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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2018 DUKECHRONICLE.COM

Football

Blue Devils break into AP top 25 for first time since 2015 By Derek Saul Blue Zone Editor

For the first time in nearly three years, Duke made an appearance in the AP Top 25 Poll. The Blue Devils (4-0) checked in at No. 22, surpassing previously ranked Boston College, Texas Christian University and Virginia Tech. Head coach David Cutcliffe’s team’s last appearance in the AP poll came on Oct. 25, 2015, when the Blue Devils were ranked No. 22 following a thrilling 45-43 triple overtime triumph at Virginia Tech. Duke, which was 6-1 at the time, quickly saw their season spiral downward after that contest. The Blue Devils dropped their subsequent four games, starting with Miami’s game-winning kickoff return touchdown with no time remaining, perhaps the most heartbreaking moment in recent Duke football memory. On Saturday, the Blue Devils easily defeated crosstown rival N.C. Central 55-13, securing a perfect record in nonconference play for the second consecutive season. Duke’s first ACC opponent will be Virginia Tech, which will travel to Durham this week. The Hokies plummeted from No. 13 to unranked after suffering an embarrassing 49-35 upset at the hands of Old Dominion, a team that failed to beat any of its first three opponents. After hosting Virginia Tech, the Blue Devils will enter their bye week, before returning to ACC play when Duke will travel to Georgia Tech. The rest will be readily welcomed by the Blue Devils, as Duke’s ranking is even more impressive considering the litany of injuries that have plagued the squad. Most notably, three-year starting quarterback Daniel Jones seems poised to make a return from the clavicle injury he sustained Week 2 within the next few weeks.

ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEENTH YEAR, ISSUE 12

Housekeeping shift sparks student petition By Brian Guo Contributing Reporter

Gianna Affi Contributing Reporter

Duke’s housekeeping staff now work weekends, a change housekeepers have said has interfered with their personal lives. Duke’s housekeeping staff have shifted to a new work schedule that alternates the workers’ two off days between weekends and Thursdays and Fridays. Every other week, Duke’s housekeeping staff will work on weekends, meaning staff members are frequently working seven days in a row—Saturday to Friday. “They’re making it real difficult for us,” said George Johnson, a utility worker in housing operations. “They’re snatching us away from our families seven days a week, and that’s a tough button to push.” Senior Grace Mok organized a student petition to return housekeeping staff to David Xian | Contributing Photographer their previous Monday-Friday schedule. She An administrator said the hours changes are necessary to address operational needs in facilities that are said that she is doubtful that the schedule open seven days a week, such as residence halls and libraries. change was due to student demands for cleaner dorms during the weekend. “The overwhelming majority of “Duke takes pride in maintaining a clean, sanitary and so they got seven day coverage,” Johnson students I’ve talked to don’t really care that and safe environment in our facilities for the campus said. “But what they did and how they did the bathrooms get a little dirty on Sundays,” community and visitors,” Kornegay wrote. “These it—they forced us. We had no say, we had no Mok said. “And the changes are made after communication.” ones who do have careful consideration for how Though questions remain over the said that it shouldn’t Duke takes pride in to best meet the operational specifics and extent of the student demands, be at the expense of maintaining a clean, sanitary needs of the university while housekeepers have already begun to feel the balancing our staffing and impact of the schedule change. current schedules. and safe environment in housekeeping resources.” Loretta Liles, a housekeeper in Keohane They should just hire our facilities for the campus someone new.” She added that changes Quadrangle, has had her weekends off for Leslye Kornegay, community and visitors. are reviewed with local three years, when she would take her children union representatives to sports practices and church ministries. Now, director of university for the unit, and are because Liles works weekends again, she has environmental services, leslye kornegay wrote in an email that DIRECTOR OF UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENTAL implemented in accordance struggled to find time to do either. SERVICES with changes in housekeeping the collective “It’s really really impacted me too as a services are necessary bargaining agreement. Christian person in not being able to go to The changes result in no church on a regular basis,” Liles said. to address operational Liles is not alone in her frustration. needs in facilities that are open seven days a additional hours for the staff, she wrote. “We were told that the students were week, such as residence halls, libraries and See HOUSEKEEPERS on Page 12 athletic facilities. complaining about the bathroom on Sundays,

Marine Lab set to reopen after Hurricane Florence causes evacuation By Jake Satisky University News Editor

Courtesy of Duke Marine Lab The lab has been closed since last week due to Florence.

Although the worst of Hurricane Florence missed Durham, Duke students at the Marine Lab weren’t as lucky. A “quasi-normal teaching schedule” at the Marine Lab, which suffered damage to several buildings, is expected to resume Oct. 1, according to an update from director Andy Read. Power has been restored to the campus on Pivers Island in Beaufort, North Carolina, and assessments are currently underway to gauge water

Latinx Heritage Month mural is defaced

Women’s soccer falls to Virginia

Students came together Saturday in response to the mural being painted over after less than 24 hours. PAGE 3

Mistakes were the difference soccer in home defeat.

damage. Undergraduate students, who were evacuated Sept. 11 and housed at various places in Durham, are supposed to return later this week. “We have received incredible support from main campus, from offers of accommodation to displaced students to technical assistance from [Facilities Management] on damage assessment and recovery,” Read wrote in an email to the Chronicle. The library, auditorium, student See MARINE LAB on Page 12

Should Duke take Koch money? for

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Eladio Bobadillo says people should be worried that the Koch Foundation has given money. PAGE 10

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