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Duke won’t cut ties with donor who’s ‘stripping’ newspapers

ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH YEAR, ISSUE 76

WHY ARE BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETINGS NO LONGER OPEN TO THE PUBLIC?

By Sam Turken Managing Editor

Duke has accepted contributions from a hedge fund president and newspaper owner who has been slashing staff at profitable newspapers across the country. Now, a newspaper union wants the University to cut ties with him, but Duke isn’t budging. Heath Freeman, Trinity ‘02, is a major donor to Duke and his family is the namesake of the Freeman Center for Jewish Life. His hedge fund, Alden Global Capital, owns Digital First Media—one of the largest newspaper chains in the country—and has cut staff at dozens of newspapers, including the Denver Post and San Jose Mercury News. The NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America, the union representing workers at Digital First newspapers, has called for Duke to return donations from Freeman and remove him as advisory board chair of Jewish Life. The union and staff at Alden-owned newspapers say the donations are “dirty money” and undermine the mission of the journalism program at the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy. “It’s just shameful,” said Lisa Krieger, Trinity ’77 and a reporter at the San Jose Mercury News. “That is money that Alden Global Capital is taking away. Duke is profiting from it.” NewsGuild representatives have made multiple unsuccessful attempts to meet with President Vincent Price to discuss the matter. Union president Bernie Lunzer first wrote to Price in early January, expressing his concerns about the University’s continued cooperation with Freeman, who donated more than $18,000 to the Jewish Life program in the 2016-17 fiscal year. Price responded two weeks later through Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, who said Duke is not affiliated with Alden Global Capital or Digital First Media. Schoenfeld suggested addressing any concerns with them. Lunzer followed up with another letter Jan. 31, calling on the University to request Freeman’s resignation from the Jewish Life advisory board and to “consider a return of the most recent donation.” Lunzer said Schoenfeld’s response to his initial letter does a “disservice to the mission of the University.” Despite additional letters sent by the NewsGuild and Krieger to professors and the Board of Trustees, Duke has stood by its position. “The University is not affiliated with Alden Global Capital and has no role in its business See NEWSPAPERS on Page 3

Chronicle File Photo Board of Trustees meetings occur four times a year and often take place at the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club (pictured above).

By Sarah Kerman Senior News Reporter

From discussing the future of new research centers and campus construction to approving tuition hikes, the University’s Board of Trustees makes decisions that can have immediate impacts on the student experience. It is rare, however, for students to get a glimpse of the deliberations that take place inside these meetings. Duke’s Board of Trustees meetings are not open to the public, but a few of Duke’s peer institutions have adopted policies that increase public access to board meetings. “The current practice for Board meetings has been in place for about 10 years,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. “That is fairly consistent with other private universities like Duke. There are no plans at the moment to make any changes to that and that’s where everything stands.” But this has not always been the case. From 1971 until 2008, the meetings were open. Past access Allowing a public session began during President Terry Sanford’s administration in 1971, sparked at least in part by a sit-in. Then-Chronicle Editor Clay Steinman along with student body president Hutch Traver,

both Trinity ‘71, refused to leave the closed meeting until the Board of Trustees reconsidered its transparency policies. After the sit-in, Sanford allowed then-Chronicle Managing Editor David Pace, Pratt ‘71, to be the first reporter to cover a Board of Trustees meeting. A few months later, the Trustees voted to open meetings to invited faculty, students and reporters. “There were things happening [in those meetings] that were directly affecting the lives of students in the community,” Pace said at the time. “We felt like we had a right to be there and observe the decision-making process that led to these things and report on it.” Prior to the Board of Trustees shutting off public access, The Chronicle reported on decisions such as tuition hikes, campus construction and the selection of new administrators. In October 1975, The Chronicle reported on the progress of the University’s plans for the Bryan Center. In the same meeting, Sanford informed the Board of a silent protest demonstration from the Association of African Students. A December 1981 issue of The Chronicle included information about the construction of the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club, revenues from which would help support Perkins Library. There were also discussions about a presidential library for Richard Nixon, which ultimately never saw the light of day. See TRUSTEES on Page 4

Gary Trent Jr. declares for NBA Draft Staff Reports The Chronicle

Sanjeev Dasgupta | Sports Photo Editor Gary Trent Jr. shot better than 40 percent from 3-point range this season.

Duke will have to replace its entire starting backcourt next season. Freshman Gary Trent Jr. declared for the NBA Draft Saturday morning, becoming the third Blue Devil starter to leave Durham after just one year and Duke’s 13th one-and-done since 2011. The program announced the news in a tweet. It was not made clear in the team’s announcement whether Trent is hiring an agent, but head coach Mike Krzyzewski suggested he is not expecting him back.

“Gary was the best 3-point shooter in the ACC. At the NBA level, that’s what they’re looking for,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said in a statement. “He has the size of a twoguard who will be able to fit in the NBA. We appreciate everything Gary brought to Duke basketball and wish him the best as he begins his journey in professional basketball.” Trent also made a video announcing the news on his Twitter account. “I’m grateful for the opportunity that Duke basketball gave to me, and a special thanks to See TRENT on Page 8

Night on a bus

Fighting Irish run out of luck

Building a representative Board

Big Mike forms a special bond with students as a favorite late-night bus driver. PAGE 2

Men’s lacrosse holds Notre Dame to just two goals in comfortable road victory. PAGE 6

Columnist Steve Hassey details why Duke’s Board of Trustees needs more Durham voices. PAGE 11

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From East to West: A Saturday night on the C1 bus By Jake Sheridan Contributing Reporter

I spent four-and-a-half hours on a Saturday night C1 bus and lived to tell the tale. Every Duke student knows well that a long bus ride is a bad bus ride. Most have suffered through a long wait for the C1, only for it to hit every stop before that class that’s in five minutes. It’s fair to say I have no sympathy for those gripes now. Unless it fails to come or takes too long to leave, the C1 from East Campus to West Campus is an afterthought. Its countless trips across campus fade into the past with no fanfare as we, Duke students, lose ourselves in work, play and life. It’s 10:18 p.m. I got on the bus to capture a few of these stories. I post up at the back of the bus, not quite sure of what to expect from the night. As the bus makes its first stop on West, I figure out who the star of the show will be—Big Mike. The man is a campus icon. Always willing to talk and eager to find any way to make each student’s day a bit better, Big Mike has amassed a reputation for his kindness and passion. He laughs as I introduce myself to him and let him know that I’ll be keeping him company tonight. I sit down, the doors close and we head to East. Back on East, I return to Big Mike’s cockpit. “So, what should I look out for tonight?” I ask. Big Mike tells me there are two main kinds of people to keep an eye out for: those still lost in their studies and those trying to escape them. He tells me that the weekend night bus features students coming back from Perkins and students “getting a few drinks.” “I’m not advocating for drinking,” Big Mike says. “But its important to let off steam.” Big Mike added that there are usually a few messes that happen on the night ride. “And let me not forget the spillage of drinks and the leaving of food, like donuts, on the bus,” he says. “And, of course, the aftermath of regurgitation.” I have a lot to look forward to. A girl walks on the bus with her umbrella open. “It’s a safety hazard,” Big Mike warns her. “But I still love you.” It’s 10:40 p.m., and I immediately see that Mike’s

characterization of bus riders is correct. Across from me, two tired students discuss classical music as instrument cases sprawl before them. To my right, I hear another student declare that “tonight, we drink to forget.” I wonder what must be forgotten. In between trips up and down Campus Drive and conversations with Big Mike, an array of people color the bus. A pack of high schoolers board. They tell me they are here for Robertson Scholars finalist weekend, and I can see bits of excitement, nervousness, hope and fear in them. A few of them are brave enough to talk to me. At 11:50 p.m., I see the first sign of night life: a girl stumbling onto the C1 in a black crop top. On the next loop, my friend Ben Ayto hops on. He tells me it’s snowing, and I squint to see weak white flakes falling outside the foggy glass window. At 12:15 a.m., Jeremy Henkel, who lives down the hall, boards.

We talk about housing reform, and he sticks around to keep me company. Back on West, some of the guys I took my first voyage across campus with get back on. They spent a few hours holed up in the Bryan Center. It’s 12:35 a.m., and they are free. The bus rolls forward. Dozens of people have given Big Mike fist bumps and high fives tonight. I ask him about his relationship with students and he smiles. “It’s a part of who I am, I’m a people person,” he says. Big Mike thinks that part of his role as a bus driver is to break down social barriers. His greetings could make someone’s night. He says a great deal with the words he uses, and usually adds one of his many slogans to a thought for good measure. “It’s all love.” “Life is good.” “And that’s real talk.” See BUS on Page 4

Jake Sheridan | Contributing Photographer Big Mike rolls up onto the West Campus bus stop and waits for students to get on.

Announcement of Nominees

Congratulations to the following students, organizations, faculty, and staff, who have been nominated to receive Duke University’s most prestigious campus-wide honors for leadership and service. Award recipients and nominees will be celebrated at In The Spotlight on April 17, 2018 5pm, Penn Pavilion. The event is open to to the Duke community. Forever Duke Student Leadership Award

Alden Award

Nominees: Joshua Lovett Michaela Stith Rhajaa Wright Madeline Thorton Elizabeth Barahona

Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award Nominees: Michaela Stith Isaiah Carter Jamie Dohopolski Elizabeth Barahona Rachel Skelton

Nominees: Eric Smith Gerardo Parraga Lisa Remlinger Sarah Sanford Elizabeth Schrack Carlos Tavares John Aldrup-McDonald Max Sinsheimer Ali Daraeepour Yurida Ramirez Mary Ziemba Lesley Chen-Young Chinmay Pandit Divya Dhulipala Dhara Patel Rachelle Olden Lok Chan James Bradford Kyle Chea Bryce Cracknell Gigi Falk Sydney Fishman Riyanka Ganguly Andrew George Candise Henry Shajuti Hossain William Kline Nehanda Loiseau Miles Ndukwe Jason Ng Jonathan Ng Colin O’Leary Ade Olayinka Joel Kelly

#Got Caught Leading Nominees:

Evan Taylor Tommy Klug Sara Snyder Shweta Lodha Ismail Aijazuddin Brigid Burroughs Allie Charlton Ted Maynard Macrae Montgomery Michael Tan Hildana Haileyesus Sena Kpodzro Milena Ozernova Amanda Jankowski Yaa Amponsah Amissah-Aidoo Archana Ahlawat Kedest Mathewos Sannan Saleh Cassia Caruth Louise Zhang Samuel Zhu Aashna Aggarwal Taylor Jones Samantha Meyers Matt Riley Matthew Brague Gerardo Parraga Rhajaa Wright Meghana Giri Mumbi Kanyogo Chaya Bhat

Julie Anne Levey Memorial Leadership Award

Nominees: Dalia Dichter Omolola Sansui Alex Gara Brennan Halkidis Kunal Upadya Thomas Hessel Taylor Huie Zachary Rene Erica Wang

Lars Lyon Volunteer Service Award Nominee: Madelynne Norton Grace Mok

Fraternity & Sorority Leadership Awards Nominees: Teddy Bartlett Helena Abbott Louise Zhang Andrea Lin Elizabeth Barahona James Bradford Taylor Ikner Noah Eckberg Sunny Zhang Michaela Stith Madison Bordeman

Michael Gustafson Jason Kaplan Nicole Gagne Sara Yuen Daisy Almonte Taylor Fistel Cameron Reid Herrera Manda Hufstedler

Student Affairs Distinguished Leadership and Service Award Nominees: Bengisu Pay Elizabeth Barahona Giselle Graham Jazmynne Williams Chandler Phillips Eliza Moreno Michael Ivory, Jr. Whitney Hazard Cole Wicker Kyle Miller Amanda Jankowski Luke Duchemin Amy Kramer Catherine Ward Leigh Johnson Hannah Robinson Liz Brown Lina Palancares Rohini Paul Joshua Lovett

Student Org Line Up Spectrum: Duke Autism Nominees: Business Oriented Women Hoof ‘n Horn Hear at Duke She’s the First Duke Undergraduate Immunology Shotgun Sports Duke Psychology Major’s Union Duke Poker Club Program II Major’s Union Ballroom Dance Club Black in Business Team One Love at Duke Phi Delta Epsilon Int’l. Medical Fraternity Duke Machine Learning and Data Science Duke Substance and Alcohol Free Events Duke Science Olympiad Actively Moving Forward at Duke Duke Speech Team Phoenix Magazine Community Empowerment Fund Duke Go Club Duke CommuniTEA Planned Parenthood Generation Action Duke Give Project Heal Duke Student Global Health Review

For more details, visit https://studentaffairs.duke.edu/ucae/leadership/leadership-service-awards

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Compass Center Ambassadors

The William J. Griffith University Service Award Nominees: Chelsea Liu James Bradford Christine Lee Riyanka Ganguly Shayna Wolery Camil Craciunescu Lesley Chen-Young Mohamad Chamas Isabella Paez

WomC Campus Impact Award Nominees: Katie McKinney Ana Ramirez Elizabeth Barahona Adela Deanova Melissa Beretta Shweta Lodha Katie Wyatt

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Duke stalls combined heat and power plant proposal again By Deepti Agnihotri Staff Reporter

Duke’s natural gas plant plans are as clear as oil. The University has delayed indefinitely creating a combined heat and power (CHP) natural gas plant. The decision came after community groups issued a letter to President Vincent Price urging him and the Board of Trustees to create a more transparent stakeholder process for the whole project. “We’re just calling for more transparency and for Duke to analyze all…its energy needs and solutions,” said sophomore Ariyani Challapalli, president of Duke Climate Coalition. Duke’s Campus Sustainability Committee completed a semester-long review of the proposed project but did not reach a consensus on whether Duke should proceed with the plant. However, it unanimously agreed that further review was needed and that Duke should only proceed if the plant would be fueled by a more environmentally friendly biogas—captured methane gas from North Carolina pig farms. Ayo Wilson, administrative codirector of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network, agreed that the stakeholder process is currently not transparent. He said that some stakeholders have more to gain than to lose, some have more to lose than to gain and all voices need to be heard in an equal manner.

“We’re not interested in shutting people down or stopping things,” Wilson said. “We just want things to be done in the best interests for all people. We think Duke University could play a huge part in that.” Sustainable Duke created a Climate Action Plan in 2009 that established goals and action items to reach climate neutrality, such as promoting clean energy transportation with more hybrid buses and higher parking prices. The University aims to be carbon neutral by 2024 and the Duke Carbon Offsets Initiative has developed projects to meet the goal. Projects include increasing urban forestry and holding workshops on home energy efficiency. Challapalli appreciated Sustainable Duke’s efforts but said that going through with the CHP plant could be a step in the wrong direction. “Building a new natural gas plant with potential biogas efforts and not fully analyzing [the consequences] can hurt some of the steps that Duke wants to take to become an environmental leader,” she said. North Carolina was ranked number two, right behind California, in terms of solar capacity in 2016. However, some solar farmers predict that President Donald Trump’s new tariffs on solar cell imports may negatively affect North Carolina’s solar industry. A community forum will be held April 10 at 6 p.m. at Penn Pavilion to discuss biogas efforts and Duke’s carbon neutrality goal.

NEWSPAPERS FROM PAGE 1 decisions. You should contact them for further comment,” Schoenfeld wrote in an email. Alden Global Capital’s cuts to Digital First newspapers have been felt across the country. Although its newspapers have continued to profit, Alden has laid off hundreds of reporters, including nearly a third of the Denver Post’s newsroom in March. The Post—which has lost more than 150 journalists in recent years—expects another round of layoffs Monday. In an extraordinary response to the cuts, The Post’s opinion section blasted Alden in several articles Friday, calling executives at the hedge fund “vulture capitalists.” The articles urged Alden to sell the paper to someone who will actually support it. Newspapers have struggled financially as the industry continues to lose advertising revenue with the decline of print. But the NewsGuild says Alden’s cuts are especially excessive, with the hedge fund eliminating reporter and staff positions at twice the national rate. Ken Doctor, a newspaper industry analyst at Harvard University’s Nieman Journalism Lab, said that unlike other newspaper companies, Alden is not investing in new digital revenue streams that can help its newspapers prosper. Rather, it is stripping them of assets and will later sell whatever remains of them. Indeed, a recent lawsuit against Alden alleges that it siphoned off millions from its newspapers to also finance other insider investment deals. “If you could see what this is doing to the papers that I’m aware of—the damage it’s doing— and perhaps putting businesses out of existence that did not have to go out of existence, it’s pretty sad,” Lunzer said in an interview. Alden Global Capital and Digital First Media did not respond to requests for comment. Freeman’s connection to Duke extends beyond his time as an undergraduate. His two older

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sisters graduated from the University before he joined the football team as a kicker and majored in sociology. While he was a student, his parents funded the construction of what is now the Freeman Center. Freeman was named advisory board chair for Jewish Life in 2014 and he helped raise more than $35,000 for Jewish Life programs in 2016. Duke has also established the “Heath Freeman Football Internship Program,” which lets Duke football players intern at Alden’s headquarters in New York. The NewsGuild wants Duke to end the internship program and sever its relationship with Freeman. The union has cited other unrelated cases in which universities cut ties with donors over ethical concerns. The University of Colorado School of Medicine, for example, returned a grant from Coca-Cola because the gift was part of a company effort to question the relationship between sugary drinks, fast food and obesity. Darren Carroll, a national field representative for the NewsGuild, said Duke’s refusal to meet with union officials to discuss the matter shows the school cares more about money than its mission to support journalism. Lunzer added that the University is wrong to think that it’s not obligated to respond to Freeman’s business practices. Freeman’s contributions could be used to support a reporter’s job, he said. “I know that Duke is intent on having a very good [journalism] program. And yet I believe it sends a very bad message to the very students who are trying to be journalists,” Lunzer said. In addition to the NewsGuild’s attempts to meet with Price, the union has published articles and videos to raise awareness about Duke’s connection with Freeman. Carroll said the NewsGuild will continue to pressure the University by reaching out to students about the issue. “To the extent that [students] agree and they think it’s important that this issue be brought to the attention of the administration in different ways…we would like to see that happen,” Carroll said. “We’re not going to stop.”

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TRUSTEES FROM PAGE 1 The Chronicle reported on a tuition hike of 15 percent for the 1982-83 academic year—the largest in Duke’s history at the time. It included a quote from the registrar during the meeting, saying that the tuition increase would not adversely affect the applicant pool. Peer schools But some peer universities have taken steps to make board meetings more accessible. Some allow members of the public to attend the meetings, but others allow public attendance at an open session prior to a closed meeting. The University of Pennsylvania falls into the first category. It allows the public to attend if they contact the Office of the University Secretary. Anyone who does so can only observe, but they can use recording devices. Trustee committees still reserve the right to call executive—closed to the public—sessions during their meetings. Kelly Heinzerling—a news editor for the Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn’s independent

BUS FROM PAGE 2 Back on the road, Viraj Patel heads to East House after a long night of studying for a computer science midterm. David and I talk about housing at Duke, Diego Chamorro and Diego Elmufdi board bound for Edens to play Fortnite. Shahrik Punja tells me he meant to study, but ended up having a two hour long conversation in Pitchforks. Daniel and I reminisce over our high school debate careers as he journeys to meet a friend. Alison Lee tells me to #SwipeRightForCardi. I ask Big Mike what he thinks about his job. “Don’t make me cry,” he says. He tells me that he loves to drive and he loves

student media organization—said she took advantage of this access when she covered a student protest in late 2017 calling for fossil fuel divestment. Heinzerling said that when she interviewed an attendee after one of the meetings, the attendee used the word “scripted” to describe the meeting. “It very much felt like a show—there were a lot of people there,” Heinzerling said. “There was a small section to the side for students and people who wanted to observe.” Despite the formality of the meeting structure, Heinzerling said she wished more students would attend the meetings even when there are no protests happening. “A lot of students I spoke to who did attend said that going to the meetings for students is extremely important because it does give a sense of transparency to the university, and it was really cool to see all these adults who went to Penn who are involved in the world now and see how they’re still connected to the university,” she said. “Seeing the behind-thescenes of how Penn operates for me at least was also a very rewarding experience.” Access to Cornell University’s board

meetings has been spottier for the Cornell Daily Sun, another independent student newspaper. Cornell’s Board of Trustees attendance policy falls into the second category, sometimes allowing public attendance at open sessions prior to closed meetings. “Our Board of Trustees meetings—the bulk of them are closed as well,” said Josh Girsky, managing editor of the Cornell Daily Sun’s editorial board. “They’re usually just a bunch of committee meetings and those committees will have [five to 15] minute public sessions to start, and then they will kick our writers out and anyone else that’s just there to watch.” Girsky noted that the Daily Sun has spoken to journalism rights organizations, which have said it is Cornell’s right as a private university to hold closed meetings. As a private university, Duke is similarly not required to allow public access to its Board of Trustees meetings.

to talk, so its the perfect job for him. “I love my job so, so much. It truly is the best job I’ve ever had,” Big Mike says. “I’m vocationally skilled to do other jobs that pay better.” He pauses to gently tell a girl to put her feet down and lets me know that “it’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.” He takes a moment to think. “I hope I never leave this job,” he says. On East Campus, some seniors bump fists with Big Mike and head to the back. They wear wristbands and are reluctant to talk as I approach them. “Are you recording me?” one asks. They open up and tell me that the fashion show they went to was solid, but Shooters was better. They ask me one more question as they get off at Central. “You want a beer?” I decline.

A few rows back another duo returns from Shooters. They deny earlier reports of a parent laden dance floor, but show me a video of a bride and groom dancing to Trey Songz’ “Say Aah” next to them. “Goals,” one of the girls whispers to herself. On my last trip to East, I am the lone passenger. I stand at the front of the bus, behind the yellow line, and talk to the pilot. He tells me about the deer, owls and coyotes he sees on his late night treks. At a stop, he takes a call, smiles and says, “I love you more.” Big Mike has told me about the strength students gave him and his wife as they battled family tragedy, shared a few of his many little philosophies and values with me, and offered a barrage of hot takes on the challenges we face

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of adjustments to things like the committee structure and meetings,” Schoenfeld said. “One of the recommendations that was made at the time was to reduce the number of people who were in part of the public session of the board meeting.” Schoenfeld did not elaborate on the reasons for this recommendation. Despite the timing, he denied that the removal of the public session was connected to the Duke lacrosse scandal. Schoenfeld explained in an email that part of the eliminated public session included formal reports from administrators, which are now provided directly to the Board. He added that the Board’s actions are provided in press releases and that the president and board chairs are available for interviews after each meeting. Quotes from these interviews are typically included in The Chronicle’s post-press release briefs. When asked whether there is potential for Behind closed doors changing the policy, Schoenfeld responded, “You’d Why did Duke’s policy change back to closed have to ask President Price that.” The Chronicle meetings 10 years ago? reached out to Price, given that the University of “The Board of Trustees about 10 years ago Pennsylvania is Price’s former home. did a review of governance and made a number Price sent the inquiry back to Schoenfeld. as an evolving world and community. Students have explored the intricacies of housing reform with me, given me in depth analysis on the night’s Shooters vibe, and sat around to catch up with me. Earlier, a friend pointed out to me that this may be the only part of Duke where we are all forced to be together. Big Mike liked that understanding of the bus—the C1 as a microcosm of our school. I do too. My long bus ride has taught me a lot about this place. If this is what our school is, I decide, then I love Duke. We pull up to East. I go to shake Big Mike’s hand and end up giving him a hug. The door opens. I look down at my phone and see that it’s 2:37 a.m. Four and a half hours later, I step off the bus.

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MEN’S LACROSSE: SHUTS DOWN NO. 12 NOTRE DAME • WOMEN’S TENNIS: SUFFERS FIRST ACC LOSS

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NO LUCK NEEDED Blue Devils hold Fighting Irish scoreless in the second half to cruise to 10th win of season By Mitchell Gladstone Sports Managing Editor

For much of the first two months of the Blue Devils’ season, it was smooth sailing. Even with a shocking upset loss at Pennsylvania, Duke was still ranked in the nation’s top three and just twice all season had the Blue Devil defense surrendered doubledigit goals, making life easy for one of the country’s most dangerous attack units. Yet with the start of ACC play came a wake-up call—a home loss to then-No. 13 Syracuse and a nail-biting one-goal victory last weekend against unranked North Carolina in Durham showed that Duke still had its flaws. So DUKE 8 with the Blue Devils 2 facing a talented ND Notre Dame team on the road Saturday, it was only fitting they would turn in one of their most flawless efforts of the season. Thanks to a dominant second-half defensive performance, No. 6 Duke cruised past the 12thranked Fighting Irish 8-2 at Arlotta Stadium in Notre Dame, Ind., holding the hosts scoreless for the final 32-plus minutes. Blue Devil netminder Danny Fowler had to make just four

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Junior midfielder Sean Lowrie came off the bench to score two goals for Duke, matching the Fighting Irish’s offensive output as a team. saves all afternoon, as Notre Dame was forced to play without its top two offensive weapons in terms of points per game, Bryan Costabile

and Brendan Gleason. Gleason’s absence was his second in as many games due to injury, but Costabile was

in street clothes, and the Fighting Irish did not give any reason as to why the sophomore did not play Saturday. Regardless, it was an opportunity Duke knew it could capitalize on, moving to within a game of first place in the ACC with just one more contest before the conference tournament later this month. “I think after the last two weeks, the guys were all disappointed in their performances against Syracuse and North Carolina,” Duke head coach John Danowski told ESPN after the win. “We also knew that Notre Dame was without some people today and we tried not to mention that during the week, but we knew they were missing some people, so they were going to have to play a little more conservatively or differently. They did, but we’re certainly delighted with the overall performance.” Despite being somewhat shorthanded, the Fighting Irish jumped ahead first, getting a goal from Brian Willetts just 61 seconds into the game. But Notre Dame (5-4, 1-2 in the ACC) then went cold and failed to score for more than 26 minutes, instead watching the Blue Devils grab control with a prolonged 4-0 run. See M. LACROSSE on Page 8

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Duke women win Battle of the Blues at home By Hank Tucker Sports Editor

The Blue Devil women wore their blue best on the track at Morris Williams Stadium Friday night in their first home meet of the season. Duke tallied 75 points to edge Michigan and North Carolina in the Battle of the Blues, led by senior sprinter Madeline Price’s victories in the 200 meters, 400 meters and the 4x100-meter relay. On the men’s side, the Blue Devils finished with 43 points, well behind the first-place Wolverines’ 91 points and trailing the Tar Heels as well. Duke’s women’s 4x100-meter relay team of Price, Sydnei Murphy, Kethlin Campbell and Domonique Panton broke the facility record at their three-year-old home track with a time of 44.47 seconds. “If you want to pick an MVP, it would certainly be Madeline Price,” director of track and field Norm Ogilvie said. “She was on that record 4x100 and then she won the 400 and she won the 200, so a great triple for her. If we had to, we could have used her on the 4x400, but since we had clinched the title at that point, we decided to give Madeline a break.” Price won the 400 meters with a time of 53.21 seconds, and she crossed the finish line in 23.53 seconds in the 200 meters about an hour later to beat Michigan sophomore Jade Harrison by just 0.04 seconds. The Blue Devils created a lot of separation on the team leaderboard in the women’s field events as well, taking first, second, fourth and fifth in the pole vault, led by sophomore Laura Marty and senior Madison Heath. “The women’s pole vaulting crew is the best,” Ogilvie said. “We think we have the best vault

coach in the nation in Coach Wilbourn.” Duke won the first event of the day when junior Stefani Vukajlovic threw the hammer 203 feet, beating North Carolina’s Jillian Shippee by only two inches. “That was a good harbinger for the rest of the day,” Ogilvie said. “If we can beat UNC in a tight one in the hammer, maybe the rest of the day can go well, and it did.” Domonique Panton bookended the meet with a victory in the last women’s field event of the night by leaping more than 41 feet in the triple jump. In between, junior Jaida Lemmons dominated the field in the javelin, throwing the spear 140 feet, 10 inches, more than 18 feet ahead of second place. Freshman Erin Marsh finished behind Lemmons in fourth place in the javelin and also took home first place in the 100-meter hurdles with a personal-best time of 13.83 seconds. “Erin’s got great potential as a heptathlete, and she’s good enough in certain individual events to be a factor in the ACC as well,” Ogilvie said. “She’s going to be a real good one.” Michigan dominated the women’s distance events, claiming first place in every race at least 800 meters long, but the Blue Devils built enough of a cushion in the field to win the meet by seven points. The men’s team put two first-place finishers on the podium, led by a resounding win in the javelin. Sophomore Kiegan Lenihan finished first with a throw of 217 feet, nine inches, and Michael Marsack and and Nicholas Solfanelli were not far behind to complete a Duke sweep of the top three spots. In his first competitive college steeplechase ever, senior Alec Kunzweiler won the 3,000-meter event with a time of 9:03.39, and freshman Mike Ungvarsky

wound up in third place in 9:11.10. Both runners qualified for the ACC championships with their times. “They both went under the ACC autostandard, so that was a really nice moment for our men’s distance runners,” Ogilvie said. “Also, we’re really happy with the half-milers, [Jordan] Burton and [Kyle] Francis, all-time PR for Burton.” Burton and Francis finished second and third, respectively, in the 800 meters, both less than a second behind Tar Heel senior Cory Nicholls. Once again, Michigan dominated the longer events, taking four of the top five spots in the 1,500 meters and

the 3,000 meters. “The Michigan men’s team, they’re a juggernaut and they’re tough. That’s why we have them here, to push us harder,” Ogilvie said. “Both of the other teams, we’re really glad they came, and they made the sacrifice of going a day early because this meet was originally supposed to be on Saturday.... I’ve been here 28 years, we’ve never asked teams to do that before, but we feel it was definitely warranted looking at the forecast.” The Blue Devils will travel to Knoxville, Tenn., next weekend for the Tennessee Relays before returning for their second and final home meet at the Duke Invite April 20-21.

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The Blue Devil women’s team finished ahead of Michigan and North Carolina for the second straight year to win the Battle of the Blues.

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Duke rebounds from first ACC loss with sweep By Spencer Levy Staff Reporter

In the final month of the regular season, the Blue Devils faced one of their toughest opponents all season in hostile territory before returning home, and the result was one that had not occurred in almost two months. No. 3 Duke kicked off the weekend Friday afternoon with a 4-2 2 loss to No. 4 Georgia DUKE 4 Tech at the Ken Byers GT Tennis Complex in 0 Atlanta. The Blue CLEM 7 Devils followed up DUKE their first loss in 11 matches with a 7-0 victory against Clemson Sunday afternoon at Ambler Tennis Stadium. Duke now sits tied atop the ACC standings with rival No. 1 North Carolina, which the Blue Devils will host April 20. Friday’s top-five matchup was Duke’s first since 2014, when it fell to UCLA in the NCAA tournament quarterfinals. The Blue Devils are now 5-6 in top-five meetings since the start of the 2008-09 national championship season. “It wasn’t what they did, I think it was a lack of what we did. We put ourselves in positions to win points and to finish points and we weren’t able to do it,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “We just gave up too many free points, too many missed volleys, missed serves, missed returns. They just did a better job on the bigger points than we did. We didn’t give ourselves a chance by not putting balls in play.” The Blue Devils (17-2, 9-1 in the ACC) got off to a quick start on Court 3 Friday afternoon, where the duo of sophomore Meible Chi and freshman Hannah Zhao knocked off Georgia Tech’s Johnnise Renaud and Nami Otsuka 6-1. The other two matches went down to the wire. At second doubles, the nation’s No. 5 duo of senior Samantha Harris and freshman Kelly Chen fell two points short in a tiebreaker for Duke, as a backhand slice was just out of the reach of Chen. On Court 1 with the doubles point on the line, No. 7 Kaitlyn McCarthy and Ellyse Hamlin also lost

in a tiebreaker 6-7 (4) to No. 2 Paige Hourigan and Kenya Jones. A forehand into the net left the Blue Devils down a point heading into singles play. No. 63 Chi continued her strong play with a 6-3, 6-2 win against Renaud, who beat Chi twice last season. The win marked her 22nd in a row win dating back to the fall. No. 26 Chen continued her successful freshman campaign with a 6-3, 6-4 victory against No. 64 Jones. Zhao lost to fellow freshman Flores 3-6, 2-6 to notch the scoring at two for each side. With three more matches to play, rain began to fall and the match was moved to the indoor courts, but the Blue Devils could not close it out. “The courts indoors are a little bit different. We had adequate warmup. That’s not why we lost,” Ashworth said. “It definitely takes away a little bit of the momentum that I thought we were gaining back a little bit, but Georgia Tech played a great match.... They’re top five in the country for a reason.” After No. 85 Hamlin fell to Otsuka 5-7, 4-6, No. 4 Harris could not keep the match alive, as she was defeated by No. 19 Hourigan 3-6, 6-2, 3-6 to hand the Yellow Jackets (16-4, 8-2) the win. No. 79 McCarthy had her match left unfinished after she split the first two sets 5-7, 7-5 against Jarlskog. Duke regrouped and cruised to a sweep to get back into the win column Sunday afternoon back at home. For the second straight match, Zhao and Chi earned a 6-1 victory to place Duke in an early position to take the doubles point. The Duke tandem has now won nine of their last 10 matches. The clinching point came on Court 2 when McCarthy and Hamlin won 6-4. The match was notched at four-all until a volley winner put the Blue Devils a game away. Clemson (1110, 4-6) missed a shot into the net, leaving the doubles point going to the home team. “The scheduling gods didn’t do us any favors, playing home and away on the same weekend. I thought that we were physically a little bit tired, but we were able to push through it there,” Ashworth said. “Same with the singles. The beginning was a little bit flat, but once we started playing with a little bit of adrenaline and momentum, we really took over.”

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Kelly Chen won a close tiebreaker to preserve a 7-0 sweep for the Blue Devils Sunday. On Court 1, Harris looked to bounce back against another highly-ranked opponent. After three service holds apiece from the Melbourne, Australia native and No. 20 Marie Leduc, Harris broke Leduc’s serve and the rest was history. “I’ve played her a couple of times last season. I knew exactly how she was going to play,” Harris said. “If I could mentally beat her and break her down, then I would be able to win the match pretty easily.” The Blue Devil senior took the first set 6-4, and though Harris lost the opening game of the second set, she proceeded to win the next six games for a 6-4, 6-1 victory. On match point, Harris was on the run to her right and had to slide to return an overhead from Leduc. The Clemson junior then missed another overhead into the net. With the win, Harris took sole possession of second place on Duke’s all-time ACC wins list with 37. “I struck to my tactics, going into the forehand corner for the whole time and I broke her down physically,” Harris said. “[Leduc] was making quite a few loose errors. Quite a few points, she just handed them to me, and I was able to really

knock her down and take every opportunity I had and win that pretty easily.” Before Harris’ win clinched the team victory, Zhao and Hamlin walked off the courts quickly with comfortable straight-set wins. After winning the first set 6-3, Hamlin swept the second set 6-0 for Duke’s first singles point of the day. On Court 4, McCarthy came from behind early in the first set and continued her momentum into the second frame for a 6-3, 6-2 victory. In the second singles spot, Chi won her 23rd straight match Sunday 6-2, 6-2 for Duke’s fifth point of the match. Ashworth noted after the match that Chi was not giving away free points and has played consistent and aggressive tennis during her win streak. The only Blue Devil that did not win her match in straight sets was Chen, who lost the first set, but opened up the second set with a service break and a hold for a 2-0 lead. The freshman took the second frame to set up a 10-point tiebreaker to decide the match. On her third match point, Chen won 4-6, 6-2, 1-0 (8) against a hard-serving See W. TENNIS on Page 9

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Turnover-prone Blue Devils fall to Boston College By Jason Atwood Staff Reporter

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Freshman midfielder Katie Cronin posted her first career hat trick to lead the team in scoring on a rainy day at Koskinen Stadium.

In the biting wind and driving rain, No. 15 Duke faced its toughest challenge of the year: a showdown with No. 2 Boston College. Although the Blue Devils fought hard, they couldn’t keep pace with the undefeated Eagles. Duke entered Saturday afternoon’s matchup at Koskinen Stadium on the heels of an impressive victory against then-No. 11 Syracuse and was hoping to keep 18 up the momentum BC 8 and upset the top dog DUKE in the ACC, but the combination of brutal weather and the Eagles’ suffocating pressure proved to be overpowering in an 18-8 defeat. “Under normal circumstances, we aren’t a turnover-prone team,” Blue Devil head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “However, I don’t think we handled the weather very well and I don’t think we handled their pressure well, either. They

did a good job of challenging us and pushing us, which led to an unusually high number of turnovers for us.” Both teams opened by playing solid defense, and the game remained scoreless for the first six minutes. But the Eagles (14-0, 5-0 in the ACC) consistently challenged the Duke defense, and it paid off when sophomore Cara Urbank flashed toward the goal, received a pass and punched it in to give Boston College the early lead. Duke (7-5, 2-3) quickly responded with a beautiful run by freshman Katie Cronin up the right sideline to tie the game, but the Eagles did not let that momentum last long. Boston College carved up the defense and capitalized on mistakes, scoring three goals in two minutes to take a commanding lead. “We struggled to clear the ball and we gave them way too many opportunities off of our turnovers,” Kimel said. “When we turned the ball over, they capitalized and they shoved it See W. LACROSSE on Page 9

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Blue Devils suffer pair of disappointing defeats By Winston Lindqwister Associate Sports Editor

Although the Blue Devils have established themselves as a contender within the ACC, much of their success has come in spurts. And in a weekend with Duke missing its top performer, the Blue Devils struggled mightily. The No. 18 Blue Devils fell to both Notre Dame and Louisville this weekend. The Fighting Irish took down Duke 2 5-2 Friday in South DUKE 5 Bend, Ind., at Eck ND Tennis Pavilion, and 5 the Cardinals brought LOU 2 down the Blue Devils DUKE 5-2 at Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center in Durham. With redshirt junior Nicolas Alvarez representing his home country

of Peru in the 2018 Davis Cup, the Blue Devils felt the burden on the top singles courts. “This can go two ways,” Duke head coach Ramsey Smith said. “We can hang our heads, feel sorry for ourselves and mope a bit or we can get back to work and have the best practice of the year on Tuesday. It’s a long season, there are going to be ups and downs and this is definitely a down weekend for us—definitely a tough weekend.” The Blue Devils (13-10, 4-4 in the ACC) opened their weekend with a tough battle against Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish (13-11, 4-4) rocketed out to an early doubles lead thanks to a decisive 6-3 victory from Tristan McCormick and Brendon Kempin against the Duke tandem of freshman Sean Sculley and sophomore Nick Stachowiak. Although the duo of junior Ryan Dickerson and

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Robert Levine won both his singles matches in straight sets as one of Duke’s lone bright spots in a winless weekend.

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sophomore Robert Levine held a close margin against Richard Ciamarra and Grayson Broadus on Court 3, the Notre Dame tandem fought through a 6-6 tie to take the tiebreaker 7-3. After taking the early momentum, the Fighting Irish were quick to follow up on the singles courts. No. 55 Alex Lebedev cruised past No. 99 junior Catalin Mateas 6-0, 6-4 on Court 1 and Ciamarra took down Stachowiak 6-4, 6-2 on Court 2 to swell Notre Dame’s lead to 3-0. But the Blue Devils managed to crack the scoreboard thanks to a 6-4, 6-1 victory on Court 4 from Levine against Matt Gamble. Although the Duke sophomore dropped the first game of the second set, Levine rebounded with six straight to secure the win. Sculley was the last of the Blue Devils to pick up a win in South Bend, outlasting McCormick 7-6 (8), 7-5 on Court 5. After battling through a back-and-forth first set to win the tiebreaker, the Duke freshman caught fire to close it out. The second set was a similar seesaw battle, with neither player leading by more than a game, and Sculley pushed through to improve to 5-1 in ACC singles play. Unfortunately for the Blue Devils, the Fighting Irish remained in control. Broadus took down Dickerson 7-5, 2-6, 6-2 to clinch the team match, and Guillermo Cabrera sent Duke packing with one more loss by taking down sophomore Spencer Furman 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (6). Against Louisville (15-7, 5-4), life wasn’t any easier for the Blue Devils despite early momentum in doubles. The Blue Devils took away two 6-4 wins on Courts 1 and 2 to start their Sunday afternoon. Mateas and Levine were the first off the courts by taking down George Hedley and Fredrik Moe, and Jason Lapidus and Sculley were quick to follow with the decider against Federico Gomez and Ciro Lampasas. From there, things began to go downhill for Duke.

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Coach K for bringing me in with open arms,” Trent said. “These memories will last a lifetime. It has been a dream of mine, since I was a little kid, to play for Duke University and for Coach K. Now I’ll set out to achieve another dream of mine and play in the NBA.” Trent was a top-10 overall recruit and the No. 1 shooting guard in his class, and he developed into a dependable scorer for the Blue Devils. The Apple Valley, Minn., native started all 37 games, averaging 14.5 points per contest and shooting better than 40 percent from beyond the arc. Trent was arguably Duke’s most clutch player in crunch time this season, making key plays in the final minute of the Blue Devils’ comeback wins against Texas and Florida at the PK80 Invitational in November and spearheading another rally at Miami in January with a career-high 30 points. Although Trent cooled off from long distance in the last month of the season, he scored Duke’s last four points to help hold off Syracuse in the Sweet 16 and made a deep triple to give the Blue Devils a lead that would not last late in their Elite Eight matchup against Kansas. Trent is not a clear-cut first-round pick, but some draft boards have him sneaking into the top 30. His ability to stretch the floor with his shooting and his size at 6-foot-6 should translate well to the NBA, but Trent was often responsible for man-to-man defensive breakdowns before Duke made the switch in February to exclusively play zone. Now the Blue Devils are still waiting to hear whether Wendell Carter Jr. will stay or go pro as an almost assured lottery pick.

Joe Robertson got the first tally of the afternoon for Duke before a laser from lefty Peter Conley gave the Blue Devils a lead they never relinquished late in the opening quarter. Kevin Quigley then beat the first-quarter buzzer to extend Duke’s lead to 3-1. And if the Fighting Irish thought they could hold Blue Devil star Justin Guterding down, it didn’t last all that long—the senior got in on the action, taking advantage on one of just two extra-man opportunities Duke (102, 2-1) had all game. Guterding finished the day with only two points on two goals, though, and other Blue Devils instead sparked one of the nation’s highest-flying offensive units. “In any team sport, it’s not just your star players—it’s all the guys, and somebody’s going to have to step up and make a play,” Danowski said. “Today, it was Sean Lowrie and Kevin Quigley who made plays.” Even with Duke in control up 4-2 at halftime, the game certainly wasn’t out of reach. But without some of its best scoring options, Notre Dame was never able to climb back into it. Lowrie, a junior, got on the board with back-to-back goals in the third quarter as the Blue Devils stretched their lead to four at 6-2 with the Fighting Irish mustering just three shots and none on goal in the period. From there, it was cruise control the rest of the way. Guterding and Joey Manown added fourth-quarter goals to salt away the victory as Duke held an ACC opponent to just two goals for the first time in almost 13 years. Playing in 29-degree weather could not cool down the conference’s

Gomez was the first to score for Louisville, taking out Furman 6-3, 6-4 on Court 3. Gomez controlled the first set and then fought off a 4-3 advantage from Furman to close out the match. Although Levine managed to give the Blue Devils the lead again thanks to a 6-4, 6-2 win against Nicolas Rouanet on Court 4, the Duke sophomore was the last Blue Devil to win all afternoon. Levine is now 5-1 in ACC play, having won his last four matches. “We started off great, especially in doubles,” Smith said. “All six guys grabbed the momentum, but I felt like we didn’t continue that momentum into singles. We got down on almost every single court early and they took it to us on a couple courts… It came down to three three-setters there at the end of it. We needed to win two of them, but we didn’t win any of them.” The remaining four matches were all marathons for the Blue Devils, with each going to third sets. Parker Wynn took down Stachowiak 6-3, 1-6, 6-2, to even the score for the Cardinals. Although Stachowiak looked like he had found a rhythm heading into the deciding set, the Cary, N.C., native was unable to overcome an early 3-0 deficit. Minutes later, Brandon Lancaster put Louisville within a point of victory thanks to his 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 victory against Sculley. Sculley was able to keep it close early in the match, but the junior Cardinal dominated the final set. Ultimately, Louisville clinched the win with a victory on Court 6. George Hedley took down Lapidus 7-5, 3-6, 6-3. Hedley broke through a 2-2 split to take it home with a 4-1 run. The Cardinals put icing on the cake with a victory on Court 1 from No. 61 Christopher Morin-Kougoucheff against No. 99 Mateas. Although Mateas bounced back See M. TENNIS on Page 9

hottest man-down defensive unit—the Blue Devils kept Notre Dame off the board all three times they were forced to play with just five, and Duke still ranks among the top 10 mandown teams in the nation. “Actually, no it wasn’t that bad, honestly,” Danowski chuckled when asked about the frigid April temperatures. Now, the Blue Devils will have another week to prepare for their final ACC contest of the season as they head back out on the road for a matchup with Virginia. The 11th-ranked Cavaliers picked up their first regular-season conference win since 2012 Saturday, topping the Tar Heels 15-12 in Chapel Hill.

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Cade Van Raaphorst and Duke’s defense held an ACC opponent to two goals for the first time in almost 13 years.

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W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 7 right back down our throats. We let them create momentum off of our mistakes.” The Blue Devils clawed back, scoring two quick goals to pull within one. Junior Olivia Jenner set up Catriona Barry with a beautiful pass, and the freshman secured the first of her two goals. Soon after, freshman Abby Landry cut right through the Eagle defense, received a pass from behind the goal, and rocketed the ball into the net. Both plays were well-executed, but the veteran Eagles did not get flustered and put their foot back on the gas. With 17:57 left in the half, Sam Apuzzo made a leaping catch within the eight-meter arc and finished while still airborne. Senior Kaileen Hart assisted on a similar play that Dempsey Arsenault finished. Hart scored a goal of her own less than a minute later. When Emma

Schurr scored to make it four straight for the Eagles, Kimel decided to replace goalie Gabbe Cadoux with junior Jamie Lockwood to try and stem the tide. “Both of our goalies have been pretty even throughout the season,” Kimel said. “We let Boston College go on a run and we decided to give Jamie an opportunity to see if she could make a difference. I think she did, she had a couple of nice stops.” Lockwood’s entrance coincided with the Blue Devils’ defense stiffening, as they forced Boston College to work harder for its goals. At the same time, Senior Kyra Harney rallied the Duke offense, scoring one goal and assisting on another. With that assist, Harney secured the 200th point of her career, becoming only the 10th Blue Devil to reach that milestone. Duke’s stronger defense at the end of the first half forced multiple shot clock violations and created offensive opportunities, but the Blue

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Devils couldn’t capitalize. On the other hand, the Eagles ruthlessly pressed the advantage, FROM PAGE 7 scoring four more goals to enter halftime with a 12-5 lead. Tiger. Ashworth said Chen adjusted her court “When we had them settled, I felt that we positioning, in particular on the return of serve, really made them work for their opportunities,” in order to get back into the match. Kimel said. ”And if we are going to turn the ball The Blue Devils will go on the road next over when we clear it, we have to do a better job weekend, facing Syracuse Friday evening of re-defending, which is where I think we gave and then traveling south to meet Pittsburgh them way to many easy opportunities.” Sunday morning for their final two road The second half was more of the same, contests of the season. as the Eagles had a response for every Duke “Syracuse is very good. They just beat goal. When Landry scored just 19 seconds into Georgia Tech last week and especially playing the half, Boston College retaliated with three indoors in their place is one of the tougher straight goals to extend its lead to nine. places to play. The courts are really fast. We have Cronin scored twice more for the Blue to work on making volleys, finishing points— Devils to secure a hat trick and set a new little stuff, but stuff that we have to make sure career high, but Eagles’ midfielder Taylor that we’re able to do,” Ashworth said. “Making Walker had a hat trick of her own in the final first serves, just some basic things, but being 15:08, as she outscored the entire Duke team aggressive, especially with our doubles play. I in the second half. think our doubles play will kind of set the tone For the game, the Eagles attempted 39 for the weekend.” shots, 20 more than the Blue Devils, in part thanks to their unrelenting pressure that forced eight more turnovers than Duke. The FROM PAGE 8 Blue Devils struggled to their lowest scoring output of the season. from a 7-5 loss in the first set with a 6-3 victory in the second, Morin-Kougoucheff Boston College also face-guarded both held on in the decider to take two straight Charlotte North and Grace Fallon, Duke’s leaders in scoring and assists. The two games to close it out. normally average a combined 4.4 goals and 2.5 “Credit to Louisville, they played really assists, but they only combined for two missed well and were very tough in some clutch shots and three turnovers Saturday. Between moments.... I was disappointed there at five with Sean,” Smith said. “He was up at the harsh conditions and the stifling Boston center break and kind of lets the guy back College defense, the Blue Devils simply didn’t in the match a little bit and plays a loose look like themselves. service game. At 2-0, he lets the guy get “They’re a very seasoned, veteran team, some confidence and run with it, and that and I think that today, and against Virginia, really hurt us.” we looked like a young team out there,” The Blue Devils will return next Kimel said. The Newonly Yorkget Times Syndication Sales Corporation The New York Times Syndication Corporation weekend for their last two home matches, The Blue Devils one day off after Sales 620travel Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. N.Y. 10018with Clemson Friday followed by 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, 10018 starting the loss before they to face No. 25 High For Information Information Call: Call: 1-800-972-3550 1-800-972-3550 For Point at 6 p.m. Monday. ForRelease ReleaseSaturday, Monday, April 9, 2018 Tech Sunday. For 7, Georgia

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Senior Kyra Harney became the 10th Blue Devil in program history ever to reach 200 points in her career with a goal and an assist Saturday.

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n Sunday, the Editorial Board held an hour-long interview with President Price. Over the next three days, we will use his responses as a lens to examine three topics pertinent to the University: institutional accountability, monetary topics and Duke’s future trajectory. Today we begin this series by discussing the accountability, or lack thereof, of students, faculty and administrators on campus. We began our discussion by asking Price how his administration will work toward combating sexual assault at Duke. Price acknowledged that preventing sexual assault at Duke will “require calling upon a University-wide, and community-wide response.” He was upfront, admitting that at times students simply do not trust the institution’s sexual assault procedures. Reflecting such concerns, Price noted that building “a basis of institutional trust” will be essential in fixing the campus culture of sexual assault. When speaking of what preventative measures Duke could employ, Price suggested a data-driven approach: to continually review the literature on sexual assault and to analyze specific initiatives other universities have undertaken. Moreover, Price lauded the educational efforts of advocacy groups on campus, noting the value of bystander prevention programs despite the difficulty in precisely measuring their effectiveness. As of late, housing reform has occupied an

undeniably large place within campuswide discussions. Price noted that when discussing with students about areas in which Duke can improve upon, the current housing model is one such item upperclassmen usually express dissatisfaction with. Moreover, Price defended the administration’s recent policy of eliminating self-selected roommates among firstyears, and recognized that more systematic changes will need to be implemented in the future if housing reform is to be successful. Despite the many current challenges concerning housing reform—including the place of Greek life and the availability of on-campus housing—President Price acknowledged that going into the next academic year, he intends to initiate a “a large, systematic dive into these questions [relating to housing reform].” When asked about equitable labor conditions and workers’ rights, Price stated broadly that the “best thing that we can do is work to recognize that every member of the Duke community is part of our enterprise and makes valuable contributions.” Most issues, he believes, can be addressed by listening to employees without reaching the level of a labor dispute; he also briefly spoke about the importance of developing systems of accountability to ensure that supervisors will listen to the needs of their employees. Additionally, he added that Duke aspires to “treat

““The fundamental issue is that Duke charges students the same amount to live in Edens as they charge to live in Keohane. The problem is not, and has never been, that students have freedom of association.” —Scott Briggs commenting on “Do SLGs really need housing?” published on Apr. 6, 2018.”

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every employee, including those who are working for [the University] through various contractors, with respect” and he has “no doubt” that those aims are being fulfilled presently. Beyond that, he directed us to Vice President of Administration Kyle Cavanaugh— who made headlines after being implicated in creating a hostile work environment in the Parking and Transportation Services department—for further questions. In response to the Board’s inquiries regarding union organizing efforts in the last few years of his predecessor’s tenure, he stated that he “[did] not believe, for example, in the case of graduate students, that [unions] are an effective vehicle” for advocacy. This likely signals that the disharmonious relations between administrators and unionizing employees under Brodhead will probably continue on into Price’s administration. It is clear that, in his short time on campus, Price is already facing a wide variety of issues that demand nuanced approaches, innovative solutions and compassionate responses on his part. His rhetoric certainly conveys a fresh enthusiasm for tackling problems that have troubled many a president of yesteryear, but hopefully a much more progressive shift from old policy directions will accompany it. Tomorrow, we will cover the finance-related portions of our interview.

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he other day, while my friend Julian and I were looking for a nice study spot to cram for our midterm, I got frustrated by how much time we were wasting trying to find a quiet and uninhabited enough table to claim in the Bryan

Daniela Flamini COLUMNIST Center. “Let’s just sit anywhere,” I told him. “Don’t be one of those super picky people who spend an hour deciding where to study.” “Dani, this is what it’s like to eat with you,” he responded. And boy, did it feel like a punch to the taste glands. I am a notoriously picky eater, and have apparently been since I was three years old, according to my mother. She says that from one day to the next, I decided I’d no longer eat whatever was placed on the plate in front of me—but rather only my favorite foods. That included chicken tenders, pasta, a selection of meats (but only when accompanied by rice) and all of the traditional Venezuelan breakfast pastries that consist of basically bread and cheese. If I spotted so much as a trace of ham in our morning empanadas, they were not getting near my mouth. Of course, I’ve made significant achievements over the years since eventually it became a nightmare to be the only girl on the cross country team who did not like sandwiches and Gatorade, or the only one at the barbeque who didn’t eat burgers (It’s true: I didn’t eat burgers until I was fourteen and my mother finally convinced me by imploring, “C’mon, Daniela, it’s just meat, bread and cheese.”). Now, although I still have a fairly limited menu that excludes most fruits, vegetables and seafood, I make an effort to eat somewhat healthful food that won’t make me hate myself. After all, one can only eat so many ABP chocolate muffins for breakfast before deciding that, ok, maybe my stomach will not hurt as much during my 10:05 if I start the day with some oatmeal instead. And so I learned to love oatmeal. But no raisins, of course. Just sugar and walnuts, so it doesn’t entirely taste like pureed toilet paper. I know that my pickiness makes me a frustrating person to have around sometimes. I’ll only accept invitations to eat at Thrive on Central Campus after 5 p.m., when they ditch their healthy, salad-infested lunch menu and offer their more edible dinner selections, like pizza and chicken nuggets. But honestly, no one has had to suffer from my eating more than myself. Do you know how much I genuinely wish I could shove a piece of fruit from

those Saladelia fruit cups in my mouth and force myself to love it? You know how great it would be to not gag every time someone pressures me to eat a piece of sushi? My life would be exponentially easier if I didn’t have such a limited palate. After all, I go crazy on Duke’s campus every semester because I get (literally) fed up with Duke’s menu for picky eaters: Div Cafe’s grilled cheese or its occasional buffalo mac and cheese, The Loop’s pizza options and chicken tenders, Pitchforks’ spaghetti and quesadillas (without the sour cream, obviously) and of course, everything from West Union’s beloved Il Forno. I get the chicken alfredo pasta without spinach or mushrooms. Or a margherita pizza, hold the basil. You can only alternate these options so much without beginning to feel your stomach slowly shrivel away into a miserable, resentful shadow of an organ, so I’ve really had to explore. I can’t tell you what a relief it was to discover that the lovely sandwich-makers at ABP were willing to make me a plain ham-and-cheese, even though their menu items each have three different vegetables or gross mustards injected in them. It’s really a disgrace to picky eaters everywhere. But we’re a breed that doesn’t get much sympathy. Stephanie Lucianovic, author of “Suffering Succotash: A Picky Eater’s Quest to Understand Why We Hate The Foods We Hate,” wrote in the New York Times that “People aren’t choosing to dislike food. There’s a lot of shame involved. There’s not a lot of empathy for picky eaters.” She’s telling me. You know how many times I’ve wondered whether I could put down “strong hatred of vegetables” as a dietary restriction? Apparently, there may be some genetic explanations to why people are picky: for example, variants in the expression of TASR38, a gene that codes for bitter taste receptors, can affect how people “feel about certain foods.” As Natasha Cong Cole, a doctoral student in nutritional sciences at the University of Illinois, explained, “It’s not just bitterness. There’s a whole suite of genes that determines taste preferences.” It’s comforting to know that my own stubbornness isn’t the exclusive cause of my eating habits, since in college I’ve had to deal with a fair share of people rolling their eyes when I beg them to, please, just let me eat my damn bread and butter without giving me the “How do you live like this?” spiel. So next time you’re with that friend who gets the same thing from the kids’ menu every time they go out to eat, cut them some slack. And if you are that friend, let me know when you want to go grab a judgmentfree, plain as possible, deliciously simple meal. Daniela Flamini is a Trinity junior. Her column runs on alternate Mondays.

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Everything at Duke, ranked

hen you reach the level of comedic genius that I have, it can be challenging to organize all of your thoughts. To remedy that problem I began compiling a list where I sorted through everything at Duke. Today I share that list with the world; you’re welcome.

Monday Monday The Good 1. The Chapel: 10/10 tall boi 2. Marvin Bagley III: 9/10 tall boi (I hear he’s going to Yale Law!) 3. Perkins L2: come to hear the moans and groans of students struggling through late night essays. Stay for questionable stains on the chair cushions. 4. Grayson Allen: apologies, the second half of this joke is completely missing 5. Duke Wellness: 10/10 oxymoron 6. Pike: super unique group of cool bros 7. Pi Kapp: super unique group of cool dudes 8. ATO: super unique group of cool guys 9. Wayne Manor: super unique group of cool pals 10. KA: lost their entire pledge class in a

paper factory 11. Quenchers: you never realize how much you truly love something until you’ve lost it. Kidding, they make smoothies—get over yourself. 12. Jarvis: who knew kale smoothies could talk?! 13. Line Monitors: who knew jackets could comprise entire personalities?! 14. Duke Alerts: “Hey, this deeply alarming thing happened on campus. Yesterday. Sorry for the delay I had a great Candy Crush streak going. Love, LMo” 15. Key Three: for reaching the Mt. Everest of peaking in college 16. Being Monday Monday: for reaching the Mariana Trench of peaking in college (please god help im trapped they wont let me go they just keep forcing me to write jokes *sounds of beating*) 17. Where was I? Ah yes. 18. Duke Gardens: just a bunch of twiggy boys hanging out in a circle—nothing to see here, folks 19. President Price: taking down statues and putting up tuition since 2017 20. The Ruby: who needs financial aid programs when you can DANCE INSTEAD! 21. Shooters: who needs a healthy social life when you can DANCE INSTEAD! 22. Defmo: who needs a sick dance troupe when—wait DEFMO SHOWCASE IS APRIL 14 PAGE AUDITORIUM 5-7 PM!

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The Bad 1. Economics majors: my parents made me write this joke but at least I picked my own major 2. Public Policy majors: for masking failures in Economics and English as a chance to “do public service” 3. History majors: @editors I actually am one—can we move this to the “Good” pile? *more sounds of beating* 4. The Office of Student Conduct: DukeBlue Wi-Fi works more reliably 5. DUI: “Can I get a noun? And now an adjective? Awesome—I’m gonna be a wobbly toaster for this scene ahaha” 6. Inside Joke: DUI Lite 7. Duke’s Nobel Prize-Winning Theater Studies Department: “Come see my one many play about a pickle farmer in Southern Idaho who struggles with an addiction to tiddlywinks.” 8. pArts: more like P Farts! 9. pWaves: P-WHAT? No, seriously, I’m deaf. 10. DSG Judiciary: We’re definitely not a**-naked under these dumb robes 11. Cooper: “Hi, have I mentioned that I’m a ROBERTSON SCHOLAR?” 12. Kristina Smith’s iPad: Robert Mueller’s coming for you 13. West Union water cups: if I had a quarter for every time—f*** it never mind... 14. Pitchforks: perfect for that post-study late-night getting drooled on by your lab partner crushing a Haystack 15. The Pitchforks: I’m a Speak of the Devil guy—had to draw the line somewhere in this a cappella war 16. CAPS: I’d rather have depression, thanks. 17. Duke Football: that was the joke 18. Happy and Hale: we get it, you’re white (yoga pants required) 19. The LDOC Committee: keep up the great work! Really, I love mediocre rap. 20. Old Duke: hosting anti-Semites since 2018 21. 300 Swift: 301 Swift’s more attractive

twin sister The Ugly 1. Duke Republicans: we don’t hate Muslims, we just invited someone to tell us why we should. 2. Duke Construction: you’ve heard of Big Pharma, you’ve heard of Big Oil, but I’ll be damned if Duke isn’t in cahoots with Big Glass. 3. Grayson’s rim-out: I’ve never seen a sports play encapsulate my entire life so perfectly. 4. C3 passengers: I don’t know who you people are but I fear you 5. The Loop Bar: “I’ve always wanted to meet an alcoholic!” 6. Duke Hospital: college is a time of pondering one’s mortality, so let’s put students next to a whole bunch of death 7. Nugget: she still f***king hates you 8. Whoever designed the Bryan Center: so you played too much Minecraft or what? 9. Duke’s Kunshan campus: Gee wow we paid for an entire new campus! Where do I catch the bus to that from? 10. Big C1: 1/10 bendy boi Tallman Trask 1. Tallman Trask: because lying about hitand-runs never gets old. If you didn’t make the list it’s probably a good thing.

Correction: Monday Monday earlier stated mistakenly that Duke’s Theater Studies Department was “Nobel Prize-winning”; as of yet the department has been awarded no such title but Monday Monday is sure they’d do a great job of pretending they did. This joke should be at the very bottom of the “ugly” column; my sincerest apologies to anyone who has to keep reading these. It’ll never happen again.

How to build a representative Board of Trustrees

hroughout the Young Trustee campaign, Liz Brown outlined the need for greater representation of Durham voices on the Board of Trustees. She made a powerful case for locality to inform the Board.

Steve Hassey COLUMNIST But the conversation around Durham voices informing Duke’s policies should not stop with the end of a student election. We have 37 members of our Board of Trustees. Of these 37 trustees, just two live in the Durham area. And those two board members were not appointed, but rather are Duke President Vincent E. Price and Graduate Trustee Anna E. Knight. We have appointed members from Deloitte, McKinsey and Bain Capital, yet the city whose wellbeing is crucial to our campus does not hold a seat. And the decisions that the Board of Trustees makes do not just affect Duke students. Whether we like it or not, the decisions the Duke administration makes have immense implications for the Durham community. And these decisions cannot properly reflect the values and the opinions of the Bull City when a 37 person board has only two members who live in Durham. To make decisions that reflect the depth and breadth of the Durham community, we must go beyond input to give votes to community members. At the December meeting alone, the Board approved the financing for the Physical Therapy/School of Nursing Education Building, the withdrawal from Certain Quasi Endowments, and the financing and design for the Duke South Baker House. All of these decisions, which will involve

residents of the Durham community, were made without their consent or voice. This fundamental flaw on our governing board only widens the chasm between the University and the community that surrounds it. Duke is far and away the largest employer in Durham, and the Duke University Hospital is the fourth largest employer in North Carolina. As of 2012, more than half of Duke employees call Durham County home. Yet those Durham residents have no voice within our university’s most important governing body. Each choice has serious ramifications for Duke staff, faculty and the broader Durham community. And Durham should have a serious role in that decision-making process. Without a Durham resident holding a seat, the lived experience of an entire city does not have a place behind the mahogany doors at the Washington Duke Inn, where the board meets. Our administration cannot in good faith advocate for a productive relationship between Duke and Durham when they do not respect the Durham voices to this minimal level. Every member of our Board of Trustees has spent four years interacting with the Duke community. But how many of them have explored Durham and built meaningful interactions with Durham community leaders? And those trustees who engaged with Durham during their undergraduate days must understand that Durham is a dynamic and evolving modern city that has transformed again and again since their graduation day. Issues of gentrification have flared up, lack of affordable housing has become a major problem and Duke is now considering the ramifications of a $3.3 billion, 17.7-mile light rail that would connect our campus to NCCU and Chapel Hill. At the end of the day, Durham is a complex community influenced by racial issues, even as entrepreneurship and innovation continue to thrive. Without Durham residents

who hold a worldview informed by lived experience within the community, the Board of Trustees cannot begin to understand the complexity of Durham and the ramifications of their decisions for that city. Over the past several years, the Board has also taken steps to make its actions more opaque, rendering it even less responsive to the wishes of the surrounding community. Members of the Durham community can no longer access the decisions of the Board, even though those choices made at the Washington Duke have serious effects for the local economy and their daily lives. But this does not have to be the case—and in fact, it was not always the case. During Terry Sanford’s presidency, the Board of Trustees kept their meetings open to the public. But because Duke is a private university, the board can close its doors. In 2010, it did just that. That decision is not the fault of any member of the current board; each term is only six years, so the Board has completely turned over since then. But the issue persists. We need the Board to be more directly responsible to Duke students and the broader Durham community. And we need to represent the diverse array of people who call Durham home on our Board of Trustees. As the current trustees consider appointing new members, I challenge them to create a transparent selection process and to consider their stake in the future of Durham. They need to think about the future of our university, and the productive relationship we hope to continuously build with the Bull City.

Steve Hassey is a Trinity junior. His column usually runs on alternate Thursdays.

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Duke Symphony Orchestra with 2017-18 Student Concerto Competition winner Jerry Chia-Rui Chang Wednesday, April 11 8 pm Baldwin Auditorium Free admission. music.duke.edu

Jerry Chia-Rui Chang will perform Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat with the Duke Symphony Orchestra. Other works on the program include Leonard Bernstein’s Overture to Candide, George Walker’s Lyric for Strings, and The Tender Land, Suite from the Opera by Aaron Copland. 2017-18 Student Concerto Competition winner Jerry Chia-Rui Chang studies piano at Duke with Professor Pei-Fen Liu and is minoring in Music. This is his second time winning the Duke Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition.

MFA|EDA THESIS EXHIBITION Through Saturday, April 14 Duke and Durham mfaeda2018.org

JOHN AKOMFRAH: PRECARITY On view through Sunday, August 26 Nasher Museum of Art

DUKE ARTS FESTIVAL Friday, April 6-Saturday, April 14 Tons of arts events across campus! Schedule at duarts.org/arts-fest

MATERIAL DESIRE & EXPERIMENTAL FILM: “SEEING DIFFERENTLY” (CURATED BY KIM KNOWLES) Thursday, April 12 7 pm Rubenstein Arts Center, Film Theater

CHOREOLAB 2018 Friday, April 13 & Saturday, April 14 7:30 pm Reynolds Industries Theater

DREAMING: LITTLE NEMO REVISITED Friday, April 13 & Saturday, April 14 at 8 pm April 15 at 2 pm Sheafer Theater Free admission theaterstudies.duke.edu

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