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Students find suspicious person in Edens dorm room late Friday

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‘STILL A VALUABLE ACT’: DUKE PROFESSORS ANALYZE N.C. JOINING U.S. CLIMATE ALLIANCE

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A DukeALERT was issued at about 9 p.m. Friday after two students found a suspicious person in their West Campus dorm room. The subject—who neither student knew, and who has since left the area—was described as an approximately 30-year-old male between 6 feet and 6 feet 5, with “medium complexion” and a short buzz cut. Clothes the subject was wearing when the students entered the room included a long sleeve blue and white checked shirt, khaki pants and tan shoes. No injuries were reported by Duke Police, which also reminded students to keep their doors locked and to report any suspicious behavior. John Dailey, chief of the Duke University Police Department, wrote in an email that the subject was able to enter the room because the door was not locked. He added that no possessions were taken from the dorm room. “So my friend’s dorm in Edens got broken into last night and DUPD downplayed the whole thing—called the middle aged man just a ‘suspicious person’—and misquoted them in the report,” wrote sophomore Robin Yeh in a post on the Fix My Campus Facebook group Sunday. DUPD misquoted Yeh’s friend by releasing details describing the subject as having “medium complexion,” despite the friend saying the subject had “light skin,” Yeh noted in the post, which received more than 80 reactions See EDENS on Page 4

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Members of the alliance aim to achieve the national goal of meeting or exceeding the targets of the federal Clean Power Plan.

By Xinchen Li Contributing Reporter

Without federal guidelines to address climate change, several Duke professors said North Carolina’s commitment to a state-level climate change alliance is mostly a symbolic gesture but still a meaningful one. Gov. Roy Cooper announced Sept. 20 that North Carolina will join 13 other states and Puerto Rico in the U.S. Climate Alliance—a bipartisan coalition committed

I have never seen the question of energy choice being as partisan and politicized as it is today. RYKE LONGEST

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Chronicle File Photo On Friday night, two students in Edens discovered a suspicious male in their room.

to upholding the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement objectives on climate change mitigation. The governors of California, New York and Washington co-founded the alliance June 1, shortly after President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris agreement. “I don’t think there is any substitute for federal action [regarding climate change mitigation] but [joining the U.S. Climate Alliance] is still a valuable act,” said Billy Pizer, a faculty fellow at the Nicholas School of the Environment and professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy.

Pizer said a state-level alliance demonstrates the diversity of perspectives in the United States on climate change mitigation, especially when the federal government deviates from its original climate commitment. The alliance Members of the alliance aim to achieve the national goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 26 to 28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025. They also want to meet or exceed the targets of the federal Clean Power Plan. But there are no uniform rules on how each state will meet this objective. Joining the alliance is an executive act, not a legislative one, said Ryke Longest, director of the Environmental Law and Policy Clinic at the School of Law. “This act has not made its way into any regulatory change at this point,” Longest said. “But it indicates the state executive branch is aiming at a different policy objective, namely to increase renewables and decrease reliance on fossil fuels.” Longest said he expects Cooper’s climate agenda to encounter challenges from the Republican-dominated state legislative branch because of the partisan divide over climate change. “I have never seen the question of energy choice being as partisan and politicized as it is today,” Longest said. Among the member states of the U.S. Climate Alliance, only the governors of Massachusetts and Vermont are Republican. The rest—including those from the three See ALLIANCE on Page 4

Catching trains, not senioritis

Primetime beatdown

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“I don’t care how well I do in my classes. This is what I want to do” Two seniors take on ambitious film project, cast Duke football player as lead By Claire Ballentine Towerview Editor

For most of us, the sound of a train horn along the Durham tracks inspires annoyance and perhaps a bit of shock. For senior Tristan Bouan, it inspired a film. Fast forward two years and Bouan—along with his producer, senior Jackson Steger—are beginning production for their movie “Trainhopper” by casting Duke students, scouting locations for filming and continuing to fundraise for the ambitious project. “It’s not a genre movie because it’s got comedy, action, romance,” Steger said. “It’s a coming-of-age story in some ways about nostalgia, attachment and suffering.” The plot revolves around a character named Samuel who runs away from home and begins trainhopping after experiencing a family tragedy. After living a nomad lifestyle for four years, the train he’s riding stops in Durham where Samuel is arrested. Because he can’t afford to pay the fine, he’s offered a deal—go to jail or work as a cameraman. He ultimately develops connections with those he meets in Durham and has to either accept a life with close attachments or leave and trainhop again.

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Humble beginnings Soon after Bouan conceived “Trainhopper,” he embarked on a very different path—a consulting internship in Burma. It was the summer after his sophomore year and he worked on a project to establish a bank. But he never forgot his original idea, writing down thoughts about the basic structure and plot whenever he had time. During the spring of his junior year, Bouan participated in the Duke in Los Angeles program, interning for Cross Creek Pictures, which has made the films “Black Swan” and “Hacksaw Ridge.” He met Steger there, and the two became close while working as development interns. In this role, they spent most of their time reading scripts that were submitted to See FILM on Page 3

The film takes place in Durham, where the main character is arrested for trainhopping.

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and texted him, and he responded immediately,” he said about Steger. “He’s someone who is pushing the film forward.”

FROM PAGE 2 Cross Creek and providing feedback on whether they should be made into films or not. Steger explained that interns have an unexpected amount of power in this situation—their opinions on the films in question determine whether executives pursue it. “You could ruin someone’s life or make someone’s dream come true,” he said. Despite the hundreds of scripts he read on the job, Steger said he only recommended that five be made into films, noting the number of horrible ideas out there, including one about giant killer worms. He added that this gave him encouragement—although Hollywood is full of competition, much of it is not very good. “A lot of people are trying to make it, but if you look at people who are good and try to make it, it’s much lower,” Bouan added. While working on the set of “Roman J. Israel, Esq”—a film starring Denzel Washington and Colin Farrell—people began to notice Bouan’s natural curiosity for the movie industry and asked him about his passion, giving him a platform to bring up his developing project. He also began fundraising, with friends and coworkers writing him checks to fund production. Around this time, Steger jumped on board as the producer to Bouan’s director/writer role. Steger explained that while they were in Los Angeles, Bouan asked him to edit a letter he was writing to Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, asking for money to film. Steger immediately saw Bouan’s commitment to the movie and wanted to be involved. “I’d done little projects but nothing so big,” Steger said. “I knew this would be a great project for my senior year.” He noted that the definition of producer is broad and vague. His job is basically to do everything possible to ensure the movie actually gets made. He works on social media, markets the project and reads the script to make suggestions. For instance, he thought one of the relationships in the previous draft of the film was too intense, so he and Bouan worked together to tone it down. Bouan explained that the producer is really the “right-hand man” of the director. “It’s not just on film. One time I was stressed out 4:30 a.m.

Making a movie in Durham A large part of Bouan and Steger’s work has been forming the film’s cast, which is currently composed of all Duke actors. After returning from Burma, Bouan began searching for talent on campus, often asking professors in the theater studies department for help. His search led him to Alonzo Saxton II, a senior who is currently a safety on the Duke football team as well as a theater studies major. Bouan said the thought that Saxton would be perfect for the role of Samuel and got him to sign on as the lead. From there, Bouan was able to write the role around him—something that rarely happens in Hollywood because casting is often in flux until late in development. In total, the film will have about 10 to 20 actors, all of whom will be Duke students along with one faculty member—Jay O’Berski, assistant professor of the practice in the department of theater studies. Senior Daniel Kim will also serve as the movie’s composer. For the past two years, Bouan said he has been scouting around campus for additional talent. “I would look at all the shows at Duke and go to them and watch and kind of cast on the spot,” he said. “I can see pretty quickly if it will work or not.” He noted that he also might hold auditions in upcoming weeks for additional actors to join the project. Bouan and Steger’s plan is to shoot the film during the next couple of months and do post-production work such as editing and color correction in Los Angeles. Once they’re satisfied with the final product, they’ll submit it to film festivals and “hope for the best,” Steger said. They also aim to premiere it at Duke’s homecoming next year. Struggles along the way Bouan and Steger explained that their main focus right now is fundraising—they launched a Kickstarter Sunday with a goal of $26,000. This will supplement their current $20,000 they’ve raised through donations from family and friends. Bouan said that he is worried about finishing all the filming, which will take place in Durham. As the days continously become shorter in North Carolina, he has less opportunities to film during daylight hours.

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Another concern is his visa—Bouan is an international student who has lived in many different countries across Asia and Africa as the child of United Nations employees. After he works on post-production in L.A., he said he plans to leave the United States and travel. If “Trainhopper” is picked by festivals and garners acclaim, this will give legitimacy to Bouan’s filmmaking ability, and he may be able to apply for an artist’s visa. And then there’s the fact that Bouan and Steger are both full-time students. Despite the long hours spent on the project, Steger explained that the extra work is worth it because filmmaking is the career path he wants to follow. “I love making things and creating cool stuff,” he said. “I want everything I make to be a good as it possibly can.” Bouan noted that for him, the film is much more important than his grades. “I’m going to just have to power through,” he said. “I don’t care how well I do in my classes. This is what I want to do.”

Special to The Chronicle Senior Alonzo Saxton II, a safety on the Duke football team as well as a theater studies major, plays the lead.

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by its existing policies.

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Climate change mitigation in N.C. North Carolina’s primary environmental regulation is the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard, or REPS. Launched in 2007, the REPS requires investor-owned utilities to supply 12.5 percent of their energy needs through renewable energy resources or energy efficiency measures. Under the REPS, North Carolina has significantly increased its solar power installation, becoming the nation’s second biggest producer of solar power. In addition to reducing carbon emissions, promoting renewable energy such as solar power will potentially benefit the state’s

economy, Longest said. Because North Carolina has scarce coal and natural gas reserves, fossil fuel industries will not generate as many local jobs as renewable energy industries. Brian Murray, director of the Environmental Economics Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and the interim director of the Energy Initiative, said power industries in the United States have been transitioning to efficient energy resources for a decade due to market needs as opposed to environmental concerns. “Electric power firms are already expecting a lower-carbon future,” Murray said. “Therefore, I don’t expect the governor’s declaration to create any resistance from [these firms].”

positive signal to the outside world, Pizer said. It will encourage other countries to continue with their climate mitigation courses and pressure the federal government to take more action. Still, state-level efforts are always suboptimal compared to a national commitment, he added. The potential effect of the U.S. Climate Alliance will be limited because some climate regulations need coordination from the federal government. For instance, Pizer said it is hard for each state to create separate transportation energy policies without a national standard. “There is a limit of how far a state administration can go without new state laws,” Pizer said. “And a limit of how far a state can go without a federal law.”

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What the alliance can accomplish Despite the absence of commitment at the federal level, Murray said local governments still have much to contribute, such as overseeing the development of more electric vehicle charging stations. Megan Mullin, associate professor of environmental politics at the Nicholas School, added that joining the U.S. Climate Alliance allows each state to tailor their own climate policies. She noted that this individualization has both pros and cons. On the one hand, decision-making will be more complex because in each state, the legislature will need to balance the diverse interests of the general population and private industries, Mullin said. However, each state is still able to exploit the most of its potential to mitigate climate change. “A state like California or New York may be ready to move further than other states [in mitigating climate change],” Mullin said. “An alliance like this enables them to act faster and more aggressively than they [would] under certain national policies.” The U.S. Climate Alliance also sends a

founding states—are Democrats. Longest said the composition of the alliance reveals the prevalent partisan polarization over climate change mitigation, even though the alliance is not a partisan organization. “But it is already amazing that they have at least two Republican governors,” Longest said. “In today’s political atmosphere, it’s just hard to get two Republicans and 12 Democrats to agree on anything.” He added that even without new laws, North Carolina will be able to meet its emissions abatement goal as long as it abides

FROM PAGE 1 on Facebook. Yeh criticized the lack of security measures in the aftermath of the incident, noting that there were “no cameras to go off of.” “Doesn’t that seem like a simple solution to have at least something put a face to this guy or get a license plate if he drove?” Yen wrote. In April, Vice President for Administration Kyle Cavanaugh wrote in an email that the University had installed security cameras on Central Campus. Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, wrote in an email that East Campus residence halls were equipped with cameras as well. Dailey noted in June that DUPD would be installing cameras in West Campus residence halls in the upcoming year. However, Dailey did not respond to two emails from The Chronicle asking if DUPD knew what happened to the subject, or whether it was pursuing an investigation.

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27TH HEAVEN FOOTBALL: BLOWN AWAY BY HURRICANES • MEN’S SOCCER: FALLS TO NO. 8 LOUISVILLE

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PRIMETIME BEATDOWN

Anemic offense, defensive lapses doom Duke against No. 14 Miami in season’s first loss By Ben Leonard Blue Zone Editor

Explosive plays and missed opportunities had waterlogged the Blue Devils this season over and over again, but they always found a way to get back up. This time, the Hurricanes were too much for Duke to weather. For the third straight week, the Blue Devils failed to finish drives in the red zone and prevent big plays, getting burned for seven passing plays of 25 yards or more en route to a 31-6 loss against No. 14 Miami at Wallace Wade Stadium. Hurricane quarterback Malik Rosier threw for 270 yards and baffled Duke’s secondary for two quick scores in the first 10 minutes. After that, Miami never looked back, stifling the Blue Devils when it counted. “We showed up late to the party,” redshirt sophomore linebacker Joe Giles-Harris said. “I wish I could tell you [why].... You can’t do that against a team like Miami. We let them make a couple big plays early. That’s something we’ve tried to focus on and eliminate.” In three trips to the red zone, Duke (4-1, 1-1 in the ACC) finished with just six points and never found the end zone despite only being outgained 409-349. The Blue Devils now rank 122nd in the nation in red zone touchdown percentage and looked every bit the part. After rebounding from a clipping call against Evan Lisle to convert on third-and-19, with

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Braxton Berrios caught a touchdown pass on Miami’s first possession to give the Hurricanes a lead they never relinquished. Shaun Wilson running to the 13-yard line, Daniel Jones was sacked on fourth-and-1 on the first series of the night. From there, the Hurricanes exploded. Although Miami (3-0, 1-0) had the nation’s leader in yards per carry in Mark Walton, the Hurricanes did not need to lean on his running to

burn the Blue Devil defense. Miami circumvented Duke’s No. 2 rushing defense, needing less than six minutes after the Blue Devils’ turnover on downs to put 14 points on the board thanks to Rosier’s right arm. Duke’s big-play woes were exposed early, yielding a 39-yard Rosier pass to Walton in which

the running back hurdled a defender on the Hurricanes’ third snap of the game. Just one play later, Rosier found Braxton Berrios in the back of the end zone for a 27-yard score. On the next drive, a Rosier 29-yard pass set up another Miami touchdown to give it a 14-0 lead just more than 10 minutes in. In the first half, Rosier completed his first nine passes and had four completions of 25 or more yards. “[It’s on] everyone,” redshirt senior defensive tackle Mike Ramsey said. “That’s us on the defensive line putting more pressure on the quarterback and not giving him enough time. It’s everybody rallying for the ball. It’s an overall thing. When something explosive happens, it’s not just one or two people. It’s all of us.” After those two quick scores, head coach David Cutcliffe and Duke dialed up the pressure on Rosier, who completed just six of his last 17 passes and was sacked three times. But it was too little, too late with an offense that didn’t score in the second half. The running game did its job, averaging 4.0 yards per carry, but Blue Devil quarterback Daniel Jones could not push the ball downfield, throwing for just 166 yards— averaging 4.0 yards per attempt. “We couldn’t protect the quarterback,” Cutcliffe said. “I’m going to have to talk to all of them, study it. We misconnected completely in the passing game. It basically went away.” See FOOTBALL on Page 9

SOFTBALL

1,300 pack in for first game in program history Duke would not get any closer, as the Wolfpack added two more in the ninth to cap off their 8-3 win. More than 1,300 people packed into the “I shouldn’t be this happy about losing, 500-seat stadium and on a hill in right field because I’ve never been this happy with a loss and cheered on Duke President Vincent in my life,” sophomore Raine Wilson said. Price as he stepped in the pitcher’s circle. “There’s no other girls I’d want to play with. Price swung his arm back, lunged forward Yeah, I’m smiling. You’ll never catch me smiling and hurled the yellow softball underhand to again after a loss, I’ll tell you that.” sophomore Raine Wilson for the first pitch Wilson wasn’t the only one smiling in Duke softball history. after the game. Young fans, including many The Blue Devils took the field for the first softball players from the Durham area, time ever Saturday afternoon at Duke Softball smiled as they ran the bases, got autographs Stadium, four years after the program was first from and took pictures with their soon-to-be unveiled as a varsity favorite players. 8 sport, but fell 8-3 in a NCSU “I can already tell you we have the best 3 10-inning exhibition fans in the ACC, and this was the first game,” DUKE to N.C. State. The Wilson said after signing autographs. “It stadium on East Campus was completed a was the first time for everyone here too, little more than a month ago. and they were already starting the ‘Let’s Duke carried a 2-0 lead into the sixth go Duke’ [chant] with the bleachers, and inning, but a Wolfpack looking in right field two-run home run “I’ve never felt a love like that and seeing all those from Cheyenne Balzer for the game in probably two people, it was a great tied the game. N.C. years.... I don’t know what I atmosphere.” State broke the game The Blue Devil fans open in the eighth, did to deserve this.” were electric—one wore scoring four times, RAINE WILSON a blue wig, another blew SOPHOMORE SOFTBALL PLAYER his soccer horn, another with three of those runs coming off basesrang cow bells and kids loaded walks. Blue Devil redshirt freshman stood up to sing karaoke to almost every song Hannah Pridemore responded in the bottom played over the public address system. of the inning by hitting the first home run in With two outs and the bases loaded for school history. Duke in the fourth, Blue Devil fans started “I jumped right on it, and it felt so great,” a new tradition. Freshman Jameson Kavel Pridemore said after pulling the ball to deep stepped up to bat, and for each pitch she faced, left field. Duke fans stomped their feet on the bleachers By Connor Lees

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and screamed “Let’s go Duke!” during N.C. State pitcher Devin Wallace’s windup. Wallace got rattled and walked Kavel to force in the first run in program history. Wallace’s next pitch sailed past the Wolfpack catcher, and junior Reilly Metzger sprinted home, slid past the tag and scored on a bang-bang play at the plate. The stomping continued on every big at-bat for the rest of the game. Had Saturday’s game been a seveninning regular-season game, the Blue Devils would have taken N.C. State—a

team that made the semifinals in the ACC tournament last season and has a top-20 recruiting class—to extra innings. Duke proved, even with a team that has seven freshmen, five redshirt freshmen and a sophomore, that it can hang with ACC competition. “We’ve said it from day one: A freshman is just a label,” head coach Marissa Young said. “We’re preparing them every day at practice to play like an upperclassman. I think they See SOFTBALL on Page 8

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Redshirt freshman Hannah Pridemore hit the first home run in program history in the bottom of the sixth inning.

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FOOTBALL

Blue Devil passing game out of sync once again By Michael Model Assistant Blue Zone Editor

Once heralded as a breakout star and potential future first-round NFL draft pick, quarterback Daniel Jones has had a much harder time finding his way this season. Following an outstanding 300-plus yard performance against Northwestern, Jones has taken a significant step back in his last three contests. Last season, the Charlotte native failed to complete more than 58 percent of his attempts just once, but Jones has missed that mark each of his last three starts. Although the Blue Devils’ ground attack has been outstanding in that span, averaging better than 200 yards per game, the inability to throw the ball downfield has stagnated the offense and caused plenty of promising drives to turn into missed opportunities. By comparison, the offense has passed for an average of just 184 yards the last three weeks. Friday, the Blue Devils were shut down offensively against No. 14 Miami. Jones

completed just 21 of his 41 attempts for 166 yards with Duke unable to punch the ball into the end zone. Poor pass protection kept Jones from being able to drop back in the pocket and wait for big plays to develop. “That’s got to be on me,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “I’ve got to help our players, find out what the circumstances are and we’re going to take a long, hard look at that and we will be better.... We’ve got some ability and we’ve got to take that ability and put it in a position to be successful.” Despite defeating North Carolina 27-17 last week, Duke was also unable to capitalize in the red zone then, gaining just three points in two first-half trips. It took three consecutive stops by the Blue Devil defense and a pick-six by Bryon Fields Jr. to secure the victory for Duke. After failing to score a touchdown in three red-zone chances Friday, the Blue Devils have scored just one touchdown on their last seven possessions within their opponent’s 20-yard line.

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Jones threw for just 4.0 yards per attempt and finished with his lowest completion percentage since Duke played Army in a downpour last year.

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Daniel Jones did not have time to look downfield on most of his passes and only threw for 166 yards Friday night. “It’s disappointing to come off the field without points,” Jones said. “You know there are a lot of things to work on for us. Third downs and red zone offense are certainly things we need to work on.” Much of the Blue Devils’ inability to convert on third downs and drive the ball has been due to a lack of passing downfield. When a team is unable to stretch the field, opposing defenses can press up and guard the receivers tighter. This forces Jones to dish the ball off laterally, forcing the receivers to make moves in order to gain yardage. Although converting on more deep balls was a point of emphasis for Duke this offseason, the results have yet to come into fruition. After Friday’s loss, the Blue Devils now average a meager 10.0 yards per reception, which ranks them tied for 122nd in the nation in that category—out of 130 FBS teams. “We’ve been better at that [throwing the ball downfield], but today we missed some opportunities,” Jones said. “I missed T.J.

deep one time and you can’t afford to miss opportunities like that against good teams like Miami. So we’ll continue to work on that and we’re confident we can get these things corrected.” Duke had a few opportunities to cash in and develop long drives against the Hurricanes, but inexcusable penalties and numerous blown coverages on the offensive line restricted the Blue Devils’ chances. Duke has shown it can move the ball, but it hasn’t been able to capitalize nearly as well as the Blue Devils should. Duke outgained North Carolina by 30 yards in the first half last week and went into the locker room tied. Friday, the Blue Devils outgained the Hurricanes by 10 yards in the first 30 minutes Friday yet ended the half down by 11 points. If Duke wants to continue its early-season success and remain in contention for a berth to the ACC championship game, Jones and the Blue Devils will need to be more crisp in the coming weeks.

MEN’S SOCCER

Duke shut out for first time of 2017 by Louisville By Dani Schneider Contributing Reporter

It would make sense to think that after 16 total shots and five of them on goal, the Blue Devils would find themselves on the scoreboard. But after 90 minutes of play Saturday night, that was not the case. Despite constant pressure and possession of the ball, the Blue Devils were shut out for the first time L’VILLE 1 this season to snap a 0 three-game winning DUKE streak. No. 19 Duke fell to ACC foe No. 8 Louisville 1-0 in its first home loss of the year at Koskinen Stadium. Although Duke controlled play for the majority of the game—especially in the second half— and outshot the Cardinals by 10, it still was not enough to get the win. “We feel confident in training, and I don’t know if they just lose concentration

at the last second,” said Blue Devil head coach John Kerr, who was coaching against his former Duke teammate from the 1980s, Ken Lolla. “It’s disappointing because we didn’t benefit from all the fruits of our labor, because we played some really good stuff and created five or six chances that we’ve got to score to win.” With just 25 seconds left in the game, it looked as if Blue Devil senior Brian White was going to take the game to overtime when he received a pass from Brandon Williamson in front of the net, but he sent his shot flying over the top of the goal, sealing Duke’s fate. The only goal of the game came from one of Louisville’s three shots in the first half with 4:53 left before the break. Leading scorer Tate Schmitt received a lob pass from Tim Kubel that left him wide open on the See M. SOCCER on Page 8

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Brian White had one of Duke’s best chances of the night with 25 seconds left, but his shot sailed over the crossbar.

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Fans filled the 500-seat Duke Softball Stadium and spread out on the hills next to the field to see the team’s first game ever.

M. SOCCER FROM PAGE 7 right side of the goal, and he finished the chance with a shot inside the near post. The Blue Devils (7-2-1, 2-2-0 in the ACC) contained the Cardinals afterwards, with goalkeeper Will Pulisic making three saves to keep them at only one goal. “We’re playing well and we really didn’t give them many looks at goal. Maybe one when they scored,” Kerr said. “We played a really good defensive game and created several opportunities from corner kicks to wide crosses. But at some point we’ve got to move on and take responsibility to get the W.” Trailing at the half, Duke came out of the locker room trying to seize momentum and created several opportunities, but could not finish any of them. Senior defender Kevon Black had a chance at goal less than two minutes into the half, but Cardinal goalkeeper Will Meyer made a stop from the left side of the net.

Blue Devil sophomore Max Moser created a lot of trouble for the Cardinals (7-1-2, 3-10) going into the second half, especially on several corner kicks when he placed the ball in the box to create scoring opportunities, but again, none were converted. With 25 minutes left in the game, a cross to Duke senior Cameron Moseley left him wide open in front of the goal, but he still couldn’t seal the deal. Yet another cross from sophomore Daniele Proch to Black did not produce a breakthrough. “I think that anyone who watched the second half, we were doing all we wanted, and it sucks to say that we played well but didn’t win,” senior midfielder Cody Brinkman said. “We were right there and had six or seven chances and we just let it get away.” Duke faces nearby rival Elon Tuesday night at Koskinen Stadium before it goes on the road for two straight games against Pittsburgh Oct. 6 and No. 14 Georgetown Oct. 9.

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have the ability to do that if we continue to stick to the process. They’ll be where they need to be come spring.” Wilson has emerged as a leader on this young team after transferring from James Madison to join the Blue Devils this year. “[Wilson] is a great leader and has the ability to step up and get it done,” Young said. “She’s the one leading every huddle, and the girls are like, ‘What is Raine going to say with her words of wisdom?’” Entering the game, Wilson was worried about the defense. But by the end of the evening, she thought “our defense came out today and just crushed it.” Duke posted only one error and had several impressive defensive plays. Redshirt freshman Kortney Dry fell to her knees to stop a ground ball at third and fired it to junior Hannah Pridemore, who swiped her glove and snagged the ball from the dirt to get the out at first. Dry later moved to

second base, where she had another stellar play, cutting off a ball destined for right field and flipping it sidearm to Pridemore again for the out. Another highlight came in the pitcher’s circle—freshman Peyton St. George came into the game in the seventh and struck out the side. “Peyton just has that ability to turn it up a notch when she needs to, and we saw her do that,” Young said. “I’m not surprised at all,” Wilson added. “I was telling her, ‘Stop looking at the radar and start hitting your spots.’ After [she struck out the side], I told her, you’re not done yet, that’s not the last time you’re going to do that.... I expect nothing less from her.” For players and fans alike, the program’s first game was special. “I can’t believe we played the game already.... I just wish I’d soaked it in a little more,” Wilson said. “I’ve never felt a love like that for the game in probably two years.... I don’t know what I did to deserve this.”

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FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 6 The redshirt sophomore was pressured all night long, getting sacked five times and hurried constantly. Duke was not able to buy time for Jones to throw and work the ball vertically, forcing it to work mostly with short passes and screens outside. “They were bringing pressure where we had to do something to pick it up, and a lot of it’s on me.” Jones said. “I’ve got to play faster and get the ball out of my hands…. It’s protections and making sure we’re managing that...but you have to give a lot of credit to their defense–their front seven and secondary played great.” At the end of the first half, Jones brought Duke down the field quickly with six completions to give the Blue Devils a chance to trim the deficit to one possession at the break. But the offense sputtered once again in the red

zone, forcing Duke to settle for a 36-yard Austin Parker field goal. Down just two scores after the break, Duke never mounted any sort of comeback, punting four times, turning it over on downs and losing a fumble in a second half in which the Blue Devils converted just one of 10 third-down attempts. Miami sealed the victory with a 49-yard touchdown pass from Rosier to receiver Ahmmon Richards to take a 24-6 lead with 11 minutes to go, leaving Blue Devil fans filing for the exits. The Hurricanes punctuated the rout with a 40-yard touchdown run from Travis Homer with less than five minutes left. Duke will look to bounce back next Saturday on the road at Virginia at 12:20 p.m. “Nothing about this was fun,” Cutcliffe said. “But we’re 4-1 and there’s a lot of things that we have to do better and can. That opportunity still exists. I believe that this football team will fight everybody and anybody it plays.”

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his past weekend, President Donald Trump took to Twitter and unleashed a barrage of unrelenting criticisms in response to San Juan mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz’s requests for increased federal aid. While allies of Trump believe that the administration has done all that is feasible in terms of aid, given Puerto Rico’s distance from the mainland United States, others have condemned the president for his dismissive attitude towards the U.S. territory. When natural disasters occur, it is only natural that we as Americans should disregard our political differences and unite behind the goal of aiding our fellow citizens no matter where they may reside. Moreover, as recently exemplified by the Trump administration’s response to Maria, however, there have clearly been instances in which the federal government’s ability to provide adequate, timely relief has been called into question. Hurricane Katrina has largely become regarded as a national failure by the federal government in properly administering aid to a community obliterated by a natural disaster. Not only did thousands of New Orleans residents find themselves cooped up in the city’s Superdome for several days but also a disproportionate percentage

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of the people left in the aftermath were African Americans. People of color who are outside of the middle class are in many cases unable to pool the resources to leave the epicenter of crises and find themselves neglected by all forms of government: state, local, and federal. When they take their survival into their own hands, subsequent media coverage often broadcasts polarizing narratives. Black residents

Editorial Board seen carrying food from grocery stores are labeled thieves while their white counterparts are portrayed more sympathetically. A little over five years ago, Hurricane Sandy wrecked and ravaged several northeastern states, mainly New York and New Jersey. While Michael R. Bloomberg, former mayor of New York, rejected Obama’s visitation, Chris Christie formed an unlikely team with Obama when the former president arrived to assess Sandy’s damage to New Jersey residents. While there was some speculation on whether Christie used the partnership to garner votes for the upcoming gubernatorial election, the decision to focus on rebuilding New Jersey

was paramount in ensuring a process of gradual recovery. In contrast, Trump has maintained an air of hostility that serves no greater purpose than to divide and foster negative sentiments among the American populace during such trying times. Even Governor Ricardo Rossello, a strong supporter of Trump, has reminded representatives and senators to provide the same relief that has been provided to Hurricane Harvey and Irma victims. The current situation in Puerto Rico is the result of larger structural issues that go beyond the American territory. We need to acknowledge that systems of white supremacy allow for the disproportionate treatment against people of color pleading for their lives 1500 miles away from Washington. Just as in previous natural disasters, the long rebuilding process ahead in the aftermath of Maria’s wrath in Puerto Rico will largely be predicated on a unified political commitment by the federal government and local leaders. Moreover, as evident by his politically immature response to the tragedy, President Trump has shown yet again his inability to handle the most basic responsibility that come with being the President: caring about the people he serves.

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hat do gun totin’ conservatives and hip liberal environmentalists have in common these days? Not much frankly. That is, unless we zoom in on two states on the brink of transforming the United States’ energy future. Inside Virginia’s town halls, outside North Carolina’s state capital, and deep in the hollers of the Blue Ridge Mountains, property rights fundamentalists are standing arm in arm with tree-hugging Berniecrats to oppose the biggest, most expensive corporate infrastructure project you’ve never heard of: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP).

Tyler Wakefield GUEST COLUMNIST This 600-mile, 5.5 billion dollar beast of a pipeline is slated to lug natural gas from the fracking wells of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio to electric power plants in Virginia and North Carolina. At full capacity, the pipeline would move 1.5 billion cubic feet of gas per day at a pressure of 1500 psi (imagine a basketball pumped up to 187 times the recommended pressure). This would be enough gas to provide roughly 4.7 million homes with electricity. The pipeline’s builders say the pipeline will bring lower energy costs, thousands of permanent jobs, and a cleaner energy supply. Of course, you already know why the sensitive greenies are crying foul: habitat loss, drinking water pollution, destruction of the Appalachian Trail’s pristine views, mountain-top removal, increased risk of mudslides, disproportionate pollution placed on African-American and tribal communities, risk of deadly explosions (remember that basketball? Now imagine it with highly flammable gas inside), more fracking and more fossil fuel dependence. Same old stuff. But where do the “drill-baby-drill” conservatives come in? Why the sudden hate on jobs and lower energy bills? What happened to the calls for “energy independence?” Well, their Energy Independence showed up. It drove its shiny American-made Ford down their scenic parkway, took a right past the red “NO TRESPASSING” signs on their cracked gravel driveways, and knocked on their door. It told them to sign the dotted line; a high-pressure natural gas pipeline would be coming through their backyards, their farms, and the nature resort they invested thousands of dollars and years of planning into. Either they could sign and receive a paltry compensatory check for the land that would be stolen from them, or they could refuse to sign and get taken to court by Mr. Independence himself. Either way, the pipeline would come and they would lose their land. There was nothing the snake on their “DON’T TREAD ON ME” license plates could do about it.

The three utility companies teaming up to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline—Dominion Energy, Duke Energy, Southern Company—are able to offer homeowners this abysmal deal because of a legal procedure known as Eminent Domain. If the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) determines the pipeline to be a needed “public good,” then these corporations are granted the right to seize any land necessary for construction as long as they pay a “fair price.” For the red-voters joining the traditionally blue anti-pipeline struggle, this violation of property rights is the central concern. Yet for moderately minded citizens living far from the ACP’s path, sacrificing slivers of property and nature’s distant beauty might seem like the reasonable price to pay for enjoying our modern industrial society. Their TVs needs electricity from somewhere, and the cheerful ads promising lower energy bills certainly make the pipeline sound like a good deal. Unless, of course, none of those claims is true. For those of us who have the time to drill beneath the propaganda and see the facts behind the ACP, our position on the political spectrum doesn’t matter. It’s a bad deal. The 600-mile pipeline is entirely unnecessary for delivering all this gas to power plants. You can read about why here, here and here. With just a couple, much cheaper adjustments to existing pipelines, natural gas demand in Virginia and North Carolina could be more than satisfied. Lower energy bills? Perhaps, if you trust the analysis commissioned by the builders, who stand to receive a guaranteed 15 percent annual return on their $5.5 billion investment, regardless of how much gas flows through the pipeline. If, however, you’re a little skeptical of information coming from the three companies who rank fourth worst, third worst and worst among all utilities globally for promoting climate denialism and fossil-fuel friendly policies, then perhaps you might want to read the independent analyses (here and here) that explain how energy bills will go way up, not down. For everyone besides the builders, it’s a bad deal. But not a done deal. After a receiving 7,500 negative written public comments, North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality pushed back their decision on the pipeline two weeks ago. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has not yet approved the ACP, and thus has not deemed it a “public good”. Also two weeks ago, antiACP activists received an unexpected surge of hope; West Virginia revoked its approval of the similarly unnecessary Mountain Valley Pipeline. For now, the hippies are learning to stomach (and maybe even encourage) their neighbors’ talk of bearing arms against pipeline builders, and the conservatives are tolerating (and maybe even coming around to) all this climate change hysteria. But if they’re going succeed, they’ll need some help from the folks somewhere in the middle. Tyler Wakefield is a Trinity senior.

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ou were the president of your high school debate team. You are rejected from Duke Debate. You participated in your county choir for ten years. You are rejected from every Duke a cappella group. You are highly passionate about social entrepreneurship and female-empowerment. You are rejected from the Business Oriented Women (BOW) club.

Sabriyya Pate COLUMNIST Next summer, you will work at JP Morgan—a fact unknown to both yourself and the members of the business fraternity who reject you on the basis of your ‘lack of enthusiasm’ for finance during an interview. Every semester, student-ran organizations sift through hundreds of applicants and reject competent individuals capable of thriving in the student groups. This is problem—and it isn’t about snowflake millennials who can’t cope with rejection. It’s about modes of thinking that distort how Duke students perceive rejection. Unfortunately, capacity limitations restrict the number of students admitted into groups, leaving students of all class years feeling dejected in the face of rejection. This sentiment is only aggravated by dubious criteria for admission and a toxic culture of competition that festers the antithesis to an all-inclusive liberal arts environment. One highly-involved first-year from Houston, Anna Kasradze, went through the recruiting process for several campus organizations and encountered varying experiences: “I felt that a few [groups] took themselves too seriously, a sentiment that has been echoed by many of my friends.” Kasradze has also learned to downplay the number of clubs she is involved with, saying, “It’s unfortunate when clubs think they understand your availability better than you do.” At the same time, student groups are cognizant of the importance of finding new members and take this responsibility seriously, as they should. Scale and Coin, Duke’s oldest business society, is an example of one group in which difficult decisions are made to determine who is admitted, as was the case in their most recent recruitment cycle. Through their recruitment process, potential new members are encouraged to befriend as many current members as possible—a process not designed with the introvert in mind. Senior Nikita Gawande, a member of Scale and Coin, has recruited and trained four “classes,” or cohorts of new members, and trusts the recruitment system. Ideally, she explained, candidates who attend an information session and a couple events, and meet as many members as possible, are interviewed in order to determine their passion, level of interest in business, eagerness to learn from and add to the group, “and whether or not they’re a good fit.” Notably, Scale and Coin does safeguard against potential conflicts of interest; the group is intentional in their efforts to prevent people from joining simply because they are friends with current members, and “the opinion of each [Scale

and Coin member] is valued the same in order to ensure fairness,” said Gawande. One first-year student who recently went through the Scale and Coin recruitment process, however, was disillusioned by the degree to which subjectively-determined “passion” was important to join what she thought was a preprofessional society. No major nor course at Duke teaches students about how to combat implicit bias in their club’s recruitment proceedings. (This issue of broken recruiting processes, by the way, plagues real businesses in the world outside of Duke). Campus leaders are not taught how to select new members with traits that lend themselves to high-performance in the particular student group team, nor are they informed on the merits of qualified and diverse applicantreview committees. Therefore, institutional knowledge—that is, what last year’s president of an organization shares with this year’s president—plays an uncanny role in determining whether or not you will receive a “Congratulations!” email from the junior in your 10:05 a.m. class. Some groups like BOW have a name-blind process, whereby applications are reviewed without names, but most other groups do not. Furthermore, with a lack of transparency and oversight into deliberation proceedings, a mysterious few determine who gets “cut” versus spared. “Cut” is the term used on campus to explain when a student seeking to join a selective group is not invited to further rounds of recruitment. It also serves as a metaphor for the feeling when you are barred from an opportunity to thrive. Ultimately, in addition to transparency, we— as a student body—need to neither fear nor worry over rejection. Rather, we must prioritize inclusion whenever possible. What if Duke Student Government found a way to get the innovative and ambitious first-years who do not get elected to put their ideas to action in a setting outside of DSG? What if the students not selected as Duke Political Review writers were shared opportunities to cultivate their political voices through other groups in search of bloggers? The reality is that by serving a completely different organization in an entirely different role, a student may gain the highly-coveted skills Duke University Union did not recognize when the student first applied. In other words, students develop and amass various skills at varied paces; student groups—whose members do not necessarily embody the group’s professed values—therefore, are no decent measure of an individual’s abilities. Far too often, auditions, try-outs, applications and interviews are viewed as gateways into an exclusive networks of high-achieving peers with concrete knowledge and expertise. But in reality, these recruitment proceedings can achieve more in getting an interviewer on a power trip than giving an interviewee a fair shot. I say down with toxic selectivity and a culture that idly allows students to associate self-worth with student-group affiliation status. In its place, we must nurture a culture of transparency and inclusion. Generations of Blue Devils stand to gain. Sabriyya Pate is a Trinity junior. Her column, “in formation” runs on alternate Mondays.

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t was a bleak Friday morning on Duke’s campus. The ravages from midterm week were visible in buildings and dormitories from East to West, as victims of the disaster sought shelter and food as they made their way out of their examination rooms. “It’s been brutal,” one student said after getting out of his Physics 152 midterm. “I prepared for stuff about potential and capacitance but I had no idea that they were gonna hit us with stuff about Faraday’s Law too.”

Daniela Flamini COLUMNIST After crying behind Perkins and telling everyone it was allergies, he went to Krafthouse to eat a burger and fries alone in a booth, as his stench from not having showered all week drove away most of his friends. His plan for the rest of the evening was to drink terrible, warm beer in his apartment on central and fall asleep by 8 p.m. on his roommate’s futon. Psych majors who’d taken Stat 325 on Thursday spent all of Friday binge-eating and watching Netflix, after notifying their family members that they’d made it through the exam safely and with only minimal damage to their health. The tailgate in the afternoon was packed with Global Health and Public Policy majors, as well as juniors who were angry they weren’t at Oktoberfest with literally all of their friends. In another extremely unpredictable turn of events, the University of Miami’s football team defeated Duke with a 31-6 victory. Coach Cutcliffe tried to comfort his team, trying to explain to them that there was nothing they could have done to prepare for such an unexpected catastrophe. “None of my calculations gave me any reason to worry that something like this would happen,” he claimed. “I think the university as a whole needs to acknowledge that these independently occurring disasters are part of a bigger problem. We’re just not good at football.” On Saturday, forecasts for an even harder midterm week drove hordes of students to the fourth floor of Perkins, and humanities majors who’d spent the week napping took to Snapchat to complain about how they had to spend beautiful day indoors studying. “70 degrees outside and I’m stuck in 3rd floor Bostock,” read the caption of one student’s snap on her Snapstory. “It’s really just such a travesty when these things happen. Today would’ve been perfect for daydrinking by the pool in Solis,” she said. “I wish I’d had more of a warning. My professor only told us three weeks ago!” The nearing of Fall Break added another factor to the already disastrous situation, with groups of students who’d planned “super adventurous” road trips around North Carolina to “do something different” with their breaks realized that most Airbnb’s have already been booked by other students doing the exact same thing. “Oh my God, we’re going to have to stay in a hotel instead of in an artsy cabin in the middle of the woods,” one student told his friends as he entered into panic. The group was devastated by how much less cool the aesthetic of their photo ops would be. One of them had even purchased large amounts of film for her Polaroid camera, which would evidently have to wait until her next themed mixer. Many complained that, throughout the hardship, Duke was not providing adequate resources and materials that were needed to get through the tragedy. “I pay seven ga-jillion dollars to go to this school and they really can’t figure out a decently functioning wifi?” one student lamented in a text to his girlfriend. “I know, babe, I’ve almost smashed my computer like six times in the last hour,” she responded sympathetically. Vegans are going through particularly rough times, as their increased energy consumption after days of little rest and lots of studying has made them increasingly weak and cranky and more apt to complain about their lives on the Fix My Campus Facebook page. In response, West Union has offered to changed almost absolutely nothing about their menus and ingredient choices, and vegans have been forced to eat the exact same meal at Sprout every day while all the other kids fight with each other to get in the pasta line. Although these have been trying times for Duke, the semester is only halfway over, and many professors are still unsure about how much more they’re going to torture their students with exams and papers. “I mean, their homework has generally been pretty easy over the last few chapters, and they did well on the first midterm, so I might make their second one just ridiculously hard,” one math professor said. “I don’t know. It’s impossible to predict. Nothing they can really do to prepare.” The decrease in humidity that started over the weekend offered a relief to some students, who finally felt grateful and happy to be on such a beautiful campus right on the brink of a refreshing fall season. “It was so beautiful outside I decided to walk to West instead of take the bus,” one freshman said. “For a moment, I felt really happy to be at Duke. But next week I have three midterms, a paper and a group project, so I’m sure that it’s just that time of the season.” Daniela Flamini is a Trinity junior. Her column runs on alternate Mondays.

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DukeEngage group and independent project participants were invited to submit their best photos from the summer of 2017 in four categories: immersion,, partnership,, reflection, and gratitude.. The following eight images represent some of DukeEngageâ€™s core values. Visit the DukeEngage website to see a slideshow of all photos submitted alongside their captions, or drop by the exhibit in Perkins Library to see all the winning photos and finalists up close and in person.

F I R S T P L AC E :

GRATITUDE

EDUCATION/REFLECTION

IMMERSION

Independent Project: Nina Kuprasertkul Photographer: Wasan Saeniya (Community Partner)

Independent Project: Martin Cala Photographer: Martin Cala

DukeEngage-Vietnam Photographer: Joseph Kim

THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE STUDENTS & STAFF WHO SHARED T H E I R P H OT O S F R O M F I R S T P L AC E :

THE SUMMER WITH US!

IMMERSION

F I R S T P L AC E :

PARTNERSHIP

Independent Project: Junette Yu Photographer: Junette Yu

DukeEngage-Rwanda Photographer: Bill Bamberger

F I R S T P L AC E :

PARTNERSHIP

EDUCATION/REFLECTION

GRATITUDE

Independent Project: Nina Kuprasertkul Photographer: Nina Kuprasertkul

DukeEngage-Costa Rica Photographer: Ruolin Eudora Miao

Please visit the DukeEngage Photo Find Exhibit on the Student Wall in Perkins Library. All winners and finalists will be on display, October 1-31. Finalists include photos from Orange Co, Kauai, Kochi and more!

DukeEngage-Portland Photographer: Ariel Zimmer

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