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Which really comes first for Blue Devil student-athletes?

Jack Dolgin The Chronicle This story is the first in a two-part series examining the lives of athletes at Duke. The first part focuses on their academic experiences, and the next story looks at athletes’ social lives, the athlete bubble and Greek life.

Does school come first for athletes?

Should it?

The answers to these questions might seem obvious according to the athletic department’s mission, which “requires that Duke athletes be students first.”

But when asked, Chris Kennedy, the senior deputy director of athletics who in various positions has overseen the educational mission of the department for 40 years, replied: “Well, what does the University say?”

His response was not much different than that of the other man in charge of the athletic department’s academic affairs—Brad Berndt, senior associate director of athletics for student services.

Berndt asked essentially the same question as his colleague, before unlike Kennedy affirming that academics should come before athletics. He said, “The institution is committed to academics first, and the athletic department subscribes to that.”

New data—a compilation of publiclydisplayed majors primarily from GoDuke.com and athletes’ LinkedIn profiles—collected by The Chronicle raises further questions about how much athletes prioritize their studies.

The data, based on information for 192 upperclassman student-athletes and

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a comparison random sample of 215 current non-athlete seniors, revealed that just 23.4 percent of athletes major in the 13 most quantitative subjects at Duke.

This figure is even lower for athletes who are regular contributors.

In contrast, among the non-athlete sample—also based on publicly-displayed majors and similar to official data supplied by David Jamieson-Drake, assistant vice provost and director of institutional research—59.1 percent major in at least one of these subjects.

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“How important is the major?” Kennedy said. “A company that’s coming here to interview people and to hire people... what they’re looking for is evidence of ability.”

Two academic administrators and Berndt, however, were more resolute in their valuation of major choices.

Arlie Petters, dean of academic affairs for the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Academic Dean David Rabiner, director of the Academic Advising Center, and Berndt all said that if the majors students choose were being affected by athletics, it would be “concerning.”

That hypothetical may actually be a reality. Interviews with 10 current and former athletes who are still Duke students indicate that athletic demands are one of two main factors affecting major choice, along with how much athletes prioritize their sport.

“When you go into sports, especially at Duke, and especially with a sport like swimming that’s so demanding, there’s almost a turn-off from—I don’t want to say hard majors, but just majors that maybe take more of a time commitment,” said junior Parker Pearson, who left the men’s swimming team in March.

Even among athletes who have played in less than 25 percent of their team’s games in 2016-17—or in the case of track and field and swimming, have not consistently earned points in their events—only 41.9 percent are majoring in the most quantitative subjects.

That figure is 18.0 percent less than the total for non-athletes.

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The Chronicle selected the following 13 majors as the most quantitative based on required classes to earn each degree— biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, civil engineering, physics, mathematics, statistics, chemistry, biology, computer science, economics, neuroscience and biophysics. Environmental engineering was omitted since there were no majors in the athlete and non-athlete samples.

But Kennedy said he would be concerned if graduation rates were being affected by athletic participation, not major distribution. “[It’s] a false dichotomy,” Kennedy said of comparing athletics and academics. “We’re an educational department of the University just as much as anything else.”

So much to balance, not enough time Currently, 16.4 percent of athletes are majoring in sociology, compared to just 1.4 percent of non-athletes, according to The Chronicle’s data.

In contrast, 7.5 percent of athletes are majoring in the more time-demanding subject of economics, 6.8 less than the percentage of non-athletes—despite athletes’ academic interest in business that Kennedy and Petters cited as a reason for sociology’s popularity among them. The University does not offer an undergraduate business degree.

All four athletic and administration officials interviewed agreed that the more quantitative classes require more time, See SCHOOL/SPORTS on Page 9

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Researchers use nanomaterials MSA leaders seek to build stronger community at Duke to develop knee replacements Grace Mok The Chronicle After the Duke Muslim Student’s Association’s new leadership was announced, The Chronicle’s Grace Mok sat down with incoming president and first-year Sajidur Rahman-Kader and incoming vice-president and first-year Usamah Chaudhary to discuss their plans for MSA. Their conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.

TC: What are your goals for the next year?

SRK: First and foremost, we are going to work on community building. The Muslim community is pretty small here at Duke, so we are going to go outside of Duke—different colleges. We are going to work to form a Southern summit for next year. That’s our biggest plan actually. We are going to reach out to colleges like UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. State, Elon University and any other colleges in the driving distance who are willing to come here and work with us in order to make the Muslim community stronger. We do not have that right now, and we need it more than ever.

UC: In the Spring semester, we have a

Special to The Chronicle Incoming president Sajidur Rahman-Kader said that he hopes to form partnerships with other colleges in the area.

month dedicated to Islamic awareness.

Islamophobia is very rampant in the current Trump presidency, and a lot of it is rooted in a lack of knowledge about what Islam really is. During this month, we hold events that are open to the public for people to come and learn about what Islam is really about.

Educating people about Islam is one of our main goals for the year.

TC: What does representation mean to you?

SRK: By representation, we mean representing every Muslim on campus.

Currently, our group has a huge population of South Asians. We don’t want other groups to be marginalized because of that. We are going to work towards that and reach out to other races that are in the MSA. That’s an issue that we’re currently beginning to deal with. We hope to gear our events toward that in order to address it.

UC: For representation outside of MSA, for example, we had our jumu’ah prayer on the Chapel quad. We want to have a presence in the community. It was Blue Devil Days, so we wanted to make sure that we were represented. We want prospective Muslim students to see that Muslims are respected and have their space here at Duke.

SRK: I also wanted to mention that we don’t have a clear-cut Muslim identity in the MSA. We are a diverse group, and we accept people from different races, intellectual beliefs, sexual identities, gender identities...

MSAs usually have a very biased view, but the Duke MSA is not like that. We do not tolerate or condone anything that goes against our diversity.

TC: What challenges do you envision in the next year?

UC: We work with administration often. We expect to be treated with proper respect and dignity. We really want to see some transparency on their part. We really haven’t seen that, especially this year. We have faced a lot of issues with administration. Moving forward, we hope See MSA on Page 4

Rob Palmisano The Chronicle Research using new nanomaterials has led to the development of devices with practical uses, such as a 3D-printed knee replacement.

A team of scientists in the lab of Benjamin Wiley, associate professor of chemistry and assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials science, has recently developed a hydrogel-based material that is the first to match the remarkable strength and elasticity of human cartilage while also being biologically compatible with the surrounding tissue. This technology may one day allow surgeons to 3D print replacement menisci—the cartilage found in knees and wrists—that are customshaped to each patient’s anatomy.

Special to The Chronicle “No one had [3D]-printed a meniscus as Benjamin Wiley’s lab discovered a way to 3D strong as the cartilage normally is strong in print knee cartilage replacements. the body,” Wiley said.

The biggest challenge of the study was surgeons wanted to know how close Wiley designing a gel that could be printed at room thinks this particular technology is to being temperature with relatively simple equipment implemented in hospitals. that matched the mechanical properties of However, Wiley noted that prospective cartilage in the meniscus, he noted. meniscus surgery patients should not wait for He explained that his team modified the new technology. hydrogel material—named for its ability to “This is probably one or two decades away,” hold large amounts of water—with nano-clay he said. “If you’re thinking you should wait to match the strength of the material. one or two more years before your surgery, you Wiley said that the most common should get it [now].” treatment for meniscus tears today is to simply The team’s work in nanomaterials also have it removed, which means the patient recently presented applications outside of would no longer have any shock absorber in medicine and healthcare, demonstrating the his or her knee. first fully-printable digital memory.

The only currently approved replacement The researchers developed a new for a human meniscus is the NUSurface nanomaterial made of copper nanowires, Meniscus Implant, which has a non-porous which they say can be used to manufacture structure that does not stimulate tissue simple electronics such as radio frequency generation, Wiley explained. He added that identification tags to prevent shoplifting. This this can cause wear and tear over time. “spray-on” memory could be used to build “When you’re a sports player when you’re electronic devices directly on flexible substances young, you want to be able to keep playing, such as plastic, paper or fabric. and so you want to be able to put something Although the 3D-printing hydrogel back in there that’s just like the original technology is not yet available for practical [meniscus],” he said. applications, the spray-on memory technology Wiley and his team have already had has already been demonstrated in action. at least a few orthopedic surgeons reach Chemistry graduate student and first author out to them, including one here at Duke and another in the United Kingdom. The See NANOMATERIALS on Page 4 T H E I N D E P E N D E N T D A I LY AT D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y

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DKU prepares for launch of Students, faculty make D.C. undergrad degree program trek to march for science Claire Ballentine

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After receiving final approval last December, preparations are underway for Duke Kunshan University’s undergraduate degree program.

The first set of students will enroll in the Fall 2018 semester, ultimately becoming the Class of 2022. This class will likely have between 175 and 200 students, said Denis Simon, executive vice chancellor of DKU. Eventually, each class will expand to approximately 500 students, giving the program 2,000 students in total.

“This is a four-year degree program that will award an undergraduate degree from Duke University and a second degree from Duke Kunshan University,” he said.

“The first one is everything equivalent to a Duke degree, and the second one would be a degree that’s approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education.”

Simon added that students will be considered Duke alumni when they graduate.

The school has announced its initial set of eight majors, all approved by China’s Ministry of Education: Material Science/Physics: Material Science with a specialization in Physics Applied Math and Computation/Math: Applied Math and Computation with a specialization in Math Global Health/Biology: Global Health with a specialization in Biology Global Health/Public Policy: Global Health with a specialization in Public Policy Environmental Science/Chemistry: Environmental Science with a specialization in Chemistry

Duke students and faculty were among the thousands of scientists who converged in D.C. this weekend for the March for Science.

The demonstration, which included rallies and teach-ins along with a march from the Washington Monument to the Capitol building, was launched in response to rhetoric from President Donald Trump, who has voiced doubt about climate change and the safety of vaccines since he was a presidential candidate. Trump’s administration has also proposed drastic budget cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency and the

National Institutes of Health.

“As a scientist, I have become increasingly concerned with the diminishing value that our policy-makers and even the public place on science and the shrinking role that science has had in solving society’s problems,” wrote Raphael Valdivia, vice dean for basic science in the School of Medicine, in an email. “I [attended] the march because I want to increase awareness of these issues.”

Valdivia noted that he helped coordinate members of the Duke community to participate in the D.C. march.

When he sent out an email inviting others to join him this weekend, he said he was See SCIENCE on Page 4

Chronicle File Photo Each class in DKU’s undergraduate degree program will eventually have about 500 students.

Environmental Science/Public Policy: Environmental Science with a specialization in Public Policy Political Economy/Political Science: Political Economy with a specialization in Political Science Global China Studies/History: Global China Studies with a specialization in History Each major was designed to have a disciplinary focus as well as an interdisciplinary component, wrote Liguo Zhang, director of global academic program development in the Office of DKU Programs, in an email.

Simon said the University is in the process See DKU on Page 4

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DKU from page 3 of recruiting and hiring 20 to 25 faculty members for the undergraduate program.

The start date for the degree program was initially going to be either Fall 2018 or Fall 2019, wrote Provost Sally Kornbluth in an email. The University eventually selected 2018 because the Ministry of Education approved the intended majors quickly.

The expeditious approval allowed the University to build on the momentum of DKU’s success and be able to participate in student recruitment programs in time for the first class.

Duke’s faculty in Durham will remain involved in the governance of the Kunshan campus, Kornbluth noted. They will aid with the course approval process and will help determine tenure decisions before Kunshan has its own set of faculty with tenure.

In its meeting Thursday, the Academic Council heard a presentation from Jennifer Francis—vice provost for academic affairs and Douglas and Josie Breeden professor at the Fuqua School of Business—that outlined the progress for hiring faculty at Kunshan.

Francis explained in her presentation that there have been more than 1,200 applications.

Three search committees are in the process of narrowing the field to 125 candidates and conducting interviews with them.

The Kunshan campus will also undergo expansions in alignment with the second phase of its master plan. The additions will include new residence halls, a student union, a library, a research center and athletic facilities.

Design work is still underway for the new buildings, and they are slated to be completed three to four years from now.

The city of Kunshan will finance the capital construction, but the operating costs will be shared with Duke.

“We will definitely be under construction for a bit,” Simon said.

There will also be a phase three of construction that will take place more than a decade from now, he explained.

“The thing that you have to remember about this Duke Kunshan University project—it’s not a three-year or a five-year initiative,” Simon said. “This is an initiative that is designed to last 50 to 100 years. Duke only entered this because it believed that it wanted to become part of the Chinese higher education infrastructure.”

Simon said the University may use nearby facilities in Kunshan while construction takes place.

He added that planning is underway for expanded master’s program offerings, including several in STEM fields, such as electronic and computer engineering or big data. This Fall, the first cohort in the international master’s program in environmental policy will arrive on campus.

Simon estimated that 60 to 70 graduate students are slated to graduate this year.

In total, 500 to 800 graduate students will eventually be enrolled in programs at the Kunshan campus.

MSA from page 2 that they can be fully open with us.

SRK: In terms of lack of transparency, we recently launched a Muslim chaplain search.

As we were getting applications and having people come onto campus for interviews, we realized that there have been lots of things that weren’t fair. We don’t think that students were 100 percent on the administration’s minds when they were making decisions in choosing candidates. In terms of how we will reach out to them, we will go to their offices.

We actually have emailed a list of demands that the MSA wants on campus: we want Muslim spaces, we want more representation and we emailed and met with Dr. [Zoila] Airall and Dr. [Li-Chen] Chin.

SCIENCE from page 3 overwhelmed by the response. More than 100 Duke students, faculty and staff made the trek to D.C., with many more taking part in local marches in North Carolina, he added.

Junior Diane Karloff drove five hours to D.C. with a group of her friends to march Saturday, which she said was a “really special experience” even in the rain.

“It made me excited that other people care about this thing that I care about,” she said.

Karloff also noted that many attendees brought with them clever signs, with sayings like “I’m with her” pointing to an image of the Earth and “less invasions, more equations.” In addition, she saw a woman with a baby who had a sign that said, “I exist because of IVF, thanks science.”

As Karloff took the Metro into the city, she said that she met others going to the march and began talking with them about their work, discovering several people who conducted similar research as her. She also encountered many Duke grads who were passionate about the march.

“Within a ten-foot radius there were eight people, and we all were interconnected somehow, all going to the march with the same purpose,” she said.

First-year Melissa Baldino also attended the march by taking a Megabus from Durham with friends.

As a biology major who loves doing research at Duke, she noted that it frustrates her when people do not acknowledge research or call it “alternative facts.”

“I know past marches have been pretty impactful, so I wanted to be a part of that,” she said.

Although Karloff said she does not believe the march will cause Trump to change his policies, she hopes it generates media attention.

Baldino noted that she thinks the march will make politicians realize that science is unbiased.

“I think it’s really important to remind ourselves that science is as much truth as we possibly have about a subject,” she said.

Valdivia echoed this sentiment, noting that he also wants the march to encourage scientists to become more engaged with public policy affairs.

“I would like it to be an example for younger scientists that engagement with the public and advocacy for science and science education is one of our responsibilities,” he said.

NANOMATERIALS from page 2 of the study Matthew Catenacci connected the device to a circuit containing 4 LED lights and was able to program 16 different patterns of illuminated lights.

In a real-world application, these patterns could be programmed to correspond to any display symbol. It takes approximately three microseconds to alternate between different patterns, a speed which rivals that of most flash drives.

The technology is based on copper nanowires, which can be modified into printable electronics for practical applications, Catenacci explained.

He also reflected on the potential impact of his team’s discovery. “[This device] opens up avenues toward rapid prototyping of memories using printed memory, and this can also store and log data over time,” he said. “Then, if you have a printed transmitter, you can quickly log the data and send it out to its destination.”

Catenacci noted that he is looking forward to “just seeing how the public will like [sprayon memory], how development and printer companies will want to use this technology to print general devices using basic memory principles.”

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Blue Devils use hot start to cruise to first ACC title since 2013 Dilan Trivedi The Chronicle About midway through Saturday’s second round of the ACC championship, the Blue Devils’ lead looked like it might be slipping away.

After Duke came out strong to extend a one-stroke lead to 10 shots, senior Alexander Matlari, freshman Chandler Eaton and junior Jake Shuman combined to play just six holes in 12-over-par during a rough patch in the middle of the round, quickly shaving four shots off the team’s lead.

But playing some of its best golf of the year, the No. 24 Blue Devils righted the ship and cruised through the rest of the second round before staying steady in the final 18 holes later Saturday en route to their first ACC championship since 2013. Duke led wire to wire at Musgrove Mill Golf Course in Clinton, S.C., opening with a blistering 11-under-par round Friday that sparked the Blue Devils’ three-day total of 14-underpar—good enough for a 12-shot victory against No. 13 Clemson.

“At some point, you might hit a rough patch. We talked about just bouncing back and how to handle things in terms of staying focused on the shot that’s in front of you,” Duke head coach Jamie Green said. “It’s probably the most difficult thing to do in our game, letting go of whatever adversity or whatever not so great things had happened for you, but that just shows where they’ve

Photo Courtesy of Duke Athletics The Blue Devils led from start to finish Friday and Saturday, winning their eighth ACC championship and first since 2013.

been working really hard.”

All five Blue Devil players in the lineup finished in the top 15 individually at even par or better, with Green’s team dominating par-3s and par-5s and also still tying for the best par-4 scoring in the field, as the 12 teams adjusted on the fly when Sunday’s final round was moved to Saturday due to expected inclement weather.

Despite being the fifth-highest ranked conference team behind No. 9 Wake Forest, the Tigers, No. 17 Virginia and No. 19 Georgia Tech, Duke was the best ACC

team when it counted to build momentum heading deeper into the postseason.

Unlike previous tournaments that saw the Blue Devils doomed by slow starts, Duke was dialed in right away on the unfamiliar ACC championship course—the event’s venue because of North Carolina’s controversial House Bill 2.

Led by senior Matt Oshrine and Shuman, who both carded 4-under-par 68s in the first round on the 6,951-yard course, the Blue Devils took a one-shot lead on Florida State and a two-stroke

edge on Clemson into Saturday.

“We spent more time out there in the practice round than we probably had been in a while for the sole purpose of making sure that the guys were extremely comfortable on the greens,” Green said. “Our guys did a terrific job of being focused and getting all the proper information so that when they got out on there in the competition, there was a comfort level.”

As the course conditions toughened early Saturday—players averaged 1.1 more strokes in the second round than they did the previous day and Florida State was 22 strokes worse in the second round—Duke held tough, with sophomore Alex Smalley’s 3-under-par round offsetting higher scores from a few of his teammates.

A day after setting the pace by one, the Blue Devils matched the low round of any team in the second 18 holes at 3-under-par to give themselves plenty of breathing room in a stress-free final round that never saw Duke really threatened.

Smalley contended for the individual title with impeccable play Saturday, overcoming a 1-over-par first round—the Blue Devils’ worst score Friday that was dropped because only the top four scores in each round contribute to team score—with rounds of 69 and 70 to finish tied for fifth at 4-under-par.

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Frank Jackson declares for draft without an agent Staff Reports The Chronicle

New NBA Draft rules were implemented last year that let early entrants keep their collegiate eligibility after receiving feedback from professional teams and scouts if they do not hire an agent and withdraw by late May. For the first time, a Blue Devil will take advantage of that flexibility.

Freshman Frank Jackson declared for the draft without hiring an agent, allowing him to retain his collegiate eligibility if he withdraws by May 24 based on feedback he gets in the coming weeks, ESPN’s Jeff Goodman reported Saturday night. Multiple other outlets also reported the news.

The deadline to declare for the draft was Sunday.

An explosive combo guard, Jackson had an up-and-down 2016-17 season. He was among the injury-plagued team’s leading scorers by posting double figures in his first eight collegiate games and hitting a game-tying 3-pointer in the Champions Classic against Kansas before hitting a wall in December.

After sitting out against Maine due to injury, Jackson did not hit double figures in his next five contests as the Blue Devils got fellow freshman Jayson Tatum into the mix offensively. The Alpine, Utah, native

then struggled in ACC play after scoring 15 points apiece in his first two league games, never reaching that mark again until late February against Miami.

Despite his inconsistency, the 6-foot-3 guard showed off his playmaking ability late in the season, scoring at least 14 points in six of Duke’s final eight games of the year and making several key shots during the team’s historic ACC championship run. The former five-star recruit finished the year averaging 10.9 points per game and shooting 39.5 percent from long range.

Jackson is known for his quickness off the dribble and deadly jump shooting, but his inconsistency is the main reason he is not listed on most mock drafts at this time.

He will look to impress at the NBA Draft combine next month before deciding whether or not to return to Durham.

If Jackson stays in the draft, it will be the first time ever Duke has had four players leave for the draft early in one year, and the Blue Devils will have eight open scholarships next season, including seven departures among the team’s topeight scorers from last season. Jackson would become Duke’s third one-and-done player this year alongside Jayson Tatum and Harry Giles and give the Blue Devils even more production to replace next season in the backcourt.

Although junior Grayson Allen is returning for head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s team, Duke would need five-

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Freshman Frank Jackson will test the NBA Draft waters despite an inconsistent freshman season, per several reports Saturday night.

star guard Gary Trent Jr. and four-star prospect Alex O’Connell to play heavy minutes right away if Jackson does indeed leave. The Blue Devils are also still in the running for five-star point guard Trevon Duval and five-star wing Kevin Knox after losing leading scorer Luke Kennard—who hired an agent for the NBA Draft following his breakout sophomore campaign—and senior Matt Jones.

Up front, Duke is counting on five-star big man Wendell Carter to produce right away with Amile Jefferson out of eligibility and Giles and Tatum putting their names in the draft. The Blue Devils are still courting five-star center Mohamed Bamba and will likely need freshman Marques Bolden or sophomore Antonio Vrankovic to step up with reserve big men Chase Jeter and Sean Obi transferring.

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

Blue Devils win share of ACC regular-season title Winston Lindqwister The Chronicle In her time at Duke, senior Chalena Scholl had never seen the Blue Devils topple Georgia Tech. The past three years saw Duke and the Yellow Jackets tied 3-3 before Georgia Tech won the match-deciding point each time.

But Scholl changed the story Sunday.

In her last-ever match in Ambler Tennis Stadium, the Pompano Beach, Fla., native stayed poised after losing the opening set in a tiebreaker, winning the second frame 6-2 then dominating again in the deciding set 6-2 to deliver L’VILLE 0 a 4-3 comeback 7 victory for No. DUKE 15 Duke against 3 the No. 6 Yellow GT Jackets.

Despite 4 falling behind 3-1, DUKE the Blue Devils stormed back with wins from sophomores Kaitlyn McCarthy and Ellyse Hamlin to set the stage for Scholl’s late heroics.

After suffering its first ACC loss 5-2 Wednesday at No. 3 North Carolina, Duke blanked Louisville 7-0 at home Friday before handing Georgia Tech its first conference defeat in the regular-season finale Sunday.

The Blue Devils earned a share of the conference regular-season championship and now enter the postseason with

tremendous momentum after their first top10 win of the year. “[This weekend] was great,” Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “We started with a good match on Friday. It was important for us on Friday to be efficient and get off the court. We knew today was going to be a battle…. We knew coming in it was going to be a great match either way, win or lose.”

The Blue Devils (19-4, 13-1 in the ACC) opened their weekend stretch with a routine win against the Cardinals (14-11, 3-10).

Duke’s tandem of Scholl and senior Alyssa Smith were quick off Court 5 with a 6-2 doubles victory, followed shortly by the No. 45 tandem of freshman Meible Chi and McCarthy. From there, the Blue Devils swept singles without losing a set to stay fresh for their third matchup in five days.

That energy proved crucial when Georgia Tech (23-3, 13-1) forced Duke to dig deep from the very start of the match.

The winners of 18 straight matches, the Yellow Jackets came up clutch in doubles with all three matches at 5-4 late in the sets. Paige Hourigan and Kenya Jones took down Chi and McCarthy 6-4, then Scholl and Smith fell to Johnnise Renaud and Rasheeda McAdoo to give the road team an early 1-0 edge.

“We got down early in doubles but we did a good job fighting our way back,” Ashworth said. “We didn’t play great doubles. We were a little tight and a little nervous.”

To make matters worse for the Blue Devils, Jones quickly translated her doubles success

Juan Bermudez | The Chronicle The Blue Devils fell behind 3-1 Sunday but rallied for their first top-10 win of the season to finish in a three-way tie atop the ACC regular-season standings.

to the singles courts, dominating Smith 6-2, 6-0 on Court 5 to double her team’s lead.

No. 85 Samantha Harris got Duke on the board with an enormous upset on Court 1, ending a five-match losing streak by jumping out to a 4-0 lead on her way to a 6-3, 6-4 victory against No. 47 Rasheeda McAdoo.

The Melbourne, Australia, native looked as healthy as she has all year, avoiding the errors that have hurt her earlier in the year to break a 4-4 tie in the second set. “[Sam] is tough,” Ashworth said. “She

hasn’t been able to practice as much as she has wanted because she’s trying to get through some injury stuff…. When she’s out here, she’s giving it everything she possibly can. It has been huge for her teammates to see that. It has given everyone a lift to know that she’s sacrificing her body for the good of our team and our program.”

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Since trailing 6-1 at then-No. 16 North Carolina three weeks ago, Duke has been as hot offensively as any team in the country.

But Saturday in Milwaukee, the Blue Devils faced a second-half deficit, trailing 6-5 against an unranked Marquette side that entered the weekend without a victory against a team currently in the top 20.

So when Duke needed its offense to get going, the Blue Devils turned to a familiar face—and leading scorer Justin Guterding delivered.

With a hat trick in the final 22:30, Guterding sparked No. 4 Duke’s 6-1 second-half surge and pushed the Blue Devils past the Golden Eagles 11-7 at Valley Fields DUKE 11 in Duke’s final MARQ 7 contest before next weekend’s ACC tournament. Freshmen Joey Manown and Reilly Walsh each added a pair of goals for the visiting Blue Devils as they collected a ninth win in their last 10 games.

Unlike its previous contest, when Duke (11-3) jumped out to an early 6-0 advantage against Virginia, the Blue Devils fell behind early as Marquette’s Ryan McNamara gave the hosts their first-ever lead in five matchups against Duke.

The two teams had played each of the last four seasons since the Golden Eagle lacrosse program started in 2013, and it had been a lopsided series, with the Blue Devils outscoring Marquette 70-21 in the four

Jeremy Chen | The Chronicle Freshman attackman Joey Manown stepped up Saturday with two goals as stars Justin Guterding and Jack Bruckner were held in check for much of the game.

previous contests. However, Golden Eagle head coach Joe Amplo, a former player and assistant coach for Duke head coach John Danowski at Hofstra, had his team ready from the outset Saturday afternoon.

But after killing an offsides penalty, the Blue Devils got their opening tally of the afternoon from Sean Lowrie, his seventh of the season, to knot the game at one apiece.

Sean Cerrone then bounced one home with 38 seconds remaining in the opening stanza to give Duke its first lead of the afternoon, and 20 seconds later, Lowrie notched a second goal to double the Duke lead.

From there, the teams traded goals in the

second quarter when Tanner Thompson and Joseph Dunn both scored for the Golden Eagles with a Walsh goal sandwiched in between to keep the hosts within one of the Blue Devils.

In the defensive battle, the goalkeepers for both teams showed why they rank among the best in their respective conferences. Duke and Marquette went silent for more than eight minutes as juniors Danny Fowler and Cole Blazer combined for a dozen first-half saves and surrendered just eight combined goals.

Although the Blue Devils were able to get to Blazer later on, the Libertyville, Ill., native kept the Golden Eagles in the game for more than

three quarters of play—both he and Fowler finished the afternoon with 13 stops.

Manown ended his team’s scoring drought with 75 seconds to play in the first half after Guterding drew a pair of extra defenders coming around the crease, leaving the freshman attack wide open. The Saundersville, R.I., native did not miss, and Duke carried a 5-3 advantage into the locker room at half.

Coming out of the break, Marquette (6-6) showed why it has been a program on the rise since its inception just five years ago—last season, the Golden Eagles were the No. 6 overall seed in the NCAA tournament and nearly eliminated eventual national champion North Carolina in the opening round.

Marquette senior Andy Demichei got a quick goal to pull the hosts within one at the start of the third quarter, and just 90 seconds later, Dunn snuck behind a defender on the crease and tied the contest at five with his second score of the contest.

With the word “relentless” on their backs in support of the HEADStrong Foundation and former Hofstra player Nick Colleluori, the Golden Eagles took the motto to heart. Senior Grant Preisler came from behind the cage and uncovered, the Marquette attackman fired into the upper corner over Fowler’s left shoulder to give his team the lead yet again.

But Guterding would not allow Duke to trail for long.

The Garden City, N.Y., native buried his 38th goal of the season less than two minutes later to level the score. With two more tallies in quick succession—one from a wide-open Manown See M. LACROSSE on Page 8

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Jeremy Chen | Chronicle File Photo The Blue Devils dominated the field on par-3s and par-5s to pull away in the final 36 holes Saturday after their hot start.

M. GOLF from page 6 and battle for an individual conference championship but could not find another birdie down the stretch.

“Once you’re in play, he’s as good an iron player as I’ve ever coached,” Green said. “If you can keep repeatedly knocking on the door and just keep giving yourself birdie looks and birdie opportunities, eventually you’re going to make some.

He’s that kind of player.”

Shuman carded Duke’s only two eagles of the week and continued playing his best golf, finishing tied for eighth at 2-under-par despite a final-round 75 that knocked him out of contention for the individual title.

Senior Matt Oshrine has also come on late in the year and battled to a final-round 75, which was still good enough to tie for 10th at 1-under-par following the veteran’s

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blistering start. He finished tied with fellow senior Matlari, who carded rounds of 69, 74 and 72 by leading the field in par-5 scoring at 9-under-par on the longest holes.

A powerful driver, Matlari tied for the individual lead in birdies made at 15 and was part of his first ACC championship team.

In his postseason debut, freshman Chandler Eaton finished 14th at even par, tying with Oshrine, Shuman and a Yellow Jacket competitor to lead the field in par-3 scoring at 2-under-par. Duke’s dominance on the shortest and longest holes ended up carrying it to an eighth conference crown.

The Blue Devils will now prepare for NCAA regionals May 15-17 as they try to get back to the NCAA championship after missing it last year. Duke was the No. 4 seed in last year’s regional in Stillwater, Okla., but finished eighth following a 33-over-par opening round on a brutallydifficult golf course.

Green’s team will hope to maintain its top form in the coming weeks and fare better at regionals this year—the Blue Devils will need a top-five finish at their assigned regional to make it to the NCAA championship in Sugar Grove, Ill. Duke will find out where it is going for regionals May 4, with practice time trimmed down in the next two weeks for final exams. “it’s just important for each guy to keep his body in good shape, to make sure he’s eating well and getting some exercise,” Green said. “Once we put the books away and close down the computer, we’ll have a few days before we go to regionals, so obviously there will be a lot of focus there on what we would need to do to be successful at that particular golf course.”

job of fighting and not giving up.”

By virtue of a three-team tiebreaker, North Carolina earned the No. 1 seed in the ACC tournament with Duke’s victory, with the Blue Devils seeded second and Yellow Jackets slotted third for the conference tournament in Rome, Ga. Duke will play its quarterfinal Friday with a rematch against Georgia Tech possible in the semifinals Saturday.

“This week we have to recover and be as fresh as we possibly can for later in the week,” Ashworth said. “We need to understand that every time we go on the court, there’s no tomorrow without today. We have to play with this emotion and lay it on the line on the first match we play on Friday.”

W. TENNIS from page 7 Renaud controlled her first set against 36thranked Chi 6-3, then roared back after falling behind 5-0 in a second-set tiebreak. Renaud won seven points in a row to stun Chi and momentarily quiet the home crowd.

But staring a fourth straight lopsided loss to a top-10 opponent in the face, Ashworth’s team responded.

Hamlin overcame a slow start on Court 6 to knock off Luca Fabian 7-6 (7-3), 6-1, winning the match’s final four points to reenergize the Blue Devils.

McCarthy was next off the court, completing the first perfect ACC slate in program history by defeating Nami Otsuka 5-7, 6-2, 6-3. The sophomore has been Duke’s most consistent player all season and never let Otsuka find momentum late.

All of a sudden, Duke and Georgia Tech were locked in another 3-3 battle. “[The comeback] was great,” Ashworth said.

“It’s all from the belief that we have that we’re never out of it, and that’s how we’ve played all year…. Whatever it takes to win, we’re going to do whatever we can possibly do.”

And for the third time this season, Scholl broke a 3-3 tie in her team’s favor.

The No. 56 player in the nation dropped the first-set 7-2 in a tiebreaker but rallied against 81st-ranked Hourigan, finding another gear to take control. With a rowdy crowd behind her, Scholl forced Hourigan into one last error on match point before Sheffield erupted and her teammates swarmed her. “[This win] means a lot,” Scholl said.

“Today was definitely a day we all wanted to come out on top and we all did a really great

M. LACROSSE from page 7 and then an unassisted score by Walsh—the Blue Devils seized control of the game.

Following Duke senior Jack Bruckner’s first goal of the game with 11:31 remaining in the contest that stretched the Blue Devil lead to three, the Golden Eagles got one score back and were pushing for more to close the margin.

Marquette—which averages fewer than 10 goals per game—could not keep up with the red-hot Duke offense, however. The Blue Devils got a pair of late scores to salt away the contest and will now have six days off before the ACC tournament semifinals next weekend.

With No. 6 Notre Dame’s 14-13 win Saturday against No. 16 North Carolina, the Fighting Irish clinched third place in the conference, meaning they will take on Duke at 8:30 p.m. Friday following the Tar Heels’ 6 p.m. matchup against No. 1 Syracuse at Koskinen Stadium.

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SCHOOL/SPORTS from page 1 as did the current and former athletes— spread among seven teams—interviewed for this story.

In 2002, ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” criticized the University for men’s basketball players’ strong tendency to major in sociology.

The show found that almost 40 percent of them during the previous 10 years had majored in the subject.

At the time, Kennedy responded by citing a 2001 book titled, “The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values,” that highlights athletes’ significant business interests.

The book includes data on former college athletes around the country from the Class of 1976, indicating that 49 percent went into business-related jobs compared to 35 percent of non-athletes from the same graduating class. The authors note, however, that the 14-percent difference might not fully explain differences in major choice.

“It is possible that the explanation goes beyond shared curricular and career interests, relevant as these are,” the authors wrote.

If time demands are leading to differences in what athletes study, it is easy to understand why.

A 2006 NCAA survey found that Division-I athletes average close to 35 hours per week in “athletic activities.”

“I get out of practice at 6:30, eat dinner and then you’re pretty beat and just like—I don’t have any energy to do work,” Pearson said. “And then you’ve got to get up the next morning at 6. So it’s like you got to keep going right away.”

“It’s like a full-time job,” junior football player Colin Duffy said.

Sophomore and former women’s

lacrosse player Phoebe O’Hara and junior and former track and field athlete Rachel Thompson said athletic time demands directly interfered with their ability to take certain classes.

Petters, Rabiner, Berndt and Kennedy also acknowledged this reality as an explanation for athletes’ major distribution.

“As the time demands on student-athletes have increased over the years and as seasons have expanded beyond their traditional boundaries, we have had to adjust our support to account for missed class time, especially in quantitative, engineering and language courses,” Kennedy wrote in a 2008 athletic report.

Different priorities Perhaps most importantly for the differences in academic interests, all 10 current and former athletes interviewed agreed that some athletes simply care more about sports than their academics.

These preferences raise questions about the part of the athletic mission that calls for athletes to “be admitted with careful attention to their academic record and motivation.”

“Some people do make deliberate choices that they know are going to allow them to put more effort into athletics, or maybe make their academic time here a little bit less stressful,” senior women’s soccer player Lizzy Raben said.

Duke football head coach David Cutcliffe agreed that many athletes place a greater emphasis on their sport than academics.

“Our guys do well [academically] that want to do well,” Cutcliffe said. “The reason a lot of athletes at any major institution choose to come, is they choose to come play their sport. And then they look at what they want to work in or study. They probably

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Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag wrote in an email that the University does not look at the intended majors of applicants—athletes or non-athletes—because of how little those interests pan out in college. He did not respond to multiple requests for comment on how the statements by administration officials and athletes compromise Duke’s athletic mission, if at all.

Junior Sam Meyers, who spent her first year on the fencing team, said that the program’s culture differed from other teams’ and that the coaches were flexible about schoolwork.

“A lot of the fencers I know... they’re at Duke for the work, for the school and for the education—and I didn’t always get that sense from other athletes,” she said.

Meyers also said the fencing team had

Jeremy Chen | The Chronicle Of 13 upperclassman men’s lacrosse players with majors listed online, nine are majoring in sociology.

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To many detractors of the march, science is an apolitical discipline that should be divorced from the often-times convoluted realm of politics. However, although prominent figures in the scientific community do tend to remain taciturn in relation to national issues, the research provided by scientists is inherently political in the many ways their work is interpreted and utilized by the general public.

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an oft-disregarded political edge. In our own national history, instances of science being utilized to justify the political status quo are rife throughout the American narrative. Supporters of slavery in the 1800s for instance justified the enslavement of African Americans through racial anthropometry and the now seemingly incredulous illness of “drapetomania.” In the present, as evident by the contentious political dialogue around global warming and evolution in the public education

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system, it is disingenuous to claim science as being inherently apolitical. As evidenced by the march, even the scientific community has its own political issues that it sometimes fails to acknowledge.

Within the March for Science camp, criticism of the event focused on the lack of diversity within the movement, which was reminiscent of similar concerns during the Women’s March. While the majority of scientists constitute white, male, cis-gender, and often financially well-off individuals, they represent only one part of the dynamic scientific community.

When leaders of dynamic movements remain largely

homogenized, marginalized members can often be brushed to the wayside despite good intentions.

Furthermore, while the scientific community stood up in response to the political actions of the Trump administration, such a strong coalition-based response is largely missing from other science-related crises like Flint, Michigan, which disproportionately affected low socioeconomic minority populations.

Nonetheless, this march represents a crucial milestone in protecting the interests of science and the scientific community within the United States.

As an international research powerhouse, Duke clearly has a critical stake-hold within the current debate around funding for the sciences. The National Science Foundation reports Duke as having the seventh largest research expenditures among American universities (ahead of both Stanford and Harvard). As a leading private research institution, we should be diligent in showing political support for scientific research, which now more than ever is being threatened by those in Washington who question the validity and societal value of scientific inquiry. Scientists can no longer remain silent as their way of life is currently in the throes of the Trump administration. It is time to take a stand in the name of Science.

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his week feels final. As a graduating senior, I’ve been spending this semester waiting for some kind of clarity—expecting some parting sense of closure or greater purpose to find me in my last few weeks on campus.

It hasn’t. I suppose I still have finals left—and a week at Myrtle. But no one finds clarity at Myrtle.

When freshmen ask me how to navigate Duke, I really don’t know how to respond—except to regurgitate advice about ditching pre-med or “pushing yourself out of your comfort zone.” Those nuggets are always worth recycling for each new class of first-years.

But before an underclassman ever asked me for advice about Duke—and before I even knew to ask advice of upperclassmen—I remember hearing from my family and friends about what college was supposed to be all about.

College, they said, is where you go to find yourself.

“Find yourself in college.”

I really dislike that phrase. I’ve heard it a lot—so much

think differently. Academics that inspire. Activities that give energy and joy. Intentionality that lends itself to purposeful direction.

An implicit assumption in that advice is that there is only one self to find—a singular, best version. I’m skeptical of that.

And I hope (dear God) that discovery doesn’t end with college.

But the second fundamental reason why I dislike that phrase has less to do with the ways Duke pushes around those without intentionality, and more to do with how hard it can be to move once we do, in fact, “find” something. It has to do with how we root out inconsistencies—maybe even how we root out hypocrisy.

There are good reasons to strive for consistency—in whatever form it may take. And there are good reasons why hypocrisy doesn’t serve us well. When we find ourselves somewhere uncomfortable, our temptation is not always to search for something else, but to reorient ourselves to avoid the discomfort. To shirk the feeling, not the activity. But

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so that it’s probably worth discussing for 800 words. Maybe I dislike it because it’s kitschy, overused, and unhelpful. Maybe it’s because I—or me, my soul, my destiny, whatever it is—is still out there, somewhere, probably in Perkins, waiting to be discovered, and I’m just anxious because I haven’t found it yet.

But I don’t think so. I think the age-old adage is wrong.

And I think it’s wrong in a couple of important ways.

First, there is a difference between finding yourself and searching yourself. My guess is that we use the word “find” because “searching” implies that we know what we’re looking for.

Thinking back, there were a number of things I stumbled upon at Duke—perspectives, ideas, beliefs. Most of the time, when I stumble upon a belief —when I find and adopt something rather than create something myself—I wind up with something either shallow or wrong. Some of those ideas wound up in this column—both before and after edits.

“Finding yourself”—wandering without intentionality— usually doesn’t work well here. Our culture is one that pulls.

It pulls toward certain peer groups, certain academic paths, certain careers. It pulls in ways that are nonrandom and not always ideal, particularly for the wanderer. For better or worse, Duke is not a place where people are usually found. It is a place that steers—steers into peer groups of comfort rather than challenge, into activities of continuity rather than fulfillment, into paths of achievement rather than purpose. None of this is unique to Duke. Most of it is tied to the culture of a place where talent and opportunities and expectations intersect. But whatever it is—it is not usually for the wanderer.

Duke, and I think college generally, is a place where we should search for ourselves—a place for active pursuit of who we want to be and what we think is important.

Maybe it would have been a lot to expect 18-year-old me to know what I was looking for. But maybe not. Good friends who

hypocrisy is more than uncomfortable. It’s also stigmatized. At Duke, we love to justify—no matter how honest we know those justifications to be.

Many of us, myself included, came to Duke with a plan for how to better our own corner of the world. We brought a passion or an interest or a favorite subject. We brought a plan to change something for the better. And over time, as graduation creeped ever closer, for one reason or another, we choose not to. Most times, that takes the form of something mundane. But sometimes it’s more defining.

And this time of year, it most obviously manifests in career choice. It isn’t only that we opted for consulting or finance when didn’t need to—or even when we didn’t particularly want to. Rather, it manifests when we justify.

Maybe, if I were a better person or had more conviction or had “found myself” just a few more weeks before Econ 101, I wouldn’t have opted for the same. Maybe I wouldn’t have signed up for management consulting recruiting or the LSAT. But maybe there’s something valuable about embracing the inconsistency – about naming the pulls that operate on each of us.

Duke can pull hard. I think there’s something compelling – maybe even noble – about acknowledging that pull. More importantly, I think there’s something hopeful about it.

For the searcher – for those who come to this place with intentionality, tolerance for inconsistency, a healthy selfconsciousness – Duke can be transformative.

I’m leaving campus in a few weeks, and I still haven’t found myself. But I know what I’m searching for. And I think that’s a pretty good start.

Tanner Lockhead is a Trinity Senior. His column, “not straight talk,” runs on alternate Mondays.

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nonymous sources close to Monday Monday report the time—the one we’ve been dreading—has finally come. The Monday Monday “big reveal” is here.

And given that I’ve already broken just about every other journalism rule ever invented, I might as well not bury the lede.

My name is Annie Adair, and I am Monday Monday.

The final Monday Monday of the semester has long served as a way for the mystery writer to explain the method to their madness. I would like to do that, as well as to participate in the tradition of contributing to the collection failed headlines that never came to fruition as a last ditch way to promise you I, really, truly am funny.

For those of you tuning in for the first time, you can read my greatest hits on The Chronicle’s website, at the links here, here, and here.

For some of you, this grand revelation of my secret identity may come as a shock. For others, especially those familiar with the more sadistic yearnings of my brain or those who I explicitly told because I knew you wouldn’t deign to read The Chronicle otherwise, this

believing Duke is a perfect university.

And quite honestly, I doubt any of us truly do. But sometimes we get so wrapped up in our organizations and activities that we fail to step back and observe something greater. We should be able to concede that maybe, there is a problem with the way Duke Student Government conducts itself or how quickly we’re willing to demonize a certain basketball player. I was too cowardly to say my criticisms in person.

So I found solace in addressing them under the guise of humor, anonymously in the school paper.

But more urgent than the satire is the issue of fake news. It is, apparently, not the founder of Politifact’s dream to have his daughter craft her own fake news.

But in an instance of beautiful irony and like any good defiant child, I decided I didn’t care. So began my love letter to Scott Dikkers, to The Onion, to my father and to the school I loved so much by writing about things that could, oddly enough, kind of plausibly happen.

We live in an age many have declared the “post-truth era.” Circumstance has emboldened our nation’s highest officials to reject realities as they see fit, piling on untrue assertion one

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column should serve as a culmination of the inevitable.

I wrote this column as a semester long shot at myself. I never wrote about an institution at Duke I didn’t find myself admiring at one point. In doing so I became the villain Duke deserved, but not necessarily the one it needed. But like any good villain, I seek the validation of others and to reveal my master plan just before the hero—in this case, the sweeping shame of anonymous criticism by my peers—comes and swoops me up. So here’s the exact two reasons why I did it.

Monday Monday bequeaths upon its writers—and its readers—perhaps the most important lesson that a university can teach someone: to have a sense of humor.

My Monday Monday plight wasn’t totally borne out of revenge, though that certainly had something to do with why I applied. More important to me was the ability to inject a sense of selfdeprecation and humor into a student body that takes itself wholly too seriously.

The beauty of anonymous writing arises from the ability to cover anything.

No topic is too far or too controversial when your name isn’t attached. So, I really leaned in and went for it. I made fun of my closest friends and the organizations they hold dear. I poked the institutions that helped me get to where I am today and skewered the people I idolized the most.

I found that the people with the greatest sense of humor also had the greatest willingness to listen. Those who saw past the jokes and into the truths that underlined each column got the most takeaways. I wrote the columns—“Me Too,” “Rush,” “Campus Enterprises”— to highlight the fact that things Duke holds dear, that I hold dear, are in no way perfect.

We shouldn’t kid ourselves into

after the other. We as citizens are exposed to “alternative truths” based on unsubstantiated claims that eventually find solace in radical circles entrenched in both red and blue. We’ve created an atmosphere of dissonance and distrust towards any ideas that don’t perfectly line up with our own.

I wrote fake news to encourage people to pursue the truth in whatever they do, instead of ignoring it. Racism, classism, sexism, mental health and a whole other bevvy of uncomfortable topics can’t be addressed if people aren’t willing to speak up. Too often do we ignore the truth—whether it be in our academic or social lives—because it can make us uncomfortable. But by addressing these issues bluntly and head on, we create an atmosphere of openness and acceptability where people can actually solve issues.

Upon completion of this final column, I will likely never have the opportunity to so publicly decry so much. And quite honestly, nobody will surprised if I become a cog in the wheel of the lobbyist-industrial congress sweeping over D.C. right now and ultimately contribute to the macro issues I highlighted in my columns. But my hope is that in ten, or twenty, or fifty years when I inevitably lose myself to the sweeping tides of partisanship or a seven figure salary that I can look back to my writings and remember to dig deeper to reach the truth.

Either that, or my future enemies will pull up these columns Stephen Miller style, point to them and say “that dumb, unfunny b***h.”

Annie Adair is a Trinity senior and Spring 2017’s Monday Monday. Business inquiries and/or threats should be left at the entrance to the Blue Zone Graveyard after 3 a.m. on any given Tuesday.

An addy a day

just popped an ‘addy’ so I’ll be ready to grind in T-15 minutes.”

Adderall is a drug used in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy. It was originally created to treat patients who couldn’t focus, stay still or get any work done. But the use of Adderall has shifted drastically to college students trying to achieve in the competitive cultures of today’s universities. Urban Dictionary’s definition of the drug states that Adderall is “the only way to finish homework. When I take Adderall, homework’s a breeze!”

College students in this day and age find themselves constantly distracted by technology and social media, bombarded with homework and constantly dragged into nights out filled with too much to drink and maybe a few too many drugs. We live in a culture of “blacking out,” of wanting not to remember a night. Or rather, pretending not to have remembered a night to seem cool. The amount of times that I’ve heard: “Oh, I don’t remember, I was so blacked out last night I couldn’t even handle myself,” at Saturday brunches or morning classes is countless.

Our going-out culture has cultivated an environment that surpassed the doors of Shooters, Devine’s and central late nights.

The constant blacking out and drug use at night has led to the need to turn to other drugs during the day. And because Adderall is a prescription, people call it “safe” or even

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“helpful,” when, in reality, it’s not. It is still the type of drug that you take when partying and trying to blackout, the same drug that you use to alter the way your brain functions at a given point.

So, when Sunday morning hits you hard in the face after a long night of drinking, smoking, snorting and dancing, and you realize you have to crank out an entire week’s worth of homework in one day, what else do you do but ask a friend for a pill of their prescribed Adderall to keep you focused and on track. You see it everywhere, with those that actually suffer from ADHD, with athletes, with frat bros, with overachieving students taking six-course loads. The feeling of hopelessness and incapability of completing all of the work assigned to them pressures them to pop the pill.

“I have to hit up the GroupMe to see if anyone has Adderall in Perkins, I’m DYING here.”

But the pill doesn’t just keep you focused and able to do work for extended hours of time without any breaks. It makes your heart pound vigorously, subsides any twinges of hunger, keeps your body completely awake until the drug has left your system and focuses your brain on the work in front of you. People have frequently exclaimed fear whilst under the influence of Adderall, worried that their heart was going to beat right out of their chest or that they were going to sweat out all the water in their body.

It’s not a harmless drug. And yet, we find an overbearing amount of people taking them daily, weekly or “just before a big test.”

“I am on an ‘addy’ trip and am cranking out a lot of work so I’m not sure I can see you later.”

So, why is that so many people take the pill to finish work that other people can do sans brain stimulants? Why has it become such a fad, one that everyday new people are trying to hop on in order to keep up?

It could be that the elite universities like Duke are choosing to throw more and more work at their students. New information and

opportunities are constantly advertised to students that want to take everything they can here. It could be that universities don’t understand the sheer amount of homework/ clubs/jobs/organizations that their students have, so they try to keep pushing them, pushing them until there is nothing left to give. A university putting so much pressure on its students that they are physically incapable of turning out the work given to them without some “help.” It could be the reason that students turn to drugs to help them achieve here.

Another possible reason could be that this same academic pressure leads students to the current culture of heavy drinking and partying four times a week. And that this partying, or escape from real life, depletes students’ stamina and desire to do their work, forcing them to resort yet again to substances.

“If you have too much work to do, just go out tonight and take Adderall tomorrow.”

It could be that our technological world has distracted us completely so students find themselves incapable of unplugging, not responding to the latest Groupme or closing the Netflix tab. It could be that our technology has shifted the way students do their work. Instead of sitting down at the library and doing even just two hours of solid work, they sit for six, seven, fifteen hours on end, half scrolling through social media and half writing an essay. It could be

that this type of studying forces people to turn to the substance so they don’t turn to social media, so they don’t succumb to the fascinations within their telephone screen.

It could be that students are incapable of controlling their desires to stay in the loop and technologically up to date that they must use a synthetic restraint.

Or maybe it’s the fact that being a student at a top university, the stress that comes with that title, the technological world we live in, and the need to get intoxicated has forced many students to turn to drug use to help them survive the hardships of the academic college experience.

Then we see the students who can excel without the drug. Why is it that these students can achieve while others feel the need to do drugs to keep up?

These students probably don’t drink as much, don’t go out as much and could possibly do their homework ahead of time.

They don’t wait until the last moments of the week to complete assignments due for Monday. They don’t stay up until five in the morning, they look over notes after class and they put away their phones while they are in the library. They are the students you want to be. You want to be a studious and timely student but must leave that lifestyle, give up sleep and productivity in order to sustain a major social life, involvement in several organizations and substance abuse. So now, finals week is among us and the hibernation period deep within Perkins has begun. So has the scramble to get a hold of enough Adderall to sustain this lifestyle throughout the end of the year.

“I better refill my prescription, finals are around the corner and people will definitely be looking to fiend my Adderall.”

Columnist’s note: All of these are from experiences of Duke students whom I’ve interviewed. These are not medically-confirmed drug experiences.

Delaney Dryfoos is a Trinity sophomore.

Her column, “let’s talk sex” runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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Football Center, and junior and former football player Mike Fagan said that academic coordinators would immediately get the grades of their football advisees when an exam was returned.

“We have our whole life in there,” Duffy joked about the Yoh Center.

“There 100 percent is different treatment for different sports,” added junior Kiersten Bell, a former track and field athlete.

Steered away by advisors?

Numerous athletes offered another explanation for the different major distributions—the role of academic coordinators.

Athletes have these advisors in addition to the advisors that all Duke students receive. But junior and former women’s lacrosse player Gianna Ossello, Thompson and Bell said that academic coordinators had pushed them toward less timeconsuming classes or majors.

Denis Simsek | Chronicle File Photo Thompson, who was not recruited as a The men’s swimming team was one of the few scholarship athlete, said she was upset when teams with a major distribution in line with told to avoid certain quantitative classes. that of non-athletes.

“I was like, ‘I got into this school on my merit, the rigor is fine,’” Thompson said. “My from page 9 normal academic advisor was just more laid back. She was just like, ‘This is what you want to take? Alright, cool.’” among the highest GPAs of any team at Duke.

Bell said she was told her schedule would Team-by-team breakdowns of The Chronicle’s be perhaps too difficult when she presented data indicate that only the men’s swimming it to her academic coordinator, even though team and both the men’s and women’s fencing it was the normal load for a freshman teams had academic major distributions in engineering student like herself. line with those of non-athletes And Ossello said she is now unable to Meyers and Pearson cited more flexible get a B.S. in evolutionary anthropology after practice schedules and the discipline required being steered away from more quantitative by those sports in particular as explanations and “hard-science” classes as a first-year. The for the academic similarities. former scholarship athlete said she hoped to Teams also have different admissions be a pre-med student when she began her standards, Berndt said. As a result, some time at Duke. teams have required study hours in the “[The academic coordinators] were like, Krzyzewski Center for Athletic Excellence, ‘No, that’s a lot of work. You should stick to but others like fencing and swimming do some of the other sciences that aren’t as timenot, Meyers and Pearson said. consuming, like earth and ocean sciences,’” The football team studies in the Yoh Ossello said.

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Berndt said if academic coordinators are making it significantly difficult for athletes to major in quantitative or hardscience majors, that would be “totally inappropriate.”

Not all the athletes shared the same experience. Fagan, O’Hara and Meyers said they were not pushed away from certain majors, though they added that their academic interests are nonquantitative subjects.

Pearson, an electrical and computer engineering and computer science double major, said, “I think [academic coordinators] want you to understand exactly what you’re getting yourself into.”

Duffy took more of a middle ground, suggesting that the difference in major distribution was a product of both the choices of athletes and the behavior of academic coordinators.

Asked multiple times for official data on athletes’ majors that could better represent the discrepancies between athletes and non-athletes, Berndt could not be reached for comment.

The University appears to be doing what it can to improve the academic experience of its athletes. Thompson and Pearson estimated at least a majority of student-athletes use the tutoring services, and all seven studentathletes asked about the tutoring said it is extremely helpful.

“It’s so easy and nice. All I have to do is email my [academic coordinator], ‘I need some help in this class,’” Ossello said. “They’ll look at my schedule for me and they’ll sign up a tutor for me.”

Summer school has also “just exploded,” Kennedy said. He explained that it allows athletes to take the classes they want without worrying about practice time or travel schedules. Additionally, athletes have the first registration windows for their courses within their class, Kennedy said.

Finally, the University has expanded

The Chronicle summer study-abroad programs for athletes with the 2015 creation of the Rubenstein-Bing Student-Athlete Civic Engagement program. The initiative, featuring 20 Duke student-athletes and 20 Stanford student-athletes, has helped lead to what Petters says is a greater proportion of athletes studying abroad or away than non-athletes.

It remains to be seen, however, what else can be done to improve athletes’ academic experience, or whether anything should be.

Petters said he would be more concerned if the top majors for athletes and non-athletes started looking significantly different, pointing to a pie chart of official major data that he did not grant The Chronicle permission to publish.

According to The Chronicle’s data, five of the seven most popular majors for athletes are also among the top seven most popular majors for non-athletes. However, the order of their popularity differs, and the total of these five majors is just 42.3 percent of all non-athletes’ majors.

Kennedy said that if athletics were hypothetically carving too much into athletes’ study time, “The only something we could do is to say, ‘15 hours [of practice] a week, max.’”

Asked whether that idea was practical, he said, “That’s possible. The [Ivy League schools] practice less than the rest of Division I does, they have more restrictive rules on practice and stuff.”

“But that means that the University has reconsidered its commitment to Division-I athletics, to being in the ACC. And the University has decided at this point that as a university value, one of many, that whatever publicity, attention, brand is created or enhanced by athletics is worth having this kind of athletic program—with all the implications of that.”

Amrith Ramkumar contributed reporting.