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dean and vice provost for undergraduate education, said he believes the reason for the upward trend is simple. “Duke is increasingly seen as a place to be, for a number of reasons,” Nowicki said. “We’re obviously a top ranked school, but I think that students are smart enough to realize that rankings aren’t everything.” Nowicki said differences in scoring between top-ranked schools are minuscule, so students are instead attracted to Duke’s focus on cross-

Two weeks ago, Duke’s defense was porous. Flimsy. Torn to shreds. Even nonexistent. But oh, how the tide has turned. Three games after switching to a zone defense, the No. 5 Blue Devils held their third straight ACC opponent to fewer than 60 points for the first time since 1981, extinguishing Louisville’s shooting almost entirely in an 82-56 win Wednesday at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Although Duke yielded a double-double to Cardinal forward Ray Spalding, it essentially neutralized Deng Adel and Quentin Snider on the perimeter. In their last three games, the Blue Devils have held opponents to shoot just 28.3 percent from deep, a massive improvement for a Duke team that had struggled mightily to defend the perimeter at times earlier this season. “We don’t have as many perimeter guys. But we have length and we have fairly good lateral movement from each kid,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We talk better in the zone. We’re more unified in the zone.... And Grayson is able to lead us better. Instead of covering one person, you see him orchestrating things offensively and defensively.” Without transcendent freshman Marvin Bagley III due to a knee sprain for the fourth straight game, Grayson Allen commanded the offense with 28 points on six 3-pointers. His triple midway through the first half sparked a 26-10 run to close the half, and the Blue Devils (23-5, 11-4 in the ACC) never looked back. It wasn’t always easy for the senior captain—he had to break through a deep dry spell that plagued him at the end of the first half. But Allen exploded for 13 points in a roughly six-minute stretch midway through the second that extinguished any of Louisville’s wildest lingering hopes.

DUKE BREAKS ITS RECORD FOR NUMBER OF APPS RECEIVED

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For the fourth year in a row, Duke has broken its record for number of applications received with 37,302, an eight percent increase from the previous year. There were just over 4,000 applicants who applied for early decision, of which 875 were accepted—both records. The class of 2022 had nearly 3,000 more applicants than the previous year’s class, and about 5,500 more than the applicant pool five years ago. Stephen Nowicki,

Duke to replace Quenchers with Red Mango By Claire Ballentine Towerview Editor

Duke students always have intense feelings about campus eateries, but their love for Quenchers may be the strongest. The mayhem began Tuesday when senior Adam Kershner posted on the Fix My Campus Facebook page about learning from the Quenchers staff that the popular Wilson Gym smoothie bar would be replaced by Red Mango. Soon after, he launched a petition on Change.org to show how many students value Quenchers. “Aside from providing students with some of the healthiest foods on campus and fostering healthy habits, Quenchers has carved out an emotional niche, as students genuinely love the staff and culture it provides,” he wrote in the petition. “Losing Quenchers would be an extremely heartbreaking event on campus due to the loss of a dedicated and beloved staff and

healthy food options we rely on.” The Facebook post announcing the petition currently has more than 700 likes and more than 1,700 students have signed the petition. In a statement to the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee, Duke Dining explained that in anticipation of Quenchers’ contract ending this year, they developed plans for an enhanced dining venue in Wilson Gym. “After careful consideration of the options, a new operator for that location was selected,” the statement reads. “The team from Red Mango in the Bryan Center will operate that venue which will feature an entirely new menu compatible with the market at Wilson Recreation Center.” The new cafe, currently unnamed, will open in Summer 2018 after renovations to the space, which will allow for an See QUENCHERS on Page 4

Henry Haggart | Associate Photography Editor Grayson Allen scored 28 points and knocked down six 3-pointers Wednesday night. It was his third game with at least 23 points in the last two weeks.

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New DSG Judiciary office aims to defend students’ rights By Stefanie Pousoulides Staff Reporter

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Bridges noted that the members of the Judiciary serving in OPA will be responsible for coordinating the advocates’ efforts. A principle officer will also assist in selecting new advocates, oversee outreach efforts and serve as a liaison between the OPA and the other offices in the Judiciary. The principal officer’s primary role is assisting in selecting and training new advocates, overseeing marketing, access, and outreach for OPA and also serving as a liaison between the other offices in the Judiciary and OPA. “We will have our principal adviser of OPA, and we’ll also give them support in terms of resources, if they need clerks to jump in and help with some of their legal research,” Dabke said. Dabke added that the Judiciary has also reached out to the law school to have law faculty members and students involved, but the relationship has not been fully fleshed out.

The Duke Student Government Judiciary has a new office that aims to ensure that students are aware of their rights and how to access them on campus. Chief Justice Dev Dabke, a senior, said the Office of Public Advocacy will help protect students’ rights on campus—whether they are provided by Duke administrators or incorporated into the Duke Community Standard. Dabke elaborated that the Judiciary wanted to create an access point for advocates—those who are trained in the campus legal system—to better inform all students of their rights. This function is especially important if students do not know whom to contact if they have questions about those rights, he added. “I want there to be some sort of vehicle for students to have advocates or people who are trained in the bureaucratic legal system on campus and have those people be able to fight for students when it comes to We’re hoping we can have a wide it,” Dabke said. “It’s about finding the appropriate array of people apply, get accepted solution for a student’s very and be a member of the program. real problems that they experience on campus.” analese bridges

Recruiting new members Bridges said that the official capacity of her role includes being in charge of recruitment and marketing. Although several people are involved in the advocate selection process, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE DUKE STUDENT she ultimately is the one The evolution of OPA GOVERNMENT JUDICIARY coordinating and centralizing Dabke said that the such efforts. Bridges said that advocate Judiciary had a soft launch of OPA last semester. Ranging from advocate recruitment applicants do not need to have a particular background. and training to conversations about OPA’s structure, the Rather, the Judiciary accepts applicants with a wide Judiciary’s efforts were formalized into a hard launch this array of experiences and have manifested themselves in semester, making OPA now an official part of DSG. critical thought, engagement and analysis. “People come from economics backgrounds, Associate Justice Analese Bridges recalled that the Judiciary had advocates who worked to protect student math and computer science to sociology to your rights prior to the launch of OPA, but with “not as more traditional political science pursuing a pre-law much of an institutional backing.” Now equipped with track,” Bridges said. “So, there’s no set experience institutional support, Bridges, a junior, noted two major an advocate should have. We’re hoping we can have a wide array of people apply, get accepted and be a changes to the Judiciary. First, a justice on the Judiciary who oversees the member of the program.” advocates’ work. Second, there is going to be a much Bridges said she is excited about the pool of applicants more concerted effort to reach out to the student body the Judiciary has received so far and notes that having to reinforce OPA’s presence and work on a variety of potential advocates with wide-ranging backgrounds different issues. comes as an asset to OPA. Because student rights claims “Before, advocates were working in a capacity of are so varied, the Judiciary hopes that the diverse presenting in front of the Judiciary or maybe taking on a experiences of its applicants will enable it to reach out singular project or two projects,” Bridges said. “Now that See JUDICIARY on Page 12 we have a team, a lot of things are going to get done.”

Stone by Stone: New project aims to profile laborers who built Duke Chapel By Nathan Luzum Health and Science News Editor

Everyone recognizes the iconic Duke Chapel on West Campus, but few people might know about the laborers who actually built it. With the help of graduate and undergraduate students, the Stone by Stone project will delve into this unsolved mystery over the summer by analyzing the University Archives and discovering the untold stories of the workforce that labored to construct the Chapel. The end product of the research will be a website or a similar resource that will showcase the names and experiences of the Chapel’s laborers. “It was an idea that I suggested—it was something that the administration was very supportive of after the removal of the Lee statue last summer,” said University Archivist Valerie Gillispie, who is sponsoring the project. “They’ve been looking for a way to sort of follow-up and think more about the Chapel and what it represents and what it means to people.” Although there has been quite a bit of research devoted to Julian Abele’s role in designing the Chapel and other areas on West Campus, she See CHAPEL on Page 12

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Rep. Seth Moulton: ‘What we need is fewer guns on the streets’ By Sam Turken Managing Editor

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) visited Duke Thursday to discuss different issues facing the country. During a talk hosted by the Center for Political Leadership, Innovation and Service, Moulton discussed his experiences as a Marine in the Iraq War and his views on the Democratic Party. The Chronicle also spoke with Moulton about the ongoing debate about gun violence in the aftermath of the shooting in Parkland, Fla. which left 17 people dead, among other topics. Here are highlights from the interview. Moulton said President Trump’s calls to arm highlytrained teachers and give them bonuses to protect schools from shootings is a “terrible idea”: “It’s like saying we have a problem with fires, and so we should buy more matches. It’s literally moving in the opposite direction. What we need is fewer guns on the streets. We need teachers who can actually focus on teaching and have the resources to teach. And a lot of teachers don’t even have the books they need. Let’s not spend the money on guns. Let’s spend it on books. And I would add that it just come out that there actually was an armed person at [Stoneman Douglas High School]—a sheriff deputy—and he didn’t do anything. And this is someone who is literally trained to use a gun to protect students. So this is an idea that comes straight from the [National Rifle Association] and the gun lobby straight to President Trump’s desks. It’s not something that will make us safer. I think it will actually make us a lot less safe.” Moulton is a Marine Corps veteran who served four tours in Iraq. He has seen the damage that assault weapons do to the body. He said assault rifles are “weapons of war” that do not “belong on our streets”: “For the same reason that we have banned landmines, we have banned rocket launchers, you can’t be a private person and buy a tank, you shouldn’t be able to buy these weapons of war either…I will acknowledge that there was not a reduction in gun violence after the assault weapons ban was passed, you know, a couple decades ago. But the reality is the world’s changed a bit. And while I wouldn’t expect banning assault weapons to eliminate the vast majority of gun deaths, which happen in the home, which usually are with hand guns, I do think it would ASK US mass YOURshootings.” QUESTIONS. GIVE US YOUR OPINIONS. limit these Congress unsuccessfully tried to pass gun control legislation after theASK Sandy HookQUESTIONS. Elementary School shooting in Newton, US YOUR GIVE US YOUR OPINIONS. Conn. in 2012. Moulton said his proposal to ban bump stocks, the device used in the massacre of concertgoers in Las Vegas in October 2017, could pass the House of Representatives: “I’mASK the US co-author of the bump banOPINIONS. in Congress that YOUR QUESTIONS. GIVE stock US YOUR has more Republicans signed on than any other piece of gun

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legislation in recent memory. And so many more Republicans have told me personally that they will vote for it, even though they’re not formally signed on as co-sponsors yet. All we need is the Speaker of the House to have some courage and bring it to a vote. If Speaker [Paul] Ryan did his job and brought that bill to a vote today, it would pass. And we would have an example on the books of Democrats and Republicans coming together to do the right thing to keep our country safe—and by the way, not violating the second amendment.” President Trump’s March 5 deadline for Congress to reach a deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects young undocumented immigrants from deportation, is less than two weeks away. Last week, the Senate could not advance three different pieces of legislation that would give the DACA recipients citizenship. Moulton said he is unsure about what will happen with DACA: “I just can’t tell. We have a president who’s so erratic that one moment he’d agree to some of the bipartisan immigration deals, then he changed his mind. This was back before the shutdown. We weren’t even supposed to have a shutdown because a bipartisan group from Congress presented the President with a plan, and he agreed to it. A few hours later, all of a sudden, he wasn’t agreeing to it again. So, it’s impossible to predict where this will go, but we have got to protect these innocent kids.” Last year, Democrats suffered a string of defeats in special elections, but finished the year off electing a senator in Alabama and nearly taking the Virginia state house. That success has continued this year. But Moulton has called for new leadership for the party. He said he wants a new generation of Democrats that is forward-looking: “The reason that we did so well is because we had great candidates. And that’s one of the reasons I spent so much time recruiting and supporting great candidates across this country. I’m focused on veterans running in swing districts to take back the House in 2018. Nineteen amazing people, like Amy McGrath, the first person to fly an F/A-18 in combat in the Marine Corps, she’s running in Kentucky. Dan McCready right down the road here, a marine veteran I met in business school. So there’s amazing candidates out there, but that’s not enough. The reality is the Democrats, we’ve won some races, [but] don’t forget we’ve also had a couple losses. We poured millions of dollars into Jon Ossoff’s race down in Georgia and we lost. We can’t expect to win if we don’t start leading again, if we don’t do more than say, ‘the Republicans are bad, Trump is bad.’ We need to talk about what our vision for the country is and how we’re going to meet the challenges of the future, not just the challenges of the past, and I think it’s time for a new generation of leaders to step up and do that for the country. I don’t support every veteran—it’s not a litmus test by any

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means. But in general, veterans have had this experience of putting their country first, before their own personal politics or party politics. I think they know how to do what’s right even if it takes a lot of political courage. Because many of them have faced bigger challenges in life than the political challenges we’ve faced in Washington. So I think it’s a good recipe. By the way, I don’t mean just military veterans here. I support national service veterans—Peace Corps, Teach for America, people who have made sacrifices as young Americans to serve others, to serve our country.” Moulton said “it is not a sure bet” that Democrats retake the house in this year’s primary elections: “There’s a lot of time between now and November, and there’s a lot of opportunity for us to do the right thing, like show a vision for the country, and make some leadership changes that people can get behind. There’s also time for us to screw it up.” The Chronicle has reported that women have experienced sexual harassment at Duke. Moulton reflected on sexual harassment across universities and in Congress: I’m not an expert on the process at universities, but it was totally broken in Congress, I can tell you that, and that’s why I was one of the earliest co-sponsors of [ME TOO Congress Act] to get that system fixed. This is a problem that quite obviously touches all parts of our society—schools, universities, the business world, corporate executives, the media world, the congressional world. Just speaking as a member of Congress, I think we should be leading the way on fixing it. We should be setting policies for ourselves that are an example to the rest of the country. With the policies that we’ve had in place up until now, the opposite has been the case.

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new eatery will be like. Dining would sever ties with a local small business person in “I think many people assumed the current Red Mango favor of a chain establishment.” vendor in the Bryan Center would be recreated in Wilson, and Kershner noted that he appreciates the atmosphere of expanded environment and menu. that’s not what’s going to happen,” Medine said. Quenchers and always has good conversations with its staff. In a post on Fix My Campus, outgoing DUSDAC chair The location in Wilson Stopping there after a workout is a Brian Taylor explained that the decision was driven by requests will have a larger menu tradition for many students. from the Wilson administration who were unhappy with the selection than Quenchers, Quenchers is a student favorite for He said that in the comments on services currently offered by Quenchers. including smoothies, the quality and variety of healthy his Facebook post, people were getting “Dining has attempted to work with Wilson and Quenchers smoothie bowls, fresh juice, options as well as the familiar and emotional about the pattern of Duke to remediate these issues for years with limited success, and as soups, salad, sandwiches and Dining keeping students out of the loop in friendly staff, especially after a Quencher’s contract is expiring the Wilson administration has a fresh fruit bar. its decision-making. decided to go in a different direction,” he wrote. However, many tiring workout at Wilson. “It seemed like there was a lot more In addition, Taylor explained that the decision was not students have expressed going on than people just getting mad financially driven and that there is no incentive for Duke their disappointment with about Quenchers,” Kershner said. “I’m Dining to have students spend food points at one location Quenchers leaving Wilson. kevin mutchnick curious to understand how much over another. “Quenchers is a student SENIOR Duke actually takes our voices into Senior Julia Medine, current DUSDAC co-chair, noted that favorite for the quality and consideration.” the staff at Wilson said they had received student complaints variety of healthy options as Jack Chao, the owner of Quenchers, about Quenchers’ willingness to change and innovate based on well as the familiar and friendly staff, especially after a tiring said that he only got the official notice that his contract would students suggestions and input. workout at Wilson,” said senior Kevin Mutchnick. “Its owner not be renewed last Friday. However, he began to suspect this She said there have been misconceptions about what the Jack Chao is a longtime vendor at Duke, and I hate to think that when a group of people came in a week prior to take photos and said they were doing a survey for Red Mango. He noted that he was never informed about the reasons for replacing Quenchers, which he has operated in Wilson Gym for the past 20 years. It was the first outside vendor to come to campus. In addition, Chao said that he never refused to take suggestions or modify his menu, adding that he is disappointed and heartbroken about the decision. “I don’t know where this thing that I don’t want to work with anyone comes from,” he said. “I don’t get it.” He noted that he has loved his 20 years working on Duke’s campus and is appreciative of the community’s support. This isn’t the first time one of Chao’s businesses on campus It’s different here. has been closed by Duke Dining. Grace’s Café, an eatery in Trent Hall on Central Campus Wi-fi internet cafe featuring Asian cuisine, shut it doors in 2016 because of expensive renovations required on the kitchen ventilation Entrepreneurial business conference room system and the opening of the Brodhead Center. On-site social director Grace’s participated in a menu-tasting competition to try to earn a spot as a vendor in the Brodhead Center, but Duke Two resort-style pools Student Government and Duke University Student Dining Premier fitness club with on-site fitness director Committee members instead unanimously opted for new vendors Ginger+Soy and Gyotaku. 24 Hour coffee and hot tea bar In an attempt to save Quenchers from closing, senior Anna Li and sophomore Helena Wu have planned a protest Feb. 28 in Plush lounge with billiard table, shuffle board, front of the Student Affairs Office in the Bryan Center. Playstation, and HDTV The event description notes that they plan to also boycott the Red Mango in the Bryan Center and threaten to boycott Movie theater with stadium style seating Red Mango once it opens in Wilson. Gorgeous dark walnut stained concrete or luxurious German “Let’s shame Duke Dining for how they’ve treated us, beech hardwood flooring hopefully enough to make them keep Quenchers,” it reads. “We need to stop them before the contract is signed.” Controlled access to covered garage parking Wu explained that she has become friends with Chao the past two years and thinks there has not been enough Outdoor fireplace and poolside grills transparency from Duke Dining about the decision. Walking distance to Duke Medical Center and Duke’s west campus She and Li had the idea for the protest because when Grace’s closing was announced, students responded by just circulating a petition which ultimately failed. “I think that something should be done about this,” she apart ment said. “We’re putting pressure on the Duke administration and showing that students will actually take some sort of action.” Medine said that the reaction from students is understandable since they clearly appreciate Quenchers as a vendor but noted that she is optimistic for the future. “I think people were rightfully worried that what they love about Quenchers might not be available,” she said. “I’m happy a new vendor will expand on the options, and I’m looking forward to seeing what happens.” FROM PAGE 1

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Grayson Allen coming into his own as elite scorer during winning streak without Bagley By Michael Model Assistant Blue Zone Editor

Although the Blue Devils may not be decisively better without freshman Marvin Bagley III in the lineup as a team, one thing is clear: Grayson Allen has been significantly more effective as the go-to option. Following a dominant 28-point outing in the Blue Devils’ 82-56 victory against Louisville Wednesday, Allen has now maintained his vintage form the last four games. After failing to break 20 points in the first 10 contests of 2018, Duke’s senior captain has surpassed that mark three times in the Blue Devils’ last four games, also (maybe not so) coincidentally the four games Bagley has missed with a knee sprain. In five games this season without Bagley in the lineup—including Duke’s matchup against No. 2 Michigan State when Bagley sat most of the game with an eye injury—Allen has averaged 26.4 points. But when both players are in the lineup and healthy, Allen’s scoring output nearly gets cut in half, down to just 13.3 points per contest. “When you play good, you feel good, and for me it is just trying to stay in this groove,” Allen said. “Part of it is me just playing better, adjusting and finding different spots, and part of that is adjusting to what our offense has turned into with Marvin out.” Without the freshman phenom in the lineup, Allen has been forced into a creator role and has become the team’s primary ball-handler. Rather than acting as a catchand-shoot player on the perimeter, Allen has

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Grayson Allen is averaging 26.4 points in Duke’s five games that have been primarily without Marvin Bagley III, more than double his average in other games. returned to his aggressive style of play, driving to the basket and converting at the free-throw line. In the five games without Bagley, Allen has attempted at least eight free throws on three occasions, and he’s currently made 21 straight from the charity stripe. The Jacksonville, Fla., native’s strong performance offensively has also translated to the defensive side of the ball. Allen has been much more active defensively, and has led the Blue Devils’ recent successful

adoption of the 2-3 zone. Duke has now held each of its last three opponents to fewer than 60 points defensively, something it had done just once all season prior to this stretch and had not done to three straight conference opponents since 1981. “Grayson is our leader,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “By having him up top, it allows him to lead better. In the zone and on offense, he’s on top. That positioning works out better, to have his leadership have a

positive influence on these guys.” Allen’s recent resurgence comes following the most brutal stretch of his career offensively. In the first 10 contests of 2018, Allen scored double digits in back-to-back games just once, and he converted better than 40 percent of his attempts from the field on just two occasions. The senior captain felt that at times, he was more focused on getting the young team around him going than himself. “It is a tough balance for me as a leader,” Allen said. “I was just trying to get a lot of these guys involved early on and get us to move the ball, get us to get a great shot every time down the court because we can with how much talent we have on offense.” But with Bagley out of the lineup, Allen has emerged as the go-to option offensively for the Blue Devils. Allen would likely continue his role as the primary ball-handler in the event of a Bagley return, keeping freshman guard Trevon Duval off the ball, but whether Allen can continue to fool defenses and convert from the perimeter consistently remains to be seen. Regardless, Allen is certainly well out of his slump, and with just a few weeks left in his college career, he is feeling confident about ending his four years at Duke on a strong note. “I’m glad that it’s happening now,” Allen said. “It takes just a few to go in and then the basket gets bigger and bigger and then you think the rest are going in. It’s nice that it’s happening here at the end. It’s helping me, it’s helping our team and our team is getting better going into this postseason.”

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When the Blue Devils last faced their rival down the road back in January, Duke had all the pieces in place to steal the thunder out of a celebratory night for North Carolina head coach Sylvia Hatchell and notch a key road win. Instead, the Blue Devils fell apart in the final minutes of play, leaving Duke head UNC coach Joanne P. McCallie searching for vs. answers in what would become the Blue No. 20 Devils’ most painful loss of the season. Duke No. 20 Duke will host the Tar Heels SUNDAY, 2 p.m. Sunday at 2 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Cameron Indoor Stadium Stadium with a shot at redemption in its regular-season finale. After squandering a 19-point lead to North Carolina a month ago and with four standout seniors and graduate students facing their final contest in Cameron, this game runs deeper than the typical battle of the bluebloods. Those very seniors may be the key for Duke in taking control of Sunday’s rematch. “What’s important is getting better this time of year,” McCallie said. “It’s cutting loose a little bit, with everyone playing off each other in a way that is March-like. As we head into March, there’s

a certain energy and a certain focus that is needed as we push through the month, and that’s what I saw against Florida State and that’s what we need against UNC.” Coming off a massive resume win against ninth-ranked Florida State, the Blue Devils (21-7, 10-5 in the ACC) will be entering their contest against North Carolina having just played some of their best basketball all season. Against the Seminoles, the star for Duke was graduate student Lexie Brown, who notched a staggering 30 points, shooting 12-of-19 from the field. The Suwanee, Ga., native also made it tough for the highly-touted Florida State offense to gain any momentum, picking up five timely steals to keep the Blue Devils in the driver’s seat. Against a Tar Heel squad that’s had trouble controlling the ball—averaging 15.9 turnovers per game—Brown’s trademark assertive style will yet again spearhead Duke’s offense and defense. “There are so many things [Lexie] does on the floor for us, whether they be defensive or offensive,” McCallie said. “She has become a very efficient player--she’s up for player of the year and could honestly be up for defensive player of the year relative to her steal success. Lexie has been a warrior competitor and has been coming along to play some great basketball.” The Blue Devils can also expect serious contributions from the other half of the Splash Sisters. Graduate student Rebecca

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M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 1 With Bagley out, Allen has scored 19plus points in his last four games after getting snuffed out on offense for much of conference play. The senior has gotten far more looks—he took 20 shots—and has capitalized on them. “I’m getting a lot of stuff not only off the ball, but off screens, coming down screens, then off the top with some ball screens, getting some stuff in transition where I can come off an attack and get stuff against defense that’s not set,” Allen said. “We’re doing a lot of really good stuff as a team and I’m able to get more open looks off of that.” Even without Bagley and with center Marques Bolden playing through a nose fracture, Duke owned the defensive glass against a Louisville team (18-10, 8-7) that was one of the best in the nation in defensive rebounding before Wednesday. Sophomore Javin DeLaurier started for the Blue Devils and combined with Wendell Carter Jr. for a whopping 17 rebounds. Despite the fracture, Bolden did not wear any sort of protective gear on his face and ended up playing 16 minutes while scoring eight points and grabbing five rebounds. Bolden said that he tried wearing the mask, but it was just too much to play with. Although Bolden and DeLaurier have filled in well, Duke would still prefer to have Bagley back—Krzyzewski said he remains day-to-day with his knee injury. “Marvin has a problem, or else he would play. He’s getting better. It’s not a structural problem,” Krzyzewski said. “If we weren’t concerned about him having more injury, he would play. He’s not ready, but he’s getting closer now. I don’t know when it will happen.

But I don’t want to push. You don’t want anyone out there who is thinking about a body part when you’re playing.” Despite losing the battle on the glass in the very early going, Duke owned the paint for the bulk of the first half. The Blue Devils threw down seven dunks, including two putback slams from DeLaurier, to help break down a Cardinal defense that was one of the best in the nation at defending the hardwood inside the arc this year. Duke’s prowess inside the 3-point line helped it go on a 13-0 run midway through the first half that gave it a 20-point lead with just over two minutes left in the half. Although the Blue Devils were able to hold the Cardinals to shoot just 1-of-8 from deep in the first, they had difficulty at times keeping Louisville away from the rim. Spalding and V.J. King combined for 20 of Louisville’s 25 first-half points, but Allen’s 13-point outburst and Duke’s eight forced first-half turnovers were more than enough to negate it. Although Duke’s defense has improved steadily without Bagley in the lineup, Krzyzewski shot down concerns about reintegrating Bagley into the rotation once healthy. “We’ll handle that when that happens,” Krzyzewski said. “If Elton Brand came back or J.J. Redick came back, you [don’t say], ‘Can’t play now. We’re playing too well.’ We’ll figure it out. To win these four games without him is a really big-time thing. Javin, Marques, even Wendell, their confidence is higher.” With the loss, the Cardinals have now dropped five of their last seven games. Duke will look to move its win streak to five games Saturday night at Cameron against Syracuse.

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N.C., native who averages 19.4 points per game, Duke can prevent January’s nightmare from happening all over again. “[Our last game against UNC] was a very bad game for us in terms of focus,” McCallie said. “I’ve watched it again and again and it’s very difficult to watch the lack of focus and those liveball turnovers. We’ve grown as a team and we’ve grown through the process of learning, getting better, taking care of the ball better and making better decisions.” A win against North Carolina would also likely secure a double bye for the Blue Devils in next week’s ACC tournament if No. 21 N.C. State loses on the road at No. 5 Notre Dame. “We’ve got a variety things from our last film,” McCallie said. “Florida State was a great game but there’s plenty from Florida State to improve upon. That’s what we’re going to do on Sunday--get after those improvements and become a much better team Sunday, and head into the tournament feeling good about that.... You can smell March, and it’s a time of year to really get better and really apply yourself.”

W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 8 and crashing the glass, it will be tough for the Tar Heels to sustain runs on the road against the Blue Devils. Although Duke has the individual talent to send North Carolina (14-13, 4-10 in the ACC) packing, the Blue Devils will need to learn from their last contest if they want to avoid a costly misstep just before conference play. In last month’s game, Duke Achilles’ heel was an abysmal 26 turnovers. The Blue Devils have taken better care for the ball lately— committing less than 15 turnovers in each of their last three games—but carelessness against an opportunistic Tar Heel squad could prove disastrous for Duke. The Blue Devils will also need to figure out how to limit North Carolina redshirt sophomore Paris Kea, who poured in 36 points and shot 5-of-9 from beyond the arc in the teams’ meeting in Chapel Hill. If the Blue Devils can clamp down on the Tarboro,

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arlier this week—after months of courtroom visits and campaigns of political pressure— the remaining charges were dropped against protesters involved in the toppling of a Durham confederate soldier statue last summer. This marks a significant victory for the highly-publicized protesters who have faced criticism in the long-standing debate around the fate of Civil War monuments, a national conversation that reached its most recent boiling point in the wake of the Charlottesville white supremacist rally that result in the death of a counter-demonstrator, Heather Heyer. In light of the retracted charges, it would serve us well to revisit and reflect on why the future of these statues remain a contentious talking point. As with everything, historicity and contextualization are key to fully understanding the monuments—especially the political intentions that fueled their construction. The timeline of when these statues were erected is a key component of this: periods in which construction was highest were in the early 1900s, followed by spikes again in the 50s and 60s. This paints a clearer picture of social undertones of the memorials given that these historical intervals were characterized by deep civil unrest and tension. Many were bankrolled by private groups such as the Daughters of the Confederacy in order to push back against battles for racial equity and were built unilaterally, circumventing channels that would have allowed for input or debate

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from black residents. Durham’s circa 1922 statue was erected in part by an allocation of $5000 in country tax money at a time when black duhamites were restricted from voting and politically repressed by Jim Crow laws. Meaning they had no say in their tax dollars being funneled to the monument’s initial construction. For North Carolina as a whole, records also tell very a different story than the popular, defensive narrative of memorial and remembrance. In the 25 years after the

Editorial Board Civil War, less than 30 statues were built. Then, in the 50 years following the institution of Jim Crow laws across the south, more than 130 cropped up. Those who have spoken out for monument preservation frame the moves to tear down statues— whether via rope or more bureaucratic channels—as historical erasure. However, this argument often rests on the notion that we are now so distanced from the racism and oppression of the 1860s that these statues soley stand as symbols of spectres of the past, rather than existing simultaneously with the Reconstruction Era failures still felt today. Others question whether or not toppling confederate effigies only eggs on right-wing extremism, potentially causing more harm than good. However, one

should consider that in the face of a strong, worrying uptick in white nationalist visibility, there might be long term benefits to taking down such symbolic icons that doubled as assembly points not too long ago in Charlottesville. Additionally, these arguments beg the question of how long we need to wait before addressing them? How long before we do the work of confronting symbols of violence, revisionism and domination that have sat menacingly for decades? While there may be difference in opinion about the best way to remove statues, two things are for certain regarding the toppling in Durham last summer: there is a distinct failure of our political system to provide adequate channels to address the statue’s future in more orthodox ways and the statue met its end poetically: by the hands of Takiyah Thompson—who, a hundred years ago, would have been systematically silenced from challenging its construction in the first place. The questions proposed about these monuments need to be handled in a meaningful and nuanced way, but such a conversation is seemingly impossible in a state that, by some metrics, doesn’t even qualify as a democracy. Ultimately, it’s clear that unless there are considerable improvements to channels for political dissent, residents will be left with no choice but to take matters like these statues into their own hands. And, perhaps, that’s just what needs to happen.

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he country of Chile started aggressively combating obesity with marketing restrictions and labeling mandates. Three-fourths of Chile’s population is obese or overweight. Their cereal boxes no longer feature Tony The Tiger, but instead a plain bowl of milk and flakes. Chilean children, over half of whom are overweight, will not be bombarded with food marketing anymore. And the Chilean government is attempting to regulate the businesses that are responsible for fattening their people.

Camille Wilder COLUMNIST Modern food culture is rife with inconsistencies. Indulgences are pitted against healthy options, some of which are not even truly healthy. Food is sold to the masses as a celebration, a comfort, something to resist. Veganism has become popular, but so has the Paleo diet, which attempts to replicate primal diets by eliminating grains, dairy, and processed foods. Most diets focus on restricting some type of food, whether it be carbs or fat. Each proclaims it causes weight loss and restored vitality. Most people have a weak understanding of what a calorie is (a unit for measuring energy), but don’t understand how their bodies process foods differently. Most people have eaten a large plate of pasta, only to feel starved hours later. I personally have tried to clean up my diet, but cave into sugar cravings after less than a week. Everyone’s bodies process food differently, and this is why it is so difficult to create one comprehensive diet plan that will solve the myriad diet-related illnesses and complications. Instead, we end up eating whatever is familiar or convenient, and that often takes the form of processed, sugar-laden junk. The modern food industry has many issues besides the obvious health problems caused by unhealthy eating. Abuse of livestock, big business outcompeting family farms, and improper treatment of workers plague what we eat every day. One of the biggest culprits for chronic, diet-related illnesses is sugar. In the 1960s, the government decided the fatty foods Americans consumed were causing a multitude of health issues and mandated the food industry to reduce the amount of fat in their products. The problem was that low-fat foods tasted awful, but there was a solution. Sugar tastes delicious, is low fat, and is cheap to process, but is addictive and correlated with obesity since replacing fat. Sugar is metabolized in the body by the hormone insulin, which sends some of the glucose for cellular processes, and the rest is converted to a molecule called glycogen in the liver. Glycogen is used as energy in the periods between meals, but some of it may be left over and stored fat tissues throughout the body. Most meat eaten today is raised on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), housing up to

millions of animals that are kept in tight crates or pens for the majority of their lives. The cruelty of how the animals are treated is not the only concern, as CAFOs produce dangerous amounts of pollutants. Over 168 gases are released from CAFOs, such as ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, and methane. Hog farms in particular are environmentally detrimental because a place to store their feces is needed, and waste lagoons filled with dung and urine seep into the ground and eventually water sources. Countless other animal rights violations and environmental degradation are committed by the meat industry. Some people are aware of this; others choose to eat factory farmed meat in spite of their awareness. The people who own and operate CAFOs suffer as well as their animals. The documentary “Food Inc.” outlines how multinational corporations like Perdue (a chicken product manufacturer) charges small farms enormous prices to use their equipment or meet capacities, causing them to go into debt which they are never able to repay. Produce companies like Monsanto use GMO seeds, which they claim blow into other farms and contaminate crops with their patented seeds. They then sue and shut down small farms who refuse to work under them. Produce pickers are mainly illegal immigrants with little rights. They often work for less than minimum wage, excessive hours, and in inhumane conditions. They are unable to protest these injustices because they fear deportation and need the money, as they are only able to work part of the year. The giant multinational food companies that dominate the food industry abuses both those in control of farms and the workers who process food. We have created a disconnect in modern food culture, both between what we eat and where it comes from. We have no idea how to properly feed ourselves, and obesity rates are higher than ever. Many people feel trapped by cravings, tradition and connivence. The lack of education about how food is metabolized in the body means that most people don’t understand how food will make them feel (and look). In addition, the very food consumed is harming animals and workers alike. We spend so much of our lives focusing on food, deciding what and when and where to eat. But we spend so little time concerned with what is inside our food and who grew or processed it. There is no one diet in America, but the vast majority turn to processed foods made by large food companies that abuse producers and consumers alike. The very thing that keeps us alive should not be consumed without any consideration of its implications. Chile is moving in the right direction with restrictions on big businesses in an effort to protect its people, but America needs to take the same steps and go even further to educate and alter the habits of its population. The only way for us to become healthy and ethically conscious with our diets is to question what we are eat. Camille Wilder is a Trinity first-year. Her column usually runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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The persistence of memory and T-Pain

f T-Pain has such a good voice, why does he use auto-tune? I won’t pretend to know enough about vocal music to give a discerning critique of his vocal range. But you don’t need to know that much about music to know that T-Pain’s voice in the NPR Desk Concert version of “Buy U a Drank” is good. It’s raw, it’s ironically wholesome given the subject matter, and it makes you want to consider stopping by a jazz concert with your lover on your way home from the club. If you’re my mom reading this, or for some other reason have never heard his

information we are taking in is stored at more than one sensory node. The more sensory cues we use, the stronger the memory. The different tempos in the two versions of T-Pain’s song achieve different purposes. He can make the same lyrics sound completely different, and therefore they work in different settings and evoke different emotions when you listen to them. I can easily envision myself dancing at a party to the regular album version of “Buy U a Drank” and singing all of the lyrics exactly how T-Pain sings them. But the acoustic version would

Community and consent

t a panel discussion hosted by Honor Council on Thursday, students asked representatives from the Duke Men’s Project and the Women’s Center about the factors that cultivate an environment for sexual assault on campus. A common thread of the discussion centered around the notion that, if Duke students are among the brightest thinkers, then why is sexual misconduct so prevalent? “If people at Duke are so smart, why do we see a disconnect between what they learn in the classroom, and how they act outside of it?” asked one student. The panelists explained that this is a question they explore on a regular basis. Since a survey published in March of last year found that 40 percent of undergraduate women at Duke have experienced sexual assault, campus has been intermittently abuzz with reactions to this finding. The panelists at the discussion remarked that this survey, coupled with the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements,

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song “Buy U a Drank,” here is the regular song, and here is the acoustic version that has over 12 million views on YouTube. I’ve always assumed that mainstream pop and hip hop artists use auto-tune because they don’t have amazing singing voices naturally. Often, the people who don’t like mainstream pop music argue that the artists rarely sing about anything besides partying and sex, and that they need auto-tune to make their only slightly-aboveaverage singing voices sound good enough sell albums and make billboard top hits. But even though T-Pain does sing about partying and sex, his voice is good. Naturally. He doesn’t need auto-tune to improve the quality. Rather, he uses electronically-generated sounds to achieve an effect that wouldn’t be possible just with raw human voice. Take, for example, the echoes and vocal overlays in “Best Love Song.” The way a certain song sounds determines what emotions it evokes when people listen to it. One of my favorite questions to ask friends is what songs they associate with certain memories, and what those memories are. Whenever I hear the song “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” I think of the group of friends that I traveled to Costa Rica with a few summers ago. We sang the lyrics at the top of our lungs as we rode in a tour bus for hours through the mountains, and whenever it plays, it takes me to the back of that bus again, where people who were absolute strangers at the beginning of the trip became my best friends. Conversely, I still can’t stand the song “Like I’m Gonna Lose You” by Meghan Trainor. That was the slow song they played at my high school’s prom junior year, where I had to see the guy I’d liked for the entire previous school year dance with someone else. It still triggers irritation and disappointment. It’s not just the words in these songs that take me back to these places. It’s the background music, how the words are sung, the pauses, and the final note before the song ends. Some of our strongest memories are formed when we are engaging multiple senses at once, because the

be something I’d listen to, like I did yesterday, on an unseasonably warm afternoon sitting with friends on the ledge outside of Perkins. Besides just showcasing the versatility of the artist’s voice, different versions of songs allow listeners to take the same song with them to different life experiences. We associate different memories with different remixes, all the while increasing the associated importance of the artist to us. I can’t count how many times I’ve been with one of my parents in the car when a song comes on, and they’ve immediately started dancing and singing along to it. Then they look at me, incredulous that the song we’re both listening to didn’t evoke the same reaction in me. That song transports them back to a happy moment in their life that I wasn’t there to witness. It’s surprising and a little baffling to realize that a song that means so much to us can have no effect on the other person sitting next to us who is listening to the same song. It’s random and a little unfair in a way, because a song that just happens to be playing when something bad happens to you can tarnish the song for the rest of your life. One of the adults I work with said that she still remembers the song that was playing when she found out about a shooting near her hometown over 20 years ago, and she still can’t listen to the song without being transported back to that moment. Songs linked to memories can hold powerful places in our minds, whether we want them to or not. Sometimes, it’s not the quality of the song, the subject matter or whether the artist uses auto-tune or not that makes a song meaningful to us. We value music because of its ability to communicate and validate our emotions, and while mainstream pop doesn’t often appeal to our deepest thoughts and feelings when we listen to it, this doesn’t inhibit our ability to associate valued memories with these songs. Whether T-Pain uses auto-tune when he asks “baby girl” what her name is or not.

have fostered an environment that is more receptive of conversations about sexual misconduct on campus. This recent moment is anything but abrupt. Concern about the prevalence of sexual harassment and assault has been festering for decades, and now is not the first time in Duke’s history that the problem has been discussed. In October of 1979, a student group called Students Toward Equality and the Prevention of Sexism (STEPS) were in the process of creating a survey on sexual harassment that would be distributed to all Duke students. In February of 1988, the results of a study conducted by sociology students found that 37 percent of undergraduate men said they “personally know someone who has suffered sexual harassment at Duke.” These surveys gauging the frequency of sexual misconduct on campus have been periodically introduced for decades. The data is unequivocal— we know that sexual misconduct happens. The real question is why it continues. Discussions of sexual misconduct often fixate on gray area issues, even though the campus norms we pledge ourselves to are quite clear cut on the issue. After all, the second line of the Community Standard says, “I will conduct myself honorably in all my endeavors.” Yet, students forget that these endeavors extend past academics, to sports ethics, business practices, environmental stewardship, and to sexual conduct. The third line says, “I will act if the Standard is compromised.” Yet, students forget that this action extends past reporting plagiarism or cheating, to reporting an instance of sexual assault of which you are aware. These principles should not be forgotten, because they’re the very standard used to adjudicate cases in which sexual misconduct occurs. Waiting until after misconduct occurs to learn the codes and rules for a case defeats the purpose of having norms in the first place, which is why developing a broader understanding of the application of the community standard is particularly vital today. Throughout Duke’s history, students have had a central role in the preservation of honor and integrity and in creating conversations about issues that need attention. Years after students vetoed the campus honor code in 1965, a new generation of students felt passionately that the standard needed to be implemented because “Honor is essential to an atmosphere for liberal learning.” They took it upon themselves to draft the early versions of what would go on to become our Community Standard today. Students created women’s groups when they noticed gender segregated clubs on campus, and they wrote surveys to investigate the issue of sexual misconduct. They were capable of creating enormous change. Sustaining and amplifying their efforts is our responsibility. In 1982, President Terry Sanford wanted to see students connected by “... Some additional honor code embracing more than just a prohibition against cheating and violating specified rules of conduct.” The words of the Community Standard are meant to guide students to be honorable and cognizant members of the community. To embody this standard, we must be leaders in creating change, particularly in the area of sexual conduct, as were the generations of students who came before us.

Victoria Priester is a Trinity first-year. Her column runs on alternate Fridays.

This week’s Honor Council piece was written by Camille Ampey, a Trinity sophomore. The Honor Council’s column originally ran on Feb. 22.

Letter to the editor

he NRA is not magic. It achieves its objectives through the political process with means that gun control supporters may also employ. They too can give money, and they too can vote. The issue is that they do not. The NRA, in addition to putting money where its mouth is, can mobilize voters and tell them which candidates oppose their opinions. Gun control supporters cannot say the same. Polling shows that Americans widely support background checks, waiting periods, and registration, all while supporting the right to own a handgun. What they do not do is vote on that issue. If gun control supporters want gun control, they need to credibly commit to only voting for candidates who share their values on that issue. Otherwise, their statuses and tweets are as hollow as those of the congressmen criticized here.

— Hannah Ridge, responding to Leah Abrams’ Oct. 13 column, “Tragedy of the Congress”

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ADMISSIONS FROM PAGE 1 disciplinary teaching and programs, citing examples such as Bass Connections and DukeEngage. The number of students of color applying has also driven the application increase, noted Christoph Guttentag, dean of undergraduate admissions. “Most of the changes have been in the area of outreach to traditionally underserved or underrepresented students—our partnership with QuestBridge, our increased work with [the Knowledge is Power Program], our visits with [communitybased organizations] during our fall recruitment travel,” Guttentag said. QuestBridge connects successful low-income students to top universities, and KIPP is a non-profit network of charter schools in underserved areas across the country. This year marked record-setting application numbers for some of Duke’s peer institutions as well. Harvard College matched Duke’s eight percent growth with 42,742 applicants

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for the class of 2022. Yale College saw a seven percent increase with 35,305 applicants, while Northwestern University had 40,418 applicants, up 8.5 percent from the previous year. More students casting a wide net boosts the number of applicants across top institutions. Nowicki said that students are taking advantage of the Common Application to apply to as many schools as they can. This practice, he said, creates an unfortunate positive feedback loop where the number of applications rise at top schools and acceptance rates subsequently drop, so anxious students apply to more schools. A lower proportion of regular decisions students apply to Duke with as high a level of interest as that shown by early decision applicants—one reason why Duke favors early decision applicants, who are bound to attend Duke if admitted, Nowicki added. “[Early decision] students have thought about where they want to go and why,” he said. “They’re not hedging their bets, they’re not saying, ‘I’m going to throw the dart at the wall and whatever school has the highest rank that I happen to get into, that’s where I’m going to go.’” Five years ago, the administration decided to gradually

attract more early decision applicants and expand the percentage of each class accepted through early decision, Nowicki said. For the class of 2017, 757 students were accepted through early decision and 3,062 through regular decision. As for the class of 2021, those numbers were 864 and 2,423 applicants respectively. Nowicki noted that traditionally early decision applicants have been less diverse, wealthier and slightly weaker students. However, he pointed out efforts Duke has made to strengthen the early decision applicant pool, including better marketing of the need-blind admissions and partnerships with QuestBridge and KIPP. The administration agreed to only increase the size of the early decision class if it was as strong as the regular decision class from the year before, Nowicki noted, adding that he believes the number of students admitted through early decision has plateaued. As to whether overall application numbers will continue rising, Nowicki offered a skeptical prediction. “I think we will reach an asymptote in terms of the total number of applications that schools like Duke get,” he said. “Our applications might tail off a little slower than others do, but psychologically, I think that notion of bet-hedging will get to the point that people will not continue to apply to more and more schools.”

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explained, very little work has been done to identify the manual laborers who built the Chapel. The project—a Story+ Project run by the Franklin Humanities Institute—will include undergraduate and graduate students working during the first summer session. It will receive funding from the office of the vice provost of interdisciplinary studies, said Ranjana Khanna, professor of English and director of FHI. Gillispie said that the students participating in the project will be “using original archival materials from the University Archives and other sources to try to gather a list of names of people who worked on the Chapel.” After collecting this information, the students will then consult other biographical sources to learn more about the lives of the people who provided the manual labor necessary to build the Chapel, Gillispie added. “They’ll be looking at how different people were paid, whether there were racial dimensions to the [The Chapel] the focal types of work that different people point on West Campus, did,” she said. and the story behind how it The end goal for the project, she was made and who made it mentioned, would was an important one. be some platform valerie gillispie allowing this UNIVERSITY ARCHIVIST recently revealed information to be shared with anyone who is interested. This could be a website or another type of publication. Khanna emphasized that this project was coming “in a moment in which we’re trying to assess our own relationship to the past” and will acknowledge “the form of invisible labor that goes into the constitution of anything like a university.” Gillispie noted that the archives are full of information about faculty and students, but not so much documentation is focused on the staff, especially manual laborers. Although it is not practical to gather information about every single person who worked on the Chapel, Gillispie added, telling some of their stories will allow Duke’s current residents to appreciate the contributions of these—until now—unnamed workers. “The Chapel is very much the symbol of the University,” Gillispie said. “It’s the focal point on West Campus, and the story behind how it was made and who made it was an important one.”

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and represent students equally. Dabke emphasized that he wants OPA to consist of people who are versed in the various bureaucratic and legal procedures on campus. “I really just want students to know about advocacy,” Dabke said. I want them to know that it’s possible for students to—even if they don’t know what their rights are, and they just want to figure out what they are—feel free to contact us.”