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ZOMBIES RISE, BENCHES FALL Blue Devils rally from 13-point second-half deficit to top Tar Heels By Hank Tucker Sports Editor

A Blue Devil team that became unstoppable down the stretch in close games from November through January looked dormant for the last several weeks. But Saturday night, “Zombie Duke” showed it was not dead for good on the biggest of regular-season stages. No. 5 Duke rallied from a 13-point second-half deficit to top ninth-ranked North Carolina 74-64 in its regularseason finale on Senior Night at Cameron Indoor Stadium. It was the fourth time this season the Blue Devils trailed by at least 13 after the break before coming back to win, with Marvin Bagley III scoring 21 points and grabbing 15 rebounds to lead the way. “We came out so anxious for this game, me included. I think we were too excited, just a little bit too frantic, too fast, too quick on everything we were doing,” senior captain Grayson Allen said. “In the second half, we played with no fear. We played like we had 100 games left, with free money, with confidence. We just went out there and hooped.” The Blue Devils (25-6, 13-5 in the ACC) started chipping away a few minutes into the second half, but a 3-pointer and a 3-point play from Bagley on back-to-back possessions trimmed the deficit to just one at 50-49 with 10 minutes to go. Gary Trent Jr. then put Duke in front for the first time of the half with a triple from the top of the key to make Cameron as loud as it has been all season and cap an extended 23-8 run in a seven-minute span. The teams traded leads on 3-pointers four times in the next three minutes, but a banked runner by Trevon Duval and another triple from Trent sparked a 10-2 run that gave Duke the lead for good. The Blue Devils made eight straight shots from the field from the 8:30 mark to the 1:04 mark of the game after they did not make a single field goal in the last seven minutes of Monday’s loss at Virginia Tech. “Literally, Coach just said, ‘Play basketball.’ He didn’t really have any X’s and O’s or any specific plays for us to run,” Duval said. “Just play normal basketball like we were playing pickup, and that’s what we did.” Allen struggled to run the offense in his final home game,

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turning the ball over a career-high six times and shooting just 5-of-14 from the field. North Carolina guard Joel Berry II pressured him on almost every possession and never let Duke’s offense find a rhythm, but Duval took over ball-handling duties for the decisive second-half run. Duval came off the bench for the second straight game, but he played most of the second half and dished out six assists without committing a turnover. An alley-oop from Duval to Bagley with less than a minute and a half left sealed the deal. “In a game like this, Grayson got worn out because of the emotion

of the night. It’s his last game, and taking him off the ball there for a while in the second half, we were able to run better offense,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We’re trying to condense four years in one here, but Trevon was huge for us.” The last eight minutes of the first half were disastrous for the Blue Devils, as they missed seven straight shots from the field and went scoreless for more than four minutes while North Carolina (22-9, 11-7) turned a four-point deficit into a nine-point lead with an 18-5 run. See M. BASKETBALL on Page 7

Students react to win against Carolina By Likhitha Butchireddygari | Editorin-Chief

Lexi Kadis | Senior News Reporter After Duke defeated UNC Saturday night, The Chronicle caught up with students at the celebratory bonfire about their thoughts on the game:

Charles York | Associate Photography Editor Students from all over campus rushed to the bonfire on Abele Quad to celebrate a longstanding tradition of burning benches.

“WHOOOOOOO! We can feel the energy. The vibe on campus is amazing. We’re so excited!”—first-year Anna Klingensmith “Go Bull City. We’re so happy for Grayson. We’re seniors, so this is icing on the cake.”— seniors Christina Cheng and Jasmine Wang “I was losing hope. I’m usually not that into sports, but that was exhilarating.”—junior Vivian Luo “[The game] was a lot of fun. Duke was down at the beginning of the second half. I

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was telling the person next to me that even though we’re down, we’re always amazing at coming back from deficits. And I knew that we could come back and beat UNC tonight.”— sophomore Daniel Castro “I’m really proud of our team. We pulled through during the second half.”—sophomore Samantha Garland “I’m very excited it was not a boring game. I’m happy I lived on West [Campus] this year so that I could see the bonfire.”—sophomore Paula Moreno “It was really lit.”—sophomore Della Tao, describing the game and the bonfire. “I always enjoy primal traditions like burning the bench. I appreciate the administration allowing us to engage in this behavior. Go Duke!”—junior Jeffrey See STUDENTS on Page 12 @thedukechronicle | © 2018 The Chronicle

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Duke Lemur Center welcomes first baby Fuqua Dean Bill lemur of the birthing season Boulding discusses reappointment By Claire Ballentine Towerview Editor

Need another reason to prove Duke is better than UNC? We have a new baby lemur. The Duke Lemur Center announced Thursday that the Dec. 23 birth of Elagabalus had kicked off this year’s birthing season. Known as “Gabe” for short, the new baby is a Coquerel’s sifaka, a species of leaf-eating lemur from the dry northwestern forests of Madagascar. Why the two-month wait for announcing his birth? Gabe’s a bit camera shy. “He was very good at hiding on mom,” said Sara Clark,

Courtesy of Duke Lemur Center Elagabalus is his full name, but you can call the new Coquerel’s sifaka Gabe, shown here with his mom Pia, for short.

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director of communications at the Lemur Center. “Every time a photographer tried to get a good shot, all you could see was a little fuzzy nugget.” Gabe is one of 33 Coquerel’s sifakas currently living at the Lemur Center, which is one of the only places in North America capable of housing this species. Duke is also responsible for an additional 35 Coquerel’s sifakas in sites across the United States. These animals are known for their distinctive way of moving—they hop on their back feet and can leap up to 30 feet horizontally. “They’re these very athletic, stunning creatives,” Clark said. “It’s really fun to see them in the forest.” She explained that the primary technician at the Lemur Center who cares for new babies—and had the privilege of deciding the name—thought that the baby lemur looked like a “Gabe.” Since all the lemurs in his family are named for Roman nobility and have to stay in theme, the technician decided on “Elagabalus,” but “Gabe” for short. Other names in the family include Drusilla and Julien. Gabe is the first infant born to his father Pontius, who is five years old. His mom Pia was previously the mate of Jovian— known for his role as Zoboomafoo on the popular PBS show— with whom she had nine infants. When Gabe was first born, his mom separated herself from the rest of the group, but now the family is living together, Clark explained. Infant survival rates are higher when the mom and baby live apart from the group for a while. “It keeps the infant safer because the other adults are really interested in the baby when it’s first born,” she said. “It also gives the mom and baby some bonding time.” Although he’s still very dependent on his mom, Gabe has started to do independent forays into the rest of the enclosure and can eat solid food. Gabe is currently the only baby at the Lemur Center, but

By Rob Palmisano Contributing Reporter

On Feb. 15, President Vincent Price and Provost Sally Kornbluth announced that Bill Boulding, who has served since 2011 as dean of the Fuqua School of Business, will serve another fiveyear term through June 30, 2023. A nationally recognized scholar of marketing and management, Boulding has bolstered Fuqua’s interdisciplinary collaborations around campus, developed its international strategic partnerships and strengthened existing degree programs. The Chronicle’s Rob Palmisano communicated with Boulding over email to learn more about his thoughts on being reappointed, the position and his goals for Fuqua moving forward. The Chronicle: What was your reaction upon learning you had been reappointed to serve another five-year term? Bill Boulding: I was humbled and excited by the news. It is a privilege to be part of such a remarkable community. I am inspired daily by our students, staff, faculty and alumni. Our community truly believes in the transformational power of the education we provide. We believe business can be a force for good in the world. I’m excited to continue our mission of developing business leaders who can both do well for their companies and good for the world. TC: Can you walk me through a typical day of being the Dean of Fuqua?

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After long ride, Asian and Middle Eastern studies graduate program proposal will be up for vote next month By Jake Satisky

Council for seven years, cited the ramp-up of master’s tuition to undergraduate levels as another factor. Regardless, the proliferation of new programs sparked a The Asian and Middle Eastern studies department just concern throughout the faculty for the potential consequences wants one graduate program. of creating too many programs too quickly. In 2013, the department proposed a new master’s program “With the creation of a number of new master’s programs, in Critical Asian Humanities, and they have since fought for many on campus have started to wonder about not the merits its approval against the backdrop of a campus-wide discussion of any individual proposal but rather their cumulative impact on the proliferation of master’s degrees. If their program is on the overall academic milieu on campus,” said Alexander approved by the Academic Council, it will mark the third new Hartemink, then-chair of the Academic Programs Committee, Master’s program approved this year alone. at an Academic Council meeting on April 17, 2014. “We kind of had the bad luck of first proposing [the CAHTo counter the growing concern, the Graduate School and MA program] right around the beginning of the concern Masters Advisory Council published a report in 2015 on the about this proliferation of graduate programs, and so our state of master’s programs and students at Duke. The report proposal was viewed with greater skepticism,” said Carlos demonstrated that among peer institutions, Duke is just below Rojas, professor of Asian and Middle Eastern studies. average in the number of programs and enrollments, but has AMES is currently one of the few departments in Trinity an unusually high growth rate for both. College that does not run its own graduate program. Although It also highlighted the possible problems with the rapid its faculty already mentor students in the critical humanities growth of master’s programs, including the lack of affordability, track of the East Asian Studies degree, they wanted to formally strain on resources available to students and challenges facing move that track out of the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute and the international students, who make up a large percentage of establish the program under their master’s students. purview. However, the report demonstrated You have to make sure the Unfortunately, when Rojas that most faculty view master’s and his colleagues submitted programs are high quality, that programs favorably. They can be the proposal to the Executive they are serving a need that exists. valuable for advancing one’s career Committee of the Graduate Faculty and are required to get into certain in 2013, they found themselves in a adrienne stiff-roberts doctoral programs. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ELECTRICAL AND tough situation. “You have to make sure the COMPUTER ENGINEERING programs are high quality, that The Academic Council approved five new master’s they are serving a need that exists,” degrees in 2013-14 alone, after approving three in 2011-12 said Adrienne Stiff-Roberts, associate professor of electrical and five in 2009-10. and computer engineering, whose Materials Science and John Zhu, the Graduate School’s senior public affairs officer, Engineering master’s program was ratified in October 2017. wrote in an email that this swell in programs was caused by “There has to be positive outcomes for the students that are the increased demand for American masters programs among graduating from those programs.” international students and the tightened job market for Once ECGF sent back the initial CAH-MA proposal, Rojas domestic graduates. Rojas, who has served on the Academic and his team revised their proposal and resubmitted it two Staff Reporter

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years later. Again, their timing was unlucky—the Academic Council was two weeks away from approving a new template for proposals, so they had to reformat their proposal again. Jennifer Francis, vice provost for academic affairs, believed the new template—which has a fixed set of topics that must be addressed, including relation to other Duke programs and market research—has made new proposals much more thorough and consistent across one another. She also thought that the time it took to craft the template explained the recent uptick in new programs this year. “Right now we are seeing maybe a couple more new programs than we would normally see, but that’s largely because they were kind of stuck in the timing of us not having that template yet,” she said. From 2015 to 2017, the Academic Council approved just See PROPOSAL on Page 12

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Senior captain Grayson Allen finishes 4 years in front of the Cameron Crazies with a victory By Hank Tucker Sports Editor

Two years ago, when Grayson Allen led to a comeback win against North Carolina in Chapel Hill as a sophomore, he threw the ball in the air as the buzzer sounded and sprinted straight to Mike Krzyzewski, pure joy covering his face. The joy was back when Allen earned his final curtain call with 19.2 seconds left at Cameron Indoor Stadium after yet another improbable rally in the rivalry. The senior captain pumped his fists as he made another beeline for Krzyzewski, wrapping his head coach in another bearhug. Both were a little more misty-eyed this time. That joyful expression was not always there in the two years between those moments. Certainly not for most of last year, when Allen battled one injury after another and also fought a tidal wave of national vitriol after tripping Elon’s Steven Santa Ana. But amid the negativity that followed that incident and the ensuing one-game suspension—deemed too light by numerous commentators and columnists—Krzyzewski stood by his veteran guard. “Sometimes you get knocked right on your butt... That’s why you’re in college, and there should be an umbrella over these kids that give them the protection and the aid that they need so that when they do leave here, they learn from mistakes,” Krzyzewski said. “He got his butt beat in a lot of different ways, but he had the umbrella. Jim Liu | News Photography Editor

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Bagley’s eruption fuels second-half comeback By Mitchell Gladstone Sports Managing Editor

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Marvin Bagley III attacked the basket relentlessly in the second half, racking up a doubledouble in the final 20 minutes alone with 18 points and 11 rebounds.

Staring down the barrel of a doubledigit deficit, Duke entered the locker room desperately needing an offensive lift. When the Blue Devils emerged 10 minutes later, it was “animal time.” After just three first-half points and two fouls in the game’s opening stanza, Marvin Bagley III erupted for a dominant performance in Saturday’s final 20 minutes, finishing Duke’s 74-64 victory against North Carolina with 21 points and 15 rebounds. In one four-minute stretch, the star freshman racked up eight points and six boards, four of them offensive, as the Blue Devils surged from seven down to eventually take control of the contest. And on a senior night that was supposed to belong to Grayson Allen, Duke’s captain even found himself in awe of his rookie teammate’s late-game onslaught. “Sometimes you get used to it, but I try not to because some of it is just so incredible,” Allen said of Bagley. “The most amazing thing to me is his second, third and fourth jump being just about as high as his first one, and there was a play where I think he shot it twice and then the third one, he just went right back up and dunked it like he had a full head of steam going. His athleticism and his vertical right under there, even in traffic, are just incredible.”

For both Bagley and fellow first-year big man Wendell Carter Jr., it was a struggle for much of the first half. Both picked up a pair of fouls before the five-minute mark, and neither seemed to even be able to get touches in the low post. But after the break, it was clear that Duke was making a concerted effort to feed its big men down low. On the first possession of the half, the Blue Devils strung together a gorgeous sequence of passes, throwing it to the free-throw line to Carter, who dumped it down to Bagley before he then fed Javin DeLaurier for the jam. Two trips later, it was another simple highlow set, this time with Bagley finishing the play off on a two-handed jam. “I just tried to clear my mind,” Bagley said. “As soon as I came into halftime, I just tried to put it behind me. [I wanted to] start over, start fresh, just erase it and keep being aggressive, keep playing my game and relax.” By game’s end, the freshman had done a whole lot more than simply make his mark on college basketball’s most storied rivalry. Bagley channeled what Trevon Duval described as “a different animal,” reminding fans and analysts alike why he very well may be the best player in the country. “I just try to play as hard as I possible can, go for every ball I can, stay aggressive and just play with aggression, play angry,” Bagley said. See BAGLEY on Page 7

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M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 1 Allen finally ended the dry spell with a jumper with a minute left, but Tar Heel guard Kenny Williams drilled a corner 3-pointer in the closing seconds to give North Carolina its first double-digit lead. The Tar Heels could have been ahead by even more, but never found a spark on offense and had trouble attacking the rim. North Carolina attempted 31 3-pointers, only making eight of them, and attempted just five free throws. Duke has now held seven straight opponents to fewer than 70 points and is ranked 10th in KenPom.com’s adjusted defensive efficiency metric. “Remember when you all said we couldn’t play defense but we could play offense? Now you’re saying we can play defense and we can’t play offense,” Krzyzewski said. “If you take out the first three conference games, we’ve played as well as anybody on the defensive

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end in the conference.” Duke suffered through a miserable showing at the line to start the game, going 4-of-14 before the break. Nobody was immune to the cold spell, as Allen—an 86.0 percent free throw shooter—shot 1-of-3 and missed the front end of a one-and-one in the first 20 minutes. “In spite of 4-for-14 from the free throw line and really not running offense, we were only down by 10 because our defense overall was pretty good,” Krzyzewski said. “At halftime, I just spent a good amount of time with them. I just said, ‘Look, take the pianos off your back, quit playing with all the pressure in the world, get a smile on your face, just play.’” The Blue Devils will return to action Thursday night as the No. 2 seed in the ACC tournament in New York. They will take on the winner of Wednesday’s second-round matchup between Virginia Tech and either Notre Dame or Pittsburgh.

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BAGLEY FROM PAGE 6 “It just comes out. You just get in that zone where you feel like nobody can stop you and you can just keep playing hard. I can’t really put it into words, but it’s heart.” Without the forward’s heroics, it’s hard to foresee how Saturday’s contest would have otherwise wound up with Duke on top. Bagley’s alley-oop from Trevon Duval with 86 ticks to play gave the Blue Devils an eight-point cushion and salted away any chances at a Tar Heel season sweep. Chances are that this will be the final time Bagley gets to partake in the Tobacco Road rivalry, barring a repeat scenario of last year’s ACC tournament when Duke met North Carolina in the semifinals—the same spot where they could meet again Friday. Head coach Mike Krzyzewski didn’t let that fact past him, as the 71-year-old sat down with each of his freshmen who

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are likely to depart following the season to remind them that Saturday’s game was about more than just Allen—it was about having their one last moment to cherish on the floor at Cameron Indoor. “Marvin went nuts there for a while and just put us on his back,” Krzyzewski said. “Some of the best plays of any player in the country occurred during those few minutes by that kid. He got angry, he didn’t want to lose, and boy, the will that he showed was phenomenal.” If there was any doubt about how important Bagley is for this group of Blue Devils, he swiftly erased it in the most crucial moment of Duke’s season so far. “It was just attack mode—stay aggressive, keep attack the basket and just play with anger,” Bagley said. “That’s something I pride myself on, playing hard every possession, and not every possession’s going to be perfect, but I’m just trying to learn everything still and give it my all every time I’m out there.”

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Bagley named ACC Player and Rookie of the Year Staff Reports The Chronicle

On the heels of a dramatic comeback win against North Carolina in the regular-season finale, Duke players headlined the ACC honors announced Sunday. Marvin Bagley III won ACC Player of the Year and ACC Rookie of the Year convincingly, Wendell Carter Jr. made second-team All-ACC and joined Bagley on the All-Freshman Team and a late surge lifted senior captain Grayson Allen into third-team All-ACC recognition. Bagley was the only unanimous first-team All-ACC pick, and he was joined by Boston College’s Jerome Robinson, North Carolina’s Luke Maye and Joel Berry II and Virginia’s Kyle Guy. Despite missing four games with a mild knee sprain, Bagley dominated the interior throughout the season, averaging 20.7 points per game and 11.9 rebounds per contest, both leading the league. He earned 37 out of 57 Player of the Year votes and was nearly a unanimous Rookie of the Year, with only Virginia’s De’Andre Hunter garnering one vote. Joining Carter on the second team were Syracuse’s Tyus Battle, Marcquise Reed of

Clemson, Virginia’s Devon Hall and Virginia Tech guard Justin Robinson. Carter finished second in voting for the All-Freshman Team with 56 votes, just behind Bagley’s unanimous 57, and the Atlanta native also received one vote for Defensive Player of the Year. Allen earned All-ACC recognition for the second time of his career after he was on the first team as a sophomore. Notre Dame’s Matt Farrell, Virginia’s Ty Jerome, Georgia Tech guard Josh Okogie and N.C. State big man Omer Yurtseven rounded out the third team. No Duke players landed on the AllDefensive despite the Blue Devils finishing second in the conference in adjusted defensive efficiency. The only other Duke player to receive a vote was Marques Bolden in the Sixth Man of the Year voting. Gary Trent Jr. was also snubbed from AllFreshman and All-ACC teams. Hunter, Miami’s Lonnie Walker IV and Syracuse’s Oshae Brissett filled out the All-Freshman Team behind the Blue Devils’ frontcourt duo. Cavalier head coach Tony Bennett was an overwhelming selection for Coach of the Year after leading his team to a 17-1 conference record. The Defensive Player of the Year was his starting big man, Isaiah Wilkins.

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Marvin Bagley III received all but one vote for ACC Rookie of the Year and was also the only unanimous first-team All-ACC selection.

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Duke offense goes quiet in ACC quarterfinal loss By Mitchell Gladstone Sports Managing Editor

GREENSBORO, N.C.—As Duke entered halftime down 13 with just five made buckets, its hopes of another deep ACC tournament run looked bleak. And when star guard Lexie Brown hit the deck midway through the third quarter, things only became more grim. Although the fourth-seeded Blue Devils’ most dangerous weapon returned, it was not enough to overcome an early deficit, as No. 5 seed N.C. State edged out Duke 5151 45 at the Greensboro NCSU DUKE 45 Coliseum Friday. The Wolfpack got an ACC tournament record 22 rebounds from forward Chelsea Nelson, as she and N.C. State controlled the glass throughout by a 47-37 margin. Both the Blue Devils and their in-state rival shot worse than 30 percent from the field in what was a low-scoring struggle. “At this time of year, it really comes down to these nitty-gritty things,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “I don’t think I’ve ever coached a team that gave one player 22 rebounds—that’s got to be a world record.... She won the game for her team, flat out.” Trailing by four with less than three minutes remaining, Brown drove to the rim and drew a foul. She then coolly drained both at the line to cut N.C. State’s lead to just a pair and give the Blue Devils one final shot to complete the comeback. But a layup from Wolfpack forward Kiara Leslie brought the lead back to four with 70

seconds remaining, sealing a second win in two days for N.C. State. “I think it’s a lesson,” McCallie added. “Rebounding isn’t the sexiest thing, but rebounding won that game hands down. It’s unfortunate for us.” Out of the break, the Blue Devils (22-8) found an immediate answer to the Wolfpack’s late-half spurt, answering with a 10-0 run of their own capped by back-to-back triples from Rebecca Greenwell to close within three. Yet when Brown collided with N.C. State’s Akela Maize midway through the third quarter, the Blue Devil graduate student was helped immediately to the locker room, putting no weight on her right leg. “It just hurt a lot,” Brown said. “It was my hip, but I just wanted to get up, get back into the game. Honestly, all I could think about was getting back up.” Duke refused to fade, though, finishing with seven of the quarter’s final nine points to close the lead to just one, and Brown’s speedy return to the floor only further rejuvenated the Blue Devils. The Suwanee, Ga., native finished the day with 16 points to pace Duke, but shot just 4-of-15 from the field and missed two 3-pointers in the fourth quarter that could have taken the lead or made it interesting down the stretch. It wasn’t a pretty start for either team, as defense led the way in the early going. And as usual, it was Brown keeping the Blue Devils afloat, scoring eight of Duke’s 14 firstquarter points. But what little offensive rhythm Brown and her teammates found in the opening stanza quickly evaporated. After Erin Mathias drilled

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Lexie Brown kept the Blue Devils afloat in the first half with 10 of their 18 points, but had an injury scare in the third quarter and was ineffective when she returned. two free throws just before the five-minute mark of the second quarter to make it 21-18, the Blue Devils went silent the rest of the half. “We just had too many mental lapses to begin the game,” Greenwell said. “That’s something we talk about, playing a full 40 minutes. We didn’t start playing Duke basketball until the second half, and even after that we got out of ourselves.” Duke missed 11 straight field goal attempts and the Wolfpack (24-7) surged into the locker room with 10 consecutive points, giving themselves a 31-18 advantage at the break. Now, the Blue Devils have little choice but to sit around and await their NCAA tournament fate when the brackets are announced in 10 days.

Almost certainly, Duke will be seeded lower than fourth, meaning that the Blue Devils will have to find wins away from Durham— something they’ve struggled to do all season long, going just 6-7 outside the friendly confines of Cameron Indoor Stadium. “It’s up to all of us,” McCallie said. “We’ve been very poor on the road, that’s a step we need to take. This game was an opportunity to take a step in that direction. You have to be gritty. We weren’t gritty today and we weren’t gritty enough. Red was on the floor more than blue. If that’s the way it’s going to be, we can’t win on the road. We have to get after it in a way that’s very selfless.”

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Blue Devils sweep pair of top-25 ACC opponents By Spencer Levy Staff Reporter

Playing on the road in the nation’s top conference against highly-ranked opponents is supposed to be a challenge. But no one informed the Blue Devils. No. 2 Duke pulled off a near-perfect sweep of the weekend, knocking off No. 12 Wake Forest Friday and No. 24 Virginia Sunday afternoon. Playing at the Wake Forest Tennis Complex and Virginia’s Snyder Tennis Center, the Blue Devils WAKE 0 dropped only four DUKE 7 sets en route to 7-0 victories. For the 0 first time since 2009, UVA DUKE 7 Duke has swept three straight matches, and Sunday’s win gave the Blue Devils their third top-25 road victory of the year. “To win two ACC matches on the road against two top-25 teams 7-0 is a great feat for us,” Blue Devil head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “We got better this weekend with being mentally tough, with our doubles and just our overall play. It was just a big weekend for our team, and we handled it really, really well.” Once again, senior Samantha Harris stood atop the lineup and continued her climb up the Duke record books. With two ranked wins this weekend, the Melbourne, Australia, native earned her 32nd career ACC singles

win, which moved her into third place in program history. She needs seven more to cement herself at No. 1. But it did not come easily, as No. 10 Harris had to go to three sets to pull it out Friday. After losing the first set 2-6, the senior bounced back to win the final two frames 6-2, 6-2 to knock off Wake Forest’s No. 33 Emma Davis. “Ultimately, it’s her making the changes, but she was very coachable even though she had lost the first set. The only thing that we talked about was depth...through height or pace,” Ashworth said. “Where she’s playing, everyone can hit a good forehand and a good backhand, so she has to do a better job of pushing people back.” Harris’ mentality shifted slightly as she entered Sunday’s matchup against Virginia’s No. 67 Rosie Johanson. In last season’s March meeting in Durham, Harris lost 4-6, 6-2, 0-1 (8). But the adjustment she made Friday paid dividends as she defeated her Cavalier opponent. “[She] was willing to maybe not hit the ball as hard, but get a little more height and get a more vertical game than just pace and moving laterally. Again, that is a tribute to her and her maturity level, and today was a huge match for her,” Ashworth said. “She stayed extremely focused throughout the entire thing.” In the second and third positions for the Blue Devils (10-1, 3-0 in the ACC) were junior Kaitlyn McCarthy and freshman Kelly Chen, respectively. No. 87 McCarthy upended No. 63

Eliza Omirou 6-4, 6-2 of the Demon Deacons (10-4, 1-2), and Virginia’s Cassie Mercer 6-1, 6-3. No. 22 Chen gave up five games in both of her straight-set victories against unranked opponents. She won 6-1, 6-4 Friday to clinch a Duke win and 6-2, 6-3 Sunday as the first Blue Devil to finish in singles. Playing singles for the fourth consecutive match, Meible Chi extended her undefeated streak in dual matches to 11 in a row, as the No. 47 sophomore earned two straight-set wins. “She’s improved tremendously from the start of dual matches and also from the fall. She’s hitting a much cleaner ball. She is very efficient with her point play, taking advantage of the first opportunity she gets, and she’s playing with confidence,” Ashworth said. “The combination of all those together are great for her and in turn, great for our team.” Junior Ellyse Hamlin continued the trend, as the Fairfield, Conn., native sealed a tight super tiebreaker in the No. 5 singles position for a 6-4, 3-6, 1-0 (8) win against Wake Forest’s Joanna Zalewski before besting Chloe Gullickson of Virginia (7-4, 2-2) in straight sets. In the sixth and final singles spot, Hannah Zhao needed more than two sets to clinch victories for her team. After defeating Wake Forest’s M.C. Meredith 6-4, 0-6, 6-2 Friday, the freshman fought back from a one-set deficit to finish off the sweep, defeating Erica Susi 1-6, 6-4, 1-0 (8). “The tiebreakers are tough because they

are more like a crapshoot, but she had a little momentum after winning the second set, not playing a great first set. She put that behind her and competed well,” Ashworth said. “There were other things that she did very well like competing and not giving up and making the other girl hit another ball.” On the doubles side, Duke did not drop a single set. The duo of Chi and Zhao notched two victories, and the doubles tandems of No. 3 McCarthy and Hamlin and No. 6 Harris and Chen earned one victory apiece. “We kind of challenged them a little bit with making sure they make the right choices because having energy and having attitude is 90 percent of doubles,” Ashworth said. “It gives us something to build on.” The Blue Devils will return to Durham for more than a week off before hitting the road to Lake Nona, Fla., to face TCU at the USTA National Campus March 13 along with the men’s team as part of the Spearman Family Trip. Duke will then return to ACC play on the road against Boston College. “We’re trying to do everything we can to win every point. Our girls do a very good job of valuing every point. In the match today, for example, we’re up 4-0, there’s no letup at all,” Ashworth said. “Even if we won the match and are up 5-0 or 6-0, they’re out there supporting the last person on the court like it’s a 3-all match and we have to win that to win, so I think that’s a sign of a really good team.”

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ALLEN FROM PAGE 6 Not just me, he had a lot of people that were supportive of him.” Allen recognized that umbrella when he took the microphone and addressed the crowd for more than 10 minutes after Saturday’s 74-64 win against the Tar Heels on Senior Night. He had a lot of people to thank, starting with his parents, Krzyzewski and his teammates but extending to Section 17, packed to the brim with students. For a player who gets booed the minute he steps on the floor whenever he steps in an opposing team’s gym, Allen has always had a safe haven at Cameron. “Everyone here gave me way more than I could ever give Duke,” Allen said during his speech. “It’s tough when you get a lot of negativity. Y’all helped me find that love again, and y’all are a huge reason why I can stand out here with my head held high with a smile on my face.” Allen didn’t have his smoothest game on the floor Saturday. He turned the ball over six times and missed two free throws and nine shots from the field. But he yielded ball-handling duties to Trevon Duval for most of the second half and kept shooting, finally drilling two critical 3-pointers in the final 15 minutes. The first trimmed the North Carolina lead to five for the first time of the second half, and the second resulted in the last lead change of the night with 6:51 left. For the rest of the comeback, Allen was the first to feed off the crowd and energize his teammates after big plays. He was calmly finding Marvin Bagley III and Gary Trent Jr. for open triples and maniacally chest bumping Bagley after a strong 3-point play midway through the half, showing himself to be the senior leader some doubted he could become. In many ways, Allen’s up-and-down game and adoption of multiple roles in his 39 minutes and 40 seconds on the floor was emblematic of his college career. “I’m a guy that’s into meditation, so was

trying to sit quiet and meditate before the game. A lot of emotions flood into your head,” Allen said in the locker room after the game. “It was a little bit of an emotional rollercoaster today. But my mom kept telling me all week that it was going to be a celebration—a celebration of four great years, a celebration of everything Duke has given me.” Allen will not be winning a National Player of the Year award like several of Krzyzewski’s former players. That means jersey probably won’t rise to the rafters to join the 13 names immortalized in program history. But Allen’s bond with Duke’s coaching staff and fan base as the team’s lone senior is as close as any past or present Blue Devil has enjoyed. “I’m always jealous of the guys who play here, because as a player, I would like to have run out on that court. I would have liked to have had a Senior Night like that,” Krzyzewski said. “I loved being at Army, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not this. So you get in those moments with your players, and I’m glad we shared that moment tonight.” During Allen’s speech to the crowd, he singled out a Crazie’s sign with a picture of him and the words, “Glad he came back? He never left,” and carried it back to midcourt with him. After saying no to the NBA for three straight years, he won’t have a choice this year, but before he leaves for good, he’ll have one more chance to speak to the fans at Cameron, if he can lead Duke to a national championship and come back home a rally like the one he helped earn in as a freshman in 2015. Regardless of what happens for the rest of March, though, Allen’s legacy as part of a dying breed of four-year stars is secure. “For the rest of the time I coach here, for however long that is, I’m not going to have a senior like that because they’re going to be too good and they’re going to leave,” Krzyzewski said. “Four-time Academic All-ACC, an AllAmerican, a national champion, come on—an ACC champion. In the military, they would say, ‘Well done, my son. Well done.’”

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Editorial: Vote Lintz for EVP

ater this week, undergraduates will elect a new executive vice-president for the 20182019 academic year. Although often eclipsed by the flashier position of DSG president, the EVP represents an equally paramount leader within the organization. As stated within the DSG Constitution, the EVP is the “second- highest ranking officer of the DSG” and is tasked with duties like “[assisting] the President in the proper and orderly administration of the business of the DSG.” Constitutional specifics aside, the role of EVP is one without a specifically defined agenda. As brought up in our interviews with all four candidates, there are multiple, competing visions about what role an EVP can take in leading the student body. In the end, Alec Lintz’s vision— one that primarily promotes internal organizational improvements—represented the agenda most board members agreed with. When voting later this week, we strongly encourage the student body to rank Lintz first for EVP. Kayla Thompson, along with her running-mate Sean Bissell, offered a comprehensive agenda focused on a wide swathe of collective policies and projects for their tenures. These include: increased recruitment from rural communities, increased mental health support and the creation of an Asian American Studies

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program. We were impressed by the ambitious goals Thompson had set within their collective platform as well as her commitment to working alongside Bissell given both candidates’ established reputations within DSG. Nonetheless, some writers were concerned by the idealistic nature of their specific agenda items, especially considering the institutional limits of DSG in instituting such broad reforms. Moreover, most of Thompson’s agenda is contingent on Bissell being elected alongside her, which narrows the feasibility of some of her platform. Jake Hoberg’s platform, summed up in his slogan “Redefine, Refocus, and Repurpose,” emphasizes a similarly broad, ambitious agenda of numerous policy and project initiatives to transform the everyday Duke experience. Among the specific items within his agenda, he endorses low-cost STI testing, increased funding for smaller cultural groups and financial assistance for students during breaks. Yet, again, many members questioned the feasibility of such an ambitious agenda, which, as Hoberg alluded to in his interview, will inevitably be met with pushback by the administration. Considering Hoberg’s current academic status as a sophomore, however, we encourage him to continue to dedicate himself to the student body as a DSG leader if he is not elected.

While all the candidates are incredibly qualified and possess bright visions for the future of Duke, Alec Lintz secured our endorsement because of his primary focus on reforming the inner culture of DSG itself. The individuals tasked with representing the student body are never short of ideas and new projects, but often it seems like the bureaucratic red tape and arbitrary trappings of DSG procedural processes can undermine those visions. These are issues that Lintz understands and seeks to tackle. His emphasis on shaping DSG into more of a serviceoriented entity that embraces internal alterations to better serve students was strikingly refreshing and we value his goals for how inward-looking they were—a framework the board feels is crucial to balance out the external-centric role of the president. In the end, there is only so much an EVP can accomplish with the rest of DSG in the short span of one academic year. Lintz’s vision of changing the culture of DSG into a more open, efficient and collaborative body, although somewhat theoretical and mundane, represents an important commitment for an organization bogged down by a Kafkaesque hierarchy and an obsession with resume-building. This Thursday and Friday, we encourage voters rank Lintz—and his vision for Duke—first.

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e can endure neither our vices nor their cure.” The Roman historian Titus Livius—“Livy”—wrote these words two thousand years ago. Livy’s concern was that some institution or other enters a society, at first with good or at least permissible reason. Then, through citizens’ caprices and ignorance, that institution takes on a hazardous shape it was never meant to assume. The treatment of gun rights is just such a vice in America today. We use the intractability of the gun

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policy debate to avoid serious attempts to solve it. There is something about the Second Amendment that stupefies us. We unquestioningly assume that we can either be all-for or all-against, and retreat to our side and try to convince ourselves that words are enough. Congressional efforts to do anything of substance are at a standstill. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has sidelined discussion of gun policy to attempt to tackle banking reform. There is no hope of Executive help: President Trump shocked Republicans with an almost pro-reform message, only to be apparently reined in by the NRA in a wholly innocuous unannounced private meeting. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on March 14 to address the failure of law enforcement to preempt the massacre in Parkland; but given the glowing state of Washington bipartisanship, we shouldn’t hold our breath. We know that the problem is hard, so we convince ourselves that there is no way forward. After all, there is no middle ground on gun control—the Second Amendment is unqualified, all-or-nothing. But where does this reading of the Amendment come from? What I mean is this: is our reading of the Amendment consistent with the Framers’ understanding of it? Not likely. For our interpretation of the Second Amendment, and for the carnage and deadlock it has caused, we can thank the 1846 opinion of the Georgia Supreme Court in Nunn v. State: that citizens have the right “to keep and bear arms of every description.” Justice Antonin Scalia (among others) used his anachronous precedents to bring this Antebellum maxim into the current age. He did not consider that he was rubber-stamping a ruling meant to make slavery safer for slaveholders. The Atlantic observes that Antebellum courts sought to provide white citizens with protection

against the enslaved and “a manly and noble defence of themselves” in the event of the not-infrequent duel. The Yale Law Journal further details that this widening of the Second Amendment was born in a one-sided cycle of racial fears. The violent intimidation of enslaved people created in their oppressors “a complete paroxism [sic] of fear” of retaliation, begetting the need to bear ever more arms. White slaveholders, strangely aware of the gross abuses they inflicted, feared those they abused and hid behind the Constitution. The year is 2018. If ever there was fruit from a poisoned tree in American jurisprudence, this is it. We are doing nothing of substance to advance a solution to the gun problem, because we misunderstand the Second Amendment as unqualified. We are unwittingly allowing the reasoning of a court in the service of slavery to dictate the terms in which we discuss the Second Amendment. We are using a racially motivated and inherently flawed interpretation of the law as an excuse for standstill. And that is the only thing which keeps us from progress: an interpretation. We use this interpretation, so clearly void of actual moral authority, as an excuse to do nothing. We imagine that there is no middle way, no chance of progress, not pausing to question why we assume this. Before we even attempt to fix the problem of gun violence, we assume that the problem matches our own narrow interpretation of it: the fight is all-ornothing, there is no middle way, my opponents are incorrigible and there is no good opinion but my own. How quickly we forget the facts of the matter. Facts, as John Adams said, are stubborn things. We can thump our chests and plead our principles and make excuses as much as we please, but there are some simple realities which we can do nothing to change. Gun violence is a problem in America. Solving this problem is one of the great challenges of our time. Solving this problem will require long and difficult work. We use the certainty of this difficulty as an excuse to do nothing. We are content to forget gun violence in the span of a few news cycles. If we would fix this problem, we will have to work with people with whom we disagree: we must participate in this central inconvenience of life in a democratic society. We must do something more than sit still and forget. Write, speak out, write to your legislators, organize discussions, organize protests. Be better and do more. Otherwise, our silence will remain unbroken until the next shots ring out. Tim Kowalczyk is a Trinity junior. His column runs on alternate Mondays.

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It’s time to kill the Walk-Up Line

n case you weren’t there or haven’t heard by now, the Walk-Up Line for the DukeUNC men’s basketball game was an absolute nightmare. The Walk-Up Line for UNC is comprised of students who camp out right outside

Jaxson Floberg FILLING THE VOID Krzyzewskiville (not in tents, unlike K-Ville residents) and traditionally party for a few days prior to the game. On gameday, the 300+ Walk-Up Line groups are lined up separately from tent groups and are granted admittance only after all tent groups have entered Cameron. Walk-Up Line groups are admitted until the student section has reached capacity, at which point the doors are closed and no one else can enter. Though typically somewhere between 100 and 200 make it in, no Walk-Up Line group is guaranteed to get into the game. On Saturday, as the last few tenters made their way towards the metal detectors outside the entrance to Cameron Indoor Stadium, the first 150 Walk-Up Line groups flooded security guards and Line Monitors and caused chaos just outside the entrance, even passing tenters still waiting to enter the stadium. The Duke University Police Department (DUPD) formed a human barricade as the situation continued to escalate into dangerous territory. DUPD informed Head Line Monitors Sara Constand and David Duquette that no students from the Walk-Up Line were going to be admitted to the game. Constand relayed this information to the rest of the Walk-Up Line—those who were still in line by Ambler Stadium, a short distance from Krzyzewskiville—echoing the Police order that everyone needed to leave the area. That didn’t happen. Instead, hundreds of additional students rushed from Ambler Stadium towards the entrance of Cameron, many of whom drunk and all of whom angry, only exacerbating the pre-existing chaos. After holding off the crowd for as long as possible, a frantic, game-time decision was made that the only way to de-escalate the belligerent Walk-

Up Line was to start letting groups in as fast as possible. 180 groups were admitted. As a Line Monitor myself, I can say that the events leading up to this game were some of the most unpleasant and disturbing hours of my life. Saturday night was particularly tough for the Line Monitors because we genuinely want as many people to get into the game as possible— the magic of the Duke-UNC rivalry shouldn’t be inaccessible to those who want to experience it. However, one of the Line Monitors, senior Sam Rosso, was threatened with arrest if he allowed any more groups to pass. There wasn’t much we could do. By the time the doors were closed for the final time, every Line Monitor stationed outside was either in tears, or visibly shaken by the sheer frustration of the situation and the verbal abuse—sometimes approaching physical abuse—being showered upon them, as well as upon other hopeful game attendants. Maybe Saturday was a fluke. If everyone in Walk-Up Line hadn’t been forced to come to College Gameday to get their wristbands at noon, perhaps they wouldn’t have been in K-Ville that early, perhaps they wouldn’t have been drinking for seven straight hours leading up to the game and perhaps they wouldn’t have been collectively drunk enough to form an angry mob at the front of the line. However, the issues with Walk-Up Line far surpass these hypotheticals—the events of Saturday night weren’t the fault of College Gameday; they were the inevitable culmination of a systematic problem. One of the special things about tenting and K-Ville in general is how it seems to exist outside the strictures of the Duke social scene. In K-Ville, it doesn’t matter what group you’re a part of; everyone sleeps in the same cold and wakes up at the same hours, and everyone is working towards the same goal. If you’ve ever passed by K-Ville during Walk-Up Line—that is, during the days before the game—you know that it is comprised largely of a single demographic: fraternity members. It’s almost a tradition for some fraternities to rush to the front of the line for Walk-Up Line registration and turn K-Ville into an environment essentially inhospitable to anyone who doesn’t want to be at a frat party, only to, in more than enough unfortunate cases, force their pledges to stay in the mess they’ve made and attend Line

checks for them when the party’s over. This loophole—taking advantage of the fact that only one member of a Walk-Up Line group has to be present at all times—completely undermines the spirit of K-Ville, and creates an atmosphere of entitlement that pervades the Line. Some of these people spend no time earning a spot in Cameron, and when it comes time to line up in order, they simply refuse to act decently to anyone under the assumption that they are somehow above the rules and above their fellow Blue Devils who spent weeks of their life in a tent to cheer on the same team. This is the kind of entitlement that would lead someone to blame the Line Monitors for “not controlling us,” while simultaneously ignoring and insulting the people trying to create any semblance of order. (This goes out to you, fellow Duke student who cursed at me red-faced, and threatened to “beat the s**t out of me” after you were already through the metal detectors: I’m glad the police escorted you off the premises and that you—oh, wait...Yeah, you’re definitely not reading The Chronicle). This entitlement is the source of the utter disrespect with which people treat K-Ville, leaving behind a mind-numbing amount of trash, beer cans, broken tables and vomit-covered clothes. There is no reason for people to throw full beer cans and glass bottles into a crowd of people. There is no reason for anyone to have to explain to a Duke student that, no, you can’t take a chair out of someone’s tent because “that’s stealing,” and there is no reason for a Duke student to explain that it’s actually okay because, well, “I want it.” I guess we Duke students are supposed to always get what we want, no matter what’s in front of us. Even if it’s other Duke students. The worst part about the events preceding this year’s game was, in the words of Constand, that “the students who were acting responsibly were punished for the actions of the rude and inconsiderate.” When DUPD announced that no one from the Walk-Up Line would be able to attend the game and that everyone needed to leave the area, I and the other Line Monitors stationed outside looked into students’ eyes and told them to go home because the doors were closed and they wouldn’t be admitted. Many Walk-Up Line groups unwilling to join the mob at the entrance followed the

instructions of the Police and left K-Ville— many of them would have gotten into the game if they had stuck around. Besides benefitting the belligerent, bullheaded members of the Walk-Up Line, the effects of the angry mob became clear as visibly shaken students entered the stadium. I saw one group in particular swipe their cards at the entrance, walk into the lobby to meet their friends and break down into tears saying, “That was so scary.” When I was a kid, my parents would bring me to campus, and I would walk by all the tents in K-Ville and be amazed and inspired that all these people were so passionate about basketball, about their school and about each other. I grew up obsessed with Duke basketball and obsessed with the idea of tenting for the UNC game. I watched countless YouTube videos about the Cameron Crazies and replayed classic chill-inducing highlights, learning as much as I could about how to one day join the greatest student section in sports. And yet, at no point did I ever hear or see anything about the Walk-Up Line. I now realize that there’s a reason for that: the Walk-Up Line for the UNC game is a mark of shame on the face of this university. Trying to get into a basketball game should never leave people so distraught that they cry. And gracious, passionate students—the true Cameron Crazies—should never be punished for the actions of animals who lose all sense of empathy when they drink. The Walk-Up Line is the opposite of what K-Ville stands for, and if I had known about it when I was a kid, I can’t say for certain that Duke basketball would mean as much to me now; because of that, I can’t say for certain that I would be at this university. The discussions as to how to fix the problems with Walk-Up Line are approaching—there’s no possible way that the university will allow another incident like the angry mob that formed on Saturday night—and I, as well as the rest of the Line Monitors, encourage you to participate and help us and the administration find the best possible solution for all of us. But whatever solution we find, one thing is for certain: it’s time to kill the Walk-Up Line. Jaxson Floberg is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs on alternate Mondays

Why these Olympics were different

he Olympics are to the U.S. like men’s basketball is to Duke. For most of the year, we all mill about our own daily lives and run around campus in our own bubbles. But like tour guides suggest to

Amy Wang COLUMNIST all million of these Blue Devil Day prospective students on their campus tours, Duke basketball is the unifying event that brings together an otherwise very scattered campus population. We can all rally behind Grayson Allen, scream our heads off for Marvin Bagley III and bow in reverence of Coach K. Pyeongchang 2018 offered an opportunity for us to rally behind the American flag. Not just the American flag, but also the people there to wave it for us. This particular Team USA happens to be the most diverse in American Winter Olympic history, and happens to spotlight a significant number of Asian-Americans. Fourteen Asian-Americans represented the United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics,

meaning that this year was a major win for greater representation. These few weeks of Asian Americans’ time in the spotlight has not gone without controversy. Their time in the news has helped bring forth important conversations. For example, even Chrissy Tiegen weighed in on the questionable comments by New York Times Editor who tweeted about figure skater Mirai Nagasu: “Immigrants: They get the work done.” Nagasu, born in California and raised in the United States, was the first U.S. women’s figure skater to land the triple axel at the Olympics. But the editor’s decision to tweet what she thought would be an apt reference to Hamilton was yet another reminder that Asian-Americans are often still seen as foreigners of sorts—a phenomenon otherwise known as the “perpetual foreigner stereotype.” This incident is also reminiscent of the 1998 Nagano Olympics with the infamous MSNBC headline “American beats out Kwan” when Tara Lipinski beat out Michelle Kwan for gold. Both athletes were born and raised in the United States, but there was a clear reason why one was singled out as the “American.” However, this one incident should not overshadow the accomplishments of our Asian-American athletes in Pyeongchang. Chloe Kim, 17, won Gold in women’s

snowboard half-pipe. The U.S. figure skating won bronze during team competition, which included Vincent Zhou, Nathan Chen, Karen Chen, Madison Chock, Mirai Nagasu, Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani. The Shibutani siblings won bronze in ice dancing. Nathan Chen made headlines for his unprecedented quad-jump capabilities, and same for Nagasu’s aforementioned triple axels. JR Celski, a familiar face in speed skating, returned in hopes to follow up to his three Olympic medals. The country held its breath as these young adults, some of the best this country has to offer, set off to represent our country and make history. It is also during the Olympics when I remember how I used to idolize Olympic athletes growing up. My sister and I used to fawn over Kristi Yamaguchi and Michelle Kwan; when I had the opportunity to meet Kwan at a Duke Democrats event in 2016, I struggled to articulate that she is one of my biggest inspirations—and not only to myself, but also to tens of thousands of young Asian boys and girls across the country. This woman reminds us that girls like me could excel as an athlete, in the same way that Jeremy Lin continues to serve as an inspiration for people interested in the NBA or Hideki Matsui for the growing number of Asian Americans in the

MLB. While it wasn’t Michelle Kwan’s fault that my budding figure skating career didn’t take off, she and others like her paved the way for other athletes to constitute the Olympic team we have today. Although I spent the last few weeks absolutely glued to any Olympic live-stream coverage, I am even more excited that there will be a whole generation of Asian-American kids with their own Olympic idols to look up to—idols that look like them. Idols who show them that the United States is indeed their home, and they, too, can make their country proud even though they may not look like a “typical American.” But perhaps the most enduring aspect of the Olympics is that all American athletes compete to bring glory back to the United States, regardless of their race. When Chloe Kim won gold and the Shibutanis won bronze, the news reported how Americans had won. This ability for individuals to earn medals and bring honor to this country, as Americans, is something we can all strive to do together. After all, Asian Americans are what the name suggests—Americans. Amy Wang is a Trinity senior. Her column usually runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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BOULDING FROM PAGE 3 BB: One of my favorite things about the job is there really is no typical day. When I’m on campus, I’m meeting with students, faculty and staff. We are constantly talking about ways to tweak and improve the current curriculum and experience, as well as innovation to make sure we maintain relevance for what our students need today. Many days I’m also traveling to meet with our alumni, advisory boards or business leaders. I think it’s important that we stay plugged in with industry so that we are making sure we are graduating leaders that have the skills the market needs. TC: What do you love most about what you do? BB: I am so energized by our students, alumni, faculty and staff. It’s really incredible for me to witness the amazing examples of the ways our community is using business to impact the world positively. We strongly believe in a way of working we call “Team Fuqua.” It hinges on the ability to pull out the strengths in each other to work toward a common goal. It is baked into everything we do during a student’s experience in our programs. However, it also translates into their careers. Our graduates are the individuals in companies who capture hearts and minds of their teams and can bring people who are very different together and harness the power that lies in difference to truly find better ways to do things and thus meaningfully innovate. I strongly feel the world needs those type of leaders perhaps more than ever during such polarizing times. I’m never prouder than when I hear about how one of our alumni was able to leverage the type of leadership he or she learned at Fuqua to help solve a tough challenge in a company or in society.

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TC: If you had to name your proudest accomplishment as dean so far, what would it be, and why? BB: A lot of folks might assume it was when Fuqua was ranked number one by Bloomberg Businessweek. That really was a great day because it was an external recognition of what we already knew—that we were developing the kind of collaborative leaders and research insights needed in business today. However, there are also less visible moments in which I’m tremendously proud because we have such a committed community to our mission. For example, our faculty very quickly approved a number of innovations this past year—in part so some of the additions to curriculum would be accessible to current students. Our staff went to work implementing the innovations immediately. It was a tremendous amount of work to change so much so quickly, but it was also the right direction in making sure we are relevant for our students. I’m lucky that I get to witness that type of commitment frequently and that makes me proud. TC: Can you recall the greatest challenge you’ve faced as dean so far and any lessons you took away from overcoming that challenge? BB: When I first started as dean, I was trying to do too much. There were so many demands on my time and I felt each of them was important. I had a conversation with alumnus Tim Cook who now leads Apple. Tim told me to pick three or four focuses and stick to them. That simple advice has stuck with me and really helped me make the best use of my time. TC: How do you believe the nature of “business” is changing, and what changes do you foresee over the next five to 10 years? BB: The big question is what role business will play in an increasingly polarized world. Will business exacerbate the rifts we see in

society or act as a healing, binding force? The former is possible if we push on opportunities that will avail themselves because of artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics without stopping to think through the ethics and the role of human judgment. The latter is possible as we see businesses stepping up to support members of teams and communities at risk of being marginalized in such polarized and emotionally charged times. TC: Do any of these changes, in turn, factor into specific changes you’d like to see at Fuqua moving forward? BB: That’s a great question and we are continually evaluating the challenges being faced by business and leadership today. For example, we have a strategy class being taught by [Fuqua Associate Professor] Aaron “Ronnie” Chatterji that is focusing on the intersection of business and politics. Students grapple with real-world issues leaders are facing, including weighing complex factors about when to speak out publicly on a political or social issue. We are also developing a course specific to issues facing women in business and leadership. General Martin Dempsey is also teaching a course for us about real-world leadership challenges. The demands of business leadership are changing and it’s important our students be exposed to frameworks to think through those challenges during their time at Fuqua. In addition to the leadership curriculum, it’s important we are staying current on the technology side of things with courses in blockchain, AI, machine learning and how to use big data. In addition to our master’s programs focusing on data analytics, we’ve added a certificate in our MBA program focusing on that subject. It’s critical that we are teaching folks to not just think about how to find insights in big data, but how to square that with human judgment and making sure we stay true to core values.

PROPOSAL FROM PAGE 4 one new master’s program per year. Since the template was fully completed in summer 2017, the Council has already ratified two. After Rojas submitted the CAH-MA proposal to ECGF for a third time, the program met more support. It then won approval from APC and the Executive Committee of Academic Council before making its way to the Council itself. The Council will vote on it at their next meeting March 22.

STUDENTS FROM PAGE 1 Wubbenhorst “I tented for two months. That was best experience I’ve ever had...[The best moment] was the turning point when Marvin Bagley III got a turnover and ran it all the way to the other side.”—first-year David Chen “I am proud of my team. I’m proud of Grayson Allen.”—junior Jackson Prince Adam Beyer contributed reporting.

LEMUR FROM PAGE 3 many more will soon join him, Clark noted. The birthing seasons for each species vary, with the season for Coquerel’s sifakas beginning in December and lasting until February. The births will continue throughout the spring and summer, ending with dwarf and mouse lemurs in the early fall. “We’re just excited that birth season is here,” Clark said. “We’re on baby watch for some other lemurs.”

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