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they’ve got all the answers CompSci 201 professors give students answers to graded assignments to curb cheating By Shannon Fang

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More than half of all student conduct cases resolved between faculty members and students during the 2014-2015 academic year occurred in one course—Computer Science 201. A new policy regarding homework assignments implemented this semester seeks to prevent that from happening again. Starting this year, all answers to algorithmic problem-solving testing (APTs)—an online programming homework assignment—are available

to students one week before the assignments are due. Students can utilize the answers in any way, including simply copying and pasting the solutions into their assignments for submission. The new policy for the APTs was put in place to curb stress and student misconduct in the Computer Science 201 class. How it works The APT assignments for CS201 are due every other week and include

New vice provost shares updates on diversity By Daniel Egitto Contributing Reporter

Although Duke’s Office for Faculty Advancement just opened its doors in June, newly-hired Vice Provost Abbas Benmamoun is confident that the office can rejuvenate diversity amongst both faculty and students. On the heels of national controversies involving racial and ethnic diversity, Benmamoun said he aims to create a more enriching academic platform for Duke affiliates. “We do believe that a diverse faculty enhances the excellence of the institution and enriches the students’ experience,” he said. “We serve all the faculty with diversity as an essential component.” Duke announced the launch of the Office for Faculty Advancement at a community forum in 2015 following several racist and homophobic incidents on campus. Amongst the duties of the office is to work with provosts, deans and faculty across the University to ensure that high standards and fair practices are employed in faculty recruitment and hiring. Benmamoun said he has devoted his first months on campus to engaging with faculty on the current state of Duke’s hiring and training processes and ways they can be improved. He noted that developing staff who reflect the needs of Duke’s students will require a certain degree of thought and restructuring in the way Duke’s departments think about their candidates.

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Late interception return seals Duke win against Tar Heels By Michael Model Assistant Blue Zone Editor

CHAPEL HILL—The Blue Devils had been searching for a spark since the start of the game. Although it controlled the tempo early on, Duke was unable to create separation for much of the contest. Bryon Fields Jr. provided the energy. The redshirt senior’s interception return for a touchdown in the fourth quarter fueled the Blue Devils’ 27-17 victory against North Carolina Saturday afternoon at Kenan Memorial Stadium. Timely play-making from the Duke defense was key to keeping the Blue Devils in the contest throughout, and they will keep the Victory Bell for the second straight year after head coach David Cutcliffe’s 100th career win and the 500th win in program history. “When you can get pressure on the quarterback, that helps cause turnovers,” Fields said. “It was just a coincidence that

it was me that happened to make that play—it could have been anybody on the defense. Guys are believing in each other, playing hard and we were able to make a huge play for the team.” Trailing 17-13 in the fourth quarter, quarterback Daniel Jones led Duke down the field for a go-ahead touchdown drive, capped by a one-yard touchdown run from Shaun Wilson. With the Blue Devils in field-goal range just outside the red zone, Jones completed a pass to Johnathan Lloyd on 4th-and-5 to extend the drive. On the ensuing Tar Heel possession, the Blue Devils got pressure on quarterback Chazz Surratt, who threw a desperate two-handed overhead pass into the arms of Fields. “You want to talk about team defense—that came from pressure from our people up front,” Cutcliffe said. “It came from rallying to the ball.... Here we See FOOTBALL on Page 7

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Duke professor’s artificial intelligence Duke scientists startup receives $10 million investment advance synthetic enzyme research By Anthony Cardellini

company, Carin noted. “The $10 million in some sense is our house,” he said. “It’s the environment where this is going to live.” The company—which will “deliberately enter the market as a technology service company,” according to a Carrick Capital Partners press release—has currently narrowed down the CEO search to several candidates. Mike Salvino, operating partner of Carrick Capital Partners, called Carin’s expertise in machine learning and his team of researchers “unparalleled.” “[Carin’s team has] a track record of empowering companies to reduce required resources, increasing

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A new startup led by a Duke professor recently received $10 million to develop practical applications in the growing field of machine learning. Lawrence Carin, vice provost for research and professor of electrical and computer engineering, received the funding from investment firm Carrick Capital Partners in September. Unicorn ML—the company’s temporary name—will be dedicated to developing practical applications of machine learning, a subfield of artificial intelligence. “I was not dreaming of starting a company,” Carin said. See STARTUP on Page 3 “But the world has told me I have to have a company because the work that we’re doing is increasingly valued by people who see practical applications for it.” Carin said machine learning involves teaching machines to learn relationships and recognize patterns in data. Having worked on machine learning at Duke for 15 years, he noted that companies have asked his research team to use the technology for specific applications. “At a university like Duke we focus on basic research, so there’s no specific application in mind. We study the field itself,” he said. “The work [these companies] want to do is not really consistent with the mission of a university like Duke. So consequently, the formation of a company is in fact a natural evolution and almost a requirement.” Carrick Capital Partners—an investment firm located in San Francisco and Newport Beach, Calif.—invited Carin to San Francisco, where he delivered a presentation explaining machine learning and its functionalities. “I did not pitch them, I did not ask for money, I just told them what we can do,” Carin said. “The next day when I got back, I got a phone call from them. They wanted me to do Courtesy of Duke Photography a company, and that they would invest in it. In reality, the Lawrence Carin, professor of electrical and computer engineering, company was their idea and not my idea.” This investment of $10 million will help establish the has been working on machine learning for 15 years.

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For more than 25 years, chemists around the world have been trying to reach the elusive goal of creating proteins that catalyze reactions not found in nature. Last month, chemists from Duke and the University of California, San Francisco published their research that advances the creation of a functional synthetic enzyme. This synthesized enzyme is a protein that binds tightly with porphyrin, a molecule that can act as a non-biological catalyst. “When you shake somebody’s hand, it’s the worst ever when the person doesn’t grip back, right? But that is exactly how people have been designing proteins that bind to small molecules for the past couple decades,” said Nicholas Polizzi, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSF and former graduate student at Duke. “People have only been focusing on the parts of the protein that touch the small molecule. In this case, it’s the ‘fingers’ of the dead-fish handshake.” Protein enzymes lower the energy required to make many of life’s reactions to take place and are considered essential for any organism. They often pair with cofactors, which are metals or smaller molecules that can hold certain molecules in a position to cause a chemical reaction. In addition to their activity inside cells, they can also be used externally for research for other controlled processes, inspiring researchers like Polizzi and his team to study their function. Polizzi continued his handshake analogy, noting that it takes more than just fingers to make a solid handshake. Forearm muscles need to be engaged to establish a firm grip, he said. Similarly, the 3D structure of an enzyme is comprised of parts that directly interact with other molecules in conjunction See ENZYME on Page 3

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efficiency, achieving breakthrough thinking and predicting market conditions impacting business decisions,” Salvino added. Carin explained that the development of machine learning technology in the last half decade has led to much of the interest from companies. “Over the last five years, the technology has gotten so good. There’s this new field called ‘deep learning’ that we’ve been focusing on very strenuously,” he said. “What’s happened over the last few years is we’ve been funded by organizations who are not just interested in the fundamental aspects of machine learning but are interested in applying them to various problems.” Still, Carin said general machine learning conducted at Duke continues to be in high demand. “We still don’t understand everything. We still have a lot of fundamental research,” he said. “We’re going to do fundamental research, and we’re going to do applied research. My research program at Duke continues to be quite active.”

“Research has shown that when you have, for example, diversity of faculty or mentors, students do well,” Benmamoun said. “We are telling them, make sure you have inclusive searches…consider a wide pool of candidates and ensure that when you are looking for candidates, you look in different places.” In practice, Benmamoun’s new take on the University hiring techniques involves using broader and more extensive databases, training and resources for various departments’ search committees. Although the Office for Faculty Advancement will never directly determine which candidates are selected for work at Duke, it does encourage departments to search for these candidates in ways they ordinarily might not. In recent years, institutions like Duke have seen an enormous push to develop ever more inclusive faculty hiring practices. Top-tier universities are currently working together to compile comprehensive databases of potential candidates from different backgrounds and perspectives. “I firmly believe that the best institutions of the coming decades will be those that tap into the full range of human talent,” wrote Provost Sally Kornbluth in an email. “We want to recruit the very best faculty and that means a diverse faculty.” However, although such enthusiasm for enhanced racial and gender diversity may be almost universally promoted by administrative heads at institutions like Duke, progressivestyle social agendas like these have definitely garnered their share of detractors. In May, then-Divinity School professor Paul Griffiths resigned after a series of disputes with other faculty members about racial equity training and academic freedom at Duke. In a recent phone interview with The Chronicle, Griffith said that recent trends in the American intelligentsia have created a focus on promoting diversity “utterly disproportionate to its importance.” “Duke, like most other [high research activity] universities, is over-invested in the advancement of ‘diversity’ and correspondingly under-invested in…the proper mission of a university, which is intellectual and political,” Griffiths said. He added that offices like the one on faculty advancement can become extremely hostile when any sort of critique is aimed

COMPSCI FROM PAGE 1 writing four to six different programs of shorter code that fulfill a specific task. Once written, the file can be run through an APT tester that checks if the code completes its task by showing if test cases pass or fail. If all the test cases pass, then full credit is awarded on the assignment. A student has unlimited trials to get all the test cases correct on the APT tester before officially submitting the code. In order to check for plagiarism, the department runs the submitted code though a measure of Software Similarity, which detects areas of substantial similarity between two sets of code. If the code is significantly similar, the professors use their judgment to determine whether the students violated student conduct policies. It is likely that if two students have similar codes for long APTs with more than one solution, they have violated See COMPSCI on Page 4

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at their intentions or overall function. When asked about these lingering concerns, however, Benmamoun emphasized his support of free speech and differing perspectives—regardless of the issue at hand. “I welcome input from everyone,” he said. “We are an academic institution, so we should be comfortable debating and hearing different perspectives.” And although it remains to be seen what success Benmamoun will find implementing his aims at Duke as a whole, he is determined that this focus will remain unchanged. “I am here,” he stated. “I am available. I am here to serve the faculty.”

ENZYME FROM PAGE 2 with parts farther away that provide grip strength. Polizzi said that he and his team designed their synthetic protein in a similar fashion to the two-part handshake model. They accounted for how proteins like to fold into tight little globs, with their oily parts wrapped up safely in the interior. The researchers also computationally designed the entire 3D protein structure so that when it would bind with the molecule porphyrin, the protein could finish folding and provide the energy needed to wrap securely around porphyrin. At the moment, the newly synthesized protein binds too tightly to porphyrin to catalyze a reaction and needs to be more flexible to reach its full potential. However, with a few changes, Polizzi said he thinks that the protein will eventually reach the ultimate goal of catalyzing a reaction with the help of cofactor porphyrin. He and his team are currently exploring designing and testing such modifications toward this aim. Polizzi added that their research could have applications across diverse fields such as chemistry, medicine and environmental science. If synthesizing enzymes and proteins becomes a wellunderstood, well-utilized methodology, it would be possible to use synthesized proteins as models to better learn about natural proteins, he explained. Synthetic enzymes could also be turned into small molecule sensors, useful in surgery and environmental cleanup. Additionally, a new class of synthetic proteins might be harnessed for the specialized delivery of medicinal drugs with diseases like cancer to maximize treatment.

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COMPSCI FROM PAGE 3 collaboration policies. Jeffrey Forbes, associate professor of the practice who has taught CS201 15 times including this semester, said he has become experienced in detecting illegal collaboration. Owen Astrachan, director of undergraduate studies for computer science and an instructor of the class, added that course policies on collaboration and plagiarism are clear. A webpage that is linked on the CS201 homepage is named “What’s OK and What’s Not OK” and specifically outlines the course policies. Each activity is assigned one of the following labels: permitted, permitted with citation, permitted with consent or forbidden. The activities include consulting textbooks, receiving help from classmates writing code and searching online for solutions. Still, some students had limited knowledge of the policies. First-year David Rein, a current CS201 student, said he remembered discussing the policies in class and was aware that the information is on the homepage. Yet, like other students, he did not explicitly remember the rules. It’s easy to cheat According to the Overview of Report Resolutions for 2014-15 on the Office of Student Conduct’s website, 123 of 201 faculty-student resolutions in that year were from the CS201 class. Ninety percent of the all the cases that year were for forms of cheating—such as wrongful collaboration and searching for solutions online. The rest were for plagiarism and lying. Astrachan said cheating is relatively easier in computer science than in other departments because answers to the APTs are available online. CS201 students write code in Java and the course has utilized APTs for more than 20 years. By contrast, CS101—which currently teaches Python—has only had seven years of APTs and thus fewer answers are online. Still, Rein explained that cheating is generally easy in most computer science classes. “It’s very easy to come up with exact search terms you need to find the answer on Stack Overflow or online,” Rein said. The benefits of cheating in computer science also outweigh the risks, Forbes said. Changing one character of code could be the difference between failing and acing an assignment.

Sophomore Mallory Hahn, a former CS201 student, added that it is easy to get stuck on assignments, and students would rather search the answers online than ask for help. “When you [have trouble], it can be difficult to figure out what you did wrong,” Hahn said. “It’s easier to google it.” The repercussions of cheating also can be relatively insignificant. When a student violates the class’ policy, the professor must report it to student conduct. Facultystudent resolutions are mainly used to settle the misconduct. This process requires that the student accept the proposed resolution and admit responsibility. The first offense does not go on a student’s disciplinary record and the penalties—such as probation—can be insubstantial. Additionally, cheating in CS201 is likely detected more often than in other classes. “The reason we have more in computer science than other places is that we can check much better than anyone else,” Forbes said. “In your math class, they are not able to check with a program for every pair of submissions, whether they match. I contend that in economics class, if they were able to do this, they will find more students copying than they think.” Will the cheating stop? Astrachan said students resorted to cheating because they were stressed and felt that they had no other choice. He added that he hopes that by making the solutions available, student stress will decrease while the same learning opportunities are offered. “It’s like the answers in the back of the book,” Astrachan said. “Do students still do [the questions]? They still do them and look up if they got them right.” Forbes said that posting the answers also evens the playing field within the class. Some students who did not cheat were being penalized for reading our policies and believing in them, so he prefers that everyone have access to those same solutions. However, some students disagreed with the change and said that it can curb the learning process. Hahn, the former CS201 student, said she thought the new policy defeats the purpose of APTs and discourages people from going to office hours. She believes working through the APTs rather than giving up halfway is a more helpful way to learn the material. Rein, the first-year currently in CS201, agreed with Hahn, adding that struggling through the problems and asking for

Courtesy of Duke Photography Professor Owen Astrachan noted that detecting cheating in computer science is easier than in other disciplines.

help from teaching assistants can promote learning. “When you go through the process of having to look something up, it does require you to think about what is the issue I am having with this and what is the question I need to be asking,” Rein said. “If you have the answer right there, you don’t even think what is the problem, you can just copy and paste the solution.” Despite her criticisms, Hahn said she would have likely looked at the answers after getting stuck on assignments if the policy existed when she took the course. But Rein said he has not needed to look up answers because the APTs have been easy so far. He could see himself using them in the future, though. Both CS201 professors said they believed that doing the APTs without looking at the answers is more beneficial for the student. APTs are a small percentage of students’ overall grades, so tests and quizzes will still more accurately reflect the students’ skills. But they also understand why students will want take advantage of the new access to the answers. “I hope this policy will result in fewer students trying to get code from their friends or online,” Forbes said. “If we succeed in that, what we will get is better learning.”

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Despite giving up a few explosive plays, Duke shut North Carolina down when it mattered most By Ben Leonard Blue Zone Editor

CHAPEL HILL—It all seemed lost. Ahead 10-3 with less than a minute left in the first half, Duke had the ball at North Carolina’s six-yard line and had a chance to take a two-touchdown lead heading into the break. But the next 30 seconds made it seem like it was all going to fall apart. After stuffing the Blue Devils on third down, the Tar Heels blocked Austin Parker’s short field-goal attempt and needed just two plays to get into the end zone to tie Duke 1010 at the half. Those two deep balls from quarterback Chazz Surratt to Anthony Ratliff-Williams for 45 and 35 yards seemed to suck all the air out of the Blue Devils, which scuffled for most of the second half before marching back late in the fourth quarter for a 27-17 win. Duke had outplayed North Carolina for the first 30 minutes, outrushing the Tar Heels 119-22 and giving up just four completions—but three of them went for 35 or more yards. Although they didn’t stop them from winning in the end, big plays continued to haunt the Blue Devils’ otherwise stout defense, which was No. 1 in the nation in rushing yards allowed and defensive efficiency before Saturday. “A couple times, they just made plays,” Duke cornerback Byron Fields Jr. said. “One I gave up, that can’t happen. I have to make a better play on the ball. Other times, it was miscommunications. They were going to make plays, and we knew that going in. But luckily, we were able to rebound and make some plays of our own.” But the Blue Devils flipped the script in the fourth quarter, finding life on offense with a 45-yard strike to T.J. Rahming to set up Shaun Wilson’s go-ahead touchdown run. It was Duke’s longest passing play in two weeks. “With T.J.’s speed, we felt that he might get on top of the man-to-man defender,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “There’s a time to take a shot. There is a time, particularly when you have a player that you trust. Obviously, Chazz Surratt trusts Ratliff. It’s no different.” On the defensive end, the Blue Devils

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The Victory Bell will remain in Durham for the second straight year and the fourth time in the last six seasons after Duke’s first double-digit win in the rivalry since 1989, when Steve Spurrier was the Blue Devils’ head coach. buckled down on North Carolina’s last five drives and limited the Tar Heel offense, not allowing a gain of 25 or more yards. The Blue Devils had not yet seen a quarterback quite like the dual-threat Surratt this year—Northwestern’s Clayton Thorson wasn’t quite as mobile, and Baylor’s Zach Smith is a prototypical pocket passer—something Fields said took time to adjust to. “The defensive line and the linebackers just had to be more aware,” Fields said. “The last couple weeks, we hadn’t played running quarterbacks. It was an adjustment, especially from last week. “He made a lot of plays, which is going to happen. He was able to make some plays, but we were able to rebound and make some plays of our own.... The defensive line stepped up on him and chased him out of there. Their pursuit and the coverage

downfield really helped out.” In the first half, the same issues recurred that did against the Bears a week ago, when Duke gave up 238 of Smith’s 263 passing yards on just five plays. Surratt had just four completions in the first half, but still managed to amass 134 passing yards. Explosive plays continued to hurt Duke on the ground as well, with Surratt running free for a 56-yard touchdown with a little more than five minutes left in the third quarter that put the Blue Devils in a 17-13 hole. Cutcliffe said Surratt’s athleticism left him with no choice but to make adjustments. “We tried to keep linebackers in the box,” Cutcliffe said. “Maybe we did a little more straight-line rush. He was faster today than what I expected today. I know he’s a good athlete, but he played really well.” However, star linebacker Ben Humphreys’

uncertain status heading into Friday’s home matchup against Miami complicates things for the Blue Devils. Humphreys limped off the field after being hit with a chop block late in the fourth quarter—the All-ACC junior had two tackles for loss against the Tar Heels and has 16 tackles on the season. That could put more pressure on the secondary come later this week. But Saturday, Fields was the beneficiary of the increased focus on Surratt, picking off his pass when North Carolina was driving for a potential game-tying field goal or go-ahead touchdown and running it 61 yards back to the end zone to seal the victory late in the fourth quarter. “It was a huge play for us. Shoutout to the defensive line,” Fields said. “I had faith in the defense—someone was going to make a play, and it just happened to be me.”

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David Cutcliffe, in his 10th year at Duke, became the 19th active FBS coach with 100 career wins Saturday afternoon.

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Cutcliffe reflects on 100th career win By Mitchell Gladstone Sports Managing Editor

Saturday’s game was a historic win for the Blue Devils—marking the program’s third 4-0 start in the last 29 seasons and the 500th victory in school history—but was an even bigger milestone for their head coach. With the 27-17 win against North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Duke’s David Cutcliffe picked up his 100th career victory, becoming just the 19th active FBS coach and one of 164 men to ever reach the century mark. The 63-year-old, in his 17th season as a head coach, was reluctant to bask in the personal moment Saturday evening after the game, instead opting to praise his team as well as his wife, Karen. But during his weekly postgame conference call Sunday, he reflected on the significance of the number in a coaching career that has now spanned five decades. “I’ve lasted longer than a lot of people—that’s one thing,” Cutcliffe said. “That’s probably as important to it as anything, but in all honesty, it makes you reflect on the people. Football is just a people business. There’s such a large number of players on every squad, you’ve got a good-sized staff, and it’s families and it’s kind of a trip through all of the people through all of these years.” After beginning at his alma mater, Banks

High School in Birmingham, Ala., Cutcliffe joined Johnny Majors’ staff at Tennessee in 1982. Cutcliffe moved up the ladder with the Volunteers, eventually becoming their quarterbacks coach in 1990 and then offensive coordinator in 1993. His most famous protégé then came along in 1994—Cutcliffe teamed up with five-time NFL MVP Peyton Manning for 40 wins in only four seasons, as Tennessee came up just short of a national title in 1997. A year later, Mississippi gave Cutcliffe his first head coaching job. “One of the the interesting things is that [Blue Devil offensive coordinator] Zac Roper, I believe, has been a part of 99 of these 100 wins,” Cutcliffe said. “The first one was the Independence Bowl [in 1998] when I took over the Ole Miss team. But that’s what I mean by people. There are not many individual things that happen in football, and that’s the reason I love it the most.” Cutcliffe won 44 games for the Rebels before being fired at the conclusion of his only losing season. He then took a season off and ultimately returned to Knoxville for two years an assistant under legendary coach Phillip Fulmer. But Cutcliffe has now found a home in Durham. And the only question that remains is how far he can carry Duke as it hopes to remain unbeaten. His next opportunity to do that comes Friday night vs. No. 14 Miami.

are struggling to get it in the end zone on offense. The interception was great, but the pick six was even better.” Duke (4-0, 1-0 in the ACC) was dominant during the first 29 and a half minutes, outgaining the Tar Heels 221-76. But missed opportunities for the Blue Devil offense allowed North Carolina (1-3, 0-2) to stay in the game. It seemed as though Duke was in position to break the game wide open with less than three minutes remaining in the second quarter. The Blue Devils were lurking in the red zone with a 10-3 lead, looking to make it a two-score contest. But following a blocked Austin Parker field goal attempt and a two-play, 80-yard Juan Bermudez | Sports Photography Editor touchdown drive by the Tar Heels to end the Shaun Wilson scored the go-ahead half, the momentum had clearly shifted in touchdown with 6:25 to play in the game. favor of the home team. The Blue Devils struck first in the attempts in the air. second half with a field goal to break But his teammates’ performances on the 10-10 tie, but things looked dreary the ground allowed the Blue Devils to following a 56-yard touchdown run for stay in the contest. Duke rushed for more Surratt on 3rd-and-6. than 180 yards for Duke had been Here we are struggling to the third consecutive outstanding in thirdseason against North down situations in get it in the end zone on Carolina. The dazzling the last two weeks, offense. The interception duo of Brittain holding Baylor and was great, but the pick six Brown and Shaun Northwestern to a Wilson continue was even better. combined 2-for-22 in to shred opposing those situations. But defenses, with the pair David Cutcliffe the Duke defense parted combining for nearly HEAD FOOTBALL COACH on the play, giving 150 yards and Wilson’s Surratt an opening. The crucial late score. Blue Devils had to punt on their next three After allowing three long touchdown drives, and their defense responded with a passes against Baylor last weekend and stop each time, leaving the door open for another four plays for more than 35 yards the fourth-quarter comeback. against North Carolina, it seems there is still Surratt was sacked four times by the Blue plenty of room for improvement from Duke. Devils during the game, including two from If the Blue Devils want to beat high-quality redshirt senior Mike Ramsay. conference teams going forward, limiting “That’s just the game of football. You big plays and containing opponents’ passing are going to go down, things are going to games will be key. happen, you just have to make big plays,” “We believe in our defense. We believe Ramsay said. “Just keep fighting. We knew we can create turnovers, pressure the that no matter what happens here or there quarterback and pressure receivers on the it was going to be a four-quarter game. outside,” Fields said. “We’ve got people flying We knew we were going to have to come around making plays, playing with a lot of in here and fight. So we just stayed hungry energy, and that can definitely help you win and kept fighting.” games if you limit mistakes.” Jones seemed out of sync once again That will start with a Friday night for most of the day. Following back-to- showdown against Miami at Wallace Wade back 300-yard performances to start the Stadium, where Duke will look to improve season, Jones completed a mere 18 of his 34 to 5-0 for the first time since 1994.

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MEN”S SOCCER

Upset win at Syracuse keeps Blue Devils rolling By Daniel Landa Contributing Reporter

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Brian White took advantage of a failed clearance by the Orange in the 36th minute to seize possession of a loose ball and score Duke’s first goal.

Although it looked like a rugby match at times, the Blue Devils prevailed in a physical and chippy contest featuring no shortage of excitement at No. 11 Syracuse. It was yet another memorable night for Duke head coach John Kerr and his team, as the Blue Devils earned their first ranked win of an impressive season thus DUKE 2 far with a 2-1 victory CUSE 1 at SU Soccer Stadium. Duke withstood a flurry of chances for the Orange, which outshot the Blue Devils 13-4, thanks to four saves by freshman goalkeeper Will Pulisic. “I was really proud of the boys tonight and the way we fought through the entire game. Markus [Fjørtoft] was huge for us in the air, winning a lot of head balls, and then Kevon

Black and Carter Manley were there to clear anything else away,” Kerr told GoDuke.com. “We dropped our line back a bit against them, and it worked out well for us.” Duke (6-1-1, 2-1-0 in the ACC) opened up the scoring in the 36th minute when Brian White notched his fifth goal of the season following a cross from freshman Daniel Wright. A failed clearance and a bit of kickball left the ball right at White’s chest, and he pounded it through after a brilliant first touch. “We didn’t get a lot of chances, but we made the most of the ones we did,” Kerr said. “Brian did a great job of staying calm and had a nice leftfooted finish.” Although the first half concluded with a 1-0 Blue Devil lead, Syracuse (4-3-2, 0-2-1) was constantly knocking on the door and largely controlled the pace of play. In the 18th minute, it See M. SOCCER on Page 9

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Duke struggles to finish but wins 10th straight By Jason Atwood Contributing Reporter

The Blue Devils just keep winning, as they pushed their program-best winning streak to 10 games after a dominant victory Sunday. No. 4 Duke showed no signs of fatigue in its third game of the week, a 2-0 victory against Pittsburgh at Koskinen Stadium. The Blue Devils were in control from start to finish at their first annual 0 Pride Game, taking 25 PITT 2 shots with the help of DUKE 10 corner kicks. The team had trouble finishing all day, in part due to an excellent performance from Pittsburgh goalie Katelyn McEachern, but senior Ashton Miller opened the scoring in the 39th minute with her second goal of the season, and junior Kayla McCoy put the game out of reach 30 minutes later.

“The missed opportunities were definitely frustrating,” McCoy said. “We wanted to get more in there, but coming off a competitive game on Thursday, we were just happy to get the win here. We didn’t play our best and we didn’t finish our chances, but we’ll take it.” Duke’s offensive struggles can be summed up by one sequence in the middle of the first half when the Blue Devils (10-1-0, 3-0-0 in the ACC) attempted three shots within a minute, each thwarted by McEachern. The redshirt freshman goalie finished the game with nine saves and was crucial in keeping it close for the Panthers (3-5-3, 0-2-1). But Duke finally broke through near the end of the first half when, after senior Imani Dorsey’s blocked cross, Miller fired in her second goal of the season. See W. SOCCER on Page 9

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Senior Ashton Miller scored her second goal of the season to open the scoring Sunday after a blocked cross from Imani Dorsey.

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M. SOCCER FROM PAGE 8 looked as though speedy forward Tajon Buchanan would put the Orange on top when he broke through the Duke back line for an early one-onone opportunity, only to be denied by an incredible save from Pulisic. A loose ball rolled back toward Buchanan seconds later before Blue Devil senior Markus Fjørtoft cleared it away. “He came off his line and made himself big, and that really kept us in the game instead of us going down 1-0 early,” Kerr said. “Will was excellent tonight for us, and that first-half save was huge.” The match had no shortage of physicality as well, including a dangerous tackle from Syracuse striker Petter Strangeland that knocked Kevon Black to the turf. Duke’s Brandon Williamson and the Orange’s Johannes Pieles both had yellow cards to their names by the end of the night. An impressive effort from the Duke defense preserved the lead after a barrage of Syracuse

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Will Pulisic matched a career high with four saves to keep Duke in front.

opportunities late in the first half. In the 43rd minute, Sondre Norheim connected on a dangerous header that flew just off frame, and John-Austin Ricks sent a stunning ball across the face of the goal that the Orange could not get a foot on just before the break. Syracuse then picked up where it left off early in the second half with a multitude of threatening sequences, including an ambitious effort from Lukas Rubio that nearly tied up the score. Moments later though, Duke flipped the script to double its lead, as Max Moser sent a dazzling ball into the box that Fjørtoft tapped into the net to give the Blue Devils some much-needed insurance. Syracuse continued to press forward with hordes of crosses into the box, one of which found the head of Ricks in the 65th minute but resulted in another one-handed save by Pulisic. But the Orange were finally able to find a breakthrough when midfielder Jonathan Hagman pounded the back of the net with 12:26 remaining in what appeared to be a turning point. But the waning minutes of the match saw Duke’s defense come up big, sniffing out every Syracuse opportunity in front of a lively crowd with the Orange rallying for an equalizer. Cody Brinkman came up with a crucial clearance with just 20 seconds remaining to keep the score at 2-1. After a final shot of desperation sailed over the crossbar, the Blue Devils escaped with a second ACC win and a strong NCAA tournament resume midway through the regular season—Duke has not played in the tournament since 2011. Kerr’s squad will look to keep rolling against Appalachian State at Koskinen Stadium Tuesday night. ““It’s always great to get an ACC victory on the road, and this puts us in a good spot in our division,” Kerr said. “There have been times in the past where we’ve gotten a big win and then let a Tuesday night game trip us up, and I reminded them of that tonight, so we have to go out and take care of business.”

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Kayla McCoy’s rebound goal doubled the Blue Devils’ lead in the second half. wants to win, they want to play up to their abilities, and that’s what we strive to do. We FROM PAGE 8 want to keep the standards high and not let “We are going to do what we have to the scoreboard blind us.” do to win,” Blue Devil head coach Robbie Although the offense was inconsistent, the Church said. “We weren’t as sharp in the Blue Devil defense was anything but. Duke boxes as we would have liked, but I thought limited the Panthers to six shots all day, only we gutted it out.” two of which were on goal. It was the third Despite scoring just one more goal, Duke’s clean sheet in a row for Duke, and the team offense was much improved in the second half. has only allowed one goal in the month of It attacked with more authority, passed with September, a span of seven games. more precision and was rewarded with a goal Senior goalkeeper EJ Proctor had another from McCoy with 24 minutes left in the match. strong game, though she did not have to turn Off of a free kick from sophomore Ella Stevens, away many chances in front of her net, and the Miller fired in a shot that ricocheted off a shutout brings her career goals against average Pittsburgh defender. McCoy then controlled to 0.7, the best in Duke history. the deflection and placed the rebound right “The defense played well overall, but our through McEachern’s legs for the score. transition defense is what’s been so good,” “I’m so impressed by how, game after Church said. “We defend with everybody and game, they come out to play. Even though the make sure everybody gets back and behind the first half wasn’t the best for us, they made a ball. So that’s been a big part of it.” TheinNew York Times Syndication Corporation Blue Devils will not be as busy next good change the second half,” Church said.Sales The 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 week, visiting Louisville Friday night for their “This team has been in a lot of big games, and For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 only match in the next 10 days. they’ve figuredFor it Release out.... The team not only For Release Saturday, Monday, September September 25, 23, 2017 2017

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On board with the Editorial Board

ver since 2006, when The Chronicle moved to make the Editorial Board into an independent section, members have relished being able to discuss and write on topics ranging from the never-ending tuition hikes to Kendrick Lamar. With the 93rd academic year now in full swing, the Editorial Board would like to take a break from our usual commentating to instead reflect upon and highlight some of our favorite editorials from the preceding year. Early on last year, the onslaught of breaking news provided by the presidential election dominated editorial coverage. From analyzing whether the United States was entering a “post-truth” era in “Where lies the truth?” to endorsing Hillary Clinton in “Vote Clinton for president,” the board did not shy away from voicing political opinions throughout the electoral process. This editorial investment in the election eventually culminated in a collective disbelief with “An election to remember,” which was hurriedly and bewilderingly written once it became clear that Clinton was not going to emerge victorious. Nine months into his administration, Trump still occupies a fair deal of editorial coverage, as exemplified by a recent piece titled, “Trumping world peace.” Within the vast arena of last year’s

onlinecomment “How can North Korea and Iran be restrained? By letting them know in no uncertain terms that any attack by them on us or our allies will lead to their total destruction. That is exactly what Trump said. Weak and conciliatory language would be giving them a pass to continue on the path to arming themselves with nuclear tipped ICBMs, and an almost certain nuclear war.” —Howard Ellis, responding to “Trumping world peace,” published September 21, 2017

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news, some of our favorite editorials dealing with national headlines included a discussion on the March for Science protest in “Bill Nye the protest guy,” and a call for a more nuanced perspective on health care reform in “Rethinking healthcare.” As the Editorial Board consists of Duke students, a large number of editorials last year were also focused on the campus politics here within the Gothic Wonderland. Notable topics during the

Editorial Board 2016-2017 year included the announcement of Vincent Price as Duke’s next president in “Ushering in the Price administration,” senior book-bagging in “A brave new bookbag,” and faculty diversity in “Professors who look like us.” Additionally, as usual, the Editorial Board took pleasure in thoughtfully commenting on perennially annual Duke-specific events like the always expected 4% tuition hike and DSG presidential elections. In between intense, serious discussions on DSG reform and Trump, the Editorial Board always made time to take a break and poke fun at Duke through occasional joke editorials. Some highlights of the satirical pieces from last year include a

sampling of the Editorial Board’s twitter account in “Make Duke great again!”, a detailed new budget plan for the university in “Moving Duke forward,” and a Valentine’s Day card to dedicated readers in “Love, the editorial board.” With Trump in the White House and global warming wreaking havoc on most parts of the United States, sometimes the best thing to do is simply make readers laugh from time to time. Here on Editorial Board, it’s evident that we love to write about a diverse range of issues. If you want to be part of an institution that is able to discuss international relations and Beyonce’s new album all in the same meeting, then join the Editorial Board; we would love to have you on board! Email Sydney Roberts at srr30@duke.edu for more information and the application, and we look forward to reading what you have to offer.

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They’re not really like that, just get to know them

recent investigation into social life at Duke revealed that yes, someone might seem like x, but you just have to get to know them to understand how they’re different from this preconceived notion. Duke students interact with dozens of peers each day, whether within their solidified friend groups, their same-as-freshman-year clubs, or that Greek crew they always darty with. But a recent investigation by the Department of Sociology unequivocally concluded that the person your friends dislike might seem rude or arrogant or facetious, but that attitude changes once you really get to know them. “She’s totally genuine,” said one sophomore respondent of a girl he was sleeping with. “I know she seems really condescending to everyone she meets, but once you get to know her, you realize your mistake right away.” Another student

Monday Monday NOT NOT TRUE interviewed reported something similar. “My friends always stand there silently when I talk to [this guy], and I know they don’t like him. I keep telling them, though–if only they got to know him, they’d know–all those jokes about ‘feminazis’–he doesn’t really believe that.” The student shook her head in frustration as she fiddled with her “The Future is Female” button. Among the hundreds of students surveyed, 100% said they knew someone who had an undeserved bad reputation. One senior put it perfectly. “Look–everyone is a jerk at one point or another. But the truth is, sometimes you have to put on a total façade. That’s just how the world works!” This student reported that he, like “everyone else” he knew, had two personalities that he switched between depending on the group he was with. Fully cognizant that he comes across as a “huge partier,” for instance, he likes to put on his “intellectual cap” from time to time and spew some “good ol’ philosophical bullshit.” “You know–show the smart girls I value learning, my education, all that stuff,” he explained. Some respondents went above and beyond, including anecdotes that captured the nuance of the situation. “I know people say she only hangs out with her other sisters, but she’s literally the

most open-minded and understanding person–I literally can’t even tell you how many times she talks about how she wants to meet more people and get outside the Durham bubble,” said the junior, whose friend is just another “victim of false assumptions” based on her verbalized opinions and clear patterns of behavior. “This crap about her being cliquey or whatever is so dumb,” she elaborated, who met [omitted] during rush freshman year and has stayed by her side ever since—from breakfast, lunch, and dinner to study sessions, power yoga, and super-exclusive parties. If only people would come to section more, she commented, they would really know this cliquey-ness is just a myth. Another spoke of his roommate’s apparent Pratt-over-Trinity arrogance. “I know that’s the front he puts on, but [he]’s really a down-to-earth and super compassionate guy.” His roommate might call Philosophy majors unemployable and unskilled idealists, for example, but he’s “fully aware” that “those majors are obviously super hard too, probably.” When asked about his major, the student answered, “Yeah, so I’m ECE/ BME with a focus in healthcare systems, but I’m probably gonna grab an easy CS minor while I’m at it.” For such a smart and socially-aware student body, many undergrads agree, it’s a “ridiculous expectation” that we judge our peers by what they do, what they say, and “all that other tangible stuff.” Assuming people are shallow just because they refuse to engage about anything other than money, drugs, and their Goldman interview is just like associating irresponsibility with drinking the night before a 9:00 midterm. The sample size of the investigation was large enough, reports the Department of Sociology, that the conclusions reached could be realistically applied to the remainder of the student body. As the abstract summarizes, “Most Duke students with a perceived personality archetype are actually totally different than said image.” In 99% of cases, getting to know the real personality behind the mask unveils a caring, passionate, and genuine individual who really acts in accordance with their values.

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The pursuit of sadness

here is a girl who walks quietly by sometimes, and I am in love with her. She has more than one name and more than one face, but she always sings softly and sweetly in the silence when she’s alone. She smiles with her eyes and looks with a purpose, with intensity, quick to anger and quick to forgive because hers is the passion and vitality that lives dormant in all living things finally set free to roam and observe and love. Her name is autumn. She is the beauty of death and the fleeting present soon to be carried off in the wind. Her name is winter. She is the biting cold and the hearth inside the window. She walks quietly by, in and out of existence, and I am in love with her. She is not real, however. She is not an individual, not just a she. She is poetry, or the act of writing poetry. These

Jaxson Floberg FILLING THE VOID words are not for the person to whom they refer because there is no selfless, purely romantic intent behind them, and no clear indication of exactly who they’re for. These words are not for those who should receive them, those described in detail and care, because there is no such thing as selfless poetry—these words are for me, and only me. As sad as it sounds, they do nothing but bring me the satisfaction of never having to confront them. I, like many others, have discovered the reward systems in our brains that color feelings of sadness with a sweet twinge. In other words, we assign a positive association with experiencing sadness that often overrides our ability to appreciate the world around us from a more happy, wholesome perspective. Emotional martyrdom feels... good. It’s so oddly satisfying to descend into a state of thought that seems more critical of the true nature of the world, more nuanced and thoughtful. We pursue sadness because, though we may never vocalize it, we get off on our own misery. We are solitary beings. We try to pretend that we are social beings, but there are very few moments, if any, in our lives in which we completely give ourselves over to others. We are stuck in our own heads at all times, never completely sure what anyone else is thinking. We think primarily about ourselves, and when we do consider others it is always through the lens of our opinions—we don’t think on behalf of others and they don’t think on behalf of us, for we know only what our experiences have taught us. Just listen to any conversation and you’ll see, as both sides battle for opportunities to talk about themselves, that although we can understand the perspectives of others, they are never as important to us as our own. It’s scary to think that, at the end of the day, we all spend our entire lives alone. It’s a jarring realization because we don’t always feel alone even when there is no one around. Our minds trick us into thinking we are constantly being watched by some external presence by separating our physical selves from our metaphysical selves. For me at least, I am often aware of my mind as a different entity than my body, a sort of dreamlike, over-the-shoulder being that is undoubtedly me, yet separate from my physical form. In this duality, I find that the two entities, the two individual “me”s, carry out a sort of dialogue through their different functions— my body acts and my mind observes. In effect, I and many others see ourselves as characters in our own biopics, constantly performing for some unnamed, meta audience that watches us from the ether. Perhaps this is a result of the pervasiveness of film culture on modern society, or perhaps humans have always been like this. Either way, humans behave as though we are being watched, as though we are the protagonists of an unedited first cut of our lives, and this attitude has a tangible impact on our emotions.

The pursuit of sadness is the result. We understand that tragedy is always more interesting than comedy and always more important because only in tragedy do we approach the greater questions of life. We want to feel complex and nuanced, and because we see sadness as the doorway to deeper thought, we derive satisfaction out of our own unhappiness. We martyr our emotional state for the sake of being more interesting, having better stories to tell, and coming off as more desirable in our pensiveness—and in doing so, we start to connect happiness to naiveté. We think happiness can never be informed by observation or rational thought because people who are happy are clearly missing something— or at the very least, they’re the protagonists of a boring film. The truth is, these thoughts are misinformed and unhealthy. When I’m happy, I don’t write poetry. I don’t have to. Though I have often said that I can only really perceive the beauty of the world at my lowest points, I now realize that those moments are largely self-serving. They tickle the part of the brain that feeds on sadness and makes me feel like I’m finally experiencing true emotion. It’s a fallacy to think that beauty can only be appreciated when one is unhappy, because happiness is itself an instinctive appreciation of the world. In sadness, and in poetry, I try to simulate the wholesomeness that comes so naturally during better times, and it’s only when I acknowledge the stupidity of self-induced melancholy that I can understand that. When I read my writing, I see my desire for sadness and I feel ashamed. However, I recognize that at least under the surface there is a base love for beauty and the world that exists regardless of my mental state. At least I can say that, though “she” may not be real, the pursuits of emotion unequivocally are. Jaxson Floberg is a Trinity sophomore. His column, “filling the void” runs on alternate Mondays.

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onlinecomment “Mankind always has three choices, but when you are backed into a corner, you see only two and both are untenable. Now, most people see sanctions as usual policy against North Korea, but they are an existential threat to Kim Jong Un. He sees two options and both are untenable. He can continue to be squeezed or come out over the top fighting, and he is choosing to fight.”

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—Karen Holmes, responding to “Trumping world peace,” published September 21, 2017

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48 hours a day

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I believe there are 48 hours in a day.” This statement alone was enough to turn my head from the screen, where my eyes were lazily half-absorbing a football game, to observe the dark-haired student in the seat to my right. As a staunch believer in the current 24-hour-per-day paradigm, I was skeptical. As a productivity geek, I was intrigued. 72 hours later, I was interviewing the aforementioned student, Jake Chasan, and we were riffing on productivity, motivation, goal-setting and self-improvement. Since the app store first accepted Jake’s app in 2011, Jake has launched and managed more than 40 websites and has released 15 mobile applications for clients of his personal app and web design company. He is an Eagle Scout, an Oracle Certified Java Programmer, and—since he passed his Series 7 exam last year—a Registered Securities Representative. He codes in nine programming languages—and on top of everything else, is double majoring in Economics and Computer Science. I firmly believe that the quality of people’s lives and their propensity for taking successful action are directly proportional to the quality of the people in their inner circle. Something we often don’t realize or appreciate is that the miniature ecosystem in which we live is overflowing with successful individuals. People you walk past, who may appear to you merely as faces

Jack Dolinar MORE PERCENT EFFICIENT in the crowd, are already eminent entrepreneurs, scientists, writers and researchers. Jake is a prime example of this phenomenon. Talking with Jake emphasized that there is so much to learn from the people around you, whether in terms of academic knowledge or actionable habits that can change how you work, live and think. You just have to learn to connect and to listen. “I get a good night of sleep,” Jake said when I asked about some of the things he does every day. “All-nighters don’t work for me.” Jake is a firm believer in getting eight hours per night whenever possible. “I truly believe,” he explained a couple minutes later, “that if you don’t have a solid night’s sleep your brain is not receptive to absorbing information.” He uses the iOS built-in Bedtime app to make sure he gets his Z’s. As all college students know, balancing academics, extracurriculars and pleasure can often lead to sleep being shunted aside. Jake intentionally prioritizes “charging his internal battery” (as he termed it), as he has found that this skill elevates his effectiveness to the next level. On top of quality sleep, Jake does his best to eat well. He told me the story of a car his family purchased to illustrate the purpose of his goal. Upon purchase, the car came with explicit instructions to “not use anything other than high octane fuel,” a guideline that can be frustrating to follow when one is trying to exercise the virtue of thrift. However, after a year of using normal gas in the car, Jake’s parents found that the vehicle was only getting around half the miles-per-gallon advertised online. Instead of taking more drastic measures, Jake suggested they follow the initial mandate regarding fuel quality for six months before trying anything else. Within that time frame, the car was once more providing optimal performance. Giving your body what Jake called “instant soup” foods is a recipe for clogging your own internal engine. On the other hand, filling up with the human equivalent of high octane fuel will keep you running longer, faster and better than the competition. One item that Jake returned to frequently was his calendar. For someone juggling a lot of balls, an effective calendar can make life ten times easier to manage. “If you’re going to set a daily goal for yourself,” Jake declared, “the calendar will help you achieve it.” It will also help you to prioritize, a vital skill for any top performer. At a glance, you can see current and future commitments, can avoid double-booking yourself and can gauge the immediacy of any given task. Even more than helping you remember commitments, your calendar helps minimize waste. One example Jake mentioned was empty time between classes, time which all too frequently slips away if he doesn’t plan it in advance. If utilizing a well-managed calendar, getting quality sleep and filling up with high octane fuel are all going to improve your performance and productivity, this last strategy will level up your entire game. Jake says that at the end of every day he looks at his to-do list and for each item he failed to complete, he asks, “Why didn’t I do this?” Taking this reflection one step further, he then ponders, “What could I have done to make my day better?” and visualizes as many possible ways as he can conceptualize of how things could have turned out differently. In the book, Smarter Faster Better, New York Times bestselling author Charles Duhigg writes that this type of visualization separates flexible and nimble-thinking top performers from the more rigid and linear-minded average ones. Using your imagination to daily place yourself in different scenarios can prepare you for any eventuality. As Jake Chasan quoted the Scout motto, “You have to be prepared.” You can improve your productivity (and probably your quality of life) if you follow the above lifestyle strategies. If you choose not to, though, just remember this: your success is highly dependent on the people around you. In your life at Duke, you are surrounded by people who are motivated, skilled, ambitious and successful, and you can learn so much from them if you are willing to reach out. Most people won’t take that initiative, but learning this fundamental skill can be something that truly separates you from the crowd. Jack Dolinar is a Trinity junior. His column, “more percent efficient” runs on alternate Mondays.

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