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‘I’ve not encountered a process...that is less fair’ Legal experts, current and former students criticize the student conduct process

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Concerns with Duke’s student conduct process are neither isolated nor new, legal experts and others who have worked on the issue told The Chronicle.

“I’ve not encountered a process or an administration of the process in any school that is less fair than the undergraduate conduct board hearings that Duke students go through,” said Robert Ekstrand, Law School ‘98—a Durham lawyer who was involved in the lacrosse case and has worked on hundreds of disciplinary cases involving students at Duke and institutions across the country. “If I was a wrongly accused student, it is the last hearing process that I would want to have adjudicate my case.”

Current and former Duke Student Government members who have worked on the student conduct policy told The Chronicle that there are problems both with the student conduct process and the outcomes resulting from it.

The Chronicle gave Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director of the Office of Student Conduct, an opportunity to respond to some of the specific statements and allegations in this story. This included statements about the overall fairness of the student conduct process, the exclusion of important evidence and experts from hearings, the lack of clear evidence for panel findings, advice from OSC for students to avoid getting a lawyer and the inability of the process to produce reliable outcomes. He declined to comment.

James Coleman, John S. Bradway professor of the practice of law, said that in his time at Duke, he has watched the student conduct process closely and has seen similar issues recur.

Coleman is co-director of the Wrongful Convictions Clinic at Duke and chaired the Lacrosse Ad Hoc Review Committee, which was convened by President Richard Brodhead during the 2006 Duke lacrosse scandal to investigate the behavior of the lacrosse team. He was also a member of a task force put together in 2007 to review the student conduct process.

“My view is that Duke’s whole disciplinary system needs a review,” said Coleman,

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This is the second story in a multi-part series on the student conduct process. The first story, published last week, examined the experience of one student who went through the student conduct process and felt that she was treated unfairly. If you have had experiences with the Office of Student Conduct that you would like to share with The Chronicle in a confidential manner, please contact Claire Ballentine or Neelesh Moorthy.

a faculty advisor to sophomore Ciaran McKenna, who is currently contesting in court how OSC treated his case. McKenna was found responsible by two hearings panels for sexual misconduct and was suspended for six semesters.

A Durham judge has added to the criticism of the student conduct process during ongoing litigation involving McKenna.

Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson ruled that McKenna’s lawyers would likely be able to show in a trial that McKenna’s hearings were “fundamentally unfair.” As a result, McKenna won an injunction against the University allowing him to continue taking classes while his case proceeds.

Procedural questions Coleman and Ekstrand singled out the undergraduate conduct board process as particularly unfair. Students and faculty sit on conduct boards, which adjudicate more serious accusations of Community Standard violations and determine sanctions for students found responsible.

Students can appeal conduct board findings on procedural grounds to appellate panels, which usually consist of administrators. Ekstrand noted that problems in the student conduct process are

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concentrated in the conduct board process.

The same is not true of Duke’s appeals system, which is separate from OSC and has overturned some of the most egregious decisions, he said.

“I think the investigative reports tend to be incomplete,” Coleman said, referring to the documents about a case that are given to conduct boards before a hearing begins. “[OSC doesn’t] always interview all of the witnesses. They don’t subject the people they interview to probing interrogations.”

In addition, Coleman noted that he has seen other cases—besides the one profiled by The Chronicle last week—in which the University has been reluctant to include potentially relevant evidence in proceedings.

“I have asked the University to pursue additional evidence, in some cases after I have gone out and talked to people who have some expertise—that is, people within the University who should be consulted on these issues—and they have basically not been willing to do that,” he said.

Ekstrand brought up the unwillingness of OSC to hear from outside experts as another problem with the system.

“It is often very hard to get evidence presented at a hearing from anybody other

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than the accused. OSC panels do at least let the accused speak and do what they can do on their own,” he said. “But if a student needs to bring in an expert or fact witnesses, it’s a toss-up as to whether the panel will allow it. And that is rarely decided in advance. It’s always, ‘The panel will decide if they want to hear it at the hearing.’”

Ekstrand also noted that there is no mechanism in Duke’s process for students to submit excluded expert testimony. This would enable students to create a record that the appeals board could later review to evaluate the hearing panel’s decision to exclude the testimony.

In court cases, recording evidence away from a jury so that its relevance can be reviewed on appeal is standard practice, Ekstrand explained.

“Some of the most powerful evidence has been the most likely to be excluded in these cases,” he said. “The decisions appear thesis-driven. They seem to further an interest in avoiding a record that’s difficult to find responsibility on, rather than finding the truth of the matter.

Usually, the decision to exclude evidence is not explained, and I can see no other

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Price’s last days at Penn Local authorities approve focus on campus climate $3.3 billion light rail plan developing new forms of teaching. Along the way, Price has also been preparing for The Chronicle his transition to the Duke presidency, which he will assume July 1, succeeding President Although his remaining days in Richard Brodhead.

“I greatly appreciate the warm welcome Philadelphia are numbered, incoming President Vincent Price has still been extended to me by President Brodhead and the Duke community, and I eagerly productive on his current campus.

During his final months as provost of the anticipate my move to Durham this University of Pennsylvania, Price has continued summer,” Price wrote. to advance a variety of the University’s “core priorities,” he wrote in an email. These include Faculty diversity and inclusion Penn’s Action Plan for Faculty Diversity the living and learning experiences of students, improving faculty diversity, encouraging and Excellence—launched in 2011 and campus-wide dialogue on societal issues and updated in 2014—was designed to outline the initiatives, both new and ongoing, that would help Penn recruit, retain and mentor a more distinguished and diverse faculty. In January, his team was in the process of revising the plan in preparation for a progress report that would be released in the spring to Penn community.

In March, the Penn administration revised the plan ahead of a progress report that showed that the percentage of underrepresented minorities increased from 6.0 percent to 7.3 percent between Fall 2010 and Fall 2013, by far the largest increase over any other three-year period between Fall 2003 and Fall 2013. In the same three-year time-frame, the percentage of total female faculty at Penn increased from 30.1 percent to 31.5 percent.

Pricesaidhehasworkedonpromotingdiversity Ian Jaffe | The Chronicle among all officials of the Penn community. “[Penn President Amy] Gutmann and Vincent Price, provost of the University of Penn-

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Jacobs noted, however, that the original costsharing agreement had to be revised after the North Carolina state legislature opted to cap state funding for the project at 10 percent.

In addition to the projected federal and state funding, the project will gather the remaining 40 percent from local governments.

The revised cost-sharing agreement will divide the local share, with Durham County covering 81.5 percent, Orange County paying 16.5 percent and the remaining two percent coming from funding from a community

After receiving support from local authorities this week, the DurhamOrange light rail’s cost-sharing agreement is headed to the Federal Transit Administration for review.

The Durham-Orange light rail—a 17.7 mile project that would connect Durham and Orange Counties and feature stops at Duke, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina Central See LIGHT RAIL on Page 11 University—is slated to be complete by 2028.

To help finance the operation, planners had been working on a cost-sharing agreement, which was finally approved by four local authorities, including the Durham County Commission Monday and the Orange County Commission Thursday, as well as the Metropolitan Planning Organization and GoTriangle—the regional public transportation authority—Friday.

These decisions represent another step forward in the lengthy process of establishing a regional light rail, said Wendy Jacobs, chair of the Durham Board of County Commissioners.

“The past few months it’s been very challenging because we just had a very tight timeline—really two months to update our plans and come up with a negotiated cost share with Orange County,” Jacobs said.

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Duke faculty and students reflect on Trump’s first 100 days leaders in the House of Representatives have failed to round up enough votes from conservative and more moderate Republicans to move ahead on a repeal measure.

Still, despite the challenges involving healthcare, junior Colin Duffy, president of Duke College Republicans, noted in an email that Trump fulfilled his promise to get a Supreme Court justice—Neil Gorsuch— confirmed.

Bre Bradham and Diane Hu The Chronicle Despite President Donald Trump publicly dismissing any 100-day evaluation, what Trump has been able to accomplish during his first 100 days is still a subject of contention among Duke community members.

The 100-day mark has been a traditional check-in for presidents throughout recent history. Although Trump has called the standard “ridiculous” and “not meaningful,” the White House has said that he has accomplished more than any other president in his first 100 days since Franklin Roosevelt.

Last week, Trump tried to add more highlights to his first 100 days, announcing that he would renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, proposed a new tax plan and issued executive orders intended to expand the use of fossil fuels. “[The 100 days] has always been this artificial goal post,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. “But when the defining feature of this White House is government as a reality TV show, coming to the end of the first season takes on a great deal of momentousness.”

Executive orders and party divisions Since taking office, Trump has issued 30 executive orders, more than any other president during his first 100 days since 1945. Trump’s orders have covered a variety of issues ranging from healthcare to the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The orders do not necessarily equate to real change though, said David Siegel, associate professor of political science.

“I think by the standards of other

Jack Dolgin | The Chronicle President Donald Trump is pictured here speaking in Raleigh, N.C. during the campaign.

presidents, the concrete accomplishments are few,” Siegel said. “But it is unclear what downstream effects various executive orders will have.”

Despite his many orders, Trump has been unable to get as much major legislation through Congress as many previous presidents. This immediate early-presidency time period is usually when presidents have the best relations with their own party and are able to work with Congress to pass a larger portion of their agenda. But that has not been the case with Trump, argued Peter Feaver, professor of political science.

“The Trump transition has gone even slower than normal transitions,” Feaver said, attributing the slow pace to a “hyperpoliticized, hyperpartisan environment.”

Feaver noted that many positions in the

Trump administration have yet to be filled, which also contributes to the slowness of the administration’s transition.

In addition to the gridlock between Republicans and Democrats, Siegel said that Trump seems to be experiencing division within his own party. Siegel added that he would not be surprised to see Trump’s support wane if his actions start to conflict with the policy preferences of other Republicans.

“A substantial number of Republican elites seem to be in his corner only insofar as he allows them to seek long-desired policy preferences,” Siegel said.

Trump has especially struggled to work with some Republicans on healthcare reform.

During his campaign, Trump promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act within his first 100 days in office. However, Republican

Immigration Trump’s immigration efforts over the course of his first 100 days have produced mixed results.

He suffered a public defeat on his executive order blocking migrants from seven countries—an order that drew large protest crowds and was labeled a “Muslim ban” by its detractors. That immigration directive was blocked by a federal appeals court in February.

Trump then signed an updated executive order in early March that removed Iraq from the list of countries covered in the initial executive order. But a federal judge in Hawaii blocked the revised ban, ruling that the order still discriminates against Muslims and hurts Hawaii’s tourist-dependent economy.

Another notable promise that Trump made during his campaign was to build a wall along the Mexican border. But that plan has also stumbled as Mexico has refused to pay for the wall and Democrats in Congress are unwilling to pass any spending measure that would fund the wall’s construction.

Junior Amy Wang, vice president of Duke Democrats, attributed such setbacks to Trump’s political naïveté.

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Coleman noted that dealing with the conduct boards themselves is “impossible.” He argued that a system in which witnesses often testify by video call or over the phone cannot properly establish their credibility.

He also took issue with the fact that the members of an undergraduate conduct board can restrict when and how students going before the board can ask questions of witnesses.

Ekstrand argued that the process frequently produces decisions not based on firm evidentiary ground.

“If you could spend a day reading the panels’ written decisions explaining their finding of responsibility and suspension, I think you would get comfortable with the idea that only a handful of them are supported by compelling evidence––evidence that meets the ‘clear and convincing’ standard,” he said.

“But the rest are just not there.”

Duke uses the “clear and convincing” standard to determine the outcomes of student conduct cases not involving sexual misconduct.

Ekstrand also took issue not only with the process itself, but with the way in which it is applied.

“Not only is Duke’s process not well designed to consistently produce reliable outcomes, but the administration of it by certain administrators exacerbates that problem,” he said. “So in other words, not only are the rules and procedural safeguards not really all that strong, but they are too often disregarded or undermined.”

‘Defend yourself at your peril’ Both Coleman and Ekstrand also discussed how outside counsel affects the student conduct process. They noted that it might be

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a good idea for students going through the process to hire a lawyer.

“If you’re talking about something that has the potential to ruin a person’s career or ruin their lives, as in sexual misconduct cases, then a student needs the best advice they can get,” Coleman said. “If my son was involved in a case like this, absolutely, the first thing I would advise him is to get a lawyer.”

But Ekstrand noted that the most common advice Duke gives accused students is to accept responsibility without contesting the charges against them.

“The advice they get is ‘defend yourself at your peril’... You should never be punished for defending yourself against an accusation,” he said. “And if you follow that advice, what you’re doing is essentially giving up the best chance you have to avoid suspension and a permanent disciplinary record, which is to be found not responsible by a panel or win that issue on appeal.”

A student who was granted anonymity by The Chronicle due to the sensitive nature of his story said that he went through the student conduct process and was discouraged

by OSC from seeking outside legal help.

“The advice I got from Student Conduct and [Assistant Dean of Students Leslie] Grinage and [OSC Director] Bryan was not to get a lawyer. They sort of made it sound like it would be easier on my part to not go through that process,” he said. “I think it would been very helpful to get better advice and to try to pursue third-party counsel.”

Both Ekstrand and Coleman also said that some students have the resources and ability to hire outside counsel while others do not— which can make the student conduct process an unlevel playing field.

However, they added that it is unlikely that the University will see a spate of lawsuits targeting the student conduct process in the near future due to the burdens involved with litigation.

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“Litigation is very costly,” Coleman said.

After the lacrosse case in 2006, Wolf “Litigation also exposes you to publicity, and and DSG became concerned that the some people just think that they go away quietly Durham Police Department could use that and hope that the thing goes away.” extrajudicial option as a way to systematically target Duke students—who had not done ‘We saw this 11, 12 years ago’ anything that could be prosecuted in court— These are not new issues on campus. through Judicial Affairs.

During the 2006-07 and 2007-08 academic Slattery and Wolf then led DSG in a years, in the wake of the lacrosse case, Duke detailed review of Judicial Affairs and Student Government—led by Elliott Wolf released a report cataloguing changes in the and then Paul Slattery, both Trinity ’08— Duke Community Standard over the years. pushed back against OSC, then known as They argued that these past alterations had Judicial Affairs. Wolf himself had a brush with reduced the rights of students going through the student conduct process after he ran a the student conduct process. file-sharing server on campus.

The report pointed out that in the 1999“If you go back to the old [student 2000 academic year, students could request conduct bulletin], back in the late 90s, that their hearings before a conduct board be they said, ‘We’re only going to adjudicate open to the public and could have witnesses [an off-campus incident] if it’s a clear testify, whether or not the conduct board threat to the University community,’” deemed them relevant. Students could also Wolf said. “They changed that to say, ‘we object to up to three panel members without can go after anything,’ and the ‘anything’ needing to give a reason. they decided to go after was underage Many of the student rights listed in the 1999drinking citations.”

2000 Community Standard were eliminated The outcry began after a series of 2005 from policy documents over the next few incidents in which Durham police illegally years. A section regarding students’ rights searched students at off-campus houses listed in the 1999-2000 Community Standard and cited them for alcohol violations. was no longer present in the 2002-03 one.

Evidence from those searches—which was More recently, DSG was preparing a not admissible in court—was then used in report on the student conduct process last student conduct proceedings. year, which heavily criticized the system “Almost 100 students were cited. The and OSC. The report was ultimately not citations were thrown out because they were released and sophomore Kayla Thompson, the results of illegal searches. But Student former vice president for social culture, Affairs continued adjudicating them,” declined to provide The Chronicle with a Wolf said. “Larry [Moneta, vice president draft copy of the report. for student affairs] took the position that, However, a presentation about the ‘That’s all fine and good, there was a Fourth report during a DSG Senate meeting last Amendment violation, but we still have year discussed an increase in enforcement information indicating these things happened of University policies by Duke since 2006, and so we’re going to adjudicate.’ Well, the especially regarding social life. problem, as we interpreted it, was that the “From 2006 to 2007, there were four reports University suddenly provided the Durham that recommended strict and consistent Police Department with an extrajudicial means to punish Duke students.”

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CONDUCT from page 5 enforcement of conduct outside of the classroom to curb the excessive consumption of alcohol,” the presentation noted. “The evidence suggests that since the reports, the disciplinary process changed to significantly increase enforcement of social life policies, centralize and embolden administrative authority and weaken the rights of students and the strength of opposing viewpoints.”

Senior John Guarco, former DSG Executive Vice President, said that he and other DSG members saw many of the same issues with the student conduct process that Wolf, Slattery, Coleman and Ekstrand identified. Guarco added that although OSC expressed interest in potential changes to the process that he proposed, the office routinely did not follow up on reform proposals while he was in DSG. “[OSC] will respond enthusiastically, they’ll be nice and kind to you, they’ll listen to what you have to say,” he said. “Then, you follow up in an email after the actual meeting, and you don’t get a response. If you do, it’s very lukewarm, and it’s very clear in the language they use that they don’t intend on actually seeing what you want done materialize.”

Wolf noted that the Office of Student Conduct’s approach to DSG complaints was similar during his time on campus.

“We didn’t see [OSC] winning on the merits of their arguments or their mastery of the details,” he wrote in an email. “They won behind closed doors by convincing people they appointed and working within a system they designed. And even then they still had to constantly move the goalposts.”

Wolf added that he was surprised the Duke community is still having the same discussions about problems in the student conduct process as when he was on campus.

“We saw this 11, 12 years ago. We documented it very thoroughly,” he said.

“I think you’ve got to ask yourself, ‘Why are these people still here?’”

Potential reforms DSG’s review of Judicial Affairs a decade ago also included a document listing its proposed changes to the student conduct process to make it more fair.

The University created a task force, which included Coleman, to consider these proposed changes and examine the student conduct process in general. But it was shut down by Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education, because of legal concerns.

An email—marked as confidential from University Counsel Pamela Bernard sent to task force members in 2008 and obtained by The Chronicle—shows that the University was worried about how the changes would affect its legal position and how the changes would “legalize” the conduct process.

“If Duke were to adopt the students’ position on important points in an effort to compromise, the result would be: 1.

Undermining universities’ decade-built position, uniformly accepted by courts as correct... 2. Duke would be seen as weak among its peers and out of step with the strong trend over the last decade to delegalize student conduct processes,” she wrote at the time.

Some of the changes proposed by DSG— such as informing students of the charges against them at the start of the conduct process—are in practice today.

Other changes, such as removing evidence from the process that was obtained illegally by police, allowing open hearings or requiring a finding of probable cause for a hearing before the disciplinary process starts, have not been adopted.

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reforms which they believe need to be made to the student conduct process. The first is that students need to be told what evidence presented to the conduct board specifically supports the charges against them.

“Before there is a decision to charge a student, somebody needs to go through the record and decide there is probable cause and identify the facts upon which they make that determination, and not turn over this raw investigative report,” Coleman said.

“Because what that does is it lets [conduct board members] pick through it—assuming that they read it, and I don’t know if they do—and they basically can pick out what they think is the relevant evidence.”

Coleman also argued that, especially in sexual misconduct cases, that it is important for students and faculty members participating in the student conduct process to have legal training. This is even more true for people on appeals panels, he said, since many of the issues which come before the these panels are procedural and technical in nature.

Ekstrand suggested that one simple change would be to select members of conduct panels in the same way that jury members are selected—randomly and from the whole community.

“Why not simply select students from the entire student body at random? It would not be difficult. You would have cases decided by a true cross section of ‘the University community,’” he said. “And it would minimize Duke’s recurring problem of not having enough panelists available. I suspect that, if Duke did that, the number of questionable responsibility findings—and suspensions— will go down.”

Coleman noted that changes to the student conduct process will likely have to start with changes to OSC itself, which he called “the focal point of the whole disciplinary system.”

He also acknowledged that if his suggestions

The Chronicle are adopted the student conduct process will end up being more legalistic.

“I know this sounds like what I’m saying is that you need a process that is much more legal, much more adjudicatory, and much more adversarial than what we have now,” Coleman said. “But when you’re talking about serious charges that’s what you need.

That’s how you get at the truth.”

‘My crazy idea’ Coleman made it clear that he has examined the conduct process and criticized it in order to help improve the University, not to hurt it.

“I am not trying to undermine the University,” he said. “The reason I get involved in these cases is because I want the University to, if there are flaws in its process, fix them so that the system is fair to all students.”

Ekstrand also expressed similar sentiments, noting that he is a Duke graduate and believes Duke and Duke students are “truly unique” and “deserve better.”

Aside from the policy and procedural solutions which could be implemented to fix the process, Coleman argued that the only way to create real, lasting change is for members of the Duke community to become invested in the fairness of the process.

He said he believed that people need to speak out when they see unfair things happening in the Duke community.

“These are our students who are being affected by this, and so we have an obligation to them, I think,” Coleman said. “And if we’re in a position to see that something is unfair or may be unfair or is broken, we have an obligation to say something about it. That’s my crazy idea.”

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TRUMP from page 3 political capability, which explainshis inability to achieve much of his political agenda as seen by his healthcare bill and immigration ban,” she wrote in an email.

But Duffy noted that there has been a drop in border crossings from Mexico as a result of the Trump administration’s aggressive policies on illegal immigration.

“Trump’s commitment to enforcing the existing immigration law is a return to a rule of law at the federal level,” he wrote. “Border patrol officials are also noting a roughly 40 percent drop in illegal border crossings.”

Foreign policy Although Trump has pursued many of his domestic policy campaign promises, he has reversed his position on several foreign policy issues.

After criticizing NATO during his campaign, Trump has said that the alliance is now rehabilitated. He has also acknowledged that China is not a currency manipulator despite his previous claims otherwise. To the surprise of many, Trump has even said that President Vladimir Putin of Russia may not be the “best friend” that he imagined and has taken a more aggressive stance against President Bashar al-Assad of Syria.

“Some of what I would call successes are his decisions not to carry through on campaign threats or campaign promises,” Feaver said.

Although civilian casualties from U.S. airstrikes in the Middle East have increased, Feaver added that the Trump administration has also “handled the War on Terror pretty well.”

Meanwhile, closer relations with China have dovetailed with an increase in threats against North Korea, which the Trump administration has acknowledged is its most pressing international problem.

Still, other decisions like pulling out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership have been questioned. Feaver argued that without the Trans-Pacific Partnership, former President Barack Obama’s economic strategy in Asia is incomplete, which leaves a power vacuum that is in China’s advantage.

for research.

The budget he sent to Congress, slashes funding to entities like the National Institutes of Health—which provides funding for scientific research at the University. The budget also eliminates funding for the National Endowments for the Arts, which awards research grants to faculty at Duke.

But as Congress parses out the portions of the budget they intend to keep or reject, the University has been lobbying for more agreeable funding allocations, noted Chris Simmons, associate vice president for government relations.

“Right now, nothing concrete has happened on the budget—we’re dealing entirely with speculation,” Schoenfeld said.

Duffy sees another way the University could address the issue.

“Luckily, money in Duke’s budget is fungible,” he noted. “Perhaps Duke can re-allocate money from the four-percent tuition hike.”

PRICE from page 2 I have placed particular emphasis on the importance of diversity and inclusion, not only among Penn faculty but also among our senior leaders,” Price wrote.

Innovations in teaching and learning Under the leadership of Price—who served as the first chair of Coursera’s University Advisory Board—Penn’s engagement with online learning grew exponentially. Currently, the university offers more than a hundred courses on Coursera, reaching more than five million learners around the world in disciplines across Penn’s twelve schools.

Price also fostered the online learning innovations of various faculty on campus, including an integrated space on the first floor of Penn’s main library that opened in January.

The space brings together several educational resources and facilities on campus, including the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Online Learning Initiative, the Center for Learning Analytics, digital media labs and a collaborative classroom.

Price wrote that he believes this “one-stop shop for all things teaching related” will catalyze even more collaboration and innovation for the Impacts on the University Much remains to be seen about how benefit of Penn students and faculty.

“Educational work on new technological Trump’s policies will actually affect Duke, but his budget proposal could have consequences opportunities has consistently been one of my T H E I N D E P E N D E N T D A I LY AT D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y

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key priorities,” Price wrote.

“I’m very pleased to continue to recognize President Brodhead and all of the great Campus climate things he has done and focus on his legacy, This semester, Price and his administration but just as equally exciting is welcoming a new brought together the joint administrative- leader who will bring a different perspective,” student-faculty Task Force on a Safe and Schoenfeld said.

Responsible Campus Community in response to concerns about behavior that may undermine from page 2 community, with particular attention placed upon gender-based discrimination.

Price wrote that the Task Force has been collaborations. Jacobs explained that Durham charged to recommend ways to further will be responsible for the majority of the strengthen Penn’s efforts to foster a campus local costs for several reasons, including the culture free of sexual harassment, substance placement of 14 of the 18 stops in Durham abuse and other forms of problematic behavior, County jurisdiction. as well as ensuring that students are held She added that local businesses and accountable for living up to Penn’s code of universities have been financially supportive of student conduct. the project and that their contributions have “President Gutmann and I have made counted toward in-kind donations for the local continuing efforts, with our excellent teams in share of the project. the Office of University Life, to foster a campus “We have already signed a number of climate and culture free of sexual harassment [memorandums of understanding] with and sexual violence, to promote student Duke, with UNC Chapel Hill and many large psychological health and wellness, to address property owners along the light rail corridor,” the problems caused by alcohol and other Jacobs said. “Really all of our universities— substance abuse and to reduce other kinds of NCCU, Duke, UNC Chapel Hill—they are all behavior that undermine a safe and healthy strongly behind this project.” environment while promoting communityFirst-year Gino Nuzzolillo—senator for building,” Price wrote. the Durham and regional affairs committee of Duke Student Government—noted that Transition to Duke he would personally welcome the greater Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for connection between Duke and other local public affairs and government relations, said in universities that the light rail was partially a December interview that over the course of designed to bring. He noted, however, that the Spring semester, Price would make periodic it is still too early to tell how the light rail will visits down to Durham to meet with faculty, impact surrounding communities. students, staff and other key stakeholders of “While on DRA, we would love to have Duke. He added that during these visits, Price more avenues to work with UNC and other would be briefed on issues currently important schools. We’re also really concerned about to Duke and those that will become more what Duke does that affects the neighboring important in the future. community and whether those changes good “This is part of the effort to both or bad” he said. “So while the light rail might introduce himself to Duke and introduce seem like a really cool project—and I think Duke to him,” he said. it’s a really cool project—we’d like to see Price wrote that many partners on Duke’s more of how is this going to affect the rest of campus, under the leadership of Brodhead, are Durham’s residents.” helping him gain a “fulsome understanding” of GoTriangle will now send the approved the campus and the community. cost-sharing agreement to the Federal Transit Schoenfeld described the transition from Association, with the goal of receiving federal one president to another as a “bittersweet funding for 50 percent of the project’s moment” for any institution. But he added estimated $3.3 billion dollar cost. that the University can always benefit from Jacobs noted that although many of the a different perspective—particularly that of project’s prospects look promising thus far, Price, who, like Brodhead is a distinguished moving the light rail forward will require scholar and has successfully filled the continued diligence. position of a chief academic officer at “It’s exciting—it’s something that we just another major university. have to keep working on,” she said.

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magine that the Blue Devil himself came to you and offered a deal. You could decide whether someone at Duke made a Nobel Prize winning discovery next year. If you wished it, a Duke scientist would make a groundbreaking discovery and win one of science’s most prestigious awards.

important than a once-in-a-lifetime experience and the athletic legacy of this school?

After all, Duke already does more for the cause of research and for the betterment of humanity than almost any other school in the country. Research will go on here, Nobel or not. Why should we

Gautum Hathi TOWERVIEW EDITOR But there would be a price. In exchange for the Nobel you would have to sell a piece of Duke’s soul. The University would be forced to give up its 2015 men’s basketball championship and shut down its basketball program for a year. There would be no tenting, no bench burning and no tournament victory. Duke would be laughed at by all those who love to hate Duke Basketball, Coach K would languish in humiliating unemployment. The athletic establishment would deflate.

Would you take the bargain?

One might think the choice would be clear. Research which leads to a Nobel Prize deepens our understanding of the universe and advances the lives of people around the world. It also fulfills the mission of knowledge and research upon which this school is built. And yet, how many here would take that deal?

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give up our tournament victory?

Sports, and basketball especially, are key components of the student experience. Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford can all win Nobel Prizes.

But Duke is the only school in its class that can cut down the net, so why not do what makes us special?

We took an informal look at this question in 2015 and found, rather disappointingly, that many Duke students would have a hard time making this choice. That’s not because they’re bad people or unconcerned about the world around them (these are, after all, the same people who do internships at NGOs and participate in DukeEngage programs). Rather, it’s because of what our school and our society has taught us to prioritize. Basketball is critically important to us, and especially to us at this school.

The priority we give basketball shows in the choices we make as an institution. We have people at this

place who are curing cancer, who influence policy making at the highest levels, and who are sharing their decades of wisdom with hundreds of students each semester. And yet the highest paid person on campus in 2015 was the basketball coach. We are supposed to be primarily a research institution, but we spend literally hundreds of millions of dollars on athletic facilities and stadiums. Our allocation of resources says something about our priorities.

There’s nothing wrong with enjoying a game of basketball or taking pride in our athletic legacy.

Those things do contribute to the experience here, and there is no absolute tradeoff between athletics and anything else. But we should be mindful of our priorities. What we value is determined by how spend our time, money, enthusiasm, and commitment, which in turn determine our priorities. And priorities are about what we would keep over everything else. Even when we don’t have to make hard choices between competing priorities, those priorities nevertheless determine who we are and what direction we go in. We have to ask ourselves, with regards to basketball and everything else, do we really believe that our priorities match up with what we value?

We should be sure that we really would like to raise $250 million for athletics in our fundraising campaigns, rather than raising that money to support priorities such as financial aid. We should ask ourselves

whether we really take the same pride in the amazing work done on this campus as we do in the fact that no one else has anything quite like K-Ville.

And we should be sure that we would really like to skip afternoon classes on LDOC to enjoy a concert. And we should think about why we have a renovated student union but not a new engineering building.

Whether we realize it or not, what we prioritize has an impact. It changes the experience for all of us here and shows everyone else what we really think is important. Rather than just taking what we are excited about an interested in for granted, we should take a close look at our priorities and figure out if they represent who we really want to be.

Gautam Hathi is a Trinity senior.

He served as digital content director of The Chronicle’s 111th volume and coTowerview editor of its 112th. He would like to thank all the members of The Chronicle’s staff over the past four years for making The Chronicle so worthwhile, the business staff for trusting their livelihoods to student-journalists and the mastheads of v111 and v112 for their indulgence of his rants on everything from the irrelevance of literary analysis to the universal importance of Star Wars. He would also like to particularly thank Rachel Chason for making Towerview a wonderful adventure that produced some memorable end products and Amrith Ramkumar for doing whatever needed to be done with the greatest care and dedication even when the rest of us couldn’t quite do it.

Figuring it out one year at a time

uring my four years with The Chronicle, I’ve gotten used to doing tasks that might make others uneasy. Two years on the men’s basketball beat have made finishing game stories ahead of the final buzzer, asking the right questions in interviews and filming live videos second-nature, even though four years ago I would have never imagined claiming those skills.

the editing session. And it almost always worked out, mainly because the editors above me know more than a thing or two about journalism.

Closure is something I always look for, even outside of writing, and with my time at Duke drawing to a close, I’m having trouble finding the right way to cap off four incredible years.

I feel weird leaving any place without saying goodbye, like there’s something

Brian Pollack TOWERVIEW EDITOR But even now, there’s one aspect of sports journalism I just can’t seem to get comfortable with—how to end a story properly.

For some reason, I always feel like I have an obligation to end articles with a witty ending or a phrase that nicely encapsulates the whole piece.

The best writers I’ve encountered leave their readers with wise parting words, just as dessert leaves restaurant patrons with a pleasant taste in their mouths.

With normal game recaps and previews, we’re encouraged to finish with a quote from a player or coach, so it was easy to end with the words of others and call it a day.

Columns afford the writer no such reprieve, though, and I often agonized over the last paragraph or two of mine. Most of the time, I’d write everything I wanted to say in the body and leave several X’s at the bottom, hoping to brainstorm a closing during

I’m missing out on; how am I supposed to close the book on my entire undergraduate experience?

I think a big reason why I enjoy writing about sports so much is that there is a clear finality to every event. Each game, each win and loss, fits within the larger context of the season, and the structure makes it so that, regardless of the sport, it’s clear where things are going.

Sure, there can be surprises and unexpected endings—Duke basketball bowing out in the Round of 32 this year still leaves me feeling robbed of a Sweet 16 trip to New York—but there’s always another game, another year, another chance to win the next one.

And now, for the first time in my life, there is no “next one.” My life to this point has had a series of clearly marked checkpoints—driver’s license at 16, applying and getting into college at 17, high school

graduation at 18 and finally, college graduation at 21—but this feels like the end of that roadmap.

Suddenly, as a supposed adult, there is nothing else that I have to do, no more checkpoints to hit. I’ll start working in August, but I have no idea how long I’ll stay there. Until I retire? Until I get fired? Until, to the extent that I can discern, I stop enjoying it?

There are no easy answers, no format to fall back on. And that’s frightening.

Ever since I was little, I’ve been a person who does well with order.

My mom would always tell me that, as a toddler, I would obsessively stack, sort and re-sort any toys or books that I could get my hands on for hours at a time.

My own memories are filled with times when I recited the entire Mets batting order in my backyard, complete with stats, jersey numbers and my own impression of their batting stance with a Wiffle-Ball bat in my hands. No detail was overlooked.

I guess, in some sense, my affinity for sports and numbers are natural fits for each other. Sports provided an environment with rules and proceedings I could immerse myself in, where every action on the field led to an easily quantifiable outcome.

But there’s no way for me to quantify what comes next, or how much I’m going to miss these past four years. I don’t graduate with a win-loss record or a career statline, and there are certainly no banners being hung in my honor.

Now, once again, I’ve come to the end of a column and the per fect

ending is escaping me. In sports, the ending comes when the clock hits zero, and that’s all there is to it. Time is running out on both my writing and undergraduate career.

But in baseball, my favorite sport, there’s no clock at all. Time is irrelevant. That’s one of the many things that makes it such a unique sport, with all its quirks and traditions combining to create a game unlike any other.

A baseball game can be tied after nine innings, and then the two teams play extra innings. There’s no limit on extra innings—the game will stretch on endlessly into the horizon until one team emerges victorious.

There’s something magical about extra innings, too, since nobody knows when the game will end. It could come on the very next pitch, or six innings later.

Instead of graduation signaling the end of the game, I can just think of it as a tie game heading into the top of the 10th.

Somehow, this gives me the closure I want. It’s extra innings—I’ll just keep playing.

Brian Pollack is a Trinity senior. He ser ved as spor ts managing editor of The Chronicle’s 111th volume. He would like to thank all the wonder ful people he’s worked with at The Chronicle for introducing him to jour nalism and bearing with him through his technological str uggles. He’d also like to thank his amazing friends and family for (hopefully) reading his ar ticles, but more impor tantly for always being on his team.

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very morning between 6 and 7 a.m., former Duke men’s basketball player and current ESPN analyst Jay Bilas tweets out Young Jeezy lyrics, followed by the phrase “I gotta go to work.”

During my three-year love affair with TweetDeck, I’ve seen Bilas’ daily tweet before going to bed more times than I care to count.

As I spent more time in our office and connected with the upperclassmen leading us at the time, I felt more motivated to write about sports I previously had little interest in and pick up the stories no one else wanted to write. Editors and other writers pitching stories soon became friends asking me to do something I loved, so it was pretty easy to say yes.

Amrith Ramkumar SPORTS EDITOR But I still like to start each day running After my first interview with women’s The Chronicle’s sports department by basketball head coach Joanne P. McCallie, reminding myself of a similar phrase: she started walking away before pausing, I get to go to work. looking at me and saying, “Those were really Choosing to lead coverage of Duke’s 26 good questions.” That was the first time I varsity teams right after running the entire realized I might actually have potential as a Chronicle for a year made many people journalist beyond The Chronicle. look at me like I was certifiably insane.

And before starting my second semester, Was essentially living in 301 Flowers for I had gotten a free trip home before finals 365 more days really what I wanted to do as a reporter—I also had my first experience just days removed from chasing everyone as a photographer and got hit with the from Joe Biden to groups of protestors ball—slept in The Chronicle’s office to around campus? cover a winter-break women’s basketball For me, the choice was easy. Many game against Connecticut and sat courtside seniors enter their final year of college with at Cameron to write about Duke men’s a number of bucket-list items, but I only basketball for the first time. had one main goal I wanted to accomplish Hooked probably doesn’t do my before leaving Durham—serving as editor relationship with the organization justice. for the department that gave me an Trying to join a selective living group or unexpected career path and brought out a Greek organization never really entered passion I never even knew existed. my mind since I had already found an When I arrived at Duke in Fall 2013, organization to dedicate myself to and the I knew very little about journalism, and group of people I wanted to spend the rest looking back, very little about Duke sports. of college with. That probably should have Born and raised in the football-crazed town been the first clue that I was having anything of Norman, Okla., I thought my experience but the typical Duke experience. in student journalism would consist of In the months that followed, I kept writing writing a few stories here and there as I stories and blogs whenever I could and even worked my way toward law school. found time to send one of my mentors, But the strangest thing happened to me Ryan, the completely wrong directions as I got my start by building a relationship when we were traveling to Winston-Salem, with the winningest women’s golf coach in N.C., for Duke’s men’s basketball’s game at Division I history and writing about ACC Wake Forest. Who knew Wake Forest was a The Newto York Times my Syndication Sales town?

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the last day of classes of my freshman year, April 2015. That process put a lot of beginning a three-year streak of having previous moments when I thought I was TweetDeck open almost 24/7 as I scoured under pressure in perspective.

Stepping away from sports and putting the Internet for interesting stories like this one. I actually enjoyed helping other writers off my goal of becoming sports editor for in editing—in retrospect, that also probably a year was one of the toughest things I’ve should have been a warning sign that there ever had to do. I’m so glad I did, though, was something off about me—and my new because there’s no substitute for the responsibilities made me want to learn even journalistic or leadership training I gained in those 12 months. I also still managed to more about journalism.

Covering Duke women’s golf’s sixth go to Blacksburg, Va., and cross an item off national championship in person wasn’t my football bucket list.

Before I knew it, I was moving my stuff too bad, either.

My sophomore year was when eye- from the front of 301 to the back as I became opening experiences started becoming sports editor.

And as I ponder retirement and what routine. I became familiar with the ins and outs of doing breaking news, publishing to do with all my newfound free time, stories and seeing my work credited to some I’m thrilled to say my second year on The random person named Staff Reports. The Chronicle’s upper masthead was just as first time I covered a Duke football game, incredible as my first.

From putting together inspirational Shaun Wilson broke the team’s single-game profiles to covering several magical rushing record on just 12 carries.

Soon after, I became a beat writer for moments—Duke football’s win at Notre the men’s basketball team and traveled to Dame and the men’s basketball’s team’s Indianapolis for the Champions Classic. I historic ACC championship, just to learned that Waffle House tastes even better name a few—this year also taught me an than normal when your flight gets delayed enormous amount about what it means to and you don’t have time to eat pregame. be a journalist. I worked on a five-part series My journey that winter was just beginning, about the University’s outgoing president, though, because soon I found out I would did more investigative work and grew even be spending Christmas in El Paso, Texas, closer with the people I’ve been lucky covering the Sun Bowl. Like pretty much enough to work with every day. every sacrifice I’ve made for The Chronicle, So having crafted hundreds of articles, blog posts, tweets and Facebook posts, here that one was still completely worth it.

In the following month and a half, I I am at the end of my Duke experience.

I’m actively taking suggestions on what covered the game that turned the 201415 men’s basketball championship season to do with my free time, and I’ll put my four around at Louisville, saw Tyus Jones quiet years here up against anyone else’s. a packed house in Charlottesville, Va., Amrith Ramkumar is a Trinity senior. He witnessed the best college basketball I’ve ever seen when Duke went on a 43-7 run served as editor-in-chief of The Chronicle’s against Notre Dame and got stuck in 111th volume and sports editor of its 112th.

Syracuse, N.Y., for two days during a winter He would like to thank his friends and family for understanding/pretending to understand storm. Thanks, United.

Luckily, I still made it back in time to when he always put The Chronicle first, all of the editorial and business staffers that made cover the UNC game.

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Notre Dame holds off Duke’s second-half rally in ACC semifinal to avenge regular-season loss Sid Bhaskara The Chronicle During the regular season, Duke boasted a top-10 defense, holding opponents to fewer than 10 goals a game on average, and against Notre Dame in the ACC semifinals, it did just that again.

The only problem was the the offense could not capitalize.

The No. 2 seed Blue Devils fell to the third-seeded Fighting Irish 7-6 in the confines of Koskinen Stadium Friday night.

Any home-field advantage Duke could have enjoyed evaporated immediately after the first 7 faceoff, as the ND 6 Blue Devils went DUKE down early and could never take the lead. Despite beating Notre Dame on the same field with an 11-8 victory during regular-season play, Duke could not overcome strong one-onone defense from its opponent.

After the Blue Devils evened the score at five midway through the fourth quarter, Ryder Garnsey and Mikey Wynne snagged goals thanks to assists from Brendan Collins with less than three minutes remaining, giving the Fighting Irish a two-goal cushion.

But the Blue Devils had one last gasp in them, getting a goal from freshman midfielder Kevin Quigley with just 23

Chris Teufel | The Chronicle Notre Dame scored two goals in the last three minutes to break a 5-5 tie and earn its revenge against Duke after two straight ACC semifinal losses to the Blue Devils.

seconds remaining after a critical faceoff win from Kyle Rowe.

Down by one, Rowe won his next faceoff as well before Justin Guterding scooped the ground ball and called timeout.

Following the stoppage, sophomore midfielder Brad Smith dodged from the top of the box and got inside the defense, but he could not get his shot past All-

American goalkeeper Shane Doss. With the ball on the turf, Notre Dame scooped it up and ran out the remaining two seconds on the clock.

“We’re just disappointed,” Blue Devil head coach John Danowski said.

“We didn’t embrace the atmosphere of the game, but with that being said, the Notre Dame kids were just tougher

than us. They out-toughed us in the first half. We didn’t make them slide defensively. I think our defense did an adequate job, holding someone to seven goals in a Division I game, but offensively we fell short.”

After winning the opening faceoff, the Fighting Irish managed to generate a few good looks before getting hit with the shot clock. In a controversial play, Wynne got a feed from Garnsey as the horn sounded, but managed to put his shot past Duke goalkeeper Danny Fowler.

Although the Blue Devils (11-4) would win some faceoffs in their own right and play strong defense to hold Notre Dame, the offense could not generate anything. With the Fighting Irish pressing out physically on defense, star attackmen Guterding and Jack Bruckner were powerless to do anything but roll back and pass to a well-covered teammate after dodging.

That lack of production led to just 13 shots—even fewer coming on goal—to send Duke into the half scoreless.

The Notre Dame offense, by contrast, fared only incrementally better. The Fighting Irish (8-3) converted on one of their two man-up opportunities with a goal from Bryan Costabile. That goal was the second for the freshman after he had tallied another with a shot from the See M. LACROSSE on Page 16

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Yellow Jackets sting Blue Devils in ACC semifinals Amrith Ramkumar The Chronicle Throughout the spring, the Blue Devils have leaned on senior Chalena Scholl and sophomore Kaitlyn McCarthy to pull out hotly-contested matchups.

But Saturday’s ACC tournament loss to Georgia Tech was another reminder that Duke will likely need more consistent production from its other players to make a deep postseason run.

The second-seeded Blue Devils fell 4-2 to the No. 3 seed Yellow Jackets at the Rome Tennis Center at Berry College in Rome, Ga., in the ACC tournament semifinals. Although Scholl and McCarthy won their singles matches to give Duke a 2-1 advantage after Georgia Tech seized the doubles point, the 4 rest of the Blue GT 2 Devils struggled to DUKE find their footing, combining to win just two sets on the remaining four courts.

Head coach Jamie Ashworth’s team

will now enter the NCAA tournament 0-5 against top-15 opponents away from home this season.

“We definitely gave ourselves some opportunities and some third sets, but they played the bigger pressure points better,” Ashworth told GoDuke.com. “It was disappointing, but we’ll learn from it and be ready to go again in two weeks.”

No. 12 Duke (20-5) was hoping to get off to a better start than it did Sunday in its regular-season finale against the Yellow Jackets. Although the Blue Devils managed to pull off the home upset in Durham after dropping the doubles point, the winner of Saturday’s first point would be in the driver’s seat in a matchup of two evenly-matched foes in singles playing at a neutral site.

But Duke came out flat in doubles for the second straight day. After pushing past seventh-seeded Clemson in doubles Friday despite a slow start, the Blue Devils were not able to recover after getting down a break on all three courts a day later.

With junior Samantha Harris nursing

Juan Bermudez | Chronicle File Photo Kaitlyn McCarthy has not lost in singles in nearly three months, and she was one of just two Duke players to win Saturday.

a tweaked ankle, Ashworth elected to substitute junior Rebecca Smaller to play alongside sophomore Ellyse Hamlin on Court 3. However, the pair was unable to

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Duke on NCAA tournament bubble following close loss Andrew Donohue The Chronicle Following a comfortable win in the second round of the ACC tournament, the Blue Devils were looking for revenge against Georgia Tech after a tight 4-3 loss earlier in the season and trying to seal an NCAA tournament bid.

However, Duke fell just short once again and will be forced to wait to learn its postseason fate.

The fifth-seeded Blue Devils lost 4-3 to the No. 4 seed Yellow Jackets Friday afternoon at the Rome Tennis Center in Rome, Ga., in the quarterfinals of the ACC tournament at Berry College. Duke DUKE 3 got off to a strong 4 start, grabbing the GT doubles point, but Georgia Tech rallied and forced a deciding match at No. 2 singles, where the Blue Devils came up short.

“College tennis is tough,” Duke head coach Ramsey Smith said. “You win some tough ones, you lose some tough ones. Some guys play well, some guys don’t play well. I thought the things we could control—our attitude and effort—were good.”

After dropping the doubles point last time against the fourth-seeded Yellow Jackets, the Blue Devils (16-9) did not make the same mistake twice, as the No. 3 duo of senior TJ Pura and sophomore

Catalin Mateas grabbed a 6-3 victory. They were quickly followed by sophomores Ryan Dickerson and Jason Lapidus winning 6-2 at No. 2 doubles to give fifth-seeded Duke an early lead.

That momentum did not translate to singles, though, as Georgia Tech (17-6) bounced back to retake the lead. Christopher Eubanks, the seventh-ranked player in the country, rolled over freshman Spencer Furman at No. 1 singles, 6-1, 6-4. The junior has now won 15 of his last 16 matches.

That, coupled with a 6-2, 6-1 romp against freshman Robert Levine at No. 3 singles, put the Blue Devils in a 2-1 hole.

“Eubanks at one is a heavy favorite against Spencer,” Smith said. “Robert’s been dealing with a wrist injury that’s affected his play.”

The intensity was upped in the next three matches, though, as the teams battled back and forth. Duke struck first through Pura, who tallied his 10th straight win with an easy 6-3, 6-3 stroll at No. 5 singles to tie the match. Freshman Nick Stachowiak then grounded out a 6-4, 6-3 victory on Court 4 to give the Blue Devils the lead.

The win was Stachowiak’s 32nd of the year, moving him into a tie for sixth-most among Duke rookies.

“TJ’s been absolutely amazing for us in the ACC,” Smith said. “It’s pretty incredible what he’s done. [Nick’s] match was up and down, but he beat a guy he lost to last time, so I was really proud of Nick.”

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6 singles spot all year, was next up with a chance to clinch the match for the second straight day. But he fell 6-4, 6-4, snapping his seven-match winning streak and evening the match at three apiece.

That meant that for the fourth straight time these two teams have matched up, the match would be decided by No. 2 singles.

No. 98 Mateas, riding a seven-match winning streak of his own, stayed close in both sets against 89th-ranked Andrew Li but fell 7-5, 6-4.

“It came down to two guys who have been absolute rocks for us and have been on big winning streaks,” Smith said. “They just came up a little short today.”

The loss ends Duke’s five-match winning streak and will leave the Blue Devils waiting until Tuesday to find out their NCAA tournament fate. The tournament selection show is Tuesday evening at 5.

“Big picture, we’re playing great tennis,” Smith said. “I’m pretty confident we’ve got one more tournament to play.”

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The Blue Devils could not win faceoffs in critical moments, though, and made too many mistakes down the stretch, turning the ball over 12 times throughout the game. The defense that held firm for Duke most of the night became susceptible in unsettled situations, and Notre Dame capitalized.

“Both defenses, I thought today, they knew what they didn’t want to give up,” Notre Dame head coach Kevin Corrigan said. “And they were pretty good about not giving up what they wanted to give up. A game like that is the opposite of the first game where guys were getting a lot of great opportunities because there’s a lot of full-field play…. You had to kind of grind out your possessions against two really well-coached defenses.”

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wing with both teams at even strength.

He finished with his first career hat trick on five shots.

“We knew that today was an all-ornothing game, so we all came out pretty hot,” Costabile said. “We really really wanted this game. We played within our offense and we played everything we were supposed to be doing. I was the one on the receiving end this time.”

The third quarter was more of a proper battle. After Costabile opened the scoring again with a jump shot that likely hit triple digits on the radar gun, Duke’s offense managed to wake up. Junior Mitch Russell found enough room on the left wing to beat Doss on his off-stick side with Notre Dame’s Hugh Crance in the penalty box due to a slashing penalty.

After nearly 36 minutes, the Blue Devils found the back of the net.

The second score did not come much later—Guterding dodged from a similar position as Russell and proceeded to beat Doss low to slice the four-goal deficit in half.

The Blue Devils ripped off two more goals in quick succession, tying the game at four, but could not find a way to take the lead. Bruckner hit two in a row less than a minute apart to bring Duke’s offense roaring back. The senior finished Friday with three goals on six shots.

“First time we played, we came out really firing the ball,” Bruckner said. “Our middies were dodging hard, but tonight Chris Teufel | The Chronicle we have to tip our cap to them, honestly Bryan Costabile scored three straight The New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation they played great.... You really just have to unassisted goals to lead the Fighting Irish to Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. tip your cap to620 them.” a 4-010018 lead early in the second half.

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The eighth-ranked Yellow Jackets (25-3) refused to give Duke life, with the No. 23 tandem of Rasheeda McAdoo and Johnnise Renaud pushing past seniors Scholl and Alyssa Smith 6-3 to seal the match’s first point. McCarthy and freshman Meible Chi were trailing 4-2 when doubles ended, as the Blue Devils’ inconsistency playing in pairs continued.

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the doubles it was the same thing as a week ago—I thought we could come out and win four singles matches.”

No. 53 Scholl and 99th-ranked McCarthy quickly got Duke halfway there, as Scholl easily dispatched 84th-ranked Paige Hourigan 7-5, 6-0 at No. 3 singles and McCarthy beat Kenya Jones 6-3, 6-3 on Court 4. McCarthy has not lost in singles since Feb. 10, and Scholl fell to an ACC opponent just once in 2017, which should give the Blue Devils confidence moving forward as they try to make it past the NCAA tournament Round of 32 for the first time since 2014.

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on the top two singles courts.

After her semifinal run at the ITA national indoor championships last fall, No. 40 Chi has been extremely inconsistent on Court 2 in the spring.

Her 6-1, 6-4 loss to 58th-ranked Renaud evened Saturday’s match and dropped the freshman to 2-5 in her last seven matches that have gone to completion.

After starting the spring ranked 14th nationally, the Weston, Fla., native has seen her ranking steadily fall.

No. 76 Harris has not fared much better late in the season.

The Melbourne, Australia, native dropped a 7-5, 6-2 decision to 50thranked McAdoo on Court 1 to give Georgia Tech a 3-2 lead and fell to 2-7 in her last nine matchups. Harris has been battling injuries late in the season, and Ashworth said a Tuesday ankle tweak was the reason he sat her in doubles.

“We just weren’t going to take any chances with long-term health and with the NCAA tournament still ahead of us,” he said. “She’ll be fine in a couple of days.”

After Smith and Hamlin captured second sets on Courts 5 and 6 to force deciding third sets, it looked like Duke might have a chance at pulling off another comeback.

But Hamlin was not able to knock off Luca Fabian for the second time this week, with Fabian steadying the ship late for a match-clinching 6-3, 0-6, 6-2 victory as the Yellow Jackets’ strength on the lower courts prevailed.

When the match was called, Smith trailed Nami Otuska 7-5, 4-6, 4-1 and also looked to

Chronicle File Photo No. 76 Samantha Harris sat out doubles against the Yellow Jackets with a tweaked ankle and fell 7-5, 6-2 in singles.

be on her way to defeat. The senior heads into the Big Dance 1-7 in singles against top25 teams this year.

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s the campus quiets under a swell of Southern summer heat, the packed library tables and stacks of flashcards signal that another year has come to an end. During this hectic time, it seems that the ability to truly reflect upon the happenings of the past academic year become muted amongst the feverish pressure to both study for finals and pack up for the summer. Yet, as Duke concludes its 92nd academic cycle, it is important to look back at some of the noteworthy occurrences that made the 2016-2017 year memorable for the Duke community.

On both a national and campus-wide scale, the past two semesters have been nothing but eventful. The academic year started off on a high note for many Duke students, with the completion of the new West Union dining hall after nearly three years of renovation, as well as the newly built Student and Wellness Center near the Bryan Center. Widely praised for its diversity in dining options as well as its innovative architecture (though somewhat criticized as of late for its high prices), West Union has quickly evolved into an integrated part of campus life. Such obvious physical improvements aside, more pressing political matters—both on campus and outside—occupied much of campus discussion.

Politics, especially during the first half of the year,

dominated headlines for both large, nationally syndicated publications as well as The Chronicle. Thanks to to the presidential election and the fallout succeeding it, policies and executive orders were on everyone’s minds. Weeks after the election, a presidential transition more localized to the university was announced with news that Vincent Price, provost at the University of Pennsylvania, would succeed Brodhead as the 10th president of Duke. Moving into the second semester, free speech continued to be front and center of most campus discourses following a

Editorial contentious campaign by President Trump and clashes between activists and the “alt-right.” These conversations were further inflamed here at Duke by the controversial appearance of Charles Murray. The various marches, protests and demonstrations that followed President Trump’s inauguration spurred exchanges over race, citizenship and gender with increasing intensity. Graduate students continued their efforts for unionization throughout the year, garnering both wins and losses in very public clashes with the administration.

Such serious matters aside, as always, the student

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With only days left until graduation, thousands of Blue Devils will be leaving campus undoubtedly wiser and more worldly at the end of a memorable academic year. For some, it has been an interesting conclusion to their undergraduate career, and for others it has been only the beginning. Next year, with its surprises and hackneyed expectancies as well as the new crop of entering freshmen will no doubt make for another stimulating year in the Gothic Wonderland.

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y Duke career feels like a patchwork quilt. A variety of experiences brought together to form a Duke student. Each memory feels distinct yet somehow still able to influence me at every turn.

When I look at all of the classes, extracurricular, and social experiences I have had Duke, I am not quite certain what, if anything, I have learned. Sure, I could tell you about keto-enol tautomerism or the social and legal rights of Roman freedwomen but how does that become one singular education or inform an individual.

I guess what I am trying to say is that I have yet to have my “I’ve learned something today” moment—a conscious summarization of the lessons and knowledge I have gained in my Duke experience.

To me that is the most frightening realization of all in the face of graduation’s inevitability. Even now in the final week of my Duke career I am still learning from my experiences and processing my emotions here. I still have yet to learn the whole truth of my Duke education and experience.

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experiences for me at Duke. The ones that are ephemeral and the ones that have a lasting impact.

The ephemeral ones are easy to recognize—the cold of a tenting season, the warmth of a Duke spring, the regret of going to Shooters, again and again.

The experiences that actually last though are harder to identify. They are the ones that matter the most, are worth stopping to examine, and ultimately make you a part of everyone else’s Duke experience.

These are the things that are not gone forever— that will continue to remain a part of us even after we leave. The lessons one might learn from yet another constructive discussion with a close friend.

The fortitude one might build from procrastinating a final after playing yet another game of Catan.

The empathy you have practiced from building relationships with a wide range of individuals. These are the experiences that I have only just begun to understand and that will continue to remain a part of me after my Duke experience.

The ephemeral moments and bursts of

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I guess that closure is never guaranteed. That I will not truly understand what I have learned until I begin to apply my experiences to the real world.

Maybe as I hopefully become employed and maybe proceed to medical school my experiences at Duke will begin to awaken a deeper meaning. Then I will begin to understand that while not all specific facts are directly applicable to the real world, the trials and tribulations I have experienced are. I will get busy applying my education rather than just ruminating on it.

However, such a realization only raises deeper questions about departing from this campus.

After all, if I am truly not done understanding the importance of the past four years, then what happens to the experiences I have not finished understanding. What am I leaving behind at Duke?

More importantly, how do I accept the fact that I am leaving these experiences behind?

This question is one I have had more success answering. It has helped to identify two types of

emotions are the ones that ultimately warrant us saying “goodbye.” But for the experiences that remain a part of us and the relationships we wish to continue, we must say something else.

There is a German parting phrase: “auf Wiedersehen.” Rather than “goodbye,” it means “until I see you again.” Unfortunately, despite our best attempts, we do eventually grow older. Thus, to many things at Duke—late nights at Perkins, warm afternoons on the Quad and Central Campus itself–we must say goodbye. But to the teachers and friends we had here, I say, “auf Wiedersehen.”

Signing off, George Slade Mellgard, (now) former Chronicle columnist, former Duke Student Government vice president of residential Life, former vice president of recruitment for the Interfraternity Council, former director of entertainment and transportation for Project BUILD, King of Kings, Mother of Dragons, and (soon to be former) Duke undergraduate student.

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he first time I tried to write an article for The Chronicle, then-sports editor Dan Carp placed the cursor above my entire story—a riveting men’s golf preview— hit “enter” five or six times, and abruptly said, “How about we start over?”

I had spent time and energy writing that men’s golf preview. It took a lot of courage to speak up in a meeting and say that I wanted to write the story in the first place—being a freshman in a room full of upperclassmen is intimidating, and being a freshwoman in a room full of literal upperclassmen can be downright terrifying.

Without launching into a longwinded commentary about what it’s like to have to defend myself as a female sports writer and fan, I’ll just say I was proud of myself for landing the story. I’ll also say I’ve grown to realize that Chron Sports is one of the few journalism outlets reporting women’s sports as more than just an afterthought, which is why I had a difficult time grasping accusations of

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advantage of, lessening the quality of what gets accomplished and—perhaps most disastrously—losing time that could have been spent napping. But I also challenge anyone reading this to reflect on passed-up opportunities that didn’t seem conventionally valuable—a friend’s presentation, a random trip to cookout or a movie marathon.

But wait—who am I to give advice?

After four years of work-hard, playhard effortless perfection at Duke, the universe is placing a metaphorical cursor above all of my hard work, pressing enter a few times and telling me to start over.

Freshman year, as I sat in 301 Flowers watching my words disappear down the page, Carp noticed my less-than-ecstatic expression. He told me that everyone went through the same process, and that no one writes a perfect sports article on Day One. His own stories still needed editing, as would all of the editors’ stories that succeeded him. I’ve even edited an article or two written

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ho do you look up to?

If you ask people this question, you’ll probably get fairly similar answers. Parents, siblings, friends, teachers, athletes, movie stars, Silicon Valley billionaires. The list goes on, but you get the idea.

Why these people? Inevitably, the answer comes down to one word: success. Individual accomplishment is highly valued in society, meaning that those who do well will be praised.

Make lots of money or get straight A’s? Congratulations, you’re on the fast track to role model-dom. People also love stories of others fighting the odds and succeeding, achieving the American Dream through hard work. As a result, those who inspire us are often described as “strong” individuals who have persevered through difficulties. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find a role model story these days that isn’t without inspiring or tear-inducing.

Of course, problems inevitably arise when success is used as a measuring stick

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children away from certain individuals and take great pains to avoid particular neighborhoods. They talk endlessly about respecting everyone, then turn around and wish some people would just disappear or die—and they actually mean it. Some individuals are labeled terrible people, and they are mocked and scorned to no end. Others are looked down upon because of their perceived intelligence or abilities. Still others are stigmatized and targeted for being different.

The fact of the matter is, truly good people are actually quite hard to come by.

Most of us know only a handful of these individuals. We see them on the street or at the store, but we don’t really talk to them. A lucky few of us have the privilege of calling them friends. For the rest of us, they’re mere acquaintances. No matter how close to them we are, however, we, in all likelihood, don’t treat them with the respect that they deserve.

You’ve probably seen or heard people grumbling about those they feel have the aforementioned good qualities. That they

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sexism thrown at the only guys I’ve known to avidly follow men’s and women’s sports with equal enthusiasm.

So anyway, when Carp hit “enter” with an intention to scrap all of my hard work, I felt a whole collection of emotions: anger, frustration, sadness, confusion and shame.

And those are some of the same emotions I’ve been feeling recently as I prepare for graduation without a job awaiting me. But I feel plenty of other emotions as well: happiness, gratitude, enthusiasm and pride looking back on four years I never could have expected.

If you’ve met me, then you know I have a crippling inability to say no to things—unless I’m trying out for DUI, in which case I can’t seem to say anything other than “no,” thus breaking one of only two rules of improv and having an incredibly short career in the industry.

But the reason I found myself talking with a CAPS counselor freshman year about feeling overextended and overinvolved is the same reason I now have so much to cherish—I couldn’t say no to the opportunities Duke has to offer.

There are times when Duke students do find it easy to say no—when we’re being asked about something that doesn’t seem to directly benefit us. It’s hard to convince Duke students that their time is no more valuable than yours, that their stress is no greater, their pressures no more constraining.

So I wouldn’t advocate for sharing my crippling inability to say “no” because it can lead to getting taken

by the talented Amrith Ramkumar— you might know him as a journalist extraordinaire, but I know him as rolemodel-best-friend hybrid I first met in my freshman dorm.

Carp and I rewrote my golf preview together, and probably only Duke head coach Jamie Green and my parents read it. If there’s one thing I’ve learned here, it’s that the things you’ve worked the hardest on—and are the proudest of—probably aren’t recognized as such. For example, the email tenters received this year telling them their trivia score and position in line was the result of what I like to think of as highly sophisticated Google Spreadsheet code that allowed all 120 emails to be sent out in a matter of minutes. Humble brag.

So to revisit my cursor metaphor for what I can promise is the final time, I’d like to think I’m not completely starting over—after all, Carp didn’t delete my story, he kept it around for inspiration.

And that’s exactly what I’m planning to do with my experiences at Duke, especially the people that defined them.

You all might be scattering around the globe, but I’ll be keeping you around for inspiration.

Delaney is a Trinity senior and Sports associate editor. She would like to thank Chron Sports for welcoming her even though she initially intended to be a photog, not a writer. She would also like to thank Amrith and Pollack for four years of sports analysis, speculation and usually incorrect predictions.

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of a person’s worth. Achieving fame and fortune may sound nice, but it doesn’t automatically make you a good person.

If you want proof, look no further than celebrities. Many of them get into all sorts of trouble—sexual harassment, raciallycharged outbursts, domestic abuse, bankruptcy. If people met some of their celebrity heroes, they probably wouldn’t find them very kind or friendly. Yet, they go on revering them anyway.

And when it comes to friends and family, personal bias can often come creeping in. Sure, you may think that your siblings are the greatest in the world, but millions of other people probably do as well. And let’s face it—you and everyone else can’t all be right.

To really expose the problem with the current state of role models, however, it is worth considering those who should be looked up to. There’s no sense in pretending that there exists one universal set of guidelines, but the best role models often share one particular quality: they care deeply about other people.

No, I’m not talking about the care that involves holding doors open for others or picking up something that someone else dropped. Those actions are important, for sure, but they aren’t particularly noteworthy or impressive. Genuine care involves seeing the good in other people, even those you may not like. It means that you recognize people’s humanity, no matter how much they have hurt you or others. It means making sacrifices for others and lending people a helping hand when they are in need, no matter how despicable or depraved you may believe them to be.

Maybe you read all of those descriptions and immediately thought of several people who would fit your outlook. If so, I would ask you to ponder a bit further. Because the truth is, most people don’t care about others as much as they would like to think.

For example, people pull their

are too perfect—almost too good to be true—is a common complaint. Some even go so far as to hate others for daring to be better people than they are. Needless to say, this is incredibly judgmental and selfish. Unfortunately, it is all too common. Though they would never admit it, many people want everyone else to be just as flawed as they are. They don’t really want their role models to be better people—after all, that would just remind them of their own inadequacies.

The fact that society discredits the very people who deserve the most respect is truly a sad state of affairs. The world needs more empathy and care for humanity, not less. The good people among us don’t limit their concern to their family and friends, as many adults seem to do (and even encourage). Rather, their care for others inspires them to try and make a difference in other people’s’ lives. They take an honest point of view: human beings are flawed, and the world has many problems. But while such maxims cause those who care little about others to lose hope and turn inward, their counterparts are energized and excited by the prospect of helping those in need.

So, as I wrap up this column and say farewell to Duke, I urge those reading to consider what sort of future they want for themselves. College is meant to inspire young twenty-somethings to effect change in the world, but it often does the opposite, sending them down a path of enervating corporate jobs from which they never quite recover. Perhaps a change in role models, in the people whom we aspire to be, would be a good start to reversing this trend.

And if we could develop a deeper sense of compassion for our fellow inhabitants of planet Earth? Well, that would certainly give new meaning to the “Duke difference.”

Ben Zhang a Trinity senior. This is his last Chronicle column.

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