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Students fight Women’s Center move Sarah Kerman The Chronicle Students gathered Monday to express concerns about the relocation of the Women’s Center from West to East Campus.

As part of the event, which was called “Show the Love to Stop the Move,” students filled the center’s current location near the West Campus bus stop to voice their support for the center to stay put.

It is currently set to move to the Crowell Building on East Campus at the end of the semester. Sophomore Annie Lo, who spoke at the event, noted that a survey created by a group of concerned students has generated more than 400 responses and that a Change.org petition asking Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, not to move the center had more than 617 signatures as of Monday evening. “[The petition] is going to be really important going forward to show administration that there are so many people who care,” Lo said.

Students have expressed a number of concerns on the petition regarding the center’s visibility as well as having support services for survivors of sexual assault moved to

Sophie Turner | The Chronicle and Special to The Chronicle Protestors have expressed concern about recent acts of vandalism, including white supremacist propaganda and the removal of a pride flag.

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A series of recent incidents has raised concerns that protestors and marginalized groups on campus are being threatened.

Two banners and a pride flag were removed early Sunday morning from A-Ville, the collection of tents outside the Allen Building where students have been staging a protest in support of workers’ rights for more than two weeks.

Another pride flag hanging outside

the window of senior Bron Maher’s dorm room in Craven Quadrangle was removed at some point before Thursday morning, and a pride flag his neighbor hung in support was cut down late Saturday night.

“There have been serious concerns about safety,” said Bennett Carpenter, a graduate student in the literature department and columnist for The Chronicle who has been involved in protests outside the Allen Building.

“Three homophobic incidents in a row indicates, in my view, a concerted pattern and possibly a group effort.”

Protestors outside the Allen Building also found a flyer Saturday morning near their tents that they said they believe supports white supremacy.

The flyer, which reads, “Car accidents aren’t racist and neither is Duke University #lookbothways,” is attributed to the Traditionalist Worker Party, a group whose website states that it stands for “faith, family and folk” and that “localism and secessionism” are central to its mission.

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Faculty night criticized for lack of diversity Adam Beyer The Chronicle

Chronicle File Photo The Women’s Center is scheduled to move to the Crowell Building on East Campus.

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Duke’s first “Faculty Night” ignited controversy online when students complained that the only professors attending were white men.

The event at Devil’s Krafthouse was led by Duke University Union and Duke Student Government as an attempt to allow students to interact with professors outside of the classroom. Students engaged in debate on Facebook about the importance of diversity after the attendees were announced.

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sophomore Taylor Panzer, a senator for academic affairs who helped organize the event. “We want to work to make it better in the future and more inclusive.”

Last Wednesday, several students posted on the event’s Facebook page noting the fact that the invited professors were exclusively white and male.

Other students responded and argued, eventually eliciting a response from DUU President Christina Oliver, a junior, thanking commenters for their feedback and saying the organization would examine how faculty are chosen.

“I would like to say that the feedback on the lack of diversity in this even twas entirely merited and productive,” she wrote on the Facebook page.

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Junior Paul Cajamarca, who attended the event, noted that while he did not feel affected by the controversy, he believes the complaints are legitimate.

“I understand the need for diversity at events like this, especially when the average student doesn’t see that much diversity in their own professors,” he said. “It means something to have people from your background studying what you find interesting.”

Freshman Haley Sink noted that she cared about the event’s capacity to allow students to talk with top professors.

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Adjunct faculty union prepares agenda for CBA negotiations Sam Turken The Chronicle Having officially unionized, adjunct faculty members are preparing to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement with the University.

After voting last month for union representation by the Service Employees International Union, approximately 300 non-regular rank, non-tenure track faculty are working to define a set of goals and create a bargaining committee. The union includes adjunct professors and lecturing fellows from the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School and the Center of Documentary Studies.

Duke Teaching First—the organization of contingent faculty that led the unionization effort—has yet to determine when negotiations with University officials will begin. DTF members said they hope to meet with administrators before the spring semester ends and will try to present their demands and negotiate a collective bargaining agreement starting next fall.

“It’s exciting, but there’s a lot going on,” said MJ Sharp, CDS instructor and a member of DTF. “It’s kind of a moving target in terms of the time frame.”

Provost Sally Kornbluth noted that administrators would begin to work with representatives from the union on a collective bargaining agreement in a Duke Today release.

“While we are disappointed not to be able to continue working more directly with our colleagues, we are glad that together we made some advances this past

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year that will impact many of our adjunct faculty,” Kornbluth said in the release.

However, Vice President for Administration Kyle Cavanaugh noted that he expects the “working relationship” between union members and Duke officials to remain the same.

Since voting to unionize, a main priority of DTF has been agreeing on

what the goals of the bargaining unit should be. Sharp said that because adjunct faculty members are from different departments, there are a variety of grievances about job security, teaching resources, benefits and salaries that the union must account for.

DTF has been holding meetings in which union members have expressed

their desires and concerns. Sharp added that DTF has also sent members surveys asking how much they care about issues such as health insurance and compensation for advising and overseeing research. Respondents can also recommend what the priorities of the bargaining committee should be.

“We’re trying to determine what the themes are,” Sharp said. “Even though people may have different specific situations, the underlying theme of those might be the same, whether it’s about job security, or compensation, or research funds availability or whatever it might be.”

Sharp noted that the bargaining unit’s lead negotiator Larry Alcoff, an SEIU representative who was previously involved with unionization efforts at Tufts University, has been helpful in identifying common concerns.

Matteo Gillebi, a lecturing fellow in the department of romance studies and another DTF representative, said that union members are also determining who will participate in the bargaining process.

If more faculty are present at negotiation meetings, school officials may feel greater pressure to meet DTF’s demands and reach an agreement, he noted.

“It’s going to be a little time-consuming for people,” Gillebi noted. “They have to be there on their free time. So we need a lot of people who could just go for an hour or two hours to a bargaining meeting. The more people, the easier it will be to build this dialogue with the administration.”

In addition to forming the bargaining committee, DTF wants to encourage See UNION on Page 4

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DUSDAC considers next Ventures names new director year’s food truck options Office of Licensing and Staff Reports The Chronicle Robin Rasor has been selected as new director of the Office of Licensing and Ventures, which facilitates the process of patenting and licensing inventions by faculty and students.

Rasor, who will begin July 1, currently holds a similar position at the University of Michigan, where she is the managing director of licensing in its Office of

Special to The Chronicle Robin Rasor will take over as director of the Office of Licensing and Ventures July 1.

Technology Transfer. She will succeed Rose Ritts, who was director of Duke’s OLV for nine years but left the position in August 2015 to become executive vice president of innovation at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.

Barry Myers, professor of biomedical engineering and former managing direct of OLV, has served as interim executive director.

“The goal is to put Duke’s licensing efforts on par with its excellence in research and so many other areas,” Rasor said in a Duke Today release.

“When people think about startups and licensing and efficient technology transfer, I want Duke to also be on the tip of their tongues.”

Under Rasor’s leadership, the University of Michigan’s licensing office reached 164 licensing agreements and was awarded 159 patents in the 2015 fiscal year.

“Robin will be a great partner for Duke’s entrepreneurial community,” Provost Sally Kornbluth said in the release. “She has an infectious enthusiasm for interacting with faculty and students, helping to foster the development and commercialization of new technologies, and guiding inventors through the complex process of bringing their discoveries to the public.”

Rasor previously served as director of licensing at Ohio State University and worked with Battelle Columbus

Frances Beroset The Chronicle American Meltdown, Taco Grande and Soomsoom Pita Pockets are under consideration as possible additions to the campus food truck rotation next year.

In its meeting Monday night, Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee discussed future options for the Merchants-on-Points vendors and food trucks, based on the results of student surveys following the food truck rodeo last Tuesday. The committee is leaning toward choosing American Meltdown, as junior Emily Cohen noted that the grilled cheese food truck is

a “crowdpleaser,” given its favorable reviews among Durham residents and students who responded to the survey.

However, the committee also noted that many venues on campus, including Cafe Edens and Divinity Cafe, already serve grilled cheese.

The online survey—in which students were asked to rank their favorite and least favorite current food trucks, new food trucks and current MOPs—generated approximately 500 responses. The trucks that were featured at the rodeo, which students could also rate, were American Meltdown, Baozi, Dusty Donuts, Soomsoom Pita Pockets, See DUSDAC on Page 4

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2015 grad Joseph Wu wins Gates-Cambridge Scholarship applicants competed for 90 scholarships, 35 of which were awarded to students in the United States and 55 of which were given to The Chronicle students studying outside the U.S. Joseph Wu, Trinity ‘15, is one of 55 Wu graduated magna cum laude from international recipients of the 2016 Gates- Duke last year and received a bachelor’s Cambridge Scholarship, the University degree in philosophy with minors in biology announced Monday. and chemistry.

The Gates-Cambridge Scholarship He said he plans to pursue a Ph.D. in allows recipients to pursue a full-time history and the philosophy of science at postgraduate degree at the University of the University of Cambridge beginning Cambridge and covers tuition and living this Fall. expenses. Scholars are selected based on “I’m interested in the philosophy outstanding intellectual ability, leadership of biology and bioethics. My proposed potential and a commitment to improving research will examine the nature of the lives of others. This year, 3,730 causation and explanation in cancer biology, and attempt to develop a theory of explanation appropriate for cancer science,” Wu said in a Duke Today release.

“I’m also interested in researching theories of well-being and the ethics of emerging medical technologies.”

At Duke, Wu worked with Jennifer Zhang, associate professor in dermatology, to conduct research using mouse models to uncover the mechanisms controlling the cell cycle. He also completed a thesis titled “Pluralism and the Levels of Selection in Cancer.”

“Joseph Wu is the kind of student faculty fight each other to teach. I was lucky to work with him on his honors thesis here at Duke. Some day I’ll be able to say I knew him when,” said Alex Rosenberg, R. Taylor Cole professor of philosophy, in the release.

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other faculty members to become involved in the negotiation process.

Gillebi said that several of the 29 faculty members who voted against union representation during the elections have become more willing to participate in DTF’s bargaining efforts.

Although adjunct faculty at several universities—including Tufts, Georgetown University and the University of Chicago—have negotiated collective bargaining agreements, DTF has not tried to base its efforts on other college union campaigns. Sharp said members’ concerns about working conditions are unique to Duke and do not relate to the bargaining campaigns at other schools.

“Every situation is really a custom job,” Sharp said. “Duke is a very particular institution with things that are really great and things that we want to change.”

However, Gillebi acknowledged that he and other DTF members have had to learn about the different nuances of bargaining and managing a union.

For example, he said he only recently became aware that because North Carolina is a “right-to-work” state, employees are not required to join a union or pay union dues as a condition of employment.

Gillebi and Sharp said that they are hopeful that the bargaining committee and administration will reach an agreement. Gillebi added that at the end of the day, both sides have “the same goal in mind: better working conditions for teachers and researchers, that will result in better learning conditions for students.”

Taco Grande, CJ’s Street Food—an Asian fusion truck—and Cuban truck Qspresso.

Of the current food trucks, ParlezVous Crepe, Gussy’s Greek Street Food and Belgian Waffle Crafters were most highly rated by students. Mixed Korean, Deli-icious and Chirba Chirba Dumpling Truck were among the lower-performing trucks, according to the survey.

Although some committee members noted that Deli-icious is a good option for students who want a healthier food truck, the opening of West Union may change the demand for such a truck.

“Next year there are hopefully going to be more healthy options,” sophomore Julia Leuchtenburg said.

The committee discussed potentially changing the number of days certain food trucks come and negotiating with the lower-performing food trucks to only come one day per week rather than two.

DUSDAC also considered which MOP to add to their current open slot, although they noted that there were not many vendors who were interested in joining the program.

According to the survey results, the most popular offerings among current MOPs are Sushi Love, Enzo’s, Mediterra Grill, Domino’s and Jimmy John’s.

The students on the committee were optimistic that next year’s opening of West Union will make the MOP decisions easier.

“I’d rather decide [which MOP to add] in August and have it be right, than decide now and potentially have it be wrong,” junior Nelson Winrow said.

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Victor Ye | The Chronicle Professors Peter Feaver and Bill Adair participated in the Faculty Night event at Devil’s Krafthouse Monday.

FACULTY NIGHT from page 1 the opportunity to meet people who are at the top of their field, people shouldn’t see the race part of it,” Sink said. “I think it should be by what they’ve accomplished.”

About 30 students attended the event along with four professors—Peter Feaver, professor of political science and public policy; Bill Adair, Knight professor of the practice of journalism and public policy; Lewis Blake, associate professor of the practice of mathematics; and Christopher Roy, associate professor of the practice of chemistry.

The event will be part of a lineup of programming sponsored by Downtown

Duke, a DUU committee working to create programs for the new West Campus Union space. Thursday evenings are trivia nights at the Krafthouse, and karaoke nights take place Fridays.

The organizers explained that there are still some issues to work out but that they surveyed attendees to plan for future events next semester.

Panzer noted that students can submit suggestions for invitations to certain faculty members.

“We’re hoping that Monday [Faculty Night events] will be where students can engage with faculty members in a really laid back setting that doesn’t take as much manpower as Flunching or Finvite might take,” Panzer said.

only Women’s Center interns would be allowed into the space. However, after students explained that they were not planning to remain indefinitely, Airall and Sue Wasiolek, assistant vice president for student affairs and dean of students, allowed students to enter the space and proceed with the event as planned.

Wasiolek noted that the initial confusion was due to a tweet by the Duke Students and Workers in Solidarity Twitter account encouraging students to “pack” the Women’s Center.

“There was a tweet that went out that said ‘pack the Women’s Center,’ and I think that certainly lends itself to a number of different interpretations,” she said. “In an abundance of caution, we were here to make sure that everything was safe.”

the same building where student conduct hearings—including sexual misconduct cases—take place.

Several student speakers echoed these concerns at the Monday night event. Attendees were encouraged to sign a banner and cards in support of keeping the Women’s Center on West Campus, which Lo said will be presented to administrators.

Sophomore Alice Reed, who spoke at the event, noted that the new East Campus location would feel less like home because it is a more academic setting and less accessible.

“We want the support services for survivors of gender violence to be very visible,” she said. “To me moving the Women’s Center to a back building on East Campus feels like the University is trying to sweep its problems under the rug.”

Reed added that the center’s current location in Few dormitory provides visibility for freshmen yet also maintains a certain level of confidentiality, because it is difficult to tell whether someone is going to the center or to the dorms.

Senior Julia Dunn, who helped organize the “Breaking Out” photo exhibit featuring stories from sexual assault survivors, explained that the Women Center’s current space has fostered positive relationships—bonds that she wants to continue for future students.

“I hope we can continue to be here and that I can come back as an alumni and come back to this space,” Dunn said.

Chronicle File Photo Zoila Airall, assistant vice president Dean Sue Wasiolek eventually let students of student affairs for campus life, into the Women’s Center Monday76251 after initial told students prior to the event that confusion about the event.

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BLUE DEVILS TRY TO REBOUND ‘It just won’t Duke will look to take the season series with Liberty Tuesday night Ryan Hoerger The Chronicle

Duke and No. 1 Miami took turns crushing balls all over downtown Durham this weekend in a three-game series that included 42 runs on 59 hits.

But offense might be at a premium Tuesday as the Blue Devils head back out on the road.

Duke travels to Lynchburg, Va., to take on Liberty in the third meeting between the two teams, with first pitch scheduled for 6 p.m. at Liberty Duke Baseball Stadium. vs.

The Flames beat Saturday starter Liberty Trent Swart and the Blue Devils TUESDAY, 6 p.m.

Liberty Baseball Stadium in a 1-0 duel back in February in a neutral-site contest, but Duke evened the season series three weeks ago, besting Liberty 6-1 at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

In that March 29 contest, six Blue Devil pitchers combined to fan 10 Flames hitters as part of a stretch during which Duke won six of seven games.

Duke head coach Chris Pollard said after Sunday’s 9-0 loss to the Hurricanes that he would take the same approach on the road, splitting up the game between a

feel the same’

Graduate student Kellen Urbon has been the Blue Devils’ mid-week starter for most of the season, but has been splitting Saturdays on the bump with Swart for the past two weeks. Urbon did not pitch against the Flames (20-17) but boasts a 2.24 ERA—the best on the team among hurlers with at least 25 innings

Last year at this time, Duke fans were still basking in the glory of a national championship. Although Tyus Jones, Jahlil Okafor and Justise Winslow had already announced their departures for the NBA draft and would never play another game in a Duke uniform, their names were forever etched into the minds of the Blue Devil faithful as heroes for their magical work in Indianapolis.

About filling their spots? Not to worry— within three weeks of defeating Wisconsin, Duke secured the commitments of fivestar recruits Brandon Ingram and Derryck Thornton to lock in the No. 1 ranked recruiting class for the second straight year. The smiles of Duke fans returned as they envisioned Thornton stepping into the shoes of Jones and orchestrating the offense, one centered around Ingram and his versatility creating nightmares for opposing defenses.

This time around, the picture is not all that different. The Cameron Crazies celebrated the outcome of the national championship—albeit because of a crushing North Carolina loss, not a Duke

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Kristen Shortley | The Chronicle Freshman Jimmy Herron enters Tuesday looking to extend his 12-game hitting streak and his team-leading .324 average at the plate.

small army of pitchers to keep relievers fresh with a road series at Virginia Tech looming this weekend.

“A lot of guys will throw an inning apiece—maybe a handful of guys might throw two,” Pollard said. “A lot of guys are going to throw one inning to get ready for the weekend and then we’re going to shuffle our rotation this weekend.”

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David Reeves saves special night for high school student Seth Johnson The Chronicle When Blue Devil fans recall tight end David Reeves, they are likely to remember a towering, 6-foot-5 bruiser barreling down the gridiron against opposing defenses as a part of one of the winningest senior classes in Duke history. Reeves caught 47 passes for 367 yards and seven touchdowns in his career, and became the first Blue Devil in program history to record touchdown receptions in multiple bowl games.

But success on the field does not define David Reeves. Instead, it is his heart off the field that makes a lasting impression.

On April 6, Reeves received a phone call asking if he would be willing to escort Jasmine Bagley, a high school student, to her senior prom the following Saturday night.

Jasmine, who is in her third year battling leukemia, wanted to have a special night at her prom, a wish that was being granted by the Meg’s Smile Foundation. But her initial commitment had canceled on short notice, leaving her without a date.

And that’s where Duke’s redshirt

senior came in.

“It was kind of short notice but luckily I was able to find a tux in time to be dressed appropriately for the prom,” Reeves said. “My initial reaction was I was a little shocked, a little surprised at first, because for one I didn’t really know what to expect as far as a high school prom goes…. After I decided to go ahead and go through, I put that aside and was able to realize that however I felt was worth it because she needed to have a good day because she had already been stood up.”

Reeves agreed to grant the wish for Jasmine and help out Meg’s Smile, a foundation devoted to giving “smiles” to young children in North Carolina that are battling serious illnesses. Founded by Jim and Terri Wasley in memory of their daughter Meg—who passed away from a brain tumor at the age of eight in January 2011—the foundation’s goal is to create smile-worthy events designed around the child’s interest and physical capabilities to make the day as special as possible.

Meg’s Smile has strong connections with Duke—Meg was treated at Duke Children’s Hospital and was supported by the Blue Devil See REEVES on Page 9

Jack White | Chronicle File Photo Tight end David Reeves made his impact felt off the field when he took high school student Jasmine Bagley to her senior prom.

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Jack White | The Chronicle Catcher Chris Proctor was 2-for-4 in Duke’s 12-5 win Saturday against Miami and is batting .302 on the season.

BASEBALL from page 6 pitched—that could put him in line for more work on the weekend.

Duke (20-17) will start redshirt sophomore James Ziemba against Liberty for the second time this season. Ziemba has seen much of his action as a reliever and currently holds a 3.18 ERA in 22 2/3 innings. In his March ouing against the Flames, the southpaw struck our three batters in two scoreless innings.

Ziemba and the Blue Devil pitchers will have to keep Liberty’s D.J. Artis off the base paths. The leadoff hitter leads the Flames with a scorching

.381 batting average and has swiped 16 bases—good for third in the Big South—on 18 attempts. Artis sets the table for the heart of the Liberty order and first baseman Andrew Yacyk, who has clubbed six homers and driven in 34 runs.

Artis and Yacyk went a combined 0-for-6 with one walk and one hit by pitch against Duke at the DBAP— the Flames managed just three hits as a team. But Liberty is much more dangerous at home, posting a 14-5 record within the friendly confines of its home park compared to a 3-11 road record.

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bats in the middle of their lineup. They are a lot better at home—you look at their winning percentage at home [and] they’ve played a lot better in that ballpark. Their offense is kind of tailored to that ballpark so we’ve got our hands full,” Pollard said. “Those are the kind of midweek games that make you better, playing against those type of opponents.

They’re a team that’s been to a regional two out of the last three years. They’re a veteran club, so we’ll be tested in the midweek and that’s what helps get you get ready for the weekend.”

In the other dugout, Duke has put together quality at-bats with the consistency that it lacked early in the season, a sign of a young team beginning to figure things out. Although that did not translate to the scoreboard Friday and Sunday against Miami—when the Blue Devils were outscored 23-2— Pollard said he was pleased with the resolve of his lineup, which featured three freshmen and five sophomores in the series finale.

Those three rookies—Jimmy Herron, Zack Kone and Chris Proctor—lead Duke in batting average, and Herron extended his hitting streak to 12 games with a pair of base knocks from the leadoff spot Sunday. Proctor has delivered timely hits from farther down in the order this season and Kone launched his first career home run Saturday as part of a 7-for-12 weekend. “[Herron is] a tremendous competitor. He’s got a football mentality out there on the baseball field,” Pollard said. “I would add Chris Proctor into the mix as well—they’re all playing

really well for us.”

Liberty’s pitching staff sports a team ERA of 4.64, but it is unlikely the Blue Devils will see either of the Flames’ top two arms—Evan Mitchell or Victor Cole—during the mid-week contest.

Cole surrendered just one hit in five scoreless innings in Liberty’s shutout win against Pollard’s squad Feb. 27 in Myrtle Beach, S.C. After trying to take the season series from the Flames, Duke will head to Blacksburg, Va., to take on the Hokies, continuing to fight an uphill battle to get back into the thick of things in the ACC. Mitchell Gladstone contributed reporting.

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COLUMN from page 6 victory—and can sleep well at night with yet another top recruiting class on the way to Durham in the fall.

And once again, those highly touted recruits from the previous year will not be back. Ingram, as expected, took advantage of his unique skill set and solid tournament performance to enter the NBA draft, where he is likely to be one of the top two selections come June. The Kinston, N.C., native is now the seventh one-and-done in the past six years to use Durham as a pit stop on his way to NBA riches.

Thornton, in a less anticipated move, is leaving Durham for a different reason altogether—in his words, “to pursue the opportunity to play college basketball closer to home.” This marks the third straight season the Blue Devils have had a player transfer out of the program, with Thornton featuring much more prominently on the floor than fellow transfers Alex Murphy and Semi Ojeleye.

Maybe Thornton—who less than 12 months ago reclassified to the Class of 2015 to come play for Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski—truly missed the West Coast and felt more comfortable there.

At first glance, it doesn’t seem to add up that such a talented player would want to transfer after averaging more than 25 minutes per game as a freshman. With plenty of opportunities to grow in the next three seasons under the guidance of one of the nation’s elite coaching staffs, Thornton could have taken his game to the next level.

Khloe Kim | The Chronicle Guard Derryck Thornton played a prominent role for the Blue Devils this season, but opted to transfer with an eye on playing closer to home.

Maybe Thornton saw the writing on the wall—with Grayson Allen coming back for his junior season, the addition of five-star combo guard Frank Jackson and holdovers Matt Jones and Luke Kennard, the Duke backcourt will be very crowded in 201617. The Blue Devils won’t need to play as many guards as they did this year, thanks to one more year from team captain Amile Jefferson, swingman Jayson Tatum and the 6-foot-9, 230-pound frame of No. 1 recruit Harry Giles bolstering the frontcourt. Throw in the potential commitment of five-star center Marques Bolden—who remains split on his decision—and the Blue Devils would

be squeezed for both scholarship spots and playing time.

The other school Bolden has supposedly narrowed his choice down to? Kentucky, a program that Duke is converging toward at an alarmingly fast rate, if it has not reached that level already. It may have once seemed inconceivable to mention the Blue Devils and the Wildcats in the same sentence without “rivals” thrown in somewhere, but now the similarities between the two are undeniable. Recruit the very best talent in the country, and disregard the fact that some of those players have no intentions of staying for more than one season, because

there will always be another wave of fivestar high school recruits hungry to follow in their footsteps.

There’s nothing in the rules against this, of course. It’s just a philosophical choice on how to best build a winning team year in and year out, and it’s hard to argue that it doesn’t work when you can recruit as well as Krzyzewski and John Calipari do. Duke and Kentucky have claimed three of the past six national championships, and were contenders in the years they did not.

But it’s certainly not the only way to construct a championship-caliber squad. The last two national runner-ups, Wisconsin and North Carolina, are perfect examples of wellbalanced teams that matured together over the course of multiple seasons. They became great teams not necessarily because of great talent—and this is not to say those teams lacked individual skill—but rather due to an ability to become more, collectively, than the sum of their parts. That ability is not recruited, and not one that can be cultivated in nine months.

Ultimately, both of those teams fell just short of the championship peak. They came agonizingly close, and truly were deserving of a national title. The Duke fan in me was happy to see those teams fall, but my inner sports fan was certainly not.

As mercurial as Thornton was on the court this season—the seemingly endless stream of midrange jumpers and head-scratching mental mistakes mixed in with the occasional and tantalizing, ‘How did he just do that?’ play—I was sad to see him leave. Are the Blue Devils going to be noticeably worse next season because he’s gone? Probably not. But it just won’t feel the same.

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With Grody’s help, Wasley set up Reeves for his date with Jasmine, help him get a tuxedo and pick him up at his home in Durham before driving an hour and a half to Roanoke Rapids, N.C., for Jasmine’s special Saturday night.

“I haven’t personally [worked with Meg’s Smile before]. I know that the team had through George at the children’s hospital,” Reeves said. “I had heard of it, but I had never had the chance to meet Jim Wasley, who is the founder of it. I got a chance to talk to him the entire ride up to Roanoke Rapids.”

And once Reeves and Wasley arrived to pick up Jasmine, the two were met by a thrilled young lady ready for her big night.

“She just lit up. She was excited,” Reeves said. “I knew that this was a big, big event for her and I could tell that she looked like—I could tell the sense of excitement…. She also said that she didn’t expect me to be so tall, which was kind of a funny moment.”

Although Reeves was five years removed from his own senior prom and said he was initially worried about the age difference, the Greensboro, Ala., native said that the event went off without a hitch. Reeves and Bagley went out to dinner before the dance, took pictures together and then spent the rest of the evening dancing the night away.

When asked how it compared to his own senior prom, Reeves said that it was not his place to find his own fun, but instead about Jasmine enjoying her night and having the memory of her “smile.”

In the end, Jasmine did smile. But although it was her big day, she may have made a bigger impression on Reeves that will last forever.

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uke’s place as an athletic powerhouse is inextricably tied to its reputation as a university. As a relatively young university, Duke’s swift ascent to the highest echelons of elite colleges has oft been attributed to its assertive dominance on the literal playing field (or court) during the early 1990s, which translated into an exponential growth in the number of applications for undergraduate admission. Today, Duke has been established as an undeniably excellent center of academics with consistent increases in applications regardless of success or scandal in athletic pursuits. Considering that, today we will examine the nature of sports at Duke and the position of the athletes who compete in them. We will especially seek to answer questions of what sports add and detract to Duke and whether student athletes benefit from or are benefited from by the university.

Focusing on what sports add to Duke, it should be noted that the association between sports and universities is a uniquely American tradition. At European universities of similar caliber there is no such association. One possible reason for that is that students at European universities rarely reside on a campus; most are commuters. At an institution like Duke, in contrast, where a huge

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body of diverse students live together, university athletics contribute positively to the student body by bringing diverse communities together under a common allegiance and cause: to cheer on the team. Sports and athletes in general also add a special element to the Duke student body. Just like the violin virtuoso who practices for four hours a day or the dance diva who devotes enormous studio time to their art, student athletes bring their own brand of unique, hardworking mastery

Editorial to the campus, adding yet another layer to the rich diversity Duke aspires to have.

Addressing the question of who benefits from the relationship between athletes and the university, it appears that for the most part, both parties do. Although athletes at other institutions occasionally fail to benefit from the scholastic part of the university experience, athletes at Duke participate in the same rigorous academic programs as every other student—they are the university’s economics majors, its philosophers and its pre-med hopefuls. The vast majority of student athletes at Duke do not compete in their sports

because they feel exploited into doing so as many critics claim. Rather, they love the sport they play and relish the opportunity to earn a scholarship for competing in that sport while studying at a world class university. As to whether the university profits unfairly off of its athletes, that seems unlikely.

While two Duke sports—basketball and football— turn profits, much of that money indubitably goes towards funding the other 24 varsity sports.

Moving forward, Duke could take advantage of its unique athletics situation in two ways. First, with a high percentage of academically successful student athletes, Duke might be uniquely poised to prepare future leaders in fields such as sports management, sports media, kinesthesiology and other sports related fields of study not currently offered. Duke has the framework in place to develop as a center of excellence for the academic and rigorous study of athletics as intellectual and economic structures and ought to strike forward with the effort. Secondly, on a broader point, the university could leverage its strong reputation to push for reforms nationally that would bring athletes at other institutions the same academic opportunities that are stressed for them at Duke.

Duke athletes are role models both on and off the court, and we hope to see that continue.

Pressuring vs. coercing higher wages

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n April 6, Duke Students and Workers in Solidarity demanded a series of improvements to the treatment of university employees, which include a gradual increase to the minimum wage these employees can be paid. I believe that the members of DSWS do not completely understand the benefits (yes, the benefits) their movement has over other minimum wage movements (such as the Fight for 15) that they support and seek to emulate.

DSWS’s request has many salient differences with the larger movement to increase federal and state minimum wages. The former involves

social costs, while those who are precariously close to being unprofitable will prefer to bear the social costs (as long as these don’t translate into economic costs as individuals refrain from purchasing their goods and services). It is partly for this reason that social norms are often more effective than centralized legislature in dealing with problems such as inequity.

Another concern about increasing the minimum wage is that firms may increase their prices in response. This is particularly troublesome since often the customer base of the companies who employ many minimum-

Julian Keely INDIVIDUALS AND INSTITUTIONS a group of individuals seeking to pressure—with protests and other actions meant to provoke moral indignation—a single institution into voluntarily increasing the wages it pays employees. On the other hand, the latter seeks to give some level of government the power to coercively prevent a category of voluntary transactions, namely, the sale of an individual’s labor services at a price below the minimum wage. Thus, while the former approach recognizes and appeals to freedom of choice, the latter restricts it.

Besides the moral difference between DSWS’s request and movements to increase the government-mandated minimum wage on a deontological level, there are also important consequential differences. Indeed, many of the dangers that arise from an increase in the legal minimum wage are not relevant to DSWS’s approach. For instance, an indiscriminate increase in the minimum wage may threaten the existence of firms who cannot pay their employees the legal wage and operate at a profit. However, deploying social pressure for higher wages rather than government coercion results in greater respect for employers’ specific circumstances. An employer operating at a sizeable profit margin is likely to be willing to accept a profit decrease in order to avoid

wage employees, such as Wal-Mart, is made up largely of low-income families. However, should Duke need to increase its revenue in response to the higher costs from wages it pays its employees, the burden will fall largely (though not entirely) on wealthy families who pay full tuition and give large donations that allow the university to remain operational. Thus, this particular wage increase could have redistributive effects that most will view as desirable.

Just as an employer should be free to pay any wage that his employees are willing to accept, individuals should be free to protest and threaten to “take their business elsewhere” in order to pressure firms and institutions towards what they judge to be more ethical conduct. Unfortunately, the individuals who choose to exert this power are likely to be the same ones who support large increases to government mandated minimum wages without any consideration of their consequences. I want to urge the members of DSWS—should they be successful in achieving higher wages—to take note of the benefits of selective pressure over indiscriminate coercion.

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s spring semester comes to a close, every class at Duke undergoes a certain set of realizations. The seniors realize that graduation is no longer a hypothetical goal, the juniors realize that they’re a year away from graduation, the sophomores realize that Duke is half-way over and the freshmen must deal with the fact that they’re not freshmen anymore.

As a sophomore, I was totally blind-sided when someone called

is working toward; I just want to stay here and enjoy it now. It’s funny that I feel the pressure of Duke ending so acutely, especially since my junior and senior friends always tell me how much time I have and how lucky I am.

While my desperation over the idea of leaving Duke may seem to indicate I have nothing but love for this great institution, there are certainly some caveats. After two years I have experienced enough on campus to know that Duke isn’t perfect. As an

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As I read about all the protests and progressive causes of the moment (many of which I support), I find myself pondering some big questions: What is the goal of all this? Are we going to be striving for “progress” forever? When is enough enough?

Some might argue that this is an unproductive line of thinking—that given

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me a “rising junior” the other day. I have access to calendars and watches and other time-tracking devices, so it really shouldn’t have been such a shocking revelation that this semester is coming to a close. There were many signs of spring such as the hordes of people coming for Blue Devil Days, the excitement over Old Duke and the discussion of final exams and papers in my classes. Of course, I chose to ignore all of them and have continued to live in blissful ignorance—hoping that I somehow won’t have to come to terms with reality.

But alas, reality has sunk in, and I have realized that when this semester is over, half of my Duke experience will be over with it. For some reason, that fills me with fear and anxiety. I don’t really know why, but I can’t imagine myself without Duke.

When I came to campus, I had this creeping sense of urgency. As a freshman, I believed that I had to quickly throw myself into the lifeblood of this University so I wouldn’t get lost. I had to take classes in areas I knew nothing about, join lots of clubs and organizations, make new friends and truly take advantage of everything Duke has to offer.

Now, as a rising junior, I don’t want to rush anymore. I admit that the sense of urgency I brought to my first few semesters is the reason I was able to figure out what I wanted to major in and what I was passionate about. But now I just want to have some time to soak in all of those things. I’ve realized how fast it all goes, and I don’t want to rush into figuring out what my life

institution, we have a lot of growth to do. However, I think that part of being a student is accepting that you are a part of something bigger than just yourself and learning that we as students shape our university to be what we want.

Finishing sophomore year is bittersweet. On one hand, I am blown away by how much I have had the chance to grow. I’ve met the most driven, accomplished and caring people. I’ve taken classes from brilliant and humble professors. I’ve found academic areas that I am genuinely excited about. I’ve explored Durham and Duke and made myself a home.

On the other hand, I know that I have just two more years to soak all of this in. I am terrified at the prospect of not being here around these amazing people. I am scared that without Duke, I will lose a core piece of my identity and my passion.

The good news is that I have two more years. While we can’t slow down time, we can certainly be thoughtful about how we want to spend our Duke experience. I have wasted weeks at a time, where I didn’t get lunch with the people I should have or stayed in the library longer than was really necessary. The chance to appreciate and soak in Duke really comes from your mindset. I will take this as a reminder to continue to appreciate what I have here and to build on the connections and relationships that make Duke so special to me.

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all the problems facing the world it is premature to pose such questions. If you are in that camp, please bear with me.

Last week there was a brouhaha on Facebook over the Duke Faculty Night.

Some people felt that DUU did not exercise due diligence by failing to select a diverse group of professors. As I read over the debate, I found myself both supportive of increased diversity and wondering about the endgame.

Are we going to demand inclusion until every event looks like a corporate stock photo or Justin Trudeau’s cabinet?

What happens then? Once we reach some threshold for inclusiveness, are we going to sit back and celebrate—or are we going to identify a new group that needs support, on and on ad infinitum?

How about another issue: inequality.

At what point is the income and wealth distribution “fair”—is it when it resembles our perceived “just” allocation? If we were to magically redistribute everything, what would happen? Would envy cease? Would people be satisfied with what they had? Or would human nature kick in, leading the drama to start over?

What about disease? Are we going to invest more and more in treatment so that people live ever longer? How long is long enough?

How do we support all those people?

I could continue this for any issue people are working to solve, be it climate change, international development, conservation, bigotry and so forth.

Here’s the conclusion I’ve reached: no progress will ever be ultimately “sufficient.”

There is always going to be an issue that demands attention.

In fact, solving one problem often creates another. Treating disease leads to population increase, leading to greater food requirements and increased environmental pressure. Empowering certain groups often means removing privileges from others, leading to resentment and political conflict. And so on and so forth. It truly seems as though Newton’s Third Law is at play underneath it all.

When faced with this reality—that we are never going to create a utopia on earth—I see people take two routes: some fight ever harder, and others rationalize the status quo. The former can lead to an exhausting state of constant conflict with the world, while the latter lends itself to an irrational fear of change and an implacable

yearning for the “good old days.”

Both responses are dysfunctional.

In one case, the goal of “progress” can become so supreme that people carelessly sacrifice their freedom and create new forms of oppression. In the other, a stolid unwillingness to budge leads to reactionary violence. Of course, both perspectives fuel an “us versus them” mentality that leads to the persecutory narratives we see coming from the right and the left.

It doesn’t have to be this way. It’s said that a child strives for perfection believing

they can attain it, while an adult works toward it knowing they never will. I concur.

The question then becomes this: how can I work toward a better world without falling into the trap of constantagitation or blind bias for the status quo?

I don’t have an ultimate answer.

However, I’ve found it useful to practice active acceptance of the world as it is.

To many people, “acceptance” is synonymous with passivity, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. For me, it is an active process. It involves dropping all of my internal resistance to a situation and then searching for a solution. It means I do what I can, but I do not carry the weight of the outcome on my shoulders. I become one agent in a large system, responsible only for doing my part.

I find that when I cannot accept something (Donald Trump, “SJWs,” political correctness, etc.), I feel enormous internal turmoil. I become agitated, obsessive, even aggressive. I become unable to respond and do what’s necessary; instead, I react. I often make things worse.

Accepting a problematic situation does not mean that I’m condoning it or resigning myself to its inevitability. It simply means that I have let go of my intense inner refusal. I allow it to be and then honestly ask myself, “what can I do?” If I can do something, I do it with as few expectations as possible. If I can do nothing, I try to let it go. There’s no point in being miserable because of whatever is wrong today; the world has always had its problems.

This is obviously easier said than done.

There is a lot going on right now that would test the acceptance of a Zen Master. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. I’m going to make more of an effort to practice this in my own life. I’m going to try harder to actively accept the world we live in, rather than demand the perfect world I want. I will work toward building a perfect society, knowing that I’ll never live to see it.

This is the attitude I will try to adopt. If you’re as frequently troubled by the world as I am, I’d encourage you to test this out in your own life. See how this perspective works for you.

Thank you for reading my column this semester.

Ted Yavuzkurt is a Trinity senior. This is his final column. If you have a comment for him, he can be reached at tdy@duke.edu.

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Junior Carolyn Yao and sophomore Jazmynne Williams, who participated in the Allen Building sit-in, said they were in the tents outside the Allen Building when the flag and banners were torn down.

“It was around 4 in the morning when I woke up and heard some voices, and I assumed it was someone coming back to sleep,” Williams said. “We found out in the morning that one of the pride flags was gone. We couldn’t find that one although we did recover the two banners, which were in the trash.”

Yao wrote in an email that she saw a running figure when she came out of the tent she was sleeping in.

She wrote that one of the banners torn down was the second A-Ville demands checklist banner because the first one was also stolen but not recovered.

“We want to emphasize that banner stealing and flag cutting are reiterated crimes, and are following a concerning pattern,” Yao wrote. “We have to wonder whether there are members of the Duke community—potentially students—who are organizing these hate crimes.”

Williams noted that the flyer being found and the removal of the banners and pride flags occurred within 24 hours of each other.

“I want to believe they were two isolated incidents, but even if they were, then it’s still very strange and very threatening,” Williams said.

Williams also criticized the administration for not immediately responding to the incidents and expressed doubt that the perpetrators would be caught.

Sue Wasiolek, associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students, and Zoila Airall, associate vice president for campus life, sent an email to students Monday night addressing the recent incidents.

“Over the past five days, LGBTQ+ pride flags have been stolen, defaced, and hateful messages have been

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written on personal property,” the email reads. “These acts, while often viewed as small and insignificant, have a huge impact on members of the LGBTQ+ community and are not condoned on our campus.”

Maher, who is also a columnist for The Chronicle, said that he was not exactly certain when the flag outside his window was removed.

“There’s a lot of uncertainty about when it was torn down because I don’t exactly know the last time I saw it up,” he explained. ““It was definitely gone

by Thursday, and my guess is that it was taken down Wednesday night.”

Maher noted that although he does not have any indication as to who removed the flag, he was encouraged by the fact that a number of pride flags were hung from neighboring windows in Mirecourt section after his was torn down.

Carpenter said that he and other students filed incident reports regarding the torn down flags and the pamphlet, but added that protestors have not filed a report with the Duke University Police Department because they do not trust the department.

“One of the things that is troubling about this situation is that we’ve been out there protesting DUPD for several weeks for their complicity in forms of institutional cover-up,” he said. “We have been subjected to continual, very aggressive forms of surveillance and harassment by DUPD. One concern many students have is that we no longer have trust in those mechanisms in place that are ostensibly designed to protect our safety.”

Wasiolek said that she found out about both the torn down flags and banners as well as the flyer when incident reports were filed Sunday night.

“Those incident reports have been filed and we will do all we can to identify the perpetrators,” she said.

Wasiolek added, however, that the protestors’ reluctance to contact DUPD could hinder attempts to find the perpetrators because only the police could conduct a criminal investigation.

Maher noted that although the removal of his flag— which he said he first hung in November after freshman Jack Donahue received a death threat—was symbolic, it was not the most extreme example of homophobia he had experienced.

He said that he and his friends have had homophobic slurs directed at them on and off campus, and added that many LGBTQ students had been threatened both verbally and physically at Shooters II Saloon.

“This year I’ve come to understand that this stuff is built up, that there is an environment that produces this hatred,” Maher said. “I’ve had people call me a faggot to my face and not to my face, and I’ve listened as their friends haven’t said anything to correct them.”

Maher added that the recent vandalism—which he said seems to be “kind of in vogue for campus bigots”— is representative of a larger cultural problem at the University.

“I think a lot of it is on students to address this issue,” he said. “It’s about how you treat other people and how you react to other people.”

OLV DIRECTOR from page 3 Laboratories, a contract research firm, before that.

“Her tremendous experience and success at Michigan bodes well for the future of tech transfer and translation here at Duke,” said Eric Toone, vice provost and director of the Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative, in the release. “All of us in I&E look forward to working with Robin and to building a strong, seamless, effective relationship with Robin and her team.”

The OLV experienced a period of rapid growth under Ritt’s tenure as director from 2006 until 2015. Duke moved from the bottom 25 percent of technology transfer offices in the U.S. in 2006 to the top 10 percent, according to an annual survey by the Association of University Technology Managers. Ritts noted in a previous article in The Chronicle that in 2006, the OLV generated a revenue of about $3 million per year, and by 2015, the figure had increased to more than $37 million.

As the director of the OLV, Rasor will oversee licensing of both the University and the Duke University Medical Center.

“I am confident Robin will provide outstanding counsel and invaluable guidance to a new generation of Duke entrepreneurs,” said Dr. A. Eugene Washington, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of the health system, in the release.