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Liz Brown

Bryce Cracknell

Amy Kramer

Chinmay Pandit

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By Bre Bradham

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Senior Liz Brown has dedicated her time at Duke to improving the connection between Duke and the Durham community. As a Young Trustee finalist, she strives to continue this mission.

Brown is currently vice president of the Duke Student Government Durham and regional affairs committee, and has served on the committee for the past three years.

She is also a Benjamin N. Duke scholar and co-coordinator for the Community Empowerment Fund and is studying political science and global health.

“For me, I believe wholeheartedly in public service and giving back and making

For senior Bryce Cracknell, creating access and opportunities for students has been the focus of his Duke career. Now he’s running for Young Trustee to further pursue this goal.

A public policy major with a minor in environmental science and policy, Cracknell is a Morris K. and Stewart L. Udall Scholar as well as the president of the Black Men’s Union. He also serves as a member of the Trinity Board of Visitors and a resident assistant in Keohane.

“How do we create better and more inclusive spaces and communities here at Duke?” he said. “I feel like I have a lot more

Senior Amy Kramer’s Young Trustee campaign centers around giving back to Duke as a leader, listener and fighter, by helping “make our second home an even better place.”

Kramer—who is studying public policy and political science—emphasized that her broad range of activities on campus gives her a wider perspective of the University and the problems it must overcome. She is a Robertson Scholar and Schwarzman Scholar, as well as an Army ROTC cadet. As a member of the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy Undergraduate Council, she has helped lead a research trip to Vietnam. That

Chinmay Pandit found his appreciation for teaching in his first class at Duke, and it’s been the driving force behind his Duke experience since.

The senior is running for Young Trustee because he wants to make the University more accessible, noting that the value of a Duke education comes from the diversity and multiculturalism that accessibility fosters.

“I care very deeply about this University and about the policies that affect students’ lives,” he said. “I have the breadth of experience and the experience on the Board [of Trustees] itself to translate so many of the experiences and opportunities we’ve had to improve what

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If we could start from scratch and design a housing model for Duke, would anyone propose the system we have now?

First-year students arrive on East Campus to a housing model that fosters tight-knit communities. East Campus dorms reflect the diversity of campus. First-years meet, befriend, and engage with people of different backgrounds and perspectives.

But by January, our idyllic image of East Campus life begins

to fracture. We determine our living arrangements for the next year by sorting ourselves into new communities. Many are happy with the outcome and live with their new selective group. However, the majority of students—approximately 60 percent—scramble to find a block of friends and enter the lottery for independent houses. These houses, with a few notable exceptions, lack a broader sense of community.

Data supports our concerns about Duke’s housing model. Last year, in an exit survey, only 56 percent of graduating seniors agreed with the statement that their on-campus housing provided a “sense of community and

sense of belonging.” Our divided, sometimes lonely campus life falls short of Duke’s incredible potential. We can do so much better.

Fortunately, with the closing of Central Campus slated for Summer 2019, and the opening of new housing on West Campus the following fall, we have an opportunity to start from scratch. It is time to reimagine our housing model.

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Duke-UNC lawsuit becomes class-action

By Bre Bradham Local and National News Editor

On Thursday, a district court judge ruled that the antitrust lawsuit against Duke for an alleged no-hire agreement can be expanded into a class-action suit.

The lawsuit can now cover a total of 5,500 doctors the Duke University School of Medicine or the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, the Associated Press reported. By becoming a classSee LAWSUIT on Page 4

Henry Haggart | Associate Photography Editor The lawsuit against Duke and UNC hospital systems alleges that the two schools had an no-hire agreement.

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Duke partners with Delta Air Lines to cut carbon emissions, plant trees in Durham

By Shayal Vashisth Contributing Reporter

Duke has partnered with Delta Air Lines to launch a program dedicated to offsetting carbon admissions produced by the institution.

Matthew Arsenault, program manager of the Duke Carbon Offsets Initiative, said Duke has an ambitious carbon neutrality date of 2024, and aims to forge partnerships in the pursuit of sustainability. With this new project, Duke and Delta will come together to buy 5,000 carbon offsets—equivalent to 5,000 tons of carbon dioxide or a similar gas being removed from the air.

“By reducing the emissions from activities on campus, like from replacing fleets with electric vehicles, we can reduce emissions on campus as compared to our previous footprints,” Arsenault said.

“Then what’s left as far as those emissions go in our footprint will be offset.”

These offsets will be facilitated by Greensboro-based company Urban Offsets, which takes certified carbon offsets and runs risk assessments, then takes a portion of each purchase to support urban trees. The carbon offsets themselves will come from a landfill gas destruction project in Gaston, N.C., as methane is captured and destroyed instead of polluting the atmosphere.

“By the time it becomes 2024, [Duke] is going to have to eliminate 185,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide just from transportation-related emissions,” said

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Duke has parterned with Delta Air Lines to purchase 5,000 carbon offsets, which is the same as 5,000 tons of carbon dioxide or an equivalent gas being removed from the air.

Urban Offsets CEO Shawn Gagné said.

“This is huge, but that is pretty average across universities.”

Delta Air Lines is the official airline of Duke Athletics and the University and has previously partnered with Duke in 2015 to offer a discount program for Duke employees and students, as well as a nonstop flight from Raleigh-Durham International Airport to Paris.

Gagné described an emissions overlap, as Delta and Duke count the same emissions toward their respective carbon footprints. Arsenault said those emissions

include Duke’s flights with athletics, faculty and students.

“Air travel is a huge contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, and obviously Duke is a large institution, so people fly a lot,” Arsenault said. “We are making all of Duke’s travel on Delta airlines in 2017 carbon neutral, and that’s just with this one project.”

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DELTA FROM PAGE 2 planting project in Durham, with 1,000 trees scheduled to be planted around the city by the end of March.

“Urban trees are on the decline nationally, and urban forestry is something really worthwhile to support,” Arsenault said. “There’s educational, social and environmental benefits for having trees in urban areas. We’re bundling those benefits with the immediate carbon impact of buying the offsets.”

About 600 trees have already been planted, but there are two more planting events hosted by nonprofit Keep Durham Beautiful. They are scheduled to be held Feb. 10 and Feb. 24, and Arsenault said the program would love to see local and student volunteers contributing. These trees will eventually remove an additional 5,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the air.

“As those trees grow, they themselves will sequester some pollution,” Arsenault said. “They’ll help remove pollution from

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car exhaust, filter the air for folks walking around Durham and help reduce storm water runoff. All of these benefits will only increase as the trees grow.”

About half of those 1,000 trees will be planted in very specific areas of the city, based on a 2016 Masters Project

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Number of trees that have been planted of the 1,000 trees that Duke plans to plant completed by Gregory Cooper, who received his master of environmental management and master of forestry degrees in 2016. The project examined maps of redlining—the practice of denying services—in Durham from the 1930s, in which lower-

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income neighborhoods were delineated.

The program then took these maps and used aerial imagery to determine which areas of the city lacked trees and establish target locations for planting.

“You can look at trees planted at the same time, and you can see what the historical infrastructure was based on the trees,” Cooper said. “We found that historically black neighborhoods had fewer trees than historically white, affluent neighborhoods.”

Cooper said these maps highlight the inequality within the city, but that this trend is not unique to Durham. He hopes the project will help raise awareness of the importance of urban forestry.

Gagné said this project is one of the first of its kind, and said that in addition to urban forestry, he hopes people become more aware of the value of sustainability initiatives.

“We want people to see that sustainability can support the mission of the organization that buys in,” he said. “By tying every single thing to a tangible aspect—the tree in the community that everyone can see—we’re saying that sustainability is here, it’s local, it’s something everyone can be involved in.”

PANDIT FROM PAGE 1 future generations are going to enjoy at Duke.”

Pandit is an economics and political science double major, and has played club soccer for three years at Duke.

He’s been a teaching assistant for Economics 201 for the past six semesters.

He has served on the Board of Trustees’ Business and Finance committee as a student representative for the last year.

That experience is critical, he explained, because the term of a Young Trustee only spans eight meetings–so it’s important that they don’t have to spend the first couple getting their feet under them.

The senior said he views his familiarity with a wide range of experience in the Duke community as a key quality of a Young Trustee.

“Though you are not a student representative, you are one of the few points of contact who has had a recent engagement with [current students],” he said.

The son of a data analyst and a mechanical engineer, Pandit said his parents were surprised when he took a social science-driven route. He was born and raised in Fort Collins, Colorado, where his parents settled after immigrating from India in the 1980s. Their journey and tutelage have instilled in him a “deep appreciation for putting everything I have into all that I have,” Pandit said.

He is also a Robertson scholar, and it was during his community summer that he got to try out his passion for teaching outside of Duke.

“I’ve found over my couple of years here that I really love teaching,” Pandit said. “I’ve been a [teaching assistant] for six semesters, I’ve taught seventh grade math in rural Mississippi.

I’ve had students in rural India make fun of my weird accent because they’re expecting something very different when they saw [me].”

His independent research has focused on public financing in higher education, and he wants to dedicate his career to building schools around the world. His experience as a teacher in India taught him that teaching is all about “collaboration, learning, listening and understanding how to create an environment that is conducive to the success of students of all different backgrounds.”

Pandit hopes to take those lessons to the Board.

“I want to help Duke...figure out how we can create an environment here—where students are coming from all parts of the world—[so] they can all come here and thrive and figure out what they want to do with their lives and what is meaningful to them.”

He’s also been involved in Duke Political Review, which has given him the chance to think, write and interact with people who have different ideas, he said. It’s also given him the chance to mentor enthusiastic first-years, like Ibrahim Butt.

Butt, a sophomore, said that he got involved with DPR through Pandit. One of Pandit’s best qualities, Butt said, is his willingness to consider people’s ideas when considering what to do in any situation.

“This guy really cares about what everyone is saying,” Butt said. “He’s super passionate about it, but he doesn’t let his passion overdrive other people’s passions and he really gets people involved. That’s just one of the things I love about Chinmay, he really allowed me to have a voice in DPR.” Sue Wasiolek, associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students, taught Pandit in a public policy course.

She highlighted his willingness to listen and weigh in on controversial issues.

“From a professor’s standpoint, that is exactly the type of student that you want in class—someone that is forthright, thoughtful and can support their opinion with facts and with substance, but is always leaving the door open to hear what others have to say with a willingness to change their own opinion,” Wasiolek said.

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LAWSUIT

part of the settlement, UNC did have to commit to never enter into such an agreement in the future and provide testimonies FROM PAGE 2 and internal documents to Seaman’s attorneys. As part of the settlement, UNC denied wrongdoing. The faculty from UNC action suit, U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles ruled that all are included in the class action suit. faculty members with an academic appointment at any point from 2012 to the present at either school are represented, and may receive compensation for damages depending on the outcome of the case.

The court appointed Seaman as class representative and the law firms Lieff Cabraser Heimann and Bernstein, LLP and Elliot Morgan Parsonage, P.A. as class counsel, to prosecute the case.

Number of the Duke and University The lawsuit began in May 2015 when Danielle Seaman, of North Carolina schools of medicine then-assistant professor of radiology, sued Duke, saying that doctors covered by the class-action she had lost a job opportunity due to a no-hire agreement between the University and UNC that she said violated federal antitrust laws.

UNC was originally a co-defendant alongside Duke in the The lawsuit arose after Seaman expressed interest in a job case, but Eagles officially approved a settlement by UNC on at UNC and claims she received an email from their chief Jan. 4 that did not require the school to pay any money. As of cardiothoracic imaging saying that the two schools have

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“I just received confirmation today from the Dean’s office that lateral moves of faculty between Duke and UNC are not permitted,” the email allegedly states, based on Seaman’s second amended complaint. “There is reasoning for this guideline which was agreed upon between the deans of UNC and Duke a few years back.”

Both universities deny the existence of such an agreement.

As part of Eagles’ decision to certify a faculty class in the lawsuit, all faculty physicians at the two medical schools are covered. However, non-faculty physicians, nurses and other skilled medical staff are not included under the class action suit, as Seaman’s lawyers had originally wanted.

Eagles contended that such an inclusion would make the lawsuit difficult to manage, and any notion of collusion involving individuals who were not faculty physicians is substantially weaker.

KRAMER FROM PAGE 1 role also gave her experience interacting with high-ranking military officers and government officials, which she said gave her the confidence to speak up.

“My commitment to teams bigger than myself, my desire to find innovative solutions to intransigent problems and my passion for diversity and women’s empowerment make me uniquely qualified for the position of Young Trustee,” Kramer wrote in an email.

Kramer is committed to women’s leadership, as reflected in her membership in the Duke Association for Business Oriented Women and her role as a cohort executive officer in the Penny Pilgram George Women’s Leadership Initiative.

She noted that her most important accomplishments include helping write the new national diversity strategy for the U.S. Army Cadet Command and her senior thesis, which focuses on the importance of female leadership in Army ROTC in universities.

The arts have also played an instrumental role during her time at Duke, Kramer noted, as she has played in the Duke Symphony Orchestra for four years and is a member of the Arts Theme House selective living group.

Kramer wrote that she believes Duke must confront three main challenges in order to rise above its peers—access and equity; diversity and inclusivity; and collaboration and innovation.

“This will only happen through continued support and investment in students beyond [Orientation Week], a commitment to diversity in students and faculty within an inclusive campus environment and a collaborative and innovative real-world education model that prepares students for the world outside Duke,” the email wrote.

Specifically, she said she hopes that Duke will increase financial aid and access to affordable food on campus, as well as invest in academic assistance, emotional and disability resources and sexual assault survivor support.

She envisions Duke being more diverse in terms of socioeconomic status, female professors in male-dominated fields and minority representation, she wrote.

Kramer also hopes to see Duke’s curriculum become increasingly collaborative, with an emphasis on mentored experiences, a relationship with Durham and mutual respect to help better prepare students.

Senior Caroline Hubble met Kramer as a first-year in Army ROTC and describes her as resilient and persistent.

“Amy is extraordinarily dedicated in all areas of her life.

She always gives 150% to everything,” Hubble said. “She’s just a very kind person, she’s so caring about everybody, no matter what walk of life.”

Professor of Political Science Peter Feaver has taught Amy in multiple classes throughout her time at Duke. He characterized her as a delight in the classroom, tenacious and willing to go out on a limb to argue something. He recounts her trying to gain approval to do a research project in Afghanistan.

“She didn’t take the initial no as the final word, she stuck with it, in the end she didn’t get to go [due to safety concerns], but I really admire her doggedness in pursuing that and that she wasn’t looking for something to be handed to her, she was going to work hard to make it happen,” Feaver said.

Feaver says Kramer is of the caliber of previous Young Trustees that he has interacted with. He said he believes she would make a great Young Trustee because she would be able to respectfully engage with the other board members—she would be able to challenge them, ask interesting questions and learn from them, but also contribute to the conversation.

“My time at Duke has been some of the best years of my life. I also recognize this has not been the reality for everyone,” Kramer wrote. “I want to be a Young Trustee because it’s time to give back and help others experience the same Duke that I have.”

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‘IT WAS DISGUSTING’

Shamorie Ponds torches Blue Devils for 33 points in Red Storm’s first win of 2018 gave the Red Storm the victory.

“We know we have that in us,” Duval said of his team’s ability to mount a comeback. “We’ve done it before and we almost did it today. But not every time it’s going to work out like that. Sometimes you have to take care of business in the beginning instead of waiting until the end.”

The Blue Devils (19-4) got off to a rough start defensively, allowing the Red Storm to convert on 71.4 percent of their attempts in the first four minutes, but Duke held a 12-11 lead with hot shooting of its own.

Trent continued his hot shooting out of the gates Saturday. Entering the game converting better than 58 percent from the perimeter following the Blue Devils’ upset loss at N.C. State, the Columbus, Ohio native drained five of his seven attempts from the perimeter, guiding the Blue Devils into the locker room with a 3932 lead with 14 first-half points.

St John’s (11-13), however, stormed out into the second half hungry for a victory with a 10-2 run. After Bagley picked up his third foul with just 16:53 remaining in the second half, Ponds drained a 3-pointer at the other end to give St. John’s its first lead of the contest 42-41. The Red Storm would use a strong shooting half to extend the lead to 11 with six minutes to play.

But just like the last meeting, the Blue Devils would not quit, riding strong secondhalf performances from freshmen Wendell Carter Jr. and Duval to cut the St. John’s lead to just four with three minutes remaining.

Carter’s 14 points, including a perfect 8-of8 shooting from the line, and 15 rebounds

By Michael Model Assistant Blue Zone Editor

NEW YORK—Trailing 61-51 with nine minutes remaining in Madison Square Garden against St. John’s, Saturday’s matchup felt similar to a game that went down in Blue Devil history just three years earlier.

Duke trailed 61-51 with eight minutes remaining the last time these teams faced off Jan. 25, 2015, but the Blue Devils’ closed the game on a 26-7 run, highlighted by a 22-point outburst by then-freshman Tyus Jones to deliver head coach Mike Krzyzewski his 1,000th career victory.

This game had a similar feel from the onset.

Sophomore Shamorie Ponds has not been fazed by top-10 opponents all season, and rather has been dominant in the spotlight at home. Ponds dropped 37 points Jan. 11 against No. 1 Villanova, and poured in a 31-point outburst Tuesday in the Red Storm’s 73-68 loss against No. 6 Xavier.

Ponds once again came alive Saturday, leading St. John’s with 33 points, including 24 of them in the second half, helping the Red Storm hold on to an 81-77 upset victory against No. 4 Duke. The win snapped an 11game losing streak for St. John’s, which is winless in its conference.

“We did not play basketball the first 32 minutes worthy of our program,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We were like five individuals out there, and it was disgusting, really. They were a very frustrating group to coach today because they didn’t respond to anything until the last eight minutes. That’s

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Grayson Allen was shut down by the St. John’s defense and held to just seven points on 1-of7 shooting in his final collegiate visit to Madison Square Garden. unacceptable. That is unacceptable.”

With about two minutes left, a 3-pointer and a pair of free throws from Gary Trent Jr. gave Duke its first lead since the 16:53 mark in the second half after it trailed by as many as 11 points.

But after a made layup at the other end by Ponds put the Red Storm up 74-73, freshman Trevon Duval’s free throw woes continued, as he missed a pair that would have given the Blue Devils the lead back. After a 3-pointer by Ponds extended the lead to four, Allen nailed his first

shot of the contest, a clutch triple to bring Duke back within one at 77-76.

“It’s really hard to defend,” senior captain Grayson Allen said. “He makes a lot of tough shots and he’s extremely aggressive.

Him as a player, he’s really good with the ball. That’s what he does, and you can’t let a guy like that get going.”

Tariq Owens continued his stellar 17-point performance with consecutive free throws, and a missed free throw by Marvin Bagley III and a missed 3-pointer by Allen with five seconds left

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Duke loses 14th straight meeting vs. Fighting Irish Blue Devils, did not start Sunday due to a hip injury after missing Thursday’s game against Georgia Tech, but still played nine The Blue Devils looked to continue a 30- scoreless minutes. game regular-season home winning streak “Obviously she’s a big part of what we Sunday afternoon and snap a 13-game losing do,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. streak against perennial power Notre Dame, “When Haley is on the floor, it just lightens but they came up short once again. up everything for everybody. She’s her own The fifth-ranked Fighting Irish pulled away threat—you’ve got to guard her. It’s a different in the fourth quarter to beat No. 19 Duke 72- dynamic for our team.”

54, led by hot 3-point shooting and 18 points The contest was scoreless for the first from junior Marina two minutes of the first quarter, with 72 Mabrey. After the several attempts but nothing from either ND 54 Blue Devils pulled team. Williams was finally the one to break DUKE within six points the streak, scoring on her fourth attempt with seven minutes remaining, Notre Dame at a layup and giving the Blue Devils the closed the game on a 14-2 run. momentum to take the lead for the only time “We just folded. We’ve done this before. of the quarter.

We get down, we come back and then we fold,” Duke held Notre Dame to a single point graduate student Lexie Brown said. “I don’t know the first four minutes of the first quarter with what it is we need to do to get over the hump. We its aggressive defense. But it was not long before the Fighting Irish just needed more people (22-2, 10-1) began to to step up and be more We just folded. We’ve dominate play. confident.” done this before. We get Duke (18-6, 7-4 in After trailing 5-1, the ACC) went big with down, we come back and Notre Dame took off on its starting lineup again, then we fold. a 10-0 run, leaving the surrounding Brown Blue Devils behind with LEXIE BROWN and Rebecca Greenwell the clock ticking down GRADUATE STUDENT GUARD in the first quarter. But with post players Erin Duke looked once again Mathias, Jade Williams and Bego Faz Davalos. Redshirt sophomore to Greenwell to lead the team out of its hole.

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Graduate student Lexie Brown heated up in the third quarter to tie the game, but still has never beat Notre Dame. drained her third trey to trim the deficit to one and swing the momentum back the Blue Devils’ way.

Duke quickly took the lead in the first minutes of the second quarter, but then lost it again. And so the pattern continued. There were eight lead changes between the two top20 foes in the first five minutes of the period,

but with four minutes left in the half, Notre Dame took the lead again, and this time almost for good. The Blue Devils finished the half trailing 33-29.

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Duke dismantles Air Force in season opener

By Sid Bhaskara Senior Sports Reporter

For the last two years, Air Force has come to Koskinen Stadium and upset Duke teams with a superior pedigree on paper. But to the start their 2018, the Blue Devils made it abundantly clear there would be no contest this time around.

No. 1 Duke handled the Falcons 18-4, illustrating its potential as the best team in the nation. Not only did the Blue Devils physically dominate 4 defensively, but the AFA 18 team’s ability to turn DUKE defense into offense with a lethal fast break was unguardable. It also did not hurt Duke’s chances that player-ofthe-year hopeful and senior attackman Justin Guterding started off his campaign with a 10-point outing to start the year.

“We had [losing to Air Force the last two years] on our mind,” Guterding said. “The entire fall, spring, we were really excited to play them again. We delivered.”

The talent on the Duke roster from every class year was readily apparent, as senior midfielder Matthew Giampetroni started the scoring for both sides after nearly nine minutes of action.

The Bloomfield Hills, Mich., native opened the floodgates for the Duke offense from that point forward as Guterding, sophomores Joey Manown and Reilly Walsh, junior Brad Smith and freshman Joe Robertson all lit up the scoresheet.

Walsh in particular featured the most eye

popping shots, firing 100-mile-an-hour rockets from the midfield that left Falcon goalkeeper Noah Schwab helpless.

It was that mix of veteran experience and young talent that earned the Blue Devils their No. 1 ranking before the season and provided head coach John Danowski with perhaps the most weapons he has ever had at his disposal on both sides of the ball.

“Defensively, we’re a year older,” Danowski said. “Most everyone is back. Kevin McDonough, though he is a rookie, is also a fifth-year senior.

He’s been a terrific addition. Terry Lindsay, Sean Cerrone, they’re all back so you hope there’d be a little more chemistry.... This is my first time ever playing three midfields throughout the game. We trust that third midfield group. Those three seniors, [Giampetroni, Jake Seau and David Gill], they all love each other and have great chemistry together.”

The Duke defense returns redshirt senior goalkeeper and All-ACC selection Danny Fowler and fellow All-ACC pick at close defense, junior Cade Van Raaphorst. Between Van Raaphorst, sophomore JT Giles-Harris and senior defensive midfielder Cerrone, the Blue Devils routinely bullied Air Force at the point of attack, causing nine turnovers.

The Blue Devils (1-0) also had the advantage of flexing what appears to be the most depth of any team in the nation, playing three midfield lines that all featured upperclassmen. Although the first midfield including Smith, fellow junior Sean Lowrie—who had a pair of goals to start

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Preseason All-ACC selection Justin Guterding started off his final campaign at Duke with a sterling 10-point afternoon. the year—and graduate transfer Peter Conley was most productive, the all-senior third midfield line was a consistent force that wore the Falcons’ defense out, opening up lanes for the attack and other midfield lines alike.

But the star of the day was undoubtedly Guterding. On his 23rd birthday, Guterding sparkled, dishing a career-high seven assists and scoring in every manner possible. The Garden City, N.Y., native put defenders in the spin cycle, sliced through double teams and launched a lefty timeand-room screamer to the bottom corner.

After scoring 97 points a year ago, Guterding

appears determined to get his team back to championship weekend for the first time of his career, beginning with his performance against Air Force (0-1), which won its conference the last two years. “[Getting the win today] is exciting,” Guterding said. “It doesn’t mean much for getting back to championship weekend, but it’s the first win, we’re happy to get it, we worked really hard for it. Keep working hard, and we’ll see where this goes.”

The Blue Devils continue their home stand with a 7 p.m. matchup against High Point at Koskinen Stadium Thursday.

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Blue Devils outplayed in paint by small Red Storm

By Ben Feder Senior Sports Reporter

With freshmen stars Wendell Carter Jr. and Marvin Bagley III down low, Duke generally dominates on the boards.

But during a pivotal half, the Blue Devils— who are ranked second nationally in rebounds per game—were thoroughly outmatched. Although Bagley spent a portion of the period sidelined due to foul trouble, reserve big men Javin DeLaurier and Marques Bolden still towered over St. John’s, whose power forward was 6-foot-7.

For a team holding a seven-point lead at halftime despite playing uneven basketball, the lack of intensity on the boards was exactly what Duke could not afford.

The hot-shooting Red Storm grabbed 25 rebounds to the Blue Devils’ 18 in the second half, allowing them to mount a comeback as their possessions piled up. With 16 offensive rebounds in the game, St. John’s made Duke pay, making more than 46 percent of their shots from the field and beyond the arc.

“It’s simply just a lack of communication for a period of time. When we come down and

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St. John’s outscored the Blue Devils 40-28 in the paint, led by forward Tariq Owens on both ends of the floor, and the Red Storm outrebounded Duke in the second half.

we’re tired, we have to fight through it,” freshman Gary Trent Jr. said. “We have to continue to talk, continue to stay together, to be together.”

Compared to the first half, when Carter nearly single-handedly outrebounded the Red Storm as they snagged just eight, with the second half came a stark difference. Perhaps some of that had to do with Bagley being saddled with foul trouble, but 6-foot-1 guard Shamorie Ponds led St. John’s with seven total rebounds.

Although Ponds will grab all the headlines after dropping 33 points, including a dagger 3-pointer over Trent with the shot clock winding down, he made a major impact in keeping possessions alive. After forward Tariq Owens would manage to bat the ball away from Carter, Ponds would swoop in and grab an offensive rebound multiple times. All the long rebounds and loose balls were getting tracked down by the Red Storm’s guards.

“We’re really young. Young is more susceptible to inconsistency, and that’s what we are,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “In games that we’ve lost, we’ve been incredibly inconsistent throughout the game.”

As demonstrated by Ponds, a team’s rebounding is not solely dependent on the frontcourt players—the guards have to pitch in too. While Ponds and fellow guard Justin Simon combined for 12 total boards, the Blue Devils’ starting trio of Grayson Allen, Trevon Duval and Trent snagged just four.

It is not as if there were just no opportunities for rebounds either.

The Blue Devils made sure of that by coughing the ball up 18 times, allowing St.

John’s to attempt 14 more shots from the field.

Every player who got at least 10 minutes of playing time for Duke turned the ball over, with Bagley leading the team with six.

“It’s something we’ve been doing. A lot of them are unforced,” Krzyzewski said. “You can’t win at a really high level doing that… We weren’t strong with the ball, and they just took it and hit a layup.”

To Krzyzewski’s point, the Red Storm scored 24 points off turnovers, with Ponds leading the charge on the break. Sometimes he pulled up, and other times he drove at Duke’s big men, earning multiple and-one opportunities in the second half. Against a team that entered the contest missing its second-leading scorer and ranking 166th in Ken Pomeroy’s adjusted offensive efficiency metric, it seemed as though the Blue Devils were helping St. John’s out, rather than trying to stop it at times.

Complete with their second-half dominance on the boards came the Red Storm’s ease scoring around the basket. St. John’s outscored Duke 4028 in the paint, and the Blue Devils struggled to contain the pick-and-roll duo of Ponds and Owens. If Owens was not open on the roll— which was infrequent—then Ponds would either drive or kick it out to forward Bashir Ahmed, who racked up 19 points of his own.

“You have to respond while it’s going on—at halftime, at a timeout—you have got to respond.

When you don’t, then you’re into your own stuff,” Krzyzewski said. “The basketball gods understand in most cases who should win, so losing when [we] had a chance to win after not playing well, we got what we deserved.”

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Blue Devils beat Virginia for first time since 2005

By Hank Tucker Sports Editor

Freshman Jeremiah Reitz’s first career win in a dual match could not have come at a better time for the Blue Devils.

Reitz’s 4-2 win by decision against Sam Martino at 141 pounds in the penultimate match of Duke’s meeting with Virginia clinched the Blue Devils’ 19-16 victory at Cameron Indoor Stadium, the 16 first time they have UVA 19 topped the Cavaliers DUKE since 2005 and their first ACC win in two years. Reitz was 0-9 in dual matches entering the day, but beat Martino in the Cliff Keen Open in December and picked up an early takedown to earn the same result Saturday afternoon.

“When you see a freshman like him that’s talented, that comes from a talented region in Indiana that’s known for tough wrestlers, talented wrestlers, he’s out of that pedigree,” Duke head coach Glen Lanham said. “Everybody knows you have to have a breakthrough, and he definitely had a breakthrough tonight.... He knew the pressure was on him to win. We weren’t favored in the following match, so we knew we had to get it, and he went out there and got it.”

No. 11 Mitch Finesilver set the tone to start the match with a 16-0 win by technical fall to push the Blue Devils (5-5, 1-2 in the ACC) to an early 5-0 lead. The teams then split the next four decisions to head into the intermission with

Duke ahead 11-6, and No. 4 heavyweight Jacob Kasper delivered like he has all year to stretch Duke’s lead immediately after the break.

A last-second score gave Kasper a 15-point margin against Tyler Love at 19-4, earning him a technical fall and an extra point for the Blue Devils on the team scoreboard. Kasper is now 10-0 in dual matches in his final season, and Finesilver is not far behind at 157 pounds, with an 8-2 record as a redshirt junior.

“Every team, you have to have some horses— thoroughbreds, I should say—that you know are going to go out there and you can count on them to do big things. We’ve been fortunate to have that for the last couple years,” Lanham said. “Big wrestlers do big things, and that’s what these guys are. They’re primetime wrestlers.”

Despite the Blue Devils’ 16-6 lead, the match was far from over. They would still have to win at least one or potentially two of the last four matches, depending on how many bonus points Virginia earned, and the Cavaliers (4-8, 0-3) still had two ranked wrestlers left in their lineup, compared to none for Duke.

Senior Thayer Atkins at 125 pounds and freshman Matt Finesilver at 133 pounds were defeated by those top-16 opponents in the next two matches. But they both kept it close and lost by 1-0 and 5-0 decisions, respectively, which only allowed the Cavaliers to cut Duke’s lead to 16-12.

“It took a lot of grit from not just the guys that won, but the guys that lost, too,” Lanham said. “Obviously on paper, those guys are thinking they’re going to bonus in

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Freshman Jeremiah Reitz clinched Saturday victory with the first dual-match win of his career after entering the day 0-9. those two weights.”

That set the stage for Reitz to clinch a victory with any type of win—and he delivered.

Brandon Leynaud lost at 149 pounds 17-5 by major decision after the outcome of the team match had been decided.

The Blue Devils have now won two in a row after a 38-3 rout of Gardner-Webb at home Thursday night, and they will hit the road next to visit Appalachian State Thursday before hosting Pittsburgh Feb. 11. The dual-match season is about halfway done, with the ACC

championships four weeks away.

“I just want us to wrestle free. I saw this documentary on freesurfing, and it was about these surfers that they go out into these huge waves, and they don’t care, and for those guys, it’s like you can make one move and you could die,” Lanham said. “And they call it freesurfing.

Your mind is free. You’re not worried about anything, and that’s what I told our guys tonight. I said, ‘Look, it’s not like you’re out there against a big wave. Just wrestle free.

Wrestle with your mind clear.’”

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But every time Duke seemed to be making its way back into the contest, Notre Dame made another bucket to stay in front.

With just more than a minute left in the third quarter, the Fighting Irish stretched the lead to double digits for the first time of the day.

The Blue Devils tried to make one last run after entering the fourth quarter down 54-46, but the Fighting Irish shut them down yet again.

“We’re going to have to watch film on this, learn from it, take it to heart, and hope it motivates us through the rest of the ACC season,” Greenwell said. “We still have a long road ahead of us, but this one hurts.”

Duke will be back on the floor Wednesday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium to wrap up its three-game homestand against Wake Forest.

FROM PAGE 6 we’d like to control,” McCallie said of the 22 points off turnovers and 19 fast-break points the Blue Devils allowed that helped the Fighting Irish pull in front.

Brown, held only to two points in the first half, showed up after the break once again. The graduate student quickly nailed a jumper and immediately followed it with a steal and a 3-pointer early in the third period to tie the game at 36.

Another veteran also came alive for the Blue Devils in the second half. Bego Faz Davalos, scoreless before the break, made back-to-back layups followed by a free throw to keep the Fighting Irish from creating separation for the next few minutes.

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Gary Trent Jr. knocked down four 3-pointers to give Duke a halftime cushion that would not last and led the Blue Devils with 22 points.

M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 6 helped lead the Blue Devils back.

Despite the halftime lead, defensive woes and an inability to maintain possession of the ball plagued the Blue Devils in the first half. After coughing the ball up 16 times last weekend against Virginia, Duke turned it over 18 times Saturday.

“It’s a whole bunch of things that we can look back on and say, ‘We could’ve done that better, we could’ve done this better,’” Duval said.

“But it’s all a team effort. We all could’ve played better defense. We all could’ve played better offense, took better shots. We could’ve cut our turnovers down and made free throws, those type of things also win games.... We could’ve played better as a team.”

Duval especially saw his struggles lift with a strong nine points and three assists

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Coming off his worst offensive performance at the collegiate level against Notre Dame Monday—a 4-for-14 shooting night—Bagley’s struggles continued Saturday. Despite a much more efficient 19 points on 6-of-10 shooting, the freshman phenom was also plagued by turnovers, coughing the ball up six times while getting into foul trouble in the second half.

“It’s basketball, you’re not going to be perfect,” Bagley said. “It’s just a game, you’ve got to earn it more. It is what it is, you’ve got to move on from it. We didn’t play hard like we wanted to, and that was really it.

The Blue Devils will return to the floor Thursday when they visit North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

“I will do the things that I’ve done for 43 years to make sure that the next time we go out, we have an acceptable performance by our Duke team,” Krzyzewski said.

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Camelot 2.0 Last Tuesday, Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III delivered to a national audience the official Democratic Party rebuttal to President Trump’s state of the union address. A scion of the highly influential Kennedy dynasty, the New England congressman conveyed the official party response from the confines of a local auto-shop in Fall River, Massachusetts, a historically blue-collar community. Without officially referring to Trump, Kennedy lambasted the current presidential administration, delivering an explicit philippic against the current state of the nation under the ruling GOP government. Evoking the image of a diverse, egalitarian America rooted in historical precedents, Kennedy advocated for a new, seemingly utopian future under the Democratic Party that would harness the “spirit of a people united in defense of their future.”

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respective social media spheres. Given the pessimistic reality of the current political environment, the Democratic Party should rather focus on concrete steps, policies and plans to ultimately ameliorate and pushback against current the state of union envisioned by the GOP. As of now, the Democratic Party’s vision of a future, more optimistic state of union—where Hispanic immigrants, the white blue collar working class and Black Lives Matter activists all live harmoniously under a benevolent Democratic union—seems like a quixotic liberal fairy tale rooted in historicized romanticism, a Camelot 2.0

Editorial Board Moreover, the Democratic Party’s decision to select Congressman Kennedy, both the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy and grandnephew of President Kennedy, to deliver the speech is somewhat paradoxical given the party’s supposed commitment to diversity and inclusiveness. Kennedy’s elite, almost aristocratic background as a wealthy, Harvard and Stanford educated celebrity politician does not reflect the lived experiences of so many Americans that he and the Democrats claim to currently represent: women, the working class, Hispanic immigrants, transgender

peoples, etc. The last time the Democrats endorsed a prominent celebrity candidate from a storied political dynasty for the presidency, Clinton in 2016, issues concerning proper representation and political elitism plagued the party platform, which contributed to the Democrats’ miserable defeat. Although Congressman Kennedy is at no fault for being the inheritor of so much white privilege, the Democratic Party should still aim to remain true to the values of diversity and social egalitarianism it seeks to embody, looking towards 2020.

Given the almost mythical reputation of the Kennedy family in American liberal politics, it is easy to see perhaps why the Democratic leadership selected Congressman Joseph Kennedy to deliver its rebuttal to Trump’s state of the union. However, in selling the promise of a seemingly mythical, utopian future state of the union—one that might be guided by the heir to the Arthurian Kennedy mythos himself—the Democrats run the risk of further alienating a cynical, pessimistic voter base already fed up with elitist, theoretical and homogenous politics. The American people do not require an abstract vision of a Camelot II going into 2020, but rather desperately need a politician and party willing to concretely embody and defend the values of diversity, human rights and freedom from a policy-based perspective.

A dumb major Every once in a winter’s eve, a time comes when the void takes its hands from my shoulders and allows me to escape its cold, foul breath. The last instance was last week when I went to see John Mulaney at DPAC. Little did I know, the void was not finished with me that fateful Friday night.

Jaxson Floberg FILLING THE VOID As an English major, I sometimes take some flak for pursuing an impractical path. Last year, my East Campus dorm room quickly became my panic room—a place to escape the crushing feeling of indecision that weighs on many first-years (and upperclassmen as well, you know who you are). I had no idea what I was going to study, I only knew that I was interested in too many subjects to make a decision about what to do with the rest my life.

I’m only a kid, how in God’s name am I allowed that much responsibility?

When the time came, the decision was easy.

My passions aligned like the planets, and English made total sense for a freshly-groomed arts kid with little skill in anything concrete. I learned from English professors that the reason no one knows what career an English major pursues—beyond teaching, of course—is that English majors go on to do such an assortment of jobs that there isn’t a way to pinpoint what lies ahead for us. Needless to say, I felt pretty good about all of this. The void rested, and so did I. Last Friday, I took in the brilliance of John Mulaney for a solid hour before his set became a little too real. Mulaney was an English major at Georgetown in a bygone era, and his commentary on that decision wasn’t at all what I wanted to hear. “I spent $120,000 to walk across a stage and receive a piece of paper for reading books that I didn’t read,” he said. The next five minutes are a little hazy in my memory because I was distracted by the cold sweat dripping into and burning my eyes, but I’m nearly sure that the gist was that Mulaney believed that choosing to be English major was a mistake, or at the very least a completely insignificant choice.

But John, I thought, you’re so successful, it worked out for you, it couldn’t have been a mistake, please John, talk to me, give me anything, sign my hat, tell me it’ll all be okay. But he didn’t do any of those things.

I convinced myself that Mulaney’s bit was subjected to artistic liberties for the sake of comedy—that he didn’t really believe in the

uselessness of our major further than was necessary to make a great joke. But then it hit me: I was supposed to read all five acts of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” that Friday. And I didn’t. Because I was busy seeing John Mulaney.

The void, this representation of uncertainty, flashed me a wry smile. It wanted me to see this.

It was like the ghost of Christmas Future showing Scrooge the dark days to come, those without a certain one-crutched little boy. I was Tiny Tim and the void was—wait, no, I’m supposed to be Scrooge. Right? Oh, God…I’ve never read “A Christmas Carol.” I was supposed to, and I just didn’t. Oh no. I’m a fraud, aren’t I? John Mulaney was right about me, wasn’t he? I’m supposed to be reading “Troilus and Cressida” and watching “The Wild Bunch” right now, but I’m not because I’m writing this and now it’s getting harder because I’m sweating again and it’s in my eyes, and s**t that really stings, and I’m gonna take a break for a minute if that’s okay INTERMISSION The funny thing about choosing a major at a school like Duke is that it’s not really that important. The only wrong major is a major that is wrong for you, and no matter what your major is, you get to leave here with a degree from Duke University, and four worthy years of exploration.

There’s no reason to panic. The void, the crushing blackness that hangs over us and awaits us after college, it’s all in our heads. We are strong, and we are smart, and we can take on the real world with the same level of voracity with which we took on Duke. Our success in this life, however you define it, will not hinge on this decision that seems so important now.

Trust me, I’m a sophomore.

And so, as my panic retreats to its dark hole in my subconscious, I thank the stars for the opportunity to pursue what I’m passionate about even if some would consider it impractical, and even if I don’t always read exactly what I’m supposed to. Despite the lingering void, I trust that fate will lead me down the paths I’m meant to tread, no matter if the English major has anything to do with them or not.

It didn’t for John Mulaney and—though I was sitting in the nosebleeds last Friday—on that stage, he seems to be exactly where he is meant to be.

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

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The case for housing reform (cont.)

1. Housing should be home. All students deserve a home at Duke, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, disability status, sexual orientation, national origin, socioeconomic status, or political affiliation.

2. Houses should foster thriving social and intellectual communities. Housing should support friendships and set the stage for a genuine exchange of ideas and perspectives.

3. Housing reform should not reinvent the wheel. In areas where our housing model is optimal, let’s not change it. For example, students seem to be broadly satisfied with the East Campus experience.

4. Housing should reflect the diversity of campus. West Campus houses should look more like East Campus dorms.

5. Houses should support peer mentorship through age diversity. On West Campus, houses should include sophomores, juniors, and at least a few seniors who elect to remain on campus. Having students of different years live together will foster peer mentorship.

6. Houses should extend right of return to students returning from abroad. In the last housing reform, Duke ensured that students could remain in the same housing from sophomore to senior year. This same right should apply to students who choose to study away in the fall semester—they too should be able to return to a bed in their house.

We have concluded that the best way to achieve these goals is to adapt the concept of a residential college system to work with Duke’s housing infrastructure. Duke currently has houses of 30 to 120 residents, centered around common rooms. We could easily adapt this infrastructure to create distinctive, diverse, student-run housing communities. We call our model the “West Campus House Model.”

We foresee three main methods for students to join West Campus houses: 1. The Linking Model. East Campus dorms would be linked to West Campus houses. From their first days on campus, Duke students would know where they would live for the rest of their Duke experience. They would also benefit from mentorship and social activities in their West Campus houses. HRL is already experimenting with a variant of this model.

2. The Match Model. In the spring semester, West Campus houses would hold recruitment events to share their unique cultures and attract potential members.

First-years would rank their preferences, and an algorithm would determine housing assignments.

3. The Random Assignment Model.

Roommate pairs or blocks of students would be randomly assigned to West Campus houses.

At this point, we believe it is critical to consider all three models. Each of them offers strengths and weaknesses. But any of them, we contend, would represent an improvement to our current system.

To make Duke’s new West Campus houses work, the university should consider an additional change. We propose that houses be granted the ability to throw parties with alcohol—a privilege currently enjoyed by fraternities and non-Greek SLGs. Currently, House Councils may host parties with alcohol, provided they hire a bartender and follow through on a highly-regulated, onerous procedure. To our knowledge, no Independent House has ever thrown such a gathering. We propose that parties be registered via Residence Coordinators, as with selective groups, and that house members receive party monitor training.

Here are the benefits we anticipate from housing reform: 1. Houses will foster a stronger, more durable sense of community than what our current housing model provides. We look to peer institutions like Yale, Harvard, Rice, and Northwestern for examples of residential colleges that work. Isn’t it a shame that Duke alumni often introduce themselves with the name of their freshman dorm instead of their West or Central Campus house?

2. Students will make the most of Duke’s

through houses where seniors live together off campus—where most parties are held these days anyway. Non-Greek SLGs could also choose to become social clubs, maintaining their distinctive character through the ability to select and reject potential new members.

We suspect, however, that if Duke were to embrace housing reform, at least some SLGs would opt to drop selectivity and become West Campus houses. Those of us in SLGs report that the rush process makes some

Terry Sanford called Duke a place of ‘outrageous ambition.’

Ambition is missing from our current housing model...”

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diversity, living and learning with each other.

This goal is especially important at a time of increasing K12 school segregation and intense political polarization. The university is one of only a few cross-cutting institutions where people of different backgrounds can come together to exchange stories and ideas.

3. Students will take ownership of the residential experience. Current sophomores and first-years, as well as the incoming Class of 2022, would play a decisive role in founding new houses. Assuming that these houses would debut on Duke’s campus in Fall 2019, teams of students could use the 2018-2019 academic year to plan the houses they wish to found. Over time, entirely new traditions and cultures would spring up.

Fall and spring trips, house competitions, and house parties are a few of the ways enterprising students could build new residential communities.

4. Housing will align with Duke’s mission statement. Duke is supposed to contribute to undergraduates’ “development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities.” We are also supposed to gain “a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth.” The West Campus House Model would serve these goals better than our existing system.

In addition to these major benefits, we anticipate other gains from reform. We could end class distribution requirements, housing quotas, and the friend-of-house policy. Juniors and seniors would no longer be pressured by their organizations to live in “section.” Groups would no longer struggle to fill sections after formal recruitment processes have ended. House leaders would no longer have to scramble to find students to live as friends-of-house.

What would become of fraternities, sororities and non-Greek SLGs under our proposed housing reform?

They would remain selective, or they would remain residential. But they would no longer be both. Existing groups would decide how to adapt to the new housing model.

We affirm that selective organizations can be very good for students. Our aim is not to abolish or dismantle the Greek system and SLGs, and we reject knee-jerk criticism of these groups. For many of us, selective groups have provided a powerful sense of community. We remain grateful for the friends and mentors we have encountered through them. But we strongly believe that the time has come for housing and selectivity to be decoupled.

Greek organizations are by definition selective, and we do not expect many of them to give up the right to choose their members. They would become social clubs, maintained through national chapters and

of our members uneasy; there are too few beds and too many amazing Duke students.

We are hopeful that some SLGs will choose residential living over selectivity.

All students stand to gain from a housing model that promotes vibrant and diverse communities, while still giving students the freedom to join selective social, academic, and pre-professional organizations.

Independent students would gain a sense of community through West Campus houses, founded and managed by their peers. In the new model, students would find purpose and belonging—precisely what they report they lack in the current system.

SLGs that choose to embrace housing reform would likely become some of the most desirable places to live on West Campus. (After all, West Campus houses would be just LGs—living groups without selectivity.) Their traditions, parties, and retreats would set the example for new houses, inspiring healthy competition and innovation in new houses.

Students in Greek organizations would also enjoy substantial benefits from our proposed housing reform. If selectivity and housing were decoupled, students deciding to remain in selective groups would gain a decisive benefit: They would enjoy two social groups instead of one. They would live in a thriving, diverse, tight-knit residential community while also maintaining all of the major benefits that come with membership in a selective organization. What’s more, if Greek organizations no longer had to deal with the burdensome administrative demands of oncampus living, they could more fully prioritize their core values and purposes—brotherhood and sisterhood.

The Duke Office of Undergraduate Admissions works tirelessly to bring students from all over the world to this campus, presumably because we have so much to learn from each other. But many alumni have told us that the single biggest regret from their time at Duke is that they did not make many friends from outside a narrow social circle. Let’s spare future alumni from this regret.

In short, we would all benefit from housing reform.

But not all of us will be here to see it. Even if reform takes effect as soon as possible— Fall 2019—it would only directly affect half of our current student body.

Juniors and seniors: You will have graduated by then. Housing reform will not directly affect you. Consider what would be best for the Duke you love. First-years and sophomores, we recognize that housing reform could be disruptive, but it also offers you the chance to leave a lasting legacy at Duke. You could be founders. The success of housing reform depends on your leadership and ingenuity.

We recognize that not everyone on campus will share our views, but we suspect that support for housing reform is more widespread than administrators imagine.

We crave community—and we should make a decision about the future of Duke’s housing model as a community.

We hope that this document will spark a conversation. We are excited to see how it will play out in the coming months on the pages of this paper and in the hallways of the dorms we know and love. Students, parents, faculty, staff, alumni, administrators, and the Board of Trustees should all join in the conversation.

We also want to acknowledge the questions we have left unaddressed. How would housing reform treat Living Learning Communities (LLCs) like the Baldwin Scholars, Ethics, and Visions of Freedom?

How would athletes fare under housing reform? What is the appropriate blocking size for each housing model? We do not pretend to have all the answers—but we think that we will discover them together over the course of our conversation.

To those who believe that our current housing model is too ingrained, too deeply rooted in campus culture to permit substantial reform, we ask you to hear us out. Duke is a young university. The gothic buildings of Julian Abele’s West Campus did not open until 1930. Students of all class years lived on East Campus as late as 1994, when, in a controversial decision, President Keohane designated East Campus an all-first-year campus. Our current housing model only dates back to 2012.

The construction culminating in 2019 will bring major changes to how we live at Duke.

We should take advantage of this change to build a campus where all of us can thrive.

This is our window of opportunity.

Terry Sanford called Duke a place of “outrageous ambition.” Ambition is missing from our current housing model— the ambition to establish communities of meaning where every student feels at home, where no one is rejected from a place to live, where everyone can forge lasting friendships. It is time to harness our outrageous ambition as Duke students to press for housing reform. We wish to live deliberately.

Signed, Leah Abrams ‘20 Kappa Kappa Gamma Mirecourt Kelsey Graywill ‘18 Sherwood Independent House Spencer Kaplan ‘21 Randolph Dormitory Cooper House Joel Kelly ‘18 Craven Resident Assistant Matthew T. King ‘18 Cooper House Sabriyya Pate ‘19 Kilgo Resident Assistant Jackson Prince ’19 Alpha Epsilon Pi Jen Semler ‘19 Brownstone Lizzie Speed ‘18 Delta Delta Delta Kayla Thompson ‘19 Gamma Phi Beta Find us on Facebook or email us at dukehousingreform@gmail.com. If you like what you read, sign our petition online!

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CRACKNELL FROM PAGE 1 to give.”

Cracknell noted that he first got involved with activism work on campus after a noose was hung on the Bryan Center plaza in 2015, and he realized that “this place wasn’t built for people like me.” He helped create “Demands of Black Voices,” a list of desired administrative actions and changes in policy, and also worked with the administration to designate the main quadrangle as Abele Quad.

In addition, Cracknell has worked to improve financial aid for RAs and advocated for better policies regarding sexual assault and gender relations as the Black Men’s Union president.

“It’s really important to myself and many of the students here that we think about how we progress,” he said. “Duke now is not the same Duke that we came into.”

Cracknell also co-founded the group Students with Interracial Legacies, served as co-chair for the Black Student

Alliance Invitational in 2016 and was an adviser to Valerie Ashby, dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, as part of the Trinity Student Diversity Advisory Committee.

He highlighted his work on environmental justice as the most fulfilling part of his Duke career. He has also served as the student leader to the environmental justice partnership with the Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise and Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute.

Cracknell also participated in the “De-Constructing/ Re-Constructing the Refugee Experience DukeImmerse” program with the Kenan Institute for Ethics, as well as DukeEngage in Thailand.

He said he decided to run for Young Trustee because of the diverse perspectives he brings to the table and his desire to create better communities at Duke, noting that his experiences as an RA have prepared him well for this.

“My perspective is both unique and inclusive in terms of how I work with people and being able to collaborate well with students across different interests,” he said.

Cracknell added that one of the biggest issues that Duke currently faces is sexual assault and that he hopes to work to

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BROWN FROM PAGE 1 the world a better place,” Brown said. “So I feel like I can’t just get this Duke education and run away with it.”

As someone who would have been unable to attend the University without the B.N. Duke scholarship, Brown said she feels obligated to ensure the same opportunity is open to students in the Durham area and all over the country.

Throughout her Duke career, she has sought to transform the campus perception of Durham and conversation around the issue of poverty.

Brown cited her work with the CEF as the most important experience at Duke. For the CEF, she meets weekly with homeless or transitioning members of the Durham

community to provide financial advice.

To address and raise awareness of poverty in Durham, Brown also founded the Coalition for Alleviating Poverty.

“We just came to realize there wasn’t a big conversation on campus about economic justice, about the realities of the haves and have-nots in the world,” she said.

“Socioeconomic status really defines so much on campus and off campus, but we just don’t really talk about it—we’re on a campus with a million-dollar glass building, and it’s easy to ignore.”

She added that the organization has helped connect student groups focusing on the issue and also allowed her to coordinate with others with a similar passion.

Working with DSG, she has sought to dispel the idea that Durham is simply a place where Duke students dine at fancy restaurants or do service work before returning to the

improve the resources and reporting process around this.

He also wants to help reaffirm Duke’s commitment to having a place for students of all backgrounds.

Senior Sade Abiodun, who is friends with Cracknell and has worked with him as an RA, noted that he approaches issues by considering multiple perspectives and is a great listener.

“He’s just very passionate and very intentional in everything that he does and puts all of himself into it,” she said.

Cracknell is also great at balancing multiple commitments, she said—including tenting while running a Young Trustee campaign.

Erika Weinthal, Lee Hill Snowdon professor of environmental policy, has known Cracknell since his first semester at Duke and worked with him on the partnership with the Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise. She noted that his natural leadership ability and integrity make him stand out.

“I’ve been impressed over the years with his deep commitment to the work, he’s never wavered,” she said. “I can’t think of anyone else who embodies Duke like he does.

The breadth of it is really impressive.”

Gothic architecture of campus.

“Durham is the world. Durham is a place with racial complexity, with innovation and entrepreneurship, with history, with all of the problems we’re learning about in the classroom,” she said.

Brown added that Duke’s mission should be to promote “knowledge in the service of society” and that as Young Trustee, she would ensure that the University lives up to that standard. As a Raleigh native and a woman— only two out of the last 10 Young Trustees have been female, she said—Brown also believes that she brings unique perspectives to the Board.

Senior Gabrielle Stewart, a fellow B.N. Duke scholar, has known Brown for the past four years and has worked with her in the CEF and Coalition for Alleviating Poverty.

Stewart praised Brown’s leadership and speaking skills.

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“She has a really, really powerful ethos for leadership,” Stewart said. “[She’s] equally good at listening, speaking and doing.”

Durham Mayor Steve Schewel taught Brown in his class on political leadership and has also worked with her in the CEF. He touted her ability to work well with other students.

“She is very smart, has great ideas— she’s a wonderful colleague to her fellow students,” he said. “She’s the kind of person who works beautifully with other people, and I saw her do that time and again in our seminar class.”

Schewel added that Brown’s involvement with the CEF convinced him of her strong leadership skills, which he believed would come in very useful in the Young Trustee position.

“I think that Liz would be a fabulous Young Trustee—I really can’t think of anybody else who would be better,” he said.

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