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Interest in substance-free housing rapidly declining Neelesh Moorthy The Chronicle In the past few years, Duke has seen a significant decline in demand for substancefree housing. Substance-free housing is currently available for freshmen in Jarvis on East Campus and in Wannamaker Quadrangle on West Campus. However, student demand to be placed in such housing has declined recently, said Dean for Residential Life Joe Gonzalez. Gonzalez noted that for the 2015-16 year, three of the four Wannamaker towers are currently substance-free—whereas in previous years, all four have been substance-free. Only one tower next year will be substance-free. “I think it’s good that at least there is that option,” said senior Emily Schmitz, who lived in one of Wannamaker’s substance-free sections for a semester. “Even if it’s not filling up, at least people who want to live there still have that option. It’s not like they want to live there but aren’t allowed to.” According to the Duke Student Affairs website, Wannamaker is currently home to approximately 230 students. Gonzalez wrote that in previous years, most of Wannamaker could be filled with substance-free housing students. However, only 24 students requested substance-free housing on West Campus for the 2015-16 year and only 16 have requested it for the next academic year. By January 2018, Jarvis—along with Epworth and East Residence Hall—will be replaced by a new dorm due to renovation plans. Although plans for substance-free housing for freshmen have not been finalized, Gonzalez said that removing substance-free housing from East Campus

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is a possible option. Gonzalez noted that one of the reasons the number of Wannamaker substance-free options will be decreased is to avoid having to assign students to substance-free who did not request to be there. Students also have different perceptions on the substance-free housing experience. The quiet nature of substance-free dorms, especially at night, is a positive, said freshman Kathryn Vera, who chose to live in Jarvis. Senior Safa Kaleem, a current resident assistant in Wannamaker, noted that there was

a strong sense of community and attendance at dorm events because many students had consciously chosen to live there. Freshman Leah Rosen, who did not request substance-free housing, said that she feels judged by others in Jarvis who requested to be in the dorm, and that people who go to parties more often are sometimes stigmatized. Vera, however, said that this is contrary to her experience, and that she has yet to meet anyone in Jarvis who is critical of other lifestyles. She added that she has experienced

at times a stigma against students who choose to live in substance-free housing. “I know substance-free people who don’t live in Jarvis who don’t want to be grouped with a person who would be selected to be in a substance-free area,” Rosen said. “Because the type of person who would select to be in it might not know how to respond or deal with people with different lifestyles from them.” Freshman Sam Sadler, who said she is substance-free but specifically chose not to See SUBSTANCE FREE on Page 4

New BSA President Horn looks to unite campus minority groups Claire Ballentine The Chronicle Junior Tiana Horn was recently elected president of the Black Student Alliance. The Chronicle’s Claire Ballentine sat down with Horn to discuss her hopes for her tenure next year and issues on campus.

Special to The Chronicle Tiana Horn was recently elected BSA president and hopes to focus on providing a strong community for students.

The Chronicle: What are the biggest goals you want to accomplish as president? Tiana Horn: I’d say my biggest goals are continuing BSA’s legacy. I feel like it’s really important that we focus on being a really good community for people who identify within the black community. That’s just important because a lot of times when issues rise up, it’s important that people feel like there’s a place that they feel safe and a place where they feel welcomed. And of course, it also makes them feel like their

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Duke experience is a lot better—everyone wants to be accepted. So I’d say our biggest goals are building a strong community within the student body as well as being advocates for the black people around us such as staff members and faculty and other people around us whose voices right now aren’t being heard. TC: What are you hoping to change about BSA, and what do you hope to continue? TH: As far as changing, there are some things from my freshman year that I’d really like to see brought back. We had a mentoring program that I want to bring back, and I feel like that’s something that can help build community by connecting freshmen with upperclassmen and possibly even expanding that to alumni. My sophomore year, I did some work in changing how our general body meetings ran which helped with membership

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retention because, like a lot of groups, a lot of people come to the first general body meeting and then after that a lot of the upperclassmen tend to fall off. Just finding ways to increase membership engagement, that’s something I hope to continue. Continuing with the real talks and just making sure our voices are heard. I would like to make it more inclusive of groups within the African diaspora. I would like to unite minority groups. My sophomore year, I worked on creating a unity dinner with leaders of different minority groups like Mi Gente, [Native American Student Alliance], [Asian Students Association] and next year I’d like to continue that but also expand it to reach other minority groups and include them as well, like Blue Devils United— kind of making BSA a community within the black community but also a place for

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Popular bakery Rise opens downtown Durham location Adam Beyer The Chronicle The popular bakery Rise opened a new location in downtown Durham during Spring Break. The shop—which serves biscuits and doughnuts—launched March 12 in a space formerly occupied by bakery Daisy Cakes on Foster Street near the Durham Farmers’ Market. Since the opening of the first shop in Durham in November 2012, Rise has won several local and national awards. The chain was selected as the eatery with the Best Biscuit in the Triangle two years in a row and was listed as one of FastCasual. com’s Top 100 Movers and Shakers in 2015. “We just really strive to make the best dang biscuits and doughnuts we can and

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create loyalty with our customers and employees,” said Brian Wiles, Rise’s chief operating officer. The franchise also recently added sites in Carrboro, Morrisville and Raleigh. Wiles said he hopes the new location, which is closer to Duke’s campus, will attract more patrons from the Duke community than its original storefront near Southpoint Mall. “Southpoint is awkward location for students. I’m hoping that as people come back from spring break that we are going to see a nice influx of Duke students [downtown],” he said. The Carrboro location, which opened in February, already attracts a mix of See RISE on Page 4

Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and Anthony Alvernaz | The Chronicle The bakery Rise was selected as the eatery with the Best Biscuit in the Triangle two years in a row and recently opened a new location in downtown Durham.

Nicholas School opens institute to protect national parks Claire Ballentine The Chronicle A new institute at Duke aims to support America’s national parks and protected areas. The Nicholas School of the Environment will host the Park Institute of America, a collaboration between Duke and the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, a nonprofit organization of former National Park Service employees. The institute will work to promote national parks and perform necessary studies about their management, said Stuart Pimm, Doris Duke professor of conservation ecology. “The main goal is to provide technical

help, advice and assistance for the National Park Service from engaged, passionate people who believe national parks are an extraordinary treasure,” Pimm said. The institute will sponsor research and work to raise awareness about the challenges that national parks face, he said. It will also provide the park service with assistance in a technical capacity, focusing on management techniques. Maureen Finnerty, chair of the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, explained in an email that the institute will also strive to communicate the value of parks and protected areas. “Hopefully the institute will also serve as a ‘hub’ helping to connect like-minded See NATIONAL PARKS on Page 4

Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The main goal for the new institute will be to provide technical help for the National Park Service from experts passionate about the environment.

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Duke experts note far-reaching implications of Apple-FBI conflict Rohan Kothari The Chronicle The clash between Apple and the FBI about access to encrypted information on an iPhone involved in the San Bernardino shooting could have lasting effects for the technology industry, Duke experts said. In February, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Fuqua ’88, wrote a letter on Apple’s website saying the company would contest an order from a U.S. magistrate to assist the government in unlocking the iPhone of San Bernadino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. A court hearing on the issue, originally scheduled for Tuesday, was postponed after the Justice Department said Monday it might not PROFESSOR CHARLES DUNLAP need Apple’s help in unlocking the phone. “If the FBI wins, I believe it means that even the richest and most powerful companies must yield to the rule of law as determined by the courts,” wrote Charles Dunlap, professor of the practice of law and executive director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, in an email. Dunlap noted that although there is not necessarily anything wrong with a company appealing a court order, his sense is that what technology companies want is to be able to sell devices that would “bar law enforcement or the courts from getting information from them under any circumstances.” “In my view, a society needs to

balance security and other legitimate interests, including commercial ones,” Dunlap wrote. “But I think an absolute bar as the tech companies appear to want would tilt that balance too much towards corporate profits, and would leave too many in our society vulnerable to terrorists and criminal exploitation. Most people simply cannot afford the layers of security that Silicon Valley billionaires can buy.” The FBI’s court order to force Apple to create a “backdoor” into the phone of the shooter in the December 2015 attack—which left 14 dead and 22 seriously injured—raised concerns about balancing national security with consumers’ privacy. In his open letter, Cook stated that if Apple was forced to develop the technology to hack into the phone, then “the technique could be used over and over again” to hack into any active phone. “The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers,” he wrote. “We oppose this order which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand.” Cook did not respond to The Chronicle’s request for comment. Salman Azhar, visiting associate professor and entrepreneur in residence, noted that the security of technological platforms are what make them desirable for customers. “For example, even Gmail, if it was easy for people to break into it, consumers would stop using it and start using other email products,” Azhar said. Azhar said that a mobile phone in particular contains a lot of personal

Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Apple CEO Tim Cook, Fuqua ’88, wrote in an open letter online last month that the government’s demands threaten the security of the company’s customers.

information, so companies would be especially worried about them being broken into. He added that Apple’s motives for opposing the FBI are likely self-interested. “Some person who has a choice between buying an Android or iPhone, if they know that with Android, their information is more secure would opt for an Android device as opposed to an iPhone... so I think there is a business aspect to it,” Azhar noted. The case may set up a precedent for other tech companies, he said, noting

that if Apple lost the case then companies like Google would also likely be forced to change their security protocols. Dunlap, however, warned that companies can go too far potentially compromising national security—noting he thinks Americans care more about safety than corporate protections for companies like Apple. “I really believe that most people would opt for security, provided the courts oversee the process to ensure the constitution is scrupulously observed,” Dunlap wrote.

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NATIONAL PARKS from page 2 organizations doing similar important work,” she wrote. Finnerty noted that the idea for the institute came approximately 10 years ago when several founding members of the coalition decided the parks needed stronger advocates to ensure their protection and preservation. The National Park Service’s 100th anniversary this August makes it an opportune time to advocate for better resources, studies and problem-solving techniques, Pimm added. Although the institute will be based at Duke, it will be an independent, nonprofit organization that will be operated by private funding from an aggressive fundraising strategy, Finnerty explained. Pimm noted that national parks today face many issues, including a lack of funding—a problem that the institute hopes to address. “They are a greatly undervalued national asset,” he said. “We ought to make a greater investment in them.” The institute also plans to promote the value of

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environmental education, particularly among youth in America. It will fund student internships and promote educational programming. Duke was chosen to host the institute because of the passion that professors on campus have for the environment, Pimm said. However, the institute will not focus solely on environmental issues. Scholars in the history and cultural studies departments will also be involved, Pimm noted. “People across the Duke family are going to be excited about the collaboration,” he said.

He noted that the shop likes to change up its biscuit menu throughout the year to include seasonal ingredients, but that “tried and true” favorites are chicken biscuits and fried green tomato biscuits. The bakery sources its flour, eggs and pork locally, Wiles added. The original bakery was started by Tom Ferguson, a Durham chef and former army ranger who founded Only Burger and the Durham Catering Company, both of which he has since sold. Wiles explained that Ferguson initially wanted to open a biscuit restaurant, but after visiting several shops in Oregon and encountering a doughnut shop, he developed a plan to sell both biscuits and donuts. The idea soon took off, and when Wiles from page 2 joined the venture in May 2012, the two went on a seven-state doughnut tour to learn the craft. Wiles noted that Rise is expanding rapidly, with current plans students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel for 26 total stores. The planned growth mostly comes from Hill and local high schools, and the new site in Raleigh works well for North Carolina State University students, franchise agreements with partners—many of whom developed interest after trying Rise’s doughnuts and biscuits—in North Wiles explained. The store’s popular doughnut offerings include its Carolina, Florida and Texas. The new downtown Durham site is open daily from 7 a.m. maple bacon bar, chocolate iced doughnut and creme until 2 p.m. brulee doughnut.

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SUBSTANCE FREE from page 1 live in Jarvis, noted that one of the reasons she chose not to live in Jarvis is that she did not want to be labeled as “fearing people who choose to drink or smoke.” Students who did not request to be in substance-free living might face more severe punishments for violations than they would in other dorms, said freshman Francia Fang. She added that a student had been kicked out of Jarvis and forced to move for an alcohol-related infraction—an incident less likely to happen in other dorms. Sadler attributed the decreasing demand to students seeing the substance-free housing option as less and less necessary to practice a substance-free lifestyle on campus. “When I got here, I realized I can be around this environment and stick with what I believe, and it wouldn’t surprise me if others started feeling the same way,” she said. “Living in substance-free housing isn’t a requirement anymore.” The Chronicle spoke with Gonzalez on the phone and via email.

HORN from page 1 other minority groups. I wouldn’t necessarily say changing anything but more expanding the foundation. TC: What do you think the most prevalent issues on campus are right now? TH: Right now, I would definitely say the most prevalent issue is the issue with [Executive Vice President] Tallman Trask and Ms. [Shelvia] Underwood. I feel like that just shows a gross misjustice of power, so that’s something that I believe BSA needs to be a part of and bringing more transparency to issues like that. I think that’s the biggest issue on campus. It all just stems back to building a community because building a strong black community would just catalyze a community that can stand up for other people who are mistreated who don’t have a voice or whose voices are being ignored or threatened. TC: How do you hope to continue the progress that BSA has made this year? TH: We’ve made a lot of progress in making sure that our voice is heard. Definitely just meeting with President [Richard] Brodhead and discussing the task force on hate and bias and making sure our voice is heard through that more than it has in the past because even the fact that the issue with Ms. Underwood, that she was treated so badly, the fact that it is just now being brought to light is just indicative of the issue with racial tensions in the institution as a whole, and I think the discussion surrounding inclusivity and racial bias is something that needs to be continued. TC: What challenges do you anticipate facing? TH: I feel as though my biggest challenge and the challenge of BSA is making sure the administration doesn’t try to silence us and make it seem like the issues that we care about aren’t important or should be overlooked. Because even the fact that the administration hasn’t given a concrete statement regarding the Ms. Underwood and Tallman Trask issue and that that situation has not been faced is definitely a problem. So just working with administration is always the biggest challenge, but it’s a challenge that I’m ready to face, and I think BSA is ready to face because at the end of the day we’re all here to learn, but we can’t do that if we feel that it’s not a safe environment and that we’re not welcome.

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FALCONS STORM BACK, CLIP BLUE DEVILS Air Force overcomes big second-half deficit to stun Duke with walk-off goal at the end of overtime Phil Coons The Chronicle

Strength and resiliency are trademark qualities of Air Force cadets throughout the nation, and the Falcons’ lacrosse team was no exception Tuesday night. Attackman Christian Walsch scored on a three-on-one fast break with 10 seconds left in overtime as the No. 20 Falcons upset No. 11 Duke 10-9 at Koskinen Stadium, breaking FORCE 10 the Blue Devils’ DUKE 9 two-game winning streak and once again poking holes in a Blue Devil squad that has had an up-and-down year. After trailing by as many as five in the first half, Air Force roared back in the second half behind Walsch’s three goals and four assists, and the Falcons left Durham with a win for the first time since 1975. “Air Force just outplayed us—we had plenty of opportunities,” Duke head coach John Danowski said. “Their goalie was brilliant and defensively I thought they were much tougher than our kids. I think their kids just wanted to win more than our kids.” Falcon goalkeeper Dough Gouchoe delivered five of his 17 saves in the third quarter, subduing the Blue Devil offense as Air Force (7-2) used a 6-0 run in the second half to grab a 9-8

Jim Liu | The Chronicle Air Force scored six unanswered goals in the second half to take a 9-8 lead, then scored the game-winner in the final seconds of overtime to beat the Blue Devils Tuesday in Durham.

lead with 10 minutes left in regulation. Walsch led the way with seven points, Christopher Allen had two goals and fellow attackman Nick Hruby chipped in two goals and an assist. “If you look up on the board, I wrote, ‘60 minutes, the academies won’t quit,’” Danowski said. “These kids had no quit in them, they played hard and they believed that they were going to

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win. I think that when it was 5-2, we had a little bit of fool’s gold. With the Loyola and Georgetown game, maybe both teams just had bad days, and we are not as good as we thought we were and maybe there was a little bit of that mentality.” With six minutes left in regulation, senior Deemer Class received a pass from linemate Case Matheis, squared

his shoulders and buried the ball into the back of the net to the tie the game. Duke (6-4) had a chance to win it at the buzzer, but sophomore Justin Guterding’s shot with five seconds left hit the pipe and bounced out as the game went into extra time. Stalemated early on in overtime, a Greg Pelton pushing call gave the Falcons a chance to win the game with an extra-man opportunity. The Blue Devils held on, but neither offense could get much going. As the final seconds ticked off, a confusing sequence left junior defenseman Ethan Powley injured on the ground, kickstarting the fast break that produced Walsch’s game-ending goal. “I thought [Powley] was pushed over the midfield line,” Danowski said. “But the referee makes that call, but we threw it away. It had nothing to do with the officials.” Turnovers were the story for both teams in the first half, as Air Force and Duke combined for 15 giveaways. The Falcon defense challenged the Blue Devil offense early, forcing bad shots and giving Class and company fits. Jack Bruckner started the scoring with a lunging goal around Gouchoe off a dart from Guterding behind the net. Duke jumped out to a 3-0 lead behind goals from Bruckner, Chad Cohan and Class, but Walsch kept the See M. LACROSSE on Page 13

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ECU continues Duke’s skid Boutier, Duke claim titles Hank Tucker The Chronicle After a mistake-filled weekend sweep at the hands of then-No. 11 North Carolina, Duke could not end its skid against another in-state foe. East Carolina rallied from a three-run deficit to edge the Blue Devils 8-6 Tuesday night at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, scoring two runs in 8 the seventh inning ECU DUKE 6 and three in the eighth after Duke jumped out to a 6-3 lead. The Pirates outhit the Blue Devils 15-7, and catcher Travis Watkins smacked a two-run double into the gap in left-center to put East Carolina in front for good. “There in the later innings, what we were victimized by is we had opportunities to execute two-strike counts, and we didn’t do it. We gave up three 0-2 RBI base-hits,” Duke head coach Chris Pollard said. “We just didn’t

get the pitches to the spots that we needed to in those counts, and that’s on us. Not taking anything away from what they did, but at the same time we’ve got to execute to our spot.” Sophomore reliever Ryan Day retired the first two batters of the seventh frame, but the Pirates mounted a two-out rally with three singles and a walk to trim the deficit to one. Senior southpaw Nick Hendrix came on to record the final out of the seventh to strand two runners, but immediately ran into trouble in the next inning. Jeff Nelson and Luke Bolka each hit singles with no outs, and Watkins cleared the bases before advancing to third on another single and scoring on a squeeze bunt by Eric Tyler. The Blue Devils (10-11) went down quietly in the eighth and ninth and did not get a hit in the last four frames as rookie Cam Colmore threw 2 1/3 shutout innings in relief to get the win.

Duke head coach Dan Brooks takes pride in his team’s ability to perform well on tough courses, and his squad’s dominant victory Tuesday showed why. The Blue Devils went wire-to-wire at The University Club in Baton Rouge, La., posting their first win of 2016 with a firstplace finish at the LSU Tiger Golf Classic. The team’s three-day total of 881—16 shots clear of runner-up No. 7 Arkansas—was highlighted by an impressive performance from senior Celine Boutier, who earned her fourth career victory and first win since her sophomore campaign after carding three rounds of par or better. Boutier asserted her position atop the leaderboard early for No. 2 Duke and never looked back. The Montrouge, France, native began the tournament with the lowest score of the opening round,

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Blue Devil men seek redemption at NCAA meet Ali Wells The Chronicle The Blue Devil men made program history throughout the 2015-16 campaign—finishing the fall semester undefeated, breaking into the national rankings and entering the postseason in the top 25—but they will not be satisfied until they redeem themselves for last season’s national championship performance. Seven athletes will represent No. 19 Duke at the four-day NCAA championships at Georgia Tech’s McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta starting Wednesday, looking to improve on the squad’s 2015 showing in which the Blue Devils could not put a point on the board. Last year, the 200-yard medley relay quartet of Kaz Takabayashi, Peter Kropp, David Armstrong and James Peek earned an automatic qualification to compete on the national stage but were disqualified for an early takeoff on a relay exchange in the evening finals. Kropp—who had earned an automatic berth in the 100-yard breaststroke thanks to his 52.02-second performance in the preliminaries of the 2015 ACC championships—could not replicate that success at the national championships in the morning and missed the chance to swim in the scored evening finals with a 19th-place finish. The Blue Devils have already had a taste of disappointment in this year’s postseason. Despite entering the conference championships as the clear favorite to win the

Khloe Kim | Chronicle File Photo The Blue Devils will return to the NCAA championships looking to atone for a relay disqualification in last year’s event and put points on the scoreboard.

short breaststroke, Kropp finished seventh in 53.47 seconds Feb. 26—nearly a half-second slower than his morning swim of 52.96. The medley relay was eager to bring home another medal, but a new school record of 1:25.00 was not enough to put the Blue Devil squad on the podium. “The objective is score,” Duke head coach Dan Colella said. “It’s all about racing, and these guys have done a great job all season long and have put themselves in the position where we have the possibility of scoring. We were hoping to break that 1:25 barrier at ACCs, but we had a couple of miscues. That

was the frustration—if we had hit everything— but that’s just what happens.” But the Blue Devils will have their shot at redemption Friday in both the 200-yard medley relay and the 100-yard breaststroke. Duke is seeded 15th in its best relay event with its school-record time and will look to lower that mark and break into the top eight in hopes of swimming in the championship final. The Blue Devils are less than two seconds slower than top seed N.C. State and are within nine-tenths of a second of Michigan—the team projected to claim the final spot in the faster evening heat. Duke secured its spot in

the B-final last year with a 15th-place finish in the morning with a time of 1:25.35. With a season-best time of 52.13 seconds— just five one-hundredths slower than the automatic cut time—Kropp will enter Friday’s contest as the eighth-seeded swimmer. The Los Angeles native all but punched his ticket to the national championships with his first swim of the season, posting the then-fastest time in the nation in Duke’s dual with Pittsburgh Oct. 3. But excluding the ACC championships, Kropp has not posted a time near that early mark in an individual swim. The junior did contribute a blistering 51.13-second split on his leg of the schoolrecord-breaking 400-yard medley relay at the Nike Cup Invitational in November, but has been relatively quiet since. He relinquished his spot on the long medley relay at the conference championships after junior Dylan Payne beat him to the wall in the evening finals of the 100-yard breaststroke, outdoing the Blue Devil star in 53.34 seconds. But Kropp was not tapered and shaved in February—he sported a full beard for the championships in Greensboro, N.C.— as his focus for the whole season has been on this weekend’s races. “Peter posted that time at the first dual meet of the season and immediately took the pressure off about qualifying for NCAAs. He wasn’t shaved or fully tapered by any means for ACCs—the focus has been NCAAs,” Colella said. “Last year was an opportunity See SWIMMING on Page 16

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Carta began the event in a funk, carding five-over-par in her opening 10 holes, but erased the early struggles by shooting just one-over-par during the final 44 holes of the tournament. “I think Virginia learned a lot this tournament,” Brooks said. “We were playing in wind, so she was able to use her power and her length a couple of times, I think that helped her. But mostly I think she just settled herself down and learned how to get a score.” During the final round, the Udine, Italy, native notched five birdies and three bogies, jumping 14 spots up the leaderboard and besting the course’s scoring average by more than nine strokes. The tie-for-second-place showing marks the best finish of Elena Carta’s career. The 6,237-yard course boasted the highest scoring average of any setup the Blue Devils have faced this year at 78.99, but it failed to halt a charging Duke team that rose to the occasion. Collectively, the Blue Devils did not post a single individual round above 78—the only team in the field to do so. The rest of Duke’s lineup—Sandy Choi, Gurbani Singh and Leona Maguire— all finished at 12-over-par, good for a tie for 14th place. Singh had the most eventful scorecard of the bunch, though it netted her best finish of the season. The sophomore carded just five pars on the front nine during the entire event and finished 93rd out of 96 players in pars made, but also finished with 12 birdies throughout the tournament—tied for the most of any golfer. Singh notched four double-bogies or worse during the 54-hole shootout, but also recorded the first eagle

posting a bogey-free, five-under-par 67— the best single-day performance by any player during the event and good enough for a five-stroke lead after 18 holes. By carding just four bogeys on the final 36 holes en route to scores of 72 and 69 in the last two rounds, she kept her momentum rolling and finished as the only player in the field without an over-par round. The senior’s success this week was driven by her skill on the par-4 holes, where she went four-under-par—seven strokes better than any other player. “She looks like she’s hitting the ball where she wants to hit it and seems to be patient out there, and she’s just doing all of the things that Celine does so well,” Brooks said. “I think she’s going to play her hardest all of the time, I don’t think it would make a big difference whether she was way in the lead or not. She only knows one way—she’s a competitor.” The victory was a bounce-back effort for Boutier, who entered the weekend fresh off her worst finish of the season—a tie for 45th place at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate in early March. Boutier did show a glimpse of this week’s dominance during her last start, though, as she improved 10 strokes between her second and third rounds, shooting 80 and 70, respectively. Boutier’s total score of 208 left her 14 shots clear of the event’s next two best performers, who tied for second place with scores of 222. One runner-up was Duke freshman Virginia Elena Carta, who posted the best showing of her young sudoku_526A career after rounds of 75, 77 and 70. Elena

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gain with anti-Muslim xenophobia like Senator Ted Cruz who called for police to “patrol and secure” Muslim neighborhoods, others—more subtly but just as damagingly—pick and choose which calamities to care about. This is no new phenomenon. It happened after Charlie Hebdo, Paris and now Brussels with crises going on simultaneously in Turkey, Syria and around the world. Of course we have greater concern for tragedies that hit closer to home

Editorial or that shock us. But proximity is no excuse for stopping at that. Being empathetic and caring is not just for the brazen few who feel inspired towards action. They are what make us human. Why is it so difficult to sit and reflect on each and every tragedy that occurs? Should the world grind to a halt when a bomb goes off or a city razed? The scale of global suffering is often beyond our comprehension, yet even still the unconscious choices we allow ourselves to make in what we pay close attention to and what we scroll past or turn our heads away from need to be brought to

light. The effort to join a vigil at the Duke Chapel for those whose lives have been ended is well-allocated. The time spent reading about the turmoil behind the Syrian refugee crisis is time well spent. The work performed by volunteering for a local food drive or fundraiser is work worth doing. We must also allow these events to inform us about the world, how little we truly understand about its seven billion inhabitants and hundreds of countries. We must not permit politicians to exploit our fears, for each life taken to prove a political point is an outrage. We must continue to express our solidarity to all those in suffering. Stand with Brussels. Stand with Ankara. Stand with Paris. Stand with all the places and people living in fear or uncertainty. We are privileged with a world-class education and access to some of the finest programs and opportunities to set us on the path to being influential in our lives. These tragedies, both the kinds that grab headlines and that have been humanitarian causes for decades, are neither coming nor going. We must see each and every one of them for what they are, and we best not stand idly by.

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recently became engulfed in a minor existential crisis. It crept up on me slowly enough—January rolled around and I transitioned out of some leadership positions so others could take over. I decided to underload with classes I thought I’d enjoy as opposed to ones that solely fulfilled requirements. I became increasingly disinterested and disengaged with a social climate I found emotionally exhausting and at times toxic. Spring break arrived, and I spent the week engaged in pure unadulterated bliss unbeholden to the stresses that have accompanied past times off. Now, I am back on campus and other than a handful of continued

lacking is how exactly to make the most of the time that remains. And that has got me thinking—how do we make the most our remaining experience when our only real purpose is to fade out of it? I love Duke, but more and more I feel ready to move on to the next chapter of my life, having grown weary with the repetition of classes, work, socialize, repeat. I am not naïve to the pressures and monotony of corporate America—I am sure I’ll have a new set of complaints when I get there— but I am certainly ready for some sort of new trajectory. But I have also become

Michelle Menchaca A WORK IN PROGRESS responsibilities, I have fewer obligations than any other point of my college experience. There are fewer “things I absolutely have to do/attend” and more “things I can do/attend if I feel like it.” It was as if everything I’ve ever known was continuing on without me. And so came a shocking revelation: I had become irrelevant. I’m sure it is a feeling many seniors can relate to. Activities and organizations that have been an integral part of our Duke experience are winding down to their end. We will no longer be campus leaders or even participants. We are letting go of things we’ve been building on for the past few years, and for many of us, the opportunities we pursue next entail starting completely over again. And when it’s put that way, it is mildly terrifying. Spring break is behind us, classes have kicked off and the countdown to LDOC has begun. For us seniors though, we are no longer just counting down to the last day of class, but the last day of our undergraduate careers. Up until now, we could get away with counting up to various time markers—end of fall semester, first day of classes, spring break. But now the inescapable reality is upon us, and the only thing we really have to count down to is the end. We can now speak almost entirely in terms of “lasts”—last exam, last Old Duke, last WNS, last beach week. And if my various forms of social media are accurate, there is a collective flurry over how rapidly approaching our graduation day is. There is no shortage of lamenting statuses, nostalgic photos of years prior and the always classic #nevergraduate. But while I have noticed much discussion on how little time we have left, what has been

increasingly vexed by how to spend these next weeks as meaningfully as possible. Does it mean slaving away at the library and ensuring a final academic performance I can be proud of? My total lack of motivation and apparent senioritis would suggest otherwise. Is this the time to really throw academic fixation to the wayside and focus on the more intangible qualities of my college experience? For a while I have been set on the idea that “making the most” of my time left meant having fun and spending time with friends. The objective to simply “have a good time” seems appealing at first, but there is also something undeniably unsatisfying. I spent my entire last week lounging around at the beach and remaining carefree, but by the end I could not help but wonder, for what purpose? There was no overarching objecting to doing nothing, and even in just a week I became restless. I am not trying to diminish the value of unstructured time, but eventually the goal of just enjoying time is no longer enough. I am fortunate to know what I am doing next year and understand what a privilege that is, but it doesn’t make the restlessness any more digestible. Senior spring should be a time where responsibilities start to diminish and we close out our college career, but it is also a time for continued growth and gain. There may be no “right” way to spend the last six weeks, but I hope we can all seek out ways to add meaning to our remaining experience. Michelle Menchaca is a Trinity senior. Her column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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ell, here we go again: another sectarian terrorist attack, another spate of nativist prejudice flaring up across the national discourse. As a small group of extremist terrorists once more encourage the misrepresentation of a diverse and peaceful group, the point must once more be made loudly and clearly: the Irish are not all terrorists. The attack I’m referring to is, of

cards when so few of them pose a risk? In the same vein, is it really productive to further alienate the Irish community by patrolling their neighbourhoods looking out for radicalisation? I would argue this is a massive overreaction and risks enflaming intercommunal relations by accusing innocent people ofWait, what was that? Sorry, I can’t hear you—can you speak louder? What? They…they don’t say that about the

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course, the deadly bomb attack against a police officer carried out by the so-called “Real IRA” in Northern Ireland earlier this month. Now, I understand why much of the American public must fear and distrust the Irish after the events of the past few decades: it is true that for many years now small groups of Irish terrorists have been engaged in seemingly senseless violence, targeting soldiers and civilians alike with guns and explosives for purely ideological reasons. Examples such as the Omagh bombing in 1998 which killed 29 people in County Tyrone, the 2001 Ealing bombing that happened just a few minutes from my high school or the Brighton hotel bombing that almost killed Margaret Thatcher have built up a strong impression in the mind of your average American that the typical Irishman is violent, fanatical and impossible to negotiate with. I want to emphasize that this simply is not so. There are around six million people living on the island of Ireland— and only 300 or so active members of the Real Irish Republican Army or “Real IRA.” The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of Irish people are peaceloving, friendly people no different from you or me. Yes, we hear of bombings and shootings in Northern Ireland at least every month—but this violence is being conducted by the minority, typically with the victims themselves being Irish. Yet every time one tiny terrorist faction carries out another anti-Protestant attack members of the Irish community find themselves called upon over and over again to protest the innocence of the Irish as a group. Well as the child of both a British and an Irish citizen I want to say that I know for a fact that Irish people are not terrorists and that being Irish is compatible with Western values. Irish Catholicism, I insist, is a religion of peace—even if some of its most visible adherents seem to indicate otherwise. They, I protest, are not true Catholics. With the vanishingly small proportion of Irish people that are terrorists in mind, we must question the validity of some of the things right-wing politicians have been proposing recently. Is it sensible to ban Irish people from coming to the U.S.? Does it make sense to force all Irish people and their children in the U.S. to carry ID

Irish? Really? The average American doesn’t think every Irish person is a terrorist? I’m not going to lie, that’s kind of surprising. Well, you know, I had kind of assumed since you all go so crazy over the whole Islamic terrorism thing that you would be terrified of Irish people and propose the same restrictions for them as for Muslims. Why? Well we’re way more terrorist-y than Muslims! Okay, look at it like this: there’ve been around 10,000 members of the IRA since the 1960s, most of whom are presumably still alive. That means that about 0.17 percent of the Irish population were active IRA members, at least in its heyday. Now compare that with Islamic terrorism. If we take the most generous estimates for ISIS’ numbers (250,000 people according to a Kurdish estimate) that still only represents 0.015% of the total 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. You know, I get that there are more of them than there are us, but we’re proportionally more than 10 times as terrorist-y as the Muslims! Does that mean nothing to you people? So, okay, I’m still trying to wrap my head around this. Americans really haven’t developed any terroristic stereotypes of Irish and people of Irish descent? There’re no threats to strip away our civil rights, no intentions to crack down on our communities in an ineffectual and counter-productive bid to suppress the few of us who might support terrorism? Because you know that there really are Irish-Americans who support or have supported terrorism, right? As Ann Applebaum at the Washington Post notes, American donations were once the main source of funding for the IRA’s terrorist activity. Plenty of Irish Americans used to regularly give donations to the IRA with the go-ahead of the local police and even politicians. Can you imagine what would happen if people found out everyday MuslimAmericans were donating money to ISIS? And yet the only thing we have a reputation for is alcohol abuse! Well, I don’t know. I guess there must just be some unknowable reason that Muslims get a reputation for all being violent terrorists and the Irish don’t. Bron Maher is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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of several resources that could be used if members of our community feel threatened was a fantastic way to reinforce that we are all one Duke, and that prejudiced hatred will not be tolerated. About three hours later, I was surprised by another email: this one expressing sympathy regarding “the tragic bombings that occurred in Turkey last week.” Presumably, this email was referring to the March 13 Ankara attack that occurred slightly more than a week ago which claimed dozens of lives and left more than 100 people injured. News of this attack flooded by mainstream media. Of course, the key word in Moneta’s email is the plural “bombings” which may indicate that in addition to the March 13 attack, his email may also be referring to the March 19 bombing in Istanbul that left 3 Israelis and 1 Iranian dead, injuring many more. It may also be referring to the March 22 Nusaybin bombing where a member of the PKK murdered Turks near the Syrian border. While it is undoubtedly true the March 13 bombing was the main attack referenced, Moneta’s use of the plural “bombings” may have shown that he and the administration are aware that this terror is not singular, but is a regular occurrence and threat for many who have relatives or friends in other regions of the world. Regardless of whether the word “bombings” was deliberate, the statement on recent tragedies was still dreadfully inadequate. His email did not refer to the 13 policemen killed in Egypt March 20. It did not refer to the nearly two dozen humans murdered by Boko Haram during their morning prayer in Nigeria on March 16. It did not refer to the American Vanderbilt student killed and 11 Israelis (both Jewish and Arab) stabbed along a beach boardwalk in Jaffa, Israel, on March 9 while Vice President Joe Biden was less than one mile away. There was no mention of the bus

bombing in Pakistan, the tourists gunned down in Tunisia or the massacres in Iraq and Syria that have occurred every several days. Even after Larry Moneta’s follow-up email, there is a wealth of global tragedies that have ties to American citizens, Western countries, Muslim communities and Duke students that have been ignored. We all want Duke to be “a place of safety and comfort” and I have little doubt about Moneta’s authenticity and heartache when he thinks of the students personally affected by events the world over. But can these emails

ever truly be enough? If it isn’t apparent by now, I will spell it out; there are countless global tragedies, and Larry Moneta will never be able to address them all. This comes from the raw numbers and sheer scale of violence in the world. Why do 32 deaths in Belgium and 37 deaths in Turkey receive administrative responses, but hundreds of deaths in Iraq and Syria receive little mention? Have we grown accustomed to them? Even still, when American citizen Taylor Force was murdered, and there is a direct link to the United States, the administration was silent. A single death caused by indiscriminate terror anywhere may have significant impact on a student in Duke’s community. It is difficult to place a threshold on how much carnage must transpire for the incident to qualify as severe enough for Moneta to send out an email reminding us of campus resources. Ultimately, we must stand together and condemn terror no matter where it may occur, whether it happens to Westerners or non-Westerners, to Christians or Muslims or Jews, and to hundreds of people or to just one. As Vice President Biden said just two days ago in Washington, D.C., “there is no excuse for killing innocents or remaining silent in the face of terrorism.” We need to rise above divisiveness and stop insisting that the administration issue an email every time an act of terror occurs; it would happen far, far too often. For logical consistency, we would need to requite the administration to either send an email every time an act of terror occurs or else never send one. Instead, whether the violence is in Belgium, Turkey, Paris or Israel, we must stand together as members of the Duke community and recognize that their struggle is our struggle. Tyler Fredricks is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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SWIMMING from page 12 for him to experience everything and learn a lot, and his approach is going to be very different this year. He has been really focused on swimming his race, and if he does that, I think we are going to see some really great stuff.” The breaststroke specialist will also swim the longer distance of his stroke discipline Saturday, seeded 44th based on his time of 1:57.75 from the conference championships. Unlike at last year’s NCAA championships, Kropp will not be Duke’s only individual competitor. Peek found himself third on the meet’s alternate list when the preliminary invitations were announced the first week of March but received his invitation thanks to scratches nearly a week later. The sprinter will compete in his signature 50-yard freestyle Thursday, in which he is seeded 30th with a school-record time of 19.54 seconds from the ACC championships, and Saturday’s 100-yard freestyle as the 50th seed with a time of 43.53 seconds.

“He was very proud to have represented Duke last year on the relays, but every swimmer wants to get qualified individually,” Colella said. “For him to get picked up and have the opportunity to swim, I know he’s really excited about it.” Rounding out Duke’s trio of individual athletes, Evan Moretti could compete in all three diving disciplines. The freshman punched his ticket for a return trip to Atlanta after claiming the 10th and final spot at the Zone B Diving Championships March 7 with a combined score of 708.35 on the three-meter springboard from both the preliminary and final rounds. Because Moretti earned zone qualifying marks for one-meter board and platform, he will be eligible to compete in those events as well. In addition to the 200-yard medley relay, the Blue Devils will also race in the morning preliminaries of the 400yard medley relay Thursday, looking to advance a second quartet to the 16-team evening finals. Duke is seeded 21st in 3:09.20. Colella will also bring juniors Michael Miller and Mike Seaberg as relay alternates. Peek will kick off the meet with the morning preliminaries of the 50-yard freestyle Thursday.

Henry Yu | The Chronicle Freshman Jimmy Herron led off the first inning with a double, but the Blue Devils watched a late lead slip away Tuesday.

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“That’s just baseball. Sometimes you have guys who come out of the pen and they just have our number,” redshirt junior Jalen Phillips said. “We have great hitters, so I don’t think it’s anything we should worry about.” East Carolina (14-7) struck first to put Duke in an early hole for the third straight game, as Kirk Morgan blooped an RBI single into right-center field. The ball landed just out of a reach of a diving Evan Dougherty while Charlie Yorgen scored from first. The Blue Devils responded right away, evening the score in the bottom of the first when freshman Jimmy Herron led off with a double and Pirates southpaw Nick Durazo threw sophomore Max Miller’s sacrifice bunt past his first baseman into right field. Miller reached second on the error and Herron easily trotted around to score. The Pirates took another one-run lead in the third on an RBI single by Watkins, but Duke once again had an immediate answer, scoring two runs in the bottom half of the inning though the ball left the infield just once. Phillips legged out an infield single to lead off, and Tyler could not handle a grounder by Herron at third base. Both runners advanced on Miller’s second sacrifice bunt, and Phillips scored on an RBI groundout by sophomore Jack Labosky before junior Cris Perez smacked a go-ahead double to deep right field. The Miami native was 2-for-4 at the plate and has a teamleading six doubles in the last five games. East Carolina tied the score at three with a run in the fourth, but Phillips helped the Blue Devils regain the lead with a two-run single in the bottom half of the inning after freshmen Zack Kone and Griffin Conine reached base on a single and a walk, respectively, and advanced on a sacrifice bunt by Dougherty. Phillips started and played first base for the first time since March 2 against Campbell and took advantage of the opportunity with his second multi-hit game of the year. “During [batting practice, hitting coach Jason] Stein told me that I might be playing today, and he said not 100 percent, but just be ready if you have an opportunity,” Phillips said. “[I was] just looking for something middle of the plate to drive, just kind of stay simple like Coach Stein teaches us.” Duke added another run in the next inning when Labosky led off with a bloop double that dropped into left field. The Clovis, Calif., native scored when Tyler’s throw to first sailed too high on a ground ball off the bat of Day. The Blue Devils took advantage of four errors by the Pirates to score three unearned runs, but East Carolina’s defense was mistake-free the rest of the way. “We were a lot better putting the ball in play and using our speed,” Pollard said. “We had a lot of pressure plays where we forced them to make mistakes, and that got our offense going. That needs to be a hallmark of what we do.” The Blue Devils will leave the DBAP for the first time in more than three weeks this weekend, opening a series against Wake Forest at Gene Hooks Field in Winston-Salem, N.C., Friday at 6 p.m.