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Staff Reports The Chronicle Duke researchers mishandled radioactive material, regulators say.

According to a report from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a sample of Uranium-235 was “compromised and assumed to be leaking” during an experiment Feb. 11. The incident was not reported until Feb. 15, at which time North Carolina Radiation Protection Section personnel began conducting an inspection by testing for contamination in the area. Traces of Uranium-235 were found on one physicist’s toilet, the report confirmed, but no other contamination was found and the toilet seat was promptly decontaminated.

“Given the lapse of when the source was compromised and when Duke Radiation Safety Office was notified, it is apparent that established Duke SOPs were not followed,” the report said.

Jim Jones from the Office of Communications for N.C. Department of Health and Human Services wrote in a statement that the radioactive material leaked from a sealed capsule in the Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory.

The capsule was a postage stamp-sized wafer containing 1.5 grams of Uranium-235, he noted.

“The sealed nature of the capsule became compromised when a researcher tried to introduce it into the experimental apparatus,”

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Courtesy of Duke Photography A capsule containing 1.5 grams of Uranium-235 leaked in the Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory in February.

Jones wrote.

Researchers who may have been exposed received lung scans, all of which came back negative. No members of the public were harmed, the report noted.

“At this time, it is believed that contamination due to the leaking source has been contained and no members of the public have received radiation exposures,” the report reads.

Jones explained that radiation and

health experts—including a team from the Division of Public Health, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch—are investigating the incident and will determine any “corrective actions of modifications” that Duke will need to take.

Purified versions of Uranium-235 can be used in nuclear weapons. The sample originated from Los Alamos National Laboratory and was lent to the University for research purposes.

Meggie Lund was initially disappointed to find cockroaches in her dorm on East Campus. But three years later, she lives comfortably in the cockroach-free Oz House thanks to right of return.

According to Housing, Dining and Residence Life, right of return allows rising juniors and seniors to stay in their same dorm as the previous year. They are not guaranteed the same room, but students who exercise the right of return are allowed to pick their room before new members.

The Chronicle obtained data from Joe Gonzalez, dean for residential life, regarding how many students have exercised their right of return during the past four years. Although the percentage of students using right of return has fluctuated lately, that number has risen dramatically since 2013.

In 2013, 57 percent of students used right of return, compared to 78 percent during See RIGHT OF RETURN on Page 12

UNC rematch comes with high ACC stakes for Duke Hank Tucker The Chronicle With two losses last week, Duke blew its chance to play for the ACC regularseason title against its biggest rival.

But the stakes are still high for the Blue Devils heading into their regularseason finale.

A win against No. 5 North Carolina Saturday at 8:15 p.m. at the Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill would give No. 17 Duke a double bye in next week’s ACC tournament and an extra day of rest for a team that desperately needs it.

A loss would lock the Blue Devils out of the top four and force them to win four games in four days to take home the ACC championship, a feat that has never been accomplished.

Although Duke beat the Tar Heels 8678 in Durham Feb. 9, two very different teams will be meeting eight miles down U.S. Highway 15-501 this weekend.

Grayson Allen had one of his best

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games of the year with 25 points against North Carolina, but has been a shell of himself since then. The Jacksonville, Fla., native is averaging 6.5 points on 23.8 percent shooting in his last five contests and sat out last Saturday’s loss at Miami due to a left ankle injury.

“Grayson’s not really been able to practice. You can tell he’s not there right now,” Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski said after Duke’s win against No. 15 Florida State Tuesday. “We’ll see in the next week what we can do with him as we get into, not just our last game of the ACC, but the NCAA tournament.

We've got to get him healthy because he’s too valuable for us.”

Allen’s limitations have opened the door for Frank Jackson, though, and the freshman rose to the occasion Tuesday with a career-high 22 points. Jackson has shown a penchant for stepping up against elite competition in the last month, and he will get another chance

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New study uses mucus to TEDx conference to explore identify respiratory infections ‘unchartered waters’ Saturday Nathan Luzum The Chronicle What is making you sick? The answer could lie in your mucus.

A team of scientists at the Duke Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine recently found that a specific group of proteins in mucus can be 86 percent accurate in confirming the source of a respiratory infection. Respiratory viruses often cause the flu, the common cold, pneumonia and other illnesses.

Han Kang | The Chronicle Researchers found that proteins in the nose can be used to determine the source of a respiratory illness.

After infecting individuals with respiratory viruses, the researchers measured the abundance of the different proteins in the nose and throat area in both healthy and sick subjects. The study revealed that approximately 25 proteins either increased or decreased in number during a viral infection.

The information could eventually lead to a simple and much-needed clinical test able to distinguish between different causes of a respiratory infection, according to the study. Although upper respiratory infections are among the most common reasons that people visit the doctor, scientists and doctors have in the past struggled to develop tools that can differentiate between viral and bacterial infections.

“In our study, we found that these proteins had a very high degree of accuracy in confirming viral infection—86 percent, which is better than most of the testing that’s out there today,” said Dr. Geoffrey Ginsburg, director of CAGPM and senior author of the paper.

Thomas Burke, director of technology advancement and diagnostics for CAGPM and lead author of the paper, added that the ability to rule out a viral infection with this test was 97 percent.

Ginsburg explained that properly identifying the cause of an infection is critical to ensuring that the proper treatment is prescribed.

“In this country at least, the default See MUCUS on Page 12

Sarah Haurin The Chronicle Duke will host its sixth TEDx convention in Reynolds Theater this Saturday with the theme of “Unchartered Waters.”

From the 300 nominations they received, this year’s TEDx committee chose 11 speakers whom they think align with the mission of TED, which stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design. The nonprofit organization aims to spreading ideas in the form of short but powerful talks. “[The theme] embodies the spirit of TEDx—that we should continue to engage in the ideas around us and learn about things that hadn’t even occurred in our world before,” said junior Anne Driscoll, TEDx Special to The Chronicle committee president.

The event will feature Duke professors, Driscoll and her team have selected students and members of the Durham speakers whose specialties range from nursing community as speakers. to conservation to neuroscience. Each speaker plans to bring a fresh perspective conference “Humans to Mars” in Washington, on the role that research and inquiry play in D.C., Irons said she noticed a gap in space Duke and Durham’s community dynamic. sciences for research on creating sustainable The lineup for Saturday includes students, ecological systems to support life. With that in professors and Durhamites engaging in a mind, she and her father started Deep Space variety of notable works.

Ecology LLC, for which she serves as chief One speaker in particular has a scientific officer. strong relationship with Duke’s TEDx For Irons, exploring the “uncharted community. Senior Morgan Irons became waters” of space does not mean abandoning involved with TEDx during her first-year research that focuses on terrestrial problems. on campus, working her way through She said she plans to talk about how research several subcommittees to an executive on space can lead to discoveries that improve position as a junior and finally to a role as life here on Earth. a speaker this year.

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Religious studies professor lends expertise to CNN series on Jesus escapism. They want to watch a detective show or something, so they’re not likely to The Chronicle be watching a documentary series. But those that have have been encouraging. Academics Mark Goodacre, a professor in the department have always got—quite rightly—things that of religious studies, serves as the lead adviser for they don’t like about a given program, so I’ve “Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact, Forgery,” a CNN series been reasonably encouraged. that uses scientific techniques and archeological research to analyze the life of Jesus. Its second TC: The audience for the series is season premieres Sunday at 9 p. m. The Chronicle’s different than that of an academic article you Sarah Kerman sat down with Goodacre to discuss would write. Taking that into account, how his involvement with the show and the task of do you alter the way you’re presenting the portraying academic research to a broader audience information? in a documentary drama format.

MG: I think it’s quite exciting for people who don’t know the history. It gives them The Chronicle: How were you initially another angle on stuff that they think they approached to be involved with the series? don’t know about, but you have to present Mark Goodacre: My involvement actually the material very differently. The on-screen goes right back to about 2014. They wanted bit that I do in this, you’re really down to a consultant who knew broadly the area of sound bites. You’re down to one, at most historical research quite well. I’ve also worked two sentences at a time, so that’s not the on other documentaries and Bible-related same as writing a 10,000 word article, which programs, and I suppose that after a while your academics are generally much happier with. name gets known a little bit. If you’re lucky, That gives some pressure, because obviously you might get asked to do another one. So it’s you can’t dive the depth of a thousand quite often that one leads to another. qualifications. You have to be succinct, you have to try and articulate your point as clearly, TC: What has the response to the show’s as quickly and as memorably as possible. They first season been like? don’t actually want a huge amount of analysis MG: It’s been pretty good. I was pleasantly because that’s not the time for it when you’ve surprised by how many people wanted to got 43 minutes or so of actual screen time, watch it. Because you kind of can imagine and a lot of that is devoted, quite frankly, to that a Sunday night at nine o’clock is the drama and different kinds of investigations. time when people want to be watching So the amount of on-screen presence that “The Walking Dead.” Documentaries don’t you have of the academic experts is limited. get millions and millions of viewers, but That means you haven’t got a huge amount the successful ones will get over a million, of time for analysis. which is what CNN was getting regularly in that time slot in the first season. So that TC: Can you describe some was encouraging. Part of the problem is misconceptions about the history of Jesus that most academics don’t watch TV, and if that you will address in the upcoming season? they do watch TV, they want to watch it for MG: A lot of people don’t realize how

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much good archaeological evidence there is for elements that are parts of Jesus’ story.

For example, there’s one episode called “The Childhood Home of Jesus”—it’s not actually Jesus’ house that’s been found, but it is a first-century house in Nazareth, where Jesus is said to have grown up, so you can get an idea of what kind of house Jesus would have grown up in. That’s useful information, contextual information that helps you to understand a bit more about the historical Jesus.

I think one of the things that happens, believe it or not, when people talk about the Bible is it very quickly goes to matters of belief and doctrine, and

understandably so. They very quickly go to “well, do I believe this,” but actually sometimes it’s nice to get a bit of critical distance from things and sort of say “well, let’s put all of those questions to one side and let’s actually look at what we can say is reasonably certain.” In what ways can we shed light on the historical context of Jesus’ life? That’s definitely one of the things I would like people to do. One of the things historians like to do is engage your imagination, but it’s easier to engage your imagination if we can know with some degree of certainty about integrity.

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After a 25-4 regular season, Duke hopes to make its postseason mark Ben Leonard The Chronicle Last season, Duke stumbled into the ACC tournament riddled with injuries and having dropped four of its last six games.

The Blue Devils were bounced in a 29-point rout before falling into the depths of their couches to watch the NCAA tournament from afar after failing to make the field of 64 for the first time since 1994.

The tides could not have turned more in just one year.

Following a resurgent season that featured adjustments from Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie and players who engineered the largest jump ever in the ACC standings for No. 6 a team that finished ‘Cuse in the top three, the vs. third-seeded Blue No. 3 Devils will open ACC Duke tournament play in the FRIDAY, 8 p.m. quarterfinals Friday HTC Center at 8 p.m. at the HTC Center in Conway, S.C., against sixth-seeded Syracuse. The Orange knocked off North Carolina 83-64 in the tournament’s second round Thursday night.

Although all eyes have been on first-team All-ACC players Lexie Brown and Rebecca Greenwell for the Blue Devils, Duke finds itself riding an eight-game winning streak and best regular-season record since 2012-13 in large part because of its cohesion in the face of a program investigation and two highprofile transfers.

“It’s been a fabulous experience to go through with these kids,” McCallie said.

“These kids have been funny, resilient and focused, as has my staff. My entire staff had to go through the spring together, and it’s a great example of resilience and working together, knowing what you’re doing is very good and building on it and

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With the attention paid to the strength of the ACC and its top teams, its easy to forget that other conferences in America also have potential national title contenders.

It’s even easier for this to slip the mind of college basketball fans when most league games tip at 10 p.m.

But the subset that has had a chance to watch the Pac-12’s top contenders and Gonzaga this season can tell you that this may be the best crop of teams on the West Coast we’ve seen in quite some time.

It’s been nine years since a team from out West has made it to the Final Four and the last national champion from the region was Arizona in 1997. That could all change if the bracket breaks favorably for four teams.

The Bulldogs may have blown their chance at an undefeated regular season, but have one of their most talented teams in recent memory behind big men Przemek Karnowski and Zach Collins and a group of skilled transfers. Despite playing in a horrendous conference, Gonzaga has already notched quality wins against Arizona, Florida and Iowa State. In many ways, Saturday’s loss to BYU could end up helping the Bulldogs as they enter March without the pressure of having to go 40-0, though they still carry the burden of trying to make the program’s first Final Four.

As Gonzaga has dominated the West Coast Conference, the Pac-12 has been a three-team carousel all season. Arizona handled UCLA early in conference play, before the Bruins returned the favor

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Jack White | The Chronicle Head coach Joanne P. McCallie and her staff made several changes coming off one of the most tumultuous seasons in program history in 2015-16.

not trying to be too affected by events that you cannot control.”

Following All-American Azurá Stevens’ transfer to Connecticut and Angela Salvadores’ decision to pursue a professional career in Spain, McCallie and her staff made several changes—hiring a full-strength coach, cutting down on film time and modifying the assistant coaches’ roles.

McCallie also said the biggest lesson she learned was which players to recruit to come to Durham.

“I love Angela and I’m not disrespecting her.... She just didn’t want the academics— I’m not sure that was her dream,” McCallie said. “My biggest takeaway was to really just enjoy the people that are attracted to Duke. Don’t try to work so hard to make it work, because it doesn’t. The basketball experience was more important for her.

That’s not what we have here. We have great kids, and they want both. That’s why Lexie

Bre Bradham | The Chronicle Freshman Leaonna Odom earned All-Freshman team accolades from the ACC this week and has stood out with her quickness on defense.

is here. She came here for more than the basketball experience.”

In addition to earning first-team Academic All-American honors, Brown has not looked at all like a transfer in her first season on the court for the Blue Devils (25-4).

The former Maryland star leads the team in scoring, but her ability to team with sophomore Kyra Lambert at the top of Duke’s matchup zone defense—tops in the ACC in points allowed per contest— and average 2.8 steals per game has been arguably more impressive. One might have expected lapses in communication or a longer adjustment period for Brown against ACC competition, but following a year in which she only practiced, the transition has been seamless.

“I’ve never had a player learn the defensive scheme as Lexie has in one year,” McCallie said. “Her work ethic has been so undeniable.”

With another dynamic scorer alongside her, Greenwell has looked much more comfortable and led the Blue Devils in rebounding this year. Duke also has cut 3.1 turnovers per game off its total from last season—when it ranked 328th nationally.

Lambert has slotted in nicely to her offensive role and is coming off a careerbest 13-assist performance Sunday at North Carolina. One of the big questions facing the Blue Devils was how they would score inside without Stevens, but seniors Oderah Chidom and Kendall Cooper and freshman Leaonna Odom have taken advantage of the attention paid to Duke’s guards.

Even though the Blue Devils might have less raw talent on the roster, avoiding injuries and using 10 players in at least 27 of the team’s 29 games has paid dividends.

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Chronicle File Photo Sean Miller’s Arizona side fell at home to UCLA Saturday but had won 19 of its previous 20 games.

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against counterpart Joel Berry II. The point guard was North Carolina’s only scorer in double figures in an ugly 53-43 loss at No. 23 Virginia Monday and has been one of its most reliable offensive players with at least 12 points in seven of his last eight games. With Blue Devil senior Matt Jones likely to match up for the second time against ACC Player of the Year frontrunner Justin Jackson, Frank Jackson may be tasked with containing Berry on his own.

“I just looked to stay aggressive every single game. Coaches always tell me to be myself, to go out there and do my thing,” Jackson said.

“I’m just trying to create for my teammates.

I’m playing the full 40 minutes hard and trying to make every play count.”

The Tar Heels’ two biggest weapons play mostly on the perimeter, but the biggest difference between the game

in Durham a month ago and Saturday’s showdown will likely be in the post. Senior Isaiah Hicks was a late scratch with a strained hamstring against the Blue Devils (23-7, 11-6 in the ACC) and has returned to play in every game since.

Although Hicks has not been very effective since his injury, averaging 5.4 points and 4.0 fouls in just 18.4 minutes per game, he is another weapon Duke will have to contend with in an already deep frontcourt.

Hicks, fellow senior Kennedy Meeks and freshman Tony Bradley all stand 6-foot-9 or taller and play more than 15 minutes per game, helping the Tar Heels (25-6, 13-4) to the largest rebounding margin in the nation.

Forwards Jayson Tatum and Amile Jefferson led the Blue Devils to an improbable rebounding advantage in the teams’ first meeting. That will be a tougher task with Hicks crashing the glass instead of

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AMILE JEFFERSON: 11.2 ppg, 8.6 rpg, 1.6 bpg JAYSON TATUM: 16.1 ppg, 7.4 rpg, 87.5 FT% MATT JONES: 7.6 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 1.6 spg LUKE KENNARD: 19.8 ppg, 5.3 rpg, 45.4 3PT% FRANK JACKSON: 10.3 ppg, 2.3 rpg, 38.5 3PT%

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KENNEDY MEEKS: 12.6 ppg, 9.1 rpg, 54.0 FG% ISAIAH HICKS: 11.6 ppg, 5.5 rpg, 59.0 FG% JUSTIN JACKSON: 18.4 ppg, 4.7 rpg, 39.3 3PT% THEO PINSON: 6.8 ppg, 4.5 rpg, 3.3 apg JOEL BERRY II: 14.7 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 40.9 3PT%

Projected lineups after UNC’s seniors start, statistics from 2016-17 season Although Jayson Tatum was DUKE UNC sensational for the Blue Devils 85.0 PPG: 80.4 in the teams’ first matchup, 70.1 PPG DEF: 68.4 FG%: Isaiah Hicks will be active for 47.4 47.1 3PT%: 37.6 37.0 North Carolina this time and FT%: 75.2 69.8 will be a load for Duke if he RPG: 44.0 37.0 can stay out of foul trouble.

APG: 13.6 17.9 Even with Grayson Allen’s ankle 3.4 BPG: 4.5 injury, Frank Jackson has come SPG: 7.0 5.8 on strong for Duke and Luke 11.6 12.1 TO/G: Kennard has been a steady The breakdown scorer all year long, giving the Although the teams met less than a month ago, Blue Devils more options for both rotations will likely look different Saturday perimeter scoring. with Allen less than 100 percent, Hicks active Allen’s uncertain status gives and North Carolina’s Kenny Williams now out North Carolina the edge here, for the season. Duke hopes to rely on more hot with the Tar Heels able to bring outside shooting to stretch out the Tar Heel in contributors who have seen defense, and North Carolina hopes to pound steady action all season in the ball inside at will.

Tony Bradley, Luke Maye and OUR CALL: North Carolina wins, 78-74 Nate Britt.

6-foot-8 reserve forward Luke Maye.

Like Allen, Jefferson has been playing through pain lingering from a right-foot bone bruise he suffered in January, but the 6-foot-9 graduate student shook it off to notch his first double-double of conference play on Senior Night against the Seminoles.

“It was about not pacing because that is what I have been doing since I’ve been injured. I’ve been playing, but I’ve been playing not to get hurt—thinking about my foot, thinking about pain,” Jefferson said.

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Lily Coad | The Chronicle Freshman Jayson Tatum had a monster second half in the first game against North Carolina and will have to play big again for Duke to pull off a season sweep.

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“I was just going to go out there and give it all I got. That was enough. Once I did that, I stopped worrying about pain. I stopped worrying about injuries and I just played.”

Jefferson will have to generate the same energy away from his home crowd Saturday. He and Jones are Duke’s only scholarship players that have lost in Chapel Hill, and North Carolina will be hungry to clinch sole possession of the ACC regularseason crown—the Tar Heels have already sealed the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament—and snap a skid of four home losses to the Blue Devils in the last five years.

Two of those Duke wins have been decided on the final possession, and Saturday’s game is shaping up to come down to the wire again.

“The guys haven’t been playing bad.

They’ve been playing well, and two of the guys have been hurt, so I think they’ve been doing a terrific job,” Krzyzewski said in reference to the team’s two losses last week. “All these games are close. All these teams are so darn good, and [you] just try to win those last few possessions.”

Lily Coad | The Chronicle Junior Grayson Allen has been a shell of himself recently because of an ankle injury, forcing Frank Jackson into big minutes.

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Duke desperate to bounce back against Virginia Tech Ben Feder The Chronicle The hallmark of exceptional teams is overcoming adversity, and coming off its first disappointment of the year, Duke will have an early chance to test the team’s maturity.

After suffering a heartbreaking loss against then-No. 11 Notre Dame Sunday—a game in which the Blue Devils were in control for all but the final two minutes—a No. 19 relatively young Va. Tech squad will have to vs. prove its mettle in its No. 10 second conference Duke matchup of the season.

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No. 10 Duke will Koskinen Stadium host No. 19 Virginia Tech Saturday at 1 p.m. at Koskinen Stadium looking to avoid a 0-2 start in ACC play. It will not be easy against the Hokies, who boast the seventh-best scoring margin the NCAA this season behind a +12 differential in shots on goal, an area the Blue Devils struggled in against the Fighting Irish.

“I really want us to come out like we are shot out of a cannon Saturday,” Duke head coach Kerstin Kimel said.

“It’s important for our confidence to start strong. We need to dictate the pace of the game.”

Most of the Blue Devils’ struggles last contest can be attributed to their

Jeremy Chen | The Chronicle Sophomore Olivia Jenner posted a career-high seven points Sunday against Notre Dame, but the Blue Devils still suffered a hearbreaking loss.

possession numbers, which have been impacted by the introduction of the shot clock since the start of the season. Duke (4-1, 0-1 in the ACC) has not been able to adapt nearly as well as other top teams to the new system, as it has averaged 19.6 turnovers per game and was plagued by 20 giveaways against Notre Dame.

These Blue Devil mistakes have been all over the field, too, both disrupting offensive possessions and also giving opponents prime opportunities deep in

Duke’s defensive third of the field. The Blue Devils were only successful clearing the ball 14-of-23 times Sunday, including a dismal 5-of-10 performance in the second half that allowed the Fighting Irish to mount their comeback.

“We have to cut down on the self-stick errors. We’ve made some good progress this week, but some of it is mechanical, some of it’s mental and we just have to keep working to get better at that,” Kimel said. “We can be better in that

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area, and we’re not going to accept it until we are.”

The Blue Devils had some positive takeaways from the defeat—particularly the play of sophomore attack Olivia Jenner. After a strong finish to her rookie season, Jenner has cemented herself as one of Duke’s best offensive threats up front, as she registered a career-best seven points her last time out. And her attacking abilities may not even be her best attribute on the field.

The Annapolis, Md., native has proven to be one of the top players inside the faceoff circle in the NCAA, helping the Blue Devils average 15.6 draw controls per game, good for 11thbest in the nation.

Duke will need everything it can get from Jenner against a stingy Virginia Tech defense that surrenders only seven goals a contest. The Hokies (6-2, 1-0) have been able to limit the amount of shots that senior goalkeeper Meagh Graham has faced this season. They allow just more than 18 shots per game with a stifling defense that has caused opponents to cough up the ball 17.9 times per game and forced more than half of those miscues.

Offensively, Virginia Tech has been just as strong, as it enters the matchup averaging 15.5 goals per game and has registered at least 18 goals four times this year.

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Blue Devils eye first ranked win of 2017 at Richmond Sid Bhaskara The Chronicle Hot off the heels of a dominant offensive showing, the Blue Devils hope to avoid the web of the nation’s best defense on the road this weekend.

No. 20 Duke takes on No. 12 Richmond at Robins Stadium in Richmond, Va., Sunday at noon as it hopes to avenge a 2016 home No. 20 loss to the Spiders.

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The Blue Devils are a week removed from No. 12 a 16-3 victory against Rich St. Joseph’s in which SUNDAY, Noon 11 different players Robins Stadium scored, but now face the challenge of playing an undefeated team on the road.

After early-season losses to then-No. 17 Air Force and top-ranked Denver, Duke is seeking its first win against a ranked team.

“We’re trying to get better at everything we do, that’s for sure,” Blue Devil head coach John Danowski said.

“Richmond poses, statistically, perhaps the best defense in the country, the best man-down defense in the country. They beat us last year at home.... They’re used to being successful.”

With the top-ranked scoring defense in the country led by senior goalkeeper Benny Pugh, the Spiders (4-0) allow

just 4.3 goals per game. Pugh—recently named to the Tewaaraton Award watch list alongside Duke stars Jack Bruckner and Justin Guterding—makes almost 13 saves per game, good for 11th in the nation.

It was that same defense that shut the Blue Devils (3-2) down last season at Koskinen Stadium. Despite facing a narrow deficit going into the fourth quarter, Richmond shut Duke out in the final period to snatch what is now considered a program-defining win.

The chief issue for the Blue Devils this season is that only two members of that more experienced offense that got stonewalled a year ago have returned to Durham for the 2017 campaign.

Guterding and Bruckner, the aforementioned returning starters, key a unit relying on heavy contributions from its freshmen. Rookies Kevin Quigley and Reilly Walsh have both made noise on the offensive end, ranking tied for fifth and tied for seventh on the team, respectively, in total points through five games. Quigley and Walsh will likely have to take on a larger role against the Spiders as Richmond aggressively tries to slow down Guterding and Bruckner—far and away the team’s leaders in total offense.

“Defensively, they are very unselfish,” Danowski said. “Teams that want to win will be more unselfish

Jack White | The Chronicle Cade Van Raaphorst was named ACC Defensive Player of the Week after helping limit St. Joseph’s to just three goals.

this weekend. So that means that we’re going to have to play really well individually, in terms of winning battles, and really well as a team defensively. Offensively, we’re going to have to share the ball.”

Duke allowed Air Force to go on a 5-0 run in 14:28 spanning the end of the third and start of the fourth periods in the season opener, then could only

watch as Denver dominated possession to close the matchup on a 6-1 run.

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McCallie said. “It’s such an intangible. If every coach completely understood it, we’d be incredible coaches.... It’s the sophomore class, the junior class and the seniors. Maybe that’s the secret—it’s not tilted towards any one class. The seniors are no more leaders than the sophomores are.”

McCallie noted that those results came not from her own efforts, but from the team’s leaders last offseason.

“Nobody went to USA Basketball, nobody went off and did their own thing,” McCallie said. “Everyone was able to come together. It’s a combination of the quality of the people here and some things we went through together. Adversity reveals people.

They responded really well to adversity. They love Duke, they love being here and that’s a really common theme.”

Although it seems like McCallie’s first Final Four could be within reach if Duke gets hot at the right time, the No. 13 Blue Devils will begin their postseason journey against the 21st-ranked team in the country and have yet to beat a ranked team away from home this year.

Syracuse (21-9) boasts ACC Player of the Year Alexis Peterson and another high-scoring guard in Brittney Sykes—both of whom will be hungry to avenge a disappointing 72-55 loss in Durham Feb. 10.

“We’re in such a great place, and we’re just getting started,” McCallie said. “There’s a lot of hard games ahead that we’re looking at. The team is a lot of fun to coach, and what they’ve done is remarkable. There’s a lot left in them to do it, and they’re pretty good at moving on. The regular season is over, and now we start a new season.”

Saturday in Tucson. Oregon and UCLA also split their two matchups, which were decided by a combined five points. And, well, the Ducks crushed the Wildcats by 27 in the teams’ lone matchup but needed an unfathomable 16-of-25 performance from beyond the arc to do so.

On paper, Oregon and Arizona sit tied atop the conference at 15-2 with UCLA a loss behind at 14-3. Some may sleep on the Pac-12—both literally and figuratively— considering the lack of depth outside of the trio, but that shouldn’t be an indictment against the contenders. Yet, college basketball’s favorite son Ken Pomeroy has none of the Pac-12 teams within the top 12 of his rankings—if you can find 12 better teams than Oregon, Arizona and UCLA, then more power to you.

The Ducks struggled to find their groove to begin the season as star forward Dillon Brooks recovered from August foot surgery. But as the junior has improved physically, Oregon has gone on a roll and has resembled the versatile and athletic group that trampled Duke en route to the Elite Eight a year ago. The Ducks have more than made up for a lack of pure NBA talent by playing a physical brand of basketball that makes the team more than the sum of its individual parts.

Perhaps no game showed Oregon’s cohesion more than its demolition of the Wildcats Feb. 4. Arizona itself has taken an interesting path to get to this point. The Wildcats faced depth concerns coming into the year with a career-ending injury to guard Ray Smith and Allonzo Trier’s

PED suspension. Freshman star Lauri Markannen helped keep Arizona afloat during nonconference play, and after Trier’s reinstatement, the Wildcats now have a pair of go-to scorers with talented pieces around them.

Despite winning 20 of 21 games prior to Saturday, Arizona was toppled by a UCLA team that has ramped up its level of play on the defensive end. The Bruins became the darlings of the nation when their fun and exciting style of play was put on display in a 97-92 road win against then-No. 1 Kentucky in December. But UCLA made it clear it didn’t care about defense, and consecutive losses to Arizona and Southern California in January raised red flags about its ability to get enough stops late in games.

For all that chatter, the Bruin offense has reached levels rarely seen in the college game. Lonzo Ball is both better than Steph Curry and set to be the future star of the Lakers—at least in his dad’s eyes. But outside of the team’s star point guard and his hype-man father, UCLA has a number of talented offensive weapons, including Aaron Holiday, Bryce Alford and T.J. Leaf.

If the Bruins make even a half-hearted attempt to defend in the NCAA tournament before the Elite Eight, it’s hard to see a team with enough firepower to match them on the scoreboard.

Despite the quartet’s success up to this point, the four teams jostling for West Coast supremacy are far from finished, especially when it comes to NCAA tournament seeding.

San Jose will host the West regional in the Big Dance this March, but only two members of the quartet will find themselves playing close to home come tourney time.

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Gonzaga is slated to earn the top seed in the West region and stay in the same time zone through the second week of the tournament.

If the Bulldogs can win their conference tournament, one would have to think that Gonzaga would lock up the top seed in the West. The Bruins, Wildcats and Ducks are all fighting for tournament seeding and the Pac-12 conference tournament will likely decide which team earns the honor to join the Bulldogs as the No. 2 seed.

When filling out brackets this March, it’s always easy to look at the likes of North Carolina, Kansas, Villanova and others we have grown accustomed to watching regularly.

But in a year in which the Final Four is headed west to Glendale, Ariz., it would be a mistake to overlook these four teams as potential national champions.

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“We have to be ready to adjust to anything—making on-field switches and stuff like that, knowing what to say on the field to each other in those situations,” AllAmerican defender Maura Schwitter said.

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“We learned a lot about how to fix [those] things [against Notre Dame].”

The matchup Saturday will serve to determine not just if Kimel’s squad has been able to adjust properly after the loss against the Fighting Irish, but also as a barometer for the character of this year’s team. With just five more ACC games left after this weekend. the Blue Devils know they cannot afford to fall to 0-2 to realistically keep their goals within reach.

“A one-goal game in the ACC is really hard to come back from,” Schwitter said.

“Instead of just looking at the coaches and waiting to see what they have to say, [we need to be] able to make those changes by ourselves on the field.”

Bre Bradham | The Chronicle Senior attackman Jack Bruckner and the Blue Devils suffered untimely droughts in their two losses this season and are looking for a more complete offensive performance.

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In addition to contending with Richmond stars Ryan Lee and Teddy Hatfield—who have combined for Cade Van Raaphorst was key in holding 23 goals and 12 assists this year for St. Joseph’s to just three tallies last numbers that rival Guterding and weekend, earning ACC Defender of the Bruckner’s—senior goalkeeper Danny Week accolades.

Fowler will also have to do the little The defense’s ability to shut down a things well Sunday.

Richmond team ranked in the middle of “Our emphasis [playing the 10-man the road in total offense will prove key, ride this week] has been one, but we’re as Duke is in for a battle in every other also focused on playing really good phase of the game. The Spiders are team defense, but then offensively top 10 in both clearing percentage as we’re looking to be able to have really well as faceoff win percentage, playing good spacing,” Danowski said.

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ith its final meetings of the semester approaching, the Arts and Science Council is deliberating the new Trinity curriculum proposal in preparation for an upcoming vote. Over the past year, members of the faculty, administration and student body were consulted about this complete overhaul of the current Trinity curriculum. As the dean of academic affairs noted, such monumental changes in trajectory “do not happen often historically,” so we utilize this opportunity to reflect on Duke’s niche among peer institutions.

Since 2006, Duke’s Strategic Plan has guided our university with respect to “research, teaching, outreach, budgetary priorities and assessment.” The plan foregrounds central themes--including affordability and access, knowledge in the service of society and “centrality of the humanities and interpretative social sciences”--that influence decision-making by all facets of our University.

Regarding affordability and access, yesterday, we discussed our discontent with unjustified annual tuition increases.

In the past, we have addressed the multidimensional impact of our commitment to knowledge in the service of society. Today, we shift our attention to our emphasis on the nature of our academic commitments.

In 2002, the U.S News & World Report listed Duke as

tied for fourth best university in the nation along with MIT, CalTech, Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania.

While never quite as high on the rankings again, over the years, Duke has remained a top ten university, among many of the same peer institutions as in 2002. In the past, we have described the inadequacies of these ranking metrics, but we do recognize that the rankings place Duke into a consistent bracket of universities, naturally creating a peer-group used for inspiration and comparison. To prospective students Duke appears to pride itself in having

Editorial uniquely preserved a liberal arts core within a larger, research-driven university setting. However, current and former students may describe their Duke experiences as having fallen short of that goal, and understandably so. While we pride ourselves in this distinction, perhaps, our commitment to the liberal arts stems more from a comparison to our peers, begging the question of whether Duke truly has a unique academic personality.

Duke has facets of a multitude of universities-some may argue Duke is just as pre-professional as some of our ivied peers--but given the diverse range of

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experiences on campus, Duke may find it exceedingly difficult to cultivate a “Duke experience.” We cannot emulate an entirely pre-professional, research-driven or small liberal arts institution without isolating and neglecting much of student body, so instead, we should continue to allow these various academic personalities to mix on our campus. As one student noted, “There is no one Duke student, it’s impossible to find a single archetype.” So as Duke transforms itself through its new curriculum proposals and strategic plans, we hope our University remembers that while many of us were accepted to a variety of schools, we did not choose a small liberal arts school, a technical research-driven institution, a solely pre-professional environment or any of our northern peers. We chose Duke.

Duke’s intellectual environment may be more nebulous than that of our peers, but as outlined in the new strategic plan, “A university is a crucible for ideas that can be examined, combined, pulled apart, tested, recombined and refined.” To truly cater to our diverse student body, we must embrace the wide array of experience on campus.

Our upcoming new curriculum and strategic plan will mold and grow our University, as they should, but not at the cost of Duke itself.

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urrently, there is not a more polarizing figure than Donald Trump. His loyal supporters champion him as President of, for and by the people, his adversaries call him a fear-mongering fascist who ran on a platform of bigotry, oppression and hate. It is seemingly impossible for those on opposite sides of the aisle to come together for any sort of agreement. However, in polarizing times and with polarizing people, it is important to consider the notion that we don’t operate in a world in which everything a person says or does has to be taken absolutely.

Yes, that even applies to Donald. And in no way is that notion a defense of any of the absolutely disgusting things he has said and done, from the Access Hollywood tapes to the slander of immigrants to his many apparent Russian connections.

We do not live in a world of absolutes.

That is to say Donald Trump is not, simply, an absolutely evil person, despite the broad paintings of him by the liberal perspective.

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an effort to promote clean air and water as issues that both Republicans and Democrats could work together to solve. Hate or love Donald Trump, hopefully these are all measures that the parties can come together to work on. However, when Trump uttered these words, few Democrats stood up to applaud, signaling approval of the statement.

Liberals continued their protest. I argue that these are the moments at which our representatives must dictate our political climate and make an effort to blur divisions.

Despite past arguments, despite all of the terrible things he has said, it is up to our leaders to propel this country forward into prosperity, and doing so involves swallowing some pride when it is in the way of progress.

Not everything Donald Trump says needs to be opposed just for the sake of opposition. And no matter how infuriating it is to collaborate in promoting clean air and water with a president who probably doesn’t see the irony of cutting a huge amount of EPA funding, we

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When he brings up hateful rhetoric, feel free to condemn that talk. When he tries to skirt by past comments he has made, please press him on those issues. When he labels the press as the “opposition party” and fake news, we must corner his threats with more truthful investigative journalism. And when, from time to time, he says something positive that hopefully we can all agree on, it is our responsibility to support that measure, because supporting one thing Donald Trump says is certainly not the same as supporting everything he professes. This brings us to his recent Congressional talk, in which he pivoted (hopefully in a positive direction) to a more optimistic message about America’s future.

In his recent talk to Congress, Donald Trump promoted paid family leave, the need to make childcare more affordable, rebuilding the country’s infrastructure and

must do it because that is what is right.

It is not an absolute world and Trump will not have an absolute presidency. Fight tooth and nail against words that come from a place of hate and from legislature that is bad for Americans and the world. But it is absolutely irresponsible to view Trump as a pure evil. It is now more than ever when we as a nation must fight for the good of the country by fighting our own tendency to fall into absolute judgements. In doing so, we will oftentimes have to work against the wills and wants of our president, but not always. It is okay to agree with President Trump sometimes, as much as doing so might sting the conscience.

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n the weeks following the election of Donald Trump, I sat down for lunch with my friend Martín.

Martín is brilliant and charming and wittier than a sitcom character, and he knows exactly how to carry out the kinds of conversations that are meaningful but still entertaining. He is a biology major planning to work in the pharmaceutical industry; Martín is undocumented.

The debate over immigration frames much of our national rhetoric. It is easy to fall into a trap of generalizations in all issues, but assumptions are particularly enticing when they surround areas with which we are unfamiliar. The undocumented experience is one from which many Duke students feel removed. It is hard to imagine the tribulations of a child who considers this country their home and yet is legally entitled to none of its benefits. But, as the Trump administration talks possible immigration reform bills and students

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theorize about the merits of sanctuary campuses, it is vital to consider a personal perspective. So today, I will let Martín do the talking: “What does it mean to be undocumented in the United States?

That question does not have a straightforward answer. At face value, it refers to any individual that does not have legal documentation like a U.S. passport, green card or immigrant visa that allows them to be considered legal entities within the confines of the U.S. These individuals are much more than just the middle-aged men looking for odd jobs in the Home Depot parking lot or bus boys that do not speak a lick of English as the mainstream media has led you to believe. You probably are not aware that undocumented individuals walk the halls and fill the classrooms of some of the best universities in the United States. We are much more than our documentation status. We are young individuals with hopes and dreams as well as the work ethic to turn all of our fantasies into realities.

It is my goal to orient Duke students to the lives of an infinitely marginalized group that deserves recognition.

Former President Barack Obama recognized that there were many young people who were brought into the U.S. illegally as children and thus had no viable means by which to hold jobs, obtain driver’s’ licenses or attend institutions of higher learning. He could not offer these young people amnesty or citizenship so he offered the next best thing: the right to apply to hold legal presence in the U.S. for a period of two years. This program gave undocumented youth access to many of the necessities guaranteed to any U.S. citizens like driving and working.

They took this program and ran with it, recognizing they had the chance to realize the American Dream. Yet, except for the few that have gone viral, undocumented students and their stories have gone largely untold and unrecognized by a nation that does care to acknowledge their existence.

This is especially felt at the collegiate level and I dare to say it is at its peak at Duke, at both the institutional and

community levels.

I am one of five undocumented students in the Duke Class of 2020.

Like all Duke students we submitted our applications in the winter and were accepted by the spring. We take the same classes you do and try to enjoy Duke for all it is. This just about summarizes what things we have in common. For most Duke first-years, class registration during the summer might have been stressful for any number of reasons: uncertainty over what courses might be best for the first semester of college, anger over missing out on that Writing 101 section you wanted because of second window registration, dread over an 8:30 a.m.

Chemistry 101 lecture. I could not even begin.

Registration was stressful for me because I had to call the office of the school registrar because the ACES system would not accept my home address, saying that it was invalid. I explained my situation and was met

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ome days, I just can’t stand Duke and its elitism and constant muddling administrative bureaucracy. I have spent countless hours and dollars on this institution and they never, ever give anything back to me. I was at the Blue and White Senior dinner, where Duke expects seniors to donate money, and I was searching for Brodhead so I could talk to him about the whole donation process. I searched for him all night—ostensibly this is his event—and he was nowhere to be found.

But venturing outside and seeing that our university’s president had turned into a 25-foot fire-breathing dragon, I did the only thing I knew to do; I dueled him atop the Chapel and slayed the Dick Brodbeast as the clock struck midnight.

However, now that I’ve slain Brodhead in a fantastical duel atop the Chapel, Duke won’t let me put it on my resume.

It is ludicrous that I can fight and kill a university president-turned-gigantic-firebreathing-dragon atop the iconic Duke landmark, and not be allowed to talk about it on my resume.

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Nicholas ‘Nick’ Younger, have the honor of decapitating my dragon head and tossing it down the lengths of the Chapel to show that you are the true champion of Duke University. May death find you swift, my nemesis.” Brodhead then left me the keys to his office that he said led to a vast trove of gold, Duke Blue sapphires and Duke basketball merchandise. He was so generous in his last hours, so how could Duke be so uptight to not let me boast about my valor in battle?

I hate to sound like I’m bragging, but in 1976 when George Edwards slew the UCLA president in a mortal duel in front of the entire student populace, he became a saint! I would like to be able to reference it in a networking event in Sanford or over coffee with some consulting big-shot. The least Duke could do is frame my beautiful dragon bloodcovered silver greatsword, “Dick’s Bane,” in the president’s office as a warning to all fantasy beasts that covet the Duke presidency. I hear Vincent Price is a pretty tame werewolf, so he’ll be fine.

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with the following response: “Oh… you’re one of these kids. You’re the third one to call in about this.” Because of my undocumented status, Duke had accepted me as an “international” student and thus ACES would not accept my California home address.

Duke administration was not the only group of people puzzled by my documentation status. I saw the same faces of confusion on my peers at school when I tried to explain how I was making a living in the U.S. without citizenship, why I could not apply to any study abroad programs and how I feared that my parents could be deported at any given moment. I recognized that most of my peers had gone their entire lives without ever meeting or being aware of students living in the U.S. under deferred action, something that did not come as a surprise.

The fact that a person’s legal presence in the U.S. is conditional by nature and hangs on a string does not make for comfortable conversation.

However, it is time to move past this barrier and be willing to engage in uncomfortable conversation. By your very nature as Duke students, you are supposed to be some of the most intelligent and forward-thinking young people in the world. You are supposed to pave a better future for this country founded on equality and improvement.

For these reasons, I ask that you stand in solidarity with us and make the effort to educate yourselves on our struggles. Now more than ever, this political atmosphere demands support for the undocumented community.

Our very well-being as residents of the U.S. has been endangered by a current president that has threatened to remove DACA from right under our feet. We are terrified and unsure of what might happen to us in the future.

I could not begin to quantify what it would mean to us if we knew our fellow Duke students were more cognizant and sympathetic to our struggles.”

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Can you imagine how easy it will be to bring up in job interviews?

“What’s your greatest strength?” “My skills in dragon slaying.”

Or, “What was one of your most difficult tasks and how did you accomplish it?” “Well Mr. Suit Man, the most difficult task of my college career would be a tie between finishing a major statistics group project by myself and that time I slayed my university president atop a church in the rain with my dazzling steel sword, Brod-beHeader, after he turned into a monstrous black and green dragon that spat out jets of fire from his evil maw.”

But now, Duke will not let me put it under the Academic Accomplishments section of my resume, because it would “demean the Duke degree.” I should get my due recognition for entering a dragon’s lair and slaying him atop the very treasure he sought to protect. It’s not my fault that I could outmaneuver a three-ton serpentine nightmare while teetering 210 feet above Abele quad with nothing but my wits and my dangerously sharp steel broadsword that I named “Brod-sword.”

Duke cannot honestly think that I wasn’t going to put this spectacular feat fit for a fairy tale in my resume. Honestly, Duke should be thanking me for vanquishing such a foul demon. Even Brodhead in his final draconian form congratulated me on besting him, as he said, “Many a hero has tried to slay me, but now you,

I would go ahead and write “Dragon Slayer, Spring 2017: Slayed President Richard Brodhead atop the Duke Chapel” on my resume, but I’m worried that if an employer contacts Duke they will say, “Oh no, our president is human! And so very much alive and well!” Which would be a lie, because you can clearly see a smoldering dragon’s head twitching on the grass right in front of the Chapel with a clean blade chop right through the middle of its neck. I would get a photo and attach it to a resume drop, but any time you try to take a photo of a dragon’s body the picture spontaneously combusts, as modern technology cannot document the existence of legendary creatures.

Sadly, if Duke won’t corroborate my story, I’m not sure what I will do. I’d hate to take legal action, but if push comes to shove, I’m willing to do it. In my opinion, Duke is trampling all over my liberties. It is my right to be able to let the world know that I battled a university administrator high in the clouds with thunder and rain battering my body, and delivered a climactic and fatal blow into the belly of the beast while fire spewed from his dagger-like tooth filled mouth.

Who knows, this fateful duel may be the last thing I need to get that second McKinsey interview.

Nick Younger is a Trinity senior. His column, “Medical Professionals Hate Him!” runs on alternate Fridays.

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Are restrictions on churches’ political activity good policy?

Bre Bradham The Chronicle During his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast in early February, President Donald Trump said he would “destroy” limitations on churches’ political activity.

Passed in 1954, the Johnson Amendment prohibits churches and other organizations that hold 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status from endorsing political candidates, although they can participate in voter education and register voters.

Repealing this limit was one of Trump’s campaign promises, and it was welcomed with applause at the breakfast.

“I will get rid of, and totally destroy, the Johnson Amendment and allow our representatives of faith to speak freely and without fear of retribution,” he said.

Trump said that the amendment restricts the free speech of “representatives of faith.” However, Jennifer Copeland, executive director of the North Carolina Council of Churches and former United Methodist chaplain at Duke, disagreed.

She said that there are no limitations on religious freedom of speech due to the amendment.

“Any church or nonprofit that wants to come out in support of a candidate can.

They will just lose their tax-exempt status,” she said. “If I want to support a candidate for president, or for mayor for that matter, I can do that and my organization can do that. But now when you contribute money to me, your contribution is no longer tax-free.”

Although only one church has ever lost its funding due to the Johnson Amendment, Curtis Freeman, research professor of theology and Baptist studies, said the law exists largely as a threat to churches to stay

RIGHT OF RETURN from page 1 the 2016 room selection process. As might be expected, each dorm has its unique pros and cons, explained Lund, now a senior.

Lund said that she and her friends decided to stay in Keohane quadrangle primarily due to the amenities after renovations. Wannamaker and Edens have both been renovated in the past two years, and renovations to Crowell quadrangle are scheduled for this summer.

“It’s a good location, and the dorm has nicer amenities,” Lund said. “We have no cockroaches. We have the suite set-up, so that was a big thing. If you stayed through your junior or senior year, you can get a suite with your friends. It’s just a generally nice, pretty upgraded dorm.”

There is a slight difference between rising juniors and seniors in the percentage of students who exercised their right to return.

During the 2016 room selection process, for example, 81 percent of rising seniors used it compared to 76 percent of rising juniors.

The numbers are similar in prior years.

Senior Connor Harris, who has been living in Stark Tower on Wannamaker quadrangle for three years, said he was hesitant to return to Wannamaker for his junior year. He and his friends ultimately decided to stay for the opportunity to get a better room, however. Harris also said he liked the renovations last summer, which upgraded two common rooms and added a meditation room.

Both Lund and Harris said they returned mainly because of amenities, not because of the sense of community they felt in their independent houses.

“I definitely had [community] freshmen year. We had no AC, so doors are always open, you were in the common room,” Harris said.

“Wannamaker didn’t really have that. It was

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away from partisan politics.

Some experts said that if Trump carries out his promise of getting rid of the law, the results may not be what he expects. Mark Chaves, professor of sociology, religious studies and divinity, explained that repealing the law would help Democrats more than it would Republicans.

“There’s an irony here—the reason that conservatives are pushing this is because they think the most politically active churches are white evangelicals, but in fact the most politically active churches are black churches,” he said. “If they do rescind this rule, it might well be that it energizes more on the Democratic one of the things that I didn’t really get upset about because that’s the case for most dorms if you’re not in some sort of special living group. I just kind of put up with it. It would be nice if we had it, but I have enough friend groups that I can get by.”

Lund said that although there was a sense of community in Oz House, it also was not as prevalent as it was in her first year.

“There’s always a crowd for games on television, but there’s not a super strong knit sense of community,” Lund said. “But I’m comparing this back to freshmen year, when you knew everyone by name in your dorm, for the most part.”

TEDX from page 2 Felipe De Brigard, a Duke faculty member, will be speaking on his work in neuroscience.

As an assistant professor of philosophy as well as psychology and neuroscience, De Brigard has focused his research on the interactions between memory and imagination.

This Saturday, he will talk about the psychological phenomenon of counterfactual thinking—or how people tend to remember events and “facts” differently from how they actually occurred. Exploring this kind of thinking not only has implications in the understanding of human cognition, but can also influence how we approach coping with past events, he noted.

De Brigard said he is excited to share a part of neuroscience he thinks is worth talking about and said the platform of the TEDx event is a great way to get people interested in these concepts.

“TED talks are never the end. If anything, they are like the beginning,” he said. “TED talks…shouldn’t be seen as a summary of an enormously large amount of research—they should be seen rather as an invitation for people to explore what this really is about.”

politics side.”

Allison Mahaley, president of the Orange Durham Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said that politicizing religion would take the time and energy of congregants, who are busy enough with their current work.

Freeman also raised theological issues with Trump’s proposal, saying that it would abuse the authority relationship between pastors and their congregants.

“With all the things that churches do to provide community and bring people together, this would create a wedge in every denomination and every church,” Mahaley said.

MUCUS from page 2 is for doctors to prescribe antibiotics, which treat bacterial infection, almost independently of knowing what the actual cause is," Ginsburg said. "That has led to the overuse of antibiotics and the development of superbugs—resistant organisms that can be life threatening.

Burke explained that the traditional method of diagnosing a respiratory infection was to search for and identify the pathogen responsible. However, this study attempted to diagnose an infection through a different lens by looking at the host response. The information about the body's reaction can provide researchers with a better understanding of the nature of the illness, he said.

In the past, research has focused on analyzing a patient's blood and protein precursors, or RNA, to determine whether infections are viral, Burke noted. However, this study employed a less invasive approach that relies on mucus to analyze the proteins.

“We reasoned that if the body’s reactions can be measured remotely in the blood, then it’s possibly that they could also be measured in the nose,” Ginsburg said.

The study involved infecting 88 young and healthy volunteers with some type of viral respiratory disease. Approximately half of volunteers actually became sick from the virus. After collecting nose and throat samples of mucus from both groups, researchers reviewed the differences between the healthy and sick.

“We were able to identify over 400 proteins, and it appeared that around 25 of those met our criteria of increasing or decreasing in response to infection,” Burke said.

Although this preliminary study showed resounding success, Burke noted that

Copeland and Chaves both noted the chief issue with Trump’s proposal is that other groups might exploit churches’ taxexempt status. Political groups would rush to funnel political money into churches for this reason, Chaves suggested.

Freeman said he sees it as a “civic responsibility” of churches to not be politically partisan since they do not have to pay taxes.

“The funny thing about it is that churches get tax-exempt status, but if the church building burns, what do they do?

They call the fire department,” he said.

“They have city services, like electricity, water, all these things. They don’t pay any taxes, like tax-paying citizens do, for municipal things.”

Some groups, however, do support Trump’s promise. Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, penned an op-ed in Religion News Service that condemns the Johnson Amendment as an attack on free speech.

“This overly broad muzzling has included comments of pastors speaking from the pulpit about candidates as well as policy matters,” he wrote. “Simply put, the Johnson Amendment has been used to censor speech—something that should never have occurred.”

Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, a Republican, introduced in 2016 the Free Speech Fairness Act, which would roll back parts of the Johnson Amendment. Trump has not yet taken any action to fulfill his promise to “destroy” the amendment.

“There hasn’t been a repeal motion yet,” Copeland said. “If that were to happen, we would mobilize in high gear and advocate on behalf of retaining the amendment.” researchers must continue to verify the data by analyzing real-world cases of infection.

He added that the study only assessed the ability to distinguish between viral infection and lack of infection. However, when a sick patient visits the doctor’s office, it is essential to have a test that can differentiate viral and bacterial infections as well, he said.

Both Burke and Ginsburg said they hope that this research will one day lead to a rapid, cost-effective test that could even be performed at home or at the clinic.

“We feel that this was a significant step forward in bringing more precise infectious disease diagnostics to the clinic,” Ginsburg said.

JESUS from page 3 TC: Did you have a favorite episode to film?

MG: All the bits of me in this are me basically sitting in a dark room in New York, so no one episode was more enjoyable than the other. I did one 6-hour shoot in September 2015 and a 6-hour shoot in February of last year. The actual filming is not at all glamorous. When you’ve done a few of these, an hour can equate to a minute or two, so you get used to that. I would say that one of the most visually interesting episodes is on the apostle Thomas because Thomas, according to early Christian legends, went to South India, so there’s always been an interesting question about the stories that are told about Thomas in India.

Visually, that episode is very interesting because you get lots of shots of India. I have a bit of an attachment to India as well and an attachment to the apostle Thomas, so I think that is one of the most arresting episodes, one of the most compelling ones.