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CLEMSON, S.C.—Nobody predicted the Blue Devils would be winning after 15 minutes of game play, especially as 28-point underdogs on the road. But with time, the talent gap—exacerbated by key injuries—eventually showed up. Leading 6-0 at the end of the first quarter, Duke surrendered 35 unanswered points to No. 2 Clemson, who won 35-6 on its Senior Day at Memorial DUKE 6 Stadium. The Blue amassed just CLEM 35 Devils 135 yards after the first quarter, struggling to contain the Tigers’ star-studded defensive line. Quarterback Daniel Jones took hit after hit, and was plagued by a multitude of drops that stalled Duke’s offense after a few successful drives in the first quarter. “You let a game go on, with a team this talented, [and] it’s going to catch up with you,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “They’re the best team we’ve played since I’ve been at Duke from a physical standpoint.” After a punt on their first drive, the Blue Devils found a groove on offense, amassing 120 yards on drives resulting in subsequent field goals. On the first, Duke was backed all the way up to its 2-yard line, but Jones found a streaking Daniel Helm for a 37-yard pass to give the offense some breathing room. Then, though, the Tigers broke through on offense. A seven-play 75-yard drive helped Clemson to its first lead of the contest early in the second quarter, and the Tigers added onto a one-point lead on an 18-yard connection from quarterback Trevor Lawrence to wideout Justyn Ross.

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Seniors Kushal Kadakia, Claire Wang and Ariel Kantor have been named 2019 Rhodes scholars. The trio become Duke’s 47th, 48th and 49th winners of the honor, which fully funds a degree at Oxford University. Kadakia, Wang and Kantor confirmed the honor to The Chronicle Saturday night. The Rhodes scholarship, founded in 1903, is the oldest and arguably most prestigious international scholarship award. Each year, only 32 students from the United States are chosen for the honor out of more than 800 applications. Duke is tied with Princeton and Yale for three scholars each, which tops the charts for the 2019 Rhodes scholar class. This is the third time Duke has had three Rhodes scholars in one year, after three Duke students received the honor in the Rhodes scholarship Class of 2002 and Class of 2006. Last year, Gabrielle Stewart, Trinity ‘18 and a classical languages major, won the award. The previous year, Timur Ohloff—a student who visited Duke from Germany—was awarded a Rhodes scholarship, and two Duke students were named as part of the 2016 class of Rhodes scholars—Laura Roberts and Jay Ruckelhaus, both Trinity ‘16.

Duke tied Princeton and Yale for the most scholars this year.

Kushal Kadakia “I am beyond humbled to have been elected a 2019 Rhodes scholar. I am forever thankful to my village of friends and mentor at Duke who have challenged and inspired me over these past three years,” Kadakia wrote in a message to The Chronicle Saturday night. “I look forward to embracing the Rhodes Scholarship’s mission to ‘fight the world’s fight’ through scholarship and service in health policy.” Kadakia studies biology and public policy. The senior is an A.B. Duke Scholar who served as the executive vice president of Duke Student Government last year. He has worked to make Duke a smoke-free campus, and was chairman of the Duke Honor Council. Kadakia has also interned at the North Carolina’s governor’s office to work on Medicaid policy. See RHODES on Page 12

After midterm elections, students explain why they voted or not By Julianna Rennie Staff Reporter

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The midterm elections came and went, sparking conversations across the country and Duke’s campus about voting as a right. Although some students and Durhamites ordered their absentee ballots and flocked to the polls as soon as they could—especially since early voting took place on the bottom floor of the Richard H. Brodhead Center for Campus Life from Oct. 17 to Nov. 3—some students and faculty also raised questions regarding the meaning behind a vote in today’s political climate.

Georg Vanberg, professor of political science, framed the question of why people choose to vote or not by comparing the decision to cheering on one’s favorite sports team at a game. He argues that voting, like cheering at a basketball game, is not a rational act, but rather an expressive one. “You could say it’s irrational for fans to scream or cheer because that doesn’t have an effect on the outcome, and most of us would look at you and think you’re crazy to make that kind of argument,” Vanberg said. “Most people aren’t screaming and cheering because they think they’re going to affect the outcome. They like supporting their team.” The odds are extremely slim that any

single person casts a pivotal vote in an election, according to economists Casey Mulligan and Charles Hunter, authors of “The Empirical Frequency of a Pivotal Vote.” However, voter turnout in this year’s midterms marked a 50-year high, with 49 percent of eligible voters participating in the election. The trend of higher turnout also was visible on Duke’s campus, with a recordbreaking 10,000 students and Durhamites flocking to the Brodhead Center early voting site. But the calculus behind students’ decision to vote or not varied widely. Senior Paul Forrester said that he chose See STUDENTS on Page 12

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The worse the alleged crime, the more likely a jury is to believe it By Elora Pradhan Staff Reporter

More severe crimes may tip the scales from “innocent until proven guilty” towards “guilty until proven innocent” more than others, a new study found. Duke researchers have found that the type of alleged crime may increase a jury’s belief in guilt in a recent study published in Nature Human Behavior. “Human beings really value coherence in their explanations, and we’re likely to ignore or diminish pieces of evidence that disagree with our preferred conclusions,” said John Pearson, lead study author and assistant professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics.

“There are a number of cases of wrongful convictions in which crucial pieces of exculpatory evidence were ignored because they went against the incriminating narrative that was already in place. It’s important for society that we get this right.” Pearson said conversations with his colleague from Duke, Pate Skene, associate research professor of neurobiology, inspired the study. “He and I would run into each other over lunch and talk about how we could borrow tools from the study of economic decision-making to think about legal decisionmaking,” Pearson said. “Pate always had a hunch that the sorts of emotional processes that govern our reactions to heinous crimes could exert subtle effects on the way we

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process evidence.” To investigate Pate’s idea, the researchers designed 33 fictional legal cases about different types of crimes—from murder to less serious crimes—but with pieces of evidence that could be swapped out. They surveyed hundreds of people, including some law students and trained lawyers, asking them to rate how strong they found each case on a scale of 0 to 100. Each respondent only saw one variant of each case, and Bayesian statistical methods were used to estimate the average effect of each type of evidence on the population at large. The researchers observed that the severity of the crime introduced bias, making respondents more likely to deem the defendant guilty before even seeing evidence. For respondents who were not legally trained, the researchers found that the more severe a crime, the more likely they were to be convinced of the defendant’s guilt, given the same level of evidence. However, the legally-trained respondents reliably separated their emotional reactions to the case from their assessment of the evidence, Pearson noted. Unsurprisingly, researchers also noted the “CSI effect” across the board: people putting too much stock in fingerprints and fiber evidence, treating them as comparable to DNA. Researchers are currently debating a couple of explanations for why more severe crimes are easier to believe. A sociological hypothesis is that individuals have a strong desire to “put things right” when a crime is committed, Pearson said. Alternately, the psychological hypothesis suggests that humans’ emotional state affects how they process information. When worked up, people often make decisions more quickly and with less information, which can lead them to shakier conclusions, Pearson said. Pearson hopes to introduce more quantitative work into the study of psychology behind legal decisions. “These sorts of statistical approaches offer a complementary method of studying one of the most complex things we humans do as a species: make collective decisions about culpability and punishment,” he said.

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‘Most American voters want the temperature turned down’

Journalists analyze midterm elections at Saturday event By Matthew Griffin Staff Reporter

Moderates, not progressives, won November’s mid-term elections, a New York Times columnist said at a talk alongside two other panelists Saturday. Much of the discussion at the John Fisher Zeidman Memorial Colloquium on Politics and the Press was focused on the recent midterm elections and the future of politics in America. Bruni and two other journalists, Yamiche Alcindor, PBS NewsHour White House correspondent and Katherine Miller, an editor at BuzzFeed News, discussed whether the midterms, in which the Democratic Party captured the House of Representatives but failed to retake the Senate, represented a victory for liberal Democrats. When viewing the elections through a campaign lens, Bruni argued that moderates were the victors. He said that in areas with close races and in traditionally Republican districts that Democrats captured, voters did not want candidates to emulate President Donald Trump’s contentious style. “I think if there’s one message that voters sent above all others, or one lesson, it’s that most American voters want the temperature turned down a lot in this country,” Bruni said. Miller contended that the midterms were a victory for progressives in terms of policy. She said that Georgia governor candidate Stacy Abrams and Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke’s failed campaigns were losses, but not evidence that Democrats should avoid running as “true-blue progressives.”

Emily Qin | Staff Photographer Three journalists came to campus Saturday to discuss the effects of the 2018 midterm elections.

Bruni argued that Democrats should focus on calmly governing over the next two years in order to win voters, and Alcindor said that candidates’ strength will influence the outcome, regardless of the parties’ specific platforms. However, both Bruni and Miller said that it is difficult to make predictions in politics. “When [Donald Trump] came down that escalator,” Bruni said, recalling the moment the future president announced his candidacy,

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White House correspondent for CNN, earlier this month. “[The media landscape] is just fracturing in terms of what you’re actually consuming, and it’s very tough to know what someone else is consuming,” Miller said. She argued that a so-called “filter-bubble” can be good thing in many ways, as minority groups and younger readers can find content that appeals to them. But she said that it can also make it hard for many people to keep up with national news. Alcindor also recalled a recent White House press briefing in which Donald Trump called one of her questions, about whether Trump was contributing to the rise of white nationalism in America, “a racist question.” She said that her training as a journalist compelled her to keep pressing the President until he answered the question, but that it also led her to continue asking standard questions after the exchange was over. “I felt proud of myself for just being like, I can get through this and ask [a follow-up] question without feeling like I need to be in the ring fighting the President,” Alcindor said amidst applause from the audience. Both Bruni and Miller said that the press devotes too much space to covering the Trump administration. Nevertheless, Miller said that the media cannot ignore the President’s actions. She compared Trump to an asteroid strike and said that the press is obligated to cover any event of such great magnitude. “You have to acknowledge that life has changed since the asteroid hit Earth,” Miller said.

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Faculty discuss combatting harassment in the workplace By Isabelle Doan News Editor

Simran Prakash | Staff Photographer The Academic Council spent its meeting last week discussing how to combat harassment in the workplace.

Continuing its discussion about faculty conduct, the Academic Council heard about steps Duke’s School of Medicine has taken to address harassment and misbehavior among faculty at the Council’s Thursday meeting. Ann Brown, vice dean for faculty at the School of Medicine, presented the medical school’s Dean’s Advisory Council on Faculty Conduct. The council was launched in 2012 initially to address scientific conduct, but is now utilized to address conduct and professionalism among faculty of the Medical School. The presentation was part of the Academic Council’s broader conversation about how to hold faculty accountable for harassment. “We started looking under the covers a little bit to see what was going on in the research realm, and realized a lot of issues came up that were concerning to chairs, but the chairs were like, ‘I don’t quite know what to do about this,’” Brown said. Brown cited incidents such as a professor throwing a bottle at a graduate student and a professor locking their students in a lab and not letting them out until they came up with results. She said that the professionalism council was needed for issues like this, because these issues don’t have specific institutions to deal with them—unlike sexual misconduct, illegal behavior or research integrity issues. She said ideally, faculty should resolve these issues at the unit level before presenting them to the council. If necessary, a chair will write to their dean about the concern, and the dean will then choose to resolve it themselves or refer it to the Dean’s Advisory Council on Faculty Conduct. The council can then advise the dean and provide a review process, although it cannot impose sanctions. Since 2012, the Dean’s Advisory Council on Faculty Conduct has received seven cases. Although this is a small number of cases, Brown said, a high volume comes to the pre-council process, which deals with about ten issues per week. The seven cases ranged from intimidating behavior to poor leadership. “When these cases finally come to us, common findings are [the faculty’s] incredible lack of insight about their role in the problem,” Brown said. Brown also stated that poor management of power dynamics by faculty was another common finding by the council. Mark Anthony Neal, James B. Duke professor of African and African American studies, led the Academic Council’s discussion about whether to adopt a similar model at other Duke schools. “What does compensation look like?” Neal said. “And that’s just an honest response to the demands on peoples’ times that you might have to spend sitting in one of these committees, adjudicating some sort of situation within a unit within your school.” Academic Council Chairman Don Taylor, professor in the Sanford School of public policy, said that within the last two years, tenured faculty have not been involved in any academic conduct adjudication, a topic which the Council also discussed last month. Joshua Sosin, associate professor of classical studies, said faculty members need to recognize that working on these committees does not interfere with their own academic work. “We only had [time to ourselves] because we come up in a culture that says we can do whatever we want, without paying our community,” Sosin said. “We’ve been thinking it’s ours the whole time, when it wasn’t.” Professor of Physics Steffen Bass commented on the academic culture that values “superstars,” saying that it should also be made clear to department chairs that they are not “the stewards for these superstars to facilitate their ecstasies.” “They have to be the stewards for the weakest link in the department and their first duty is to protect the department from the superstars going overboard,” Bass said. “If a superstar gets fired, so be it.” President Vincent Price responded to Bass, noting that the issue is not necessarily about superstars, but rather asserting collective ownership as faculty. “I want superstars who are behaviorally contributing and elevating the bar and demonstrating by example it’s not an ‘either-or’ proposition,” Price said.

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ADDING INJURY TO INSULT

Senior captain Ben Humphreys goes down again as depleted defense can’t keep up with Clemson By Mitchell Gladstone Sports Features Editor

CLEMSON, S.C.—Ben Humphreys slammed his crutch before making his way to the cart. The senior, unable to put any weight on his left leg, headed for the Duke locker room early—a story all too familiar for this group of Blue Devils. Up against the No. 2 team in the nation, Duke’s defense put up as good a fight as anyone could’ve asked for. But with a group playing without five of the 11 that started Aug. 31 against Army, it was only a matter of time until things went bad. And once Clemson found its rhythm, what seemed like an improbable hole to climb out of quickly became insurmountable. “I hate to say it, but we’re kind of used to it at this point,” offensive guard Zach Harmon said. “This team has run into some extremely bad injury luck and I hate it for our guys.” For a quarter and change, the Blue Devils kept things manageable. Even after Tigers took the lead five plays into the second quarter, Duke didn’t go away. The visitors managed to stay composed with Death Valley rocking, forcing Clemson to punt on six of its first seven series. In fact, the Tigers went three-and-out on five consecutive drives before halftime, leaving a window of opportunity wide open for the Blue Devils. Then it went something like this: touchdown, punt, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown. In the blink of an eye, a Duke defense that has been decimated by injury time and time again could do nothing to stop an electric offense and a game that was spiraling out of control.

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Ben Humphreys suffered a serious left knee injury in the third quarter and was carted to the Blue Devils’ locker room. “You’ve got to finish plays better,” head coach David Cutcliffe said of the Blue Devils’ second-half struggles. “We didn’t tackle as well. We gave up explosives that we weren’t giving up.... I would’ve liked to see us finish cleaner and better than we did, but we didn’t.” Injuries weren’t the only thing to hurt Duke’s defense. A little more than midway through the second quarter, linebacker Brandon Hill—who made a second consecutive start in place of captain Joe GilesHarris—was ejected as a result of a debatable targeting call on a Blue Devil punt. Cutcliffe said afterwards that he was

“frustrated” with the officials’ call on a “bangbang play,” but safety Jordan Hayes probably summed up the feelings best: “It sucked. He was playing his butt off this whole game and to see him go down like that, it hurts.” The end result was that Koby Quansah, who underwent surgery on his left foot just more than a month ago, was back on the field, playing regular snaps with a pin still in his fifth metatarsal. And even though Duke’s defensive line has remained relatively intact—other than Edgar Cerenord— the Blue Devil secondary has become a revolving door of young options. For as hard as they tried, the few survivors

of Duke’s injury bug had nowhere near enough depth and talent to hold down a Clemson squad that could very easily waltz into the national championship game with a shot to end the season a perfect 15-0. “We need everyone on that football team to be a warrior both on and off the field, and that’s what we’re looking for moving forward,” Cutcliffe said. “We’ve got [injuries] on both sides. This entire team. The numbers have gone up. I think we’ve had 21 people that play, and now 14 starters that have missed games because of injury. That’s going to make us tougher longterm, but it’s not much fun.” So where does this leave the Blue Devils? They’ll almost certainly finish the season without Humphreys—the team didn’t give an injury update Saturday night, but given that the senior went down untouched and could bear no weight, things don’t seem optimistic for the final games of Humphreys’ collegiate career. Hill will be eligible to start next week vs. Wake Forest, and it’s possible that Giles-Harris gets healthy enough to return to the field for the regular-season finale. But after a second-half pummeling in Death Valley, there wasn’t much fight or optimism to be heard in Duke’s voices. Now it’s up to a wounded group on both sides of the ball to collect itself and find a way to scratch out two more victories—which would give the Blue Devils nine wins for the first time in five seasons but just the third time since 1941. “It’s frustrating that we couldn’t put up any points on the board in the second half,” Harmon said. “We have a lot of pride and we know what we’re capable of, and we didn’t get to show that in the second half.”

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Duke seeks 6th Maui Invitational championship By Derek Saul Blue Zone Editor

The Lahaina Civic Center more closely resembles a high school arena than a site for a clash between Division I powerhouses. Despite its unassuming nature, the 2,400seat converted convention hall will house the annual Maui Invitational this week, an eightteam tournament featuring three schools in the top 10—No. 1 Duke, No. 3 Gonzaga and No. 9 Auburn. The Maui Invitational will especially serve as the biggest stage of junior captain Jack White’s college career—his father’s presence in the SDSU crowd will mark the vs. first time that a family No. 1 member will see one Duke of his games in person since he left his native MONDAY, 5 p.m. Australia to play for the Lahaina Civic Center Lahaina, HI Blue Devils in 2016. “It’s going to be special,” White said. “I’m really looking forward to the experience and playing hard. I’m just trying to get wins with my guys and it’s going to be cool knowing that he’s going to be in the crowd watching me after almost three years now of not seeing me live.” Duke (3-0) will compete in the tournament

for the sixth time in its history. In every prior appearance, head coach Mike Krzyzewski led his squad to a championship, most recently with a 2011 team that knocked off then-No. 15 Michigan and then-No. 14 Kansas en route to a Maui Invitational title. A potential slate of three games in three days, with two of the matchups against top-10 teams in Gonzaga and Auburn, will be a strong litmus test for the seemingly unstoppable Blue Devils. Duke is currently outscoring opponents by an average margin of 31.3 points, including a dominant 118-84 victory over then-No. 2 Kentucky. Particularly, freshman sensation Zion Williamson will be scrutinized on a national level once again. The high-flying Williamson has quieted any doubters through three games with demigod-like play, with 25.3 points, 10.7 rebounds and three blocks per contest on an 82.1 percent conversion rate from the field. “More so than how high he jumps is his incredible body control, especially in a fast break where you would not think ‘slither’ is a word you would ever use with him and basically he does that, which is crazy,” Krzyzewski said. Although in a less flashy manner, White is also impressing for the Blue Devils. A defensive maven known for a high basketball IQ, he is averaging 1.7 blocks and 1.3 steals per game and has yet to turn the ball over this season.

On Monday, White’s father will see him and Duke open play against San Diego State. Last season, the Aztecs (2-0) upset topseeded Nevada en route to a Mountain West Conference title and an NCAA tournament bid, where they lost in a 67-65 heartbreaker to sixth-seeded Houston.

San Diego State’s lineup features three returning starters from 2017-18—Devin Watson, Jalen McDaniels and Matt Mitchell. Rounding out the starting five are Jeremy Hemsley, the sixth man on last year’s squad, See M. BASKETBALL on Page 9

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Jack White’s father will meet him halfway across the world from Australia to see his son play in college for the first time this week.

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Duke comfortably wins 20th straight home opener By Dilan Trivedi Associate Sports Editor

After falling to Northwestern in the season opener and squeaking past Maine Thursday night, Duke responded with a more comfortable win in its first game at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Blue Devils used a balanced offensive effort and an up-tempo pace to overcome a slow shooting start and sink Elon 81-64 for their 20th straight win in a 64 home opener. Junior ELON 81 Leaonna Odom led DUKE four Duke players in double figures with a double-double with 23 points and 10 rebounds. “It was great to see Leaonna just go hard and just attack from all sides. it is important that we get everyone going on all cylinders,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “We were cohesive at times, not as much as we want, but certainly much better. There is just a lot to build on from here.” After falling behind 7-2 following six straight missed shots from the field and seven Lexi Mercer points, Duke worked back to grab its first lead at 11-10 following an Odom free throw. With the Blue Devils and Phoenix trading baskets and shots from the charity stripe, Duke (2-1) started to push the pace offensively. The Blue Devils scored on five straight

possessions to close the quarter, using an average of just 8.4 seconds on the shot clock, to extend their lead to 24-20 entering the second quarter. Haley Gorecki and Faith Suggs contributed four points apiece during the run. “Defense is something that always fuels our offense. We just want to get some steals and deflections, and try to get our energy going,” Suggs said. “We were fouling a lot and they were going to the free-throw line. The game was getting stagnant, so we just wanted to get some more defensive energy to fuel our offense.” To open the second quarter, Duke continued to run while playing a stingy zone-press defense, using a total of 22 seconds in its three successful possessions to extend the lead to 29-20 with 8:06 remaining in the half. Freshman Miela Goodchild chipped in four of her six first-half points during the run to help crack open the game for the Blue Devils. Elon (1-2) and Duke struggled to separate any further throughout the period, and the Blue Devils entered the break up 48-39, shooting 55.9 percent from the field while outrebounding the Phoenix by three after a strong performance on the offensive boards from Odom and Madison Treece. Odom entered the half with 11 points and Gorecki had 10 points and four steals before the break to pace Duke, though Gorecki cooled off in the second half and finished with 12 points.

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Leaonna Odom posted a double-double with 23 points and 10 rebounds to lead four Blue Devils in double figures in scoring. “We had fun moving the ball, and moved the ball very well this game. We just wanted to make the extra pass. And when we move the ball and make the extra pass, it’s really hard to stop us,” Odom said. “Coach P tells and wants me to broaden my game, and I know that if I’m going to play professionally, I’m going to need to learn how to run the point guard

position. Just practicing and getting more reps makes me more comfortable.” Although the junior duo has been carrying the scoring burden thus far—they are the only two Blue Devils to average double-digit scoring—the supporting cast stepped up at See W. BASKETBALL on Page 9

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Blue Devils eliminated by No. 1 seed Georgetown By Emily Davis Associate Sports Editor

Playing their second game in three days, Duke came up short against an undefeated Georgetown team with a spot in the NCAA quarterfinals on the line. A strong showing DUKE 1 from the Blue Devils’ GTOWN 4 underclassmen was not enough to keep their season alive, as No. 4 seed Duke fell to the top-seeded Hoyas 4-1 in the Round of 16 Sunday at Shaw Field in Washington.

Freshman All-ACC selection Delaney Graham scored Duke’s lone goal, the first of her career, off an assist from senior Kayla McCoy to equalize the score in the second half before the Hoyas finished with three unanswered goals in the last 35 minutes. “[We] talked about changing our formation at halftime—Delaney, our quickest and fastest player, getting up and down the flanks. We were looking to change the point of attack,” head coach Robbie Church said. “Kayla took a great little touch, held it to just the right moment and Delaney came flying up the right-hand side and then was very

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Freshman Delaney Graham scored the first goal of her career early in the second half to briefly equalize the match.

composed to finish that. We felt really good about ourselves at that point.” In the first half, Georgetown struck first with a goal in the 15th minute off the foot of senior Caitlin Farrell. Farrell entered the match with 37 points on the season, including four game-winners and 17 goals. She had six shot attempts against the Blue Devils. In the 23rd minute, Duke (16-4-2) lost a key part of their defense when senior defender Chelsea Burns went down with a dislocated elbow. Burns was helped off the field and into the locker room. She started every match of her season season and logged more than 1,500 minutes on the field. Burns was the second defender the Blue Devils lost in the postseason after sophomore Karlie Paschall tore her Achilles’ before Duke’s Round of 64 meeting with Rutgers. “Losing Chelsea Burns early in the match was especially tough with the loss of Karlie a few weeks ago. In our back line, we had to change our formation a little bit. We had some people in there who hadn’t played a lot,” Church said. “Injuries caught up with us at the end of the year. No excuse though— Georgetown was still better today—but it just set us behind a little bit.” The game also marked the final one for seniors McCoy, Taylor Racioppi and Kat McDonald. The Blue Devils’ four seniors composed the winningest class in program history, capturing the 2017 ACC regularseason championship and picking up at least one win against every ACC program. The seniors also made four straight NCAA tournament appearances and competed in the national championship game as

freshmen in 2015. “Oh my gosh, one of the best careers ever, our senior class. They’ve really elevated our program from a good program to an elite program,” Church said. “They’re such great people too. They’re fun to be around.... I’m just very proud that I had the opportunity to coach them. They have had a wonderful four years.” Duke had a few opportunities in the first half, most notably a shot from sophomore Tess Boade off a McCoy pass. Freshman Marykate McGuire also rolled a ball into the low corner that was saved by All-Big East goalkeeper Arielle Schechtman with less than two minutes left in the half. The Hoya goal in the 15th minute was the only score, however, and the Blue Devils entered the locker room down 1-0. Georgetown (20-0-3) came out strong in the second half, getting two shot attempts in the first two minutes, but momentum then shifted quickly, as Duke put the equalizer on the board to make it 1-1 thanks to Graham. But the Hoyas soon opened the floodgates by adding three more goals. The first came only five minutes after Graham’s goal and was launched from outside the box by Kyra Carusa, slipping behind the fingers of Brooke Heinsohn. “We didn’t press as high as we wanted to press up the field, and we kind of went for a different lineup being down some back players,” Church said. “When we did press up the field, they broke our numbers and they broke our press....They’re very creative up See W. SOCCER on Page 9

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Duke entered the weekend having never played in the Round of 16 in consecutive years since the NCAA tournament expanded to 48 teams in 2001. That changed Sunday, as the No. 6 Blue Devils defeated Pacific 1-0 at Koskinen Stadium, securing one of those final 16 spots in the tournament. Duke had a slow start offensively, mustering just a single shot in the first half, but 0 came out firing after PAC 1 halftime, totaling DUKE seven shots in the first 20 minutes of the second half. Only one of those shots—freshman Issa Rayyan’s in the 65th minute—found the back of the net, but that was all that the Blue Devils needed to get past the Tigers. “We had to get ourselves a little more organized offensively, get numbers in certain areas and also pressing a little bit higher,” head coach John Kerr said. “I thought we did a good job of that, especially at the start of the second half. We had more energy and we stepped it up a gear and I thought we dominated the game for the first 25 to 30 minutes of the second-half.” Neither Duke nor Pacific managed a single shot on goal in the first 45 minutes. The Blue Devils (11-6-2) got their first shot off in the 14th minute, when a kick from sophomore Matthias Frick was blocked and tipped above the goal.

FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 1 Lawrence’s play helped kick-start Clemson’s run, as he kept the offense afloat as star running back Travis Etienne came out struggling. Lawrence finished with 251 yards and two touchdowns on 21-of-38 passing, threading passes all around the field to keep the Tigers (11-0, 8-0 in the ACC) moving. And then Etienne got going. After a first half in which he notched just one yard on four carries, Etienne rushed for 80 yards and two touchdowns in the third quarter. “We were able to keep their top playmakers under control in the first half,” redshirt freshman Lummie Young IV said after his first

There was hope for the game’s first goal in the 35th minute, when Duke freshman Seth Kuhn had just one defender between himself and the goal. The crowd began to get loud as Kuhn got closer and closer to the net, but their excitement quickly died down when the Wyomissing, Pa., native was not even able to get a shot off. Junior Suniel Veerakone also incited a reaction from the stands with some fancy dribbling in the final 30 seconds of the half, but he too could not muster a shot attempt. Pacific, meanwhile, totaled four shots before halftime. “Pacific is a very good team,” Rayyan said. “Defensively, they are pretty solid. It was very hard to get the ball. There was always a man on me, and anywhere I went it was just so hard to get open.” In the second half, things started to turn the Blue Devils’ way. By the 48th minute, Duke posted the contest’s first shot on goal courtesy of freshman Ian Murphy. The shot was saved by sophomore goalkeeper Ethan Bandre, but 18 minutes and six more shots later, the Blue Devils finally made it onto the scoreboard. The play began with a shot from AllACC selection Daniele Proch that Bandre saved. But as the ball bounced off the hands of the Tiger goalie, Raayan was right there to knock in the rebound for his sixth goal of the year. The ACC Freshman of the Year promptly finished off the sequence with a celebratory backflip. “Daniele had the ball and he just shot it and I was just in the right place in the right

time,” Rayyan said. “I got it and then I was just looking to turn around and shoot it, shoot it as much as possible. I did not exactly know where the goal was. I just turned and shot.” Following the goal, the Blue Devils turned their attention to defense, preventing Pacific (12-5-2) from knotting up the score. There were several close calls, including a shot from junior Andreas Charalambous off a free kick that went right at Duke goalkeeper Will Pulisic and a header from classmate Jonathan Jimenez that sailed just above the crossbar, but the Blue Devils were able to finish off the shutout. “We stepped a little bit higher on them—we

did not give them a little bit more room,” Kerr said. “In the first half, we gave them too much room and they were able to pass around us. Our adjustments were right on the mark.” Pulisic had three saves on the way to his sixth shutout on the year. Duke now looks forward to its third-round matchup next Saturday against Maryland, which is coming off a 2-0 victory against N.C. State. “These games are tough, they are hard and going into these games it is the result that matters,” Rayyan said. “We are going to spend Thanksgiving together and we are looking forward to the next game.”

career start. “Then it got away from us and they made more big plays than we did.” With the Tigers’ offense humming, the defense began to close in on Jones, who was forced into clear passing situations trying to keep his team in the game. “I thought [Jones] was great. I mean, how can you fight and battle and put the ball where he put it time and time again against that kind of pressure,” Cutcliffe said. “You don’t see a guy play much better than that against a defense when we weren’t protecting as well as we would’ve liked.” To combat the opposing pass rush, the Blue Devils (7-4, 3-4) often ran designed quick plays, but as the game wore on, the more Clemson began to adjust. Senior wide receiver

T.J. Rahming led Duke in reception yards, amassing just 38 yards on nine catches, for just a 4.2 yard per catch average. The Blue Devils could not muster any offense after the first quarter as Austin Parker was called on to punt on 10 different occasions. Parker averaged 43.7 yards per attempt, but Duke could not stop the rolling Tiger offense. Linebacker Brandon Hill—who was starting in place of injured star Joe GilesHarris, who missed his second straight contest with a strained MCL—was ejected in the first half for targeting. On a return, Amari Rodgers received the punt and was met immediately by Hill, who struck Rodgers in the head. As a result, a hobbling Duke defense was forced to play Koby Quansah,

who performed with a pin in a broken foot suffered in its bye week. Adding insult to injury, starting linebacker Ben Humphreys left the contest in the third quarter, exposing a hobbled Blue Devil defense to a strong stable of Tiger running backs that managed 208 yards on 36 carries. Cutcliffe knows that his team needs to put forth a better effort than it did in the second half if it wants to reach the eight-win mark for the first time in three years when Duke hosts Wake Forest at Wallace Wade Stadium next Saturday afternoon. “We’ve got to heal our wounded, and we’ve got to play Wake Forest,” Cutcliffe said. “If we don’t play better than we played out there, then we won’t beat them.”

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Daniel Jones led Duke down the field twice in the first quarter, but could not find the end zone as the Blue Devils settled for two field goals.

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Issa Rayyan scored the only goal of Sunday night’s match on a rebound after Pacific’s goalkeeper had to make a save on a shot by Daniele Proch.

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and Jordan Schakel. Should the Blue Devils handle San Diego State, they will likely face Auburn. Following three mediocre seasons with Bruce Pearl at the helm, the Tigers surprisingly played their way into a No. 8 ranking last February before dropping six of their final 11 games. Despite the departure of leading scorer Mustapha Heron, Auburn is one of the deeper teams in the country, and three members of its starting five averaged 20 or more minutes for the Tigers last year. One of the only teams with more returning talent than Auburn is Gonzaga, which Duke may play in the championship game of the Maui Invitational. Head coach Mark Few’s crew features the likes of Rui Hachimura, Zach Norvell Jr. and Josh Perkins, all contributors from a season ago. Due to an ankle injury, the Bulldogs will be without Killian Tillie, their leader in box plus/minus last year, and perhaps the most talented big man the Blue Devils would see in non-conference play. Although the intensity of an early season tournament simulates that of postseason play, it is not necessarily a true indicator of a team’s full abilities. “You learn but, because you’re playing three straight days, that’s never going to happen [again] during the season.” Krzyzewski said. “So success or failure there, has to be looked at a little bit closer, because its not done [other than the ACC tournament].” Rounding out the field for the Maui Invitational are Xavier, Arizona, Illinois, and Iowa State. Duke will take on San Diego State at 5:00 p.m. Monday afternoon.

front. They have three or four really good attacking players and they have a very good attacking mindset.” Georgetown tallied two more goals, one in the 72nd minute and one in the 78th, both from junior Paula Germino-Watnick. The Blue Devils will return the majority of their roster next season, including three of their top five scorers. “We have to work hard going forward, there’s no question about it, but we do have the pieces there,” Church said. “We want to be one of the elite programs in the ACC.... We’ll look forward to the challenge. And we’ll be back. We’ll be back in these scenarios. We just have to make the outcome a little bit different next time.”

W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 7 home and made important contributions. Freshman Rayah Craig was a perfect 3-for3 in the first half and had eight points while Goodchild reached double digits, totaling 10 points. Suggs registered an impressive performance on both sides of the floor, finishing with 12 points and three steals. Duke extended its lead in the second half, outscoring the Phoenix 20-14 in the third quarter to enter the final frame up 68-53. Although they struggled from deep in the second half, shooting 1-for-7 and making just six total shots in the fourth quarter, the Blue Devils maintained their poise and used strong defensive play to close out the game.

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Senior Chelsea Burns dislocated her elbow and had to leave Sunday’s match in the first half, finishing her career as part of the winningest class in program history.

“I am really proud of the team’s growth. open the season. “We keep doing rebounding drills. They I thought we grew throughout the game, have got to get tired of rebounding drills in particularly in the second half,” McCallie practice because we can rebound. Leaonna, said. “In the second half, the whole defense Jade and Haley, those three right there, can changed in terms of intensity, reading passing get double figure rebounds in every single angles and making it much more difficult for game,” McCallie said. “We can rebound. We them to run their sets. We did not really play have to do it. You got to do it.” defense in the first half, we were just trading The Blue Devils will return to the floor baskets and not really dictating. To be a for three games next weekend at the Gulf special team, you better learn how to dictate Coast Classic in Estero, Fla., beginning on the floor and make things happen they with a matchup against Washington way we want them to happen.” Friday afternoon. Mercer led the Phoenix with 19 “We have a great opportunity now with points, and Duke limited Elon’s leading the tournament coming up and three games scorer Emily Maupin to 16 points. Using in a row,” McCallie said. “I know players do intense pressure at times, Duke forced 19 not like to practice. I know players like to turnovers and outrebounded Elon by 11— The New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation play. It will be three games in a row and a an important point of focus for the team 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 great opportunity to take another step.” after poor rebounding performances to For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 For ForRelease ReleaseThursday, Monday, November November19, 15,2018 2018

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hanksgiving. A time for gathering around the dinner table with family and desperately avoiding eye contact with your uncle as he tries to start a conversation about political correctness. A time for retelling historically inaccurate and heavily sanitized versions of colonialism that conveniently skirt around all that genocide stuff. And, most importantly, a time to give thanks. This year, Editorial Board wants to take a moment to reflect on all the things we are grateful for at our university. Where would we be without dear old Duke? From the out-of-touch, obscenely wealthy anonymous suits who oversee university finances—who recently came to the realization that some people don’t consider $3,000 pocket change—to the vague, unhelpful email notices after racist incidents on campus: this university has given us all so much. And all it has asked for in return are your parents’ life savings, rigid compliance to a crippling 40-year student loan repayment plan and your first born child. We should all take time to give thanks to

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the many aspects of Duke that have defined and shaped our short time here as Blue Devils. We are in debt—financially and metaphorically— to these hallowed grounds for our neocolonial DukeEngage programs that have taught many of us that we too can live out the White Man’s

Editorial Board Burden. Our institution never fails to offer us new and exciting opportunities to attend high profile speaking events on campus. Students have an enormous swath of Bush-era war criminals and soulless, predatory finance bigwigs at their disposal to learn from. Furthermore, Duke’s extensively diverse liberal arts education dedicated to “Knowledge in the Service in Society,” creates the perfect environment for future consultants and State Department war hawks to grow and learn. Of course, we can’t leave out the widespread prescription drug abuse, binge drinking and agonizing self-importance that makes our peers

so special to us. If college truly will be the best years of our lives, it will be in part because of the accomplished, remarkable classmates and friends we’ve met here. The guy in your public policy class who bravely takes every opportunity to play “devil’s advocate” and champions contrarian opinions that definitely are not his actual beliefs. Your hookup you ghosted who now, for some reason, you see everywhere so you have to take the long way to class some days to avoid them. The girl you talked to in the bathroom at Shooters once who told you that you were beautiful as she vomited into the sink. These people are the future leaders, innovators and scandal-prone politicians of the future and this should deeply concern you. So, as we all head home for Thanksgiving dinner or off campus for Friendsgiving festivities, take time to mull over all the things that make Duke what it is: the good, the bad and the ethically dubious grey areas that will haunt us for years. In case you couldn’t tell, this editorial was a joke! Happy Thanksgiving from Editorial Board!

It’s time to support the light rail

ince 2009, I have commuted to work down 15-501 and Erwin Road on a GoTriangle bus. Though I advocate for public transit and its social justice and environmental benefits, my ride to work has been far from a sacrifice. In fact, it has been quite liberating. Door-to-door, it’s actually quicker than driving because I need not troll for a difficult to find parking space. I also save about $250 a month in carrelated expenses. Taking transit to work gives me time I wouldn’t otherwise have, time I can devote to work

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or just devote to lowering my blood pressure; traffic congestion looks much better from the bus than from the driver’s seat of my car. I have seen our transit capacity grow with the passage of the transit tax in Durham and Orange Counties. Thousands of hours of new bus service have been added. Many at Duke are catching on. Duke GoPasses are used for 400,000 trips per year. Yet, our roads are reaching capacity. Adding lanes to 15-501 just seems to invite more traffic that also snarls buses; travel times now exceed what they were before widening. Erwin Road is a choke point for patients and employees trying to reach the hospitals and clinics, only to then start the search for parking. We cannot hope to pave our way out of our growing congestion.

The Durham-Orange light rail project is the centerpiece of a regional transit network that will include expanded bus service, bus rapid transit, commuter rail, and intercity rail. The Durham-Orange light rail will serve the most travel-heavy corridor in the Triangle while linking three of the top ten employers in the state. It will connect 100,000 jobs, 55,000 university students, three major medical centers, and two rapidly growing urban areas. Light rail transit focuses land use with environmentally friendly economic development and creates access to jobs for those households with more workers than cars. The Durham-Orange light rail and the Transit Plan will also greatly benefit Duke Medical Center by expanding access for both employees and patients. It will help Duke continue to recruit top notch faculty and staff. Efficient transit also saves Duke the cost of building even more parking at around $30,000 per above ground spot, allowing land around campus to be put to better use. Granted, there are concerns that need to be addressed such as interference with emergency vehicles. Yet, there are also solutions; GoTriangle has proposed elevating the tracks in front of Duke Hospital, absorbing the $90 million in extra costs to ensure access to the Emergency Room. The Duke community faces an important decision. Are we going to fully support this transit plan and light rail corridor or let traffic congestion hinder a future of medical excellence? It is time to step up. Let’s not bury our heads in the asphalt. Thomas Farmer is a Duke alum, Trinity ’85, School of Medicine ‘90.

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Whose America?

onald Trump’s recent proposal to end birthright citizenship was met with outrage and rejection from the left and right alike. Yet while such a wildly unconstitutional act would likely never be possible, there is clearly support for such a sentiment to reach the mainstream. As the child of immigrants and a ‘beneficiary’ of birthright citizenship myself, I find it important to explore the history of birthright citizenship, to explain exactly what an attack on it means. For much of American history, denial of citizenship has been a means to send a bigger message about who deserves to be American. And for much of history, the notion of citizenship as a proxy of American personhood been inseparable from whiteness. Before the Civil War, the issue of citizenship was largely seen as the jurisdiction of states, leaving the case of freed slaves to be a point of ambiguity between slave states and free states. Yet with the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision of 1857, a clear line was drawn. It declared that African Americans, as “beings of an inferior order,” were not and could never be citizens of the United States. And thus, citizenship was used to formally declare that ‘we the people’ would never include Black Americans. After the Civil War, the 14th Amendment reversed Dred Scott and granted citizenship to African Americans, declaring that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” Birthright citizenship was won by freed slaves, “a radical act that disentangled citizenship from whiteness, and extended legal rights to black people—and later, other people of color—by making citizens out of noncitizens and their children.” However, in the late 1800s, denial of citizenship was again used to defend a vision of a white America. Based on white supremacist fears that immigrants were threatening racial purity, the Chinese Exclusion Act barred an entire racial group from immigrating and becoming citizens. In this era of Chinese Exclusion, Wong Kim Ark, a Chinese-American man born in San Francisco to parents who were barred from naturalizing, was denied re-entry to the U.S. on the grounds that he was not a citizen. He sued in the historic United States v. Wong Kim Ark and won, establishing

the precedent that all children born in the U.S., regardless of their parents’ nationality, are citizens by guarantee of the 14th Amendment. Birthright citizenship rejected the white supremacist notion that certain groups of people fundamentally do not deserve to be American. It’s no wonder that it was met with such bitter opposition in 1868 and 1898: it created a radical promise of equal personhood under the law. And it is telling that this promise is today being called “ridiculous” by the President. Today’s debate isn’t only about the details of immigration policy. Today’s attack on birthright citizenship is

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fundamentally a statement about who deserves to be in this country. It targets immigrants with the most dehumanizing language possible, painting a picture where they are not only undeserving, but a threat to American identity. They exploit ‘chain migration’ using ‘anchor babies.’ They come from ‘s**thole countries,’ in migrant caravans where “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed.” They are a burden on society, and should be treated as such. Put in context, this morally bankrupt attack on birthright citizenship follows a rich history of policies defending a white nationalist vision of America: Non-white immigrants are a threat to racial purity. Just look at our own history and you can find the same substance under a different name. Today’s family separation policy, Muslim ban, immigrant internment camps. Yesterday’s Native American family separation, Chinese Exclusion, Japanese Internment. This strategy of divide and conquer, categorize and marginalize, has always relied on the claim that hyphenatedAmericans, Muslims, Jews, immigrants, and refugees are not real Americans. That they are at best conditionally accepted

at the margins, and at worst an undeserving ’other’ to be repudiated and stamped out. Yet as long as long as there have been policies that uphold white supremacy, there have also been the struggles of those at the margins to demand their legal personhood, citizenship and place among ‘we the people.’ Even after the Supreme Court denied them citizenship in Dred Scott, African Americans never deferred to it. They continued to pursue it, asserting their citizenship through practice until it was written into law by the 14th Amendment. And when Chinese-Americans were denied citizenship, individuals like Wong Kim Ark resisted and challenged in the courts. Undocumented Americans today continue this struggle. To those historically denied citizenship, America never was America to them. Yet like Dred Scott and Wong Kim Ark, marginalized Americans have continually struggled for that dream of the America that could be, and should be. The President cannot erase the existence of Americans by denying them citizenship. He cannot erase the existence of transgender people with an executive order. And he cannot erase immigrants and their children with an executive order. I am a child of immigrants. Because I was born in the United States to immigrants, the Congress of 1898 might have called me an ‘accidental citizen,’ and the President today just might call me an ‘anchor baby.’ But in a way, the President is right. We, the children of immigrants, do anchor ourselves and our families, in places that simultaneously embrace us and deny us. My mother, whose family has been sent country to country by World War II and multiple revolutions, has always told me, “It’s not where your parents are from. It’s the place that gives you air to breathe and room to grow, that’s where you call home.” So we plant ourselves in American soil, breathe the air, and we grow. And we flourish. And because we are American, we are here to stay. In answering, “Whose America?” We say, “our America.” Lance Tran is a Trinity senior. His column usually runs on alternate Tuesdays.

Senior slump

he “last” of anything has a certain romantic quality to it. Coming into my last year at Duke, I was determined to make it the symbolic, “outwith-a-bang” ending that senior year of college seems to deserve. I had been briefed by friends who already graduated: “Live it up! Say yes to everything! Take cool classes!

Ethan Ahuna COLUMNIST Go see guest speakers! Explore Durham! Focus on good vibes!” It was advice I was intent on taking. But there’s this weird, almost imperceptible funk about senior year that no one told me about. Maybe it isn’t universal, but it’s something that weighs on me and something my friends feel to varying degrees. The looming end of college—the bursting of our Duke bubble—poses a lot of questions that have no immediate answers. There is something terrifying about stepping out from under the umbrella of an institution like Duke. Like most of us, I have been in school since I was five years old. School has always taken up the majority of my time, provided me the majority of my friends, and served as a gauge for my personal success. For as long as I can remember, the next step to “success” was another round of school: middle school, then high school, then college. After graduation, all bets are off and the ways in which any one of us could find “success” are endless. This should be reassuring, but

somehow this newfound sense of choice becomes more paralyzing than freeing. As life beyond Duke creeps nearer, I can’t help but look back at my time at Duke and over-analyze all of the choices I made. As I ask myself if I did college “right” and watch my friends do this same, it seems wrong that, although we have all made it through a rigorous curriculum at one of the most prestigious universities in the country, we are grappling with our sense of worth. Friends of mine who have offers already lined up worry if they are making the right choice, as if their entire future will be determined by the first job they take out of college. Friends who have yet to set their plans are cranking out cover letters and personal statements, perusing job sites, and attending information

sessions with a slight desperation. They wonder if they are qualified for any job, if there is anything about them that stands out, and if anyone will hire them. The Duke culture—which we ourselves have created— does a great job overshadowing success with the reinforced notion that as great as you might be, there are many others who are just as good, if not better. And then there is the question of relationships. There is an unspoken tension that comes with the acknowledgement that friends who live across campus will soon be living across the country. The beauty of a residential college experience like Duke’s is that everyone and everything is within a short bus ride and a 10-minute walk. The downside is that friendships can succeed

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largely based on convenience. Without such convenience, it can be difficult to maintain fruitful relationships. I constantly question if I should be taking advantage of the breadth of interesting and inspiring people around me or if I should focus my time on the deep relationships I know I will carry past graduation. We are starting to decide if we made the most of Duke, and chances are that in our cost-benefit analysis of whether Duke was “worth it,” we are too focused on the big outcomes: the elusive job, the life-changing abroad experience, the lifelong cohort of friends. What we forget are the little things: the classes that have changed the way we think, the conversations that have shown us perspective and taught us empathy, the incredible growth that we are bound to experience after spending so much time in such an enriching environment. By pushing and elbowing our way through rigorous and challenging coursework, we have taught ourselves the resiliency that will let us bounce back from future failures. By juggling classes, extracurriculars and relationships, we have taught ourselves how to adapt, prioritize and act with intention. In our uncertainty over the future, we have forgotten to give ourselves credit for all we’ve achieved. The questions of life after Duke won’t go away for a while, and when they do, new questions we arise. But maybe we can find a way to keep such questions from overwhelming the final stretch of our college experience. Maybe for once, we Duke students can survive without all the answers. Ethan Ahuna is a Trinity senior. His column usually runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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RHODES FROM PAGE 1

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students whose career interests are related to Native American nations or the environment. “Climate change and clean energy are my biggest passions,” she said after winning the Truman in April. “Advocacy on any issue is important to me as a principle—each of us has the potential and, I would argue, the responsibility to create positive change. I’ve been lucky to work with so many students at Duke dedicated to making progress, and I’m excited to see how students continue to push for a better future both on campus and beyond.”

“Beyond university service, I’m really active in research on campus,” Kadakia told The Chronicle when he won the Truman scholarship. “I work in the department of radiation oncology in the Kirsch Lab in the School of Medicine. I’ve also done significant amounts of healthcare policy research working at the Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy, as well as through Bass Connections. I’ve done two separate Bass Connections, first on access to medicine and the second on North Carolina Medicaid.” Ariel Kantor Kadakia has also served on the Board Kantor is a Program II major, focusing of Trustees for three years, and is currently on bioengineering, policy and the business serving on the undergraduate education of biotechnology, according to a draft of committee. his Rhodes scholarship press release. At Duke, he has worked in the lab Claire Wang of Susanne Haga, associate professor of Wang is the president of Duke’s Climate medicine, where the senior’s work has Coalition and is pursuing the Bachelor of Arts produced four publications as well as one track in environmental science and policy, first authorship. along with minors in economics and Asian and “I cannot articulate how honored Middle Eastern studies. and humbled to have been selected as a “I’m over the moon,” she wrote to The Rhodes Scholar,” he said in the release. Chronicle in a message. “I can’t wait to start on “I am so thankful for my family, friends, this new journey!” mentors, advisers and everyone who made She has been involved with multiple this possible.” student campaigns around energy and the Hoping to pursue a career in gene environment while at Duke, such as Duke engineering and translational medicine, Seize the Grid and Duke Renewable Energy Kantor has also worked with genome Action. editing using CRISPR in the lab of Charles Additionally, the A.B. Duke Scholar Gersbach—Rooney Family associate has served on the Campus Sustainability professor of biomedical engineering—and Committee for multiple years. tutors students at the Emily Krzyzewski Aside from winning the Truman Center. scholarship in April, Wang was also Kantor is also affiliated with the Duke awarded the Morris K. and Stewart L. Human Rights Center, where the senior’s Udall undergraduate scholarship that work has been influenced by his family’s same week. emigration history in Israel and Eastern The Udall Scholarship focuses on Europe.

STUDENTS FROM PAGE 1 not to vote because he thinks it is immoral. Casting a ballot, he said, would implicate him in the government’s wrongdoings, including police brutality, violence abroad and paternalistic laws that criminalize recreational drug use. “I think that people shouldn’t vote because by voting, you’re being complicit in harms that are committed by the government,” he said. “And there’s a duty that individuals have not to be complicit in harms when that’s an option to them.” Victoria Sorhegui, a sophomore who cast her absentee ballot in Florida, said that she voted in the midterms because it’s important for everyone to be heard. She also encouraged

The Chronicle her friends to vote and helped them navigate the absentee ballot process if they were voting out-of-state. “I wanted to vote because we always have those elections where it’s down to 1,000 votes, 10,000 votes, so I actually feel like my vote really counts in these elections,” she said. Since voting is a necessary part of the United States’ democracy, elections serve as a reminder of the fact that people have a say in how they are governed, Vanberg said. “When we get to vote, it gives us a personal experience of the fact that we live in a political system in which our political leaders are chosen by citizens and are accountable to citizens,” Vanberg said. “They may not be accountable to you or me individually because we are not pivotal, but that does not change the fact that they are accountable to citizens as a group.”

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