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T H E I N D E P E N D E N T D A I LY AT D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y

FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2018 DUKECHRONICLE.COM

U.S. AMBASSADOR TO U.N. NIKKI HALEY VISITS CAMPUS

ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH YEAR, ISSUE 75

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Haley discusses embassy in Israel, Russian nerve agent attack By Sam Kim Staff Reporter

Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, walked across the stage Thursday to a standing ovation from a sold-out audience. “As some of you might know, I’m a Clemson girl,” Haley said. “We’ve enjoyed our relationship [with Duke] on the football field—not so much on the basketball court though.” During the lecture—entitled “Confronting Today’s Global Governance Challenges”—Haley discussed issues such as the proposed American Embassy in Jerusalem and U.S. relations with Russia, including the response to the nerve agent attack in the United Kingdom. The event was presented jointly by the Program in American Grand Strategy and the Sanford School of Public Policy. Keeping with the title, former South Carolina Gov. Haley’s lighthearted introduction quickly changed tone as she switched to talking about the international threats to American security. “The biggest difference between being governor and being ambassador is the nature of the opposition,” she said. She explained that, though she and her political colleagues battled over tax laws and social policies, the arguments were in the interest of the South Carolinian constituents. “But in the United Nations, I’m butting heads on nearly a daily basis with people who represent actual tyrants,” Haley said. “I sit across the negotiating table from representatives of regimes that commit genocide and See HALEY on Page 8

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Trevon Duval declares for 2018 NBA Draft Staff Reports The Chronicle

Last Wednesday, it was Marvin Bagley III announcing his NBA future. This week, it is Trevon Duval. Duval will join the growing ranks of one-and-done Blue Devils after announcing Wednesday evening that he will declare for the 2018 NBA Draft in a team release. Although there was no specific information as to whether or not Duval will sign with an agent, the young floor general seemed to leave little doubt that his career in Durham is finished. “I loved my time here at Duke and I enjoyed every second of it,” Duval said. “I want to thank all of the Duke fans, thank each of my teammates— they’re all brothers to me, and each of the coaches that have helped me grow as a young man both on and off the court. I hope to be part of the Duke brotherhood the rest of my life.” See DUVAL on Page 5

Commerce Deptartment includes citizenship question on census despite professor’s advice By Bill McCarthy Staff Reporter

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross received advance warning that his plan to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census would stir controversy, according to a Duke professor who served on the Census Scientific Advising Committee. D. Sunshine Hillygus, professor of political science and director of the Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology, said the committee sent Ross an official recommendation urging him to abandon the idea. Despite the committee’s suggestion, Ross announced on March 26 that the 2020 census would inquire about citizenship at the request of the U.S. Department of Justice. Ross’s plan received immediate backlash from immigrant rights advocates and Democratic policymakers who said it will deter immigrant participation and lead to an undercount of the national population. Seventeen states, seven cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors have already sued the Commerce Department and the Census

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Bureau in an effort to remove the question from the census questionnaire. North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein filed a lawsuit Tuesday. “North Carolinians pay taxes to the federal government every year,” Stein said in a statement. “In return, they rightfully expect to receive our state’s fair share of federal funding for our roads and schools and an appropriate number of Representatives in Congress. That’s what an accurate census provides for and why I will fight any effort to politicize it.” But before the lawsuits and the public outcry, Hillygus and her team of CSAC experts told Ross via a set of recommendations that the citizenship question would be controversial. Hillygus said they warned that the question would politicize the census in a way that could lead to undercounting, hacking and distrust. “[Ross] heard from everybody in the expert community,” Hillygus said. “There was lots of clear messaging about the fact that this was going to be problematic, which is one of the reasons @dukechronicle @dukebasketball |

that its very hard to interpret this as anything other than political.” CSAC is an advisory body that consists of up to 21 members and advises the Census Bureau on statistical data collection, survey methodology, geospatial and statistical analysis, econometrics, cognitive psychology, business operations and computer science. Hillygus, the only political scientist on the committee, was appointed in 2012 and renewed for a second three-year term in 2015. Now in the last year of her term, she said she has seen several change proposals go “through extensive testing because there is recognition that even very minor changes in the design of the census can have critical implications for people responding.” But the late addition of the See CENSUS on Page 8 @thedukechronicle | © 2018 The Chronicle


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