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ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH YEAR, ISSUE 62

TUITION ON THE RISE A YEAR AT DUKE NOW COSTS MORE THAN $70,000

By Mitchell Gladstone Sports Managing Editor

It started Friday morning while Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski was out walking his dog, Blue. The phone rang, and on the other end was a distressed mother, Kylia Carter. “She says, ‘Did you see the Yahoo report?’” Krzyzewski said following Saturday’s win against Syracuse. “I said, ‘Kylia, I’m taking Blue out right now, I haven’t seen the Yahoo report.’ She was all, she was nervous about it, and I said tell me about it.” All of this came after I knew it was just yet another shocking story someone trying to look for was published something...It wasn’t really by Yahoo! Sports’ Pete a distraction because I Thamel and knew I didn’t do anything. Pat Forde in the wee hours, wendell carter jr. naming Kylia’s FRESHMAN FORWARD son, Wendell Carter Jr., as one of at least 25 players who—either personally or through family—were allegedly tied to Christian Dawkins, the business associate of disgraced agent Andy Miller. Per documents uncovered by Thamel and Forde, Dawkins listed a $106.36 lunch with Carter’s mother, marking the first time since the FBI probe was unveiled last October that Duke had been mentioned in any form. The Blue Devil freshman was certainly blindsided by the news. “Just someone trying to hold me back,” Carter said. “I knew it was just someone trying to look for something, just look for something. It wasn’t really a distraction because I knew I didn’t do anything. I knew my family didn’t do anything, so I was fine.” According to Krzyzewski, Kylia Carter claimed that her husband left the lunch meeting with Dawkins after just a few minutes but she chose to stay. Afterwards, the Carters had no further communication with Dawkins. Krzyzewski expressed disappointment that meals like this were lumped into the same story that included details of tens of thousands of dollars changing hands in some cases, and he questioned the reliability of the figures on the expense report that exposed the meal. Friday’s tumult didn’t end with the initial Yahoo! report. Just after 10 p.m., Forde and Thamel dropped another story with email correspondence from Dawkins. See CARTER on Page 8

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Accounting for room, board and other fees, the total price of a Duke education next year will be $70,873. According to a Duke Today release, the percentage increase of cost of attendance is low compared to past annual percentage increases. Last year’s tuition increase was 4.3 percent, so this year’s cost of attendance is $68,298. “This would mark the lowest

increase in about 10 years and follows an exhaustive analysis of having the resources required to do what we do as well of the provision of financial aid for students,” said President Vincent Price. The Duke Today release also noted that “financial aid is expected to grow at a rate greater than the rise in tuition for the coming year.” Tuition rates for Duke’s graduate and professional schools in 2018-19 were also decided and can be viewed below: Divinity School: $24,180 (Master of

Divinity), an increase of four percent from this year. Fuqua School of Business: $68,200 (daytime MBA), up 3.9 percent. Graduate School: $53,540 (Ph.D. programs), up four percent. Law School: $63,400, up 3.9 percent. Nicholas School of the Environment: $39,975, up 2.5 percent. Pratt School of Engineering: $54,576 (Master of Engineering Management See TUITION on Page 12

Student reports suspicious man on Central Staff Reports The Chronicle

Student social media networks were abuzz Friday afternoon with reports of an attempted kidnapping at approximately 10 a.m. In an email to students at approximately 3:25 p.m., Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, sought to assuage fears and clarify the situation. Moneta wrote that a student standing on Yearby Street on Central Campus reported being approached by a driver in a white van. The driver—described as a black male in his 20s with facial hair—reportedly said “You are my dream; get in the van.” No DukeALERT was sent about the incident. Moneta wrote that the student walked away and reported the incident to a nearby security guard. The van was

reportedly unmarked and last seen driving towards Duke University road. A photo of the vehicle is available at police. duke.edu. Moneta encouraged reporting any additional information to Duke Police. Moneta also assured students DUPD was taking the incident seriously. “Information about this incident is spreading widely across social media and while I do not want to minimize the troubling nature of this incident, I do want to calm excessive fears,” Moneta wrote. “Duke Police are fully engaged in investigation of the incident and we will continue to deploy additional security staff in Central Campus as we have for quite awhile. Your safety remains our highest priority.” During a visit to Duke University Police Department See CENTRAL on Page 12

Tired of taking math and science classes? Consider this course on puppetry By Michaela Reinhart Contributing Reporter

the theater expecting a perfectly polished production. The finished product will be an amalgamation of three or four scenes the students choose to adapt from the comic, along with several others adapted by Craft. Each scene will explore alternatives to the structured process of creating theater. Bend noted that this was part of the reason why the class was created. She particularly wants students to examine the concept of unprocessed work. “[The goal is] allowing the freedom to not finish a work, but to take time in investigating the making of work through a different process model,” she said. Bend was already working on this project for her research, prior to the creation of the class. She was chosen as one of 14 recipients of a workshop grant from the Jim Henson Foundation nationwide, which prompted her work. According to the organization’s website, it is the only foundation in the United States that gives grants to advance the art of puppetry. After the first proposal for the production in the Spring fell through because of lack of turnout for auditions, Bend was permitted to turn her individual project into a mainstage production for the semester. While working, she has found that the comic brings up a lot of questions about theater and about adapting historic work for current times. “Thinking about historic art and monuments and trying to contextualize and think about it in contemporary context—all of the questions swirling around those ideas really made it timely and something that felt like a valuable investigation with students,” Bend said. She hopes that the class gives students a space to ask questions and openly discuss difficult issues. Bend also wants to provide students with the tools to look at historic stories and be able to re-contextualize them in a meaningful way, so that history is not ignored or shut down but understood. And Bend navigates all of this through the most unlikely of lenses—object performance and puppetry.

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What does puppetry have in common with conversations about the removal of Confederate monuments? At first glance, nothing. But ask students in mainstage production, a 300-level theater studies class, and you might get a different answer. The class is taught by Torry Bend, associate professor of the practice of the theater studies, and involves the five students working with local playwright Howard Craft to adapt “Little Nemo in Slumberland”—a 1905 comic that includes scenes with undisguised racism—into a puppet show for modern audiences. Although the class will be staging the show this Spring, premiering in Schaefer Theater April 13-15, don’t walk into

Special to the Chronicle Taught by Torry Bend, associate professor of the practice of the theater studies, the class involves working with local playwright Howard Craft to adapt “Little Nemo in Slumberland.”

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Duke students are top recruits for investment banks By Shagun Vashisth Health and Science News Editor

Wall Street Oasis released its 2017 Investment Banking Report, which listed Duke among the ten undergraduate institutions that are most attractive to investment banking firms during the recruitment and hiring process. The top ten schools listed in the report accounted for 21.9 percent of the overall distribution of recruitment and hiring efforts from the bulge bracket banks— which Wall Street Oasis defines as the “largest and most profitable multi-national investment banks in the world.” Duke specifically accounted for 1.8 percent of the overall distribution. The University attracted a lot of attention specifically from Swiss financial services company UBS AG, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley, with 3.9 percent, 3.6 percent and three percent of overall recruits to these banks being Duke students, respectively. The other schools in the top 10 were University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Harvard University, University of Cambridge, Cornell University, University of Texas at Austin, Columbia University, University of Chicago and University of Michigan. JPMorgan showed a 200 percent increase in interest at Duke for this year. PJT Partners also showed strong preference for Duke, with students at the University accounting for 13.5 percent of the firm’s overall recruiting and hiring. Duke was also ranked as one of the only top 10 schools

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What’s behind the gender gap in radiology? By Kathryn Silberstein Staff Reporter

At a time when women are dominant in specialties such as pediatrics or obstetrics and gynecology, you might think that gender disparities in medicine are largely a thing of the past—yet recent research suggests otherwise. A study by Sarah Cater, a resident in the radiology department at the School of Medicine, revealed that gender disparities still exist in her specialty. Cater, the lead author of the study, found that globally, only 33.5 percent of radiologists are female and just more than 27 percent of U.S. members of the Radiological Society of North America are women. “I became interested in studying the gender disparity in radiology because I wanted to better understand why women weren’t entering my chosen field,” Cater said. She explained that the characteristics of a career in radiology—from a predictable schedule to generous compensation while practicing to a hefty impact on patient care—should reasonably make radiology a specialty equally attractive to people of any gender. However, finding herself to the be the only woman in the room at many interviews for her residency in radiology, Cater wanted to know what was maintaining this gap. She noted that it is possible this disparity stems in part from a lack of prominent female leaders in the field. “As a female medical student, it can be hard to imagine yourself in a specialty where everyone you meet on your rotation—faculty, residents—is male,” Cater said. See RADIOLOGY on Page 4

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Who dipped, who didn’t? Here’s a look at recruitment numbers for SLGs By Ben Leonard Staff Reporter

For the second year in a row many selective living groups saw a rise in applicants, although a few saw a dip. In its second year of recruitment, Illyria’s number of rushees decreased from 179 last year to 120 even though it extended roughly the same number of bids. The all-female SLG handed out 45 bids after giving out 52 last year, and is excited about its rush class. “I adore them. They’re all really great. I wish we could accept more,” Illyria co- rush chair Kezia Matson said. “But since we’re new, we want to make sure everyone knows each other to make a stable foundation and then hopefully in the future, we can increasingly accept more members.” Matson, a sophomore, said that all SLGs should have more events that cater to introverts and are less-alcohol dependent—something she said she tried to incorporate this year during rush. Rushees went on a hike in groups of 10, an activity that got rave reviews, she says. “There’s still challenges, but that can make SLG’s more inclusive,” Matson said. “Being outdoors and walking and not necessarily having a drink in your hand makes things flow more easily.” Other groups saw big rises in interest, especially Wayne Manor and Brownstone. After 243 students rushed Brownstone last year, 324 were involved with the SLG’s recruitment. Brownstone also got more selective, having 27 people join its organization a year after letting 33 join. All-male SLG Wayne Manor’s jump was even more pronounced, with 250 rushing a year after 170 rushed. The group had 30 members join, nine more than in 2017. Cooper House declined to release statistics on rush, but said that their numbers were similar to before. In 2016, the last time it released information on rush, 459 students registered for its rush process and 30 joined. For the second straight year, the Arts Theme House had 13 register for its rush process and extended 13 bids. A similarly

Carolyn Chang | Associate Photography Editor This year, selective living groups tried to cater more to introverts and plan events that are less alcohol dependent than in the past.

small organization, the Languages Dorm, or LangDorm for short, saw a dip in rushees, accepting 12 new members from 14 rushees this year after accepting 17 from 26 last year. It has started a new tradition of allowing out-of-section members— students who don’t live in section—accepting one this year after letting in four out-of section members last year. LangDorm is a themed house based upon interest in language and culture. Its members sometimes teach each other mini language lessons, Langdorm president Elaine Zhong said. Although its rush class is smaller than last year’s, Zhong, a junior, is encouraged by the quality of the new members that joined. “We really like the rush class,” Zhong said. “Last year, we had significantly more rushees. We’re a little sad that there were less See SLGS on Page 4

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At Duke however, Cater added that women are made to feel more welcome in the radiology department. Karen Johnson, assistant professor and residency program director of radiology, actively works to combat the gender disparity at Duke. Johnson organized a new committee on gender and diversity, which held a retreat in the Fall for radiology faculty and residents to learn about implicit biases and the challenges individuals face when they don’t look like a stereotypical radiologist. “Because of [Johnson], we have a female radiologist modeling leadership and compassion to us every day,” Cater said. Although Cater noted that this represents a step in the right direction at Duke in radiology, gender imbalances— especially at the level of leadership positions—are still Henry Haggart | Associate Photography Editor prevalent in many medical fields. “Medicine as a whole is traditionally very Globally, only 33.5 percent of radiologists are female hierarchical and patriarchal, and in the past women and just more than 27 percent of U.S. members of the were underrepresented in every specialty. This has Radiological Society of North America are women. improved in the past 10 to 20 years, and women are the gender majority in many specialties,” Cater said. “But, partially on the absence of visible women in the field. She even in these specialties, women are underrepresented explained that though there are not very many women in the specialty, she hoped the culture would improve among faculty and department chairs.” Professor of Medicine and encourage more women to go into cardiology as a result of having more Sana Al-Khatib, Medicine as a whole is described cardiology as female role models and feeling more another medical field traditionally very hierarchical supported by male colleagues. lagging behind general and patriarchal, and in the past “At Duke in cardiology, things trends in improved are getting better,” Al-Khatib said, women were underrepresented echoing Cater’s sentiments. “We have gender equity. “Women are still in every specialty. a good number of women in faculty. vastly outnumbered, and That’s great, because when young sarah cater women see have those successful role I don’t know if this will RESIDENT IN THE RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT models, it’s good motivation.” change anytime soon,” AlKhatib said. “Cardiology Ultimately, for Cater, the goal is to is typically more demanding in terms of number of hours eliminate the disparity she has experienced firsthand. and intensity, and I think that makes it less attractive to “I just hope the study continues to push the some women. I hope to see this change as we have more conversation on gender in radiology,” Cater said. “I successful women who have been able to be successful at hope others continue to explore the reasons behind the work and in their own personal lives.” disparity, and I hope they see it as a problem we can Like Cater, Al-Khatib pinned the root of the disparity overcome as a community.”

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to receive recruitment and hiring focus from all of the bulge bracket banks, along with the Penn, NYU and Harvard. The investment banks represented in the bulge bracket section of the report include Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, UBS AG and Wells Fargo. Despite decreases from several bulge bracket banks, Duke still had a one percent overall increase due to strong interest from Credit Suisse. Percent increase of JPMorgan’s The report also noted interest in Duke students the large bulge bracket banks’ willingness to poach top talent from a wider selection of schools, including Arizona State University, Ohio State University and Pennsylvania State University, with larger state academic institutions gaining respect for their strong business programs. One list, however, did not include Duke—the top 10 institutions that accounted for 23.4 percent of the overall distribution of recruitment and hiring from “other notable banks.” Those other banks included BMO, Blackstone Group, Cohen Group, Duff and Phelps, Evercore, Greenhill, HSBC, Harris Williams, Houlihan Lokey, Jefferies, KeyBanc, Lazard, Lincoln, Macquaire, Moelis, Nomura, Oppenheimer, PJT Partners, PWP, Piper Jaffray, RBC, Raymond James, Rothschild, Societe Generale, SunTrust and William Blair.

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SPLASH SISTERS SCORCH HEELS Rebecca Greenwell matches career high with 31 points, Lexie Brown adds 22 in Senior Day victory By Alex Sanfilippo Associate Sports Editor

As they have consistently done throughout their time in a Duke uniform, graduate students Rebecca Greenwell and Lexie Brown carried the Blue Devils Sunday afternoon. Greenwell matched a career high with 31 points and Brown added 22 as No. 20 Duke topped Tobacco Road rival North Carolina 70-54 on Senior Day at Cameron Indoor Stadium. After a back-and-forth first half that saw two unsportsmanlike flagrant fouls assessed to the Blue Devils and seven lead changes, Duke roared out of the gates in the second half and went on a 20-0 run spanning almost nine minutes in the second and third quarters to take a 46-29 lead. “At halftime we talked about rebounding in a non-technical game,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “After that, the players just took over on the floor and did what they do, and I think we went after the ball more. We were much more aggressive defensively, and being as aggressive as we were, we got some great looks and fast-break takes. It came from the team—it came from their focus, their energy and toughness.” Despite the quick 17-point advantage in the third quarter, last month’s 92-86 overtime defeat in Chapel Hill was fresh on the team’s mind. Duke squandered a 19-point lead in

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Lexie Brown had a double-double with 22 points and 11 assists—seven of them to Rebecca Greenwell—to help Duke pull away from North Carolina. that contest, as Tar Heel redshirt junior Paris Kea scored a career-high 36 points. The Blue Devils (22-7, 11-5 in the ACC) kept Kea in check throughout the contest, as the Tarboro, N.C., native finished with just nine points and five turnovers in 34 minutes of play. After a fast-paced first quarter, Duke’s defense

settled into form, forcing 20 turnovers and holding North Carolina (14-15, 4-12) to a woeful 31.1 percent shooting from the floor. Brown led the Blue Devils with four steals. “You don’t let a person score almost 40 points on you,” Brown said. “You take that personally. Of course it’s a team effort. I

think everybody did their role when she was around them. Her sweet spot was in that high post, and I thought our bigs did a great job shutting her down, digging on her, making her give the ball up.” With the score at 31-29 heading into the locker room, Duke needed to pick up the tempo after a sloppy second quarter. With intense defensive pressure on the perimeter, the Blue Devils started to run the floor and find a string of open layups. Greenwell led the charge with 15 of the team’s 25 points in the third quarter, including three deep 3-pointers off assists from Brown, who had a doubledouble with 11 assists. Greenwell delivered an electrifying performance in her final regular-season game in Cameron, also posting a double-double with 13 rebounds to go along with 7-of-15 shooting from beyond the arc. “It hasn’t sunk in yet, but it was just so much fun,” Greenwell said. “I knew coming into it that it was a special day, but you don’t want to put too much pressure on yourself and try to do too much just because it’s Senior Day.... To get that win in front of all those fans means everything. Hopefully we’ll be able to host again in the [NCAA] tournament, because I would love to do that again.” See W. BASKETBALL on Page 8

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Suffocating Duke defense shuts down Syracuse By Mitchell Gladstone Sports Managing Editor

Since Duke shifted to a full-time zone defense nearly two weeks ago, the Blue Devils have been as good as nearly any team at keeping their opponents off the scoreboard. So against one of the greatest zone coaches in college basketball history, it was only fitting that Duke’s suffocating defensive unit came to play for a fourth straight game. In a sloppy affair, the No. 5 Blue Devils outworked Syracuse 60-44 behind 19 points and seven rebounds from Marvin Bagley III in the freshman’s return to action after suffering a right knee sprain against North Carolina 16 days 44 ago. With Duke CUSE 60 getting a combined DUKE 35 points down low between Bagley and Wendell Carter Jr., it didn’t need much from its backcourt tandem of Grayson Allen and Trevon Duval, who both struggled mightily all game. “Both teams played really tough defense,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “[Our guys] hung tough and we didn’t let what we couldn’t do on the offensive end impact what we could do on the defensive end. I thought we played outstanding defense, and I’m proud of our guys. Open shots were tough to come by and both teams protected their basket really well, so even though you got it close, man, there was just big-time defense.” After scoring just two points in more than six minutes to open the second half, a leakout jam from Carter seemed to get the

Blue Devils’ offensive juices flowing. More scores down low came from Marques Bolden and Bagley, as Duke (24-5, 12-4 in the ACC) traded baskets with the Orange to maintain its double-digit halftime cushion. “The reason I sat out a lot of the games [was] to make sure that I was ready to come back, and play a lot like that,” Bagley said. “I felt 100 percent, I felt like myself and that was the reason why I took my time, because I didn’t want to come back too early and have to worry about it, have to keep coming out…I wanted to be 100 percent. I’m very glad I took that route.” Facing the nation’s 10th-ranked defense according to KenPom.com, buckets for the Blue Devils were few and far between Saturday evening, as Duke shot just 41.5 percent from the field and managed only two triples, both in the final 10 minutes to extend a streak of more than 1,000 straight contests with a made 3-pointer. As Syracuse (18-11, 7-9) stayed below the 30-point threshold until there were less than 10 minutes to play, the Blue Devils kept at it defensively. And just when it looked like the Orange might get close enough to apply some serious pressure, a thunderous two-handed dunk from Bolden pushed the lead back to nine with 9:38 left. Two possessions later, a 35-foot lob from Allen to Carter gave Duke a double-digit lead and brought the Cameron Crazies to life. “I’ve gained a lot of confidence as a passer. I think I’ve gotten much better over my career, and it makes it a little easier when the guys on the team that are 6-foot-

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Wendell Carter Jr. had a double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds and shut Syracuse down in the middle of Duke’s zone. 10, can jump 40 inches, just throw it in the vicinity,” Allen said. “Really, it just takes a lot of confidence to throw it, maybe a lack of smarts in some cases, but I trust him to go get it so I think I can put it close enough to where he can dunk it.” Once again, the Blue Devil defense was the story of the night, as they held Syracuse to a miserable shooting performance—the Orange finished 31.5 percent from the field. Duke also forced Syracuse into 17 turnovers, including four steals from Carter and

another three by Allen. The Blue Devils now rank 16th in adjusted defense per Ken Pomeroy, easily the highest mark for Duke this season. “If you take away the first three conference games that we had and kind of an outlier we had was St. John’s, we’ve played really good defense,” Krzyzewski said. “You can look at all the stats, we’re in the top three or four in just about everything in our conference, See M. BASKETBALL on Page 9

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Duke lets late lead slip away in first loss of season By Dilan Trivedi Staff Reporter

PHILADELPHIA—Playing in their first road contest of the year, the Blue Devils looked to secure their first victory ever at historic Franklin Field and build off their inspiring come-frombehind win against DUKE 9 then-No. 4 Denver last PENN 10 weekend. This time around, top-ranked Duke was on the other end of a comeback, giving up four unanswered goals to Pennsylvania to fall 10-9 Saturday afternoon. “Penn was terrific—they were clearly the better team. Second half, they played great. They executed great. They won a ton of faceoffs, they

were physical, they were tough. And you’ve got to tip your hat,” Blue Devil head coach John Danowski said. “They deserved to win. They outcoached us. In all phases, they were great.” With 43 seconds left, JT Giles-Harris forced a turnover to give Duke (4-1) one last chance to send the game to overtime. But a once-explosive Blue Devil offense looked as tentative and scrambled as it had all day and ultimately failed to get a shot off. “We just lost our poise. The Penn kids wanted it more and the game was more important to them than it was to our guys,” Danowski said. “Even that last sequence, the last 15 seconds there, no one wanted to shoot the ball. A couple of guys had a good look at the goal and didn’t want to pull the trigger. That is something that

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Justin Guterding’s two goals could not lift Duke to a win in its quietest offensive performance of the season.

is tough to coach.” Duke took a 7-4 lead into halftime, outscoring the Quakers 5-2 in the second quarter. The second half, however, marked a drastic shift in the fluidity of the Blue Devil offense which averaged 17.5 goals per game heading into the contest—good for second in the nation. Pennsylvania (2-1) held the prolific offense scoreless in the third quarter, while tallying one of their own with a goal from Adam Goldner. Meanwhile, Duke had five turnovers in the period, and was bailed out by four saves by Danny Fowler. After Sean Lulley scored for the Quakers to narrow the gap to one just 90 seconds into the fourth, the Blue Devils seemed to wake up, with Justin Guterding scoring his second goal of the game on a bouncer through the goalie’s legs and Nakeie Montgomery following up with his second goal of the contest just more than two minutes later to put the tally at 9-6 with just 9:53 left. Kevin McGeary responded a little more than a minute later to keep the game within reach. With Pennsylvania continuing to win faceoffs and tallying another goal with just under 7:30 to play, it stayed in the game and ultimately found an equalizer with Simon Mathias’ goal at the threeminute mark. Seven seconds later, following another quick faceoff win, McGeary scored again to give the Quakers the lead for good. Penn won 15 faceoffs to Duke’s seven, winning the battle 6-2 in the critical final quarter. “The faceoff is a huge momentum changer. Even though we got our butts kicked last week facing off, we were able to win—maybe that was lucky, an outlier,” Danowski said. “That is something that we are obviously going to try to get better at.”

The first half was all Duke—the Blue Devils tallied 22 shots, 14 of which were on goal, compared to the Quakers’ 11 and seven, respectively. Although Duke had numerous opportunities in the first quarter, five saves by Reed Junkin kept it at bay, and the teams entered the second quarter knotted at two. Four straight goals by the Blue Devils, including scores by Reilly Walsh and Joe Robertson, helped push Duke to the halftime lead. “Offensively, we had good possessions. There were a couple plays we didn’t make in the first quarter, but that happens in games,” Danowski said. “Everybody was getting looks, but plays we made in the past, the balls weren’t going in. That happens in some games.” Without the play of either keepers, the contest could have gone one-sided either way. Although Junkin was dominant for the Quakers in the first half with seven saves, Fowler had eight of his 11 saves in the second half to keep Duke in the game as the offense faltered. “Danny is a senior goalie and he has a lot of experience. Penn had the ball so much. I don’t remember a game ever where we were out-ground-balled 30-16,” Danowski said. “They had the ball so long but defensively we played well for long stretches, but Penn just played better.” The Blue Devils will have a week to rebound when they play Richmond at home next Sunday. The Spiders are coming off a close loss to No. 8 Notre Dame, which outscored them 5-1 in the fourth quarter to claim an 11-7 victory. “The hope is that we learn. As a coaching staff, we will watch the film on the bus as we go home,” Danowski said. “It will give us time to evaluate stuff—evaluate personnel, evaluate scheme and how we are doing things. Penn was just the better team today.”

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Blue Devil seniors indispensable in last home game By Hank Tucker Sports Editor

A sellout crowd packed into Cameron Indoor Stadium Sunday afternoon for what was likely one last look at Duke’s most impactful senior class in recent memory, and the Blue Devil veterans put on a show once again. Fifty-three of Duke’s 70 points in its win against North Carolina came from departing graduate students Rebecca Greenwell and Lexie Brown. For a team that has three younger guards sidelined for the season with injuries, Sunday showed as well as any game that the Blue Devils will go as far as their seniors take them in March. “You go with the flow and learn to play off each other and I think Lexie and Becca were demonstrating that so well, and everybody was into that,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “They’re quite a group, quite a special group, and I was so glad they could have what we had today. They deserved those fans. They deserved every one of them, and people stayed after to see them as seniors, and you can’t ask for more than that.” Greenwell dropped 31 points to match a career high, and seven of her 11 made field goals came off assists from Brown. Duke’s two leading scorers have played thousands

of minutes together in the backcourt since Brown transferred from Maryland, and it showed in their smiles, high fives and fluidity on the floor Sunday. Add in effective frontcourt contributors Bego Faz Davalos and Erin Mathias, and Duke’s senior class has scored more than 60 percent of its points this season. Mathias and Greenwell are part of the group that came up short of the NCAA tournament for the first time in decades two years ago, and Brown watched from the bench that entire season due to NCAA transfer restrictions. Together, they stayed in Durham and spearheaded the effort to bring the program back to prominence last year, doing well enough to earn a No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament, and they have kept Duke in the top 25 for this whole year. Greenwell has been a Blue Devil the longest of anybody, redshirting a year due to injury before playing four full seasons. She is fifth on Duke’s all-time scoring list and has made more career 3-pointers than anybody else in program history. Brown and Mathias are the only two players to have started every game this season, with Mathias becoming the regular first-string center for the first time of her career. “Everyone played their role. Erin has been amazing—the four-year student-athlete who’s gotten better every year. Didn’t start as a

freshman, didn’t start as a sophomore, didn’t start as a junior, she’s just grown and grown and grown,” McCallie said. “From Lexie and Becca’s standpoint, Becca’s been here five years, just made the most of that in everything that she’s done, absolutely everything, and then I wish Lexie had more years here.”

Things will be different next year, of course. AllACC players like Brown and Greenwell are always difficult to replace, and Duke’s recruiting class in not in ESPN’s top 20, with no incoming freshmen in the top 50 and two in the top 100. See SENIORS on Page 9

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Lexie Brown and Rebecca Greenwell combined to score 53 of Duke’s 70 points in their final regular-season game at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

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Bagley impresses on both ends in first game back By Riley Pfaff Associate Sports Editor

Heading into Saturday’s game, Duke’s recent success suggested the team had finally figured things out—the defense suddenly was one of the best in the nation, and though the offense had taken a hit, the Blue Devils had not looked better all season than during their fourgame winning streak. The only uncertainty Saturday was how this success would be affected by the return of the team’s best player, Marvin Bagley III. But after a dominant return against Syracuse, Bagley put that concern to rest. Duke welcomed Bagley back from his four-game absence due to a right knee injury with open arms, as the freshman scored 19 points and grabbed seven boards in the Blue Devils’ win. Bagley, who did not start but spent 31 minutes on the floor, was also impressive on the defensive end, fitting in well to a new 2-3 zone that has completely transformed Duke’s defense. “There were a lot of different things I saw throughout the games I sat out that I [had] to keep in my mind when I came back,” Bagley said. “I tried to keep [them] in the back of my mind, so when I came back it wasn’t new to me.” Playing across from classmate Wendell Carter Jr. in Duke’s zone for extended stretches for the first time, Bagley put to rest any doubts about his ability to function well in what has quickly become one of the most effective defensive schemes in the nation. Carter and Bagley, who stand 6-foot-10 and 6-foot-11, respectively, give the Blue Devils as much length down low as

CARTER FROM PAGE 1 Minutes later, ESPN’s Mark Schlabach wrote that Arizona head coach Sean Miller was allegedly caught on an FBI wiretap talking with Dawkins about a payment of $100,000 in order to secure the commitment of DeAndre Ayton, another top recruit in the Class of 2017. For Krzyzewski, all of the unraveling may not necessarily have been a surprise, but it was clear that the 71-year-old was disheartened, if nothing else. “It’s a horrible time for the game, but the game has begged, it’s been on its knees begging

almost any team in the country. The pair helped hold Syracuse to just 12 points in the paint, compared to 36 points around the rim for Duke at the other end of the floor. “Marvin is a very athletic, smart defender. With him in that zone, [we’re] long [and] very athletic,” Carter said. “It’s just a great zone. They can’t really get a lot of passes off, and we’re all over the boards every time.” Bagley appeared to be fully recovered, moving naturally and fluidly without any sort of brace or pad on the right knee he injured in the first half of the Blue Devils’ loss at North Carolina more than two weeks ago. And if the extended playing time was not enough evidence that he is feeling back to normal, his style of play was. Multiple times, Bagley was on the receiving end of acrobatic alley-oops, including a lob from Grayson Allen from past halfcourt and a flashy reverse dunk over a defender. He finished the game with a devastatingly efficient 8-of-9 shooting mark from the field, a testament to his many dunks and opportunities around the lane. “We didn’t have our shots we usually have, with the threes and the inside shots—we had to figure out different ways to score,” Bagley said. “It just so happened most of mine were dunks, a lot of them were dunks, and that’s just how we got to score today.” Besides running the floor on fast breaks, Bagley also worked well down low against Syracuse’s own signature 2-3 zone, one of the most unique defenses in the ACC. Matched up with lengthy players such as 7-foot2 Paschal Chukwu, and with the Orange

shutting down Duke’s 3-point threats, Bagley and Carter combined for 35 points against an imposing frontcourt. “We knew we were going to be playing against a zone,” Bagley said. “We didn’t get the shots that we usually get on the threes and shots like that, so we had to attack it in a different way. We just adjusted to their defense, and we did a pretty good job.” One of the reasons Bagley was able to take some extra time off was Duke’s outstanding play in its previous four games heading into Saturday’s matchup. In their four-

for change for years, and sometimes unless something horrible happens, you just don’t change,” Krzyzewski said. “We need change. We need to take a look at amateurism and define it probably differently. We have to look at it through the prism of a 16-year-old kid and a family, and what they should be allowed and make sure it’s the same things that are allowed to other NCAA athletes or maybe do something that would be ahead of the game and become more modern in what we’re doing.” Earlier Saturday, NCAA president Mark Emmert appeared on the CBS college basketball studio show and discussed the notion of athletes being able to work with agents prior to

turning pro in the future. Although it isn’t something Krzyzewski has had to deal with during his 43-year coaching career, the Blue Devils’ head man certainly seemed open to the idea. “I don’t know how much longer I’m going to coach, but it might be for these guys when they go into a home, there’s an agent there, which may not be bad because at least they would be getting expert advice that they chose,” Krzyzewski said. “They wouldn’t have to go around and say, ‘I know this guy, I know this.’ And maybe there’s a way of checking their credentials so the NCAA could provide guidance to freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors, and agents would have to register, and you would have their profiles so you could—things like that. “Let’s just get ahead of the game. Most of this stuff is because of what happens before they get here. That’s the area that we should do, and then once they get here, we will then change that environment based on what we’ve changed here. That’s what I hope will happen.” It certainly does not appear that the FBI’s probe into college basketball is near an end. There will be more players, coaches and programs implicated—and the possibility that Duke is further involved remains to be seen. But if there’s any coach in the game that appears committed to creating a healthier and improved atmosphere, the Blue Devils have the right man at their helm. “Whether there’s more, it’s over or whatever, there’s enough out there for us to change,” Krzyzewski said. “And I hope there’s not any more.”

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Mike Krzyzewski expressed gratitude to Duke’s compliance office and the NCAA for getting Wendell Carter Jr. cleared to play quickly.

game winning streak since losing to North Carolina, the Blue Devils allowed the ninthfewest points per game in the nation and notched a signature win on the road against then-No. 11 Clemson. With Bagley back and the defense clicking, two of the team’s biggest concerns that loomed in the days following the loss to North Carolina seem to be a thing of the past. “I just wanted to be out there with the guys and my teammates, and I’m just happy to be back,” Bagley said. “We’ve just got to keep continuing to get better.”

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Marvin Bagley scored 19 points and got most of his made field goals on dunks, including one alley-oop that Grayson Allen assisted on from past halfcourt.

W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 6 After coughing the ball up 26 times against North Carolina—which has lost nine consecutive games dating back to that Jan. 21 win against the Blue Devils—Duke demonstrated better discipline as it has down the stretch in the last four games. The Blue Devils dominated the turnover battle and posted 22 points off Tar Heel giveaways, including 11 in the third quarter, when Duke outscored the visitors 25-7 to finally pull away. Although North Carolina collected 14 offensive rebounds—somewhat surprising due to the height advantage in Duke’s starting lineup—the Blue Devil forwards outshone the Tar Heels on the offensive end and outscored them in the paint 34-10. With Sunday’s win and Notre Dame’s win against N.C. State, Duke will have the No. 4 seed and a double bye in next weekend’s ACC tournament. The Blue Devils will play Friday in Greensboro, N.C., for a chance to potentially face topseeded Louisville in the semifinals. Duke lost in the championship game to Notre Dame last season. “We’re just excited to take one game at a time,” McCallie said. “All I can say is one game at a time. Last year we were in the championship, and that was a great experience for us. But those games are hard, they’re all hard. The first game is hard, the second game is hard. We can do well, we just have to remember how hard it is, and the rebounding and the little things make a big difference.”

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the under-eight media timeout. Still, the Syracuse defense kept Duke without a field goal for more than five minutes, though the visitors couldn’t muster much offense of their own. The Orange got just four points before a Bagley jam put the Blue Devils back up by double figures at 27-16 as the teams went to the locker room. Duke will now have a quick turnaround before visiting Virginia Tech Monday night and could clinch a double bye in the ACC tournament with a win or an N.C. State loss Sunday. “We have to be extremely focused to turn around very quick, because that game is going to be completely different than when we played them here,” Allen said. “We’re going to have to show up and be ready to play, so we can’t fall into that trap about being happy about this game and not ready to go there.”

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the semifinals in a potential matchup with No. 4 Louisville would probably be enough to push Duke above that coveted top-16 cutoff. “To be able to play in here for a couple more games would be ideal, especially being a senior,” Brown said. “I love playing here.”

FROM PAGE 7 Uncertain times are ahead, but for now, the focus is on what Brown, Greenwell and Mathias can accomplish in the twilight of their college careers. A lot is left on the table for them in March—they have never won an ACC championship and never advanced past the Sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament in a Blue Devil uniform. A more attainable goal may be simply playing well enough in this weekend’s ACC tournament to earn two more games in front of a home crowd at Cameron. The top four seeds in each region host the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament, and Duke has been hovering just outside the top 16 for most of the season. It did not earn a top-four seed in the selection committee’s final bracket preview last week, but since then the Blue Devils have upset then-No. 9 Florida State and earned a double bye in the conference tournament. Another big win or two in the ACC quarterfinals and

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ince the U.S. was once again struck by a horrific mass shooting on Feb. 14, there have been nonstop calls to action coming from all corners of the nation. Gun reform activists and shooting survivors— fearful the violent rampage that took the lives of seventeen students in Parkland, Florida would once again be subject to the now-routine cycle of grief, debate, then public amnesia—have put forth demands for legislators to act now. In response to the mounting pressure to act, President Trump publicly embraced a potential policy endorsed by the National Rifle Association: arming teachers in the classroom. His vaguely outlined and dataabsent proposal included a pay bonus as incentive and federal funds for undefined amounts of training. However, President Trump isn’t the only public official touting this direction. The North Carolina State Legislature isn’t ruling out this course of action as they develop a new committee for school safety. Despite the proposal being entirely unreasonable for most other comparable countries, it has gotten a troubling amount of traction as of late, necessitating an outline of how deeply dangerous it would be to add more guns to the already volatile safety situation. It isn’t required to have a firm background in education policy to imagine which demographics would be the most impacted by guns being introduced to classrooms. Gated private schools with the financial resources to serve students academically—as well as through resources like counseling services—wouldn’t be the first in line to make

sure homeroom teachers are packing a glock with their lesson plans. Certainly this type of policy initiative would be most heavily instituted in low income public school districts with high percentages of non-white students. These are the same types of schools that have already taken other steps—like instituting resource officers—to militarize their cafeterias, playgrounds and study halls. Issues with policing presences in classrooms abound. From pervasive incidents of student assaults to higher rates of harsh legal punishments for misbehavior, having police in schools turns institutions of learning into sites of violence. Additionally, data points to black and Latinx students, on average, facing harsher disciplinary consequences than their white peers in public schools. This disproportionate punishment trend is a major component in the school-toprison pipeline and something that would only worsen if poorly paid, overworked teachers were armed not just with detention slips, but with handguns. In response to President Trump’s proposition, many teachers have taken to social media to decry efforts to introduce firearms to classrooms. Many organizations and individual instructors point to a need for better compensation given the long hours, emotionally draining work and important social good that teachers provide on a daily basis. The National Education Association has released a statement emphasizing the need for better arts programs, nurses and educational materials in order to improve school performance, not weapons. Others have

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pointed to lack of funding on a federal level as a crucial issue and have rejected offers for gun training in favor of gun control legislation to truly protect students and faculty. Ultimately, this proposal is not only a dangerously ill-informed attempt to satiate the interests of the NRA, but also crafted entirely against the wishes of the teachers worried their schools will be the next one to hold candlelight vigils featured on the nightly news. This also serves as further evidence of how far removed prominent political leaders are from of realities of education. In the last century, the only president to enroll children in a public school was Jimmy Carter and research conducted by The Heritage Foundation showed that members of congress were more than twice as likely to have gotten a private school education. These inclinations lead to reasonable concerns over how invested and informed politicians can be in public schools if they don’t have any experience with the daily classroom realities. One thing is for certain, arming teachers is a step in the wrong direction with potentially deadly consequences. With mass shootings like the one experienced in Parkland beginning to feel like a commonplace occurrence, action is most certainly needed. However, the legislative lead shouldn’t be coming from senators with NRA funding and no understanding of the emaciated public school system; we need policy based on teacher needs and the guiding insight of those who understand where the system has been failing students for generations.

To juul or not to juul?

y mother started smoking cigarettes when she was around 14 years old. Every one of her older siblings smoked, so for her, the youngest, it was really only a matter of time

Daniela Flamini WORMS IN SPACE before she picked up the habit. Growing up, my mom was careful about her cigarettes, never smoking inside the house and constantly reminding me of the dangerous health risks she was flirting with by choosing to remain a smoker. Nevertheless, I’d often sit outside with her whenever she took her cigarette breaks, and I remember nothing more regal than the air of my mother’s sophistication as she sat there, a relaxed expression on her sharp, beautiful face, and spoke to me between puffs. Whether she’d be giving me advice, listening to a story or telling me one of her own, the casual cigarette dangling between her fingers made my mother look like the coolest cat in town, for lack of a better expression. And when I grew up, the sheer aesthetic of my mother smoking made me want to unlearn everything I knew about nicotine and just buy one of those shiny packs. Of course, if you’ve ever smoked a cigarette but aren’t a smoker, you know that they’re objectively disgusting. Cigarettes leave you feeling smelly and smokey and gross, and now that everyone knows the full picture of their lousy health benefits, they’re seemingly not as popular—according to the CDC Fact Sheet, traditional cigarette sales dropped between 2015 and 2016. What’s undeniably and indisputably trending right now, though, is the e-cigarette. Apparently, high school administrators all over the country have been having serious issues getting students to stop vaping, especially since parents seem to be clueless about what juuls and vape pens are. One high school in Newton, Massachusetts, even sent out an email explaining, “Electronic cigarettes are devices that utilize stored electricity to heat a liquid into vapors, which are then inhaled by the user. The liquid can be anything from a flavored water-type mixture to liquid nicotine to THC, the principal active element of marijuana.” It included a photo of a juul “disguised as a sharpie-pen”, so parents would know what to watch out for in case their kids suddenly began to display strong affinities for markers. At Duke, it feels like you’re either sitting next to that kid with a juul, or you are in fact that kid with the

juul. Over recent months, I’ve seen more and more of my friends succumb to the trend, and you can always catch that shade of shame when they pridefully, or shamefully, reveal it: “Guys, I bought a juul.” On its website, creators James Monsees and Adam Bowen explain that they co-founded the juul in 2007 because “they’d been smokers for many years and were increasingly dissatisfied with the health and social impacts of cigarettes. Wanting to create a true alternative to combustible tobacco products, James and Adam knew that smokers who want to switch are looking for something that does not look or feel like a cigarette.” Yes, because cigarettes are gross. And juuls are super cool. They’re sleek. The only catch is that their nicotine content is 0.7mL per pod, which is “approximately equivalent to one pack of cigarettes, or 200 puffs.” And perhaps most alarmingly, “long-term safety data on e-cigarettes do not yet exist.” So none of us really know what we’re obsessively inhaling into our bodies, but boy, do we feel guilty about it. A few weeks ago, most of my group chats were blowing up with stories about a “friend of a friend” of a friend who’d supposedly quickly died of lung cancer, and the perpetrator was, you guessed it, the juul. Panic spread instantly and apparently nation-wide, as within days The Tab released an article titled: “Report: The rumors about kids getting lung cancer from hitting the juul too hard are untrue.” And if that wasn’t enough of a kick to the stomachs of all of America’s high schoolers, the subtitle reads: “RIP to those of you who just flushed $45 down the toilet.” Clearly, kids aren’t clear on whether or not what they’re doing is safe. My own boyfriend, who’s cut down from being a frequent smoker to smoking the occasional social cigarette, went back and forth about whether or not it would benefit him to purchase an e-cigarette. On the one hand, the extra nicotine won’t help, but on the other hand, it’s “so cool. “ I know some people who’ve tried to quit smoking cigarettes by buying an e-cig, but for the most part, juul’s are the hottest accessory–whether you were smoker before or not, you’ve definitely thought about it, especially if your friends are doing it. And although for me, it doesn’t really replace the sheer regality of stepping outside to smoke a smooth little roll of paper and tobacco, the appeal clearly worked enough to become one of the biggest trends of this decade. So we may all be dying faster. But damn, we look great doing it...just like my mom always did. Daniela Flamini is a Trinity junior. Her column usually runs on alternate Mondays.

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hat’s your least favorite thing about Duke?” Even though I should have had an answer prepared to this question, it caught me off guard. I was giving a tour of campus to prospective students, and I turned around to see where this

Ann Gehan COLUMNIST inquiry had emerged from. The boy who asked had a slight smile on his face, as if he were daring me to admit that the perfect institution I was presenting, with degree options and dining venues galore, was anything less than that. After a semester and a half, problems with Duke have become apparent to me, but I often dismiss them, brushing aside tuition hikes, the self-segregating nature of most campus organizations, the lack of a genuine connection between most aspects of campus and the city of Durham, housing issues… the list goes on. As I was running through this mental list, the other tour guide I was with jumped in and hit the nail on the head. “I think as an activist, Duke isn’t the best place to be,” she said. She went on to explain how she felt that Duke students just didn’t care about addressing issues both on and off campus, and while it was easy to find a few like-minded individuals, it was difficult to feel like she was making a tangible difference or changing aspects of campus culture. I honestly stopped listening after she explained this, because I was busy realizing how so much of my Duke experience has been colored by the apathy that pervades campus. This sentiment was confirmed to me a few days later by a place that I generally avoid, due to its tendency to become a self-aggrandizing hellscape: the Facebook comments section. If you told me at the beginning of the semester that the most contentious debate on campus would center around a smoothie place, I really don’t think I would have believed you. But when Duke Memes for Gothicc Teens became a center for discourse on whether or not the movement to save Quenchers was indicative of Dukes students’

privilege/general apathy/horribly skewed priorities, I too began to question what makes Duke students so complacent in the face of issues that have a genuine, lasting impact on the lives and futures of their neighbors and peers. More college students voted in the 2016 presidential election than ever before, and 18 to 21-year-old students had the highest turnout rate among all college students. Today’s college students have reported higher rates of political behaviors such as leading campus demonstrations, volunteering in their communities, and making efforts to understand other cultures. High school students from Florida are taking on our country’s most senior lawmakers in their efforts to pass gun control reform measures, and students across the country have demonstrated against hate speech, sexual assault, and the policies of our current administration. If the currents of political energy are running this high among seemingly every other group of young adults, where is this energy at Duke? Is it simply because activism is inconvenient, or is it because it makes us uncomfortable? Taking a stand causes us to look inward, realizing that we may be part of the problem rather than part of the noble solutions we so often envision ourselves creating. While it might seem easier to post in Fix My Campus or share a New York Times article on Facebook, at some point, our words become meaningless if they are not translated into action. Activism at Duke can feel like a shout into a mammoth void—but it doesn’t have to be this way if we collectively push this conversation forward. The amount of resources and privilege we are afforded at this institution mean nothing if we sit complacently, watching dumb-struck as issues of racism, harassment, institutional abuses of power, and more impact our campus and students daily. Being a Duke student involves much more than passively observing Duke’s institutional power at work—we have a responsibility to question, challenge, and criticize. The name on our degrees means less and less the longer we sit on the sidelines

and let others be the authors of our collective history. Do better, Duke students. The world is watching you.“What’s your least favorite thing about Duke?” Even though I should have had an answer prepared to this question, it caught me off guard. I was giving a tour of campus to prospective students, and I turned around to see where this inquiry had emerged from. The boy who asked had a slight smile on his face, as if he were daring me to admit that the perfect institution I was presenting, with degree options and dining venues galore, was anything less than that. After a semester and a half, problems with Duke have become apparent to me, but I often dismiss them, brushing aside tuition hikes, the self-segregating nature of most campus organizations, the lack of a genuine connection between most aspects of campus and the city of Durham, housing issues… the list goes on. As I was running through this mental list, the other tour guide I was with jumped in and hit the nail on the head. “I think as an activist, Duke isn’t the best place to be,” she said. She went on to explain how she felt that Duke students just didn’t care about addressing issues both on and off campus, and while it was easy to find a few like-minded individuals, it was difficult to feel like she was making a tangible difference or changing aspects of campus culture. I honestly stopped listening after she explained this, because I was busy realizing how so much of my Duke experience has been colored by the apathy that pervades campus. This sentiment was confirmed to me a few days later by a place that I generally avoid, due to its tendency to become a self-aggrandizing hellscape: the Facebook comments section. If you told me at the beginning of the semester that the most contentious debate on campus would center around a smoothie place, I really don’t think I would have believed you. But when Duke Memes for Gothicc Teens became a center for discourse on whether or not the movement to save Quenchers was indicative of Dukes students’ privilege/general apathy/horribly skewed priorities, I too began to question what makes

Duke students so complacent in the face of issues that have a genuine, lasting impact on the lives and futures of their neighbors and peers. More college students voted in the 2016 presidential election than ever before, and 18 to 21-year-old students had the highest turnout rate among all college students. Today’s college students have reported higher rates of political behaviors such as leading campus demonstrations, volunteering in their communities, and making efforts to understand other cultures. High school students from Florida are taking on our country’s most senior lawmakers in their efforts to pass gun control reform measures, and students across the country have demonstrated against hate speech, sexual assault, and the policies of our current administration. If the currents of political energy are running this high among seemingly every other group of young adults, where is this energy at Duke? Is it simply because activism is inconvenient, or is it because it makes us uncomfortable? Taking a stand causes us to look inward, realizing that we may be part of the problem rather than part of the noble solutions we so often envision ourselves creating. While it might seem easier to post in Fix My Campus or share a New York Times article on Facebook, at some point, our words become meaningless if they are not translated into action. Activism at Duke can feel like a shout into a mammoth void—but it doesn’t have to be this way if we collectively push this conversation forward. The amount of resources and privilege we are afforded at this institution mean nothing if we sit complacently, watching dumb-struck as issues of racism, harassment, institutional abuses of power, and more impact our campus and students daily. Being a Duke student involves much more than passively observing Duke’s institutional power at work—we have a responsibility to question, challenge, and criticize. The name on our degrees means less and less the longer we sit on the sidelines and let others be the authors of our collective history. Do better, Duke students. The world is watching you. Ann Gehan is a Trinity first-year.

QUIZ TIME! Can you solve these 15 brainteasers to prove you’re a true Blue Devil? 1). I am white, I stand on four legs, but that which I stand for, I shall never attain. What am I? KA’s Diversity Chair. 2). I am heavy. Intentionally so. You lift me up and hold me close to fill the void of your mediocre childhood and chronic lack of personality. What am I? The weights in Wilson Gym. 3). We take classes that do not exist. Sometimes we dribble on wood, sometimes we dribble on pieces of paper and the papers get A’s. We score more points each game than all of our IQs added together. What are we? UNC’s basketball team. 4). You live in an ideal universe where every student scores all A’s and Duke has won every single National Championship. You walk into an office in the Allen Building; it’s Tallman Trask’s office. He smiles warmly at you and offers you either a Duke Blue pill or a Louisville Red pill. Which do you take? Trick Question: In an ideal universe, Tallman Trask got fired years ago! 5). I often favor men over women—some say alarmingly frequently—but I’m not gay. What could I possibly be? The Office of Student Conduct. 6). Pick a number between 1 and 10. Add 4 billion. Now subtract your number. What remains? TriDelt’s net worth. 7). Who came first: the chicken or the egg?

Who knows—but you’re on the 4th floor of Perkins so pipe the f**k down and give up on becoming a EvAnth major. 8). A boy and his father are caught in a traffic accident, and the father dies. Immediately the boy is rushed to a hospital, suffering from injuries. But the attending surgeon at Duke Health, upon seeing the boy, says “I cannot operate. This boy is my son.” Why won’t the doctor treat him? Kid forgot his MyChart login: tough break. 9). You sit in a waiting room. As if on cue, every person you know on campus decides to magically run into you. Where are you? CAPS. 10). Due to a severe lack of toilet paper on campus, my production quantities have been bumped up. What am I? The Chronicle. 11). So it’s kinda like a frat but it’s not really a frat I mean it kinda is but also like— it’s not. Like we function like one but we’re not connected to a national organization. It’s basically a bunch of guys hanging out and stuff but still it’s definitely not a frat. But it kinda is. But it’s also kinda not. What is it? Duke Men’s Project. 12). No, really, I picked Economics for my major because I love the subject matter so much. What am I? A liar. 13). I am vast and transparent but when

I was built nobody was like “Hey, maybe we should put like shutters or blinds on this things because it’s gonna be agonizingly bright for most of the day.” What am I? The Dickbox (a.k.a. The Brodhead Center) (a.k.a. West Union) (a.k.a. The big glass box on campus) (It was a joke about how much sunlight comes in because it’s made of f**king glass. Keep up.) 14). “The main reason I chose Duke was because of its amazing football program.” Who said this? Literally no one—not even Duke’s football players. 15). You walk into a large auditorium and see Grayson Allen on stage, pacing back and forth with a microphone. Before him lies an audience of several thousand people, listening to him give an impassioned speech, breaking occasionally to provide rapturous applause. He spies you across the room and intensely asks for your opinion on Planned Parenthood. The whole crowd turns to look at you. What do you say? Wait—sorry, that was actually a Ted Cruz rally. This is awkward. Tally up your scores! If you scored fewer than 5 then congratulations! Pack your bags and head to UNC, you absolute disgrace. You’ve let us down more than Kyrie Irving let down the entire Nobel Prize-Winning Department of Geology at Duke.

If you scored between 5-10 then you’re painfully average. You’re the kid that thought they were the cream of the crop at high school only to find out in O-week that half your class cured cancer. Welcome to life. If you scored 10+ then you’re one of the kids that cured cancer. We all resent you and wish you’d let us die in peaceful mediocrity. Share with your friends to let them know how much of a Duke dumpster fire you are! Monday Monday has been rejected an internship to Buzzfeed for the past three summers, and has thousands of unpublished quizzes in their files, such as “Quick, it’s a buoyancy test!” and “Which Allen Building occupier are you?” Correction: Monday Monday earlier stated mistakenly that Duke’s Department of Geology was “Nobel Prize-winning.” It turns out there is no geology department at Duke but feel free to comment below with your favorite type of rock! Mine’s the big ones!

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with the puppets themselves. Even though the students are free to decide whether they want to be a performer FROM PAGE 2 or a creator at the beginning of the semester, Bend makes sure everyone knows how to work the puppets. From puppeteering to current hot-button issues, “When you’re puppeteering, even when the puppets the class has a range of students just as diverse as the aren’t doing anything, you have to make it look like it’s topics it covers. Sophomores Katelyn Gochenour and breathing. You have to match its breathing patterns with Cassie Martin joined the class partly to get over their your own,” Gochenour said. Junior Reilly Johnson noted that if anything looks stage fright. Martin also enrolled to more deeply involve herself in the arts scene at Duke. dead for a single moment on stage, the illusion of the Ashley Ericson, a senior studying mechanical fantasy space that the class has worked so hard to create engineering, said she sees the parallel between her major together is broken. and theater—both are results-oriented and involve That illusion is formed through three separate creative problem-solving. mediums—three-dimensional puppets, two-dimensional “For me, it boils puppets and projectors. down to what I can We definitely have goals with the class, and we The projectors are used use theater for in the to show background and future, and this class do want something that is finished to a certain slow scenery changes specifically is a lot of degree, but I think the idea is that we’re all that would be hard to pulling together small portray otherwise. figuring it out along the way. pieces,” Ericson said. Most students find Pulling together puppeteering to be the reilly johnson those small pieces JUNIOR hardest part of the class. will only last for the “We definitely have first phase of the goals with the class, and semester, since the seminar is structured into three we do want something that is finished to a certain degree, separate parts—research, development and rehearsal. but I think the idea is that we’re all figuring it out along The class is currently transitioning from the research the way,” Johnson said. into the development phase. Weekly three-hour sessions are Bend added that part of the class is not knowing what held on Wednesday nights, and usually begin with students the final product will look like, but that she has loved the sitting in a circle and relaying their research for the week. process, which is what she calls a “big experiment.” Despite the sometimes touchy topic of conversation, the The students said they want to recruiting more professor always makes sure students are comfortable with people for the class. In order to make the show a success, what she calls “temperature checks,” during which students additional puppeteers are needed. Although several can talk about how they’re feeling in regards to the topic, people not actually enrolled in the class have already which is often racism or sexism. committed to doing so, the show is still in need of more. Students—especially Ericson—appreciate Craft’s “People who didn’t take it are for sure missing out,” input when transitioning their research into concrete Gochenour said. “[Bend is] just a really cool person.” ideas to explore through puppetry. As an award-winning Ericson and Johnson especially appreciate how Bend local playwright, Craft is working to adapt several tailors her teaching style to each student to help them be additional scenes from the comic for the students to their most creative. perform. He also helps with the students’ development That creativity is being utilized by the entire group to process and contributes ideas on how to give diminished create a puppetry performance that is highly entertaining, characters more agency. but also forces the creator to truly learn from even our The last half of the class is spent learning how to work most recent history.

TUITION FROM PAGE 1 Program), up four percent. Sanford School of Public Policy: $46,900 (Master of Public Policy), up three percent. School of Medicine: $59,100, up 3.5 percent. School of Nursing: $42,456, up 3.9 percent. Price indicated that the Board also discussed some possible internal changes to its structure and thinking. “It’s being baked now,” said Chair of the Board Jack Bovender. “We’ll have it fully baked by the May Board meeting, so there will be more information to share with you about how we’re changing some things to create more time to do a lot of strategic thinking about what we’re going to do over the next five or ten years, now that we’ve got a new president and his work on what our priorities ought to be in this age of big changes to higher education.”

CENTRAL FROM PAGE 1 Headquarters Friday afternoon, an employee confirmed that there was no kidnapping but could not share further details.

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