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Central Campus overhaul to begin this summer Duke accepts 8.7 percent of RD applicants Likhitha Butchireddygari The Chronicle

of student affairs for Housing, Dining and Residence life, in an email. “It made more sense to invest those dollars in new residence halls instead of investing in very old buildings.” The entirety of the current Central Campus will no longer be in use by Summer 2020 or 2021, Johnson wrote. However, Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, noted that finishing the process of moving students off the current campus could take longer, with renovations of other

Duke’s regular decision acceptance rate was less than 9 percent for the first time ever this year. When admissions decisions were released at 7 p.m. Thursday, 2,501 of the 28,600 regular decision applicants—8.7 percent— learned that they were accepted. The University’s early decision acceptance rate of 23.5 percent for the Class of 2020 was also its lowest ever, with early decision applicants comprising 48 percent of the class. An additional 49 students who applied early and were deferred were admitted, down from 69 students last year. Last year’s regular decision acceptance rate was 9.4 percent. Dean of Admissions Christoph Guttentag said that one reason the admissions rate fell further this year was because of last year’s exceptionally high regular decision yield rate. “Because the number of students we admitted last year resulted in over enrollment, we admitted fewer students this year on the assumption that the yield will be similar,” Guttentag said. “We have admitted 150 students fewer than last year.” Duke’s overall acceptance rate for next year’s class combining early and regular

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Multicultural Greek Council and Ubuntu— are part of a series of construction projects intended to transform residential life at Duke. The work will eventually result in a new location for Central Campus with apartments on Campus Drive near Anderson Street as well as a new West Campus dormitory near Keohane and Edens Quadrangles for 300 students. “The buildings that are being retired have outlived their useful life and would require millions of dollars of investment to keep them going for a number of years,” wrote Rick Johnson, associate vice president

Samantha Neal The Chronicle Seven sections for student living groups on Central Campus will be relocated this summer to temporary housing while their sections are torn down or used to house other groups whose sections are being razed. The relocations—which will affect residents living in the sororities Chi Omega and Zeta Tau Alpha, fraternities Kappa Alpha and Sigma Nu and SLGs The Cube,

Mighty Ducks: Oregon ousts Blue Devils in Sweet 16 junior Matt Jones said. “It’s the gift and the curse of the NCAA tournament—you only have one day, one game to give it all you’ve got and they were the better team today.” The Blue Devils (25-11) struggled to adjust to a versatile and athletic Oregon squad that got up and down the floor in a hurry. Freshman Brandon Ingram finished with a game-high 24 points, but sophomore Grayson Allen was held to three first-half points and never got into a rhythm despite finishing with 15. Center Marshall Plumlee picked up his second foul with 14:37 remaining in the first half, and backup big man Chase Jeter came to the scorer’s table to check in at the next stoppage of play. Plumlee returned in the first half and avoided picking up his third personal, but only secured five rebounds as the Ducks (31-6) controlled the glass.

Sameer Pandhare The Chronicle ANAHEIM, Calif.—From tipping off at 10:10 p.m. Eastern time to a blazer-less Mike Krzyzewski at the first media timeout, not much was normal for Duke at the start of Thursday’s showdown against Oregon. Things did not get much better the rest of the way. The top-seeded Ducks used a balanced offensive attack to put an end to the Blue Devils’ season with an 82-68 victory Thursday in the Sweet 16 at the Honda Center. Coming into the game as one of the best defensive teams in the country, Oregon held Duke to just 7-of-22 shooting from deep and secured a 42-32 rebounding advantage, and five Ducks finished in double-figures, led by sophomore Dillon Brooks’ 22 points. “They were just a better team tonight,”

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Kristen Shortley | The Chronicle Oregon’s length and athleticism frustrated the Blue Devils all night as the top-seeded Ducks knocked the Blue Devils out of the NCAA tournament.

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Bias and hate task force survey measures everyday discrimination Neelesh Moorthy The Chronicle A recent survey put out by the University’s task force on bias and hate issues will guide the committee’s ongoing deliberations. The task force—convened after the first community forum Nov. 13—is charged with making recommendations to President Richard Brodhead by mid-April about how the University can tackle bias and hate issues. Last Monday, students received a survey from the task force in an attempt to gather data about instances of daily discrimination on campus. “The goal is to have the recommendations of the task force be based on evidence as much as possible,” said Kelly Brownell, the task force’s co-chair and dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy. “There might be things that have been missed in the subjective impressions that might be caught in the data, which could help us decide where the strongest emphasis might be placed in our final report.” The survey will add to pre-existing data the University has collected, including information from senior surveys, said Gavan Fitzsimons, head of the task force’s data subcommittee and R. David Thomas professor of marketing and psychology in the Fuqua School of Business. He explained that prior Duke surveys have provided information about how welcome students feel in the community and how much support they receive based on various demographic characteristics. The task force will compare differences in results across demographics and assess whether those differences are “Duke-specific.” Information and analysis will be included in the task force’s April report. What prior surveys have not captured,

Sanjeev Dasgupta | Chronicle File Photo The task force on bias and hate issues was convened after a community forum Nov. 13 and is scheduled to release a report by mid-April.

however, is whether any dissatisfaction expressed by students was due to a particular high-profile incident or a series of everyday occurrences, Fitzsimons said. The task force’s new survey—based off of the Everyday Discrimination Scale created by sociologists— looks to make that distinction. The survey asks students to rank statements such as, “people act as if they are afraid of you” or “you are threatened or harassed,” based on frequency of occurrence—“almost every day,” “at least once a week,” “a few times a month,” “a few times a year,” “less than once a year” or “never.” Not all members of the student body received the survey. Roughly one-third of students, selected randomly, received the bias and hate

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religious affiliation, sexual orientation or gender identity. Instead, students are only asked for that information if they mark “a few times per month” or more frequent to a question at least once. A student who only responded “a few times a year” would not be directed to the demographic information page. Fitzsimons acknowledged that demographic data from those students could be potentially useful, but said that the task force did not want to deviate from how the EDS has traditionally been used in social science research. “Low levels would still be something personally I might worry about, but for consistency and scientific rigor we decided to field it exactly the way it had been fielded in the past,” he said. The task force can, however, get limited demographic data through Duke’s Office of Institutional Research,although it is not as thorough data as from the survey itself, Fitzsimons said. The OIR matches some background information, such as place of origin and gender, to student responses through their email addresses. All personal identifiers are subsequently stripped from the data to preserve anonymity, he emphasized. Brownell added that the task force ultimately hopes to use the data they receive to facilitate the University’s process of addressing these hate and bias issues. “Our task force will be making recommendations for ongoing activities that will endure beyond the life of our committee,” he said.

survey while the rest received the unrelated University Student Experiences Survey, which examines sexual harassment on campus. Although sending the survey to all students would have been useful, the task force was worried receiving both surveys at the same time would lower students’ response rate, Fitzsimons explained. So far, the bias and hate survey has generated an approximately 15 percent response rate, he wrote in an email. Information that is representative of the whole University community can typically be achieved with a smaller sample size of people as well, Brownell noted. The survey does not immediately ask The Chronicle communicated with Fitzsimons by for demographic descriptors such as race, phone and by email.

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Lemur Center celebrating 50th anniversary endangered species, and it is amazing that we have such easy access to a variety of them.” Home to approximately 240 individual The Chronicle animals representing 21 species, the Lemur Center was established in 1966 when coThe Duke Lemur Center is planning a founder John Buettner-Janusch realized that series of programs throughout the year to the Duke Forest was an ideal habitat for lemurs celebrate its 50th anniversary. and decided to move the lemurs he acquired Events include an anniversary party at in Madagascar to Duke, said Chris Smith, Devine’s Restaurant and Sports Bar next education manager at the Lemur Center. Thursday in which Lemur Center tours The center’s main objectives are to conduct and merchandise will be raffled off and a research on primates and facilitate initiatives science symposium featuring 50 years of for conservation and education projects, lemur research in late September. This year’s Smith explained. Projects include sending Winter Forum was also co-sponsored by the teams of global health students and faculty center and focused on sustainable living in to work on such projects in Madagascar, in Madagascar, a theme inspired by the threats addition to shipping lemurs from Durham faced by lemurs in the island nation. around the world for breeding. “We are so lucky to have access to the “Lemurs are primates, that means they second-largest population of lemurs on the are in the same family of animals as humans,” planet, only after Madagascar,” wrote senior Smith said. “The things we learned about Colette Kolenda, a student organizer of the lemurs can contribute to what we know about Devine’s event, in an email. “Lemurs are an humans and where we come from, and that will make us all a lot better off.” Smith noted that the center became more invested and involved in conservation in the mid-1980s, when researchers realized the impact deforestation and habitat loss in Madagascar had on lemurs. “Because lemurs only live on the island of Madagascar, if they are extinct, the world loses 20 percent of the primate species,” he said. “It won’t do us any good to have 240 lemurs in Durham if there are no lemurs left in the wild.” In recent years, the center’s research has focused on lemurs’ strong sense of smell as well as their cognitive abilities, Smith added. To engage with students, the Lemur Center offers internships throughout the year for Chronicle File Photo students to assist with animal care, research The Lemur Center delivered a baby during and education. Students can also volunteer to help with diet preparation, feeding and January’s snowstorm.

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Chronicle File Photo John Buettner-Janusch brought lemurs he had acquired in Madagascar to Duke in 1966 because of the forest’s ideal habitat for the primates.

cleaning on a weekly basis. Freshman Eudora Miao—who has been volunteering at the Lemur Center since last September—said her visit to the center during orientation week through a faculty outing event piqued her interest in learning more about the animals. “I’d never seen lemurs before I came to Duke, but doing things like preparing food and feeding and learning about their homeland loss and challenges they face just made me empathize more with them,” Miao said. Student access to the Lemur Center was

made easier recently when a new partnership between Duke and the ride-sharing service Uber was announced. The pilot program offers free rides to and from the Lemur Center. Smith noted that the Center has always aimed to engage with Duke community members and will need to continue to do so moving forward. “We’ve been caring for lemurs, studying lemurs and protecting lemurs for 50 years now, and we will need the support of the University and the broader Durham community in order to keep protecting, caring for and studying lemurs for another 50 years.” he said.

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HOUSING CHANGES from page 1 dorms to house students who used to live on Central possibly ending as late as 2023. The groups that were relocated will remain in their temporary housing location until the new Central Campus apartments or the West Campus dorm are completed, Johnson wrote. It has not yet been decided what will be done with the space that is currently Central Campus when it no longer houses students. Chi Omega will move to 2015 Yearby Avenue, The Cube will be relocated to 205 Oregon Street, Multicultural Greek Council will move to 1708 Pace Street and Ubuntu will transition to 301 and 302 Oregon. Students who live in the sections impacted by this summer’s project were notified of the changes Thursday evening. Many said they were surprised by the decision and expressed disappointment that they were informed after already selecting their housing for next year. Some of the groups that were moved, including Zeta Tau Alpha, will have to reassign their residents into triples, which will break up some already-selected roommate pairs. “I don’t understand how we could be told about this now after we already had all of our housing assignments,” said freshman Miriam Levitin, who will be living in Zeta Tau Alpha’s new section on 1905 Erwin Road next year. “I don’t think it would have been a big deal if we had been told before. It’s easier to start from picking three roommates.” Kappa Alpha and Sigma Nu will be moved to apartments on Swift Avenue that are owned by the University but are relatively isolated from the rest of Central Campus. Junior Matt Alston, president of Sigma

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Ubuntu section on Central Campus is one of the sections that will be moved this summer as part of an ongoing housing overhaul.

Nu, said that he hopes to make the best of their new section. “There are undeniably disadvantages to our new location—it’s less convenient, it’s further away from everything,” Alston said. “At the same time, I think this could potentially be a good thing. The rooms are really nice on the inside, and we have a pool. I’m trying to keep an open mind as we go forward because we don’t really have much of a choice in this matter. “ Moneta sympathized with negative student reactions to the news. “I recognize that the timing was not ideal,” Moneta wrote in an email. “But, as we explored upcoming investments that would have to be made in some of the [Central Campus] units, it became clear that we were better off launching the replacement project sooner than we’d planned rather

than wasting money unnecessarily. Clearly, it was not our intention to inconvenience students with such short notice.” Despite the high number of projects, Johnson and Moneta maintained that the impact of these projects on student life should be minimal. Johnson noted that because the projects are so spread out, there will not be the same “concentrated impact” that resulted from renovations on the West Union. Moneta said that the students who will be most impacted have not yet arrived on campus. He added that he believes the spaces that students have been moved to are comparable to their previous sections and the construction may not inconvenience any students. “I can’t imagine anyone not being thrilled that their campus is getting such an

incredible investment,” Moneta added. In an email to the current residents of the sections that will be razed this summer, Dean for Residential Life Joe Gonzalez wrote that trace amounts of asbestos are in the walls and ceilings of the apartments, which students have been previously informed about. He added that proper precautions will be taken by work crews during the summer and urged students to keep their furniture in good condition for reuse. Black mold found in a Central Campus apartment in September also raised concerns about the living conditions on Central. The previously announced renovations to Giles and Wannamaker dormitories remain scheduled for this summer. Housing, Dining and Residential Life will also break ground on the new residence hall on East Campus that will ultimately replace Jarvis, East and Epworth Residence Halls. Moneta noted that the new East Campus dorm will be used to house residents of Crowell and Craven during the extensive renovations to those two quadrangles. The Crowell renovation will begin in May 2017, and residents displaced during the 2017-18 academic year will occupy housing vacancies due to students studying abroad, Johnson explained. Students who return from abroad in Spring 2018 will have the opportunity to move into the new East Campus residence hall—which is scheduled to be completed in January 2018. Renovations to Craven will displace residents beginning in Fall 2018, and those students will be allowed to move to the new East Campus residence hall or other places on campus. According to a Duke Today press release, the overall renovations are projected to cost $250 million, but Moneta said this figure is rough estimate.

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Cohan’s game-winner caps comeback as No. 11 Blue Devils stun No. 5 Orange in overtime Sid Bhaskara The Chronicle The referee’s flag came out, and senior Chad Cohan darted down the middle, straight to the crease. With little pressure from the defense, he took a pass from Jack Bruckner and snuck a shot past Syracuse goalkeeper Warren Hill. “They were pressing out a bunch, so they let us play with the short sticks more, and we took it to them,” Cohan said. “Jack Bruckner found me in the middle and I’m fortunate enough to be the guy on the receiving end. I kind of blacked out there—I just had to put it in the dirt and make the coaches happy.” Cohan’s shot made the coaching staff, the other Blue Devils and much of the crowd at Koskinen Stadium very happy indeed Saturday afternoon, as the senior’s third goal of the day stunned the No. 5 Orange 16-15 in overtime, completing a four-goal comeback. Senior Deemer Class led the way for most of the afternoon for the No. 11 Blue Devils, pouring in a career-high seven goals and adding two assists as Duke controlled the game late and followed up Tuesday’s crushing overtime loss to Air Force with an uplifting extratime win to kickstart ACC play. It took a herculean effort to come back in the final period because of a lackluster effort in the first three. The Orange (5-2, 1-1 in the ACC) sped past the Duke close defense and found early uncontested shots, with Sergio Salcido and Tim Barber doing most of the damage. Both players notched first-half hat tricks, and Syracuse scored two goals in the last 25 seconds of the first half to build a commanding 11-6 halftime lead. Salcido was particularly sharp, scoring from all over the field. From rolling behind the crease to finding big overhand shots with space from 15 yards out, the former scout team playerturned starter finished with four goals on five shots and two assists, including the key assist on the goal that tied the game late in the fourth quarter.

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Senior Chad Cohan netted a hat trick Saturday, with no goal bigger than his game-winner 53 seconds into overtime as the Blue Devils stormed back from a 14-10 deficit entering the fourth quarter.

“[We fell behind] because of three things: our inability to clear the ball well, to value the ball on the defensive end, the faceoff game, in particular the wing play… and then riding. We were going to ride differently this week and we didn’t handle that well,” Duke head coach John Danowski said. “We thought we gave up five goals either off the faceoff game or in the riding game and clearing that we needed to fix.” But on an afternoon when Duke (7-4, 1-0) honored former Blue Devil midfielder and Army ranger Jimmy Regan—who wore number 10 in his time with the Blue Devils and was killed in combat in Iraq in February 2007—it was number 10 who stole the show once again. Class tallied four of his nine points in the final 20 minutes of regulation to help jumpstart a Blue Devil offense that erupted for four goals in four minutes to start the fourth quarter. The Baltimore native moved freely without the ball, turning his alley dodges into catch-

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Senior Deemer Class fueled Duke’s comeback with three of his career-high seven goals in the fourth quarter.

and-shoot opportunities without any pressure as the Orange defense never got the slide out to him. The senior made a living at the right midfield spot 12 yards from the goal line and displayed a full arsenal of shots, including difficult low-angle underhand shots. “People have played like that all season,” Class said. “They haven’t respected Chad and I, we know that we have to make shots and make them respect us. That’s their prerogative to not slide but…we’re really all working together and we have confidence in each other.” Class and his teammates got their opportunities because the Blue Devils suddenly began to have more success in the faceoff game. Junior Kyle Rowe went 18-for-32 from the X and won 5-of-7 draws in the fourth quarter against a Syracuse team that entered the game controlling nearly 70 percent of its faceoffs. Once Rowe got going and gave the Blue Devils more opportunities on the

offensive end, the midfield solved a Syracuse defense that was pressing them out with longer dodges and overlapping passes that left the defense confused. “Sixty-four minutes in a battle against Syracuse is going to wear you out,” senior midfielder Myles Jones said. “Being a senior, the team and coaches lean on you to make plays in the fourth quarter…so you give it all you’ve got.” Jones, who scored his 200th career point with a third-quarter goal, got going with his trademark bull dodge to overhand shot that created a matchup nightmare for the smaller defensive midfielder tasked with stopping him. But Jones was not alone in the re-energized midfield as Cohan added three goals, including the overtime game-winner. Twelve of Duke’s 16 goals came from midfielders. The Blue Devils will look to keep the momentum going Friday in the next iteration of the Tobacco Road rivalry. Duke takes on No. 12 North Carolina at 6 p.m. at Koskinen Stadium.

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Kyle Rowe won 18-of-32 draws at the faceoff X against an Orange squad that entered the day winning close to 70 percent of its faceoffs.

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Usual strengths absent as Duke ducks out of tourney Brian Pollack The Chronicle ANAHEIM, Calif.—Before the season even began, it was evident this Duke team would need scoring from its guards to be successful. Three-point shooting and free throws were the offensive keys that head coach Mike Krzyzewski stressed consistently for a team that no longer had ACC Player of the Year Jahlil Okafor in the post. When forward Amile Jefferson went down in December with a right foot injury, that identity only became more important. And for the majority of the season, it worked—the Blue Devils’ 321 3-pointers this season ranked second in program history, and they boasted five guards who could spread the floor and knock down triples. Duke’s 617 made free throws ranked fifth among major conference teams entering its Sweet 16 matchup with Oregon, and 55 percent of the team’s total offense came from the charity stripe or beyond the arc. But it was those two areas that hurt the Blue Devils most against the Ducks Thursday, and ultimately spelled the end of their season. Duke’s prowess from the 3-point line and in the free throw department was not lost on an Oregon team that takes great pride in its defense, and the Ducks honed in on taking away the Blue Devils’ biggest offensive weapons. “Our main objective was just to run them off the line,” Oregon forward Jordan Bell said. “We know they’re a great 3-point shooting team, so just to make them put it on the ground, I told everybody once you make them put it on the ground, don’t foul them. I’m going to come get it.” Come at he did. Bell had three blocks, and Oregon came at Duke with all sorts of length, athleticism and quickness, closing out on

Kristen Shortley | The Chronicle Sophomore Grayson Allen finished with 15 points, but had just three in the first half and shot 4-of-13 from the field as Duke struggled to get to the free-throw line Thursday against Oregon.

shooters to force the Blue Devils into making just two of their 10 3-point attempts in the first half, and only 7-of-22 for the game. It was not until freshman Brandon Ingram splashed home back-to-back triples with more than 12 minutes gone by that Duke connected on its first 3-pointer, signaling a poor start for a team that loves to get into a shooting rhythm at the beginning of games. Much of Duke’s offense is centered around the drive-and-kick from Grayson Allen, a play that typically ends in either open 3-pointers for his teammates or a trip to the free throw line for Allen, an 84.1 percent shooter from the line. Thursday, though, there were no such opportunities to be found, and Allen’s normal aggression off the dribble was met by a Duck defense determined not to let him get to his destination.

With a rotation of versatile defenders stymying him at seemingly every turn, the first team All-ACC selection quietly scored just three points in the first half and struggled to settle into any kind of groove as Oregon built a sizable lead it would not relinquish. “We’ve played against size, length, athleticism in the ACC. In some ways, we’ve seen that kind of thing before,” Allen said. “When we attacked the rim, we just didn’t go up strong. There were some shots that we missed that we normally make, and also stuff they blocked as well.” On the interior, the 6-foot-8 Bell and 6-foot-10 Chris Boucher suffocated the Blue Devils whenever they ventured into the paint. The duo combined for four swats and altered countless other attempts with their length and leaping ability. Perhaps more importantly, they

did so without affording Duke any chances for easy points at the free-throw line. The Blue Devils finished 9-of-15 from the charity stripe, just the sixth time all season they have registered fewer than 10 points on free throws. As the Ducks stretched their lead in the second half, Duke could not force itself back into the game by racking up freebies at the line—as it had in a slew of games this year—thanks to Oregon’s discipline down low. “They’re two of the best shot blockers in the country,” Krzyzewski said. “Boucher is somebody that stretches you with shooting and Bell is athletic and inside. But both of them protect the rim. When they have both of them in the game, it’s tough to get there.” The Blue Devils were certainly no strangers to playing tough and agile defenses, but the Ducks took away the edge that has allowed Krzyzewski’s depth-strapped team to compete with opponents all year long. Oregon’s complete, five-man approach to defense carried over to the offensive end, where quick ball movement led to several thunderous slams for Bell and company inside. Unable to get stops on the defensive end, Duke could not generate ball movement like the Ducks and instead resorted to a stagnant, ineffective attack that bore little resemblance to the one it had employed for the prior 35 games. “We didn’t attack like we usually do, like we can. We settled for tough shots and we gave up tough shots where we could have had better shots,” Duke freshman Luke Kennard said. “We knew their athleticism could be something we need to work around. We knew they were shot-blockers. But we just weren’t attacking. We would go into the lane and throw up these little shots not strong and they got a lot of blocks off of that, and we just didn’t attack well together.”

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Blue Devils down Virginia, stay perfect in ACC play Ben Feder The Chronicle

Duke has had its struggles this season—just not against ACC opponents. Behind 12 saves from Kelsey Duryea, four goals and one assist from Kyra Harney and a hat trick from Maddie Crutchfield, No. 13 Duke held off No. 16 Virginia 11-8 Saturday at Koskinen Stadium 8 for its second topUVA DUKE 11 20 victory in the last three weeks. The Blue Devils withstood multiple comeback attempts from the Cavaliers in the second half, maintaining at least a three-goal lead throughout the period to stay unbeaten in conference play. Duke raced out to a quick 6-1 lead in the first half and rode that momentum into the locker room with an 8-2 halftime lead. Everything was working for the Blue Devils, as their strong defensive play and ability to clear the zone led to numerous offensive chances. When needed, Duryea bailed out her defense with a highlight-reel save to stop a Virginia attacker in front on a two-on-one opportunity.

“We did a good job pushing the tempo in the first half and really finding a good balance between pushing tempo when we had opportunities and also getting settled into a rhythm on offense. I thought that created some really good looks for us,” Duke head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “We did a good job limiting the kind of looks they wanted in the first half and forcing them to take some of those outside shots that Kelsey [Duryea] was really ready for.” But Virginia fought back to start the second half, scoring three straight goals and forcing Kimel to call a timeout to settle down her squad. After Duke (8-4, 3-0 in the ACC) managed to get through the first 15 minutes of the half, the Blue Devils retook control for the rest of the game. The Cavaliers (5-6, 0-4) won the battle at the draw circle, frustrating Duke freshman standout Olivia Jenner by winning 14 of the 21 draw controls. Virginia dominated in nearly every possession statistic—taking more shots, winning more draws, snagging more groundballs and committing See W. LACROSSE on Page 9

Jesús Hidalgo | Chronicle File Photo Kyra Harney scored four goals and added an assist as the Blue Devils moved to 3-0 in ACC play with a win against No. 16 Virginia Saturday.

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Five Blue Devils earn All-America honors at NCAA meet Ali Wells The Chronicle A year after being disqualified in the evening heats of the 200-yard medley relay, the Blue Devils redeemed themselves with a strong, legal race in the consolation final Friday. But the relay quartet was not alone in putting Duke on the scoreboard as freshman Evan Moretti collected AllAmerica honors in his NCAA debut. Duke earned a 39th-place, sevenpoint team finish at the four-day NCAA championships at Georgia Tech’s McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta thanks to a 14th-place finish by the short medley relay of Kaz Takabayashi, Peter Kropp, David Armstrong and James Peek and a 16thplace performance by Moretti on the three-meter springboard Friday. “For us to score, I think it’s just another step forward for the program,” Duke head coach Dan Colella said. “It helps our student-athletes to really appreciate and understand that we’re not just talking about a dream here. It can be a reality. We can compete at the highest level, so I think it’s a great moment for the men’s team.” The Blue Devil relay finished in a combined time of 1:25.45 to place 13th in the morning preliminaries. The squad closed the finals session with an even better time of 1:25.32 courtesy of faster evening splits from Takabayashi and Armstrong and a 19.08-second anchor leg from Peek to exactly match his morning swim. But the quartet still dropped one spot on the scoreboard after a full-second drop by Arizona moved the Wildcats up two places from 15th in the morning. All four Blue Devils earned their first All-America honors with the top-16 finish.

Khloe Kim | The Chronicle The Blue Devils scored seven points at the NCAA championships last week in Atlanta after being shut out last season.

“We are excited for them to make it back, improve on their performance from the morning and to score,” Colella said. “This meet is a grind…but they stood up and raced really hard in the morning and gave themselves another opportunity. And for David in particular as a senior, we are excited for him to finish up his career here at Duke as an All-American.” Not to be outdone, Moretti gave his season-best performance on the threemeter springboard in the morning to earn a spot in the finals. With a highlight dive of a forward two-and-a-half somersault with two twists for 71.40 points in the third round—a score that allowed him to jump seven spots on the scoreboard and into the top 16—the freshman tallied 377.55 points on his six-dive list for 12th.

The Blue Devil was one of three freshmen to qualify for the finals in the event. “Evan did really, really well in the prelims,” Duke head diving coach Nunzio Esposto said. “He was relaxed and confident, and he ended up 12th, which was really exciting. In the consolation final, he didn’t dive quite as well, but for him to be top-16, I’m very pleased with him and with his first year.” Moretti opened the finals round with two dives topping 65 points—a forward three-and-a-half somersault for 65.10 points and a forward two-and-a-half with a twist for 67.50. But the freshman faltered on his penultimate dive, earning scores of 1.5 and 2.0 from the judges on a reverse three-and-ahalf somersault tuck for 17.50 points.

The Scarsdale, N.Y., native recovered well and finished his list with his secondbest dive of the evening—an inward twoand-a-half somersault tuck for 66.15 points. But his last dive was not enough to move him back up in the rankings, and he finished 16th with a total of 306.95. “We’re incredibly proud of Evan for an amazing year,” Colella said. “The amount of development and growth he’s had is just astronomical. To do what he did at ACCs and then to come back and qualify for NCAAs, and then at his very first NCAAs to score is absolutely phenomenal.” Competing in his second NCAA championships as an individual athlete, Kropp was just 15 hundredths of a second away from earning a spot in the finals in the 100-yard breaststroke. The Los Angeles native finished 21st in the preliminaries with a time of 52.85 seconds. Peek raced in his first individual events on the collegiate national stage Thursday and Saturday. The sprinter was just off his school record of 19.54 seconds in the morning heats of the 50-yard freestyle, touching in 19.61 for 28th. Peek also competed in the longer sprint, stopping the clock in 44.22 seconds for 46th in the 100-yard freestyle. Both individual qualifiers also teamed up for the 400-yard medley relay, joined by Takabayashi and junior Michael Miller as the butterfly leg. The Blue Devils finished in a combined time of 3:09.97 for 20th. But Duke did not escape the meet without a disqualification. Kropp was penalized for an illegal dolphin kick off his final wall in the 200-yard breaststroke Saturday. The junior’s time of 1:56.35 would have been a season best.

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Duke sweeps Sunday double-header after Friday set-back Peishu Li The Chronicle With pouring rain outside, the Blue Devils returned indoors to the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center—and returned to their winning ways in the process. Duke swept its third double-header of the season Sunday, 5 downing Louisville VT DUKE 2 5-2 in the afternoon before taking care VILLE 2 of N.C. Central 6-1 evening. DUKE 5 Sunday The Blue Devils NCCU 1 had no problems the DUKE 6 dispatching Cardinals—who remain the ACC’s lone winless team—to improve their conference resume with a muchneeded win before beating the shorthanded Eagles to get back to .500 for the season. “Throughout the year, we have had situations where we got a little discouraged and got down,” Duke head coach Ramsey Smith said. “We are not looking the way we should on the court. We are not exuding confidence and sometimes you are going

to fake it until you make it. I thought we did better job with that today.” After dropping the doubles point in a loss to Virginia Tech Friday, the Blue Devils (10-10, 3-4 in the ACC) got back in the win column with strong doubles play followed up with energetic singles performances, even though Louisville (11-12, 0-7) pushed them to three sets on four courts. In doubles against the Cardinals, freshman Jason Lapidus and senior Daniel McCall came out aggressively on court two, pressuring the Cardinals with fierce hits at the net. The Blue Devil pair quickly jumped ahead 2-0 after breaking the serve of Louisville freshman George Hedley, and went on to dominate the last four games to finish the set 6-0. “I thought [court] two was tremendous,” Smith said. “Those guys played unbelievably. Winning 6-0 in the ACC at any number is awesome against two of their best players, their one and three players. That really set the tone. They played their best matches of the year.” On court three, captains Nicolas Alvarez and T. J. Pura cruised through the first three games with a 3-0 lead. Alvarez held off opponents with his savvy baseline hits, and

let Pura move around in the frontcourt. But soon both sides were plagued with errors and the Cardinals capitalized, narrowing the deficit to 5-3. In the next game, the Blue Devil duo hit the ball with more precision, finishing off a 6-3 win to secure the doubles point for Duke. On court one, freshmen Catalin Mateas and Vincent Lin led their Cardinal counterparts 5-4 before the match was abandoned. The Cardinals came out desperate to even the score in singles, but Duke was up to the task. On court one, No. 19 Alvarez and Louisville freshman Christopher MorinKougoucheff got tangled in long baseline rallies from the beginning of their match. Alvarez pulled in front 4-0 in the first set with his top-spin attack, but Morin-Kougoucheff worked his way back to within 5-4 after an Alvarez double-fault. The captain recovered, though, breaking Morin-Kougoucheff’s serve to clinch the first set, 6-4. In the second set, Alvarez added more net play into his offense, taking the set with ease, 6-2. Court three provided one of the most See M. TENNIS on Page 9

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W. LACROSSE from page 7 fewer turnovers—but Duryea was the difference-maker. Compared to Duryea’s 12 saves on 20 shots, Virginia goalkeeper Rachel Vander Kolk—who came into the contest saving nearly 44 percent of attempted shots on goal—registered only three saves on 14 shot attempts. The Blue Devils stayed patient and shot only when there were high-percentage scoring opportunities to be had. Duryea also received help from a stout defense in front of her, clearing the way in order for the Beverly, Mass., native to properly track the ball. Even as Virginia tried to stay close the second half—outshooting Duke 13-5 in the final 30 minutes—the Blue Devil defense cleared the ball on 15 of 16 opportunities, limiting multiple opportunities for the Cavaliers attack to capitalize. “We were really working on staying on our matchup, but also working on moving on a string and playing good transition defense as a unit. I was given a lot of shots that I was able to save,” Duryea said. “This week, we worked really hard on our fundamentals—our oneon-one defense, our sliding and I think our defense played outstanding to let me make those saves.” Virginia’s Kasey Behr and Posey Valis— the team’s top two points leaders—registered hat tricks for the Cavaliers, and four different Virginia players picked up three groundballs. Duke still needs to work on not letting up for the entire 60 minutes, with contests looming against No. 3 North Carolina, No. 4 Notre Dame, No. 6 Syracuse and No. 10 Boston College. But, behind Duryea’s 12-save performance, the kakuro_525A.txt Blue Devils escaped

with a victory, and will have a week to prepare for next Sunday’s matchup with the Orange on the road. “At this point in the season, we are just happy to have won an ACC game. The ACC this season is an absolute dog-fight,” Kimel said. “It is so much one game at a time, one performance at a time. We’ll take a good, hard look at what we didn’t do well against Virginia and try to take two steps forward without taking a step back next week. I think our team has done a good job of not looking too far ahead and just staying focused on these next couple of weeks we have.”

M. TENNIS from page 8 entertaining matches of the day. After winning the first set 6-3, Lin struggled through most of the second frame against the taller and stronger Hedley. The Cardinal freshman hit the ball forcefully and took full advantage of Lin’s errors en route to a 6-1 victory to even the match. Hedley kept his hot hand going in the first three games of the final set. But trailing 3-0, Lin started to fight back after a break. Bit by bit, the Blue Devil freshman built up momentum and evened the set at three games apiece before taking care of the next three as well, delivering an emphatic 6-3 victory with a long aggressive baseline sequence. “[Assistant coach Jonathan] Stokke was a really big part of that,” Lin said. “He helped me bow through the frustrations from the second set. At that moment when I went down 3-0, I decided to just turn the switch on the energy and just focused on being energetic and just found my way back and not getting too frustrated.”

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he North Carolina State Legislature held a special session last Wednesday, fast-tracking House Bill 2 through to Governor Pat McCrory, who immediately signed it—all within 24 hours. The bill not only forces transgender students to use the bathroom or locker room of the gender they were assigned at birth, but also changes how people can pursue claims of workplace discrimination and prevents cities and counties from establishing minimum wage benchmarks for private employers. Fueled by the unsubstantiated fears of bathroom assaults by trans individuals throughout the nation, this law directly threatens gender-nonconforming and working class residents across the state. The bill quickly sparked outrage across the state and the country, resulting in protests and multiple denouncements from corporations and organizations with connections to North Carolina. Activists in the area and working nationally have also declared their intentions to sue the state to prevent it from enforcing the law until the question of whether it is a discriminatory law is answered. Groups like the American Civil Liberties Union have also said that the legislation endangers federal funding to public secondary schools and universities under Title IX.

As a private university, Duke released a statement on the bill’s passage shortly after it was signed, promising that our campus’s gender neutral bathrooms and policies related to gender identity will not be affected by this bill. Though a large percentage of the undergraduate student body hails from North Carolina, the state is a temporary, albeit formative, home for many more of us. As long as we live here, we ought to care about it and the residents with which we share it.

Editorial Putting up a mental wall between our campus and Durham and the broader state is not the approach of a dutiful community citizen. Duke students have political clout. We impact area elections, drawing voting laws that are confusingly complex, exclusionary or both that result one way or another in fewer students going to the polls. We also find ourselves in a better position than most to organize and execute protests to voice concerns and arguments. We lack the threats of ire from employers or penalties in the form political retaliation that others face. As most students have found, the questions is

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less of why and more of how to advocate against this shameful piece of legislation and voice their frustration. Before the next election rolls around, take time to see which politicians are pushing these types of bills or relying on similarly unsubstantiated evidence or thinly-veiled phobias. Do your research, go to the polls and vote them out if that is where your views lead. Additionally, showing up to demonstrations in solidarity or working with any of the relevant organizations in the Durham-Chapel Hill area are great ways to get involved. Even writing an email to the governor or state representatives makes a difference. Collective action driven by individual contributions is an accessible but powerful means to realize change. We need to protect and support each other. It is important to understand that this bill is not just transphobic, but also possibly a violation of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. Our fellow North Carolinians and classmates are having their rights stripped from them by a bill that allowed for no debate or input by trans people or workers it affects. We cannot sit idly by and watch an infringement on the economic livelihood and freedom of gender expression be tolerated under unsupported claims of “public safety.” An attack on one of us, is an attack on all of us.

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n Duplin County, N.C., hogs outnumber humans almost 32 to 1. This part of the state is home to about 530 hog operations—one of the highest concentrations in the world. Here, it’s almost impossible to escape the telltale signs of pig farming: noxious smells, fecal matter and contaminated water. Furthermore, it is also home to a disproportionate amount of black and Hispanic residents compared to the rest of the state and is one of the poorest counties in North Carolina.

Here’s what happens to hog waste: when hogs defecate in their indoor stalls, their waste falls through slatted floors and is pumped into a nearby lagoon. Solid waste accumulates in sludge at the bottom of the basin, creating a barrier that helps to prevent seepage into the ground. The liquid from the top of the pond is sprayed onto crops as manure. And unlike human waste, hog waste undergoes no treatment other than exposure to naturally occurring bacteria in the lagoon.

Caeleigh MacNeil GREEN MUSE A recent study by UNC-Chapel Hill found that black North Carolinians were one and a half times as likely to live within three miles of an industrial hog operation as white residents. American Indians were twice as likely and Hispanic residents were 1.39 times as likely to reside near these facilities. The problem is that economically disadvantaged minority groups don’t have the monetary power to combat the large factory hog farms that are wreaking havoc on their living conditions. Large industrial farms were introduced into North Carolina in the 1980s. When a series of lagoons overflowed and flooded entire towns with waste in the late 1990s, the public was outraged. However, it wasn’t until a new hog farm was proposed near a wealthy North Carolina golfing village that lawmakers finally placed a ban on the opening of new hog operations, which is still in place today. Until recently, there hasn’t been that much research into the public health impact of these farms. According to an article from the online publication Quartz, “there is little denying that whatever the impact of the hog lagoons, it is poorer rural communities of color that bear the effects the most”. Hog operations are hard to live near because they produce a huge amount of waste; in 2007, Duplin County hogs generated twice as much waste as the entire city of New York. That’s a lot of fecal matter to live in close proximity to, especially when it is accumulated in huge outdoor lakes and sprayed onto surrounding crops. Aside from the smell, residents have complained of fecal residue on their houses and cars as well as disease and respiratory afflictions.

The problem is that semi-permeable fecal layer at the bottom of the lake does not prevent all seepage, especially in eastern North Carolina, where high groundwater tables cause waste to run off into creeks and major streams. A study released last January showed elevated levels of fecal bacteria in waterways near hog operations—and since this waste isn’t treated, it has a higher risk of causing hepatitis, typhoid, dystentery and other health problems. Under the Clean Water Act, only hog farms that discharge directly into streams or other water sources have to apply for a federal permit, so many operations in North Carolina are exempt from this rule. This decreases incentives for hog operations to improve their waste disposal techniques. It isn’t likely that hog production will decrease any time soon. North Carolina lawmakers have approved legislation that would allow some previously closed hog farms to reopen, although for now the moratorium remains in place. And after the Chinese company WH Group purchased Smithfield farms in 2013, hogs have been exported overseas. Turns out it’s cheaper to export pigs from the United States than it is to produce pork on Chinese soil. This opens up a huge market for North Carolina pork, and poses an even bigger threat for rural North Carolina populations. And more than ever, pig farming is a key aspect of North Carolina’s economy. Thanks to counties like Duplin, we can get pork for as little as $2.50 per pound—but there is a hidden cost to be considered. Caeleigh MacNeil is a Trinity senior. Her column runs on alternate Mondays.

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Pill bottles, IVs and STINFs at a different Duke

uke students like to have fun. Whether tenting for the big game or going hard at Shooters, we escape the stress of a demanding course load with a work hard, play hard mentality. But what if that doesn’t work for everyone? I’m not talking about people who feel ostracized by the party scene or find Duke culture problematic. In a campus where it seems that every fraternity, sorority, SLG and student group has a cause, there is

fought for normalcy. This article was a battle in itself: it started in my comfortable bed, continued during a 20-hour stint in the Emergency Room and finished as I sat on the bathroom floor after vomiting all night. Many of my friends find my devotion to work irrational, but chronic illnesses can be completely debilitating, requiring students to take semesters off and spend months in the hospital if they get behind. In order to survive Duke while managing a

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YOU’RE WELCOME chronic illness, I had to fight every second to find normalcy. And normalcy was difficult to find as a first-year. I remember arriving at Duke in the blistering heat of the Carolina sun with classic Pfrosh concerns: will I make friends, what is college like, why is everyone wearing salmon shorts, etc. Except, I had an additional question: how the hell am I going to survive the heat? During much of orientation and the first month of classes, I was sequestered to my room with incredibly painful headaches. I missed the classic first-year experience of going to Shooters, not because of some false sense of moral superiority, but because loud, sweaty places can be medically dangerous for me. While there was a certain amount of FOMO, I made amazing friends who tended to prefer the library to clubs. My life involved a different Duke than that of the classic narrative. Since being a first-year, I have loved my Duke experience, even with the Emergency Room visits and doctors’ appointments. I’ve traveled around the world, met my professional heroes, worked with amazing people and had a great time. My chronic illness was a constant threat, whether it was causing me to almost blackout when talking to distinguished leaders in my field or forcing me to abandoned group projects during the final hours. But more than anything else, I am incredibly grateful. My doctors doubted I would finish high school on time, let alone graduate Duke with distinction and be able to continue my education abroad next year. I would love to say I achieved the effortless perfection of a Duke Blue Devil, but we all know that “effortless perfection” is a myth. Instead, I owe my success to a supportive network of friends who have spent multiple nights by my side in the Emergency Room, held me while I threw up all over a plane, and walked me to events when I am to sick to stand on my own. Moreover, I am incredibly thankful for understanding professors and supportive mentors who have accommodate me as need be. But I am one of the lucky ones. There are those who suffer in silence, who do not have a group of people to be there for them when the chronic illness was too much. This article is not asking for your pity, your sympathy, or even your time. What I’m asking for is understanding. Behind that Cameron Crazie face paint may be some one experiencing a very different Duke.

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ear Dr. Monday, I’m a freshman whose first unguided bookbagging is coming up soon! I’m excited to finally pick my own classes, but I’m lost in a sea of about 40 Chrome tabs trying to figure out all the different requirements! I was hoping you could explain all this stuff to me, because I don’t want to pick wrong and get stuck in classes I hate! Thanks, Begging to Bag

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one piece missing from the narrative: chronic illnesses. We are a healthy campus, a campus dominated by basketball, football and the “You lift, bro?” question. We run in the gardens, hike along the Eno and go to Beach Week. Yet, there is a subculture which lives in a very different Duke: a Duke where the walk from the West Bus Stop to Gross Hall isn’t just a pain but an impossibility without sitting down at least once on the way. There’s a group of people for whom puking in the ER is a regular occurrence, not because of alcohol poisoning, but rather of a rare bowel disease. Their lives are filled with pill bottles, IVs and STINFs. But these people are normal Duke students. They go to class, they watch basketball and they have very strong opinions about the construction on campus. They are stressed about midterms and their papers. Yet, there is always an added challenge, an additional level of “epicness,” so to speak, in completing their daily tasks. The song “Eye of the Tiger” may be particularly appropriate to describe when a student completes a midterm with a blinding headache so painful that it obscures one’s vision so that the words themselves seem to shake. If you have never been exposed to chronic illness, you might not notice the difference between someone who has an unlucky streak of colds and someone with an underlying condition. In fact, you might not notice they are sick at all. That’s okay. Many people do not want others to know and especially do not want the “How are you really doing” questions combined with a sympathetic stare, which often appears more condescending than concerned. Others want to talk about their illness and may find sympathy useful as they navigate the minefield of their daily lives while avoiding triggers, which can be anything from certain foods to flashing lights. Some people might need help with the daily grind at Duke, such as a ride to the doctor’s office or an arm to lean on when they are too sick to stand. There is no one way to cope with an endless war on one’s own body. My own story is like many others at Duke, sick or not. I had four years filled with moments of desperate hopelessness and sublime happiness. Chronic illness has always been part of my life even as I

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Dear Naive Idiot, Planning your time at Duke can be a difficult thing to do—whether it’s figuring out which shade of salmoncolored shorts best match your Vineyard Vines tee or deciding if DukeEngage Peru or DukeEngage Columbia is more fulfilling experience, there’s already enough to deal with without having to plan your academic future out through a system that thinks adding a “back” button is major upgrade. Lucky for you, there’s already help right around the corner. Duke has mandated that you meet with your advisor, a member of a crack team of professors/Link technicians/janitors who had some free time dedicated to helping answer your tough questions about being able to graduate. Whether you’re wondering what order you should take classes in or maybe who the easiest professor is for a certain course, you’ve got 15 minutes—so use ‘em wisely. Personally, I try to ask as many questions as possible, since he really seems to enjoy each “Your Director for Undergraduate Studies is really the best person to ask about that.” Then, we spend our last 5 minutes listening to each other breathe heavily while he hunts through ACES looking for the “Eligible to Enroll” box. With about 30 seconds to go, he angrily asks me if I know where the stupid box is, as if I were the deaf, blind and activelybeing-waterboarded man who designed ACES. I then leave, filled for the next six months with the hopefulness of knowing that even if I fail all my classes, I’ll still be qualified to work as an academic advisor for Pratt. “But Dr. Monday,” I can already hear you whining. “I’m from Westchester. My parents told me they loved me and paid someone to pick out my classes for me. Life isn’t fair!” Well, as any good therapist will tell you, I care as long as you keep paying me—so here’s my take on bookbag-ology. Let’s start off on a good note, by getting those notorious Trinity requirements out of the way. You know, T-Reqs, T-Wrecking-My-Gpa, T-This-Painting-Class-Is-Costing-MeSix-Grand—whatever you call them, they look like a system your drunk

great-grandfather created while yelling at your mother about how she wasn’t raising you properly. MARTHA, HAVE YOU NOT BEEN TEACHING LITTLE BILLY ABOUT THE CIVILIZATIONS? HOW CAN HE GROW UP PROPER WITHOUT THE CIVILIZATIONS, MARTHA? IF I FIND OUT THE BOY ISN’T GETTING HIS ETHICAL INQUIRIES, I WILL WRITE YOU STRAIGHT OUT OF THE WILL. But unlike your grandpa, who can be placated by slipping a little Nyquil

into his Ensure, the T-Req system at Duke shares its tenacity for killing you with the dinosaur of the same name. There is an argument that a liberal arts education is a valuable asset, but that fades in today’s society where the primary purpose of a college degree is to get a job and be employable. This isn’t a cheese plate at the Nasher Cafe, it’s a business, where students pay money to become qualified to do something for the rest of their lives. A few requirements for certain core subjects makes sense. Take writing, for example—you should be able to write to graduate, unless you’re an enginerd, since their thoughts are basically spaghetti of slanted lines. But forcing me to try classes in random areas in the hope that I’ll stumble upon one I like didn’t work with vegetables when I was 4-year-old and won’t work now. And you Pratt-Stars don’t get off easy either—remember when you came to Duke, just waiting to get to a course where you could stick those grubby, Lego-toned hands into actually building something? They’re called Senior Design Electives, and they exist so that a younger version of you will think that you’ll leave Duke actually qualified to build something, which will inevitably lead to your dream of flying spaceships to outer space. In actuality, olderyou will have scrapped the visions of working for NASA for visions of trying more drugs with your friends before you all graduate and forget each other exist, and that project just became another obstacle to pass before you can collect your diploma. But, whatever difficulties may lie in the coursework ahead, we’re Duke students because we can take them. So buckle down, kids, head over to Schedulator and get to building your lives for next semester. There’s nothing like a little bookbagging to remind you that, whatever your academic struggles, they’ll all be over by the start of next semester and will all be back two weeks later. Dr. Monday would like to advise Larry Moneta that there is no need to send an email expressing condolences for the T-Req system, though it would be nice to get one for how much rain we’ve had lately.

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Kristen Shortley | The Chronicle Freshman Brandon Ingram was the only Blue Devil to develop any sort of rhythm Thursday, finishing with 24 points to lead all scorers.

M. BASKETBALL from page 1 The loss marked the final game of the big man’s five-year college career, and the last of eight straight seasons with at least one Plumlee brother on the Duke roster. “Marshall has been a big brother to me since the moment I stepped on campus last year and it’s been a lot of fun to play with him and share emotion,” Allen said. “It’s like separating a family at the end of the day because of how close we’ve become.” The Ducks exploited the absence of Duke’s best interior defender, penetrating through the paint to set up open perimeter jumpers. Oregon hit four first-half 3-pointers to the Blue Devils’ two and got 12 points from Brooks, who added five rebounds and six assists by the end of the night.

Ingram was the only Blue Devil who found consistent success against an athletic Oregon defense and hurt the Ducks in multiple ways to keep Duke hanging around. Ingram headed to the locker room with 14 points on 6-of-12 shooting, including a pair of triples to keep Duke’s deficit at just 36-31 at intermission. But Oregon began the second-half with a burst on offense that threatened to put the Blue Devils in a big hole. Propelled by back-to-back threes by sophomore Casey Benson, the Ducks built an 11-point lead two minutes into the second half. Oregon put the pedal to the metal, speeding up the game by turning defense into offense. Off of a Jordan Bell block, the Ducks pushed the ball up the floor for an Elgin Cook transition dunk, putting Oregon ahead 52-41 with 14:20 remaining. “The threes [Benson] hit to start

the second half, I thought we were in a good mood to get going and he knocked down those two,” Krzyzewski said. “To get eight assists and only one turnover, he’s like an unsung hero for their team, with all the athletes and the blocked shots and all of that.” With Allen still struggling to get open looks and the Blue Devils cold from downtown, Duke became a one-man show with Ingram trying to will his team to victory. Although the freshman scored seven consecutive points in a 4:30 span in the second half, the Blue Devils never drew closer than six. Oregon patiently worked the ball around Duke’s zone defense and found Brooks possession after possession near the free-throw line, where he could distribute to teammates. But on the other end of the court, the Blue Devils’ drives to the basket were often too soft to finish against the athletic duo of Cook and Bell, who combined for four blocks. “You think you’re open and then they’re so good laterally and then they have guys that go vertical,” Krzyzewski said. “That combination, if you do get past the lateral on the drive—boom, the other stuff is there. That combination was, to me, something you just don’t face very often.” After Duke cut the margin to nine, the Ducks responded emphatically with a dunk by Chris Boucher and a 3-pointer by freshman Tyler Dorsey that stretched Oregon’s lead back to 14. Another triple by Brooks a few possessions later proved to be the dagger and stretched the Ducks’ lead to 16, and Duke could not recover. Oregon fell to second-seeded Oklahoma 80-68 in the Elite Eight Saturday, failing to advance to the Final Four for the first time since 1939.

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RD ADMISSIONS from page 1 decision results was 10.4 percent. Accepted students have until May 1 to make their final decisions, with the University offering Blue Devil Days—two-day events that give students the chance to get familiar with Duke— April 7-8, April 18-19 and April 24-25. Guttentag noted that admissions officers paid particularly close attention to first-generation students who would make good Washington Duke scholars but said that this year’s applicant pool was not significantly different from last year’s in its makeup. He added that there was an increased number of applications from students of color. Although there have been significant events in the past year that could have impacted application numbers—such as last year’s men’s basketball national championship or recent incidents of discrimination on campus— Guttentag said that he did not think individual events affected students’ decisions to apply. “Students are looking for active campuses where students are engaged,” Guttentag said. “I don’t think that there are students that would apply and then decide not to apply because of a single event.”

Izzi Clark | Chronicle File Photo Duke’s Class of 2020 regular decision admissions rate was its lowest over.