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Students report car, moped thefts across Duke’s campus Matthew Riley The Chronicle When sophomore Michael McAloon, Jr. walked out of his Central Campus apartment April 1 and saw his moped missing, he thought that it was a practical joke. After several days of asking friends if it was a prank, he quickly realized that this was nothing to laugh about.

Since March 7, four black TaoTao mopeds have been stolen, according to the Duke University Police Department. The thefts occurred amid concerns about campus security after reports of several robberies and a sexual assault on Central Campus earlier this academic year.

“If I walk out and stumble upon someone literally trying to walk away with my moped, what is that guy going to do to me?” McAloon said. “Is he just going to run away or is he going to harm me? The fact that this happened next to the stairs outside my room, that this happened so close on a Saturday night, that was pretty scary for me.”

McAloon reported the theft to DUPD soon after realizing his moped was missing.

After several days without response though, he posted on the Fix My Campus Facebook page about how both his and his roommate’s mopeds had been stolen on campus.

In the post, McAloon expressed concern that no security cameras were installed to catch the crimes on tape. He also suggested that the University hire “some security guards who don’t sit on their phones all night.”

“When a Duke police officer came, he spent the entire time blaming me for not having it chained up and didn’t seem interested at all in what I had to say, but did manage to tell me that mopeds are a ‘hot

Han Kang | The Chronicle According to DUPD, four black mopeds have been stolen since March 7, and a car was stolen from Central Campus last Thursday.

commodity’ on campus and are being stolen all over the place,” McAloon wrote.

Sara-Jane Raines, assistant chief of support services for DUPD, noted that a student’s car was also stolen from 1911 Yearby Avenue on Central Campus last Thursday. This is the same location where McAloon’s moped was previously stolen.

In addition, Janine Weaver-Douglas— associate dean for Central Campus for Housing, Dining and Residence Life— sent out an email on Friday about a “non-

forcible entry” into a student’s apartment on Central Campus Thursday between 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Police and security patrols are stationed across campus 24 hours a day and seven days a week, noted Chief of Police John Dailey in an email.

“Regarding cameras, the University has significantly increased the number of cameras across campus recently—over 800 have been installed,” Dailey wrote.

A program to increase security cameras on

campus—led by Student Affairs, the Office of Information Technology and DUPD—was announced last August.

However, Larry Moneta, vice president of student affairs, wrote in an email that security cameras had only been installed on East Campus. Moneta noted that the cameras could only see entrances to residence halls, and that it was too early to determine whether the program is effective in reducing crime on See MOPEDS on Page 4

After confusion, students plan Greek Ally Week themselves Claire Ballentine The Chronicle

Special to The Chronicle Greek Ally Week this year will feature panel discussions along with private conversations.

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Despite Blue Devils United and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life being unable to plan Greek Ally Week this year, some students have taken it upon themselves to host the event.

Greek Ally Week—which was started in 2014—works to raise awareness about LGBTQ+ issues and support LGBTQ+ members in Greek life. In the past, it has featured panel discussions with members of the Panhellenic Association, the Interfraternity Council and the National Pan-Hellenic Council.

David Pittman, interim director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, wrote last Monday that the event would not be hosted this year, in part due transitions that his office

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is undergoing. BDU also apologized for not allocating resources to the event this year, citing resource constraints as well as a lack of coordination between various groups.

“The events and programming subcommittee of Blue Devils United has regrettably been unable to allocate time and resources to collaborate in the organization of this year’s Greek Ally Week,” a BDU statement read. “With the rotation of our executive board and various illnesses, some major events were unable to come to fruition in both Fall and Spring semesters. As Greek Ally Week is a collaboration with affinity, identity and Greek groups, we apologize on our behalf for the neglect of interaction between all of the governing bodies.”

However, a student initiative has pulled together a last-minute version of the event, explained senior Abigail Lawrence.

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Lawrence was upset the week was not going to happen, as it had been an important experience to her in prior years. She and her friend began discussing how to plan discussion groups among Greek LGBTQ+ members and allies. At the same time, she said other students had similar ideas, so in the end they joined forces.

Senior Austin Peer, a photographer for The Chronicle, explained that planning for Greek Ally Week had been in the talks for some time, but last week he and a group of six or eight students talked about the most feasible plan given the little time left in the semester.

“The motivation was the Chronicle article— people had been thinking about it, but that was sort of what mobilized people,” Peer said.

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Loose tiles on campus pose Uni. extends free gym access for tripping hazards for students grad students through fifth year Likhitha Butchireddygari The Chronicle First-year Kezia Matson was walking to her morning chemistry class when the ground disappeared beneath her.

In March, Matson fell through a broken tile in front of the French Family Science Center.

Falling a foot and half deep, she said her whole left leg was “radiating with pain” and that she started bleeding through her pants. She posted on the Fix My Campus Facebook page to get some answers.

“I don’t know what happened. It was like the ground below me just fell through,” Matson said. “My stuff went everywhere. My friend got my bag and my coffee spilled. I was very confused for the most part.”

At least three other students have posted this semester about broken or loose tiles on walkways around campus. Matson added that some of her own professors said they also have experienced issues with broken tiles. After she fell through the tile, Matson explained that she got an email from Facilities Management

saying they would tend to the area she reported soon. Although it was eventually fixed, Matson noted that she thought it took too long to fix the area.

Darin Smith, utilities operations and maintenance manager, explained that his team compiles a list of potential problem areas every three months. Because of limited resources and time, they prioritize which sidewalks to fix based on whether they are high traffic areas or handicap access routes.

“If everybody sent something in and wanted me to fix it, then it would be a fulltime job,” Smith said. “Also, we need to go out there and see—does it warrant actually getting done right now? Is there a priority ahead of it? Is there something that needs to be done that’s more severe?”

Smith explained that sometimes it takes longer to fix certain areas because Facilities Management needs to keep pedestrian traffic moving.

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Jim Liu | The Chronicle Students have posted on Fix My Campus about loose tiles on walkways across campus in places like the West Campus bus stop (above) and French Family Science Center.

Staff Reports The Chronicle Graduate students will have free access to recreational facilities during their first five years at Duke.

Paula McClain, dean of the Graduate School, noted the change in an email to graduate students Friday. Previously, the Graduate School did not cover gym fees for students after their third year because of rising student health insurance premiums.

The Duke Graduate Students Union held a protest Thursday, arguing that fourth and fifth year students should also have free access to gyms. The students held yoga classes on Abele Quadrangle and circulated a petition.

“For some of us, access to the gym is crucial to our health and part of the reason that we came to Duke in the first place,” said Jess Issacharoff, a fifth-year graduate student in the literature department, at the protest.

She noted Thursday that they had

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Previously, primary caregivers were only eligible for seven weeks, and non-primary caregivers received one week.

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Recent DSG elections highlight low student voter turnout Bre Bradham The Chronicle Twenty-three percent of eligible Duke undergraduates voted in the recent Duke Student Government election for vice presidents, senators and class council leadership. But what does that number really mean?

It is certainly a low number of sudents, but when analyzed alongside peer institutions and over time, it yields several interesting insights.

The 1,486 students that voted in this election represented a nine percentage point drop from the 32 percent of eligible students who voted in last year’s election for the same positions.

DSG Attorney General Sabriyya Pate, a sophomore, said that she does not consider the nine percent drop to be cause for concern and that DSG’s efforts to increase voter turnout are generally on the right path.

“I think it is important, before we just say 23 percent versus 32 percent, to look at this in the context of Duke and then nationally,” she said.

Pate noted that compared to Duke’s peer institutions, a 23 percent turnout is not abnormal.

“Voter turnout is a problem at universities across the country. Relative to a lot of peer institutions, 23 percent is actually very good,” she said. “I’ve personally had people from other universities reach out to ask about how we run our elections because they want to get their voter turnout to reach where we are.”

Some peer institutions do post similar statistics to Duke’s. Brown University’s recent election saw approximately 22 percent of undergraduate students participate, which marks a sharp decrease from the nearly 50 percent of students who voted in 2015.

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However in Brown’s case, the two top positions of their most recent election had only one contestant. Dartmouth University saw an 18 percent voter participation in October 2016, when they democratically elected their senate for the first time.

On its website, Duke Student Government cites a 13 percent turnout for the recent student body president election at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an approximately six percent turnout at Harvard University’s midterm elections as examples of places Duke’s turnout beat.

However, some universities garner a higher voter turnout for student government

elections than Duke does. At Vanderbilt University, the 45 percent participation in the 2017 election marked a five-year low for the school—which posted participation above 50 percent for the three previous years. Similarly, nearly 50 percent of students participated in Princeton University‘s recent student government election.

Sophomore Adam Bullock, a current senator for equity and outreach, attributed some of the decline in turnout to the fact that many prominent positions were not contested.

A number of positions up for election this cycle had only one candidate, including the vice

presidents of academic affairs, Durham and regional affairs and equity and outreach. The junior and senior class council president races also only had one candidate.

“When contested campaigning isn’t as much a part of the social media sphere, I’m not surprised to see people less engaged with the election,” Bullock told The Chronicle.

Along with the drop in turnout for the April election, the March contest for DSG president and executive vice president that elected junior Riyanka Ganguly and sophomore Kushal Kadakia respectively had 1,948 student voters compared to 2,416—or 36 percent of the student body—in the 2016 election won by seniors Tara Bansal and Ilana Weisman.

Ganguly said that she found the low voter turnout in the April election to be “sad.” One explanation may be that grouping the recent election, the presidential race and the Young Trustee contest so close together is too much campaigning in a short span of time.

She said that spreading out the timespan over which the elections occur and increasing personal interactions between candidates and students through physical polling booths may help to prevent students from becoming “desensitized” to the large amount of campaign material that they see online.

One race this year did see a large jump in voter participation. The Fall 2016 election for first-year senators had a turnout of approximately 50 percent, with 843 ballots being cast. That figure stands in sharp contrast from the 19 percent turnout the Class of 2019 had in their Fall first-year elections.

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and we are thankful for their commitment to our students,” McClain wrote.

She thanked Marcus Benning, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Council, Trinity ‘14 and a student at the School of Law, for his work in advocating for graduate students during the process of changing these policies.

different from last year’s, however.

Some events from last year—such as Ally 101—will not be happening because they take longer to coordinate, Lawrence said.

Peer noted that feedback from past events demonstrated that many participants found the stories shared in the panel discussion powerful, which is why the events this year will center around panel discussions.

According to the week’s Facebook page, there will be a panel discussion Tuesday with LGBTQ+ members of the Greek community.

This event is open to the public but requires registration. On Friday, there will be free t-shirts and Locopops on the Bryan Center Plaza for those who attended any of the events.

The remainder of the events are private.

For example, there is a private discussion for GBTQ+ fraternity members and members of other all-male living groups Wednesday.

Thursday’s events include a private conversation space for non-binary members of Greek life as well as a private discussion for LBTQ+ sorority members.

Junior Melodie Bonanno, one of next year’s BDU presidents, wrote in an email that BDU is delighted that this form of Greek Ally Week is happening.

“Ensuring that LGBTQIA+ students feel safe and welcomed in their interactions with the Greek community is incredibly important to us, and we are always grateful to be reminded that it is such a priority for the involved Greek organizations as well,” she wrote.

BDU is aware this version of Greek Ally Week is not a perfect replacement for the regular version, Bonanno wrote, but that the effort can be built upon next year. “[We] hope that the involved organizations will commit to working much closer with us on this project next year to ensure maximum output from this event,” she wrote.

210 of the rising seniors, according to Pate.

“On East Campus, it is much easier to reach people because you can just table outside of Marketplace and easily reach a majority of the freshman,” she said. “In terms of seniors and juniors, it’s harder to reach them because the older they get the more disengaged they are from the process.”

Pate also attributed this disparity to DSG’s reputation on campus.

“When you are at Duke, over time you face the stigma that DSG doesn’t work for you, so you are less likely to participate,” Pate said. “But freshmen—I think the reason they are able to participate at these outstanding rates is because they haven’t succumbed to these pressures.”

Ganguly added that many students appreciate DSG’s initiatives without realizing it—and said this might be a contributing factor to the lack of participation.

“I think that at the end of the day, it is important what students think of us because their buy-in is so important for lots of the things that we do,” she said.

Some of Pate’s efforts to combat that stigma and increase voter turnout throughout the past year have focused on increasing the information students have about candidates.

Earlier this year, DSG introduced a website that consolidates candidate platforms and biographies. A link to the site accompanied the election ballot sent to the student body.

Pate said that having DSG host candidate “meet and greets” was also a new initiative under her tenure.

Going forward, Pate plans to implement an educational outreach campaign to encourage students to vote.

“Upperclassmen who are affiliated are more likely to vote, inherently, because of the fact that the candidates find it easier to meet with those groups. If you are in an SLG and they meet every

TILES from page 2 pedestrian traffic, so that we aren’t stopping somebody who may be handicapped,” he said.

“I don’t want students to walk through the road while I’m fixing a sidewalk. So, it takes some time to get things accessibly coordinated.”

Smith added that there are multiple reasons tiles have been breaking. The biggest reason, he said, is that people drive onto the curb or onto the sidewalks, especially when deliveries are being made.

“It absolutely drives me crazy because I can’t stay ahead of [these incidents] if people keep abusing it,” he said. “We’re actually trying to look at educating and reinforcing our own people to say ‘don’t do this.’”

However, there were other reasons that can cause a tile to break, Smith noted. Heavy carts being pushed over them or just the weight of people have caused them to crack or come loose. In the winter, water freezes underneath the tiles and also breaks them.

“I’ve worked at Duke for 21 years, and I love Duke University. I love the campus,” Smith said. “I’m very proud of it, and I love the student populations because they come here for four or five years, and it’s an experience that we hope is positive. If people knew how serious we took it, I think they would be a little more accepting of what it takes to keep this campus right.”

Sunday, for me as a candidate running, that is an incredible opportunity to tap into,” she said.

“At the same time, for all these independent students, it really disenfranchises them from the process because it means that they are not aware of what is going on in DSG elections.”

She added that she is confident that strategically targeting the networks that are not currently being reached will improve student engagement.

“I’m not worried by the drop. I’m confident in the programming and the collaborations going forward that are going to reach more students,” Pate said. “I’m just very optimistic about all the traction that we are getting and all the positive feedback that we’re receiving.”

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Sophomore Selin Yalcin said that her moped was stolen from West Campus near the Edens bike rack area. She noted that she and McAloon think there is a connection between the crimes due to their mopeds being the same model. TaoTao mopeds are made by a Chinese company, which may have been appealing to thieves, she explained.

“Our assumption is that they stole it to sell the parts because they’re not made in the United States,” Yalcin said.

Co-director for Fix My Campus Jacob Glasser, a sophomore, said that FMC had reached out to DUPD about the moped thefts and is waiting to see what options are available.

Glasser noted that although FMC will continue to work with DUPD, the police department had yet to commit to increased security.

In the meantime, McAloon expressed his frustrations with security on campus.

“It’s obviously very upsetting because it’s something that I did spend a good deal of money on,” McAloon said. “I was pretty angry at the whole ordeal.”

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Blue Devils pull away for record 20th ACC title, first since 2014 Amrith Ramkumar The Chronicle About midway through Saturday’s final round of the ACC championship, the Blue Devils sat 6-over-par on the day and had seen their nine-stroke lead disappear as No. 4 Florida State surged.

But as it had all weekend, Duke collected itself and got contributions throughout the lineup to go 5-under-par the rest of the way and cruise to a record 20th conference title.

The No. 8 Blue Devils led wire to wire Thursday through Saturday at the Reserve Golf Club in Pawleys Island, S.C., restoring their nine-shot lead with a 1-over-par final round and finishing with a three-day total of 5-under-par.

Leona Maguire led Duke by capturing her second individual conference championship with a total of 6-under-par after a sparkling 68 Thursday, but the junior was not the only Blue Devil to find success this weekend.

All five players in Duke’s starting lineup finished tied for 17th or better, allowing the Blue Devils to end their two-year drought without a conference championship. Head coach Dan Brooks’ team has now won four ACC titles in the past six years and looks poised to contend for a national championship after pulling away from a field with four other top-20 teams.

With the victory, Duke has won its last two stroke-play events heading into NCAA regionals in three weeks.

“We knew Florida State was going to push us to the very end,” Maguire told

Photo Courtesy of Tim Cowie The Blue Devils finished strong to capture their first ACC title since 2014 and build more momentum heading deeper into the postseason.

reporters after the round. “I knew it was going to take a hard rally down the stretch on the back nine. Give credit where credit is due to all the girls—we fought until the very end and managed to pull away.”

Although the ACC championship moved to South Carolina this year because of North Carolina’s House Bill 2, the Blue Devils looked right at home coming out of the gates.

On the par-72, 6,192-yard layout, Maguire showed why she is the No. 1 amateur player in the world, shredding the par-5s on her way to a 4-under-par

round Thursday that put her tied atop the individual leaderboard.

Her teammates all shot between 71 and 74 to stake the team a one-shot advantage that ballooned to nine on day two when the Cavan, Ireland, native stayed tied for the individual lead with an even-par 72 and freshman Ana Belac’s 2-under-par round gave Duke some separation as its nearest competitors struggled.

Although the Seminoles mounted a rally Saturday, Florida State’s Kim Metraux—who entered the final round tied with Maguire at 4-under-par—shot 79 to make Maguire’s path to the individual

title much easier. Maguire fired a steady 70 on the final day, finishing the week 6-under-par on par-5s to top the field and also tying for the best par-4 scoring among ACC competitors by playing 3-under-par golf on the medium-length holes.

“She really took care of business,” Brooks told reporters after the round. “She just does some things with her wedges that I don’t see other players doing—that’s an incredible strength of hers.”

Maguire was expected to contend for another conference crown after also winning the individual title in 2015, but it was the work of her teammates that earned the Blue Devils the team title and let them end Virginia’s two-year reign as conference champions. Brooks’ team finished with seven more birdies than any other team with 49.

Senior Sandy Choi finished tied for fourth with a 1-under-par cumulative total after sandwiching rounds of 71 around a Friday 73. The team’s only senior and twotime All-ACC selection got back to playing steady golf after an erratic weekend at the LSU Tiger Golf Classic and helped right the ship when Duke got off to a poor start in the final round.

“Sandy has played her best golf at Duke when we’ve needed it most—she’s done it all four years,” Brooks said. “Nobody has seen this course before, so I thought they [all] did a great job.”

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Duke scores first 6 goals, rolls past Virginia at home Mitchell Gladstone The Chronicle A little less than two months ago, the Blue Devils suffered two losses in their first four games and looked like they might once again have to cope with inconsistent play from their defense and midfield lines.

Now, with eight wins in its last nine contests, head coach John Danowski’s team is as hot as any after leaning on its offensive firepower for a third straight top-20 ACC victory Saturday afternoon.

No. 8 Duke dominated No. 18 Virginia in the first 15 minutes, jumping out to a 6-0 advantage after one quarter of play before cruising to a 20-11 win at Koskinen Stadium. The Blue Devils’ top two weapons, senior Jack 11 Bruckner and junior UVA DUKE 20 Justin Guterding, exploited a leaky Virginia defense for six goals apiece.

Guterding also tallied four assists, tying a career high with 10 points as he became the 13th player in program history to surpass 200 career points. Duke claimed its fifth top-20 win of the year and will finish the regular season 3-1 in ACC play, with other games to determine what seed the

Blue Devils will get in the upcoming ACC tournament April 28-30.

“Offensively, I thought we executed very well early, which gave us a lead where we could relax a little bit,” Danowski said.

“It’s a little bit different when you play with a lead—defensively, you’re a bit more energized and you gain momentum from making a save or creating a turnover.”

From the get-go, Duke (10-3, 3-1 in the ACC) was in rhythm, with Bruckner opening the scoring and his fellow attackman Guterding tallying his 200th point less than two minutes later. The two then combined for a pretty score 45 seconds later when the 6-foot-1 Bruckner put home an easy score off a dime from Guterding.

And with the rout underway, the home team added three more goals before the end of the opening period, quickly distancing themselves from the shellshocked Cavaliers (8-6, 0-4).

“Every week you’re hoping to have a quarter like that,” Danowski said. “Against Carolina, we didn’t have that two weeks ago. This week, we did.... It set the tone for sure.”

After an unassisted goal from Virginia’s Ryan Lukacovic finally got the Cavaliers on the board less than a minute into the second quarter, the Blue Devil attack turned it right back on, finishing the half

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on a 4-1 run to carry a 10-2 lead into the locker room.

Duke took advantage of its midfield depth, running three different lines to keep Virginia on its toes. Although the Blue Devils started freshmen Reilly Walsh and Kevin Quigley along with sophomore Brad Smith, veterans such as senior Tripp

Transou and junior Matthew Giampetroni saw plenty of time as well.

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Blue Devils move to 11-0 in ACC entering final week Ben Feder The Chronicle With a pivotal set of matches on the horizon, the Blue Devils took care of business this weekend to put themselves in position to play for an ACC regular-season title in the final week of the season.

No. 14 Duke beat Wake Forest 5-2 Thursday at Ambler Tennis Stadium in Durham before upending Syracuse by the same margin Sunday at Drumlins Country Club in Syracuse, N.Y., to move to 11-0 in ACC play. Although the Blue Devils got off to bumpy starts WAKE 2 in both matches, DUKE 5 they were able to rebound due to DUKE 5 their depth at the CUSE 2 bottom of their singles lineup.

“I was really happy that we got out of [Syracuse] with a 5-2 victory. We’ve had some good wins,” Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth told GoDuke.com. “It’s good for us for us to know that we can do that.”

Against Wake Forest (16-8, 6-6 in the ACC), Duke battled back and forth in the doubles matches, with the senior duo of Chalena Scholl and Alyssa Smith winning the deciding match 7-5 against Emma Davis and Chandler Carter to secure a hotlycontested doubles point on Court 2.

Davis and Carter had Scholl and Smith on the ropes early in the set,

with leads of 3-0 and 4-1. But the Blue Devil tandem fought back with four straight games to take a 5-4 lead before ultimately pulling away.

Duke (17-3, 11-0) ran with the momentum it got from its second doubles pairing’s comeback victory, taking four of the six singles matches to grab the conference win. No. 50 Scholl remained unbeaten in ACC singles matches, breezing past Anna Ulyashchenko 6-3, 6-0 and moving to a perfect 13-0 the third singles position this season.

Scholl’s play made up for the disappointing results from freshman Meible Chi in the matchup, as the 33rdranked singles player lost in straight sets to unranked Emma Davis after also dropping her doubles set with Kaitlyn McCarthy—the duo is the No. 36 pairing in the nation—to Ulyashchenko and Kimmy Guerin 6-4.

As was the case in the matchup against the Demon Deacons, the Orange (7-12, 4-8) challenged Duke in doubles. But this time, after the Blue Devils won the third doubles matchup with junior Samantha Harris and sophomore Ellyse Hamlin teaming up to defeat Nicole Mitchell and Marira Tritou 6-2, Syracuse rebounded to pull off victories at No. 1 and No. 2 doubles to secure the match’s first point.

“We had some opportunities that we missed,” Ashworth said. “We had to return a little bit better.”

Duke was still able to overwhelm the

Chris Teufel | The Chronicle Alyssa Smith and the Blue Devils have won 11 straight ACC matches and will battle for a regularseason conference championship next week.

Orange in the individual matches, ripping off five straight wins to guarantee another conference victory. After a tough outing against Wake Forest, Chi found her groove at No. 2 singles, breezing past No. 80 Gabriela Knutson 6-0, 6-2. Smith and Hamlin won again on Courts 5 and 6, giving Ashworth’s squad confidence with Scholl, McCarthy and Harris still playing.

“The end of the doubles was really emotional. We took our time after the

doubles—we regrouped and talked about being the best team,” Ashworth said. “I was really proud about how we came out emotionally and fired up in our singles [matches].”

Soon after, Scholl emerged unscathed once again with a 6-1, 7-5 win against Anna Shkudun, winning the last two games in the second set to seal the victory for the See W. TENNIS on Page 8

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Crystal Primm to transfer Hank Tucker The Chronicle Sophomore Crystal Primm will become the sixth Blue Devil to transfer out of head coach Joanne P. McCallie’s program since 2013, a source close to the program confirmed Saturday.

A five-star recruit when she arrived at Duke in 2015, the 5-foot-11 guard appeared in 65 games during her career and made 14 starts as a freshman. But after playing in every game and averaging 18.8 minutes per contest in her first year, Primm saw her playing time drop significantly as a sophomore—she averaged just 11.0 minutes per game and never started.

Primm never developed into a dangerous scoring threat, averaging 3.5 points per game in her career. However, she was one of the team’s better perimeter defenders and often entered games to slow down opponents’ top guards.

The West Palm Beach, Fla., native notched 39 steals in her two years at Duke.

Forced to step into a more prominent role in the Blue Devils’ NCAA tournament loss to Oregon March 20 after starting point guard Kyra Lambert tore her ACL in the first round, Primm posted season highs with eight points and 20 minutes played.

The Blue Devils are a year removed from an internal investigation after a slew of players and assistant coaches recently left the program. Guards transferring after struggling to find their niche in McCallie’s rotation is

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Then, McCarthy—who is on a run similar to Scholl’s—came back to win 2-6, 6-3, 6-1 against Tritou. Although the reigning ACC Player of the Week dropped her first set in nearly a month, she battled back to push her individual unbeaten streak to more than two months with the gutsy victory.

“Mentally, [McCarthy] was the much better player on the court of the two of them, and then as soon as she got that opening in the middle of the second set, she just took it and ran with it from there,” Ashworth said. “She’s done such a good job from the mental standpoint in the last couple of matches.”

With another week’s business taken care

of, Duke must gear up before a crucial run of three matches in a span of five days, starting Wednesday in Chapel Hill against Tobacco Road rival and No. 3 North Carolina. After that matchup, the Blue Devils will take on Louisville and then No. 6 Georgia Tech Sunday—the only other undefeated team in ACC play.

Since the Tar Heels only have one conference loss, they too are fighting for a conference regular-season title along with Duke and the Yellow Jackets.

“We want to be as tough as we can in all these matches. In Carolina, there’s not a lot of motivating we need to do because we know it’s a huge match down the street,” Ashworth said. “When we have the opportunities to execute, we just have to take advantage of them and play smart, play disciplined and not let the moment get to us.”

Neal Vaidya | The Chronicle Crystal Primm struggled to earn big minutes on the wing in Duke’s crowded backcourt.

nothing new.

Sierra Moore transferred to Penn State after the 2012-13 season and Alexis Jones— who was recently selected in the first round of the WNBA Draft—transferred to Baylor after the 2013-14 season. Both Kianna Holland and Sierra Calhoun transferred to Ohio State after just one semester at Duke in the 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons, respectively.

Star forward Azurá Stevens also transferred to Connecticut last spring.

The Blue Devils will still have high expectations next season with star guards Lexie Brown and Rebecca Greenwell returning and one of the top recruiting classes in the country coming in.

Chris Teufel | The Chronicle Senior Chalena Scholl has not lost an ACC singles match all season and is 14-0 against all opponents on Court 3.

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W. GOLF from page 6 round of the week. The freshman shot 74 Thursday and Saturday to post 2-overpar and end up in a tie for 14th in her first ACC championship—she has now finished in the top 15 in all but one of her starts this spring.

Sophomore Virginia Elena Carta and junior Gurbani Singh were solid just like their teammates and finished one shot behind Belac to tie for 17th. The individual NCAA champion from last season, Carta struggled Saturday with a 75 after opening with back-to-back rounds of even par, but her teammates offset the damage.

Singh shot rounds of 73, 72 and 74 during the week to extend her top-20 streak to four and again illustrate the depth in Duke’s lineup this season.

As was the case when the Blue Devils captured their last ACC title in 201314 and went on to win the national championship, any of the five members of Duke’s lineup are capable of winning any given week and all five appear to be playing some of their best golf at the right time.

The Blue Devils will look to stay sharp when they visit Northwestern for a match-play tune-up April 29 similar to the one the teams played April 2 in Durham before opening NCAA regional action May 8.

“We had some good golf going on,” Brooks said. “Virginia and Ana were a little rough on the front [nine Saturday], that’s where we ended up in that tied position. Both of them righted their ships coming in, and that made all the difference in the world.”

for the Cavaliers. The Blue Devils also got another solid effort from senior goalkeeper Danny Fowler, who made 11 saves in the win despite allowing nine second-half goals.

After clinching double-digit victories for the 11th straight season, Duke will turn its attention to a matchup at Marquette next weekend before hosting the conference tournament.

Although the Blue Devils rolled past the Golden Eagles 16-1 last season and have been dominant lately, Danowski still wants to see improvement in certain areas as Duke looks to advance past the first round of the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2014.

“We have to work on transition offense, we have to get better clearing the ball, we have to have a little more poise,” Danowski said. “With a 10-2 lead, you think it’s going to be easy—it’s never like that, so that was probably another lesson learned this afternoon.”

Jeremy Chen | The Chronicle Senior Jack Bruckner has scored 14 goals in his last three games, causing headaches for opponents who have to try to contain him and Justin Guterding.

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Coming out of intermission, Lukakovic and Mike D’Amario countered with two Cavalier goals in 56 seconds to slice the Duke lead to six. Virginia senior Zed Williams then added a third tally less than two minutes into the third quarter, and suddenly, it was 10-5.

But the Blue Devil attack would not stay quiet for long—Bruckner flipped home a rebound to make it 11-5. He then added a fourth tally on a two-man advantage, and his fifth score of the afternoon—and third in the third quarter—stretched the Duke lead back to eight.

One of 11 Blue Devils with Final Four experience, Bruckner has poured in 14 goals in his last three games and erupted

again on his Senior Day—his recent hot shooting coupled with Guterding’s precision has Duke rolling and looking like a team that is ready to contend for a fourth national title since 2010 next month in Foxboro, Mass.

“It meant everything to me [to get this win],” Bruckner said. “I was just really happy to win at home and to see these younger guys look up to me how I looked up at guys like Jordan Wolf, Christian Walsh and Josh Dionne.... It’s come full circle.”

Despite entering the contest winless in the ACC, the Cavaliers have excelled in the ground-ball game, averaging 45.2 per game—more than 15 better than the next best team in the conference.

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After a protest last Thursday on Abele Quad and a petition circulated by the Duke Graduate Student Union, both of which were incited by Duke’s revocation of complimentary gym access privileges for fourth and fifth-year graduate students, the Duke University administration has recently reinstated free gym access for doctoral students in their first five years. Separately, the administration also announced a package of other benefits: a lengthening of the accommodation period for primary and non-primary caregivers following birth and adoption and the opening of supplementary TA and RA roles to the graduate student population. The Editorial Board applauds this positive development and looks forward to seeing the University further expand benefits for graduate students.

Above all, it is important to recognize that Duke graduate students—which made up 56 percent of University in Fall 2016—truly deserve the privileges they were just awarded. Access to safe, comprehensive gym and exercise facilities is an integral keystone to human health alongside nourishing food and care for illnesses.

Preventing access to such facilities broadens a strange cultural rift on campus where graduate and professional students, who make up more than half of the student body, are visible in the classroom but nowhere else.

Moreover, the lengthening of paid break following a birth or adoption is extremely beneficial and represents a direct response to the concerns of graduate students.

The newly announced nine weeks paid leave for primary caregivers is comparable to the policies of Stanford, Harvard and Yale, and two weeks for non-primary caregivers outdoes our peer institutions. Along with recently announced opportunities for graduate students to take on TA and RA positions to supplement their incomes, these reforms will undoubtedly attract more

Editorial high-caliber graduate students to Duke.

A cynical person might argue that these decisions by Duke are simply a ruse to cover up and provide some consolation for the university’s fierce (and expensive) anti-unionization efforts against graduate students earlier this year. However, a more positive explanation is that graduate students’ efforts to effect change were successful. Along with their prior discussions with the administration on the issue of gym access, the protest—a yoga class on Abele Quadrangle—was direct and visible without being obtrusive. And most importantly, the

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graduate students’ goals during their process of working with the administration were effectively articulated.

They gave the University easily actionable demands and couched them in terms of quality of life. The administration was ultimately faced with two options—to give students access to benefits to which they previously had access or deprive them of something that would materially benefit them and which would require almost no effort or cost on the part of the University. This was not a difficult nor financially burdensome choice by the University, and putting the emphasis on basic, visible needs rather than abstract ideals proved to be an effective tactic.

Taking this victory forward, it may be beneficial to put more graduate student struggles within the language of material security and basic quality of life. Duke has tasked itself with providing for both its undergraduate and graduate students. Thus, imparting to the administration demands in terms of real everyday needs is an effective tool to gain sympathy for student struggles.

In fact, this lesson can be expanded to the non-tenuretrack and worker struggles also taking place on campus.

In any case, the administration was notably responsive to its constituents, and that, in and of itself, is a positive development.

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ecently, I was listening to a lecture. As is the case with many such talks, an anecdote was told in order to transition into an overarching point.

It went something like this: the speaker (let’s call him Dan) had built a fence in his backyard to keep his young son from wandering out into the world. One day, Dan was watching his son playing in said backyard. He looked away for a minute and suddenly found the boy gone after re-focusing his attention. Dan immediately panicked, imagining his son wandering into the street and getting hit by a car traveling fifty miles per hour. Rushing to the front yard, Dan found the boy harmlessly playing with the family dog on the porch. Crisis averted.

The point of the story was to evoke sympathy for Dan, to provide a tale with which many people could identify.

The story struck me, however, as an excellent example of helicopter parenting. Dan seemed to have little trust in his son’s ability to avoid trouble and an overactive imagination when it came to cars whizzing through his quiet suburban neighborhood at twice the legal speed limit. And the fence? Well, it struck me as a bit strange (especially these days) to be bragging about putting up walls.

Many people would probably rush to Dan’s defense,

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dangers. But such fears are largely unfounded, and the parents ultimately end up creating an alternate reality by hiding their children from failure, pain, and conflict.

Kids who grow up getting their way all the time will struggle once they have to face the world on their own, as it is impossible to go through life without failing in some sort of way. If children are held back from even small scrapes and bruises, what will happen when they experience more severe kinds of pain, such as that of losing a loved one? And those who have never had to settle disagreements will turn away and hide when faced with any sort of conflict. That, unfortunately, almost always exacerbates matters and makes things worse.

What are the results of our collective unwillingness to avoid the truths of life? More than ever, you will meet people who lack resiliency, who are unable to bounce back from even the most minor of difficulties. They are overly sensitive and get hurt by any comment remotely critical of them; as a result, they often develop a crippling lack of self-confidence. Lots of reasons are put forward for the opioid overdose affecting the nation, but perhaps we are missing an important contributing factor. For those who believe little in themselves and are constantly

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saying that he was only acting in the way a good parent should. I don’t doubt that a lot of parents err on the side of overprotection much of the time, and perhaps it is only natural for them to worry about their children. But are parents really helping by constantly watching over their children and inserting themselves into every aspect of their kids’ lives? Preliminary research suggests that the answer is no. Studies have linked helicopter parenting to anxiety in children and binge drinking and depression in college-age students. There is evidence of the effect occurring even at the graduate school level - —and the research there isn’t promising either. In short, helicopter parenting isn’t making children better - —in fact, it appears to be doing just the opposite.

Helicopter parenting is just one example of a growing problem: we as a society have become increasingly unwilling to face the realities of life. Maybe that’s why people constantly look for escape through rom-coms or action movies that that blithely cross the threshold between plausibility and ludicrousness. “Real life is hard enough,” people often say in defense. To their credit, a temporary respite from everyday life every once in awhile probably couldn’t hurt too much, and it may even be beneficial to some. But what happens when this break from reality becomes a daily phenomenon? The answer, to be explained in a moment, is “plenty.”

Some might argue that overprotective parenting stems from an acknowledgment of reality, an understanding that the world is unpredictable and filled with many

burdened by their daily lives will try to find a way out of their misery. With this in mind, it isn’t too difficult to see how people could eventually be led to opioids - —after all, theythey’re are just another form of escape.

So how can we begin to solve the aforementioned problems? Some might say that we need to show people more love and respect. This is certainly important, but it fails to address the root cause of the issues. We must admit that we cannot continue to coddle children by micromanaging every aspect of their lives. Curbing helicopter parenting or (preferably) ending it altogether would go a long way to helping ensure that children are not being set up for disappointment from a young age.

So, if you are going to build a fence, at least let your child run around and spend some time outside of it.

Understand that your kid is going to be just fine if they occasionally fall down while running or lose a pickup game of soccer. Rather than seeing these moments as evidence that you need to further ensconce your child in a protective bubble, view them as moments you can teach them important life lessons. We don’t need to go back to the old days of children walking miles to school barefoot, as the older generation may grumble about from time to time. We can, however, learn when to loosen and tighten the reins. Maybe then people could grow up and realize that life isn’t so bad after all.

Ben Zhang is a Trinity senior. His column, “human foibles” usually runs on alternate Mondays.

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he Duke Panhellenic Council Executive Board announced over the weekend that many of their members were “incredibly shocked” to find out that despite a packed schedule of spring philanthropy events, none of the sororities had completely solved the causes they set out to aid. Developments at Duke reflect a larger sentiment of disappointment as sorority and fraternity chapters across the country grapple with the limited impact their events reportedly have on their respective causes.

“What do you mean, my sorority’s philanthropy—where you get to pie me in the face—didn’t solve childhood illiteracy?” asked one sorority girl sitting in front of Monday Monday in a VMS class told her black-clad friend. “Are you trying to tell me that all that work and all that shaving cream didn’t actually eliminate illiteracy in the contiguous United States and Guam?”

apartments on Central Campus. “I really thought that one and the volleyball event raising awareness for people who will never be able to play the game because they can’t see the ball were supposed to be some sort of elaborate joke.”

Shock wasn’t just limited to sororities, however. Many fraternity brothers were equally as surprised to find out their philanthropies weren’t efficacious at solving the problems they were intended to, no matter how hard they forced it.

“What do you mean, the profit share I attended at Chipotle didn’t solve world hunger?” said, like, six fraternity brothers, in unison. “And the guac was extra, too. That sucks.”

Many of these men and women were also surprised to learn that not only did their philanthropy events not completely eradicate the causes they championed, but apparently their eight-week DukeEngage trips weren’t as

leven percent Black, 10 percent Latino and 1 percent Native American/American Indian/Native Alaskan/Native Hawaiian.

50 percent “of color,” 14.5 percent International, and 10 percent firstgeneration. Duke is colorful. Duke is global.

But how encompassing is Duke really?

Across campus it is rare—if not impossible—to find a scenario in which conservatives hold the majority opinion in any given classroom, let alone in a politics course where healthy debate is crucial to learning.

We can laud Duke for its efforts to achieve improved representation of racial and ethnic groups and its commitment to accessibility. But what ever happened to intellectual diversity?

Lively discussions make the obdurate question how they think, what they think and why they think it. They challenge participants to interrogate their reasoning, strengthen intellectuality and beget a robust understanding of how “the other side” works.

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The confusion amongst chapters is widespread. One sorority sister from an unnamed, lower-tier sorority told Monday Monday she was unsure how their philanthropy—which spent most of its budget on t-shirts, pancake mix and an event photographer—didn’t actually solve childhood cancer.

“My chapter ended up donating like $272.69 to the Duke Children’s hospital, so this is news to me. I can’t believe my efforts— the t-shirt I bought, the article about cancer that I shared on Facebook and the text I wrote to my mom to put some money into my account for a latté and to donate $5 to the 5K run—didn’t completely eradicate childhood cancer.”

Many sororities had reportedly spent “months” curating philanthropy t-shirts, creating Facebook events and concocting elaborate schemes to get students to donate to their respective causes, in addition to garnering hundreds of likes on Instagram.

However, few sororities reported ever actually interfacing with the causes they championed so hard on social media.

“Man, nothing gets likes quite like a picture of me holding a sick child, or saying I’ll get a tattoo of a heart on my butt if enough people donate to my sorority’s heart health drive,” said one anonymous sorority sister, whose Instagram feed is rife with vain selfies juxtaposed against priggish photos of her with Kenyan children on a $20,000 safari she took with her parents and the guy she hooked up with at Spring Fling.

Administrators and directors of Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life (OFSL) at Duke have been quick to point out that individual chapters would have a much greater impact if they actually just went out into the community to try to improve it, rather than making a t-shirt and holding some sort of elaborate sports tournament.

“It took me a while to figure out that one sorority hosting a softball tournament wasn’t supposed to be symbolic of the 1 in 3 women who ended up being battered—in many cases, by bats, themselves,” anonymous OFSL office worker told Monday Monday in an anonymous meetup by the abandoned

effective as they thought.

“I spent most of my time in Cape Town hiking and marveling at how cheap the alcohol was. But it’s hard to believe my internship about the impact of apartheid and its residual effects on the cultural dynamics of South Africa didn’t eliminate racism,” said one former member of DukeEngage Cape Town.

Meanwhile, many other equally important but far less sexy causes in Durham are painfully aware of why Duke students are uninterested in raising money or providing aid. Many of these causes are looking to mimic the success of Greek philanthropies in an effort to raise awareness and Facebook likes about their respective needs.

Durham’s homeless veteran population is reportedly pooling together all of their resources and drugs to spearhead new event initiatives. The Durham NAACP chapter has already begun a GoFundMe page to crowdsource funds to create t-shirts the next time the pervasive system of institutionalized racism in the United States inevitably rears its ugly head.

A member of the NAACP chapter at Duke told Monday Monday, “Maybe if we handed out comfort colors t-shirts at Black Lives Matter protests, then rich white college kids would actually go.”

One anonymous Vietnam War veteran, an amputee, who is currently calling an underpass near the Durham Bulls ballpark his home until he handles his debilitating cocaine addiction, told Monday Monday that he was “honestly surprised” he hadn’t been approached about participating in one of these philanthropies.

“I was an actual army lieutenant who fought in the war,” he said while feeding his dog some roadkill he found in those spooky, non-gentrified parts of Durham. “There’s so much potential there for a great Greek philanthropy event. I’m thinking something in camouflage, or maybe even dodgeball to simulate the bullets I tried to dodge but inevitably couldn’t in the war.”

Written from atop a U-Haul at a darty outside of the Barn.

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Intellectual diversity offers an opportunity for growth to anyone willing to simply listen.

Since the election of President Trump, conversations on the lived experiences of rural white right-wing populist voters have become incredibly patronizing. A fascination, propagated by liberal academics who keep their distance while poking and prodding at residents of “flyover country,” can be remarkably reductive.

These stories, which draw parallels between ultra conservative mothers of four in Kansas and progressive mothers of four Connecticut, remind us of a shared humanity.

Sociologists like Arlie Russell Hochschild must continue to produce compelling narratives of Louisiana Tea Partiers. Likewise, George Packer must continue to write biographies of citizens across the country who have confronted the mortgage crisis and decline of American manufacturing in dramatically different ways.

It is important that the public have access to their writings, which demonstrate how easily common ground can be found between individuals of extremely divergent political views.

But that is not enough. Their literature is not accessible. Close-mindedness permeates liberal academic spaces, where many can boldly criticize echo chambers from the comfort of their own. As a result, individuals along the entire spectrum of political thought suffer from a lack of encounters with diverse modes of intellectual thought.

We need cordiality and we need better listening. We need not mirror the poor comity plaguing Congress and the courts. Rather, we need to redefine what diversity means to us as individuals and communities.

At Duke, redefining diversity entails programs such as the Purple Project launched by the Center for Political Leadership, Innovation and Service (POLIS) this year.

Programs like this encourage students and faculty to discuss area to mitigate political division and equip students to innovate uniting spaces. Importantly, POLIS events are not effective when they exist in an echo chamber. Better outreach and higher student engagement will benefit all.

Another solution is to promote intellectually stimulating discourse between students in a non-academic setting. At Davidson College, College Democrats, College Republicans and College Libertarians, three partisan student organizations, host a highly

visible public debate between their members during every election year.

Davidson College Democrats President Olivia Daniels describes the quadrennial debate as, “an unparalleled opportunity to respectfully debate policies as representatives of our national parties, as per our own research and the official party platforms. The public space allows us to engage and educate other members of our college community on the issues at hand.”

Duke Democrats and Duke College Republicans should similarly hold captivating, visible and more frequent public forums that welcome students voices not represented by either of the two groups. These spaces will allow passionate students to encounter opposing beliefs—a certainly beautiful and rewarding opportunity.

Although debates between the two student groups have been held in the past, they are only timed in relation to election seasons and offer little insight into why students truly feel one way over the other. Future events, and spaces for intellectual engagement generally, should intentionally address these patterns.

In addition to increased student involvement in POLIS and structured programming, there is a lot to be said on the role changes to dayto-day perceptions can play in strengthening a culture of philosophical, religious, political, and ideological diversity on campus.

What if rather than droning to friends at lunch about the immense workload we should be proud to have balanced this semester, we shared opinions on the hegemonic stability theory? In light of recent U.S. military usage of non-nuclear bombs, or any one of the rapidly shifting paradigms of world order, the dialogue is sure to prove enticing and potentially enlightening. And maybe for nonpolitical scientists, it won’t. In that case, choose any one of the billions of topics to discuss— the dialogue will surely be rewarding.

Beyond diversity of political thought, there are multiple arenas of spirituality, fashion, science and even fine-cuisine that eagerly await our discovery. After all, intellect is the capacity of knowledge; it is a power of knowing that encompasses all that is both abstract and not abstract. Political thought is just one example of intellectual diversity.

Look no further than your neighbor to find a litany of unique experiences you have yet to vicariously live through. Borrow their eyes and you will be amazed by all there is to appreciate. Liberal arts institutions are fortified by the opportunities they present for students to simply listen to challenging voices and engage in the long-lost art of debate.

Rather than disregarding criticisms of affirmative action as racist, it is more productive to listen and hence form nuanced lines of questioning that interrogate why one may feel a certain way about affirmative action. Obviously, there are limitations to this reasoning-- you may find yourself dealing with an obdurate and objectively racist individual.

Nonetheless, dialogue plays a formative role in the articulation of intelligible views and understandings.

We are living in extraordinary times.

We offer each other unique challenges to our individual modes of thinking. As we immerse ourselves in a breadth of experiences and opportunities at this cosmopolitan institution, let’s not forget the sacred value of intellectual diversity.

Sabriyya Pate is a Trinity sophomore.

Her column, “in formation,” runs on alternate Mondays.

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Announcement of Nominees

Congratulations to the following students, organizations, faculty, and staff, who have been nominated to receive Duke University’s most prestigious campus-wide honors for student leadership and service. Award recipients and nominees will be celebrated at In The Spotlight on April 20, 2017 5pm, Arts Annex. The event is open to to the Duke community.

Alden Award

Got Caught Leading Award

Christina Williams Kristen Larson Erin Brooks

Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award Lauren Harper Betty Chen Adia Coley Martha Addison Cady

Forever Duke Student Leadership Award Ravenne Aponte Margaret Booz Tori Caldwell Avery Carmichael Namita Kansal Allie Kenny Justin Losciale Chase Moyle Rachael Nedrow Leighanne Oh Elaine Pak Casey Powers Lauren Rosen Madeline Rusch Beth Sercombe Lauren Shum Katrina Slemmons Thamina Stoll Nathan Walker Lacey Wheeler Saintedym Wills Sam Yin Mary Caton Lingold Uzoma Ayogu Sebastian Baquerizo Marcus Benning Emily Boehm Diego Calderon-Arrieta Marie Allende Cornejo Gil Brianna Elliott Dalmacio Flores III Lauren Hagedorn Anjelica Hubbard Abbe LaBella Luis Martinez-Moure Chidinma Nnoromele Jarrett Nobles Hunter Rudd Robert Sinyard Steven Soto

Matthew Kaplan Hope Acuri Charlotte McKay Katherine Perlman Cara O’Malley Madeline Stambler Claire Alexandre Akash Patel Chinemerem Nwosu Gerhard Steven David Frisch Anya Bali Nadia Ford Cole Wicker Mia Carlson Jasmine Syed Ashwin Prakash Brigid Burroughs Isabella Paez Richard Phillips Tanner Lockhead Tommy Klug Kelby Welsh Chelsea Liu Gabriela Asturias Leyla Ates Suman Bajgain Sandra Batakana Brooke Beason Vidit Bhandarkar Ziqi Deng Xinyu (Lucy) Li Chin Jie Lim Jersheng Lin Chelsea Liu Elaine M’Nkubitu Manish Nair Elsie Odero Amanda Sear Adiva Shah Shreya Shankar Maria Suhail Joseph Tan Mathilde Ooi Ashley Claw Taylor Miller Aashna Aggarwal

Julie Anne Levey Memorial Leadership Award Vinit Parekh Jake Hoberg Tyler Wenger Jake Gerard Ivan Robles Maryam Asenuga

Sarah Mumbert Kevin Solomon Yusef Sabra Lucia Helena Mees Elle Deich

Lars Lyon Volunteer Service Award John Bollinger Callan Loflin Spencer Flynn Snehan Sharma Chelsea Liu Anahita Sehgal

STAR Advisor Award Nancy Kelly Jenn Handel Kiah Glenn

Student Affairs Distinguished Leadership and Service Award Jay Rathinavelu Andres Camino Richard Phillips Shivram Chandramouli Dayton Grogan Christina Oliver Gautam Chebrolu Alexandria Miller Robert Vann Lindsey Hallingquest Manish Nair Brittany Mixon Nivedita Karki Sam Yin Sophia Khan

Student Org Line Up

Latin American Students Association Student of the Caribbean Association (SOCA) Singapore Student Association The Girls Club Arts Connect Duke Students with Interracial Legacies (Duke SWIRL) Duke Amandla Chorus Duke Francophone Society Swimming with the Blue Devils Biomedical Engineering Society Graduate Section

Develle Dish National Society of Black Engineers Smart Woman Securities Lambda Omega Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated Center for Race Relations J-Street U Duke DICE (Diverse & Inclusive Community for the Environment)

The William J. Griffith University Service Award Nisarg Shah Nur Cardakli Sydney Speizman Richard Phillips Manish Nair Abigail LaBella Meghan Fox Ocoszio Jackson Natalie Knox Christina Oliver Steven Soto Hala Daou Sonali Biswas Chinyere Amanze Michaela Thornton

Unsung Heroine Mumbi Kanyogo Sabriyya Pate Anya Ranganathan Glenda Dieuveille

WomC Campus

Impact Award Rachel Rubin Elizabeth Barahona Liz Kennedy Mumbi Kanyogo Jessica Van Meir Lauren Sibley Sarah Darwiche Julia Roberts Vihasa Govada Maralis Mercado-Emerson Tangela Blackwell-Stoner Sandra Martha Batakana Alexandria Miller Duke Students Against Gender Violence NC Organizers, Women’s March on Washington Partnership for Appalachian Girls’ Education

For more details, visit https://studentaffairs.duke.edu/ucae/leadership/leadership-service-awards