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Report: Men’s soccer player suspended for rape sues Duke Player argues hearings were mishandled after alleged assault of female student Staff Reports The Chronicle A Duke men’s soccer player accused of sexual assault has been granted a reprieve, WRAL reported originally reported Wednesday.

WRAL’s article noted that the University suspended the student last Friday after deciding that he had violated the Student Sexual Misconduct Policy. But Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday against Duke.

The player has filed a lawsuit against Duke and Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director of the Office of Student Conduct, according to WRAL. The suit claims that the player faced a violation of his due process rights.

The alleged incident occurred Nov. 14, 2015 when the two students met at a Durham nightclub and then later had sex, according to the lawsuit. The player claims it was consensual, but several months later, the female student filed a complaint with OSC, the suit says.

At 1:56 p.m. Wednesday, the lawsuit was sealed to redact student names and other identifying information. According to a copy of the motion to seal the file, obtained by The Chronicle, Duke submitted the motion and requested the Court to temporarily seal the complaint for seven days to remove the information.

Kevin Zheng | The Chronicle The lawsuit, filed by a men’s soccer player, claims that Duke and Dean Stephen Bryan mishandled the player’s hearings regarding an alleged sexual assault.

“Duke seeks to protect the confidentiality of student disciplinary hearings, including the identities of the students involved,” the motion reads.

According to WRAL, the now-sealed lawsuit notes that the men’s soccer player is on a student visa from the United Kingdom.

There is only one player on the men’s soccer roster from the United Kingdom— sophomore midfielder Ciaran McKenna. A

team spokesperson declined to comment.

The player’s lawsuit alleges that the player was suspended for six semesters effective Jan. 27, which the player says would result in loss of his student visa and damage to his professional aspirations.

According to the lawsuit, the case was originally heard by a Duke disciplinary panel in July 2016, which concluded that the female student did not verbally deny

consent but that her actions did not give consent. The player then appealed this ruling. After an appeals board concluded that the panel had not applied the correct “reasonable person” standard pursuant to Duke policy, the lawsuit says, the case was sent back to the original panel. But the player alleges Bryan set up a new panel to hear the dispute instead, and that this panel found that the female student had in fact verbally denied consent.

The player alleges in the lawsuit that Bryan violated Duke policy in setting up the second panel, especially when he alleges the first panel had partially cleared him of wrongdoing.

According to the Student Affairs website, the Office of Student Conduct decides if a case should be resolved through a hearing panel and if so, it appoints a specially trained three-person hearing panel—typically including two faculty or staff members and one student and “when possible, at least one representative of the complainant’s and respondent’s school[s].”

“A finding of responsibility must be based on a unanimous vote,” the policy reads.

“Sanctions of suspension or expulsion must also be supported by a unanimous vote. A majority vote is required for all other sanctions.”

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Iranian postdoc’s future in doubt after Trump’s executive order Gautam Hathi The Chronicle

Special to The Chronicle Seyedlar, an Iranian citizen, was preparing to begin a postdoctoral position at Duke when Trump issued his executive order.

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Mehdi Ordikhani Seyedlar was on track to begin a postdoctoral position at Duke in one of the most prestigious biomedical engineering labs in the country. Then he saw the news on Saturday morning.

Seyedlar, who has completed a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at the Technical University of Denmark, is an Iranian citizen.

As a result, he is affected by the executive order implemented by the Trump administration Friday, which halts all immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries, including Iran. The order has thrown Seyedlar’s future plans into doubt, as he will not be able to come to the United States in May to begin work at the Nicolelis Lab if the ban on immigration from Iran is not lifted.

“The first time I heard the news, I remember that I was having my breakfast with my wife, and then we were just completely shocked,” he said. “Everything is gone in just

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one day. And this is very frustrating.”

Seyedlar—who is currently in Denmark— was in the process of acquiring an American visa when the ban was announced.

“I got this offer as a postdoctoral associate, and right after my [thesis] defense, we started my visa procedure, which, in normal conditions, is a very long procedure for us,” he said. “So basically I was waiting for my visa.

Normally it should have been issued promptly.

A month from now, I would expect it. But now, as you know, visas have to wait.”

The Trump administration’s executive order currently suspends all immigration from Iran for 90 days, but the suspension could be extended if Iran does not supply additional information on visa applicants that the administration deems necessary for vetting applications.

In 2014, Seyedlar was actually at Duke, working at the Nicolelis Lab as a visiting scholar. His research involves processing brain signals so that they can be used in brainmachine interfaces. This work could help develop solutions for paralyzed individuals to

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He said that during the visit he got to know people at the lab and decided that it was the place he wanted to work full-time.

“I worked on their projects. I’m very familiar with their lab,” Seyedlar said. “I know exactly what they are doing, and they know exactly what my skills and background are.”

As a result of the ban, he explained that he is now applying for positions in Canada and Europe. Although Seyedlar emphasized that his first choice is still Duke, he said that he is no longer confident the situation will resolve itself and that he will be able to come to the United States.

And Seyedlar said others in his family have also been impacted by the ban.

“My brother, he got a Ph.D. offer from the Missouri Institute of Science and Technology in November,” Seyedlar said. “We were super happy because he tried so hard. He was working to get his GRE and TOEFL [scores] at a level that he can get admitted. And finally

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Longtime professor Karla Senior organizes walkathon Holloway reflects on career across Golden Gate Bridge Claire Ballentine The Chronicle Karla Holloway, James B. Duke professor of English, recently retired after more than two decades at Duke. She was the first African-American dean of the humanities and dean of social sciences and the first African American female chair of Duke’s appointment, promotion and tenure committee. She is also the founding co-director of the John Hope Franklin Center and the Franklin Humanities Institute. The Chronicle corresponded with Holloway via email about her accomplishments at Duke and her future plans—and her Twitter handle. This interview has been condensed for print. The full version can be found online.

The Chronicle: You’ve broken many barriers at Duke during your time here. What advice do you have for others who may be the “firsts” in their positions?

Karla Holloway: I hope that these “firsts” are one day no longer marks of achievement.

Instead, I’d like to see them become commonplace leadership positions for women and

Courtesy of Duke Photography Holloway is the founding co-director of the John Hope Franklin Center and the Franklin Humanities Institute.

minorities. Chairing APT gave me a great deal of insight into the infrastructure and goals of the institution’s faculty. That early vision and the confidence placed in me was critical in my developing a perspective of this place—not necessarily from the seat of chair (although it’s a seat that demands a consummate professionalism)—but from the sight-lines of departments, from medicine, engineering, business, the humanities, social sciences and arts—all of whom brought their finest candidates forward for positions at Duke.

Seeing the big picture gives you a better perspective of the infrastructures of Duke, and directs you to always make deliberate, informed and thoughtful decisions. So, I hope the opportunity for wider visions of the University is not on a list of barriers to be overcome, but on the list of faculty governance that we see as ordinary for Duke faculty who can bring a certain judgment, clarity, creativity and demeanor to considering the visions possible in this place.

TC: Regarding your career at Duke, what are you most proud of?

KH: I’m leaving with a deep sense of satisfaction and gratitude. The John Hope Franklin Center and Humanities Institute stand out, as well as the Arts Warehouse space. The hiring of stellar faculty in the humanities and social sciences who are coming into their own as administrators and campus leaders and the deep diversity and excellence many have brought to the campus have made Duke better. Leading African and African American studies toward its institutionalization as a tenured department was especially important. I’m very, very proud to have earned a Duke Law degree during my tenure here and to have joined that wonderful faculty and to have had the chance to teach at Duke Law. It still feels like a minor miracle, gives me pause and has prompted some of my best scholarly work and teaching (in bioethics and law and literature).

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Katherine Berko The Chronicle One student’s quest to combat mental health stigma will culminate in a “walkathon” across the Golden Gate Bridge this summer.

Led by senior Pooja Mehta, the event called “Unabridged” will be held June 10 and is designed to raise funds for Mental Health America, a nonprofit for mental health support and advocacy. Mehta noted that she hopes other supporters will join in by walking across their own local bridges in solidarity, spreading her message to a wider audience.

“People aren’t familiar with mental disorders and what they truly mean,” Mehta said. “A lot of that stems from the fact that as a society, we choose not to talk about these issues.”

She explained that a lack of advocacy contributes to a limited public understanding of what mental health entails.

By organizing such a large event, Mehta hopes to spur conversation about mental health and its associated stigma in the local community and beyond. Since participants will be wearing identical shirts, passersby will be even more likely to take notice of the event, she said.

Mehta noted that she has experienced mental health stigmatization firsthand during her battles with anxiety and depression, which inspired her to design the walkathon.

“As someone with a mental illness, it’s something I need to hide, especially entering my senior year and going to job interviews,” she said.

She described previous job interviews in which she was asked about the struggles she faces in her everyday life. During each of these instances, Mehta debated whether to reveal her mental health issues—a crucial part of her identity, she said.

Often, Mehta decided against it, which she noted in common in the mental health community. This insight, she said, led her to name the event “Unabridged.”

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“I’ve had to abridge myself,” she said. “I’ve had to cut out part of my identity.”

Mehta explained that she first got idea for the walkathon last summer, and she has since worked with a partner at Stanford University, junior Urvi Gupta, to launch Unabridged.

Fronting the cost for the walkathon herself, she has secured the permits with the Golden Gate Bridge Commission, designed the event’s website and commissioned a logo.

“I don’t think that people believe I can make the walkathon as successful as I see it,” Mehta said. “In the end, I expect this event to be something that everyone in the country knows about.”

Although a North Carolina resident, Mehta opted for the Golden Gate Bridge as the location of her walk due to its wide reputation as a suicide site. According to the Los Angeles Times, more than 1,400 people have willingly plunged to their deaths from the bridge since its opening in 1937. The San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday that during the next four years, construction of a suicide prevention net will take place.

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Alumna founds NeuroVice to improve patient experience Rob Palmisano The Chronicle Through NeuroVice, one Duke alumna is channeling her own experience to help others with neurological disorders.

Ashlyn Sanders, Graduate School ‘15, was diagnosed in October 2014 with a Chiari malformation, a condition in which brain tissue extends into the spinal canal and causes disorientation and seizures. She underwent life-saving brain surgery that same night, and was eventually able to return to Duke in January 2015 before graduating with a master of arts in bioethics and science policy later that year. She went on to found NeuroVice—a company that aims to create devices that will help improve the lives of people with neurological disorders.

“I’m very thankful to have had credible advocates who wanted to conduct full neurological testing,” Sanders said.

Loren Robinson—the Pennsylvania Department of Health’s deputy secretary for health promotion and disease—was one of Sanders’ mentors and is now a clinical advisor for NeuroVice. Robinson said she remembers encouraging Sanders’ family to request an MRI after two CT scans had come up negative.

Sanders was originally misdiagnosed with a panic disorder before finally receiving the Chiari malformation diagnosis.

“I still remember that phone call,” Robinson said. “Before she went into the surgery I told her, ‘Ashlyn, everyone loves you and is with you, but no one can ever know what’s waiting for you on the other side.’”

Fortunately, Sanders’ recovery was relatively smooth. After spending about two to three weeks in the intensive care unit, Sanders said she was moved to the hospital’s neurological center for

extensive physical therapy to regain the use of her arms and legs.

But there was unexpected news to come, as Sanders was later diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder even after regaining her mobility.

Grappling with recurring seizures and her PTSD as she returned to Duke were the hardest parts about her recovery—she had three to four seizures a week, she said.

But after reducing her course load as needed and working individually with her instructors to make sure she could fulfill deadlines, Sanders was able to complete her master’s thesis and earn her degree.

“None of us could contain ourselves seeing her walk across that stage,” said Sanders’ twin sister Robyn about her graduation day. “It was remarkable to witness the improvement and the resilience [Ashlyn] had displayed from her first night in the ICU to her graduation day.”

Sanders said her family’s support was essential to overcoming the Chiari malformation, as her sister, mom and dad would take turns spending the night in the ICU during the initial stages of her recovery.

One experience, in particular, stuck with her.

“Where I had the surgery, I had to have my head shaved in the back,” she said. “So my mom went and got the exact same area of her head shaved without telling me, and I started to get all emotional when I asked her why she did that. She answered, ‘because I want people to ask me about it, and then I’ll be able to tell them your story.’”

As a result of her experience, Sanders said she developed a greater appreciation for how closely the body and the brain are connected.

Soon after, she began to experiment with different designs of a possible medical device to help future patients with neurological disorders down the road.

Special to The Chronicle Sanders’ company creates devices to help people with neurological disorders.

Making a difference Sanders founded NeuroVice in 2016 and began enlisting a team of clinical and business advisors to join her effort in developing her prototype.

“I learned very quickly this is not something you take on by yourself,” she said.

The P.A.T.I. is an oral device that will help prevent patients from tongue-biting and hyper-salivation, which are common symptoms of seizures. Sanders added that the device would be worn upon the onset of the seizure, or more frequently depending on the particular disorder.

Sanders and Robinson are trying to raise $20,000 for developing the final design of the prototype, but as of publication, less than $2,000 has been raised. Nonetheless, Robinson said they are confident that the application will achieve

“national reach” within the next five years.

For Robinson, Sanders’ passion for NeuroVice’s mission and her receptiveness to others has helped push the initiative forward.

“Ashlyn’s energy and her drive really serves her well to get out there and articulate our mission to teams of investors,” she said. “But she is also a great listener, a skill that I think our society has gradually gravitated away from prioritizing over the years.”

But Sanders—who said she would like to license her prototype to a larger medical technology company—does not have plans to remain an entrepreneur forever.

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Coach K set to return against Pittsburgh following four weeks off for lower-back surgery Mitchell Gladstone The Chronicle When Duke fans last left Cameron Indoor Stadium 11 days ago, their team’s first home loss to N.C. State in more than 20 years had sent them into shock. The Blue Devils were below .500 through seven ACC games and a season that began with a preseason No. 1 ranking appeared to be spiraling out of control with head coach Mike Krzyzewski sidelined following lower-back surgery.

But with a pair of consecutive road victories—Duke’s first two of the season—the Blue Devils appear to have found a bit of a groove as they begin a stretch with Krzyzewski back in action and four of their next five games at home.

No. 21 Duke will host Pittsburgh at 1 p.m.

Saturday after the Blue Devils picked up an 84-74 victory at No. 20 Notre Dame Monday night in which they led the entire second Pittsburgh half. Just two days after sophomore Luke vs.

Kennard put on a show No. 21 with a 30-point second Duke half and shot 10-of-10 SATURDAY, 1 p.m. from the field during Cameron Indoor Stadium the final 20 minutes at Wake Forest, it was freshman Jayson Tatum’s turn against the Fighting Irish. The swingman registered his first career double-double as he led a more decisive Duke offense—one that has executed efficiently down the stretch since losing to the Wolfpack.

But where the Blue Devils really excelled in South Bend, at least for the first 20 minutes, was on the defensive end of the floor. The team

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Khloe Kim | Chronicle File Photo Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski will return Saturday as the Blue Devils aim for their first three-game winning streak in ACC play.

announced Thursday evening on Twitter that Krzyzewski will return as expected four weeks after his surgery, and will look to keep rolling with its home game against No. 12 North Carolina looming next Thursday.

“To be able to come on the road the past three days in two sold-out hostile environments, to be able to get wins speaks volumes of our guys,” Duke interim head coach Jeff Capel said in his postgame press conference Monday. “We’re growing up....

I think all of the things that we’ve been through have helped us become tougher, helped us become more together and figure this thing out.”

After surrendering 83.5 points per

game in their previous two contests, the Blue Devils locked down on the ACC’s best 3-point shooting team throughout the first half Monday. Notre Dame hit just 2-of-10 triples and only converted 26.9 percent of its field goal attempts as Duke (17-5, 5-4 in the ACC) jumped out to a 37-25 halftime advantage. And although the Fighting Irish came out firing from the field to start the second half, the Blue Devil defense suffocated Notre Dame’s offense late, holding the hosts to just two made baskets in the final six minutes.

“We got out to a big lead, and I think we really played great defensively,” Kennard said Monday night. “It started on the defensive

end for us. We were able to share the ball.... It was great, and it’s fun to play that way.”

Facing the Panthers in Durham for just the second time since they joined the league prior to the 2013-14 season, Duke will be looking to extend its home win streak against Pittsburgh (12-10, 1-8) to two.

The Panthers enter the game at the bottom of the ACC standings, yet put up a fight for all 40 minutes Tuesday night at No. 12 North Carolina and upset then-No. 11 Virginia earlier in the season. Pittsburgh missed a game-winning 3-pointer as time expired and the Tar Heels snuck away with an 80-78 victory, but the Panthers’ top offensive weapons showed their prowess again facing a top-tier league opponent.

Seniors Jamel Artis and Michael Young—the ACC’s two leading scorers at better than 20 points per game apiece— combined for 36 at North Carolina and the duo got a heavy dose of support from Cameron Johnson, who drained six of his nine 3-point attempts.

A redshirt sophomore guard, Johnson has started all 22 of Pittsburgh’s contests and shoots better than 40 percent from deep after playing a little less than 12 minutes a night last season.

Unfortunately for the Panthers, their secondary offensive production essentially ends with Johnson. He, along with Artis and Young, make up almost 70 percent of the Pittsburgh scoring offense and no other Panther is averaging more than seven points per game. Pittsburgh also boasts a pair of talented rebounders in Young and fellow senior forward Sheldon Jeter—who leads the See M. BASKETBALL on Page 8

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Rachel Baber | The Chronicle Redshirt junior Rebecca Greenwell had been ice cold from the field entering Thursday’s game but shot better than 50 percent for the first time in league play against the Tigers.

Although the Blue Devils have put themselves in position to finish in the top four in the ACC, they have done so with one of their best players struggling from the field.

Redshirt junior Rebecca Greenwell finally found her shooting stroke Thursday evening, which could spell trouble for the rest of the league.

No. 15 Duke used another staunch defensive effort to shut down Clemson 65-37 Thursday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Despite getting out to CLEM 37 a quick 13-2 lead by DUKE 65 forcing five turnovers in the game’s first four minutes, the Blue Devils struggled to pull away with the Tiger defense clogging up driving lanes. But sparked by Greenwell, who finished with a game-high 21 points, Duke used

an 8-0 run midway through the third period to create some separation before dominating in the fourth quarter.

“It was just a good team win. I just tried to take what the defense gave me, but everyone contributed,” Greenwell said. “We did a great job of finding each other and Lexie [Brown] did a great job with seven assists, so I think it was a solid win. I’m proud of us.”

Clemson focused on defending Greenwell’s backcourt mate in Brown, who had four turnovers but still finished with 13 points on 5-of-9 shooting and seven assists, frequently finding open teammates when the defense crowded her.

Among the beneficiaries was Greenwell, who looked much more aggressive from the opening tip.

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Duke’s Class of 2017 ‘the most physical’ one yet Sameer Pandhare The Chronicle After inking the best class in program history a year ago, the Blue Devils followed it up with another solid class Wednesday.

Duke signed 22 players in the Class of 2017, headlined by four-star prospects Jake Marwede, Drew Jordan and Damani Neal. Despite getting no commitments from players within North Carolina, Duke head coach David Cutcliffe showcased his ability to snag recruits from Georgia and Florida—two states the Blue Devils have prioritized in recent years.

“This class, in my opinion, is the most physical class we’ve signed yet,” Cutcliffe said. “There are four offensive linemen, six defensive front people, other really physical players that play skill positions in it. When we came, we said we were going to recruit speed. We’ve done that. We felt like we needed to change the course of Duke football and become more and more physical.”

Coming off their first bowl win in 54 years, the Blue Devils took a step back last season and finished just 4-8 after being ravaged by injuries.

But the program’s recruiting did not seem to suffer as the Blue Devils finished with the 34th-best class in the nation according to ESPN, despite losing four-star quarterback commit Jack Sears to USC in November. Duke received commitments from 19 of the 22 players in its incoming class by July of last year.

“The average number of days this class was committed was 221 days,” Cutcliffe said. “So here’s what happened—we develop great relationships with coaches.

Most importantly, this is an incredible group of young men. They became teammates. They’re so committed to each other.”

Marwede is the team’s highest-ranked player in the Class of 2017 and chose Duke ahead of the likes of Alabama, Miami and Ohio State. Cutcliffe has always placed a premium on tight ends in his offense, and Marwede should fit the bill at 6-foot-5 and 235 pounds. The Wilmette, Ill., native stressed the importance of academics in his decision when verbally committing to the Blue Devils last April.

Jordan and Neal head to Durham with the potential to become two of the pillars of Duke’s defense going forward.

Jordan was the No. 283 player in the ESPN 300 and has the versatility to play on either the line or as a linebacker in college—something the Blue Devils have looked to do with their defensive players in recent years.

After the Blue Devils got a major contribution from freshman cornerback Mark Gilbert a year ago, Neal could see immediate playing time with the graduation of DeVon Edwards, Deondre Singleton, Corbin McCarthy and Breon Borders in the secondary. Despite standing at just 5-foot-11, Neal is known as a speedy safety that excels at making tackles all over the field.

Chronicle File Photo Head coach David Cutcliffe and his staff hope to address the team’s weaknesses coming off a 4-8 season when spring practice starts Friday.

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heodor Seuss Geisel was an Aesop for the twentieth century, writing more than 60 children’s books that have sold hundreds of millions of copies and made their way into the nighttime readings of countless children around the world. Caught today in a world struggling to keep up with never-ending stories of hate, we look to a few of Dr. Seuss’s more pointed stories in the hopes of gleaning such insights as might rekindle the spirits of those who need fresh hope.

In Yertle the Turtle, Dr. Seuss tackles themes of despotism, blind allegiance to nationality and abuse of position. An allegory for Hitler’s rise to power, the story centers on the eponymous Yertle who is obsessed with becoming the most powerful animal and to this end, forces his subjects to stack themselves on top of one another so that he can be the tallest turtle in the pond. The fate of the pond’s turtles is a warning against blindly accepting any one leader’s vision for a society. But in protest, a “little turtle named Mack” cries out, “I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.” Mack and his eventual toppling of Yertle’s tower serve to remind readers of the worth

of every individual and their power to make change, valuable advice to those who find themselves pushed around in the machinations of others.

To speak truth to power is no mean feat. In The Lorax, the Once-ler’s obsession with sweater production from the rare Truffula tree drives him to destroy the local environment over the protests of the Lorax and the suffering of indigenous groups. For the Once-ler, “business is business!

And business must grow.” The Lorax as protestor

Editorial exemplifies that brave individual who recognizes that he is small in comparison to a vast political and economic culture of greed and inequality, but power concedes nothing without a demand. And so he reminds us that there is no hope in inaction.

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”

In the more personal arena of identity, Dr. Seuss sends us several powerful messages in The Sneetches, which was originally written to oppose anti-Semitism and racial and religious intolerance.

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During his eight years as [president], [the Democratic party] has lost [almost] 1,000 seats at the state and federal level.”

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The community of the Sneetches, some of whom have stars on their bellies and others of whom do not, is fractured by respective disdain for anybody who is dissimilar from each group. The Sneetches fall prey to an opportunistic entrepreneur who profits from their bigotry because, as he says, “You can’t teach a Sneetch!” Caught up in echo chambers of ingroups and outgroups, the Sneetches needlessly set back their society, and in the recent and current selffueling climate surrounding American race relations, Islamophobia, xenophobia and other forms of bias, such individual and low-level social barriers become some of the most important to remedy.

While many more of Dr. Seuss’s works are little more than playful pieces, in October we noted the importance of contextualizing works and authors to their broader backgrounds, and so it is important to acknowledge that the man himself had flaws. Geisel was in fact known to have been heavily in favor of Japanese internment during World War II, and so even as we find simple but powerful messages in his works, a further conversation grapples with separating his views to recognize the complexities of what a person may espouse one moment and hold to be true in the next.

Where’s the Wi-Fi?

ast spring, Duke introduced a new, more secure Wi-Fi network named Dukeblue. Almost one year later, I’m still asking, “Where’s the Wi-Fi?” There are expensive Cisco routers all over campus, and the internet still cuts out. That the Wi-Fi is unreliable despite all of this technology, might make you think that the walls are made out of lead. After an ill-advised attempt to use a golf simulator indoors, I can confirm that the walls are surprisingly durable, but definitely not lead.

It shouldn’t be this hard for the university provide reliable and quick internet on campus. A cheap router can cover an entire single family home with internet. When I look out my door, I can see three far more expensive routers and still not get Wi-Fi. It would comically absurd if it were funny, but it’s not—it’s just absurd.

The inconsistent Wi-Fi also makes it difficult to complete academic work and to socialize.

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body, you’d be writing a column about the crappy Wi-Fi on campus and not running for Young Trustee. So instead of emphasizing your commitment to improving Duke and making it more affordable, your campaign should make more concrete promises, like fixing the Wi-Fi on campus.

It turns out that those of us with unreliable internet are actually the lucky ones though. In some parts of campus, the Wi-Fi is completely nonexistent. It can be as arbitrary as having to stand in a certain part of one’s room to even have the opportunity to access the unreliable internet. No one should have to stand in their closet to access shoddy internet so they can try to do their homework. That’s the kind of campaign promise that would compel me to vote for a Young Trustee candidate.

At this point, I’m resigned to the fact that the administration will likely ignore this simple, humble request like so many others I’ve previously made in this column. The dorms in

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It’s hard to make friends playing Call of Duty on Xbox Live when I get disconnected in the middle of every match. Without working Wi-Fi, I can neither work hard, nor play hard.

At first, I thought that maybe it was just me. Maybe I am a technological caveman, incapable of following the simplest of directions to connect to the internet. But then I talked to my friends—not the ones on Xbox Live—and they have the same issue. I thought it was possible that I had surrounded myself with equally technologically-deficient people.

But then I saw other students complaining about issues with the internet on Fix My Campus. So either a large number of students are really, really stupid—myself included—or there is actually a problem with Wi-Fi. I came to this momentous realization months ago and figured that the administration would eventually fix the issue with the internet. It’s now 2017 though, and the Wi-Fi is still unreliable. So, I’m using my column and its vast audience that includes anyone worth knowing to make clear that the internet still sucks—I’m looking at you, Young Trustee nominees.

If you want to be elected, don’t make promises about your values. Odds are that if you didn’t actually care about the student

Edens are still some of the worst on campus.

The university still charges for ePrint. And just when it seemed that the administration would slow down all the construction, they announced even more new projects. There are also still no soda fountains in West Union.

Painfully, I must admit that DSG is taking steps to restructure itself. If they follow through on this commitment and fulfill their obligations to the student body remains to be seen.

I won’t be the one to see if they do though.

In just a few months, holding those in power at Duke accountable will hopefully be the job of a columnist as brave and courageous as myself, since I am graduating this spring.

Over the years, I have received many messages thanking me for writing what I have and quite a few less appreciative ones. Today though, the importance of a combative press is clearer than any time in recent history. As such, I would like to preemptively accept the apologies of all those who have privately and publicly disparaged my columns—I forgive you.

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looked up at the crowd of people last Sunday waving American flags in the air. We were standing outside of RDU, the gateway of the Triangle, chanting and holding signs. There were cowbells and drums and small children and old couples leaning into each other in the briskness of January. After years of Moral Mondays, the scene itself felt familiar to me. But the feeling was different. This time, people were gathered as a reaction to federal—not state—actions.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday blocking all refugees from entering the country and banning all immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen and Sudan.

Reince Priebus, White House Chief of Staff, even claimed that border agents had “discretionary authority” to submit American citizens who had recently traveled to any of those seven countries

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the waiting hands of terrorist groups and lone-wolf mentalities.

In fact, this ban effects discriminatory humanitarian consequences. Not only does it violate the separation of Church and State by arbitrarily denying citizenship or entry to people from majority-Muslim states, but to make matters worse, it denies amnesty to all refugees, most of whom are running from civil war or genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria and Myanmar.

Nearly 80 years ago, Jews in Poland, Germany and France were shaken by forces beyond their control. Nazi power gripped the region, rounding up Jews and others into death camps and ghettos.

Throughout the late 1930s, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt closed the “golden doors” to Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe, even turning around a ship full of hopeful immigrants fleeing deathly persecution, sentencing them to

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broad really changed me. I don’t mean it changed me like it changed Beth Anne in your Psych class who went to Italy and now is “like super into wine.” I mean that I simply can’t stop cuffing my pants to a point where I might as well buy capris. It must’ve been something I ate there because all the other guys I saw had a hard triple cuff on both pant legs, and now I too am trapped rolling my jeans up to show off my ankles and my new all white shoes. You might say, “Nick, why don’t you just not cuff your pants.” But I can’t. It’s not a routine like brushing my teeth, and it’s not an addiction like meth; this is just a part of who I am.

The European style of jean cuffing, or jéan-cuffain, demands that I cuff my jeans at least twice before I go out in public. In Europe, everyone did

to walk this Earth having people avoid me because they know exactly what I’m going to talk about to them.

Don’t get me wrong, I loved abroad, but at what cost? Sure, I could wear jorts unironically, and yeah, wine is pretty good, but do you know how weird cuffing your pants looks with long socks? I look like a dad about to walk through mud! And I don’t even like smoking cigarettes, I only started doing it because I thought it’d help me hit on Danish girls, but they only told me, “Dine bukser ser virkelig dum.” Do you even realize how ego-crushing it is to hear a 6’3” Viking goddess put you down like that? Sure, I don’t know any Danish, but their disapproving looks told me everything. Now, I just lounge in the Shooters balcony ripping sticks, and telling freshman girls how “lit” Madrid is.

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to extra questioning upon entering the United States. The ban caused travelers, refugees, students and legal immigrants— all of whom have already been heavily monitored for years—to be detained in airports across the nation.

Experts agree: there is next to no national security benefit to President Trump’s order. Migrants and refugees from the seven accused countries have committed a grand total of zero deadly terrorist attacks on United States soil over the past 40 years. The orchestrator of the 9/11 attack, al-Qaeda, is a militant Sunni group based in Saudi Arabia, not Iraq, nor Iran, nor any of the other countries whose people are being profiled.

Bafflingly enough, this administration plans to fight the perceived threat posed by endangered refugee populations while ignoring the dangers that actually threaten American citizens. Every year, about 13,286 Americans will die at the hands of a gun, either by accident or in a homicide. The chance that any American dies at the hands of a refugee?

0.00003 percent.

This is not to say that terrorism is not a real threat. Radical Islam perverts the true meaning of the religion, persecuting innocent people and ripping up sections of the Middle East and North Africa. But it continues to rear its ugly head primarily abroad, displacing millions of refugees who every day search for new homes. On Friday, President Trump denied them a home here in the United States. In making this move, he inspired a new generation of radicalism, both at home and abroad, who feel othered, angered, and rejected

by American actions. Discrimination will only further the divide and heighten the Islamophobia that drives so many into

death at the hands of Nazis. Red Scare fears plagued the nation, and the idea of possible communist spies infiltrating the country caused a surge of nativism much like the one we see now. If we could turn back the clock and save just a few of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, who among us would close the door again? The faces of small children, old couples, and idealistic youths who have walked for miles and floated in the cold on rafts, watching unspeakable horror, should drive our decisions in the coming years.

At the rally on Sunday, an old man and an old woman held hands behind me. They must have been over 70, wrapped in jackets and scarves. The woman wore a hijab, and she smiled at her husband while waving to a small girl swinging on her father’s shoulders. The man let a tear fall from his eye as he looked at the crowd.

This is America. Millions of people bring their own identities, stories, struggles and hopes to a nation ready to receive them with open arms. Without the ideas and innovations of immigrants and refugees, we would be without bagels, pizza and lo mein. What’s more, we would be without life-saving technology and medicine and integral entertainment and news. Distant members of my family who met their ends in the fires of Auschwitz may not have had a voice back in the 1930s. But today, our challenge is to uplift the voices of millions just like them who are running from fire and searching for a home.

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it. Moms, dads, babies, presidents.

Usually people just talk about the cool clubs they went to, or the sights they saw after they return from abroad; however, I only want to know how to stop cuffing my jeans. All the hip Europeans did it, so I was compelled to take it up myself. Little did I know how it would take over my life. Slowly, every conversation I have devolves into how “sick abroad was” and how my jeans have to be cuffed. I adopted every aspect of abroad. I literally just smoked 1000 cigarettes. No joke, I cuffed my pants and when I stood up, I had already smoked 2 packs. I can’t help it, abroad was sick.

In some sort of Faustian contract to look super Euro constantly, my ankles feature prominently in almost every outfit (I am still forced to cuff shorts, but only once to maximize “chill”).

This impulse to cuff and smoke cigs and talk about clubs and tell people about how I smoked weed in Amsterdam has become my only defining feature. The hair on the sides of my head doesn’t even grow back anymore. I called an exorcist to pull this demon out of me, but when the priest searched for the demon, he went mad when the Euro demon subjected him to an eternity of torment as the demon droned on and on about all the cool trips he took, and how he “totally blended in with the Madrid locale” (he most certainly did not wearing his fraternity’s shirt and a backwards hat). So it seems I’m doomed

I’m in an abroad-support group called Doing Ok Post-Europe, or D.O.P.E. for short. We engage in simulated small talk to work on avoiding mentioning Europe or cuffed jeans. It has been immensely helpful; soon I’ll be earning my Silver Star for not overtly pointing down to my pants during conversations. Then, I’ll move onto rolling down my jeans, but that just seems so far away at this point. I love the breeze against my lower legs, I enjoy not having to worry about hiking my pants up during floods, and I love the instant conversation starter it provides. I’m not ashamed of my cuffs, but I’m working on making a change. Abroad may have been better than Duke, but I don’t have to tell every single person in the Devine’s line about Ibiza, because they know how chill it is; this is the eighteenth time I’ve said it today.

Please, if you know someone who went abroad and claims it “totally changed” their worldview, let them know they’re among friends. And when they smoke cigs because they “did all the time in London dude,” tell them they don’t need to cuff their jeans because we know how sick abroad was. You’ve already told me about that Avicii concert.

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comes from what remains. When I began teaching at Duke, my daughter was a senior in high school in Raleigh. Today, after an undergraduate degree from Princeton and a Ph.D. from Harvard, she’s now a tenured faculty member in the physics department here at Duke. Her extraordinary and unexpected journey back here—she was a Duke TIPster in junior high—gives me considerable pride and absolute joy.

TC: Why did you decide now to retire?

KH: I try very hard to be self-aware.

It felt right. My attentions were shifting, and frankly, I thought the contributions I’ve made to Duke had a stability and the goodwill of my colleagues, and I always think you should go before people start wondering why are you still around! When you feel you can be productive and happy and helpful in other spaces, I think it’s an appropriate challenge to gather up some courage and embrace the uncertainty.

TC: What do you think of the current state of racial relations on campus and how could they be improved?

KH: I worry that Duke is embedded in a pattern of situational reactions to particularized events and that our expressed values are not the first space of thinking about difficult and challenging matters or race and identity matters on campus. I believe they could be improved if our values led instead of our institutionalized fears, histories of conduct, expectations that come more from presumption rather than a deep and committed allegiance to discovering what’s right, and acting from that discovery, no matter the difficulty.

I’m not much a fan of what I call the “diversity industrial complex” that we seem to have administratively embraced. It seems to me a way to exile diversity to a particular office or administrator. It’s thicker than this and instead it’s got to seep thoroughly into our Duke blueprints. We’ve often examined what a particular event or moment will do to the “brand” of Duke rather than seeing a valuesbased leadership as the opportunity to shape and articulate codes of conduct that others might see as exemplary. Every transition at Duke gives us the opportunity to do better. I

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TC: What do you plan to do next?

KH: I will always be a writer, I’ve made a turn toward fiction though. But for those less scripted moments—you can find me on Twitter @ProfHolloway!

GOLDEN GATE from page 2 “The bridge is a beautiful piece of architecture,” Mehta said. “I hate that people see it as a vehicle for ending their life.”

Mehta’s goal is for participants to collectively walk across the bridge 44,193 times—the same number of Americans who reportedly committed suicide in 2015.

On the day of the walk, participants will be asked to pay a suggested donation of $30, which includes the price for the event’s official shirt and other associated costs, she said.

Mehta noted that she plans to continue her advocacy past the event and hopes others will do the same.

“While this is a walk, I want it to be more of a movement,” she said. “I’m trying to encourage people to be the full versions of themselves—not to abridge themselves.” sometimes we can get or deflections, but overall it was a great team defensive effort,” McCallie said.

“That’s important because you never know how the game goes, you’ve got to control that end.”

Another bright spot for Duke was the play of freshman Leoanna Odom. The versatile forward has emerged as a nice secondary scoring threat and disruptive defender, finishing with eight points and five rebounds.

Odom was extremely active, rolling to the basket off pick-and-rolls, getting her long arms in passing lanes and even blocking a long 3-pointer early in the game to send the crowd to its feet.

Two Blue Devil reserves who also primarily make their mark with hustle plays and defense— Faith Suggs and Crystal Primm—made an impact as well, combining for 27 minutes to give Brown and Greenwell some much-needed rest.

“We just wanted more energy because when the game is slowed down, you play a lot of defense and sometimes your energy can go in and out,” McCallie said. “I am very confident in our bench.”

Following another strong defensive effort, Duke will take on Virginia on the road Sunday afternoon.

a screen near the top of the key and nailed her first attempt from beyond the arc. After getting off to a hot start with 13 points in the first half, she finished 8-of-13 from the field in her first 20-point game since the team’s Dec. 4 upset against thenNo. 3 South Carolina.

It was also her first time this season shooting better than 50 percent from the field in ACC play.

In addition to getting back in a groove on the offensive end, Greenwell made major contributions on defense. She worked with fellow guards Brown and Kyra Lambert to often swarm Clemson’s ball handlers and force the ball out of the hands of the Tiger playmakers, leading to 19 turnovers and several rushed shots.

The Blue Devils (19-4, 7-3 in the ACC) held Clemson without a field goal the final 6:47 of the third quarter, allowing the home team to stretch an 11-point advantage to 19 entering the fourth quarter. Duke then went on a 15-2 run spanning most of the final period to earn its second straight 28-point win and match its regular-season win total from all of last year early in February.

“We just tried to harass them,” Greenwell said.

“We forced them into passing some bad passes that led to some turnovers, but we just really tried to focus on our ball pressure.”

The Tigers (12-11, 1-9) shot just 27.7 percent as Duke’s aggressive matchup zone defense shut down another opponent. Greenwell even grabbed her 500th career rebound in the first quarter as the Blue Devils cleaned up the glass nicely after struggling in that area in recent weeks.

For the second time this season, head coach Joanne P. McCallie’s team held a Power-5 conference opponent to fewer than 40 points, and six of Duke’s last seven opponents have not cleared the 60-point mark. If Greenwell can continue shooting well to complement Brown, the Blue Devils could become even more dangerous heading into the final part of the Rachel Baber | The Chronicle season, with their defense giving them a chance Leaonna Odom had another strong game to win almost every game they play. inside for the Blue Devils, who have not allowed “We might not have gotten as many steals as 60 points in six of their last seven games.

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he got very good scores, and he got this offer.

Right now his situation is much worse than me, because I’m at least out of Iran, but he’s inside. He’s also very depressed now.”

Seyedlar said that Duke has been in touch several times during the past few days offering him advice and updating him on the situation.

Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, said that Duke is currently working through its visa office to address cases like Seyedlar’s, but added that there is still uncertainty surrounding the executive order.

“He is not yet a Duke employee,” Schoenfeld wrote in an email. “Each situation is unique, and depending on the circumstances the options may be limited.

There is still a great deal of confusion that we are all trying to sort through.”

Seyedlar said that he feels the situation is not right, and that a ban on immigration would hurt research.

“Judging people based on their nationality or religion or whatever...for me that makes no sense,” he said. “Previously I was a student, and yes I published some papers, maybe I developed some things, but real ideas come out as an independent researcher when you are a postdoc. I was very motivated to start cool jobs, but I can see that this is all in jeopardy, all in one day, and that’s not good for science.”

He added that the ban has given him doubts about his long-term prospects in the United States even if he is allowed to enter the country.

“It makes me a little bit uncertain because if the rules are changing so dramatically, you can’t really trust,” he said. “I don’t know [about staying in the US]. I have to think again.”

Carolina before applying to medical school and pursuing a career in neurology. Eventually, she said she also has aspirations of a career in public service as an elected official.

‘Trust the process’ When asked about what she learned as a result of her experiences, Sanders said she discovered the importance of patience and “trusting the process.” She has also gained a newfound understanding of the trauma that serious medical problems can cause and how the trauma can spread.

“When [PTSD] had previously been mentioned to me, I had always associated it with someone coming back from war, or someone who had been raped, and I don’t think people every really anticipate how a medical diagnosis can be a traumatic experience,” she said.

Robyn said the experience has given her a greater appreciation for mental health after seeing it hit “much closer to home.”

“If Ashlyn can get through what she did, then the smaller things that crop up in my everyday life seem a lot more manageable,” she said. “I’m just glad I have my twin sister and my best friend to look to for that inspiration.”

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Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, said Wednesday that the University had no comment on the matter.

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Han Kang | The Chronicle Frank Jackson and the Blue Devils are hoping to contain a streaky Pittsburgh offense Saturday afternoon.

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But the Panthers ultimately could have trouble keeping up with a hot Duke offense if the Blue Devil defense is able to contain even just one of their leading scorers.

Pittsburgh has also suffered ugly, lopsided losses at home to then-No. 13 Louisville and Miami, so Duke could also notch its first rout in ACC play since a 53-point blowout against Georgia Tech in its ACC opener.

“We’ve become tougher, more together, understanding how much we need each other, understanding how hard we have to play every possession,” Capel said. “We’ve had to learn these things in the fire which is the ACC, but the last two games on the road in these hostile atmospheres, we’ve done a really good job, and now we have to build on it.”

Although most of their class was set heading into National Signing Day, the Blue Devils did well to hold off some of the biggest programs in the country for a pair of their prospects.

Three-star running back Deon Jackson received a late offer from Notre Dame, but opted to honor his verbal commitment with Duke. Wide receiver Damond Johnson also received late interest from both Auburn and Ohio State, but stuck firm with the Blue Devils Wednesday after becoming the first player to commit to the Class of 2017 last February.

“We tend to find the right people,” Cutcliffe said. “When you’re signing the right people, they don’t want to transfer.

They stay, they buy in and the strength of that team, the guys become great teammates.”

In addition to recruiting talent on both sides of the ball, Duke looked to shore up some of its deficiencies in special teams this past season.

The Blue Devils intend to bring in a number of kickers as preferred walk-ons to compete with sophomore A.J. Reed—who connected on just three of his 10 attempts a year ago. Jack Driggers is ranked 28th at the position in the Class of 2017 by ESPN and will be one of many expected to battle for what Cutcliffe called an “open job.”

“We had a tough year and we all are very aware of that. It’s fair to say you don’t look just within when you have problems,” Cutcliffe said. “We’re always willing to create some competitive circumstances right now and that’s what we need.

We can’t be successful with the way we performed a year ago.”

The Blue Devils will begin spring practice Friday before taking the field March 4 for their spring showcase.

Hank Tucker and Brian Pollack contributed reporting.

Amrith Ramkumar contributed reporting.