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When first-years ventured into Pisgah National Forest for the student-run pre-orientation program Project Wild last year, they got a little too comfortable for law enforcement’s taste. An investigation by The Chronicle found that Duke suspended the program for 2017 after an incident in Aug. 22, 2016 during which 23 participants were cited for public nudity. The group also illegally blocked the Appalachian Mountains trail leading to the waterfall where the students were naked. The students were cited for the illegal blockage, according to citations obtained by The Chronicle via a Freedom of Information Act request to the United States Forest Service and public records from a United States District Court. Senior Camil Craciunescu, the project’s current student program director, said the group was suspended for blocking the trail and not the nudity. Jordan Hale, director and assistant dean of new student programs, declined to comment repeatedly. “I don’t have anything to say about it,” Larry Moneta, vice

In 2016, after more than 20 students participating in P-Wild were cited for public nudity, the program was suspended for one year. By Ben Leonard and Shayal Vashisth

president for student affairs, said. The program is now off probation and will return in 2018, with a number of changes to protect the safety and wellbeing of students. As part of the two-week wilderness trip, the program has usually encouraged participants to go on a 36hour isolated experience with no food. Moving forward, students will be given three meals a day throughout the 36 hours. Additionally, a supervising faculty member will now be required to go on the trip. In 2016, a faculty member accompanied the students, said Craciunescu, who was not program director at the time. However, Craciunescu added that at the time of the citations for public nudity and blocking the trail, the supervisor was not present. Craciunescu suggested the supervisor, Jan Hackett—a former physical education professor—might have been off getting groceries. “He was not at the scene, or anywhere close to it,” Craciunescu said.

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Woman forges Duke Medicine prescription for more than 8,000 pills By Jake Satisky Contributing Reporter

A North Carolina woman pleaded guilty after she was caught fraudulently obtaining more than 8,000 hydrocodone opioid pills— all using a Duke neurosurgeon’s name and DEA number. Heather Smith Elliott, from Burlington, N.C., pleaded guilty Oct. 4 in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina to two counts of using forged and fraudulent prescriptions to obtain the hydrocodone pills, one count

of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. She forged 132 prescriptions for herself, family members and friends for hydrocodone, a pain-relieving opioid and Schedule II controlled substance. The Duke neurosurgeon, whose name was not released in the Department of Justice press release, did not have Elliott—or any individuals who illegally received the pills— as patients. The neurosurgeon similarly did not provide any legitimate prescriptions to any of the associates. As unusual as this case seems, Professor of Medicine Lawrence Greenblatt argued

that it is just that—unusual. “Fraudulent prescriptions are a tiny percentage of the total of prescription pills that are being abused out there,” said Greenblatt, also co-leader of the Duke Opioid Safety Task Force. “It’s really not a significant problem.” However, Greenblatt added that he believed that physicians could learn several lessons from this case. He said doctors must be careful with their paper prescription pads, which are sent to pharmacies when a drug is prescribed. Those pads, however, may become a relic of the past with universal

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electronic prescribing, he explained. Udobi Campbell, associate chief pharmacy officer of Duke Ambulatory Pharmacy Services, stressed the importance of electronic prescribing. “We take our performance for e-prescribing very seriously at Duke,” she wrote in an email. “In fact, it is monitored as one of our medication safety metrics that is reported out to hospital leadership.” Nevertheless, not all controlled substances are prescribed electronically yet, Campbell See PILLS on Page 12 @thedukechronicle | © 2017 The Chronicle

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Good news for students looking for free condoms and advice about sex—the Peer Advocacy for Sexual Health Center is coming back this week. Although PASH’s new location in the Oasis at Bell Tower residence hall was open last Spring, logistical difficulties have prevented the center from operating so far this semester. Senior Adriana Parker, co-president of PASH, explained that the center has been waiting to hear about its application to become a chartered organization under the Student Organization Finance Committee, which will help streamline its funding. “It’s easier to get funding requests when you have a page on Duke Groups and have your own fund code,” Parker said. “It would make us more self sufficient.” PASH is currently a registered group under SOFC, which means it has to reapply for programming funds every year. Becoming a chartered group will allow it to receive a funding allocation from the SOFC annual budget. The funding is crucial to PASH because it allows the center to host events and restock safe sex supplies and brochures, Parker explained. The group’s charter application is still under review. However, PASH’s advisor Maralis Mercado, student development coordinator at the Duke Student Wellness Center, recently told the group that it could go ahead and reopen because the charter application might be a lengthy process, she explained. Because PASH’s location is in the Oasis—which is a self-care space—DuWell determines when they can actually operate. The center plans to be open from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, which coincides with times that the Oasis is open. Later in the semester, the group may extend its hours until 9 p.m. “We noticed that since we moved to East our visitation has been a lot lower,” Parker said. “The center on West was more accessible, but we still had people come by.” PASH previously operated in Griffin House on West Campus in a repurposed common room but had to relocate due to See PASH on Page 12

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percent in recent municipal general and primary elections, illustrating a town and gown divide and raising questions about undergraduates’ engagement with city issues. Home for Jay Zussman is New York, though in his third Natalie Murdock, Durham Democratic Party vice-chair for year as an undergraduate at Duke, Durham is starting to feel Precinct 5, agreed that the precinct’s voter turnout sagged in more like home too. After getting back early Tuesday morning comparison to the city’s turnout. from fall break, Zussman frequented his usual haunts— “I really think it’s because there is a university in this precinct,” Harris Teeter for groceries, then Mad Hatter Cafe to study. It Murdock said. was only three days later, on Friday, while scrolling through his Facebook feed that Zussman realized that the city had held Are Duke students Durham residents? municipal primary elections. For Zussman, the idea of voting in Durham is fundamentally “I don’t think students had any idea of when the elections different to voting as a resident of New York. Part of this is were,” he said. “Nobody who I know went to vote in the because Zussman believes that he has a stake in New York’s political issues and feels an obligation to vote. At the same time, primaries. Not a single person.” Voter turnout for Durham’s municipal elections are he is grappling with the concept of being both a Duke student generally low, with the recent primary election turnout of and a Durham resident. 13 percent representing an uptick from the eight percent “I don’t know if Duke students routinely think about the of registered residents who voted in the 2015 municipal fact that they live in Durham,” he said. “When I’m on-campus, primaries. The turnout for Precinct 5, the voting area that I definitely don’t. When I’m off-campus, I also don’t. Part of covers Duke’s West and Central Campuses, also increased, that is down to me living in [Berkshire Ninth Street apartment though still recorded the lowest turnout in the county at two complex] which is the epitome of the gentrification of Durham. percent, or 143 votes. I don’t even feel like I live in Durham there.” Steve Schewel, a city councilman and Duke professor currently Of the city’s 56 voting precincts, Durham’s Precinct 5 has historically recorded the lowest voter turnout in municipal See ELECTIONS on Page 4 elections. Voter turnout in Precinct 5 averaged below one By Andrew Tan-Delli Cicchi Contributing Reporter

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then told those students who did not want to reason for our rejection from the national before The Chronicle obtained the citations. “We go nude to not spectate. forest in general,” Craciunescu continued. don’t make them do it. We say if you ever get FROM PAGE 1 Men not affiliated with the program were He added that the U.S. Forest Service has uncomfortable with it at any point, you can come also at the rock slide area, the sources said. The received noise and other complaints about back and stay with us. But we don’t force them to Hackett confirmed he was on the trip, but upperclassmen told the men to leave, but the Project Wild groups on several different do it. It’s just highly encouraged.” did not answer questions about the group’s men refused. However, they eventually left and occasions throughout the past decade. But after Craciunescu was shown the trouble with the law. Nathan McKinnis, reported the nudity to park rangers, who later “They saw this incident where we were citations, he slightly changed how he framed managing director of recreation programs, came to the scene, the sources confirmed. restricting trail access to people we didn’t the “solos.” said Hacket is a contractual employee who The sources added that the group did not know had trail access in the first place,” he “I wouldn’t say you’re highly encouraged to do teaches wilderness first-aid. Hackett will be on pressure anyone to partake in the nudity. said. “They saw that as the final straw.” it, because we always, always make sure that they the trip again as a faculty supervisor in 2018, “It was very wholesome, no ill intent,” one According to the police report on the know. We tell them that people have done this Craciunescu said. of the former first-year students said. “There citations obtained by The Chronicle, several before, it’s completely normal to be freaked out Craciunescu said that a condition of wasn’t pressure. I wasn’t naked in any part of staff members acknowledged their efforts to and scared and if you feel like you can’t handle this, Project Wild’s reinstatement was that a that trip, but it wasn’t weird.” limit public access to the area. please come and stay with the staff,” Craciunescu Duke faculty member or someone on Duke’s According to a complaint on the citation said. “We don’t know what they’re thinking all payroll be “present on every trip and make report obtained by The Chronicle, one Taming Project Wild the time, but we give them the opportunity 100 some effort to communicate and check in camp staffer shouted “it’s time to get naked.” Other aspects of Project Wild, unrelated to the percent to come back with no judgment, because with the students.” Craciunescu denies that was ever said. nudity citations, will be revamped next year. we don’t tell any of the other crew members that However, Project Wild will continue to be Craciunescu insists that Project Wild was A signature part of the program—“solos,” they came back early.” dominated by students, he noted. suspended and denied a permit by Pisgah in which students separate and live by Another change to the program will require “When it comes students to participate down to planning The culture of the program is up to the students, and the University doesn’t have a in trail maintenance every single logistical services with the say in that unless they think something is egregiously wrong. aspect, it’s up to the guidance of the students. The culture Pisgah Conservancy, a CAMIL CRACIUNESCU of the program is up nonprofit that supports TRINITY SENIOR to the students, and the the forest. University doesn’t have a say in that unless National Forest solely because it restricted trail themselves for 36 hours with no food and just In March and August, Project Wild they think something is egregiously wrong,” access to the rock slide. The organization had water and shelter supplies—will be amended. upperclassmen staff members completed trial Craciunescu said. “a couple” staffers on each end of the trail to Students will now receive food, Craciunescu runs of the service—clearing brush, irrigating ensure that no one was “disturbing their privacy,” said, noting that students traditionally receive trails and rebuilding portions of the trail. ‘It’s time to get naked’ Craciunescu said. He said the group blocked off maps and whistles, and cannot be solo outside Also included in their service was removing Multiple former first-year students who the trail to passengers in a car that wanted to drive of whistle range. invasive species and hauling lumber “three were on the trip in 2016 and whose identity through, who then went to the rangers. “If people who potentially have eating miles up a slope,” Craciunescu said. have been protected for fear of retaliation said “We thought because we reserved the disorders are put in a situation where they’re He added that the Forest Service actively that Project Wild reserved the forest’s Cove campground that it was our private space for the forced to not eat for 36 hours, that could trigger monitored the Project Wild campers, paying visits Creek Group Camping Area. This included a weekend,” Craciunescu said. “So we had a couple certain behavior that maybe they’ve been to the base routinely to check in on them. natural rock water slide in a secluded location staffers stationed at the entrance of the second working to correct,” Craciunescu said. Hale, the director and assistant dean of new off a trail between two open campgrounds. campground to make sure no one was disturbing Students are usually not told about the student programs, said the number of staff The students said camp staffers told them that our privacy. We had the same situation set up at solos before they go on the two-week trip. members will also be reduced from roughly 60 they could go down the slide if they wanted to, the other end of the trail.” But, participants have gone on the solos since to 40—a cut that has been instituted across all partially clothed at first. “They came in and investigated and found the program started in 1974. The solos are pre-orientation programs. But later, the upperclassmen announced people there who were blocking trail access, intended to be a period of self-reflection for “It’s to make the programs run more that some people were going to do the slide which is seen as a very egregious offense in first-years, Craciunescu said. See P-WILD on Page 4 nude, the sources said. The upperclassmen the eyes of the U.S. Forest Service—the whole “It’s highly encouraged,” Craciunescu said

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introduction to experiential education that aims to “prepare people to become stewards and staffers of the outdoors.” FROM PAGE 3 The program will also modify its emphasis on non-directive leadership that tended to put the first-years in charge of dayefficiently and it’s to make sure we support first-year students to-day decisions. Before, the first-years would choose where in a way that is adequate and that they have a good experience,” to camp, which trail to take and what they’re going to eat for Hale said. “We have a lot of people who come to campus early dinner, among other decisions. Now, if a group of first-years and a lot of people who are here for camps, so our team and “decides to do something that could be detrimental to the facilities really have a hard time doing any projects.” group or organization as a whole, staffers have the obligation As a result of the cuts, Project Wild made the application to to step in and be directive,” Craciunescu said. become an upperclassman staffer or crew leader more competitive, “[The first-years] are usually the ones running the trip because Craciunescu said. Staffers have to be more involved, including it’s their trip, but we’re here to help if they have any questions,” helping out with a house course that Project Wild directs—an Craciunescu said. “It’s that kind of independence that we give them

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that has led to a lot of the problems that we’ve had with making our presence too known in the forest. The staff will be much more directive if they see something questionable.” In addition to the focus on mental health awareness, Project Wild is now focusing more on gender role awareness, Craciunescu said. The organization has someone from the Women’s Center speak at every staff training, which lasts three or four days, Craciunescu said. “P-Wild is a pretty liberal-leaning organization and everyone is pretty open and accepting, but inevitably there are going to be some issues that are going to arise,” Craciunescu said. “It’s good to know what issues could arise and how to cut them out.”

be first and foremost Blue Devils. She added that using Duke’s resources to push students to vote in an election that has a generally low citywide turnout would lead to students having a “weirdly loud voice.”

organizing strategies. In addition to Duke’s campus, the precinct comprises the FROM PAGE 2 Damar Court and Morreene Road public housing complexes and the Crest Street neighborhood, a predominantly Africanrunning to be Durham’s mayor, left Lynchburg, Va., to attend American community with labor ties to the University. Duke as an undergraduate. Schewel said he agreed that most Duke Unique challenges for Precinct 5 Murdock said selecting locations for election events has also students do not feel as though Durham is their home. Even as student engagement is a factor in voter turnout, the been challenging, with residents unable to come to campus and “I think student turnout is low because there are relatively precinct’s turnout rate may in fact be skewed lower due to a students unwilling to go off campus. few Duke students who are invested in Durham,” he said. “Some disproportionately high number of registered voters. According “If you do something that’s convenient for Duke students, certainly are, but most don’t regard Durham as their home in the to Derek Bowens, the elections director at the Durham County it’s more than likely not convenient for Morreene Road, Damar same way they regard where they came from as their home. They Board of Elections, 3,143 of the precinct’s 8,074 registered voters Court or Crest Street residents,” she said. don’t see it as particularly salient in their life.” have an inactive status. This asymmetry extends to the precinct’s poll site—located In comparison to the campus-wide drive to vote in the 2016 at W.I. Patterson Recreation Center—in the heart of the Crest presidential elections, student groups have been notably less Street community north of Duke Hospital. vocal in pushing students to vote in municipal elections. The Murdock, however, said she had heard that the location city’s turnout rate for the presidential election was 68 percent, “may not be the most accessible” for residents of public with 583 votes cast in Precinct 5. For senior Liz Brown, vice housing units. Percent of registered residents that president for Durham and regional affairs for Duke Student Even as challenges remain, this year’s primary voter voted from Precinct 5, the area that Government, pushing students to vote in city elections presented turnout represents a steady increase from the 0.5 percent and covers West and Central Campuses a different ethical dilemma. 0.8 percent turnout of the previous two municipal primaries. “It’s not that Duke students shouldn’t vote in Durham Brown and Schewel said they are optimistic that, among elections,” Brown said. “But...we shouldn’t just be making Bowens said most of the inactive voters are probably students, the narrative of the University’s relationship with students vote because they are Duke students. I don’t think that students who registered in Durham and then moved away after Durham is changing. the undergraduate student voice is the voice that needs to be graduation. They cannot be removed from the registration rolls For Schewel, the question of voting as a Duke student is heard in the city’s election.” until they have been inactive for two federal election cycles, rather simple. Many students are not well-informed on the election’s Bowens explained. “If you think to yourself that you’re not really a Durham resident defining issues of gentrification, affordable housing, policing Without the inactive voters, the voter turnout would be and you don’t really care about Durham, then you shouldn’t vote,” and poverty, which marginally impact students’ lives, she said. three percent, still the lowest in the county. Another reason for he said. “But if you’re committed to Durham and you think of Though some students may consider themselves to be Durham this may be the diverse mix of demographics in the precinct, yourself during your time here as a Durham resident in your four citizens, Brown said there are others who consider themselves to which makes it difficult for political groups to develop collective years here, then voting should be important.”

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MAKING SENSE OF THE CRAZINESS Allen’s big night, O’Connell’s game-winning triple highlight season kickoff event

By Mitchell Gladstone Sports Managing Editor

It was an exciting night for the fans at Cameron Indoor Stadium Friday, as Duke kicked off its 2017-18 campaign with the ninth edition of Countdown to Craziness. The Blue team knocked off the White team by a score of 43-41. Here are our 10 observations from the intrasquad scrimmage and festivities: 1. The Blue Devils split their roster into the following teams: Blue: Trevon Duval, Gary Trent Jr., Javin DeLaurier, Antonio Vrankovic and Wendell Carter Jr. with Alex O’Connell, Justin Robinson and Mike Buckmire coming off the bench. White: Grayson Allen, Jordan Goldwire, Marques Bolden, Marvin Bagley III and Jack White with Jordan Tucker and Brennan Besser in reserve roles. 2. Play of the night: Duval’s off-the-glass jam The highlight-reel moment of the night, without a doubt, came from the freshman point guard. Duval found himself wide open headed toward the south end of the floor and lobbed one off the backboard before throwing it down himself for a thunderous one-handed jam. Coach K did not seemed too pleased, though, simply crossing his arms and shaking his head afterward. “I’ll probably hear about it, but hey, I was having fun,” Duval said.

the Blue team up by a pair. After a White timeout, Allen looked for Bagley on a lob toward the rim, but the 6-foot-11 freshman was unable to grab the ball and put it down, giving Blue the twopoint victory.

3. Coming up clutch It was right down to the wire in the scrimmage, as Blue and White battled for bragging rights. With 22 seconds remaining and his team trailing 41-40, O’Connell drained a corner triple to put

4. Player of the game: Gary Trent Jr. Although Allen is the unquestioned leader, Trent led his Blue team quite well, posting 13 points on 5-of-10 shooting with a trio of 3-pointers and an assist. The 6-foot-6 guard

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Grayson Allen knocked down four triples and won the dunk contest by jumping over two cheerleaders. sparked a solo 6-0 run with consecutive buckets from beyond the arc to bring his team from down five to up one. “Gary is strong physically and just way ahead of a normal freshman as far as physical maturity,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “He played away from home, going out to the West Coast his senior year, so that pays dividends. You’re much more ready to play.” Allen and Trent went head-to-head on both ends of the floor and their in-practice competition

should help each other develop as the Blue Devils get ready for regular-season play. 5. Trevon Duval and Jordan Goldwire run the point As expected, Duval took control of ballhandling duties for the Blue squad, showing off his speed and natural ability to lead an offense. The 6-foot-3 freshman finished the contest with See COUNTDOWN on Page 8

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Duke blows 10-point lead in fourth straight loss By Ben Feder Staff Writer

After dropping three straight games and watching a 17-7 lead slip away in the second half, the Blue Devils still had a chance deep in Pittsburgh territory to score a game-tying

touchdown with less than a minute left. Tight end Daniel Helm got his left hand on a pass over the middle at about the 10yard line, but could not corral it, as the ball popped into the air for Panther defensive back Jordan Whitehead to intercept it. For the third week in a row, a promising Duke drive in the

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Shaun Wilson’s 58-yard catch and run put Duke in front, but the Blue Devils could not maintain the lead.

waning moments had come up short. Pittsburgh handed the Blue Devils their fourth straight loss by a score of 24-17 at Wallace Wade Stadium Saturday. Duke was scoreless in the fourth quarter and had several missed opportunities to put points on the board. After the Panthers gifted the Blue Devils a second chance by committing a pass interference penalty on fourth-and-23 with eight minutes left, Austin Parker missed a 36yard field goal that would have cut it to one, his second failed attempt of the day. Pittsburgh added a field goal on its ensuing drive, and Duke could not respond with a touchdown, blowing a double-digit lead for the first time since 2014. “We’ve been trying to find answers. Obviously, not enough of them have been found,” Blue Devil head coach David Cutcliffe said. “At times, what we’ve done is created ourselves new problems.” Duke (4-4, 1-4 in the ACC) was uncharacteristically sloppy throughout the game, committing seven penalties—including three on offsides during special teams opportunities. And the Blue Devils had no answer for a complex Panthers rushing attack that featured pre-snap motion on nearly every play. Junior running back Darrin Hall busted free for two

touchdowns of at least 75 yards—including a program-record 92-yard score to cut into the 10-point deficit in the third quarter— and tacked on another in the fourth quarter to give Pittsburgh (3-5, 1-3) the lead it never relinquished. Hall finished the day with 254 rushing yards on 24 carries. “We practice [our run defense] every day,” redshirt sophomore linebacker Joe GilesHarris said. “They’re very good backs, and if you give them a little space, they’re going to break away.” Hall’s third touchdown did not come without controversy, though. After completing a 25-yard pass to wide receiver Jester Weah to kickstart the go-ahead seven-play, 95-yard drive, Panthers’ quarterback Ben DiNucci looked for Weah once again down the middle of the field. But with sophomore cornerback Mark Gilbert right on Weah’s hip, the two went up for the ball and battled to the ground. Eventually, the pass was ruled a 49-yard catch on simultaneous possession, moving the ball into the red zone, despite video evidence seemingly showing Gilbert initially catching the ball. “I didn’t think it was simultaneous See FOOTBALL on Page 9

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Blue Devil run defense fails to contain Panthers By Alex Sanfilippo Staff Writer

Three games, three losses by a touchdown. To say that Duke’s season hangs in the balance would be a gross understatement. And after another head-scratching loss filled with unnecessary miscues, more questions than answers seemed to be on the mind of head coach David Cutcliffe in his postgame press conference. At the season’s peak, following an emphatic 2717 win over Tobacco Road rival North Carolina, it seemed as if everything that needed to fall into place was doing so. The defense convincingly stopped one of the nation’s most athletic teams in Baylor and held first-team All-Big Ten running back Justin Jackson to a mere 18 yards in the second week of the season. Against a Pittsburgh team absent its starting quarterback and winless in the ACC, every opportunity was there for the Blue Devils to take advantage. Duke could have predicted the Panthers would lean on their ground game after

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Joe Giles-Harris had three tackles for loss Saturday.

the loss of redshirt senior Max Browne. But the Panthers somehow torched the Duke defense for 336 yards on the ground, spearheaded by junior Darrin Hall’s record-setting afternoon. In two weeks, the Blue Devils have fallen from No. 7 to No. 40 in the nation in run defense. “We missed assignments,” redshirt sophomore Joe Giles-Harris said. “[It was] a lack of focus, and that’s it. We didn’t make enough plays.” Two Daniel Jones touchdown throws to start the third quarter created a stark momentum shift in the Blue Devils’ favor following an uneventful first half. That momentum was only amplified after the Duke special teams unit pinned Pittsburgh inside its own 10-yard line on the ensuing kickoff. But with 23 seconds left in the quarter, Hall went untouched for 92 yards on the first play of the drive to shatter a 100-year old Panther record for the longest touchdown run in program history. That 92-yarder came after Hall’s 79-yard dash put Pittsburgh on the board in the first quarter. The Youngstown, Ohio, native finished with 254 rushing yards and three scores despite entering the contest with only 108 yards all season. “You may be playing the play that’s going to win or lose the game every down,” Blue Devil head coach David Cutcliffe said. “I don’t think I saw us playing that down like that.... You get a team in that circumstance where we covered a kickoff that well after scoring to go up by 10. You need to play that play like it’s going to win the game. Without seeing it [on film], I know we didn’t.” It was clear from the start that redshirt sophomore quarterback Ben DiNucci looked relatively raw and tentative in the pocket, leading Duke defensive coordinator Jim Knowles to dial up the pressure early on. The Blue Devils succeeded in containing DiNucci, who finished with just eight completions for 149 yards, but they failed to contain the run. The Panthers rushed a whopping 57 times, averaging 5.9 yards per carry. The inability to generate stops on first and second down led to manageable third downs that opened up an array of options.

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Darrin Hall broke loose for 254 yards and two long touchdowns after entering the game with only 108 rushing yards all season. Duke’s early success defending the run has evaporated as quickly as it materialized, and it is clear that the Blue Devils need to make adjustments to get back to their winning ways. Duke travels to Blacksburg, Va. next week to play No. 14 Virginia Tech, a team that averages nearly 180 yards on the ground. It then grapples with Army and Georgia Tech, two option teams known for their ability to beat opponents with the run game. Beyond the run defense, a lack of consistency on all sides of the ball resulted in another frustrating setback for the Blue Devils. That inconsistency was on display in Duke’s final two drives in the fourth quarter, when it had a chance to bring the game closer both times. In the first opportunity, Austin Parker missed a 36-yard field goal to spoil a promising drive, and Pittsburgh ran the ball down the field, took the clock from 8:00 to 1:34 and kicked a field goal to go up by seven. The Panthers nearly

doubled Duke’s time of possession during the game, as their running backs wore down the Blue Devils’ front six. On Duke’s final drive, the narrative repeated. Jones and the Blue Devils went from their own 27-yard line to the Pittsburgh 29 in less than 45 seconds, before a pass off the hands of Daniel Helm was intercepted, ending the game. Whether the team cannot execute in clutch situations or lacks a go-to weapon remains unclear, but as the same story repeats itself week after week, there is one thing that is for certain: the ship, once cruising, has started to take on water. That leaves an urgent question—how big is their bucket? “You’ve got to put your boots on, get your lunchpail and go to work every day,” Giles-Harris said. “Just because things hit you one way, you can’t fold up, and that’s not what we’re going to do. We’re going to go out and keep fighting and do what we have to do to produce some wins.”

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Greenwell, Brown control Blue-White scrimmage By Dani Schneider Contributing Reporter

The Blue Devils played their annual BlueWhite scrimmage Sunday afternoon at Cameron Indoor Stadium, as the White Team topped the Blue Team 111-50 after featuring most of Duke’s veterans in the first half. Here are five of the biggest takeaways from the Blue Devils’ debut. 1. White Team showcases potential starters? The White Team started Leaonna Odom, Rebecca Greenwell, Erin Mathias, Lexie Brown and Mikayla Boykin and had Bego Faz Davalos off the bench. With the team’s top returning players as well as two highly touted newcomers in Boykin and Davalos, it took a 61-25 lead at halftime. The Blue Team’s starting five included Jade Williams, Jayda Adams, Faith Suggs, Madison Treece and Haley Gorecki, with Emily Schubert coming off of the bench. After the first half, Williams and Gorecki switched to the White Team, and Greenwell and Mathias took their spots on the Blue Team for the third quarter. Greenwell and Mathias returned

to White for the fourth quarter, swapping with Boykin and Davalos. 2. An All-American performance The Blue Devil squad consists of two preseason All-American guards in Greenwell and Brown. They both lived up to their preseason hype and showed leadership on the court, especially with plays like Greenwell’s behind-the-back save in the first quarter that led to one of many 3-pointers and Brown’s 3-point buzzer beater to end the third quarter. Greenwell led all scorers with 33 points—27 for White and six for Blue—and Brown added 24 for the White Team. “We can go all the way down the bench, to be honest,” Brown said. “Of course Becca and I are going to be the core of this squad since we’ve been working so hard together and I love playing with her, but anybody on this team can go off for 30, 20, 10 rebounds. We have so many weapons for this team and I can’t wait to show it off.” 3. Erin Mathias: A powerhouse in the paint Mathias, a senior post player who may step See W. BASKETBALL on Page 9

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Rebecca Greenwell led all scorers with 33 points in the Blue-White scrimmage and knocked down seven 3-pointers.

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COUNTDOWN FROM PAGE 6 four points and three assists. Interestingly enough, though, it was Goldwire and not Allen running the White team offense. Goldwire knocked down a pair of triples and looked comfortable running the offense, allowing plenty of space for Allen to get to open and pour in 13 points of his own. 6. Maybe the Blue Devils will be able to shoot after all At Duke’s media day, Krzyzewski said that this Blue Devil team might not be the 3-point shooting threat that it has been in past seasons. But you wouldn’t have known that watching Friday’s game. “We’ve got some great shooters—Alex

O’Connell, Jack White, Grayson Allen,” Trent said. “We’ve got a lot of people who can shoot threes.” Four of the first eight made field goals were 3-pointers—one each from Carter, Goldwire, O’Connell and Tucker. Several others joined the party later on, and the teams finished a combined 14-of-32 from beyond the arc. 7. Grayson Allen looks like a man on a mission Allen wasn’t returning to Durham for his senior season without a reason. He knocked down shot after shot and looked like a leader on the court. Krzyzewski said earlier this month that Allen is not necessarily a vocal leader, but he makes his presence known on the court. He spent much of the night going oneon-one with Trent on the defensive end, and although Trent knocked down three triples in

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Trevon Duval made the play of the night with a pass off the backboard to himself for a onehanded alley-oop.

the latter minutes, Allen responded with a nice transition takeaway as the Blue squad looked to pull away late. 8. Bringing back the dunk contest After a couple years off, the ever-popular tradition returned to Countdown with celebrity judges Marshall Plumlee, President Vincent Price and his wife, Annette, cheerleader Sydnei Murphy and the Blue Devil himself. Following an exciting qualifying round, Duval and Allen advanced to the finals. Duval may have wasted his best dunks in the opening round—his 98 points led the team, but he mustered a big fat 0 in the finals. Allen finished the night by lining up not one, but two Duke cheerleaders and dunking right over them for the easy win. Allen picked up both the dunk contest title and a third straight Iron Duke award for strength and conditioning in the offseason. 9. Best and worst dancer awards On the positive side of things, DeLaurier had by far the best moves of the night, but a surprise contender for runner-up was walkon junior Brennan Besser. And Allen got the Cameron Crazies fired up with “Everytime We Touch,” nearly knocking over every computer on press row. “I liked the fact that [Allen’s] song was really the song of our students, of our team,” Krzyzewski said. “That sends a great message, and that’s the way he’s been practicing, playing and is approaching the year.” At the bottom of the introduction power rankings would be Justin Robinson and White, who barely even tried to show off some moves. Also, I’m not quite sure what Vrankovic was trying to do—he showed off his muscles with some primal scream, but I don’t know if that qualifies as dancing or not.

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Marvin Bagley III threw down a couple dunks and scored 12 points in his debut. 10. Zion Williamson is a freak of nature It doesn’t take much more than a quick glance to see why the South Carolinian is ranked as the No. 2 overall prospect in ESPN’s Class of 2018 rankings. Williamson is listed at 6-foot-6 and 272 pounds, but in person, he looks more like 6-foot-8. Duke already has a solid 2018 class coming in with Cameron Reddish and Tre Jones, but the addition of No. 1 R.J. Barrett and Williamson would be massive—both literally and figuratively. Also in attendance Friday were 2019 recruits Matthew Hurt, Armando Bacot and Joey Baker as well as 2020 recruits Isaiah Todd and RJ Hampton. Todd is the No. 1 player in the Class of 2020 and Hurt is No. 5 in the 2019 class.

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FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 6 possession. I wanted to know who caught it, simultaneous, because that’s non-reviewable,” Cutcliffe said. “Unless I don’t see things right, the jumbotron didn’t look simultaneous. It looked as if Mark Gilbert caught the ball and it was wrestled to a tie.” Earlier in the game, Jones struggled to get into a rhythm, throwing for just 59 yards in the first half. Just when the Blue Devils seemed to get their offense going with two consecutive penalties, Jones was hit from behind by Pittsburgh cornerback Avonte Maddox and coughed up the ball, with the Panthers recovering. But Jones hit his stride in the third quarter. After getting a defensive stop out of halftime, Jones found a wide-open Wilson

up the seam, and Wilson scampered 58 yards for a touchdown to give Duke its first lead of the game at 10-7. Wilson was uncovered from the start of the play, as a defensive miscommunication helped Jones make an easy throw for his first touchdown in two weeks. Jones then continued his hot start to the second half with a 39-yard touchdown toss to junior wide receiver T.J. Rahming, who led the Blue Devils with eight receptions and 142 yards. But Duke never scored again and could not maintain the advantage. The Blue Devils will look to bounce back next Saturday at 7:20 p.m. at No. 14 Virginia Tech. “We’re not a high-performing football team right now,” Cutcliffe said. “We need more from me. They’re getting ready to get a whole lot of me.”

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Erin Mathias led all Blue Devils with nine rebounds and also added three blocks and a steal to round out an impressive defensive day.

W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 7 into a major role this season after the departure of Oderah Chidom, impressed in Sunday’s scrimmage all over the court, but especially in the paint with several defensive rebounds, lay-ups and blocks. She nearly finished with a double-double with 14 points and a gamehigh nine rebounds, and the Pittsburgh native added to her impressive defensive performance with three blocks and a steal.

5. Mikayla Boykin struggles in her first appearance in Cameron The Clinton, N.C. native, who had outstanding high school stats and was named to the Newcomer Watch List at ACC Media Day last week, had trouble living up to lofty expectations 4. Turnovers could cause problems as the Sunday. She scored just three points in the first season begins half and none in the second half after averaging A recurring problem for the program, 37.4 as a senior in high school. “She learned a lot from today, in terms of turnovers played a major role again in Sunday’s scrimmage—the two squads combined for what it takes to play at this level and the kind of 37 giveaways in 40 minutes of play. Although conditioning,” Blue Devil head coach Joanne P. Brown and Greenwell took care of the ball in McCallie said. “Mikayla has awesome, awesome The New York Times Syndication Corporation potential, and she’s going to have to really the backcourt, potential frontcourt startersSales 620 Bego Eighth New York, N.Y. 10018 dedicate every day to get into that place.” Erin Mathias and FazAvenue, Davalos combined

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Pittsburgh rallied from a 10-point second-half deficit to beat Duke for the third straight year and earn its first ACC win of the season.

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Planning for a better Duke

dministrators recently released a blueprint for the university’s new strategic plan, titled “Together Duke: Advancing Excellence Through Community.” The new plan emphasizes three major focal points: building up the natural sciences, opening doors for graduate students and improving global engagement. As with the previous 2006 strategic plan from the early Brodhead era, it is likely that the new strategic plan will heavily influence the direction of Duke for the next ten or so years. Consequently, it is important that the student community understands exactly what these long-term theoretical goals will actually entail for the greater Duke community, and voice our collective opinions and concerns. One of the major goals of the new strategic plan calls for the strengthening of the natural science departments at Duke. Although the strategic plan includes provisions to allocate large amounts of funds ($132 million) into faculty research, hires and infrastructural improvements, a true commitment to innovation entails more than simply pumping large amounts of capital into specific departments. In considering our move towards improving the natural sciences at Duke, we must also revolutionize the ways we go about teaching them. Additionally, Provost Kornbluth has specifically vowed that in the face of these improvements, other

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departments will not be neglected. As Duke progresses with said plans, administrators should stay true to such a holistic approach and continue to strengthen other departments outside of the sciences with similar levels of commitment. The plan also includes an emphasis on “opening doors for graduate students at the university” to ensure that every student, and not just undergraduates, benefit fully from the Duke experience. As of now, the proposal seems to focus on expanding integrated

Editorial Board research involving interdisciplinary collaborations between faculty members, undergraduates and graduate students. In doing so, the university needs to open its mind to labor issues often expressed by graduate students. Incorporation needs to be more meaningful than simply using graduate students as cheap instruments of faculty augmentation. Administrators, when implementing the plan, should endeavor to integrate them as purposeful members of the community in their own right and not just elements of the undergraduate experience. Finally, similarly to the last strategic plan, the last major goal of the new plan underlines the continued

commitment of the University to engage with the world in its role as a global research institution. In this renewed commitment to global engagement, Duke should actively seek to reform and make structural improvements to its signature global service initiatives, such as DukeEngage. If Duke is to truly “become a leader globally” through this plan, such global-minded institutions within the University structure need to be better adapted to truly benefit the world at large instead of merely representing civic education opportunities for elite Duke students. The new strategic plan represents an important blueprint for Duke that will likely influence the University for the duration of President Price’s tenure. Importantly, the university has only just unveiled the blueprint upon which real programming and change will begin. As students—members of the Duke community who will likely be most affected by the anticipated reforms within the University structure—we should voice our concerns and opinions as the administration moves forward with implementing the plan over the next few years. Consequently, as the strategic plan progresses, the administration should maintain a spirit of transparent communication with the University at large. True to the title of the plan, “Together Duke,” this new vision should represent a future in which all members of the Duke community remain actively involved.

An inconsolable longing

he breath of autumn carries red leaves in the afternoon, sighing at the beautifully dying world. I dream and smell and look for home, and I’m there, though it is impossibly far away. We idealize home, that of the past, like we idealize our past selves. We yearn for our childhoods, the innocence and tendency toward wonder that has

Jaxson Floberg FILLING THE VOID since escaped our cynical, developed minds. I often hear a song or watch a movie that reminds me of my family, the way it used to be, and think, “What wouldn’t I give to go back?” But we can’t go home again. We can’t restore what no longer exists. Home is but the hazy tint on our memories that reminds us exactly why it is we must slowly lose those memories. The romanticization of memory grows as memory fades for the simple reason that we will never be back again, that we must acknowledge our existence as the extremely finite sum of our experiences, and recognize our own mortality in the ever-increasing breadth of our past. We lose memory to escape from this paralyzing reality, ensuring that we live in a present unhaunted by the constant flow of time. We lose, and romanticize what’s left. Home. But I can’t go home again. I shouldn’t go home again. That home seems so perfect, but it was perfect for a different person, a different version of me with different passions and different goals, envisioning a future that never came to be. As an idealized future manifests itself into an unremarkable present, my goals inevitably evolve, and my character alongside them, slowly forming me into someone else entirely. I couldn’t go home again, not now, not without realizing home isn’t what I thought it was in my naivety—going home would only tarnish the perfection, the rosy tint through which I sadly smile. And so, home must be something else. It must be, for I feel its pull in the first chill of autumn, the first reminder of the balance of the world, the ebb and flow of life and death and time. There is an inconsolable longing that exists in all of us for a home to which we have never been, Home, an amalgamation of feelings and images of

some place far away where we truly belong. It is the future we idealize in our present, the way we wish we could live our lives and the way we still hope to. In these moments of Home, past and future fade away into quiet breath—my breath, the breath of a friend, the quiet hum of the breath of the earth and the autumn. Time is not suspended, for lack of a medium of suspension. There is only crisp, pure air. Time fades. Life, for a moment, is no longer the defiance of death. Death does not live in this moment, and I do not move towards it; death is so far away, so unreachable. Life is no antithesis here; it is the simple act of breathing, the breeze. I feel Home at Duke all the time, as the leaves change and drape the stone in shades of red and yellow. I walk through woods to places on campus I’ve never been with people who don’t feel the need to speak over the breath of the world. I hear sincerity in voices and feel soft wool on my skin. These are the images of a forest in Colorado in the evening, when the aspens have flooded the earth gold to the horizon, intermingling with evergreens under the patchily overcast sky. Red leaves tremble as I do in the chill, warmed again by the falling sun through the clouds. My Home is not a memory. It is not the past. I long not to go back. My Home isn’t mine, not in the usual sense, because I belong to it rather than the other way around. It is a romanticization of my present self and thinks nothing of the past. Home is the autumn and the autumn is she, her red leaves among the gold. They warm my cheeks ruddy and smile, she and they the same, sie und sie, see and sea and she and me. But soft and drunk on comfortable warmth in the cold, skin on skin, blood on blood, the intimacies of intimacy whispering into each other’s sighs. Content and burning. In the lifelong process of dying, we seek only to experience enough to be content with ourselves when our time is over. We live and remember and change; we yearn to go back though we know we can’t; we come to appreciate the present and the things that make this ridiculous life worth it, all in the name of Home—where we come from, where we’re headed, what lies beyond this life. Leaves turn and change in the same way, dying alongside the world, alongside me. I am Home, beautifully dying in the evening, experiencing and breathing, carried by the wind in the breath of autumn. I float as music into the rafters, and I am home. Jaxson Floberg is a Trinity sophomore. His column, “filling the void” runs on alternate Mondays.

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Sisters hold monthly meeting on quitting sorority

ast Tuesday night, seven sisters convened their monthly open discussion on how they’re all “literally two seconds away” from quitting their top-tier sorority. While this is the first instance covered by Monday Monday, anonymous sources confirm that 100% of sorority pledge classes carry out these conversations discretely throughout the entire year, in hotspots such as ABP and latenights in [omitted] “section.” The discussion began with one sister’s “horror story” of the other night’s mixer. The source was “absolutely enraged” by the offensive theme that she, too, voted for. “I mean, obviously I wasn’t going to vote against it when they sent the poll out–it was the clear favorite. But dressing up for it, showing up, taking pictures for my Insta, having to watch everyone sing those awful songs alongside me?” The sister shook her head incredulously. “I was really f***ing upset.” Several others confirmed that yes, they had also felt the same way despite expressing nothing of the sort either publicly or privately at the time. Even the seniors above them, apparently, thought that last year’s Cinco de Mayo “incident” would have been the last straw–especially after the subsequent “inclusivity” forum. It didn’t take long, though, for the conversation to turn to the Greek hierarchy– reported as the number one point of complaint among those who benefit from

it the most. “When I didn’t get invited to the mixer last week even though I know like all the guys,” said one exasperated sophomore, “I felt so, so bad about myself.” The sister to her right, notorious for ignoring non-Greek peers on the quad, nodded in agreement. “Greek life just does

get carried away here.” When later asked if they were open to mixing with [omitted] in follow-up to the diversity comment, the same social chair responded, “oh, um…is that, like, the multicultural one?” After a minute of puzzled looks, she concluded, that “I guess

Monday Monday NOT NOT TRUE this excluding sh*t to you…It’s like they want you to be this pawn in their game. And every time you’re not selected to play, it just takes something out of you.” Others nodded as the girl across the table interjected a related point. “I’ve seriously had enough with being compared to other girls,” she said of the “sexist” and “objectifying” internal process of sorting sisters into A-, B-, and C-lists. “It’s so horrible and pointless. We all know we’re the most attractive ones on campus anyway–like, we all got bids. I’m so done.” “Forget this ‘key three’ bull***t,” said the sister to her right. “Why don’t we just have a core four?” Her suggestion received a round of furious snapping from the homogenous group. “That’s what we need,” confirmed another, who then clarified that a “power five,” however, was “just too much. I mean, let’s not

statistical argument by adding that yes, [omitted] had been her top choice during rush. “No, I didn’t get in–what does that have to do with anything?” “I mean, the problem is, I already paid dues,” said one social chair of the quitting process. “Like it’s a sunk cost, so I might as well get something out of it for a little while longer.” Despite being miserable, it just “didn’t make sense” for her to quit yet. “Definitely next year though.” Other problems cited among “soon-to-be” ex-sisters included “waste-of-time” chapter meetings, mandatory dinners with “friends I don’t even like,” and going to mixers the night before an exam: all of which are “unavoidable” issues of sorority membership. Further polling results ultimately show that most Duke sorority sisters hold the same view–sure, they might largely be intelligent, compassionate and fascinating individuals, but complaining about a group they “hate” while doing nothing about it will surely achieve the best results. After all, Martin Luther King Jr. did say, “if only we could get more talkers and less doers.” When several fraternity brothers were asked if they held these same discussions about their own organizations, they replied, “Why would we do that?”

different perspectives might not be a bad thing, right? At least the conversation could be good.” The meetings for two other unnamed sororities followed much of the same pattern. One senior, when interviewed after her own pledge class’ discussion, said, “Look–what’s the harm in talking? I am going to quit–I’ve been saying it for years.” But if not, she added, “At least I shared, right?” Sororities also didn’t shy away from explicitly naming other groups during these meetings. “It’s literally disgusting how non-diverse the higher-tier groups are,” lambasted a junior in a “middle-tier” sorority. “At least our groups all look different.” Monday Monday expects this piece to The student, who nonetheless “wasn’t dismantle the student body’s deeply embedded really loving” her sorority, followed up this perceptions about Duke’s social hierarchy.

In defense of the news media

ith the inauguration of Trump’s chorus of media-bashing regulations on carbon emissions. His President Trump and a enablers has extended to Duke, where a baseless claim that millions voted illegally Congress in Republican Chronicle columnist who had previously in 2016 justified his creation of a so-called control, it was clear that there would be asserted that Stephen Miller’s “individual “voter integrity commission,” whose goal few checks on this administration. A contributions to the development of this is to suppress turnout among minorities handful of Republicans might express university are undeniable,” recently trashed and younger voters. And his repeated discontent with some of the president’s the media’s critical role in American lies that there is no evidence that Russia more outlandish remarks. Yet the vast democracy by equating Trump’s denigration interfered in the 2016 election—despite majority would be content to go along to of the news media with the media’s supposed the unanimous conclusion of the U.S. repeal the Affordable Care Act and enact “credibility crisis.” intelligence community—impede effective massive tax cuts for the wealthy. It quickly To understand why this notion of media policy that can prevent a future attack on our became apparent that there would be only culpability is fallacious, it is important to nation’s sovereign political processes. two checks on the president’s potential consider Trump’s penchant for lies. Reports Is there really a moral equivalence abuse of power: the rule of law and the have shown that Trump has lied virtually between Trump’s blatant lies and reporters’ news media. every day he has been president. His lies attempts to do their job in such a challenging Throughout the year, federal judges— span from the trivial, such as his inflation of political environment? Is a supposed including some appointed by Republican the crowd size at his inauguration and claim “credibility crisis” facing mainstream media presidents—have ruled that the Muslim ban is unconstitutional, even as President Trump has sought to undermine the judiciary’s constitutional role as an independent check on the executive by ridiculing those judges COLUMNIST with which he disagrees. The free press has exposed Trump’s business ties to Russia, connections between to be the most “presidential” leader since outlets really the fault of reporters who members of his campaign and Russian Lincoln, to more consequential untruths, generally strive for objectivity, or is it due officials, and conflicts of interest as a result such as his denial of climate change, his more to the fact that the president prefers of his refusal to make public his tax returns moral equivalency whoppers about the to attack reporters personally, rather than or divest of his assets. protestors in Charlottesville, and his address the content in their articles? Would Not surprisingly—given that Candidate repeated canards about the Affordable Care the nation really be better served by a servile Trump promised to loosen libel laws to sue Act failing. media a la some tin pot republic, as Trump reporters—President Trump has reacted Trump’s lies have enormous and his supporters on campus and elsewhere angrily to any challenges to his version of consequences on issues affecting the seem to prefer? reality. He has dubbed outlets he dislikes American people. His untruths on To be sure, in the course of fulfilling “fake news” and referred to a free press as “the healthcare justified legislation that would their mission, reporters should be careful enemy of the people.” He recently threatened have stripped coverage from tens of about how they use anonymous sources. To to revoke NBC News’ broadcasting millions and raised premiums on the most provide transparency to readers, it is always license. Trump’s chorus of enablers in the vulnerable. His lies regarding the economy preferable to identify sources. Anonymity administration and on Capitol Hill have support massive tax cuts for himself and should only be granted as a last resort, and abetted his ruthless attacks by expressing his family (including more than $1 billion only if the protection of a person’s identity contempt for media outlets not named Fox in estate tax savings for the Trumps alone) is important to convey vital information News, barring reporters from filming in the and the wealthy that will blow a hole in to the public. Yet, anonymous sources have Senate hallways, and labelling journalists as the deficit and prevent investment in historically played a fundamental role in “cosmopolitan” elites. His administration infrastructure and education. His denial of enabling journalists to bring attention to has threatened criminal prosecution of climate change and basic science served as abuses of power. government whistleblowers who represent his justification to leave the Paris Climate One need look no further than Mark critical sources for journalists. Accords and to rescind commonsense Felt, the FBI agent more commonly

Max Labaton

known as “Deep Throat,” who provided critical information—anonymously—to Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward about the unfolding Watergate scandal. Or Daniel Ellsberg, who supplied the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times anonymously, making public decades of government lies and helping turn the tide of public opinion against the Vietnam War. If anything, the media sometimes seems too cautious or cowed, and occasionally lapses into a tendency of false equivalence. A report released at the end of last year by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy revealed a false equivalence in the coverage of the two major candidates in 2016. The report’s author, Thomas E. Patterson concluded, “When journalists can’t, or won’t, distinguish between allegations directed at the Trump Foundation and those directed at the Clinton Foundation, there’s something seriously amiss. The press historically has helped citizens recognize the difference between the earnest politician and the pretender. Today’s news coverage blurs the distinction.” While reporters can make mistakes, partisan attacks against the media are not intended to correct the record, or to help the Fourth Estate fulfill its dual mission of informing the public and holding officials accountable. These attacks serve only to score cheap political points by delegitimizing reporters’ attempts to do their job. It is healthy to view news reports with a degree of skepticism, when there are few checks on such a dangerous president. Yet at its best, the news media strives to provide objectivity and facts, essential in a democracy whose survival requires faith in the political process and an informed citizenry. Max Labaton is a Trinity sophomore. His column usually runs on alternate Tuesdays.

PASH FROM PAGE 2 renovations to Crowell quadrangle. Parker noted that PASH is working to better publicize the new location and plans to target first-years especially, so they know about the resource early in their Duke careers. In addition, PASH plans to open a “pop-up” shop in the new Student Health and Wellness Center for a few hours each week. There are currently about 30 peer educators trained to work at the center, but Parker explained that about half are currently abroad. The house course required to be a staff member is currently training 15 new peer educators in its fourth semester of being offered. “It’s mostly sophomores and juniors, and they’re really engaged,” said junior Adam Bullock,

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one of the instructors this semester. “They really seem to care about the material.” He explained that the training course consists of lessons that he and his co-instructor teach as well as guest lectures. For example, the class hosted representatives from the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, the Title IX Office and Student Health. The course is a way PASH ensures it has adequate staff, as those who sign up for the class make a commitment to work at least one semester following their completion. Bullock noted that he hopes they decide to continue after the required semester and that many do. Along with opening the center, PASH plans to co-sponsor events with more established organizations on campus to help get its name out, Bullock explained. The center is co-hosting an event called “Take Back the Nightlife” with the Women’s Center on Oct. 25, which will feature music, dance and poetry.

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Parker noted that PASH also hopes to host education events like their Cookies and Condoms session which features anatomy-shaped cookies as well as condom demonstrations and giveaways. The PASH website also has a tool that allows students to submit questions to be answered by peer educators. The recent logistical difficulties are not the only problems PASH has faced. The center initially created controversy in Duke Student Government when it was first proposed, as some senators found the funding of sexual items to be inappropriate. There was also confusion that PASH would be selling pleasure products, which it is not allowed to do. However, it does have a range of vibrators and other sex toys that are demonstrative only. Bullock noted that he doesn’t hear much about the controversy anymore. “PASH members and people who care about that remember it and refer to it and

pharmaceutical structures in place that have propped up the opioid crisis. She received over 8,000 pills with roughly 132 prescriptions—an average of almost 61 pills per prescription. With so many opioids being prescribed to patients, it is

FROM PAGE 1 noted, because broad system changes are still needed. Another point of emphasis for Greenblatt was the statewide Controlled Substance Reporting System (CSRS)—a database where physicians and pharmacists can see a patient’s opioid prescription record and where doctors can check their own prescriptions. “[The Duke neurosurgeon] could have caught her a long time ago had he been periodically looking at his [CSRS] report,” Greenblatt said. “Most prescribers don’t routinely use the Controlled Substance Reporting System even though the majority have registered at least. In day-to-day practice, people say, ‘Oh, I’m too busy to look that stuff up, I just do what I think is best.’” Since neurosurgeons are extremely busy, Greenblatt believed simple analytics should be added to the system that could catch anything egregious—for instance, 132 false hydrocodone prescriptions. Elliott’s case, while rare, provides insights into

Average number of hydrocodone pills Elliott received per perscription no surprise that 70 percent of opioid abusers receive their pills from family or friends who have more than they need, according to a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration survey. Of the 8,000 pills Elliott received, a portion of them went to her ex-husband, an ex-boyfriend, a former employee, her son and a neighbor.

sometimes joke about it,” he said. “I don’t think it has much of a stigma though. A lot of people who stirred controversy when it started have graduated or aren’t thinking about PASH ever.” Moving forward, Bullock said he hopes PASH continues its focus on counseling but also becomes more active in promoting sexual health on campus. “As much as I think the one-on-one counseling opportunities are amazing, there’s only going to be a certain segment comfortable doing that,” Bullock said. “I want PASH to be really active in advocacy around sexual wellness.” Parker noted a main goal for her is to see PASH’s attendance numbers increase. “I hope we get people not just to pick up supplies but also to use us for peer education, as opposed to people just coming by to look at pleasure products,” she said.

In response to the opioid crisis, doctors and lawmakers are working to reform the prescription process. Campbell referenced Duke’s multi-prong approach, which includes “educating about proper use and prescribing of controlled substance medications,” as well as “strategically install[ing] receptacles at two of the Duke retail pharmacies for disposal of medications no longer needed by consumers.” State lawmakers have also taken initiative on the issue. Gov. Roy Cooper signed the Strengthening Opioid Misuse Prevention Act June 29, which will go into effect Jan. 1, 2018. The law limits prescriptions to a five-day supply for acute pain and seven-day supply following surgery. Additionally, it requires doctors to enter prescriptions into the CSRS and consult the a patient’s record before writing a prescription. As for Elliott, her sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 18, 2018. Obtaining a controlled substance with a fraudulent prescription is punishable by up to four years in federal prison, while wire fraud and aggravated identity theft are punishable by up to 20 years and two years, respectively. She also faces a fine of up to $250,000.

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