as individuals at the East Carolina Intercollegiate. Sophomore Jake Shuman paced the Blue Devils with a first and third round score of 73 en route to a tie for third place. Sophomore Ben Silverman bounced back from two rounds of five-overpar to shoot a score of 73 in the final round of play to finish 13th. Freshman Shrish Dwivedi and junior Andrew Bieber also competed as individuals and tied for 21st and 32nd, respectively. Dwivedi started off well, sitting at four-over par for the tournament after 36 holes. But the Redwood City, Calif., native struggled mightily Tuesday with a final-round 82 that dropped him to 10-over-par overall. The Blue Devils will next take the course at the Princeton Spring Invitational Friday and Saturday as their final tune-up before the ACC tournament begins two weeks later.

Ian Jaffe | Chronicle File Photo Adam Wood finished at even-par as the Blue Devils struggled at the Hootie at the Bull’s Bay Intercollegiate.

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QUINN from page 7 to only one thing.” An 18-year old Quinn debuted with her national team March 7, 2014, when Canada took down Italy 3-1 in the Cyprus Cup, and she has made 19 appearances wearing her country’s jersey since then. The midfielder started all five contests at the 2015 Pan American games and scored her first international goal in the first half of a 10-0 rout against Guatemala. In a seven-minute span early in the closing period, she added two more goals with a long-range shot and a header from inside the box. In March at the Algarve Cup, the Blue Devil center back started as a midfielder in a 1-0 loss against Denmark and totaled 49 minutes in three other contests. Quinn has also shared the locker room with another of her soccer idols—attacker Christine Sinclair, the top scorer in the history of the Canadian women’s national team and second-best female international striker with 161 career goals. “It’s unreal,” Quinn said. “You have to take a couple of breaths when you’re first playing besides Christine Sinclair, but I think we’re at a point of our relationship where we are quite comfortable with each other. It’s fun.” Duke head coach Robbie Church praised Quinn’s role in the Blue Devil offense and said that her progress throughout last season made her not only one of the best players in the ACC but also in the NCAA. “There’s not so many people in women’s soccer that can hit the ball like Rebecca can,” Church said. “She can change the point of attack with kakuro_528D.txt one ball and she can

pass midfield and drive the ball. She can open up the field and stretch defenses. A lot of times, [opponents] like to press us, so she can play balls in from behind. And she makes good decisions with the ball. That’s such an unbelievable weapon to have a player that can do that.” The 5-foot-9 defender scored three goals for Duke last fall, with one of them coming in a 2-1 victory against second-seeded Florida in the NCAA tournament Sweet 16. Despite missing one game at the beginning of the season due to an ankle injury and two conference contests with a concussion, Quinn had a crucial role in the Blue Devil back line and played the thirdmost minutes of the Duke defenders, totaling 1,974 in 22 games. “Rebecca is one of the most creative players I’ve played with and also someone who understands the game better than anyone else,” sophomore defender Schuyler Debree said. “Having her on the field is massive because it’s a huge confidence-booster for the whole team. Everybody knows that she’s very consistent and she’ll make those big plays when we need her to. And she’s also just fun to watch. She’s the only center back in the country that can pull Maradonas [dribbling from one end of the pitch to the other] on a team and get away with that.” Quinn—who made the All-ACC Academic Team in the fall—will have some work to do to catch up when she returns to Durham, but has found a way to stay on top of both studies and soccer, fitting in well with Church’s program philosophy. Duke reached the College

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Cup final in 2011 and 2015 and each time, a Blue Devil was recognized for posting the highest grade-point average of any player on the four teams to reach the Final Four. In a program that believes that excellent academic performance is as important as finding the back of the net, creating that balance is not an option but rather a requirement for Quinn and her teammates. “Duke is a phenomenal school, but it’s not for everybody,” Church said. “You have to want to excel both academically and athletically. If soccer is your main thing, and you do academics because you have to do it to play soccer, Duke is probably not the right place for you. We’ve got to make sure that [the players’] academic goals means the same thing as their athletic goals and fortunately in women’s soccer, a lot of the young ladies are academically oriented too.”

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ast Thursday was a pivotal day for the over 28,000 high school seniors who applied to join the Class of 2020. For many of them, Duke was high on their lists and for most at the top. Over the course of high school, they probably visited campus, revelled in the excitement of last year’s basketball championship, strived for perfect test scores to impress admissions officers and poured their hearts into Common App personal essays. At the end of that, more than 20,000 of them received no reward except for the closure of a disappointing denial letter. At a time when many Duke students are experiencing rejection and failure in the forms of job and internship searches and difficult midterms before the rush to LDOC, today’s editorial will explore failure and the role it can and should play for students. Duke students are not always accustomed to failure. Success in high school, the promise of great things to come at an elite university and the high expectations placed on those to whom much has already been given make failure something that happens to “the other.” When it does strike, it is often quietly swept under the rug as a

source of personal shame to be forgotten. Surrounded by a sea of talent, students pressure themselves to live up to an impossible standard of perfection, fearing that any form of failure is proof that they do not belong. The idea that some people never fail though is a preposterous fantasy. Failure need not even take the form of a graduate school rejection, a bad grade or

Editorial an internship denial. Consider a student with a perfect GPA in the most difficult of majors. While succeeding fabulously in the academic world, any number of personal areas of happiness may be lacking, they might feel spiritually unfulfilled and they may feel they never left time for community service. Each of these is a different kind of failure not it is evident on a resume. Using another example, imagine a senior, about to graduate, who has been heavily involved in campus activism. Although she might be headed off to the most exciting opportunity

“The Ruling Class stays up late at night, has a few brandies, and spends at least an hour asking themselves, “How can we crush more innocent people tomorrow? What haven’t we thought of yet? Oh, this is so much fun…” Crushing people may be their only reason to exist and the only pleasure they get in their miserable lives. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.” — “BenzoSanta” commenting on the article “Allen sitin students granted amnesty by administrators”

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she could imagine, she might feel failure in seeing that she has not achieved a total reform of campus culture. Failure is ubiquitous and amorphous. Every person will fail in some way or another. The reasons for denying or ignoring failure are clear: when people fail, they inevitably feel disappointment. Denial, though, is not a sound mechanism. It amplifies doubts and impedes movement. Instead of being denied or ignored, failure ought to be taken advantage of and used for self-betterment. Initial failure can be used for motivation: a pick-me-up to motivate a person into working for success. In a different strand of reasoning, failure can be used as a guide. For instance, if a student fails a major class, their failure might force them to realize that their heart is not truly in their current course of study, but lies elsewhere. Regardless of how failure is used, a string of mistakes and rejections is not indicative of a life of failure. Any student who has written an essay, worked in a lab or attempted to overcome a challenging problem likely understands that failure is simply part of the process of progress—a sidestep on the path forward.

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ince Duke’s integration, marginalized students and employees have fought tirelessly for an end to the oppressive environment Duke perpetuates. An environment that, in a multitude of ways, continues to devalue the lives of people of color while simultaneously profiting from the labor of these same members of Duke’s community. Over time students have found many ways to resist Duke’s oppression, from sit-ins to the historical Allen Building Takeover of 1969, but little progress has been made in having their cries heard and attended to. In the midst of these injustices, students are still expected to flourish in an environment that actively antagonizes, trivializes and fails to protect the value of their existence. They are expected to seek and recruit other minorities into this dismal environment as a means to preserve Duke’s image of equality. An image that Duke prioritizes the maintenance of over the lives of those that work and live on this campus to give that image meaning and truth. Recently, students discovered that Tallman Trask, Duke University’s Executive Vice President, hit Shelvia Underwood, a black woman and Duke employee, with his car and possibly used a racial slur toward her. News of this incident was kept silent for over two years by Duke administration and the Duke University Police Department. Trask committed a felony and abused his position and power to intimidate Ms. Underwood and preserve himself. And while Ms. Underwood only requested an apology from Trask, Duke administration decided to silence her instead.

Nine courageous students decided to conduct a sit-in and issued a list of demands for workers’ rights and students at Duke in response to Duke’s tyranny. Of the eight, highly feasible demands made, two of them have been met, as those students were granted full amnesty after being threatened with arrest and a public apology has been made. However, the journey remains undone as Duke has yet to meet the other demands issued and the protesters and supporters continue to take the steps necessary to mend the wrongs done by Duke administration. The Alpha Alpha Chi Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. gives its full respect and support to the brave protesters and their goals. Employees, whether fulltime or subcontracted, deserve a living wage, especially if Trask can be afforded a six-figure salary after committing a felony. Ms. Underwood deserves full reparations, an outside investigation, and a full and transparent review. Transparency in recruitment of senior administration is paramount in moving forward and avoiding hiring those who would continue breathing life into the oppressive environment Duke has historically fostered for its workers and minority students. It is just as critical to hold administration accountable for upholding the Duke Community Standard and its principles if Duke University aims to be an institution that embodies equity, prosperity, and truth for all members of its community. The Alpha Alpha Chi Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. Torrey Mayes, president

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very so often, something happens that makes me cringe and question my love for the place I’ve called home these past four years. This is one of those times. The past few weeks have set off what New York Times columnist Frank Bruini calls, “The Republicans’ Gay Freakout.” Two weeks ago, the legislature here in North Carolina convened for a special session to pass the most extreme antiLGBT law in recent memory, overruling an

to build a new 400-plus-employee global operations center in Charlotte. The CEO explained this decision was due to a law that clearly violated PayPal’s commitment to equality and inclusion. When Georgia was considering its “religious liberty” bill, the state received similar backlash from businesses, with threats of boycott from major corporations like Disney, Marvel, Time Warner, CocaCola, Salesforce and more. Many believed

ell, time to destroy whatever goodwill I had left with University administrators. As you’ve probably heard through Duke’s official statements and emails, the Allen Building is currently shut. The reason, we’re told, is the ongoing occupation of the building by nine students representing Duke Students and Workers in Solidarity, who in their occupation apparently pose an insurmountable disruption to the operations

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anti-discrimination ordinance in Charlotte and banning other local governments from passing similar measures. Our representatives also voted to mandate that all people in North Carolina use the bathroom that match their birth gender, an act that specifically and maliciously targets the transgender community. Then they decided to prohibit localities from enacting their own minimum wage laws. Similarly, the Georgian governor vetoed the “religious liberty” bill HB 757 last week, which would allow organizations to deny jobs and services to LGBT individuals based on religious beliefs. The legislature has since called for a special session to override the governor’s action. And not to be outdone, just yesterday Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed into law HB 1523, which allows individuals—even if they are public employees—to refuse services to people if they believed providing them would violate their religious beliefs. These types of laws not anything new—similar measures failed in South Dakota and Tennessee just this past month. In just this year alone, more than 16 states have introduced some type of religious exemption legislation. While backlash against liberal activists and lawmakers has always been strong, this most recent wave has brought a previously quiet stakeholder to the forefront: big business. Republicans have long positioned themselves as the business-friendly party, but after a slew of blatant anti-LGBT legislation, corporations are pushing back. When the N.C. bill was under consideration, major corporations including PayPal, Red Hat, Apple, IBM and American Airlines voiced their opposition to the law and indicated repercussions related to how these companies did business in the state, while the NBA put forth that such legislation would jeopardize the state’s chance of hosting the 2017 All-Star Weekend. PayPal has already followed through on its claims by announcing that it has eliminated plans

that it was this economic pressure that compelled the governor to give a veto. With other states set to consider bans on anti-discrimination ordinances, there is hope from activists and leaders that big business will be key in preventing such legislation from being enacted. It is not just activists that should be taking note of this trend, but Republican lawmakers too. Since same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide almost a year ago, Republicans have fought hard to roll back rights for the LGBT community at the state and local level. As North Carolina and Mississippi show, such efforts sometimes do succeed. But escalating tensions between conservative values and business interests should force lawmakers to rethink such measures. How much will Republicans risk to appease their socially conservative base? The threat of losing federal funding has not been enough to sway action, and the efforts of major corporations have had varying levels of success. It is not enough to thwart legislation entirely, though, so perhaps it would also behoove lawmakers to remember that they are waging a war that is largely lost. Society is moving toward LGBT equality, and a few bumps along the way are not going to change that trajectory. There are so many more issues and problems legislatures should be spending their time on and public resources, and the right to bigotry is not one of them. Georgia Governor Nathan Deal—a Republican—put it perfectly when he explained his veto, “I do not think we have to discriminate against anyone to protect the faith-based community in Georgia.” No one should have a right to discriminate, not in North Carolina and not anywhere else. I hope businesses continue to voice opposition against laws that serve no purpose than to harm already marginalized groups.

of the building. The trouble with this of course is that they…don’t. Allen is a large, three-story building with multiple entrances, and the occupiers are camped out in one waiting room on one floor that can be very easily avoided even if the occupiers were being disruptive—and as a wonderful photo from The Chronicle depicts, they’re really not. In fact, they can’t pose disruption to the rest of the building because there are security personnel posted inside Allen preventing the occupiers from moving beyond the one room (and the corridor connected to it) that they’re staying in. Closing the Allen Building for the nine people in one of its waiting rooms is essentially analogous to closing the Bryan Center because Red Mango got a little crowded or shutting down the whole of Wilson because of an unusually large number of people on the squash courts. It would take—what, two minutes?— to walk around the Allen Building to the next entrance if you wanted to avoid the occupiers. Now I don’t want to seem too accusatory here, but if the University was indeed so keenly interested in preventing disruption to student life and travel times, perhaps they shouldn’t have spent the last two years systematically shutting down areas of campus for renovations no one wanted. I mean, come on: if that two minute longer walk justifies shutting down the Allen Building altogether, then the closing of the Plaza should have caused the whole of Duke to shut for two years. So this begs the question: why is the Allen Building shut if business there would be unaffected by the presence of the occupiers? Well, it’s probably because Duke, not the protestors, wanted to shut it down. Look at it this way: if Duke had allowed Allen to open after Sunday’s amnesty then anyone would have been able to come and go through the building. The occupiers Michelle Menchaca is a Trinity senior. Her would have been fully resupplied, they would have been able to socialize normally with column runs on alternate Wednesdays. visitors, their spirits would be raised and most importantly, their numbers might have grown. The administration would be left with an even more dramatic problem and potentially further inflated media coverage. As such it’s in their interests to keep the Allen Building shut while the protesters are still there. One problem, of course: keeping Allen shut means disruption for all the people who work and study there and more discontent as a result. To deal with this potential PR issue,

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in my opinion, I contend, the university is embarking on a spin campaign. In emails and statements all over campus, Duke proclaims that it will not negotiate any further with the occupiers until they leave, on the basis that they’re causing too much disruption by being in Allen. But as already discussed, this disruption doesn’t exist and nor do the protesters want Allen shut. Yet by framing the closure as a result of occupier-caused disruption, Duke can make it seem as though

it is the protestors, not the university, whose closed-mindedness is keeping the building shut. The protesters, Duke makes it seem, are selfishly continuing on their hopeless campaign in spite of the inconvenience it’s causing for their fellow students: but of course these protesters aren’t causing the inconvenience—Duke is. And the longer Duke keeps the Allen Building shut and alleging that this is a necessary consequence of the occupation the further public opinion turns against the occupiers. It’s a clever strategy: play on the trope of the entitled, politically correct college student in a bid to make your own unwillingness to negotiate seem like their disregard for their peers and common sense. Michael Schoenfeld, Duke’s Vice President for Public Affairs and Government Affairs, is one such administrator that forwarded this point, claiming in a Chronicle interview that “a non-negotiable position is a very selfish one. That’s not what we’re about.” Now, perhaps we have different understandings of the word “selfish,” but by my definition, holing yourself up in a room with no access to showers, clean clothes or normal human interactions for an extended period in a bid to secure fair labor practices for Duke workers—especially when you yourself are not one of those workers—doesn’t quite match up with the notions of selfishness or entitlement with which I’m familiar. The truth is, if those students leave the Allen Building then they lose all their leverage and any hope of getting anything serious done. This battle hinges on public opinion: if it’s in the protesters’ favor more people will camp out outside Allen and the media circus will grow. If it’s against the protesters support wavers and so does morale. Duke has made the protesters inconvenient: by making them inconvenient the University can make the occupiers seem obnoxious and turn public opinion against them. But let’s be clear: these protesters pose no inconvenience to you. They’re forgoing basic amenities for an indefinite period so they get a shot at securing better standard of labour for the people that make Duke run for you. They are fighting hard for something good at no cost to you so please, don’t fall for the vilification. And Duke—head back to the negotiating table. It’s not as though you have to go far: they’re sitting in your waiting room right now. Bron Maher is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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He described the Trask incident as “symbolic” of a larger problem at the University, and said protestors should focus on issues of accountability, transparency and democratic support the protest, Barber said he was “glad to see young functioning at the University. people take their own turf.” He added that he thought “We have a stake in this place,” Korstad said. “We all do. protestors were exhibiting “intellect and conscience.” That’s what makes it a better place.” “You would be wasting somebody’s money to go to school here and know there is injustice,” Barber said. 1 p.m. Barber led a prayer outside Allen after encouraging At a press conference with several media outlets, protestors students to hold the space. As he left, he tossed a copy of the confirm that sit-in students have no plans to leave the Allen U.S. Constitution to the protestors. Building. They note that Barber is interested in learning about the protest, meeting with the occupiers and petitioning 3:30 p.m. to gain access to the Allen Building. A full recap of the press Robert Korstad, professor of public policy and history, spoke conference can be viewed on page 3. to students assembled outside Allen as part of a “teach-in.” He At the press conference, Renee Adkins, former special opened the discussion by talking about the current protest as events manager for PTS, reiterated what she had told The part of a larger history of student activism—from protests during Chronicle about the incident involving Trask and Underwood the civil rights movement to anti-apartheid rallies in South Africa and described her experience in PTS. to early activism in the anti-sweatshop movement. “My hope today is that by this press conference, someone Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle “You have a responsibility to make the institution live up to will not only listen, but they will hear and do something about Dante Strobino, an organizer at UE 150, the North Carolina its responsibilities,” Korstad told students. this,” Adkins said. Public Service Workers Union, expressed support for protestors.

MONETA from page 6 perfect. It is just about trying to be more attentive and have more doors and windows open.

“FREEDOM FROM SPEECH” A PPE LECTURE

Greg Lukianoff Thursday, April 7 6:00-7:00 PM 107 GROSS HALL

reg Lukianoff is an attorney and the president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). He is the co-author (with Jonathan Hadit) of the widely read article, “The Coddling of the American Mind”, author of Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate and Freedom From Speech, and has published articles in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and numerous other publications. He is a blogger for The Huffington Post and Ricochet.com. Greg is a graduate of American University and of Stanford Law School, where he focused on First Amendment and constitutional law. Before joining FIRE, Greg practiced law in Northern California, interned at the ACLU of Northern California and the Organization for Aid to Refugees in Prague, Czech Republic, and was the development manager of the EnvironMentors Project in Washington, D.C. Greg, along with Harvey A. Silverglate and David French, is a co-author of FIRE’s Guide to Free Speech on Campus. Greg is also a proud member of the board of directors of Philadelphia’s Theatre Exile. In his free time, Greg also runs the Genetic Music Project, an open source genetic art project combining music and science.

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TC: What is the procedure for determining whether students have been harmed in these incidences? LM: There are several things happening. You don’t get to see all of it. All undergraduates who travel on any Duke program have to register. So, the moment some incident happens, the [Global Education Office] is in touch with all of the GEO directors. The staff who oversee the registry are immediately checking to see if we have any students, faculty or staff registered as being in that area, and then we’re immediately trying to track them down. With the Paris bombings, we ran a list through the registrar’s office of any student, graduate or undergraduate who had a France home address and did personalized emails to every one of them. We also did that with Belgium and Turkey. For many of these incidents, we’re actually customizing communications to students with home addresses in that region. All that is happening, and I’m in the pipeline. If we know that no one has been affected in time, I might include that in the email [to the student body]. But we might not know, or we might know that someone’s in trouble but it’s no one else’s business. That’s a whole other set of interventions that are going on, in advance of any email that I would send out. TC: Is there anything you would like to add? LM: I would rather air by commission than omission. If I do something wrong, I’d rather it was wrong because I attempted to do something, rather than being wrong because I didn’t try to do anything at all.

STUDENT Q&A from page 2 TC: How did conversations shift over the weekend from administrators threatening punishment to promising a negotiation? CY: Supporters and other DSWS members continued to pressure administrators from the outside and we remained committed to the demands. Administrators put everything from arrest to expulsion and disciplinary probation on the table. They began to understand that we weren’t leaving until the demands were met, so the conversation finally shifted from threats to negotiations. But, when we refused to talk without worker input, they walked away after only two hours and only two demands being addressed. TC: Is there any particular reason you ordered food from Grace’s Cafe? CY: [Vice President for Student Affairs] Larry Moneta ordered it. We have been in here for several days and accepted a hot meal. Not really important for the occupation or the larger issue that we’re working for. The administrators are detracting from their refusal to include workers in the negotiations. TC: Is there anything else you think we should know? CY: We are overwhelmed by the support coming from outside, and this movement has only been able to sustain itself with the love, labor, and energy from fellow students organizing, tenting, and engaging on the quad. The nine of us inside the occupation are only one piece in the larger picture of student and worker action.