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BDU, DSG make gender-neutral bathrooms map

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By Claire Ballentine Towerview Editor

In the past two years, students have led the charge to create more gender-neutral bathrooms on campus.

Now, they’ve created an interactive map that allows members of the Duke community to more easily find these restrooms.

Duke Student Government, Blue Devils United and the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity teamed up to produce the map, which can be found on the CSGD website. The website includes an updated list of the gender-neutral bathrooms on each campus and the buildings they are located in.

“We all have to use the restroom, and because restrooms in this country are gendered along the binary, people who don’t identify along the binary don’t feel as comfortable going into gender-binary See MAP on Page 4

Dear Old Duke: The Deans

By Bre Bradham Local and National news Editor

The second installment in the Dear Old Duke photo series focuses on four of Duke’s long-standing and muchloved deans—Sue Wasiolek, Gerald Wilson, Tom Keller and Christoph Guttentag—as they reflect on their time at Duke and the University’s growth.

Christoph Guttentag Christoph Guttentag, dean of admissions, came to Duke from the University of Pennsylvania as thendirector of admissions in 1992, and became dean in 2006. He grew up in California and earned his Master’s degree at Penn, and felt he hit the “jackpot” when he was offered the position at Duke.

Guttentag: “I had arrived in June [1992], and in fact my first act as, at the time, Director of Admissions was for an alumni program—and I wasn’t even formally an employee yet. But anyway, I started in July of 1992.

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Carolyn Chang | Staff Photographer Grayson Allen scored 17 points in the first half and led all scorers with 19 in the game despirte a quiet second half.

Duke closes game on 9-0 run to earn key road win vs. No. 11 Tigers

By Mitchell Gladstone Sports Managing Editor

CLEMSON, S.C.—Since the start of conference play, the road has been unkind to Duke. With the exception of a win at Miami in mid-January, the Blue Devils had yet to earn themselves a meaningful victory away from Durham.

Sunday afternoon at Littlejohn Coliseum, that trend came to an end.

Behind a magnificent defensive performance and a stellar first-half effort from senior guard Grayson Allen, No. 12 Duke edged out No. 11 Clemson 66-57, moving into sole possession of the second spot in the ACC standings after closing the game with a tiebreaking 9-0 run in the final two minutes. Allen finished with 19 points, but did not score in the second half until sinking a pair of free throws in the final minute.

“If not the biggest [win of the season], it’s right there because coming to play in this environment against a team that doesn’t lose at home, it was a very physical game,” Allen said. “You never know what’s going to happen in the tournament. You

never know where you’re going to be playing, you don’t know what kind of draw you’re going to get, so we have to be ready to play in any environment…. We proved a lot today.”

As the Blue Devils made life difficult on offense for the hosts, Duke struggled to find the rim on the other end. After a Gary Trent Jr. triple brought the Blue Devil advantage to 10 with just more than seven minutes to play, Duke went scoreless for 5:35, as the Tigers chipped away despite 15 combined missed field goals in a row between the two sides.

With an and-one lay-in from guard Marcquise Reed just before the under-four media timeout, the Blue Devil lead stood at only five points.

From there, as the Duke drought continued, Gabe DeVoe drained a 3-pointer from the corner, bringing the Clemson crowd to its feet as the Blue Devils called timeout with their lead down to just a pair at 57-55. A David Skara layup then tied the contest with less than two minutes to play.

But after Trent was fouled right in front of the Duke bench with just 91 seconds remaining, the freshman coolly drilled

Carolyn Chang | Staff Photographer Gary Trent Jr. knocked down three free throws with less than two minutes to play to give Duke the lead for good.

all three at the charity stripe to put the Blue Devils back in front for good.

“We got that 10-point lead, we had a couple good looks and were not able to knock them down,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “They stayed in with it, which you expect them to do, and then all of a sudden, it’s a tie game.

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DSG Judiciary Chief Justice reflects on tenure, K-Ville policy investigation

By Stefanie Pousoulides Staff Reporter

Senior Dev Dabke, chief justice for Duke Student Government’s Judiciary Branch, has helped lead efforts to expand the role of the DSG Judiciary in protecting student rights on campus. Dabke spoke with The Chronicle’s Stefanie Pousoulides to reflect on his tenure and the inner workings and evolution of the Judiciary. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

The Chronicle: Why did you join the Judiciary?

Dev Dabke: Over the summer, between my first year and sophomore year, I had a few friends in DSG mention that the DSG Judiciary was going to be opening applications for new justices. At the time, the Judiciary just wasn’t really staffed. There was just one person on it, Dana Raphael.

Something that I learned very quickly after reading the DSG Constitution was that it seemed like the Judiciary was poised to defend and protect student rights and that seemed to be its principal mission. I realized that it was a sort of a branch of government that was reforming, so I thought there might be an opportunity to really get involved and take on more of a leadership role. So, I applied.

TC: What is your role as Chief Justice?

DD: I actually have two roles. One is just as a justice. So, there are seven justices on the Judiciary. It’s really the heart blood of the Judiciary. All major decisions are made by a majority of justices, and I usually try to build a consensus.

So, as a justice, I’ll do legal reviews. I’ll investigate various policy items to make sure they are in compliance with the Constitution, the bylaws and other provisions that we are bound to–like the Duke Community Standard.

As a Chief Justice, the two big roles that I take on is giving out advisory opinions. Different student groups on campus will contact me or informally people in DSG contact me asking for legal advice. The Chief Justice has that constitutional

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Reporters’ Lab tests automated fact-checking app

By Tiancheng Chang Contributing Reporter

TC: What is the procedure for someone to become an Associate Justice versus a Chief Justice?

DD: The final decision about who becomes an [Associate] Justice and who becomes Chief Justice falls to Senate, so they take a vote on it. Now, how people become an associate justice is a little bit more complicated because we now have

In an effort to combat fake news, a Duke professor is building an app that automates fact-checking.

FactStream, an app for fact-checking live events, is the first in a series of apps that the Duke Reporters’ Lab is working on as part of Duke Tech & Check Cooperative.

Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Facebook Journalism Project and the Craig Newmark Foundation, the project received $1.2 million in Fall 2017 to work to automate fact-checking.

A study from Princeton University, Dartmouth College and the University of Exeter suggested that consumption of fact-checks is most often from non-fake news consumers. The aim of FactStream is to expand who is consuming fact-checks, said Bill Adair, director of the Duke Reporters’ Lab and the founder of the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking website PolitiFact.

“Our goal in the lab has been to use automation to broaden the audience for fact-checking,” Adair said.

“That’s why we created FactStream.”

Adair said he wants to give people the information to make their own decisions about the messages leaders are communicating.

“Some think [a fact-checker’s] goal is to persuade people,” Adair said. “But as a journalist, I think our role is to provide people with information. They can decide how they want to use that information.”

Adair’s desire to give people the autonomy over that

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Bre Bradham | Associate Photography Editor The Duke Student Government Judiciary is launching an Office of Public Advocacy to connect better with students.

prerogative to issue non-binding advisory opinions.

The second big thing, of course, is setting the vision for the Judiciary such as managing resources, launching the Office of Public Advocacy really spearheading that acting as the face of the Judiciary or for example when we were revising our clerkship program I was lucky to sort of restructure our clerkship program and revamp it to have good programming so we could find really good people to work in the Judiciary.

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of the laws, everyone would be given their fair due process be fully represented in DSG. rights. And, that can’t really happen if you’re not maintaining FROM PAGE 2 the record, if you’re not applying the law in the same way TC: As far as the investigation for K-Ville, have there been and in the same situations. That was my first pillar, to make any new developments? a clerkship program. The clerkship program is sort of a feeder sure that the Judiciary DD: So, it’s for becoming [an Associate Justice]. But, beyond that, people was very consistent, The Judiciary has the investigatory power of DSG, actually kind of on campus are welcome to apply, welcome to get involved. The making sure that DSG interesting. I know and we have been doing investigations for a while. that there may have best way now that we have a really robust clerkship program is was consistent. to come through that because that’s really when you spend time My other big goal been a little bit dev dabke more controversy getting trained both in terms of legal practice and legal craft but was accessibility. I SENIOR AND CHIEF JUSTICE OF DUKE STUDENT GOVERNMENT JUDICIARY perhaps than was also knowledge of how DSG works, how the Judiciary operates, want to make sure that how to actually write an opinion, ask questions. students can actually intended over [For] the Chief Justice selection, there actually is kind access the Judiciary. I want to make sure that students can the report. The Judiciary has the investigatory power of of a succession path. There is a position of the Associate access DSG. Students have a lot of rights on campus, but I feel DSG, and we have been doing investigations for a while. I Chief Justice, and I think someone who wanted to become like most people don’t know what they are. People don’t know think because this was a larger initiative, we wanted a larger Chief Justice should probably try to make a move to become how to get in touch with someone who could help them. So report, a more formalized report. Because sometimes what Associate Chief Justice. And that’s actually chosen by the that accessibility goal for me is really about making sure that will happen is that we will conduct the investigation and I’ll current Chief Justice. However, that’s not like a hard and fast students can find a way to fight for their rights or advocate for write a short write-up of it and send an email to a relevant rule. It’s like an indication that someone might be interested, their rights when they need to. person. In this case, the principal investigator and the person but it’s ultimately the Senate that picks out of the current who really spearheaded the investigation was the Associate sitting Justices whom would be the Chief.

TC: You presented three initiatives–inclusion and diversity, Chief Justice Ross [Winston] and he thought it best to have the Office of Public Advocacy and the [Krzyzewskiville] a nice retrospective formal report that sort of clarified the TC: What were your goals when you began your tenure in investigation–during the DSG Judiciary update at the Senate’s very detail of K-Ville policy. Like I said, that report really the Judiciary and did they change? And, if so, what experiences Jan. 31 session. Have there been any developments on these wasn’t supposed to be something that affected K-Ville now it shaped that change? initiatives since that meeting? was more retrospective of what has happened in the last few DD: I became Chief Justice in early February of 2017, and the DD: The Office of Public Advocacy is in full swing. years—sort of an invocation into the future for how to deal two goals I articulated then were accessibility and consistency, Associate Justice Analese Bridges...deals directly with OPA. with K-Ville policy. and I continue to stand by those two goals.

We have been interviewing a lot of candidates, have had items Those [goals] going out in the DSG blast and we TC: In light of the recent Young Trustee elections, have are kind of abstract. I want to make sure that students can are really aggressively recruiting for there been any questions directed to the Judiciary about the What consistency new advocates. Although we do have campaigns or election procedure for this year? means is that the actually access the Judiciary. I want to some new internal advocates, we want DD: During the actual election itself, there were some reason we have make sure that students can access DSG. to expand the program to have better concerns that were flagged but they were fairly technical the right to due coverage across the student body. Right concerns about one of the holdings that we had in Taylor process codified in Students have a lot of rights on campus, now, for OPA, it is a time of expansion v. Pate, which was our election case last year and about how the Constitution but I feel like most people don’t know and formalization, like the Judiciary that applied to how ballots were sent in. But, we were able is because we have was a couple years ago. In terms of to resolve that fairly quickly with the Attorney General.... expectations about what they are. our inclusion and diversity efforts, I But you know once the election is open, once the ballots how the government want to give a similar sentiment to are open, the Attorney General is on call. I’m on call. The dev dabke what I just said about OPA. We are Judiciary is on call. We try to respond to those questions is going to work. One SENIOR AND CHIEF JUSTICE OF DUKE STUDENT of my biggest goals trying to be much more aggressive very, very quickly to make sure we are addressing issues that GOVERNMENT JUDICIARY for Judiciary was that about recruiting. We are trying to be a might become large, but fortunately there were no major we were consistent lot more aggressive in reaching out to issues. The election seemed to be run well. The Judiciary will in our jurisprudence, to make sure DSG as a whole was groups that we think we need to. So Analese and I are trying to probably officially certify it in the next 24 hours. Honestly, it consistent. That way, students would be given equal protection make contact with different groups on campus that may not was a very clean election.

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MAP FROM PAGE 1 restrooms,” said junior Adam Bullock, DSG director of LGBTQIA affairs and policy.

Bullock got involved in the efforts in 2016 when DSG and BDU worked to place gender-neutral signage on singleoccupancy restrooms across campus. As part of the project, the Facilities Management department asked the students to submit a list of all the single-occupancy bathrooms they could find on campus.

“Every time we found one, we would add it to a spreadsheet with its building and location,” Bullock said. “We would denote whether signage was neutral or gendered.”

They identified about 100 of these around campus and submitted the list to facilities management, which is working on converting them all to gender-neutral.

The spreadsheet turned out to be an asset when DSG and BDU had the idea to create an interactive using Google Maps to better assist students in finding these restrooms.

Sophomore Ivan Robles, a DSG senator for equity and outreach, explained that DSG used the data they had already collected to design the map, which has one pin for each building with gender-inclusive restrooms.

If you click on the pin, it will have the room number and floor where the bathroom is located. There are currently about 94 gender-inclusive restrooms on campus.

“I wanted to take the public list of the gender-inclusive restrooms and make it more visual and interactive,” he said.

Bullock noted that he has also used the prototype to determine the distances that people would have to walk to get to a building with a gender-inclusive restroom from a building without one. For instance, the Sanford building doesn’t have a gender-inclusive restroom, so students have to go to Rubenstein Hall instead.

This information was used in meetings with administrators to emphasize the importance of continued work to increase the number of gender-neutral bathrooms.

“We showed that people were going to have to leave buildings to get to a restroom,” Bullock said.

Robles noted that these presentations also included testimonies from students that they received about the benefits of gender-inclusive restrooms as well as information about similar efforts at peer institutions.

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“It was our method of showing spatially where everything was,” he said. “We were trying to convey that a student shouldn’t have to leave a building and walk x distance to use a bathroom that they are comfortable with.”

In the future, Bullock said he hopes to focus his efforts on the Sanford building and is working with administrators there to make their facilities more accessible and inclusive. He hopes to create a gender-inclusive multi-stall restroom there, instead of just a single-occupancy one.

“It would just be a sign change, but the people who make those decisions see a lot more involved with that,” he said.

Robles noted that he would also like to assemble another group of students to walk around campus and map the bathrooms to get a more updated count.

He stressed the importance of having adequate facilities for students at Duke who are gender nonconforming.

“There’s all this talk of wanting to make campus more equitable and diverse which is great, but we should also make sure there are resources available for this diversity,” Robles said.

Special to the Chronicle Blue Devils United and Duke Student Government leaders identified 100 single-occupancy bathrooms on campus.

APP FROM PAGE 2 information led him to want to shift his focus toward exploring “ways that we can make fact-checks more effective,” he said in an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review. The app is beginning to see some results, he said.

“Overall, the app functioned quite well,” Adair wrote in a post for the Duke Reporters’ Lab after the first test of FactStream during President Trump’s State of the Union address. “Our users got 32 fact-checks during the speech and the Democratic response.”

Nevertheless, FactStream is still not completely automated. Rebecca Ianucci, the research and communications coordinator for Duke Reporters’ Lab, said that FactStream, in its first version, is “a manual app that requires the work of human fact-checkers behind the scenes.”

The current version relies on the fact-checkers to listen for claims and then write short updates or post links to previous work. In the beta test, the instant analysis is provided by FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and the Washington Post Fact Checker.

Adair noted that he is planning to develop future versions of FactStream. However, the app faces two main barriers—the challenge of automated voice detection and the difficulty of collecting good natural language to process, which will enable high-speed matching to previous checks.

He added that amidst these challenges, fact-checkers are increasing the size of their audience but that may not necessarily result in action among viewers.

“I think fact-checkers are effective at getting their work to larger and larger audiences,” Adair said. “Whether people choose to act on that is up to the people.”

Charles Lewis, professor at American University and founder of the Center for Public Integrity emphasized the importance of the Reporters’ Lab’s efforts to broaden the audience for fact-checking.

“I applaud and commend the efforts by Bill Adair and the Duke Reporters’ Lab in verifying facts and truth so vital to our representative democracy, unfettered by foreign or domestic political or corporate propaganda manipulation,” Lewis said.

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POISED AND TOGETHER

Blue Devil freshmen show grit to close out road win after lengthy second-half scoring drought

By Sameer Pandhare Associate Sports Editor

CLEMSON, S.C.—With the Blue Devils leading 57-49 and on the verge of putting away a feisty Clemson team, Wendell Carter Jr. missed a layup in the paint. Fortunately, forward Javin DeLaurier was able to tap the ball out for an extra possession, only for Carter to miss once again.

Yet again, DeLaurier was able to tap the ball out, this time leading to an open look for Gary Trent Jr. that clanked off the rim. The Blue Devils went almost four more minutes from that point on without finding the bottom of the net in what was one of the team’s most frustrating stretches of the season.

But Sunday, Duke showed a level of resolve and grit that has been missing at times this season. After withstanding a 5:35 scoreless drought and watching their 10-point lead vanish, the Blue Devils got big contributions from their freshmen late to come away with a crucial ACC road victory.

“To close out the win was huge when they came on a run and came back—we stayed together, we stayed poised, finished it out strong and Gary hit those three huge free throws there at the end,” senior Grayson Allen said. “Then, Wendell kind of sealed it for us after we get a few stops. We put together a pretty good 40-minute game.”

Duke’s eye-popping offensive numbers have been the story for most of the season, but for much of Sunday, the Blue Devils’ offense was missing. As a team, Duke shot just 38.8 percent from the floor—its lowest mark of the season—and the struggles were apparent with Clemson’s aggressive secondhalf defense forcing the Blue Devils to change their approach.

After Allen scored 17 of the team’s 35 first-half points, the senior was held scoreless

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Wendell Carter Jr. came alive in the second half after not making a shot from the field before the break to finish with 15 points and 10 rebounds. after halftime until the waning seconds of the game. But Duke’s captain did not resort to forcing shots and playing out of the flow of the offense. Instead, Allen moved to the wing—with freshman Trevon Duval moving to the top of the key—and helped facilitate the Blue Devil offense by feeding entry passes to the team’s bigs.

Carter—who had just two points and did not hit a shot from the floor in the first 20 minutes—stepped up in the second-half and finished with 15 points and 10 rebounds.

Similar to the win against Virginia Tech, Carter went from looking flummoxed at the outset to controlling the game after halftime.

In both cases, Duke’s ability to make in-game adjustments highlights a skill that could prove valuable come tournament time.

“Wendell really learned a lot today because it was a man’s game inside that first half,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “It was really physical, and as a young player, you get more worn out, and you can get knocked back. Grayson talking to him and our guys showing confidence in him—not just us, but the guys on the team, I thought he responded.”

On the other end of the floor, the Blue Devils excelled in a way that didn’t seem possible early in the year. Instead of letting its shooting slump pave the path for a Tigers comeback, Duke bunkered down on the defensive end and continued to show promise with a zone scheme that has helped the Blue Devils hold consecutive ACC opponents to fewer than 60 points for the first time since 2015.

Allen and Duval have become a formidable duo at the top of the zone—with each recording four steals in the win—and have used their ability to put pressure on the ball and prevent dribble penetration. The reintroduction of DeLaurier into the rotation has also been a boost for Duke with the sophomore’s ability to stay in front of quicker players on the perimeter, but also use his size to battle with bigger players down low.

Add in the ability of Carter and sophomore Marques Bolden to stand tall near the basket, and you get a unit capable of matching up with the most talented teams in the country.

“We’re playing our zone very well, and we end up talking better in our zone than in man,” Krzyzewski said. “They were able to communicate where [Gabe Devoe and Marcquise Reed] were, and then we reacted fairly well.”

With their biggest star out of the lineup, the Blue Devils have resorted to doing the little things and making different adjustments instead of relying on Marvin Bagley III’s transcendent talent. That’s not to say that Duke is all of a sudden better without its freshman big. But the result has been a group that looks a lot more cohesive on the court and has taken to being more emotional in huddles and in the locker room.

“That’s three wins with arguably as talented a kid as there is in the country out, and he’s coming along, so hopefully it’ll be soon,” Krzyzewski said. “It has given opportunities for Marques, Javin, Jack— Jack White did a good job for us today— that normally they wouldn’t have. For Javin to play 30 minutes in a game and start in late February, that’s invaluable experience as we go forward.”

As the regular season winds down, the Blue Devils have slowly formed a new identity that could certainly use a centerpiece of Bagley’s caliber to carry them in March.

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Duke scores last 7 goals in dramatic comeback

By Sid Bhaskara Associate Sports Editor

Before the game, Duke head coach John Danowski had written the word “Scrap” on the locker-room whiteboard.

Scrap is exactly what his team did, as the No. 1 Blue Devils overcame a four-goal deficit to blank No. 4 12 Denver in the fourth DEN DUKE 15 quarter en route to a 15-12 win before a wet, raucous house at Koskinen Stadium Friday evening.

“That’s what we want to hang our hat on at the end of the day. We don’t want to hang our hat on Justin Guterding or Joe Robertson or Dan Fowler or any individual,” Danowski said.

“You want to have this collective, relentless persona that it could be anybody that has a great night. When the ball’s on the ground, it’s a matter of a little bit of technique but just a lot more want.”

Scrap defined Duke (4-0) for the entire game, as both sides traded penalties, body

blows and turnovers on the wet grass, leaving room for some unlikely contributors to steal the show.

Although the Blue Devils would take a 1-0 lead just 48 seconds into the game on an unassisted jump shot from junior Brad Smith, the Pioneers (1-1) responded quickly with four straight goals. Denver used snappy passing and some lapses in communication on the part of Duke’s defense to get Colton Jackson, Ethan Walker, Colton McCaffrey and Nate Marano open and in position.

Justin Guterding, who once again shined with three goals and three assists, stemmed the tide with his first goal of the evening on a spectacular individual effort as he shot fast enough to beat Pioneer goalkeeper Alex Ready, while the close defense pushed him off balance. Despite Guterding’s unassisted brilliance, Walker would get another back for Denver to put the Pioneers up 5-2 after 15 minutes of play.

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Defensive midfielder Sean Cerrone took the first faceoffs of his career and badgered Denver star Trevor Baptiste into a few turnovers.

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Duke sweeps 4 games in Big Ten/ACC Challenge all the way to the wall for a double. Freshman Katherine Huey, who has been on a tear to start the year, scored Wilson with a check-swing Led by powerful hitting and timely single past the second baseman to put the Blue pitching, Duke capped a perfect weekend Devils up 1-0. Shortly afterwards, sophomore in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge with a 7-2 Dominique Salinas crushed a pitch into the leftdrubbing of Penn State. center field gap for a stand-up double to put It was an all-around dominant performance Duke up by two. for the Blue Devils Sunday afternoon in their “They always tell us to be aggressive. It’s one fourth win in four games at Duke Softball of our big things and we have embraced that,” Stadium this weekend. The Blue Devils slapped Wilson said. “This is a testament to the fact that 11 hits, including four for extra bases, while girls come in every single night to hit extra, and shutting down the Penn State offense. Duke’s it showed on the scoreboard today.” pitching staff combined for six strikeouts with In the top of the fourth, the Blue Devils (6-3) no walks and allowed zero earned runs. struck again. Wilson and Huey each had infield “Our bats were singles to lead off the inning and then executed 2 explosive, and we’ve a double steal to set up runners on second and PSU 7 focused since the fall third with no outs. Wiercioch then hit her basesDUKE on being aggressive clearing triple to extend the lead to 4-0. early on and hitting good pitches early in the The Nittany Lions decided to change pitchers, count,” head coach Marissa Young said. “They replacing Madison Shaffer with Ashton Mensinger. kept up the energy even when we made mistakes Mensinger got two quick outs, but freshman and things didn’t go our way, and we kept Ashleigh Rodriguez hit a grounder past the diving plugging away.” second baseman to plate Wiercioch.

Freshman Amelia Wiercioch had an Penn State (0-6) has struggled mightily to impressive afternoon on the mound and at the open the season, but the team’s misfortune plate. She entered the game with a sparkling continued in the bottom of the fourth. The 0.93 ERA in 15 innings Nittany Lions had two and kept up that success This is a testament to the straight hits from Haley by throwing four innings fact that girls come in every Vallejos and Delaney of scoreless ball, only single night to hit extra, and Elling to put runners allowing 3 hits. At the on second and third. plate, she went 1-for-3 it showed on the scoreboard. Wiercioch got a key with a towering triple RAINE WILSON strikeout for the first SOPHOMORE THIRD BASEMAN out and then forced Tori that bounced off the top of the wall and plated two Dubois into a soft ground Blue Devils. out to first. Vallejos tried to go home on the play After an uneventful first inning, sophomore but was caught in a rundown, and when Elling Raine Wilson led off the top of the second with tried to escape back to second, she was tagged a blast over the left fielder’s head that bounced out to end the inning.

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“In that tough spot, I just trusted my muscle memory,” Wiercioch said. “I’m really lucky to have the team that I do behind me and we all just came together, took a deep breath, and knew we could get out of it.”

With one out in the top of the fifth, freshman Rachel Abboud attempted to score from first base on a double by Wilson, but the throw beat her by a mile. However, after wild pitch sent Wilson to third, Huey smacked an RBI single into left center for her third hit of the game.

Brianna Butler replaced Wiercioch in the bottom of the fifth and faced the bases loaded with one out due to two Duke errors. After a big strikeout, Elling hit a line drive single to plate

two, but Butler forced a lazy fly ball to end the inning. One inning later, when Duke committed its third error of the afternoon and Butler was forced into another bases-loaded situation with one out, she again bore down for a clutch strikeout before forcing a weak grounder to prevent any damage.

“We are always trying to get better, and we know that those mistakes against some teams are going to bite us in the butt,” Wilson said. “We were lucky enough that those three errors didn’t hurt us, but we know we have to crack down on that and get better.”

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Amelia Wiercioch tossed four scoreless innings to start Sunday’s game and also hit a tworun triple at the plate.

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Blue Devils prepare for top-20 showdown at home

By Andrew Donohue Assistant Blue Zone Editor

In their third game since losing redshirt sophomore Haley Gorecki for the season, the Blue Devils stumbled, falling to another unranked team on the road and struggling to defend the No. 12 3-point line.

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Duke will face an No. 17 even bigger test Monday as it looks to finish the Duke season on a high note MONDAY, 7 p.m. and position itself well Cameron Indoor Stadium for postseason play.

The Blue Devils return home to take on No. 12 Florida State for the first time this season at 7 p.m. Monday. No. 17 Duke has only lost once this year at Cameron Indoor Stadium, but will need an improved offensive performance to beat the Seminoles after failing to break 65 points in its past three games.

“We’ve got to be steady and very attacking for 40 minutes,” Blue Devil head coach Joanne P. McCallie said after Thursday’s loss at Syracuse. “[Stay] focused and not allowing anything to get in our way.”

Duke’s rebounding prowess has been a bright spot amid the spate of injuries to its guards, as McCallie has been forced to use bigger

lineups. Graduate student Bego Faz Davalos and freshman Jade Williams have both seen increased minutes since Gorecki went down and have made a big impact, with Davalos grabbing 15 rebounds in the last two games.

Graduate student guard Rebecca Greenwell has also been a key contributor on the glass.

Greenwell has grabbed at least eight rebounds in each of her last six games and is a big reason why the Blue Devils (20-7, 9-5 in the ACC) have outrebounded their opponents by 5.8 boards per game this season.

“Becca’s been really focused,” McCallie said.

“And to get five assists [against Syracuse] on top of everything else, we need to enjoy these opportunities.”

Florida State (22-4, 10-3) will pose a formidable threat on the glass. The Seminoles average 44.3 rebounds per game and have three players who grab at least seven per contest.

Their attack is spearheaded by senior forward Shakayla Thomas, who averages 17.8 points per game to go along with 7.0 rebounds.

Thomas forms a dynamic inside-outside duo with fellow senior Imani Wright, who averages 17.7 points per game and is shooting 40.5 percent from beyond the arc. Wright has already made 90 triples on the season and is one of the best shooters in the ACC. This poses a familiar problem for Duke,

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Rebecca Greenwell has grabbed at least eight rebounds in each of Duke’s last six games and has stepped up on the perimeter with Haley Gorecki sidelined. which was shredded from beyond the arc against the Orange, surrendering 15 3-pointers to match the program’s all-time record for the most allowed in a game.

“Some great lessons there for us,” McCallie said. “We needed some more stops down the stretch and did not get them. That was

costly.... Give them great credit for knocking down those threes.”

Sophomore Leoanna Odom has emerged recently to take some of the scoring burden off of Greenwell and guard Lexie Brown in See W. BASKETBALL on Page 8

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Cadoux’s key saves help Duke hold off Wildcats

By Conner McLeod Staff Reporter

After two convincing routs to open the season, the Blue Devils showed they are for real against a ranked opponent at Koskinen Stadium Sunday afternoon before starting ACC play.

Although No. 18 Duke gave up a four-goal lead to allow No. 9 Northwestern to get back into the game late, the 8 Blue Devils ultimately NW 9 finished strong to DUKE earn a big 9-8 win to cap a three-game homestand following an 18-8 victory Friday against Campbell.

Although it was explosive and aggressive, Duke’s offense was not perfect, turning over the ball 15 times throughout the matchup. But the Blue Devil defense came ready to play, holding one of the best offenses in college lacrosse to just two goals in the first half and eight goals for the game. Sophomore goalkeeper Gabbe Cadoux anchored Duke’s defensive stand, notching 10 saves, four of them coming in the crucial last four minutes of the game with the Blue Devils clinging to a slim lead.

“It was a really back-and-forth game, both teams had great potential and I think the last five minutes I was just focused. There was huge focus from our team on both sides,” Cadoux said. “I was trying not to think about, ‘Oh, this could go in,’ or, ‘Oh, what if something goes wrong,’ because that’s how mistakes are made. We just played how we knew how to play.”

M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 1 tired at the end. We’re really tired, and to play those last two minutes like that with a young group— some of these young guys, they grew up a little bit more today.”

With the shot clock about to expire on the next possession, freshman Wendell Carter Jr. spun for a strong layup to push the lead to five and seal the deal.

“Sometimes he’s his own worst critic where he gets down on himself and gets mad about his own play, but he stuck with it today,” Allen said of the first-year big man. “He missed a few early in the game that he normally makes and I told him we were coming right back to him, and we did…. For him to go up strong with the whole crowd cheering against him and finish that was

The Wildcats (3-1) looked to take control to begin the game, with senior Sheila Nesselbush scoring the first goal of the game in less than two minutes off a Blue Devil turnover. Duke quickly regained momentum, however, only allowing one more Northwestern goal for the remainder of the first half.

In that half, Duke (3-0) appeared to be the superior team, winning seven straight draws to begin the game thanks to junior Olivia Jenner. Jenner’s dominance at the draw allowed Duke’s offense time to work and adjust its attack throughout the game, and gave the team’s defense rest and energy to get stops when needed. The attacker also finished with a goal and an assist to help put the Blue Devils over the top.

After playing a near-perfect half, Duke found in trouble, allowing Northwestern to overcome a 6-2 deficit led by leading scorer Selena Lasota, who finished with a hat trick.

The Wildcats held Duke scoreless for 13 minutes, which contributed to their 4-0 run.

A careless turnover by the Blue Devils led to an easy goal for Northwestern to tie it up at seven apiece.

“I think the problem for us is that we weren’t finishing on our shots. I thought we were creating the looks that we wanted but we weren’t shooting well,” Duke head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “We shot 9-of-20, and that’s not good enough.”

But senior Grace Fallon scored to put Duke back in front for good with less than 10 minutes to play, and Cadoux’s performance near the end of the game ignited her teammates, who

collectively forced 18 Northwestern turnovers.

In particular, freshman Natalie Kahn—who earned her first start of her career—shut down Northwestern’s second-leading scorer senior Danita Stroup, holding her scoreless on only two shots.

“Our team overall just played great team defense today,” Kimel said. “To hold a team like that to eight goals is really a great feat for a group that’s relatively new and really young.”

Top recruit Charlotte North starred again for the Blue Devils, completing her

a big play for a freshman.”

Following a quiet first half, Carter went to work right out of the break, scoring nine of Duke’s first 11 points as the Blue Devils (22-5, 10-4 in the ACC) worked their way into the lead by a half-dozen.

But with Duke going scoreless for nearly three minutes, Clemson clawed its way back with Reed knocking down a triple to force the Blue Devils into a timeout up just 46-45 a little more than midway through the half.

The visitors would not stay silent for long, though. Allen found big man Marques Bolden inside for a clutch and-one layup after the timeout, sparking a 5-0 run as the Duke zone continued to clamp down on the Tigers—Clemson shot just 8-of-33 from the field after halftime, struggling to find any type of offense.

“When we run the zone the right way, it’s really

hard for people to score on us,” freshman Trevon Duval said. “Even teams that can really shoot can’t shoot against our zone. They can’t really drive against it when we play it the right way.”

In the early minutes of the contest, neither team found much of an offensive rhythm. As Duke forced Clemson (20-6, 9-5) into deliberate possessions and several heavily-contested triples, the Blue Devils struggled to even find a shot from the field—seven of Duke’s first 10 points came at the charity stripe.

After nearly seven minutes of trading baskets, the Blue Devils finally found a run, getting seven straight points from Allen to snatch just their second lead of the afternoon at 28-25 as Tiger head coach Brad Brownell had to call timeout.

The advantage did not last long, however, as the teams combined for 5-of-17 shooting to bring the first half to a close with Duke clinging to a one-point advantage at 35-34.

Even with the Blue Devils out of sync offensively much of the afternoon, it was a gritty team effort that carried Duke to arguably its most critical victory of the year.

“We’re becoming a team. We’re coming together. You have to be together to win a game like this,” Allen said. “We’re sharing emotion a lot better than we did earlier. There’s a lot of times where someone would get an and-one and someone would be like, ‘That’s pretty cool.’ But now, we’re getting fired up for each other, yelling and screaming for each other, and a win like this just brings us closer together.”

The Blue Devils now return home for a Wednesday night matchup with Louisville as they will close their regular-season slate with three home contests and a trip to Virginia Tech in a span of 10 days, looking to secure a doublebye for the ACC tournament in Brooklyn.

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Trevon Duval was one of four Blue Devils in double figures in scoring and was active in the team’s zone defense, picking up four steals.

third hat trick in as many games to start her college career. North scored her team’s final goal to go up by two with less than three minutes left to play. “[North’s] really talented and I think that she loves the game. She’s by far our most passionate player,” Kimel said. “Those situations are the situations that Charlotte North wants to be in.”

The Blue Devils will travel to Blacksburg, Va. to play their first ACC game of the season against Virginia Tech Saturday at 3 p.m.

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Gabbe Cadoux made four saves in the last four minutes to preserve a one-goal lead and keep the Blue Devils undefeated.

W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 7 Gorecki’s absence. The wing poured in 16 points against the Orange on 6-of-8 shooting from the field after being reinserted into the starting lineup for the past two games.

“I’m really proud of [Odom],” McCallie said. “She battled hard, she really did some good things out there. I know she was frustrated about some plays and things like that, but as a sophomore, I thought she stepped up. She’s got a great shooting percentage. We have to find ways to get the ball to her more.”

Increasing Odom’s role in the offense would help relieve Brown, who is battling through a slump in the Blue Devils’ last two games, shooting a combined 8-of-27 from the field.

Brown is the center of the offense, initiating action and often being relied upon to bail out the team when the shot clock winds down.

Defenses pay extra attention to her, so Odom’s emergence could benefit both players by giving them more space to attack.

Duke currently sits seventh in the ACC standings entering the final two games, but could climb as high as fourth and secure a double-bye in the ACC tournament with two victories. Finishing on a high note could propel the Blue Devils to a higher seed in both the ACC and NCAA tournaments and send them into postseason play with some momentum.

But first, they will have to beat the team sitting at third place in the conference in what would be their highest-ranked ACC win all season.

Conner McLeod contributed reporting.

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M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 6 and senior faceoff man Trevor Baptiste, the Blue Devils were under pressure all night.

Baptiste, in particular, went 23-of-30 from the faceoff X, allowing the Pioneers to play make-it-take-it lacrosse all night, forcing Duke to hustle for every possible possession opportunity. Walker finished with eight points on six goals and a pair of assists.

The Blue Devils responded in the second quarter, thanks to four Denver turnovers.

Graduate transfer Peter Conley and sophomores Joey Manown and Kevin Quigley all found the back of the net on a 3-0 Duke run to tie the game at five. Walker and the Blue Devils’ Reilly Walsh traded goals to take the game into halftime tied at six, but the second half seemed like an entirely different game altogether.

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Justin Guterding had a hat trick with three goals and added three assists.

The Pioneers came out of the break with all the firepower on their side. Baptiste won 7-of8 faceoffs in the third quarter, dominating possession after possession with no answer from the Duke unit. Walker and Guterding traded goals 30 seconds apart before Denver went on a tear it seemed the Blue Devils could not come back from.

The Pioneers managed two goals on the extraman unit, as short stick defensive midfielder John Prendergast was flagged for a pair of 30-second penalties. Walker added yet another goal before Conley stopped the bleeding momentarily.

Denver, thoroughly unfazed, slotted home another pair of goals from McCaffrey and Connor Donohue.

The Blue Devils went into the final frame down 12-8 and unable to secure possessions consistently thanks to the brilliance of Baptiste.

In that last 15 minutes, stars were made and scrap was displayed to its fullest.

“We got challenged. Our character got challenged and we responded well,” Guterding said. “That’s a testament to our senior class. We wanted to win this game really badly. We’d lost to them three straight years.... We wanted to dominate in the fourth and we went seven-nothing.

Fowler went back between the pipes to man the defense after sitting out the bulk of the third quarter, the rope unit tightened up and freshman Joe Robertson announced his arrival to college lacrosse.

Duke forced Denver into seven fourthquarter turnovers with relentless effort on ground balls and faceoffs. After seeing little success from inexperienced sophomore Brian Smyth against the best faceoff man in the nation, assistant coach Ron Caputo decided to put defensive midfielder Sean Cerrone out on the faceoff. Cerrone, who had never taken a faceoff in his two years at Duke to date, not even in practice, went 2-of-6, but pursued

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Baptiste relentlessly after every Denver win on the draw.

Meanwhile Fowler seemed to grow larger in the cage, making a huge save with four minutes to play, and defensemen Cade Van Raaphorst and Kevin McDonough, alongside sophomore defensive midfielder Terry Lindsey and senior long-stick midfielder Peter Welch, harassed the Denver offense.

On the other side of the ball, Robertson scored all four of his goals in the fourth quarter, including three in a row at one point, shooting jump shots, quick sticks and time-and-room rippers off passes from Guterding, Conley and Brad Smith. Robertson, despite his youth, illustrated his instant chemistry with Guterding by being in the right spots for the senior’s passes time and time again.

“I came off a little bit timid at first,” Robertson said. “It’s a big game. Once I settled Mary Helen Wood | Associate Photo Editor in, I think that we all settled in. Once the ball Katherine Huey led Duke with three hits came my way, people cut, it set up shooting against Penn State Sunday. lanes and luckily, I finished it. Just work on it in practice, and that’s how it goes.”

With a two-goal lead, 70 seconds to FROM PAGE 7 play and the shot clock down to one, Walsh caught the goalkeeper out of his cage and, Duke increased its lead to 7-2 in the top of in the fashion of former Duke great Jordan seventh after freshman Jameson Kavel hit an Wolf, took a stutter step and accelerated all opposite-field single and scored on a sacrifice the way to the cage to flush it home and give fly from Abboud. Freshman Peyton St. George Duke a 15-12 lead. And when it mattered replaced Butler and shut the door on the most, down three with just more than a Nittany Lions, striking out two. minute to play, Baptiste committed a faceoff “I know that if we can continue to play our violation, giving the Blue Devils a chance to game, we will have success,” Young said. “We’re bleed down the clock for the win. going to have our growing pains, but if we Crashing the midfield, playing physically minimize the big innings and have our pitchers and running up and down the field stay ahead of batters to minimize the damage, indiscriminately, Duke pulled out a win we will be okay.” against one of the most talented teams in Duke will look to build on its the nation, defending its No. 1 ranking for momentum next weekend when it travels The York Syndication TheinNew New YorkallTimes Times Syndication SalestoCorporation Corporation the first time earnest season.

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An Americana death: Part III As the Editorial Board, we express our sorrow for the tragedy in Parkland, Florida that has resulted in the deaths of 17 schoolchildren and teachers. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those stricken with a tragedy that now seems intractable from the news cycle. Yet we also recognize the futility of prayers in absence of initiative being taken to prevent the next atrocity. Moreover, gun control is often addressed only after mass shootings and not also in response to tragedies like the 586 gun homicides in Chicago in 2016 alone. We intend therefore to reflect on this most recent tragedy as part of a greater trend within an American narrative so willing to sacrifice the safety of innocent citizens to protect our Second Amendment rights.

Only in the United States is the idea of an armed civilian population as salient among conservative thinkers, and sometimes given its own unassailable cult of personality in the name of ‘liberty.’ The idea that the right to bear arms represents a hedge against government tyranny is a quintessentially American consequence of being born out of Revolution. The year 2018 warrants scrutiny over whether the original intent of the Second Amendment, drafted justifiably for its dramatically different time, applies to modern society. In contrast, conservatives in Australia had

little qualms orchestrating gun control legislation post-Port Arthur, while post-Dunblane, a British Conservative government led the way in passing stricter firearm laws. Unfortunately, this historically catalyzed American gun culture has resulted in the formulation of spectacularly copious arguments in favor of Second Amendment rights such as military presence in schools or arming all nightclub goers.

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Editorial Board ideas’ when debate is monetarily monopolized by National Rifle Association funds. The NRA does not hesitate in exploiting the aforementioned attitude toward firearms for personal benefit while ensuring that due attention is not paid to the ease of acquiring lethal weaponry. The knee-jerk redirection of the conversation to mental health, albeit necessary in the long run, loses credibility when the onerous extent of NRA influence on GOP policymakers is acknowledged. Indeed, “people kill people,” and so government should have an active role in limiting the means with which this is done. Surely even the most conservative view on government’s role—the protection of life,

“Unlike a lot of men being accused of improprieties these days, at the very least Tarantino actually seems genuinely regretful. You know a token apology when you hear one, and I’m not hearing false sentiment when I read or hear Tarantino owning up to his mistakes.”

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liberty, and property—would not object to such rudimentary demands. In reverse, the Democratic side of the aisle has also resorted to focusing on the newsworthy aspect of such atrocities: legislating stricter laws on semi-automatic rifles is a necessary but relatively insignificant act when one weighs up the routine havoc wreaked using pistols.

We find ourselves condemned to the central agency problem of representative democracy: to what extent are Senators and Representatives true agents of the people and not of special interest lobbies? The bitterness of the status quo might allude to the latter. It seems, unfortunately, that the only way to balance against NRA influence on our representatives is for liberal donors to outspend the NRA, and for the media to act as the fourth estate, while further undermining our republic’s democratic integrity. The uncomfortable reality is that this institution is already dysfunctional by its own open nature and the unquestioned flow of capital that supplements it. Thus, we are faced with a question of whether liberal donors ought to go through the same channels should they desire tangible change. Nowhere in the American Dream is there a caveat about having to teach schoolchildren how to dodge bullets sent hurling through their hallways.

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rt is like moisturizer. It nourishes the mind and refreshes our capacity for emotion and empathy, while simultaneously working to create a better, cleaner version of ourselves for the future. It can wash away the toxic thoughts we have or it can call to attention the flaws in our being, whether we choose to ignore them or not.

And in a much more real way, art isn’t actually like moisturizer at all—in fact, they are pretty much two separate things entirely. This awkwardly-placed

Jaxson Floberg

FILLING THE VOID metaphor was forced in here because it will become relevant later, and that’s pretty much it. Go ahead and put it at the back of your mind while I change pace and circle back to it. Go ahead.

Art—specifically, the art of film—is a powerful outlet for emotion. For this reason, I call myself a cinephile. Film can make me experience what I normally wouldn’t, stirring an entire spectrum of emotions within me, from deep despair to unadulterated joy. The emotion I get most from film however, is anger. Pure.

Raw. Passionate. Anger. Like I’m-on-the-freeway-andSTAY-IN-YOUR-F***ING-LANE-TOYOTA-CAMRYCAN’T-YOU-SEE-I’M-USING-THIS-ONE anger. The amount of rage hiding in my heart at any given moment scares me sometimes, because I don’t ever think of myself as an angry person. I’m typically somewhere between calm, sad and psychotically energized—but not often angry.

This anger has nothing to do with film itself. This anger is a product of the communal nature of the consumption of film, the obligatory presence of other people in a movie theater that I would much prefer to be completely devoid of in life. People who crinkle their little snack bags in silent moments, families who go into crisis mode unfailingly around the 90-minute mark, and sociopaths who have to comment every time they have a prediction about an impending twist or a character’s next move or something they just connected or literally anything else just shut up SHUT UP—I’m sorry for the rant. Just stop doing these things. There’s nothing worse than being ripped from immersion in a story just to be reminded that Brenda, sitting three rows back, is really in the mood for some Sour Patch Kids. It’s not hard to open your candy before the movie, and it’s not hard to sit still for two hours and enjoy something that you literally paid to entertain you.

You guessed it—I’m fun to watch movies with.

I understand that my anger is irrational and that it’s unnecessary to be this dramatic about these small distractions that have been a part of film culture for decades, but it doesn’t feel that way when it happens.

For that reason, I make an effort to see films at the least popular times in the hope that so few people will be there that I may as well be alone.

I did this with the latest Star Wars, opting to see it two weeks after it opened, on a Thursday, at four o’clock in the afternoon. The theater remained beautifully quiet for the length of the runtime, and I really enjoyed my experience as well as the film itself (except for the casino planet. The casino planet sucks). The next night, I was invited to see it again—at eight o’clock on a Friday night. To be clear, that’s prime time for disaster. But having seen the movie once, I decided it would be good for me to see it again in a more populated setting, if only to say that at least I gave it a shot.

Maybe I’m just unlucky. Maybe the gods hold me in disfavor. I don’t know. What I do know is that on that fateful Friday night at eight o’clock, I just happened to sit next to the itchiest woman in the world. As the opening text crawl rose into the stars, the woman next to me sat forward in her chair and relentlessly scratched the leathery, ashy (read: loud) skin on her lower back with her long, manicured nails for what had to have been at least 10 minutes. The benefit of the doubt was nowhere to be seen in my eyes, reflecting the burning balls of fiery gas on the screen before us. In addition to her itching, the woman four inches to my left made the distinct choice to wear two armfuls of bangles, knowing full well that with every tormented scratch at her back, she was jingling like Christmas f***ing morning. This continued for the rest of the movie.

This experience was obviously abnormal, and yet the sheer anger it stirred in me is comparable to more typical moments of bag crinkling and loud whispering.

I try to stay home and watch movies by myself, but my roommate walking in at the end of “2001: A Space Odyssey” and asking, “Who’s that space baby?” is just as infuriating as a mistimed laugh in the theater behind me after Leonardo DiCaprio finds his son’s body in “The Revenant.”

The problem, of course, is my own. I shouldn’t let others ruin art for me, especially not for these small and petty reasons. I can’t treat movies like an escape from humanity, then expect a film to give me an authentic human experience on the screen. My desires are hypocritical, and they defeat everything that art stands for. Art is defined by how it impacts us—all of us, including women who desperately need moisturizer for their backs—and not just the snobs. Art doesn’t exist in a vacuum and shouldn’t be expected to, in this exceptionally human world. It isn’t supposed to be about anger. And most importantly, art isn’t about what isn’t. It’s about clearing up the meaning of what is.

In that way, art is a lot like moisturizer. But I’m pretty sure that’s the only way.

Jaxson Floberg is a Trinity sophomore. His column, “filling the void,” runs on alternate Mondays.

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ourse requirements in Quantitative Studies (QS) and Natural Sciences (NS) are known for dragging down humanity majors’ GPAs. Still, they can offer skills in data analysis and leveraging reason with evidence as opposed to anecdotal claims.

These are abilities our liberal arts curriculum values.

But just how effective are all current requirements in informing students on the values and knowledge that will serve them best in the future?

Criticisms of the efficacy of current liberal arts requirements aside, there is one particularly essential

Sabriyya Pate COLUMNIST ability that is critical for success. And unfortunately, it currently is not explicitly represented in liberal arts curriculums.

I am referring to empathy, the ability to understand and share the feelings of others. Without enough of it, social progress and leadership are ineffectual.

Automation, technology-based industrialization, climate change and subsequent conflicts are all rapidly, and continuously, shaping our increasingly unequal world. Tomorrow’s leaders are in today’s schools, wherein they face the experiences that will define their future life contributions.

The current liberal arts curriculum of universities nationwide includes course requirements in clusters such as Arts, Literatures, and Performance (ALP) and Science, Technology, and Society (STS)—both of which are the case for students in Trinity College.

These Modes of Inquiry and Areas of Knowledge requirements are defined to prepare students for greater lives and careers beyond Duke University, and equip them with the tools, skills and knowledge they will need in order to succeed.

Perhaps a new requirement in Empathy Studies would further complicate the now-stagnant talks on Trinity College curriculum reform. But the idea of such a requirement raises questions on how our university environment is cultivating and instilling empathy, a critical value we should all seek to enhance, even in non-liberal arts settings.

The Pratt School of Engineering seeks to prepare students for success in engineering disciplines. Bridges they will construct and softwares they will develop should ultimately serve the purpose of bringing individuals together and improving quality of life.

Empathy is critical for both.

The few years during which students are able to live with and learn from peers in a resource-rich, highereducational setting, are dense with opportunity.

Priorities set by curriculums and resources presented play an indubitable role in shaping the lives of today’s young people who are afforded the opportunity to higher education. These future leaders in diverse fields, industries and disciplines must embrace empathybuilding and empathetic living, amidst the volatility of our world.

On Duke University’s campus, several opportunities lend themselves to empathy-building. Service-learning classes and DukeEngage experiences present an opportunity for students to put themselves in others’ shoes, if they are intentional. Mere conversations with peers from far different backgrounds present a chance to understand a new perspective of the world.

Beyond Duke’s gothic walls, the implications of empathetic living are perhaps more pronounced.

“The fourth industrial revolution” is a term coined

by Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, to describe the “fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres.”

Schwab recognizes that while this new revolution may “robotize” humanity (a dangerous underestimation), empathy can “lift humanity into a new collective and moral consciousness based on a shared sense of destiny.”

What do I want to learn? How do I make the most of this education? These are the questions that both undergraduate and graduate students ask themselves every day in pursuit of their degrees. Often, students do not ask these questions on their first day of classes, however. Thankfully, higher learning institutions are strongly poised to both consider these questions and set frameworks for how their students address them.

In 2010, a study from the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research found that “college kids today are about 40 percent lower in empathy than their counterparts of 20 or 30 years ago, as measured by standard tests of this personality trait,” according to researcher Sara Konrath. With our culture’s increasing use of social media and unparalleled sense of individualism, this trend is bound to continue.

Therefore, interventions—from both inside and outside academic realms—must systematically and intentionally exhibit, address and foster empathy.

Research from the University of Florida recently found that negative behaviors such as rudeness are contagious, just like a cold. If the same is true for the opposite of rudeness, suggesting that empathy is contagious, perhaps college campuses are a prime environment in which students can proactively exhibit intentionality within our cultivation of empathy.

The ability to empathize is arguably the most important trait an individual can have. Even for campus discourse on the future of our housing model, empathy is critical. How can non-Greek-affiliated students engage with Greek-affiliated students on housing if they do not empathize with the nurturing communities some students find in selective spaces?

Likewise, without empathy, how can students who have found the latter communities begin to engage with reforms to strengthen other forms of community on campus?

Without sufficient empathy, how can a leader hold his or her team accountable in a manner that empowers and fosters an environment conducive to honesty and vulnerability? In civil society and governance, how can we ever expect our leaders to act responsibly without sufficient empathy for the voiceless who are represented?

Empathy is a test of character, but it is also a test of strength, effectiveness and capacity for good. Global leaders need the emotional intelligence and ability to work in diverse teams in order address the challenges that lie ahead.

But these ideals are not standards for just the industry professionals and academics of the world— they are even more appropriately discussed in the context of young people who will need to live empathetically, just as great minds before us have done.

An “ES-req” may be far from feasible; still, it is about time we begin institutionalizing empathy into our campus dialogues and infrastructure. From workshops to syllabi to lunch conversations and mandated meetings between students and advisors, there is always enough room to foster empathy.

Sabriyya Pate is a Trinity junior. Her column runs on alternate Mondays.

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No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” Matthew, 6:24.

This is an easy choice for a number of our lawmakers. They choose money, every time. The National Rifle Association puts a down payment on the same people who call themselves public servants, who respond to massacres like that in Florida. Like Marco Rubio, they urge us not to mention gun control until we have “all” the facts. Like Marco Rubio, they say that laws regulating guns would not prevent crimes committed with guns. Like Marco Rubio, they tweet out their thoughts and prayers.

Tim Kowalczyk COLUMNIST What is so galling, so incomprehensible, is the invertebrate cowardice of those who toss out Christian pity but do not act in Christian practice. According to Politico, Rubio self-describes as “fully, theologically, doctrinally aligned with the Roman Catholic Church.”

Take it on my authority as a practicing Catholic, and on the authority of “The Catechism of the Catholic” Church, paragraphs 1913 to 1917: a Catholic knows that those with the power and ability to act for the good are duty-bound to do so. Rubio quoted Amos 5:15, urging us to “let justice prevail.” I wonder if Rubio and other tweet-happy lawmakers have read 1 John 3:18, “Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.” Christ had a name for those who speak loudly and do little: hypocrites.

And on the topic of hypocrisy, what do we say to casual gun control activists, who choose what’s easy over what’s right? I speak now from anecdotal experience. There are people with a way of caring that is not caring at all. They express their horror by a script so manicured as to be cliché: outrage, sorrow, explanation, apathy, ad nauseam. They post one article, they sign one petition and wait for the next massacre to care again. What do we hope to achieve if our interest in change fades after a few news cycles? The purity of your principles and nobility of your intentions are empty without action. Think of every great protest movement, of the suffragettes and civil rights marchers: progress demands commitment.

And on the topic of commitment: what price for commitment, even commitment to principle, is too steep? Law-abiding gun owners cannot be silent at times such as these. I have no doubt that they are as shocked and as disgusted by these murders as are the rest of us. They want the right to bear arms. Parents want their children to be safe. The Second Amendment allows us to bear arms. The First Amendment exhorts us to hear opinions that are not our own. I would hear anyone out, if it meant we could stop punctuating the school week with slaughter.

But not everyone will be so open-minded. Let’s not forget everyman Wayne LaPierre, the NRA Executive Vice President who stands ready to fight the liberal gun-hating elites. Believe Wayne when he says that the NRA will fight to take the country back. There is a battle in America.

Its strategists are cowards of the worst kind. Their fight is so perverse that it defies humanity. Children shed their blood to protect the liberty of those who bear arms. Set what price you will on liberty. Know that liberty’s price, today, is life.

NRA leadership might meet efforts to reform gun policy with such words as these, from Benjamin Franklin: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Never mind that Franklin was speaking years before the Revolution, about tax policy—such a line carries the ring of ’76 and pretends to pure intentions. How long can you shout “Don’t Tread on Me,” when the real violence is done to children, to their teachers?

How many deaths will break your apathy, if not these latest 17? Whose deaths, if not these children’s and teachers’?

I do not pretend to know the solution to gun violence. I was not raised shooting, nor have I suffered the loss of a loved one to gun violence. My point, and all I know on the issue, is this: we must have the conversation on reforming gun policy, now. This is a national problem, and all of us are tied up in it: lawmakers, activists on both sides, and the gun lobby elite. We must actually come together and determine how to have a Second Amendment without so much slaughter.

This is something that we can and we ought to do. For what happens, if we fail to act again? “Stand-With” hashtags will trend; CNN will give the jeremiads for gun control and Fox the jeremiads against; and we’ll have our catharsis and forget about the problem until it happens again. This conversation will be difficult. A whole nexus of issues—Constitutional rights, mental health policy, government surveillance—are swept up in this one question. Yet for all the discomfort this will cause us, for all the anguish of having the debates that people in democracies are supposed to have, four children are shot dead each day. How small and silly and stupid are “discomfort” and “inconvenience” against the death of a child. Shame on us, if we sit on our hands and do nothing.

Tim Kowalczyk is a Trinity junior. His column runs on alternate Mondays.

DEANS FROM PAGE 1 “At that point, I was living in an apartment in Woodcroft. I wasn’t yet married, I had not yet met my wife. I did not have a child. I was here, dating someone, but I was neither married or engaged. I was just trying to understand what this position was all about and what Duke was all about.

I was really excited to be here. When I got offered the job, I was at Penn chairing the Admissions Committee. It was a Friday evening. I got a message while I was chairing that I needed to return a phone call, and that evening around 6 p.m. I did. I remember telling people at Penn in the admissions office, when I told them that I got the job. I remember telling them that I had hit the jackpot. I was very, very excited about coming here, very excited about the next step.

I did not know how long I would be

here. If you had told them then that I would be here now—it’s my 26th year—and that I would have met my wife, had a child, and our daughter is in college now, that all of that would have happened—I’m not sure I would have expected that.

It’s been very interesting to me to see how Duke has changed and how it’s stayed the same.

The texture of this place has changed, but the character has stayed the same. The alumni who come back who’ve been gone for 20 years, they are amazed and impressed by how diverse this place is—it’s such a more diverse student body in all kinds of ways. The degree to which students like each other and love Duke hasn’t changed, but now they’re from everywhere.”

The Chronicle: What would you tell the man in the photo if you could go back in time?

“Talk less, listen more. That’s what I would tell him, talk less and listen more. I would tell my younger self to be more aware of how much there was to learn, and to listen harder to more people.”

Left: August 2, 1985, by Beth Branch | Right: Feb. 12, 2018, by Bre Bradham

Tom Keller Tom Keller, dean emeritus and R.J. Reynolds professor emeritus, served as dean of the Fuqua School of Business from 1974 to 1996.

Keller: “I came to work at Duke in 1959, so I had been here a while. The business school had gotten kicked off around 1970, and this picture was made shortly after we moved into this building… It was a major shift in the life of the business school, from being up in the Social Sciences building and the Old Chemistry building and on East Campus to being in one building with all of us here together. We continued to grow from that point.

Just about this time, I don’t remember if it was exactly in ’85, we got ranked in the Wall Street Journal as the number 10 business school in the country—so that was a high point. I was literally flying to Japan with the [North Carolina] governor, who at that time was Jim Hunt, on sort of a trade mission for the state, and Jim’s perspective at that time was that he wanted the Japanese to know that we had major educational opportunities here. We flew through New York, so we got off the plane at JFK and Jim Hunt picked up a copy of the Wall Street Journal and there it was.

So he went through the plane telling everyone we had the number 10 business school [here] in North Carolina, so that was a big message in Japan on that whole trip. That was really a major breakthrough for the school.

In 1989, which wasn’t too long after this, Mr. Fuqua—who had been our naming sponsor— gave us $5 million to begin a program for Russian managers. At that time, the [Berlin] wall still existed and there was a huge cold war between the U.S. and Russia. His thesis was that if we could convince Russian managers how to live in a market economy, we could reduce tension between the two countries—that they would begin to understand market economy to a controlled economy.

Mr. Fuqua and I went on a couple of trips to Russia in 1989 to meet with top Russians—we had hoped to meet with Mr. [Mikhail] Gorbachev himself, but we never got to. We got to meet his next in command. We met him in the Kremlin and talked with him about this program, what we intended to do—we had obviously gotten approval from the State department before we started this venture—and convinced him this would be a good thing to do.

So in 1990, we brought the first students here to Fuqua, in roughly August, and gave them a program. They spent three weeks here and then we put them with a company for three weeks, like an internship. Then they went back to Russia. We brought three groups a year over, so roughly 100 students per year.

We did that for three to four years, until we ran out of money.”

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Left: Dec. 8, 1992, by Paul Orsulak | Right: Feb. 13, 2018, by Bre Bradham

Sue Wasiolek Sue Wasiolek, dean of students, joined the student affairs staff at Duke in 1979 and became the dean of students at the ripe age of 23. Now, “Dean Sue” is also the faculty-in-residence for a first-year dorm and continues to oversee facets of the University related to student life.

Wasiolek: “My position has changed over the years. I started as an administrative assistant and the dean left. It’s a long story. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

The two other people who were offered the position declined, so there I was moving from administrative assistant to interim dean for student life. Then I became the dean at the age of 23. That just doesn’t happen, and I will be forever grateful to the vice president of student affairs at the time, who was Bill Griffith, who believed in me and gave me a chance.

But I wasn’t very distant in age from the students I was working with, and at the time I was overseeing conduct. I guess the one thing that I had going for me was that I’ve always looked older than I am, so I guess students felt that I wasn’t 23. I never told them how old I was and I tried not to make a big deal out of the year that I graduated from Duke because then they could figure it out.

If we move away from that and look at changes just at Duke, I would say the biggest change has been the diversity of the student body and the University at large. It has been really gratifying to be here to watch that diversity shift and for Duke to really continue to emphasize need-based financial aid, blindly through the admissions process, and to look at first generation students, not only in the recruitment process but in supporting them once they get here.

A lot has changed. I mean, a lot has changed.”

Left: July 22, 1985, by Beth Branch | Right: Feb. 9, 2018, by Bre Bradham

Left: undated, by Geoff Blake | Right: Feb. 5, 2018 by Bre Bradham

Gerald Wilson Gerald Wilson, an academic dean in Trinity College, has been at Duke for over half of a century.

He’s the University’s pre-law adviser and is a history professor. “Dean Wilson” moved to his current office in the bottom floor of the Allen Building around 2007, where he continues to advise firstyear students.

Wilson: “I came to Duke on Sept. 18, 1958 as a graduate student to go to the Divinity School. I became what we now call a [Residential Assistant] and the head RA—we called them house masters then, so I was the head house master. We had two campuses, and I worked in the Dean of Men’s office, and for a semester I was the acting Dean of Men. Then I got an academic deanship, which was what I wanted.

My full-time employment at Duke dates from 1964. I joined the dean’s staff in 1967, and I became the pre-law advisor in 1969.”

The Chronicle: How has the University changed in your time here?

Wilson: “In general, in terms of the University, I have watched Duke move from being the outstanding university in the South to being a world-class university.”