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Football falls to Pitt for second straight loss

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Meet Duke Med Center’s identical twin surgeons

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PITTSBURGH—Hoping to clinch bowl eligibility for the second consecutive season, Duke fell short against a physical Pittsburgh team. With a 54-45 loss at Heinz Field, the Blue Devils remain in postseason limbo, sitting at just five wins. Following a dreadful offensive performance in its 28-14 loss to Virginia last Saturday, Duke could not be stopped by the Panthers, with its largest scoring output against an FBS opponent since 2015. The back-and-forth contest featured few defensive stops and drama. Unfortunately for the Blue Devils, Pittsburgh’s offense proved to be even more difficult to contain, with its 35 second-half points sparking a comeback win. “I learned years and years ago that you never forget how to count to six in this profession. a fool if you do,” DUKE 45 You’re Duke head coach David 54 Cutcliffe said. “Our PITT focus right now with bowl eligibility is to prepare the little things in order to look like a bowl team.” Panther quarterback Kenny Pickett methodically led the offense down the field, culminating in a 25-yard touchdown pass to Maurice Ffrench with five seconds remaining to secure the victory. Although Duke (5-3, 1-3 in the ACC) entered halftime with a 21-17 lead, the first half marked numerous missed opportunities to blow the game open for the Blue Devils. With just under six minutes remaining in the first half, the normally sure-handed Daniel Helm dropped a 24-yard strike from Jones in the right corner of the end zone. Helm’s blunder forced a failed fourth-down try two plays later, leaving Duke with nothing to show for the drive. See FOOTBALL on Page 8

Special to the Chronicle Amy Rezak Alger and Kristen Marie Rezak are identical twin surgeons in the Duke Hospital. Alger is a trauma specialist and Rezak is a plastic surgeon.

basically just coexisted.” However, their relationship was not as competitive as the relationships between other siblings can be. Ashwin Kulshrestha “We’ve always had a competitive nature because we’re Contributing Reporter surgeons—of course we strive to be the best,” Rezak said. “We used to compete over how we did on tests and things Walking through the halls of the Duke Medical Center, like that, but it was more just a friendly kind of thing. We you might think you’re experiencing a sort of double were more collaborative.” vision as two seemingly identical Alger attended the State University surgeons pass by you. Don’t worry, We intentionally tried not of New York at Albany, and Rezak you’re not alone. attended the State University of New This is a frequent phenomenon to be in the same state or York at Binghamton. It was during for staff members who work with hospital because it does get their college years that the two began Amy Rezak Alger and Kristen Marie to evolve their own independent Rezak, identical twin surgeons who are really confusing. identities, they said. Both entered assistant professors of surgery at the kristen marie rezak Duke Medical Center. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SURGERY AT college not entirely sure if they were Alger and Rezak, trauma and DUKE MEDICAL CENTER going to pursue medicine. Growing up, they watched a lot plastic surgeons respectively, have of medical television shows and they been practicing surgeons for a decade. found the field extremely exciting. Their father was also As identical twins, their similarities go far beyond a volunteer firefighter, which may have further sparked appearance—growing up, they had similar interests in their passion for medicine. As undergraduates, their music and sports. The two sisters were involved in many affinity toward medicine became more pronounced when of the same activities, to the point where their friends referred to them simply as “the Rezak twins.” See DOUBLE on Page 3 “We hung out all the time together,” Rezak said. “We By Michael Lee

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Students pushing for divestment may soon get answer By Matthew Griffin Staff Reporter

Jim Liu | Opinion Photography Editor Sophomore Deon Jackson finished with 298 total yards, averaging 16.2 yards per carry.

After years of student action and campus dialogue on the issue, the question of whether Duke will divest its investments from fossil fuels may be answered soon. The Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility is aiming to make a decision next semester on whether to recommend that Duke divest its endowment and other assets from fossil fuels, the chair of the committee said. The announcement comes after renewed pushes for divestment from student groups such as the Duke Climate Coalition. The Duke Student Government Senate recently passed a resolution calling for the ACIR to recommend divestment by 2024; in doing so, it joined groups such the Graduate and Professional See DIVESTMENT on Page 3

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Exposure to opposing viewpoints increases partisanship, study finds By Thomas Murphy Contributing Reporter

Being exposed to diverse points of view would seem to broaden your perspective, right? Not necessarily. A recent study published by a coalition of researchers from Duke, Brigham Young University and New York University found that being consistently exposed to tweets expressing the opposite political viewpoint to your own only entrenches your alreadyheld beliefs. One common critique of social media in a hyper-partisan era is that it creates “echo chambers”—users tend to predominantly follow those that share the same views that they do. In this vein, the study seems to show that in an “echo chamber” landscape, opposition only further cements people’s beliefs—although the results were not statistically significant. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that he was experimenting with features to expose users to opposing viewpoints in order to reduce polarization—something this research indicates may be counterproductive, one researcher argued. “We find that Republicans who followed a liberal Twitter bot became substantially more conservative posttreatment,” the researchers wrote in their abstract. “Democrats exhibited slight increases in liberal attitudes after following a conservative Twitter bot, although these effects are not statistically significant.” The study involved groups of hundreds of self-reported Republicans and Democrats each taking a survey on their political views. After the survey, each party was split into two

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groups: one would follow a Twitter bot that on the content of the bot’s tweets. retweeted with a bias toward the opposite of the The study didn’t just find that those who subject’s party, while had followed the bot the other received no We need to try something. But account had moved treatment. more toward their The initial survey disrupting our Twitter echo end of the political was conducted chambers will likely backfire. spectrum than their one week before peers in the control a month-long bot christopher bail group. It also found DOUGLAS AND ELLEN LOWEY ASSOCIATE that those who had treatment began, PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY AND PUBLIC POLICY performed better in and the final survey was conducted the compliance quizzes a week after it ended. In order to ensure tended to have grown more extreme than compliance, subjects were regularly quizzed those who had not performed so well.

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This effect was not statistically significant for Democrats, but was “highly significant” for Republicans. This trend indicates that those who had paid the most attention to the content of the tweets were the least likely to agree with it. While this study only investigated frequent Twitter users, the researchers hope to expand the scope of their research. Christopher Bail, Douglas and Ellen Lowey associate professor of sociology and public policy and director of the Duke Polarization Lab, said the lab is conducting many new studies and trying to confirm that the study’s findings apply to other platforms. These findings would suggest that, at least in terms of social media exposure, the concept of an “echo chamber” does not fully explain why the political discourse seems to be so hostile. Although this study was exclusively targeted at the effects of social media on individuals who already frequently use it, it is clear that there is a consistent bias against even entertaining an opposing viewpoint among a significant portion of the population. Therefore, Bail argued in a New York Times op-ed that toying with echo chambers would not be enough to reduce partisanship. “Some argue that social media sites will never provide the type of forum necessary to reduce political polarization and that we should focus on offline dialogue,” Bail wrote. “Yet as social media continues to grow as a forum for political debate in our country, such solutions are not practical. We need to try something. But disrupting our Twitter echo chambers will most likely backfire.”

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DIVESTMENT FROM PAGE 1 Student Council and the Undergraduate Environmental Affairs Committee. If the ACIR passes a resolution supporting divestment, President Price will have the option to present a version of the recommendation to the Board of Trustees. The Board could then vote on whether to direct the Duke Management Company (DUMAC) to begin the process of divestment. The push for divestment began in 2014, when a group called Divest Duke—which was later folded into the Climate Coalition— presented a case to the ACIR calling for divestment. “It was pretty grassroots-led,” senior Ethan Miller, who works on the Duke Climate Coalition’s divestment campaign, said. “I think they had over seven thousand signatures when that campaign presented to the ACIR. That was pretty impressive.” The ACIR, formed in 2013, is charged with making recommendations to Duke’s president regarding the ethical nature of Duke’s investments. In the past, it has guided Duke in divesting from conflict minerals and from companies that contributed to apartheid in South Africa. Despite student support for the movement, the ACIR recommended against divestment in 2014. “The advice was that there needed to be a lot more discussion,” ACIR Chair Lawrence Baxter said. After the decision, the Duke Climate Coalition took over the project. However, it initially focused on other environmental initiatives at Duke. The group successfully lobbied the University to use biogas instead of natural gas. After winning the power plant battle, the Climate Coalition turned back to divestment. This time, the force of a global movement was behind it. Entities such as the Republic of Ireland and the government of New York City have plans to pull billions of dollars from fossil fuel investments. Institutions such as Pitzer College have also committed to divestment. Luke Farrell, a student representative on the ACIR, attributed the success of the renewed push for divestment at Duke to the growth of the global movement. He also credited part of the success to student activism. “The student work on campus has been remarkable,” Farrell said. He recalled that in 2014, the ACIR asked for more research on the impacts of divestment. After that, he said, students went out and did the work. Baxter also noted the importance of new research on manmade climate change. “The scientific consensus has become almost unanimous that manmade fuel pollution is causing climate change and that we have to take action to stop that from causing more damage to the Earth,” Baxter said. Earlier this month, a United Nations report found that the world has only a few decades left to prevent the most

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catastrophic effects of manmade climate change. The members of the Coalition wrote three memos, which helped push student groups to call for divestment. The day after the DSG Senate passed its resolution, the Climate Coalition met with the ACIR to discuss the possibility of the ACIR making a recommendation. The committee decided to postpone a decision until the Spring, citing the need for additional discussion. Miller said that he went into the meeting hoping that the Climate Coalition had met the bar for “substantive discourse.” Miller said that this largely includes talking with members of Duke’s faculty and administration, which can be difficult as many faculty members don’t want to openly disagree with the University’s policy. Richard Riddell, senior vice president and secretary to the Board of Trustees, said that it is typical for the ACIR to ask for significant research and conversation before it reaches a decision. “The bar is pretty high, because, as you can well imagine. You can have a [political] reason to ask Duke or anyone else to invest [in] or disinvest [from] particular causes,” Riddell said. Baxter explained that the ACIR needs time to determine what form divestment should take. “We’ve got to devise something that would actually be

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motivating to the Board of Trustees,” he said, noting that it is important to do more than merely make a symbolic statement. He added that Duke’s investment portfolio is different than those of other schools that have committed to divestment: it has few direct investments in fossil fuel companies, but it invests in mutual funds and derivatives that are linked to the fossil fuel industry. This complicates decisions about which companies and funds Duke can invest in. If ACIR passes a resolution supporting divestment, it will be up to President Price to present a version of the recommendation to the Board of Trustees. The Board will then vote on whether to direct DUMAC to begin the process of divestment. Miller hopes that the committee will reach a decision by late February or early March so that President Vincent Price can make a recommendation to the Board of Trustees when it meets in May. He is both hopeful and nervous. In the meantime, the ACIR is holding an open forum on Nov. 6 at which students can voice their opinions on the matter. Miller stressed the importance of student attendance, and of the divestment movement in general. “For me it’s about the people,” he said. “Millions of people will die because of global warming, and, if Duke is complacent in that, that is a moral wrongdoing.”

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DOUBLE FROM PAGE 1 Alger became the president of her local emergency medical technician organization and Rezak became a trainer working in sports medicine. Although Rezak and Alger separated for their undergraduate studies, they came back together for medical school, where they attended the Ross University School of Medicine in Dominica. They then completed their general surgery residencies at separate hospitals before reuniting again in Boston for their fellowships. Afterward, they were separated once again for some time as each followed a unique, specialized medical study. After moving around for a few years and completing their specialty studies, their paths again converged at Duke. Alger had been working at Duke for a few years when Jeffrey Marcus— chief of the division of plastic, maxillofacial and oral surgery at Duke—gave Rezak an offer she couldn’t turn down. “So it’s funny, we actually intentionally tried to be in different states,” Alger said. Rezak added that part of the reasoning was to avoid potential confusion between the twins. “We intentionally tried not to be in the same state or hospital because it does get really confusing,” she said. As twins, Rezak and Alger share a struggle working in the same location. Just as they had initially expected, the twins have been confused for each other many times in their time at Duke. The twins said that hospital staff members often confuse the two twins for each other when they strike up a conversation in the hall. “I’m running to my next appointment, and I don’t have time to explain to people that I’m not [Alger]” Rezak said. However, at the end of the day, both Alger and Rezak said they appreciate working in the same hospital. “It’s nice to be close to family,” Rezak said. “They gave me an offer and I couldn’t refuse, and that’s how I ended up here.”

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THE NEXT PHASE

Where will the Blue Devils’ scoring come from with the departure of the Splash Sisters to the WNBA? By Shane Smith Staff Writer

The last time we saw the Duke women’s basketball team, they were exiting the floor at the Times Union Center after a hard fought Sweet 16 battle with the top-overall seed Connecticut. But, perhaps their two brightest stars from the past two seasons, Lexie Brown and Rebecca Greenwell—the “Splash Sisters”—have graduated, leaving the remaining pieces to find a new identity for themselves. The Blue Devils will ride into the 2018-19 campaign without a tandem that accounted for more than 45 percent of their points last year. No one on campus is underestimating their impact on the court, but are only looking ahead to find success with this year’s team. “Well it’s obvious, they score a lot of points,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “They do so many good things. You don’t worry about that at this point. We’re in a new season. We’ve got an evolving team. We don’t replace good players, they were absolutely terrific, we just just move forward.” Another invaluable attribute that the Splash Sisters brought to the team was leadership. Greenwell started all but three games in her Duke career, and Brown started every game in the two years she spent at Duke, after transferring from Maryland. Luckily for McCallie, she has many upperclassmen that are more than capable of leading. “Just making sure everyone understands our standards,” senior Faith Suggs said. “Which is rebounding, defending, being a good teammate, playing hard all the time. Those are the kind of things we get right now, the things

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Haley Gorecki will look to make up for some of the scoring lost by the departure of Rebecca Greenwell and Lexie Brown during the offseason. that we can control.” Suggs and center Sofia Roma are the only two seniors on this year’s squad, and definitely understand that they will have to step up and lead a team that has many players stepping into a new role this season. Although Brown and Greenwell took on dominant scoring roles, the Blue Devils know that no one is expected to step up immediately and fill their shoes as alpha scorers, and that the offense can run through many players and still be successful. “I think we’ll score by committee,” Suggs said. “If everyone can be balanced, if everyone contributes in someway, scoring, rebounding, defense, then we’ll be pretty good.” That’s not to say that Duke won’t need a goto scorer this year, and if the preseason Blue/ White scrimmage is any indication, redshirt

junior Haley Gorecki figures to step into that role. The Palatine, Ill., native scored a team best 21 points and connected on her first four attempts from deep. Fellow junior Leaonna Odom also looks prepared to shoulder a higher scoring load, as she was named to the Cheryl Miller award watch list for the top small forward in the country. Odom dominated the NCAA tournament last season and led the Blue Devils in scoring in all three of their games, momentum that she can build on going forward. With the Splash Sisters gone, the team is fully committed to looking forward, but that doesn’t mean that they won’t focus on what they’ve learned from the two graduates. Gorecki acknowledges the benefits of playing alongside Brown and Greenwell. “I think an alpha dog is always in me, but

just being able to play by and with two great players has developed me a lot. They’ve been through a lot more, so being in their shoes and next to them has taught me a lot.” In her time in Durham, Lexie Brown was seen as the go-to ball handler. Gorecki doesn’t see someone stepping up and replacing that, however, and thinks that everyone on the court can be a “point guard” and move the ball up the floor. “We can all handle the ball,” Gorecki said. “Being able to push the ball up the floor in transition is really helpful for us.” McCallie is no stranger to losing talented scoring guards throughout her 11 years at Duke. The likes of Jasmine Thomas, Chelsea Gray, Tricia Liston and Haley Peters have all moved on and graduated at different times, yet the Blue Devils have only missed the NCAA tournament once in the Blue Devil head coach’s tenure. “You’re always losing great players,” McCallie stressed, “We’re just lucky they stay longer for us than they do the guys.” Both Splash Sisters were selected in the 2018 WNBA draft, going in the first and third rounds, respectively. Greenwell was released prior to the season, while Brown wrapped up an up-and-down rookie campaign with the Connecticut Sun. No one is expecting anything similar to the type of two-player takeover that happened last season, and that’s what makes this Duke team exciting to watch. The squad is looking forward to creating their own identity moving forward with contributions from all 14 players. “All options are open,” McCallie said. “We’re not trying to be a one person team, a two person team, a three person team. We’re trying to be an all team.”

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Where are the Class of 2015 recruits today? By Emily Davis Associate Sports Editor

The Duke seniors have changed substantially since they walked into Southgate dorm on East Campus in 2015. Entering as a group of five, that Blue Devil recruiting class was tabbed the top of any team country. So, where is the class of 2019 now? The biggest change for the Duke seniors— not including two trips to the NCAA tournament and one to the ACC finals—was the loss of two of their teammates, Angela Salvadores and Crystal Primm. Only three of the original five remain: guards Haley Gorecki, Kyra Lambert and Faith Suggs. Salvadores, a Spanish phenom who led her home nation to a U18 European championship in 2015 and was named MVP, left the team after her first year to pursue a professional career back home. Primm then left the team following her sophomore season in 2017. She transferred

to Auburn, becoming the Blue Devils’ sixth transfer since 2013. “I hope everything’s great with them,” Suggs said. “We still keep in touch with Crystal—she’s still part of our fab five. We came in together, went through a lot together, missing the tournament and all that stuff. No matter what, they’re both my sisters and we had so much fun together.” Suggs, the only true senior on this Duke team, will be a key piece of the Blue Devil offense this season. Starting only seven games last season—but seeing action in 31—Suggs was tagged to start each of the three NCAA tournament games. She notched six points and tied a career-high with eight rebounds in the first round against No. 12 seed Belmont. Suggs is both a threat from the perimeter, hitting 33 percent of attempts from beyond the arc, and a defensive powerhouse. She brought the intensity that Duke needed following the departure of Primm and injuries to both Gorecki and Lambert. On a more personal note, Suggs was also

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Faith Suggs is the only true senior on this season’s Blue Devil squad. recently featured in a short film titled “Faith.” When asked about her experience as a Blue Devil, Suggs said that her favorite part of Duke are the people and the opportunities after graduation. She said that she was very

impressed with the alumni network and was excited to see where it could take her next year. Suggs hopes to work in marketing with athletes See SENIORS on Page 9

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DUELING COLUMNISTS

Will Duke return to the NCAA tournament? Healthy returners will carry Duke Loss of offense too much to overcome Last spring, Duke men’s basketball defeated Syracuse to clinch its sixth Elite Eight berth since the turn of the century. But what many Duke fans don’t remember is that four days earlier, the Blue Devil women’s team demolished Georgia en route to its 14th Sweet Sixteen appearance in that same time period. Duke’s men’s squad enters the 201819 season with more hype than ever. Its female counterparts, however, have received the opposite treatment. With sweetshooting seniors Lexie Brown and Rebecca Greenwell—who accounted for over 40 percent of the Blue Devils’ offensive production last season—drafted into the WNBA, many scouts don’t believe Duke will even make it back into the NCAA tournament, yet alone reach the Sweet Sixteen. Those scouts, however, are wrong. Yes, the Splash Sisters—as Brown and Greenwell were dubbed—are a duo that no team could even attempt to replace. But, assuming this year’s Blue Devils won’t even return to the NCAA tournament is an insult to the players ready to step up in their absence. Case one: guard Haley Gorecki. Gorecki averaged 11 points per game last year as the team’s third option, and has shown that she’s more than ready to lead Duke on the offensive

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end. The redshirt junior led the Blue Devils with 24 points in the team’s annual Blue/ White scrimmage, including a 4-for-4 start from downtown. A five-star recruit from the Class of 2015, Gorecki has been preparing to become the team’s go-to option ever since she stepped foot in Durham. So instead of seeing Brown and Greenwell’s departures as a death sentence to Duke’s tournament dreams, look at it more as a passing of the torch, with Gorecki now ready to carry the team to that same promised land. The Palatine, Ill., native isn’t the only one about to take an advantage of an increased role in the Blue Devils’ offense, however. In Duke’s run to the Sweet Sixteen last year, it actually wasn’t Brown or Greenwell who led the team in scoring. Rather, it was forward Leaonna Odom. The Lompoc, Calif., native averaged 21 points during the Blue Devils’ three tournament contests, adding in seven rebounds per game as well. During the 2017-18 regular season, Odom averaged 9.6 points per game—fourth on the team. But as she proved in the NCAA tournament, the now-redshirt junior has the talent to be a force if given more opportunities on the offensive end. And this year, she will get that opportunity. Of course, former role players stepping up as team leaders is only part of the reason why See POSITIVE on Page 8

Here’s a riddle: How does a college basketball team lose its top two players to the WNBA while maintaining the same level of play the next year? If you haven’t found an answer, it’s okay—the Blue Devils have not found one either. Those two players—guards Lexie Brown and Rebecca Greenwell—were the heart, soul and face of Duke women’s basketball. The Splash Sisters accounted for 45 percent of the team’s scoring last year, including 68 percent of their 3-point scoring, before getting drafted into the pros. Much of the interior scoring belonged to forward Erin Mathias, who graduated this spring. In Brown, Greenwell and Mathias, the Blue Devils had seasoned veterans and scoring threats. With all three gone, it is questionable whether they have either on the roster. The Splash Sisters’ departure presents a bevy of head-scratching questions that leaves one doubtful that the Blue Devils have what it takes to earn another NCAA tournament berth this season. For instance, who will take over the scoring load this year? The obvious answer is star redshirt junior guard Haley Gorecki—

who averaged 11 points per game last year— but Gorecki’s hip injuries caused her to redshirt her sophomore year and held the Palatine, Ill., native, out of significant stretches of her freshman and junior years. It would be wise for head coach Joanne P. McCallie to let other players develop into scoring options alongside Gorecki. Of course, it’s possible that nobody else steps up, in which case the burden of carrying the Blue Devil offense will rest entirely on the health of Gorecki’s hips. See NEGATIVE on Page 9

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Coach McCallie spends a day with the 76ers By Spencer Levy Associate Sports Editor

Patience and a process transformed the Philadelphia 76ers into a championship-caliber team. While the rebuild hit some bumps along the way, there was never a deviation from the overarching message. Sixers head coach Brett Brown was hired in 2013 to lead the team in a rebuild with a long-term mentality brought on by former general manager Sam Hinkie. And after several years of losing, they have now turned the corner—winning 52 games last season and setting the franchise up for recurring postseason success. That message was on display last month when Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie and assistant coach Sam Miller spent the day observing Sixers training camp in Camden, N.J. Although the story ends at the 76ers practice facility, it all began up north in Maine, the home state of both McCallie and Brown. Although the Blue Devil head coach never interacted with the current NBA coach when she was in high school, McCallie has a longlasting relationship with Brown’s father, Bob, a Maine Hall of Fame coach. “He was a camp coach. There’s a whole camp called Swish Camp and he was running it for boys and girls,” McCallie said of meeting the elder Brown. “He was so

committed to the game.” In 2014, McCallie was inducted into the inaugural Maine Basketball Hall of Fame class along with both Bob and Brett Brown. The older Brown caught up with McCallie at the practice facility that day and may make the trip when Duke plays at Maine in a few weeks. ‘Opened up everything’ When McCallie and Miller arrived, they didn’t know what to expect. But quickly, they became fully entrenched in the 76ers organization. They first met with the medical staff, where they went through all of the players as McCallie and Miller became privy to the head coach’s detail-oriented nature. Next on the schedule were offensive and defensive coaches’ meetings. Throughout the day, Jim O’Brien, one of the Sixers’ assistant coaches, offered guidance and a platform to ask questions after the coaching sessions. “He would sit down for 10, 15 minutes after every meeting ask us if we had questions,” Miller said. “He just really opened up everything to us and asked if there was anything he could share with us and sat down with us at lunch.” Miller noticed how open Brown was to the ideas of the assistants and workshopped ways to improve them if they were feasible for practice later in the day, which was adjusted as the morning progressed.

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Coach McCallie spent a day with the Philadelphia 76ers this offseason and learned about their techniques on rebuilding. “We’re kind of sitting there and tapping each other on the shoulder like, ‘Hey, I think we’re on the right track with that. Maybe we need to tweak some things this way and that way because they’re showing us just another way of doing something,’” Miller said. “We walked in there that morning and he came and met us and said ‘Hey, you guys come

down.’ Sat us right down at the table with the rest of the staff.” ‘The Duke mafia’ In the past few months, the 76ers have added former Blue Devils in prominent front See PHILLY on Page 12

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Blue Devils bring their A-game in blowout By Mitchell Gladstone Sports Features Editor

If there was ever a question what Duke would look like at its A-game this season, the Blue Devils put that type of performance on full display Saturday afternoon. No. 4 Duke dominated reigning Division II national champion Ferris State in the Blue Devils’ second and final exhibition contest at 48 Cameron Indoor FSU Stadium, scoring 20 DUKE 132 of the game’s first 22 points on its way to a 132-48 victory. Five different players logged double-digit points for the hosts, led by 32 from freshman R. J. Barrett. Zion Williamson added 23 points of his own to aid in a comprehensive offensive effort as the hosts knocked down nearly 60 percent of their shots on the evening. “Our guys played really hard today, no matter who we had in there,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We were not good in transition defense our last game and today, we were really good. We played very, very hard, and the fast-paced tempo for us is good because we want to push the ball down the court. I’m proud of my guys.” Although the Blue Devils put up plenty of gaudy offensive numbers, it was Duke’s man-to-man defense that took center stage. The Bulldogs turned it over on their first two possessions, setting up easy points for Tre Jones and the Blue Devil attack. And after Ferris State finally got on the scoreboard, Zion Williamson got his first

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“That was a costly mistake. I need to take better care of the ball,” Jones said. “I can’t be doing that with an opportunity to get points there going into the half, especially knowing we were going to get the ball back.” The offense again came up empty-handed on its final drive of the second quarter, as Jones fumbled on a pass drop-back due to a missed assignment from running back Deon Jackson. Despite the disappointing mistakes, the Blue Devils moved the ball with ease, with 314 total yards in the first half. On the other side of the ball, Duke had a similarly inconsistent first-half performance. Although they held Pickett to just four completions in the half, the Panthers (4-4, 3-1) broke off numerous long gains, including a 50yard Ffrench touchdown. Duke’s rushing defense had a disastrous day, as Pittsburgh accumulated 484 yards on an outstanding 9.3 yards per carry. In the second half, the Blue Devil offense showed no sign of slowing down, with three quick touchdown drives to open the third quarter. Jackson looked explosive, with a 74yard touchdown catch and runs of 60, 50 and 21 yards. The sophomore running back finished with 298 total yards, averaging 16.2 yards per carry, playing nearly every snap. “The main thing we focus on practice is conditioning, so I felt pretty conditioned,” Jackson said. “Playing all of these snaps these last couple weeks kinda caught up with me a little bit, so I did need come out on a couple

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Freshman R.J. Barrett has led the Blue Devils in scoring during the team’s exhibition slate, but fellow freshmen Zion Williamson and Cam Reddish have added big numbers. chance of the game to fire up the Cameron crowd, taking the ball away at the top of the key and going nearly the length of the floor for a thunderous tomahawk hammer. “It lifts the whole team,” said junior cocaptain Javin DeLaurier when asked about his team’s extra effort on both ends of the floor. “We talk about it all the time in practice, and in games. It might not be how many points you score, but you can make one play, taking a charge, diving on the floor and that will spark the whole team. We know the importance of doing the little things.” Things didn’t get any prettier for the Bulldogs as they tried their best to somehow match Duke’s

steady offense. The Blue Devils were already up 27-10 at the under-12 timeout in the first half as Ferris State began the day a miserable 4-of-20 from the field, struggling to find ways around Duke’s size and length—the Bulldogs’ roster features just one player taller than 6-foot-8, compared to a Blue Devil starting five with four players at 6-foot-7 or taller. Ferris State ended the day just 19-of-74 shooting and its leading scorer, Taylor Adway, scored only 12 points. “[Defense has] been an emphasis in the whole preseason,” Krzyzewski said. “We want to play really good defense, and you can’t take any plays off and our guys didn’t take any plays off

of plays, but I know the team and coaches rely on me.” A leaky Duke defense forced the game into a high-scoring affair, and Pittsburgh answered with three scores of its own in the third quarter. The Blue Devils’ 619 total yards gained and 634 allowed were both season highs, indicating a style of play that was atypical to the normal Duke brand of football. After the Panthers tied the game at 42 in the early stages of the fourth quarter, Jackson again delivered an explosive play, as he scampered for 50 yards to set up a go-ahead Collin Wareham field goal. In spite of an apparent momentum change,

the Blue Devil kick return coverage allowed Pittsburgh to start at their 44-yard line. The Panthers converted their favorable field position into three points, evening the score at 45. “This was a tough way to lose, but just like last week we need to get back our energy and edge,” Jones said. “Last Sunday was as good a Sunday that we have had, and we expect the same tomorrow.” The defense will need to shore up before Duke travels next weekend to take on an underachieving Miami squad, which has dropped its last two contests to Virginia and Boston College despite a No. 8 preseason ranking.

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Daniel Jones passed for nearly 400 yards and completed four touchdown passes in Saturday’s heartbreaking defeat.

today. We’ll face different tempos, and obviously, Kentucky will be one of the most talented teams we play, but we just have to keep moving. We’re developing really good habits.” Duke came out of the break with an eerily similar offensive groove. The Blue Devils started the second half on a 19-6 run in the first five minutes, quickly stretching their lead beyond 60. They only continued to pour it on—Marques Bolden, who started yet again and scored 15 points, drilled his first-ever triple, as Duke knocked down 11 of its 22 shots from long distance. “I’ve been working on it all summer, just trying to stretch the floor,” Bolden said of his newfound long-range capabilities. “I’m just trying to add onto the level of versatility with this team.” The Blue Devils ended the day with 29 assists on 44 made buckets. And even though Duke shot 50 percent from downtown, most of it came from Barrett and Cam Reddish, who combined to shoot 6-of-13 on their 3-pointers. “[Consistent shooting is] really important,” Jones said. “Being able to hit the outside shot, will just open up the defense for the driving lanes. We got a lot of guys who can shoot it, but we got a lot of guys that can drive it as well, so being able to knock that down will open up the driving lanes, and that just means more shots.” The Blue Devils can now fully turn their attention to the season opener next Tuesday night. Duke will battle No. 2 Kentucky at the Champions Classic Nov. 6 in the second half of a blueblood doubleheader in Indianapolis.

POSITIVE FROM PAGE 8 Duke will return to its third consecutive NCAA tournament despite the losses of Brown and Greenwell. I mean, both Gorecki and Odom were part of last year’s squad, so what have the Blue Devils done to try and improve their roster entering this season? Two words: Kyra Lambert. Well, she’s not exactly an addition to the roster, but an improvement upon last year’s depth chart nonetheless. After a 2016-17 campaign that saw the 5-foot-9 point guard average 7.8 points per game while placing second on the team with 3.5 assists per contest, Lambert chose to redshirt all of last season while recovering from a torn ACL. And while the Cibolo, Texas, product isn’t back on the court just yet, she’s ready to make up for lost time with a monster junior season, initiated by a spot on the Nancy Lieberman Award watch list as one of the top twenty point guards in the country. So yes, Duke lost its top two players from last year’s roster. But the Blue Devils have had to replace lost talent before, as has every single team in the country. And with 23 NCAA tournament berths over the past 24 years, Duke has done that better than most other programs. This year’s team may have its doubters. But with a wave of underclassmen ready to step up and the return of one of the nation’s top point guards, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind the Blue Devils will make it 24 out of 25.

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NEGATIVE FROM PAGE 7 Uncertainty also lingers around the point guard position. Until Kyra Lambert fully recovers from her torn ACL—Lambert does not appear close to returning to game action—McCallie wants much of her team to be capable of running the offense. At the press conference following the Blue/White scrimmage, McCallie listed six people who she wanted handling the ball until Lambert’s return, a fairly high number considering that only one can play that role at any given time. This could bring the emergence of a new point guard or possibly just turmoil. Either way, it’s going to be fun to watch how this one pans out. Brown, Greenwell and Mathias were not just volume scorers, but also Duke’s most efficient free throw shooters. Besides those three, the highest free throw percentage on the team last year belonged to Gorecki, who shot 72 percent from the charity stripe. Someone is going to have to take those clutch free throws, and McCallie will surely want better chances with games in the balance. If things don’t improve on that front, look for the Blue Devils to get crunched in crunch time. And what’s going to happen come crunch time, anyway? Brown and Greenwell led the

SENIORS FROM PAGE 6 or play overseas following graduation. The Flossmoor, Ill., native still has a few items to check off her bucket list with her fellow seniors before leaving campus in May. “One of the things we want to do is go draw our names under the bridge on East,” Suggs said. “That’s definitely something we will do as seniors before we graduate.” Also hailing from the Chicago area, Gorecki will graduate this year but retain one more year of eligibility due to a medical redshirt. It’s been a tough go for Gorecki, who redshirted sophomore year due to a hip injury sustained in the middle of her freshman campaign. She then returned to action as a redshirt sophomore, but suffered another hip injury at the end of last January that ended her season. With the loss of both Rebecca Greenwell and Lexie Brown, Gorecki will be the first option at guard. She hit 42.3 percent from beyond the arc last season while averaging 11.0 points per

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team since their sophomore year and took control in tense moments during the past three seasons. Whoever the team looks to in the final moments of a tight game this year, it will likely be her first time under that much pressure, even for the more experienced players on the squad. It can be hard to trust veterans when they do not play like veterans. To be fair, there are some intriguing newcomers. Center Uchenna Nwoke’s 6-foot-6 frame offers Duke a true size advantage over many teams. Guard Rayah Craig showcased her playmaking ability in the Blue/White scrimmage. Australian guard Miela Goodchild is perhaps most intriguing of all. If she can keep her stroke from beyond the arc consistent, she could become a key contributor to this squad, even one of its top scorers. Yet, intrigue shouldn’t fuel expectations. The Blue Devils have not actually played anyone besides themselves this season. The selection committee doesn’t hand out tournament berths for intrigue or potential. Duke earned a No. 5 seed in the NCAA tournament last year, and that was with two future professional players. Although the team has missed out on a trip to the national tournament only once since 1996, it’s hard to see Duke going anywhere but backwards this year. Nobody expects a deep NCAA tournament run from the Blue Devils, and if the season shakes out as horribly as it could, it’s possible they will not even get the chance.

game, 3.9 rebounds and 2.9 assists. When reflecting on her final year as an undergraduate, Gorecki focuses mostly on basketball. She says that the experience of being an athlete at Duke is an incredible one and says that the people she has met has made her experience much better. She notes that her medical situation has been incredibly difficult, but that it helped her learn a lot about herself in the process. She hopes to play in the WNBA in the future or overseas. “It has been awesome,” Gorecki said about her time as a Blue Devil. “I think being through what I have been through, not many people can say that. It is kind of a blessing in a way when you look at it. You have different obstacles you need to face, which has taught me certain things and made me who I am in a way.” Lambert, the last of the crop, will also maintain a year of eligibility due to a torn ACL that was accrued during her sophomore campaign. She redshirted last season and has been steadily recovering to return to the helm for the Blue Devils. Despite the injury, Lambert said that last

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Center Uchenna Nwoke will provide the Blue Devils with a size advantage in the paint over many of their opponents this season.

season was her favorite at Duke. “Even though I wasn’t on the court playing, I think going on to the Sweet 16 and being there with my team and seeing how all of our hard work was paying off at the right time,” Lambert said. “It’s something I’ve never felt before and I was super glad and appreciative to have that with that team.” The No. 9 recruit nationally, Lambert played like a veteran from her first day on the court. She started 23 out of 32 games as a rookie, totaling double-digit scoring in six contests. She also had a career-high 16 points at No. 2 South Carolina. As a sophomore, the Cibolo, Texas, native started all 33 contests she played and averaged 39.7 percent from the three-point line. She also grabbed 3.7 rebounds per game and 56 steals on the season. The highlight of

her career came Dec. 4, 2016 when the Blue Devils took down No. 3 South Carolina in a rematch in Durham. “It was a huge upset,” Lambert said. “The crowd was insane—they travel a lot of fans and we showed out and you could literally feel the ground in Cameron shaking. It was incredible.” Next year, Lambert is looking forward to pursuing a graduate degree at Fuqua while continuing her basketball career at Duke. She hopes to win a national championship with her team and cites last season, being in the Sweet 16, as her favorite year of undergraduate. While the Blue Devil seniors might have had different experiences in their undergraduate careers, they all still have one more year together to play in Cameron and finally make that coveted postseason run.

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The scourge of anti-Semitism

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n the morning of Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, during a morning Shabbat service in Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue, a middle-aged man armed with an AR-15 and three handguns fired upon a group of congregants in the deadliest attack against the Jewish community in American history. In total, 11 individuals—eight men and three women—lost their lives, while many others were wounded. The gut-wrenching attack has shocked the nation and the international community, with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, himself a former resident of Philadelphia, expressing his condolences on Twitter. Likewise, Trump sent a series of tweets in which he decried the events at Pittsburgh as “an assault on humanity,” and later noted that an armed security most likely would have prevented the attack. President Vincent Price sent out a mass email to all members of the Duke community encouraging people to find strength in unity against anti-Semitic acts. Above all, the events of Saturday morning illustrate the legacy of rampant anti-Semitism that continuously rears its head in the United States. Like other countries, the United States bears a heinous history of excluding, discriminating against and persecuting Jewish individuals as part of its long tradition of “othering” non-Anglo-Saxon populations.

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In the 1920s, under the impression that the country was losing its national character through “undesirable” ethnicities, U.S. politicians enacted a number of racist immigration quotas, including numbers that severely limited Jewish immigration during one of the most antiSemitic eras in world history. Harvard’s president in 1923, A. Lawrence Lowell, set out to solve the university’s rampant “Jewish problem” by setting a stringent quota against applicants who had Jewish backgrounds, even going as far as to require a photograph and a maternal maiden name on all applications. The shooting in Pittsburgh shows us that despite the overall move away from the virulent anti-Semitism of

Editorial Board the past, we still deal with the relics of institutions that demonize particular ethnic populations in the modern age. The Anti-Defamation League has estimated that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States skyrocketed by 57 percent in 2017 from the previous year—reportedly the largest annual increase since the organization began keeping records. Trumpist white supremacists, shouting “Jews will not replace us,” dominated the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia in August of 2017, proudly signaling to the nation their unabashed anti-Semitic attitudes on live television. Politicians with Jewish backgrounds like Bernie Sanders continue to be targets of far-right conspiracies that seek to implicate Jewish individuals in a ‘worldwide Zionist conspiracy,’ in

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n Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018, Dr. Brenda “Doc” Armstrong passed away. I remember Coach Doc’s mezzo-trill, threatening us slowpokes with laps “ONE, TWO, THREE...everybody run a lap!” I remember her sprinting down metal bleachers to comfort our 4x4 anchor whose ACL ruptured during pre-lims. I remember the pre-meds’ standing ovations at her inspired speeches about transforming negative “baggage”

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the manner of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Even here at Duke, home to many students who proudly identify as Jewish, the number of anti-Semitic incidents has seemingly increased in the recent past. Last May, a series of anti-Semitic flyers insinuating the existence of a global Jewish conspiracy were found on East Campus. Earlier this month, a swastika, was found carved into a bathroom stall on West Campus’ Languages building. Before that, a horrendous anti-Semitic slur was discovered in the tunnel at the entrance to East Campus. In spite of the great diversity of the Duke community, it seems that even we are not immune to the upsurge in anti-Semitism that continues to plague the United States. Speaking more broadly, these trends seem to indicate an overall increase in the number of hate crimes and racist incidents at Duke. For all minorities, and people who are otherwise considered “different,” the present represents a trying time. Incidents of anti-Semitism, racism and bigotry have risen in recent memory, ready to terrorize our nation in an instance of history repeating itself. For members of the Duke community, we should seek unity in diversity, making sure that those around us are properly cared for. It is incumbent upon all religious peoples, and groups that have been discriminated against to single out and condemn antiSemitism. For if other marginalized groups fail to come out in condemnation of anti-Semitism, they risk fueling the very same essential hatred that is core to all forms of racism and bigotry. Pittsburgh may be nearly 500 miles from Durham, but the pain and suffering caused by one hateful individual’s actions have been felt worldwide.

Letter: Honoring the legacy of Dr. Brenda Armstrong

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into a “toolkit” for success. I remember Coach Doc as an inspiration. How will Duke remember her power, compassion, and brilliance? Coach Doc was among the first black students to graduate from Duke. She protested unfair treatment of black students in the 1969 Allen Building Takeover. She then completed her MD and become the second black woman to become a board certified pediatric cardiologist. Coach Doc’s influence is immeasurable. She improved nascent integration, saved lives, remediated health

disparities, groomed national athletes, and raised a family among other accomplishments. Until we can measure her impact on the world, Dr. Brenda Armstrong should have a building or two named after her. Her renown as an academic, mentor, and university pioneer make Dr. Armstrong an icon in Durham, in black history, and at Duke. What better way to honor her iconic work redefining our national, racist, historical “baggage” than by reforming the physical remnants of it into a “toolkit” for progress at her alma mater? The Julian Carr History Building on East Campus should be renamed to honor Dr. Brenda Armstrong. Renaming the Carr Building after Dr. Armstrong would begin to redress the memorialization of Julian Carr’s violence against at least one black woman and the legacies those abuses inspired. At present, not one of Duke’s buildings on its most recent map has been named for any person of color. Please contact the Duke Commission on Memory and History to request that Duke University honor Dr. Brenda Armstrong’s legacy by renaming the Carr building after her. Coach Doc was a pioneer in life, and so should she remain in memorium. Whitney Wingate is an intern at Duke University Press and previously was a summer teaching assistant at the medical school.

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Photo by Will Hicks Dr. Brenda Armstrong was the second African-American woman to become a board-certified pediatric cardiologist and increased diversity in Duke Medicine as associate dean of admissions. She is pictured here on Feb. 1, 1985.

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Duke’s brand of political activism is making matters worse

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uke considers itself to be an open-minded, diverse institution. But as a community, I fear the factional nature of our political discourse is driving us away from those ideals. Two weeks ago, the Chronicle published a guest column entitled “In defense of Justice Kavanaugh.” There have been several columns written in the last few weeks about the Kavanaugh hearings, but the conservative voice of this one distinguished it from all others. Ultimately, the column was ineffective because it failed

Rebecca Torrence COLUMNIST to be civil. By attacking Democrats from the outset, it instantly alienated the majority of its readers. It’s a shame— its intentions several paragraphs in were more reasonable. But the author’s blatant contempt towards his liberal peers overshadowed those sensibilities. This unfortunately resulted in some extreme and inaccurate reflections of the case. However, the response to this column was similarly frustrating. Within a few hours of its release, the column had become the target of intense public ridicule. Other students mocked the author mercilessly in the comments, even creating memes in tribute to his presumed idiocy. Understandably, a few Republicans tried to defend their party, but found themselves subject to the same disdain. A few months ago, I probably would have applauded this reaction. I have always admired Duke students for their tendency to speak out against the injustices they perceive in the world. But recently, I have become utterly terrified of the partisan divide in the United States. This fear has shown me that something needs to change—and that is the way we talk to and about each other. Throughout Trump’s term, the rift between Democrats and Republicans has become wider than ever before. As liberals fervently object to the president’s every

action, conservatives refuse to disagree with him, no matter the cost. Unfortunately, this cost has been basic courtesy. We now refuse to afford our opponents any opportunity to communicate their beliefs—and in doing so, we strengthen the separation between us. I know that I, too, am guilty of these partisan biases. When I read the title of that column, my first reaction was to feel nauseated. After skimming it, I sent it out to my friends so we could all criticize it together. This isn’t abnormal behavior at Duke. But it’s behavior that, when you spell it out, doesn’t sound so exemplary. I am ashamed—not because I chose to publicly disagree with the article, but because I did so in a thoughtless, counterproductive way. Maybe the Kavanaugh hearings aren’t the ideal place to start bridging this divide. For many, it’s a topic that hits too close to home. On the day of Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony, I only spoke with a couple of people who had watched it live. The rest told me they couldn’t bear to do so. I am appalled by the political dialogue that currently surrounds sexual assault. But this disapproval shouldn’t color every conversation I have with and about conservatives. I have no right to jump to conclusions about someone’s character based on the party they tend to support. By doing so, I welcome others to make the same snap judgments

about me. This diminishes my own power to affect change. Obviously, that’s not what I want. When we decide to have these conversations, we must ask ourselves: What is our goal? In most cases, it is to prove a point. And generally, we hope not just to “win” a single argument, but in the long term, to use our voices to improve society. That clarifies the next question: will attacking our opponents change their minds? Can your scathing tone and disparaging words really make our culture better? Certainly, passion and fury can be appropriate incentives for protest. But alienating massive amounts of people and expecting long-term positive change in return is a fallacious strategy. As Duke students, we commend ourselves for our intelligence, yet we refuse to let our convictions be challenged. Despite our ostensible open-mindedness, we rarely try to genuinely understand the perspectives of our perceived rivals. Instead, we resolve to communally grumble in our respective corners, stepping out only to hurl insults at the other side. We are smarter than this. We should know that this is no way to solve problems. Along with our peers across the country, we are preparing to shape the future of discourse in this nation. Is this really how we want our political climate to look in twenty years? If not, what’s stopping us from modeling the kind of nationwide discourse we want to see right here on campus? This is not the last divisive column the Chronicle will publish. At the next opportunity, I challenge you to examine your biases and consciously choose to swap out your rage for curiosity. I’m not asking you to abandon your values—quite the contrary; I want you to continue to fight for what you believe in. But this fight doesn’t have to look like petty mudslinging and careless judgments. It can, and should, look like focused, respectful conversations, where consideration and collaboration come to the table instead. We all must share our future, so we might as well build it together. If you want resolution for any of these issues, you must swallow your pride long enough to listen. Fail to do this, and you lose your chance to be heard.

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A conservative’s case against voting Republican

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he Republican Party no longer deserves the title of “conservative.” Conservatism is supposed to be the tactful, sober, and dutiful counterpart to activist liberalism. It adapts to and accepts with open arms the changes in social attitudes as society matures, grows and develops. It is a philosophy of evolution; a philosophy that acts on the basis that guaranteeing the most liberty to all Americans makes our nation the most free, equal and prosperous that it can be. Today’s Republican Party is not, in any way, in step with this crucial notion of conservatism.

Andrew Orme COLUMNIST It is more intent on settling the political scores of Christian fundamentalists who have no regard for the separation of church and state that is crucial for a functioning, pluralistic democracy. As a conservative I enthusiastically endorse

abortion rights and women’s access to healthcare, the liberties of same-sex couples to marry and adopt children, marijuana legalization and the recognition and support for LGBTQ+ Americans across society. I applaud the changes in our society because they extend the most liberty to the most Americans. I scoff at the notion that reversing court decisions that have led us to these freedoms and liberties is some twisted form of progress. The second tenet, in my estimation, of conservatism is the fact that our governing class must be of a sober, ethical and dutiful nature. With the passing of Senator McCain, the maverick light of good conscience and civic duty has dimmed considerably. President Trump has little concept of his duty to the United States of America and its citizens: he is nothing but a dim-witted, egoistic and puerile specimen of New York City’s worst stereotypes. His crassness, ill manner and absolute lack of tact or respect deserve no place in the great halls of power, and the same can be said for his rotating nepotistic clan of sycophants. They cheapen the image of the presidency, and that of the United States of America. This brings me to the nomination and unfortunate confirmation of Justice Kavanaugh.

Sexual predator or not, in the afternoon-long rant that somehow passed as Senate testimony, Brett Kavanaugh singlehandedly showed that he concerns himself less about protecting the Constitution of the United States and promoting justice within her borders than he does with settling petty political scores. He hasn’t the sober and dutiful comportment required of a justice of the court, rather showing himself as hysterical, accusatory and conspiratorial: qualities not remotely becoming of one of our nation’s most important offices. Thirdly, in writing on the lack of tact, ethics or respect, I must touch on the foreign policy undertaken by this current administration, which has a fondness for autocracy and which is based on the shallow premises of greed and self-congratulation. The recent murder of Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents in the Kingdom’s Istanbul consulate, and our president’s response, is an example of this. In today’s world, there is no need for the American people to be the sugar daddies of ungrateful dictators. With the growing shadow of Russian irredentism, there is no place for the United States to be picking fights with NATO allies like Turkey. While Erdogan’s

democratic credentials are slowly revoking themselves, Turkey is a far more important ally than a pseudo-medieval Kingdom that is in denial about its own waning significance. As an importing nation, there is little but harm in slapping on tariffs that will make end goods more expensive at home. The United States of America is a beautiful, intrepid and revolutionary experiment, and it is the duty of all of us as citizens to make that experiment successful. In the face of authoritarianism, dictatorship and oppression, we must always stand as the shining example of good government, liberty and republican democracy. Whether the Republican Party endorses any of these things, in my view, is deeply questionable. The party needs time out of power to purge itself of the scourge of demagoguery and return itself to the grounded, clear headed and unifying party that conservativism should be represented by. So, as a conservative, I humbly ask you to vote against the kind of “conservatism” exemplified by current Republicans this November. Andrew Orme is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs on alternate Fridays.

editor’s note: The Chronicle would like to formally apologize to Duke Student Government for wasting its time with our Saturday dodgeball game, which we lost the final set of and, therefore, this bet. (The record should reflect, however, that The Chronicle still won four out of seven total sets.) We look forward to a future rematch with our student government! —Bre Bradham, editor-in-chief

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PHILLY FROM PAGE 7 office positions. In August, Lindsey Harding was hired as a full-time scout, and just days before McCallie and Miller arrived, Elton Brand took over as general manager. Although McCallie and Miller went to observe just for the day, their presence did not go unnoticed. “It was really cool when we’re sitting there, there were some knocks at the door. J.J. Redick came in and just said, ‘Hey. Heard that some Duke coaches from the women’s basketball program was there.’ And then Elton Brand too,” Miller said. “It was just really cool to see that and the outpouring of love from those guys. ‘The Duke mafia,’ as J.J. called it, because we’re kind of everywhere.” When Miller was a graduate assistant at Western Michigan, the Broncos played T.J. McConnell’s Duquesne team before he transferred to Arizona. The Duke assistant reminded McConnell of that connection and noted that McConnell’s aunt served as Pittsburgh’s head women’s coach for the past five seasons. From the ownership down The message that has become a hallmark of the franchise has stayed consistent over the years, especially when the ownership shifted from Comcast-Spectacor to a group led by David Blitzer and Josh Harris. “I’ve never been around an organization in the NBA that is that open and friendly,” Miller said. “There’s no doubt why they’re successful and going to be successful for a long time. That really does stem from ownership and all the way down through Coach Brown and through

the rest of the team.” Miller spent a season with the Erie Bayhawks, then the New York Knicks D-League team, in the 2013-14 season. That year, he got to know Matt Lilly, who was recently named general manager of the 76ers G-League team, the Delaware Blue Coats. “There was a vision and a way that they were going to do this and rebuilt the whole organization. That’s why Coach Brown survived through all of this too,” Miller said. “His influence and his message is so strong that there’s no stronger personality and no stronger person to lead that group. The way he commands their attention and you’re looking at a room full of guys 19 years old up to 34, 35 years old.” The consistency is what allowed a team who won only 47 games over the course of his first three seasons to turn around and advance to the Eastern Conference semifinals last season. That approach is what’s transpiring in Durham with the season opener around the corner. “It all starts with what your culture is and what your leadership sets as the culture. For us, that’s Coach P. What she sets is exactly what needs to permeate through the entire team. Through the assistant coaches… there is a message that comes from Coach P and everyone gets it out to the players,” Miller said. “The challenge is now taking young people and getting them to buy in and spread that throughout the rest of the team.” There were many similarities between the 76ers and Duke practices. “Very efficient practice and well-run. Didn’t waste a lot of time. I’d like to think that we’re that way too. We move from thing to thing and we get to business,” McCallie said. “I didn’t know how hard the guys would work.... It was

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Coaches McCallie and Miller met former Blue Devils and current 76ers J.J. Redick and Elton Brand during their trip to Philadelphia.

preseason, but they were casual off the court open our minds to there are other ways to and fun, but man, when they got on the court, quantify things and can we get proof on they weren’t messing around.” certain things that we do and how we need The opportunity to shadow one of the top to change things.” NBA coaches will prove invaluable for this On a strategic level, McCallie is still in the season and beyond. After that September day, process of implementing what she learned in McCallie and Miller met with the rest of the Philadelphia, but some of the drills and plays coaching staff to discuss which aspects they that McCallie runs this season will have a hint will try to implement in Durham. of Sixers flare. “They would talk about how defending Both McCallie and Miller plan to keep a the 3-point line—they were on the top close eye on the 76ers, even throughout their teams in the regular season, but then in the own season, and with McCallie’s connection to The were New like York14Times playoffs, they out ofSyndication 16 teams,”Sales her Corporation Maine counterpart, she’ll continue to be “a 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 Miller said. “We were able to look at it and big Sixers For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 fan.” For ForRelease ReleaseThursday, Monday, October October29, 25,2018 2018

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