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Grad student President Price speaks at first Convocation details rape allegations in updated suit Staff Reports The Chronicle New allegations have emerged in an amended complaint submitted last Thursday by the graduate student suing Duke for allegedly mishandling her claim that a Women’s Center employee’s partner sexually assaulted her. The Women’s Center employee and her partner are also listed as defendants of the lawsuit. In the amended complaint, the graduate student claims that she was raped by the employee’s partner. The student then confronted the partner and informed him she was reporting his conduct. According to the complaint, however, the partner then See STUDENT on Page 11

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Ian Jaffe | The Chronicle President Vincent Price, who took office July 1, spoke at his first Convocation Wednesday.

Bre Bradham The Chronicle The class of 2021 packed into the Duke Chapel on Wednesday for convocation, where the first-years were welcomed to the University by another “first-year ‘Dukie’”— President Vincent Price. In his first convocation, the University’s tenth president took the opportunity to tell the 1,740 first-years to appreciate the “bewilderment” they may find during their time at Duke. He was joined in welcoming the students by Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education, and Duke Student Government President Riyanka Ganguly, a senior. “As your fellow first-year ‘Dukie,’ I am proud to start my career alongside you,” said Price. “In the long history of Duke, the class of 2021 is truly remarkable. A record number of students—34,480, to be exact— applied for a seat in this magnificent chapel, and fewer than one in 10

were admitted.” Price noted that among those firstyears seated in the chapel were national champions in kayaking and archery, a volunteer firefighter and a European champion chess master. Comparing the students’ unique differences to pieces in the chapel’s stained glass windows, Price told the first-years that they would come together to “make the class of 2021 the beautiful mosaic that it will become.” However, the president warned the first-years that the next four years would bring challenges—from professors asking questions they do not know the answers for to navigating the bus system to get from East to West campus. “You will find that—as recent events surrounding this very chapel illustrate so well—you are not isolated from the cares, needs, demands and controversies of our nation and world,” said Price, referencing the recent removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee from the front entrance of the chapel. “Indeed, you are called upon to engage in thoughtful, and

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sometimes very difficult, conversations about our history, our present and— most important—the course of our futures together.” Price told the first-years that everyone loses their footing at times, including their classmates, parents, professors and himself. He said that what essayist Wendell Berry called “the bewilderments of the human condition” is a universal experience, encouraging the first-years to embrace that part of their Duke experience. “It is with years of experience that I am going to let you in on a secret: the freedom to feel bewildered is the greatest gift that Duke offers you,” Price said. “Every member of this community—the faculty, staff and your fellow students—is dedicated to giving you the opportunity to explore truly challenging ideas and to try things on without fear of judgment. I hope you will take advantage of everything this University has to offer.” Price closed his first Duke See CONVOCATION on Page 9

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DukeEngage turns ten, aims to increase participation Delaney Dryfoos The Chronicle As DukeEngage reaches its ten-year anniversary of fieldwork, the program celebrates new projects and increased funding—despite a continued plateau in both applicants and participants. Each year since 2011, DukeEngage has received approximately 900 applications and accepted 400 to 450 participants. In 2017, the program received applications from 977 undergraduates—a slight drop from 1088 applications in 2016. The program’s strategic plan for 2017 set goals including 35 percent of DukeEngage participants serving domestically, 25 percent of the graduating class having participated in the program and having an enrollment size of 540. Only the first goal was reached this year. “That was always an aspirational goal,” said Eric Mlyn, Peter Lange executive director of DukeEngage and assistant vice provost for civic engagement. “If all the circumstances lined up: if we had a lot of new programs to run, if we had a huge increase in funding, if we felt it was crucial for the level of impact that DukeEngage has on the university, we might get to that number.” However, Mlyn noted that an enrollment size of 540 is a continued goal for the program. In 2013, the strategic plan committed DukeEngage to aim to enroll 600 students for by 2017, but that number was lowered to the current goal. Mlyn previously noted that the goal of 540 participants would likely not be met until

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DukeEngage received a substantial boost in funding. DukeEngage started in the summer of 2007 after receiving a $30 million endowment by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Duke Endowment of Charlotte. Since then, over 4,000 students have taken part in a DukeEngage program. Currently, over 20 percent of the entire graduating class and about 23 percent of the Trinity graduating class have participated in DukeEngage. Another strategic goal was to raise an additional $20 million as part of the Duke Forward campaign, a goal which Mlyn says the program surpassed. Apart from the near-cancellation of DukeEngage programs in India in June,

Mlyn says that the tenth year in the field was a very successful one. “We had six new projects—all of which went very well—and we hope that all of those will repeat in summer of 2018. We have reemphasized domestic enrollment,” Mlyn said. “I’m very proud of how this summer went.” The six new projects were located in Chile, Costa Rica, India, Rwanda, Uganda and Hawaii. Three of the six programs—Chile, Costa Rica and Hawaii—focused on environmental sustainability and conservation. DukeEngage’s reemphasis on domestic programs reached many students, including sophomore Margaret Overton, who chose to apply to an environmental justice and climate

change program in Portland, Ore. “I chose to apply to a domestic program because of a conversation I had with an international student during my first semester at Duke,” Overton said. “In his words, he asked, ‘why are these Americans coming into my country thinking they can fix our problems? America has its own problems, you should focus on those first.’” Despite these sentiments, DukeEngage’s international programs continued to attract many students, such as junior Iris Yang. Yang said she chose to participate in DukeEngage-South Korea in order to work with and teach English to migrant and refugee children. “My favorite part of the program was talking to North Korean defectors of all ages and backgrounds,” Yang said. “North Korea is a very mysterious country, but I knew that speaking to North Korean defectors would shed some light on the truths and myths surrounding the country.” Junior Michael Saporito wanted to work in a Spanish-speaking country to help build his fluency in the language. This, along with his desire to work in a program focusing on community and global health, led him to choose DukeEngage-Ecuador. “As my first time spent living in another country and experiencing another culture, I was able to learn so much,” Saporito said. “My work, though repetitive at times, had a direct impact on the community in that patients were able to see the doctor faster. I couldn’t See DUKEENGAGE on Page 12

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Fracking studies are recognized as ‘most cited’, ‘highly read’ Rob Palmisano The Chronicle Two studies from the Nicholas School of the Environment are among the highly read and most cited peer-reviewed papers published in American Chemical Society journals in the past five years. The journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters has tapped the 2015 paper, “Water Footprint of Hydraulic Fracturing,” as one of its five “Highly Read Editors’ Choice” selections. Authored by Ph.D. student Andrew Kondash and Avner Vengosh, professor of earth and ocean sciences, the paper evaluated the total amount of water used and wastewater generated by fracking in the U.S.

Courtesy of Duke Photography Avner Vengosh, professor of earth and ocean sciences, authored both studies on the impact of fracking.

The other study, “Impacts of Shale Gas Wastewater on Water Quality in Western Pennsylvania”—also by Vengosh and his lab at Duke—has been recognized by ES&T as one of the journal’s most cited articles. “It is a great honor because these are the...leading journals of environmental science,” Vengosh said. “We’ve been working on fracking-related issues since 2010.” The 2015 report on the water footprint of hydraulic fracking found that 250 billion gallons of water were used between 2005 and 2014— accounting for just one percent of all industrial water use nationwide. The study also showed that conventional oil and gas wells generate more than three barrels of wastewater for each barrel of oil produced. Unconventional wells such as those used in fracking, by contrast, generate only about a half of barrel of wastewater for each barrel of oil produced. Kondash said that the goal in conducting their study was to aggregate individual, smaller data that had already been published into a a larger-scale study that would paint a bigger picture. “We had found previous studies that had looked at singular regions and quantified the water use associated with that,” he said. “But we hadn’t really seen any large scale studies that incorporated all of the major players in the United States at the time.” The other study on shale wastewater in Western Pennsylvania evaluated the impact of water contamination from fracking discharge. The report, published in 2013, found

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The 2015 report found that 250 billion gallons of water were used between 2005 and 2014 in the process of hydraulic fracking.

that radium levels in sediment at the site of oil and gas wastewater discharge from fracking were about 200 times greater than in samples collected upstream. Vengosh and his team also documented high levels of radioactivity and metals in water and sediments at the same site. In light of the results of his studies, Vengosh, who studies the pros and cons of fracking, said the proliferation of fracking could have both environmental and political benefits. It could decrease reliance on non-renewable coal resources and give the U.S. more economic independence from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. At the same time, he explained

that while increasing shale oil and gas mining has reduced carbon dioxide emissions and other contaminants due to coal residuals, it has also increased methane emissions, which contain several times the atmospheric warming capacity of carbon dioxide. Jeffrey Vincent, Stanback Dean of the Nicholas School, summarized the dilemma presented by fracking. “Here, you have a new source of energy that has enabled the United States to reduce its dependence on foreign fuel, that has enabled the U.S. to rely upon an energy source that is much less greenhouse-gas-intensive,” Vincent See FRACKING on Page 12

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Duke scientists find proof of elusive neutrino phenomenon Frances Beroset The Chronicle Duke physicists have finally found evidence for a 43-year-old prediction that enhances the modern understanding of the universe. The team, called the COHERENT Collaboration, observed that the neutrino—a fundamental atomic particle with no charge and almost no mass—can scatter off the nucleus of an atom. Its findings were published in the journal “Science” Aug. 3. “Neutrinos are weird. They’ve always been weird, and they’ve always gone against our expectations,” said Phillip Barbeau, assistant professor of

physics and one of the paper’s authors. “Everything else, every other particle, we write down an equation for it, especially in the standard model, and it sort of makes sense.” He explained that neutrinos are not quite as predictable as other particles, calling them “the rebels of the particle field.” Neutrinos can pass through the entire earth without interacting with any other particles. Although neutrinos are known for their lack of reactivity, they do occasionally interact. In the 1970s, a theorist predicted that physicists may be able to observe a new type of neutrino interaction called coherent neutrino scattering. Since then, researchers have regarded proof of the phenomenon as

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“something of a holy grail,” Barbeau explained. “It happens the most of any type of neutrino interaction, but it’s very difficult to see,” he said. “So we’ve been spending 43 years trying to look for it.” Barbeau has spent 15 years of his career searching for proof of the interaction. In 2014, he joined the COHERENT Collaboration with other particle physicists. He said the collaboration came about because resources in the field were limited. “It’s been so long that we haven’t seen this, that people were starting to doubt that it was even worth looking for it, that it was maybe a waste of money and time,” Barbeau said. The team worked to observe coherent elastic scattering from intense bursts of neutrinos at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennesssee. After building the detectors, the scientists had to wait around 15 months for the result. Six months ago, they convened at their home laboratory in Oak Ridge to reveal the data. “We all got pretty excited and then started planning how we were going to write this paper,” Barbeau said. “I was in the room, and there were many of us who have been trying this for a long time, friends of mine that we go back working together up to 15 years. “ The findings may allow particle physicists to go beyond the “standard model” of particle physics, which describes fundamental forces and particles in the universe, physics graduate student Connor Awe, who was involved in the research, explained.

Courtesy of Duke Photography Phillip Barbeau, assistant professor of physics, is one author of the neutrino paper, which was published in “Science”.

“The discovery of the Higgs-Boson was sort of the final piece of the puzzle that put the standard model together,” Awe said. “We have great confidence in it now as a model of nature, but we know that it can’t be the final answer because it doesn’t include gravity. So, we know it has to break down somewhere, we’re just not sure where yet. And there are a lot of avenues people are taking toward trying to find cracks.” The team has also included graduate, undergraduate and even high school students in their research efforts. “Some of these experiments can be very large, and you need large construction crews and technicians See NEUTRINO on Page 12

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University expands C3, Law professor gets elected Swift Express bus services to American Law Institute Bre Bradham The Chronicle Classes aren’t the only thing starting on campus on Monday—the full transit service for Fall semester also gets rolling on August 28. The primary changes for the upcoming semester include expanded service during the week by the SWX bus, a weekday route connecting 300 Swift to West Campus, and evening service for the C3 bus, which connects East Campus and Science Drive. Parking and Transportation Services also purchased two new buses and added grab handles on some buses.

“We’ve worked closely with student leadership groups during the summer to identify several ways to better service transportation needs this semester,” wrote Alison Carpenter, transit planner and transportation demand manager for PTS, in an email. “We will continue to closely monitor ridership and campus activities and will make modifications to address needs as they arise.” The SWX bus will now be providing weekday service from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m., stopping at the 300 Swift apartment complex about every 15 minutes. Junior Kristina Smith, Duke Student See UNIVERSITY on Page 9

Chronicle File Photo Parking and Transportation Services purchased two new buses and added grab handles on some of them for the upcoming school year.

Likhitha Butchireddygari The Chronicle Lawrence Zelenak, Pamela B. Gann professor of law, was elected to membership in the American Law Institute July 26. He teaches income tax, corporate tax and a tax policy seminar. In 2013, the Universidy of Chicago Press published Zelenak’s book, “Learning to Love Form 1040: Two Cheers for the Return-Based Mass Income Tax”. The Chronicle spoke with Zelenak about the his membership to ALI and current topics in American tax policy. The following conversation has been condensed for clarity and length. The Chronicle: How does it feel to be a member of the ALI? Lawrence Zelenak: The organization has a long and storied history. I guess it’s about a century old or so and has been involved very prominently in a wide range of law reform to date. As you may have heard, the most prominent activity tends to be publishing socalled Restatements of the Law, where they both explain the state of the law and then, also make recommendations for what the law should be. In my particular area, they’ve never done a restatement and they probably more aimed towards common law fields, where the law’s developed primarily by legislatures. It seems like once a generation, there’s a big writing on the income

Courtsey of Duke Photography Lawrence Zelenak, Pamela B. Gann professor of law, teaches tax policy and law.

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know it yet.’ That’s why, when another job in my area became opened a little while later I applied again. Even more than the first time, I felt that I belonged here. This time Duke agreed.” He explained to the first-years that when Duke offered them admission, it was the University’s way of saying that it thought they belonged here. By accepting it, the students showed that they thought they belonged here too. “Now, here we all are as Duke’s class of 2021,” Nowicki said. “This convocation actually is when you officially become a Duke student. It’s also our chance to say again, in-person now, that you belong here—each and every one of you.” While Price pushed the students to embrace bewilderment and Nowicki told them they belonged at Duke, Ganguly encouraged the first-years to pursue their passions during their time on campus. She discussed what pushed her to create the Peer Advocacy for Sexual Health Center on campus.

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“If you are passionate about something, you owe it to yourself to pursue it,” she said. First-year Lindsay Campbell said that her favorite part of convocation was hearing Ganguly speak. “Obviously when you come to school you know who the president is and all that stuff, but I didn’t know who she was until that moment,” she said. “She had a really interesting story and it was cool to hear about it.”

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Government’s vice president for services and sustainability, said she is excited about PTS’s decision to expand bus service on Swift Avenue. Smith said she is residing in the 300 Swift apartments this upcoming year and lauded PTS for handling the “tricky situation” to accommodate students residing in the University’s newly purchased apartment complex. “I think they are doing everything they can to really adapt to this new purchase and the needs of the students who are going to be living here,” she said. Smith explained that DSG did not play a role in the introduction of this service expansion, but that their influence will be greater after the start of the Fall transit service. “[The bus service to Swift Avenue] is something that DSG is very aware of and is excited to see how students react to it and see how well it works,” Smith said. “But it’s something that we’re definitely going to have to evaluate as the year Ian Jaffe | The Chronicle goes on and be vigilant about offering Duke Student Government President Riyanka Ganguly, a senior, also spoke at Convocation feedback to PTS about.” She noted that students who want Wednesday about pursuing one’s passion.

to provide feedback or have concerns about transit services can utilize the Fix My Campus Facebook page or reach out directly to any member of DSG. Smith said that her committee will be having regular meetings with PTS to establish a relationship and ensure that student input is considered. In addition to the expanded service for Swift Avenue, PTS also adjusted service to accommodate “heavy traffic” on Science Drive. The C3 bus will now run between the East Campus Quad and the Science Drive Circle four times from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on weeknights. PTS also introduced two new buses to its transit resources—including a highcapacity articulated bus for the busy C1’s East to West route—and made busy buses more friendly for people of short stature by adding grab handles to the grab bars on the three articulated buses. Additionally, PTS added a stop at Duke University Road and Chapel Drive to the C3 bus’s evening service. The new stop is designed for students and faculty returning to the Duke University Road Lots, Carpenter explained. The LaSalle Loop will see increased coverage this year, including service every 15 minutes during peak periods. The Uber pilot program is also being expanded to provide transportation to the Lemur Center, Campus Farm and five off-campus volunteer sites that were identified as “prime volunteer sites for students” by the Duke Partnership for Service, according to Carpenter. Smith explained that PTS is always evolving, so there are lots of little projects that can be done to ensure PTS is providing quality service to students. She said that one of her priorities See UNIVERSITY on Page 12

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sense —in that field at that time—how respected the ALI was and how much pull they had. It continues to be highly respected and influential across of a wide range of fields, but I felt a particular connection because of the work I had done in tax. TC: What made you decide to pursue tax policy and law? LZ: My experience has been a lot of things accidental. When I went into practice after law school, I had no particular notions of specializing in tax. But, there was a partner in the law firm where I worked and he had previously been high up in the [Internal Revenue Service]. We clicked and I ended up having a three or four year tutorial in tax from him. We worked on some interesting projects together, especially involving the tax exempt status of certain organizations. Then, after a few years, I decided to go into teaching. By that point, I had picked enough tax from him that I could credibly market myself as a tax professor and it’s easier to get law school teaching jobs if you say that you want to teach tax than if you say that you want to teach constitutional law. Next thing I knew, there I was as a tax expert, which is something I never would have anticipated when I came into law school. I think a lot of people have stories like that in the sense that their careers ended up going in directions they wouldn’t have predicted for highly contingent reasons. TC: What are your thoughts on the idea that the federal income tax code is too complex? LZ: My opinions are pretty mainstream. I think there’s no question that the level of complexity that the average tax payer has is out of control. There’s a lot of relatively straightforward fixes that could make the system a lot easier for the average income tax payer. I have a book called “Learning to Love Form 1040.” Basically, what the book argues is that on the one hand, having a return based income tax that requires a certain amount of active tax payer participation has a lot of civic virtues in calling people’s attention to the fact they are tax payers. But, those virtues are lost when figuring out your tax and interacting with the IRS becomes a totally frustrating experience. It seems once a generation, you need to clean up the income tax and it’s about time to do that. So, I’ve been talking mostly about individual income tax. But, there are also legitimate concerns that are our treatment of taxation of multinational corporations is seriously screwed up and needs a lot of attention as well. One thing that I’m concerned about and a lot of people are concerned about is while it’s clear that there’s a need for major international tax reform, there’s also need for major simplification for individuals, and that those changes not be accompanied by an aggressive shifting of the tax burden onto middle income and low income tax payers. TC: One prevelant soundbite in the 2016 election was the idea of putting more of the tax burden on extremely wealthy individuals. What are your thoughts on increasing taxes on the wealthy? LZ: First point is politically, I don’t think it’s going to happen. I think the real issue is whether the tax burden on the wealthy has increased or not. I think decreasing it would certainly be a bad idea. As for increasing it, that would be fine with me. A moderate increase on the tax burden of the top one percent or the top 0.1 percent would certainly be appropriate, but at the same time, we need to be aware that that we cannot solve the federal revenue problems merely by increased taxes on the top of the income distribution. The revenue needs to go beyond what can be produced from that. TC: What are you interested in studying more in the next phase of your career? LZ: My interest in recent years has gone more in the direction of U.S. tax history. My major current project is a book that should be coming out from the Cambridge University press early next year called “Figuring Out the Tax,” which is a history of the early technical development of the federal income tax, so it’s focusing on the events between 1913, when the tax was introduced, to about World War II, as Congress and the Treasury Department struggled with making the tax work. This book looks at the details that really no one has looked at before and I found a lot of fascination information.

told the graduate student about his relationship with the Women’s Center employee, and said the employee would use her position to obstruct the report and damage the graduate student’s reputation. “We will make you be quiet,” the employee’s partner allegedly said. The graduate student reached out to various offcampus organizations for support, but was repeatedly directed to the Women’s Center employee. Eventually, she wrote a letter to the employee about the alleged rape, but was denied assistance. Afterwards, the Women’s Center employee allegedly filed a complaint with the Duke University Police Department accusing the graduate student of stalking. The student was then required to attend a meeting with a representative from the Office of Student Affairs, at which point she began to fear that her confidential letter had been disclosed.

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The student claims she was then informed that the letter had indeed been disclosed to others and would not be treated as confidential because “she was not a client of the Women’s Center.” The complaint also alleges that the student was asked to provide an affidavit for a custody matter involving the partner of the Women’s Center employee and his ex-wife. In the affidavit, the student claimed that she reported the sexual assault. The complaint further alleges that the partner enlisted the help of a Duke Police Department officer, to impugn the student’s credibility. The complaint says the officer claimed he investigated the rape and concluded that no sexual assault occurred. But the officer did determine that the graduate student “became jealous and enraged” when she learned that the partner was dating the Women’s Center employee and “attempted to exact revenge” by reporting the rape, according to the complaint. See STUDENT on Page 12

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STUDENT from page 11 The complaint also alleges that the Women’s Center employee told a colleague that she planned to destroy the plaintiff’s reputation both within and outside the University. The colleague was allegedly “stunned.” “[Women’s Center employee], you wouldn’t,” the colleague allegedly said. “F*** yes, I will,” the Women’s Center employee allegedly replied. The lawsuit states that even after the colleague protested that the employee should not do that to a victim of sexual violence, the employee replied, “you just watch me.” The complaint lists several charges against the University, including Title IX violations, interference with the student’s civil rights, breach of educational contract, unfair or deceptive trade practices, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence and negligent

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infliction of emotional distress. Two weeks ago, Duke, the Women’s Center employee and her partner filed separate motions to dismiss. The University’s motion argued that the graduate student’s original complaint did not state any “credible claim” against the defendants, and that the complaint lacked specific details. The partner’s motion stated that the original complaint by plaintiff lacked enough specificity and did not list a specific constitutional right that was interfered with, nor evidence of an agreement to interfere with that right. “[The] plaintiff did not allege inter ference with a constitutional right or facts from which one could reasonably infer acts of conspiracy participated in by Duke,” reads the University’s motion, filed by attorneys Dan Hartzog and Katherine Barber-Jones. None of the three parties have yet responded to the amended complaint. The Women’s Center employee has until Sept. 29 to file a response.

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NEUTRINO from page 5 and thousands of people just to build it,” Barbeau said. “Here, every single one of our students, even our high school students, can invent their own neutrino detectors sometimes, if they’re lucky enough.” Barbeau noted that the collaboration’s inclusion of students was the most rewarding part for him. He encouraged all physics students to get involved in research. “The funny thing about physics is that about half of everything you learn happens in the laboratory,” he said. “If you just go through an undergraduate degree in physics without having spent a significant time in the laboratory, you really only learned about half of everything you need to know.”

FRACKING from page 3 said. “But that also comes with the risk of overuse of scarce water supplies and risk of contamination from discharge.” Vengosh—who has also been recognized as one of ES&T Letters’ 10 most highly prolific authors over the past five years—said his team has consistently received pushback from both the fracking industry and environmentalists over the conflicting results of his papers. But he praised Duke for accepting his findings despite fracking industry pressure to reduce the publication of results discouraging the expansion of fracking operations. “I think we are demonstrating that science can oftentimes lead to conflicting results,” he said. “After climate change, this is one of the most debated topics in environmental science today, so we’ve been at the forefront of that.” Since publishing his 2015 paper, Vengosh’s lab has broadened its research to examine the effects of using recycled wastewater from fracking on the success rate of irrigation in California. Kondash said he believes that quantifying the amount of water used for fracking operations has helped Vengosh’s lab formulate future studies on how wastewater from discharge is produced and how it can be treated and reused. He said he hopes the additional recognition garnered for their studies will help them obtain grants for future testing. “We’re really excited to be honored, but if nothing else, hopefully this will put a spotlight on our work,” Kondash said.

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n the past week, the news cycle has been jam-packed with a stream of controversial proclamations courtesy of President Trump’s Twitter account and heated debates over hot button topics. This includes a dramatic continuation of the long fought battle against the Affordable Care Act waged by Republicans that has been a reoccurring to-do itemsince Republicans took control of Congress. The rhetoric around healthcare has remained the same since Obamacare was first introduced, centering around the ideals of freedom of choice, the role of the market and costs of coverage. However, it’s easy to become desensitized to the consequences of debates that usually had in terms of numbers and budgets. The most recent attempt at repeal has further emphasized the morbid way healthcare and death are talked about in the political sphere, a trend that needs to be addressed and ended. After days of clashing and desperate attempts to scrape together votes, the latest repeal died in the senate chambers in the early hours of Friday, July 28. Outside of Congress, protesters cheered and exchanged hugs when they received the news. Those

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claps and tears came after countless hours of phone calls, emails, and protests in hopes that their elected officials would decide to not condemn them to death. While this was a moment of joy and hard-fought victory, when it’s observed from outside of the American mindset of healthcare policy, sick and indebted people sobbing in joy as a repeal was nearly avoided is chilling. The GOP’s commitment to repealing the ACA has taken on the form of fighting for the

Editorial right to die without coverage, rather than a representation of the needs and interests of Americans. Poor and sick families have had to come out in droves for years, telling stories of death, debilitating illness and fear in order to defend a move towards more holistic coverage opportunities. After the election,town halls across the country filled with angry constituents demanding representation. Republicans were confronted with stories about going into debt while fighting cancer

and family members that have died from lack of coverage. In a certain light, this could appear to be a strong and powerful exercise of holding politicians accountable. However, there’s something troubling about the fact that low income and working class citizens are being forced to take time to try and explain to their representative that healthcare investment is crucial and that their lives are worth protecting. While the Affordable Care Act isn’t perfect by any means and doesn’t achieve full coverage for everyone, the way it’s discussed as the center of the healthcare debate is dehumanizing and a toxic example how basic compassion is being lost among the commitment to repeal the major policy legacy of Barack Obama. The most recent attempt was an emotional rollercoaster for so many beneficiaries of the ACA; their lives have been ascribed numbers and turned into partisan talking points to denote party loyalty. The American people deserve so much more. This column was originally published online on August 24, 2017.

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protest the “permanent” removal of the statue of Robert E. Lee from the entry way of Duke Chapel. I understand your reasoning for removal now for safety reasons for those worshipping in the Chapel. During the summer school session in 1965, I volunteered to give tours of the Chapel. I learned the reasoning for and the names of all those etched in glass and carved in stone that adorn this great house of worship. I introduced visitors to those figures on the right of the entrance: Martin Luther, reformer of the Bible; Savonarola, preacher of the Bible; and, John Wycliffe, translator of the Bible. On the left: Thomas Jefferson, president from the South; Robert E. Lee, statesman from the South; and Sidney Lanier, poet from the South. General Lee is depicted in his military uniform, but his legacy is that of a statesman. He abhorred war, agreed to lead reluctantly, surrendered graciously and went on to promote education. His inclusi on was n ever intended to promote the Confederacy. The radical right has hijacked the symbols of the past and have used them to further their own demented ideology. The past is history. We should learn from it and not ignore it. Statues erected in honor of local individuals reflect a way of thinking that existed at that time. To be blind to them is to be ignorant of how we have come to be as a people and nation. We are not pure. Robert E. Lee’s statue was placed there not to promote racism…who would think that that was the reason he was honored in the entrance to God’s house? Think about this before you place the statue in storage and not in its rightful place. Can you imagine, years from now, another group of ideologues carry the Stars and Stripes while doing their evil, that people would rise up and call for the removal of our flag?

Jerry C. Bernstein is Trinity ‘66.

commend President Price for acting to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee. He might reasonably have chosen a more cautious path, deferring the decision until a study committee could make a recommendation. Instead, by removing and preserving the statue now, President Price has created the conditions for a more honest, fruitful conversation about race and memory, free of the public pressure now accumulating around every piece of Confederate iconography. We should acknowledge that this decision might more courageously have been made years earlier. Like many Duke alumni, I have long loved Duke Chapel as a spiritual home and as the symbol of our University. Even its statuary is part of that significance for me: John Wesley and other Methodist leaders are part of my spiritual heritage, as they were for the Duke family. It is a mark of white privilege that I was able to cherish and grow spiritually in that place, while dismissing Lee’s presence as nothing more than a curiosity. The last few years of unbearable tragedy and courageous protest, from Ferguson to Charleston to Charlottesville, have opened my eyes to the ways that our history of white supremacy still lives and breathes. Late though it may be, the removal of this statue and the conversation that will follow is good news. Another piece of Duke stonework, in the Divinity School’s Westbrook building, quotes St. Paul: “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Duke itself is being continually reborn: the campus today is home to a marvelous and diverse community that would have been unimaginable when a graduating class first passed through the Chapel’s doors in 1932. As we begin a new academic year, and the tenure of a new president, I encourage the entire Duke community to seek ways of renewing the spirit and renewing the mind, and especially of reckoning with our racial histories and identities. May we all be transformed anew.

Dave Allen is Trinity ‘04 and Divinity ‘10.

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s students pour in groves back onto campus, back into the sweet embrace of the Durham heat, they return to a city more turbulent than ever, and perhaps more resolute too. Durham is in the throes of a mayoral race in which seven candidates are battling for the seat, and our nation at large has been forced to confront the ugly hate that continues to haunt our cities. In the face of a rumored KKK march, Durhamites rallied together at the courthouse downtown, where days earlier, activists had dismantled the Confederate monument out front. What began as a moment of bravery and solidarity quickly turned to celebration. In the heat of August, we beat drums and danced, black, white, old, and young proclaiming that there was no place for white supremacy in Durham: not in the form of a march,

elected black and white progressive politicians in the late 19th century, began to threaten the political, social, and economic power of the white establishment. In response, white Southerners began an assault on black civil rights, sparking the beginning of Jim Crow law and an uptick in racial terror. It took until the turn of the century for the southern states to begin erecting a frenzy of statues, using them as a means of intimidation. Monuments were placed in town centers and legislative buildings. These monuments did not just symbolize respectful mourning of soldiers, nor did they merely celebrate a body that existed on the backs of slaves. Instead, they came to symbolize white supremacy itself, and were used as rallying figures for the southern white establishment. Those who installed the statues

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hroughout the time I spent between the covers of The Prince of Los Cocuyos, I was astounded by Richard Blanco’s dynamic relationship with the novel’s sole “antagonist”: his abuela. It seemed that no matter how many times he was chagrined at her attempts to negotiate the English language, or was forced to repress his very personhood to meet her traditional standards of manhood, she never ceased to be a pillar of support for a young Richard Blanco. But beyond his grandmother, Mr. Blanco made it quite clear that he was surrounded by a pueblo of family and friends throughout his childhood and adolescence, a village that would confound his “becoming” but foster his growth, make him question his identity and yet be intricately connected to it. It is this support, the strength derived from community, that I consider most

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and not in the form of a statue. Like most kids in the South, I grew up in the shadows of these statues, though I never quite knew what they meant. Silent Sam stands unabashedly in the center of the UNC quad, and I would spend my summers playing in the grass at his feet. In downtown Pittsboro, I would grab a sundae at the S&T Shoppe, where a soldier stands in front of the Chatham County Courthouse. At its base, the statue reads “Our Confederate Heroes.” As a child, I didn’t understand the purpose of these statues. Years later, it became very clear. A Confederate monument standing in a place of power and authority meant that some people were welcome, and others were not. It meant that a black man entering the courthouse best know his place, and that white students entering a university were the only ones meant to be there. Many defenders of Confederate monuments cite the statues as pieces of Southern heritage and history. They claim the Confederacy as an important piece of our American past, and these statues as necessary shrines to that history. Perhaps, if these monuments had been established as a means of preserving history, I could understand their point. Even then, history is preserved by other means: like books, museums, films, and oral lore. Statues, monuments, and shrines inherently celebrate their subjects. In their very being, they imply a hierarchy, showing what a society values or deems important. Why celebrate enemies of the United States who fought for the preservation of slavery? Yet, more importantly, these monuments were never intended to preserve history. Confederate monuments were not even put up until decades after the Civil War, and they were established to send a very discrete and threatening message to black communities across the South. In the decades following the Civil War, African Americans began gaining political power across the South after the passage of the 15th Amendment. Fusion politics, a movement that

knew exactly what they were doing. In 1913, when the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill erected its own monument to the confederacy, tobacco tycoon Julian Carr was there to dedicate “Silent Sam.” Carr spoke of the purity of the white race, lauding the Confederacy for what it did to “save the very life of the Anglo-Saxon race in the South.” In the same speech, Carr bragge about how he “horse-whipped a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds, because she had publicly insulted a Southern lady.” Countless Southern elites made similar speeches as they dedicated similar statues in the age of Jim Crow. It is clear that they stood at the feet of these monuments as a scare-tactic, using their speeches and flags as a call for segregation, voter disenfranchisement, and racial terror. Is this what we want to hold onto? Statues are more than just symbols. The message of white supremacy that infiltrates our society is potent because it impacts policy, psyches, and real lives. The fight for true racial equality means not just claiming to be a just society, but actually changing the environment in which we will raise future generations. Otherwise, our children will continue to take the messages of these monuments and be indoctirnated into a system of institutional racism. Though the Civil War is a significant moment in our collective past, and it is certainly valuable for families to mourn their bereaved loved ones, the Confederacy needs to be remembered in history books and museums, not in monuments to white supremacy. The message that towns have been sending for the last century is one that upholds a dated racial caste system and demeans the experience of Black Americans. Now is as good a time as any to change that message.

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beneficial to those facing pressure to conform. Obviously some measure of conformity is necessary for a society to function smoothly; it’s hard to fathom a long-lived country where people get to choose which side of the road to drive on. On the other hand, ideally one should be true to one’s heart, if Disney’s Mulan is to be believed. But these are neither solid pieces of advice nor wise counsel; they are at best hand-wavy, wishy-washy statements that offer no guidance on traveling the minefield that is remaining true to oneself. In fact, given the wide swath of human experiences, it is difficult to imagine a panacea effective for each and every trial and tribulation people may encounter in maintaining the integrity of their identities; personally, I don’t think one exists. Just as there are myriad events, emotions, and memories from which one’s identity develops, it surely follows that there are just as many ways social norms act to compromise one’s individuality, ostensibly for the worse. Therefore, it seems that an indirect solution would best serve individuals filled and bombarded with doubt about who they really are; namely, the unwavering support of a community would allow individuals to resolve, on their own terms, their inner conflicts stemming from outward pressure. I hope that I am not regurgitating some cliché or offering something either unrelated to or not in the spirit of the question at hand. Nonetheless, it

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is hard to disregard the importance of strong social ties in providing strength and resilience. Evidence in support of this abounds, and herein listed are just a few examples: (1) A study conducted in Canada found that LGBTQ students in schools with strong gay-straight alliances experienced fewer suicidal ideations and attempts. (2) The National Crime Prevention Council lists community intervention as a proven strategy for reducing gang violence. (3) A case study of Iranian migrants in Turkey proposed that immigrant networks are vital for displaced individuals to regain their sense of identity. Therefore, I suppose the following would be the best course of action for dealing with the pressure to conform to social norms: assemble a cadre of compatriots, whether that be one or one hundred others.

Fortunately, at a place that samples the world over, finding one’s social niche in the ecosystem that is Duke must be easier than in other locales. Of course, the above assumes that one is able to escape animosity and/or find the support of others. For those who find themselves with no social support or even concerted efforts to undermine their identities, their paths to “becoming” are that much more difficult. These individuals, understandably, would find nothing of use in the words above. However, much can still be done. The majority of this spiel has been centered on the individual finding community; not a word has been said on the community reaching out to the individual. As was mentioned, Duke clearly seems to be doing its part in helping those in need of backing; however, the same cannot be said for many places elsewhere. With only eighteen years of unremarkable life experience, it may not be in my place to suggest something that others should work towards; regardless, I feel that going through the next four years and beyond with an arm ready to be extended to someone lacking anyone is something worthwhile to strive for.

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With five newcomers, Blue Devils play three games and tour Italy for 10 days Hank Tucker The Chronicle With four freshmen and one graduate transfer joining the roster, Duke got a head start on team bonding before the school year began. The Blue Devils wrapped up a 10-day trip to Italy Wednesday that featured three basketball games, visits to several of Italy’s most popular tourist attractions and a lot of pasta-eating. Duke won its first two games of the trip before losing its final contest after backcourt leaders Lexie Brown and Rebecca Greenwell and graduate transfer Bego Faz Davalos had to return home early for class at the Fuqua School of Business. “It was a lot of fun just to play different combinations and different lineups. It was a great experimental type of trip on the court,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “We’ve got our four new freshmen and then Bego, so five new people playing critical roles, so it was excellent.” The first matchup was an 84-66 victory against the Netherlands national team in Rome. The Blue Devils broke the game

Chronicle File Photo Lexie Brown led the Blue Devils in scoring in each of their first two games in Italy before she had to return to Durham for class prior to the third game.

open in the fourth quarter after the Netherlands trimmed the deficit to six early in the final period. Duke then cruised past a team called the Italian All-Stars 119-33 in Florence, with seven players scoring in double figures, and lost 78-65 to Celje Basketball Club, a

Slovenian professional team featuring recent Blue Devil graduate Oderah Chidom, two days later in Venice. “We had some really good competition,” McCallie said. “The Netherlands were very good, and the last team was really good, so two out of three were extremely challenging.”

Duke shot a blistering 45.1 percent from beyond the arc in the three games, with Brown leading the team in scoring in both contests she played. And the return of redshirt sophomore guard Haley Gorecki also bolstered the team on the perimeter. Gorecki missed the last season and a half with a hip injury, but started two of the three games in Italy and was one of six Blue Devils to average at least 10 points on the trip. She also pulled down 5.0 rebounds per game. “It was awesome being able to not just play and practice with my teammates again but being able to play in a game,” Gorecki said. “It was really fun. It was way too long [to be out].” Senior center Erin Mathias was the only player on the roster to start all three games, and made the most of her extended time on the floor, averaging 10.3 points and a team-high 7.7 boards per game. Davalos and 6-foot-3 freshman Jade Williams each started a game alongside Mathias which could create an imposing frontcourt for opponents during the regular season. But the newcomer to have the most success on the stat sheet was freshman guard Mikayla See W. BASKETBALL on Page 6

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Duke preparing to defend home tournament title Andrew Donohue The Chronicle The Blue Devils made an encouraging impression in exhibition play while trying out new lineups. Now, they will try to maintain their Central Florida newfound defensive vs. solidity in games that count. Duke Duke will play host to Central Florida FRIDAY, 7:30 p.m. Friday night at 7:30 Koskinen Stadium and Fordham Sunday afternoon at 2:30 in the John Rennie Nike Invitational at Koskinen Stadium this weekend. The annual tournament will also feature Elon matching up against the Blue Devils’ two opponents.

Duke has won the Invitational the past four years and enters the season’s opening weekend with a new formation that has helped create more scoring chances and stiffen the defense at the same time. The Blue Devils experimented with a 3-4-3 formation for their preseason matches and only allowed two penalty-kick goals in almost 300 minutes Fordham of action. vs. “I think that formation caused Indiana Duke a lot of problems,” Duke head coach John SUNDAY, 2:30 p.m. Kerr said. “It’s tough Koskinen Stadium to deal with because you really stretch out teams, but it means that our passing has to be crisp and it has to be accurate because if there’s a breakdown, you See M. SOCCER on Page 6

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Duke readies for another quick turnaround this weekend Meredith Cash The Chronicle After a grueling weekend featuring contests against No. 6 North Carolina and Xavier, the Blue Devils have recovered just in time for another pair of games in the blistering North Carolina heat. No. 12 Duke will kick off the weekend on its home turf, hosting Bucknell at Koskinen Stadium Friday at 2 p.m. before traveling to Norfolk, Va., to take on Old Dominion Bucknell Sunday at 4:30 p.m. vs. at the Old Dominion Soccer Complex. The No. 12 Duke Blue Devils will use this weekend’s games FRIDAY, 2 p.m. to shore up their play Koskinen Stadium before facing three top20 opponents in their next four contests. “We’re ahead of where we’ve been in the past at this time, but we still have a long way to go,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “We’re not as consistent as we need to be. It’s still August and we’re still working hard and we’re trying to get consistent.” After an uncommon scheduling quirk saw the Blue Devils (1-1) opening the regular season against their Tobacco Road rivals at WakeMed Soccer Park, both sides came out hungry to avenge their last meeting—a scrappy 110-minute scoreless draw in which Duke outshot the then-No. 8 Tar Heels 30-6 and forced goalkeeper Lindsey Harris to

make 11 saves. But despite outshooting North Carolina 15-10 in yet another overtime affair, the Blue Devils suffered their first loss to the Tar Heels since 2014 and ended a three-year streak of holding them scoreless through a cumulative 293:12 minutes of play. With only two days to recover, Duke returned home to host Xavier, bouncing back for a decisive 3-1 victory. Although the Musketeers struck first with an unassisted goal from senior forward Tori Doss in the 14th minute, the Blue No. 12 Devils fired back just Duke two minutes later vs. when junior Kayla ODU McCoy converted on a feed from classmate Taylor Racioppi. SUNDAY, 4:30 p.m. Fellow junior Chelsea ODU Soccer Complex Burns buried her second penalty kick of the season with 73:10 on the clock, and senior Imani Dorsey completed a half-field run and found the back of the net in the final 20 seconds of the contest. “We’ve done some really, really good things,” Church said. “We’ve played three good teams [this season], two of which were ACC teams—one in an exhibition and the other in our first game—which is tough to come out and play, but in the course of the games we’ve done some really high-level things.” Bucknell (0-2) is coming off a 16-2-2 season that culminated in its third Patriot

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Taylor Racioppi scored or assisted in both of Duke’s games last weekend and has made an immediate impact since returning from a season-ending injury last year.

League championship. The Bison received an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament with the win, but suffered a 6-0 loss to Penn State in the opening round despite their impressive regular-season record. Although the team returns its two leading scorers in seniors Kendall Ham and Maddie Mulford, Bucknell has struggled out of the gates this season. The Bison dropped their first contest 2-0 to Syracuse—which they beat last year on the road—just two days before falling to St. Joseph’s 3-2 at home. “They scheduled us on purpose because they had a lot of wins last year and then they

got to the NCAA tournament and got beat pretty good, so they’re going to try to play these types of teams early,” Church said. “We’ve scouted them from the past week and I think they’re probably a little disappointed with what they did this past weekend, but they are disciplined, they can play, they can pass the ball and move the ball. We expect a really, really tough contest.” Unlike Bucknell, Old Dominion (2-1) has started off its season strong despite coming off of a 7-12 season and losing in the first See W. SOCCER on Page 7

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Blue Devils set to visit Tribe in season opener Riley Pfaff The Chronicle For a team that finished the past regular season ranked No. 1 in the nation, Duke still ended the fall with a bitter taste in its mouth. Now, the Blue Devils will start this year seeking redemption. No. 2 Duke will return to the field Friday at 6 p.m. against William & Mary at Busch Field in Williamsburg, Va., for the first time since getting bounced by eventual national champion Delaware in last year’s NCAA quarterfinals. No. 2 Duke The Blue Devils are vs. looking to make a William similar statement in & Mary their season opener as they did a year ago, FRIDAY, 6 p.m. when they exploded Busch Field for eight goals against the Tribe in Durham, setting the tone for a historic regular season for the program. “For us, especially because its the opening game, you really put the focus on your own squad. Our focus is going to be that we come out with the intensity that we have every day, and we keep to the structure that we’ve been working on and continue to build on the things we know are necessary to move down the season,” Duke head coach Pam Bustin said. “We’re going to stick to our game and make sure that we’re doing the things that we need to do best.” One of the most important elements

Carolyn Chang | Chronicle File Photo Senior back Alyssa Chillano was a preseason All-ACC selection after leading Duke in points and goals last fall.

of the game for Duke, however, is the opportunity to start anew and move past the demons of its early postseason exits at the hands of North Carolina and Delaware in the ACC and NCAA tournaments. The Blue Devils return six seniors, including preseason All-ACC selection Alyssa Chillano and forward Ashley Kristen, who are acutely aware that this is their final year to leave their mark on the program. “It’s definitely a motivating factor,” Kristen said. “We’re just going to use that feeling and bring it with us toward the whole season and always remember that feeling.”

Despite the disappointing finish to Duke’s season last year, the Blue Devils have several key pieces returning who will look to bounce back starting Friday night in Williamsburg. The team returns four players who reached double-digit point totals in 2016. Chillano, a center back, was the team leader in points and goals with 32 and 13, respectively, while also leading a defense that finished 12th in the nation in goals against average. Kristen, meanwhile, joined Chillano on the NFHCA All-South Region teams last season along with sophomore Margaux Paolino and redshirt sophomore goalkeeper

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Duke seeks smooth start to season in the Rockies Emily Davis The Chronicle After falling short of a bid to the NCAA tournament last year, Duke will get an early litmus test in its season opener against a team that did play into the Duke vs. postseason in 2016. The Blue Devils Colorado open their season State at Moby Arena in FRIDAY, 8 p.m. Fort Collins, Colo., Moby Arena against Colorado State at 8 Friday night. Duke will then Duke play a doubleheader vs. Saturday at Bank of Central Colorado Arena in Florida Greeley, Colo., facing SATURDAY, 1 p.m. Central Florida at 1 Bank of Colorado Arena p.m. and Northern Colorado at 9 p.m. After losing a lot Duke of experience and vs. production in the Northern Colorado offseason, the Blue Devils will look to SATURDAY, 9 p.m. show poise and Bank of Colorado Arena challenge themselves out of the gate. Sasha Karelov, Chloe Dipasquale and Jordan Tucker all graduated after last season, outside hitter Jamie Stivers left the team and setter Cindy Marina transferred

closer to home to Southern California. Now, Duke will have to depend heavily on its senior captain defensive duo of Nicole Elattrache and Emma Paradiso as well as three new freshmen. Junior Leah Meyer, who was second on the team in kills last season behind Tucker, is also back along with classmate Jessi Bartholomew and sophomore Samantha Amos on the front row. “Losing Jordan, Sasha and all of the seniors was really hard to do, but we’ve already had a lot of people step up. I’m looking forward to stepping up and helping the team and really doing as much as I can do,” junior Leah Meyer said. “The seniors this year have been amazing so far and we’re definitely not at a loss from any leadership position.” Freshmen Summer Brown, Payton Schwantz and Kincey Smith and incoming Palm Beach State transfer Haley Seyfarth will hope to replace some of the talent that was lost. Brown, a 6-foot-5 middle blocker, is the tallest player the Blue Devils have had in years and could ease some of the pressure on Duke’s back row with her height at the net. “The freshman class has been a joy so far,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “It is wonderful to have a player as tall as Summer is, and she’s very mobile for a kid her size, so we’re just having a whole lot of fun being able to work with her and coach her.” The Rams have a similarly young team, but all of their returning threats have something that only the Blue Devils’ seniors share: NCAA tournament experience. Colorado State went

21-9 last season and 15-3 in the Mountain West before falling in the first round of the NCAA tournament to Kentucky. The Rams had four of the seven players on the preseason All-Mountain West team, including senior leader Sanja Cizmic, who had a team-high 335 kills last season. “This weekend will be exciting. Unfortunately, we don’t get to scrimmage before we compete—we get thrown right into the fire,” Nagel said. “Colorado State is right in the fire. They’re a very solid team and have been for years—it’ll be a very good crowd for us to play in front of.” Central Florida and Northern Colorado are each also coming off winning seasons,

and nearly half of Duke’s opponents had at least 20 victories a season ago. The Blue Devils, who were picked to finish just seventh in the ACC, could need a few quality wins in their nonconference slate to start building an NCAA tournament resume. “We’re the underdogs this year and we have to work our way to the top—fighting for every game and proving people wrong is going to be the most exciting,” senior outside hitter Cadie Bates said. “By the end of the year, we want to be the best we can be and make the tournament, as it’s our last goaround.”

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Bre Bradham | Chronicle File Photo Junior Leah Meyer was second on the team in kills last season.

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M. SOCCER from page 1 leave yourself open to a counterattack.” The all-senior backline of Carter Manley, Kevon Black and Markus Fjortoft held steady against the No. 7 Hoosiers last Saturday and provided a steady foundation for freshman goalie Will Pulisic, who was named the starter by Kerr for the start of the regular season. The Blue Devils salvaged a 1-1 draw against Indiana with a last-minute penalty kick by Fjortoft and also exchanged penalty kicks with Xavier in a 110-minute 1-1 draw last Thursday. “One of the things I liked about our backs against Indiana was the recognition of their pressure,” Kerr said. “Sometimes you just have to clear the ball out or knock it over the top when you’re under severe pressure, and other times, we did great playing out of the back when they had a little bit more time. I liked our ability to make decisions in those areas.” Duke, which went 7-8-2 last season and bowed out early in the ACC tournament, will face an early test from the Knights. Central Florida went 2-0 in exhibition play and will be fired up to start the season under the direction of new head coach Scott Calabrese. “UCF is going through a transition. They’ve got a new coach,” Kerr said. “You know that the players want to show their best in their first game, and that’s against us.” The tougher matchup may come Sunday against Fordham. The Rams are the reigning Atlantic 10 champions and were picked to finish first in the preseason poll this year. They also boast five returning players who garnered All-Atlantic 10 honors last year and only gave up 0.85 goals per game last season. “Fordham won their division last year,

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won their league and they were in the NCAAs,” Kerr said. “They’re going to be a formidable opponent.” The Blue Devils will likely primarily rely on seniors Cameron Moseley and Brian White to spearhead the attack. White is coming off a successful summer season with the New York Red Bulls U23 team, where he won MVP honors in the Professional Development League. Moseley had a hot start to preseason, scoring two goals against South Carolina including an impressive curling free kick into the corner of the net. Duke will also count on the team chemistry it developed during its road trip to Indiana to pay off on the field. “They love being in each other’s company, they love bonding together, they love eating together,” Kerr said. “We had a great time in Indiana. We went putt-putt golfing. We went go-kart riding. So we kind of built another edge off our bonding.”

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Boykin, who posted 12.7 points per game on 63.0 percent shooting and also dished out 15 assists to lead the team. The Clinton, N.C., native also had seven steals against the Italian All-Stars, when the team finished the rout with 26 steals and a 77-32 advantage on the boards. Celje proved to be too much for a tired and shorthanded Blue Devil squad with only three available bench players, though. The Slovenian side rallied from a six-point halftime deficit to outscore Duke 44-25 in the second half. Chidom posted a double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds against her old team. “Oderah played well. She has a really strong team,” McCallie said. “We kind of ran out of gas. We had eight people that were playable

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and they looked like a more seasoned team in the fourth quarter, and that’s when they did some serious damage.” Basketball was not the only purpose of the trip, though, and the Blue Devils made time for planned tours of all the cities they visited. The Colosseum and the Pantheon in Rome and St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice were among the attractions the team saw. Gorecki called it “one of the coolest trips I’ve ever been on,” and McCallie—who had only briefly been to Italy before when Duke took a trip to France four years ago—could not choose one place as the best part. “I loved so much of it. I liked the Statue of David [in Florence]. I was taken by that, the Basilica, Rome and Venice—and the way Venice is, it’s pretty extraordinary,” McCallie said. “It was hard to pick any favorite, I just thought we hit some really, really good spots.”

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round of the Conference USA tournament. The Monarchs dealt George Mason a 4-1 loss to open the season before securing a decisive 3-0 victory against Albany, but suffered their first loss 3-1 to VCU Thursday night. Old Dominion returns its two leading scorers in junior Iris Achterhof and redshirt senior Madison Hogan. The Monarchs also return senior goalkeeper Krista Moisio, who notched 58 saves and averaged 1.5 goals against last season. Duke’s starter in goal will be far less certain. Senior captain E.J. Proctor—who has started in every match for the Blue Devils since her sophomore year—split time with redshirt freshman goalkeeper Brooke Heinsohn last weekend. Heinsohn delayed her first season in Durham in order to play with the U.S. U-20 national team at the World Cup, and her significant international experience has catapulted her into the conversation for the starting role between the pipes. As of Wednesday evening, Church had not decided who would get the starting nod this weekend. “[Heinsohn’s U-20 experience] has put her in a great match with E.J. who has a lot of experience playing in the ACC,” Church said. “Brooke has played at a very high level coming up to that and it’s put her in the race that most goalkeepers wouldn’t be in. Most goalkeepers wouldn’t come in and be in this kind of race with E.J.”

averaged 3.2 assists per game. “The team contributions are so important. I think everybody on the roster last year found some way to contribute one way or another,” Bustin said. “If you do that, everybody stays connected and the energy stays really good throughout the season.” Although Friday night’s game is just the first of many for the Blue Devils this season, its significance is not lost on the team. “We just want to set the tone for the season in our first game [and] come out strong. We really want to focus on playing our game, playing Duke’s game and not really worrying about the opponent,” Chillano said. “Whether it’s an amazing opponent or a weaker opponent, we’re going to play our game and show everybody what we have.”

Carolyn Chang | Chronicle File Photo Senior forward Ashley Kristen earned second-team preseason All-ACC honors this week.

Hank Tucker contributed reporting.

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