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Coronavirus’s impact at Duke By Kristi Sturgill Staff Reporter

When the coronavirus emerged in late 2019, no one knew the ramifications. Almost two month into 2020, an ominous haze of ambiguity still enshrouds the pathogen. As the weeks unfold, the virus continues to spread, having sickened about 77,000 people and killed over 2,400 in China alone as of Feb. 23. The virus has also impacted Duke affairs, from students to faculty and staff. Not only have Duke students received emails from Student Affairs that detail travel restrictions and required self-isolation, Duke has also had to relocate the Duke in China summer program, cancel conferences and physically close Duke Kunshan University.

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Charles York | Photography Editor Jarvis, pictured here pitching against Army, became only the 18th pitcher in NCAA history to throw a perfect game, occurring against Cornell.

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Bryce Jarvis throws first perfect game in program history By Em Adler Staff Writer

On a freezing Friday afternoon, on a day many students curled up and enjoyed cancelled morning classes, starting pitcher Bryce Jarvis tossed the best pitching performance in Duke history. In an 8-0 win against Cornell, Jarvis became just the 18th pitcher in NCAA history and the first Blue Devil to record a perfect game across nine innings. Jarvis knew he was throwing something special before he even took the mound, but between the snow and cold, and with pitch counts and scoring concerns looming, a complete game was never forward in his thoughts. “I wouldn’t even say [this is always] in the back of my mind,” said Jarvis. “Tonight, in the bullpen before the game, I felt all my stuff working, and I turned to [pitching coach Dusty] Blake, and I said, ‘I feel like it’s going to be a good day’… I wouldn’t say I was nervous about the run support, [and] I wasn’t going to let [head coach Chris Pollard pull me because of pitch count]. I’ve gone deep into pitch counts before. I pride myself on my ability to stay recovered, and stay at a level that I need to be to go back out there. I was going to go until Yoo Bin Shin | Staff Graphics Designer

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First-year Shari Tian is a Chinese-American student from Chantilly, Va. Before coming to Duke last fall, she and her parents began planning her four undergraduate years. She hoped to major in statistics, fulfill premed requirements and study Mandarin one summer through Duke in China. She had planned to go to China this year and save the following summers for research and internships. “I was really looking forward to the program especially because I have family over there since I’m Chinese-American,” she said. “The last time I actually went to China to visit them was when I was eight. My grandmother and aunt come to America to visit us, but I basically didn’t get to see the rest of my extended family for 10 years.” During class registration for the Fall semester, Tian made sure to sign up for a Chinese language class because she knew she would need to complete a year of Mandarin to participate in Duke in China. Her course plans were set given her interests in statistics, medicine and Mandarin. Tian remembers the Duke in China application opening in November. She submitted the form before the new year and was accepted soon afterwards. “Right around that time was when the coronavirus started to really blow up,” she said. She didn’t think much of it at first—she assumed the virus would be long gone by summer. “Everyone soon realized that was not going to be the case,” she said. As the virus progressed, the accepted Duke in China students received an email saying the program would be relocated to a not-yetspecified North American location. Tian was disheartened. The program was quite expensive, and the greatest draw had been the cultural immersion promised. Now, Tian plans to stay in Durham for the summer. She said that she’s thinking of knocking out her Organic Chemistry II requirement. She wants to spend one summer in China in the future, but she’s not certain of any specifics yet. See IMPACT on Page 12

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HRL advises against ‘group dancing/jumping’ in 300 Swift areas for repairs. In the meantime, however, students’ original hypotheses for what caused the damage— “The sky is falling!” exclaimed Chicken Little. excessive, overcrowded and overactive parties In the 300 Swift apartments, the sky is still not in 300 Swift apartments—might have caught falling, but the floor is a whole other story. HRL’s attention. Gonzalez asked for students’ In a Feb. 20 email obtained by The Chronicle, help to avoid further damage and ensure each Joe Gonzalez, assistant vice president of other’s safety by limiting the number of people in any apartment at one time student affairs and dean for residential and the amount of activity life, confirmed to 300 Swift continues to be groups engage in. students living in safe for occupancy and “Based on information gathered at the time of 300 Swift that there occurrence, the sagging floors have been two official approved building use. reports of ”sagging” seem to have been caused by floors in the building, joe gonzalez overcrowded events including and in response, dancing/jumping,” ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT OF STUDENT group further inspections AFFAIRS AND DEAN FOR RESIDENTIAL LIFE Gonzalez wrote, asking students to hold back from will be performed to ensure the continued the dancing and jumping. safety and security of students and personnel. He asked that one bedroom apartments not He also explained Housing and Residence Life’s have more than six people in them at one time, current plans for repair and asked for students’ and no more than 10 in two-bedroom ones. cooperation in avoiding further damage. To further deter these gatherings from “At this point, based on all the information we occurring, Gonzalez added that the only have as well as visual inspection of the affected events that can occur in the building are those areas, 300 Swift continues to be safe for occupancy registered through Duke Groups and held in appropriate spaces. and approved building use,” Gonzalez wrote. When Gonzalez first confirmed floors falling Resident Assistants for 300 Swift Apartments in a couple units earlier this week, he stated that were reportedly informed in August 2019 that to avoid disruptive construction work, repairs the floors of the building’s units had fallen a few would be made after Spring 2020. centimeters since being built, but it did not appear Gonzalez explained in the Feb. 20 email that that any attempts to address this were made until HRL would inspect all 300 Swift apartments facility issues began being reported. between Thursday and Friday to determine if This is not the first structural issue identified there are any other cases of this problem, and at 300 Swift. Access to balconies for 300 Swift beginning Friday an independent structural apartments was restricted by the management engineer would be reviewing the complex’s company for the building, Greystar, for the structural design and inspecting the impacted 2018-19 academic year due to security concerns.

Duke-NUS researcher arrested as alleged Russian agent

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Courtesy of Duke-NUS Hector Alejandro Cabrera Fuentes was arrested Feb. 17 in Miami for spying on a goverment official.

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Hector Alejandro Cabrera Fuentes, a scientist at Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, was arrested for allegedly acting on behalf of a Russian government official. At the time of his arrest, the National Heart Centre Singapore employed Fuentes, who also held an appointment in the cardiovascular and metabolic disorders program at DukeNUS Medical School. A Mexican citizen and graduate of Kazan University in Russia, Fuentes is listed as a Duke-NUS-affiliated author for more than 20 cardiology papers dating from 2016 to January of this year. “All of his appointments have been suspended, and pending the ongoing investigations in the US we are unable to comment further,” wrote Dharshini Subbiah, a senior communications specialist at Duke-NUS, in an email to The Chronicle

Thursday morning. In his most recent paper, his name was linked to five academic affiliations spanning from Russia to Germany and Mexico to Singapore. The Miami Herald reported that Fuentes was arrested Feb. 17 after following and having his wife take a photo of a U.S. government vehicle in Miami. While attempting to return to Mexico two days later, Fuentes and his wife were stopped by customs agents at the Miami airport who asked to inspect their phones. In the recently deleted images folder on the phone of Fuentes’ wife, the customs agent found a close-up photograph of the license plate of the U.S. government vehicle. According to a statement from federal prosecutors, Fuentes was recruited by a Russian government official in 2019 to collect information about the U.S. government, sharing directions and information through secret meetings in Moscow. Upon being questioned at the airport, Fuentes confessed See AGENT on Page 12

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‘Not many Blue Devils can call themselves Knight’ French ambassador knights Duke engineering professor at Washington Duke Inn By Matthew Griffin University News Editor

If you’ve ever wondered if you should call your professor “Dr.” or “Prof.,” you might now need to consider whether to call them “Knight.” At a Washington Duke Inn event Thursday, Philippe Étienne, the French ambassador to the United States, bestowed Adrian Bejan, J.A. Jones distinguished professor of mechanical engineering, with the honor of Knight of the French Order of Academic Palms, an award bestowed by the French government for accomplishments in culture and education. “This ceremony cannot possibly contain enough hours to mention the remarkable number of your publications and awards,” Étienne said. Étienne, a diplomatic advisor to French president Emmanuel Macron, noted that Bejan has published 30 books and more than 650 peer-reviewed articles, and has received 18 honorary doctorates from universities in 11 countries—including two in France. The ambassador cited Bejan’s “interdisciplinary pioneering and contributions in modern thermodynamics,” as well as his development of the constructal law, a concept that describes the process of evolution in physical systems, as important accomplishments. He praised Bejan’s collaboration with Sylvie Lorente, an adjunct professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Duke who received the French Order of Academic Palms in 2008. Étienne added he was “moved” to be able to talk to Bejan in the professor’s native language of Romanian, and he made part of his speech in that language. Étienne served as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary in Bucharest, Romania from 2002 to 2005. “I have the deepest respect for the contributions the French have made to Europe, America and Western civilization,” Bejan said in a speech after accepting the award. He lauded the the ideas that French mathematicians and scientists have made to engineering, from thermodynamics to applied mathematics.

Matthew Griffin | Contributing Photographer Philippe Étienne, left, awards Adrian Bejan with the honor of Knight of the French Order of Academic Palms.

President Vincent Price gave a short speech introducing Étienne, in which he praised the history of diplomacy between France and the United States. He also congratulated Bejan on his honor. “Not many Blue Devils can call themselves ‘Knight,’” the president said, drawing chuckles from the small audience that had gathered in the Washington Duke’s Forest Room for the event. Before the knighthood ceremony, Étienne discussed European politics and global issues before the ceremony in a conversation with Georg Vanberg, professor of political science and law and chair of the department of political science. The ambassador stressed the “common challenges” that the United States and the European Union face in the future, from climate change to the rise of new world powers. Vanberg asked the ambassador about the state of the European Union after the United Kingdom’s recent

departure from the bloc. Étienne lamented the choice to leave, but he called it “the decision of the British people” and said it is important to settle on future relations in trade, migration and other areas. He went into detail on security, noting that France will continue to cooperate with the United Kingdom as a member of NATO, as a member of the European Union and in bilateral relations. “France and the U.K. actually have a very strong collaboration, a bilateral collaboration, in the field of defense,” he said. He also stressed the need for an active European Union defense policy, not to replace NATO but to “reinforce it, by reinforcing its European pillar.” It is important for democratic nations to remember their values in the face of global issues, Étienne said. “We must never forget that we are democracies,” he emphasized.

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Cassius Stanley-led Blue Devils trounce Hokies By Conner McLeod Sports Managing Editor

Precipitation in Durham comes in many forms. May it be a random Thursday morning storm or a night of snowfall, residents know to expect the unexpected when it comes to the weather. However, it seemed as though nobody alerted Virginia Tech that a different type of rain would fall in Cameron Indoor Stadium Saturday night at the hands of Tre Jones, Cassius Stanley and company, who used their 3-point prowess to shoot the Hokies out of the gym. The sixth-ranked Blue Devils utilized their small ball lineup and hot shooting early to bounce back after a horrible loss against North 64 Carolina VT State, DUKE 88 defeating Virginia Tech 88-64. Stanley tallied a game-high 21 points and five triples. Jones’ made triple on the team’s first possession opened the floodgates to an overall 40 percent clip from deep for Duke, and Virginia Tech had no answer. “It was huge,” Stanley said of the team’s opening run to display dominance early on. “I hit a couple shots and then after that it was just like we were rolling and we got our confidence going. So it’s really just like honing in on that and trying to get that consistently.”

Stanley was the real star of the show, completing highlight after highlight to add to his already illustrious season mixtape. He could not miss from downtown, even hitting a shot from about four feet behind the 3-point line. “It was a heat check,” Stanley said. “It was like if you’re going, you might as well try it. Why not?” Whether it’s a fastbreak high-flying jam or even just an offensive rebound, Stanley always looks like he can fly. Stanley’s elite athleticism shone when he rose up at rim level to score a layup to give Duke a 20-point lead in the first half. Head coach Mike Krzyzewski opted to open with a smaller lineup than usual, with Jones, Stanley, Jordan Goldwire and Wendell Moore Jr. in the backcourt and wings, while Vernon Carey Jr. represented the only true big on the floor. This lineup’s main strength is its perimeter defense, as Goldwire and Jones can hound any backcourt in the ACC, and Stanley and Moore’s quickness and size make them able to guard any position 1-to-4. Though this aspect of the lineup went according to plan— the Hokies shot an abysmal 38.1 percent from the floor—its 3-point shooting put the game away early on. As Jones, Matthew Hurt and Stanley knocked down triple after triple, the Hokies moved their defense away from the basket in order to have better closeout positioning. But with Carey still on the floor, this

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Cassius Stanley caught fire from beyond the arc Saturday night, knocking down five triples. defensive adjustment served as an early birthday present to the Southwest Ranches, Fla., native, who then had more room to work his 6-foot-10 frame down low. “[Krzyzewski] just told us to be hungry,” Carey said. “Coach just told us to be hungry and after the game he told us we outrebounded them by almost 20, so I feel

like we were the more hungrier team than they [were].” The Hokies (15-12, 6-10 in the ACC) did not have anybody to match up with Carey one-on-one, allowing ‘Tank’ to ignite the team and the Cameron Crazies with See TROUNCING on Page 9

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Duke takes down No. 4 Texas for first-ever ranked win By Bre Bradham Staff Writer

Everything’s bigger in Texas, including Duke’s wins. The Blue Devils return from a weekend in Austin, Tex., with their first-ever victory against a ranked team after handing No. 4 Texas its first loss of the season. The 1-0 win put an exclamation point on an explosive start to the season for Duke and is a milestone win in the young program’s history. “As a senior, to see how far we’ve come…. A year or two ago DUKE 1 we weren’t in these 0 games,” senior Raine UT Wilson told GoDuke. com. “So to go out and win was unreal.” The Blue Devils (12-2) have been leaning on their bats to start the season, putting up scores that sometimes look more like a lopsided football game than softball, but had yet to face a test against a ranked team until this weekend. After a rough start Friday with a loss to 2-0 loss to Lipscomb (6-4), Duke found its offensive rhythm again with a 9-1 thumping of Weber State (4-8) in five innings. Then it handed North Dakota State (5-8) a 3-0 loss Saturday afternoon. That left only unbeaten Texas in the way. And late Saturday night, the Blue Devils earned the 1-0 win behind a fourth-inning single from sophomore Caroline Jacobsen.

But it was redshirt junior catcher Jazmine Moreno who caught a Longhorn trying to steal second that served as the final out of the historic victory. Then the Blue Devils were all running into a jumping, celebratory huddle: a team that has shown sparks of incredible potential secured a marquee win. Pre-Longhorns Duke went down to Texas following a convincing 15-7 weekday home win against

Campbell last Wednesday, tallying 16 hits that included a home run by Jacobsen and a 10-run spurt in the 5th inning. Then, the Blue Devils packed up and headed to Austin for a slate of contests Friday and Saturday to take part in the Texas Invitational. For Duke’s offensive-focused team, the first game was quiet. The Blue Devils notched seven hits, but failed to get a runner across home plate. Lipscomb scored two runs in the fifth inning en route to its 2-0 win.

Later that night, Duke regained its offensive footing against Weber State, while sophomore pitcher Shelby Walters held the Wildcats to one run across the five innings it took the Blue Devils to finish off the runrule victory. Sophomore infielder Deja Davis scored three times for the Blue Devils, with Wilson and junior first basemen Rachel Crabtree each batting in a pair of runs as Duke won 9-1. On Saturday, Duke kicked off the afternoon against North Dakota State. Junior pitcher Brianna Butler went the full seven innings following her appearances against Lipscomb and Campbell, tossing 107 pitches and allowing only three hits. She was backed up offensively by Jacobsen, whose three-run home run in the first inning proved to be the difference. Messin’ with Texas After the win against North Dakota State Saturday afternoon, the Blue Devils had a chance to make history. The Longhorns entered the weekend undefeated, including an 11-0 beatdown of No. 12 Tennessee. But perfection only lasts so long, and Duke is an upstart program with something to prove. The Blue Devils came out swinging, with Davis singling her way to first on the game’s opening at-bat. But Duke proved unable

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Senior Raine Wilson told GoDuke.com that the win against the Longhorns was “unreal.”

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Thanks to scorching start, Blue Devils bounce back By Evan Kolin Assistant Blue Zone Editor

Duke knew it couldn’t start off the way it did in Raleigh if it wanted to avoid a second consecutive upset loss. But few expected the Blue Devils to provide the fireworks that encompassed the early stages of Saturday night’s 88-64 win against Virginia Tech in Cameron Indoor Stadium. First, a Tre Jones three. Then another. Vernon Carey Jr. followed suit with a layup before Cassius Stanley brought the roof down with a trey of his own. Duke was up 11-2 by the 17:10 mark of the first half, a far cry from the 10-1 deficit it was in at the same point in time three days earlier. “I wish we could come out like that every single night,” Jones said. “The way we came out tonight was huge. We know that we’re going to have to come out like that from here on out because it’s almost that time of year.” After the embarrassment that occurred at N.C. State just a few days ago, a lot of young teams might enter this game deflated, ousted of any prior confidence. But not this team. These Blue Devils came back to Cameron with their heads held high, ready to prove why Wednesday night was a fluke rather than the norm. By the time Saturday’s game was over, the Blue Devils emerged with their sixth 20-point win in ACC play. Anchoring that victory was 21 points from Stanley and an 11-of-26 team mark from deep. But it wasn’t the offensive explosion that allowed Duke to shake off its previous loss so quickly. Rather, it was the team’s mindset on the

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Vernon Carey Jr. led an “angry” Blue Devil bunch against the Hokies Saturday night. other side of the ball that set the tone. “It starts with our defense,” senior captain Jack White said. “Defense for us is something we can always control and it’s something that we pride ourselves on. We want to be the best defensive team in the country and we can’t have any nights off with that. So really just trying to execute on that end. “We know our offense will come. We know we have the talent to score, but we really pride

ourselves on locking people up and making it hard for them to score.” The Blue Devils limited the Hokies to a 37.3 percent mark from the floor while holding Landers Nolley II, the team’s leading scorer, to a mere three points on 1-of-8 shooting. Countless times Duke turned a sloppy Virginia Tech turnover into an emphatic transition bucket on the other end, and with each basket the team’s confidence

came creeping back. While it may have seemed like the Blue Devils did a good job of forgetting the N.C. State loss, forgetting was the last thing head coach Mike Krzyzewski wanted his players to do during their two-day break. Instead, Krzyzewski had them reflect long and hard about what happened Wednesday, and how to ensure it won’t happen again. “We were angry,” Krzyzewski said. “And I was angry at them, but in order to change you have to be angry at yourself. They took responsibility right away…. We had a really hard, good practice [Thursday]. We couldn’t have Friday the same practice or else we would be dead today. On Friday we went through scouting, but before we went through scouting, we talked about attitude and belief. Whenever there’s adversity, the single biggest gift that God has given to you is attitude. You are in control of attitude. No one else. It’s on you. In order to change things around, you have to have attitude. “The second thing you have to have is belief. You have to have belief in yourself and your group. On that day, we talked about attitude and that we believe in them. You have to believe in each other. And the third thing is preparation. So now we’re going to go on a court, and we’re going to prepare. And then the final is today, it’s execution and you turn adversity or something that was bad into an opportunity that makes you better.” Clearly, Duke carried out that plan into perfection over the last couple days. And if this young squad experiences another similar See BOUNCE BACK on Page 8

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Duke dismantles George Washington at home By Jonathan Browning Associate Sports Editor

The Blue Devils washed George Washington off the field Saturday afternoon. Coming off a tough road loss to then-No. 15 Navy, No. 19 Duke was hungry to get back in the win column. In its first matchup in program history with the Colonials, it was able to do just that, riding a strong offensive and defensive showing to a 21-6 victory. “A big goal for us today was to come out and take a step forward from last week,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “It’s the first week we’ve had this season 6 where we had a whole GW DUKE 21 week to just practice and focus on us and I felt like a lot of our hard work on the practice field showed out here today. [I’m] really proud and excited for the girls and the teamwork we exhibited out on the field today.” After giving George Washington (0-3) an early 2-1 lead, the Blue Devils kicked it into another gear and went on a quick 4-0 run before the Colonials were able to find the net again. But Duke’s potent offense did not settle with its three-point lead and went on a 7-1 run to end the half up 12-4.

The second half was more of the same from the Blue Devils: an electric offense and a stingy defense. By the end of the second half, Duke (3-2) had only allowed two more goals while tacking on nine scores of its own, giving the team its fourth 20-plus goal performance of the season. Most impressive was the diversity in the box score. In a game in which the Blue Devils tallied 21 goals and 12 assists, no one player accounted for more than six points. A mind-boggling 15 different Blue Devils tallied a point, 13 of them scoring at least one goal. “It’s a testament to our depth,” Kimel said. “We have a lot of really good depth, particularly in the midfield this year and off of the bench offensively.... And again I’m proud of them because I think they’re playing really selflessly, they’re giving the ball up, they’re feeding each other.” In a game with so many scorers, it may be hard for one individual to stand out. But sophomore midfielder Anna Callahan did just that. Callahan is a leader on Duke’s offense but usually facilitates rather than scores. Against the Colonials, however, she was on the attack from the beginning, and ended the day with her first career hat trick. “I’m so proud of [Callahan] because she’s

the ultimate kind of team player out there,” Kimel said. “She knows her role. She earned her way on the field because she’s really, really good at communicating and really good at helping to run our offense.” There’s a lot of good to take from the Blue Devils’ hosing of the Colonials, but Duke can’t allow itself to get caught up in the win. The

team travels to to William & Mary later this week, followed up by another quick road trip to No. 2 Notre Dame for its first conference matchup of the season. After two close losses to ranked opponents already, the Blue Devils are hungry to take down a fellow ranked foe and try to establish themselves as one of the top teams in the country.

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Sophomore Anna Callahan picked up a hat trick to lead Duke’s balanced offensive attack.

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PERFECTION FROM PAGE 1 I couldn’t anymore.” It only took Jarvis 94 pitches to retire 27 futile Cornell attempts to get on base. Between 15 strikeouts, 10 groundouts and two flyouts, he completely baffled the Big Red batters. It was certainly a more impressive outing than Jarvis’ previous career-long scoreless start, an eight-inning blanking of West Virginia last summer. Heck, it even bested his father’s greatest outing. “I threw a one-hitter against North Carolina when I pitched for Wake Forest,” said Kevin Jarvis, Bryce’s dad and a former major-leaguer. “And he just outdid me. He just one-upped me.” Jarvis’ lifetime achievement got etched into family lore, as Kevin and Elizabeth Jarvis watched from the stands as their son reached new heights. But no matter how much a pitcher is dealing on a given day, nobody pitches alone. At the end of the day, Bryce couldn’t have done it without some help from his teammates. “[Catcher Michael] Rothenberg just gives every pitcher on our staff such a peace of mind,” said Jarvis. “He’s going to block balls, he’s going to [frame] balls. There were probably three or four strikes in big spots tonight that I don’t get without him. And I told him that after the game, ‘This doesn’t happen without you.’ This doesn’t happen without plays being made behind me; it’s a team effort for sure.” Any number of things could have derailed this evening: a teardrop over an outstretched

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infielder, a dropped strike three, a blown call at first or a foul ball that just didn’t slice out enough. For 94 pitches, across two hours and eight minutes, the universe needed to ensure that no minor detail went awry. Not a single pitch that left Jarvis’ hand could be an undoable mistake. “I wanted to leave him alone [between innings],” said a beaming Pollard. “I didn’t want to get in the middle of it and mess it up. I just wanted him to keep doing what he was doing…it was just fun to sit back and watch. There’s not a lot of coaching that goes on in an outing like that; you just pat him on the back and tell him ‘good job’ and keep doing it.” Baseball in all its beauty was on display Friday afternoon. Beneath the Durham sunset, under

cover of the melting snow, with Pollard terrified of the possibility of a Saturday doubleheader, Bryce Jarvis took the mound with 45 games and 127-plus innings of college baseball experience under his belt. His job was to end this outing better than he did the last. After all, that’s what every pitcher tries to do. A win would have accomplished that feat. Instead he flirted with perfection until perfection had no choice but to give in. He struck out 11 of the last 15 Big Red hitters to stand up to him, before hearing the most deafening called strike three in Duke baseball history, screaming his lungs out and calmly tossing his glove 40 feet straight up in the air. “They don’t call it a ‘perfect game’ for nothing,” said Kevin Jarvis. “The stars have to align.”

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Michael Rothenberg caught Bryce Jarvis’ gem, furthering their reputation as an elite battery.

BOUNCE BACK FROM PAGE 7 setback as the season comes to a close, you know it’ll come back fighting just as strong as it did this time out. Kryzyzewski will make sure of it. “We grew as a group this week,” Krzyzewski said. “Sometimes you need to get punched and get knocked out. But then you get up and figure out why you got knocked out. So that’s what they did. Hopefully we don’t get knocked out again. But if we do, before the tournament, we’re going to do the same thing.”

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Tre Jones helped ignite the Duke offensive fire early, leading to a comfortable lead.

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multiple spin-around post move slams. Carey controlled the boards, bringing down nine rebounds overall, also adding to the 3-point mix, knocking down a shot from deep of his own. It was a complete game for the Blue Devils (23-4, 12-3) Saturday night. The crowd remained loud and energetic from start to finish, Duke’s full-court press suffocated the Hokies and the halftime show from the jump roping Pop Rocks was of the best halftime performances ever seen in Cameron. Alex O’Connell even looked keyed in, with two highlight slam dunks to bring the energy in Cameron to astronomical levels. “I think tonight, we showed obviously who we are more than we did on Wednesday,” senior captain Jack White said. “And obviously, it shows our ability to respond to adversity.” After a horrible outing against the Wolfpack just three days prior, Duke needed this dominant win to get back on track and earn confidence. However, the Blue Devils will head out to Winston-Salem, N.C., to face Wake Forest Tuesday night, hoping to prove that they aren’t just home warriors and that they can execute from start to finish on the road.

to drive her in, with two groundouts and a strikeout rounding out the frame for the Blue Devils. It looked like Texas was about to get something going in the third inning with two outs and runners on second and third base, but a groundout slowed any momentum for the host team as well. Then, in the fourth inning, Duke used a double by Wilson, a dropped third strike and a single by Jacobsen to score the only run of the game. The Blue Devils held onto the lead, with junior pitcher Peyton St. George getting out of a bases-loaded jam in the sixth inning. Using a walk and an error, Texas got runners on first and second base. A pop-up provided the first out of the inning, but a Duke error on the next at-bat loaded the bases for the Longhorns. A fielder’s choice proceeded to get the leading runner out at home, but St. George was still staring down loaded bases with two outs. A Courtney Day flyout then ended the scare and took the Blue Devils into the final inning. After Duke failed to score in the top half of the seventh, the Longhorns had one last inning to try and avoid the upset.

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e don’t need eight hours of sleep each Life happens when I am laying on my bed, tired and night. In fact, I think we would be half comatose from a draining day, but making time to better off being tired every once and talk about political theory with my roommate. Or when awhile. I hate when people ask me how many hours I stayed on west so late on a Sunday night that I missed

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of sleep I got the past night. Especially at Duke, the question either comes as a work ethic litmus test or some type of health evaluation. Secretly encoded into questions about sleep are often more pointed and assumption-based inquiries. How much do I care about my Chemistry midterm? How many practice tests did I complete? Do I or do I not adequately value sleep? I should be treating my body better. I’ll say it. I think the whole eight hours of sleep requirement each night is a hoax. All I know is that life happens after 10:00 p.m.

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the buses, not for partying but simply because I wanted to know how my best friend was really doing. I credit a comment made at 11:45 p.m. for encouraging me to develop in my faith. A 1:30 a.m. discussion ignited my passion for global health. And a 2:00 a.m. phone call helped me discover a recipe that exactly replicates the beauty that is Vondy apple rum bread. Tired eyes and weary bodies often enable some of the best ideas and conversations. Sometimes a little sleep deprivation is a dose of truth serum. I was reading my neuroscience textbook called The Mind’s Machine 12:15 a.m. when I came across a passage that said sleep deprivation and irregular sleep cycles, specifically in college students, will lead to death. Anyone within a 50-foot radius on the first floor of Perkins likely heard my laughter. What a claim, I thought, to correlate consistently sleeping for less than eight hours per night with death. By this logic, I know about three people at Duke that should be alive. Still, I know that my love for late night conversations cannot be sustained. I have to acknowledge this Duke bubble, removal from reality that affords me the opportunity to so confidently disregard certain good health practices for the pursuit of maximum fulfillment in our four short years here. As I write this article, I feel so grateful for my nine and a half hours of sleep last night. According

to The Mind’s Machine, sleeping for over eight hours extends the normal day wake cycle and is indicative of sleep deprivation. For the first time in a couple days this morning, the sun beat me out of bed, and I did not amble over to ABP coffee immediately after leaving my room. In this way, I will give sleep the credit it deserves. This recovery period proves necessary for frugally using sleep during most of the week. The science behind sleep is hard to refute. I am absolutely convinced that sleeping at a regular time schedule and for an adequate amount of time helps focus, aid recovery, and improve one’s mood. After a hard workout or long run, my bed is my best recovery tool. More than anecdotal information, however, neurological systems which influence sleep have been widely studied and reviewed to corroborate these textbook claims that set standards for optimal sleep practices. I will also add that I genuinely enjoy sleeping; it is one of my favorite activities. The warmth of one’s own bed (especially with an added mattress topper) wins my heart each morning and remains the reason that I never fail to press the snooze button. But I am hyper-aware that the 24 hours afforded us each day never feels like enough. Many of us will likely agree that during midterm season, hours slept means hours not buried in a textbook. That can be scary. What is more frightening to me is that each hour spent sleeping seems like an hour lost to live life. A few moments less of bright-eyed smiles, hysterical laughter, or beautifully thoughtful comments. It takes a delicate balance to know when to head to bed and when to ask another probing question. But spare some of us the stares or questions when I run into class chugging a coffee or when I take a quick power nap in between classes. While counterintuitive to say, I know that I am a better person for staying up a little later. Naima Turbes is a Trinity first-year. Her column, “mind over matter,” typically runs on alternate Thursdays.

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Give teachers a place at the table

hy did you go to Duke to become a teacher?” I’ve answered this question countless times. I’ve been teaching high school social studies at a North Carolina public school for four years. Nope, not Teach for America, just plain old public school teaching.

Emily Stout GUEST COLUMN The second part of the question is easy. I love my students, and I love building their interest in government and current events. The first part? Not so much. It frustrates me that people don’t see my profession as “deserving” of the education I was lucky enough to receive. On a recent professional development trip sponsored by Duke TeachHouse, I had the chance to tell my story. While visiting Washington, DC, I spoke on a panel of Duke alumni involved in education. The event, titled “We Are All on the Students’ Side: Finding Common Ground in the Education Landscape,” was simulcast to Program in Education students, faculty, and alumni in Durham. Of the four panelists, I was the only classroom teacher. I spoke about my incredible students, but I also shared some of the barriers that make my job harder. In addition to teaching up to 72 students at once, I have also played school nurse (ours only comes twice a week) and social worker (we had one until yet another budget cut two years ago). My textbooks are from 2005 and falling apart, but copies are difficult to make when we frequently run out of paper. Thankfully I haven’t had to take a bullet for

my students. I’m grateful that Dr. Jan Riggsbee—Duke professor, Elementary Teacher Preparation Program director, Duke TeachHouse director, former elementary school teacher and principal, mentor extraordinaire— publicly gave up her seat on the panel, citing the importance of teacher voice, so that I could be on it. Teaching is literally written in Duke’s history. In the founding document of the Duke Endowment, James B. Duke stipulated that Duke must include “a School for Training Teachers.” And Duke played a huge role in my career choice. I am the product of an internship at the Partnership for Appalachian Girls’ Education, two summers working for Duke TIP, the Education minor, and the Secondary Teacher Preparation Program. I got a blue-and-white cord for commencement, and in the program, a star next to my name denotes my teaching certification. Since starting my job, I’ve been involved with Duke TeachHouse, a residential fellowship for beginning teachers in the Triangle. My fellow alumni tell me they value my work. I hope that my stories motivate them to encourage policies that do the same. As much as I love sharing my story, I’m not at the table when policy is on the line. And that needs to change. Take after Dr. Riggsbee. Make a place for teachers’ stories in every conversation about education at every level. Invite teachers of all levels, especially teachers of color, to the table. Better yet, if you’re passionate about education, make the decision I did. I went to Duke and became a teacher because teaching matters. Our stories, and our students’ stories, deserve to be told. Emily Stout is a local teacher who graduated with the Class of 2016.

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Consent, at the club

icture this—it’s another Saturday night. You’re fresh out of an Uber with your girlfriends. Black x’s? On hand. Mint gum? In pocket. That suspect-looking Dasani water bottle? Drained with a grimace and a laugh. With all the confidence of someone who didn’t just throw said water bottle away in front of the club’s bouncer, you whip out your student ID. Boom, you’re in.

circulating since the very genesis of our time at Duke— before Duke, even, for those lucky enough to have received comprehensive sex education in high school. Consent is freely given, reversible, informed, enthusiastic and specific. Oftentimes, however, dialogues about consent exist in direct proximity to sex, as it is on a sexual landscape that the stakes of consent are perceived to exist at their greatest, that the harms

Guys, when you don’t ask for consent to touch us, we girls must do so on your behalf. We have to look at each other and say, “Hey, do you want to dance with this person?” When we see a subtle shake of the head and slight widening of the eyes, the responsibility is then placed upon us to intervene, to provide that girl a choice where you failed to. Disclaimer here: my own experience has seen clubbing

of not obtaining consent are rendered most violent. So, most of us know what consent looks like in the context of sex. But what form does consent take while dancing on a night out? Is consent even necessary? Well, yes. In the same way consent is seen as integral to sexual interaction, it too, is requisite to, say, grinding at the club. When you reach out and physically remove someone from the space they are occupying without asking, you are communicating to that person that they are small: that what they want from this night must be identical to what you want, and if not, your wants take primacy over theirs, regardless. For some, this may be a subconscious process, and for others, a bit more conscious. Either way, it’s a behavior that needs to stop, and luckily, one that can be changed through a more active recognition of the autonomy of others. I’ll be the first to admit: for me, on some nights, it’s fun to dance on guys. Some nights, grinding on someone is full of novelty, and an opportunity to practice what my mirror is typically sole audience to. But it’s only fun when I have the opportunity to choose who I dance on and when I do it. Every night out, I see guys making ample use of their right to choose as they lean against a wall, arms folded and eyes fixated on some girl or another. Yet, for girls, it is the default assumption that, while dancing, we are inviting the attention of whichever boy is watching us, available for his pleasure.

as a largely gendered space in which guys possess the social power and girls do not. However, terms such as “guy” and “girl” are ultimately reductive in the sense that gender exists as a spectrum and not all social spaces are gendered in a heteronormative fashion. Consequently, it is important to call attention to the fact that anyone, anywhere is capable of being a victim, a perpetrator, or both. Some people may say: “It’s not that deep.” But it is. When you hear some boy remark loudly, “If you’re not trying to throw ass, get out,” it’s impossible to come away from that statement unscathed. It seems that in our social spaces, it is a girl’s availability and proximity to a boy and his desires that dictates her worth. It’s these “insignificant” behaviors that converse and compound to produce larger systems of inequality. Rape culture was not built overnight. It stems from spaces like these. Next time, all you have to do is ask for a dance. And wait for an answer.

PASH LET’S TALK ABOUT ‘IT’ After a long week of midterms, extracurriculars and all other dimensions of social, academic and professional life we Duke students field each day from eyes-open til eyesshut, you’re excited. Because this time doesn’t belong to orgo labs of unholy length, summer program application essays demanding that you conjure your life’s narrative in 500 words or less, or those seminar readings which may have fostered your love of learning—had you not done them at 3:00 a.m. on a Tuesday. This night, this time, is entirely yours. Your friends want to dance. You want to dance too. Between the sticky floor and invariable sweaty encounter with a slippery arm or two, claiming a spot on the dance floor is a feat of sheer willpower. But as we know, fortune favors the bold, and before long, you’re there—shoulder to shoulder with your girls, the music and your laughter carrying your hips from side to side. Then, you feel those hands, placed with firm certainty on each side of your waist. You’ve been pulled from that circle of trusted friends with whom you chose to venture for the night; your back is now pressed against some unknown chest, your hips bordering some unknown stomach, those hands still resolute on your waist. You haven’t turned around, and yet, this is all familiar to you, because this is the invitation to dance here within the context of Duke’s party culture. In today’s column, we’re going to talk through why this poses a problem. First, let’s get into consent. It’s a concept we’ve heard

PASH is a student-run organization providing resources for sexual health and relationship-building. Their column, “let’s talk about ‘it,’” runs on alternate Mondays. To ask them a question about sex or relationships, submit to this form. This column was written by Carly Jones, a Trinity sophomore and Continuing Education Coordinator of PASH.

Attack anti-Semitism at its root: White supremacy

little over a week ago, a swastika was spray-painted onto Duke’s East Campus Bridge. Hopefully you’re already aware of this incident. After the hate crime occurred, I attempted to process via Gen Z’s unhealthy coping mechanism—online.

Lily Levin OVERCAFFEINATED CONVICTIONS

I took to Twitter, writing: “in light of the swastika painted @ duke, I want to be clear—as a Jewish student—that anti-Semitism here does not come from Pro-Palestinian orgs. It comes from alt-right white supremacy that threatens us all. Let’s not blame other communities actively harmed by the same ideology.” The logic behind my Twitter spree was a dilemma faced by many young progressive Jews: we want desperately to build community, but we are deeply conflicted by our blindly pro-Israel establishment. We’ve heard it before, whether at BBYO Conventions or at our local Jewish Community Center or from those who claim to be allies: anti-Semitism from the left is just as bad. While I do agree that anti-Semitism, as with all other forms of xenophobia, is not limited to one side of the political spectrum (and when existing on the left, it typically originates from white gentiles), Pro-Palestine dialogue, unless utilizing harmful tropes, does not fit the scrope of this -ism. Granting the label of ‘anti-Semetic’ to this ideology is at best, counterproductive; at worst, dangerous. You may be asking, what does Israel have to do with the swastika painted on the bridge at Duke specifically?

Valid point. Well, shortly following news of the hate crime, Jewish Life at Duke sent out an email with a validating and affirming message. Scrolling through its text, though, I discovered that the Center for Jewish Studies would be inviting Bari Weiss to campus in response to this attack on Jewish students. Bari Weiss, in a recent Op-Ed, argued that “If hatred of Jews can be justified as a misunderstanding or ignored as a mistake or played down as a slip of the tongue or waved away as “just anti-Zionism,” you can all but guarantee it will be.” Okay, Bari. Anti-Zionism is not antiSemitism. Just like any other rhetoric, it can be. But the correlation is almost nonexistent. For the Center of Jewish Studies to bring such a controversial speaker to campus demonstrates the department’s views on the conflation of these two terms. In fact, Duke, as an entity, aligns with the opinions of CJS. After settling a complaint of anti-Semitism at the Middle East conference, “The University took steps to encourage “a climate supportive of Jewish students,” including a training session to combat anti Semitism, anti-Zionism and antiIsrael bias.” I’ve engaged in a painful amount of unlearning since I’ve arrived at Duke, most of which has been isolating, anxiety-producing, and lonely. For many American Jews, Zionism is a nonnegotiable aspect of our lives. We grew up belting the Israeli national anthem, memorializing the Star of David, chronically dreaming of Birthright: of course any attack on this country feels like an attack on us. It’s hard to fully understand that even though Zionism was founded by Theodor Herzl in 1897 to establish a Jewish state amidst rising anti-Semitism, the movement is curently driven by Christian evangelicals,

who’ve funnelled over 65 million dollars into Israel’s Occupied land to promote their own agendas. It’s heartbreaking to acknowledge the pilgrimage site on the West Bank built to celebrate Baruch Goldstein, a man who brutally shot 29 Palestinians during a religious ceremony. It’s jarring to learn of the Israeli government’s transportation blockades to render daily commutes impossible, its denial of medical permits, and the authoritarian limits of electricity— all directed at Palestinians residing in Gaza. It’s also important to note that Hamas, the group which rules Gaza, has also committed crimes against Palestinians, suppressing protests violently. I’m not pretending to give a full history lesson. But at the core of this conflict is the British Mandate for Palestine—or the military occupation of Palestine from 1918 to 1948— which facilitated the creation of a Jewish state while subjecting Jews and Arabs to colonialism, resulting in mass revolt and longstanding intergroup resentment. (Seriously, can’t most of the world’s problems be traced back to imperialism?) Based on all of this history, I’ve concluded that criticizing Israel does not undermine our Jewishness; this ability to speak truth to power is, rather, key to our identity as a people. The story of Judaism is one of Queen Esther sacrificing her safety to expose Haman, one of Moses leading former slaves through the Red Sea to freedom, one of the Maccabees defeating an entire army of oppression. But more importantly, speaking out against Israel’s injustices will not promote hatred of Jews. It won’t cause our mass destruction. We’re not at the brink of a leftist, Bernie Sanders (some even go so far as to claim he’s not Jewish) -led revolutionary demolition of our institutions.

Anti-Semitism is dubbed ‘history’s oldest hatred’ for a reason: it has existed for as long as our otherness could be clearly defined. This form of xenophobia is not grounded in pro-Palestinian sentiments. Anti-Semitism is grounded in white supremacy. So when a swastika is painted on the bridge at East Duke, we must receive this crime as a marker of white supremacy. The swastika first unearths historical legacies of violence toward our community—but it is also a threat to Black and brown people, to nonbinary people, to Palestinians. I wish that, instead of hosting Bari Weiss’ next speaking event, the Center for Jewish Studies would host a session on how to better support ourselves and our peers. Yes, more than 80% of Jews belong to the Eastern-European Ashkenazi ethnicity—myself included—but how are we creating spaces more accessible to Jews of color, who were targeted based upon multiple, racialized aspects of identity? How are we cultivating campus dialogue around progressive Jewish values? How are we challenging the narratives we were taught, many rightfully grounded in intergenerational trauma? White supremacy is alive and thriving, and casting the blame on those critical of Israel actively aids the true perpetrators by dividing marginalized groups of people. We, as Jews (and especially white Jews), must condemn white nationalism, work to understand our nuanced and complex roles in the world, and promote racial equity in our synagogues. We are the core victims of the Swastika graffiti. But we are not the only victims. Lily Levin is a Trinity first-year. Her column, “overcaffeinated convictions,” runs on alternate Mondays.

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Kang Liu

Kang Liu, professor of Asian and African languages and literature, has been a professor of Chinese studies at Duke since 2003. Liu’s professional interests include Chinese public opinion, popular culture and political changes. Most years, he spends about nine months in Durham and returns to China for academic breaks. But this spring, he was slated to teach his first two courses at DKU: one on modern Chinese political ideology and the other on Chinese media and popular culture. DKU’s academic calendar operates on seven-week sessions rather

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than semesters. He’d teach during the fourth session starting on March 15. “So I came to China Dec. 10. My wife is here in China, my son is here in China,” he said. He was conducting some political research in China, and he planned to stay in the country before the academic session. “All of a sudden, this virus erupts. I was thinking about whether or not I would go back to the U.S.,” he said. The DKU administration encouraged him to return to the U.S. if it would make him more comfortable. He wouldn’t need to stay in China as he could offer his courses online. But when Liu checked the airlines, he couldn’t find a feasible flight. “All of the commercial airlines between the

United States and China—the big commercial airlines like Delta, American, and United Arab Emirates—they’re all canceled. And we’re not sure whether we want to take the risk of traveling at this point,” he said. So Liu decided to remain in Nanjing with his family. The capital of Jiangsu province, Nanjing lies between Wuhan and Kunshan. He stays in his apartment most of the day, often doing research just as he would in Durham. Liu is grateful for the DKU administration’s cautious, thoughtful response to the virus. He mentioned a “warm and substantive” email from Executive Vice Provost Jennifer Francis that included information on lodging, airfare, transportation and health insurance. Liu doesn’t fear contracting the virus, but he has been avoiding enclosed structures like shopping malls. Every couple days, he leaves his apartment and bikes to the supermarket. “There (are) a lot of people there. It’s a little bit crowded. Everyone wears masks,” he said.

Carlos Rojas

Carlos Rojas, professor of Asian and Middle Eastern studies, teaches classes in Chinese cultural studies, gender, sexuality, and feminist studies, and arts of the moving image at Duke. Although Rojas teaches in Durham, he visits Asia eight-or-so times a year. Those visits range from a quick weekend trip to longer summer engagements. He took a sabbatical in Taiwan last spring. This year, he had many trips on the calendar, including the second annual undergraduate workshop for the Humanities Research Center at DKU, of which he is the co-director. It would have been held the second weekend of Duke’s spring break. They had booked some keynote speakers and encouraged undergraduates from China, Asia and Duke to apply. They even planned to pay for some of the attendees’ travel. “We had no choice,” he said. “We’re not Special to The Chronicle Clockwise from left: first-year Shari Tian; Carlos Rojas, professor of Asian and Middle Eastern studies; holding it.” He notices the coronavirus is prevalent now, and Kang Liu, professor of Asian and African languages and literature.

but he doesn’t anticipate it will last long. “It seems very, very likely that logically it’s going to follow the same trajectory as SARS or H1N1. By April, May, it’s going to start to recede,” Rojas said. “These, they tend to spark in the winter months. There’s no reason to think that this is going to be a major health problem in the summer.” Rojas still hopes to travel to Asia this summer, but he’s already had to alter some of his plans. He had been asked to help with a Duke in China program review, but that review won’t occur given the relocation. His penciled-in plans include presenting at a comparative literature conference at Soochow University and serving on the jury for a literature prize in Hong Kong. “I think there’s a disconnect between the policy decisions that are being made and the way that people are extrapolating from those policy decisions to a kind of paranoid reaction. It puts the situation out of proportion,” Rojas said.

AGENT FROM PAGE 2 to conducting the act on behalf of a Russian official. He was told to rent property in Miami-Dade County, Fla., under a different name and not tell his family about the Moscow meetings. The official, according to the statement, told Fuentes to “locate the car, obtain the source’s vehicle license plate number, and note the physical location of the source’s vehicle.” Since then, Fuentes has been charged on two accounts: acting on behalf of a foreign agent without notifying the attorney general and conspiracy to act on behalf of a foreign agent. He will be arraigned March 3 in Miami federal court. Nathan Luzum contributed reporting. Editor’s Note: The Chronicle was unable to find contact information for Fuentes or a lawyer.

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