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id a billion-dollar Chinese company with close ties to the Chinese government steal valuable intellectual property from Duke? That’s the story told by ProPublica Journalist Daniel Golden in the first chapter of his recently-released book, “Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit American Universities.” Today, the Kuang-Chi conglomerate’s affiliates— Kuang-Chi Science Limited and Kuang-Chi Technologies Company Limited—have $2.95 and $6.93 billion valuations. The conglomerate uses metamaterials—materials that demonstrate properties not found in nature—to improve aviation, wireless internet and mobile payment solutions, among other uses of the technology. Per Kuang-Chi Science’s webpage, the company works to “provide a series of disruptive space services and build a global disruptive space technology alliance.” But prior to Kuang-Chi’s inception in 2010, its founder Ruopeng Liu, M.S. ‘08 and Ph.D. ‘09, worked in the lab of renowned metamaterials researcher David Smith, James B. Duke professor of electrical and computer engineering. Smith did not respond to questions in time for publication. Liu allegedly passed data from the lab to Chinese researchers, data which Golden wrote could have helped the United States develop military technology. The FBI has never charged Liu with a crime, but it has taken an interest. The FBI’s National Security Higher Education Advisory Board discussed Liu’s exploits at an October 2012 session. “Without [Smith’s] knowledge, a Chinese national targeted his lab and created a mirror institute in China,” per an agenda from the meeting Golden obtained via a public records request. “The episode cost Duke significantly in licensing, patents and royalties and kept Smith from being

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visit the lab, and Smith agreed once Liu said China would foot the bill. Economic espionage Cui’s team took photos of the lab, and could recreate the Smith joined Duke’s faculty in 2004. lab in China, per information Golden got from the FBI and In 2006, his Duke lab created a prototype invisibility another student in Smith’s lab. cloak. Although the cloak could not conceal objects from the Throughout the chapter, there are multiple signs of human eye, it could from microwaves—meaning potential suspicious behavior on Liu’s part. In one example, Golden applications for cell phones and antennas. writes that a postdoctoral fellow in the lab gave Liu data, only Also in 2006, Ruopeng Liu joined Smith’s lab. In the to see Cui present the results as his own. Liu was also cobook, Smith described him as a promising student and full authoring papers with Cui’s research team. Smith instructed of enthusiasm. He soon stepped up as a leader of sorts in the Liu to stop—thinking at first it was an honest mistake—but lab, Golden wrote. the publications kept coming. Eventually, Liu made what would seem to be an innocent Although the book indicated that Smith might have suggestion—the lab should collaborate with one in China, looked the other way due to the importance of collaboration, run by Tie Jun Cui, Cheung-Kong professor at Southeast Smith and Liu’s relationship eventually soured. University in Nanjing, China. Smith—wanting to share the See INTELLIGENCE on Page 3 fruits of collaboration—agreed. Liu suggested Cui’s team

Duke men’s basketball dons ‘EQUALITY’ warmup shirts By Sameer Pandhare Staff Reporter

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As Duke ran out of its locker room for the final time before tip-off in its first exhibition game against Northwest Missouri State, the Blue Devils took the court donning all black. But Duke was not wearing the all-black jerseys it’s sported on the road over the years. Instead, the Blue Devils took the floor wearing shirts with the word ‘EQUALITY’ written across the chest. In a year when the line between sports and a turbulent political climate has blurred to an unprecedented extent, Duke made an opening statement in what is likely to be a yearlong topic of interest for even casual college basketball fans. “We had a few discussions as a team about what’s been going on in the country specifically with the national anthem, and we decided that

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as a team we would stand and wear the equality shirts,” senior Grayson Allen said. “What that would symbolize basically is a sentence that everyone knows, ‘One nation, under god, with liberty and justice for all.’” The intrigue only built as it came time for the national anthem at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Although a slew of players across the NFL have either taken a knee or decided to stay in the locker room, it has yet to be seen what the response in college basketball would be. “All of our guys want to stand,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Not everybody wants to put their hand over their heart, and they don’t have to do that. Some guys put their heads down because they’re praying. Some people put their hands on the side or in the back. For the next two hours, the Blue Devils brought the Cameron Crazies to their feet with See EQUALITY on Page 8 @thedukechronicle | © 2017 The Chronicle

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Picture this. It’s a gorgeous fall day, and you’re walking across the quad enjoying the sunlight and breathing in the fresh air— until you walk right into a cloud of cigarette smoke. The Duke Smoke Free Initiative is working to make sure that never happens again. Led by the Duke Center for Smoking Cessation, the initiative is seeking support for a proposed policy that would ban all forms of combustible tobacco on campus but would still allow e-cigarettes and chewing tobacco. “This is an opportunity to ensure that Duke students are not at a disadvantage with regards to their health,” said Walid Salah, a senior clinical research specialist and member of a working group for the initiative. “We’re invested in making sure Duke is developing future leaders of the world that are healthy and are able to live the full extent of their lives.” The working group conducted a survey of 2,800 students and faculty that was presented at the Graduate and Professional Student Council meeting Oct. 17. It revealed that 11.4 percent of undergraduates, 7.9 percent of graduate students and 1.7 percent of faculty smoke cigarettes. Among international students, however, the rate was 15.6 percent. In addition, the group’s recent review of research suggested that 67 percent of smokers will die of an illness caused by their smoking. Junior Kushal Kadakia, executive vice president of Duke Student Government, explained that making Duke a smokefree campus has been a DSG priority for many years. Last semester, DSG reached out to the Center for Smoking Cessation to begin gathering information about the Duke community’s thoughts on the proposed policy.

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“This is not a one-shot, one-year project,” Kadakia said. “An initiative as big as this requires a lot of different input.” In addition to their presentation to GPSC, the Center and DSG have met with student groups to get feedback and presented the idea last week at Fix My Duke, an annual forum that gathers input from presidents of living groups on campus. Kadakia noted that more than 2,000 universities have already gone smoke-free, including the institutions that President Vincent Price and Chancellor for Health Affairs A. Eugene Washington previously worked at. However, the working group has not brought the idea to administrators yet. “This isn’t something that is new in higher education,” Kadakia said. “We would hope that advancing this policy would be of interest to them.” The group has also conducted research on how other schools have enforced the smoking ban, but has not made any policy decisions on penalties for being caught smoking on campus. Studies have shown that simply having a policy in place can cut smoking rates considerably, Kadakia said. Of particular interest is the international student population, which has higher smoking rates than the general undergraduate group. Salah, who is from Jordan and graduated from Duke in 2017, explained that in many other countries, smoking is a common practice. “It’s like grabbing a beer with friends in U.S.,” he said. “Because it’s heavily embedded in the culture and social norms, there isn’t a strong understanding of the extent to which smoking is a public hazard and a public health problem.” Salah noted that even though there has been more information released about the dangers of smoking in the past 20 years, many places still continue the habit. Reducing the number of international smokers on campus is especially important to Salah because he doesn’t want the international community to face difficulties in life, he said. Studies have shown that smokers are less likely to be hired than nonsmokers. “I don’t want the international community to be at a disadvantage in the job market,” he said. See SMOKE-FREE on Page 4

A federal judge has granted preliminary approval to the partial settlement of a lawsuit against Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that alleges collusion between the two institutions, according to a press release from Business Wire. U.S. District Court Judge Catherine Eagles’ approval applies to UNC and its medical school, but Duke and the Duke University Health System have not settled. The antitrust lawsuit was initially filed by Danielle Seaman, then-assistant professor of radiology at Duke, who alleges she lost out on a parallel faculty post at UNC due to an illegal agreement that prevented both institutions from hiring certain of each other’s employees. The agreement, she says, suppressed competition and wages in violation of antitrust law. Seaman’s attorneys want Eagles to approve the case as a class-action lawsuit that represents medical personnel at both schools, but Duke is contesting that motion. The settlement requires UNC to cooperate in providing data, documents and testimony to the plaintiff as she continues her litigation against Duke. UNC has denied wrongdoing as part of the settlement, and cannot engage in illegal no-hire agreements in the future. According to a report by the Durham Herald Sun, Nancy Andrews, dean of the Medical School from 2007 to 2017, said in court filings that she never tried to prevent subordinates from taking jobs at UNC. “I am not aware of any instance in which Duke School of Medicine declined to recruit or hire anyone because he or she was a member of the [UNC] faculty or staff,” she said in a signed

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statement filed Oct. 23. “I am not aware of anyone at Duke who believed that he or she was prevented from hiring a medical faculty member because the candidate was from [UNC].” Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, declined to comment. Sam Turken contributed reporting.

Sink or swim: Duke researchers fight to save most endangered marine mammal By Daniel Egitto Contributing Reporter

This month, Duke University Marine Lab Director Andrew Read— with an international team of over 60 specialists—embarked on what may be the last battle for the most endangered marine mammal on earth. Backed by a $5 million budget, almost universal public support and both a fleet of Mexican vessels and a pod of trained U.S. Navy dolphins, Read’s fight to save the vaquita—a shy, 1.5 meter-long porpoise found in the Bay of California—has elicited a positive response among environmentalists. After two decades of failed conservation efforts, however, the Mexican government’s effort to capture and raise the last of the vaquitas in captivity is

becoming more urgent as the species’ population dwindles. “It is really going to be the very last opportunity to save the species,” Read— who is also the Stephen A. Toth professor of marine biology—said. “Nobody has ever been successful in catching a vaquita before. Nobody has ever cared for a vaquita before.” The survival of this species, however, depends on Read’s team doing just that. Fewer than 30 vaquitas remain today, and recently, each passing year has seen population decreases of about 50 percent. If this crew fails to capture at least a handful of the animals before time is up, Read said the future of the vaquita will be cast in serious doubt. More than two weeks have passed since the start of this mission. Read will only stay for one more. In the time

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Fewer than 30 vaquitas—porpoises from the Bay of California—remain today.

that has passed, the team has netted only one of the porpoises—a juvenile, unfortunately, which they were forced to release for health concerns. Just how are these creatures so successful in evading capture? Read looked out across the bay as he answered— Mexican Navy vessels bobbing in the water, fresh off last week’s capture of an illegal smuggling boat. “The animals are killed in nets that are set illegally by poachers for a large sea bass,” he said. “The nets that are set to catch these big, enormous sea basses are also very good at porpoises, to the point of their being driven inexorably towards extinction as a result of collateral damage.” This “collateral damage” has forced the remaining vaquitas to become adept at avoiding nets of all kinds— including those Read’s team relies on for their capture. Weather around the Bay of California is often highly volatile, which further complicates the team’s efforts. Read noted that his team has seen only three or four days of good weather since they first started, leaving them grounded onshore or incapable of tracking their elusive quarry. Read said that on every good weather day the team has been out they have seen vaquitas but that it is easy to lose track of them if the marine weather conditions are not perfect. Despite the challenges, Read noted that he remains grateful for the quality of his team and the support the Mexican government has shown them. “The government of Mexico has brought together the very best people in the world,” he said. “At the very highest See ENDANGERED on Page 4

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INTELLIGENCE FROM PAGE 1 In 2008, Liu invited the team to visit China—on China’s dime. But Smith almost didn’t take part, after a heated argument with Liu at the airport before their flight. Liu kept trying to press Smith into giving Cui’s group technical advice, which was not what Smith thought he had signed up for. As Golden tells it, this was not an eager researcher looking to foster collaboration back home. Golden wrote that Liu convinced Smith to join the Chinese Government’s Project 111, which was designed to recruit overseas scientists to work on Chinese campuses. Golden suggested that Smith was not aware of the commitment Liu was trying to make him take on. Liu kept working at Smith’s lab, but the tensions between him and Smith remained. In 2008, Liu authored a paper describing a newer invisibility cloak covering a wider range of wave frequencies. But when Smith asked for further details about the technique by which Liu came up with the cloak’s design, Liu clammed up. Smith asked another graduate student—Nathan Kundtz,

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M.S. ‘08, Ph.D. ‘09 and now CEO of metamaterials-based antenna company Kymeta Corporation—to figure out how Liu had done it. When Kundtz succeeded, Liu was upset, and eventually other researchers were telling Smith that Kundtz was stealing their ideas. “I didn’t know anything about this [at the time],” Kundtz told The Chronicle. “It’s something David told me years later. What he said was that Ruopeng had campaigned to have me kicked out of the group and that David collected people and asked what was going on. And they all said I’m stealing work, so David asked whose work. And they all said not mine, one by one.” In January 2009, Liu published a paper detailing this new cloak, with Smith and Cui as co-authors. According to the chapter, China paid more than $10,000 for the byline, and Smith was flying high. That is, until the lab’s funders got word of the Chinese lab’s involvement. Smith was being funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and Cui by the National Basic Science Foundation of China and Project 111. Not surprisingly, the Pentagon was not pleased that research it had funded made its way to China. Smith immediately ended collaboration with Cui’s team, and told Liu to cease contact with Cui’s team. But the suspicious behavior did not stop, and tensions between Smith and Liu came to a head. Smith caught Liu ignoring his responsibilities in his lab and storing the details of his experiments on a website hosted by a Chinese server. The book suggests this website represented the commercial venture Liu hoped to create. “Kuang-Chi doesn’t happen overnight,” Kundtz said, acknowledging he learned about Liu’s suspicious behavior only after leaving Duke. To make matters worse, Liu failed to tell Smith about a dozen papers he had written with Cui, despite Smith’s instructions and even though Smith was listed as a co-author on several. In April, Smith took Liu’s key from the lab. And yet, despite all the concerns of seeming academic dishonesty, Liu received his doctorate in November 2009. Golden suggests the ongoing negotiations surrounding Duke Kunshan University could have been a reason for Duke to look the other way. Although he did not comment on Liu’s particular case, Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and

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government relations, insisted there was no connection. “I can say that there was absolutely no connection between the awarding of any degrees and the deliberations over the proposal for Duke Kunshan University,” Schoenfeld wrote in an email.

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Golden asked a fellow journalist to interview Liu about the incidents involving him, and Liu was cagey with his responses. He emphasized that Smith’s lab was not classified and that all the data was transparent. Flash forward to Liu’s post-Duke career, and Kuang-Chi— founded by Liu and three other Duke alums—has Chinese governmental support. The Shenzhen and Guangdong provincial governments awarded the company about $14 million, and Liu gave General Secretary Xi Jinping, the highest-ranking leader of the Chinese government, a personal tour of the firm in 2012. “At the very least it appears to be a case of individual economic espionage by a foreigner,” Golden told The Chronicle. “But there are connections between him and a foreign government that should raise scrutiny.” Can Duke protect its intellectual property? Golden also told The Chronicle that he has seen universities struggle with the protection of intellectual property during the research for his book. This is especially the case in an era of globalization, he said, when universities want foreign campuses for both financial reasons and to further academic research. But going abroad brings the challenges with foreign espionage he documents in his book. “When you set up a branch campus in another country, that country’s intelligence service has a home-field advantage, See INTELLIGENCE on Page 4

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and they can find ways to monitor activity on that campus and recruit students,” he said. Golden identified several flaws in universities’ intellectual property procedures that he said could help them confront situations like the Liu case if corrected. He emphasized that collaboration agreements prior to research make it much harder for research to leak out of the lab. Robin Rasor, executive director of the Office of Licensing and Ventures, agreed such agreements can be valuable. “It’s kind of like when you get married. You don’t want to have a prenup but sometimes it makes sense to have a prenup,” she said. “So, we do collaboration agreements when we have faculty collaborating with another university, and often those agreements do provide for what happens if there are inventions.” She added that OLV needs to do a better job of educating faculty on the value of these agreements. But OLV does not require such agreements, because they would impinge on the freedom typically desired in academic circles.

Regarding the Liu incident, Rasor said there were no major subsequent policy changes, and she did not think any major policy change would have necessarily remedied the situation. If someone has ill intent, she said, making them sign a new policy might not change much. The research sponsor also has a say in who works on a project. If they impose export control conditions on a project, then foreign nationals need special export licenses to participate. There is no indication such a restriction was put in place for Smith’s lab at the time. Golden indicated this research could be called “pre-classified” research—research that could eventually become so important that foreign nationals lose research privileges. In August, the federal government launched an official investigation into China’s intellectual property practices and intellectual property theft. Haiyan Gao, Henry Newson professor of physics and vice chancellor for academic affairs of DKU, noted the government can place restrictions on research at DKU. “U.S. federally-funded research projects are only allowed to operate at DKU if the operation of those is permitted by the funding agencies and is set up through proper subcontracts or sub-awards,” she wrote in email. “When a

[principal investigator] prepares a proposal and submits to a U.S. federal funding agency, he or she always includes DKU as a collaborating sub-awardee in his or her proposal and articulates the roles and responsibilities of the co-PI(s) at DKU. The US funding agency reviews the proposal and evaluates whether the proposal is feasible and appropriate by including DKU’s co-PI.” Gao also noted that researchers at DKU will soon have to sign an intellectual property agreement form before beginning research. She wrote that the DKU Board of Trustees recently approved an intellectual property policy, and that an agreement form will be presented to them in November. If approved, each faculty will sign it with the University. As for preventing future incidents, Rasor said education was the key. OLV works with the Pratt School of Engineering and the Innovation and Entrepreneurship initiative to host weekend sessions on intellectual property, and the office hosts workshops for departments and classes upon request. “A lot has changed in 10 years, and I would say the awareness of faculty and graduate students is wholly different,” she said. “I’ve been in this business for 30 years, and what they know now is much different than what they knew 10 years ago.”

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Despite the higher percentage of smoking among international students, Salah noted that when he met with the leaders of various international groups, they were very supportive of the proposed ban. This week, the working group will issue a joint resolution during the DSG and GPSC meetings in hopes of getting ratification from their respective legislative bodies. This will serve as a formal statement of student support that they can use to have conversations with University leaders. Kadakia noted that since Durham bans smoking in its recreational facilities, bus stops and sidewalks, Duke should follow suit. “Making Duke smoke-free is another way we can support community wellness and sustainability,” he said. “We can shift campus in a positive direction.”

level of the government, the [Mexican] president and the secretary of the environment made a commitment that they won’t let the vaquita go extinct.” Federal backing has been a key component of the team’s work thus far. The Mexican Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources has funded $3 million of the crew’s budget, and vaquita-holding pens are already manned with a host of veterinary technicians just waiting for the first porpoises to be brought in. Mexico is going for the long game in this effort, too. Read anticipates at least a decade before Mexico will be able to bring poachers in the Gulf of California to heel. Smuggled sea bass presents a lucrative trade right now, he noted, and until that market dries up, vaquitas will remain at threat of extinction. Just how damaging would that loss be? Read explained

that the vaquita has played a critical role in Mexican marine conversation movements. Commonly called the “marine panda,” this animal has provided a rallying point for a number of conservationist efforts. “The vaquita really serves as an icon,” Read said. “If you ask the average person in Mexico City, they’ll know about it, they’ll know it’s endangered. It’s a species people really care about because they’re attractive. They’re cute!” The vaquita has also brought in outreach, reporters and now even an international film team bankrolled by Leonardo DiCaprio, he noted. But all that is in flux right now. Read explained that his team hopes to capture five or six of these animals on this mission, and it is possible they might come back for another try in the spring. If all goes well, he added, there is a good chance at eventually recovering this species—success stories for similar animals are not unheard-of. “Everything is contingent on how things go now,” Read said.

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Allen scores 23 points to lead Blue Devils to convincing exhibition victory against Bearcats By Andrew Donohue Assistant Blue Zone Editor

On a night expected to primarily feature the next group of Blue Devil freshman phenoms, Duke’s lone returning star stole the show. Grayson Allen looked like his sophomore self again and put the rest of the college basketball world on notice. The senior scored 23 points as the Blue Devils rolled 93-60 against Northwest Missouri State Friday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Duke used a 19-5 run midway through the first half to put the game out of reach and finished shooting 60.6 percent from the field as it limited the Bearcats to just 31.4 percent. “We beat a really good team,” Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “There’s a reason they were national champions last year, and they have a chance to do it again this year.” The Blue Devils’ starting lineup was the same as Krzyzewski hinted at earlier in the week, featuring freshmen Trevon Duval, Gary Trent Jr., Wendell Carter Jr. and Marvin Bagley III, along with Allen. The group struggled initially as the defending Division II national champions came out strong and aggressive, forcing Duke into several early turnovers and limiting its offensive flow. But its sluggishness was short-lived, as first Trent, then Allen heated up from the field. Trent looked comfortable operating in the midrange, knocking down several tough pull-up jump shots. Allen hit back-to-back jumpers to kickstart the decisive run and then steadfastly attacked the rim, creating open shots for himself and teammates. “I got a few open looks from three early on and I felt like they were hugging up to me and didn’t want me to get any more open looks, and I know when that happens I can drive,” Allen said. “Especially after Gary has knocked

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Senior captain Grayson Allen outshined his freshman teammates, knocking down five triples in Friday’s win. down a few, that guy’s not going to leave, and they were really fighting our bigs in the post and hugging up to them, so I thought there were a lot of open lanes to drive.” The two heralded freshmen big men were solid as well against an undersized Bearcat team. With nobody physical enough to handle him in the post, Carter dominated the interior and finished with 11 points and nine rebounds. Bagley stepped up in the second half to end with 16 points and six rebounds, taking advantage of his superior athleticism. “My mindset coming into the second half was just play. Don’t think—play basketball,”

Bagley said. “Take whatever the defense gives you and at the time, the defense was giving me the post, and I went down and scored a little bit and we went on a little run.” Bagley and Carter also served as effective rim protectors, as the Bearcats were reluctant to drive inside. But the Blue Devils’ perimeter defense was lacking at times, with Duval and Allen sometimes a step slow to rotate or close out. Northwest Missouri State made 12 triples to create most of its offense. Duval, the freshman entrusted with running the Duke offense, had an unspectacular game on paper, finishing

with just seven points and five assists, but contributed several highlight plays, including a steal followed by an emphatic breakaway dunk. The New Castle, Del., native let Allen and Trent handle the brunt of the scoring burden. “Trevon had a terrific game.” Krzyzewski said. “He made some really simple, great passes, and then guarding their best player, who’s good, and he did a good job on him.” The lopsided score meant that the Blue Devil reserves got a decent amount of See M. BASKETBALL on Page 8

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Duke clinches ACC tournament bye with 1-0 win By Winston Lindqwister Staff Reporter

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Freshman Will Pulisic made two big saves to post his seventh shutout of the season and earn a full week of rest before the ACC quarterfinals.

When freshman Daniel Wright came off the bench, the Blue Devils needed a hero. Trailing Virginia nine shots to one, Duke struggled to even get a hold on the ball, relying heavily on an elite defensive unit to stay in the game. But three minutes after Wright entered the game, the Wixom, Mich., native caught an open look from sophomore 0 Max Moser and UVA 1 slid the ball under DUKE Cavalier goalkeeper Jeff Caldwell for one of the Blue Devils’ most important goals of the season. No. 18 Duke upset No. 13 Virginia 1-0 Friday night at Koskinen Stadium. In what would become a victorious Senior Night, the Blue Devils weathered a relentless Cavalier offense to finally capitalize on an opening late in the second period. Thanks to Wright’s lone score of the evening, Duke jumped three places in the ACC standings,

locking down the No. 4 seed and a first-round bye in the ACC tournament. “With all the ramifications, Senior Night, this is a huge win for us for so many reasons,” Blue Devil head coach John Kerr said. “For your seeding in the ACC tournament, for your seeding in the NCAA tournament and for our confidence level. We’ve been searching for this kind of consistency for a while. All credit to our guys—they played great.” Although Duke (12-3-2, 4-3-1 in the ACC) took the only result that mattered, it was Virginia that looked in control of much of the match. In the first half, the Cavaliers (10-3-3, 3-23) took five shots while holding the Blue Devils to just one. Redshirt senior midfielder Pablo Aguilar rattled Duke early with a high kick from about 30 yards out. The ball arched over the Blue Devil back line before goalkeeper Will Pulisic tipped it at the last second, forcing the shot high off the crossbar and keeping Duke See M. SOCCER on Page 9

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Fast start pushes Blue Devils into ACC semifinals By Jack Dolgin Staff Reporter

One might think that after Duke beat Virginia 1-0 to claim the ACC regular-season title, and then celebrated quite animatedly in the locker room, that perhaps the Blue Devils would come out flat and overconfident against Boston College. Actually, it was the opposite. Duke dominated the Eagles in the first half and after the 1 game, rather than BC 3 complacent, head DUKE coach Robbie Church appeared visibly somber. He said there were things on his mind that he could not talk about, but he did have plenty of nice things to say about the way his top-seeded team earned its 18th straight victory and advanced to the ACC semifinals with a 3-1 win against eighthseeded Boston College at a storm-drenched Koskinen Stadium. The Blue Devils scored on both of their first two shots of the game and are now set to play the Cavaliers in Charleston, S.C., Friday. “We were really clinical in front of the goal,” Church said. “It was nice to get a corner kick goal. I think that was our first one after many, many tries.” “Maybe for a couple years,” Church said, thinking back to the last time Duke scored on a corner kick. Enter Chelsea Burns. The outside

defender headed a corner kick from Ella Stevens into the right side netting in the 14th minute for her sixth goal of the year, and just her second that did not come on a penalty kick. “I think it was a clean header, just down, and then I don’t know what happened on the goal. I couldn’t see it,” said Burns, whose shot actually deflected off Eagle Elysa Virella’s head before going in. “Maybe everybody could be a double black-belt,” Church joked, referencing Burns’ rank in Taekwondo. “Chelsea’s one of our best players in the air.” The Blue Devils (18-1-0) sucked the air out of the Boston College visiting crowd and bench with the goal, and all but silenced them 13 minutes later. In contrast to several of the team’s goals this year, Kayla McCoy crossed the ball in to Imani Dorsey, who stuck out her leg in front of her and volleyed a score to the left of Eagle goalkeeper Alexis Bryant. The same goalkeeper gave up a 50-yard goal to Duke’s Schuyler DeBree just 10 days ago when the teams met in Chestnut Hill, Mass. The goal made SportsCenter’s Top 10 plays and was a sort of redemption for DeBree, a senior who two years ago saw her season end when she suffered an ACL injury at that same stadium. This game seemed completely different, though, needing no late heroics from Duke to seal things. The Blue Devils’ body language told the story when they came out of the locker room before the

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Chelsea Burns struck first with a header after Ella Stevens sent a corner kick into the box for the Blue Devils’ first goal off a corner in a while. second half somewhat lethargically. It was understandable, since McCoy finished a shot from the top of the box with the inside of her foot in the 41st minute that snuck just inside the left post and extended the home team’s lead to three. The second half felt different, in more than one sense of the word. It was downpouring, leading Burns to admit after the game that she wanted to get back to the locker room because she was cold.

Duke also played the second half without redshirt senior Rebecca Quinn, one of the best players in college soccer and a regular on the Canadian national team. Quinn experienced stiffness in her neck after falling down while leaping for a ball late in the first half. She was about to be subbed out and Church might well have rested her for the second half anyways because of recurrent See W. SOCCER on Page 9

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Offense remains dormant in loss at Virginia Tech By Hank Tucker Sports Editor

BLACKSBURG, Va.—Duke’s offense wrapped up its worst month in recent memory Saturday night, delivering a downtrodden performance in the rain. No. 13 Virginia 3 Tech beat the Blue DUKE 24 Devils 24-3 at Lane VT Stadium, holding Duke to just 183 yards of total offense. Duke has now scored five offensive touchdowns in as many

games, wrapping up its first winless October in head coach David Cutcliffe’s 10 years in Durham and losing five straight regular-season games for the first time since 2011. “At this stage, I’m sure everybody feels somewhat like I do,” Cutcliffe said. “You’re physically tired, but right now, you’re pretty emotionally tired after what we’ve been through. But you pick yourself up, and we will.” The Blue Devils (4-5, 1-5 in the ACC) were within striking distance until the final minute of the first half, when running back Shaun Wilson pushed a defender in

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Daniel Jones did not complete a pass in the second half and finished the rainy night at Lane Stadium with just 82 passing yards.

the facemask for a dead-ball personal foul “The rain and the combination of their pass whistle with 42 seconds left. The penalty rush made it almost impossible at times. stopped the clock, gifting the Hokies— Even when Daniel was getting the ball off, he who had no timeouts left—another chance was getting hit pretty often, so I think that to extend a 10-3 lead. Virginia Tech (7-1, combination was the biggest reason. It wasn’t 3-1) took advantage, needing just two pass just rain.” plays to go 42 yards for a touchdown. Sean Jones did gain 65 rushing yards and Wilson Savoy’s 26-yard touchdown catch put the added 38, but the running back was stopped Hokies in front 17-3. on fourth-and-1 from the 11-yard line with “It’s always tough whenever they get less than eight minutes left on the team’s last points going into the chance to score. half, because you feel You’re pretty emotionally The Blue Devil it going into the locker tired after what we’ve been defense bent but did room,” redshirt senior not break for most of through. But you pick center Austin Davis the night, as the Hokies said. “It was a real gut yourself up, and we will. advanced past midfield punch, but we knew we DAVID CUTCLIFFE on all eight of their had to do a better job HEAD FOOTBALL COACH drives in the first half on offense to help our but came up empty on defense out and not put five of them. Virginia them in those situations.” Tech turned the ball over on downs three Neither offense had much success in times, but mustered more than enough the second half, as a steady rain became a points to coast to a win against the Duke’s torrential downpour. Virginia Tech’s raucous nonexistent offense. home crowd thinned dramatically before the “Defensively, everybody was out there. final whistle, with most fans headed for the They declared war, played really ferocious,” exits to seek cover. Cutcliffe said. “Our defense held its own. Duke quarterback Daniel Jones struggled When you have an offense putting you in that with his accuracy, failing to complete a pass bad of field position or not staying on the for the entire second half and finishing with field, it’s very difficult.” just 82 yards through the air. The Hokies’ first touchdown came on a “Offensively, we have had horrific times nine-play, 71-yard drive capped by a four-yard trying to complete passes. If you want to get run from Deshawn McClease, who darted down to the core, our completion percentage into the end zone untouched, and they added has fallen to the point where consistency, See FOOTBALL on Page 9 down-and-distance suffers,” Cutcliffe said.

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Kristen scores twice, Duke rolls on Senior Day By Jason Atwood Contributing Reporter

Duke’s Senior Day was one to remember, as the Blue Devils easily dispatched the Mountaineers behind strong performances from seniors Alyssa Chillano and Ashley Kristen. The No. 2 Blue Devils dominated from the start, and though they had trouble finishing their plethora of opportunities, it didn’t stop them from cruising to a 4-0 victory. It was a tight match for the first 55 minutes at Jack Katz Stadium Saturday, as the Appalachian 0 State defense kept the ASU 4 game close and only DUKE conceded one goal in Duke’s first 30 shots. But the Mountaineers couldn’t stem the tide forever, and the Blue Devils converted three of their last six shots to put the game away for good. “We’ve been working a lot on trying to sustain our attack and keeping possession of the ball and picking our opportunities to shoot or get a corner,” Duke head coach Pam Bustin said. ”It took us a while to get connected attack-wise, especially with so many opportunities.... We need to click in a little bit sooner. But I am pleased in the last 20 that when we did, it really showed. That’s the way you want to finish a game.” Duke’s ability to dominate possession and limit opposing opportunities was the story of the game.

By the time the clock ticked down to zero, the Blue Devils (15-2) had taken 30 more shots and 11 more corners than the Mountaineers. In fact, the Duke defense allowed just three shots on goal, and goalie Sammi Steele needed only two saves to post her seventh shutout of the season. “We play our best defensive games when the defense starts from the top, back,” Bustin said. “There were a couple breakdowns today where we were just a little bit late to wake up, step up and get our defensive organization happening, but once we got it together, it really helped.” Duke broke through first with 16:40 left in the first half. Off a penalty corner, Chillano perfectly set up junior forward Caroline Andretta, who fired a shot that deflected off a defender and found the back of the goal. Duke continued to press all half, but Mountaineer goalie Rachel Gaines did not back down, making 10 of her 17 saves before halftime to keep Appalachian State (8-9) within striking distance. “Credit to their defense in the first half, it was really tough,” Kristen said. “In the second half, we just came out stronger. We had to. We started moving more and we need to continue to do that.” Duke’s offense took a while to get going in the second half, with 10 more shots that failed to turn into goals. But in the 55th minute, senior Ainsley Gill streaked across the middle of the field, leaving some Mountaineer midfielders in her dust, and placed

a beautiful pass behind the defense. Kristen then controlled it and rifled the ball in for the score. Off a corner three minutes later, it was Chillano who rocketed a shot past Gaines, with sophomore midfielder Margaux Paolino picking up her team-high ninth assist of the season. To put the icing on the cake, Kristen struck again with her seventh goal of the season. With the victory, Duke has now won 12 of its

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Ashley Kristen scored her fifth and sixth goals of the year in her final regular-season game at Jack Katz Stadium.

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Duke’s players all had signs with the words of the Pledge of Allegaince at their lockers.

M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 6 action, most notably sophomores Marques Bolden and Javin DeLaurier. Bolden looked to be in better shape than he was during his disappointing campaign last year, as he showed improved quickness on defense, even switching onto smaller players in pick-androll situations. DeLaurier showcased the athleticism that he showed in flashes last season, elevating above defenders to snatch rebounds and even knocking down a 3-pointer on the offensive end. He will likely be counted on to perform in a bigger role this season and looked ready to perform at a high level. Duke dominated the glass, more than doubling Northwest Missouri State’s rebounding output, and redshirt sophomore

a dazzling display of cohesion for a team with a combined 12 freshmen and sophomores. The steady perimeter play of Allen and freshman Gary Trent Jr. complimented the interior presence of Marvin Bagley III and Wendell Carter Jr., as Duke ran away from the Bearcats early in a 93-60 win. But back in the locker room, questions remained about the Blue Devils’ opening statement—and not the one they made with their play. “We went out and made sure that everybody was doing the same thing,” Carter said. “We were all involved. Coach brought it to our attention and we all said how we felt about the situation. We all made a plan together.” But Carter’s explanation of the team’s motivation did not stop there. After digging in his locker for a few seconds, the freshman pulled out a picture with the message Duke plans to stick by throughout the season. “It’s part of the Pledge of Allegiance, and it’s basically what our program and our school is about,” Krzyzewski said as he saluted military service members in attendance at the postgame press conference. “That’s what we want our country to be. That’s why

Justin Robinson got in on the action late with a putback dunk that drew one of the biggest cheers of the night. “I just went in and they told me to be active and they told us to go get rebounds,” Robinson said. “So I just went after it and I saw I could dunk it.” There are still kinks to be ironed out defensively, especially on the perimeter, but Duke’s offense looked to be in midseason form, with Allen a threat to score every time he touched the ball. The Blue Devils will have a week to analyze their performance before their final exhibition next Saturday against Bowie State at Cameron Indoor. “They have a lot of learning to do,” Krzyzewski said. “But they want to learn, so that was good. But tonight was good. That was a good start.”

last 13 matches and enters the ACC tournament on a six-game winning streak. The Blue Devils received the No. 2 seed and will face No. 7 seed Boston College Thursday in Louisville, Ky. “It’s definitely a great feeling and a lot of fun to win on Senior Day, but I think we still have a lot more work to do,” Kristen said. “It was good to have a little bit of a challenge before we enter the next part of our season.”

we stand in reverence to the men and women who have served our country, who have protected those rights, but also for every race, every gender, every religion.” Facing the challenge of molding one of the youngest teams in program history, Krzyzewski and his coaching staff likely expected having to consider the best way to prepare their team for the highpressure situations it will face in conference play. But the Blue Devils decided they needed to response to one of the nation’s most divisive topics before the regular season even got under way. Although Krzyzewski did not address any hypothetical scenarios about a player choosing to kneel, the head coach made it clear that his team will stay united through any circumstance. “We wanted to initially let everyone know, when we stand, that’s what we stand for, and we don’t have to wear it all the time, but tonight, we did because it was the first time that this group stood together,” Krzyzewski said. “We are who we are, and we did that and so be it. I’m proud of our guys. I think it’s a heck of a statement.” On some nights, the scoreboard at Cameron is what draws the attention of fans in the bleachers and writers on press row. But lately, it’s simply not possible for everyone involved to stick to sports.

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Justin Robinson threw down a putback dunk in the second half, much to the crowd’s delight.

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their opportunities.” However, against a Cavalier squad that did not make any substitutions until the 80th minute, the Blue Devils’ resilience finally paid off. Just after Virginia hammered Duke’s back line with three shots in six minutes to open the second half, the Blue Devils flipped the script. In the 63rd minute, Moser ran deep down the sideline into Cavalier territory before lobbing the ball straight to Brian White, who opted for the header. Unfortunately for Duke, Caldwell was waiting, cutting Duke short in just its second real chance to get on the board. Unrelenting even after Wright’s late goal, Virginia made a point to make the Blue Devils work for their victory. In the 84 minute, Aguilar pushed deep into Duke territory off a pass from Opoku and slid a shot toward the right corner of the net. Pulisic left the frame wide open, but Aguilar’s ball nicked the post, keeping the Blue Devils in the lead. Virginia’s final opportunity to score came in the 85th minute. A yellow card on Max Moser gave the Cavaliers a free kick opportunity, but Jerren Nixon Jr.’s attempt at a header flew high. “We stayed really strong,” Wright said. “We stuck to the coaches’ plan, and in the end it worked out. We got a good couple breaks and in the end we could have scored a couple more times, but we got the win and that’s all that matters.” The fourth-seeded Blue Devils will be back in action in the ACC tournament quarterfinals in Durham Nov. 5 against the winner of Syracuse and fourth-ranked Clemson. “[The win] is fabulous for our seniors,” Kerr said. “They’ve been unlucky the past three years with their pursuit of postseason play. This gives us the last move forward to make their dreams realistic. They have a lot of potential, and now they’re fulfilling it.”

M. SOCCER FROM PAGE 6 from falling behind early. The Blue Devils came inches away from falling behind again in the 31st minute thanks to a blazing drive from Virginia forward Edward Opoku, who had been running lines through Duke’s tough defense. He finally found an opening off a high pass from his teammates, leaving just Pulisic between him and the back of the net. The Cavalier junior managed to fake the Duke freshman out for a wide-open net, but shot just wide left, keeping both sides scoreless into the half. “As Muhammad Ali would say, it was a rope-a-dope for us defensively,” Kerr said. “We were very confident in defending in our own third. We did a really good job in limiting their opportunities. They certainly had a few opportunities, but we limited

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instead. This prioritization of asinine celebrity gossip over the bombing in Mogadishu shows truly how little significance Western media has attached to the lives of Somalis. In contrast, the recent Las Vegas shooting was covered non-stop for days following the attack and international news outlets like CNN even halted their normal programming to devote more time to coverage.

Editorial Board Although domestic agendas are the primary ones for countries like the United States and UK, there is an overtly apathetic reaction to terrorist attacks that occur in war-torn countries like Somalia and Yemen. Martin Plaut, an editor of African news coverage for BBC World from 20032012, explains that this passiveness is a problem of Westerners assuming violence and death is more or less inherent to those regions. The discussions surrounding Somalia— along with many other regions of the world— infrequently involves the same detailed analysis

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s the weather begins to change and red-orange leaves coat the sidewalks and driveways of Duke’s lovely campus, there is no shortage of transformations visible in the student body: haircuts, new sweaters, a renewed sense of disgust and hatred towards Perkins Library and the bus schedule. But, there are lots of things that also stay the same like, to the dismay of some, their hard-to-pronounce names. Pratt junior Cem Kilic, who is originally from Istanbul, said, “When I order coffee or food or anything I usually just tell them my name is Jim, because otherwise they really don’t know what I’m saying.” In Turkish, the “c” in Cem’s name is pronounced

Daniela Flamini COLUMNIST like a “g,” so it should actually be pronounced Jem. But he explained that “People read it either Kem or Sem. And then when I correct them, they say Jim. So I stick with Jim. ” Cem is not the only member of the Turkish community struggling with such difficulties at Duke; Trinity sophomore Ceren Ebrem (pronounced Jeren) has issues with the exact same letter. “I was born in the U.S. to Turkish parents, so you’d think they could have been more visionary and named me something adaptable,” she said. “But no. Meeting new people at parties or Devine’s is a nightmare.” Ceren shared her introduction strategy, explaining that she usually breaks it down to people by saying that it’s “like Karen but with a J,” after which they usually respond “Karen with a… what?”—right after which, she gives up. Other Turkish Dukies have lost hope on a larger scale. Pratt junior Berke Ozdemir (pronounced Barrh-keh) said, “A while ago I read some article about how people tend to not fall in love with someone whose name they can’t pronounce. So I’ve given up finding someone at Duke.” After pausing to wipe a metaphorical tear from his eye, he softly remarked, “In ABP, they write Burt on my sandwich...every time.” Hannah Godefa (pronounced Ha-nuh), a Trinity junior with Ethiopian origins, said that she has to correct people “every time [I introduce myself] unless the person is African. My name is also so common here [with an American pronunciation] that I feel like I don’t have the right to get mad.” Instead, Hannah said that she usually gives up when people fail at making the effort to understand how her name should be properly said, though she reserves a look of “half pity and love” for those who attempt to get it right and still fail miserably. Trinity junior Yemi Kolawole, whose full first name is

Oyeyemi, has had traumatic experiences with her name since middle school. “In 8th grade my religion teacher called me Yummy the whole time I was at that school, even though my classmates called me by the right name. Yummy. What the f**k is Yummy?” Throughout all of high school she stuck to going by Yemi, but she recalled, “Every first day of class was rough because my full name would be on the roster and teachers would insist that they knew how to say Oyeyemi correctly instead of just calling me Yemi. And then they’d give me the ‘Oh what a beautiful name!’ bulls**t.” For her high school graduation, Yemi had to send in a phonetic pronunciation to the people who were going to read the names aloud. And when she arrived at Duke, she changed her preferred name on DukeHub, so as not to have any more class roster dilemmas. Rosters and name-calling is also a problem for Pratt junior Haeryn Kim (pronounced Hay-rin), an international student from South Korea. “My math professor this semester asked me what my name was more than he asked any other student,” she said. “People have spelled it Herin, and a lot of times they say Hair-in. I get it. It’s fine,” she added before walking away angrily and kicking a pile of fall leaves. Anupriya Sivakumar (pronounced Ah-new-priya), another junior in Trinity, said that although her name wasn’t too difficult for people to pronounce correctly, it has been commonly misunderstood and abused throughout different stages of her life. “In 6th grade, they used to call me Anup-dog. In 7th grade, it was literally just A New Prius, and in 8th grade, they discovered Onamonapia,” she remembered with tinge of annoyance in her monotone voice. And though these awfully stupid nicknames used to haunt her in her sleep, Anupriya has found a way to use them to her advantage: “During SLG rush at Duke I always used the A new prius thing to help them remember my name. Because otherwise they just don’t… remember...” She looked off into the distance longingly before adding, “I don’t even like Snoop Dog.” Zita Aretz, an exchange student from Germany who is only here for one semester, explained that her name should properly be pronounced “Tsi-ta,” but she knows that “Americans will always say Zita, so I don’t really try to correct anyone. I’ll be home soon anyways.” Despite her optimistic attitude, Zita struggles very much with food orders, like the aforementioned students. She said, “On coffee cups they either write Cita or Sita. And the letter “z” is said differently in German, zet instead of zee, so I never know how to explain it and I’m very confused all the time.” We’re confused all the time, too, Zita. All of us. Daniela Flamini is a Trinity junior. Her column runs on alternate Mondays.

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The trouble of being ‘busy’

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ere’s a shocking, never-before-seen epithet for your listless Monday: I’m a Duke student, and I never feel like I have enough time. I don’t have enough time to throw myself into my class readings like I want to—that’s because I need to make time for

Cameron Beach COLUMNIST my extracurriculars, for which I don’t have enough time to dedicate, and of course my job, which I’d really rather spend more time on… ad infinitum. 25 hours wouldn’t cut it. And if there’s one thing that unites our campus— at least before the Nov. 10 opener—it’s the feeling of always running from somewhere to somewhere, a starvation of time, the one resource we lost coming to college. It’s difficult, though, to perceive the void of something that isn’t there. Especially when the absence of time naturally lends itself to less reflection, I usually find myself “busy” without asking why, how or for what purpose. In fact, I never ask myself these questions. But I didn’t have to ask myself—a few weeks ago, a friend asked for me. It came about as I was asking her for advice. I told her that I’d really begun to like the person I was seeing; I wanted to spend lots of time with him, and that felt good, but it also worried me. “I don’t have enough time to like someone,” I explained. I told her that I have too many things to do, too many responsibilities—the relationship made me happy, sure, but I had classwork and Mock Trial work and real work to reckon with. She was quiet for a moment. Then: “Do you love him?” I nodded my head yes. She was quiet again, and then slowly started shaking her head. Finally, she looked up at me. “You don’t have enough time to be in love?” It felt different when she said it. Though all she’d done was speak my own words back to me, I found myself stumbling. There didn’t seem to be a right reply. Could I really not find time to give to someone I love? Do relationships and work occur on a binary— can I only engage meaningfully in one and not the other? It seemed like a silly question when I posed it to myself, but the idea was the basis of my whole concern: when work and relationships square off, there’s no question which comes out victorious. It isn’t relationships. Something about that calculus felt wrong, but I quickly brushed the feeling off and went on with my night. There were more pressing things to think about, of course, and doubting a major part of my relationship framework

wasn’t one of them. But a few nights ago, that same discomfort unexpectedly bubbled back into my mind. I was having dinner with a few friends when the conversation turned to the incredible people we’d met at Duke. “I knew someone who was a pre-Olympic athlete,” one of my friends said. “This guy I met started an anti-homophobia mission in his town,” another told us. Finally, the last friend sighed. “Duke is probably the only place I’ll ever be surrounded by people this…cool,” he said. “And I still don’t make enough time to be with them.” At that, the wrongness I’d felt a few weeks back began to make sense. I’ve always operated under the assumption that priorities are fixed: after family comes classwork, of course, and all else falls far beneath that. That’s what I’m at school for, after all: to take classes. Everything else is extracurricular. I have this conception of priorities, I think, because some measure of it is what we have to believe to get us to college. It was an easy decision to make high school coursework—the only well-trodden path to success—a priority. Friendships were an added bonus; they were fun, and sometimes they were meaningful, but they wouldn’t get you into college. I soon began to realize what that mindset has led me to do at Duke. There’s a part of me that still justifies placing schoolwork above all else—that’s the part that cancels lunch to study for a midterm, the part that cuts great conversations short to write an essay, the part that says, “I don’t have time to like someone.” But that part hasn’t yet realized that things are different. There is no clear-cut endgame like a college acceptance anymore, no minimum GPA, no SAT or ACT. There is only a giant cohort of incredible people from which to learn. Duke is a wonderland of resources, but by far the biggest resource is the students that populate this place. And, selfishly, it’s taken me over a year to understand that. It’s hard to change your mind; it’s harder still to change your actions. I spent most of my adult(ish) life seeing relationships as tangent to success—it’s embarrassingly painful to set aside my work and go to that lunch, check out that movie or finish that conversation. But 60 percent of college students admitted they had felt very lonely in this past year. 30 percent had felt that way in the previous two weeks. In a place designed to breed friendship and connection, this was a little shocking. I’m so fortunate to have countless inspiring, beautiful people around me. I won’t lose that because I’m “too busy.” I won’t lost that because I don’t commit to them. A poverty of time doesn’t need to mean a poverty of relationships. Cameron Beach is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs on alternate Mondays.

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Failure is an illusion

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f you don’t do it this time, you’re going to fail and we’re going to do this over again a different day.” Master Taylor’s voice was stern. I could barely believe my ears. We were three hours into my grueling black belt test. I had reached the final hurdle, breaking a brick, but I had already failed two times in the past five minutes to break it. I hit it with what felt like everything I had and it hit right back just as hard without breaking. In that moment, when Master Taylor, the sixth degree black belt

Jack Dolinar MORE PERCENT EFFICIENT in American Karate who had trained me since I was five years old, told me that I was going to have to start over the test, I decided, I’m going to break that brick. I focused all of my force, then gave in to it and savagely powered downwards. The brick snapped and I hit the concrete basement floor so hard with my elbow I had a bone bruise for a month. I almost failed my black belt test. It took me three tries to break the brick that was the symbol of overcoming extraordinary obstacles. But I did not fail. There was no failure that day. Since that experience, I have come to believe that failure does not truly exist anywhere. Sean Whalen, the entrepreneur and motivational speaker, says, “Failure is not real. It is a thought process.” Failure is an illusion we have gotten in the habit of accepting as reality when it’s really nothing of the kind. The point here is that learning to reframe “failure” can be a valuable asset. In his bestseller, “The Greatest Salesman in the World Part II,” Og Mandino wrote: “Always seek the seed of triumph in every adversity… Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve my performance the next time.” Adversity is just part of the process of improving oneself. There is nothing wrong or bad about failing on the first attempt. Here are Duke, students are surrounded on all sides by massively accomplished “whiz kids.” It becomes easy for us to forget that everyone has their own talents, but also their own challenges. Simply trying is a success, because the act of doing something is one hundred percent more effective than doing nothing. The only people who fail, if we must employ the term, are the ones who either give up or never tried in the first place. Contemplating failure may seem altogether philosophical, but developing lifestyle philosophies have a tangible impact on our culture and have become a part of mainstream discourse. Andy Frisella, a health and fitness magnate whose business grosses more than $100 million annually, has said, “It is never okay to lose! You should avoid losing at all costs. And if you do happen to lose, then you need to come up with the plans so you never lose that way again!” He recognizes that although actions must be driven by positivity and action, it is also vital for people to maintain pragmatic perspectives. After we do not success on a first attempt, we perceive failure. This perception can lead us to develop a habit in which we accept the situation at hand, rather than striving to change it. We all will fail in our lives. We will fail often. If we want to accomplish significant feats, we will sometimes have to deal with significant failures. All people have faced the disappointment of not getting into his or her dream school, missing out on their dream internship or getting passed over for the opportunity they dearly desired. But finding one or two nuggets of wisdom to mine from each loss can turn that loss into a victory. The mindset that failure is an impassable roadblock stops us in our tracks. But failure is central to the learning process, and learning more is the best investment in one’s pursuit of self-improvement. After all, it was Warren Buffet, the third richest man alive, who said, “The more you learn the more you earn.” No one can learn without failure, so it follows that failure is necessary for success. If it is a necessary step, then it follows that failure is not something to be feared. If anything, it is something to be multiplied. In this equation, more failure equals more success. Learning from present mistakes prevents future ones, saving time and energy down the road. But how do we learn from failure? We can do so simply. As Andy Frisella said, all we need to do is take our experience, make a plan so that we never make the same mistake twice, and then take action. We are surrounded by people who make the most difficult things seem easy—the Will Hunting’s and Yo-Yo Ma’s of our day and age. But we need to escape the noxious mindset that so easily infects us which pushes us to believe that it’s easy for them, so it should be easy for me too. Most of us are neither geniuses nor prodigies; our successes require sustained effort and persistence. If we find something we care deeply about, then we should not give in to the belief that adversity is the end. We must let setbacks serve as a smidgen of encouragement to fight back against “failure”; with the right mindset, every failure marks a step in the right direction. Jack Dolinar is a Trinity junior. His column, “more percent efficient” runs on alternate Mondays.

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