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Edens residents enjoying new amenities Claire Ballentine The Chronicle New improvements to Edens Quadrangle means that Pitchforks’ food may not be the only reason to wander past Keohane. The construction work—which began in May—has aimed to make Edens a more desirable place to live. Completed renovations to the area include a two-story glass structure added to the common room in Edens 1C, a glass entry portal, updated interior work and, most recently, a new exercise facility. Rick Johnson, assistant vice president for student affairs for Housing, Dining and Residence Life, which is sponsoring the project, said that students have responded positively to the changes. “The reaction has been overwhelming,” he said. “We knew it would be spectacular, but we didn’t know there would be such strong reactions.” Johnson explained that the project included upgrades to kitchens, common rooms and laundry rooms, which were completed during the summer. A hightech gaming room and a first floor study space in the glass addition are still under construction but will hopefully be finished by October, he added. The project was previously scheduled to be completed by the beginning of November. The exercise facility in Edens 2A officially opened Aug. 31 with an open house featuring food and demonstrations of the

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Campus. “I am excited about the possibilities.” Some students have said that the Edens gym does not offer the same range of equipment as other facilities on campus. Sophomore Jason Ng noted that

In response to complaints about the bus system, Duke Parking and Transportation Services announced changes to bus operations that will go into effect starting Tuesday. The changes, released on the PTS website Saturday, add additional service to the C4 route serving West and Central Campus during an hour and a half period in the mornings and retime the C3 route so it runs at peak class-change times. Senior Keizra Mecklai, president of Duke Student Government, said DSG lobbied for an updated schedule in response to student feedback. “It was clear that the current system was not serving the students correctly,” she explained. She met with Alison Carpenter, transit planner and transportation demand manager, Thursday to discuss students’ concerns based on a DSG survey circulated last week. The survey received 413 responses: 51 percent of respondents preferred adding more C4 and C5s, and 42 percent preferred returning to the previ-

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Annie Wang | The Chronicle Following several upgrades to Edens Quadrangle, residents have noted that it now feels like they have their own campus to enjoy.

workout equipment. Johnson noted that the fitness area includes two rooms—one for workout machines and a studio designed for group exercise classes. “I think this is a great partnership between HDRL and the recreation center,” said Debbie Lo Biondo, associate dean for West

Geer Street Garden revealed as first West Union vendor Samantha Neal The Chronicle The countdown to the opening of West Union just got a little more exciting. Geer Street Garden—a restaurant and bar located in Durham—will be operating in the Devil’s Krafthouse, the pub which will be located on the ground floor of the West Union. Director of Dining Services Robert Coffey said that the eatery—scheduled to open in February 2016—will serve traditional pub food along with healthy options. In addition, he noted that the Devil’s Krafthouse will feature indoor and patio seating, foosball tables and an in-

door performance stage. “We really hope to have a space that’s known for having great food and having a great social atmosphere,” Coffey said. The West Union has been under construction since Fall 2013 and plans for its renovation had been in the works since 2007. The entire project is scheduled to be completed by Fall 2016. Several seniors said they were eagerly anticipating Geer Street Garden and setting foot in the West Union for the first time since their freshman year. “I think that [seeing the West Union completed] makes me more excited than any particular vendor being avail-

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able,” senior Kathy Zhu said. “At this point, my class had given up on seeing the new West Union, so it’ll be really nice to see at least part of it.” Others students said they are excited simply to have a new eatery on campus. “It will be nice to have a more central dining location and have more dining options,” sophomore Paget Barranco said. Some students also noted that Devil’s Krafthouse will be similar to the Loop—currently the only location on West Campus where it is possible to buy alcohol on food points. See GEER STREET on Page 12

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Ted Cruz’s chief of staff reflects on his Duke experience where it’s rewarding enemies for funding terrorism, threatening Israel and causing murThe Chronicle ders around the world. That should be one of our leading issues this month and probably Paul Teller, Trinity ‘93, is the chief of staff for throughout the year. Both parties and both U.S. Senator and Republican presidential candidate houses will be considering the resolution. Ted Cruz. Teller is the former Executive Director of the TC: What strategy do you think the GOP House of Representatives Republican Study Committee and has been cited as one of the most influential needs to take moving forward in order to win conservative aides in Washington. The Chronicle’s the 2016 general election? Going into the Ajay Desai recently spoke with Teller about the GOP next debate, what is Senator Cruz’s plan to primary, Cruz’s presidential run and Duke’s influ- differentiate himself from the unusually large ence on Teller’s career: field of candidates? The Chronicle: What is your role in Sena- PT: I am not a campaign guy, but I do help tor Cruz’s office? What type of input do you on the side. In that capacity, Senator Cruz would say that the Washington cartel, which have on legislation? Paul Teller: I essentially run the Senate is his phrase for the Washington leadership, operation. Everything from developing policy is too involved with the party interest, and legislation, to strategizing and overseeing insurance interests and corporate interests the building of tension across the Hill and around town. I think you can see some across the country. I meet of that in the Republican primary where with interest groups and I do some of the folks doing the best in the a lot of administrative stuff polls in money and grassroots excitement related to personnel. I pretty are the folks who are from outside of much oversee directing ev- Washington...or are critical of Washington erything on Senator Cruz’s leadership. Trump, Cruz, and Carson are Senate operation. One sort the [outsiders] getting the most attention. of unique function I have as His point of difference that he would argue a Chief of Staff is being in- is that he has been a consistent conservative; volved with policy. There are he has felt this way all along and didn’t just a lot of Chiefs of Staff who come to it this year. He has a record of fightdon’t actually get involved ing for conservatism on just about everything with policy at all, they let you could think of: foreign policy, healthcare, other people do that. I am a education, immigration, the second amendpart of brainstorming ideas, ment, religious liberty. Pretty much all down sending letters and drafting the line there really isn’t any issue you could amendments. I would say think of where he doesn’t have some existing that I am much more in- record of either a direct or defiant battling for volved with policy than the conservatism. So that’s where he fits in to that average chief of staff. Republican plan.

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TC: Is there any particular legislation that you think is especially important to the Republican agenda? PT: One recent thing that is coming up, this week actually, is that both houses are considering a resolution to disapprove of the President’s nuclear deal with Iran. It is central to some of the efforts that the Republican side has been pushing, in terms of being closer to our friends and harsher to our enemies. The nuclear deal seems to be the exact opposite,

Special to The Chronicle Paul Teller, chief of staff for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, majored in political science at Duke and graduated in 1993.

identical to what a Democratic Senate would have done. We really think that Donald Trump is just tapping into that frustration. He’s from outside of Washington. He speaks boldly and forthrightly. He’s tapping into that anger with Republican leaders. Senator Cruz is not only trying to show that we have that same frustration and same anger, but also that he’s been a consistent conservative and has a record to back it up.

TC: Did you come to Duke knowing you wanted a career in politics? PT: It was a developing thing. In high school I was much more of a math-science guy. I was interested in politics in high school and followed it, but I continued most of the TC: Why do you think Donald Trump’s math and science things I did in high school campaign has captured so much attention when I started college. I was right around... mid-freshman year when I found that politithis summer? PT: Trump is tapping into the voters’ and cal science was speaking more to my interest. activists’ frustration with Washington. There was a promise made last year by Republicans TC: What lessons from Duke did you that said if the House were to be kept Repub- transfer to your career in Washington? lican and we were also to be given the SenPT: Majoring in political science was very ate, we could do major things to stop Barack cool. It put me in touch with great profesObama’s agenda. Instead, we have done so sors and other kids who were into political much in a Republican Senate that has been things—government, current events— the

whole deal. Being a part of something of that nature definitely helped to sharpen my interest in policy. My favorite political things on campus were student-to-student discussions and debates with professors in the classroom. I didn’t do too much organizational stuff. I remember being a part of College Republicans, but never really doing much with them. I considered myself to be more of a conservative activist at Duke because I loved to argue with students and professors—just poking at people a little and bringing in a conservative perspective. Duke is a fairly liberal place so bringing another side to the conversation was fun and I liked being a one-man walking diversity factory. I attribute being able to communicate your ideas, articulate a position and convey an argument in a clear and reasonable way in a way that brings other people in rather than shoots them off to Duke. I attribute a lot of those skills to the Duke education and the Duke experience. I think that’s helped me tremendously.

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Researchers expanding use of poliovirus for cancer treatment Nidhila Masha The Chronicle Duke researchers at the forefront of the field of immunotherapy are working toward applying a modified poliovirus to treat prostate and eventually breast cancer. Investigators at the Duke University Medical Center are using a modified form of polio to teach the body’s immune system to find and destroy cancerous tissue that it normally cannot. Earlier this year, this form of immunotherapy saw measured success in early clinical trials of patients with aggressive glioblastomas—a deadly brain tumor—sending the cancer of certain patients into remission. Dr. Daniel George, medical oncologist and one of the principal investigators, said he hopes the treatment will prove as effective for prostate and breast cancer, two of the most common cancers. “Duke has been a fantastic environment for this kind of team science with immunotherapy,” George said. “It really makes it possible to take an exciting finding in brain tumors and bring it into a number of other settings like prostate cancer.” Dr. Matthias Gromeier, associate professor of neurosurgery at Duke, was the first to propose using poliovirus to destroy malignant tumors. Although cancer is skilled at evading the notice of the immune system, the poliovirus helps alert the body’s defenses to the presence of malignancies. Gromeier was able to engineer a harmless version of the virus that could enter tumor

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cells. By targeting tumor cells in sites where the cancer has metastasized, the modified virus initiates an inflammatory response from the immune system, allowing it to recognize the tumor as dangerous and potentially attack tumors present elsewhere in the body. “We are causing an immune response that is what we call ‘systemic’ or ‘whole-body’ from a localized treatment,” George said. “It doesn’t stop the process of metastasis, but it might

reverse one of the critical steps necessary for tumors to spread.” George and Nair said they hope that this new form of immunotherapy will eventually prove effective on most, if not all forms of cancer, but warned that years of research and trials will be necessary. For optimal accuracy, they are testing the virus one cancer at a time, focusing on more advanced metastatic cancers. Traditional forms of treatment—surgery, radiation and chemotherapy—currently

cannot “cure” patients at such advanced stages, George explained, but the reengineered virus could offer a chance of survival to even these cases. One focus of current research is whether or not the treatment will prove effective when used on tumors in areas outside the central nervous system. Polio in its natural form is a disease of the CNS—this does not mean, however, that the re-engineered poliovirus is only capable of acting on brain cancer. Nair confirmed that lab tests showed the virus to be effective on various kinds of tumors, and it should theoretically be capable of infiltrating any cell with a CD155 receptor, a protein that most tumor cells have. In fact, this form of immunotherapy could prove more effective for cancers outside the CNS, George said. For example, the prostrate glands, unlike the brain, can easily be accessed with a needle. This ease of access could give doctors the option of re-treating the patient if necessary. Although the prostate cancer research is still in a pre-clinical stage, George said he and his colleagues are very close to being able to present their data to the Food and Drug Administration, which would allow them to move into the first of several phases of clinical trials. “From developing this as a research approach in clinical trials to something that would actually be commercially available is a long process,” George said. “But we think we’re very close—hopefully within a year or so of bringing it into patients with prostate cancer in clinical trials.”

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Dameâ€™s Express, other new vendors well-received Madeline Halpert The Chronicle New dining options on campus are generating excitement among students. Months before the anticipated unveiling of the West Union, student dining options have already been transformed by the addition of Dameâ€™s Chicken and Waffles to Central Campus, renovations to Marketplace and a new food truck. Many have expressed positive reactions to the changes implemented by Duke Dining and the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee, which Director of Dining Services Robert Coffey explained resulted from a focus on bringing area restaurantsâ€™ food to campus this year. â€œDurham is known nationally for its food scene, and itâ€™s great that Duke Dining can bring those options to the student body,â€? he wrote in an email. Dameâ€™s Chicken and Waffles officially opened its on-campus vendor Dameâ€™s Express Aug. 24 after hosting a â€œsoft openingâ€? the day before in which the restaurant gave away 300 free meals to test its food. Damion Moore, one of the owners of Dameâ€™s, said Duke has welcomed the restaurant with open arms since it replaced Devilâ€™s Bistro on Central Campus. â€œThe feedback we have received from students, faculty and staff has been very popular,â€? he wrote in an email. Moore noted that the restaurantâ€™s goal is to become one of the most popular eateries on campus for students. â€œWe will continue to stay committed to producing high quality foods and will

an expanded menu and a larger eating space as well as TVs and a stage for evening performances. In addition, there will be four tâ€™s all new, high-tech study roomsâ€”two on the upabout levels and two on the chocolate per the lower levels. bars. New food options in the Marketplace will â€”Ian include wood-fired pizRoughen zas, savory and sweet on Belgian crepes and an Asian steamed bun station, Waffle Coffey added. Sophomore Lisa Crafters Sapozhnikov said that she thinks the Marketplace has improved since last year. â€œWe didnâ€™t have an upstairs area, and now the interior looks cooler and more modern,â€? she said. However, she noted that the food seems to be nearly the same as it was last year. On West Campus, Belgian Waffle Crafters is the newest food truck to join the rotation. Bull City Street Food was originally slated to debut as well but was removed from the lineup after failing to pass the vetting process. Two new Merchants-on-Points vendorsâ€”Tijuana Flats and Dunkinâ€™ Donutsâ€”have also been added. Freshman Ian Roughen said he enjoyed his food experience and quick service at Belgian Waffle Crafters. â€œThere were chocolate bars in my waffle,â€? he said. â€œItâ€™s all about the chocolate bars.â€? Claire Ballentine contributed reporting.

Young Park | The Chronicle Dameâ€™s Express on Central Campus is hoping to maintain a steady clientele and become one of the most popular on-campus restaurants.

always look to our customers for guidance on what they would like to see from Dameâ€™s,â€? he wrote. Senior Megan McGufficke praised the variety of healthy options, noting that it was an improvement over the selection at Devilâ€™s Bistro. And despite its name, there are plenty of options beside the chicken and waffles, said sophomore Moses Wayne. â€œThe waffle was smaller than at the [restaurant in downtown Durham], but it was better than I expected,â€? said sophomore Diane Hadley. â€œItâ€™s much better than Dev-

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BIG EASY WIN MEN’S SOCCER: CORNERS MOVE DUKE TO 3-0 • FIELD HOCKEY: SCORES TWO TOP-10 WINS

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NEW ORLEANS—On a muggy Louisiana night, the Blue Devils found their footing and pulled away from an unlucky Green Wave squad to capture their first win of the year. Duke opened the 2015 regular season with a commanding 37-7 win against Tulane Thursday on the road at Yulman Stadium. DUKE 37 First-time starting 7 quarterback TUL Thomas Sirk led the way for the Blue Devils, completing 27-of-40 passes for 289 yards and two touchdowns in his debut performance. “I wasn’t really nervous,” Sirk said. “We prepared really well for them, and they came in with a great plan, showed us a few things different than we anticipated, but I think we came out and handled it.” Using the read option, Sirk and sophomore running back Shaun Wilson gashed the Green Wave on the ground throughout the first half, starting on Duke’s second drive, when the two combined for 51 yards, including a 21yard burst from Wilson to push the Blue Devils to the Tulane 17-yard line. The first points of the season came three plays later when, following an incomplete pass into the end zone from Sirk, senior Ross Martin nailed a 32-yard field goal with 5:41 remaining to put Duke ahead 3-0. “During film, we realized that their linebackers like to play downhill really fast, so the read option, if Sirk decided to give it or decided to keep it, it was basically off the read,” Wilson said. “It worked really effectively.” The Blue Devils (1-0) would not be held to field goals all night, though. On the second play of the second quarter, Tulane’s Peter Picerelli booted a beautiful 55-yard punt to an awaiting Ryan Smith. Smith took the ball straight up the field before cutting back toward the middle of the field, where he was

Alex Deckey | The Chronicle Redshirt junior Thomas Sirk completed 27-of-40 passes—including a pair of touchdown tosses—and added 68 yards on the ground as the Blue Devils defeated Tulane 37-7 in their season opener Thursday in New Orleans.

wrapped up by a Green Wave defender. But when he tried to take Smith to the ground, the Las Vegas native rolled on top of the Tulane player and continued upfield to complete a 25-yard return and set the Blue Devils up on the Green Wave 39-yard line. Sirk then settled in, reeling off runs of 13 and seven yards and completing a 14-yard pass to redshirt senior tight end Braxton Deaver—his first since the 2013 Chick-fil-A Bowl after missing last season due to an ACL tear. After Tulane (0-1) snuffed out two straight plays with the Blue Devils knocking on the door at the three-yard line, Duke finally broke into the end zone on a shovel pass from Sirk to senior running back Shaquille Powell to put the visitors up 10-0 with 11:27 remaining in the half. “Thomas Sirk is a winner in every aspect,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “He’s accurate with the football. People who play man-to-man as

Alex Deckey | The Chronicle Junior wide receiver Johnell Barnes eclipsed the 100-yard mark and hauled in a touchdown, recovering from a fumble on Duke’s first possession Thursday against the Green Wave.

much as they did, they’re not going to intercept passes if they’re accurate.” When it was all said and done, Sirk’s first start as the new Blue Devil signal caller was a successful one, thanks to another young, fresh bunch of players— the Duke wide receivers. The Blue Devil receiving corps entered the game with an abundance of talent but faced questions surrounding the lack of experience and star power that the unit has boasted in the past few years with Jamison Crowder and Issac Blakeney. Even so, the newest iteration of Duke’s passing game looked promising in the season opener, with freshman T.J. Rahming and junior Johnell Barnes combining for 179 yards. “Our receiving corps played really well,” Cutcliffe said. “I was concerned going into this game. I still think we’ve got a ways to go, but I was certainly very pleased with the start. I had a conversation with Johnell—he grew up. That little bit, you know, he played like a junior, which is what I told him. ‘You’re not a puppy anymore—let’s go.’ T.J. Rahming, who is a puppy but doesn’t play like one, he’s got a lot of talent.” Like Crowder, neither wideout is particularly intimidating in stature, but also like the former Duke great, both Blue Devils used a combination of sheer speed and sharp cuts to find and create plenty of open space over the middle. Offensive coordinator Scottie Montgomery made sure to ease Sirk into the offense, dialing up numerous screen passes to either shifty wideout and allowing them to work in space rather than have Sirk try to carve up the Green Wave secondary downfield. Although much of the fanfare entering the game had to do with Duke’s new-look offense, the Blue Devil defense, led by safety Jeremy Cash, came through against a Green Wave offense boasting three running backs that all cracked 450 yards a year ago. Duke held Tulane to 25 yards

on 23 attempts after allowing Tulane to rack up 231 yards in last year’s contest in Durham. Even with strong-armed redshirt sophomore Tanner Lee under center, the Green Wave achieved limited success, ending the contest a mere 2-of-14 on third down conversions, something the defense took pride in after the game. “Throughout training camp, Coach made an emphasis of getting off the field,” redshirt junior DeVon Edwards said. “So we know when it’s third down, fourth down, we need to give it our all, because you never know what play is going to change the game. Us knowing that that’s the last play of the drive, everybody’s like, ‘Alright, we’ve got to get them off the field by any means.’” Tulane seemed to have something going in the third quarter following an errant pitch-turned-fumble by Sirk, but the Blue Devil defense came through once again, as sophomore linebacker Zavier Carmichael snagged a deflected pass just before the ball hit the ground to give Duke back the ball. Lee finished the game with 246 yards, one score and one interception. The Green Wave finally got on the board in the fourth quarter, when Lee found receiver Devon Breaux over the middle for a shutout-preventing 76yard touchdown strike to pull the home team within 23-7. But Edwards answered right back, taking the ensuing kick-off 95 yards for a score and putting to rest any momentum Tulane had created just seconds earlier. “I really didn’t see anything until the last second,” Edwards said. “I was looking and I just hit a hole, and it just opened up in front of me. It happened so fast that I just picked a hole and went with my gut.” Reserve running back Zach Boden tacked on a one-yard score with 1:31 remaining to cement the final score. Duke will return to Durham to open play at Wallace Wade Stadium against N.C. Central Saturday at 6 p.m.

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Golden Bears score 3 times to hand Duke first loss Jesús Hidalgo The Chronicle The Blue Devils had scored 12 goals and conceded none in five regular-season games heading into Sunday’s matinee against California. But the Golden Bears gave them a reality check two weeks before ACC play starts. Despite outshooting California 1612, No. 18 Duke lost 3-1 in the last game 0 of the Duke Nike USC Classic at Koskinen DUKE 1 Stadium, leaving the Blue Devils 3 with their first CAL defeat of the year. DUKE 1 The Golden Bears jumped out to a 2-0 lead midway through the first half and added a final score in the second half after Duke redshirt junior Danielle Duhl scored her first career goal. “[Califonia] did a better job at what we wanted to do,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “We wanted to possess it, we wanted to move them around. They played [40] more minutes than we did on Friday night [in doubleovertime against No. 4 North Carolina]. Give them credit for what they did. We looked like we played the extra 20 minutes. They moved us, they made us change side-to-side, they came in, they came out. Their coaches did a better job than us at preparing.” Blue Devil freshman Taylor Racioppi could have put an early goal on the board for Duke with a header that flew above the crossbar in the eighth minute, but California countered and found the back of the net. In a two-minute span, the Golden Bears (3-1-1) manufactured a two-goal

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Redshirt junior Danielle Duhl notched her first career goal off of a corner kick Sunday, but the Blue Devils could not add on as California held on for a 3-1 win.

advantage thanks to forwards Arielle Ship and Ifeoma Onumonu. Twelve minutes into the first period, a give-and-go between the Golden Bear duo left Onumonu open down the right sideline, and the senior slipped a right-footed shot past goalkeeper E.J. Proctor from 10 yards out. It was the first time the Blue Devils (4-11) had trailed all season, and the first goal allowed by Proctor. Church’s squad did not have much time to respond, though, as California doubled its advantage only two minutes later. After a turnover by the Duke defense, Onumonu fed Ship, who chipped the ball over Proctor with her right foot. “I think the number one mistake

was just miscommunication, a lack of organization,” junior captain Christina Gibbons said. “We haven’t been scored on before, so this was the first time we’ve experienced that, but obviously we’re going to have to learn from it and just move on.” Church reshuffled his back line, bringing in freshman Chelsea Burns and redshirt sophomore Malinda Allen off the bench and moving Gibbons up to the attacking part of the field, where she spent much of last season. In the 37th minute, the Raleigh, N.C., native—who joined sophomore midfielder Ashton Miller as Blue Devil representatives on the Duke Nike

Classic All-Tournament Team—assisted Racioppi with a long ball. The freshman from Ocean Township, N.J., did not think twice and fired from 14 yards but a defender snuffed out the shot. During the following play, Duke trimmed California’s lead to one. With both Miller and Casey Martinez out of the game, Gibbons took the corner kick and what seemed to be an easy save for Golden Bear goalkeeper Emily Boyd turned into a Blue Devil goal. Boyd could not catch the ball cleanly, and Duhl raced in to attack the goal, sending the ball—and herself—into the back of the net. With 10 seconds left before halftime, Duke nearly tied the contest on another Gibbons corner kick, but Allen’s header sailed over the crossbar, sending the Blue Devils to the locker room hoping they could still orchestrate a comeback. Two minutes into the second half, junior midfielder Toni Payne led Racioppi, who exploded past a Golden Bear defender and racked up one of her seven shots on the afternoon, but Boyd turned the shot away. One minute later, Gibbons put a deep cross inside the box from the left side of the field. The ball caught a curling effect and hit the woodwork, but bounced harmlessly away. California responded only 30 seconds later. Ship, fed by Onumonu, put a weak shot on frame and Proctor blocked it without trouble. In the 51st minute, Racioppi dribbled past Boyd but missed the open net wide right. That was the closest Duke would get to finding the equalizer. In the 59th minute, the Golden Bears crushed the Blue Devils’ hopes when junior Kelly See W. SOCCER on Page 8

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Mathers’ corner kicks power Blue Devil victory Alex Serebransky The Chronicle The Blue Devils may not have found the back of the net in free-flowing action Saturday night, but that was no obstacle in preventing them from earning their third win of the season. After going down early, Duke bounced back with two goals off of corner kicks to notch a 2-1 win 1 against Iona at IONA DUKE 2 Koskinen Stadium. The win continued the Blue Devils’ best start to a season since 2009, when they started 4-0. “It’s great to be 3-0,” Duke head coach John Kerr said. “The teams that we’ve played are very talented and I think all three teams that we’ve played are going to do really well this season…so [I’m] really pleased for us.” Both sides started the game sloppily, with neither team able to find a rhythm in the midfield and keep meaningful possession, but the Gaels (0-2-1) found a breakthrough with a spectacular goal 18 minutes into the game. As Iona midfielder Daniel Huerta dribbled across

midfield, he noticed Blue Devil goalkeeper Wilson Fisher off his line and fired a shot from just inside the Duke half. Forty yards later, the ball was past the reach of a scrambling Fisher and in the back of the net, giving Iona an early 1-0 lead. “He got caught off his line and that’s the goal,” Kerr said. “It’s the keeper’s responsibility to understand where he is and he put his hand up and took responsibility. We moved on quickly, which was good, and didn’t hold it against him.” The goal seemed to galvanize the Blue Devils (3-0), as they started to pour forward with intricate offensive play. After knocking on the Gaels’ door several times, sophomore Brian White thought he had netted the equalizer from a Bryson Asher cross, only for the goal to be waved off by the linesman for offsides. Duke would not have to wait much longer to level the score, because five minutes later, sophomore Jeremy Ebobisse headed home a Zach Mathers cross from a corner to tie the game, 1-1. See M. SOCCER on Page 9

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The Blue Devils were less than a second away from clinching the upset against Maryland, but a goal from Terrapin forward Emma Rissinger with the clock at 69:59 forced Duke into its second overtime in the past four games. But unlike last weekend’s game against No. 6 Stanford, this time the clock stopped in the extra period with the score in the Blue Devils’ favor. In the final game of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, No. 5 Duke defeated the No. 3 Terrapins DUKE 2 2-1 Sunday at the Nook 1 Spooky NW Sports complex in Lancaster, Pa., DUKE 2 wrapping up the 1 weekend with a MD pair of wins against two top-10 opponents. Freshman Morgan Bitting provided the heroics, netting the golden goal in the 79th minute. With Maryland’s goal coming as time ran out in the second half, the Blue Devils had to wait for the referee’s ruling on whether the ball had crossed the goal line. But captains Aileen Johnson, Lauren Blazing and Amanda Kim were determined to come away with a victory. “Our captains did an amazing job keeping the team focused...whether the

Carolyn Chang | Chronicle File Photo Senior Aileen Johnson scored a goal in each of Duke’s wins this weekend at the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, leading the Blue Devils to a pair of wins against two top-10 teams.

umpires said we won right then or we would have to go back out on the field and win it again,” Duke head coach Pam Bustin told GoDuke.com. “I am extremely proud of their leadership today.” Johnson led the team’s offensive effort with the first score of the game— her second of the weekend—capitalizing on an opportunity created by Duke’s forward line five minutes into the second period. The senior tallied a team-high

three shots on goal in the contest. Blazing kept the Terrapins off the scoreboard in the first half, fending off four Maryland penalty corners. The redshirt senior goalkeeper turned in seven saves but was not alone on the defensive front. Maryland (2-2) held an edge on Duke (3-1) in both shots and corners, 17-14 and 8-7, respectively. But the Blue Devils made key saves when they were most needed. Senior Hannah Barreca came up with a save off a penalty corner in the 14th minute of the match to keep things scoreless, and sophomore midfielder Stephanie Pezzuti dove for a key save in the 53rd minute to preserve the Blue Devil lead. “We have a lot of pride in our backfield, that we are a force of a defensive unit,” Bustin said. “And we have to back that and do it consistently,

W. SOCCER from page 7 Fitzgerald took a corner kick from the right flank. Ship pretended to attack the ball, but let the low cross continue its way toward the penalty kick, where Celeste Boureille fired a shot that hit the post. The bounce, however, ricocheted back off the head of Proctor—who dove to the turf to corral the shot—and wound up in the back of the net. “There’s a lot of lessons to be learned from this,” Church said. “The most important one is how do we respond to it, what do we with this because we have to go on the road. [The team has] a tough trip coming up, so we have to be more engaged for 90 minutes.”

not depending on Lauren to make these great saves. I’m extremely proud of Hannah, Stephanie and the other defenders for being aware and alert.” Both of the squad’s matches this weekend were scoreless for the first half with late goals by Johnson and Robin Blazing carrying the team to the win against No. 10 Northwestern Friday night. The Wildcats’ goal Friday was not enough to stop the Blue Devils, but Rissinger’s goal Sunday—the third allowed by Duke in the final minute of regulation in as many games—brought back memories of Stanford’s goal with 32 seconds left to tie the score Aug. 30. That match ended in Duke’s first loss of the season, a 3-2 defeat at the hands of the Cardinal. “Our kids were pretty angry at themselves [about the Maryland goal],” Bustin said. “But the energy was all about us and us getting better. That’s what fueled them. We played the overtime with a lot of patience and a lot of calculation. And they took advantage of opportunities.” Once in overtime, Duke earned a penalty corner in the 79th minute. Barreca played the ball in to Bitting, who drove home the game-winner to the back post for the first goal of her career. The Blue Devils wrapped up four games and two weekends on the road on a high note but are ready to take the lessons learned to the practice field before their first home games next weekend. Duke will host Wake Forest Friday at 6 p.m. and William & Mary Sunday at 1 p.m at Jack Katz Stadium. “We are learning a lot, learning it fast and learning it at the highest level,” Bustin said. “This was a great game. We were challenged on both ends. For us to come out with a win today is big, especially with the matches we have had leading up to today.”

Even though the two-goal deficit was a hard punch to take for the Blue Devils, Church’s squad tried to make things interesting, but Boyd dealt with two shots from Payne and defender Kara Wilson connected on a header that came within inches of scoring with one minute left. “I think this is an awesome time to lose a game, as silly as it might sound,” Racioppi said. “It’s [a] reality check. We are not going to go into every game and handle winning. That’s not what soccer is. Getting this loss now is a good preparation for what’s going to come in the ACC.” Duke will hit the road this weekend before starting ACC action Sept. 24. Church’s squad visits Samford Friday and Louisiana State two days later.

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That was the closest look the Gaels got at tying the game. The Blue Devils had several opportunities to extend their lead, but were unable to find the back of the net again. “We did really well, especially in the last five minutes with Brian White holding the ball up in the corners was big time and burned at least a minute,” Mathers said. “Keeping them pinned in was big-time for us and kept them away from our midfield and going forward so that really helped us kill off the game.” Duke will look to keep its early-season momentum going against Loyola Tuesday at Koskinen Stadium at 7 p.m. in its final game before ACC play begins Friday.

The goal marked Ebobisse’s third of the season as he continues to play well around the net. The Blue Devils looked a more confident side after the goal and continued to apply pressure in the second half, pinning Iona back in its own half and firing good shots, but none found their way past Iona keeper Julian Petrello, who made an impressive 13 shots on the night. “After we got the goal, we started to press up a little higher and get a little more confidence,” Mathers said. “That really helped us because they like to play it through the midfield a lot, so pressing up on them helped us win it more in the midfield and attack.” Despite Duke controlling most of the possession, the Gaels threatened on the counterattack, and nearly took the lead when Marcos Nunez fired a shot past Fisher that deflected harmlessly off the frame. The Blue Devils finally got their breakthrough off another Mathers corner kick, this time put home by graduate student Tyler Hilliard with just more than 20 minutes remaining. The goal was Hilliard’s first as a Blue Devil, after the defender tallied four during his career at Syracuse. For Duke, scoring off of two corner kicks was no surprise, given the emphasis it has placed on set pieces in practice this season. “Every week, we’re working on those set pieces,” Kerr said. “It’s nice to see the benefits of it.” Iona did not go away quietly after falling down 2-1, and nearly leveled the score as Nunoz latched onto a ball near the goal, only to be denied by the nimble feet of Fisher, who made up for his earlier lapse with the save.

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wo weeks down, and many more to go this semester. While the number of weeks ahead tells us just how much academic work is left in the semester, the number of Wednesdays and weekends ahead tells many of us about the plethora of social opportunities that remain before Spring semester, particularly for Greek-affiliated students. There are theme parties galore this semester, but unbeknownst to many, National Panhellenic Conference sororities on campus find themselves left out of much of the party planning. As highlighted in a recent Chronicle opinion column, the NPC and many national chapter organizations encourage or require their sororities to maintain certain bans. For most that means dry houses and a prohibition on hosting open parties. The intent is largely to protect members from the “risks associated with the consumption of alcoholic beverages,” a risk that we believe does not decrease as parties move away from sorority housing. National organizations also cite reducing house insurance costs and preserving the “intimate decoration” of sorority houses as rationales, neither of which is apparently a concern for most fraternities. More informally, the prevailing view working behind the scenes is that parties are traditionally hosted by fraternities and attended by sororities. While the former reasons could at least

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be seen as reasons for a sorority to choose not to host functions, this latter idea is old fashioned and fails to find any independent grounding. In this day and age, the picture of a prim and proper sorority submitting to that kind of social positioning should never be upheld in the name of the status quo but only to the extent that participants desire such ritual. One sorority member at George Washington University poses the question simply, “I’ve always

Editorial thought, ‘Why aren’t there sorority house parties? There are only frat parties. I would definitely feel safer at a sorority party. It’s the home-court advantage’.” There is certainly a safety dimension to the untapped value in sororities organizing parties on campus. The status quo allows fraternities to control the Greek social scene, most importantly with open parties, and disallow sororities from hosting likely safer parties and functions where women can be relatively more at ease. While fundamentally still a party, we imagine the difference in atmosphere and character of such parties would be obvious. There is no discernible reason for some sororities to preclude themselves from hosting

safer and specifically female-friendly parties, which is not to say fraternities do not also strive for the safety and comfort of guests. Every chapter’s particular group of members, male or female, and every university’s social scene is different, and all organized living groups should have the opportunity to set the terms of their social engagements. When a sorority hosts an open party, it shows that all Greek organizations are equally privileged to engage other organizations and students socially. A more distant but important advantage of this is first-year interaction with affiliated members. While fraternity members are met in concentrated groups at their open parties, sorority members are largely met in scatterings, contributing to the uneven pressures on girls during the Spring rush process. At the end of the day, the barriers to sororities hosting parties are antiquated and detrimental to university social scenes, and the cost and harms reduction concerns of national organizations seem feeble reasoning for such bans. While the traditions and norms some sororities choose to adopt based on their members’ preferences should be respected, imposing these bans on those who would prefer to run their own parties is simply unfair. We therefore urge a more equitable social experience for all students.

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Unfettered, unproductive anger from men and shaming can be more traumatic than the rape itself. We, as allies, have to re-empower survivors to make their own decisions and to take back power and control, the things that were sucked away by sexual assault in the first place. What matters is that we learn to become active allies that contribute to solving the problem on an individual and systemic level. What is productive is talking to other people, especially men, about the way they look at and treat women. Simply put, being better or the first should not be our primary concern. Deconstructing the systems that perpetuate

HOPE, FOR THE WIN on me and certainly does not change the trauma, pain and damage done by their perpetrator. The simple reality that a person, often on this campus, cared so little about my friends, our classmates, that they would cause them immeasurable harm for their own pleasure is more than unjust, more than frustrating or upsetting. It is untethering. An emptiness starts to set in and you can physically feel a black hole forming in the pit of your stomach. That’s just from hearing the story, not being the survivor themself. Last Tuesday, the Editorial board published a piece on the new Interfraternity Council (IFC) student-led taskforce that is working to understand the ways Greek life contributes to sexual assault on campus and how to make positive change in culture and policy as a result. We have a Greek system, in my experience, reinforced with clear socioeconomic disparities, a thriving culture surrounding alcohol consumption and a well-documented hook-up culture that, while a dominant narrative, does not encompass a majority of students. The piece quoted current IFC president Max Schreiber saying, “We’re the only school in the country to have something like this.” Yet, the existence of such a taskforce is problematic and fundamentally reinforcing key aspects of our culture that continue to perpetuate sexual assault. There are no women - let alone survivors - on this task force. The above quotation and others like it from a Chronicle article reporting on the taskforce’s creation make it sound as if IFC and its members are swooping in to save all the helpless damsels in distress on this campus while ignoring many other ongoing movements to combat sexual assault. Unlike collaborative movements for change, it relies entirely on self-policing of entrenched social customs and cultures of a privileged majority. The way this taskforce has thus far been formed is akin to a white man grabbing the microphone from a Black Lives Matter activist and leading the rally himself. In essence, it is a poor example of being an ally for survivors. Every movement needs allies, but neither unfettered and undirected anger nor overt cooptation of the movement for one’s own purposes should be an ally’s role. The role of an ally resides primarily in our individual and societal responses to survivors. The reaction one gives a survivor when they tell you about what happened is by far the most important aspect of allyship. I have learned this from experience. Channeling one’s anger into productivity requires empathy to spend time learning what survivors want, what the root problems are and ultimately how to lead as an ally by becoming incredibly supportive of the movement to end sexual assault without co-opting the movement for oneself.

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The meaning of 9/11

had never seen my teacher look so anxious. With the click of a remote, she had managed to do in an instant what usually took her a minute of hushing and shushing: silence her rowdy kindergarten class. We sat criss-cross applesauce, staring up at the television, completely transfixed by what we saw. None of us knew what to make of the image: a boxy skyscraper with a tall white antenna, largely uninteresting save for a wide black gash that billowed ashen-gray smoke into the New York morning. In retrospect, it seems odd, and maybe downright negligent, that my kindergarten

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of Americans in our military shouldered the weight of the War on Terror, while the other 99 percent of us could choose to pay attention or to tune out. As Michael Ignatieff notes in his book “Virtual War”, never before has conflict been so effortless for politicians to initiate and so easy for the public to ignore. Muslim Americans have also borne a significant burden since 9/11. They shoulder the heavy weight of having to defend their faith against daily slights and accusations. Despite President Bush’s declaration at a Washington, D.C., mosque on September 17, 2001 that “The face of

MAKE IT REIGN blaming and facilitate sexual violence while also collaboratively charting a way forward should be our foremost concerns. We live in a culture that, at worst, celebrates and, at best, is complicit in sexual violence on this campus. The more friends I know who have been assaulted, women and men alike, the more I have come to recognize this reality. The onus for prevention should never be put on the shoulders of those most at risk. How we respond as a society can cause far more damage than the trauma itself. And the responsibility for solving the problem should not be thrust upon the community most associated with causing it in the first place. Sexual and partner violence is an epidemic, and epidemics are combatted by locating the roots of the problem, understanding the mechanisms surrounding it and unilaterally acting based on that knowledge. We are fortunate to have a largely receptive administration and a core of passionate student leaders and survivors who continue to work to end sexual assault on this campus. But, if we hoped that True Blue or some orientation program would change the mindsets ingrained in students by our broader culture about sex, consent and the objectification of women, then we are truly lying to ourselves. No IFC taskforce or special training session is going to truly change the corrosive and disgusting mentalities that cause sexual assault, that cause the trauma I continue to witness in my friends, and the damage done to society and to our collective humanity every time a person is taken advantage of sexually by another on this campus. My hope is that we collectively can say enough is enough. All of us have a near 100 percent chance of knowing someone who is a perpetrator or has been sexually assaulted. It is our collective responsibility to respond to survivors positively and work to end sexual assault on this campus. An all-encompassing, campus wide commitment to declare that every person has a right to the safety and security of their body no matter what state they are in, where they are or what they are doing can be a start. If someone does not agree with this sentiment in practice, then they shouldn’t be a part of the Duke community. We should believe survivors and support them with all the resources they need; that is fundamentally the most important role an ally can play. And we can also work to change the culture one person at a time to strive for a campus community where sexual assault is less a normative reality and more a shunned anomaly. We owe it to the survivors, our friends, to do that much. Jay Sullivan is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Mondays.

teacher would have displayed the harrowing images of 9/11 to a vulnerable group of fiveand six-year-olds. Memory is a wily creature and perhaps here mine deceives me. But my mother distinctly remembers pulling up to school that afternoon and asking, after giving me the tenderest hug I’ve ever received, if I knew what had happened that day. Apparently, I replied, “I know.” As we drove home, she explained that a plane had also hit a building called the Pentagon only a two hours’ drive north of where we lived in Virginia. The President had ordered that all planes flying in North American airspace be grounded. Our country was under attack. That day, the Twin Towers crumpled into dust and with them a child’s faith in a just world. “Evil” became more than the abstract concept I had heard about in Sunday school and read about in my favorite fairy tales. “Evil” made its way into the presidential lexicon — Bush declared in his 9/11 address, “Today, our nation saw evil” — and embedded itself in my worldview. Although the only life I had ever known was largely happy, I began to view the world in the starkly moral dichotomy of good and evil. The next set of images to shuffle across our television screens were of war: terrorists swinging on monkey bars, explosions lighting up the Afghan night, men and women in camouflage uniforms waving goodbye to their loved ones. Although those images have long since faded from our television screens and maybe even from our memories, the war goes on. The United States military continues to serve in Afghanistan, operate drone strikes in neighboring Pakistan, launch bombing campaigns over ISIS territory in Iraq and Syria and carry out commando raids in the Horn of Africa. We are living in an age of perpetual conflict, a “long twilight struggle” against an ever-metastasizing terror. The generations that grew up to newsreels of World War II or broadcasts from Vietnam might have worried that one day they too would be drafted into the fight. But our generation never had to worry. Even as the wars dragged on into our teenage years, we knew that we would never have to fight unless we wanted to. The 1 percent

terror is not the true faith of Islam,” antiMuslim hate crimes spiked in the weeks following the attack. Today, these hate crimes occur five times more frequently than they did before 2001. And even in the face of alleged ongoing racial profiling at the hands of airport security and vitriolic rhetoric from politicians, Muslim Americans continue to condemn terrorism, and a brave few even risk their lives to fight against it through their service in the U.S. military. 9/11 and its aftermath have shaped our generation’s perception of America and its place in the world. On my most cynical days, I wonder if the terrorists won. They led a few Americans to conclude that Islam was at war with America and a small subset of world’s Muslims to conclude that America was at war with Islam. They forced the United States to weigh a bleak calculus with even bleaker answers for American foreign and domestic policy: the launch of two wars abroad and the curtailment of civil liberties at home. They managed to make the country that had in its beloved Bill of Rights forbidden “cruel and usual punishment” turn to justifying the torture of its prisoners – waterboarding, “rectal feeding”, sleep deprivation lasting over a week – under the Orwellian language of “enhanced interrogation techniques.” Yet then I remember that America is a resilient country. A spectacle of terror can provoke reaction, even overreaction, but it cannot shake the foundation of who we are: a nation enamored by freedom that constantly debates exactly what freedom means. Those debates have led us to jettison some of the worst excesses of the years following 9/11, such as the use of torture. Look no further than the hundreds of non-Muslims who gathered outside Duke Chapel last January to support the adhan or the thousands-strong vigil that mourned in Chapel Hill following the murder of three Muslims to see that our generation stands firm in its belief that there is nothing more American than sustaining the First Amendment’s commitment to religious liberty. That’s the America I know. That’s the America I want our kindergarteners to see. Matthew King is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs on alternate Mondays.

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EDENS from page 1 the fitness facility lacks some types of strength training equipment. A number of students said that they appreciated renovations as a whole, however. “I was surprised they were done in time,” junior Matt Udelhofen said. “They did a good job. Everything looks really modern.” Sophomore Rahul Sharma said that he thinks the new study rooms and common areas will be helpful for students, noting that the renovations—especially the game room—will encourage more students to visit the area. Because of the updated common rooms with better tables for studying, students will be able to do homework in Edens instead of walking to Perkins Library, sophomore Jacquelyn Arreaga said. Johnson added that he thinks the new transparency in Edens—achieved by replacing much of the existing stone work with glass—has transformed the area, adding that he has heard several students say they love living in Edens now. He also explained that the new portal—which leads from the bottom of the steps at McClendon Tower to the center of the quadrangle—works to make the area feel more connected to the rest of campus. “[HDRL] has heard for many years that Edens is too distant from everything,” he said. “I think we’ve overcome that now.” Some students have said, however, that some of the changes are more cosmetic than practical. “All in all it does make Edens look nicer, but it doesn’t feel too useful,” sophomore Vincent Zhang noted. Despite the complaints, many students acknowledged that the construction work made Edens a better, more convenient place to live.

Mary Zhang | The Chronicle Geer Street Garden is one of Durham’s most popular bars and restaurants. Its inclusion in the new West Union continues a trend of Duke bringing in popular Durham eateries.

GEER STREET from page 1 “I think the pub will be more popular because it’s new,” senior Debbie Shim said. “But lots of students are good friends with the Loop bartenders so that’s also a pull [for The Loop].” Coffey explained that Geer Street Garden was first brought to his attention as a potential vendor after discussing options with Duke University Student Dining Advisory Counselor chairs and Duke Student Government leadership over a year ago. “We’ve heard nothing but rave reviews from students, faculty and staff,” Coffey said. DUSDAC member Julia Medine, a sophomore, agreed that she received positive reactions from her friends when they heard that Geer Street would occupy Devil’s Krafthouse. She noted that she thinks Geer Street will be able to transition smoothly from a regular restaurant to an eatery on a university campus. “The pub will have a similar flow to a restaurant, so I think they’ll have an easier time adjusting,” Medine said. Coffey said that he could not disclose the other vendors operating in West Union because the interested but

rejected vendors had not been notified yet. He added that the announcement should be made very soon, however. He said he believes that when students set foot in the West Union, they will think the renovations were worth the wait. “I think that they won’t recognize the place first of all,” Coffey said. “With this renovation, they are truly going to have the best facility and very best food program in the nation.”

BUSES from page 1 ous bus system. “I’m unsure if adding the C4 and C5 hasn’t contributed to the problem, and that it wouldn’t be best to go back to the old system,” said sophomore Logan LagunaKirkpatrick. Other problems emphasized were issues using the mobile application Transloc, confusing direction changes on Central Campus, overcrowded C1s and a lack of useful C3 buses. The C3 and C4 buses in particular

The Chronicle were the source of many student complaints. Although the C3 ran only during peak class-change times in past years, Mecklai said graduate students had asked for it to run continuously because many park near East Campus. But this change meant it was no longer an option for many undergraduates who needed it during specific time windows. Many of these students crowded onto C1s instead, she explained. The updated schedule includes one C3 on a continuous schedule and the other running during peak times. It will also provide a second bus, which will run in a staggered timing on the C4 between 9:10 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., a particularly busy window on that route. Adjustments that occurred this summer included replacing the C2 route with the new C4 and C5 routes, folding the C1X service into the C1 and rerouting C3 service between East Campus and Science Drive. The changes have been a source of much student concern in recent weeks. “It’s not uncommon for us to wait nearly twenty minutes for a bus to come,” wrote sophomore Jared Garland, a Central Campus resident, in an email. “What we need is either two C4s running full-time or three CCXs running full-time.” Mecklai noted that she would prefer more frequent C4 buses as well. “This one and a half hour block [of doubled service] is good but not good enough,” she said. The bus augmenting the C4 during the mornings is usually held in reserve by PTS so that it can be deployed during busy periods. PTS chose not to make two continuous C4 buses because they felt uneasy about having no backup bus during the rest of the day, Mecklai explained. Other changes that PTS will implement starting Tuesday include: —adding CCX service stops on Flowers Drive between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. —supplementing the C5 route with backup buses during the morning rush between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. —monitoring the C1 route so extra buses can be added during peak class change times. PTS will be reviewing the effectiveness of these changes over the next week, Mecklai noted. Neelesh Moorthy contributed report-

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