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BLUE DEVILS PASS TEST Duke Sweet-16 bound after Yale almost erases 27-point lead

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Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Grayson Allen poured in 22 first-half points and the Blue Devils held off a furious rally to advance to the Sweet 16 for the second straight year.

Jack Dolgin The Chronicle PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Duke seemed destined for the Sweet 16 at halftime Saturday, leading 48-23 after shooting 60.7 percent from the floor and knocking down nine 3-pointers in the first 20 minutes. With a minute to go, nothing was certain. But the fourth-seeded Blue Devils made six of seven free throws down the stretch and survived a huge Yale comeback, downing the 12th-seeded Bulldogs 71-64 at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center to advance to the West Regional semifinals next week in Anaheim, Calif. Sophomore Grayson Allen scored 29 points—22 of them in the first half—and freshman swingman Brandon Ingram added 25 for Duke, which watched a 27-point lead dwindle down to four in the closing minutes. “We didn’t let the building crash in on us,” said freshman Luke Kennard, who hit a pair of free throws with the Blue Devils leading 6561 with 52 seconds left. “Everything was going their way, the momentum was their way…we just stuck in there, made big shots, made big free throws.” Duke (25-10) broke the game open with

an 18-0 outburst in the first half to take a 4619 lead. The Blue Devils scored on six straight possessions, with Kennard and Ingram first nailing triples and Allen scoring four straight times in a variety of ways—a breakaway dunk, two 3-pointers and a jumper. Yale (23-7) responded with four straight points by sophomore Makai Mason, who had been held in check to that point after scoring a career-high 31 points Thursday against Baylor. Only two days earlier, Marshall Plumlee energized his team with a few minutes left in the first half by taking off his mask despite a broken nose and leading Duke to a second-half comeback victory. But at around the same juncture Saturday, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski sensed a lack of focus in his team—up 46-23—and called a timeout, in which he animatedly chastised his players. “We’re young, and we acted young,” Krzyzewski said. “Grayson was in a zone there…and when he hit the last one, he came back, and he didn’t know who he had, and he was in la-la land.” Allen and the Blue Devils showed their youth again on what appeared to be the final play of the half. With about 12 seconds left, Krzyzewski motioned from the sidelines

for Allen to start dribbling toward the hoop. Instead, he turned the ball over, and with six seconds remaining, fouled Brandon Sherrod. “They got open, and he commits that dumb foul,” Krzyzewski said. “Like what are you doing?” The Bulldogs carried the momentum into the locker room and emerged playing like a new team. Yale—led by senior starters who did not want to see their careers end—opened the second half with a flurry of baskets, going on a 15-0 run to get back within seven. Sherrod and Ivy League Player of the Year Justin Sears—who finished with a combined 10 offensive rebounds—dominated the interior and scored 11 straight points during the run. After shooting 1-of-11 from beyond the arc in the first half, the Bulldogs added a pair of triples, and a Blue Devil team that gave up a 16-point lead to Notre Dame in the second half of last week’s ACC tournament quarterfinals was watching another big lead evaporate. During another timeout, Plumlee shook teammates and implored them to get things together. “We just weren’t into it,” Kennard said. “That is what Marshall saw in all of us.... It was See M. BASKETBALL on Page 8

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Shelvia Underwood, the contract parking employee who alleged that Executive Vice President Tallman Trask used a racial slur after hitting her with his car, has filed a lawsuit against Trask and Duke. The complaint, filed last Monday afternoon in Durham County Superior Court, lists four counts—battery, negligence, civil conspiracy and obstruction of justice—and requests compensatory and punitive damages in excess of $25,000 for each count. Trask is the University’s primary financial and administrative officer. Underwood seeks compensatory damages due to the “pain and suffering as a result of the intentional and malicious conduct by defendants,” according to the complaint, in addition to punitive damages for the “willful and wanton conduct of the defendants.” The complaint lists the second defendant as Duke, which is represented by Pamela Bernard, vice president and general counsel for the University. “Duke followed its standard operating procedures in responding to Ms. Underwood’s allegations,” Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, wrote in an See LAWSUIT on Page 4

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Staff Reports The Chronicle The National Labor Relations Board announced Friday that a majority of adjunct faculty who voted in the recent union election voted for representation by the Service Employees International Union. Of the 203 ballots cast in the election, 174 (85.7 percent) were cast in favor of unionization and 29 against union representation. After the NLRB certifies the results, the SEIU will represent approximately 300 non-regular rank, non-tenure track faculty in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, the Center for Documentary Studies and the Graduate School. Although Duke’s non-tenure track professors, part-time professors and lecturing fellows filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board, an agreement was reached to exclude regular rank, non-tenure track professors—professors of the practice, research professors and lecturers—from the voting process. “While we are disappointed not to be able to continue working more directly with our colleagues, we are glad that together we made some advances this past year that will impact many of our adjunct faculty,” Provost Sally Kornbluth said in a Duke Today release. “We remain committed to their success as members of our faculty and contributors to Duke’s academic mission.” University officials said in the release that they will begin to work with SEIU representatives on a collective bargaining agreement. “While the process is underway, we expect most aspects of our working relationship with the members of the bargaining unit to remain status quo,” Vice President for Administration Kyle Cavanaugh said in the release.

Several legal experts have suggested that the Duke University Police Department may have improperly handled the investigation involving Executive Vice President Tallman Trask and contract parking attendant Shelvia Underwood. In August 2014, Trask hit Underwood with his car, and Underwood claims that Trask then used a racial slur against her. DUPD filed an incident report at Underwood’s request, but took no further action against Trask. When Underwood asked for a copy of the incident report, DUPD initially refused her request, claiming that it was instituting a new system, Underwood said. DUPD eventually released the first page of its report, but has declined to release more information. Legal experts interviewed by The Chronicle said DUPD may not have fulfilled its obligations under a North Carolina law that requires campus police to make available certain information about potential violations of the law that they have investigated. In particular, the experts noted that DUPD is required to properly describe any potential violation of the law that may have occurred during the reported incident. The report provided by DUPD has “concerned behavior” written as a description of the incident. “To me that looks like an incomplete report,” said Jonathan Jones, instructor at Elon University and Director of the North Carolina Open Government Coalition. “Some of those things that they’re required to disclose are on the first page, but some of them are not there.” Jones and Frayda Bluestein—David M. Lawrence distinguished professor of public law and government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—pointed to section 5.1 of the Campus Police Act, which requires that all campus police agencies, public and private, make available certain information about incidents that are reported to them. This includes basic information about the complainant, any arrests that were made and the incident itself. The report released by DUPD details most of the required information, but the legal experts said it may not fulfill a requirement in

Ian Jaffe | The Chronicle Experts suggest the report DUPD released documenting the 2014 incident involving Executive Vice President Tallman Trask and a contract parking employee could have been incomplete.

the Campus Police Act to release information about the “nature of a violation or apparent violation of the law reported to the campus police agency.” “One of the key things they have to disclose is the nature of the violation of the law that has been described to them,” Jones said. “It seems very clear that [Underwood] likely reported that she was hit by a car, which is something that needs to be investigated criminally, and that is something that should be made clear in the report.” Bluestein noted that even if information about the nature of the incident is contained in records that DUPD is not required to make public, such as criminal investigation records or notes, DUPD is still obligated to release information in their records about the nature of the incident. “There’s nothing in the statute that says they only have to give you the incident report,” she said. “If they have this information in other records, I would think they would be obligated to take the information off those records and give it to you.” She added, however, that if DUPD continued to withhold further information about the nature of the incident, a lawsuit would likely be the only way to obtain the information.

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Jeffrey Welty, associate professor of public law and government at the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill and Law School ‘99, said that although DUPD is a campus police department, it is still required to investigate any incident to the same extent as a municipal police department. A full investigation of the Trask incident would have involved interviews with each person involved in the incident as well as anyone who may have witnessed it. All of those interviews would have produced some records. “In terms of the quality of investigation, you would have every right to expect the same quality of investigation from a campus department as you would from any other police department in North Carolina,” he said. Welty added, however, that police departments have discretion in the types of incidents they investigate and in how thoroughly they investigate a given incident. In some cases, police departments may choose not to investigate an incident even if they are aware of a violation of the law. He pointed to alcohol law violations on college campuses as classic cases in which police officers may see violations of the law but choose not to conduct See DUPD on Page 4

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New Pratt Dean Bellamkonda explains philosophy, goals Rob Palmisano The Chronicle Ravi Bellamkonda, Wallace H. Coulter professor and chair of the Wallace H. Coulter department of biomedical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, was named the new dean of the Pratt School of Engineering in January. He will replace former Pratt dean Tom Katsouleas Aug. 1. Bellamkonda spoke with The Chronicle’s Rob Palmisano about his goals and the future of Pratt. The Chronicle: What are some of the most important lessons you intend to apply from previous endeavors to your new position as dean? Ravi Bellamkonda: I’ve been very fortunate to be in very successful departments in the past. The lessons I think I’ve learned are the following: One, if we create the right environment and give room to those who work in that environment to take charge of what they do, rather than a central command control system, then we have bottom-up leadership that is superior to a topdown system. My tendency is to find people who are passionate, and then empower them to do what they can and give them the support and the environment to take risks as they reach a little higher than normal. Two, another thing I believe is that today’s students are incredibly socially conscious, they are wise and they work hard. I would love for us to have a curriculum that enables our students to drive their own learning, that challenges them to stretch, to work in teams and to work on problems that are meaningful and important. My leadership experience so far has led to a philosophy that trusts and empowers people to do their thing by creating environments and resources that support their pursuit of things

Special to The Chronicle Ravi Bellamkonda will take over as Pratt dean Aug. 1 and hopes to revamp the school’s curriculum and facilities.

they are most passionate about. So my job is to engineering education, of materials research, align these passions with our larger, college level invent new therapies, bend the climate change educational and research goals. curve—this takes confidence! I’d like to be part of the process at Duke where we believe we can TC: What do you foresee as some of the key do great things, and where we actually embark challenges in presiding over Pratt and how do on this journey collaboratively. you intend to overcome them? The more practical and immediate RB: Largely, the challenges looking ahead are challenge we have is that of having the correct the ‘good-to-great’ type of challenge. Actually, at physical infrastructure such that our faculty Duke this is more like the ‘excellent-to-great’ and students have a competitive advantage to challenge. For greatness, you don’t follow achieve their scholarly and educational goals. others’ blueprints. So I think Pratt’s challenge We really do need a new building with the is to figure out what it means to be a ‘great’ appropriate research and learning spaces, where engineering school. I think that means we have interdisciplinary, entrepreneurial research can to really figure out what are the areas we have the take place. So with the support of the Provost capabilities to make ‘great’, significant impact. and the generous Pratt extended family, I hope To believe that you can change the course of to play my part in helping make a new building

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“We can’t always believe what’s in a student newspaper,” Dailey said in the interview. “Nobody releases the full report.” In response to an email citing the Campus Police Act and a full investigation. asking for a further description of the Trask incident, Dailey The extent of this discretion is not well defined, Welty wrote in an email that The Chronicle’s citation of the Campus explained. There is no law that explicitly outlines when police Police Act was “inaccurate,” but did not elaborate. must investigate an incident and how thorough their investigation “We are simply following the law,” Dailey wrote. must be. He noted, however, that there are potential conflicts of interest involved in an investigation of Trask, who indirectly supervises DUPD. from page 3 “I don’t know of a system by which they would analyze [potential conflicts of interest], but I think it’s a legitimate question,” he said. Welty noted that in many cases municipal and state police diversity becomes to our ability to tackle this challenge. Diverse departments will handle investigations of their superiors in a perspectives make a ‘richer’ solution set, a more nuanced special way. In some cases, they will bring in an outside police perspective that is critical to be able to creatively solve grand department to conduct the investigation to avoid any perception challenges. of a conflict of interest. DUPD did not bring in an outside agency I am also very interested in encouraging faculty and student for the Trask case. entrepreneurial activities. At my current institution, I’ve helped DUPD Chief of Police John Dailey said in an interview with craft a very successful program which led to over 21 student startups the Student Press Law Center that DUPD has already released in just the past two years. We have lots of activity at Pratt already in the information required under state law. this space, and I’d like to support these and new programs.

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TC: What are you most excited about moving forward? RB: I ultimately believe that the core of progress and success is to be surrounded by incredible people, and I’m so excited by the quality and the determination of the professors and students I’ve come in contact with so far. I’m also excited to bridge the collaboration between Trinity, the medical school, Fuqua, Nicholas and other schools. I hope to increase mingling among students, faculty and others by shared common interests, rather than ‘units’ that you either belong to or you don’t. When we run into those like us and those not like us often, at seminars, when we step out of our offices, at coffee shops, this is when magic happens, and I’d love for us to be intentional about increasing ‘mingling’ and reducing the barriers to such mingling on campus by the way we design our campus spaces. I believe the importance of engineering is more critical than any other time before. And at Pratt there is incredibly exciting research that is ongoing in all of our departments and centers and institutes. We are really fortunate to have the faculty we have. Ultimately, this is why I am confident that we will make the ‘excellent-to-great’ transition.

LAWSUIT from page 1 email. “The University will vigorously defend any suggestion that it did not act appropriately in this situation.” Since the incident, which occurred Aug. 30, 2014, both Trask and Underwood hired attorneys—Dhamian Blue of Blue Stephens and Fellers, Trinity ‘00 and Law School ‘03, and Donald Huggins of Hairston Lane PA, respectively. “Our position is that this is the elite protecting the elite, and that Duke failed to police its own,” Huggins said. Regarding the first count of battery, the filing alleges that Trask intended to cause, and did cause, a “harmful contact with Plaintiff’s person.” Underwood said previously that after the incident she was diagnosed with a muscle contusion and possible fractured elbow. The complaint also states that because Trask’s actions showed “reckless disregard for the rights of Plaintiff,” Underwood is entitled to an award of punitive damages against Trask and the University that will be determined by the “trier of fact.” For the second count of negligence, the document states that if Underwood’s claims do not give rise to a claim for relief under the theory of battery, alternatively, Trask was negligent. The complaint notes that Trask owed Underwood a duty of “reasonable care” that is owed by every driver, and that he failed to keep. It alleges that he failed to act as a “reasonably careful and prudent person” by driving his vehicle in a reckless manner that endangered Underwood’s life. Regarding the third count of civil conspiracy, the filing states that the University prevented a proper criminal investigation. It specifically notes that Trask and the University entered an agreement to protect the public image of both Trask and the University. Trask oversees Vice President for Administration Kyle Cavanaugh, who directly oversees the Duke University Police Department. For the fourth count of obstruction of justice, the complaint alleges that the investigation performed by DUPD was conducted so that Trask was able to avoid civil and criminal liability, hindering legal justice. In response to the allegations, Trask previously released the following statement to The Chronicle: “As I was driving to the home football game against Elon in August 2014, I was stopped in the traffic circle (between Flowers and Chapel Drives) by a parking attendant I did not recognize, who gruffly said ‘this road is closed.’ I told her I park on the quad, and have every day for almost 20 years. She told me to go park somewhere else. My regular parking pass, which is good in all spaces on campus at all times, was hanging from my rear view mirror. There was a special all access pass for the Elon game in the corner of the windshield. I pointed to that and thought she was satisfied. She stepped away, but after I started moving (maybe five feet) she stepped back in front of the car. I slammed on the brakes and her hand ended up on my left fender. I did not intentionally hit her. By then I was extremely frustrated and said ‘how many permits do I need to show you?’ in a somewhat heated voice. I regret that I lost my patience and that’s what my note of apology was about. I learned several days later that Ms. Underwood had filed a complaint and claimed I had said something else. Her allegations were separately and independently investigated by the Duke Police and the Office of Institutional Equity, both of whom interviewed all witnesses. None of them heard me saying what she claimed I said, quite simply because I didn’t say it. It is a complete fabrication. I had assumed this was resolved more than a year ago until I received a letter last November from a Raleigh attorney threatening to sue me (not clear for what) unless I paid her an unspecified sum. I declined to do so then and do not intend to do so now.”

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PROVIDENCE, R.I.—It’s been a season of highs and lows for the Blue Devils. Duke lost three straight contests to unranked opponents in January, but somehow found a way to beat then-No. 13 Louisville, then-No. 7 Virginia and thenNo. 5 North Carolina in succession just one month later. Now, the fourth-seeded Blue Devils are heading to Anaheim, Calif., for the program’s 25th Sweet 16. But the road to California—much like the season itself— was anything but a straight one. In both Thursday’s 93-85 come-from-behind win against UNC-Wilmington and Saturday’s 71-64 defeat of Cinderella hopeful Yale, Duke overcame the inconsistency and sporadic play that comes with youth with just enough talent to get the job done— just as it has done all year. The Bulldogs closed to within three with less than 40 seconds to play Saturday, nearly clawing all the way back from a 27-point hole. It was a gutsy second-half performance from an underdog with nothing to lose, one that entirely flipped the momentum of the game and would have threatened to splinter the mental fortitude of a young Blue Devil team. But although Duke certainly bent Saturday, it did not break, keeping its season and postseason dreams intact—barely.

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Grayson Allen scored on four straight possessions in the first half as the Blue Devils built a big lead, but Duke had to hold off a frantic Yale comeback to punch its ticket to the Sweet 16.

“We’ve been in so many difficult situations throughout the season,” freshman Luke Kennard said. “We’ve had a lot of adversity, but we just stuck together as a group. We’ve had ups and downs throughout the season—big wins and tough losses—but I’m just proud of the way we stuck together. And we’re in the Sweet 16 now, so it’s special.” The Blue Devils entered the NCAA tournament warding off comparisons to Duke teams that faltered in the opening round of the Big Dance in years past—

namely the 2013-14 squad that fell to 14thseeded Mercer and the 2011-12 team that lost to 15th-seeded Lehigh. In the opening half against the the Seahawks Thursday, UNC-Wilmington shot 51.5 percent from the floor and 6-of-12 from beyond the arc to take a 4340 lead into the locker room. The Blue Devils—who have lived and died with their 3-point shooting this season—shot just 3-of-10 from downtown. Only freshman Brandon Ingram—who poured in 11 first-

half points—stayed true to form, hitting a late triple on the last play of the half to cut the Seahawk lead in half and give Duke momentum heading into halftime. “We told our guys that a big key for the game was to be ready to shoot,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “And Wilmington pressed, and they created this full-court thing where you were more catch-and-dribble.” But an entirely different squad returned to the court for the final 20 minutes of the game. The Blue Devils enjoyed a 10-0 run in the first five minutes of the second half to reclaim the lead, feeding graduate student center Marshall Plumlee for dunk after dunk and getting to the foul line at will, where sophomore Grayson Allen made 15-of-17 shots. That same team came out to start Saturday’s game against Yale—Duke was firing on all cylinders right out of the gates, with Ingram, Allen and Kennard all hitting their first 3-point attempts of the afternoon. The Blue Devils went on to shoot 9-of-15 from downtown and 60.7 percent from the field while holding the Bulldogs to 34.4 percent shooting from the floor and 1-of-11 from deep, opening a 48-25 halftime lead. Allen finished the first period with 22 points—just three points shy of Yale’s total—with Ingram and Kennard contributing 11 points apiece. “For us, the 3-point shot is something that can give us energy,” Allen said. “We do See TWO HALVES on Page 9

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The Chronicle With no class this week, the Blue Devils took some extra shots in the mornings before their regular afternoon practices. It paid off in a big way Saturday afternoon, at Georgetown’s expense. Junior Jack Bruckner had a hat trick before the Hoyas got on the scoreboard, and the No. 11 Blue GTOWN 6 Devils ran away from DUKE 20 Georgetown 20-6 at Koskinen Stadium. Bruckner finished with five goals and two assists, one of three Duke players with at least three tallies on the afternoon. The Blue Devils’ season-high 20 goals came on just 33 shots, an alarmingly efficient clip at more than 20 percentage points better than their season average entering Saturday’s game. “I don’t think we were exploiting anything in their defense specifically. We had shooting camp this week every day in the morning, so just all the practice we had this week really paid off,” Bruckner said. “Instead of going to class, you’re going out to the field and you’re hanging out all the time.” After sophomore Justin Guterding broke the scoreless draw with 12:23 left in the first quarter, the floodgates opened for Bruckner, who fired home three goals in less than six minutes to stake Duke (6-3) to an early 4-0 lead. Georgetown (1-6) got one back on a

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Craig Berge strike, but the Blue Devils rattled off another 5-0 run to blow the game open with 10:22 left before halftime. Senior Deemer Class beat Hoya goalkeeper Nick Marrocco twice during that span, and Bruckner got back in the act for his fourth of the day. Georgetown had no chance to stop the bleeding because it could not get hold of the ball. After losing five of the eight face-offs in the first quarter, specialist Kyle Rowe dominated at the faceoff X the rest of the afternoon, winning seven of eight in the decisive second quarter. See M. LACROSSE on Page 8

This weekend could not have been much worse for Duke in every phase of the game. No. 11 North Carolina completed a convincing sweep of the Blue Devils with an 8-2 thrashing Sunday 11 at the Durham Bulls UNC DUKE 2 Athletic Park after running away with 12 11-2 and 12-2 wins UNC DUKE 2 Friday and Saturday. The Tar Heels scored 8 three runs in the top UNC DUKE 2 of the first inning for the second straight day, and Duke could not capitalize on several opportunities to get back into the game before North Carolina extended its lead. “They got timely hits and we didn’t. They didn’t put that many more runners on base than we did,” Duke head coach Chris Pollard said. “We had plenty of opportunities to have our own clutch hits and we just didn’t get it, and we’ve got to continue to work at that.” Tar Heel sophomore Brian Miller lined a single into center field to lead off the contest and stole second after Adam Pate lined out. Freshman Kyle Datres hit a routine grounder to third baseman Max Miller, but first baseman Jack Labosky could not corral a low throw as the ball skipped by him and into the stands. Datres advanced to second on the play and Brian Miller scored to give North Carolina (17-2,

5-1 in the ACC) the early lead, but the damage was not done yet. A four-pitch walk to junior slugger Tyler Ramirez brought Logan Warmoth to the plate with two outs, and he drilled a triple to deep right field to clear the bases. Warmoth also roped a two-run single in the seventh to lead the Tar Heels with four RBIs. “It wasn’t like they banged it all around the ballpark, but they did a good job of being clutch,” Pollard said. “Credit North Carolina, they’re playing very well right now. They’re playing with a lot of confidence. They’re playing very aggressive baseball.” All three runs in the first frame and 11 of North Carolina’s 31 runs during the series were unearned, as Duke’s defense became a liability after starting the season strong. The Blue Devils (10-10, 1-5) only had 11 errors in 17 games entering the weekend, but nearly matched that mark with nine miscues in just three games against North Carolina. The Tar Heels extended the lead in the third frame after an errant pitch from Duke hurler Brian McAfee hit Datres and Ramirez belted the first pitch he saw into the right field bleachers for a two-run home run. Ramirez was 2-for-2 with three walks and three RBIs from the cleanup spot in the order. McAfee surrendered two walks along with the hit batter in six innings of work, but had better command than the rest of the Blue Devils’ pitching staff a day after it walked 12 batters. “I thought [McAfee’s] stuff was fine. It was in the zone,” Pollard said. “The two walks—one of See BASEBALL on Page 8

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forcing shots from the perimeter, where the Bulldogs finished just 1-of-11 in the first half. “I told my staff at halftime, I said, ‘You know, we have kind of like fool’s gold a little bit, in that we think we’re playing better defense than we are,” Krzyzewski said. “Their two wings are 40 percent 3-point shooters, and they didn’t hit a shot [in the first half] and in the second half they did.” Allen scored 17 points during the last 10 minutes of the first half, going 8-of-11 from the floor and 4-of-6 from downtown. But the sophomore was limited to just seven points after halftime, the final two of them coming at the charity stripe with 8.2 seconds left to seal the win. Mason struggled throughout the contest against Matt Jones’ man pressure and Duke’s 1-3-1 defense. The sophomore finished 2-of-12 from the field and 0-of-5 from deep for only eight points. “What Brandon did on top of that zone was magnificent because he shaded Mason and gave the other kids a little bit more room,” Krzyzewski said. “You can’t practice against that unless you have a guy who’s 6-foot-8 1/2 and a 7-foot-3 wingspan.” Duke will face top-seeded Oregon Thursday night in the Sweet 16. The Ducks beat St. Joseph’s 79-75 Sunday night.

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the faces that everybody had.” The Blue Devils stopped the bleeding on an Ingram lay-up and led 56-47 with 11:13 to go. The Kinston, N.C., native drilled a jumper four minutes later that briefly stretched the lead back to double-digits, but again Yale hung around. The trio of Sears, Sherrod and Mason scored 15 of the Bulldogs’ final 17 points, and a pair of Sears free throws trimmed the Duke lead to 65-61. Sherrod went to the foul line with 41 seconds left and made his first foul shot to make it a five-point game before missing the second. But in the scrum for the loose ball, Sears tapped it back up and in to keep Duke sweating. Ingram made two foul shots on the other end, and Sherrod got the ball in the paint, but as he spun under the hoop to avoid a leaping Allen, he laid up a shot off the glass that hung on the rim before spilling out. Duke had the game well in hand early on as hot shooting propelled the Blue Devils to a huge lead. Kennard hit back-to-back triples sandwiched around a drawn charge to open an 18-13 advantage, and a Derryck Thornton lay up extended the 8-0 run. On the other end of the floor, the Blue Devil zone cooled Yale by

M. LACROSSE from page 7 The Hoyas won just two of the 20 draws in the final 45 minutes, forcing them to play defense for most of the afternoon as the Blue Devils went to work on the offensive end with methodical precision. “It’s such an amazing gift. I can’t really describe it any other way. When you have the ball, it’s a tremendous momentum-keeper and it’s deflating for your opponent,” Duke head coach John Danowski said. “We’ve been on the other side of that for sure over the years, and it’s just great when you have that going on your side where you can score a goal and then try to score again, or give up a goal and get the ball back.” Guterding—who had a hat trick of his own— and senior Case Matheis assisted on three goals apiece, and senior Myles Jones and freshman Brad Smith matched Bruckner’s pair of helpers. Several Blue Devil goals came after players sent balls whizzing through heavy traffic, threading the needle perfectly to set up teammates for point-blank shot opportunities. Duke assisted on a season-high 14 of the 20 goals. “It’s amazing. It makes my life a lot easier,” Bruckner said of the unselfish passing display. “It’s awesome playing with guys like that. At Duke, you play with guys like that all the time.”

BASEBALL from page 7 them was kind of an unintentional intentional where we pitched around Ramirez to set up a force play, but [McAfee] pitched fine and deserved a better fate than that.” To make matters worse, graduate student and staff ace Trent Swart exited his start Saturday after allowing three runs in just one inning, and his status moving forward is uncertain. The Carlsbad, Calif., native missed the entire 2015 season recovering from Tommy John surgery. Offensively, Duke failed to capitalize on four opportunities with runners in scoring position in the first eight innings before breaking through in the ninth. Junior Cris Perez lined one high off the Blue Monster to lead off the second frame but could only reach first base on a long single, and the inning ended harmlessly with runners

On the other end, Duke clamped down to hold the Hoyas to just six goals on 33 shot attempts, with junior Danny Fowler turning aside nine shots against just three goals allowed before giving way to backup Luke Aaron. The Blue Devils struggled to clear the ball Saturday—converting on 12of-19 opportunities and committing 22 turnovers—but held firm to negate all three of Georgetown’s man-up situations. Leading 17-2 midway through the third quarter, Duke’s second midfield line started to see more action, and with 1:25 left in the game, senior Joe Kruy took the Blue Devils to the 20-goal threshold with a shot from the right side—his first of the season and the second goal of his career. Although regulars like Bruckner and Class led the way, several others Duke players got in on the action. Senior John Shaffer notched his first goal of the season, Smith found the back of the net for the third time and Rowe scooped up a face-off and ran straight down the middle of the field to beat Marrocco for his second goal this year. With classes back in session Monday, Duke will try to bottle up its complete 60-minute effort and rekindle the same level of energy Tuesday at 7 p.m. against Air Force at Koskinen Stadium as the Blue Devils’ fourgame homestand continues. on first and second when sophomore Evan Dougherty fouled out to first. Perez came to plate in his next two at-bats with runners on second and third and two outs, but flied out to center field in the third inning and could not catch up to a two-strike fastball with two on in the fifth as sophomore Jason Morgan escaped both jams during seven innings of scoreless work. The Blue Devils’ only runs came with one out in the final frame after freshman pinch-hitter Kennie Taylor doubled down the third-base line for the first hit of his career to advance Griffin Conine to third. Both runners scored on a groundout by Jalen Phillips and a throwing error by first baseman Zack Gahagan trying to retire Taylor at third base. The Blue Devils will welcome East Carolina to the DBAP Tuesday at 6 p.m. to wrap up their 12-game homestand.

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their heels into the final minute. Ultimately, the deficit proved too big for Yale to overcome, and Duke’s torrid first half and 6-for-7 performance at the charity stripe in the final minute sent the defending national champions safely into the tournament’s second weekend. But the second-half struggles—on the glass and behind the arc—brought back lingering concerns from regular-season losses to Syracuse and Pittsburgh. When Duke shoots well from beyond the arc for 40 minutes, the Blue Devils are nearly unbeatable. When the shots fall for 20 minutes, it still might get the job done, as was the case Saturday. But against top-seeded Oregon, which awaits Duke in Anaheim, 20 excellent minutes of basketball might not be enough. Luckily for the Blue Devils, they survived against the Bulldogs and will get the opportunity to learn valuable lessons from the near-collapse that almost derailed the season.

have a lot of shooters on our team where we can get hot like we did in the first half.... It can go like that for us where guys can get hot, and I think as a team we feed off of each other when we’re doing that.” If the Blue Devils feasted on the momentum of 3-pointer after 3-pointer in the first 20 minutes, they were fighting for scraps in the second half. Yale ramped up its defensive pressure, forcing eight Duke turnovers that turned into nine Bulldog points. And the Blue Devils went cold from beyond the arc, hitting just 2-of-8 from downtown and 27.3 percent of their shots overall. As the offense sputtered, the Duke defense struggled as well, allowing Yale to fight its way back into the game with 20 points in the paint and 11 offensive rebounds in the second half. Krzyzewski and Plumlee tried to light fires under the rest of the Blue Devils, but the Bulldogs continued to nip at

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we can do with what we have learned, helping us hone in on where we want our lives to go. Mentorship could greatly change the undergraduate experience, giving greater vision and perspective to students—not to mention becoming a big selling point for the University. First, working in this relationship with undergraduates must be incentivized for mentors. Graduate students, professors and staff— while clearly passionate about what they do and likely eager to enable others—must face the reality

Editorial of prioritizing their own publications and research. However, an institutional push to reward mentorship work just as much, whether with an expansion of the existing STAR Advisor Award or integration into the tenure system, would help encourage a widespread mentorship program. Second, mentorship needs to reach beyond Duke. In the business world, firms such as KPMG have modeled their services around 5+ and 10+ year mentorship programs that pair clients with mentors of that many years experience. For students, these mentors would ideally provide experiences and advice at different glimpses ahead

of where a student currently is or where their interests might take them. Such a program could be tested on a small scale through applications, merit scholars or by professor recommendations. From business paths to medicine, academia or politics, this model allows students to maintain and benefit from the tailored advice of strategically timed relationships with faculty, professionals, alumni and others. A robust “family” of mentors would hopefully become a life-building exploration for some, of who they are and who they want to become. What we are proposing is a leap for the University. We hope to see a long-term, long-range mentorship program one day perhaps sparked through the new curriculum’s mentored scholarly experience. But until then, students must seek their own opportunities. Find those professors whose interests match your own. Use your FLUNCH. Send that email to a program director. Above all, four years in undergraduate are too short to be shy. We attend a university with some of the best faculty, staff and students in the world. All it takes to have their advice, to get to know them and to begin forming fruitful lifelong connections, is to ask. The Editorial Board did not reach quorum for this editorial.

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h, yes, nothing like the smell of some good old fashioned sexism in the morning. After suggesting that a Fox News host was tough on him in a Republican debate because she was menstruating, Donald Trump stoked the Megyn Kelly controversy yet again last Friday by calling her “crazy” and “sick.” Fox News fired back, labeling Trump a sexist. Yes, you read that correctly. Fox News, the news network that has pioneered onscreen sexism, finally called Trump what everyone else already has: a sexist. Trump’s spew of sexist remarks appears neverending: he’s called women everything from “fat pigs” to “disgusting animals,” asked if voters could

to defund Planned Parenthood. At an event last October, John Kasich called on a female student and, before she could say a word, Kasich bizarrely quipped, “I’m sorry, I don’t have any Taylor Swift concert tickets.” He described the spouses of political figures as “at home doing the laundry.” He said women have “left their kitchens” to back him and, following criticism, he replied, “everybody’s just got to relax.” He is responsible for the closing of half of Ohio’s abortion clinics and defunding Planned Parenthood in the state. He signed a particularly sweet restriction that strips rape crisis centers of state funding if they even tell rape victims that abortion is an option. Kellie Copeland, executive director of

Dana Raphael PROBLEMATIC PEOPLE; PROBLEMATIC THINGS ever support an ugly female presidential nominee, described how much he would have liked to have sex with Princess Diana and much, much more. Donald Trump is your classic middle school boy—sexist, repugnant, vulgar—but it’s all for the show. He struts the halls with his posse of oversexed adolescents, giggling as his gang hurls insults at the girls, all part of the my-penis-is-bigger-than-yours contest. But Cruz and Kasich? That’s where it gets really scary. If Trump is a middle school boy, then Cruz and Kasich are overzealous teachers. They sit in the teacher’s lounge plotting how to win over the students’ hearts and minds. They pretend they’re above Trump’s rhetoric while proffering outdated views of women—made all the more dangerous by their real influence on policy. We’ve spent so much time vilifying Trump— rightly so—for his sexist remarks that we’ve all but let Cruz and Kasich off the hook. Though Trump’s campaign is perhaps causing irreparable damage to the reputation of our country, he really has no power in the policy world. He has never served as a local politician, governor, senator or congressman and hopefully he will never serve as president. Cruz and Kasich, however, are in positions to do real damage and have in fact done so. Ted Cruz suggested that voters spank Hillary Clinton the way he spanks his five-year-old daughter when she misbehaves. He once proposed a method to detect infidelity in which God should “give women a hymen that grows back every time she has intercourse with a different guy, because that will be a ‘visible sign’ of the breach of trust.” He crusades to ban abortion in all circumstances, even in cases of rape and incest. He contributed to gridlocking the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act and subsequently voted against it. He also advanced a shutdown of the federal government in an effort

NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, described Kasich as “a wolf in sheep’s clothing” and “among the worst of antichoice governors in this country’s history.” No one is arguing that Donald Trump takes the gold medal (he’s a winner) when it comes to pedaling misogyny and sexism to the masses. Cruz and Kasich aren’t even distant runners-up. But Trump will likely never have the opportunity to translate his ridiculous views on women into any sort of actual policy. On the other hand, Cruz and Kasich have that opportunity, they’ve used it and we’ve paid little attention. In the Republican establishment’s now desperate attempt to select any nominee other than Trump, Kasich especially is receiving praise for his moderation. However, anyone—save for the Ku Klux Klan—looks like a moderate when compared to Trump. Indeed, Cruz or Kasich would be more moderate choices for the Republican nomination. They’re more moderate in the same way that chopping off a finger or a toe is more moderate than a dagger to the eye. When prominent politicians, especially the last three contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, speak so disparagingly about American women they reinforce the public’s gender stereotypes and kick the realization of gender equality just that much further down the road. In 2012 Mitt Romney lost the female vote by 20 points even though he generally kept his sexist remarks to the relatively blasé “binders full of women.” One would think four years later the Republican nominees would approach the way they talked about women with a little more caution. Apparently not. Dana Raphael is a Trinity junior. Her column runs on alternate Mondays.

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e demand accountability. Since its founding in 1838, Duke University has held itself up as an exemplar of ethics and integrity. It takes seriously its reputation in the world, demanding only the best and most honest work at all levels—from students to staff to faculty. We commit ourselves each year to the Community Standard: not to lie, cheat or steal in our academic endeavors, to conduct ourselves honorably in all endeavors and to act if the Standard is compromised.

to such corruption and maltreatment of any person on or off campus. To make matters worse, we have also learned, through follow-up reporting by the Duke Chronicle on March 1, 2016, that this incident is part of a much larger pattern of discrimination, disrespect and hostility within Duke PTS, led by VP Cavanaugh who reports directly to Dr. Trask. According to 12 current and former PTS employees interviewed by the Chronicle, PTS Director Carl DePinto, with the support of VP

Our Gothic wonderland

he Duke lacrosse scandal occurred during my freshman year at Duke, and I was a reporter for the Duke Chronicle at the time. ESPN’s recently broadcast documentary “Fantastic Lies” added minimal information or perspective to the average Duke student’s knowledge of the scandal, but it did allow me to reflect on my own experiences. I interviewed President Brodhead shortly after the scandal broke during a forum on Duke’s campus culture. He was in the 18th month of his tenure at the time, and he

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Neal SenGupta

GUEST COLUMN

In recent weeks, through stories published in the Duke Chronicle, the Duke community learned of transgressions committed by high-ranking Duke officials: Executive Vice President Tallman Trask III, Vice President Kyle Cavanaugh and Duke Parking & Transportation Services (PTS) Director Carl DePinto. Their actions, individually and collectively, have compromised the Duke Community Standard. This standard becomes meaningless when it is not applied as equally to Duke’s administration as it is to the institution’s broader community. As we all have a responsibility and obligation to protect our Community Standard, we must therefore act accordingly. On August 31, 2014, after failing to produce the required parking permits, Dr. Trask hit parking attendant Ms. Shelvia Underwood, an employee of McLaurin Parking Services, with his car. By his own admission in a statement published in the Duke Chronicle on February 29, 2016, he left the scene without an apology or an offer of assistance as she picked herself off the ground. And according to Ms. Underwood, Dr. Trask added insult to injury by hurling a racial slur as he fled from the scene of the incident. Dr. Trask failed to conduct himself honorably. He failed to do what was legally required of him, pursuant to North Carolina law (N.C.G.S. § 20-166)—to at minimum stop his car and provide Ms. Underwood with his name, address, driver’s license number, and plate number and perhaps summon law enforcement for objective assessment, appropriate documentation of findings and accountability. Instead, he became, in his own words, “extremely frustrated” with Ms. Underwood, and drove away after he produced the required parking permits. Ms. Underwood sustained injuries to her arm, including a “muscle contusion and possible fractured elbow,” as assessed at the VA Hospital on September 1, 2014—the day after the incident. Following her attempts to file a police report with the Duke University Police Department (DUPD)—a department that Dr. Trask and VP Cavanaugh oversee—she received a call from Steve McLaurin, owner of McLaurin Parking Services, suggesting that she accept “a sincere apology” from Dr. Trask instead of pursuing legal accountability. Fearing for her job, she complied with his request, receiving a two sentence apology note from Dr. Trask, through Vice President Cavanaugh, on September 20, 2014. By intimidating Ms. Underwood via her boss, Dr. Trask, the DUPD and VP Cavanaugh not only acted dishonorably, but also attempted to circumvent North Carolina law. Apologies, sincere or otherwise, are no substitute for law enforcement. Their actions demonstrate a profound abuse of power and lack of respect for Ms. Underwood’s safety and well-being. Duke University cannot function without the labor and support of our staff, both contractors and employees. They deserve our utmost respect and care. Most importantly, this institution can have no ethical standing in our community, or in the world, if it concedes

Cavanaugh, has purposely mistreated employees and created a workplace environment filled with fear, hostility, racism and retaliation since his arrival in October 2014. These employees cite numerous offenses, including racial harassment during special events, which are “swept under the rug” by the administration. Further, according to these employees, specific complaints against Mr. DePinto, filed through Duke Human Resources, the Office of Institutional Equity and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, have not been meaningfully addressed. Since the beginning of Mr. DePinto’s tenure, five of the employees of color have been removed or driven away from the Parking division of PTS, many of whom devoted over a decade of service to the department. As of March 1, 2016, the Parking division’s workforce is now 93 percent white (13/14 of employees). We cannot ignore such glaring evidence offered by Dr. Trask himself, by Ms. Underwood and by so many long-term PTS employees. Furthermore, the lack of institutional response to this matter 20 full days after it was first reported in the Duke Chronicle gives us no explanation of these events and no reason to deny their validity. The ongoing litigation between Ms. Underwood and Dr. Trask is not a valid excuse for the administration to remain silent about the larger institutional issues plaguing the Duke community. Our administration has repeatedly made the choice to overlook, defend, and cover-up the racist actions of its employees and Duke’s workers have suffered the consequences. The unlawful, reckless and discriminatory behavior that is present in this chain of command should not be tolerated and cannot be ignored. For these reasons, and in the interest of upholding ethical commitments set forth by the Duke University Community Standard, we demand the immediate removal of Dr. Trask, VP Kyle Cavanaugh and PTS Director Carl DePinto, from their positions at Duke University. We also demand a full and transparent investigation and resolution of the complaints filed by PTS employees, along with a statement from the administration to the Duke community addressing the steps it has taken to resolve these complaints. Finally, we demand a transparent hiring process to replace these administrators with officers who have a long-standing record of vigorous commitment to workplace inclusion, equitable hiring practices for people of color, women, trans* and gender non-conforming people, people of all abilities and people of all sexual orientations and gender expressions. We must ensure that these transgressions are not replicated in future administrations. We stand in full solidarity with Ms. Underwood and all current and former PTS employees. We support all efforts to struggle against the culture of institutional racism and violence at Duke University, and we demand that the administration address these issues appropriately and immediately.

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told me he believed that for Duke to thrive amidst the fallout from the lacrosse scandal, the “changes [at Duke] are going to have to be made by the students.” We are fortunate Duke had many student leaders on campus at the time that we can be proud of. From the perspective of both a campus reporter and fellow student, I got to see firsthand the leadership role played by Black Student Alliance President Wintta Woldemariam (T ’06) during one of the most racially charged periods on a college campus thus far the 21st century. Her maturity and call for calm on campus made a deep impression on me—particularly when she told me she was shocked by how the national media oversimplified the lacrosse scandal into a “black woman versus white male issue.” The talking heads of the mainstream media should have paid more attention to the outstanding example she set. Duke Student Government president Elliott Wolf (T ’08), who was elected just weeks after the scandal broke, also played a key role in establishing links between Duke Student Government and the surrounding Durham community. He took the reins of DSG at a moment when Duke was undergoing significant selfreflection and scrutiny. I also had the privilege to be part of the Duke Chronicle staff as it covered the lacrosse scandal in a way that did justice to the Duke community. The effort was spearheaded by Seyward Darby (T ’07) and Ryan McCartney (T ’08), who were the Editors-in-Chief of the Chronicle as the story unfolded. News Editor Steve Veres (T ’07), Sports Editors Mike Van Pelt (T’ 07) and Greg Beaton (T ’08), and countless others— many of whom today hold influential roles in media and journalism—provided news coverage of the lacrosse scandal in an objective way with a focus on our campus. I strongly encourage everyone to re-read the Chronicle’s coverage of the scandal to better appreciate our shared history. Though I loved my freshman year at Duke, as a selfish 18-year old I was worried the fallout from the lacrosse scandal would ruin Duke’s long-term reputation and thus my own academic credentials. My family, understandably, felt the same. I vividly remember a heated conversation I had with my father while sitting in my room on the 2nd floor of Giles. My father is a university administrator himself, and he was shocked by what he felt was the Duke administration’s lack of support for the students on the lacrosse team. He told me to apply to transfer to UPenn, which is near our family’s home and where he had expected me to go when I was deciding between colleges. My father had a point. I certainly never expected my freshman year at Duke to involve protestors yelling outside of my residence hall. Yet whenever I stepped off the C1 bus and looked up at the Chapel, the notion of being anywhere else besides The full list of 33 students and workers can be the Gothic Wonderland immediately seemed absurd. found online .

Ten years later, it is clear joining the Duke community was the best decision I could have made. When I interviewed Dean of Admissions Christoph Guttentag in the fall of 2006, I asked him how Duke would compete for top students against other elite schools that had not recently suffered from 24/7 criticism in the media. He told me that he was confident prospective students would realize that “Duke is a special place.” He was right—in the decade since the Duke lacrosse scandal, the number of applicants who aspire to join the Duke family every

year has increased by 50 percent. The lacrosse scandal was as much about Durham as it was about Duke. President Brodhead’s administration and the Board of Trustees deserve credit for recognizing this when they created the Office of Durham and Regional Affairs in 2008 and hired Phail Wynn, Jr. to head the department (despite him having a Tar Heel MBA). I visit Duke regularly, and I’m amazed by how much more integrated Duke students have become with Durham compared with my own time there. When I talk to recent graduates at New York City alumni events, I am shocked by how positive of an impression they have of Durham. It’s a stark contract from when I was at Duke, and I believe many people are surprised by the dramatic improvement in town-gown relationships that took place from the nadir of March 2006 (I am conscious that there are still salient issues at Duke yet to be resolved, which is no different than almost every college campus in the country). Since the lacrosse scandal, we’ve seen our alumni lead the world’s largest technology company as well as the world’s most influential private foundation. We saw the late Aubrey McClendon (T ’81) play a major role in leading the American energy revolution. We’ve had Nobel Prize winners, Rhodes scholars, Fulbright scholars and countless talented individuals represent Duke positively around the world. I’ve seen my classmates, friends and fraternity brothers become influential journalists, humanitarians, professional athletes and inventors (and let’s not forget the investment bankers and management consultants either). Our athletic success this past decade has been also noteworthy. We watched our football team win its first Bowl game since before man walked on the moon. Since 2006, our Women’s Basketball team won five conference titles (tough break this year), our Men’s Basketball team won two titles and JJ Reddick scored an NBA career high 40 points this past January in his 10th NBA season. And perhaps most relevant, our Men’s Lacrosse team won its first championship in 2010 (and two more since) just five years after there was discussion of canceling the program permanently. Duke has had success across every vertical in recent years. But it is important to reflect on the Duke lacrosse scandal—it was one of the darkest yet most important chapters of our family’s history, and one that led to intense introspection. It truly seemed like it was the world versus Duke, and now it is clear that Duke persevered. While far from perfect, the Duke family became stronger from the challenge. I hope we strive to be even better. Let’s make our Gothic Wonderland proud. Go Duke. Neal SenGupta graduated from Trinity College in 2009.

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