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ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH YEAR, ISSUE 44

DEAN NOWICKI STEPS DOWN

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Blue Devils rout Pittsburgh in first ACC road win

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decision to return to teaching and research provides an opportunity for Duke to build on the work he and his team have done and the collaborations they have formed.”

Other committee members include Lisa Keister, Gilhuly Family professor of sociology; Lenhard Ng, Eads Family professor of mathematics; Kenneth

PITTSBURGH—After the Blue Devils faded down the stretch in their first two ACC road games, they left no doubt about the outcome early Wednesday night.

No. 7 Duke led Pittsburgh by as many as 30 points in the first half and coasted to a 87-52 win at Petersen Events Center to bounce back from an ugly defeat DUKE 87 at N.C. State Saturday in dominant 52 fashion. The Blue Devils were hot PITT from the perimeter, making eight triples in the first half, and pressured the Panthers into 15 turnovers to easily hold a conference opponent to fewer than 89 points for the first time of the season.

“I was tired of this, man. I’m tired of giving up 90 points a game, tired of letting teams storm the court when we play on the road,” freshman big man Marvin Bagley III said. “It was time for us tonight to really make a stand and lock down on defense and get stops, and we really did that.”

Bagley led Duke with 16 points and 15 rebounds for his 13th double-double of the year, as the Blue Devils (14-2, 2-2 in the ACC) shared the ball well with 21 assists and just six giveaways against an undermanned and overmatched Pittsburgh squad that started five freshmen.

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Chronicle File Photo Steve Nowicki, dean and vice president for undergraduate education, will return to teaching and research.

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Duke announced Wednesday that Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education, will be stepping down June 30, from his current role to return full time to teaching and research in the department of biology.

According to the Duke Today release, Provost Sally Kornbluth has

formed a search committee—chaired

by Leo Ching, associate professor of Asian and Middle Eastern studies— to find a new vice provost for undergraduate education.

“Steve has been a fantastic colleague and dedicated leader who has been an advocate for creating programming and a campus environment to enhance the undergraduate experience,” Kornbluth said in the release. “His

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Judith Kelley New study suggests bonobos prefer jerks to be new dean of Sanford

By Claire Ballentine Towerview Editor

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Duke announced Thursday morning that Judith Kelley, currently Terry Sanford professor of public policy, will be the Sanford School of Public Policy’s new dean.

On July 1, Kelley will succeed Kelly Brownell, who announced he was stepping down after five years as dean to lead the Sanford School’s new World Food Policy Center, according to a Duke Today release. Chaired by Billy Pizer, Susan B. King professor of public policy and associate dean for academic programs at the Sanford School, a committee searched months to find See KELLEY on Page 5

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The researchers got the idea for the study from research about human infants favoring characters who are assisting others.

Most of us try to avoid people who are mean to others, but a new study by Duke scientists showed that one species may prefer jerks.

Published last Thursday in the journal Current Biology, the research focused on bonobos—a species of African ape considered to be humans’ closest relatives along with chimpanzees—living in the Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The results provide evidence for the theory that humans differ from their related species in that they avoid those who mistreat others.

The study was conducted by Brian Hare, associate professor of evolutionary anthropology, along with Christopher Krupenye, Ph.D. ‘16 and now Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

“Bonobos exhibit an array of cooperative behaviors, so it was surprising to see that

they weren’t particularly motivated to associate with helpers—at least not more so than associating with hinderers,” Krupenye wrote in an email.

Previous research has shown that bonobos will help strangers get food even when they don’t receive any immediate benefit from their generosity, adding to the scientists’ surprise at the recent study’s results.

Krupenye explained that the researchers got the idea for the study from research showing that human infants can evaluate the social world around them and favor characters who are assisting others.

“We wanted to test whether this earlyemergent motivation to prefer helpers was shared with our closest relatives or whether it might be a human-specific trait that partly explains why humans cooperate in sophisticated ways that we don’t see in other species,” he noted.

Bonobos were the ideal animals to See BONOBOS on Page 12

Duke alum in hot water for affair

Duke research gets that cash

Last remaining prosecutor

Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens faces an investigation due to an extramarital affair three years ago.

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Alums recently donated $25 million to Duke, World Wildlife Fund for environmental research.

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Ben Ferencz, a prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, is coming to Duke to discuss the trial.

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Federal court orders N.C. to redraw district lines

By Nathan Luzum Health and Science News Editor

A federal three-judge panel struck down North Carolina’s congressional map Tuesday, declaring it unconstitutional because the Republican-led legislature gerrymandered congressional districts to maintain a political advantage.

The ruling ordered the General Assembly to redraw district lines by Jan. 24 and said the court would issue its own map if it finds the replacement unsatisfactory.

In the opinion of Judge James Wynn, the panel argued that North Carolina’s partisan gerrymandering violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment along with the First Amendment and Article I of the Constitution. The decision comes after 10 of the 13 districts in North Carolina elected a Republican to Congress in the 2016 election despite relatively even statewide splits between Republican and Democratic voters.

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Alum and Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens faces investigation into extramarital affair

By Adam Beyer Digital Content Director

Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, Trinity ‘96, admitted to having an extramarital affair and is accused of blackmailing a woman with pictures of her.

The allegations and the Republican governor’s admission to the affair were first published by KMOV Wednesday evening.

Greitens was an Angier B. Duke Scholar, Rhodes Scholar and served as a Navy Seal.

He won his governor’s race in 2016 by six percentage points.

The affair was revealed in a recording

made by the husband of the woman in which she described their encounters. She alleges on the recording that Greitens took a photograph of her that he could use as “blackmail.” Greitens, however, has denied those allegations.

In a joint statement, Greitens and his wife Sheena explained the affair: “A few years ago, before Eric was elected governor, there was a time when he was unfaithful in our marriage. This was a deeply personal mistake. Eric took responsibility, and we dealt with this together honestly See GREITENS on Page 5

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Melinda Gates to be keynote speaker at SXSW

By Shagun Vashisth Health and Science News Editor

South by Southwest announced Melinda Gates, Trinity ‘86 and Fuqua ‘87, as the Convergence Keynote speaker for its 2018 lineup.

In its 25th year, the conference is set to focus on technology and culture as part of its second unified conference featuring Interactive, Film, Music and Convergence Tracks. SXSW cited Gates’ philanthropy and focus on female empowerment as a theme relevant in 2018 and to the festival.

“Her participation in SXSW highlights the message that creative industry

professionals have a duty to give back to the global community,” said Hugh Forest, chief programming officer of SXSW, in the announcement Monday.

In 2015, Gates established Pivotal Ventures, a new organization dedicated to bringing more women into computer science—the field that Gates pursued during her time at Duke. As part of the initiative, Gates has worked on making introductory computer science courses more welcoming to women with the hope of ultimately encouraging more female leadership in tech.

Other featured speakers at this year’s conference include French film-writer and

director Oliver Assayas, founder and CEO of Dell Technologies Michael Dell and Thom Zimny and Priscilla Presley—director and producer of the HBO documentary Elvis Presley: The Searcher. Also featured will be former U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith and designer and entrepreneur Rachel Zoe. Gates joins the cohort of past SXSW Convergence Keynotes including Lyor Cohen, Darren Aronofsky, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Barry Jenkins​, Sadiq Khan, Esther Perel and whurley.

The 2018 SXSW Conference & Festivals will occur on March 9-18 and take place in Austin, Texas.

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Alums donate to Duke, WWF for environmental research

Law School receives $5 million endowment for dean chair

By Isabelle Doan

By Stefanie Pousoulides

University News Editor

The Nicholas School of the Environment received a $5 million donation from Duke alumni to support environmental research and education.

Jeff Ubben, Trinity ’83 and a member of the Board of Trustees, and Laurie Ubben, Trinity ‘84, gifted $25 million in total to the World Wildlife Fund and Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment. Twenty million dollars will support the WWF’s conservation efforts, while the other $5 million will support Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment.

The gift also supports the growing partnership between the organization and

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The World Wildlife Fund and Nicholas School will collective receive $26 million to aid in conservation efforts and education.

the Nicholas School.

“This far-sighted gift from two of Duke’s most dedicated alumni will enable us to pioneer a new model of collaboration between a university and a global conservation organization,” Jeffrey Vincent, Stanback Dean of the Nicholas School, said to Giving to Duke.

Vincent added that he was excited by the opportunities that the gift will create for students, including research that supports conservation.

Research projects will span a wide variety of issues and regions, Vincent told The Herald Sun. He added that professors both at the Marine Lab and in Durham will be involved in projects.

Vincent explained to the newspaper that although the gift was first announced in December, the donation had been received by the school earlier and had already benefited students by that time.

Jeff Ubben was elected to the Duke Board of Trustees in 2015, and is on the Board of Directors of the Nicholas School-based E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation.

Jeff and Laurie Ubben had made three large donations previously, including $10 million toward activities in Duke’s new arts center, $2.5 million toward club sports and Duke athletics and $2.5 million in alumni programming.

“Jeff and I feel strongly about protecting the environment,” Laurie Ubben said to Giving to Duke. “We’re energized by the important work WWF and Duke are doing to safeguard our planet. Now more than ever, we believe these initiatives must be supported.”

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The dean of Duke Law School will soon have a named chair for the position, thanks to a $5 million grant from The Duke Endowment.

According to an announcement from President Vincent Price on Monday, the grant will establish the title of the James B. Duke and Benjamin N. Duke Dean of the School of Law. Current Dean David Levi— who is stepping down in June 2018—will be the first person to hold this position.

“The gift is meaningful to me because the Duke family has been such a positive influence on the University since its inception. What people may not know is how the Duke family has continued to be very supportive of the University in many different ways,” Levi said to The Chronicle.

“This gift is an expression of [The Duke Endowment’s] support of the University and the Law School.”

Serving as dean since 2007, Levi has witnessed multiple acts of philanthropy from members of The Duke Endowment and the Duke family. Mentioning descendants of the Duke brothers whom the dean’s chair is named after, Levi remembered the philanthropic work of Mary Semans­– granddaughter of Benjamin Newton Duke–and added that he “admires greatly” current board members of The Endowment, including Charles Lucas III. Lucas, Law ’90, is also a grandson of Semans and a Duke Law School graduate­.

Courtesy of Duke Photography David Levi, dean of the School of Law, said the gift shows that the University and the Law School are supported.

“The faculty and alumni are very pleased with this [grant]. It is a mark of distinction to hold a chair with the Duke family name in it,” Levi said.

He concurred that the timing of The Duke Endowment’s grant was significant, as he will be stepping down from his position as dean on June 30. As it has been “several months since the beginning of the academic year” when he first made the announcement, Levi said that it was a “lovely gesture” for The Duke Endowment to establish the chair in a way that allowed him to hold it for his final semester as dean.

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Final surviving Nuremberg prosecutor to come Faculty elected to Duke to discuss trial’s implications to National Academy of Inventors UNIVERSITY

By Lexi Kadis

Senior News Reporter

Ben Ferencz, the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, will come to Duke Jan. 31 to discuss the trial’s impact on international jurisprudence and contemporary human atrocities.

The discussion will feature Ferencz alongside his son Donald Ferencz, a renowned international lawyer, and Duke alumnus Michael Scharf, Trinity ‘85, Law ‘88 and dean of Case Western Reserve University School of Law. The free event will be held from 6-7 p.m. in Fleishman Commons at the Sanford School of Public Policy.

“The Duke Center for Jewish Studies is honored to host Ben Ferencz,” said Laura Lieber, professor of religious studies and director of the Duke Center for Jewish Studies, in a statement released by Duke

international justice work and human rights.”

Ferencz was only 27 years old when he became an investigator of Nazi war crimes and chief prosecutor for the United States Army at the Einsatzgruppen trial—his first case—which tried 22 defendants for the murder of over a million people. Deemed “the biggest murder trial in history” by the Associated Press, the trial resulted in the conviction of all defendants. Following his work in Nuremberg, he became an advocate for the international rule of law and the International Criminal Court.

Donald Ferencz—who is a lawyer and advocate of international justice like his father—is the founder and conveyor of the Global Institute for the Prevention of Aggression, which works to advance the goal of criminalizing the illegal use of force.

He also organized the 2010 campaign to ratify amendments to the Rome Statute

As the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg Trials, he brings unique depth and nuance to vitally important, ongoing dialogues concerning international justice work and human rights.

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Today. “As the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg Trials, he brings unique depth and nuance to vitally important, ongoing dialogues concerning

of the International Criminal Court. Two amendments were ratified, one which criminalized the use of certain weapons in non-international conflicts, and the other

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Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Ben Ferencz, who is 97 years old, was chief prosecutor of what the Associated Press labeled the “biggest murder trial in history.”

which established a definition for the crime of aggression.

Currently, the younger Ferencz is a visiting professor at the Middlesex University School of Law. Joining the father-son duo is Michael Scharf, law school dean at Case Western.

He is also the director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center at Case Western, and co-founder of the Public International Law and Policy Group, a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated nongovernmental organization that provides pro bono legal assistance to developing states and states in transition.

Three faculty members from Duke’s department of biomedical engineering were named to the National Academy of Inventors’ 2017 class of fellows.

Joseph Izatt, Michael J. Fitzpatrick professor of engineering, Nimmi Ramanujam, Robert W. Carr, Jr. professor of biomedical engineering, and Tuan Vo-Dinh, R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson professor of biomedical engineering, received the honor Dec. 12.

According to the organization, NAI Fellow status is a professional distinction given to academic inventors with “a prolific spirit of innovation.” The program began in 2012 and there are 912 fellows total, with a median of 20 patents held per person. There have been eight fellows at Duke named before 2017, including Nobel laureates Robert Lefkowitz, James B. Duke professor of medicine, in 2015 and Paul Modrich, James B. Duke professor of biochemistry, in 2016.

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Conversation, Conflict & the Art of Respectful Disagreement:

January 16-19 Focus on Engaging in the U.S.

Thursday, Jan. 18 5:30-6:30pm Rubenstein Library 349 Faculty participants include: • Eric Mlyn, Asst Vice Provost for Civic Engagement and DukeEngage Director • Imam Abdullah Antepli, Duke’s Chief Representative of Muslim Affairs and Program Director, DukeEngage-Lebanon • Ada Gregory, Associate Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics and Program Director, DukeEngage-New York • Thomas Williams, Postdoctoral Fellow, Science & Society and Program Director, DukeEngage-Washington, DC

DukeEngage U.S. Programs Open House Tuesday, Jan. 16 11am-2pm Rubenstein Library 153 Drop in and chat with program directors & progam alumni to learn more about DukeEngage’s U.S. programs and get answers to your questions. All U.S. programs will be represented.

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candidates for Brownell’s position, finally landing on Kelley.

“Judith Kelley has distinguished herself as a scholar and a collaborative leader whose vision for education, discovery and service will continue the Sanford School’s momentum,” said President Vincent Price in the release. “Her detailed knowledge of the Sanford School’s great strengths, and even greater opportunities for the future, will position Duke at the forefront of policy schools.”

Kelley, who is from Denmark, graduated from Stanford University and received M.P.P and Ph.D. degrees in public policy from Harvard University, the release noted. Her work is centered on human rights, democracy and international elections. She has also authored three books, including “Monitoring Courtesy of Duke Photography Democracy: When International Election Judith Kelley, Terry Sanford professor of public Observation Works and Why It Often policy, will take over for Dean Kelly Brownell Fails.” Her most recent work is “Scorecard on July 1.

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Voters as a plaintiff in the case, told the News and Observer. “The court was clear in demanding a real remedy before the 2018 elections, and we expect the General Assembly to respect that order.”

But others denounced the ruling as

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In addition to being a professor in the Pratt School of Engineering, Joseph Izatt is a professor of ophthalmology. He is also director of the Biophonotics Group, which researches the use of light to clearly and non-invasively image living tissues.

Since joining Duke in 2005, Ramanujam has built up the Tissue Optical Spectroscopy Laboratory, which develops optical technologies targeting key issues in cancer,

including cancer-screening in limitedresource settings.

Beyond her work pioneering tools in biomedical research, Ramanujam founded the Global Women’s Health Technologies Center in 2013 with the goal of increasing research, training and education in women’s diseases, and increasing retention of women and underrepresented minorities in STEM. Vo-Dinh’s research interests are primarily centered on developing advanced photonic technologies for human health and environmental protection applications.

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In the search for the next law school dean, Levi added that the named chair has become “a part of the recruiting package.”

Both the significance of the addition of the new chair and its $5 million of funding for the position serve as an “indicator of support” from the University and The Duke Endowment–which is of special importance to those interested in becoming the School of Law’s 15th dean.

“On a personal level, it is very meaningful to me,” Levi said. “Future deans will hold this chair, and the $5 million grant will provide them with the funding and flexibility to be innovative.”

and privately. While we never would have wished for this pain in our marriage, or the pain that this has caused others, with God’s mercy Sheena has forgiven and we have emerged stronger. We understand that there will be some people who cannot forgive—but for those who can find it in your heart, Eric asks for your forgiveness, and we are grateful for your love, your compassion and your prayers.”

Greitens’ attorney James Bennett called the allegations of blackmail “outrageous.”

Thursday, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner announced that she was launching a formal investigation.

We’re enormously gratified on behalf of our clients and all voters in North Carolina that no one will have to endure another congressional election under an unconstitutional map.

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advantage Republican candidates because he ‘think[s] electing Republicans is better than electing Democrats,”’ Wynn wrote in his 191-page majority opinion. “But that is not a choice the Constitution allows legislative mapdrawers to make.”

Wynn, a 2010 appointee of Barack Obama, targeted state Rep. David Lewis, a Republican, who instructed the creator of the 2016 map to draw districts in a way that would maximize Republican chances of winning.

Critics of the current map praised the decision as a long-awaited remedy for an unfair system.

“We’re enormously gratified on behalf of our clients and all voters in North Carolina that no one will have to endure another congressional election under an unconstitutional map,” Allison Riggs, a senior voting rights attorney for the Southern Coalition for Social Justice which represented the League of Women

judicial activism on the part of the threejudge panel, two of whom were appointed

by Democratic presidents.

Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the North Carolina Republican Party, wrote recently on Twitter that Wynn was “waging a personal, partisan war on North Carolina Republicans.”

After the ruling, Republican state Sen. Ralph Hise noted that legislative leaders were planning to ask the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay in the ruling because the Jan. 24 deadline is “unreasonable.” Leaders of the Republican legislature plan to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court, the News and Observer reported.

With such an appeal, the North Carolina case would join two other challenges on gerrymandering that are already before the Supreme Court. The court heard an appeal alleging gerrymandering by Wisconsin’s legislature Oct. 3 of the current term, but the Justices have yet to announce their ruling.

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Courtesy of Wikimedia Common The North Carolina General Assembly will have until Jan. 24 to present redrawn maps to a federal circuit court. If deemed insufficient, the court may issue its own maps.

Judge William Earl Britt, an appointee of President Jimmy Carter, joined Wynn’s majority opinion. The third judge, George W. Bush appointee William Osteen, authored a separate opinion agreeing that the existing

map violated the 14th Amendment.

However, he disagreed with other parts of Wynn’s ruling, such as an order that an independent expert start drawing an alternative map.

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GREENWELL MAKES HISTORY

After weeks of waiting, Rebecca Greenwell breaks Duke’s career record for made 3-pointers in win

By Conner McLeod Staff Reporter

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.—Graduate student Rebecca Greenwell had been only two triples away from setting Duke’s all-time career record for made 3-pointers for eight games and was hurt for five of them.

The breakthrough finally came Thursday night.

After tying the record with a buzzer-beater at the end of the first quarter, she hit another early in the second DUKE 80 period to make Duke WAKE 67 history, passing Tricia Liston with her 253rd career triple. Her hot start led the No. 17 Blue Devils to a 80-67 win against Wake Forest at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum for their first ACC road win of the season.

The record seemed to ignite a fire inside of Greenwell, who finished with 23 points on 3-of-5 shooting from beyond the arc.

“I just felt relieved to finally get that record,” Greenwell said. “It’s a great honor. It’s been in the back of my head too much, but now that it’s out of the way I can play loose and play like my old self, just keep this win streak going throughout the rest of the ACC season.”

Greenwell has not looked herself lately due to her recent knee injury and was held stagnant for the last two games. But the graduate student looked determined to get back into her usual form Thursday, attacking the basket and not hesitating to take open shots.

“I felt like my old self again,” Greenwell said.

“My knee feels a lot better each day. I just tried to not think and just play loose and not think about the things I can’t control, and when I do that I can

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Rebecca Greenwell passed former standout Blue Devil guard Tricia Liston in the second quarter with the 253rd made 3-pointer of her career. play like myself.”

Fellow graduate student Lexie Brown also came ready to play. Following a career-high 34-point performance against N.C. State Sunday, Brown began the game against the Demon Deacons somewhat slower than usual, with only five points going into the second quarter.

But after hitting a wide-open 3-pointer set up by Greenwell, Brown went on a tear on both sides of the floor, scoring 13 points and playing lockdown defense on Wake Forest’s senior point guard Amber Campbell, who was held scoreless throughout the first half.

“I just started getting some open looks. My

teammates made great screens, and Haley made great passes,” Brown said. “It’s nice to be known as a defensive leader. It’s something I’ve worked on...if we get all five of us to be on the same page defensively, we’re going to be scary.”

Brown led the Blue Devils (13-4, 2-2 in the ACC) in scoring with 27 points on 8-of13 shooting.

Wake Forest’s leading scorer, junior Elisa Penna, finished with 24 points to keep her team in the game, but the Blue Devil defense proved too much for the Demon Deacons (10-7, 2-2).

After hitting 4-of-6 3-pointers as a team to begin the game, Duke improved its closeouts—Wake

Forest shot just 25.0 percent from beyond the arc on the night.

“We just got focused and did a good job on defense,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “I liked how we played and that we made some very important stops.”

The Blue Devils’ suffocating defense also forced 13 Demon Deacon turnovers, and the visitors capitalized, scoring 20 points off those mistakes. Although Duke’s defense has continued to improve against ACC opponents, it still has problems taking care of the ball. The Blue Devils committed 15 turnovers of their own.

Freshman Jade Williams and senior Erin Mathias also found themselves in foul trouble early, which allowed Wake Forest to take control of the boards. The Demon Deacons outrebounded Duke 37-33, with almost half of their rebounds coming on the offensive end. Sophomore Alex Sharp had a double-double with 11 points and 11 boards, and second-chance points kept Wake Forest alive throughout the game.

“We’ve got a take a look at [our rebounding] and really get motivated,” McCallie said. “All of these teams are physical and can really play, so we’ve got to work on it.”

The Blue Devils looked deep throughout the night, winding up with 26 bench points. Duke’s impressive ball movement provided reserves Williams and freshman Jayda Adams open shots set up by redshirt sophomore Haley Gorecki, who led the team with seven assists.

“We did a better job of moving the ball and finding each other,” McCallie said. “We love when the bench scores. It’s a really good game to build off of before Sunday’s game.”

Duke will come back home to Cameron Indoor Stadium to face Virginia Sunday hoping to move to better than .500 in conference play.

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Robinson scores career-high 10 points off bench

By Michael Model Assistant Blue Zone Editor

Ian Jaffe | Photography Editor

After scoring just one point all of last season, Justin Robinson scored 10 points thanks to three 3-pointers Wednesday night.

PITTSBURGH—Although the Blue Devils boast the nation’s most efficient offensive unit—according to basketball statistician Ken Pomeroy—Duke has not received much production from its bench in meaningful minutes this season, especially in the last few weeks.

The Blue Devils entered Wednesday’s matchup at Pittsburgh with just 17 bench points in their first three conference games combined, and they have been forced to stick mostly to a seven-man rotation due to a lack of offense on the end of the bench.

But, playing without its usual sixth and seventh men, sophomores Marques Bolden and Javin DeLaurier, due to their respective knee and hamstring injuries, Duke was forced to extend deep into its bench to fill

minutes against the Panthers.

“We’re going to need to play them because we have those two guys out,” Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

“We we’re in more of a seven- or eight-man rotation when Marques [Bolden] and Javin [DeLaurier] were healthy, and sometimes Alex [O’Connell] came in. So the dynamic of our team changed…. While we’re improving, we have to get to know the group we have right now.”

Even with the injuries, nine Duke players were on the floor for more than 10 minutes, as the bench played a key role in the Blue Devils’ 87-52 victory against Pittsburgh.

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Lambert’s leadership buoys Blue Devils despite injury physical therapy and all that, but I’m giving everything that I can to the team in different ways now.”

The trajectory of Kyra Lambert’s Duke These different ways provide a glimpse career changed on March 18, 2017. into the individual behind the player fans That evening, the Blue Devils’ then- see running the point for the team. During sophomore starting point guard suffered a timeouts, Lambert can be found in the middle devastating knee injury against Hampton in of the huddle talking to her teammates, the NCAA tournament, leaving Duke without and during the action, she also talks to the a key leader in its upset loss against Oregon in reserves on the bench. the next game. Lambert’s torn left ACL was “I definitely talk to every single player, the first major injury of her career, aside from especially our younger players…. Of minor pulled muscles or ankle tweaks. course, Lexie and Becca [Greenwell] pretty “I miss her love of the game. I miss her much know how it goes,” Lambert said. “I intensity. I miss being able to push her just try to be as vocal as possible, being because she’s so intense and passionate about encouraging. I’ve had a lot of experience on the game,” Blue Devil head coach Joanne P. the court so I know a lot of stuff that they’re McCallie said. “I certainly miss her ability to going through.” make calls, make plays, get people in defenses Brown, Greenwell and Lambert’s and do what she’s capable of doing.” leadership and communication as co-captains Fast forward to Dec. 4, when Lambert is only one of the many similarities that they made the difficult decision not to step back share. Like her teammates in the Fuqua School on the court with her teammates this year of Business, Lambert puts a lot of emphasis in and instead take a medical redshirt. The the classroom as an undergraduate. Education junior now will have two years of eligibility is something that has been ingrained into her remaining when she is expected to make her mind for a long time. return in November 2018.

“Putting a high priority on academics has “I had a feeling that she wasn’t going to always been something that my family has come back just because of the type of person done, my parents have always told me to do she was because if she can’t do something 150 and I think it just builds discipline,” Lambert percent, she’s not going to do it, so I planned said. “Just like sports build discipline, on probably not being able to finish my academics build discipline.” time here with Kyra,” graduate student Lexie The junior’s academic mindset has Brown said. “For her to actually say it, that helped her adjust to game preparation on kind of hit us all in the heart. the sidelines as well, when McCallie and “But she’s still around. She has this huge the coaching staff reveal scouting reports presence, so that’s been really fun and I’m for upcoming games. Similar to a classroom going to take advantage setting, the professor From a coach’s perspective, of this time.” or coach discusses a Although Lambert you have so much opportunity game plan, and the will never step on to influence young players. I more the players the floor of Cameron prepare, the better Indoor Stadium again would love to do that. they perform during a alongside her senior game or test.

KYRA LAMBERT teammates, the captain “Studying for a class JUNIOR POINT GUARD is still making an is just like studying impact. Every day, the junior for [an opponent],” participates in practice and leads the team in Lambert said. “Watching videos or whatever a multitude of different fashions. to learn more about something in class is just “The one thing that I focused on since this like watching film on your favorite player and injury is ways that I can be more involved trying to translate that onto the court.” with the team, especially when I’m not physically out there on the floor with them ‘A pure point guard’ playing in the games,” Lambert said. “Yes, I Lambert has already displayed her prowess want to get better. Yes, I’m working hard in and skill on the hardwood the past two years,

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Lambert started 56 games in her first two seasons at Duke and was a key member of the backcourt that led the Blue Devils to a No. 2 seed in last year’s NCAA tournament.

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Kyra Lambert has remained a captain and a vocal member of Duke’s team despite a torn ACL that is keeping her on the sidelines all season. setting an example that every current player in convincing fashion. can look back to.

“It’s an honor. I’m definitely a people person.

From day one, Lambert—the ninth- I love talking to people. I could talk to a wall ranked recruit in her class—became a focal and have a great conversation. But I just try point of McCallie’s offense. She started 23 to be genuine in everything. I try to be polite games as a freshman, averaging 6.2 points to everybody and just myself. It’s just how I and 2.5 assists per contest. As a sophomore, was raised,” Lambert said. “I love all of my those numbers increased to 7.8 points and teammates to death, so they’re great.”

3.5 assists per game while she started all When the point guard’s days playing the 33 contests. sport she loves dwindle down in the future after “She’s a pure point guard, but she can a potential professional career, Lambert holds score like a two because she’s got a great shot,” a dream job near to her heart. It is something McCallie said. “But without question, she has she has already demonstrated during timeouts the ability to dictate a game and definitely before McCallie enters the huddle, or in make a coach’s job a lot easier.” practice where assistance is required.

This year, her role is quite different.

“I would love to be a coach, especially at the Although Lambert says that it is indeed college level,” Lambert said. “It’s something that different to lead from the sidelines, her work I say all the time: Being able to be somewhere ethic has remained strong in the weight and have an impact on somebody.... Especially room, and she has inspired others to work from a coach’s perspective, you have so much hard in team conditioning sessions. opportunity to influence young players. I Indeed, there are many components of a would love to do that.” successful college basketball program that With her work on and off the floor this often go unnoticed. For a player like Lambert season and beyond, Lambert will continue to to attend a school like Duke, the process serve as a role model for the younger players consists of more than just conversations on the team, just like Amber Henson did for between coaches and a recruited athlete. her two years ago.

High school prospects often want to hear “She could run for president at Duke,” from the perspective of someone who is Duke associate head coach Hernando Planells more relatable. Once again, Lambert is at the told team radio broadcaster Chris Edwards on forefront of this area for the team.

McCallie’s radio show Monday night. “Vincent “Whenever we have recruits that come Price better be careful because Kyra Lambert and visit the campus, they put a current can go in there and do a good job.” player with the recruit Although the junior to just host, walk them She could run for president will be seen wearing a around, tell them how it “Bench Mob” shirt on is from a student-athlete at Duke. Vincent Price the bench for the rest experience. I’ve done better be careful. of the season, Lambert a lot of the girls that serves a greater role HERNANDO PLANELLS behind closed doors. Her have come on recruiting WOMEN’S BASKETBALL visits,” Lambert said. teammates and coaches ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH “I’m just myself, tell rave about her leadership. them total honesty what goes It is in a role that Lambert on, how it works, how school is, basketball, never envisioned, but will help her arrive next balancing the two.” season a better basketball player and a more accomplished leader off the floor.

‘She could run for president at Duke’ “She just does it all. Great student athlete.

Lambert currently serves as an ambassador Devoted to her academics, devoted to being a for the Duke program as a result of her great person, a basketball player,” McCallie said. personality and leadership, which was on full “She’s just the epitome of the Duke studentdisplay in a preseason survey of the team that athlete in every sense of the word, and we’re included the question: “Who is most likely to very fortunate she chose Duke. But at the same become the first female President?” Lambert time, Duke might have chosen her relative to received 11 out of 14 votes, earning the honor her strengths that she offers.”

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Duke’s defense had been ripped to shreds all season long, but it seemed to be sewn back together Wednesday at Pittsburgh.

Against the clawless Panthers, who boasted the ACC’s worst offense in terms of statistician Ken Pomeroy’s efficiency metrics, the Blue Devils were able to hold a conference opponent to less than 89 points for the first time in four tries. Their once-porous perimeter defense seemed all patched up, and Pittsburgh couldn’t infiltrate their firm hold on the paint.

Now, Duke hopes it wasn’t a mirage.

The No. 7 Blue Devils will have their defense tested against an offensive-minded Wake Forest team Saturday Wake at Cameron Indoor Forest Stadium at noon. Duke vs. will attempt to slow a No. 7 Demon Deacon offense Duke that has fallen off a notch in ACC play, SATURDAY, Noon Cameron Indoor Stadium but still ranks close to Florida State, which nearly dropped triple digits on Duke.

If the Blue Devils want to shut down a

strong Wake Forest offense, they’ll have to keep up the chatter.

“I could hear a lot of the players, everybody actually on the court, calling out screens, and everybody was talking and connecting,” star forward Marvin Bagley III said Wednesday.

“That allowed us to be more alert and to move as one, and I think that really helped us out a lot tonight.”

Duke (14-2, 2-2 in the ACC) will face a Wake Forest team that has been best where the Blue Devils have been most vulnerable to being gashed—from beyond the arc. The Demon Deacons (8-8, 1-3) have shot close to 40 percent from deep, including a near-43 percent mark in their last three games.

Wake Forest leans heavily on its guards, using a deep rotation to keep players fresh.

Duke will have to keep its eyes in particular on Bryant Crawford, Keyshawn Woods and Mitchell Wilbekin, who have earned most of the time in the backcourt and have combined for nearly 40 points per game.

But the Blue Devils have also been poor in guarding the rim this season—they rank No. 220 in the nation in field goal percentage allowed at the rim, according to Hoop-Math. com. Although the Panthers brought very

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Trevon Duval shot 3-of-5 from beyond the arc in Wednesday’s win at Pittsburgh, the first time all season he has made more than one triple.

BENCH FROM PAGE 6 3-point attempts in ACC games entering the contest. The duo combined to shoot 5-for-8 from downtown and totaled 18 of the Blue Devils’ 22 bench points on the night.

Freshman Jordan Goldwire and junior Antonio Vrankovic each also added a bucket late for Duke, suggesting the Blue Devils may be deeper than fans originally thought.

“They did a great job today,” senior captain Grayson Allen said. “They came in and played with a lot of confidence, which is what we want them to do. They just were themselves. They came in and looked like they were starters.

We want everyone to come in with a starter’s attitude like that.”

Perhaps the most surprising development for the Blue Devils has been the continued improvement of Robinson, a former walk-on.

After scoring just one point in all of last season,

Robinson has seen increased playing time in the last few weeks and shown the ability to make shots from the perimeter, something Duke has struggled with this season.

The San Antonio native has scored at least five points in three of his last four appearances, and has converted on half of his 12 3-point attempts in that span. When starting big man Wendell Carter Jr. went down with an ankle injury Wednesday, Krzyzewski called Robinson’s number with 15:47 left in the first half before even putting recruited scholarship players Vrankovic and Jack White into the game.

Robinson took advantage of double teams on freshman Marvin Bagley III to get open on the perimeter and set a career high with 10 points on 3-of-5 shooting from deep.

“It’s great that my teammates and coaches trust me that much,” Robinson said. “I feel like when I’m in early like that, and Trevon [Duval] and Grayson [Allen] are talking to me, telling me to shoot my shot, it gives me

little interior game to the table Wednesday, in Duke’s previous contest against N.C. State, Bagley and Wendell Carter Jr. got sliced up, allowing 44 points in the paint in an upset loss.

And the Demon Deacons’ most potent post weapon, 7-foot-1 center Doral Moore, has been unfathomably efficient at finishing at the hoop, converting 90.3 percent of his tries at the rim.

On a very young team, some believe that the Blue Devils have the quickness to improve in all facets of defense.

“We could do it. We’ve just got to want to do it,” Duval said Wednesday. “We could be a really good defensive team. We’ve got a lot of athleticism and a lot of guys that can move well laterally, so if we just have that defensive attitude when we go into the game Saturday, then we should play really good defense.”

Although Duke has been ineffective at getting stops, so has Wake Forest—it could be a very high-scoring affair. According to Pomeroy’s metrics, the Demon Deacons rank No. 162 in the nation in defensive efficiency—nearly twice as bad as the Blue Devils, who sit at No. 91. Wake Forest has been particularly horrendous against the 3-pointer—it is among the worst teams in the country.

That could mark an opportunity for struggling senior captain Grayson Allen to get back on track. Head coach Mike Krzyzewski has attributed his struggles to adapting to a new team with four freshman starters and failing to hunt for his shot.

Allen certainly was looking to shoot against Pittsburgh, but he went an abysmal 2-of-9. Overall, he is 7-of-32 from deep in conference play and has left the bulk of the offense to Bagley and Duval, who scored in double digits for his fourth straight conference game Wednesday.

After struggling all season to develop an outside shot, Duval was much sharper Wednesday, nailing 3-of-5 long-distance shots after previously never making more than one in a game. Duval has never been shy from beyond the arc—he has taken an average of nearly five tries per game in conference play, but the results finally came Wednesday.

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a lot of confidence.”

Although Robinson said he has always had confidence in his shot, his improvement defensively has been key to earning more minutes.

After focusing on applying pressure on defense in practice through nearly three years at Duke, Robinson appears ready to potentially become a rotation regular—at least as long as Bolden and DeLaurier are out. The son of NBA Hall of Famer David Robinson, Justin also matched his career high in blocks with three Wednesday and will hope to become a mainstay on the court as ACC play carries on.

“He’s stayed in the gym,” Allen said.

“He’s been working really, really hard, and we have a lot of confidence in him. As a catch-and-shoot guy, he’s up there with anyone on this team, and his length is really disruptive on defense, so we think he can give us a lot of valuable minutes.”

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Another season, another Black Monday come and gone. As NFL teams scramble to fill vacancies for head coaches, general managers and coordinators, the face of the copycat league is showing clearer and clearer.

This season, the playoffs were filled with new faces on both sides: rookie head coaches Sean McVay and Sean McDermott led their teams to the playoffs, and second-year coaches like Doug Pederson and Doug Marrone raised their rosters’ standard of play tremendously from year one to two.

McVay managed to turn a moribund offense under Jeff Fisher into a top-10 unit, McDermott brought the Bills to their first playoff appearance this millenium, Pederson’s Eagles would have been the Super Bowl frontrunners save for an injury to transcendent quarterback Carson Wentz, and Marrone, the only man on this list to have had another NFL head coaching position, crafted the league’s best defense and managed to marginalize quarterback play enough in his offense to get Blake Bortles a playoff win.

The success of these fresh, mostly young, hires has led to new names being thrown around the coaching carousel. Although the Raiders already threw 10 years and 100 million dollars at Jon Gruden, a move that warrants healthy skepticism, franchises with head coaching vacancies like Indianapolis, Detroit, Arizona and the New York Giants all have a serious incentive to pursue candidates like McVay and McDermott: coordinators who significantly raised a team’s standard of play on one side of the ball for multiple years.

Although some brilliant coordinators are not meant to be head coaches, like Wade Phillips, Dick LeBeau or even Rex Ryan, rarely is it that the veteran coaching retread works out, and rarer still is a coordinator previously with the Patriots experiencing any success as a head coach. For as excellent as Jim Schwartz has been running the Eagles’ defense this year, his up-and-down tenure with a Detroit team that featured Matthew Stafford, Calvin Johnson

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of the game, but the early stages also included a scary moment. Wendell Carter Jr. appeared FROM PAGE 1 FROM PAGE 8 to land awkwardly on Pittsburgh’s Shamiel “Our freshmen obviously don’t look like Stevenson and headed to the locker room with and Ndamukong Suh should not be forgotten. their freshmen right now, and that’s not my a left ankle injury.

Underachieving with that sort of personnel freshmen’s fault. Very few freshmen look like— With Marques Bolden and Javin bodes poorly. nobody looks like Marvin Bagley,” Panther head DeLaurier already sidelined for the game The same can be said for Matt Patricia’s coach Kevin Stallings said. “He’s as good a player due to leg injuries, seldom-used frontcourt bottom-dwelling defenses with the Patriots, as I think I’ve ever watched in preparation for reserves Justin Robinson, Antonio Vrankovic units that have only ever excelled with superior somebody on film. He’s terrific.” and Jack White stepped in to maintain the players—like the 2014-15 team featuring Point guard Trevon Duval was much more lead. Robinson, a former walk-on, stretched Darrelle Revis—or due to the intervention of comfortable than when he coughed the ball the floor with three 3-pointers for a careerdefensive genius Bill Belichick. Patricia, the up eight times Saturday in Raleigh, and the high 10 points. leading candidate for the Lions job, would freshman—who entered the game just 7-of“They came in and made big shots, made constitute a tepid hire.

42 this season from beyond the arc—knocked big plays, especially coming off the bench,” The lone exception to the retreads is Vikings down three open triples in the first half.

Bagley said. “I’m just proud of those guys and offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur, who would Duval was even fouled shooting a 3-pointer I’m happy that they were able to do that and make for a solid hire for Indianapolis, which in the final seconds of the first half, making one step up in a moment like this.” has established quarterback play from Andrew free throw to stake Duke to a 50-24 lead, and Carter returned to the floor less than seven Luck. Shurmur, whose previous head coaching wound up with 14 points on the night. minutes after his injury and erased any concerns experience was in Cleveland where failure “It was really just a confidence thing with me, about his ankle with an athletic putback dunk cannot be isolated to a coach alone, has elevated to finish a miss by Bagley near the rim, and he the play of Sam Bradford and Case Keenum in scored the first points of the second half on an successive years and pieced together a playoffalley-oop lob from Duval. ready offense from disparate parts on the line Carter’s playing time was still limited and skill positions, a number of elements that by foul trouble—he committed four in look eerily similar to what the Colts have.

16 minutes—and the Blue Devils’ starters Teams have to be willing to take some risks outside of Bagley and Duval remained and not hire familiar faces like John Fox and Jeff Fisher, whose jobs will be doomed from largely unspectacular. Senior Grayson the word go. Throw money at Stanford’s David Allen’s cold spell continued with 11 points Shaw or Michigan State’s Mark Dantonio, on 2-of-9 shooting from deep, though Duke did not need a flawless performance to whose programs are sufficiently small that The New York Times Syndication Corporation comfortably dispatch a Pittsburgh team that Sales they could be tempted to make a move to the 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. pro10018 game. Take a long, hard look at Eagles has not come within single digits of an ACC For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 quarterback coach John DeFilippo, who opponent this season.

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and everybody from the coaches to everybody on the team was telling me to shoot my shot,” Duval said. “Today, I shot my shot and I had a couple go down.”

Pittsburgh (8-9, 0-4) settled down in the second half and went on a 13-3 run to cut the Blue Devils’ lead to 17, but Duke responded immediately with an 21-4 run to build its biggest lead of the night. Gary Trent Jr. scored 10 straight points to cap the run and finished with 14 after a quiet start, and the Panthers scored just nine points in the game’s final 11 minutes.

“Our intensity was there the whole game.

We’ve been practicing like crazy trying to get better, and we were better tonight. We have to just keep working at it,” Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We have talent, but we’re really young, and we have to just keep learning these new habits.”

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his Monday, the Trump administration announced its decision to end the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) granted to nearly 200,000 Salvadorans immigrants. This designation has allowed citizens fleeing disastrous conditions following a series of devastating earthquakes to legally live and work in the United States for the past 17 years.Initially enacted in 2001, TPS was granted to undocumented immigrants from El Salvador under the Bush administration. As part of reconstruction efforts, TPS was implemented partially under the impression that Salvadorans seeking refuge in the U.S would send part of their earned income back to their relatives in the ravaged Central American nation. Once he took office, Former President Obama continued his predecessor’s legacy by renewing these protections, allowing the initial eighteen month policy to span across almost two decades. Now, with President Trump’s decision to terminate them, affected Salvadorans have until September of 2019 to leave the country and their lives here behind.

Objectively speaking, it is true that the original cause for these protections—damage by the 2001 earthquakes—have long since dissipated. And for that, the administration can legally justify their discontinuation of the program. However, decisions

involving the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of individuals should not be scrutinized for legality so much as it it should be for practicality and morality.

Unsurprisingly, both are at a deficit with this decision.

It is wholly impractical and entirely unreasonable to uproot hundreds of thousands of law-abiding, taxpaying members of our country’s economy en masse out of the United States, especially to one without the economical and political infrastructure to support this influx of repatriotization. El Salvador still today remains

Editorial Board to be riddled by intense gang violence and drought— reasons cited by the previous administrations for their renewal of the program. Furthermore, beneficiaries of these protections have sent back billions of dollars back to El Salvador, so much so that $4.6 billion of remittance was received by El Salvador in 2016, around 17% of their GDP. Removing these protections thus places undue burden not only on the individuals themselves, but also to their country of origin.

Practicality and necessity aside, the decision to end TPS. for these immigrants is also inhumanely cruel.

Many of these immigrants have raised families, bought

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homes and ingrained themselves into the fabric of American civil society within the nearly two decade period in which they were provided protection. To remove them would effectively rip apart these families and force individuals to choose between the constant threat of deportation or moving to a country they either longer recognize.

The Trump administration cannot be allowed to go unchecked in their political chess game that makes a pawn of the most vulnerable among us.

Decisions like this not only affect the families of these immigrants, but also the communities they have become invaluable parts of—including the Research Triangle. According to the Center for American Progress, 5,900 Salvadorans T.P.S. recipients with families—including roughly 6,200 American-born children—call North Carolina home. For the same reason the Duke community took the mantle of leadership against the threats of DACA cancellation, the same should be done for the Salvadorans in the face of Trump’s TPS Repeal. As a prominent national university that claims to stand behind inclusivity and diversity, Duke has the chance to draw the line against the anti-immigrant narrative emanating from Washington—a narrative that has for too long skirted human lives for the sake of political expediency.

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ifty-seven percent of the inmates sitting in the Durham County Detention Facility right now are locked up because they could not afford to pay bail.

The jail sits a mile from Duke University and just across the street from the gleaming glass of the Durham Performing Arts Center. The juxtaposition of the two is striking: on the right, a temple to the arts filled with theatergoers who spend hundreds of dollars to see a two-hour show; on the left, a cold county jail filled with impoverished detainees—most of whom failed to post a bond of $500.

Leah Abrams CUT THE BULL

Though an ACLU poll recently revealed that nine out of ten Americans support some level of reform to the criminal justice system, few people argue for the elimination of the cash bail system itself. And yet, in preserving this system, we condemn poor people to fill prison cells across the country without even the simple dignity of a trial.

On paper, bail makes sense. The fine acts as a form of insurance: a refunded deposit that ensures the accused will return for their trial. If the accused can post bail, they are free to do as they please until their court date. And— provided they attend that trial—the court will return the suspect’s bail at the conclusion of the case. Administering money bail is a common practice throughout the world, and in a perfect world, it would decrease the chances of pretrial detentions.

However, in practice, the money bail system is an institution rooted in abuse and prejudice. The racially oppressive nature of the criminal justice system allows judges to set bail amounts discriminatorily; across the nation, black Americans face significantly higher bail amounts than their white counterparts when charged for the same crimes. People of color are also more likely to serve pretrial time for nonviolent crimes, often leading to job loss and family strain. In fact, in 2016, a Durham judge sentenced an African-American male to 34 days in prison after he failed to pay child support. Extreme sentencing for low-level crimes perpetuates a route that pipelines black men and women from schools and jobs to long prison sentences.

And it’s not just the pretrial sentence that causes problems. A 2012 New York City review found that pretrial detention increased the likelihood of later conviction and pressured defendants to take guilty pleas.

In essence, when Americans accused of crimes are unable to post bail, they are more likely to be found guilty later on—simply because they are poor.

When I walk by the detention center downtown, I am

confident that there only two things separating the men inside charged with possession of marijuana and the kids smoking weed on the quad at Duke—money and race.

People in the bottom income bracket accused of crimes spend an average of 23 days behind bars before even facing a jury. Dated institutions like cash bail allow the wealthy to buy freedom and designate the poor to pay for crimes without conviction. In the words of the Equal Justice initiative founder Bryan Stevenson, “We have a system of justice that treats you better if you’re rich and guilty than if you’re poor and innocent.”

Stevenson has spent decades reimagining the criminal justice system, working to bring justice to poor people sitting in prison at the hands of unfair sentencing, discriminatory rulings and state abuse. His work is living proof that a world beyond bail is not only possible, but preferable.

Opponents of pretrial reform worry that without the monetary restriction of bail bonds, dangerous criminals would avoid conviction and detainment. Certainly, this concern is warranted. After all, we would never accept a society in which guilty people walk free without answering to a fair trial. Especially in cases of violent crime, it is essential that defendants have some deterrent to keep them from missing their court dates, and in some cases, be detained pretrial for safety concerns.

Yet, society reaps little benefit from charging nonviolent offenders with exorbitant bail amounts. Lowrisk offenders accused of traffic crimes, theft, or drug possession pose little threat to American citizens and yet make up the vast majority of pretrial detentions. Little by little, cities across the United States are beginning to experiment with reform. Pioneering pretrial programs in D.C. eliminated money-based detention altogether and reshaped the prosecutorial process. The District policy establishes mandatory check-ins for eligible defendants rather than monetary payments or detentions. These check-ins with community officers were found to be more successful than the cash bail system, resulting in an 88 percent court date attendance rate and—down the line—a mere 12 percent rearrest rate. When courts lift the crippling burden of financial debt and unwarranted detention, they allow potential offenders to steer away from crime and lead more productive and safe lives.

What’s more, D.C. saves $338 million annually in prison maintenance costs by keeping pretrial suspects out of jail.

Durham and its peer cities should work to eliminate money bail and, in doing so, end the role of wealth in the justice system. After all, the choice is simple. Will we work to ensure that “innocent until proven guilty” is a promise fulfilled? Will we remove the weight of incarceration disproportionately resting on people of color and those living in poverty? Or is their freedom worth not even a night at the theater?

Leah Abrams is a Trinity sophomore. Her column, “cut the bull,” runs on alternate Fridays.

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New class, who dis? Trinity adds hookup requirement

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hile Duke students were enjoying their winter breaks, the Associate Deans of Curriculum and Course Development of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences were hard at work revamping the requirements for graduation. The Curriculum

Friday Friday OFF-BRAND MONDAY MONDAY committee has started a new initiative, “Tackling the Social Dinosaur: T-reqs,” to address issues of Duke social culture.

The first issue to be targeted will be Duke’s infamous hookup culture. To combat Duke students’ fear of stable relationships, the committee is kicking off their initiative by requiring all firstyears to take a course on commitment.

According to a poll conducted by the Women’s Center, nearly 80 percent of Duke students bemoan the romantic culture on campus. The most frequent complaints waged against Duke’s hookup culture include: “common ghosting,” “label resistant relationships” and “acquaintances with benefits.”

A Women’s Center representative said, “Essentially, Duke students have a problem settling down in relationships. While that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, we need to ensure that Duke students have the tools to be rational human beings later in life.”

On a campus where the question, “How

long have you all been dating?” is answered by, “Um…depends on if you count by when we first hooked up or when we became exclusive,” Duke administration has decided that the commitment class is a much-needed addition to Trinity Curriculum.

The class will work similarly to Writing 101 in terms of scheduling. At some point during their first year, students will take a lecturestyle class that teaches reliability and empathy.

The Chronicle obtained an early draft of the syllabus for a class entitled, “Swiping Right on Commitment: Navigating Duke’s Social Landscape.” The class will be half lecturebased, half project-based. The lectures will focus on various problematic scenarios that could arise in Duke students’ relationships, spanning both romantic relationships and friendships. The primary instructors for the course will be chosen randomly from a pool of the least popular first-year seminar professors. The class plans to invite speakers from several departments, including the psychology and biology departments.

According to the syllabus, the biology lecture is entitled, “How To Respond to the Statement: “You Know Humans Aren’t Meant to be Monogamous.”

The project aspect of the class will require each student to take care of a small plant for the entirety of a semester. The plant is intended to embody a romantic partner, and each student will be graded on his or her ability to keep the plant alive and healthy— as well as romantically interested. Students are expected to carry their plants with them

at all times, including saving a seat in West Union and getting extra Red Mango samples for their plant. Additionally, in order to make caring for a ficus more similar to an actual relationship, students will be given pop quizzes on their plant’s birthday, parents’ hometowns and favorite movies. Students are required to introduce their plant to other people’s plants, and make an effort to get to know their plants’ friends. Special couple fitness classes will be offered at Wilson Gym, such as phototropic meditation and rock and vine climbing. For extra credit, students can either take their plant on a date where they cannot pay with food points, or attend their plants’ family reunion held in the Duke Gardens.

A first year/plant formal with catering from local Durham restaurants is planned for the semester, as well. Of course, no leafy greens will be available at the function, because that’s basically cannibalism.

Students must also do observational reporting of Duke students’ typical social interactions three times a semester. They must write a three-page long report commenting on how Duke students communicate their feelings in various social settings. The reports must be written at Perkins, West Union and Shooters, respectively. When asked how students conducting observational reports would affect the ambiance, Shooters management declined to comment.

Students will have to practice public speaking, according to various obtained syllabi.

Each student must prepare a speech where they explicitly say the words, “This is my [boyfriend/

girlfriend/romantic partner]. We are in an exclusive relationship.” They also must practice answering the question, “What are we?” The final weeks of the course will help students construct strategies to end relationships respectfully, instead of posting Snapchat stories with new, more fruitful plants.

A few missteps in these courses could cause major impacts on students’ grades. Should a student be caught a party without his or her plant, there will be a two-point deduction on his or her final grade. If a student has another plant, or at any point mutters the phrase, “You’re not like other plants,” he or she will be deducted a letter grade. Any “U up?” text sent throughout the semester will warrant an automatic failure, and necessitate that the student retakes the class—next time with an even more convenient plant.

Overall, Duke administration hopes that the commitment course signals a new era for the university. “We expect a lot out of Duke students,” said the Trinity Dean of Curriculum. “We expect Duke students to be academically motivated, community serviceminded and extracurricularly engaged. With this class, we expect Duke students to act like somewhat functioning adults.”

This new requirement will not apply to Pratt students, obviously.

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Oprah doesn’t need to be president to bring change

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aving a black woman as president would not just break the glass ceiling for America. It would shatter the glass ceiling under which little girls have grown up—exactly the ones who Oprah mentioned were watching in her Golden Globes speech on Sunday—who are overly ambitious dreamers and long to see someone who looks like them at such a pinnacle of American success. A black female president would signal the first streaks of light on the horizon for those who are tired of saying and hearing “me too.”

If our nation follows the trend that elected our current president and disregards previous political experience as a prerequisite to office, Oprah has everything she needs to win: a dedicated following, skill in public speaking, resolve to push through the lengthy presidential race and certainly enough money to fund a presidential campaign.

Oprah’s following comes from her thoughtful dialogue with guests on her show, where she demonstrates an almost superhuman ability to understand and connect with people all across the spectrum of the human race—whether they are celebrities or ordinary Americans. Oprah’s Angel Network, which began in 1998 and is now under the umbrella of the Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation, has given out numerous education scholarships and helped Hurricane Katrina victims. Winfrey has personally given over $10 million to help provide students of color with access to a better education in both secondary and post-secondary schooling.

She also donated $12 million to the newest Smithsonian museum, the National of African American History and Culture, and gave $1 million to support communities in Africa.

Clearly, Oprah doesn’t need to be president to enact change where she sees fit and to unite people despite their differences, which should be top priorities for any leader.

While Americans expect the officials who represent them to share their views and take a stand on policies and issues accordingly,

celebrities are not held to the same standard.

For the most part, people like Oprah are free to speak out in support of popular movements like “Time’s Up,” but if they hold an unpopular opinion on a different issue, they don’t face pressure to change their minds for the people who depend on them or speak out about it. Constituents do not necessarily expect them to hold a certain opinion. People follow celebrities because they already like something they stand for or the career they have pursued, but celebrities aren’t necessarily in danger of losing their career if they don’t support policies that will improve the lives of certain constituents.

has also been a familiar face for Americans throughout the past 30 years. After her famous talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show ended in 2011, she started a new Oprah Winfrey TV Network (OWN). Every time I’m waiting in line at the grocery store, even if I happen to miss her self-titled O Magazine, which always has her on the cover, I see her face on or in another magazine. Americans crave a stable and thoughtful leader right now. Since Oprah has been in the public eye for so long with so few scandals, she is the stable presence that Americans are seeking.

However, I still believe that a president first and foremost should have experience in

I have faith that Oprah and the other powerful women in the media we have grown to admire will still work toward achieving positive impact—even if they are not doing it from the Oval Office.

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Celebrities can and have lost support or garnered criticism from fans if an issue arises within their sphere of influence that they don’t address, like the recent tide of #SheKnew posters and tweets calling out Meryl Streep for allegedly knowing about Harvey Weinstein’s treatment of women and remained silent.

Celebrities can find themselves hard-pressed to avoid speaking out on issues that threaten to damage their reputation, but their career first and foremost remains entertainment.

However, they rise to the level of a “public figure” with more of an implied obligation to be at the forefront of social change once they have already become well-established in their entertainment careers.

The sudden push for Oprah’s candidacy is understandable given that her Golden Globes speech—which was under 10 minutes— seemed to unite more Americans under a single purpose than our current president has been able to do in almost a year in office. She

change, and the politicians who listen and enact policy accordingly. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 wasn’t what made people of all races equal; it was the gradual social change that the people demanded. This sentiment and action began before the act and persisted long after.

There are plenty of great people who have led within their respective spheres of influence without being formally elected into a position of power. In fact, those who lead without being in office demonstrate that they did not need the approval of, or mandate from, constituents to enact the changes for which they recognized a need. They pursued their ambitions first and welcomed approval afterward, if that approval arose.

Politicians and other public figures fulfill different roles in society, and the American people need all of these parties to bring about the change we seek. Celebrities and public figures help to popularize the change, and are part of the movement as it is happens. Politicians make laws that reflect the social change once they already see it transpiring among their constituents, and while I wish it didn’t seem like citizens have to march and protest to see the changes they seek reflected in policy, this seems to be becoming the norm in America.

My favorite part of Oprah’s speech last Sunday was her statement, “Speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have.”

Oprah spoke her truth as she brought audience members and viewers to tears during her Golden Globes speech. And if she does decide to run for president, I believe she would find a strong backing not only among black Americans, but also from loyal followers who watched her TV show for years and still keep up with her. I have faith that Oprah and the other powerful women in the media we have grown to admire will still work toward achieving positive impact—even if they are not doing it from the Oval Office.

politics. Today’s political climate is not one in which a president has the luxury of taking time to learn the ropes or to bounce back after a few mistakes. We need someone who is seasoned enough at working under pressure to make the right decisions with confidence and humility.

We need someone whose experience in public relations is not primarily with fans but with potentially polarizing leaders as well. We need someone who isn’t looking for fans who blindly follow them, but one who expects to earn the loyalty of their citizens through their actions. Americans deserve someone who has a knowledge of economics and law in addition to an ability to deliver a great speech.

Serving as the president of the United States is not the only way to unite and lead, which is why we do not need Oprah as president for her to be instrumental in engendering the social change we want to see. I believe movements like Victoria Priester is a Trinity first-year. Her “Me Too” are growing regardless of the president column, “on the run from mediocrity,” runs on because it is the people who bring about social alternate Fridays.

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BONOBOS FROM PAGE 1 study because of their close relations to the human species, Hare explained. They are also known for being less aggressive than chimpanzees and for often lacking an alpha male in their communities.

“Given all we’ve seen, if you were going to put your money on who would be more like humans, you would put your money on bonobos,” he said.

In the study, Hare and Krupenye showed 24 bonobos videos of an animated character trying to climb a hill. In one version, another cartoon character helped the first reach the top, while in a second version, a different unhelpful character pushed the first down the hill.

They also had bonobos watch a skit in which a person dropped a stuffed animal. Another individual then tried to give the animal back to its owner, but a third person stole it away. Then the researchers had the bonobos choose whether to take a piece of apple from the helpful person or the thieving one.

In both cases, the bonobos could determine which individual was helpful and which was unhelpful, but they chose the unhelpful one. In fact, they liked the unhelpful people even more once the hinderers began their bad behavior.

Researchers also showed the bonobos another video in which one cartoon character hogged a desired spot from another. The bonobos preferred the characters who were dominant over the ones who gave up their spot.

Krupenye explained that the researchers think the bonobos’ choices were primarily driven by an attraction to dominant individuals.

“In many cases, it may be more important for an ally to be strong than ‘nice.’ Bonobos also may not see ‘niceness’ or helpfulness as stable character traits,” he wrote. “In any case, we think they saw the hinderers as dominant since the hinderers won out over other characters in all of our social displays.”

Associating with dominant individuals may allow bonobos to get better access to food or mates and avoid being bullied.

Hare noted that although the results were surprising, the study doesn’t refute previous research on bonobos.

Instead, it shows that the animals are still in competition with each other and prefer competitive individuals, even

In many cases, it may be more important for an ally to be strong than ‘nice.’ Bonobos also may not see ‘niceness’ or helpfulness as stable character traits.

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Following the video, the scientists placed pieces of an apple underneath cutouts of the helpful character as well as the unhelpful character and watched to see which the bonobos reached for first.

if they aren’t aggressive.

“We learned something new, and if we knew everything, we wouldn’t have to do the research,” he said. “I would rather know what bonobos are really like, not keep maintaining my

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The bonobos in the study preferred to take apple pieces from cutouts of unhelpful characters rather than helpful characters.

incorrect idea about how they think.”

Studying bonobos is significant because they provide a window into human evolutionary history, Krupenye noted.

Scientists can use bonobo research to determine which traits were likely already present six million years ago in humans’ last common ancestor, as well as which traits evolved uniquely in the human lineage.

The study could also be used to inform future research on why human infants prefer more helpful individuals and how reputation affects this, Hare added.

“I think this all ties into how we monitor one another and how we maintain cooperation because of it, that’s really interesting,” he said.

Moving forward, the researchers hope to test chimpanzees to see if a preference for helpers is really unique to humans among the apes.

Hare said that he would like to test whether the results are the same when the bonobos watch videos of other bonobos, instead of animated characters or humans.

“We’d also like to see how these social preferences vary across contexts and what other kinds of social information might guide apes’ preferences,” Krupenye wrote.

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