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Ryan Hoerger The Chronicle WASHINGTON—Quinn Cook grew up in the nation’s capital, but never had the opportunity to set foot inside its most iconic building. Tuesday morning, he got his chance, surrounded, fittingly, by the teammates who helped him climb to the top of the college basketball world. President Barack Obama welcomed the Blue Devils to the White House to congratulate them on the program’s fifth national title, captured in April against Wisconsin in Indianapolis. After mentioning two alumni of head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s program who found homes in his administration—former body man and Blue Devil forward Reggie Love and former White House intern and

team manager Derek Rhodes—Obama, an astute basketball fan, turned his attention to the players behind him, recounting their run through the NCAA tournament and onto the podium. “They had a soft-spoken All-American in the middle, Jahlil Okafor—from the Chicago area, I might just add—whose size and footwork bent defenses in a way that people hadn’t seen in a very long time,” Obama said from the East Room. “Quinn Cook provided senior leadership, setting a school all-time assist-to-turnover record. And then there was Grayson Allen, who just went crazy.” After returning to Durham in April, a team that had been so close during the season soon disbanded—Okafor, Tyus Jones and classmate Justise Winslow left early for the NBA, Cook graduated and the coaching staff immediately hit the recruiting trail. Reuniting at Tuesday’s ceremony made the occasion

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even more special. In finding a day for the ceremony, the Blue Devils had to juggle workout and class schedules, the calendars of their nowprofessional teammates and Obama’s availability. For Jones, missing the occasion was never an option. “We put any other plans we had aside and made this the number one priority for sure,” Jones said. “It’s like a family reunion—the past 24, 36 hours have truly been amazing.” After Obama’s remarks, Krzyzewski extended an offer to the president to join him in Durham for his fantasy camp, Coach K Academy, when his term expires. The president—who practiced with North Carolina and head coach Roy Williams while on the campaign trail in 2008—was interested. “I’ll dominate,” he said. It was one of many light-hearted moments

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at Tuesday’s ceremony. As he did when the 2010 national championship team made its visit to the White House, Krzyzewski offered Obama a filled-out tournament bracket—the “approved solutions” to the test. The president picked Kentucky to cut down the nets in 2015 and had the Blue Devils advancing to the Final Four before being knocked out by Villanova. “He’s such a basketball guy,” Krzyzewski said when asked about teasing the president with the bracket. “In addition to being a great leader and a great man.... He knows how to have fun.” In addition to the bracket, Duke also presented Obama with a signed basketball and a customized jersey. Before the ceremony, Obama met with the team and talked basketball. Cook said he was surprised by the depth of the president’s

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Ariely absent from sophomore convocation Adam Beyer The Chronicle At Tuesday evening’s sophomore convocation, one of the main speakers was noticeably absent. Dan Ariely—James B. Duke professor of psychology and behavioral economics—was replaced by Ingrid Byerly, senior lecturing fellow in cultural anthropology, who was asked to speak at the ceremony only a few hours before addressing about 200 members of the sophomore class in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Ariely’s absence was not explained. The Sophomore Class Council-sponsored event also featured an address from Mark Anthony Neal, professor of African and African American studies. The two speakers emphasized balancing students’ achievements with concern for a broader community.

“You are expected to be the leadership of this [generation] at this moment,” Neal said. “I’m not telling you that you shouldn’t live the good life. The good life is a worthy goal. But don’t let it keep you from being ou are accountable to expected larger forces in our society to be the you are being leadership trained to of this address.” His speech generation. invoked tennis — Mark stars Venus and Anthony Neal Serena Williams as examples of individuals who stayed grounded in their communities, encouraging students to do the same.

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Khloe Kim | The Chronicle Mark Anthony Neal, professor of African and African American studies, addressed the sophomore class Tuesday evening at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Duke Med creates center for statistics and genetics Ian Jaffe The Chronicle Mathematicians and geneticists will combine their expertise in the Center for Statistical Genetics and Genomics, launched recently by the School of Medicine. Directed by Andrew Allen, professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics, the center will focus mainly on the interaction of genetics and genomics with disease. It will provide quantitative scientists with a platform for sharing ideas on how to extract useful ANDREW ALLEN information from the vast amounts of genetic data gathered in Duke’s many laboratories. The center represents a continuation of the University’s efforts to promote interdisciplinary work, explained Dr. Nancy Andrews, dean of the School of Medicine and vice chancellor for academic affairs. “The School of Medicine is interdisciplinary by nature—we’ve long known that we can’t care for patients, or understand how to keep them healthy without collaboration across disciplines,” Andrews wrote in an email. “This center builds on strength we have in statistics, bioinformatics, genetics and genomics, bringing together scientists who have interest and expertise at the intersection of those fields.” The idea behind the center came from a “critical barrier” facing researchers—biologists are able to generate data much faster than statisticians can analyze them. This situation occurs across many fields of

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biology, Allen said, making extracting meaningful biological information from data difficult. Solving this problem is one of the principal goals for the newly created center. "[We hope to] create an intellectual home for quantitative scientists, so that they can come together and share and hopefully stimulate new ideas and new approaches,” Allen said. One area of focus will be on how genomic regions that do not encode e hope for proteins can contribute to to disease, Andrews explained. create an A n o t h e r intellectual focus will be home for integrating genetic information from quantitative various fields, from scientists. epigenetic studies — Andrew Allen to genomic code research. Although the medical school only announced the creation of the Center for Statistical Genetics and Genomics last Wednesday, it has already set the ambitious goal of improving data analysis in order to improve patient outcomes. Duke is one of the few places that an initiative like this is possible, Allen added, noting that Duke has some of the best quantitative science resources in the nation. “It is essential that, as an institution, Duke not only be a sophisticated user of these techniques and create an infrastructure for their principled use, but that Duke becomes a leader in this field and push the development of computational and statistical approaches that respond to existing or emerging challenges,” Allen said in a press release.

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N.C. legislators working to restart capital punishment Rachel Sereix The Chronicle After nine years without a death penalty execution, North Carolina legislators have worked to lift an effective death penalty moratorium in the state. The Restoring Proper Justice Act— which Governor Pat McCrory signed Aug. 5—aims to restart capital punishment but has caused significant controversy. The new law enables the state to withhold the contents of its lethal-injection drugs and also removes the requirement for doctors to be present during executions. Supporters of the law say that it will allow the death penalty to function as an effective deterrent against crime. Several coalitions calling for repeal and replacement of the death penalty on behalf of deathrow inmates and exonerees have protested against the law, however, saying that it raises transparency and fairness issues. “The main concern is that [the death penalty] is a permanent punishment, it’s the most severe punishment,” said Sarah Preston, acting executive director for the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina. “We cannot guarantee that the process is fair and equitable and there is no way to reverse the outcome.” Opponents of capital punishment argue that executing prisoners condones killing as a means of solving problems. Juries’ reluctance to imposing the death penalty even when executions are legal remains a primary concern as to whether or not this punishment violates federal law.

Special to The Chronicle The Restoring Proper Justice Act has caused controversy regarding the application of the death penalty.

Those in support of the legislation, however, believe that the current moratorium prevents justice from being carried out. Supporters also say that not using the death penalty weakens North Carolina’s criminal justice system by getting rid of a potential deterrent against criminal behavior. “Our nine-year de facto moratorium on the death penalty is a gross miscarriage of justice,” said Paul Stam, speaker pro tempore of the North Carolina House of Representatives. “The Restoring Proper Justice Act solves one small part of the problem.

Until the de facto moratorium is ended, innocent human lives are needlessly put at risk.“ Pharmaceutical companies—which supply drugs for lethal injection—have come under fire recently for not revealing the content and quantity of their drugs as well as for recently botched execution, said Tarrah Callahan, executive director of the North Carolina Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. The non-disclosure aspect of the new law might run into legal obstacles, explained James Coleman, John S. Brad-

way professor of the practice of law and co-director of the Wrongful Convictions Clinic. He noted that if individuals are unaware as to what the drugs are, they can’t decide whether or not the drugs are legal and humane. “Making the drugs that they use secret poses questions for the public,” Coleman said. “Should the public be shielded from knowing what the state is doing in its name?” Another question raised by capital punishment opponents is whether discrimination and bias impacts sentencing. The ACLU played a pivotal role in lobbying for the 2009 Racial Justice Act— which changes death sentences to life in prison without parole if the judge recognizes that a jury selection is impacted by race. “The system is just broken and it is so arbitrarily applied, from one county to the next and there is no real consistency,” Callahan explained. All of these questions have caused death penalty opponents to warn that the new law may cause significant problems in the future. Representative Graig Meyer, a death penalty opponent, argued that the law is only likely to lead to further litigation and cast a shadow on the General Assembly. “There is great risk that this bill will result in improper administration of the execution protocol, putting the State into protracted litigation over cruel and unusual punishment,” he said. “There’s no reason for us to even risk that.”

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Bull City Connector modifies route for Duke community Sarah Kerman The Chronicle The Bull City Connector changed its route last month in an effort to increase the shuttle service’s appeal among Duke students and faculty. Changes to the route include the addition of service to Duke Hospital North, the Durham VA Medical Center, Research Drive, e wanted Erwin Square and Ninth to get Street. Service the bus as far into to Trent Drive, campus as we Duke Hospital could to get easier South and the Durham bus staaccess for faculty tion has been and students. stopped, among other changes. —Phail Wynn The new route is also faster, in part due to the elimination of service to the Durham station. It now services stops every 17 minutes rather than every 20 minutes. The fare-free shuttle service—now in its fifth year of operation—is funded by Duke in partnership with the city of Durham and the GoDurham transit system. “We wanted to get the bus as far into campus as we could to get easier access for faculty and students,” explained Phail Wynn, vice president for Durham and regional affairs. Wynn noted that Duke administra-

Ariana Gallegos | The Chronicle The Bull City Connector has not been very popular among students and faculty recently. Administrators are hoping a new route can change that.

tion has been disappointed with ridership after five years of partnering with the city on the service. He said the goal for the Bull City Connector is to have 2000 to 2500 daily riders with at least 40 percent of the riders having some affiliation to the University as students or faculty. Because the shuttle is fare-free, University officials have had difficulty tracking its ridership, Wynn ex-

plained, noting that it can be difficult to tell what portion of riders are Duke students and faculty versus other Durham locals. “We want to get as much data as we can so we have a better idea,” Wynn said. “It’s tough to verify whether riders are Duke affiliated—we can estimate from popular stops but that’s a very inexact science.” The University spent $350,000 to

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CONVOCATION from page 2 “Part of what’s so important to remember is the humility that’s associated with [greatness]. Who are you protecting, who are you responsible to?” Neal said. Byerly, who is from South Africa, referenced Nelson Mandela’s life and advice in her speech, calling for students to think beyond themselves. “If you wish others to remember your name, you must remember theirs first,” she said. “If you want the world to be a better place, you must find a cause before it finds you. Think about what is important even if it hasn’t affected you.” Byerly brought her public speaking class to critique her address, noting that Duke basketball player Grayson Allen, a sophomore, was in her class and would have been in attendance were it not for the basketball team’s invitation to the White House Tuesday.

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Sophomore Alex Hong did not seem fazed by Byerly’s unexplained substitution for Ariely. “I thought, given that Professor Byerly didn’t have much time, that it was a pretty good presentation,” Hong said. “It was inspiring and true. I feel grounded.” Byerly and Neal made up for Ariely’s absence, said sophomore Vanessa Lusa, adding that she was “pleasantly surprised.” Sophomore Class President Luke Duchemin closed the event, noting that this year the Sophomore Class Council will be supporting students and organizations interested in “authenticity.” He also encouraged those in attendance to spread Neal’s and Byerly’s message to the rest of the class. “You’ve got 1600 other people you’re going to have to push and inspire because they weren’t here tonight,” he said. Samantha Neal contributed reporting.

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EAGLES SET FOR DURHAM TILT Be a N.C. Central coming off a 72-0 season-opening win heading into Duke clash Wade Wacko Seth Johnson The Chronicle

After earning a share of the MEAC championship in 2014 with a 7-5 record, N.C. Central is poised to have another strong year with head coach Jerry Mack in his second season at the helm. But if the Eagles want to start 2-0 in 2015, they will have to compete against the FBS on the road—where they were 2-4 a season ago. N.C. Central will travel less than five miles across Durham to face off against Duke at Wallace Wade Stadium in the fourth Bull City Gridiron Classic Saturday at 6 p.m. The game marks the home opener for the Blue Devils in their newly-renovated stadium, but the Eagles will attempt to spoil the festivities for the home crowd. “We have to be disciplined and we’ve got to make sure we are [executing] out there,” Mack said in a teleconference Tuesday. “[Duke is] a very talented football team. They did a good job against Tulane last week—a pretty convincing win. The biggest thing for us is we’ve got to make sure we’re disciplined and we’re playing our brand of football, which is high energy and effort as well.” N.C. Central (1-0) has never won against Duke (1-0), and the last meeting between the two squads ended in a 45-0 shutout at Wallace Wade Stadium in the 2013 season opener. But even though only two years have passed, a lot has changed in Durham for both teams. Just one of the six Blue Devils that scored touchdowns in 2013—redshirt senior Braxton Deaver—will see the field for head coach David Cutcliffe Saturday, and Mack will be leading the Eagles for the first time into the tilt. In last week’s season opener, N.C. Central put on a dominating performance against Division II opponent Saint Augustine’s. The Eagles shut out the Falcons 72-0 within the friendly confines of O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium, taking complete control of the game by racking up 447 yards of total offense. The running back corps was dominant in the victory. Six different backs ran the ball—with five players averaging more than 4.0 yards per carry—including redshirt freshman Dorrell McClain, who finished the game with 11.3 yards per carry. The return of four starters on the offensive line is a huge part of the success on the ground for N.C. Central this

Changes abound for Duke football this year, both on and of the field. Quarterback Thomas Sirk has stepped in for the departed Anthony Boone and quickly ignited the Duke offense, posting an impressive performance—27 of 40 for 289 yards and two touchdowns—in the team’s dominant 37-7 victory at Tulane last week. The Blue Devils were also tasked with replacing standouts Jamison Crowder, Issac Blakeney and Laken Tomlinson on the offensive side of the ball. But the new look around the Duke program this season is not limited to the different athletes in uniform. The fan experience for Blue Devil football may be the best yet and it is time for students to get ready to go full “Wade Wacko” in Wallace Wade Stadium. The term “tailgate” as it relates to Duke football can conjure up a variety of images and memories depending on your age. For older students, Tailgate was a raging party— loosely tied to the football game occurring yards away—featuring outrageous costumes and general debauchery. Tailgate in that sense was outlawed in 2010 following an incident with alcohol involving a 14-year-old girl. For the past five years, tailgating for football games has been essentially nonexistent for Duke undergraduates. Instead, students must walk past alumni partaking in classic pregame tailgating festivities with elaborate spreads in front of Krzyzewskiville, having no such place to celebrate themselves. Although DevilsGate— the administration’s watered-down solution to replace the original Tailgate—enjoyed limited success last season, the version approved by Duke Student Government this fall is a huge step toward the traditional association of tailgating for college football. DevilsGate will move to a new location on the Main Quad of West Campus—just a short walk from Wallace Wade—featuring tents available for reservation by registered student groups. Vendors will provide free food and entertainment is also scheduled for throughout the season. The new DevilsGate will be supported by the Gatekeepers, who will be tasked with facilitating the experience and, ideally, leading the student section. The hope is that the Gatekeepers will be for Duke football what the Line Monitors have been for the basketball program, and the newly-adopted LDOC alcohol policies should help DevilsGate achieve the same social atmosphere as Kville.

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Chronicle File Photo Running back Idreis Augustus rushed for 50 yards on nine carries when the Blue Devils blew out the Eagles 45-0 in 2013, but will look to lead a better offensive performance Saturday.

season. First team All-MEAC selection Clevonne Davis, redshirt junior Carl Jones and 320-pound bruisers Zachary Giles and Sterlin Houston are set up to push opposing defenses off the line of scrimmage at will. As a unit, they will have to work together to push back a Duke defensive front that only allowed 25 rushing yards on 23 attempts against Tulane. “Despite whoever they were playing, putting up 70-plus points on anybody is pretty impressive,” Duke linebacker Zavier Carmichael said. “They can put up points. They’ve got athletes on offensive side of the ball and we’ll have to shut them down quick…. [Their offensive linemen] are huge players and if they get a handle on you, they’re going to drive you 10 to 15 yards back.” On the defensive side of the ball, the Eagles will not give in easily, either. Although Saint Augustine’s offense possessed the ball for 36:24 last week, N.C. Central’s defense only allowed 166 yards on 68 plays—an average of 2.4 yards per play. The strength of the Eagles’ defense is in the secondary. Like the Blue Devils, N.C. Central returned four defensive backs in its season opener, including second-team All-MEAC redshirt senior C.J. Moore and FCS

All-American junior Mike Jones. In 2014, Jones had a team-high five interceptions to contribute to the Eagles’ plus-12 turnover margin— the third best turnover margin in the FCS. The Baltimore native also shined against the Falcons last week as a punt returner, breaking the single-game school record with 145 yards. “That’s a compliment to [Jones’] work ethic and what he has been able to do over the summer and also during camp,” Mack said. “He had a pretty good camp and he did some really good things in the return game on Saturday…. Mike had an exceptional day and we’re just hoping it’s a good start—a starting point—to how the rest of the season should go.” Despite the momentum of the 72-point drubbing in its opener, N.C. Central will have to capitalize on every opportunity in the coming weeks as it moves from Division II to Division I competition. With Duke on the schedule this week and Florida International slated for Sept. 19, the Eagles will look to bear down against FBS competition and seek an upset or two on the road to kickstart their chase for another MEAC championship.

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Offense explodes as Duke moves to 4-0 Meredith Cash The Chronicle For the first time in six seasons, the Blue Devils have won their first four games. Duke posted a 5-1 win against Loyola Tuesday night at Koskinen Stadium to stay perfect on the year. The Blue Devils went up midway through LOYOLA 1 the first half with DUKE 5 a goal by red-hot sophomore Jeremy Ebobisse and kept piling on the goals from there, scoring two more times before the first period closed. Duke’s five goals came from five different players, four of whom notched their first tally of the year Tuesday. “We did a great job starting the game and getting on top, passing the ball, making our runs and creating a lot of havoc in their final third,” Duke head coach John Kerr said. “It’s great to have guys come on the field and get their first goals of the season. It’s nice when you have the depth like that because it gives us options going up front, so you can’t just shut one guy down and think that we’re not going to score, because we have [other] weapons.” Duke (4-0) dominated the contest from the opening whistle, but struggled initially to convert on any of its early opportunities. Senior Ryan Thompson managed to send a slow pass through traffic across the box and Ebobisse stuck a leg out from the back post to

knock the ball in and put up the first goal of the game in the 20th minute. The Bethesda, Md., native leads the Blue Devils with four goals on the season after tallying just two goals in his entire freshman campaign. Duke would not stop there, though. In the 34th minute, freshman Ciaran McKenna picked off a cleared ball and released a rocket from 30 yards out that found the lower right corner of the net, marking his first goal as a Blue Devil. Just two minutes later, sophomore Cameron Moseley netted his first goal of the season off of a cross from graduate transfer Jared Rist. Duke finished the half with 14 shots— seven of which were on goal—and the defensive line held strong, limiting the Greyhounds (0-3-1) to just one shot in the opening period. “I’ve been telling the boys that I’m capable of scoring from that far out, but I don’t think they believed me,” McKenna said. “It was good to finally show them that I’m not all talk. I came close on Saturday night with a big strike, so it was really good to see that shot hit the back of the net.” The Blue Devils came out with just as much of an attacking mentality in the second half. Just four minutes into the period, sophomore Macario Hing-Glover posted his first goal of the season after ripping a shot past Loyola goalkeeper Matt Sanchez See M.SOCCER on Page 8

Melanie Park | The75004 Chronicle Behind five goals from five different players, the Blue Devils cruised past Loyola 5-1 Tuesday night to move to 4-0 on the season for the first time since 2009.

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COLUMN from page 6 Any great football program has a storied game-day experience for its fans and as Duke football continues to grow, the idea is that student support will, too. Tune into ESPN’s College GameDay any Saturday morning, and you’ll find thousands of dedicated fans lined up in the early hours of the morning to cheer on their schools—a sight not yet within the reach of these Blue Devils, but one not as unimaginable as it would have seemed three years ago. Inside Wallace Wade itself, a flashy highdefinition video board and lowered bowl seating will give home games an updated look. A member of the Trinity class of 1970, Steve Brooks donated $13 million dollars to the athletic department last year and, in return, was honored with the renaming of the field as Brooks Field at Wallace Wade Stadium. Everything about the field is new—from a completely flat surface to a new style of grass. A brand new turf called Latitude 36 Bermuda grass—advertised to be the ideal playing surface—was installed this summer. The turf was grown by Precision Turf in Georgia and shipped to Durham in strips, where Coach Cutcliffe oversaw its installation. Fans are also sure to notice the 42-by-75.6 foot video board that will play high-definition

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graphics and replays, as well as dispense fireworks following Duke touchdowns. Continued renovations and the addition of a new tower will happen throughout the season and into the offseason, but Wallace Wade has already made tremendous strides toward being a state-of-the-art collegiate football stadium. The home of the 1942 Rose Bowl, Wallace Wade was one of the few remaining NCAA Division I football stadiums to still have a track. This past offseason, the historic track—where runners like four-time national champion Steve Prefontaine once raced—was removed and the seating bowl was extended down toward the newly-lowered field, adding a total of 3,000 new seats. Hopefully, allowing the fans to be closer to the action inspires a more intimate game experience and a stronger homefield environment for the Blue Devils. Undergraduates constantly bemoan the pitfalls of construction on campus, yet football games this fall will offer the first opportunity to start enjoying some of the new additions. Come Saturday afternoon, head to DevilsGate—leave your outrageous costumes behind—throw on some Duke blue and head over to brand-new Wally Wade to cheer on the team. No one said we had to just be a basketball school anyways.

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Melanie Park | The Chronicle Sophomore Jeremy Ebobisse notched his team-leading fourth goal of the season in the 20th minute against the Greyhounds, helping Duke build a 3-0 lead in the first half.

M.SOCCER from page 7 following a combination between Ebobisse and sophomore Brian White. During a momentary lapse for Duke’s otherwise stout defense, Brennan Goldsmith converted on a cross deep in the box in the 62nd minute for the Greyhounds’ first goal of the season. The Blue Devils quickly retaliated with a goal from White, though, marking his first goal of the season and Duke’s fifth of the night. “We got a little sloppy on their goal,” Kerr said. “Relatively [speaking], we did a great job defensively. [Defense] is a mentality, and we’ve improved our mentality greatly and we’ve matured. We’re gaining momentum and we’re gaining confidence. We feel that we can be in any game against any team in the country.” The Blue Devils had been experiencing some difficulty converting on offensive opportunities during their first couple of matches, but with four of Tuesday’s goals coming from new scorers, Duke’s offensive woes seem to be in the rearview mirror. Overall, the Blue Devils maintained the defensive dominance they have displayed thus far in the season. Duke allowed no shots on goal up until Goldsmith’s, and held fast

thereafter—allowing just seven total shots and four corner kicks during the entire contest. “I’m very pleased with the 3-0 lead early in the game,” Kerr said. “It took a little pressure off us and allowed us to really get confident. We’ve made these kind of games difficult in the past, so it was nice to be on top from the beginning of the game.” Tuesday’s match was a victory for the Blue Devils on both sides of the field. Duke finished the game with 22 shots—10 of which were on target—and the back line managed to limit the Greyhounds to just one other shot on goal. The Blue Devils seemed to have found a rhythm just in time for the start of conference play but will need to maintain that near-perfect play if they wants to remain undefeated. Duke will take on reigning national champion No. 5 Virginia Friday at 7 p.m. at Koskinen Stadium. Duke will then move on to host UNC Wilmington Tuesday before hitting the road to challenge No. 9 Clemson Sept. 18. “We just have to be sharp,” Kerr said. “We’re playing well. We just have to be on song in the game against UVA and it won’t be easy, obviously. We’re excited about the opportunity to play the defending national champions.”

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WHITE HOUSE from page 1 knowledge. Once the ceremony started, the president kept the team at ease with his humor. “He had so much charisma, and I think just being a basketball guy, it was easy for him to joke with us a little bit,” senior Amile Jefferson said. The congratulations from the president extended beyond the hardwood. Obama commended five Blue Devils for their selection to the All-ACC Academic team, praised the team’s work at the Emily Krzyzewski Center in Durham and singled out redshirt senior Marshall Plumlee, who spent part of his summer at Fort Knox working toward earning a commission in the U.S. Army. “This is the kind of program that we hope for at any institution of higher learning. They represent their university well on and off the court,” Obama said. “And that’s why their fans are so passionate.... But they deserve every accolade.” Tuesday’s ceremony was the culmination of a whirlwind Labor Day weekend for the Blue Devils, who received their championship rings as a surprise during a dinner ceremony at the National Archives, which includes an exhibit named after David Rubenstein, chair of the Duke Board of Trustees. Rubenstein joined Krzyzewski, University President Richard Brodhead and vice president and director of athletics Kevin White onstage Tuesday. “It was pure joy, pure happiness. To finally get your championship ring, it was just an unbelievable feeling,” Jones said. “We’re still floating on cloud nine, it’s still an amazing feeling that doesn’t feel like it was real. It was definitely like a cherry on top.” With the departures of Okafor, Jones, Cook and Justise Winslow for the NBA, the Blue Devils reloaded with a large freshman class. Those newcomers— Brandon Ingram, Chase Jeter, Derryck Thornton, Luke Kennard, Antonio Vrankovic, Justin Robinson and Brennan Besser—were part of the audience Tuesday

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s football season approaches, much-deserved enthusiasm is mounting on campus for what our new and improved Blue Devils squad has to offer. In past seasons, Duke football often found itself at the bottom of the Atlantic Coastal Conference, but over the past few years, the team has fought hard to better records with greater victories. Their energy on the field and in practice demands a matching energy on campus from students. With opportunities for participating in the men’s basketball experience every way you turn, the stage is set for students to take part in Duke Student Government’s most recently approved project: DevilsGate Tailgate. At football schools across the country, college tailgates are a pre-football game celebration that gets student fans hyped for games with food, drink, games and entertainment. But DevilsGate is not the first tailgate program Duke has had. Not even the current seniors remember the bacchanalian tradition of Tailgate. Though beloved by party-minded students and tolerated at best by the administration even in its better years, Tailgate was abruptly cancelled in 2010 after a student’s underage sibling was found passed out in a Porta-Potty. Fortunately, DevilsGate was devised with the lessons of Tailgate in mind to not be some Tailgate substitute, instead moving far away from its wild unruliness. The lack of strict

regulation and policy compliance at the old Tailgate created a toxic alcohol culture with consequences for health, property damage and Duke’s reputation as a host. Administrators struggled for years with tweaking and changing the program to combat its many downsides but found little success preventing the start of game day from degenerating dangerously every time. Oftentimes, students did not even attend the football

Editorial games after partaking in Tailgate. With the end of old Tailgate behind us and promising football seasons ahead of us, we should aim to create a celebratory atmosphere that genuinely fetes our team’s victories and successes. This year’s freshman class has more reason than previous classes to be eager for football games given their fresh eyes. The season opener game against Tulane drew unprecedented attention on East Campus, which is hopefully indicative of an increase in students following football. Students are discussing football in more than a passing mention today, certainly compared to five or 10 years ago. Upperclassmen should not count themselves out either. Every season is an opportunity, and between

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An activist’s mural

s an aspiring environmental organizer, I have found it difficult to focus. Devoting my energy to one campaign, one cause has always felt narrow and limiting. Even though I know I’m acting in the context of a broader movement, being strategic has often felt single-minded and being exact has occasionally felt exclusionary. I’d like to think of organizing and advocacy as an art form, and if activism is art, we want to do its inspiration justice. Sometimes, we as activists want to paint with broad strokes. We want murals

victories do have tangible effects on the members of the Duke community. In that respect, the Divest Duke campaign is exciting to work on because it is a Duke-oriented campaign working in concert with other fossil-free campaigns around the region, country and globe. That coordinated effort is precisely the power of the divestment campaign, which is a moral and symbolic call to take our investments out of dirty energy. Last year when the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility (ACIR) rejected Divest Duke’s proposal for divestment, the

Rachel Weber TREE SAP – ones that tell the stories in full, that are as long as they are deep, that spare no characters nor causes. Its colors would bleed into one another: the greens of conservation, the blues of collared labor, the blacks of lives matter. Why the blur? Because it’s intersectional, complex, panoramic. Social change is not paint by numbers. But that’s the big picture. To capture the details, we know we need to use the most delicate brushes, to zoom in with a macro lens and swivel away from the panorama. We save the 40,000-foot view for the birds; organizers are on the ground. Applying the finest strokes, we render a zeroedin image of activism, our noses pressed against the canvas. Every activist has her own swatch of the mural. In moments of uncertainty, assertions lilt upward from “this is the most important work I can do” to “is this the most important work I can do?” This is perhaps not a thorough, critical evaluation but rather a contemplation of my personal conflicts coming into being as an organizer. Of course, a focused and strategic campaign does not necessarily ignore interrelated causes and problems; a good one certainly does not. The solidarity work and movement-building happening to correct all types of injustices, understanding their common economic and historical roots, is inspiring. Still, how does one choose an angle and settle on a medium? Here at Duke, I have chosen to direct my focus toward the divestment effort. Divest Duke is a campaign advocating that Duke University divest its endowment from the top 200 publicly traded fossil fuel companies. To me, campus activism feels isolated at times — that it happens within our own blue bubble, even if its challenges and

committee asserted that divestment would fail to have a direct, material effect on combatting climate change, which they cited “can only be mitigated through global action and will not be effective through local action alone.” Divest Duke agrees, which is why we’re just one local campaign chapter of a global movement to divest from fossil fuel companies. And we hope that Duke will be a leader in that international effort, joining the likes of divestors such as the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund and the World Council of Churches. The Duke Climate Coalition is the umbrella organization for climate-related advocacy and education at Duke and in the triangle area. It is the funding body for the Divest Duke campaign and now, excitingly, a new campaign effort at Duke: Seize the Grid, which is calling for 100 percent of Duke University’s energy consumption to be powered by renewables by 2030. If you are interested in joining these national and international campaigns as well as working in solidarity with other justice-seeking individuals and groups on campus, you are invited to Duke Climate Coalition’s kick-off event next Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 6:30 P.M. in Social Psychology 130. More generally, however, I urge current and aspiring organizers on campus to consider the intersection of their work with other groups. Many of us are working toward similar goals, and while strategically we may need to focus, it’s important to remember where our paths overlap. Share the tools, the brushes, the dyes — we’re painting on the same canvas. Rachel Weber is a Trinity senior. Her column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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hen it comes to fighting for the rights and equality of every American, there is only one person that comes to mind: Hillary Clinton. She is the Martin Luther King Jr. of our generation — a true hero who will not cease

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hate to look back and identify regrets from my past, but I’d be selling myself short if I never did. In hindsight, one of the dumbest things I’ve ever done was to skip out on the Duke freshman In all reality, it is very unfortunate that convocation in August 2012. For twentyas the media continues to obsess over the four years straight, from to 1990 until 2014, mess that is Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton convocation was synonymous with one of is able to travel from state to state and paint Duke’s greatest opportunities: the chance herself as this civil rights warrior our country to hear Maya Angelou speak. First invited desperately needs. While Democrats as part of the “Vision for Duke” program,

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in her battle for justice. As the Republicans and racists (what’s the difference, really?) plunder the voting rights of Americans of color, we must come together and unite behind Hillary. After all, who other than Hillary would protect all the “people of color, poor people, and young people” as repressive Republicans “try to prevent, undermine, and inhibit Americans’ right to vote” in the name of a “phantom epidemic of election fraud?” How dare Republican governors like Pat McCrory require that voters lacking a photo ID obtain one for free by 2016? How can we possibly expect voters without IDs to stop by a DMV and apply for a free ID in the span of more than three years? And what if the 2014 poll workers who warned every voter that they would need a government-issued ID to vote in 2016 did not speak loudly enough for voters to hear? What if the notices that North Carolina mailed to 218,000 North Carolinians whom it suspected lacked an acceptable form of identification all got lost on the way? It is clear that Republican despot Pat McCrory has made obtaining a photo ID practically impossible for North Carolinians. Believe it or not, there’s more bad news: if after three years a voter is unable to obtain a free photo ID, they are still eligible to vote but must fill out a form and choose one of the following completely unreasonable explanations: “Lack of transportation, disability or illness, lack of birth certificate or other documents needed to obtain photo ID, work schedule, family responsibilities, lost or stolen photo identification, or photo identification applied for but not received by the voter voting in person.” After filling out this form exempting them from all photo ID requirements, the voter must instead present either their voter registration card, any one document that contains the voter’s name and address (utility bill, paycheck, etc.), or the last four digits of their Social Security number. How bigoted of Republicans to assume that poor people and black people could fill out a form and bring a utility bill on election day. The sad reality is that either Democrats truly don’t believe that minorities and poor folks are capable of such a task, or they are simply exploiting these laws for political gains. My suspicion is the latter.

completely pervert reality for political gains, people who support common sense protections of our most fundamental democratic right as American citizens are labeled as racists and bigots. Even former President Jimmy Carter saw the importance of voter IDs. In his 2005 committee on election reform, he concluded that “Photo identification cards currently are needed to board a plane, enter federal buildings, and cash a check. Voting is equally important.” Unfortunately, anyone who has ever voted in North Carolina knows just how unprotected our elections are. It only takes one time at the voting booth to learn that a name and an address is all one needs to receive a ballot. Until Governor McCrory’s voting reforms take effect in 2016, that is it. Opponents of photo IDs may claim that we don’t often hear about election fraud all over the news, that it is a “phantom epidemic.” This, however, only goes to prove just how hard it is to detect the fraud. Just recently in 2013, the New York City Department of Investigations had its undercover agents obtain election ballots by using the name of non-residents, deceased individuals and incarcerated felons. The agents were allowed to fraudulently receive a ballot and voted 97 percent of the time. Every vote cast fraudulently is a vote taken away from an American citizen. This is the real “disenfranchisement.” Having to obtain a free photo ID in three years or having to fill out a form is no more of a “poll tax” than having to go to a voting booth to vote. The same way that we cannot bring a voting booth into everyone’s home, we cannot ignore the reality of how unprotected our elections are. Voter ID laws that make it this easy for voters, while protecting our most sacred democratic principle, is not “discrimination.” It is common sense reform. If Hillary, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and other shameless Democratic leaders really wanted to protect voters, they would help those without IDs acquire them or point to ways in which photo IDs can be made even more accessible. Instead, they choose the path of mindless rhetoric and mindless voters follow.

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Ms. Angelou returned each year to preach shared sacrifice, hard work and humility to the community’s newest members. Born Margueritte Johnson in St. Louis in 1928, Ms. Angelou lived in a vastly changing America and valiantly confronted tragedy and challenge in her life. At age eight she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend, who subsequently went to jail for only a day as punishment. Upon being released, the man was killed and Angelou blamed herself for the murder and chose to go mute for over five years. A teacher of Ms. Angelou, Bertha Flowers, is credited with exposing the legendary poet to the English language’s great artists. At the height of the Civil Rights era in the 1960s, however, was when the black Maya Angelou truly began to shine. As John Nichols writes in the Nation, “Maya Angelou was not only a participant in the Civil Rights struggles… she was on the staff.” Marching in Egypt, Ghana and America, Angelou promoted opportunity for all through her writings and plays. On her fortieth birthday in 1968, one of her friends and heroes Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, inspiring Angelou to focus on her writing to continue their shared vision of a more inclusive United States. Nearly twenty-five years later, Angelou was invited to read her poem, “On the Pulse of Morning,” at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton. The lesson of inclusivity and opportunity resonated when she concluded, “They hear. They all hear…” On May 28, 2014, Maya Angelou passed away from old age. She was the ultimate unifier, a compassionate, devout and kind spirit who wished only the best upon all she met. She was a hero not only to the people she marched with but to the history, character and people of our nation and the world. Ms. Angelou’s death presented an important decision for Duke: who should carry on tradition and address the Class of 2019 at convocation this fall? I learned last week that the honor went to MSNBC host and Wake Forest University professor Melissa Harris-Perry, a former student of Angelou’s. Respectfully, the selection of Harris-Perry to keep alive Angelou’s spirit is a disgrace to Duke University and the legendary poet herself. First, whereas Angelou is a unifier Barak Biblin is a Trinity sophomore. His in the toughest of times, Harris-Perry is a provocateur gratified by her stoking column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

of tension. On her irrelevant MSNBC show, Harris-Perry and her roundtable are a weekly panel of nastiness. They’ve mocked and ridiculed Mitt Romney and his family for Romney’s son’s adoption of a black child. She famously wished that Trayvon Martin “whipped the [expletive]” out of George Zimmerman and, even more irresponsibly, continued to peddle the “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” lie even as evidence and Eric Holder’s Department of

Justice said otherwise. I’m trying to imagine Angelou encouraging violence as activism, maligning a family or peddling a lie to benefit her cause, and I can’t. The poet was about hope, speech and change, and her student is about nothing more than condescending and destructive messaging. Even worse, Harris-Perry managed to manifest her con artistry on Duke’s campus itself. Less than ten years removed from the Duke lacrosse case, those responsible for bringing Harris-Perry to campus apparently do not remember her “contributions” to our community during the tumultuous investigation. During the investigation, a pathetic “Group of 88” Duke Professors abandoned due process and publicly convicted the accused lacrosse players without evidence, citing only the lacrosse players’ “privilege” as proof of rape. When the investigation and accusation turned out to be a hoax, the Group of 88 quickly tried to reverse course (Note to President Brodhead — please fire all remaining professors from the group still at Duke). Only one person was ridiculous enough to defend the Group of 88 publicly: Melissa Harris-Perry. She complained in her book “Sister Citizen” that “In the aftermath of the findings of innocence, the false accuser and those who uncritically accepted her honesty are subjected to public ridicule, just as they had earlier subjected the young men to ridicule.” Harris-Perry had the gall to defend the group and false accuser/ indicted murderer Crystal Magnum from the very public anger she wished upon the lacrosse players early in the investigation. Harris-Perry is an insult to the activism, leadership and unifying presence of Martin Luther King Jr. and Maya Angelou. She is a tax delinquent (an MSNBC host requirement, apparently) and believes wearing tampon earrings from the comfort of a New York City studio is activism. HarrisPerry is, for all intents and purposes, the exact opposite of everything Maya Angelou was. I pray that for convocation next year, Harris-Perry is far away and someone with more guts, presence and grace takes her place. It’s only fair to the legacy of the legend, Maya Angelou. Max Schreiber is a Pratt senior. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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