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NY TIMES COLUMNIST DAVID BROOKS TALKS CIVIL DEBATE

By Jake Satisky

purpose and tribalism, he said, fueling the rise of populists such as President Donald Trump.

Author, commentator and New York “The core of life is conflict and Times columnist David Brooks is not a combat, it’s a warrior mentality, stranger to Duke—he was once a visiting everything is zero-sum, politics is war... professor at the Sanford School of Public society is tribal,” Brooks said in regards Policy, and yesterday he was the keynote to the tribalistic mentality. “And you speaker at this year’s Provost Forum. see it in the impulse to erect barriers, to Focusing on the forum’s theme, build walls, to silence enemies. Mistrust “Testing the University: Speech, Freedom is the worldview—it’s true on the right, and Civility on College Campuses,” often out in the country, and it’s true on Brooks spoke on the connections the left, often in campuses.” between civil debate, university culture To return away from tribalism, and culture in our society at large. there needs to be shifts in the ideals of “Cultural progress moves forward universities and in people’s approach to by a pattern the world, Brooks said. of ‘ratchet, He discussed his hatchet, pivot, We have to give people a undergraduate experience ratchet,’” he way to live and improve at University of Chicago— said, by which where he majored in he meant that their own lives at a higher “history and celibacy”— people build level in order to create and how he admired its a culture that humanistic model of works for a social transformation. forming each student’s while, and through david brooks character when it stops and civic AUTHOR, COMMENTATOR AND NEW philosophy fitting the YORK TIMES COLUMNIST moral debates. needs of the Brooks continued people, they that he wished today’s “take a hatchet to it” and replace it. universities would return to that ideal Brooks claimed that we are in a instead of focusing on specialization hatchet period today. The individualistic, and research, which leave students expressive culture that began in the See BROOKS on Page 3 1960s has led to loneliness, crisis of Staff Reporter

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Protest breaks Blue Devils host North Carolina on Allen’s out at Divinity Senior Night in regular-season finale School event MEN’S BASKETBALL

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Armed with megaphones, a group of disgruntled students interrupted the Divinity School State of the School address to give what they called “the real State of the School address.”

The group, which identified themselves as LGBTQIA+ Duke Divinity students and allies, was protesting the treatment of students with marginalized sexual orientations and gender identities in the school. The protesters issued a list of 15 demands at the end of the Wednesday incident and said they would take “further, non-violent, direct action” if the demands were not met.

“No, we are not a letter of the alphabet, we are not a nameless statistic, we are not a picture for your diversity magazine, we are not an exotic experiment in communal learning,” said Margie Quinn, a second-year master’s student in the Divinity School, during the protest.

The demands come after continued student See DIVINITY on Page 3

Last time they took on their archrivals, the Blue Devils seemed like they had it all figured out. For most of the first half, the Dean Dome was deafeningly silent.

But just as quickly as they jumped ahead, they walked off the court dazed, heads down, their ears ringing.

Duke and Carolina in a nutshell. Whatever you thought knew about a basketball game, throw it out the window. Crazy things happen.

The No. 5 Blue Devils hope that they can curry the Crazies’ favor and avoid reliving that feeling Saturday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium against the No. 9 Tar Heels. Duke will have to do better on the offensive glass than it did in its February loss, when North Carolina owned the boards—especially in the decisive second half. The Blue Devils were up by 12 points late in the first half, but folded to fall 82-78.

Both teams are now coming off losses heading into their second matchup for the first time since 2007, five days after Duke faded late and got shocked on the road against Virginia Tech.

After falling on a buzzer-beater against Miami their last time out, the Tar Heels are confident they can get back on track in one of the toughest road venues in basketball.

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Joel Berry II told reporters of playing at Cameron after falling to the Hurricanes. “It’s kind of like going back to play in a high school, the fans right there on the court doing the twinkle fingers or whatever,” he added at the team’s media availability Thursday.

Berry has won just once at Duke in three tries.

In the past 101 games, the series has been incredibly tight— North Carolina has 51 wins, Duke has 50. The Blue Devils have scored 7,845 points, while the Tar Heels have scored 7,847. In order to even the series in recent history, Duke will have to play a full 40 minutes—something it failed to do against the Tar Heels in February and against the Hokies Monday night.

Aside from a loss against now-No. 1 Virginia, the Blue Devils (24-6, 12-5 in the ACC) have routinely excelled at home and have leaned on a much-improved defense since the rivals’ last meeting.

After hitting close to rock bottom in the loss to the Tar Heels Feb. 8, they have allowed an average of 57.0 points per game in their last six behind a zone defense.

Duke has improved at preventing its opponents from owning the offensive glass like North Carolina did earlier in the season, but the Tar Heels (22-8, 11-6) are the best in the nation in rebound margin. The Blue Devils come right behind them at No. 4, but couldn’t quite compete against North Carolina’s guards on the glass last time out.

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Duke Regional Hospital to receive 45,000 square-foot, $100 million expansion

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The University is investing more than $100 million in an expansion of Duke Regional Hospital, which is anticipated to open in 2021.

The expansion will create additional space for the hospital’s emergency department and a new behavioral health facility.

Duke Regional—located on North Roxboro Street in Durham— is owned by Durham County and operated by Duke University Health System on a long-term lease.

“We’re really excited about this,” said Katie Galbraith, president of Duke Regional Hospital, noting that the expansion was part of the facility’s master plan.

The addition to the emergency department is needed due to the high utilization of the current facility, Galbraith said.

Although it was intended to handle approximately 35,000 patients a year, the facility now sees nearly 64,000 visits annually. She added that many of the treatment rooms are undersized as well.

After the approximately 45,000 square-foot expansion, the emergency department will have 49 treatment rooms—up from the current 36—and 12 private observation rooms, doubling the existing total.

The investment will also include a new 112,000 square-foot behavioral health facility attached to the existing hospital. The two-story building will house 42 inpatient beds, an 18-bed mental health emergency department, 30 outpatient rooms and electroconvulsive therapy services.

“As a health system and as a hospital, we recognized the considerable need in our community around behavioral health,” Galbraith said.

She added that having a dedicated facility will help improve the coordination and quality of patient care in the community.

Moira Rynn, chair for the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University School of Medicine, noted that many workers and patients would benefit from the expansion.

“It’s going to be a tremendous gift to all of us—the providers, our educators who teach residents and medical students—and then for our patients and their families to have this wonderful facility to care for them,” she said. “It’s truly terrific.”

Rynn—who came to Duke as chair in 2017—noted that as a relatively new employee, part of what excited her about coming was the prospect of a new facility.

The University intends to transfer 19 beds to the new facility,

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so the total number of beds available in the county will not increase. At present, there are 42 inpatient beds in Duke and Duke Regional Hospitals. However, Sarah Avery, director of Duke Health’s news office, wrote in an email that some of the current beds have limited utilization. This is because some current rooms are only semi-private, and space constraints at Duke Hospital limit the use of another bed.

Some employees and providers will be shifted to Duke Regional, Rynn said, but exact details have not yet been determined. Duke University Hospital will retain some psychiatric capabilities to respond to psychiatric emergencies and patients with other needs best addressed at Duke Hospital.

Rynn added that the new behavioral health facility was designed with patient needs in mind.

“There’s more space for them to be able to go outside if needed, more room to meet with families,” she said. “Most patient facilities are pretty limited on space.”

Both Rynn and Galbraith emphasized that the new facility was designed to be useful for student and resident learning.

In total, the expansion is anticipated to cost $102.4 million See HOSPITAL on Page 3

Special to the Chronicle The 45,000 square-foot expansion will add six private observation rooms and 13 emergency department treatment rooms.

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Student social media networks were abuzz Friday afternoon with reports of an attempted kidnapping at approximately 10 a.m.

In an email to students at approximately 3:25 p.m., Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, sought to assuage fears and clarify the situation. Moneta wrote that a student standing on Yearby Street on Central Campus reported being approached by a driver in a white van. The driver—described as a black male in his 20s with facial hair—reportedly said “You are my dream; get in the van.”

No DukeALERT was sent about the incident.

Moneta wrote that the student walked away and reported the incident to a nearby security guard. The van was reportedly unmarked and last seen driving towards Duke University road. A photo of the vehicle is available at police.duke.edu. Moneta encouraged reporting any additional information to Duke Police.

He also assured students DUPD was taking the incident seriously.

“Information about this incident is spreading widely across social media and while I do not want to minimize the troubling nature of this incident, I do want to calm excessive fears,” Moneta wrote. “Duke Police are fully engaged in investigation of the incident and we will continue to deploy additional security staff in Central Campus as we have for quite awhile. Your safety remains our highest priority.”

During a visit to Duke University Police Department Headquarters Friday afternoon, an employee confirmed that there was no kidnapping but could not share further details.

In an email sent Thursday afternoon, Moneta wrote that the person driving the van was identified and subsequently banned from campus. He added that the person was not affiliated with Duke.

“The Duke Police have worked closely with the involved student and consider the matter closed,” Moneta wrote.

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DIVINITY FROM PAGE 1 dissatisfaction with the school administration under the leadership of Elaine Heath, dean of the Divinity School and professor of missional and pastoral theology. In the letter outlining the demands, the students said they were “fed up” that their needs remained “deliberately unheard.”

The “real” address and the demands During the address, protesters—including both students and faculty—spoke out against the misrepresentation of queer and trans students and students of color. One student said that the Divinity School has been quick to publicize its diversity in advertisements, only to minimize their marginalized voices in the school hallways.

Madeline Reyes, a first-year Divinity School student who the protesters authorized to perform press-related duties, wrote in an email that the school’s leadership is not dedicated to making the school a safe and

affirming place for LGBTQIA+ students or students of color. She called Heath and the administration “all talk.”

“The administration likes to make us feel like our voices and opinions are being considered, only to reject our pleas last minute using red-tape reasoning,” Reyes wrote.

The protesters pointed to the example of a petition to create a queer theology course, which was ultimately rejected by the school.

Reyes also noted that the Divinity School had failed to make any concerted effort to hire new faculty of color after many such faculty left the school in the past year.

The 15 demands were divided into three categories—“immediate,” to be met by the end of the semester; “short-term,” to be met by Fall 2018; and “long-term,” to be met by Spring 2019.

Immediate demands include mandatory gender and sexuality training for staff and faculty and access to LGBTQIA+ resources.

The five short-term demands include a class on queer theology and establishing a number of scholarships for queer or trans students. All four long-terms demands involve hiring faculty

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the premise that ‘I don’t know who this person is on campus, but I know in some FROM PAGE 1 way they’re my brother and sister and I will listen to them,’” he said. with their “deep moral yearnings” To Brooks, commitment is love—it unfulfilled. When people are unfulfilled, is offering something without expecting some will mistakenly believe that they to get anything in return and building can find their spiritual fulfillment in structures that ensure that love will not ASK UStoYOUR QUESTIONS. GIVE US YOUR politics, leading disillusionment, falter.

Tribalism, on theOPINIONS. other hand, is based fanaticism and tribalism. less in love for one’s tribe but in hatred for However, Brooks implored the audience others. Fixing our culture requires civil to not lose faith in our ability to craft a debate and respecting each other’s different better culture. All that people need to do, points of view, which both require love, Brooks concluded, is reject hatred and Brooks added. embrace commitment.

There are people and organizations “When you organize your life around committed to fighting back against the love and commitments… you start from negative aspects of our culture, Brooks

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and staff who are either trans, queer or can “She is using the language of the ‘white provide LGBTQIA+ resources. moderate’ Dr. [Martin Luther King Jr.] warned us about in his ‘Letters from a Birmingham Jail,’” The aftermath Reyes said. “Civil discourse has not worked, nor Thursday morning, Heath sent an email to is it our job to engage in such discourse with members of the Divinity School addressing the those who have done violence to us.” previous day’s incident.

Reyes said the protesters have already “The issues raised by the students point scheduled meetings with “cooperative” staff to to the need to continue this dialogue to grow discuss how to implement their demands. as a diverse and hospitable community that However, the group does not plan to work generates an environment for deeper and with Heath as a result of her unproductive track broader theological reflection and formation, record, Reyes explained. She noted that when a amidst a church and culture that is divided and group of black students tried to engage in “civil faces further fragmentation,” she wrote. discourse” with the administration last semester, Heath also asked the community to shift matters only seemed to get worse. from “mirroring the polarization of society” to “We are past the point of succumbing to achieve “discernment and creativity, together.” Dean Heath’s manipulative and entirely forShe pointed to the Divinity School’s work with show practices of holding ‘civil discourse,’” Sacred Worth, the school’s LGBTQIA+ student she said. “We will happily sit down with other group, including designating a room for the faculty and staff who are interested in actually organization and inviting members of the group working to implement our demands. However, to give a presentation to the faculty.

Dean Heath is not one of these.”

However, Reyes said she was “infuriated” by Heath’s response. She noted that some protesters Likhitha Butchireddygari contributed were members of Sacred Worth themselves. reporting.

said, but there is still progress to be made.

Movements need to centralize and articulate what they are actually for, not just what they are against. They need to understand that democracy is more than just voting representatives into office, it is a way of life.

And most importantly, Brooks said they need to prioritize personal growth.

“Social transformation follows personal transformation,” he said. “You have to give people a way to live and improve their own lives at a higher level in order to create social transformation.

That’s what has to happen—change is not just out there, it has to happen within us that we live in a way that respects the values that we cherish.”

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HOSPITAL FROM PAGE 2 and open in March of 2021. Funding for the project will come from the hospital system. Gabraith said this was the biggest project for Duke Regional since this hospital’s opening in 1976. Although she noted that there would be some construction-associated disruptions at Duke Regional, she said they would be minimized.

Galbraith praised the hospital board for embracing the project.

“Not every health system across the country is investing this kind of money in behavioral health for their community,” she said. “I think this really shows that level of commitment that the health system and the University have.”

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Being in Tent 1 means several winter nights outside and hours of studying for a trivia test

By Hank Tucker Sports Editor

Three days before Duke hosts North Carolina on Senior Night, Tent 1 still isn’t sure what its theme will be.

The group of 12 students that millions of television viewers will envy in the front row of the student section at midcourt Saturday might coordinate Kangaroo Jack outfits around an Australian theme, a nod to sophomore forward Jack White, or they might dress up in scuba gear.

Another option is getting painted as the Blue Devils’ retired jersey, even though there are 13 of those in the rafters and just 12 of them.

“But Danny Ferry gave his to Marvin Bagley, so it works,” tent captain Sara Shmueli pointed out.

The outfit dilemma is one of the only pieces of Tent 1’s experience that has not been carefully mapped out since long before they set up their temporary home in Krzyzewskiville for the start of Black Tenting Jan. 12, about 50 days ago.

Twenty-four groups began tenting on the first day, committing to a six-week tenting adventure to secure the best spots in Cameron Indoor Stadium for Saturday’s game. To emerge atop this select group of committed Crazies, it took more than a few nights and countless hours of sleeping outside.

Black Tenting groups do not get a number when they start, since they all begin camping out at the same time. Instead, they are ordered near the end of tenting based half on their score on a historical test of Duke men’s basketball trivia and

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Tenting groups have been in Krzyzewskiville in line for Saturday’s game since Jan. 12. half on their group’s attendance at home sporting events—men’s and women’s basketball games, wrestling matches, tennis matches and others.

Ten of the 12 tent members have to sign in at the event for a group to get full credit.

Shmueli, a junior, is used to the nuances of tenting—she was in Tent 3 as a freshman and Tent 4 last winter, both good enough to be in the front row. But eight members of last year’s tent graduated, so she assumed the role of tent captain, invited friends and asked them to invite their friends.

The expectations were clear from the outset: every tent member had to commit to pulling their weight with tenting shifts, prioritizing attendance events and studying their share of trivia.

“People were almost scared, not of Sara, but of just messing up, like letting the tent down, letting Sara down,” said junior Elise Fernandez, who has tented with Shmueli all three years. “There was a lot of panicked calling and running around.”

Their study guide for the test was a 50-page Google Doc Shmueli and her tent-mates have added to over the years, pulling facts from

sources like Duke basketball’s Wikipedia page, articles and books about the program and the documentary “A Cut Above: 100 Seasons of Duke Basketball,” that Shmueli and Fernandez watched together.

The questions they were most proud of getting right this year were the name of the former head coach who still attends every Blue Devil home game (Bucky Waters) and Duke’s record in 1994-95, the year Mike Krzyzewski was away from the team for most of the season due to back surgery (13-18).

Of course, there was also the day-to-day grind of tenting the group had to keep up with. During Black Tenting, which runs for two full weeks, 10 people in the group have to be in K-ville during night hours from 2:30-7 a.m., and two have to be there the rest of the day. Those numbers drop to six and one during Blue Tenting, and two and one during White Tenting, respectively.

Shmueli maintains a spreadsheet to keep track of everybody’s hours and adjusts the schedule to make it fair whenever grace is called. Each group can miss one check per tenting period before they are bumped on their second strike, but Shmueli and Fernandez proudly said their group has never missed a check in three years.

That was the easy part this year, though. Tenters were given grace for several days during Black Tenting due to a mid-January snowstorm and lost almost all of Blue Tenting as well due to a flu outbreak. Even in a long tenting season, with the home game between Duke and the Tar Heels taking See TENT 1 on Page 9

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Blue Devils open ACC tournament vs. Wolfpack

By Spencer Levy Staff Reporter

ACC championships do not come easily.

They require a continuous stretch of strong play over the course of a long weekend.

That is exactly what the Blue Devils will look to accomplish this weekend at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, N.C., No. 5 to potentially match NCSU up against some of vs. the top teams in No. 4 the nation. No. 18 Duke Duke enters the ACC FRIDAY, 11 a.m. tournament as the Greensboro Coliseum No. 4 seed and will face fifth-seeded N.C. State Friday morning in the quarterfinals at 11 a.m., with its sights set much higher than just one win.

“Obviously, we pursue every championship we could possibly play. We’ve been in a championship many times. We’ve won it sometimes. Last year of course, we did not,” Blue Devil head coach Joanne P. McCallie

said. “You always want to be playing for championships. That’s always the dream, the focus, the opportunity.”

To earn a double-bye, Duke (22-7, 11-5 in the ACC) needed two wins to wrap up the regular season after falling to Syracuse on the road. With an upset of No. 9 Florida State 79-66 Monday and a comfortable win against North Carolina on Senior Day, the Blue Devils clinched the valuable extra day of rest.

But before Duke can think about a championship run, it will need to focus on the Wolfpack, who have been playing better since the two teams met Jan. 7. That Sunday afternoon, the Blue Devils scored the first 18 points before the Wolfpack clawed back to as close as four midway through the third quarter.

“We were streaky in that game and we’ve been streaky in a number of games this year, and I’d like to get rid of that tag, the streaky tag,” McCallie said. “I’d like us to be consistently attacking, really getting after it, and hopefully we can use that in the tournament.”

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Rebecca Greenwell has reemerged as Lexie Brown’s top sidekick after sitting out five games due to a knee injury in December and January. than they were two months ago. Graduate student Rebecca Greenwell was held scoreless in 13 minutes and did not attempt a shot from the field, and redshirt sophomore Haley Gorecki notched 13 points with six assists to

complement Lexie Brown’s career-high 34 points in the 69-56 win.

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Five questions that could decide Saturday’s rivalry

By Mitchell Gladstone Sports Managing Editor

Ever since Duke and North Carolina met 20 days ago in Chapel Hill, things have changed dramatically for the Tar Heels. After three consecutive losses and being on the verge of falling out of the top 25, North Carolina won seven straight games before a loss at the buzzer to Miami Tuesday night.

That said, any Tobacco Road rivalry matchup brings with it plenty of questions, and especially after the Blue Devils’ Monday night defeat at Virginia Tech, there remains plenty to be answered in the regular-season finale. Here are the five biggest questions entering Saturday night’s matchup in Durham: 1. Can the Tar Heels outshoot Duke’s zone?

If you simply look at the numbers from the first matchup, you’d think North Carolina struggled from beyond the arc given its 33.3 percent mark. And it did— after halftime, that is.

But in the first 20 minutes, Kenny Williams drained five triples as the Tar Heels came flying out of the gates and kept pace with the Blue Devils by hitting 7-of-16 3-pointers before intermission.

Since that game, Duke has tightened up considerably, only surrendering 55.5 points per contest, but all its opponents pale in comparison to the Tar Heels on the offensive end—North Carolina ranks second in the conference in adjusted offensive efficiency, trailing just the Blue Devils in the KenPom.com metric.

The key becomes whether Williams, Joel Berry II and Cameron Johnson can provide efficient offense for the Tar Heels. Theo Pinson will likely work the inside of Duke’s 2-3 zone, but if shots are falling from the outside, expect North Carolina to light up the scoreboard at Cameron Indoor.

2. Who wins the battle of the boards?

Whenever the Blue Devils and Tar Heels face off, this is always the inevitable question.

This season, roles are reversed, though, with Duke holding a somewhat substantial size advantage, especially with added minutes in recent weeks for sophomore big men Marques Bolden and Javin DeLaurier.

Three weeks ago, the Blue Devils had the advantage on the glass early and held a 21-16 lead at intermission. From that point forward, North Carolina dominated, winning 28-17 in the second half and collecting 15 offensive rebounds to tire out the Duke defense. The Blue Devils will need to lean on their big men to control the paint on both ends of the floor and capitalize on both first- and second-chance opportunities.

3. Does Grayson Allen make a final moment at Cameron?

Moments might be Coach K’s favorite buzzword, but Grayson Allen has had plenty of them—especially on his home floor. From a breakout performance his freshman year against Wake Forest to a buzzer-beating shot to top Virginia his sophomore season to a pair of tripping incidents against Louisville and Florida State, Cameron Indoor Stadium has been home to plenty of highs and lows for the Duke captain.

When the Blue Devils hosted their rival a season ago, Allen produced arguably his best performance of the season, drilling seven treys en route to a victory, but the Tar Heels shut him down earlier this year. Whether or not they can limit Duke’s sparkplug again could very likely determine the game’s outcome.

4. Which team will control the tempo of the game?

In an unusual last set of games for the Blue

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place on the final night of the regular season rather than midway through February, members of Shmueli’s group averaged eight nights in the tent—fewer than it took to be in a Black Tent during last year’s shorter season.

But instead of appreciating the time off, Shmueli and Fernandez seemed almost disappointed that their group did not have as much time to bond this season as in past years.

“I like the night shifts definitely, especially during black tenting when you have the shift right before the night shift,” Shmueli said. “Maybe from like 10 until 2:30, you really are there with one other person, kind of have to bond over how cold and uncomfortable you are.”

Tenting shifts also became a little more comfortable this year thanks to the K-ville common room, complete with carpeting and beanbag chairs.

“I spent a lot of time in there doing work and hanging out. It was super comfortable,” Fernandez said. “By the end, it started to smell like trash, but up until like the last week, it was super nice.”

That description applies to most of K-ville by the end of a marathon tenting season, but it will be worth it for the more than one thousand tenters who pile into Cameron come Saturday.

And Tent 1 will be first through the door.

sidelined for the season with a hip injury and Greenwell’s 31-point showing led Duke past North Carolina Sunday.

“We weren’t whole when we played them in that regard. But you just take the principles and the concepts technically as much as you can,” McCallie said. “[N.C. State] had an excellent game against North Carolina.

They played smart, mature basketball.... At this point, everyone’s really good and that’s a fact of life, and we just have to focus on what we want to do.”

N.C. State (23-7, 11-5) opened play Thursday morning by defeating the 12thseeded Tar Heels 77-64.

Playing an early-morning game poses problems to some coaches, as the timing differs from a typical game day, but the Blue Devils are not worried, and the Wolfpack will have less than 24 hours of rest after Wednesday’s game.

“I really like it just because you can get out there right away, get your work done and move on,” McCallie said. “You’re at the stage now where March is about anytime, anyplace, anywhere. It’s not about convenience and it’s not about [being] easy or any of that stuff.”

With a quick turnaround approaching after every postseason game, McCallie said the team does not “go up and down”

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Luke Maye has been a lights-out scorer against weaker opponents this season, though he has struggled against ranked teams.

Devils, it’s been defense and not offense leading the way, as Duke has chosen to slow the pace of play, averaging just fewer than 66 possessions per game. Conversely, North Carolina played games with at least 73 possessions three times in its seven-game winning streak.

If the Tar Heels have any say, they’ll look to push the ball and prevent the Blue Devils from ever setting up in their zone defense. And not only that, but North Carolina’s Warrior lineup—with Luke Maye as the tallest player on the floor—is built to press teams that struggle to get back down the floor and defend.

5. Does Monster Maye emerge?

In the three games between the two rivals last season, the once-unheralded Charlotte native managed only 16 points against Duke, and a few weeks back, he missed all

three of his 3-point attempts, winding up with just 15 points. But Maye has been the Tar Heels’ most dangerous weapon this season, erupting for a pair of 30-plus-point performances against N.C. State.

Still, the numbers against ranked teams have been meager at best—he’s only scored more than 15 points once against a top-25 side, and the rest of his big performances in conference play have come either in defeats or against bottom of the barrel teams.

There is no perfect matchup for Maye, and if he’s scoring, that makes for a lot of dangerous options that the Blue Devils will have to contend with. Although Duke’s size inside could neutralize the threat of a Maye breakout performance, a big night for the junior would likely be the straw to break the camel’s back.

the court practicing as much in March, instead working more on technical skills to keep the players fresh.

With the double-bye, Duke will only need three wins in three days to claim the championship Sunday afternoon. With a win Friday, the Blue Devils would the winner of top-seeded Louisville and ninth-seeded Virginia Tech. In its lone meeting with the Cardinals, Duke outscored then-undefeated Louisville by eight points in the fourth quarter before falling by six.

The Blue Devils last won the tournament in 2013, capping a run of three titles in four years. McCallie currently holds the ACC tournament’s top winning percentage ever with a minimum at 73.1 percent, though Notre Dame’s Muffet McGraw—12-0 right now—would eclipse her this season with a run to the finals.

The Fighting Irish have eliminated Duke from the conference tournament in all four of their years in the ACC, and the Blue Devils would need a second straight run to the finals to meet this year’s No. 2 seed again. “[Notre Dame has] been pretty dominant. They’ve had the best players and so they’ve had the best team and they haven’t been beat too much,” McCallie said.

“They haven’t been dethroned yet. They were dethroned a little bit by not finishing in first place, but that’s just the start of that kind of thing. They’ve still dominated the ACC tournament.”

Duke is playing for much more than ACC bragging rights this weekend, though. The top four seeds in the NCAA tournament, equating to the top 16 teams, will host the first two rounds. For the Blue Devils, that could easily mean the difference between a Sweet 16 appearance or a second-round exit.

Duke has split its 12 road contests this season, but has won 18 of its 19 games at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

“We have an RPI of 12, which is pretty good. That’s all I care about is RPI and how we rate there,” McCallie said. “That’s not the fan mentality. That’s not the polls and all that stuff. I don’t think about that stuff because it’s just not relevant. But RPI matters, and it would be nice for our RPI to climb.”

Duke’s RPI could climb a bit with a win against the Wolfpack, but victories against top-five Louisville and Notre Dame would certainly give the Blue Devils an added push into the top 16 before Selection Monday March 12.

Duke will have to play its way back to Durham at its “home away from home.”

The Blue Devils have won eight ACC championships at the Greensboro Coliseum since 2000.

“It is a lot of fun. We feel the Duke fans. It’s great to have Duke fans come support us,” McCallie said. “It’s a great environment. It’s just a really fun city, and the way they embrace women’s basketball is outstanding.”

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rom the devastating scene at Columbine to the tragedy at Sandy Hook, a seemingly unshakable pattern has arisen in response to classroom shootings: grief, outrage and then collective silence. That was, however, until Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students began mobilizing soon after violence rocked their community. The young leaders in this wave of support for legislative gun reform have made appearances on a televised CNN town hall, daytime cable shows and have given countless interviews for journalists, further galvanizing students around the country. As a result of this, various universities— including Duke—have begun releasing statements ensuring that high schoolers organizing for this cause their activism won’t negatively impact their admission chances. While this has been met with praise by many and make institutions like Duke appear enthusiastic about exercises of dissent, the historical and contemporary attitudes towards activism on campus tells a much different story.

On Feb 13, 1969, black Duke students occupied the Allen building in response to institutionalized racism. They were met with police in riot gear firing tear gas into the crowd and an entire year of probation.

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resignation of Executive Vice President Tallman Trask III and an independent investigation into his involvement in a racially-charged hit-and-run as well as a number of other pressing reforms. While a myriad of faculty and student groups on campus supported the cause, protesters were met with threats of disciplinary actions, forcible removable and charges of trespassing. Even bureaucratic, nonoccupation attempts at labor organizing on campus among professors and graduate students have been

Editorial Board met with resistant administrative responses. This paints a clearer picture of the hypocrisy in Duke’s attempts to quell application fears that their activism will cast them in a harsh light.

The statement released on Twitter is a carefully constructed and intentionally vague addition to the growing number of announcements released by peer institutions. Instead of an open arms embrace of these forms of political engagement that Yale issued, Duke emphasized a larger contextual consideration for disciplinary issues as a result of activism. It seems that the University is only interested in student protests when they take a easily controlled, white-

washed form without actively challenging structures of power that the University benefits from. Despite lip-service given to student activism, as evident in Dean Nowicki’s encouragement to the Class of 2019 to “question authority”, current and historical examples show that Duke is more interested in maintaining the status quo against dissenting student voices.

Ultimately, the issue to take with this recent attempt by Duke to brand themselves a benevolent, progressive institution that values the voices of next generations of agitated leaders is that such a canned response reeks of institutional hypocrisy.

The University is happy to admit politically-oriented students, but only if their frustration and rage can be contained to op-eds in The Chronicle or chartered student groups. At the end of the day, Duke is a brand with no clear ideological commitments. The first priority of the admissions office and administrators is to protect that brand and cultivate only very particular forms of student dissent. The acceptable venues and outlets for protest are institutional channels that don’t dare confront Duke itself. It would serve prospective Blue Devils well to learn early on that when Duke says it welcomes students bold enough to stand up, it only means in a rigid, containable ways.

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our weeks ago, I wrote that too much of Duke’s annual budget is going towards housing and luxuries, and not enough towards financial aid. Since that time, I have held plenty of conversations with friends and classmates about the merits of giving in higher education. I’ve thought about the money that goes towards Duke’s relationship with Durham, about the portion of our annual budget that goes toward paying our staff, and about our administration’s fiscal priorities. But mostly, since that time, I have reflected on what

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affordability on this campus actually looks like in action.

Affordability does not stop with financial aid.

It does not stop with tuition dollars.

Throughout our four years on campus, we spend an extraordinary amount of money on everyday items: on that $9 Tandoor meal you got for lunch in West Union, the $3.75 you pay for laundry each week to wash and dry your clothes in your dorm and the $232 textbook you had to buy in order to pass Organic Chemistry.

Affordability affects all corners of Duke, but let’s start by deconstructing housing.

Through the three-year housing requirement, Duke forces most students to pay $24,018 over their first three years for a double. If you want a single, that number rises to $31,278. For comparison, RentCafe puts the average price of rent for a double over the course of three years at $19,998.

Academic materials on campus also add to the burden that students of low socioeconomic statuses face. Each year, the Karsh Office of Undergraduate Support estimates that the typical Trinity student expends $3,466 on books and supplies.

Yet, this number differs across majors, concentrations and even individual classes. My Public Policy 155 course certainly did not cost me nearly as much as my best friend’s Physics 151 course.

The reason: my professor did not assign a textbook.

Duke, however, does not take into account the varying levels of expenses from class to class. Many of us are left in the dark about our own financial obligations until after the drop-add window closes and many of the best courses this university has to offer have filled.

And socioeconomic accessibility does not stop at the edges of this campus. Each year, Duke students are told that we should attempt to bridge the

divide between Duke and Durham in thoughtful and meaningful ways. But how do students of low socioeconomic background engage with Durham artists and activists when they can’t afford a Lyft?

How do they experience the Durham food scene when they cannot afford a proper meal in the city?

During breaks, students of low socioeconomic status are often marooned on-campus over Fall, Thanksgiving and Spring breaks. When campus vendors close, the food points provided by the Financial Aid Office are effectively meaningless.

This leaves students stranded, with their luxurious meal plans rendered useless. A similar problem arises between the last day of class and graduation, when campus vendors close but students are still in need of food. These basic issues are obstacles that run in the face of true inclusivity on this campus.

These examples speak to larger issues that seem to have no implemented, or proposed, solutions.

Four weeks ago, I wrote about financial aid.

But lived experiences on this campus based on socioeconomic status stretch far beyond the doors of the financial aid office.

We live on a campus where the median family income stands at $186,700. Nearly four percent of our students hail from the top tenth of one percent of American families. More than half of our undergraduate body is a part of the top 10 percent of Americans by income. But, because of each of the extreme concentration of wealth all around us, we oftentimes forget the four percent of our undergraduate body who hail from the bottom 20 percent of income brackets. It is not a stretch to conclude that those in the bottom 50 percent of income brackets struggle to afford life at Duke. Too often, we forget these students.

All of these problems create two distinct Dukes; one with individuals who can afford the vast luxuries that Duke and the Durham community have to offer, and another, forced to work harder in a crowd of opulent peers.

We need to work to bridge this gap, to make quality of life on this campus independent of socioeconomic status—a conversation that goes beyond financial aid.

During my time on my campus, we will not fix all of these problems. But this is a long-term game. How do we want this campus to look in the future?

I want to see a Duke in which every person, regardless of socioeconomic status, can take full part in our community. And each step that we can take to address affordability takes us one step closer to that Duke.

Steve Hassey is a Trinity junior. His column usually runs on alternate Thursdays.

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stroturf and applesauce baked in the California sun. Erasers shaped like monkey heads and pens with faces exchanged in tiny hands. A young Sami Kirkpatrick cried for the third time that week after losing knockout…again. He was

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It was snack time at Crossroads Elementary School and I was in second grade. Or maybe it was lunchtime. And maybe it was third grade. The context is hazy but the memory is still as clear as the decision to fire Tallman Trask should have been.

My friends and I sat around a blue perforated table discussing the things that 9-year-old boys do: What’s better: Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon? Who’s faster in P.E.: Andrew or Matthew M.? Why is Robbie the music teacher the literal spawn of Satan?

It was as the chatter began to fizzle that Josh Rabineau decided to drop the bombshell he had been sitting on since coming to school that day: “Guys, I learned a new curse word yesterday.”

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five years older than him, meaning he was exposed to things much sooner than anyone else in the group. Josh had seen The “40-Year-Old Virgin,” an R-rated movie. He also had Halo 3 at his house.

The most inappropriate movie I had seen at that point was “Dodgeball” and I only had a Wii. “What is it?” I asked.

“The W-word.”

I had heard of the A-word, the S-word and even the F-word before, but this W-word, before even I even knew what it was, seemed to be on a whole other level. After all, W is a much more exotic letter than A or S or F. “Say it,” said Andrew.

Josh looked around to make sure no teacher could overhear and leaned in closely.

“Whore.”

Upon hearing the new word, the circle of boys became drunk with power, like Gollum in the presence of The Ring. They now knew something that the other kids did not, and at Crossroads Elementary School this was the most valuable of currencies.

“What does it mean?” I asked.

“I don’t know,” said Josh, “But I know it’s really bad. It’s even worse than the F word.”

That was all I needed to hear. I added the W-word to my verbal arsenal with the intention of using it as soon as possible.

The opportunity presented itself in P.E. a few hours later. We were playing kickball, and I was up. Quite uncharacteristically, I sent the rubber ball flying into left field and while rounding first base I was riding

an ego high. But alas, pride would be my downfall, as despite my teammates’ urges not to go for third I proceeded to push my good fortune only to be met by a swift and easy tag out.

Dejected and walking back to the bench, now was my time. I took a deep breath, clenched my fists and stared intensely at the ground: “Whore.”

I muttered it under my breath in the same fashion a more informed individual might say “dammit” or “s**t.”

Immediately a heavy feeling of guilt flooded over me. I had said the W word.

I had released its vile filth into the world.

What would my parents do to me if they found out? Could I get expelled? I looked around to see if the coast was clear. No one was within earshot. And so right then in that moment I swore to take this secret with me to the grave.

And maybe I would have if it weren’t for a conversation with my roommates a couple of weeks ago which for whatever reason reminded me of this strange story now stored somewhere deep in the annals of my memory. I had repressed it out of fear in my youth and by the time I was old enough to find the humor in its absurdity I had completely forgotten about it. Before two weeks ago, I had never told a single person that story in over ten years.

The thought of losing memories is one that has always frightened me, and it’s moments like these, when seemingly lost

memories come back from the dead, that make me realize how much of the record of who I am is stored within the confines my fragile mind. But is this necessarily such a bad thing?

All of freshman year I kept a journal in an attempt not let the little memories slip away. Every night just before I went to bed I would attempt to record everything single thing that had happened to me that day, even the seemingly innocuous occurrences.

I had gotten through a full year of daily journaling when I decided to stop. For me, it wasn’t a healthy or cathartic activity like it is for most people. For me, it was a taxing experience every single day as I became more and more stressed over trying not to forget anything.

I will always feel slightly sentimental when it comes to losing memories, but I’ve come to appreciate the beauty in this experience as well. If we were to remember everything then nothing would be special.

And that’s not to say that that which we don’t remember isn’t special either. These memories are in there somewhere and have a funny way of showing themselves when the time is right. Nothing feels better than the spontaneous visit from a long lost memory, even if that memory consists of a 9-yearold you muttering “whore” to himself while sullenly sculking off a kickball field.

Sami Kirkpatrick is a Trinity sophomore.

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I’m transferring to the better blue

h loyal and voracious Chronicle readers, it is with a heart full of trepidation that I announce an interruption in your regularly scheduled Friday Friday article. Alas, a big change is underway in Friday Friday’s life. After a lot of consideration, I have decided to transfer to another university.

Which school stole my heart and persuaded me to leave Duke? Well, lovely readers, turns out that when I originally chose my college, I missed the mark by a mere 9.6 miles. Indeed, effective immediately, I will be transferring to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

You may be wondering what possessed me to transfer to Duke’s rival. Why would I leave the hallowed halls of Perkins and the transparent glass facades of, like, 12 buildings? Truly, it was myriad factors, but ultimately, I had to follow my heart and become a Tar Heel.

Which brings me to my first motivation for leaving: the revered Tar Heel mascot.

To understand the significance of the Tar Heel, we must think about the purpose of a mascot. The mascot should be an entity for the student body to rally around, one that represents the spirit of the student body. When I am cheering from the student section, I want to be rooting for a mascot that inspires me, that strikes fear into the hearts of my team’s opponents. After a lot of soul-searching, I realized that Blue Devils aren’t a mascot that embodies fervor and action, so instead I wanted to be represented by the worldwide symbol of enthusiasm, athleticism and pride.

A sheep.

Of course, I also had to consider the traditions of UNC. Namely, I just can’t wait to drink out of a watering fountain that has seen the mouths of thousands of other students and alumni. And we thought Duke had a flu problem! Hopefully, sharing saliva with my peers will extend beyond drinking fountains. I mean, the party culture at UNC is just so much better. Who wouldn’t want to spend their Saturday nights walking

from the beautiful argyle design on their uniforms. During a game, there’s nothing I enjoy more than that pattern reminding me of classic American textile designs. It really takes me back to good ol’ days of UNC’s founding, when argyle-wearing, slaveholding white men sent some of the school’s students to die for the Confederacy. What’s up, Silent Sam! UNC’s status as a world-class university really grabbed my attention. No other

Who wouldn’t want to spend their Saturday nights walking aimlessly down a crowded street and ending up at the hottest spot in town: the 24-hour CVS Pharmacy.

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aimlessly down a crowded street and ending up at the hottest spot in town: the 24-hour CVS Pharmacy.

An important part of the Duke-UNC— sorry, the UNC-Duke—rivalry has always been the debate between which school has the better shade of blue. The answer, clearly, is UNC’s baby blue. It’s the color that drags you back to that time in middle school when your mom took you to a baby shower and everything was blue but you couldn’t eat a cupcake until your aunt opened all her gifts, but you didn’t care about the Cybex Priam Lux All-Terrain Stroller, you just wanted the damn cupcake.

Plus, there’s no denying that the UNC’s men’s basketball team’s extra pizazz comes

student body can compare to UNC students’ commitment to their education. Who wasn’t inspired by the video of Luke Maye showing up to class the morning after he scored the winning shot against Kentucky in last year’s NCAA tournament? There is nothing more touching than seeing a university student doing the bare minimum.

UNC’s reputation is consistent regarding their student-athletes; there are so many scandalous incidences that there’s no longer an uncorrupted area on their record. It’s a constant I can always rely on, to know my team’s education exists through some rip-off Platform 9 ¾...and that my team probably can’t read the books to which I just made a reference.

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No argument about the UNC-Duke rivalry is complete without a discussion of their basketball programs. First, it’s important to bear in mind that UNC is the reigning national championship team.

Second, who wouldn’t want to be a fan of the team that is coddled by the NCAA? Who doesn’t love a team that doesn’t have to be held accountable for their actions?

There is no better feeling than cheering for the Tar Heels, while knowing that my team epitomizes college basketball corruption.

Man, it feels good to be number one.

So, my former fellow students, it is with a clear mind I say farewell. Soon, I shall be in a better place, decked in light blue, from head to Tar Heel. I will be leaving the lackluster Cameron Crazies for the Dean Dome student section, where I will not have to live in tents or battle to the death in a peasants’ walk-up line, but instead enter my email into a lottery, miss the game and end up watching it on my phone while roaming around that fluorescently-lit CVS. What a genuine expression of school spirit.

Oh! One more thing: Go the hell Carolina.

Friday Friday is a satirical column that runs on alternate Fridays. Friday Friday has been painted in Duke blue paint for days now, and is starting to develop a rash. Friday Friday would also like to remind students that they are a volunteer fire marshall and will be prepared with buckets of tears spilled over Quenchers closing in case potential benchburning fires get out of hand on Saturday.

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M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 1 Duke couldn’t do anything to stop 6-foot8 guard Cameron Johnson, who pulled in 13 rebounds while also lighting it up from deep.

“It’s all five guys. A lot of their offensive rebounds were guys crashing from the perimeter,” Blue Devil senior captain Grayson Allen said after the February loss. “We knew that was one of their strengths, and we failed to even limit it. That’s not just our big guys—that’s all of us. They’re crashing from the perimeter, so it’s

all of our responsibility.”

In addition to better rebounding and 3-point defense, the Blue Devils will also need a more consistent inside game on offense.

Tar Heel forward Theo Pinson locked down Marvin Bagley III and company in the second half after they owned the paint early—Duke didn’t attempt a 2-pointer for a 10-minute stretch in the second half.

The Blue Devils’ offense has fallen off a bit lately, turning the ball over carelessly against the Hokies and struggling from deep. In their last two games, they have shot 21.7 percent

from 3-point range. Allen and Gary Trent Jr. in particular have been out of rhythm.

“We slowed the ball up. That’s one of the reasons why we’re not scoring as much,” Allen said after Duke’s loss to Virginia Tech.

“I felt we had mismatches inside. We tried to get inside but we had too many turnovers trying to do that. Perimeter guys need to make better passes, myself included. Too many turnovers, that was really it.”

The Blue Devils’ offense will need to be at top form to keep up with an offense that is the fourth-most efficient in the nation, according

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to basketball statistician Ken Pomeroy. To do so, head coach Mike Krzyzewski thinks that his team needs some rest and rejuvenation.

“Starting at Clemson a Sunday ago, we’ve played Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday, Monday. At this time of the year, you’re already a little bit worn down,” Krzyzewski said. “We didn’t play with the energy, and then they played well—I’m not taking away from them. That’s the thing I was most worried about today, just the energy, and we didn’t have it. You could tell because we were irritable.”

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