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Duke requests removal from Trask lawsuit Uni. evaluating women’s basketball Ryan Hoerger The Chronicle

make his ruling Wednesday.

Duke’s lawyers argued that Underwood’s claim lacked a legal basis to continue against the University and that the facts she alleged about the particular incident could only be litigated in a separate case against Trask.

Hartzog argued that police departments have “discretionary function” to choose what cases to investigate and how the investigations proceed.

The Duke University Police Department was never obligated to conduct an investigation, he said, adding that no citizen has a right to

Duke is conducting an evaluation of its women’s basketball program, the athletic department confirmed Tuesday.

Swish Appeal reported Tuesday afternoon that the University was in the midst of an internal investigation of head coach Joanne P. McCallie’s program for possible mistreatment of players and coaches, citing multiple unnamed sources.

The athletic department released the following statement regarding the investigation: “The welfare and success of our student-athletes are among Duke’s highest priorities. To that end, we are in the process of conducting an evaluation of the Duke women’s basketball program. This effort is led by a Duke human resources professional outside the Athletics Department. Coach McCallie is aware of the evaluation and eager to assist. We look forward to hearing the insights of those involved in the program and any recommendations that may result from this evaluation.”

The team announced April 1 that sophomore Azurá Stevens—the team’s leading scorer and rebounder—would not return next season, and that freshman point guard Angela Salvadores would depart the program to begin a

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Kristen Shortley | The Chronicle Attorneys representing Duke and contract parking employee Shelvia Underwood argued about a motion to dismiss a recently-filed lawsuit.

Adam Beyer and Neelesh Moorthy The Chronicle Duke asked a court to dismiss parts of the lawsuit filed against it and Executive Vice President Tallman Trask by contract parking employee Shelvia Underwood at a hearing Tuesday.

After Trask hit Underwood with his car and allegedly used a racial slur as he drove off, Underwood filed a lawsuit against Trask with two counts, one for battery and one for negligence. The lawsuit also alleges in a third count that both Trask and the University engaged in a civil conspiracy

through “a common scheme” to protect Trask as well as Duke’s financial interests and public reputation. A fourth count against Trask and the University alleges that the defendants obstructed justice by failing to perform a “complete and full investigation” of the incident involving Trask. Duke’s attorneys asked that the University be removed as a defendant from the lawsuit.

Underwood was represented at the hearing by Donald Huggins of Hairston Lane PA and the University by Dan Hartzog of Cranfill, Sumner & Hartzog.

Superior Court Judge Henry Hight heard arguments regarding the motion and will

Admins respond to congressional endowment inquiry Kenrick Cai The Chronicle Following congressional questions about how the University spends its $7.3 billion endowment, Duke administrators recently issued a response outlining their financial decisions.

The University’s 13-page response followed a Feb. 8 letter written by Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, Kevin Brady, chairman of the House Ways and Means committee and Peter Roskam, chairman of the House Ways and Means Oversight subcommittee, which was sent to 56 private universities with endowments of more than $1 billion.

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One congressional proposal suggests that with the cost of college continuing to increase, universities should spend more on tuition relief.

“Despite these large and growing endowments, many colleges and universities have raised tuition far in excess of inflation,” the Feb. 8 letter reads.

Duke’s response to the inquiry— which was sent March 29 with a twopage cover letter signed by President Richard Brodhead—is intended to clarify misconceptions about the purpose of endowments, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and

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“At this point, given the legal, economic and financial constraints on an endowment, there isn’t a whole lot of leeway to change things and still maintain the kind of growth and security for the future that you’re enjoying today,” Schoenfeld said.

Duke, which had a $7.3 billion endowment in 2015 that ranked 16th among colleges nationwide, spent $307 million, or 4.9 percent of its total endowment, in fiscal year 2015. This rate is comparable to rates at Princeton University and Washington University in St. Louis, which reported spending distribution percentages of 4.2 percent and 4.0 percent, respectively.

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Former U.S. ambassador to Russia offers solutions to global conflicts Sarah Kerman The Chronicle William Burns, former U.S. ambassador to Russia and Jordan, commented on contemporary American international relations in a talk at the Nasher Museum Tuesday.

Burns served for 33 years in the U.S. Foreign Service, before retiring in 2014 to become president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He delivered the Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. Lecture on International Studies, which was hosted by the Duke University Center for International Studies. In his talk, Burns stressed prioritizing diplomatic solutions instead of immediate military reaction in order to adapt to the changing global arena.

“It seems to me that the United States has a window…within which we can help shape the complicated international landscape and the institutions that are on it, before it is shaped for us,” Burns said.

Important regional players have crowded the international landscape, redistributing power to a greater number of countries, Burns explained.

He noted that the U.S. can adapt to this changing distribution of power by re-balancing its investments and altering institutional alliances, which will better represent contemporary American interests, rather than those of the post-World War II era.

Reducing domestic political gridlock, which inhibits global competitiveness, is key to making some of these changes, Burns said. He added that the domestic policy decisions facing the U.S. Congress—such as immigration reform, educational investment and income inequality—have significant impacts on the country’s demography and

Sophie Turner | The Chronicle William Burns, the former ambassador to Russia and Jordan, discussed foreign policy challenges for the U.S. Tuesday.

competitiveness internationally.

“We need to try to rediscover the bipartisan gene, which sometimes seems like it’s been surgically removed in Washington,” Burns said. “I’ve always found in my diplomatic experience that it’s very difficult to build coalitions overseas if you clearly can’t build them at home.”

Burns explained that negotiation between the U.S. and other countries will be necessary to re-balance the nation’s investments in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He noted that some of the major challenges diplomats will face in these efforts include marginalizing and

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ultimately defeating the Islamic State group and being creative in finding areas of common ground with China.

In addition to an overview of American foreign policy challenges, Burns provided insights from his experience serving as U.S. ambassador to Russia from 2005 to 2008.

He said that despite Russia’s onedimensional economy, it remains a significant global player due to its membership on the United Nations Security Council and its presence as the only nuclear power in the world comparable to the U.S. “Whether you agree with him or not,

I think Putin, at least in my experience, is absolutely convinced that he is the last thing standing between order and chaos in Russia,” Burns said.

Burns highlighted the importance of the tension between Russia and Ukraine. He noted that the former Soviet Union states are economically and politically vulnerable to Russian annexation efforts, with Ukraine being the most important of those nations. It is in the best interests of Europe and the U.S. to see healthy economic and political operations in Ukraine, he said.

“It seems to me that the Ukraine deserves a lot more attention than it often times gets,” Burns explained.

Burns’ talk ended with a question-andanswer portion, during which he expressed confidence in the ability of diplomats to negotiate solutions as a first option, rather than resorting to military force.

“I really do remain optimistic,” he said.

Several students who attended the talk noted that Burns’ diplomatic experience informed his breadth of insights.

“I thought he was pretty relatable,” junior McCall Wells said. “You always think about diplomats, they’re not fully approachable, but I thought his response to all the questions were understandable for undergraduate students that don’t have a lot of knowledge and experience about these things.”

Junior John Guarco noted that even though he did not agree with Burns’ comments that the Iran deal was in the best interests of the U.S. and Israel, he appreciated the insights Burns offered.

“It illustrated some viewpoints that I may have disagreed with, but it gave me a more nuanced understanding of a side that I disagreed with,” Guarco said.

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Researchers question Kant’s ‘ought implies can’ principle Katherine Berko The Chronicle New research has called into question one of the most famous principles of German philosopher Immanuel Kant.

In a recent study, Vlad Chituc, an associate in research at the Social Science Research Institute at Duke and Paul Henne, a graduate student in philosophy, challenged Kant’s widely accepted idea that “ought implies can,” or that our moral obligations cannot exceed our abilities.

The researchers found that contrary to what most philosophers might expect, participants in their studies said they thought that whether or not someone “ought” to do something depended on concerns related to blame, rather than ability.

“We were flooded with emails from angry professors,” Chituc said. “People feel very strongly about Kant.”

Their psychological study, which will be published in the May issue of the journal Cognition, included 79 participants who took an online survey in which they were given fictional stories about why people failed to keep their promises, such as not giving someone a ride because of car troubles or purposefully ditching a friend.

When the promise was broken intentionally, subjects generally believed the person still “ought” to fulfill it, even though in some cases it was impossible. The researchers used the results to establish that people believe that others “ought” to do something if the are to blame rather than if they “can.”

“The simplest way to put it is philosophers have assumed that ‘ought’ implies ‘can.’ So it cannot be true that

you ‘ought’ to do something if you cannot do it,” Armstrong explained. “We gave examples where the subjects said that the person ought to do it even though they knew that the person could not do it. A lot of people think that’s not fair but I think that’s the way morality is.”

The researchers said their study was sparked during Spring 2014 by a conversation between Henne and Chituc in the Pinhook, a bar in downtown Durham, when Henne asked Chituc, “Does ‘ought’ imply ‘can’?” and Chituc responded, “Of course it does!”

Yet in the coming weeks, after reading several studies, the pair discovered that this principle depends on the meaning of the words.

The two researchers created their own study to test this idea with Walter SinnottArmstrong, Chauncey Stillman professor of practical ethics at Duke, who first challenged Kant’s theory in 1984 when he outlined a series of thought experiments that showed “ought” does not always imply “can.”

“Vlad and Paul came to me and suggested that we could test this empirically,” Armstrong said, noting that he was nervous the study would contradict his original hypothesis.

“It would have been embarrassing, but luckily the research came out my way,” he noted.

The three researchers, along with Felipe De Brigard, an assistant professor of philosophy, hashed out a study, “crammed in a small office, taking notes on phones,” Chituc explained.

Armstrong mentioned that many of the people who were upset by the article were not so much angry about the data as they

Special to The Chronicle Philosophy graduate student Paul Henne (left) and research associate Vlad Chituc have questioned a main principle of famous philosopher Immanuel Kant (right).

were about the researchers’ interpretation of Kant. He explained that there are frequently disputes over how to interpret Kant because his writing is obscure.

“If it turns out he never really said that ‘ought implies can,’ then fine, we didn’t refute Kant, but it’s still a common view that many other people share,” Armstrong said.

Some critics of Chituc and Henne’s study question the methodology they used.

Philosophers generally conduct studies by asking themselves questions rather than surveying people who are not professional philosophers.

At Duke—unlike most institutions—

several researchers use surveys to reflect on philosophical issues, Armstrong noted. “[This is] not necessarily to settle or give the last word on those issues but to think in a new way about those new issues,” Armstrong explained.

Chituc and Henne are currently doing follow-up studies and will present their findings at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology in early June.

In February, The New York Times published a piece by Chituc and Henne in its Gray Matter column, detailing the implications of this research.

“People were rolling over in their graves after that article,” Henne said.

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DUKE NABS VICTORY WITHOUT CAPRA Ali Wells The Chronicle

The Blue Devils were eager to close out their home slate on Senior Day with their lone honoree leading the way on court one. But Beatrice Capra did not take the court Tuesday as illness prevented her from competing.

Despite playing with a shorthanded roster, No. 8 Duke defeated N.C. State 6-1 by earning straight-set wins on all but the No. 1 singles court.

NC ST 1 Capra’s absence was felt before the match DUKE 6 began, as her sister Pia joined the team at center court to accept flowers and an award on her behalf.

“With Beatrice not being here and missing her Senior Day stuff, it has been emotional for everybody on our team,” Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “Before the match, we talked about what kind of player Beatrice is and how she is such a great competitor. Our goal for today was to have everybody play like her—not giving up anything on the court and grinding out every point.”

Without Capra as her partner at the top doubles spot, freshman Ellyse Hamlin moved down to court three to play with classmate Jessica Ho against Barbara Mancera and Amanda Rebol. The doubles point came down to the rookie duo after the Blue Devils (17-4, 10-2 in the ACC) and the Wolfpack (1210, 4-8) split the first two matches. Samantha

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle With senior Beatrice Capra unable to play on Senior Day due to illness, freshman Ellyse Hamlin stepped up and clinched a Duke win for the second straight match Tuesday.

Harris and Kaitlyn McCarthy dispatched Martina Frantova and Tayla Stenta 6-2 at No. 1 doubles, but Chalena Scholl and Alyssa Smith lost six straight games after claiming a 3-0 lead to give N.C. State’s Joanna Nalborska and Bianca Moldovan the 6-3 win.

Capra’s substitute stepped up to put Duke on the scoreboard, hitting the match winner from

the net and clinching the doubles point with a 6-4 win on court three.

“Not having Beatrice here on her senior day was an emotional day for all of us,” Hamlin said. “It’s definitely difficult coming out and not having Beatrice [as my partner], who I’ve been playing with this whole year. But Jessica and I did a good job of communicating and making

adjustments to each other.”

Hamlin also clinched the match for the home squad with the third singles win of the afternoon. The Fairfield, Conn., native lost the first game but broke Moldovan’s serve and never looked back, rolling through the two-set match 6-2, 6-1.

Of her four matches before Saturday’s 6-3, 6-3 win against Boston College, Hamlin had lost three and left one unfinished. But the freshman is playing her best tennis as the regular season comes to a close, earning the fourth point to clinch the team match for the second consecutive contest.

“It has definitely been nice clinching for these past two matches,” Hamlin said. “I’ve been struggling throughout this whole year, so getting those and getting that confidence back is very helpful heading into the last two away matches and ACCs.” Harris and Ho set Hamlin up to give the Blue Devils the win after recording the first two singles victories. Harris, competing two spots up from her usual No. 4 position for just the fourth time this season, led all players off the courts with a quick 6-1, 6-1 victory against Nalborska. Ho dropped only one game in her 6-0, 6-1 rout of Rebol.

Redshirt freshman Christina Makarova put Duke up 5-0 thanks to her 6-1, 6-2 defeat of Stenta after Hamlin’s match had finished, and all eyes turned to courts one and six to watch the end of the two closest matches of the day.

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Mitchell Gladstone The Chronicle With a pair of midweek contests against in-state opponents and an upcoming weekend series with the nation’s topranked team, Duke needed to keep its momentum going.

Tuesday night—thanks to a hotswinging lineup—the Blue Devils did just that.

Duke went on the road and dominated Davidson 13-3 at Wilson Field, picking up its eighth win in its last 10 games. From the start, the Blue Devil DUKE 13 bats were rolling— 3 they knocked in five DAV runs in the game’s first two innings—giving Duke an early 5-0 lead that it would never relinquish. The Blue Devils combined for a season-high 18 hits, and six different players collected multiple hits, led by a 4-for-5 performance from right fielder Peter Zyla.

“The message to the guys was simple— we had to focus on competing against ourselves and the standard of excellence

we set for ourselves,” Duke head coach Chris Pollard said. “I think we’ve done a good job of staying in the moment [and] being dialed in to what we’re doing.”

The first inning for the Blue Devils (18-15) was simply a continuation of their recent offensive success. Zyla, Justin Bellinger, Chris Proctor and Jack Labosky each entered the day batting better than .320 in the team’s last nine games and the heart of Duke’s order was back at it again Tuesday.

Four of the first six batters notched a hit in the top of the first inning, headlined by a two-run single into right field by Bellinger and capped by a fielder’s choice from freshman shortstop Zach Kone that put the lead at 4-0.

Wildcat starting pitcher Allen Barry came back out to toss the second inning, but could not stop the bleeding from the opening frame. A double by sophomore Max Miller followed by an RBI single from freshman Jimmy Herron quickly extended the Blue Devil lead to five.

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Ali Wells The Chronicle Shaun Thompson has a plan for his Olympic Trials berth in the 10,000 meters. He crossed step one off his list March 25 at the Raleigh Relays—when he ran the race for the first time on the track.

Now, the graduate student will aim to complete the next step of the process.

With Robbie Perkin’s 30-year-old program record of 28:56.80 in his sights, Thompson will look to headline the Blue Devils’ performances this weekend as the squad splits up for two meets on the West Coast. The Baldwinsville, N.Y., native, will compete alongside three multievent specialists and the women’s 400-meter sprinters in the four-day Mt. Sac Relays starting Wednesday in Walnut, Calif. Duke will also send a contingent of six throwers to the Beach Invitational in Long Beach, Calif., Friday and Saturday. Pole vaulters Megan Clark and Madison Heath will be doing double duty for the Blue Devils as they are slated to compete at both meets in the Golden State.

“This is a big weekend for us—we are sending three volleys of athletes out to California,” Duke director of track and field Norm Ogilvie said.

“We are sending a relatively small portion of the team, but these are the guys that have done some really special things for us.”

As one of the few Blue Devils heading into this weekend’s contest with a full week of rest after not competing at the Spec Towns Invitational last weekend, Thompson has high hopes for his first 10-kilometer race since the Raleigh Relays— and only the second of his career.

Thompson battled for the win in March with Jacob Thomson of Kentucky, finishing just behind the Wildcat in 29.02.18 as the two recorded the then-fastest 10,000-meter times in the nation. The Duke harrier’s time now stands as the seventh-best so far this outdoor season, but he will aim to shatter the 29-minute barrier Thursday at Cerritos College’s Falcon Stadium.

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400-meter dash with Kerr and Price running in Friday’s open section and Kopp in Saturday’s invitational race. All three harriers will compete again in Saturday’s 4-x-400-meter relay, with Maslowski rounding out the quartet.

Clark and Heath will first take the runway Friday in Walnut before making the drive to Long Beach to compete in the pole vault again Saturday.

The Blue Devils’ Beach Invitational squad will also feature a trio of women’s throwers— Urina Harrell in the shot put, Christine Streisel in the javelin and Stefani Vukajlovic in the hammer throw. On the men’s side, Michael Foley will represent Duke in the hammer throw, and Thomas Lang will compete in his signature javelin toss alongside freshman Nicholas Solfani. “[Long Beach] is an especially good place for the throws because of the winds they have off the Pacific Ocean,” Ogilvie said. “Plus, our guys will have some good competitions, so we’re hoping for good marks.”

TRACK from page 4 race. Next time, I know I can take it out with more confidence and focus some on racing.”

But before Thompson toes the line Thursday night, Teddi Maslowski, Karli Johonnot and Chaz Hawkins will kick off the Mt. Sac Relays Wednesday at the Cougar Stadium of Azusa Pacific University.

Maslowski set the team record in the women’s outdoor heptathlon at this meet last season, posting a total score of 5,706 and knocking down the individual 100-meter hurdle and long jump records in the process. During the indoor season, Johonnot broke her classmate’s record in the pentathlon—one Maslowski set at last year’s ACC championships—to punch her ticket to the NCAA indoor championships at the Tobacco Road Cup Jan. 21 with a converted score of 4,304.

But on the first day of competition in Hoover, Ala., Johonnot aggravated a lingering Achilles tendon injury in the 60-meter hurdles and was forced to withdraw. The Las Vegas native has competed in just a few events so far in the outdoor season—the 100-meter hurdles, long jump and javelin at the Battle of the Blues April 2.

“I don’t think she’s 100 percent, but [associate head coach Shawn] Wilbourn made the decision that she should go out and take a shot because you don’t get very many opportunities to compete in a full multi event,” Ogilvie said. “It’s important to get one in before conference [championships].”

Hawkins will compete as Duke’s lone representative in the men’s decathlon—his first 10-event contest of the season and first since his freshman campaign in 2014.

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The Blue Devils were also competing without Scholl in the singles lineup as Ashworth and his coaching staff elected to give the junior rest and test his young players in a high-pressure situation. The decision brought Smith into the lineup at No. 6 singles.

Playing in just her fifth singles match of the season and first since March 20 at Louisville, Smith struggled in the opening games and trailed Mancera 2-4. But the Laguna Niguel, Calif., native came storming back to tie the first set 5-5. Smith fought through a tight tiebreaker to claim the opening frame 7-6 (9-7) and had little difficulty closing out the win, never trailing in the second set—which she won 6-3.

“Alyssa played a good match. She hasn’t had a lot of opportunities, and I think she did a great job of taking advantage of the opportunity she had today,” Ashworth said. “One thing that Alyssa does really well is bring emotion to the court. Having her out there on the court was especially good for us today.”

Without Capra to take on No. 51 Frantova, No. 41 McCarthy stepped up to fill the shoes of Duke’s top player. The freshman was frustrated by Frantova’s power in the first set,

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But as her teammates wrapped up their singles matches and came to stand on the sidelines by court one, McCarthy found the emotion and energy to fight back. She hit a decisive winner from the net to claim her first lead of the second set 4-3 and then broke Frantova’s serve with four straight points to set up her win in the frame 6-4.

But N.C. State earned its lone point in the team contest as Frantova claimed the third-set tiebreaker 10-8.

“Kaitlyn stepped up when she needed to. I don’t think Kaitlyn lost that match—[Frantova] won that match,” Ashworth said. “When there were big points, [Frantova] hit some winners and put Kaitlyn in trouble, but Kaitlyn did a great job of fighting and competing and getting herself back into it.”

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fter over two decades spent in its central location adjacent to the West bus stop, the Women’s Center is slated to be relocated to the Crowell Building on East Campus next year.

Founded 27 years ago, the Women’s Center is tasked with providing a safe, comfortable and educational space for students of all genders on campus.

Throughout its history, the center has sought to empower women and promote gender equality through various programs and initiatives. Given the importance of the center’s mission to “promote a campus culture that ensures the full participation and agency of women students” and its status as a high-priority, oft-used resource, we question the administration’s decision to relegate it to a remote and less accessible venue.

The Women’s Center’s current location in the Few residence hall is scheduled to be taken over by the Center for Leadership Development and Social Action (CLDA), which was recently bumped from its standing location to accommodate the expansion of the Center for Multicultural Affairs. While we understand that maintaining the CLDA’s location on West Campus would allow it to conveniently interface with other nearby offices, we believe that the value of that convenience is outweighed by the negatives brought by the relocation of the Women’s

Center, especially considering that the CLDA could be moved to Smith Warehouse where several related offices are located. We also find that arguments for the moving the Women’s Center to East Campus focusing around the claim that first-years experience the highest rates of sexual assault and thus need closer proximity to the Women’s Center to be unconvincing. Such arguments are based in the false idea that upperclassmen and graduate students experience less gender violence and trauma.

Editorial While the Women’s Center’s new location offer small trade-offs like expanded office and allow enhanced collaboration with programs and departments on East Campus like the Baldwin Scholars and Duke Reach, we believe that the conciliatory benefits of the move fail to measure up to its glaring costs. Chief among those negative costs brought by the Women’s Center’s move would be the erosion of the Center’s role as a social hub.

Its relocation from a highly trafficked location near the West Campus bus stop to a building on the corner of East campus would effectively preclude most students, especially upperclassmen, from

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visiting it frequently and using it as a casual hangout spot. The new location of the Women’s Center would especially inconvenience graduate students who would be forced to travel to East Campus and wander through a foreign maze of buildings to access it. Perhaps the most grievous offense of the move, however, would be the new proximity of the Center to the Undergraduate Conduct Board, which holds sexual misconduct hearings. Placing both in the same building would force sexual assault victims to relive day-long traumatic hearings in order to reach the sanctity of the Center.

If the administration stands still and the Women’s Center moves, it is imperative that the move be advertised widely and that the center’s move be paired with enthusiastic programming efforts to help students learn of and familiarize themselves with the Center’s new location. We would also call for improved parking access to help inconvenienced graduate students access the Center.

The Women’s Center relocation would isolate a resource that a large number students need and love. We firmly hold that the ousting of the Women’s Center seems to prioritize whatever career advancement the CLDA office brings over student safety and gender equality, and ought not go forward.

Patience is a virtue

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pring is in the air! Clouds of pollen roll across campus, inchworms descend from oak trees and senior columnists publish their lofty epistles reflecting on their four years at the place they are about to leave. This week, I hope to do the same while adding a piece of advice I found missing in previous columns—that patience really is a virtue. At some point in their four years at college, everyone feels the stress and frustration of uncertainty and perhaps failure in their academic and/or personal lives. Maybe you still seek the right major or a solid friend group.

If I could offer one piece of advice to someone in

ended his American Top 40 by broadcast with the line: “keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.” This quote in fact originated with Theodore Roosevelt who said, “Be practical as well as generous in your ideals.

Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.” Both quotes convey the sentiment that life requires a careful balance of ambition and reality. Don’t let your vision carry you so high that you loose track of day-to-day life. Similarly, don’t let the day-to-day occupy you so much that you look up in 40 years and find yourself dramatically off course.

Brian Hopkins IN SEARCH OF MONSTERS that position it is this: be patient.

One of my favorite sayings is that everything will work out in the end, and if it didn’t work out it’s not the end. Time and again that saying has proven itself true, yet every day I still find myself failing to recognize its truth.

Take, for example, the common trope of a junior fearing graduation, a legitimate concern. I for one found myself unnerved by the prospect of having to enter the real world so soon. But college takes four years for a reason. This sounds obvious at first, but think for a moment about the fact that college is designed to consume four years of your life. If, at the end of your sophomore year you have not yet found the perfect major, that’s fine. If at the end of your junior year you are not yet ready to graduate, that’s fine. You are not ready because you’re not supposed to be ready.

Think about how you learned to drive. You probably took a course that included both classroom and behind-the-wheel instruction. At the halfway point of the course, you were not yet ready to get behind the wheel alone on the interstate. That’s because you weren’t supposed to be ready.

Similarly, college is a four-year process that has to run its course. When you find yourself worried that you are missing out on an opportunity or uncertain about the future, realize that it’s part of the plan. As an underclassman, I often found myself worried that I could not chart a very specific path of classes all the way to graduation. I realize now that you aren’t supposed to know every step from the very beginning.

On the other hand, a healthy dose of urgency is never a bad thing. I by no means recommend sitting idly while your college years pass you by.

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At the heart of this philosophy is patience. In my experience, it is far easier to hold oneself back for fear of missing out on the perfect opportunity you believe waits just around the corner. You may pass over the photography class you really want to take because of a prerequisite for the major. Or you may pass on a job offer because it is not exactly what you want in a job. When Roosevelt talks about patience and this balance, he is cautioning against straying too far toward indulgence or selfdiscipline. All things in moderation.

If I could write to myself four years ago, this would be my advice: be patient. You will get lost, you will try and fail, you will eventually find the right path, and it’s all supposed to take time. If life could be figured out in a few weeks, what would be the point? Spend a little more time enjoying the struggle instead of worrying about it. When you look back, you will be amazed at how the journey changed.

My freshman year I took Bio 201. In the front hallway of the BioSci building, on an office door, hangs a cartoon. The cartoon displays two graphs, each representing success as a function of time.

The left one entitled, “What people think it looks like” shows a straight line toward the upper right corner, “success.” The right, entitled, “What it really looks like” shows a line that curves back over itself left and right, up and down, ultimately landing in the same place. Looking back as a senior, I could never imagine as a freshman how much that cartoon would come to represent my time here. As I prepare to graduate, I see that my path zig zaged all across this campus. But ultimately I ended up in the right place, and that is what ultimately matters.

Brian Hopkins is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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iving wages and impartial arbitration of grievances—those were the key demands of Duke service workers and allies in 1968, and those are our core demands today.

In a January 1968 newsletter titled “Local 77 Closing in on Plantation System,” members of the nascent AFSCME Local 77 proudly proclaimed that these demands were close to being met. 50 years on, we are still fighting to ensure decent wages and work conditions for all Duke employees and contract workers; an end to harassment,

the deep connection between persistent discrimination and racialized income inequality need to wake up, take a AAAS class or crack open a book. Poverty wages are the expression of structural racism. As The Rev. William Barber II put it after one of multiple (failed) attempts to pray with the students inside the Allen Building, “It took us 400 years to get from zero—that’s slavery—to $7.25. What do you want us to do, wait another 400?”

Nor do we have patience for those who claim that living wages will drive up tuition

Making connections and strengthening perceptions

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hat are the first things that come to mind when you think of Latin America?

One of the first observations I made when I was back on campus after my semester abroad was about students’ perceptions of Latin America, which I use to refer to both Central and South America. Despite the growing number of Latin American students on campus, there seems to be little talk about Latin America.

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intimidation and discriminatory hiring and firing; and a fair, transparent and impartial arbitration process. Today, Duke Students and Workers in Solidarity uplift the memory of those who have come before us and reiterate our commitment to continue their work until we #DismantleDukePlantation.

The hit-and-run committed by Executive Vice President Tallman Trask—and the twoyear cover-up involving Vice President Kyle Cavanaugh and the Duke University Police Department, among others—is merely the prominent tip of a very deep iceberg. Over the past few years, at least eight parking and transportation employees have filed complaints of discrimination with Duke’s Office of Institutional Equity; none received any form of redress.

Employees who have been the victim of harassment or discrimination—or of vehicular assault, as in the case of Shelvia Underwood—have three institutional mechanisms through which to seek recourse: DUPD, OIE and Human Resources. Yet DUPD and HR report directly to Kyle Cavanaugh, while OIE possesses an intimate relation with the latter; Cavanaugh, of course, reports directly to Tallman Trask.

We cannot expect the same administrators who have themselves committed such discriminatory acts to adjudicate cases of racial and other discrimination.

The “impartial” grievance proceedings currently in place at Duke were crafted in response to the struggles of service workers in the 1960s and ‘70s as a way to control and contain their movement for dignity, justice and self-determination.

These proceedings are not impartial and never were. On October 24, 1966, to take but one example, 42 maids (all black women) submitted grievances in a joint effort. The administration insisted on adjudicating all cases individually to stave off the threat of collective action and to conceal the deep structural nature of racial abuse and discrimination at Duke.

“All 42 grievances,” as Duke Research Fellow Erik Ludwig noted, “were turned down at the second or third steps; none even reached the highest stage.”

The current grievance proceedings are thus not broken, they are functioning exactly as intended—to protect the reputation of the institution at the price of further disenfranchising our predominantly black and brown service staff. This is why we cannot accept President Brodhead’s proposal to set up yet another internal task force to examine cases of workplace abuse, harassment and discrimination. Without a fair, impartial, external investigation by labor counsel approved by Duke Students and Workers in Solidarity, these cases, which have been amply documented for the past 50 years, will persist for another 50.

There are some who agree with these aspects of our demands but see no connection between impartial grievances and a living wage. Those who fail to grasp

while remaining conspicuously silent about the university’s $500 million construction boom and the bloated salaries of an everexpanding administrative class. As the recent (and successful) Duke Teaching First campaign so compellingly highlighted, university administration has consistently prioritized bells and whistles—and their own paychecks—over core services such as teaching. We believe that housekeeping, groundskeeping, transportation and food preparation are core services and that living wages for all campus workers are both necessary and financially viable. If a small business like Monuts Donuts can pay a living wage, then Duke (with a $7 billion endowment and a $2.2 billion annual operating budget) can do so too.

The administration claims it has a current wage floor of $12 per hour and that it is working on requiring its contractors to pay the same. Duke has been “working on” this commitment for almost 10 years, since a 2007 agreement with Durham CAN, without any progress.

Furthermore, we know from conversations with campus workers that many direct employees of the university—including part-time, temporary, seasonal and student workers—fail to receive Duke’s stated minimum, despite the administration’s repeated assertions to the contrary.

The current living wage for Durham county is $12.53 per hour, according to the Durham Living. Due to ongoing gentrification (itself partially a product of the University’s development strategy) this figure is only going to increase. In light of this, we believe our demand for a $12.53 hourly minimum for all workers (including contract workers) by December 2016 and a phased-in $15 wage by fiscal year 2019-20 is eminently reasonable.

Meanwhile, the disconnect between administration and DSWS was driven home by a conversation I had with Dean Sue Wasiolek on Friday evening in which she expressed her relief that, now that students have exited the Allen Building, the university needs to deal with the tents.

Our campaign has highlighted deep structural issues of racism, poverty wages and unlawful abuse and discrimination, and administration thinks the next step is dealing with the tents? This university has 99 problems, but the tents ain’t one.

I told Dean Sue that the tents will remain until the university fulfills its commitment to good-faith negotiations with our movement. Gazing out over Abele Quad, where students and workers were at that moment singing, dancing and celebrating, Dean Sue asked, “But how do we negotiate with a movement?”

That is something this administration had better start to figure out.

Bennett Carpenter is a graduate student in the literature department. His column usually runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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Not only were the perceptions I observed or heard often stereotypes, misconceived or generalized, there were very few perceptions of Latin America at all—at least amongst the student body. That is not to say that there isn’t an interest, but rather a disconnect. It is a kind of disconnect between Duke students and this area of the world. This, in turn, creates a lack of awareness and misunderstandings about life and opportunities in Latin America.

In a previous column I wrote about the relatively small number of students who choose to study abroad in Latin America versus those who study abroad in Europe and the United Kingdom. There are various reasons for this disproportion, some of which are made apparent in the type of reactions I receive when I tell students on campus about my semester abroad in Brazil.

The responses tend to generally fall into two categories. One group assumes it was a service program of some kind and asks about how I dealt with “all the violence” they hear so much about. Others praise me on “being different” in my choice of location and ask me whether I would ever consider going back. The reactions I get from my well-intentioned peers reveal the incomplete picture people have of Brazil and Latin America in general. While there is validity in some of the reactions I have received, there is also so much we can learn from Latin America as it has so much to offer. By having a greater awareness, we have a better sense of the endless opportunities— work, travel, study—we can pursue.

This is where Desarrolla comes in.

Desarrolla is a campus organization started by two Duke students to fill this very gap. In 2014 as a sophomore and first-year respectively, Gabriela Asturias from Guatemala and Camilia Vargas from Colombia founded Desarrolla because they wanted to transmit to other students their love for their countries and their passion for staying connected to them. This is how Desarrolla was born: an organization full of passionate students who want to inspire others to help their countries.

The organization strives to contribute to the development of Latin America by encouraging partnerships between the Duke community and entities on the continent.

Another, more recent initiative of Desarrolla focuses on shining a light on the Latin American presence on campus and creating a space in which students are more aware not only of the misconceptions but of the immense opportunities in the

continent. Humans of Latin America, modeled after Humans of New York, is a photo and story campaign on Facebook that highlights personal insights and experiences of Duke students (and soon faculty) on campus from all over Latin America. “The goal of our campaign goes far beyond changing people’s perspectives about Latin America. It is about bringing to light the idiosyncrasies that have always made the continent so special and fostering interest

through powerful, personal stories,” said Beatriz Gorostiaga, Desarrolla’s Marketing Director.

One recent Humans of Latin America post that caught my attention was from Lola Sanchez-Carrion, Trinity Freshman from Peru. I believe it captures the disconnect in understanding that exists here on campus and the need for an organization like Desarrolla at Duke. She reflects on the lack of awareness of her background and culture: “At Duke, when people have asked me where I’m from and I say I’m Peruvian, I’ve received all sorts of responses, like: ‘Do you have cars there?’ ‘Is there McDonalds?’, ‘Do you guys use Google?’, among others.

Although such responses seem logical to those who have never visited or learned about Peru, they also highlight the perpetual disconnect that exists between Latin American countries, like Peru, and the United States. I wish that people could see that Peru is more than just the country where Machu Picchu is located.”

Connecting to Latin America starts with forming connections here on campus.

On campus, Desarrolla partners with various groups on campus to organize speaker panels, information sessions, blog posts and gatherings for students to learn more about the continent and get connected to service, travel and job opportunities. In addition, every summer a team works with DGHI faculty member David Boyd and a local organization on Mayan child health.

Together, these initiatives are shining a light on people, needs and opportunities from Guatemala to Argentina.

To learn more about Latin America and to get involved with the organization, check out Desarrolla’s event, “Connecting to Latin America,” happening tonight! This event will bring together professors and students involved and interested with Latin America.

This is a fantastic opportunity for students who will be studying abroad or doing research to mingle with those who have experience with this continent or to just learn more about how you can be further involved with projects in Latin America.

Through the freedom to make choices and the education we have received, we, as a campus filled with diverse and globally minded citizens, have an obligation to help create a campus that is more aware and better informed. Groups like Desarrolla and others at Duke give us the tools to do just that.

Sofia Stafford is a Trinity junior. Her column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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Stevens is expected to transfer.

Those two departures are part of a string of players to leave the program in the past several years. Sierra Moore transferred to Penn State after the 2012-13 season, Alexis Jones transferred to Baylor after the 2013-14 season and both Kianna Holland and Sierra Calhoun transferred to Ohio State after just one semester at Duke in the 2013-14 and 201415 seasons, respectively.

Duke finished 20-12 this season and missed the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1994.

The program has also endured turnover on its coaching staff, as many of McCallie’s assistants have left for assistant coaching jobs elsewhere.

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Former assistant coach Shannon Perry—who first joined then-head coach Gail Goestenkors’ staff before staying in Durham with McCallie—left to become an assistant coach at UCLA after the 2008-09 season. Former assistant coach Samantha Williams took the job in 2007 before leaving to become an assistant at Louisville after the 2010-11 season.

Assistant coach Trisha Stafford-Odom left to become an assistant at North Carolina after the 2010-11 season, but stayed just two seasons in Chapel Hill before becoming the head coach at Concordia, a school transitioning from NAIA to Division II competition in Irvine, Calif.

Another former assistant, Joy Cheek, left to become an assistant coach at Ohio State after the 2012-13 season. Cheek—who was a member of McCallie’s first Duke team and played under McCallie from 2007-10— was one of the Blue Devils’ two recruiting coordinators and worked with Duke’s perimeter players. The Buckeyes secured both Holland and Calhoun as transfers after Cheek arrived in Columbus.

Assistant coach Candice M. Jackson left Durham to become the head coach at the College of Charleston after the 2013-14 season. Jackson is the only former member of McCallie’s staff to leave Duke directly for a head coaching position.

Assistant coach Al Brown has been on McCallie’s staff throughout her nine-year tenure in Durham. Brown also served as an assistant to McCallie for three years at Michigan State.

The investigation marks the second prominent program to come under scrutiny this month.

Nebraska head coach Connie Yori resigned last week after being investigated for mistreatment of players. Multiple sources told The Omaha World-Herald that Nebraska had conducted an investigation into the program that spanned nearly two months. advance of No. 1 Miami’s visit to Durham this coming weekend.

“We held back a number of our left-handed pitchers because we felt like the lefties were a very good matchup for [N.C.] Central,” Pollard said. “The top four hitters on [their] team are left-handed hitters, so we wanted to be able to neutralize those bats.”

For just the second time this season, Duke will play back-to-back midweek games.

In early March, the Blue Devils toppled Davidson in their Tuesday night game, but lost to Campbell the following night.

This time, Duke hopes to avoid making that a trend.

“Our focus right now is on a very good N.C. Central team that’s playing very well right now,” Pollard said. “We’ll focus in on the things we have to do to get ready to play tomorrow. We won’t start thinking about this weekend until we compete in tomorrow night’s ballgame.”

And from there, the rout was on.

“Anytime you’re in a midweek [game] and know you’re going to split the game up with a number of pitchers, it’s definitely to your advantage to play with a lead,” Pollard said. “I really like the productivity we’re getting out of the bottom half of our lineup. Nine hits out of six through nine in our lineup—that’s a really good balance.”

Duke put crooked numbers on the scoreboard in three separate innings, scored at least one run in five of its nine at-bats and tallied four stolen bases on the night. The Blue Devils tacked on insurance runs in both the fifth and sixth innings, but each time, Davidson (18-15) seemed to have an answer—matching Duke’s scoring in each frame.

With a five-run ninth inning, though, the Blue Devils salted the game away.

On top of a stellar offensive performance, Duke got effective pitching from starter Kellen Urbon—who tossed four shutout innings, surrendering just four hits and striking out a pair—as well as the combined efforts of five different relievers.

“I can’t say enough about the job [Urbon’s] done,” Pollard said. “He’s been a stabilizing force for our rotation. He’s done everything we’ve asked him to do. He’s been a team-first guy...I’m very proud of him.”

The graduate student improved his record to 4-1 on the season and also lowered his ERA to just 1.88. The Blue Devil bullpen allowed only seven hits in five innings of relief and kept a streaking Wildcat offense at bay.

With Pollard using numerous pitchers to finish Tuesday’s game and another Ryan Hoerger | The Chronicle contest Wednesday evening at home Peter Zyla went 4-for-5 Tuesday night against against N.C. Central, he will have to Davidson as Duke rolled to a 13-3 victory for its manage his staff’s innings, especially in eighth win in its last 10 games.

ENDOWMENT from page 1 “The real concern is if you spend more from your endowment, then less is available for your future,” Schoenfeld said. “So you are essentially short-changing the future in order to address some issue in the present.

And we as a University take a very long-term view of things.”

In the years following the 2008 financial crisis, Duke’s endowment has grown considerably, from $4.4 billion in fiscal year 2009 to the present $7.3 billion figure.

“The affluent are making more gifts, the stock market has been on a tear and the rates of return for these endowments border on the unbelievable,” said Charles Clotfelter, Z. Smith Reynolds professor of public policy studies and professor of economics and law.

Clotfelter pointed out that while income has stagnated among the population outside the top 5 percent of wealth in the country, universities have benefited from the greater income inequality.

Various proposals have been suggested in Congress, including removing tax breaks for universities or requiring the universities to spend a certain percentage of their endowments each year. Schoenfeld said he thinks that these ideas are misguided.

“If you move it up to 10 or 15 percent, you would have to generate returns on the order of 20 percent every year in order to ensure that the endowment remains a permanent fund,” he said. “The endowment is not a retirement fund.”

Much like other universities, a large proportion of Duke’s endowment is tied to specific purposes as appropriated by individual donors. Duke’s response indicates that about $5.1 billion, or 69 percent, of the endowment is restricted by the terms of the donor’s gift to the University.

“You can only spend your endowment on what people designate you to spend it on,” Schoenfeld said. “If somebody is giving you endowment for a professorship or the upkeep of a collection in the library, you can’t just decide that you’re going to spend that on financial aid— that’s against the law.”

Congressional attention largely stems from concerns outlined in the letter about whether the universities, which benefit from tax-free investment earnings, are “using endowment assets to fulfill their charitable and educational purposes.”

“One of the things people might wonder is, ‘How can you pay a football or basketball coach so much money if you are a nonprofit organization?’” Clotfelter said.

In his cover letter, Brodhead sought to prove that students were being kept the priority through efforts such as financial aid.

“Duke’s commitment to access and affordability represents an investment of more than $130 million last year—triple the investment the University made 10 years ago,” he wrote.

In fiscal year 2015, 21.1 percent of the endowment was devoted to financial aid, with a small portion going directly to students in the current year. Duke conducts need-blind admissions and meets the full demonstrated financial need for every undergraduate student. Brodhead noted that during the 2008 financial crisis in which the value of the endowment dropped by 25 percent, the University’s funding for financial aid experienced no cutbacks.

The report marks the second time in eight years that Duke disclosed financial information to Congress after a 2008 Senate Finance Committee inquiry requested similar data on the endowment and financial aid spending.

Clotfelter noted that Congress has

The Chronicle generally been hesitant to pass legislation related to the financial conduct of universities.

“I would say Congress in terms of finances of universities have been pretty hands off over time,” he said. “So I think if they did something like that it would be kind of unprecedented.”

Schoenfeld echoed a sentiment also made by several peer institutions that it is important not to misunderstand the reasoning behind how the endowment is spent.

“It is valuable and useful for policymakers to continue to have a better understanding and for us to educate them on the role of an endowment,” he said. “They have provided and help create a system of education, health care and culture that is pretty unrivaled around the world and it’s in part because of that financial foundation that looks to the future.”

LAWSUIT from page 1 sue the police for either not investigating or for conducting an investigation that “didn’t come out the way she wanted it to.”

“If I leave court today and have an intersection accident with the mayor of Durham and the police come out, they don’t have to investigate if they don’t want to and I can’t sue them saying, ‘You should have investigated or you should have done a better investigation than you did,’” Hartzog said. “That is not the law.”

Hartzog further argued that Underwood had signed a document given to her by DUPD detective Arthur Holland agreeing to drop the matter if Trask issued an apology, even if she did not like the apology eventually presented to her.

“She was the reason that it ended,” he said.

Huggins responded, however, that this document should not result in dismissing the case because Underwood was pressured into signing it. Huggins also alleged that the University contacted McLaurin Transportation—Underwood’s employer— pressuring her to drop her complaint.

Hartzog claimed that none of Underwood’s claims against the University rise to the level of warranting damages, and that claims against Trask should proceed separately without the University being a party.

Huggins disagreed, claiming that Duke’s failure to investigate caused Underwood additional “mental anguish and emotional distress,” which are reasons to compensate her as relief.

There is also no explicit evidence of an actual agreement between Trask and the University to obstruct justice, Hartzog said, which would be necessary to allege a civil conspiracy.

Huggins responded that, because DUPD reports to Trask, there is circumstantial evidence that he and Duke could “collude to obstruct justice.” Moving forward with the trial would give Underwood the opportunity to obtain further documentation as part of the discovery process, he explained.

There is a difference between choosing not to investigate and “intentional conduct” that obstructs justice, Huggins added.

Approximately 15 students and staff involved with Duke Students & Workers in Solidarity, the group that led the recent Allen Building sit-in, attended Tuesday’s proceedings.

“The point that they even had the audacity to ask for a dismissal speaks to what Duke is all about and what they have been accustomed to,” said Renee Adkins, a former Parking and Transportation Services special events manager who was one of the employees who alleged that there is a discriminatory environment within PTS.