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Despite fears that fewer Duke students were voting in this election than last, early voting data shows that they are in fact casting their ballots, although the numbers are down slightly. According to the absentee voter file from the North Carolina State Board of Elections, approximately 3,000 people aged 18 to 22 years old who are residents of the three precincts that include Duke’s campus voted early. In 2012, this number was approximately 3,200. The total number who used the early voting location at the Devil’s Den was 8,366. “I think the turnout was pretty good,” said junior Matthew King, former YOUnite president and a columnist for The Chronicle. “I’m not unhappy with it at all.” Junior Amy Wang, vice president of Duke Democrats, said that numbers for early voting were low at first. She noted that as of Thursday night, 600 less people had voted compared with the numbers at the same time in 2012. However, she explained that numbers started to pick up Friday. “For Duke students, voting is quite possibly the most important thing you’ll do all semester,” she said. The Devil’s Den was one of 13 locations open in Durham County for early voting from Oct. 27 to Nov. 5. On election day, voters can only cast a ballot at their assigned precinct.

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Students registered at their East Campus address will vote at George Watts Elementary School, and students registered at West and Central Campus addresses will have to vote at the Patterson Recreation Center. In Durham County, more people voted early this year than in 2008 or 2012. In 2012, 9,174 used Duke’s site when it was located in West Union for 17 days. This year, Duke’s site was only open ten days. Early voting got off to a strong start with

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927 people casting their ballots on the first day of early voting at the Devil’s Den. Site supervisor Judy Moore said that a mixture of both Duke students and Durham residents came out to vote. Gunther Peck, associate professor of public policy and history, noted that in typical Duke student fashion, more students showed up to the polls at the end of the early

Tomorrow we will witness a miracle. The miracle won’t be a Hillary Clinton victory. It won’t be a win for Donald Trump. And, I’m sorry, Gary Johnson supporters, but don’t get your hopes up either. The miracle doesn’t have anything to do with the candidates themselves. It has everything to do with the people. Deep in our rational minds, a voice tells us that our puny, individual vote does not matter. Local elections, after all, are rarely decided by a single vote, and national elections never are. Yet we vote anyway. We vote by the millions. This is nothing short of a miracle. I’ll never forget an elderly couple I saw enter a polling station where I was handing out campaign literature in 2012. The woman wore pearls, the man sported a cap that read “WWII Veteran,” and they leaned against each other with such precariousness I thought they might collapse in on each other as they inched toward the doors. Thin translucent tubes snaked down the man’s face to a pair of oxygen tanks wheeling along

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Pressure defense sparks rout in Duke’s final exhibition Brian Pollack The Chronicle

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In its first exhibition game against Virginia State last week, Duke came out of the gate a little sluggish as a few key players went down with minor injuries. This time around, none of that was an issue for the Blue Devils—even without three of their top freshmen. In its second and final preseason tune-up, No. 1 Duke cruised past reigning Division II national champions Augustana 98-45 Friday at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Freshman center Marques Bolden dressed but did not play—joining injured classmates and fellow five-star recruits Harry Giles and Jayson Tatum on the bench—but the Blue Devils still had no trouble handling the Vikings. “Amile [Jefferson] and Grayson [Allen] and myself took it upon ourselves to be those leaders and say, ‘Hey, even though it’s an exhibition game and it might not count afterwards, right now we need this to get ready and to get better,’” senior captain Matt Jones said. “Just to be able to have this open run was really good for us.”

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Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said that because Augustana lacks a true big man, he was just resting Bolden, who impressed in the team’s first exhibition. He added that he expects everyone but Giles to be ready for the team’s season opener against Marist next week. Giles is out following a knee scope in early October, and Tatum was sidelined with a minor foot sprain last week. Krzyzewski noted Giles did a non-contact workout with associate head coach Jeff Capel Friday and that he hopes the No. 1 recruit will be ready to play ready this month. Giles still has not done any 5-on-5 work, although he should be moving toward practicing in 5-on-0 drills this week. “We thought in not playing Marques [Bolden], we could give him some rest and get Chase [Jeter] and Antonio [Vrankovic] more minutes,” Krzyzewski said. “We also wanted to take a look at Amile [Jefferson] playing the five, so we tried to take a look at many different things tonight. Again, we did think we were going to win talent-wise, but we wanted to put our guys in those situations.” In Friday’s game, Luke Kennard led a See M. BASKETBALL on Page 6

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Are DukeAlerts timely according to Clery Act? It’s complicated Neelesh Moorthy The Chronicle Several students have raised concerns about how long it takes the Duke University Police Department to issue DukeAlerts. Through the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, Duke is required to issue timely warnings when certain types of crimes are deemed to be an immediate threat to the safety of those on campus. The purpose of these timely warnings, according to the Clery Act, is to give students time to protect themselves from an ongoing threat. Some crime responses may be delayed or may not receive a DukeAlert at all because of ambiguity in what the law requires, experts say. The last DukeAlert was issued Wednesday

Chronicle File Photo A DukeAlert Wednesday about a robbery on Central Campus was released about 50 minutes after the event occurred.

at approximately 11:10 p.m. for a robbery that occurred at 10:14 p.m., in which a delivery driver was robbed at knifepoint before the suspect began running toward Anderson Street. The nearly 50-minute gap between the crime and the DukeAlert led junior Sean Gilbert to question DUPD’s protocols on a Fix My Campus post—which has more than 300 reactions—the next morning. Gilbert told The Chronicle that he called DUPD immediately after the robbery, which happened outside his apartment, and told them what happened at about 10:16 p.m. After asking officers repeatedly whether a DukeAlert was going to be released, it was finally sent out 50 minutes later, he said. “It took DUPD 50 whole minutes to notify campus a man outside our community had held up someone just feet from a residential community and was still somewhere on the loose,” he wrote in the Facebook post. “What good is a campus alert 50 minutes after the fact?” This is not the first time a DukeAlert has been sent out for an on-campus robbery, and they have often been issued an hour after the initial incident. In January, a DukeAlert was sent out at 2:10 a.m. for an armed robbery that occurred at approximately 1:00 a.m. In October 2015, the Duke community was informed at approximately 8:00 a.m. about a robbery in a Central Campus apartment at about 6:30 a.m., although no weapons were involved. In July 2015, it took approximately 38 minutes for a DukeAlert to be sent out after an armed robbery at about 1:40 a.m. in the morning. Vice President for Administration Kyle Cavanaugh wrote in an email that the University’s goal is always “to provide information to the Duke community as quickly as possible.” However, a “host of variables” including getting correct information and ensuring victims’ safety must

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be taken into account before a DukeAlert can be sent out, he wrote. “If that evaluation determines the incident represents a potential ongoing threat, then the DukeALERT is sent out,” Cavanaugh wrote. The Chronicle spoke to several experts about the Clery Act, and they were divided about whether 50 minutes was an unreasonable amount of time. All of them noted, however, that the Clery Act leaves a great deal of discretion to universities on what and how to report. What is timely? Official guidance on what constitutes “timely” according to the Clery Act is sparse, said Frank LaMonte, executive director of the Student Press Law Center. The government’s guide to Clery Act compliance also does not give a concrete definition of what “timely” entails. It does say, however, that a warning should be issued as soon as “pertinent information is available,” even if police do not yet have all the facts. The discretion built into the law is by design, said Alison Kiss, executive director of the Clery Center for Security on Campus, and for good reason. Police have to look at if the crime was a single incident or an ongoing risk and must consider if an alert will end up identifying the victim or if it will actually end up impeding the investigation, she explained. The Department of Education has been hesitant to sanction universities for violations of the Clery Act, in fear of making it difficult for police to make important judgment calls, LaMonte said. For example, Robin Hattersley, executive editor of CampusSafety magazine, said that she has heard complaints of both “under” and “over-reporting,” which universities have to juggle. Having to verify potentially inaccurate

reports can also delay a DukeAlert, Hattersley said, although Cavanaugh did not indicate to The Chronicle that this was the case in this most recent incident. Several experts agreed that 50 minutes does not seem unreasonable for this type of incident. Jonathan Jones, a lecturer at Elon University, said police were likely focused on dealing with the situation itself and that a 50-minute delay does not seem “particularly problematic,” especially if no one was injured. If someone had been injured, he said, 50 minutes probably would have been too long. LaMonte agreed, noting that an hour lag would not be extreme enough to be considered a violation of the Clery Act, nor is it an uncommon delay. For Rebecca Bach, an associate professor of the practice in sociology who has done research into the Clery Act, the delay was “definitely not in the spirit of the law.” Daniel Swinton, managing partner at the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management, said the same. Junior Rohan Mehrotra said that sending out a DukeAlert 50 minutes later defeats the purpose of a warning, because students cannot lock their doors or take precautionary measures that late. All experts agreed it is hard to judge whether Duke’s response time was too slow without knowing all the details about what information DUPD actually had. “Would I like it to be faster? Sure,” Swinton said. “Does it mean they weren’t compliant with Clery? No, because we don’t have all the details.” In his email to The Chronicle, Cavanaugh did not disclose what factors might have led to the delay, or what information DUPD was relying upon in making its decision. See CLERY ACT on Page 4

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Marketplace chefs share behind-the-scenes work Likhitha Butchireddygari The Chronicle Marketplace is a staple of first-year life— but very few know what it takes to feed East Campus. Marketplace offers three meals a day during the week and two on the weekend— brunch and dinner. Last Spring, Duke Dining transitioned from Bon Appétit Management Company, which provides food service to universities across the country, to a selfoperating system, hiring Mark Turner as executive chef and Todd Dumke as executive sous chef. Both said that they are committed to serving the type of students Duke attracts, whom Turner described as “coming from affluent families.” “They’ve traveled well. They understand food. They’ve eaten probably all over the world,” Turner said. “I think their expectations are a little bit higher than some of the places that I’ve been to. We try to meet that expectation with quality food that’s produced properly.”

creativity of the menu.” Ultimately, he explained that there is a level of uncertainty with writing any menu. “It’s just an educated guess on what food you’re going to use. It takes a lot of experience to understand that,” Turner said. “It’s guesswork. There’s no formula for it.”

at each station, not concentrating on one,” Turner said. “What is America made of? It’s made of people from all over the world. Still to this day, America is big melting pot from people all over the place.” Dumke added that the chefs use “shift reports” to communicate to each other what students liked and did not like to maintain the quality of food. At the beginning of the year, Duke was named number one in collegiate dining by The Daily Meal, but Turner said that the ranking did not intimidate him, nor has it diminished his drive to provide a quality dining experience. “Because you’re number one in a magazine doesn’t mean anything,” Turner said. “It doesn’t mean anything to anybody. Are you really number one? Do you carry yourself like you are number one everyday? That’s the question.”

Sustainability Dumke also said that Marketplace has been working to improve sustainability. For example, they only use recyclable packaging. “Even in the grab-and-go stuff in the Trinity Cafe, the sandwiches and fruit cups, those are made with a corn based, recyclable plastic,” Dumke said. “Duke has gone to no Styrofoam, no plastic.” He noted that Marketplace is committed to having 20 to 25 percent locally-sourced food, but said that a larger proportion than that creates challenges because local farms cannot sustain the size of Marketplace’s operations. “Idealism and reality have to intersect,” Dumke said. His first consideration in purchasing Writing the menu food is to work with North Carolina farms Dumke said that in creating Marketplace’s and then moves to out-of-state sellers. But he menu, the chefs worked with nutritionists said that local sourcing is not always possible and considered students’ allergies. because local farms cannot provide all the Marketplace staff meets with first-years types of produce that Marketplace needs dealing with severe allergies at the beginning year round. of the year to discuss accommodation. It also If there is extra food left over, Marketplace has a strict no-nut policy, Turner stressed. donates it to Durham Rescue Mission, a Turner has to ensure that the menu nonprofit organization that provides food is logistically possible for Marketplace’s and shelter to the homeless. equipment and staff while also being creative. “I don’t just want to come in here and Serving a diverse community do another chef’s food,” Turner said. “It’s Turner noted that he understands the important to me that I have my mark on ethnic diversity of the students he serves and Chronicle File Photo this operation and that my chefs get to flex tries to account for that in his menu. Executive sous chef Todd Dumke said that their culinary skill and be involved with the “We always have a little variety of everything he tries to buy local food for Marketplace.

EARLY VOTING from page 1 voting period, narrowly making the deadline. He said that early voting on Friday afternoon was “hopping.” Although some have criticized the Devil’s Den as an inconvenient location for voting, King said that he thought students did a good job of publicizing ways to get there— including a special shuttle schedule and discounts on Uber rides. Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, previously noted that Devil’s Den was chosen for the voting site because it met the requirements of election officials. The Freeman Center sufficed for the primaries but was too small for the general election, he said. Despite conceptions that students do not care about the election on Duke’s campus, Peck noted that they are in fact voting, but unlike past elections, they are voting out of fear instead of hope. “It’s not so much apathy as disenchantment,” he said. Both Wang and Peck emphasized the importance of Duke students voting in this election. Wang said that how North Carolina swings as a state is often an indicator of how other close states will go. “Trump and Hillary are so undeniably close that thousands of people could determine the entire election,” she said. “It’s quite possible for Duke to make the difference in this election.” Peck also noted that with a close race, every vote could potentially flip the election. He added that a key responsibly of Duke professors is to encourage students to vote. “One of the challenges as educators is that we help each other see voting not as fulfillment on our end as political actors but as the beginning,” he said.

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MALICE from page 1 behind him. The two figures staggered through the red-whiteand-blue-bedecked door; ten minutes later they made their tender journey back to the parking lot. I hope both of them are still around to make the same pilgrimage this year. Maybe someone else will witness the awe and glory of it. Tuesday morning, thousands of Americans will rise early, wipe frost and fallen leaves from their windshields, drive to their neighborhood polling place and huddle in a cold dark line before it opens at 6:00 a.m. Hundreds of thousands of Americans will mark their ballots with one hand and cradle a child with the other. Millions of young Americans will vote for the first time. Tens of millions of Americans will return to the polls once more. And almost half of them will vote for someone you think would be disastrous for the country. There is a sense that most of us are not voting this year out of hope of what our nation could be, but out of fear of what it might become. Since when did voting become a matter of keeping the apocalypse at bay? With the stakes seemingly so high, it becomes easy to distance oneself from the other side: “How could they…? What reasonable

person would vote for…? Why are they ignoring…?” It is tempting to think that the other side is stupid, evil or simultaneously stupid and evil. But whoever becomes President will be President of all of us, not just of the voters who picked the winner. No one captured what it meant to be President of all Americans better than Abraham Lincoln, who in the 703 words of his Second Inaugural Address outlined an expansive vision of national reconciliation. Lincoln could have channeled the spirit of vengeance, vowing to make the former Confederacy a new Carthage, to sow salt into the cotton fields. Instead, he had the audacity to suggest that even after a devastating war, Southerners were not all that different from the Northerners they had fought: “Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.” And then, in political language so kind and charitable it sounds quaint today, Lincoln uttered a sentence that would ring through the ages: “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

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Nowhere in Lincoln’s Second Inaugural does one find talk of political enemies as “deplorables.” Even after the Confederates had seceded from the Union and waged a four-year war to maintain the institution of slavery, Lincoln did not believe that fellow Americans were beyond redemption. This year’s election features a contest between a Wharton graduate and a Yale Law alumna, who despite their elite pedigrees—or perhaps because of them—possess not one whit of the wisdom of America’s selfeducated backwoods statesman. Yet one of them will be our next President, and both could stand to learn from what Lincoln meant by “malice toward none.” If elected, Donald Trump will have some reassuring to do. The markets will plunge; our NATO allies will grow skittish; protests will break out on campuses across the country. He will have to summon traits not often on display in his presidential campaign: grace, magnanimity, calm, focus, seriousness. Trump will need to begin cultivating relationships with Congressional leaders of both parties and start reaching out to world leaders uncertain of what to make of him. Because expectations are so low, a hypothetical President Trump may have it easier than a President Clinton when it comes to governing. If Trump wins and turns out to be a statesman, he will be the greatest dissembler in Anglo-American politics since Shakespeare’s Prince Hal: “By so much shall I falsify men’s hopes; / And like bright metal on a sullen ground, / My reformation, glittering o’er my fault, / Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes / Than that which hath no foil to set it off. / I’ll so offend, to make offence a skill; / Redeeming time when men think least I will.” A hypothetical President Clinton will also have her share of challenges. The presidency is not an institution well suited to her preferred degree of secrecy; after Watergate, Americans have come to expect a certain amount of transparency from our executive. Clinton will also have to appease a liberal WarrenSanders wing of the Democratic Party while also reaching across the aisle to Republicans to secure support for legislation. In the wake of the FBI’s on-again, off-again email investigation, Clinton will have to convince millions of Americans that her election was legitimate. Even then, she will be dogged by the inconvenient truth that she only won because she was not Trump. After Election Day, we will not only have to reconcile ourselves to our new president, but also to each other. I hope we can put aside the language of enemies and will ourselves to become friends again. The great 20th-century American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr’s words resonate as well in this election as they did in his time: “Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we are saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; therefore, we are saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.” Tomorrow, more than 100 million Americans will vote, making choices they consider to be “virtuous acts” in the best interests of the country. That alone is a great miracle. If, after the election, we can forgive each other in the spirit of “malice toward none, charity for all,” then that will constitute an even greater miracle. Matthew King is a Trinity junior. His column, “at the water’s edge,” runs on alternate Mondays.

CLERY ACT from page 1 Too much discretion? Bach argued that the current version of the Clery Act allows universities too much discretion, and that her research has shown that Clery Act crimes are typically underreported, especially in cases involving sexual assault. “Part of the problem is that the reporting of the crimes and the sending of the alerts are being made by institutions for whom it is in their benefit to project an image of safety,” she said. “You have people who benefit from presenting an image of safety in charge of letting people know when things are unsafe. That’s an inherent problem with the Clery Act.” In her view, the act should be amended to require that all Clery crimes get an alert, instead of giving universities discretion as to what warrants an alert. Hattersley, however, noted that strict requirements might not be particularly productive. She explained that the initial drafting of the Clery Act included a provision stating that alerts had to be sent within 30 minutes, but that this was scrapped because of how fact-specific any given crime inherently is. Legislators did not want to take away universities’ ability to make a judgment call. If students remain concerned about DukeAlerts and how quickly they are sent out, Bach said student government could play a big role in negotiating with administrators. “I think if they apply some pressure in the form of protest of some sort, and possibly go through [Duke Student Government], it may at least result in a more thorough discussion of the process and how it can be streamlined,” she said. This article has been condensed for print. A full version can be found online.

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M. BASKETBALL from page 1 balanced offensive attack for Duke with 17 points on 7-of-13 shooting, one of four players—along with Allen, Jeter and freshman Frank Jackson—to finish with at least 15 points. It was the defensive effort, though, that really drove the blowout, as a consistent swarm of Blue Devils hounded Augustana into shooting just 31 percent from the floor with 22 turnovers. Against a Viking team that lost its top three scorers from a year ago, Duke wasted no time getting off to a hot start— scoring the game’s first 13 points and opening up a 20-point lead by the under-12 media timeout. Defense keyed the offense in the early going, as the Blue Devils’ man-to-man pressure proved to be too much for the Viking guards. “We did a great job of moving, and moving together and reacting to what they did. Matt did an amazing job of getting in the passing lanes,” graduate student Amile Jefferson said. “It started with our perimeter—we did a really great job of pressuring the ball and then we protected our basket and really made it hard for them to score.” Led by Jones’ three steals in the opening 10 minutes, Duke forced 16 turnovers in the first half. Despite shooting just 2-of-7 from the field, the captain—who finished with six thefts—set the tone on defense and was part of a noticeably active unit that clogged passing lanes and frustrated Augustana’s ball-handlers all night long.

Jones also had a highlight-reel dunk off a steal in the second half, something Blue Devil fans have not really seen from the 6-foot-5 guard. “It felt good,” he said. “I kind of grazed the rim [one time] my freshman year, but nothing like that. It felt good.” The Blue Devils hit the 50-point mark with more than a minute remaining in the first half on a Jefferson free throw. Jefferson was all over the court Friday night, nearly posting a double-double in the first 20 minutes and taking the ball coast-to-coast on multiple occasions. Jeter also impressed down low starting in place of Bolden, notching 15 points and 12 rebounds in 21 minutes. “He was really active around the rim,” Jefferson said. “He did a great job of protecting our basket. He was always lively when he got the ball. He did a great job of finishing today. Here at Duke, we’re always ‘Next man up,’ and he did that really well.” Despite almost hitting triple digits on the scoreboard, Duke actually struggled shooting the ball and connected on just 1-of-9 3-pointers in the first half. The Blue Devils turned that around after halftime, hitting six triples after sophomore Luke Kennard and freshman Frank Jackson combined to knock down three perimeter shots in the first few minutes. Duke begins the regular season next week, hosting Marist Friday and Grand Canyon Saturday before a top-five showdown with No. 3 Kansas in Madison Garden Nov. 15 in the Champions Classic.

On a night when he racked up six steals, Blue Devil senior Matt Jones did something he had not done since early in his Duke career. He dunked. With a little more than 10 minutes remaining in the Blue Devils’ final exhibition contest against Augustana Friday, the DeSoto, Texas, native picked Viking guard Matthew Brazendale’s pocket, taking the ball downcourt before throwing down a left-handed slam to put Duke up by 50. Although Jones doubled his previous career high of three thefts, his first in-game dunk in multiple seasons was arguably the highlight of the night. “To see those young legs coming out for that dunk from an old man, I thought he did a great job tonight,” graduate student Amile Jefferson said. “This summer, he really worked on his athleticism and it shows—just him going up and dunking that ball like that.” Jones struggled offensively, going just 2-of-7 from the field and 0-of-5 from beyond the arc, but made his mark on the defensive end. And like the senior co-captain did on his breakaway, the Blue Devils capitalized on Augustana’s 22 turnovers, converting them into 27 points on the other end. “He can do it. We’ve been telling him to do it for a while now and he finally did it,” junior Grayson Allen said. “He can throw it down two hands, one hand, off two feet, off one foot. I don’t know why he doesn’t do it more often but after he had that one fastbreak where he just laid it up, we were on him to go dunk the second one.” If Jones can continue to be a defensive force for a Duke team that struggled in man-to-man for much of last season, expect the Blue Devils to have plenty more opportunities for highlight-reel plays when they get in the open court.

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‘A good football team without a very good record’ Hank Tucker The Chronicle On an afternoon when the Blue Devils honored the living members of their 1942 team that hosted the Rose Bowl, the outcome of the game at Wallace Wade Stadium remained the same nearly 75 years later—a loss. Duke remains winless in ACC play after a 24-21 loss to No. 23 Virginia Tech Saturday. The Blue Devils could not get much going through the air a week after redshirt freshman quarterback Daniel Jones threw for more than 300 yards in a losing effort at Georgia Tech, and another second-half rally came up just short. Head coach David Cutcliffe’s team has now dropped six games in a season for the first time since 2012. “What we have is a good football team without a very good record,” Cutcliffe said. “We’ve just got to keep valiantly trying to close games and win games.” Duke (3-6, 0-5 in the ACC) was down by double digits at halftime for the second straight week, but Jones kept the ball on a read option for his second touchdown run of the day to trim the Hokie lead to three with 7:10 remaining in the contest. The Blue Devil defense held Virginia Tech to a three-and-out on the ensuing drive to get the ball back with a chance to tie or win the game. “The past two games, we’ve been down

at halftime because it’s our fault,” redshirt senior defensive tackle A.J. Wolf said. “It wasn’t the other team beating us, it was just, we were beating ourselves. The second half, we just cleaned it up a little bit. We all know we’re capable of coming back.” Junior running back Shaun Wilson then appeared to fumble the ball back to the Hokies, but the officials called targeting on a helmet-to-helmet hit by Terrell Edmunds that jarred the ball loose following a replay review. Edmunds was ejected and Wilson did not return to the game. Duke’s drive stalled after the penalty, and Cutcliffe elected to punt the ball away with 4:12 remaining and depend on his defense that had kept the Blue Devils in the game. “I didn’t really think it was the right time to win or lose the game right there at midfield,” Cutcliffe said. “You’re a little bit more fair to your team when you use the team to try to win the game, not one play… It worked until they make a play.” But the Hokies (7-2, 5-1) converted three third downs on the final drive—the first on a 21-yard rush by running back Trevon McMillian and then one on a 15-yard pass from quarterback Jerod Evans to All-ACC receiver Isaiah Ford and one on an Evans run—to run out the clock. “At that point, it’s just a matter of sheer will,” Wolf said. “I’m not saying we didn’t want it. They just got a few blocks on us.” Duke had all the momentum early in the second quarter, marching down the

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Virginia Tech built a 21-7 halftime lead then held on in the second half to win its seventh game of the year and stay atop the Coastal Division.

field for the second straight possession with the score tied 7-7 thanks to a three-yard touchdown run by Wilson late in the first quarter. Wilson, Jones and redshirt junior Joseph Ajeigbe carried the team’s offense on the ground, combining for 227 yards. But when freshman A.J. Reed trotted out to attempt a 30-yard field goal that would have given the Blue Devils their first lead of the game, Hokie cornerback Greg Stroman dashed around the line to block

the kick, and Adonis Alexander picked the ball up and sped to the opposite end zone for a Virginia Tech touchdown. “The blocked kick was merely an alignment issue,” Cutcliffe said. “That falls on me 1,000 percent, and we haven’t had that happen before, but when it does, it’s certainly on the head coach. We’re going to have to learn from that.” See FOOTBALL on Page 12

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Meible Chi makes run to semis of national indoors Winston Lindqwister The Chronicle Meible Chi came to Durham with high expectations as a top-10 recruit. But the freshman has already shown that she can compete with the best players in the country—regardless of age. Chi won three matches at the ITA national indoor championships Thursday through Saturday to make a run to the prestigious tournament’s semifinals. An unseeded player in the event featuring the 32 best indoor competitors in the nation, Chi pulled an upset at the event at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y., before eventually falling to the draw’s top seed. The good news for the Blue Devils did not end there, though. Seniors Chalena Scholl and Alyssa Smith competed at the Kitty Harrison Invitational in Chapel Hill and both went 3-0 in singles as Duke wrapped up its fall slate. “We definitely played our most complete set of tournaments of the fall with everybody getting results, not just one or two people,” Blue Devil head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “It was definitely a good way to end our fall, and at the same time it gives us a lot of stuff to work on before we start again in January.” A native of Weston, Fla., Chi had compiled a 12-3 singles record leading up to the biggest event of the fall. But she can take

Photo Courtesy of Duke Athletics Freshman Meible Chi upset the No. 3 seed on her way to the semifinals of the national indoor championships in Flushing, N.Y.

away a lot more confidence after holding her own against the nation’s best. She started the week with a 6-4, 6-4 win against Michigan’s Alex Najarian, breaking a 4-4 tie in the second set to advance to the Round of 16 and set up a date with Pepperdine’s Luisa Stefani—the No. 3 seed in the event. Chi and the reigning ITA National Rookie of the Year played a dramatic, backand-forth contest, with neither player able to gain more than a two-game advantage throughout both sets. The first set went to a

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tiebreak, but with the score knotted at 3-3, Chi rattled off four straight points to seize early momentum. The second set followed a similar narrative, with a tiebreak needed to decide the outcome. Although Stefani built a 6-3 lead in the second-set tiebreak, Chi mounted a comeback. Neither player gave an inch, saving multiple set points until the score was tied 13-13. Once again, it was the Duke freshman who came up clutch, though, winning two points in a row to escape with the upset.

Chi breezed through her quarterfinal match against Florida’s Josie Kuhlman 6-2, 6-2 to secure a slot in the semifinals against top-seeded Francesca Di Lorenzo of Ohio State. Ranked the No. 3 singles player in the country, Di Lorenzo dominated Chi 6-1, 6-2 on her way to her second straight ITA national indoor singles title. A sophomore, Di Lorenzo easily ousted North Carolina’s Hayley Carter for the championship Sunday—she only dropped one set in the entire tournament for the second straight year. “[Meible] did a great job,” Ashworth said. “It was her first time in the main draw and for her it was a confidence boost. She just realized she can play with the best in the country and we’ve been telling her that and telling her that.” Chi was not the only Blue Devil in New York—junior Samantha Harris and sophomore Ellyse Hamlin competed in doubles after claiming the ITA Carolina Regional last week. The tandem beat Maryland’s Kristina Hovsepyan and Alexandra Stanova 6-0, 6-4 before falling in a tight match in the Round of 16. Facing the 19th-ranked tandem of Mayar Sherif Ahmed and Christine Maddox of Pepperdine, Harris and Hamlin dropped the first set 6-2 before winning the second 4-6 and then falling in a third-set tiebreak 10-7. Despite the loss, the Duke duo put forth another strong effort in its second See W. TENNIS on Page 12

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FIELD HOCKEY

UNC uses late comeback to upset Duke at ACCs Amrith Ramkumar The Chronicle The Blue Devils looked like they had finally conquered North Carolina when they knocked off the Tar Heels to win their first ACC regular-season title ever a few weeks ago. 3 UNC But with Duke DUKE 2 up 2-1 late in the teams’ ACC tournament semifinal tilt Friday, North Carolina got its revenge. The fifth-seeded Tar Heels overcame the deficit in the final 10:20 of regulation to oust the top-seeded Blue Devils from

the conference championship with a 3-2 win at Wake Forest’s Kentner Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C. Friday marked the second time this year North Carolina used a second-half comeback to beat Duke by that score, as the Tar Heels knocked off the Blue Devils early in the year in a nonconference game before Duke’s triumph a few weeks ago at home. Although two goals from graduate student Aisling Naughton put the Blue Devils up 2-1 with about 25 minutes remaining, Duke could not overcome a 22-6 deficit in shots and 13 North Carolina penalty corners. Redshirt freshman goalkeeper Sammi Steele had eight saves to give her team a chance, but North

Carolina’s Ashley Hoffman scored on a penalty stroke with about 10 minutes left and Malin Evert beat Steele at the 64:21 mark to give the Tar Heels the upset. North Carolina has now beaten its Tobacco Road rival 16 of 18 times dating back to 2006. “I’m disappointed in some of the things we take pride in and the strengths that we have,” Blue Devil head coach Pam Bustin told GoDuke.com. “It just wasn’t there consistently. They were there in moments, but against a team like North Carolina, running on a lot of adrenaline, we can’t afford those moments.” Friday’s game was another thriller between the teams, with the teams trading

goals in the first two minutes. The Blue Devils (15-3) struck first for the third time this season against the Tar Heels, with freshman Margaux Paolino feeding Naughton. The Dublin, Ireland, native then beat North Carolina’s Alex Halpin for her 10th goal of the year and continued causing headaches for the Tar Heel defense. Naughton scored in all three contests against North Carolina this year, and Paolino set a program record for freshmen with her 13th setup of the season. But the Tar Heels (17-4) responded 54 seconds later when Ashley Hoffman charged into the circle and sent a shot past See FIELD HOCKEY on Page 12

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he U.S. presidential elections have been as emblematic of our country as our stars and stripes. This season, on “Keeping up with the States,” the world has watched as ludicrous, unfathomable and blatantly horrific history unfolded (if not more scandalously revealed by Access Hollywood). And just like the so similarly named television series, what we witness—in all its convoluted and hard-to-digest glory—is undeniably real. This is our reality show and believe it or not, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are just two names who happened to fit the casting-call this time around. Trump—6 feet 3 inches tall, 236 pounds, Caucasian, brown eyes—is a perfect match for the role of deluded seventy-year old raging bigot. Beyond his self-proclaimed stature and “qualifications,” he is in many ways a figurehead for a growing demographic in this country that has alas found a prominent leader both willing and able to represent their interests on an expansive platform. Likewise, hawkish, ice-queen Clinton was bred, not so differently from any of your favorite childhood actors, to play the heroine of every (aged, upper-class, likely white) Democrat’s dreams. She is the institution’s prodigy bureaucrat, and her time to step into the spotlight has come—after a very long wait, at that.

lived experiences, and they are grounded in perceived truths on free-trade agreements, the nation’s policies for economic powerdom domestically and abroad, the role that immigrants are playing in this country, and more. Trump supporters are more likely than your average Republican to believe that immigrants commit more crime in local communities, be bothered by people who speak little to no English, want to identify and deport all immigrants without papers, want a leader who can “break some rules,” in addition to the “usual” xenophobic ban of all Muslim immigrants, wall between the U.S. and Mexico, and ban of Syrian refugees in this country. This strata of the right, a cohort within a cohort, a slovenly curated studio-audience if you may, is importantly not a product of who you may initially assume alone. As much of a tool as a yankee driver, Trump is a vessel for the voices of many Americans, period. This season’s episodes of “Keeping up with the States” have played out in drawn-out plot lines over emails and a distinctive lack of a character arc on the part of a peculiar Trump figure. Although our two main characters have garnered record-breaking unfavorability ratings, the network cannot afford to buckle under. The face of our presidency, a coveted role desperately sought by even the most ineligible, will be

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Nonetheless, discounting the populist revival and bigotries uncovered by the mainstream media this campaign cycle, serves no justice to the many tabooed issues our country faces. Regardless of our president, the reasons behind the respective rises of Clinton, Trump and even Bernie Sanders, will not change in the next four years, let alone the first 100 days of this series’ pilot episode. Politics of fear and alienation, driving the American people apart, have incontestably defined this election season. Polarization has proliferated as Democrats and Republicans foster hostility in their partisan politics that offer two voices in a nation of more than 300 million. Minorities are arguing with minorities, against other minorities up against the wall facing riled up majorities who feel like minorities, all while hopes of a denouement fleet. Better yet, civil unrest appears imminent when we look across the Atlantic to where a successful referendum to leave the European Union led to a “horrible spike” in hate crimes, according to Britain’s Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. In other words, the last time an ally voted nationally on a decision informed by beliefs on their economy, sovereignty and political elitism, the outcome was furthered polarization. Even if Trump does not win, his exhortative language, which has proven effective in mobilizing supporters to act violently, coupled with a lack of intent to concede, could result in unparalleled encounters. Research by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution has shown that compared to the broader Republican Party, Trump supporters—the group that paved the way towards a shockingly close presidential race— are invigorated by isolationist, anti-immigrant and somewhat nativist rhetoric. Their concerns are legitimate, at least in their

changed be it for the casting of our first female president or the ascension of our oldest president ever. Furthermore, the power of our media’s unwavered control of narratives has set an unfounded precedent. Cacophonies of conspiracies and blurred notions of truth have stalled the production of objective information. In fact, the power of social media has been dangerously paired with factious and sectarian talk that has prevented unity in the face of heightened dissatisfaction. Still, this is America. Resilient, however challenged. Forces of darkness and unity have collided, and our manuscript remains unfinished. And yet, that never has been, and that should never be—our turbulence and endurance beat at the core of our hearts. Just as the first President Clinton exclaimed at his first inauguration, “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” These words rang true when contextualized in a tumultuous period driven by angst over the Reagan-Bush $300 billion dollar deficit and poor economic prospects of the younger generation; but they also carry the same effect today in a time when partisan politics and social rift have proven disequilibrating. At another presidential inauguration, in fact our third ever, Thomas Jefferson reminded Americans to “unite with one heart and one mind.” Decades later, Woodrow Wilson would announce at his second inauguration, “We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the thirty months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.” Remember those words come Election Day, and beyond. Sabriyya Pate is a Trinity sophomore. Her column, “in formation,” runs on alternate Mondays.

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n one day, a political season that has been saturated in polarizing dialogue, characterized by questions of morality and driven by fears of the all-too-known and all-too-unknown will resolve in the election of the 45th President of the United States. The hundreds of millions of dollars spun into all kinds of campaigns, the countless hours of precious news space dedicated to minute details of election coverage, the nightly dinner-table conversations and classroom debates that both divided and brought together more people than most previous elections, have led up to tomorrow. Suffering from a kind of political fatigue that our country has never experienced, we will finally make our decision, and that will be that. This election season is one that I personally can’t wait to see end. And yet, it’s one that has inspired the activation of the American people and the spirited participation of my millennial generation, and it’s one that I’ll strangely miss. I’ve tried to maintain a non-partisan stance since I became a legal adult, a point of view that is demanded of many journalists who face the flurry of today’s myriad biased

As a journalist, I’ve given up the fight for objectivity in the treatment of Donald Trump as a potential president of the United States and, as a citizen, my vote reflected that. But mine is only one inflamed opinion of 250 million voting-age Americans. My political embers were stirred by the fires of so many people with so many individual perspectives investing in this year’s political processes: a worthy cause for sacrificing a valiant attempt at moderation. This election has mobilized—if not inspired—the public, of which many face an unsatisfying choice between two historically unpopular candidates. Americans are actively finding ways to make their voices heard, informing themselves on issues found on local, state and national ballots, traversing across party lines and campaigning—whether it be directly in the camps of candidates or indirectly by promoting dialogue in the various shared forums enabled by an increasingly communicative world. This is the type of concerned political activity that connects a public to its government, and people to each other. It creates and sustains passionate involvement and action which requires

Jackson Prince

Jacob Weiss

PLAYING WITH FIRE news cycles. I’ve done my best to balance the onslaught of political conversations that face a prospective voter, young American and opinion editor of a college newspaper. I’ve challenged perspectives when they were single-minded and have had to hold my sometimes-disparaging tongue when healthy discourse included some disagreeable arguments. And I’ve embraced the opportunity to criticize the Democratic Party, which became my party the second I was born to two showbiz people in California, as well as to adopt some ideas and values of the Republican Party into my expanding political ideology. But despite my best efforts to strike and maintain a truly moderate political view, I am surprised to find myself having been so easily dragged toward one end of the spectrum during this 2016 presidential election cycle. It contemptuously spat on my attempt to be unbiased. It pissed me off. It gleefully ignited fiery conversations held by my friends and my family. It dangerously heated classrooms and once-productive discussion about the news and about politics, as well as intensifying interminable Facebook rants and grammatically-embarrassing 3 a.m. tweets. It knowingly set fire to the entire nation as it recklessly torched the usual “doldrums” of fact-based arguments and civil discourse. To be completely honest, “it” is not so much the election as it is Donald Trump. In any other presidential election, I might have been able to lend my voice toward unbiased narratives and an all-encompassing perspective. But for the sake of my own conscience, I can’t play devil’s advocate of neutrality and objectivity any longer. In my opinion, Donald Trump and his constituents speak on behalf of what’s holding our country back from its natural course of progress. Donald Trump has shown himself unable to evolve as a candidate, to acknowledge his mistakes and to represent anything close to what it means to be American, despite his empty claim to being a “Republican.” His supporters have failed to embrace certain basic American values, ranging from a love of country to the freedoms of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, as they stand behind tunnel-visioned, misinformed, hateful rhetoric to support their own self-interests.

’m going crazy. I’ve lost it. I am on the edge, and I’m about to do something reckless. According to Newton’s Third Law of Motion, “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” This law applies to all nature, including human nature in a presidential election cycle. Living in Europe for the past two months has not made me feel any more European. Wherever I go—whether it be an Irish pub on the banks of the River Liffey or in front of Millennium Monument in the heart of Budapest—I am immediately identified as an American. And as soon as I am identified as an American, one question always follows: “Are you voting for Donald Trump?” The first time I heard this question, I was at an Irish bar called “Dicey’s,” and I responded, “Hell no.” But then the response I got shook my resolve. “Good, Donald Trump is Hitler,” said the mascara-drenched Irish twenty-something who had asked me the question. While I was vehement in my stance that Trump should not be president, I felt the need to come to his defense on this one. I do not think Trump should be president, but he certainly is not Hitler. I opened my mouth, ready to come to Trump’s defense, but ultimately I said nothing, and just switched to the next topic of conversation. The next morning, I regretted not

search results. Eventually, I come across an article published on the Hillary Clinton official website that condemns the popular Internet meme, Pepe the Frog, as a symbol of white supremacy. I think to myself: “How can a cartoon frog be a symbol of white supremacy? He’s green!” I cannot take the absurdity of Trump’s opponents anymore, and so his message begins to sink in. In a world dominated by political correctness, I started to believe that all the criticism surrounding Trump was the reactionary culture, exemplified in the media, clouding my judgment. Two days later, I receive my absentee ballot in the mail. Surrounded by half-drank Red Bull cans and empty Pringles cylinders, I stare at the ballot. I walk to my window. Balled-up Washington Post articles crumple beneath my feet and the sound of Milo Yiannopoulos blaring from my computer engulfs the room. I haven’t seen the sun in days, but what are “days” other than an arbitrary division of time promoted by the leftist media to ensure that our productivity is limited to the constraints of 24-hour intervals? When I pull back the shades, the light burns my eyes, and I retreat to my desk. I gaze down at the piece of paper with its collated sections—partisan offices, non-partisan offices and referenda— and I pick up the pen. I’m going crazy. I’ve lost it. I am on the edge, and

ULYSSES responsibility and ownership of opinion. The cultivation of advancing this passionate attitude is far more important than my single vote, regardless of who becomes the next president. Once our tried and true democracy works to decide the election, starts the process of a peaceful transition of power and turns the leaves of the election season either red or blue, many of us will be tempted to revert to the comfortable norms of political inactivity. Such a yearning is understandable, whether it comes out of frustration with the election night’s outcome, exhaustion from the effort or even cynicism born out of the pageantry of the process. But there is no defensible reason to shy away from the continued pursuit of a better political system, and of real progress for this country. It’s especially important when it comes to dealing with the aftermath of this unique election. A significant subsection of the population will be disappointed by the outcome Tuesday night, and will feel unrepresented by the next president of the United States. For argument’s sake, let’s assume that the polls are accurate and the Trump voters experience the loss. To think that the divisive and incendiary supporters of Donald Trump will simply fall back into the hidden crevices of everyday life is to discount their passion, and the passions with which Americans of all ideologies have taken to this election. The election of the 45th President, one day from now, is not merely the culmination of this year’s exceptional political activity; it’s the beginning of a long-term project to reach a better political process for this country. A path that may lead us to offer more popular presidential candidates, who are at least more deserving than Donald Trump. This election season has initiated too many important conversations regarding the direction and definition of our nation to seal them all based on one polarizing decision to be made on one overhyped evening. No matter who wins and who loses in tomorrow’s heated political moment, I hope the American people remain forever inflamed. Jackson Prince is a Trinity sophomore and editorial page editor. His column, “playing with fire,” runs of alternate Mondays.

defending Trump. Although I disagreed with his political viewpoints, of which I firmly believe he has none, but there is a big difference between the dictator who destroyed half of Europe, taking the lives of six million innocents in the process, and a real estate mogul with funny hair. The more I thought about it, I realized how ludicrous the position of this person, who had clearly not taken the equally ludicrous position of supporting Trump, was, and so I vowed that next time, when asked the same question, I would say, “Yes, I am voting for Trump,” in hope of a more reasonable point of contest. I expected to hear in response valid concerns about Trump’s inexperience, lack of a foreign policy agenda or general incompetence, but instead I got, “You’re mad!” and a salvo of insults hurled my way. After stating that I would vote for Trump, I received no more enlightening a response than when I had said that I would not support the populist businessman-turned-politician who had against all odds secured the Republican nomination for presidency. Instead of a hysterical attack on the candidate’s character, I was given a hysterical reaction to my own character, and I kind of thought it was funny. It seemed ironic—in fact, hypocritical— to me that those who opposed Trump largely because of his intolerant viewpoints would express their disapproval in such an intolerant fashion. Equating arguably the most evil man in human history to a brass politician and questioning the sanity of then profanely insulting someone for supporting said politician are both ignorant reactions to the ignorance displayed by Trump. Despite all his absurdity, Trump has never been guilty of such hypocrisy. He has never pointed his finger at Hillary Clinton or Hillary supporters, and responded to hatred with hatred under the pretense of a supposed moral high-ground. He always starts it. He is the instigator, and in today’s reactionary culture, instigators thrive. The following day, within the confines of my dorm room at University College Dublin, I question why I am so adamantly against Trump, when the position taken by the alternative is no better. I plug my headphones into my laptop and begin to do some research. Disillusioned by the contemptible state of the race for president, I try to learn more about the candidates. Yet, all I find on the Internet is more reactionary content: Hillary supporters condemning Trump’s morals, but refusing to acknowledge their candidate’s own moral shortcomings and media outlets calling for Trump’s resignation after misconstruing statements he made at a debate populate the

I’m about to do something reckless. I am about to vote for Donald J. Trump. But before I fill in the bubble, a thought pops into my head: “I am the disaffected voter.” My presence has been felt throughout the course of history, shaking the balance of society. From Athens’ Sicilian Expedition to “Brexit,” I have voted against better judgment, selecting the bolder of two options, on the basis of what the historian Thucydides refers to as “unfounded hope.” I drop the pen. The results of “Brexit” are yet to be seen, but the example of Athens is clear. Alcibiades convinced the Athenian assembly to launch an unnecessary offensive against an uninvolved nation while at war with the Spartans for the prospect of silver. The silver was never real, and, over-extended, Athens fell. The United States will not fall if Trump is elected president; however, his positions are as thought-out as Alcibiades’ position that Athens should invade Sicily. His positions are based on “unfounded hope,” and I worry that such hope—the same hope that drove me to almost vote for a man with no distinct platform other than that he was going to “make America great again”—will set back the United States, just like Alcibiades’ eerily similar quest to preserve what made “ [Athens] greater than [the Greeks] had ever done.” I almost voted for Trump because I hoped that, despite the backwards commentary of his opponents, he might just succeed, exposing their foolishness. But, in reality, there was no reason for such optimism. The hypocrisy of the reactionary culture had alienated me. It drove me to flirt with the alt-right and almost vote for the instigator, not because I agreed with him, but because, in a world where the ignorance of both sides was on display, I identified more with the ignorance of Trump. Which statement sounds more reasonable to you: “Trump is Hitler,” or “[illegal immigrants are] bringing crime into this country,”? I urge you to resist the laws, which govern all nature. Attack Trump on the unfeasibility of mass deportation, his unknowingness about healthcare or his disastrous tax plan. Let me be a warning. If I could come so close to electing a man so clearly unfit to be president for our nation’s highest office, any other disillusioned voter could, too. Do not fight lunacy with lunacy, especially when there is so much ground to fight on. Don’t make us pull the lever. Click.

Jacob Weiss is a Trinity junior studying abroad in Dublin. His column, “ulysses,” usually runs on alternate Thursdays.

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FOOTBALL from page 7 The Hokies tacked on another score on their next drive with a fourth-down touchdown run by Evans—the first fourth-down conversion Duke’s defense gave up all season—and the Blue Devils stumbled into halftime facing a 21-7 deficit. Duke came out of the locker room with a lot more energy, though. Jones scampered into the end zone untouched late in the third quarter to cap an 11-play touchdown drive that was highlighted by a 28-yard run by Ajeigbe to move the Blue Devils into the red zone. Duke rushed for 227 yards, more than doubling the Hokies’ average of 113.1 rushing yards allowed entering the game, and the success came a week after losing top running back Jela Duncan for the season due to a torn Achilles tendon. But the Blue Devils did not generate Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle much production in the passing game, as Jones threw Quarterback Daniel Jones set a new career high in rushing for just 148 yards with no touchdowns. yards but struggled to find a rhythm in the passing game. “We were moving the ball. The offensive line was

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doing a great job creating some holes up there for our backs,” Jones said. “Ultimately, we just didn’t make enough plays.” With the health of yet another key player in Wilson in question, Duke will have a short week of practice before hosting Tobacco Road rival North Carolina Thursday night, desperately needing a win to stay in contention for a bowl game. “We can get some confidence from what we’re doing and how we’re playing,” Jones said. “But at the end of the day, it doesn’t mean a whole lot if we don’t win.”

FIELD HOCKEY from page 9 Steele, who shut out North Carolina in the teams’ final regular-season matchup. “The energy for both teams was just super high and we were able to capitalize on a good run in the very beginning and finish with it,” Bustin said. “Disappointed that we didn’t lock in and expect the same, but credit for North Carolina, coming back and starting the game over again essentially.” The Tar Heels continued controlling possession throughout the rest of the first half, but Steele and the Duke defense led by first-team All-ACC performer Alyssa Chillano weathered the storm to keep the game tied heading into halftime. Led by Hoffman, who finished with nine shots and five shots on goal, North Carolina’s offense continued peppering Steele with chances early in the second period, only for the Blue Devil star to deny two consecutive corners. Duke took advantage of Steele’s heroics in the 44th minute, when sophomore Rose Tynan won the ball in scoring position then found Naughton in front of the cage. Naughton fired the ball into the back of the cage to give the Blue Devils their second lead despite only finishing with Naughton’s two shots on goal. The Tar Heels finally broke through again needing another tally to tie the contest in the 60th minute following four more penalty corners. Hoffman notched the goal on a penalty stroke, then Emma Bozek set up Malin Evert five minutes later for the game-winner. Duke removed Steele from the game in an attempt to tie it up and force overtime, but the Blue Devils could not find an equalizer. Although Bustin’s team had to sweat a little more waiting for Sunday night’s NCAA tournament selection show after the loss, it still got good news Sunday night. After finishing the regular season ranked No. 1 and with the nation’s top RPI, Duke was awarded the top seed for NCAAs for the first time in program history. The Blue Devils will host either American or Kent State Saturday in the first round. If Duke wins, it would face the winner of Louisville and Delaware in the quarterfinals Sunday as it focuses on making a second straight Final Four. “We’re going to have to go back and talk about what we do to get ourselves out of those moments and who’s going to step up and be that voice that people listen to,” Bustin said.

W. TENNIS from page 8 tournament competing together. Meanwhile in Chapel Hill, Scholl and Smith were busy putting together a perfect singles weekend. The seniors knocked off players from Texas Tech, Penn State and Iowa across three days of singles, combining to only lose one set during the weekend. “Chalena and Alyssa played some really great singles, and Alyssa played probably the best singles she has played all fall,” Ashworth said. “Hopefully that gives her some confidence moving forward.” Sophomore Kaitlyn McCarthy also went undefeated in two singles matches during the weekend, knocking off Texas Tech’s Felicity Maltby and Iowa’s Elise Van Heuvelen in straight sets. McCarthy was the team’s only representative in singles at the NCAA championship last spring, and will be a critical piece as the Blue Devils prepare for their spring dual season. Junior Rebecca Smaller and redshirt sophomore Christina Makarova also competed in singles at the event, combining for a 3-2 mark, and Duke had two doubles teams in action as well. Scholl and McCarthy along with Smith and Smaller made up the doubles tandems, which both went 2-1 in three matches. The group had mixed results, suffering setbacks around several more match wins to wrap up their fall campaigns. The Blue Devils will look to build on their strong showings when they return to the courts Jan. 13 at the UNLV Invitational in Las Vegas.