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Junior Riyanka Ganguly was chosen as Duke Student Government’s next president Wednesday. Ganguly is currently the vice president for equity and outreach, and has worked to create projects such as the Peer Advocacy for Sexual Health Center as well as free menstrual projects in the Bryan Center. She has also worked with Mi Gente, the University’s Latinx student group, to make the admissions and financial aid policies for undocumented immigrants more transparent. Ganguly won with 53.5 percent of the 1,948 votes cast. Sophomore Jackson Dellinger came in second with 28.1 percent of votes, followed by sophomore Will Hardee, who received 18.4 percent. No instant runoff was necessary based on these results. In a prior interview with The Chronicle, Ganguly compared her role to that of an activist, and said she was looking to advocate for marginalized communities as DSG president. “We are heading towards a time nationally where a lot of students are, in my opinion, very rightfully fearful, for what is about to come in the next four years, or really the next year as a crucial year of change,” Ganguly said. “And already we’re seeing so many things that do affect people outside of the private institution walls of Duke.” Sophomore Kushal Kadakia, currently chief of staff, was also elected as the new executive vice president. He ran unopposed during the election. About 80 percent of

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On Tuesday, there was a lawsuit alleging that the current election system— requiring voters to rank all candidates—was unconstitutional. The DSG Judiciary agreed, but the current procedure remained in place for this election. For a period Tuesday, 56 sophomores were unable to vote, but that issue was resolved by 5:30 p.m.

State officials have strongly criticized the University’s safety procedures after what they deem the mishandling of uranium in Duke’s Free Electron Laser Laboratory. According to a final incident report from March 3, a Uranium-235 source was compromised Feb. 11 after a researcher bent “the corners of the source to fit in a target holder.” Jim Jones from the Office of Communications for N.C. Department of Health and Human Services wrote to The Chronicle that the capsule was a postage stamp-sized wafer containing 1.5 grams of Uranium 235. The report goes on to say that potential contamination was discussed between researchers, but that the concern was dismissed and University reporting procedures were not followed. It continues by stating that no contamination surveys occurred at the source of the incident—

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Special to The Chronicle 53.5 percent of students voted for Ganguly, the current vice president for equity and outreach.

voters voted for Kadakia, with about 20 percent voting “no confidence.” Last year, 2,416 students voted compared to this year’s 1,948. Current President Tara Bansal received 51 percent of the votes. In a Facebook Live video Monday, DSG Attorney General Sabriyya Pate, a sophomore, said that improving voter turnout was an “active struggle.” But she said she hoped efforts to consolidate candidate platforms on the DSG website would be a positive step forward.

Big 3 rises: Top 3 scorers guide Duke past Louisville Amrith Ramkumar The Chronicle

Ian Jaffe | The Chronicle Sophomore Luke Kennard scored 18 of his 24 points after halftime as the Blue Devils overcame a 12-point deficit to notch their third top-15 win of the season.

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NEW YORK—After Louisville started the second half by making seven of its first nine shots and continuing to drive the ball down Duke’s throat to go up 12, it looked like the Blue Devils were not up to match the Cardinals’ intensity for the second time this year. But Duke showed how much it has grown since early January, ripping off a 16-3 run spurred by a switch to a zone defense to take the lead right back and give itself a chance to upend Louisville down the stretch. With Grayson Allen, Luke Kennard and Jayson Tatum at their best once again, the Blue Devils did just that and completed their biggest second-half comeback of the season. Duke’s leading trio combined for 67 points to lead the fifth-seeded Blue Devils to an 8177 win against the fourth-seeded Cardinals Thursday afternoon at the Barclays Center in the ACC tournament quarterfinals. Kennard

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scored 10 points in a row to help Duke erase a nine-point deficit early in the second half, before Tatum’s corner 3-pointer put the team up five with 2:24 remaining. Although No. 10 Louisville cut the lead to one after Tatum—who fouled out with 25 points—threw it away with 24 seconds left and the Blue Devils up three, two Kennard free throws and a missed Quentin Snider jumper sealed the win. The victory saw freshman big men Harry Giles and Marques Bolden play meaningful secondhalf minutes and Duke play arguably its best brand of basketball since its home victory against North Carolina Feb. 9. The Blue Devils and Tar Heels will do battle again in Friday’s first semifinal at 7 p.m. “Today was just joy,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I had so much fun coaching our team today. I felt like a little kid, man…. They gave everything.” After the Cardinals (24-8) started the second half on fire by taking advantage of See M. BASKETBALL on Page 8

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Durham charter school ordered to close for improper diplomas Bre Bradham The Chronicle Kestrel Heights, a Durham charter school, must close its high school at the end of the school year, the State Board of Education decided—but the school is appealing the order. The Board of Education’s ruling came after an internal investigation found that Kestrel Heights has awarded approximately 160 diplomas during the past eight years to students who had not completed the state’s graduation requirements. Kestrel Heights’ charter will only be renewed if it drops grades nine through 12, but it is still allowed to operate a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade school and may apply to reopen its high school in three years. However, the Kestrel Heights Board of Directors voted Tuesday night to appeal the decision. “I’d like to think that as a board we are fully committed to our families, and to our students and to the success of our school,” said Brandon Paris, president of the Kestrel Heights Board of Directors. “So at the end of the day, the question of whether or not we were going to appeal was not really a question.” The school was informed of the state board’s decision in a letter March 2, which told them that they had until March 10 to comply with the decision or until March 13 to file an appeal. At its Tuesday meeting, the school’s board— which is made up of current and former Kestrel Heights parents—also voted to hire a new attorney to aid in the appeals process. “To be honest, this is not a space that we have been in as a school, so we are learning as we go as well,” Paris said. “We have the opportunity to file our appeal, and we are

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doing that, and yet there are requirements that the state mandates for a school that has been identified to close and we are following those as well.” If the state board’s decision stands, Kestrel Heights High School will be shut down June 30. Kestrel Heights, which opened in 1998, was previously in line to receive a 10-year charter, according to the News and Observer. However, in January the state’s Charter Schools Advisory Board recommended the high school shut down after finding that since 2008, about 40 percent of the school’s

nearly 400 graduates did not receive the proper credits to graduate. The problem was first discovered last summer when April Goff, the middle school principal, stepped in to oversee the high school. While working on class schedules for the rising seniors, she identified some concerns about students’ ability to graduate, said Mark Tracy, executive director of Kestrel Heights. “We did a sampling of the class of 2016 and identified six out of 20 of those transcripts had some type of issue,” he said. The school reported the issue in October, and in January the Charter School Advisory

Board subsequently recommended closing the high school. Since discovering the error, the school has been in contact with affected students—an attempt at remedying the problem that Tracy says is “going very well.” North Carolina is home to more than 150 charter schools—15 of which are in Durham County—and Kestrel is hardly the only charter school in Durham to have issues in recent years. From 1997 to 2015, five local charter schools relinquished their charters, and one had it revoked for a variety of reasons from low enrollment to financial issues. In total, 56 North Carolina charter schools voluntarily relinquished or had their charter revoked during that span. Tracy explained that the issue is not that charter schools are less accountable, but rather that they are held to a higher standard than public schools. “The reality is, as one of the members of the State Board of Education alluded to, if this happened in a public school setting, that school would not have been closed,” he said. “This doesn’t take away from the level of accountability on our end of what occurred, but the reality is that charter schools are held at a higher level of accountability than public schools.” Going forward, the school will have until Monday to file its official request for an appeal of the state board’s decision. If the appeal is not successful, Kestrel’s current high school students will have to find another school for next year. “From the comments I’ve heard, parents are upset. They’re disappointed,” Paris said. “Children are disappointed, and I think the reactions are all natural given the gravity of what’s happened to the school.”

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Students strive to map ocean DSG’s Shooters initiative floor with underwater robot aims to reduce sexual assault Evi Alexopoulos

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Duke students and researchers are constructing robots to investigate the deepest depths of the ocean. A team of 50 students will be competing to map the ocean floor with an autonomous robot that can move across the floor and trace chemical signals, all while submerged 4,000 feet below the surface. The group is led by Douglas Nowacek, associate professor of conservation technology in the Nicholas School of the Environment, along with Martin Brooke, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Tyler Bletsch, assistant professor of electrical and computer Special to The Chronicle engineering. The robot is capable of tracing chemical The competition, called the Shell Ocean signals on the ocean floor. Discovery XPRIZE, is sponsored by the oil and gas company Shell and the National Oceanic robot proves best at tracing a chemical signal and Atmospheric Administration, with $7 to its hidden position on the ocean floor. million dollars up for grabs. Duke’s team— Brooke noted that his team is passionate called Blue Devils Ocean Engineering—was about its work and the connections between one of 21 research teams from around the marine science and mechanical engineering. world selected to compete earlier this year. “We just want to compete,” he said, “What we’re developing are technologies “and we hope that we have created 50 that work in the world’s toughest environments,” or 60 students who are enthused and said senior Henry Quach, who has participated encouraged to work in the cross-section of in this research for two years. the environment and science.” The team includes graduate and The students have already spent three undergraduate students from both the Nicholas semesters working on the robot, which School and the Pratt School of Engineering. consists of deep-diving sonar imaging pods The competition’s winner will be awarded and a heavy-lifting drone. It depends on $4 million, second place is worth $1 million and sonar signals to measure the surrounding the ten teams that make it to the final round ocean depth and map the intricacies of the of the competition will split another $1 million. A $1 million bonus is given to the team whose See ROBOT on Page 8

assault, Haas said. A recent University survey found that 40 percent of undergraduate women report being sexually assaulted after enrolling at Duke. Haas noted that encounters leading to sexual assault often begin at Shooters and that security personnel at the nightclub are more concerned with liability issues than students’ well-being. Haas also said assaults may occur after students leave Shooters to return to their dorms. “We’ve also gotten a lot of feedback from students that when people go out to Shooters and get separated from their friends, they’re more likely to go home with a guy or a girl

Saturday nights at Shooters may become safer with a new initiative from Duke Student Government. The intervention, called the Duke University Safe Keepers, aims to help prevent sexual assaults that may result from encounters at Shooters II Saloon. The initiative would consist of four teams of two students—one male-identifying and one female-identifying. The teams would be stationed outside of Shooters and on the corner of East Campus on Saturday nights, every night of Orientation Week and other days of expected high traffic, See SHOOTERS on Page 8 such as after basketball games between Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “These groups will basically be a resource to students. They’ll be there if people need help finding friends, they’ll be handing out waters, they’ll be helping people get home,” said senior Tristan Haas, senator for social culture, who introduced the program at last week’s DSG Senate meeting. During the meeting, some senators questioned how volunteers would be held accountable. Haas noted that participants may be asked to fill out reports after their shifts, detailing their interactions and concerns. The initiative is also planning to request funding from DSG to cover jackets for volunteers and water bottles to distribute at the venue. The idea for the program came from Chronicle File Photo discussions with Larry Moneta, vice president The Duke University Safe Keepers intend of student affairs, who wanted to increase to have volunteers outside Shooters to help prevention—not just awareness—of sexual students get home safely.

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NEW YORK—With the Blue Devils running on fumes to start the second half of their second game in as many days, not even strong defenders Matt Jones and Frank Jackson could match up with Louisville’s quick guards one-on-one. Head coach Mike Krzyzewski looked down his bench with his team trailing 61-49 and decided the answer was not Amile Jefferson, Duke’s defensive anchor in the frontcourt who sat out most of the second half due to fatigue. Instead, he looked to freshman Marques Bolden, who had not played up to that point but entered the game and brought a switch to a 2-3 zone with him. Bolden recorded no stats aside from one foul in four minutes, but his presence in the middle of the zone immediately cut off the Cardinals’ easy looks at the rim and set the tone for a comeback in the Blue Devils’ 81-77 win. Duke had not used a zone much this season, but the tactical adjustment helped conceal its fatigue. “They attacked us so much in the start of the second half, we were on the bottom of a hill covered with snow catching a sled,” Krzyzewski said. “We just had to do something to stop momentum.” Freshman forward Harry Giles also played 15 minutes—his most action in four games— and helped bolster his team’s defense with two steals and a block. By the time Jefferson returned to the floor with 6:18 left after more than a 10-minute rest, the Blue Devils’ two freshmen big men had helped trim the

Ian Jaffe | The Chronicle After the Blue Devils switched to their zone defense, Louisville’s aggressiveness attacking the basket seemed to disappear. The Cardinals went just 4-of-21 from 3-point range.

deficit to two. With star players Jayson Tatum and Luke Kennard each playing at least 38 minutes for the fifth time in six games, the contributions off the bench seemed to give the Duke defense life even if Giles and Bolden did not generate much offensive. “They gave us a lift, an amazing verve off the bench,” Jefferson said. “Our guys really showed today that we have eight guys strong that can really make an impact on the game.” After Louisville started the second half 9-of-14 from the field and scored on 10 of its first 12 possessions, it missed 10 of its last 14 shots. The zone gave the Blue Devils help under the basket and forced the Cardinals to

dish passes out to the perimeter, where they could not capitalize, shooting just 3-of-13 from the outside in the second half. First-team All-ACC guard Donovan Mitchell had one of his worst games of the season, scoring just eight points on 3-of-14 shooting. The dynamic scorer—who shoots 37.1 percent from deep on the year— had several open looks that could have stretched the zone, but was off the mark from the perimeter. “We had an awareness on him,” Jones said. “He’s a really good player, and we just tried to limit his mobility in the offense.” Krzyzewski’s team used the same formula to beat the Cardinals two years ago, holding

Louisville to 4-of-25 shooting from deep in a game that wound up being the turning point in the 2015 team’s run to the national championship. But Duke went to the zone from the outset that afternoon as a big part of its gameplan. The move was more spontaneous Thursday, part of a season full of on-the-fly adjustments. Jones, who made the All-ACC defensive team this year, said after the game he could not remember the last time the Blue Devils practiced a zone. “That’s just where Coach saw the game going. Coach has been in that situation before. We had to switch it up because we were giving them too many layups,” Jones said. “[Man-to-man] was what we were built off of, but obviously in moments, it works, and today it worked for us.” The zone and the Cardinals’ shot-happy tendencies down the stretch also helped create more offense for Duke. Louisville’s misses from deep created a lot of long rebounds, and many of them went to sophomore guard Luke Kennard, who notched his first double-double of the season. “The key in the second half was the defensive rebounding from our perimeter, which led to us fast-breaking,” Krzyzewski said. “They were fast-breaking, and now we were fast-breaking.” The Blue Devils tied the game at 64 when Kennard grabbed a rebound off a missed 3-pointer by Quentin Snider, took it down the floor himself and pulled up for a triple. After the Cardinals recovered and opened up a four-point lead again, Kennard did the See ZONE DEFENSE on Page 8

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Ian Jaffe | The Chronicle Grayson Allen had his best game in a month, sparking the Blue Devils’ 16-3 run that gave them the lead back with 8:06 remaining before finishing with 18 points.

NEW YORK—Following the Blue Devils’ thrilling 81-77 win against Louisville, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s opening statement effectively summarized what a capacity crowd at the Barclays Center had been treated to Thursday afternoon. “So that was a quarterfinal game. Holy mackerel,” Krzyzewski said. “We’re so pleased and proud of the win because we beat a heck of a team and a team that could win it all.” To advance to the ACC championship game for the first time since 2014, the Blue Devils will have to accomplish the same feat barely 24 hours after their Thursday triumph against a team that is playing as well as anyone in the country. The opponent on the other side of the court will also be wearing a very familiar shade of blue.

Fifth-seeded Duke will take on top-seeded North Carolina for the second time in the past week Friday at 7 p.m. in the first ACC tournament semifinal. Although the Blue Devils will be playing their third game in three days and had to dig deep to eliminate the Cardinals immediately after the Tar Heels opened the postseason by trouncing Miami, Duke played arguably its best game of the season against Louisville. In addition to getting second-half defensive contributions from freshmen big men Harry Giles and Marques Bolden, the Blue Devils finally got Grayson Allen back on track. Duke has repeatedly said it is trying to mold its identity in real-time this season, and the quarterfinal victory reiterated that Allen playing well can take the team to another level. But even with Allen’s 14 points against North Carolina last Saturday—granted, the junior was not nearly as effective driving to the hoop as he See NORTH CAROLINA on Page 5

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was against the Cardinals—the Tar Heels made the biggest plays late in a 90-83 win to end the regular season. If Allen can deliver another strong offensive game in the semifinal tilt, the fatigued Blue Devils will still have to find a way to slow down the Tar Heels’ high-powered offense to win the season series. “Our identity has to be formed around defense. Everyone in the country knows that we can score,” graduate student Amile Jefferson said. “When we play defense and find a way to get stops, we win ballgames.” Against Louisville, an unlikely switch to zone defense let Duke get the stops it needed to earn a third top-15 win. The Blue Devils (25-8) might try to employ similar tactics and prioritize defending the paint against a bigger Tar Heel team that uses a four-player frontcourt to pummel teams inside and leads the nation in rebounding margin. But if Duke elects to prevent Isaiah Hicks and company from getting touches in the paint, it will still need to keep track of Tar Heel stars Joel Berry II and Justin Jackson on the perimeter. Berry lit the Blue Devils up with five first-half 3-pointers in the regular-season finale, and the ACC Player of the Year Jackson has the versatility to pour in points for North Carolina (27-6) regardless of a team’s defensive strategy. “It’s not like we played a great zone, but it changed the tempo,” Krzyzewski said. “And then we went back to man because we didn’t want to give up an open [3-pointer on the last possession].... That was the possession of the game defensively.” Duke will likely need similar efforts against North Carolina—the same type of performance that earned the Blue Devils an 8678 win Feb. 9. Freshman Jayson Tatum was the star of the second half of that contest with 19

points in the period to support Allen and the team’s lleading scorer Luke Kennard, and the rookie was tough to stop again Thursday with a vintage performance. After getting shut down in Duke’s January loss at Louisville, Tatum had 25 points on 9-of15 shooting, exploiting bigger defenders in a way he will need to Friday for the Blue Devils to avoid losing the season series to its rival for the first time since 2009. The St. Louis native went just 4-of-13 against the Tar Heels Saturday and will look for a second straight bounce-back performance. He could be joined in the frontcourt for long stretches by his friend and classmate Giles, who scored on his first low-post touch Thursday, threw down a transition dunk off an assist from Tatum and added three rebounds, one block and one steal to spell Jefferson. “I think he’s worn out,” Krzyzewski said of his co-captain. “He had to play the two big guys from Clemson, and Harry was playing so well that I just felt that one, if he’s playing well, we’ve got a better chance to win. But, two, going forward, to get him time in a game like that was really valuable. And it turned out it was more than just getting him time. He produced.” The question for Giles and his teammates is whether they can put together two complete performances in back-to-back contests, something they have failed to do since December. If Duke cannot, it will likely have to watch North Carolina celebrate a third straight berth in the ACC tournament championship game. But Allen looking energized had the Blue Devils flashing their potential on a big stage again, giving Krzyzewski and his players confidence that they have the weapons to shoot down the Tar Heels. “He was himself today,” Krzyzewski said of Allen’s 18-point effort. “What he did was sensational. I loved it.”

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A day in the life Duke always garners attention in the media because our student body fascinates the nation. The wealth, the power and the selectivity Duke represents are the makings of any good click-bait title, so I will be giving the world a sneak peak into the secret and mysterious lives of Duke students. Just like your average undergraduate here, I am a white, aggressively heterosexual male. I like the simple things in life: beer, income inequality and disrespecting sorority sisters. My father is an investment banker and my mother is a corporate litigator, so, in order to uphold the family tradition of making life harder for poor people, I am pursuing a degree in economics. My morning routine is fairly simple. I wake up, bathe in Axe and put on my Patagonia, even though it stills smells like Shooters from the night before. Next, I brush my teeth with the Bud Light next to my bed and admire the completely unironic Reagan/Bush ‘84 sticker on my wall. Once I decide between joggers or khakis, I walk out of DSig section and call myself an UberSelect to pick me up for my class since I am already 20 minutes late. Around midday, I get lunch with my fraternity brothers at JB’s in West Union. In between giving

my unsolicited opinions about the appearances of female students and making “triggered” jokes, I find time to discuss why reverse racism is real. Once we have finished our meals and left a mess for the dining staff to clean up, we hop on our mopeds (provided by the Duke Lacrosse Endowment) and mow down some first years on our way to Wilson. I then lift dead weights for 40 minutes while making extended eye contact with myself in the mirror. Grabbing a Quenchers protein shake on my way

Editorial out the door, I head to my political science lecture where I will say that I am playing Devil’s advocate every time I state my actual opinions. The early afternoon is usually dedicated entirely to playing golf with my Harvard Business School interviewer, who also happens to be my dad’s college friend. By the time 6 p.m. rolls around, I go to the Commons and order the 16 ounce dry-aged, wood fired porterhouse. I send some pledges a text to go pick me up protein powder at Harris

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Teeter and call my dad to ask if he has secured a summer internship for me at Morgan Stanley yet. While I am waiting for my meal to arrive, I post something vaguely offensive to the Duke meme page and then text the pledges to react to it with the laughing emoji. After eating, I head back to section, making sure to admire Tallman Trask’s Porsche on the way. That night, after throwing an apple at a Duke Golf teammate and breaking a club, I watch an episode of Suits on Netflix and feel inspired by Mike. Next, I hang out with my bros and shotgun a few beers. We high five and are able to momentarily forget how deeply lonely we truly are. After my emotions have been suppressed once again by alcohol, I am ready to skim over the econometrics section of my fraternity’s Econ 208 study guide. After a few minutes, I decide to STINF tomorrow and grab some nuggets from McDonalds (got to get those #gains) before heading to bed. As my head hits the pillow, I pledge allegiance to capitalism, blind Nationalism and, of course, Duke basketball. In case you couldn’t tell, today’s editorial was a joke (except for the part about the apple; that really happened)!

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hen you think about the phrase “medical research” the image that probably enters your mind is a white-coated scientist, carefully pipetting chemicals, culturing cells or observing something under a microscope. For centuries, research in the basic sciences— chemistry, physics and biology—produced medicine’s most substantive advances. However, a shifting landscape of disease suggests that medicine will have to adopt discoveries from a broader array of disciplines, such as psychology and economics, if it is to effectively address the challenges of the future. Translational research is the process of transitioning discoveries from “bench to bedside”—leveraging fundamental scientific discoveries into applicable treatments for patients. Take for example the development of cancer therapies. A fundamental understanding of cell division led to the discovery of agents that halt that process. These agents were then developed into medications that target rapidly dividing cancer cells. Similarly, research about human behavior and decision-making can be leveraged to create interventions to treat diseases driven by choices. In industrialized nations, the landscape of disease is rapidly shifting. Due to medical advances in the treatment of infectious disease and traumatic injury, American mortality

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the assumption that humans behave as fully informed and rational actors and instead understands decision-making as a process with predictable biases. For example, psychological and economic studies have shown that humans overvalue immediate rewards and undervalue delayed rewards. In health terms, this means that the immediate joy of a donut is overvalued against the amorphous increased risk of cardiovascular disease in the future. Similarly, the hassle of taking a medication every day may seem more onerous than the potential progression of future disease. Since these biases are predictable, interventions can be be designed to anticipate and counteract the bias, or use bias to predispose us to healthy, rather than unhealthy behavior. Investigators at the University of Pennsylvania used findings from behavioral economics to create an intervention to increase adherence to warfarin, an anticoagulant that must be taken consistently to be effective. In the study, a machine recorded each time a dose of the medication was taken and gave the patient with an entry in a lottery with small prizes. The incentive increased adherence to medication, better than a simple reminder message. Given the fact that discontinuation of warfarin has major health risks, and patients who discontinue warfarin typically incur an additional $5,000 in annual healthcare expenditures, this

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is increasingly driven by chronic, and often preventable, disease. In 1900, 23.1 percent of all deaths were attributed to pneumonia, influenza and tuberculosis and just 3.7 percent of deaths were attributed to cancer. However, in 2005, influenza and pneumonia accounted for just 2.6 percent of deaths while cancer contributed 22.8 percent. The discoveries of chemists, biologists and physicists have radically improved the survival of cancer patients. However, research from the behavioral sciences can help craft interventions that lower the risk of developing the disease at all. Inducing behavioral change could have a major effect on health outcomes. In 2010, it was estimated that 42.7 percent of the cancers in Britain could be attributed to lifestyle factors, such as obesity, smoking and exercise. Psychological studies shed light on the most effective ways to elicit a lifestyle change. For example, motivational interviewing is a technique used to prompt and support patients in making change. This technique seeks to address ambivalence to change by eliciting patient’s own motivation. Using this approach to prompt behavioral change—rather than confronting or persuading patients—results in statistically significant improvements in health. Studies have shown that motivational interviewing results in increased weight loss and exercise, decreased viral load among HIV positive patients, and lower blood pressure and cholesterol values. Another non-traditional discipline that is particularly suited to crafting health interventions is behavioral economics, which combines the fundamentals of economic theory with insights from psychology. Behavioral economics challenges

intervention could have significant clinical implications. Information from psychology about human decision making—and human error—can also be used to help physicians and surgeons provide better care for patients. Industries such as aviation, manufacturing, and nuclear power, have long incorporated research about human error into their systems design. Their systems anticipate and respond to human mistakes, allowing for correction before an error becomes critical. These systems leave nothing to chance or fallible human memory. While medicine has been slower to adopt this mentality, reports suggesting as many as 98,000 die annually as the result of medical errors have spurred action. Simple, evidence-based interventions that anticipate human error can have a major impact— implementing a infection prevention checklist dropped rate of infections in Michigan ICUs by 66 percent. While translational research has traditionally focused on the hard sciences, human behavior is an increasingly important factor driving morbidity and mortality. In order to address these important challenges, we must widen the focus of translational research to include research that specifically addresses decisionmaking and behavior. Interventions based on this research can help elicit behavioral change in patients and help protect patients from the inevitable fallibility of medical providers. Just as fundamental discoveries in the hard sciences lead to life saving advances, so too can the discoveries of behavioral sciences. Lauren Groskaufmanis is a graduate student in the school of medicine. Her column, “the picture of health,” runs on alternate Fridays.

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Dim sum-body say, Intellectual ‘Tradition?’ engagement at Duke

ince 2010, I have taken an annual photograph with a dim sum waiter. His name is Peter Chung and, over the years, we have created a rather strange, but nonetheless timeless tradition of picture-taking. As the folklore of my own personal narrative has it, I first met Peter on an auspicious Sunday morning in the eighth grade. My family, joined by our good friends, the Wong family, embarked on an afternoon pilgrimage down to the mecca of South Floridian Chinese cuisine: Tropical Chinese. After emerging from our respective minivans, each family sauntered inside for what would be the first of many dim sum gatherings. For those poor souls in the general readership of this column unfamiliar with this culinary art form, allow me to explain. Dim sum, essentially, is the Chinese equivalent of afternoon brunch. Consumed

excellent Facebook profile picture and created lasting memories and beautiful, random connections. Additionally, it gave me something to look forward to every year—something weird--that made suburban life exciting for a change. While the definitional repetitive nature of traditions could potentially wear on and tire, I found myself energized each go-around, excited by the opportunity to reengage with the same people and further our relationships around an occurrence that had provided so much joy time and time again. According to the artofmanliness. com,“Traditions are behaviors and actions that you engage in again and again at the same time and/or in the same way. Traditions can be big or small, but they differ from routines and habits in that they are done with a specific purpose in mind and require thought and intentionality.”In fact, a tradition is really any activity purposefully

his year, Duke Student Government (DSG) began the Student Leader Steering Committee, in the hopes of harmonizing student priorities with administrator work streams to improve the undergraduate experience. Our monthly meetings have convened students from different pockets of campus for a conversation with a senior university leader around a bigpicture issue facing Duke—from construction, to classrooms, to curriculum. These discussions have been open forums for student concerns and incubators for ideas of how to change our university for the better—from giving students the opportunity to design Duke’s next dorm to responding to undergraduate feedback about how to improve the dining experience. Our meeting for this month fell right before the midway point of the semester—a time of seemingly life-defining decisions— what major to declare, what housing to select, whether to go abroad or not. The Duke

to connecting upperclassmen dorms with faculty sponsors (similar to the LLC) for regular programming, to starting a faculty table at Marketplace to engage students in casual conversation. It’s our hope that greater investment in personal relationships will strengthen student support networks on campus. Second, we should institutionalize academic programming at Duke. There’s an overabundance of speakers and seminars, but most events are niche and lack a common thread. We believe that consolidating resources and investing in programs that take place in under-utilized public spaces (the BC Landing, Penn Pavilion) offer an opportunity for larger gatherings of the Duke community. Creating consistent programming such as a “Common Hour” once a week, where students can convene on campus in a central location for a public event—whether it’s a slam poetry competition, or a debate between

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late on lazy weekend mornings, dim sum is a time for friends and family to congregate and collectively stimulate their hedonistic urges with towers of steamed baskets filled to the brim with bite size delicacies. While there is a huge selection to choose from, dim sum essentials include barbecue pork buns, small meat-filled dumplings and sticky rice and sausage wrapped in lotus leaves. During our meal that day, I believe I finally attained dietary enlightenment. Unlike Siddhartha, whose course towards spiritual freedom followed an eight-fold path, my path followed an eight-course meal. It was at this moment, in a state of ultimate satisfaction and ephemeral bliss, that my friend Christian pointed out to me an anomaly in our general vicinity. About 15 feet away, in between the kitchen and two other tables stood Peter, a tranquil beacon of serenity amidst the hustle and bustle of his fellow employees, aimlessly walking about without a care in the world. A striped apron around his waist and a wide smile across his face, Peter just looked to us like the nicest guy in the world. “Take a picture with him,” Christian urged. An obnoxious thirteen-year-old with a tendency for tomfoolery, I immediately approached and asked my soon-to-be associate if he wouldn’t mind having our photo taken. Slightly confused, he obliged. Christian snapped the picture, I thanked Peter, and we went our separate ways. The next year, it was all very much the same. We sat down, ate our meal, conversed, laughed and then, we spotted Peter. Unfolding my prized memento from the year prior, I advanced towards the unsuspecting waiter and made the same request. Still confused, he agreed. This time proudly holding the previous year’s print, we captured another snapshot. Thus, it began. Year after year, this tradition continued like a recursive algorithm, each iteration embedding the past further and further within the most up to date version of our classic pose. And while Peter surely is still befuddled to this day as to why a strange, hormonal Jewish child would want to take an annual photograph with him, I do believe I have grown on him over time. One year, he even introduced me to his wife. This tradition was one of the defining escapades of my childhood. It solidified my friendship with Christian, gave me an

repeated that includes heightened attentiveness and something extra that lifts a person above the ordinary ruts of their daily routine. Traditions, when done right, lend a certain magic, spirit and texture to our everyday lives. I think we need to create more of our own traditions. In life, yes, but especially as undergraduates. When we arrived at Duke, we quickly learned to adopt tradition by engaging in O-Week programming events. Soon after, we discovered the tradition of Wednesday Night Shooters. Months later, again, we took to heart the proud tradition of tenting in Krzyzewskiville. Traditions are a critical piece of any culture, forming the structure, bonds and foundation of families and society. They reinforce our history, define our past and offer a window into the kind of person we are likely to become in the future. Traditions and rituals in a college atmosphere can reinforce the values we deem important. And, of course, traditions create lasting memories of our friends, our teachers and our alma mater. However, there is room enough in our mass anthology of collegiate ritual to leave our own mark on the communities we have chosen to form. During basketball games, while it’s important to embrace chants and cheers started by Crazies past, come up with your own. Within residential spheres, commence repetitious endeavors that may provide a sense of shared collective identity. At West Union, have a conversation with a stranger once a week. In whatever community you have chosen to take a role in, whether it be a in friend group or as a member of the Duke student body, the creation of our own distinct traditions has the unique ability to connect us to those with whom we engage in them. Through forging our own collective conventions, we will surely create lasting memories, foster an inclusive community, and add to the rhythm and seasonality of life. As for me and Peter, well, Tropical Chinese closed down this past December due to 62 health violations. Traditions don’t always last forever, so it’s always a perfect time to begin a new one. Grant Besner is a Trinity Sophomore who one day aspires to operate his own alpaca farm. His column, “you said duty,” usually runs on alternate Thursdays.

experience seems to be an endless series of value choices—between classes and clubs, seminars and talks, parties and Netflix. As we fight through the never-ending season of midterms, our day-to-day decisions can feel disconnected from the sense of purpose and passion that brought us to Duke in the first place. Thus, for our March steering committee meeting, we tried to unpack what authentic learning really looks like in a conversation with student leaders and Provost Kornbluth about intellectual engagement on campus. “Exploration” is almost too easy at Duke. The university has invested heavily in flagship academic programs such as FOCUS, DukeEngage and Bass Connections which provide undergraduate students tremendous opportunities to get involved, step outside of their comfort zone and develop a global perspective. But what our committee overwhelmingly noted was how siloed those experiences were from the social culture at Duke. Academics is thought of in terms of classrooms, not communities. Engagement is viewed through the lens of coursework, not conversation. Discovery is pursued based on convention, not self-creation. These candid remarks from student leaders started a discussion about how we could work to shift campus culture—to encourage students to engage, dive deep and connect with one another over the passions that brought them to this community in the first place. Reflecting on these issues, we offer the following recommendations. First, we must rethink faculty engagement. The faculty-in-residence (FIR) program is special for its role in making faculty feel like family and helping students develop personal relationships with their professors. Yet the experience is exclusive to freshman—only a single FIR exists on West Campus. As Duke works to renovate old dorms (Crowell) and design new ones (the Hollows), we strongly advocate for creation of spaces for faculty residents and the recruitment of new FIRs as a means of building community among students and with teachers. The FIR program is valuable because it humanizes faculty. It shows students their professors in a different light; a reminder that we are all citizens on this campus. Developing programs with the same goal and function would greatly enhance the undergraduate experience— from sponsoring “faculty storytelling” to learn about professors’ personal stories,

professors and their students—could serve as a regular meeting place that breaks down the barriers between the academic and the social. Importantly, the success of such a venture requires both institutional support and student buy-in. From the administrative level, we recommend dedicating specific staff and resources focused on designing and implementing such programs, similar to the operating model of Duke’s Artstigators. From the student body, we ask that student leaders step up from all groups—from majors and unions to fraternities, from identity groups to sports teams—and encourage their peers to be comfortable enough to break free of insularity in the pursuit of solidarity by co-sponsoring events with untraditional partners. And finally, as we try to connect students with each other, we also hope to better connect students with their interests. It’s easy at Duke to follow the well-trodden path. Premeds can look forward to a 30-point email from the Health Professions Office once a week about due dates and deadlines to start checking the box of their medical school applications from day one at Duke. The Career Center makes it so easy to fit the mold of consulting and finance, with resources on resume format, cover letter writing, case prep and alumni interviews. Yet despite hearing from administrators and faculty members about the need to “explore” and “follow our passions,” the resources to do so—to pursue work with non-profits or take jobs in public service, for example—are severely limited in comparison to the mainstream opportunities. We advocate for Career Services to shift its focus from vocations to avocations, working to develop the capacity and bandwidth to facilitate opportunities beyond the norm by creating more fellowships for students to take unpaid internships and having clearer application processes for non-traditional jobs (start-ups, entrepreneurship, etc.). After all, we go to Duke—and we should not use our four years in the wonderland as incubation for a lifetime in the conventional. Of course, we recognize that changing campus culture is not easy—it can’t be written into a policy, featured in a brochure or delivered in a lecture. But the true barrier to change is ourselves. If we want to improve Duke, we have to work together from the bottom-up to bring together communities, put ideas into practice and take ownership of our Duke experience. We hope you’ll join us as we work to turn conversations into change.

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SAFETY from page 1 which took place in the Upstream Target Room at the High Intensity Gamma Source located in FELL. The Radiation Protection Section was only called Feb. 15—four days later—after another researcher reached out, the report said. Later that week, RPS was notified there had been contamination outside of the HIGS area and that other parts of FELL had been contaminated. Eventually, RPS requested a contamination survey that even encompassed the researchers’ residences or hotel rooms. A toilet seat in one researcher’s residence was found to have contamination, and the surface was then decontaminated. The incident report states several safety procedures were not followed. For example, RPS discovered that researchers consumed beverages in a radiation use area, and that proper protective gear was not used in addition to the lack of prompt reporting. As a result of the incident, the report states that Duke’s High Intensity Gamma Source operations would be shut down until March 27 while corrective actions are implemented. The lab manager was demoted and replaced by a Duke Radiation Safety Program Health Physicist. Administrators have committed to funding the DRSP and changing its training protocols, the report notes. All new researchers will have to undergo face-to-face safety and procedural training instead of the online trainings previously required. The results of additional medical tests on potentially affected personnel are still pending, the March 3 report notes. A letter from Travis Cartoksi, a health physicist in the Radioactive Materials Branch of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, condemned the University’s “negative safety culture.” The letter was sent to Terry Yoshizumi, the University’s radiation safety officer, based on a site visit and interviews conducted Feb. 15 through 17.

“In addition to the findings of noncompliance during this inspection, the [Radiation Protection Section] finds it necessary to impress upon Duke University a concern for the observed negative safety culture,” Cartoksi wrote. “This is evidenced by employees’ disregard for raised safety concerns from researchers, improper reporting to radiation safety and failure to conduct immediate leak tests and contamination surveys which might have stopped the spreading of U-235 contamination into uncontrolled areas.” Cartoksi added that Yoshizumi will be notified if Duke will face “escalated enforcement.” His letter notes that possible outcomes of an “escalated enforcement” action include increased inspection frequency and potential civil penalties. Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, noted in a statement that the University takes seriously its responsibility to safely handle radioactive material. “This is reflected in the University’s excellent safety record and well-established policies and procedures that are promoted throughout the institution,” he wrote. “Unfortunately, those established policies and procedures were not followed in this case, and the University has taken immediate action to investigate this failure and put in place corrective measures.” Duke has until March 31 to notify North Carolina of corrective actions.

SHOOTERS from page 3 because they feel uncomfortable walking through Durham alone,” Haas said. Haas explained that students would commit to serve as volunteers one Saturday every few weeks. Students interested in volunteering for the Duke University Safe Keepers are expected to complete an interest form. Haas noted that he had been speaking with the Interfraternity

Ian Jaffe | The Chronicle Although freshman Frank Jackson picked up three first-half fouls, Grayson Allen stepped up to give the Blue Devils a spark off the bench.

M. BASKETBALL from page 1 gaping driving lanes, 14th-ranked Duke went to a 2-3 zone for an extended period of time—one of the first times the Blue Devils have used the tactic this season. The adjustment took away Louisville’s aggressiveness just enough for Duke (258) to quickly get right back in the contest, with Tatum and Allen in attack mode and Kennard burying a left wing 3-pointer. “When all five guys are talking in a defensive stance and trying to get a stop together, that’s when we’re at our best,” Tatum said. “It has to be all five guys. It can’t just be two or three.” A Tatum free throw put the Blue Devils up 65-64 with 8:06 remaining, but a Deng Adel and-one and V.J. King jumper quickly

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put the Cardinals back in front. For the second straight day, Kennard came up big in the second half, canning a transition triple to bring the Blue Devils back within one possession. After Tatum free throws tied it again, Kennard rose and fired from the top of the key again to give his team a three-point advantage with 4:52 left. The Franklin, Ohio, native was tough to guard late in the contest, responding to a Mangok Mathiang jump hook with a mid-range jumper of his own. He added 10 rebounds to go along with his 24 points. Allen then collapsed the Cardinal defense and fed Tatum in the left corner for his triple that put Duke up by five with about two minutes remaining as the Blue Devils took advantage of several Louisville misses from the free throw line. Adel led his team with 21 points, but

Council, National Pan-Hellenic Council, Panhellenic Association and other groups in hopes of establishing a partnership through which their members would participate. Student volunteers would receive “Prevent. Act. Challenge. Teach.” training—a studentfacilitated program sponsored by the Women’s Center—in the Spring before the initial trial run of the program during Saturdays in April. As the official launch during Orientation Week 2017 approaches, participants would receive more intense bystander intervention and alcohol training. “[The initiative will help students] either through creating groups of people who will travel home together or if someone is overly intoxicated but not to the level of [emergency medical services], a two-person team could potentially bring them back to their dorm to make sure they’re safe,” Haas said. Junior Colleen Sharp, co-president of the anti-sexual assault group We Are Here Duke, emphasized the importance of the training programs for potential volunteers. She said she has given Haas feedback for how to make the program work. “One of the things that I expressed concern over was the gender and racial dynamics of intervening, and I think that’s something to be very conscientious about,” Sharp said. “Especially since the program is being run by Duke Student Government, I think that making sure that people intervening in situations aren’t responding or acting in ways that promote racial and gender and heteronormative hierarchies.” Sharp said that she hoped intensive training could address these concerns. The program could work in conjunction with other potential initiatives, Sharp said. The Women’s Center and Duke Students Against Gender Violence have been working with Shooters owner Kim Cates and her bar staff to reduce incidents at the club. “I’m really excited about the prospect of doing work that directly can impact how people are experiencing gender violence and sexual assault at Shooters,” Sharp said. head coach Rick Pitino’s club struggled to finish plays down the stretch against the zone defense and went just 15-of-26 from the charity stripe and 4-of-21 from beyond the arc. The team’s hesitation on offense in the final 13 minutes seemed to give the Blue Devils—playing their second game in two days—a much-needed boost. “When you see that look, you just know, ‘We can ramp it up just a little more,’” senior Matt Jones said. “It threw them off a little bit, which we needed. Once that happened, we started making shots and things started going our way.” Duke’s other major energy source in the second half was Allen, who was slashing into the paint and taking jumpers in rhythm without hesitation for the first time since the team’s first game against North Carolina. After going scoreless for the first time in almost two years, Wednesday against Clemson, Allen was at his best, and it was no coincidence that his team was as well. “We really needed a spark off the bench, and I didn’t think I did a good job of that in the first game,” Allen said. “I just attacked the same way and made some shots today—that was really it.” Although Louisville used a 10-0 run to build a 20-13 lead early in the contest, the Blue Devils answered right back even with Jackson picking up his third foul. Tatum was assertive attacking the rim, finishing with 12 points in the period, and Allen added eight points and a pair of free throws late in the half to give Duke a two-point edge going into the locker room. The Blue Devils fell behind again, but showed enough fortitude to respond and advance to Friday’s evening semifinal against top-seeded North Carolina—the first matchup between the teams in the ACC tournament since 2011.

ROBOT from page 3 ocean floor. The project has implications that reach far beyond mechanical engineering and will also help with marine conservation, the team members explained. To get involved in the project, students take elective classes such as this semester’s ECE 496 “Advanced Robotic System Design” and ECE 449 “Sensors and Sensor Interface Design.” Junior Lucia Jimenez described the inclusive nature of the team-based project. “We’re very open to everyone trying out what they feel like,” she said. “We’re looking for people who are very passionate about this.” Junior Sam Kelly described a few of the specific pieces of the project he worked on last semester, including getting the heavy-lifting drone to fly. He is currently working on a robotic retrieval system used to pick up the pods at the bottom of the ocean. “Each of the technologies we work with is groundbreaking in itself,” Kelly said.

DSG from page 1 On his Facebook page, Dellinger congratulated Ganguly on her victory and said she would be an excellent president. “Fitting that on international women’s day Duke students should get a dope female president who is both incredibly empathetic and smart as a whip,” he wrote. “To anyone who voted for me, be excited, you are in incredibly good hands. Congratulations to Riyanka—the next year of DSG will be a good one.” Hardee echoed those thoughts, writing on Facebook that he was looking forward to working with Ganguly in the coming year. “Thank you so so much to everyone else who supported me,” he wrote. “I am so lucky to have such an amazing support group! I look forward to working with Riyanka Ganguly next year, and I can’t wait to see all of the things DSG accomplishes under her leadership!”

ZONE DEFENSE from page 4 same thing off a defensive rebound to trim the deficit to one. Duke outscored Louisville 14-6 in fast-break points, quickly turning the tables on the Cardinals’ transition attack. The Blue Devils have a few extra hours to rest before Friday night’s marquee semifinal matchup against North Carolina than they did heading into Thursday’s game. But if they run out of gas against the Tar Heels’ fast-paced offense, Krzyzewski may consider reaching into his back pocket for a defensive switch again. “That zone helped us to not allow them to keep just dropping the ball down there and getting easy buckets,” Jefferson said. “Those little changes, the little nuances we made throughout the game allowed us and helped us to get the win.”

Ian Jaffe | The Chronicle Despite starting the game 3-of-10, Kennard still took over in the second half for the second day in a row.