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Nugget eats Peaches Closest C1 in middle of Atlantic Ocean

By Ma Mabean Cat Correspondent

Nugget has prevailed over Peaches.

In a post to the Facebook group “Caretakers of Peaches (The Calico Cat)” Monday morning, a student confirmed that Peaches has been eaten. The student wrote that she heard meowing from Nugget’s stomach early this morning.

Nugget, the dog, confirmed to The Chomicle that she ate Peaches, the cat.

“There’s only room for one animal named after food on this campus,” Nugget barked.

Witnesses said that Nugget swallowed Peaches in one gulp.

When students looked inside Nugget’s mouth, they found Peaches peering out.

“Meow,” Peaches said.

Students quickly tried to remove Peaches, but she would not come out.

One student remarked that she looked rather cozy inside Nugget.

Students took Nugget to the veterinarian to get Peaches removed. After a few yanks, Peaches was freed.

“Congrats, it’s a cat!” the vet exclaimed.

Chomicle suspended pending hazing investigation

By Noe Hayz Pledge Master

The Chomicle was suspended Friday night pending the results of a hazing investigation.

An anonymous source on The Chomicle’s staff said that the investigation centered on the paper forcing new members to cover meetings of DSG’s House of Commons, which convenes on the third floor of West Union. Hazing also included sleep deprivation and eating Il Forno pasta four nights per week.

This is not the first time that Commons meetings have caused controversy for the student newspaper. In 2016, a staff writer for The Chomicle was taken to the hospital and treated for dehydration after the annual budget meeting.

“It was awful,” she said. “The meeting lasted twenty-two hours, and the editors told me I would be fired if I left the room to get something to drink. They said watching every moment was my ‘sacred duty as a defender of journalistic integrity.’”

However, she noted she chose to cover the meeting of her own accord. “Worst decision of my life,” she said.

Junior Brad Ham, The Chomicle’s editor-in-chief, denied the allegations.

“This is preposterous,” Ham said. “Commons meetings are the most exciting part of my week, personally.”

Ham then inexplicably burst into laughter.

A senior editor, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that the forced eating of pasta at frequent intervals was also concerning, as she snuck a chip out from under her desk.

Rushing to your 10:05 class? Well, you might be a few By Cee Too eons late because the nearest C1 is in the middle of the Maritime Transit Correspondent Atlantic Ocean.

Its estimated time of arrival is 234832490832409823 minutes, or about 0.45 trillion years. According to Slowe Lee, director of parking and transportation services (PTS), the Rider app’s prediction, shockingly, is correct.

“We decided to shift the C1’s route this week to truly connect all of Duke’s campuses,” Lee wrote via Snapchat.

“We felt that it was important that Duke Kunshan University, Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore and even Duke in D.C. be able to experience the glory of PTS.” According to Lee, however, the real genius of the project is the collaboration between PTS and the Duke Marine Lab. “It’s quite a challenge to get an entire full-length Novabus LRS Artic I to autonomously travel from Durham to Singapore, especially since busses do not float,” said Ona Bøaat, professor of the practice in environmental engineering.

“We also wanted to be carbon neutral, so we ended up going with an experimental solar-sail design.”

Although the modified C1 uses 100 percent renewable energy, the vehicle is only able to manage a top speed of 10 meters per hour, which explains the long wait time.

“We are hoping to get the maximum speed up to 120 meters per hour,” said Osean Larj, a graduate student who worked on the project.

First-year Amber Mary Leigh Anne expressed outrage at the changes. “Do they expect us to walk?” she wrote in a Bumble direct message. Anne has started a petition on Change.org asking the administration to limit the C1 to domestic trips only.

“I mean, I still want to be able to get to D.C. easily to visit my boyfriend,” she wrote. “He works at McKinsey.”

In response, Lee noted that he wanted to remind everyone that PTS only changes bus routes after an extremely careful and lengthy ridership analysis. Plus, according to Lee, the weekend bus schedule has not been altered.

“You should still be able to get from East Campus to West Campus in no more than 193 minutes on the weekends, just like always,” he wrote.

Riders currently aboard the C1 were unable to be reached for comment via satellite phone, VHF radio or message in a bottle.

New York Philharmonic to headline LDOC

By Phil Harmonic Classical Music Correspondent

The New York Philharmonic will headline this year’s LDOC concert, according to a Sunday announcement.

This will be the Philharmonic’s first appearance for a last day of classes concert.

The LDOC committee explained that this presented the exciting prospect of getting hammered while listening to Beethoven’s Ninth.

“Honestly, we really could not risk having to find someone to replace the headliner like last year,” admitted an exasperated LDOC committee member. “So we decided to hire a 106-member orchestra instead. If one of them cancels, the show will still go on.”

The orchestra’s trip to Duke comes on the heels of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s performance at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill last year, when the concert ended in disaster after students carried a piano off the stage and smashed several 1712 Stradivarius violins.

Multiple octogenarians expressed excitement at an LDOC performer they’ve finally heard of.

“The last time I got hammered to the New York Philharmonic was back in 1965,” one professor emeritus said.

Many students were confused about the actual headliner.

“Fill Our Gin and Tonic?” one student asked.

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END OF THE MARCH 67 68 Henry Haggart | Sports Photography Editor The Blue Devils fell to Michigan State in the Elite Eight on Sunday night, as the no. 2 seed Spartans beat out the top-ranked Blue Devils at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C.

The men’s basketball season came to an end Sunday night with a loss to Michigan State

By Hank Tucker Associate Sports Editor

WASHINGTON—Destiny didn’t smile on Duke for the third straight time, as the Blue Devils couldn’t recreate their late magic on their biggest stage of the season.

In a clash of titans that lived up to its billing, Kenny Goins’ goahead 3-pointer with 34.3 seconds left lifted No. 2 seed Michigan State to a 68-67 win against top-seeded Duke in the Elite Eight at Capital One Arena. The Blue Devils fell one win short of the Final Four for the second straight season after a late triple in regulation also led to their downfall last year against Kansas.

Zion Williamson carried Duke through the second half in what was certainly his last game as a Blue Devil, but the Spartans’ veterans made enough plays down the stretch to make the Final Four for the first time in their careers.

“This team put themselves in a position to go for it and had a chance for it. And so it’s disappointing that they didn’t get there, but I’m proud of them,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I feel bad for them. They’re deserving of special things and they have had a special year. But this not going to the Final Four is obviously a huge disappointment.”

Duke was in a familiar position in the last minute, leading by one but needing a defensive stop after R.J. Barrett couldn’t

convert on a drive into the lane. Friendly rolls went the Blue Devils’ way in their previous two games, but Goins’ shot didn’t need to rely on the rim and swished straight through the net.

The graduate-student forward got open when Williamson and Tre Jones miscommunicated on a switch, and Williamson’s closeout was too little, too late.

Duke (32-6) got an offensive rebound on a scramble in the corner after a missed 3-pointer by Barrett, and the freshman drove and got fouled to earn two potential game-tying free throws with 5.2 seconds left.

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Duke admits record-low 5.7% of regular decision applicants The University accepted 2,101 high school seniors in the regular decision round this year, according to a news release Thursday.

With a record high of 41,600 applicants applying for admission overall, the University outdid its record of more than 37,302 students who applied to Duke last year. The Class of 2023 had a regular decision acceptance rate of 5.7 percent—

with 37,761 applying under the Regular Decision program and another 81 students who were deferred during the early decision round receiving offers of admission.

“My staff and I were struck by the impact the students who applied to Duke this year have already had,” Christoph Guttentag, dean of undergraduate admissions, said in the release. “We knew that they would have impressive academic records and show a strong commitment to their activities. What stood out for us was that many of them went beyond that to make a measurable impact on their communities. They really want to make things better. Not surprisingly, programs like DukeEngage, Bass

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Connections and Focus captured their imagination.”

The Class of 2023 broke the records that were set last year, when more than 37,302 students applied for admission and 6.4 percent were accepted regular decision.

This year’s early decision acceptance rate was also a record low, with 882 high school seniors admitted out of a recordhigh 4,852 applicants. Students receiving offers in the early decision round comprised 51 percent of those admitted to the Class of 2023.

Last year, the Class of 2022 saw an acceptance rate of 21 percent out of 4,090 students in its early decision round.

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University announces four to receive honorary degrees

By Shannon Fang Towerview Managing Editor

The University will award honorary degrees to four individuals—a Nobel prize winner, a Pulitzer prize finalist, a National Humanities Medal winner and a Royal Society fellow—at commencement in May. An honorary degree is bestowed to people who “exemplify Duke’s values and inspire us to pursue excellence,” according to the DukeToday release. This year’s recipients are Elizabeth Alexander, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Brian Kobilka and Caroline Series.

Elizabeth Alexander A poet and professor, Alexander was on faculty at Yale University for 15 years and served as chair of the school’s African American studies department. She wrote and performed a poem at President Barack Obama’s first inauguration, and she also performed poetry readings in 2009 and 2014 at Duke.

Alexander is the president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which funds arts and culture. She has published many books, and her memoir—”The Light of the World”—was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Kwame Anthony Appiah Appiah, professor of philosophy and law at New York University, taught literature and philosophy at Duke from 19901991. He studies a wide range of topics, including philosophy, religion, ethics and African and African-American studies. He has published numerous academic works and works of fiction.

He was previously the president of the Modern Language Association and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Obama awarded Appiah the National Humanities Medal at the White House in 2012.

Brian Kobilka A former postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Robert Lefkowitz—James B. Duke Professor of medicine—Kobilka is the Helene Irwin Fagan Chair in cardiology and professor of medicine, molecular and cellular physiology and of chemical and systems biology at Stanford University.

He made contributions in researching the structure and activity of G protein-coupled receptors, which are important

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to the development of pharmaceutical drugs. In 2012, he and Lefkowitz were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work.

Caroline Series Series, a Harvard alumna and professor emerita of mathematics at the University of Warwick in England, conducts research on hyperbolic geometry and dynamical systems. She co-wrote the geometry book “Indra’s Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein,” which was published in 2002.

As a strong supporter of women in mathematics, she was a founding member of European Women in Mathematics—a professional organization for women in the field—and currently serves as the vice-chair of the International Mathematical Union’s Committee for Women in Mathematics. In 2014, the London Mathematical Society awarded Series the first-ever Senior Anne Bennett Prize.

In 2016, she was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, an academy of preeminent scientists from the United Kingdom and Commonwealth.

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‘There’s always hope’ Eladio Bobadilla went from almost failing out of high school to earning a Duke Ph.D. show others like him what they can be capable of.

“I wanted to show other kids who may be At the age of 18, Eladio Bobadilla was on the in the position that I was in that there’s always verge of failing out of high school. In March, 15 hope, and that you have to fight for hope. You years later, he defended his Ph.D. dissertation have to fight to be treated as equal and be given at Duke. the opportunities that other people just have,” In a recent tweet that accumulated more he said. “And part of me just wanted to brag than 14,000 likes, Bobadilla described how for my parents who always wanted something his parents, who didn’t receive an “elementary better for me, who were lifelong farmworkers, education,” dreamed he would one day who never got an education.” become an academic and how he hoped to Although he aspired to be an academic and honor his parents and other immigrants alike historian early on in life, he said he imagined through his career. this career path to be unattainable because Bobadilla now has a Ph.D. in history and of his immigration status. So he joined the studies the history of class, race, and social military, Bobadillo said, using that as a gateway movements in the United States. to college. He was honorably discharged from Born in a rural village in Mexico, Bobadilla the armed forces in 2009 and enrolled in Weber immigrated to the State University.

United States at the age It seems to me that we’re Earning the doctoral of 11. Undocumented degree, Bobadilla said, until he was 19 years old, living in a moment of has been six years of his immigration status cruelty, but as a historian, it intensive work. played a major role in “It has been six doesn’t surprise me. shaping his adolescence years of hard work, six and career goals. eladio bobadilla years of dedication to a As a high schooler, HISTORY GRADUATE STUDENT subject and a topic, and Bobadilla began to to research and writing, understand what it but also six years of meant to be undocumented in the United tremendous support from people all over,” States. He explained that he felt as though he said. college was an unattainable goal and that Bobadillo said he has met amazing people he “sort of just gave up” on education. But at Duke who have supported him and made because he was to be the first in his family to it possible to achieve his degree. Bobadilla graduate high school, Bobadilla chose to stick now studies immigration history, specifically with it, despite nearly not graduating. focusing on the history of the immigrants’ Now, after serving in the military for four rights movement since the 1950s. years and completing his undergraduate “It seems to me that we’re living in a and graduate studies, Bobadilla wants to moment of cruelty, but as a historian, it

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Henry Haggart | Sports Photography Editor Eladio Bobadilla recently defended his Ph.D. dissertation at Duke.

doesn’t surprise me. Migration policy has a history of being cruel,” he said. “I think we’re seeing, in some ways, the culmination of decades of anti-immigrant sentiment.

It’s been difficult for me to write about this without thinking about the present moment, without thinking about my own identity, my parents’ identity. It’s a difficult moment to ponder and comprehend, but it has a history, a dark history.”

Bobadilla will next move on to University of Kentucky, where he will be an assistant professor of U.S. history.

Nevertheless, Bobadilla assured that he will always be a Duke basketball fan at heart.

When asked what it felt like to finally present his years of hard work, Bobadilla had one word to say.

“Surreal.”

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Rally in front of Allen Building protests light rail decision

By Delaney Dryfoos Staff Reporter

Duke People’s State of the University held a rally Friday to protest Duke’s decision to not sign the light rail cooperation agreement, two days after GoTriangle voted to end the project.

On Wednesday, GoTriangle announced they would stop pursuing the Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit Project, citing rising costs, state-imposed deadlines and lack of support from local stakeholders. PSOTU still decided to go through with the rally scheduled for Friday to protest the University’s decision not to sign the cooperation agreement.

The light rail was a proposed $3.3 billion transit project designed to connect Duke, North Carolina Central University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Gathered outside the Allen Building on West Campus, Duke students, professors and members of the Durham community spoke at the rally.

“Some of my friends asked me why this rally was “In addition, this $1.2 billion in federal funding was just happening if the light rail is dead,” said junior Ariyani free money that was going to kickstart this fabulous economic Challapalli, president of the Duke development, affordable housing and Climate Coalition. “My answer is that We’re not here because sustainable transit project that we’ve now the light rail might be over but that lost,” Johnson said. does not mean that its implications we hate Duke, if we hated Junior Gino Nuzzolillo, a PSOTU for the community have ended. That Duke we wouldn’t show up. organizer and columnist for The Chronicle, doesn’t mean that we get to forget cited the construction of the East-West about all of the Duke-Durham issues freeway, which he said destroyed the kevin primus historically black neighborhood of Hayti. it brought to the surface.”

TRINITY ‘94 AND M.A. ‘01 Bennett Carpenter, Ph.D. candidate Former Duke President Terry Sanford was in literature, remarked how $130 instrumental in ensuring the freeway did million has already been spent on project studies and impact not cut through Duke property, he said. studies.

Bob Korstad, professor in the Sanford School of Public According to Mayor Pro Tempore Jillian Johnson, Policy, also spoke of the long history of Duke students and staff Trinity ‘03, the light rail project was going to be “the first advocating for the rights of the Durham community, noting piece of a large transit plan.” how this rally was occurring in the year of the 50th anniversary of the Allen Building Takeover in 1969.

“We’re not here because we hate Duke, if we hated Duke we wouldn’t show up,” said Kevin Primus, Trinity ‘94 and M.A. ‘01.

“But we’re not going to allow Duke to continue to dig a hole in quick sand with our national reputation.”

Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, declined to comment on the rally.

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Duke’s struggles at the charity stripe prove costly with the season on the line against Michigan State

By Winston Lindqwister Sports Managing Editor

Throughout Duke’s entire postseason run, the Blue Devils have found themselves toeing a thin line between advancing and going home.

And when Duke’s luck finally ran out, it came down to an Achilles’ heel that has plagued the Blue Devils all season: free throws.

With a team packing firepower from Zion Williamson, R.J. Barrett and Cam Reddish, the Blue Devils were magicians at cutting to the paint, drawing contact and finishing at the rim.

Yet, for a team that excels at getting to the line, Duke struggled all season to convert, making just 68.7 percent of shots from the charity stripe—ranking 246th in the nation. Pundits have harped for months that the Blue Devils’ shortcomings from the free throw line and beyond the arc would keep them away from Minneapolis, and with the season quite literally coming down to the line, Duke ultimately came up short.

“They hit a big shot,” Barrett said. “Then we came down and we weren’t able to score. I had two free throws, missed one and that was about it.”

Throughout the evening, Duke missed multiple opportunities to gain the extra edge off of free throws. Williamson missed three of his five attempts at the line, including a key and-one to build the Blue Devils’ momentum early in the first half. Although Barrett made a majority of his free throws, Duke had the opportunity to take a two-point lead down the

M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 1 But the first shot bounced off the back of the rim, and though he tried to miss the second one, it bounced high off the rim and in.

The Blue Devils had too many fouls to give to force Michigan State (32-6) to the line and get the ball back, and Cassius Winston—who led his team with 20 points and 10 assists— dribbled the last few seconds out.

“He’s a tough guard,” Jones said. “He has been able to run their team really well and he has done it extremely well all year. He’s definitely one of the toughest guards I’ve gone against.”

With Duke trailing 63-59 in the last four minutes, it went on a 7-0 run to get to the doorstep of the Final Four in Minneapolis.

Junior captain DeLaurier calmly finished a layup, sealing his first career double-double, and Barrett gave the Blue Devils the lead with a top-of-the-key triple.

A driving dunk by Williamson handed Duke a three-point advantage and electrified the crowd, but Xavier Tillman— who had 19 points and matched up with Williamson fearlessly—responded with a bucket for the Spartans to set up the dramatic final minute.

“He played really physical. On offense, he was setting great screens and slipping at the perfect times,” Williamson said. “He played a

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R.J. Barrett proved himself as one of the great drivers and finishers in college basketball this season. stretch, but the young Blue Devil bricked.

With the game on the line, Barrett managed to drive inside and draw a foul with Duke down two and seconds left on the clock, but the Canadian Blue Devil missed the biggest free throw of his career. In a twist of irony bordering on cruel, after Barrett missed the

very high IQ game.”

Facing a four-point deficit at halftime, the Blue Devils’ best player pulled them back into the game by himself. Williamson got three offensive rebounds in the first two minutes of the second half and scored on five straight possessions, bullying Michigan State’s forwards in the paint and even stepping out to knock down a 3-pointer.

“That was just me adjusting to the game,” Williamson said. “My teammates were telling me if I got it, to go, and I was going. I just tried to bring energy.”

Jones gave Duke its first lead of the half with a nifty reverse layup in transition, and the two squads traded heavyweight punches the rest of the game.

After trailing for the first 12 minutes, the Blue Devils finally started clicking on both ends with a 12-0 run to take a 30-21 lead, their largest cushion at any point in the last three games. Cam Reddish and Barrett knocked down 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions to finish the run.

The momentum immediately shifted when Barrett threw a post entry pass too low for Williamson, who committed his second foul on an ill-advised reach for the ball 90 feet from the Spartans’ basket.

When Williamson left the floor, Winston got into the paint with ease for two straight buckets. Although Williamson reentered the game after the under-4 media timeout, his

first shot and tried to rim out the second to give Duke the opportunity grab a last-second offensive board, the ball bounced up and miraculously rolled in, giving the Spartans the opportunity to run out the clock and send the Blue Devils home.

“We didn’t have enough fouls,” Barrett said

on the final play of the game. “There wasn’t enough time. So I tried to miss the second one and it’s funny that it went in.”

Of course, Duke’s free throw line scares can’t just be isolated to the final game of the season.

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Zion Williamson dominated the second half against Michigan State after struggling with just seven points in the opening stanza. presence didn’t stem the tide.

Winston scored or assisted on every point of the Spartans’ 13-0 run to close the half and put Duke on its heels heading into the locker room. The Blue Devils committed five turnovers and didn’t score a point in the

last five minutes of the half—they had 17 giveaways in the game, compared to just seven for Michigan State.

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Barrett said. “Every time they got down, he just came up with a huge play. 20 and 10, that’s incredible. Their defense was amazing. They’re a great team and they played great today.”

Duke’s 32 wins this year are its most since the 2014-15 national championship season, and the Blue Devils had an impressive peak with their run to the ACC championship two weeks ago, but they will still go home without earning the ultimate prize.

“It hurts more than any other loss I’ve ever had in my life. This team was just so special,” DeLaurier said. “It’s just hard when you know you have the potential to do something and you come so close, and you don’t do it.”

In the Blue Devils’ first major scare of the tournament against Central Florida, Duke had the opportunity to tie up the game after a foul sent Javin DeLaurier to the line.

Unfortunately for Duke, the 56-percent free throw shooter failed to convert on both attempts. Moments later, the Blue Devils had another golden opportunity thanks to an and-one drive from Williamson, but the future lottery pick missed his shot. Luckily, the Blue Devils were bailed out with a kind bounce to Barrett for an offensive board and a putback for the lead.

Just a week later against Virginia Tech, Duke held on by a thread with a two-point lead, and Tre Jones was sent to the line for the one-and-one. Yet Jones, one of Duke’s better shooters at 75.8 percent from the line, missed the front end to give the Hokies the final possession—a bullet the Blue Devils barely dodged yet again.

Despite the highlight reels and incredible and improbable moments, Duke could not escape an Achilles’ heel that has lingered in the background all season. For all of the talent and hype the Blue Devils brought in, it was one of the most fundamental strokes of college basketball that left Duke wondering what could have been.

“Just that it’s over,” Barrett said of the final moments of the season. “Every day we came in, worked our butts off, and we really gave everything that we had all season long, and we had so much success. So to see that happen at the end. All credit to [Michigan State]. They played a hell of a game. But for it to be over for us is heartbreaking.”

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Climate change is an equity issue

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ver the past two weeks, Southeastern Africa and the Midwestern United States have grappled with the aftermath of two severe storms. States of emergency have been declared in Iowa, Wisconsin and Nebraska after heavy wind, rain and snow devastated entire towns during a mid-March “bomb cyclone.” Several people have died as a result of the storm and over one million acres of farmland has been impacted. Nebraska was hit the hardest and state officials have estimated the cost of the damage at around $1.3 billion. It took days for the Nebraska Department of Transportation to begin certifying some of the flood-damaged roads as passable. Iowa has also reported damages to freshwater treatment plants, leaving many residents without clean water.

Meanwhile, in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, Cyclone Idai is said to be responsible for over 400 deaths after over two feet of rain fell in less than a week. The storm is estimated to be the worst “in the history of the Southern Hemisphere,” with Reuters reporting that over 2 million people may have been affected. In Mozambique alone, more than 400,000 people are estimated to have been displaced by the massive flooding and damage to homes.

These concurrent tragedies remind us of two

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increasingly inescapable realities about our rapidly deteriorating environment. First, the progression of climate change is growing in severity. Second, the disastrous effects are being borne disproportionately by rural communities and the Global South. The New York Times reported back in January that oceans have been warming at a rate that is on average 40 percent faster than the trajectory estimated five years previously. The

Editorial Board results of this accelerated warming are severe. Coral reefs are expected to sustain even further damage; coastal flooding is expected to become more frequent; and intense storms such as Hurricanes Harvey and Florence are expected to become commonplace, if they haven’t already. It’s hard not to see a connection between the predictions of scientists just three months ago and the devastation of these two recent cyclones. Yet another consequence of this warming is unprecedented levels of displaced people, a burden again disproportionately present in the Global South.

More than 22 million people were estimated to have been displaced due to extreme weather events each year between 2008 and 2014. 90 percent of those displacements occurred in the Global South. These statistics illuminate a dismal truth about the disproportionate impacts of climate change. While some prosperous urban centers in the Global North have drafted plans to build massive walls in order to keep out rising ocean waters, the capital necessary for doomsday preparation is simply not available in Zimbabwe, Malawi or Mozambique. Similarly, in Miami—where beachfront property was once coveted— low-income residents far from the shoreline are finding themselves priced out of their neighborhoods by an influx of buyers looking to avoid floods and hurricane damage.

And in Nebraska, much of the damage was to farmland after the failure of several levees.

The reasons for these discrepancies, however, are

no more natural than the origins of the cyclones that caused the destruction in the first place. Violence and disaster are not allocated equally—they are distributed along the lines of colonial history, regional poverty and intentionally disjointed geographic development. Yet, contemporary geopolitical solutions to the issue of a changing climate have disproportionately focused on shaming individual nations or poor populations for their emissions, devoid of historical context of conquest that complicates the picture substantially. Furthermore, wealthy nations like the United States have consistently pushed to consider only current levels of emissions when deciding responsibility of individual countries, rather than looking at past trends which would implicate them directly in the current crisis.

There is an undeniable connection between the history of colonialist economic subjugation in the Global South and the level of infrastructural damage and mass displacement from ecological disasters. The staggering income inequality in the United States has also produced circumstances in which the poor are destined to drown in the floods caused by the rich. Climate change is an issue of colonialist violence and class war.

The wealth extracted from countries like Mozambique enriched now post-industrial nations, allowing them to poison the Earth and leave former colonies to suffer the consequences. Poor Americans are faced with a looming horizon of increasingly uninhabitable homes while the wealthy capitalize on the wreckage.

The next few decades will certainly be characterized by storms of unprecedented intensity and the type of destruction as experienced in Southeastern Africa and the Midwestern United States this month. Those effects will, of course, continue to be be felt disproportionately by certain geographies. There’s no uplifting call to action to give or reassuring conclusion that could cull the unimaginably catastrophic future we face. This is a reality we should acknowledge fully, as difficult as that may be.

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recent piece by The Chronicle’s independent editorial board attempts to navigate the crowded field of 2020 Democratic candidates in a wandering diatribe that feels more bitter towards Democratic voters interested in securing victories than substantive in insights. In an editorial that somehow simultaneously decries the Democratic field’s “problems in forging an articulable, unified approach to ‘beating’ the ideals of Trumpism” and “lack of unique platforms,” the board criticizes the growing push on the left to nominate a candidate who is either “electable” enough or centrist enough to beat Trump in the general election. To hear them tell it, Democratic voters are “already hostage to the #VoteBlue mindset,” and eager to sacrifice policy for “bland, photo-shopped celebrities who enjoy smoking weed and playing punk rock.”

Indeed, Democratic voters are increasingly prioritizing “electability” in 2020 candidates, but seeking candidates that are marketable to a broad voter base absolutely does not preclude the party from choosing someone with robust policy goals; the positions espoused by Andrew Yang or Kamala Harris are each more comprehensive and complete than anything pushed by the Trump campaign

in 2016, but which the editorial board seems content to summarize as “cool.”

Second, and perhaps most importantly, allowing the party to drift toward the center in order to bring an end to the Trump administration is simply more productive in advancing progressive goals than running yet another losing campaign based on policy.

Perhaps the board would like to weigh in on the 2016 GOP primary, wherein the party nominated a “very stable genius” with a “secret plan to destroy ISIS in 30 days” who subsequently won the presidency and secured a conservative majority on the Supreme Court for the foreseeable future? Now, the prior success of gross provocateurs in the vein of Trump certainly need not push the Democratic party to settle for the lowest common denominator, but to insinuate that placing a premium on “electability” and seeing the value in celebrity isn’t a productive electoral strategy is plainly ignorant of recent history and not a pragmatic approach to seeking change. If these broad and meaningless platitudes are truly the insights of the politically engaged, then we can all look forward to a weekly scolding from the board’s “ardent politicos.”

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Here’s what I wish I knew before I took out $22,500 in student loans

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ast Friday morning, I sat in a room of my non-one percenter peers and attempted to decipher what, exactly, was being said to me about the debt I took on as part of the ever-rising cost of a Duke education. This is one of the less fun Duke graduation requirements: exit loan counseling.

The presenting loan counselor sped through the different types of loans and repayment plans, pausing on the slide that

Frances Beroset EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR says we only escape our loans if we die or become permanently disabled, and at one point explaining that if, say, our aunt gives us a few thousand dollars for graduation, we should put that toward loan debt. I laughed, but no one else did. Leaving the session, I had to wonder: who are y’all’s aunts? How many people have faked their own death to avoid paying off student loans? And perhaps more importantly, how much did any of us really understand when we accepted our first student loan four years ago as high school seniors?

If your family income is somewhere above $40,000 a year, but not high enough to pay full price, and you didn’t manage to snag one of Duke’s full merit scholarships, you probably have some student loans. Like most Duke undergraduates with family incomes over $85,000 who still qualify for financial aid, I have taken out around $5,000 per year, for a total of about $20,000. That’s the average for Duke, according to Alison Rabil, assistant vice provost and director of undergraduate financial aid. $20,000 is close to the maximum loan burden Duke will expect undergraduates to take out, and the limit on federal loans for undergraduate education is $31,000. However, the average student loan debt per borrower in the U.S. is nearly twice my burden at $37,172, meaning that many students take out private loans in addition to federal loans, which have lower, fixed interest rates. Many of our peer universities, however, offer loan-free financial aid, perhaps due in part to their larger endowments.

So now I’m about a month away from a Duke degree, and I’m in debt! Here are three things about student loans I wish I had known four years ago. If you already knew these things, I’m happy for you! Feel free to bask in your superior financial literacy.

1) Some of my loans began accruing interest the minute I got them.

There are three types of loans you might be awarded: Federal Direct loans (the subtypes of these are subsidized, unsubsidized, and PLUS), Duke administered loans (this includes Perkins and “Duke educational assistance”), or private educational loans. I have a combination of the first two types, except they’re all considered federal loans, which is a

little confusing. Here are my five loans: One Federal Perkins loan from 2016: $5,000. Two subsidized Federal Stafford loans, one from 2018 and one from 2019: $10,500. Two unsubsidized Federal Stafford Loans, one from 2017 and one from 2019: $7,000 All in all, my debt is $22,500. Except… according to an email from Duke I received in February, my debt is higher—$23,188. I originally assumed my loans didn’t start accruing interest until like, nine months after graduation? Maybe six months? Clearly, I wasn’t paying very close attention when I signed my loan agreement, called a “master promissory note,” at the end of my first year of college. As it turns out, those grace periods I remembered from my entrance loan counseling are reprieves from making payments, not accruing interest. Only subsidized loans don’t accrue interest during college and six months afterwards. That’s what the “subsidized” part means—the government pays the interest for you while you’re in school. My $7,000 in unsubsidized loans have accrued $688 in interest while I’ve been in college, and will continue to accrue more interest even if payments are deferred during that nine-month post-graduation grace period, or if I decide to go to graduate school.

2) The public service loan forgiveness program I was planning on using is more precarious than it sounds.

The averaged interest rate for all my loans is 4.6 percent, which means I’ll accrue a little over $1,000 in interest per year— about $3 per day—though over time the amount I accrue per year will decrease as I chip away at the original loan balance, called the principal.

The document Duke sent me in February estimates that my monthly payments will be $241 a month, but StudentLoans.gov says my payments will be around $186 a month if I enroll in the standard repayment plan. Except this can’t be right, because it estimates I’ll only pay $22,353 over the course of 10 years—less than my current loan balance. By my math, if I pay around $241 a month for ten years, I’ll pay off the loan, but also pay around $6,000 in interest.

I now have a decision to make: burn my savings from college to pay down some of my loan debt now, before it begins accruing interest, or keep the money in savings and instead enroll in a program which will allow me to make lower payments based on my income, and hope that I can successfully have my remaining loans forgiven at the end of 10 years of working a low-paying public service job.

The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program was created in 2007 to wipe away the remaining debt for public servants who worked for the government or certain nonprofits for at least ten years and made at least 120 on-time student loan payments in that time. The first class of students who completed those ten years became eligible to actually apply for loan forgiveness in 2017. Relying on the program is more of a gamble than it sounds: according to the headline of a NYTimes article from September of last year, “28,000 Public Servants Sought Student Loan Forgiveness. 96 Got It.” This is in part because many received bad information from their loan servicers. And the

program might be cut entirely in the future, depending on how Congress votes.

If I enroll in an income-based repayment plan but don’t end up qualifying for the program, I won’t pay off my loans for several more years, and I will pay thousands dollars more in interest over the life of the loan. At this point, I’m not sure if it’s worth the gamble.

3) You don’t actually have to accept the loans you’re offered.

The language on the financial aid website says students are “awarded” loan amounts. This sounds foolish now, but it never occurred to me that I could, and perhaps should, decline the loans I was “awarded.” These aren’t actually awards… they’re debt. And that means that you don’t have to take them on if you can find other ways to pay tuition and live. Especially this year, my living expenses are much lower since I live off campus and don’t buy a meal plan. I’ve been able to save a few thousand dollars since starting college thanks to my own work and the relative wealth of my family, so in retrospect, I wish I hadn’t accepted all my financial aid “awards.”

I can imagine the comment section on this column now: a handful of Boomers explaining that when they went to Duke in the late 1960s, they didn’t take out loans and instead got a job. Thank you so much in advance for those comments, but in fact, I, too, worked full time every summer and usually worked between two and four part-time jobs per semester.

In addition to being a course assistant and middle school tutor, I do odd jobs: I copy edit legal documents and self-published romance novels on a freelancing website, I babysit occasionally and participate in at least a few medical or behavioral studies per month. For extra money this year, I’ve gotten EEGs, peed into cups and smoked different varieties of experimental cigarettes into glass tubes in a lab near the hospital. Though I budget neurotically, last year I made about $6,000 total–not nearly enough to cover the cost of attending Duke.

The salary for the job I’ve accepted next year is about $27,500, plus an approximately $6,000 bonus at the end of the year to put toward graduate school or loan debt. Because my main interests are education, social work and journalism, I don’t imagine I’ll ever have a job which pays over $50,000 per year, so my monthly loan payments will be a significant chunk of my budget until I pay them off.

It’s easy to get blinded by the prestige of Duke when you first get in—especially with an acceptance rate of around 5 percent—and I’m grateful for the chance to have come here and the intangible benefits my education has brought me. I could have gone to a different school and graduated without loan debt, but ultimately I picked Duke because I thought it would be the best opportunity to learn as much as I could. I made a choice to take on this debt with the help of my family. I don’t regret that choice today, but was $22,500 plus interest worth it?

Ask me again in ten years.

Frances Beroset is a Trinity senior and the editorial page editor of The Chronicle.

Letter: 59 RAs ask for housekeeping staff to return to their original schedule

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ear President Price, As 59 Resident Assistants, we write to urge that residential housekeeping staff return to their original schedules.

From our perspective, marginally cleaner bathrooms and kitchens over the weekend have not improved the “safety” and wellbeing of residents enough to merit the substantial disruption to housekeeping staff’s lives. Housekeeping staff can no longer connect with their church communities nor afford the childcare now necessary due to this schedule. Whereas housekeeping staff cannot adjust to these permanently harmful impacts, residents barely notice the improved condition of weekend facilities. In fact, some residents have expressed annoyance and surprise that housekeeping staff are here on Sundays.

As RAs, we are committed to the

community within our halls; this goes beyond students. The community is for housekeeping staff as well. For these reasons, we hope they can return to the original schedules.

The letter is cosigned by the following RAs: Trinity seniors Zhong Huang, Anna Merryman, Liz Finny, Zhao Ma, Jackie Xu, Francia Fang, Sabriyya Pate, Maegha Lanka, Melanie Park, Michael Saporito, Lucas Saporito, Jules Frost, Natalie Le, Nadia Kirmani, Nicholas Henlon, Michael Gulcicek, Juliana Hoover and Annie Yin; Pratt seniors Mary Zhang and Ryan Bergamini; Trinity juniors Juan Bermudez, Lily el Naccash, Liam Pulsifer, Daniel Fawcett, Ethan Ready, Robbie Ha, Gino Nuzzolillo, Jake Wong, Jandé Thomas, Vinit Parekh, Matt Wisner, Ameen

Ahmad and Nico Bodkin; Pratt juniors Rachael Lau and Maddie Wilkinson; Trinity sophomores Donghun Louis Lee, Nathan Heffernan, Ali Thursland, Ila Kaul, Devin Mahoney, Michael Wen, Tobi West, Kayley Josephs, Michelle Katemauswa, Allan Khankari, Amory Williams, Rishika Gundi, Annie Roberts, Joshua Lorenzo, Amit Sarma, Daniel Sprague and Ellen Mines; Pratt sophomores Renata Starostka, Christina Holloway and Jordyn Scott, and Trinity alum Cara Leigh Downey, T’ 18. Editor’s note: Zhong Huang and Robbie Ha are members of The Chronicle’s independent editorial board. Gino Nuzzolillo and Nathan Heffernan are columnists for The Chronicle. Juan Bermudez and Liz Finny are sports photography editors for The Chronicle.

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A recent oceanography study sponsored by Duke, along with other institutions, discovered new insight into how the ocean circulates.

Oceanographers have long predicted that climate change may slow down the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation— also known as the ocean’s “conveyor belt”—which is the system of currents that regulates heat in the Atlantic Ocean. Previous models suggested that this system was largely influenced by cold freshwater sinking in the Labrador Sea. However, recent research has shown previous simulations to be incorrect regarding the location where “overturning” occurs.

Susan Lozier, Ronie-Richele Garcia-Johnson professor of earth and ocean sciences, worked with scientists from seven countries on a project called Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP). Their first paper— published in the February 2019 issue of Science—found that the overturning is not occurring in the Labrador Sea, as predicted, but instead further east of Greenland.

“I would say that physical oceanographers are interested in where the water goes and why, but everyone interested in the climate wants to know where the heat is going, where the fresh water is going and how carbon is being taken up by the ocean,” Lozier said. “That’s really the larger reason to understand the overturning circulation.”

The study measured 21 months of movement in the ocean using instruments located both west and east of Greenland and in the mid-Atlantic. The instruments were anchored to

the ocean floor but equipped with flotation devices to keep the system straight and to place each measuring instrument at a precise depth, Lozier explained.

The data from the sensors suggested that a North Atlantic region, east of Greenland, had greater influence on the overturning circulation than the Labrador Sea. In addition to redistributing heat, the overturning circulation is also responsible for storing about 30 percent of the carbon dioxide that has been produced since the Industrial Revolution, Lozier added.

At higher latitudes where the upper layer of the ocean mixes into the deeper layer, carbon dioxide is brought down into the deep ocean and trapped. This takes the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere but can have devastating consequences on the ocean such as lowering its pH, she explained.

Scientists at OSNAP are interested in understanding exactly how overturning circulation functions in order to understand how potential climate changes would impact this process.

Knowing where this circulation takes place will allow them to continue their research into potential consequences. All of the measuring equipment remains in the water for future research.

Lozier said she was specifically interested in the heat that is redistributed to the Arctic, which plays a role in the melting of glaciers, and sea ice bringing fresh water back into the system.

“Now we want to know how the overturning circulation will change as we move forward in time,” Lozier said. “We’ve really been focused on the Labrador Sea, trying to understand if glacier melt is freshening the sea or how warm the waters are there, when really we should be focusing on the waters in the eastern part of the basin.”

Courtesy of NASA Susan Lozier, Ronie-Richele Garcia-Johnson professor of earth and ocean sciences, is part of a team working on ocean currents.

ground on renovations

By Kathryn Silberstein Health and Science News Editor

Duke Regional Hospital just started the largest construction project since its opening in 1976.

On March 25, the hospital official broke ground to expand its emergency department and behavioral health branch.

The newly constructed changes—funded by a $102.4 million investment from the University—are projected to open by Spring 2021.

“While our campus is going to look a bit different in 2021 when we open exactly two years from now, our vision at Duke Regional Hospital remains the same: our aim is to be the best community hospital,” said Katie Galbraith, president of Duke Regional Hospital, in a news release.

The expansion will increase the number of private rooms available in the emergency department and Clinical Decisions Unit. There will also be a new 42-bed inpatient behavioral health unit made up of all private rooms and a behavioral health emergency department that will consist of 18 private rooms.

The number of outpatient behavioral health clinic rooms will also increase from 19 to 30.

The expansion and changes will feature an exercise room, outdoor courtyards, natural light, more group therapy space and “other accommodations that enhance the patient experience.”

An electroconvulsive therapy unit at Duke South clinics will be moved to Duke Regional.

At a celebratory event Monday, 200 attendees heard from Galbraith and other speakers, including A. Eugene Washington, chancellor for health affairs and president and chief executive officer of the Duke University Health System.

Duke Heath aspires to improve the lives of individuals and the communities it serves through this project, Washington said.

“Our patients, their families and their loved ones are why we’re here,” he said in the news release. “Because of them, we are gathered here today fulfilling our mission and fulfilling our commitment to them to provide the highest-quality, patient-centered care.”

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