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Saturday-Monday turnarounds have not been kind to the Blue Devils this season, but they will get one last chance to change that narrative as they enter the meat of their ACC schedule. Duke will host its 1,000th game at Cameron Indoor Stadium Monday as it welcomes No. 19 Louisville for a 7 p.m. tip-off. The Blue No. 19 Louisville Devils have already lost the back end of vs. two Saturday-Monday stretches in ACC Duke play—at home against Syracuse Jan. 18 and MONDAY, 7 p.m. at Miami Jan. 25—and Cameron Indoor Stadium the contest against Louisville begins a crucial run of four straight games against ranked opponents. Since the first-ever game in Cameron 76 years ago, Duke has compiled 843 victories at home, including 88.8 percent of the games with head coach Mike Krzyzewski on the sidelines. The Blue Devils looked as if they may have started to turn a corner with two wins last week, but the short turnaround will make the road ahead even tougher. “They’re in a recovery mode right now, with recovery drinks,” Krzyzewski said after

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the policy journalism and media studies certificate—will succeed junior Amrith Ramkumar and begin her one-year term April 27. “I felt so lucky and blessed that everyone had chosen me to be the leader for next year,” Ballentine said. “I’m looking forward to expanding my journalistic experience and working across departments.” As editor, Ballentine hopes to vary the format of content published in order to increase reader engagement and interest with features and listicles.

Young Trustee candidates Max Schreiber and Wills Rooney will attend meetings with the Black Student Alliance “that will result in an unofficial endorsement letter” after a “misunderstanding” about a previous invitation to attend endorsement meetings. In a letter to the editor published in The Chronicle Thursday, BSA President Henry Washington, a junior, wrote that BSA had originally invited the Young Trustee candidates for unofficial endorsement meetings. Seniors Schreiber and Rooney, however, said they interpreted Washington’s first invitation—sent in an email to the candidates Jan. 29—to attend BSA endorsement meetings as stating that BSA would issue an official endorsement in The Chronicle. They then declined to attend official endorsement meetings because Young Trustee candidate Jamal Edwards, a senior, was previously the president of BSA. Washington, who declined to comment for this article, wrote in his letter on Thursday that Schreiber and Rooney should have known that BSA would not be issuing an official endorsement because of Edwards’ ties to the organization. Washington’s original Jan. 29 email inviting candidates to endorsement meetings, which was obtained by The Chronicle, does not say that BSA would be issuing an unofficial endorsement rather than an official endorsement in The Chronicle as it has in years past. The email does say, however, that BSA’s endorsement would be released in a memo that analyzed what the candidates had to say during their endorsement meetings. “As you probably know, our group often chooses to endorse a candidate for the Young Trustee race,” Washington wrote in the email. “As we always do, we plan to pen and release

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Kristen Shortley | The Chronicle Duke will look to earn its first win against a ranked opponent after another quick turnaround.

Saturday’s 88-80 win against N.C. State. “They’re going to get a good meal, early sleep, come in late tomorrow morning, no contact, give them feedback, put in our scouting report for Louisville, come back tomorrow night [and] review it.” In the Cardinals (19-4, 8-2 in the ACC), Duke is dealing with an opponent also in

recovery mode—albeit one of a very different form. Louisville announced Friday that it was imposing a postseason ban for this year amid ongoing NCAA investigations involving potential recruiting violations, and will not play in the ACC or NCAA tournaments this season. See LOUISVILLE on Page 12

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The Chronicle staff elected sophomore Claire Ballentine to serve as editor-in-chief of the newspaper’s 112th volume. In a staff-wide election Friday evening, Ballentine, currently department head of the University news section, was appointed editor of The Chronicle and president of the Duke Student Publishing Company, Inc., which publishes the independent student-run daily newspaper. Ballentine—a sociology major with

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Guantanamo Bay expert critical of decision to keep camp open to be able to get that message to the public. I think that if you want to make changes in policy, you need people who are able to reach the media and encourage the media to pay attention to the damage that Guantanamo has caused to America’s image. Other organizations like the ACLU and Amnesty International—they are large human rights organizations. They have impact with the media, and when they bring up issues the media often listens. But even there, if they bring up issues on Guantanamo, the media often does not pay attention. Guantanamo is just not an important issue to the media.

David Wohlever The Chronicle Peter Jan Honigsberg, professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, is the founder and director of Witness to Guantanamo, a project that works to document the realities of the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Since the project began in 2008, Honigsberg and his team have visited 20 countries and interviewed 136 people, including prison guards, interrogators, medical personnel, lawyers, military and government officials, chaplains, relatives and 50 detainees. Last month, Honigsberg spoke about his project at a talk hosted by the Duke Human Rights Center and the Rubenstein Library. The Chronicle’s David Wohlever spoke with Honigsberg about Witness to Guantanamo, human rights and the possibility of the camp being closed. The Chronicle: What is Witness to Guantanamo, and why do you think it matters in today’s national discussion? PETER HONIGSBERG Peter Honigsberg: We want to document Guantanamo Bay through the voices of the people who were there, who worked there, who lived there and who were otherwise involved. It is important that the world know what happened in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, especially the human rights abuses and rule of law violations. Unless we can document the abuses and violations from the voices of people who were there, people will never know exactly what occurred.

Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Guantanamo Bay prison guards, interrogators, medical personnel and detainees have been part of the Witness to Guantanamo project.

two to three hours, for a period of two to three weeks. These abusive treatments, along with sleep deprivation—where detainees were kept awake 20 hours at a time—were all done to break the prisoners. Detainees often told us that even though they did not have any physical scars on them when they were released, they would carry psychological scars with them for the rest of their lives. In my research and interviews, we have also discovered that many of the men who were released were not doing well in the countries where they were transferred. Many of them were not really having productive TC: In the interviews and the lives—they were not getting counseling, information that you’ve uncovered, what health services, psychological services. In are some of the most striking things that addition, they often were not familiar with the culture or the language. you’ve learned about Guantanamo? PH: For many of [the detainees], the TC: Do you think there is anything the psychological horror and psychological torture that they experienced were far American people might not understand more severe and long lasting than any about Guantanamo? PH: I think people should know that 85physical beatings. Psychological torture includes long-term isolation and something 90 percent of the men in Guantanamo were called the frequent flyer [program]. In the purchased by the U.S. military. The people frequent flyer program, officials would were captured by Afghan and Pakistani move the detainees from cell to cell every soldiers, and then sold to the Americans for

somewhere between $3,000 and $30,000 each. Studies using U.S. data have shown that nearly all the people in Guantanamo were either not a threat at all or low-level soldiers. The few people in Guantanamo who are serious threats were brought to Guantanamo later on, so the image that people have of Guantanamo is often very different from what actually existed in the prison. TC: What do think that this project can do to educate the public or influence policy change? PH: Well I hate to say this, but many people—most people from what I can gather—either think Guantanamo is closed, do not care about Guantanamo, or do not think about it. Hence, politicians do not have any interest in addressing the issues. I think journalists need to reach out to the public and have them understand that the rest of the world points to Guantanamo as a blight on the American system. If that message is heard, people will think differently and will try to convince their representatives to shut down Guantanamo. We are a small project in San Francisco, and do not have the financial backing we need

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TC: What do you make of President [Barack] Obama’s efforts to shut down Guantanamo, and are you at all optimistic about the possibility of Guantanamo being shut down in the near future? PH: Initially, [Obama] could have closed the detention center because he had a Democratic Congress behind him. Unfortunately, there was some resistance from the military and there was resistance elsewhere, and Obama did not stand up to the resistance. I think in the last few years he has been much more active in trying to make a difference. He released 13 people in the last month, all transferred to other countries. He is pushing in the last two years to close Guantanamo, more so than he has done in the past. Whether he’ll succeed, I do not think so because there’s still too many people in Guantanamo that cannot be transferred out to other countries, and the U.S. Congress does not want him to transfer the people into the U.S. He also only has a few months left in his tenure, so I don’t think it is going to happen. But he is certainly trying, and I give him credit for that. And if he can get Congress to agree to move approximately 50 men to prisons in the U.S., then he will be able to close Guantanamo. I just don’t See GUANTANAMO on Page 4

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Admins, researchers monitoring spread of Zika virus Vir Patel The Chronicle With growing concern about the Zika virus, Duke healthcare researchers and administrative leaders say they are well prepared. Increased levels of the mosquito-transmitted disease—which has been linked to birth defects and deaths in newborns in Brazil—led the World Health Organization to issue an alert last Monday stating that the disease poses a global public health emergency. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travelalert in January urging American women of childbearing age, whether pregnant or not, to avoid countries where the Zika outbreaks have been reported. Leaders of Duke’s study abroad programs, including DukeEngage and the Duke Global Education Office for Undergraduates, are following the spread of the disease, Amanda Kelso, executive director of the Global Education Office for undergraduate education wrote in an email. “Along with Duke’s emergency management team, which includes healthcare professionals, we are constantly monitoring events and outbreaks around the world that could affect our students and study away programs,” Kelso explained. She noted that the University has already issued Zika guidelines—which will be sent to students studying in affected areas. Dr. Cameron Wolfe, assistant professor of medicine in the infectious diseases department, has been a vocal expert on the Zika virus, explaining its potential risks and implications in the U.S. Wolfe wrote in an email that the potential for a Zika outbreak in North Carolina is possible in the coming months due to the increase in mosquito prevalence during the summer season.

The level of preparedness in the event of an outbreak is largely contingent on funding availability, he added. “In recent years there have been funding cuts that have limited our ability to fully understand the extend of the mosquito vectors in North Carolina...That said, the [North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services] has done an excellent job in preparing clinicians and hospitals to look out for symptoms and signs of infections, especially in pregnant women, so I think we’re quite well prepared,” Wolfe wrote. Generally, only one in five individuals infected with Zika will exhibit symptoms, Wolfe explained. Symptoms include fever, muscle and joint pains and rashes. Although the virus’s symptoms are relatively mild compared to other mosquito-borne pathogens such as malaria and yellow fever, experts have significant concerns about the Zika virus for its potential impact on fetal development. Children of women who contract the virus during pregnancy are at risk for microcephaly—a condition in which a baby is born with an abnormally small head—but researchers have not yet fully unraveled the link. These concerns have led experts to suggest pregnant that women who have traveled in the regions of outbreak seek screening if they exhibit two or more symptoms of Zika. “Most people don’t get symptoms...but we don’t yet understand the full breadth of fetal possibilities, so in theory really anyone who has traveled while being pregnant should be seen,” Wolfe explained. “[Similar symptoms] are common for many travel related problems and many things spread by mosquitoes, but testing should differentiate those for a pregnant woman.” Although experts primarily caution travelers about the spread of Zika through mosquito bites, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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confirmed that a case of Zika transmitted sexually in Texas in early February—similar to a case in the 2013 outbreak of Zika in French Polynesia in which the virus was found in an infected individual’s semen. “I suspect the previous cases of potential STD spread were simply not proven, so I don’t think [the Texas case] is a super surprising development,” Wolfe noted. “It’s a virus that briefly [resides] in your blood... and then sex just becomes the act to exchange such body fluids (and the associated virus) like it does with HIV or Hepatitis C.” Researchers have also made progress identifying a vaccine for the disease, explained Dr. Sallie Permar, associate professor of pediatrics, immunology, molecular genetics and microbiology. Permar, a physician and researcher who focuses on vaccines protecting newborns, noted developing a vaccine will take time, as it first requires isolating pieces of the virus to use and

then testing in animals. “If all those things look good, you can go on to human trials, which would first start with safety trials and then move up to efficacy trials,” Permar said. The National Institutes of Health Vaccine Center has reported that it is beginning tests with the hopes of developing a vaccine that will elicit a safe immune response, Permar added. The Zika virus is a member of the arbovirus family, which also includes West Nile Virus and Yellow Fever. Arboviruses are primarily carried by mosquitoes or ticks, Wolfe explained. Some people may be concerned the disease could spread through other insects, but he assuaged those fears. “None of the other [arboviruses] have evolved to change their primary [transmission] vector—that would be extraordinarily unusual,” Wolfe wrote. “Whilst occasionally you see more than one mosquito species carrying the virus, it would never use a different insect or animal.”

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Pipe leak forces Randolph students to relocate Ian Jaffe The Chronicle A hot water pipe caused water damage in rooms on the upper floors of Randolph residence hall early Friday afternoon, forcing some residents to temporarily live elsewhere. The water—which leaked from a pipe on the mechanical fourth floor of the dormitory— caused damage in seven rooms, according to Lisa Beth Bergene, associate dean of East Campus for Housing, Dining and Residence Life. Bergene noted that at this point in time it is unclear what caused the leak. “A restoration team is working this evening and this weekend to extract water from the carpets and to ensure that the rooms are dried out,” Bergene wrote in an email Friday. “Once that happens, the students in those rooms will be allowed to re-occupy the spaces.” Freshman Ryan Ferner was one of the students who was relocated after the flooding— he does not expect to return to his room until Wednesday. “AfterDisaster currently has all sorts of heavy machinery in my and several other folks’ rooms,” he wrote in an email. “They punched a hole in the sheetrock of the ceiling and are running some pumps and dehumidifiers in an attempt to evacuate as much moisture as they can.” Ferner was also one of the first people to notice the leak, which caused substantial damage in the dorm. “I found that water was dripping from the the hole occupied by my smoke detector,” he wrote. “After positioning a couple bins underneath and relocating all of my and my dear roommate’s paper products, I entered the hall to find others similarly blighted. While my spill was flowing at a rate of perhaps a

Ariana Gallegos | The Chronicle Friday’s pipe leak in Randolph residence hall on East Campus caused damage in seven rooms and forced a number of students to relocate.

gallon per 20 minutes, some poor souls had their entire drop-down ceiling demolished by the water flow.” Ferner also noted that most of the damage seemed to be in the center of the building on the third floor. “The water seeped somewhat through the floor and mildly affected the center of the second floor,” Ferner wrote. Freshman Srinath Soundararajan explained that he saw water leaking into one of the common rooms in the dorm.

“I went down to the common room around 12:45 [p.m.]… when I got there, I saw that water was leaking from the ceiling in two places,” he wrote. “It was dripping onto a couch on one end of the room, and was dripping on the floor at the other end (though it was just making the carpet wet—there was no flooding).” Bergene wrote that the water was clean water, and not grey water. “The discharge was of a somewhat brownish hue, but was assuredly not waste by the smell,” Ferner noted.

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GUANTANAMO from page 2 know if he can do that. I should also add that in 2008, when Obama was running for office, both President George [W.] Bush and Republican candidate John McCain advocated that Guantanamo should be closed down. So it was pretty universal among both parties that Guantanamo should be closed, and then politics changed that later on. TC: Do you think that closing Guantanamo should be a policy priority for future leaders? PH: From our research, we have learned that many people around the world see Guantanamo as a black stain on America, and they point to Guantanamo when we criticize human rights in other countries. Along those lines, I will add that a number of the detainees we interviewed told us that when they were first sold to the U.S., they were thrilled. They thought that they would get their day in court. They believed that they would get due process. They understood from what they knew about America that America would treat them well, according to the rule of law. They were shocked to find that America did not provide them due process, and instead kept them incarcerated for years, sometimes for 14 years, without charges. When they found that America would not seriously review their cases and consider whether they should be released or not, they were very disappointed in America. I think the world has always seen the U.S. as a beacon of human rights and an adherent of the rule of law. As long as Guantanamo Bay remains open, we are not that beacon.

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Kennard and Allen combine for 54 points, 10 3-pointers to fend off Wolfpack Brian Pollack The Chronicle

Reliance on the long ball pays off Saturday Jacob Weiss The Chronicle

Tuesday, Luke Kennard found himself replaced in the starting lineup by Derryck Thornton and saw only 15 minutes of action—his lowest figure since early December. Kennard came off the bench again Saturday—but this time, the results were much better. Led by Kennard’s 26 points and 6-of-11 shooting from beyond the arc, Duke fended off N.C. State 88-80 Saturday at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Grayson Allen followed up his 27-point performance in Tuesday’s win against Georgia Tech with 28 more against the Wolfpack—including a perfect 12-of-12 effort from the free-throw line—helping the Blue Devils pick up back-to-back victories for the first time in a month. “I think we saw the Luke that we all know and love,” center Marshall Plumlee said. “He’s capable of doing those things night in and night out and it’s really exciting when he does it. I couldn’t be more proud of his performance, and it doesn’t surprise me. I think he’s capable of even greater things. Cameron Crazies are in for a treat when it comes to Luke Kennard.” After trailing by six at halftime, the Wolfpack (12-12, 2-9 in the ACC) regained the lead four minutes into the second half thanks to an alley-oop from Anthony “Cat” Barber to forward Abdul-Malik Abu. The Blue Devils answered right back, though, with a triple from Kennard that sparked an 18-4 run. Kennard accounted for 11 points—three 3-pointers and a layup— during the six-minute stretch, and the Duke defense clamped down to limit N.C. State to just 1-of-11 shooting as the Blue Devils extended their advantage to 13. But the Wolfpack would not go away quietly, responding with an 11-2 run that cut the Duke edge to just four points with seven minutes remaining. From there, the Blue Devils (17-6, 6-4) calmly made 12 of their next 13 from the free-throw line to help stave off an aggressive Wolfpack team that got itself into the bonus with five minutes remaining. Duke’s halfcourt offense consisted of driving and drawing contact for much of

his groove, finishing with nine points in the final minutes of the first half as the Wolfpack remained within striking distance. But as the Blue Devils switched to a rotation of zone schemes in the second half—employing a mix of 1-3-1, 2-3 and full-court pressure—Barber started to heat up again. After freshman Maverick Rowan carried the N.C. State offense for most of the game—knocking down 6-of-13 shots en route to 17 points—Barber came on strong late in the second half, desperately trying to bring the Wolfpack back. He posted 17 points in the second half and 26 overall. “I really got after [Barber], I tried to turn him as much as possible and make him feel my presence,” Thornton said. “A lot of players I saw, whenever they where pressuring him, allowed him freedom of movement, so I tried to cut that off, and really make him feel my presence.” The Blue Devils survived a scary moment midway through the first half, when Allen slid while driving to the hoop and laid on the ground in pain. Allen was clutching his right ankle and limped noticeably as he walked off the court, but returned a minute later. The

To say that 2016 has been a streaky year for the Blue Devils would be an understatement. Duke’s ACC record, in part, consists of a three-game winning streak, a three-game losing streak and now a two-game winning streak. The Blue Devils’ ledger is the result of a team that relies on the streakiest aspect of the game—shooting—and, in particular, shooting from behind the arc. Saturday’s game against N.C. State was no exception. Led by freshman Luke Kennard and sophomore Grayson Allen, Duke threw up 28 3-pointers, which is only slightly more than the number of attempts averaged during its four losses so far in ACC play. The difference was that this time, they went through the net instead of clanking harmlessly off the rim. Against Syracuse Jan. 18, Duke went 10-for-37 from behind the arc and lost by two. Against the Wolfpack, Duke went 14for-28 and won by eight. The old homage still rings true: Live by the three, die by the three. Only once in ACC play have the Blue Devils attempted fewer than 20 3-pointers—Jan.6 against Wake Forest— and several times, the majority of Duke’s shots have been triples. With several shooters capable of hitting more shots than they miss from behind the arc, it is easy to see why head coach Mike Krzyzewski allows for this often highrisk aspect of the game to become the cornerstone of his offense. Against N.C. State, both Allen and Kennard combined to go 10-of-18 from deep, and Matt Jones, Derryck Thornton and Brandon Ingram combined for the other four. “For myself personally, it was a slow start once I got in,” Kennard said. “But then I came in and ended up hitting, I think it was three straight. My teammates did a great job. When they went to zone, my coaches wanted me to be ready to shoot, knock down shots and make plays. Guys were finding me, and I was just ready

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Kristen Shortley | The Chronicle Freshman Luke Kennard hit six 3-pointers off the bench en route to a 26-point performance as Duke picked up a second straight win against N.C. State Saturday.

the second half—the Blue Devils went more than seven minutes without making a field goal yet continued to nurse their lead from the charity stripe. With head coach Mike Krzyzewski back on the sidelines Saturday after missing the team’s trip to Atlanta earlier this week, Kennard provided a huge spark off the bench for the Blue Devils. He helped make N.C. State pay for switching to a zone defense at times, connecting on 3-of-4 3-point attempts to pile up 11 points by halftime. “We knew that they played zone some— we didn’t know whether they were going to play man or a zone tonight,” Kennard said. “We knew that once they did, that was a spot I should be in to knock down some shots. I think it was pretty much the same spot that I hit all three in a row from.” Barber—the ACC’s leading scorer at 23.4 points per game—entered Saturday on a scoring tear, having poured in at least 30 points in four of his last five contests. But Duke’s man-to-man defense, with point guard Derryck Thornton drawing the main assignment, did not allow Barber to notch a field goal until nearly 15 minutes had ticked off the clock. Then Barber started to find

Kristen Shortley | The Chronicle Sophomore Grayson Allen followed Tuesday’s 27-point outburst at Georgia Tech with 28 more Saturday as the Blue Devils survived a Wolfpack run at the start of the second half.

Eric Lin | The Chronicle After being held scoreless for most of the first half, junior point guard Anthony “Cat” Barber came alive and scored 26 points to keep N.C. State close.

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Prolonged cold spell dooms Blue Devils at Miami Mitchell Gladstone The Chronicle CORAL GABLES, Fla.— For any team playing without its leading scorer, offensive struggles are a nearcertainty. But without the ACC’s thirdleading scorer, struggle still might have been an understatement for the Duke offense. The Blue Devils missed 25 straight shots in the final 15:01 of the first half and shot just 4-of-33 from the field before intermission, putting Duke in a hole that proved insurmountable in a 61-53 loss to No. 16 Miami Sunday at the BankUnited Center. The Blue Devils came alive to score 25 points in the third quarter after being stuck with just 11 in the first half—a dubious new team record—but went cold again early in the fourth quarter as the Hurricanes stretched their lead back to 16. “I think we just did some disrupting ourselves [offensively], once we got to certain spaces,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “But you have to credit [Miami] for aggressive defense. Obviously, that’s going to make you go faster and it might make you off-balance, so it’s a combination [of things that gave us problems].” With star sophomore Azurá Stevens sidelined for a second straight game by a plantar fascia injury in her left foot, junior Oderah Chidom paced the Blue Devils with a career-high 18 points, despite foul trouble that kept the 6-foot4 forward on the bench for much of the afternoon. Duke (17-8, 6-5 in the ACC) trailed by just six after the first quarter, but the margin was mostly a result of sloppy ball movement from the hosts. Miami (20-4, 8-3) committed 12 first-half turnovers, thanks to aggressive defense by the Blue Devils.

Mitchell Gladstone | The Chronicle The Blue Devils missed 25 straight shots in the first half Sunday at Miami and headed to the locker room with 11 points, a new team record.

The Hurricanes, though, used their own full-court press to smother the Duke offense in the second quarter. After freshman Crystal Primm’s lay-up with 5:01 left in the first quarter, the Blue Devils did not score again until Primm made 1-of-2 from the free-throw line with 3:24 left before halftime. During that time, Miami used a 12-2 run to open up a double-digit lead, and the Blue Devils’ shooting woes kept them from cutting into that margin before halftime. “It was really frustrating,” Chidom said. “Our primary goal in practice was to take balanced shots and we didn’t execute that well tonight. I think we need to really buckle down and take the best shot on offense instead of rushing shots and taking quick shots.” Duke went to the locker room trailing

27-11—with just two points in the second quarter—but McCallie’s halftime speech appeared to light a fire under her team. The Blue Devils drained their first four shots from the field and 10 of their first 14 attempts in the third quarter, cutting the deficit in half by the end of the third quarter. Chidom was a perfect 4-for-4 in the frame, and redshirt sophomore Rebecca Greenwell knocked down the team’s first 3-pointer of the afternoon. “I don’t mind if anyone misses—you can miss once, twice, three times, just get the ball back and hustle to put it in,” McCallie said. “The second half was reflective of a team in balance and working very hard. Obviously, we did some very good things in the second half—we cut their lead several times, we had to fight back several times—all of

that’s to the positive, without question.” Greenwell started slow, but chipped in 15 of her 16 points in the second half and finished with a team-high seven rebounds. Primm added seven points in her return to South Florida. Miami’s dynamic backcourt duo of juniors Adrienne Motley and Jessica Thomas was simply too hot for Duke to handle, combining to score 34 of the Hurricanes’ 61 points. All four of Thomas’ made field goals came from downtown. “I was feeling it, but all credit to my teammates,” Thomas said. “They set me up in good positions. When I have wideopen shots because Adrienne Motley is drawing defenses and kicking it out to me…you just have got to knock them down.” Sunday afternoon, the Hurricanes knocked down shots when they needed most, but neither side was particularly efficient from the field. The hosts shot only 35.8 percent from the field, but the Blue Devils shot a season-low 27.9 percent, including just 3-of-15 from beyond the arc. After Duke clawed its way back in the third quarter, the Blue Devils missed their first five shots of the final period and Miami stretched its lead back to 16. In the waning minutes, Duke made one final surge to close to within seven, but ran out of time. The Blue Devils return to action Thursday night—a four-day break after three games in seven days—when they host No. 10 Florida State in another opportunity to notch their first win of the year against a ranked team. “I like our team,” McCallie said. “We can play with anybody in the country, I don’t care what the rankings are…we’ll be looking forward to another game that’s for sure, but definitely we’ll take our lessons from this one.”

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Wildcats claw past Blue Devils in top-5 showdown Jesús Hidalgo The Chronicle Senior goalkeeper Kelsey Duryea delivered one of her best performances in a Duke uniform Sunday afternoon, posting a career-high 16 saves. But it was not enough. No. 5 Duke took a 5-2 lead in the opening period against No. 4 Northwestern at Koskinen Stadium, but the Wildcats stormed back with six unanswered goals and hung on from 11 there to win 11-8. In NW their first early test DUKE 8 of the season, the Blue Devils found themselves on the wrong side of the scoreboard before intermission and could not orchestrate a comeback in the second half. “[After today,] we’re going to learn a lot about ourselves. [We knew] that scheduling this game early, this would be a game [in which we] could learn about ourselves quickly and would get us moving along

and progressing faster through the season,” Duke head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “Duryea is a big presence [in defense.] It’s a bummer to waste a 16-save effort on a loss, but I’m proud of her. She did a great job of just holding off and making some stellar saves for us, giving us good momentum.” One year ago, the Blue Devils (1-1) defeated Northwestern 15-9 in Northbrook, Ill., led by seven goals from the duo of Katie Trees and Kerrin Maurer—two of the eight Blue Devils who graduated last May. Wildcat midfielder Selena Lasota tallied five goals in that game, and the Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada, native proved just as unstoppable Sunday. The sophomore beat Duryea five more times, teaming with midfielder Sheila Nesselbush to notch a hat-trick apiece in the first half. The Wildcats (10) outshot the Blue Devils 18-12 in the opening frame and headed to the locker See W. LACROSSE on Page 12

Jack White | The Chronicle Senior goalkeeper Kelsey Duryea notched a career-best 16 saves, but Northwestern scored the final four goals of the first half to gather momentum.

LOUISVILLE from page 1 Several Cardinal players spoke out following the announcement to express their disappointment, including the team’s two leading scorers, Damion Lee and Trey Lewis. Lee and Lewis are combining for a shade less than 30 points per game this year, but as graduate transfers in their final years of eligibility, both will see their college careers come to a close without the chance to participate in March Madness. The off-court drama did not seem to affect Louisville on the hardwood Saturday, though, as the Cardinals easily dispatched Boston College 79-47. The Cardinals have earned a reputation as one of the toughest teams in the country this year and boast a formidable resume. Three of Louisville’s four losses have been against ranked teams, and the fourth was on the road against a Clemson squad that is undefeated at home in conference play. Louisville makes its living on the defensive end of the floor and in the paint, which should provide an interesting clash against the Blue Devils’ high-scoring, perimeter-oriented offense. The Cardinals utilize an extremely deep roster—with 10 players averaging double-figure minutes—that allows them to wear down opponents and could expose Duke’s lack of depth on the bench and in the frontcourt. Head coach Rick Pitino’s squad ranks in the top 10 nationally in scoring defense, field goal percentage defense and rebounding margin—even after losing starting center Mangok Mathiang to a broken foot in midDecember. The Cardinals allow just 59.8 points per game, meaning something will have to give against a Duke offense that ranks

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fifth in the country at 84.8 points per game. The Blue Devils (17-6, 6-4) have been held to fewer than 70 points in all but one of their ACC losses, and will need to have another good shooting night against an aggressive Louisville defense. Duke made 14-of-28 3-pointers Saturday against N.C. State, keyed by Luke Kennard’s six triples off the bench. The long ball has been both friend and foe to the Blue Devils in conference play—Krzyzewski’s squad is averaging 9.7 made 3-pointers per game in conference play, but went just 10-of-37 against Syracuse’s lengthy 2-3 zone and will have to survive a high-pressure Louisville defense that allows opponents to shoot just 30.1 percent from downtown. In Mathiang’s absence, 6-foot-10 sophomore Chinanu Onuaku has filled in capably and will present a big challenge for Duke center Marshall Plumlee. Onuaku leads the team with 8.8 rebounds per game, is third on the team in scoring despite averaging just 23.1 minutes per contest, and has improved his play significantly from a year ago. Still looking for their first win against a ranked opponent, the Blue Devils will have two cracks to take down the Cardinals in the next two weeks. But for a team desperately searching for consistency, Monday is a great opportunity to build off last week’s momentum and secure a signature win on a historic night, with No. 9 Virginia, No. 2 North Carolina and a trip to Louisville looming. “Everybody shows up for our good games, and then for our not-so-good games, there might have been one or two people who haven’t quite shown up, myself included,” Plumlee said. That’s something we need to keep getting better at—every time we step on the floor, we step together and fight.”

W. LACROSSE from page 11 room with a 6-5 advantage. Nesselbush broke the scoreless deadlock 3:15 after the opening draw, but Duke turned things around thanks to scores from sophomore striker Kyra Harney and junior midfielder Stuart Humphrey. After the Blue Devils extended their lead to 5-2 with 13:20 left before halftime, the Wildcats notched four straight goals in a nine-minute span to regain control. “I tried to do my job and set the tone. On defense, we are working to get the ball to our attack. Obviously, it didn’t end up the way we wanted it to, be but we played with a lot of heart and hustle today,” Duryea said. “This gives us an idea of who we are and who we want to be and just shows the areas that we need to improve on.” Northwestern only needed one and a half minutes after intermission to add two more tallies, but the Blue Devils went on a 3-0 run to tie the game 8-8 with 7:56 left to play, with freshman midfielder Olivia Jenner finding the back of the net twice. The Wildcats responded immediately, with Lasota and attacker Kaleigh Craigh netting goals 22 seconds apart to give them a 10-8 lead.. “We lost a few draws, we had a few turnovers in attack and we didn’t execute things the way we should have,” senior attacker Kelci Smesko said. “It’s the second game [of the season.] It’s not an excuse, but it’s something we can learn from. Next time, when the game is 8-8, we’re going to make sure that we make it 9-8 and we win that game.” The two-goal deficit proved to be insurmountable for the Blue Devils,

though Duke did have a few chances to make things interesting. With 5:23 to play, Northwestern’s Danita Stroup delivered the final blow to make it 11-8 and put the game out of reach. “The main message is that the mistakes that we make are mistakes that we can’t afford in practice,” Kimel said. “In every zone and every aspect of what we did today, we made some errors. Whether they were physical, decision-making or mental errors, we’re going to look at everything and think, ‘This is what we need [to do.]’” The Blue Devils will try to rebound and hit the road for the first time this season Saturday when they take on Navy in Annapolis, Md.

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charity stripe. Allen went a perfect 12-of-12 from the line, getting into the heart of the Wolfpack defense and drawing contact— and Kennard knocked in both of his free throws to improve his free-throw percentage to 92.2 percent—a mark Allen admitted is providing him plenty of motivation. “I think [Kennard is] beating me in percentage right now, so I’ve got to catch up,” said Allen, an 85.6 percent freethrower after Saturday’s perfect outing. Take away the hot shooting for most of the game, though, and there were clear needs for improvement in other facets of the game that Duke must correct if the Blue Devils are to climb back into the top 25. Duke was outrebounded 38-29 and allowed four Wolfpack players to break double digits, including 26 points for Anthony “Cat” Barber. Had it not been for N.C. State’s woeful offense in the first 10 minutes—the Wolfpack opened shooting 26.7 percent from the field, including several misses from inside the paint— Duke likely would have been outscored. Freshman point guard Thornton made his second-straight start Saturday and drew the assignment of trying to hound Barber. The Chatsworth, Calif., native made life difficult for the ACC’s leading scorer in the first 15 minutes, but Barber suddenly came alive just before halftime and proceeded to thwart the best efforts of Duke’s defense for the rest of the afternoon with nifty drives and finishes as well as six assists. Thornton scored seven points on 2-of-4 shooting, but back-to-back turnovers by the

to shoot and knock them down.” Kennard sunk 6-of-11 3-pointers, including those three consecutive triples in the first half, and Allen hit 4-of-7. When all was said and done, Allen had 28 points, and Kennard had 26. “I just found myself open,” Allen said. “The way our offense works, guys are going to get open looks, and that’s something I’ve been seeing more and more. I was able to do it in the last game, and continue to do it tonight and just knock them down. All of our guys need to shoot [3-pointers] with confidence.” Allen and Kennard have certainly not been shy about hoisting from deep. With his 11 attempts Saturday, Kennard joined Allen, Jones and Ingram as Blue Devils will more than 100 3-point attempts this season. The three Duke starters are all shooting better than 40 percent from beyond the arc, with Kennard sitting at 32.1 percent after a rough start to the year. But for every stretch of game time during which Allen, Kennard and Co. seemingly cannot miss, there has been a drought during which nothing will fall, and the 3-pointer becomes what it was intended to be—a low-percentage shot. When the buckets do not drop, the Blue Devils will have to do other things to score, and they did that Saturday by getting to the free-throw line. After a Kennard lay-up with 10:12 left gave Duke a 69-57 lead, the home team did not make another field goal until 2:49 remained in the game. But during that 7:23 stretch, the Blue Devils added 12 points to their side of the scoreboard, sudoku_517B all of them from the

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Jacksonville, Fla., native showed no ill-effects of the hampered ankle for the rest of the game, and converted a pair of free throws on his first possession upon re-entry. “When Grayson got fouled, it was not intentional and I thought my knee should go out right now, because it ain’t going to be good for the rest of the year if he’s out now,” Krzyzewski said. “But thank goodness he’s okay, and I’m a little concerned right now.” Duke has little time to recuperate, and is back on the court at Cameron Indoor Stadium Monday at 7 p.m. to take on No. 19 Louisville, which just self-imposed a postseason ban for the current season.

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sustained push for students to communicate their knowledge through writing. The mentored scholarly project and the Duke Experience class provide fantastic opportunities. Feedback and revision are core elements in the long game of improving your writing. Any policy writer, journalist or academic will tell you the importance of having your work ripped apart at the beginning of your career. Upping the value and rigor of writing at Duke both in and out of the classroom adds more meaning to committing our thoughts and research to paper. Various organizations on campus can commit better to practices aligned with these ideals. A greater prevalence of long-form writing, especially in smaller publications like The Tab, would do the student authors a greater service in the pursuit of commenting on campus life. The same could be said with other undergraduate publications that cover academic topics. Being published in an undergraduate academic journal is wonderful and particularly encouraging for first-years and sophomores, but the time comes when serious projects and positions demand stepping up to more severe reviewing eyes. Shifting undergraduate writing culture along these themes would result in a more engaged, intellectual climate on campus.

The race is on

ear Dr. Monday, I’m going to be honest—I haven’t done my civic duty. Even with the Yik Yak campaigns, forests-worth of flyers poster all over campus and daily argumentative columns in The Chronicle, I really can’t distinguish between the field of Young Trustee candidates. Can you help me decide who deserves my vote? Thanks, Undecided Dear Undecided, I’m going to be honest, Undecided—the fact that there are members of our community who would

year ago might be even less effective than screaming about guilt through a megaphone. So who do we vote for? How do we force the candidates to differentiate themselves, to show us who has the mettle to sit in a room of 37 men whose net worth is greater than most countries and not just disagree, but make them listen? We test them. There is one group at Duke that has gone above and beyond in its ignorance of student sentiment—a group of people that commit micro aggressions against each and every one of us on an almost daily basis. Its name? Parking and Transportation Services. This one group manages two of the least

Monday Monday YOU’RE WELCOME take a role like Young Trustee and debase it by not being informed voters is sickening. If we aren’t careful, how can we be sure to choose the candidate who picked the right platform out of the “identity politics, financial aid, global focus” grab bag? To those of you not pretty enough to be on Duke Student Government, allow me to explain the Young Trustee process. First, in early February, DSG’s president and theUniversity secretary pick the people who will sift through the same “I would like to be Duke’s Young Trustee because my resume is 3 lines short of a full page” application a few hundred times. This committee gives interviews to a few finalists, who are ranked based on their organization’s current position on Greekrank.com. A complex algorithm then removes most of the women, ensures at least one candidate will talk about social justice issues, adds a half a cup of flour to whiten the mix and VOILA— out pop your candidates! But voting for Young Trustee is perpetually unsatisfying, for many reasons. One, a complete lack of pre-election polling means that you never have the luxury of being able to switch your support to the side that is going to win. What’s more, Board meetings are secret business—we conveniently have no idea what the impact of past Young Trustees has been. Was Neil Kondamuri a driving force in halting the Muslim call to prayer, or does he just grab the Papa John’s delivery? Did Anna Knight secretly advocate for Coach K’s firing after we lost four of five? No one knows except the walls of the Washington Duke Inn. You can’t even blame the candidates for being broad with their platforms, since they understand that their “voting privileges” mean they can turn a 36 to 0 vote on a “murder every undergrad at the school” proposition to 34 to 2. With how many new demands the Brodhead’s P.O. Box receives every week, it seems communicating through a student who left campus a

efficient systems at Duke: busses and parking. Only in the 6th circle of Hell, where PTS’s office is located, could reducing bus service on central qualify as “improving efficiency.” Who but PTS could respond to concerns that construction was reducing the number of spaces in Blue Zone by telling students “Nah, you guys are just forgetting about some spots”? When the cost of parking in the BC parking garage is four times more per square foot per hour than your dorm room, who else could say, “We don’t feel like letting you know when the garage is empty—we need some spots for visitors”? My slow, simmering anger combined with literal hours spent looking for spots have led me to start to park in more and more outlandish ways. Two weeks ago, I ate an entire Chipotle bowl with my flashers on in the bus circle. Last week, I parked in the Enterprise car rental spaces at the BC without paying—the rush I felt sticking it to the man was worth every penny of the $80 ticket. Just a few days ago, though, my brutal crime spree came to an abrupt end as I walked back to see the toothless grin of a tow truck driver, hauling my car away to never be seen again. To get to the PTS office, I’d have to take the bus—but I won’t bow to them any longer. A Young Trustee needs to do the impossible, to negotiate with those who have infinitely more power than him. If you want my endorsement, and the confidence of the people with it, you know what you have to do. Bring me my car, gentlemen. The race is on. Dr. Monday would like anyone who is a real doctor to please email him at askdoctormonday@gmail.com, because this rash isn’t going away and Obama took my health insurance.

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arco Rubio is coming to take over the CDC. I expect they’ll welcome him with open arms. Okay not really, but based on the last week of news it doesn’t seem entirely out of the question. Last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the bizarre recommendation that any woman not using birth control should refrain

they don’t contract an STD? Why not tell men to refrain from drinking so they don’t become violent and rape someone? Recommendations for men to abstain from drinking unless using birth control make a lot more sense than the current recommendations for women; condoms are a lot easier to find. Any drug store, most gas stations, and free clinics are filled with condoms men can buy and

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hile many of us were in our cradles, 800,000 people perished in Rwanda. Hutu extremists launched a campaign of systematic slaughter against Hutu moderates and the Tutsi minority, gripping the country in the single bloodiest genocide since the Holocaust. At that time, the United States towered atop the international system in a “unipolar moment” of post-Cold War triumph; only

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from drinking. Yes, women must pick between getting busy and happy hour. And during a recent interview after the last Republican presidential debate, Marco Rubio clarified his belief that abortion should be illegal even in the case of rape. “When you find yourself in a crisis pregnancy, that’s a very difficult situation,” the candidate held, “But I have to choose between the right of a person to do with their body with the right of an unborn child to live. And I choose to support the right of an unborn child to live.” Apparently a hypothetical baby trumps a woman’s right to bodily integrity in every circumstance, whether it’s having a glass of wine after a long day of work or deciding not to bear your rapist’s child. The CDC recommendation is as bizarre as it is unrealistic. While the goal of preventing fetal alcohol syndrome is certainly noble, telling all women to refrain from drinking just because they might become unintentionally pregnant is naïve and impractical. There’s also a key step or five missing between drinking a glass of Pinot Noir and, poof, having a baby bump. The CDC also lists other risks for “any woman” that consumes alcohol, including “injuries/violence” and “sexually transmitted diseases.” Again, we’re missing some key steps here. Is the CDC implying that women who drink are likely to be assaulted? Or be given an STD? Because that’s a whole lot of victim blaming wrapped up in a patheticlooking infographic. The CDC is only adding to the everlengthening list of things women must do to “protect themselves” from things over which they have absolutely no control. Don’t walk alone at night. Don’t wear a short skirt. Don’t forget your pepper spray. Don’t wear shoes you can’t run in. Don’t leave your drink unattended because someone might drug it. Don’t drink alcohol in case your body might become a sacred vessel. Don’t drink alcohol because someone might assault or rape you. In this long list of don’ts that women spend their lives fruitlessly navigating, something, or rather someone, is mysteriously absent. Where are all the men? The CDC has no fancy pregnancy infographic for men who drink. But if I remember my high school sex-ed correctly, men are 50 percent of the equation when it comes to making a baby. If the CDC is worried about unintended pregnancy fueled by alcohol usage, then why aren’t they focusing on men just as much? Why not tell men to refrain from drinking unless they use birth control or get vasectomies? Why not tell men that if they have unprotected sex their babies might have fetal alcohol syndrome? Why not tell men to refrain from drinking so

use. No prescription necessary. Birth control for women? Find a gynecologist, drive dozens of miles, get an exam, talk through different birth control options, start the pill, have your body freak out on that particular pill, switch pills, wait a month for it to be effective, take the pill at the same time every day, forget a day, get a new pack, pay to see a doctor every few months for a new prescription, deal with pharmacies that refuse to dispense birth control for “religious reasons,” et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Doesn’t seem too difficult, right? Teen girls, women in abusive relationships, poor women, working women, women with kids, busy women, essentially every woman, has no time for this. If the CDC wants women to use birth control or refrain from drinking alcohol, then birth control needs to much more widely available. The pill should be over the counter. We should be expanding the number of clinics like Planned Parenthood that provide contraceptive services instead of trying to shut them down. If Republicans want to see fewer abortions, then Planned Parenthood should be their best friend; it is one of the biggest providers of contraception and family planning services. This is what the CDC-Rubio world looks like: Sarah is a straight-A student and at the top of her high school class. Sarah refrains from drinking because her uterus may one day house a child. She sees alcohol and runs the other direction because alcohol clearly causes “injuries/violence.” Sarah wants to get birth control for her painful periods but can’t because she needs a prescription without her parents knowing, and the nearest free clinic is more than a hundred miles away. Sarah decides not to have sex with her boyfriend because she wants to wait until she’s married, a choice her parents and boyfriend support. One day Sarah’s boyfriend drinks a lot of alcohol, gets tired of waiting, and rapes Sarah. Sarah is now pregnant. President Rubio has banned abortion in all cases, including rape, so Sarah is forced to carry a baby she never wanted. Sarah is ostracized by her family and community and loses out on the bright future she once had. Women can try to follow every single rule given to them. But those rules do not protect them from unexpected outcomes or violence. Women cannot spend their lives living under a rock, paranoid about what might happen to them. Until we address systemic problems, like toxic masculinity, attacks on women’s reproductive care, and violence against women, the CDC is just shouting useless recommendations into the void.

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three years before, a U.S.-led international coalition had reversed Saddam Hussein’s aggression in the Persian Gulf War, a vigorous defense of Kuwaiti sovereignty. Many believed that the new wave of emerging liberal, capitalist democracies would usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity, with one prominent political theorist going so far as to proclaim an “end of history”. And yet, despite briefings on the turmoil in Rwanda, President Clinton didn’t lift a finger to help. He wrung his hands, insisting that there was nothing he could do. His administration prohibited direct application of the term “genocide.” Susan Rice, then a mid-level bureaucrat serving as the Clinton administration’s point-person on peacekeeping, questioned how intervention would influence the 1994 midterm elections and urged a minimal response. Although humanitarian crises continue to smolder in Syria, Iraq, Burundi and the Central African Republic, the U.S. government has transitioned out of its hesitance to engage in these conflicts. In fact, the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities now stands as an essential, bipartisan element of American foreign policy. In his second term, President Clinton launched an intervention against ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. President Bush, feeling pressure from evangelical Christians on the right and student activists on the left, took an active role in negotiating ceasefires and political settlements to reduce the violence in Darfur and South Sudan. President Obama has appointed Samantha Power, a former war correspondent who literally “wrote the book” on American foreign policy and genocide, to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Furthermore, President Obama formally introduced atrocity prevention as a “core national security interest and moral responsibility of the United States” in his 2011 Presidential Study Directive on Mass Atrocities. In the past year, presidential candidates from across the political spectrum have specifically decried the Islamic State’s killing of Christians and Yazidis, an encouraging sign that combatting mass atrocities remains a bipartisan mission. In 2012, the Obama administration created the Atrocities Prevention Board (APB), an inter-agency entity tasked with monitoring and mitigating mass atrocities by facilitating information-sharing and coordination amongst U.S. government officials. Each month, high-ranking officials from the Department of State, Defense, Treasury, CIA, FBI, USAID and National Security Council convene to discuss emerging crises. The APB itself has the authority to conduct early warning analyses in potential crisis zones and to recommend a coordinated, agency-specific government plan of action. Preventative institutions and response mechanisms like the APB mark a welcome departure from the United States’ prior Dana Raphael is a Trinity junior. Her record of hesitation and ill-preparedness. But column runs on alternate Mondays. the upcoming presidential transition may be a

time of peril for these new institutions. As it stands, the Atrocities Prevention Board is only a temporary entity within the U.S. government rather than a permanent structure. To permanently institutionalize the APB and solidify the United States’ commitment to preventing genocide and mass atrocities, Congress must act. Ensuring that atrocity prevention does not fall through the cracks in 2017 is the

responsibility of both U.S. citizens and our elected representatives. For this reason, we are pleased that Senators Cardin (D-MD) and Tillis (R-NC) will introduce the bipartisan Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act in the near future. This legislation achieves three key objectives: first, it institutionalizes the Atrocities Prevention Board; second, it reauthorizes the Complex Crises Fund, a USAID initiative that provides dynamic funding to respond to emerging crises; and third, it requires atrocity prevention training for all Foreign Service Officers. This legislation represents a critical step forward in our nation’s atrocity prevention trajectory. Senator Tillis is a champion of atrocity prevention. As one of two senators from North Carolina, he represents almost 40,000 service members and military families who live and work at Fort Bragg. Tillis understands that the forces of United States Special Operations Command, headquartered at Fort Bragg, would likely be on the front lines of any effort to intervene to stop genocide, war crimes or other crimes against humanity. That’s why, when North Carolina students brought the legislation to Senator Tillis, he quickly grasped the bill’s significance and moved to support it. To safeguard our troops and save countless lives, it’s best to monitor these crises before they escalate. We urge Senator Burr to stand with Senator Tillis in this noble cause and become an original co-sponsor on this bill. A united front from North Carolina’s senators would send a strong message on atrocity protection: it’s best for our state, our troops and our world. As students studying at both Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill, we are proud of North Carolina’s existing commitment to ending global atrocity crimes and hope to see this trend continue. One of us voted for Senator Tillis in 2014, while the other typically supports Democratic candidates. Regardless, both of us wholeheartedly applaud his leadership and hope that Senator Burr will soon follow suit. We will continue to press for the United States to leverage its global influence in a proactive, informed, engaged and humanitarian manner. As advocates, students and citizens, we believe this legislation brings the United States one step closer to fulfilling its ethical and strategic commitment to ending the scourge of mass atrocities. Let’s ensure that the 21st century is kinder and gentler than the last. To thank Senator Tillis for his involvement, call his D.C. office at (202) 224-6342, email him or tweet @ThomTillis. To urge Senator Burr to follow suit, call his D.C. office at (202) 224-3154, email him or tweet @SenatorBurr. Matthew King is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs alternate Mondays. Savannah Wooten is a junior at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is the Education and Policy Coordinator at STAND: The Student-Led Movement to End Mass Atrocities.

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this year,” Ramkumar said. “I was happy to Sullivan, who is supporting Edwards’ campaign see so many people vote and take initiative for Young Trustee and said he has given campaign in talking about what they like and what they advice to both Edwards and Rooney, also pointed “I want to continue to expand our online want to see improve in the future.” out that The Chronicle has previously run presence, mostly by incorporating video across endorsement letters from organizations that had departments,” Ballentine said. official ties to candidates. For example, Sullivan Ballentine also aims to cultivate better from page 1 noted that in 2014, Jacob Tobia, Trinity ‘14, was source relations with both student groups officially endorsed by Blue Devils United, even and administrators and to continue to cover a memo that details a reasoned analysis of our though he previously served as president of the breaking news events in a timely manner. The Gatlinburg, Tenn., native said that she experience meeting with all three candidates, organization. Last year, The Chronicle published hopes to pursue a career as a journalist and will offering ultimately a candidate that stood out (or an endorsement letter from the Engineering not) among the three and why (or why not).” Student Government even though Young Trustee use her experiences as editor as preparation. Schreiber argued that Washington was not at candidate Anna Knight, Pratt ‘15, was president of “People ask me what kind of journalism I all clear in his original invitation that BSA did not ESG at the time. want to do, and I always say that if I could do Sullivan added that although the The something like what I do for The Chronicle plan to issue an official endorsement. “If you read that email, it’s very clear that this Chronicle has in previous years asked members right now, I’d be happy,” Ballentine said. was an official endorsement meeting that he was of organizations to recuse themselves from News Editor Rachel Chason, a junior, noted that Ballentine has an in-depth knowledge of a inviting us to,” Schreiber said. “It’s very clear that the endorsement process if they have ties to variety of issues on campus—including sexual there were some Boss Tweed style tactics when it a candidate, it has not previously banned an came to this endorsement meeting. The ethics organization from submitting an endorsement assault policy, mental health and diversity. “Her knowledge about the University were sketchy. Wills [Rooney] and I both agreed letter if a candidate served in a leadership position within that organization. and passion for journalism are remarkable,” that there was no objectivity going in.” Rooney agreed with Schreiber that He argued that the decision to make a public Chason said. “I know she’ll do a great job.” Senior Emma Baccellieri—news editor for Washington’s original email did not indicate statement adds to unfair criticism and blame that The Chronicle’s 110th volume and current that BSA would issue an unofficial rather than an BSA has received and reinforces the incorrect perception among some students that BSA is editor of Towerview Magazine—noted that official endorsement. “That was not made clear in the first email,” responsible for every protest, gathering, demand Ballentine’s passion for the organization will Rooney said. or mistake by black students. make her a strong editor. Senior Jay Sullivan, a Chronicle columnist “BSA has been blamed for lots of things,” he “Right from the beginning, it was clear that she really cared and was really and BSA general body member speaking said. “To put them up for scrutiny yet again is not interested in contributing any way she on behalf of the organization, said that any something I think they deserve at all.” Both Schreiber and Rooney reached out could,” Baccellieri said. “It has been great to questions Rooney and Schreiber may have watch her grow as a reporter and a leader had about the nature of BSA’s endorsement to Washington after they published their process could have been resolved privately statement, asking for an unofficial meeting over the last year and a half.” Ramkumar echoed Baccellieri’s rather than through a public statement. with the BSA Executive Board separate from comments about Ballentine’s dedication to He also pointed out inconsistencies in The the endorsement process. Sullivan argued, Chronicle’s previous policies for accepting however, that it was strange for the two The Chronicle. candidates to ask for a meeting with BSA “Her enthusiasm has been contagious this official endorsements. “This could have been solved by an email or so soon after they had harshly and publicly year, and I hope to see that continue in the two, and all they decided to do was basically blame criticized the organization. future,” Ramkumar said. “When Max [Schreiber] calls meeting with Ramkumar also expressed optimism BSA for an issue that really shouldn’t be BSA’s about the future of The Chronicle following fault,” he said. “All they did was publish a letter in BSA ‘Kabuki theater’ and [both candidates] The Chronicle, blasting BSA for some reason...I say it’s a waste of their time, how does it seem Friday’s election. “This election was a really good question whether or not this was done more as a genuine or honest or authentic to engage with an organization by calling them that in the representation of all of the progress we made publicity stunt than a statement of ethics.”

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media and then sending them an email saying ‘I would like to meet’?” Sullivan said. Following publication of his letter to the editor, Washington reinvited all of the Young Trustee candidates to attend unofficial endorsement meetings. All three candidates confirmed that they will be attending. Edwards declined to comment for this article, but confirmed in an email that he will be attending a meeting with BSA. Rooney said that he is looking forward to his meeting with the organization. “The members of the Black Student Alliance are students at this University. Their voices matter,” Rooney said. “I’m interested in meeting with them and explaining what my vision of Duke is and fielding their questions on it. What they decide to do with that is ultimately their decision.” Schreiber also confirmed that he will attend a meeting with BSA, but wrote in an email that he had reservations. “Now that BSA has decided to not officially endorse and the [BSA Executive Board]’s collusion/conflict of interest has been exposed, I will certainly be attending the meeting with the understanding my back is against a wall,” he wrote. “I have a responsibility to all voters, even those supporting another candidate, if I win.” He added that he still felt that BSA’s endorsement process was unfair. Schreiber argued that BSA’s ties to Edwards and the social media support of some BSA Executive Board members for Edwards led him to believe that his comments in an endorsement meeting might be misconstrued in an endorsement memo that was distributed or published. Schreiber noted that he felt BSA had done itself a disservice by holding its endorsement process in the manner that it has. “The people who are screwed most by this whole ethics disaster are members of the BSA who don’t serve on the [Executive] Board, because frankly they don’t get to hear from me and Wills in an objective fashion.”

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