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Duke after dark: Vignettes of McDonald’s on a Saturday night By Shayal Vashisth Contributing Reporter

During the day, the Bryan Center McDonald’s is frequented by upperclassmen too rushed to wait for Il Forno or first-years too low on food points to eat at the Skillet. But what happens after hours? I committed myself to finding out. 10:15 p.m. Fifteen minutes later than scheduled (there were puppies outside Kilgo and puppies are my weakness), I find myself situated in a corner booth facing a very empty McDonald’s. This time on a Saturday night, it’s too early for a Shooters crowd and too late for the lucky few who sleep a full eight hours—no one is waiting for nuggets yet. Thirty minutes later, one student extols the healing powers of nuggets. “This has made me forget about the pain in my thumb,” he tells his friend, eating a single nugget out of a box of 20 before leaving. 11 p.m. No sign of life. It is me, my laptop and a bottle of cold brew. A quarter till midnight, a couple settles in at the booth across from me, fries and burgers in hand. “We’re just coming from a Shooters pregame,” she said. “We’ve got a lot of work, so we only did the pregame and are going to get some homework done now.” See MCDONALD’S on Page 4

Ian Jaffe | Photography Editor Many students who come by the McDonald’s in the Bryan Center late at night said they are seeking chicken nuggets.

HEALTH AND SCIENCE

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Duke launches center to promote health equity Duke routs Bowie State despite 3 suspensions By Kathryn Silberstein Staff Reporter

Aiming to make the health care industry more equitable, Duke has launched the Center for REsearch to AdvanCe Healthcare Equity, also known as REACH Equity. The center is funded by one of 12 grants awarded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities—a subunit of the National Institutes of Health. It will focus on multidisciplinary approaches to improve health care for members of minority groups and eliminate disparities in the delivery of care. “I’m most excited about the opportunity to conduct research which will have a real world impact on our ability to reduce and eliminate racial and ethnic disparities and have an evidence base that promotes health equity,” said Mary Klotman, dean of the School of Medicine. REACH Equity’s primary goals center around developing and testing methods

to reduce ethnic disparities in health by improving the quality of patient-centered care in the clinic. Leigh Ann Simmons, associate professor in the School of Nursing, will serve as a member of the Research Education and Training Subcore of the center. This division will analyze patient visits to ensure that every component of a patient’s life is being addressed in providing effective care.

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“One of the primary goals of the Research Education and Training Subcore is to educate and train students, from undergraduate students all the way

to post-graduate doctors to be health disparities researchers and to integrate health disparities research with emphasis on promoting equity in clinical care,” Simmons said. She added that the subcore will also seek to improve communication with patients and ensure that health care providers at every step and level are engaging in shared decision-making. To meet all of its aims, REACH Equity will open up an annual research colloquium, opportunities for mentored research for medical and nursing students and post-docs and a pilot funding program for early stage investigators, among other programs. Kimberly Johnson, associate professor of medicine and leader of REACH Equity, also emphasized the center’s role in providing research opportunities for undergraduates through early stage faculty. “We want to create a pipeline of people working in this area to grow an evidence

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If there were any questions about who will run the Blue Devils’ offense without Trevon Duval on the floor, Grayson Allen answered them emphatically Saturday afternoon. Although Duke was playing without Duval, Alex O’Connell and Jordan Goldwire, it trounced Bowie State 116-53 53 in its final exhibition BSU DUKE 116 contest. With the trio of freshmen guards suspended for academic reasons, the Blue Devils had three big men on the floor at almost all times and dominated the interior. Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said after the game the freshmen See M. BASKETBALL on Page 7 @thedukechronicle | © 2017 The Chronicle

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Red and yellow trees line the Bryan Center circle. Colorful leaves frame the Duke Chapel on a chilly fall day.

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Bright red leaves transform the landscape with dots of color.

Undergraduates enjoy the fall scenery on the way to their classes or to meet their friends.

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Band director Jim Henry remembered for service to University By Bill McCarthy

1960 to take over the marching band, and in 1962 he started the Duke Pep Band—the first modern-style basketball pep band east of the James “Jim” Donald Henry, the director of Mississippi River. Duke Athletic Bands from 1960 to 1985 and Today, the Duke Pep Band remains a the founder of the Duke Pep Band, died Oct. prominent part of the Duke basketball 20. He was 84 years old. experience. Jeffrey Au, director of Duke Known as “Coach Henry” to his students Athletic Bands, said Henry’s legacy lives on and colleagues, Henry was a faculty member in the band’s current form. It was Henry, for until 1998. In addition to his role with example, who first arranged the pep band’s Duke Athletic Bands, he taught woodwind rendition of “Devil With the Blue Dress On,” classes and directed Hoof ‘n’ Horn—the which plays when the men’s basketball team theatrical organization that produces three takes the court before each game. shows per year. He was also the director of “He was all about making the band a undergraduate studies and assistant chair of great experience for the students,” Au said. the music department for 13 years. “Whenever I talk with any of his students, they “Jim was a legend at Duke,” wrote Michael say how much they loved him and what an Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs important person he was to them.” and government relations, in an email. Read Rankin, Trinity ’72 and a member of “He made the Duke the board of directors for marching and pep bands the Duke Alumni Band the fixtures of campus Jim was a legend at Association, said Henry life they are today. We Duke. He made the Duke has sometimes been extend our deepest credited with making the marching and pep bands sympathies to his family Cameron Crazies what and generations of Duke the fixtures of campus life they are today. students who called him they are today. “To me, Jim isn’t a mentor.” really dead because Colleagues family, MICHAEL SCHOENFELD his spirit is alive and friends and former VICE PRESIDENT FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS well in the Cameron AND GOVERNMENT RELATIONS Crazies and in the students remembered Henry for his service to pep band and in the the University, his commitment to campus marching band,” Rankin said. “He was the athletics culture and his cordial, generous founder of the pep band, but he was the and mischievous spirit. father of the Crazies.” A native of Kingsport, Tenn., Henry Rankin explained that though nobody attended Western Kentucky University and had ever decided who was the father of the served as an instructor in the U.S. Army for Cameron Crazies, he believed it was Henry two years before earning his masters in music because “it was the pep band that taught the from Indiana University. He was hired in Crazies to be the Crazies before they were ever Staff Reporter

Courtesy of Duke Photography Jim Henry taught woodwind classes and directed Hoof ‘n’ Horn. He was also the director of undergraduate studies and assistant chair of the music department for 13 years.

the Crazies.” “Who else had the spirit and the position and the continuity and the money and the power and the mischievous personality to create the Crazies and support it with the pep band, if not Jim Henry? I think he’s the only one you can point to,” Rankin said. Terri Mascherin, Trinity ’81 and a member of Duke Athletic Bands for four years, echoed Rankin’s sentiment. “I think that the esprit de corps that you see in the band now, which particularly comes through when you’re in Cameron—I think Coach Henry fostered that,” she said. Henry’s legacy extends beyond the Duke Athletic Bands, as well. His “Master Works of

Music” class drew several students to the music major, said Robert Parkins, the chapel organist and a professor of the practice of music who came to Duke in 1975. “That was pretty much the bread-andbutter course in the music department in those days,” Parkins said. “I would say that about half of the enrollments in the department were from those classes.” Rodney Wynkoop, director of chapel music and a friend of Henry’s since 1984, said Henry was also a “down-to-earth” resource for others in the music department. “He was the kind of person that you

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MCDONALD’S FROM PAGE 1 I ask if this is their pre-homework snack. “Yeah, straight to the library after this,” he said. Perkins closes in ten minutes. I wish them luck. Midnight A few minutes past midnight after getting evicted from Perkins, sophomores Lucy Dong, Nick Simmons—who is a member of The Chronicle’s Editorial Board—and Maggie Wang sit down with some fries and a McFlurry to celebrate their friend Hal Lin’s birthday. “We collectively decided McDonald’s when [Simmons] got hungry and offered either Pitchforks or McDonald’s,” Dong said. Though McDonald’s would not otherwise be a first choice for any of them, all agree that for a late night, cheap and fast is a priority.

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“The later it is, the less effort you put into maintaining your life,” Lin, a sophomore, said. “McDonald’s is about as unhealthy it gets—and closer to Kilgo.” Senior Jesse Pollack and his first-years from preorientation program Project Search, including Brian Glucksman, huddle around a table, seeking a post-movie snack. After a late showing of “Thor: Ragnarok,” Pollack and his first-years said they impulsively caught a C1 over to West Campus. Pollack bashfully admits he isn’t funding the first-years. “I need to conserve my own food points, you know?” he said. “They have plenty of food points.” Glucksman disagreed, “I’m actually out of food points already.” 1 a.m. By this point, even the menu displays have given up, their screens gone black with no explanation. While waiting for my small Dr. Pepper, I count nine security cameras at McDonald’s—three right over the ice cream machine. I can’t help but wonder why McDonald’s has more security than any of the dorms. In the last hour, a smattering of people have shown up, more than a few walking away with ice cream cones. I’ve made very little progress in my readings for Monday. There are far fewer inebriated students than I was expecting. I suspect they have taken their food points to Pitchforks, where they can get something a little more substantial, especially since this McDonald’s is out of the buttermilk chicken tenders. 1 a.m. (again) There’s a moment of disorientation as I watch the time tick from 1:59 a.m. back to 1 a.m. It takes a few moments before I realize daylight saving time ended tonight. I rest assured that I have not completely lost my mind. The McDonald’s menu displays are back. Finally, I meet my first pair of post-Shooters students, one in a leather jacket and one in a dress. Rather inebriated, leather-jacket plops down next to me while her roommate goes to get food—including leather-jacket’s order of “ten nuggets with sweet and sour and buffalo and ranch.” They tell me they tried to go an after-party in Chapel Hill, but could not get in and ended up at Shooters instead. “I’m pretty drunk,” leather-jacket says needlessly, setting her

sleeve down in the ranch sauce. 2 a.m. I spy a few more people, likely post-Shooters, falling asleep while standing in line. Unclear whether they realize that they need to order to get their food. Another pair sits down near me, saying they left Shooters a little early. “We’re actually going to Pitchforks after this,” she laughs. “But I couldn’t resist the nuggets.” The words in my textbook are slowly blurring out of focus, so I get up to stretch my legs and speak to Ashley Rorie, who has been a housekeeping specialist with facilities in the BC since August. She tells me that even though tonight has been fairly calm, nights of basketball rivalry games can get rowdy. “If it’s a game night, then they always crazy,” she said. “Once there was someone in the restroom intoxicated on the floor asleep on a night they lost the game. Security had to come. But it’s never aggressive, it’s calm. They just want something to eat.” Scrolling through her phone, sophomore Michelle Wong munches on a sandwich. She tells me she has spent her night studying and is now waiting for a friend, fulfilling their tradition of late-night McDonald’s. She is the first person I’ve seen not eating nuggets, and she attributes it to a Round Table event. “We had an event at the beginning of the year where we ordered 250 nuggets for our entire rush class to eat,” she said. “I’m kind of sick of nuggets now. It was a very traumatic experience.” Wong’s friend arrives, reluctant to divulge how he made it from 300 Swift to the Bryan Center so quickly—especially since he lost his right contact lens. 3 a.m. Six hours later, I shuffle through the papers I meant to read, shoving them into my backpack. The seats around me are still empty, and a lone student waits for her food at McDonald’s. ESPN rumbles from the TV, interrupted by occasional beeps from behind the McDonald’s counter. The white noise is almost soothing. If there’s one thing I’ve learned tonight, it’s that our very diverse student body is united by one thing: after midnight, Pitchforks is too far and fresh nuggets cure all ills.

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IN THE ZONE

Duke’s 2-3 defense with 3 big men on the baseline shuts down Bowie State in the paint By Hank Tucker Sports Editor

Duke’s backcourt depth was much thinner than that of its frontcourt entering the year, even before three guards were suspended for missing class, so most of its weapons in Saturday’s exhibition were not used to defending on the wing. The Blue Devils’ answer? Go to a 2-3 zone early and often, maximizing their strengths with three big men usually roaming the floor at once. With an entire trio on the baseline far bigger than any player on Bowie State’s roster, most of the Bulldogs’ attempts to challenge the zone and attack the basket were futile, and Duke finished the afternoon with 10 blocks. “When you have a lineup in where Javin [DeLaurier] is at the 3 and your back line is 6-foot-10 and above, they can probably touch arms and cover the whole baseline,” senior guard Grayson Allen said. “It’s a really big zone, so we can get really wide with it.” The Blue Devils’ starting group—with fivestar point guard Trevon Duval suspended—was Allen, Gary Trent Jr., DeLaurier, Wendell Carter Jr. and Marvin Bagley III. Their average height is 6-foot-8 with wingspans even longer, and the first man off the bench was 6-foot-11 Marques Bolden, who played 19 minutes. Head coach Mike Krzyzewski said the sheer size and mobility of Duke’s lineups

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Javin DeLaurier, Wendell Carter Jr. and Marvin Bagley III were all taller than every player on Bowie State’s roster, making it hard for the Bulldogs to score in the paint. make this zone unlike any he has coached before, including the 2014-15 Blue Devils’ zone which helped them out of a slump in the middle of the season en route to the national championship. “It’s different because it’s so wide,” Krzyzewski said. “It gives us an opportunity

to play three bigs, because Marvin can be at the perimeter, and Wendell’s a really good basketball player. He’s a really good basketball player who happens to be big.” With Bowie State shut out of the paint, it resorted to firing away from long distance, taking 32 of its 66 field-goal attempts from

beyond the arc. The Bulldogs made just seven of them and shot 27.3 percent from the field on the day. “It’s crazy because of our length and our mobility,” Bolden said. “We don’t have any guys that are so stagnant. We have guys that can move and guard different positions.” The big men on the baseline were not the only dangerous pieces of the zone—Allen and Trent were also active up top, hounding Bowie State’s guards into frustrating performances. They were active in the passing lanes throughout the game, getting a few deflections when the Bulldogs tried to make post entry passes and combining for three steals. Although Bowie State only had 12 turnovers, a relatively low number for a team with inferior talent and size, Duke stayed disciplined in its zone and made it difficult for the Bulldogs to start their offense. “The thing about playing zone D is when you’re coming up in high school, you hear zone, you’re like, ‘Okay, I get to relax a little bit and not move as much,’” Allen said. “But really in the zone, you’ve got to be more active, and that’s what we’re trying to do.” Krzyzewski suggested he would not use the zone as much in the regular season against teams the Blue Devils are more evenly matched with, and he added that See ZONE on Page 9

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Duke loses for first time since August in ACC title By Meredith Cash Staff Reporter

CHARLESTON, S.C.—Losing to your archrival stings. Losing a 19-game winning streak to that archrival stings worse. Losing in your first trip to the ACC tournament finals since 2000 stings most of all. The Blue Devils did all three in one afternoon. Top-seeded Duke fell 1-0 to the No. 2 seed Tar Heels in pursuit of its first ACC championship in program history Sunday afternoon at MUSC Health Stadium. North Carolina forward Zoe Redei found the back of the net just 47 seconds into the second half to 1 score the lone goal of UNC 0 the contest. Goalkeeper DUKE EJ Proctor—who was selected to the All-Tournament team along with teammates Schuyler DeBree, Kayla McCoy and Ella Stevens—made four saves in the Blue Devils’ first loss since the last time they faced the Tar Heels Aug. 18—a 2-1 overtime defeat. “This is heartbreaking, there’s no question,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “Every player out there, every coach, every staff member—we’re all heartbroken to go this long in the ACC tournament and come up short.” After dominating the first half on the offensive end, North Carolina (14-3-2) finally broke through in the 46th minute. Tar Heel freshman Alessia Russo—who scored the lone goal in North Carolina’s semifinal victory against N.C. State and was tabbed as the ACC Championship Most Valuable Player—took a shot from the left corner of the 18-yard box, but it was deflected before it reached the net.

Redei cleaned up the 50-50 ball before dribbling through the congestion in the box. The sophomore sent a hard shot top-shelf and out of Proctor’s reach. “EJ had no chance at it,” Church said. “She was phenomenal all tournament. She kept us in it until halftime, which she did on Friday night too.” Duke (19-2-0) turned up the intensity in its attacking third from there, desperately trying to level the score with time winding down. The Blue Devils began stringing together some passing sequences and making long runs down the flanks, but they struggled to put any promising shots. Duke didn’t have an opportunity in front of the net until Imani Dorsey’s chance 10 minutes after the Tar Heels’ goal. The Elkridge, Md., native made a long run up the center of the field, bypassing multiple North Carolina defenders en route to the goal. Dorsey wound up and let a shot rip from 15 yards outside of the box, but it sailed north of the crossbar. “I never thought we were going to lose the game,” Church said. “I thought we were going to get the tying goal. I thought we were going to push it into overtime.” Senior and ACC Defensive Player of the Year Schuyler DeBree also lined up for two free kicks from just in front of midfield, a similar position to when she scored a SportsCenter top-10 goal to beat Boston College Oct. 19. But the Fair Haven, N.J., native lofted the ball into the 18-yard box for her teammates both times, and neither try resulted in a shot on goal. The Blue Devils made a number of pushes in the final 10 minutes of play, the most promising of which once again came from Dorsey. Junior striker Kayla McCoy played a ball just inside the

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ACC Offensive Player of the Year Imani Dorsey had a few goal-scoring opportunities Sunday, but could not put any into the back of the net. 18-yard box, where the ACC Offensive Player of the Year sent a bullet just above the crossbar. Freshman Karlie Paschall took a last-minute shot from deeper into the 18-yard box, but North Carolina goalkeeper Samantha Leshnak did not need to move much to make the save, shutting Duke out for the first time this season. “Well deserved for North Carolina—they were the better team from minute one all the way through,” Church said. “We had our moments, but we didn’t step up on the stage, and it was a big moment.”

The Tar Heels came out hot in the opening half, notching two shots in the opening five minutes. In the fourth minute, North Carolina defender Julia Ashley got a head on a long ball sent into the 18-yard box. Proctor deflected the shot off the goalpost to log her first save of the afternoon. The early onslaught was indicative of much of the opening half for the Blue Devils, which struggled to generate meaningful opportunities See W. SOCCER on Page 9

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Blue Devils trounce Seawolves in lone exhibition By Conner McLeod Contributing Reporter

Speed killed in Duke’s lone exhibition game, with the Blue Devils routing Alaska Anchorage and validating their high preseason ranking. Duke hosted the Seawolves at Cameron Indoor Stadium Sunday evening and won 8756 in a game that was never very competitive. Graduate student 56 Lexie Brown led the UAA 87 way with 27 points DUKE and kept the team

energized with multiple fast-break layups off steals by Rebecca Greenwell. Greenwell also provided a consistent scoring option for the Blue Devils with 20 points, going 5-of-9 from the 3-point line. “I appreciated Lexie’s leadership as well as [Greenwell’s] and [Leaonna Odom’s],” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “I thought all three of them stepped up and did some really nice things, but there is tons of room for improvement.” Brown was active on defense, earning two steals and a highlight-reel block in the fourth quarter. She not only sparked the team’s fast-

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Rebecca Greenwell had five steals in Duke’s pressure man-to-man defense and added 20 points to complement Lexie Brown on the offensive end.

M.BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 1 had been tardy and missed a few classes. In place of Duval at point guard, Allen had 11 assists and fed it into the post with ease, and the Blue Devils finished with 18 dunks. “With how these guys should be improving throughout the year, we shouldn’t hit a ceiling this year. We should just keep getting better,” Allen said. “It makes it easy when I can just throw it up there and let them go get it.” Although Krzyzewski said before the season he wanted Allen to hunt his own shot on offense, that changed with Duval and Goldwire both in sweats at the end of the bench, forcing the ball into the senior’s hands. With Allen playing in control, he could attack the basket and still have different options to make plays when he saw a big man cutting to the basket. “The first three years, he was knocked to the floor a lot, not necessarily because he was fouled, but he extended himself too much. He’s worked and we’ve worked to have better balance,” Krzyzewski said. “He can make more plays when he does so. That’s why he had 11 assists.” Duke broke the game open with a 19-0 run in the first half to seize a 28-3 lead and continued moving the ball well on offense, repeatedly finding openings inside for layups and dunks against a Bulldog team without a player taller than 6-foot-8. Allen and freshmen Gary Trent Jr., Wendell

Carter Jr. and Marvin Bagley III all had at least 21 points, with Carter in particular looking comfortable in the post with several putback dunks and short hooks over smaller opponents. He finished the day 11-of-13 from the field with 14 rebounds. “We don’t have as many shooters as Duke has had in the past, but we have phenomenal big men who, when people do shoot, are all over the offensive glass,” Carter said. “We’re going to go out there and play the way we’ve been playing—hustling, rebounding. We should be undefeated this year.” Sophomore center Marques Bolden was also effective coming off the bench, overpowering Bowie State for 13 points. But fellow big man Javin DeLaurier was relatively quiet despite earning the starting nod with Duval benched, scoring just two points in 14 minutes. Trent and Allen played well off each other in the backcourt, with Trent ready to knock down a triple whenever the veteran ballhandler kicked it out to him. Trent had an efficient 22 points on 13 field-goal attempts, knocking down five triples. “We had a lot of ball-handlers not there today, and we haven’t seen Gary in that role,” Krzyzewski said. “He was even more athletic and poised. He and Grayson did a great job.” Aside from Trent, the Blue Devils made just two triples, playing to their strengths and mismatches under the basket. Defensively, Duke slowed Bowie State down with a 2-3 zone for most of the first half that featured two guards at the top and three big men on the baseline. The

paced offense, but also helped hold Alaska Anchorage to just 33.3 percent shooting on the defensive side of the ball. “Defense is one of my favorite things to do,” Brown said. “With Kyra being out, I’ve had to pick up the defensive energy she brought to the team.... I just want everyone to feed off of my defensive energy. Being that leader on defense is something I am proud of and work very hard at.” Duke fans watched nervously as freshman Mikayla Boykin limped to the sideline in the middle of the second quarter and did not go back into the game. Boykin, the only true freshman in the starting lineup, has the potential to be a scoring force for the Blue Devils this season, and with junior Kyra Lambert still sidelined by an ACL injury, Duke hopes it did not lose another scoring option in Boykin for an extended period of time. Boykin finished with five points and three assists in 16 minutes and returned to the bench with ice around her knee in the second half. The Blue Devils opened the game with a wide open transition 3-pointer by Brown, a play that was an indicator of what was to come. Duke ended the night with 20 fastbreak points, as the Seawolves could not keep up with its tempo. The Blue Devil defense also came out in full force, beginning the game in a fullcourt man-to-man press that forced 10 Alaska Anchorage turnovers in the first quarter. The Blue Devils capitalized on these mistakes, earning seven steals and 14 points off turnovers in the first half. A mix of mental errors and lack of rebounding by

the Seawolves made it hard for them to score to start the game. Senior Erin Mathias contributed to Duke’s stellar defense by clogging the paint, limiting a smaller Alaska Anchorage team to outside jumpers. This neutralized the Seawolves’ leading scorer, senior Rodericka Ware, who shot just 2-of-10 and was scoreless after the first half. “Erin has been getting better and better,” McCallie said. “She’s finding her groove and understanding what she can do offensively and defensively.” Mathias’ 6-foot-4 frame contributed to what seemed to be the most significant difference between the two teams: height. Duke outrebounded the Seawolves 48-34, led by sophomore Leaonna Odom, who had eight boards. Duke’s offense looked nearly perfect against a weaker Alaska Anchorage defense, but the Blue Devils have things to tweak before heading into the regular season to play bigger and better teams. Taking care of the ball still seems to be a problem for Duke, which turned it over 22 times. Being more aggressive in a half-court setting is also something Duke can work on for its next game. “We didn’t attack as much as I would have liked today,” McCallie said. “I know they were pressing us, but I really have a lot of confidence in Lexie and Mikayla in particular to cut through and attack...but that’s just part of growing and learning together as a team.” The Blue Devils will travel to Phoenix next Sunday to face Grand Canyon at 5 p.m. to open up the regular season.

Bulldogs were limited to deep triples late in the shot clock time after time and took nearly half of their shots from beyond the arc, with little success. “A lot of times, offenses stand up when they attack the zone and don’t really like to drive or attack,” Allen said. “We have the ability to throw different defenses at teams with the length and athleticism that we have.” All 10 of Duke’s available scholarship players scored except freshman Jordan

Tucker, and the Blue Devils reached triple digits on the scoreboard with almost 10 minutes left before a sloppier finish. Duke will open the regular season Friday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium against Elon. “It’s going to be fun and you can’t be tired, mentally or physically,” Bolden said. “We’ve got two back-to-back games and then we’re going to be on the road traveling, but it’s what you signed up for, so really just enjoy all of it.”

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Marvin Bagley III led the Blue Devils with 25 points and threw down several of their 18 dunks against the undersized Bulldogs.

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With a conference containing seven nationally-ranked opponents, the Blue Devils knew the ACC tournament was going to be a battle. Unfortunately for Duke, even the tournament favorites can have missteps, with the Blue Devils falling just short in a marathon game. No. 2 seed Duke was upset by No. 3 seed Louisville 3-2 in a shootout Friday afternoon at Trager Stadium L’VILLE 3 in Louisville, Ky., in 2 the ACC tournament DUKE semifinals. Although the Blue Devils dominated offensively, outshooting the Cardinals 31-8, timely plays and a herculean effort from Louisville goalkeeper Ayeisha McFerran put Duke behind for much of the matchup. “Incredibly proud of the level and the quality of hockey we played today,” Blue Devil head coach Pam Bustin told GoDuke.com. “We kept changing up what we had to do and they did it, they did it well and they did it at an extremely high level. No matter what went through the interchange, we were strong and I was really proud of that. I was proud of the energy and the belief that they had from start to finish and the enjoyment that they played with today.” Despite nearly doubling the Cardinals’ offensive attempts leading into the second period, Duke (16-3) found itself behind going into the locker room. With just three minutes left in the first half, Louisville (14-6) grabbed the momentum. After a pair of shots from Blue

Devil senior Alexa Mackintire and junior Caroline Andretta, the Cardinals pushed for the counterattack into the heart of Duke territory. As both teams clashed around the penalty circle, Louisville notched a penalty corner—its first real opportunity to score all afternoon. Although goalkeeper Sammi Steele made back-to-back blocks to keep the Cardinals out, Louisville junior Katie Walsh ultimately found an opportunity, rocketing the ball to the back of the net to put the Cardinals on the board. But this wasn’t the first time Duke found itself behind at the half this season, and the Blue Devils came out into the second half with a vengeance. Playing off a penalty corner from senior Stephanie Pezzuti, senior Ashley Kristen slid a pass right to classmate Alyssa Chillano, who rocketed a shot right above McFerran to even the score with less than 15 minutes left. But minutes later, Cardinal senior Marigrace Ragsdale broke right through Duke’s front line to find sophomore Minout Mink wide open. The Louisville forward caught Steele out of position, deflecting her shot off of the Blue Devil keeper’s pads to put the Cardinals ahead in the waning minutes of the half. Although Duke attempted two more shots and two more corners, the Blue Devils didn’t find a breakthrough until the final 30 seconds of the period. Relentlessly hammering the Louisville back line, Duke finally got a break when senior Ainsley Gill slid a cross right to Kristen. The Blue Devil forward lined up the shot and launched it right under McFerran, keeping Duke alive into overtime. Despite the Blue Devils again controlling

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Ashley Kristen scored in the final minute of regulation to extend the game, but could not get the ball past Ayeisha McFerran in the shootout. the pace of the match—taking 15 shots to just two from the Cardinals in the two 15-minute overtimes—Duke could not push one past McFerran, forcing the match into a shootout. “I loved that they continued to find ways,” Bustin told GoDuke.com. “Some of the shots were world-class shots—quick shots and double shots and rebound shots. We had opportunities in overtime and McFerran was able to clearly play the ball. Obviously, a goalkeeper who’s hot like that—you don’t really want to go into shootouts, but I was extremely proud of the way we played.” Tied 3-3 in the shootout, a whiffed save from Steele off a shot from Mink put Louisville ahead, and a missed shot wide right

from sophomore Haley Schleicher sealed the Blue Devils’ ACC tournament demise. Despite dominating on offense, Duke couldn’t stand up to the Cardinals’ bulletproof defense. McFerran totaled 18 saves—a career high for the Larne, Northern Ireland, native. “Great credit to Louisville for playing their game, which is a really well-structured game,” Bustin told GoDuke.com. “Their goalkeeper— it was probably one of the best goalkeeping performances anyone has ever seen—was clearly the difference-maker.” Despite the loss, the Blue Devils still earned the No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament and will face the winner of Stanford and Miami (Ohio) Saturday at 11:30 a.m.

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Tigers shut Blue Devils out in ACC quarterfinals By Liz Finny Staff Reporter

Despite an aggressive offensive game and several clear-cut scoring opportunities, Duke failed to get on the scoreboard. No. 5 seed Clemson ultimately beat the fourth-seeded Blue Devils 1-0 on a secondhalf penalty kick at Koskinen Stadium Sunday afternoon, clinching its spot in the ACC semifinals. Duke’s run in the ACC tournament is over 1 after just one game, CLEM 0 and the Blue Devils DUKE will continue to practice as they wait to see where they will be seeded for the NCAA tournament. “We didn’t take advantage of our opportunities and paid a severe price,” Duke head coach John Kerr said. “They tactically did a great job in the second half of creating opportunities, knowing that we were pushing for a goal. They found their second wind because we had them in the first half and didn’t capitalize. They were fortunate enough to get that penalty shot and score. We need to take care of our chances and make sure that our superiority benefits. The Blue Devils (12-4-2) came out with aggression and intensity to start the game, the

momentum in their favor as they racked up seven shots in the period. Their defense was strong as well, holding the Tigers (12-4-1) without a shot in the first half. Senior midfielder Brian White had some of Duke’s best chances to score, getting behind the defense on multiple occasions and either taking too heavy of a touch or being stopped by Clemson goalkeeper Ximo Miralles. About 15 minutes into the contest, White had a near-goal on a header, but it hit the crossbar and bounced away. The Blue Devils squandered another golden opportunity in the first half when Max Moser set up freshman Daniel Wright for a header that flew over the post. “We played some really good stuff today,” Kerr said. “We were very aggressive, but the finishing touch wasn’t there. And it’s disappointing because I think if we had got one goal, it would have really boosted us and sunk their mentality.” The turning point came in the 58th minute, when a foul by senior defender Markus Fjørtoft resulted in a penalty kick for forward Diego Campos, who placed the ball in the lower right corner of the goal just out of freshman goalkeeper Will Pulisic’s reach. After posting a hat trick to lead the Tigers past Duke when the teams met in the regular season, Campos

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Freshman Jack Doran tried to spark Duke’s offense with three shots on goal, but all of them were saved by Clemson goalkeeper Ximo Miralles. played the hero again Sunday. “The first goal changed everything,” White said. “We had a couple opportunities, and maybe missing those got in our head a little bit. We’ve just got to move on and keep trying to score.”

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post 20 seconds after Proctor’s huge save. Less than two minutes later, sophomore Ella Stevens sent a free kick into the 18-yard box, where Dorsey met the ball with her head and sent it just wide of the goal. Sunday’s contest marked the Blue Devils’ first trip to the ACC finals in 17 years, and they will not have very long to recover from the weekend’s loss. The NCAA Selection Show begins at 4:30 p.m. Monday, and though Duke has a solid claim to one of the four No. 1 seeds, Church and his squad will need to start shifting their attention to whichever opponent they will face in the round of 64. “We hope that we’ll be a No. 1 seed and that our body of work will give us the opportunity to play at home all the way through to the final four,” Church said. “We have to learn from this and see what we can fix before we move on to the NCAA tournament, but we’ll be ready.”

FROM PAGE 6 in their attacking third but allowed the Tar Heels to penetrate their defensive line numerous times. Proctor faced yet another one-on-one scare with 28:10 remaining in the half, when Redei sent a header sailing towards the corner of the goal. The Wilson, N.C., native made another diving save, redirecting the ball out to the sideline. “We didn’t play very well in the first half, especially in the early part of the first half,” Church said. “You have to play a full 90 minutes, and we didn’t. It’s my job to have them prepared well enough for that, so I’ll take the blame.” Duke started to settle in and produce some chances from there. Second-team All-ACC midfielder Taylor Racioppi controlled a long ball down the right flank and cut into the box, blasting a rocket that sailed just wide of the near Carolyn Chang | Staff Photographer

Diego Campos scored the lone goal of the game on a penalty kick after getting a hat trick at Duke in the regular season.

M. SOCCER FROM PAGE 8 Devils’ final scoring opportunity came at the foot of Moser, who sent a shot wide left as the clock wound down in the second half. Miralles was put to work by the Blue Devils and had to make seven saves, while his counterpart Pulisic made just one. Controversy also erupted in the final moments, as both teams played increasingly intensely and Duke fought fiercely to equalize. A Tiger went down in the last five minutes, and when it seemed like Duke had a chance to serve the ball into the box, the referee stopped the game for the injury with the player clutching his head. As players and coaches yelled both on and

off the field, Fjørtoft was given a red card, which will sideline him for the first game of the NCAA tournament. “The hard thing right now is to be mentally tough and be strong for each other,” Kerr said. “We didn’t play badly and we get a second chance here going into the NCAA. I always say, ‘Don’t get too high when you win and don’t get too low when you lose.’ That’s very difficult in the moment because we knew we should have done better. They’re a great bunch of guys, tough players, and it just wasn’t our day today.” The Blue Devils will learn their seeding for the tournament—and whether they will play the first two rounds at home—when the NCAA bracket is revealed Nov. 13 at 1 p.m. on NCAA.com.

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ast Thursday, the GOP leadership unveiled their proposal for a new, controversial tax plan titled the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The bill, if passed, will cut nearly $1.5 trillion in federal revenue, mostly in the form of significant tax reductions for corporations. Despite the intense debate and outrage ignited by the new tax plan, Republicans in Congress intend to preserve the plan in its basic form with an aim to pass the legislation through the White House by the end of the year. Although the main aim of the new tax code according to conservative lawmakers centers around encouraging economic growth and businesses, the actual text of the bill and the projected outcomes of its implementation tell a different story. Hidden within the proposed tax overhaul—a document that clocks in at over 400 pages—are several provisions that are entirely unrelated to deductions and exemptions, including a provision for a “child’s unborn rights.” This move to incorporate social policies along party lines into a piece of unrelated tax legislation is a clear attempt to embolden conservative votes for the fledgeling bill. This is particularly important for the party’s leadership given that the Republican-controlled House and Senate chambers have had extremely difficulty passing key legislation, like a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, despite their congressional majority. The inclusion of sections regarding the rights of fetuses and a repeal

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of the Johnson Amendment is evidence of desperate endeavors by conservative lawmakers to ensure passage of some form of major legislation that would not be able to survive on its own merit as a bill. In terms of the socioeconomic impacts of the bill, the forecasted consequences appear just as bleak. Firstly, this legislation would target immigrant families, making it harder for them to apply for the refundable child tax credit. A harsh provision that would even apply to children born within the borders of the United States, it is expected to impact around 3 million children from working class families. Additionally, the proposed legislation would be

Editorial Board significantly aimed at benefiting big businesses and the rich. The corporate tax rate would be lowered to around 15 percent permanently and The Washington Post has predicted that “People who make in the high hundreds of thousands of dollars a year or just over $1 million a year could see the biggest benefits”. Moreover, among the controversial stipulations of the tax reform are a number of provisions that will undoubtedly affect Duke and the realm of higher education if the plan is ratified unaltered. In order to

balance the large amount of revenue that would be lost through the plan’s proposed corporate tax breaks, a 1.4 percent excise tax would be imposed on university endowments under the new law. Moreover, the plan also intends to end interest rate reductions for recent graduates paying off student loans while also eliminating tax benefits for a huge portion of the graduate student population. In other words, funding from the endowment would most likely be strained under the new law, forcing Duke’s administration to either make cuts to the university budget and or potentially raise the tuition higher than the current annual rate of four percent. The plan’s elimination of tax breaks for student loans would also disproportionately negatively affect Duke students of lower socioeconomic standing who receive loans as part of their financial aid. For millions of Americans, including us here at Duke, the proposed GOP tax plan represents a legislative attack on working class families and students for the benefit of corporations and religious conservative elements that clearly stand to profit immensely from the bill. As active participants in the democratic process, we should make voices be heard by those in Washington who are currently involved with legislating and debating this bill. It is our duty, especially as Duke students dedicated to “knowledge in the service of society,” to call folly in the face of such a contemptible legislation.

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he editors rightly point out that MOOCs have not lived up to the disruptive prognostications that were made at the “inflated expectations peak” of their hype cycle. But they seem stuck in the “trough of disillusionment,” the disappointment that follows the peak, when in fact open online learning has entered the next phase, the “plateau of productivity.” Great universities—Duke included—are integrating online learning into their strategies in ways that would have been unimaginable 10 years ago. Those strategies are still emergent, but several are showing promise in addressing crucial issues of cost, access and lifelong learning.

Coursera courses with 80 Duke faculty members has demonstrated that Duke faculty, working in partnership with designers, videographers, editors and online course builders, are able to produce excellent online courses that extend the reach of their knowledge to global learners, many of whom had never previously heard of Duke. We have learned, through Duke’s introductory writing course on Coursera, that learner peer review can work as an assessment strategy at scale. This experience led to research publications and a significant impact on assessment design. We have learned that the instructional design approach required

Matthew Rascoff ASSOCIATE VICE PROVOST FOR DIGITAL EDUCATION AND INNOVATION AT DUKE UNIVERSITY Georgia Tech’s online master’s program in computer science, launched in 2014, has enrolled thousands of qualified students in a top program for less than one-sixth the price of its in-person counterpart. A well-designed NBER study found that “online access [provided by the program] substantially increases the overall number of students enrolling” in computer science master’s programs nationally. In fact, “this single program will boost annual national production of American computer science master’s degrees by about seven percent.” That is remarkable. EdX’s MicroMasters offer online, at low cost, a portion of coursework towards a master’s degree. Those who succeed in the online component are then invited to come to campus to finish their degree at an accelerated rate. At MIT, the MicroMasters model is substantially reducing the cost of the master’s in economics and making it possible for learners around the world to demonstrate their ability and earn credits toward their degree. These examples show that well-designed online learning can reduce costs and expand educational access, serving learners who would otherwise never make it to campus. At Duke, the experience of developing over 50

for developing online courses can transform how faculty approach all their teaching. As Duke’s open course effort matures we have a new set of opportunities before us. We can translate our Coursera experience into programs of greater impact to our university community. To offer a few examples of projects that are currently under way: We are designing online co-curricular programs (“bootcamps”) that offer extra preparation before a course or program starts, or bridge skills gaps for students as they prepare to enter the workforce. (We have even received some national attention for these early efforts.) In September, in partnership with the Duke Alumni Association, we launched an online course for alumni with Professor David Schanzer of the Sanford School. We are planning more just-in-time learning experiences tailored to the needs of specific groups of alums. We are also exploring partnerships with high schools to offer free or low cost access to online Duke courses, allowing prospective students to connect with Duke and demonstrate their academic preparedness. The future is bright for learning innovation at Duke.

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he current Duke University housing model lends itself to self-segregation. This is a major obstacle for the diversitycelebrating, inclusive environment for which Duke claims to stand. As it stands, affiliated students live with groups that they join in their first years, before they even declare their majors. Meanwhile, unaffiliated students live in houses where a self-fulfilling prophecy—a lack of community in independent houses—impedes the development of new

Sabriyya Pate COLUMNIST friendships. Self-segregation plays out at Duke in the form of selective living groups that create pockets of students who often unintentionally limit themselves to interactions with people in their selective living group. After all, as a general rule, people spend a lot of time where they live. Surely, we all value meeting amazing new people. So what’s the issue? Why is it that after your sophomore year, unless you live in a living group’s housing section, it is uncommon to casually strike up a conversation with someone in the hallway, or befriend the people next door? The answer is simple: misconceptions of community. Even for students who live in living group housing sections, “community” is not directly correlated with a meaningful undergraduate experience— one in which they are able to frequently encounter people from all corners of campus. While 34 percent of Duke students are Greekaffiliated, and several more are selective living group (SLG)-affiliated, independent students learn to patch together friend groups and maintain individual relationships, just as affiliated students will learn to do post-graduation. Far too often, I hear of first-year friend groups that are driven apart because so-and-so joined X fraternity, while another joined Y fraternity. Since the other members of the friend group are unaffiliated, and thus not invited to the social functions of their affiliated first-year friends, formerly meaningful friendships dissolve. Joseph Dolan-Galaviz is a senior from Austin, Texas, who made his closest friends at Duke on East Campus. Reflecting on his experience at Duke, he said, “The splintering of the first-year student body that occurs every January via rush is tough enough on the relationships that formed in the fall. When everyone separates into their respective living groups sophomore year, it becomes much more difficult to maintain friends.” “How are two people supposed to maintain a friendship when you are not only unable to participate in the same social activities, but also can never share those random, organic common room conversations? When do you find time to just hang out?” The responsibility to mindfully introspect and answer Joseph’s questions falls on us all. Of course, as you navigate college and learn more about yourself, the people you surround yourself with will—and perhaps should—similarly evolve. However, nothing about joining a selective living group intrinsically means that all the people you could ever befriend are going to be perfectly curated in that specific group. When you live with a limited, small segment of the student body for multiple years, you are insulated from, in short, everyone else. Touting the array of intellectual curiosities, back stories, and relative racial, socioeconomic, and geographical diversity of our student body is disingenuous in the face of our housing model. Notably, the university has understood the problems within our housing model and made remarkable changes to address it. The quad model, which gave names to independent houses, was an attempt to create a sense of affiliation for students who did not rush or were not invited to join selective living groups. However, after five years, it is safe to say that a new approach is required—not because the Housing and Residence Life office failed, but

because the cultural elements at play require a more dramatic solution. In a couple of years, Central Campus apartments will be gone, and two new on-campus dormitories will be fully operational. We are rapidly approaching a period in which the housing model can and should be revamped to counteract self-segregation in our living spaces. First, Duke needs a housing model that promotes inclusivity. Living groups such as Greek organizations and selective living groups are forced to restrict their membership for the sake of space. Housing limitations justify their maintenance of a degree of exclusivity—one that allows students to exclude other students on the basis of a couple conversations and, inevitably, major assumptions on the characters of their peers. This may be mitigated by either significantly increasing the size of housing sections for selective living groups, or eliminating the affiliated housing system entirely. Fundamentally, the structure of housing must change as well. Yale has a residential college system where students are randomly assigned to one of fourteen close-knit communities. In these houses, students develop a sense of home, and are able to live in relatively diverse communities. Greek organizations still exist, so students are able to join multiple communities without having one dominate their social lives. At Duke, a similar model would have, for example, students from first-year dorms Wilson and Giles shuffled into Kilgo Quad for their upperclassmen years. These students would still be able to supplement their social life with Greek and other selective organizations. Third, we need to deconstruct, once and for all, the stigma of independent houses being dorms devoid of community. This is best exemplified by the East Campus random assignment model. When first-years arrive, there is (largely) an appreciation of your dorm as a new home, where you actively seek to meet new people. Your roommate might just become your future maid-of-honor, and the excitement of living with peers pulsates through common rooms and the first-year dining hall… until the prospect of joining living groups begins to occupy minds, of course. If people are able to build long-lasting friendships in their first-year dorms, there is no reason why such an environment cannot be recreated in upperclassman dorms. This brings me to my fourth point: we need more House Council leadership and Resident Assistants who take active roles in building and strengthening community. In one independent house—Avalon—House Council president Harry Liu works hard to bring people together around the house’s identity and ensure his House Council maintains a two-way relationship with the dorm, rather than one of oneway event email blasts. “The biggest challenge facing House Council is getting people to embrace the community. Rejection from rushing SLGs or fraternities can leave individuals demoralized and may make people hesitant to put themselves out there again,” Harry said. Personally, living as a Resident Assistant in Avalon has been by far the greatest living situation I could imagine. I have been able to befriend people with whom I have no classes, participate in no extracurriculars with and share no cultural or religious background, but am able to learn from and relate to in ways I never thought possible. Nonetheless, it is pivotal that we all—irrespective of affiliation status—take responsibility over the social norms that define our university climate. In the words of Avalon’s House Council president, “We can all make a difference. It takes time and work to build a community, just like with friendships.” But then again, nothing remarkable ever comes easy. Bettering student experiences in independent housing is just one piece of the puzzle. Ultimately, we need to redesign the housing model to provide strong and vibrant communities for all. Until then, self-segregation will continue to unfold as students miss out on meeting truly remarkable peers. Sabriyya Pate is a Trinity junior. Her column runs on alternate Mondays.

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Duke vaccinates for failure

ncreased coursework, decreased sunlight and cold weather are just some of the reasons Duke students are more likely to get sick at this point in the semester, according to representatives from Duke University Medical System. But some breakouts are worse than others, they say, with the “freshman plague” and last year’s flu being notable examples. Thus, in preparation for a long-dormant disease now breaking out

Monday Monday NOT NOT TRUE across campus, Duke Student Health began last week distributing free vaccines against the lethal and highly-contagious epidemic of failure. Failure, according to Dr. Joe McKinsey from Duke Hospital’s Infectious Disease Division, is different from other campus diseases in its dormancy—it constantly sits in waiting in every student’s body, ready to strike at any moment. “It’s really a fascinating case study,” the doctor explained, “because what we see with pathogens like this are usually very clear infection spikes.” So, when he and his colleagues “saw increased visits to academic advisors, high patterns of activity at internship fairs, and increased transmission of panic in libraries and eateries across campus, this strongly signaled to our team that failure infections were on the rise.” Striking swiftly in response to this realization, Duke Student Health began offering free vaccines this past week. “Just like you vaccinate against the flu, against polio or against hepatitis, it only makes sense that we vaccinate against failure,” said a medical intern giving shots at Brodie Gym. “Failure poses an active threat to the undergraduate body, so total avoidance and prevention is really our best strategy.” According to recent numbers, turnout for the free vaccines has been “overwhelmingly positive” but nonetheless, Student Health recommended that students remain “diligent and always on the lookout for early warning signs.” These include below-average exam grades, “botched” internship interviews, last-minute major changes and “stupid questions” asked in class, which are all symptomatic of failure overwhelming a host’s intellectual and emotional faculties. Two students familiar with failure, identified here as Patient Zero and Patient One, expressed extreme worry about what this could do to their peers. “I failed a class sophomore year,” said Patient Zero,.“And it totally ruined by future. An intelligent and super-capable Economics major from Duke? Experienced in financial advising and predictive modeling? Ok, sure—all was fine. But once the world found out I was infected? A hard ‘no’—they treated me totally differently.” “It’s true,” agreed Patient One, an Olympic trials finalist and junior BME major who feels “completely ostracized from the communities” she used to know. “My family, my friends from home—as soon as they found out about that one grade in math last semester, it was like I was untouchable. Failure was running through my veins, and they couldn’t associate with that.” Despite still going through the “grueling” recovery process, the survivors hope that their stories will “encourage others to avoid failure at all costs.” Avoidance is not just about one’s own health, however. In addition to the individual benefits of avoiding failure—confirmation bias, a false sense of confidence, and sensitive snowflake syndrome—doctors also cited the “public good” benefit of vaccinating the undergraduate body as a whole. “One of the biggest problems with a condition like failure,” said an epidemic expert from the Sanford School of Public Policy, “is that fear is a critical factor. Much like many outbreaks we’ve seen throughout recent history, it only takes one student to notice failure’s presence for the entire campus population to break out in panic.” Should that occur, she noted, “the results could be catastrophic— particularly when the first wave of reality-checks set in.” The campus response could only be described at that point as a “total meltdown.” In short, undergraduates who have not already been vaccinated against failure should do so immediately. Vaccines are available in both Brodie and Wilson gyms, the Link, and the 3rd and 4th floors of both Perkins and Bostock libraries, exclusively from 7 p.m. to 4 a.m. on weekdays. Students need only show a Duke ID and an updated, official transcript to receive the vaccination, which in addition giving the host a sense of invincibility, also causes the host to instinctively shun those who exhibit any symptoms. Disclaimer: Allegations that facing failure builds up natural immunity were utterly rejected by multiple spokespersons, who termed such claims an “anti-vaxxer agenda” dangerous to “the health and sanity of our student body.”

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EQUITY FROM PAGE 1 base and create impact,” she said. “Key in that will be facilitating the acquisition of skills necessary to conduct research in health disparities.” REACH Equity already has three preplanned projects that it will execute once officially established. The first will focus on developing and testing an implicit bias training program for health care providers, and the second will test a communication coaching intervention aimed at teaching providers better communication with patients different from themselves. The last will test a mobile app allowing families in the intensive care unit to report their needs and will enable clinicians to visualize needs

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and receive decision support from various resources to address them. “[The other investigators and I] saw this center as an opportunity to move from identifying differences’ existence and to find ways to reduce and eliminate them,” Johnson said. “We are moved by the opportunity to do something that might make a difference.” The center has received strong support from Duke’s health care community. “[Duke’s] core missions are research, clinical care and education. This project impacts all the core missions, and it does it by engaging learners from the beginning,” Klotman said. “This [project] is not just in the School of Medicine or the health system. It’s across campus— it’s one of those projects that has a really broad reach.”

HENRY FROM PAGE 3 would sit down at lunch with and say, ‘You know, I’m wondering about this or that particular issue and I don’t know how to get it done,’” Wynkoop explained. “He was just a fountain of information and happily would give it.” Even outside of the University setting, Henry was generous with his wisdom and time. When Wynkoop arrived at Duke in 1984, Henry drove him around Durham to introduce him to the city and help him hunt for a new house.

He was all about making the band a great experience for the students. JEFFREY AU

DIRECTOR OF DUKE ATHLETIC BANDS

Special to The Chronicle Mary Klotman, dean of the School of Medicine, said that the Center for REsearch to AdvanCe Healthcare Equity will conduct research to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities.

“Within that first year, I told him I was renting a place and that I wanted to consider buying a house,” Wynkoop said. “He didn’t know me all that well at that point, but we drove all over Durham looking for a house for me. He showed me the neighborhoods of Durham and how to get around and find things, and it was just a genuinely nice thing for him to do.” Parkins recalled how, toward the end of his tenure at Duke, Henry moved to a rural home north of Durham. “He bought this house with a good deal of property and liked to grow his own vegetables,” Parkins said. “He would often bring me big bags of homegrown tomatoes in the summertime—even after he retired.” But generosity was not Henry’s only defining feature. Both Rankin and Mascherin said they would remember him for his

mischievous and fun-loving personality. “His personality was very warm, very supportive, and he had a mischievous way about him and he was a rabble-rouser,” Rankin said. “He never told you to do anything bad, but he liked being clever and needling the other side.” Mascherin added that Henry took the bands seriously because he wanted them to look and sound good, but he “also was a lot of fun.” “He always had this mischievous twinkle in his eye, like he was thinking about some scheme or some practical joke he was going to play,” Mascherin said. Rankin said Henry would sometimes devise plans to make the marching band spell out funny words—even if only for a moment—when its halftime shows were nationally televised. Through all the mischief, Henry showed his students and colleagues that he cared. “He was anything but pompous,” Parkins said. After retirement, Henry traveled to Virginia and Tennessee, where he wrote two books covering his family genealogy. He is survived by several family members: his daughter Dina Hester and her husband James, his son Brett Henry, his grandson Daniel Henry and granddaughter Blake Henry and his great-grandson Aiden Gonzales. Wynkoop said faculty in the music department responded to the news by gathering to hear Henry’s obituary and recalling their favorite memories of him. Likewise, Au said he addressed the current marching band after he received word of Henry’s passing. Duke Athletic Bands and the Duke Alumni Band Association are planning on designing an award to be given in Henry’s name, he added. There will be no public funeral for Henry. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Duke Athletic Bands in his memory.

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