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Former Duke instructor fired from White House

ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEENTH YEAR, ISSUE 3

‘THE BEAUTY OF THE LITTLE MOMENTS’

Conference he was ousted for attending occurred while he worked at Duke By Bre Bradham Editor-In-Chief

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Darren Beattie, Ph.D. ‘16, was a visiting instructor in the political science department during the Nov. 2016 election, when he made headlines for predicting then-presidential candidate Donald Trump would win in spite of the polls. After he left Duke, he became a speechwriter in Trump’s administration. It was also in Nov. 2016 that Beattie sat on a conference panel alongside an alt-right publisher who has been tied to white supremacist content. When CNN recently inquired about the connection, Beattie was quickly ousted from his White House role. “In 2016 I attended the Mencken conference in question and delivered a stand-alone, academic talk titled ‘The Intelligentsia and the Right.’ I said nothing objectionable and stand by my remarks completely,” Beattie wrote in a statement to the media. “I love President Trump, who is a fearless American hero, and continue to support him one hundred percent. I have no further comment.” The White House would not go beyond confirming that he no longer is employed there. “Mr. Beattie no longer works at the White House,” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley told CNN on Friday. “We don’t comment on personnel matters.” Political Science Department Chair Georg Vanberg told the Chronicle that Beattie received no support from Duke to attend the conference and that, as far as he knew, no one at Duke knew ahead of time about his participation. Vanberg said See FIRED on Page 12

Price urges first-years to take adversity as a lesson at convocation in Cameron By Stefanie Pousoulides

note that they represented team wins. “It’s no wonder that one of the most common statements that we hear coming out of postgame interviews is ‘we’ll take it one game at a In a packed Cameron Indoor Stadium on an already humid time’—by not sweating the big stuff; by taking our minds off that big prize at the end of the season and focusing instead on the here and the Wednesday morning, sweat was pouring from first-year students. now,” Price said. Despite the heat at the Class of 2022 convocation, President Vincent Finally, Price warned students against becoming so “caught up Price gave a new take on an old adage, telling students they shouldn’t in life after Duke” that they forget special moments, like late-night sweat the “big stuff.” conversations about politics or Spikeball games on the quad. “The big stuff isn’t always a great guide—it can even lead us in the “If we’re focused on the endgame, we tend to overlook the beauty wrong direction,” Price said. “Focusing on what we do rather than on of the little moments along the way,” Price said. who we are, on some of our accomplishments rather than on our own Smith emphasized community in innate talents and gifts, can make our successes her speech, discussing her own time less sweet.” Focusing on what we do rather at a retreat called Common Ground, Price addressed the University’s 1,753 newest members alongside fellow speakers Christoph than on who we are, on some of our where participants discuss important aspects of their own identities. Guttentag, dean of undergraduate admissions, accomplishments rather than our She said that she viewed East and senior Kristina Smith, president of Duke own innate talents and gifts, can Campus as the first-years’ “own Student Government. version of Common Ground.” In this digitized era, Price said that make our successes less sweet. “Living in the same room with overcoming “inevitable bumps” becomes harder or maybe on the same hall as people due to the prevalence and pervasiveness of vincent price who are unfamiliar will be your social media. PRESIDENT first glimpse at learning to value the To Price, apps like Instagram and Snapchat people of this University,” Smith said. add to the delusion that “everyone else is “It is how you treat this chance—the chance to get to know those who succeeding beyond their wildest dreams, is living a perfect life of are totally different from you.” flower crowns and matcha lattes and pale pink wallpaper.” In his own remarks, Guttentag highlighted some outstanding Instead, he advised first-years to be themselves and reject the “false first-years, including some who are national art champions, who are standards of perfection or high expectations” and recognize that in the “50 high schoolers to watch” list and who have even created adversity and challenge are actually important lessons. their own language. Price also ensured students that, no matter what may happen, He then discussed how the new students were chosen among they will have the full support of professors, classmates and the residential staff. See CONVOCATION on Page 13 He pointed to the banners that hang from the ceiling of Cameron to University News Editor

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PAINTING THE HISTORY O history in the article, claiming to have received a letter that indicates that graffiti donned the bridge around 1940. For a few brief seconds on every trip The earliest known example of bridge painting between East and West campuses, the graffiti is a photo from the 1963 Chanticleer. wall under the Main Street bridge offers riders The type of art and messages adorning and passersby a flash of color. the bridge don’t seem to have changed much Those who pay attention as the bus passes through time. A 1994 News & Observer article find a mix of messages. The wall is a platform offers a snapshot of the wall, noting that for politics, a canvass for creativity, a stage for names, “sorority and fraternity letters,” “pi to frats to wrestle for relevancy and a good place more than a dozen digits, along with a graphic to write bad words. representation of a warped plane that is the At any moment, it tells hundreds of stories. basis for an alternative form of geometry” and But what is the wall’s story? “a minimalist painting of a droopy-lidded dude North Carolina Department of smoking something” stuck out at the time. In Transportation (NCDOT) records say the that article, an interviewed student wasn’t Main Street bridge was built in 1950. However, impressed by the bridge. they announced bridge “I don’t know… renovations in 2004, then If graffiti is a lion of the maybe it just represents pushed them back 5 years. the self-absorbed Renovation finally started urban jungle, our East Duke students and in 2013, seven years after Campus Bridge graffiti is a their egocentric the bridge was deemed preoccupation with domesticated house cat. “functionally obsolete.” writing their names?” The bridges that cross Ken james tager then-junior that chunk of Campus JUNIOR AND CHRONICLE COLUMNIST, 2008 Klapper said. Drive include the wide The official nature Main Street bridge, a train of the free expression trestle and the Pettigrew Street bridge. area—Duke condones the painting so long as William King, Duke University archivist it stays off of the bridge overpass, sidewalk, emeritus, said in a 2004 Durham Herald- street, and railing—and the subject matter put Sun article that “the bridge had to have been on the wall have led to some criticism through built” in the 1920s when East Campus was the years. redesigned. He further challenges the wall’s “If graffiti is a lion of the urban jungle, our By Jake Sheridan

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Charles York | Special Projects Photography Editor Before first-years move to East Campus each year, the bridge is painted by first-year advisory counselors with a phrase or image for each dorm.

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OF THE EAST CAMPUS BRIDGE East Campus Bridge graffiti is a domesticated house cat,” Chronicle columnist James Tager, then a junior, wrote in 2008. But the bridge has seen quite a bit of controversy. An examination of The Chronicle’s online database revealed a number of incidents from the 1990s onward. In 1990, the Duke Gay & Lesbian Association (DLGA) messages in support of Coming Out Week were painted over with the words “No thanks, AIDS kills.” Around that time, “the Kappa Alpha fraternity decorated the bridge with a huge Confederate Flag.” In 1994, homophobic slurs were written on the wall. In response, the words “We’re still everywhere” was painted over them. Todd Presner, then DLGA Chair, criticized the University for whitewashing the slurs in a Chronicle column, arguing that the censorship set a dangerous precedent. Three years later, Facilities painted over the DLGA’s messages in support of Coming Out Week. The whitewashing didn’t seem to condemn all controversial messaging, however. In 2009, a drawing of male genitalia with the words “make me a sandwich” written on it was left up, leading to complaints. More recently, in 2016, racial, anti-semitic, and homophobic slurs were discovered on the wall by a group gathering to paint for an NAACP, Mi Gente and Asian Student Association event. Although sometimes divisive, the wall has the power to bring people together. Durham

based artist Jonathan Massullo, whose large, vivid murals can be seen on the wall, thinks the space is important. “For local artists who work in spray paint or murals I can’t express enough the significance of walls like the East Campus wall… The response is always overwhelmingly positive, the range of people who stop to look or chat is incredible, all ages and walks of life,” Massullo said. “Many of those who seem truly interested in the work are those who most likely would have had little exposure to artwork of that nature, apart from amateurish back-alley tags or pieces on passing freights,” Massullo said. “It’s likely many of those people probably viewed any sort of street art or graffiti as a public nuisance or vandalism, and hopefully now they have a broader horizon. If I can help open anyone’s mind and accept sprayart as legitimate I’d be happy.” With some controversy, constant turnover, and a whole lot of color, one can still find the stories of Duke playing out on the graffiti wall. Last spring, the names of the founders of one fraternity were reverently painted on the inner edge of the wall. The names of the victims of the Parkland shooting quickly replaced them. Throughout the semester there were curse words and cigarette drawings, odes to drugs and messages of encouragement. Some artists scribbled their names. Some trashed Carolina. There’s a lot of turnover, but in some ways the wall doesn’t change. And maybe that’s a story in itself.

Bre Bradham | Contributing Photographer A December 2017 photo of graffiti on the free expression bridge.

Background: Charles York | Special Projects Photography Editor A detail from the painted bridge.

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Water use with fracking has dramatically increased since 2011 By Kathryn Silberstein Health and Science News Editor

Duke researchers detected sizable increases in water use and wastewater production from fracking between 2011 and 2016. Fracking breaks rock with a pressurized liquid— usually water—to make it easier to mine for petroleum and natural gas, among other resources. The Nicholas School of the Environment team found the amount of water used per hydraulic fracturing well jumped by 770 percent, while the amount of wastewater produced in the process grew by 1,440 percent during the same period. Opponents of fracking have expressed concern about potential environmental impacts from fracking, such as the contamination of ground and surface water. To handle the increasing amounts of potentially toxic wastewater produced, drilling companies sometimes opt to Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons inject it into underground wastewater wells. Duke researchers analyzed six years of data on fracking and detected sizable increases in the water use and wastewater production from Although this helps protect local water supplies, the practice the hydraulic fracturing of energy resources. Pictured is a fracking operation in 2011. has been linked to small- and medium-sized earthquakes, the Duke researchers said. increase in water waste and use by 2030. As innovations in drilling technologies drive increased “New drilling technologies and production strategies Studies conducted in the past indicated that fracking’s unconventional oil and gas production in the U.S. and have spurred exponential growth in unconventional oil water use paralleled that of other around the world, an accurate understanding of fracking’s and gas production in the United energy sources, but those studies water footprint is imperative, Kondash argued. States and, increasingly, in other only included the data from the Kondash said he hopes that the lessons the researchers parts of the world,” said Andrew J. early years of fracking, explained learned can be applied around the world. Kondash, a graduate student at the Anver Vengosh, professor of “Lessons learned from production development Nicholas School and team member, geochemistry and water quality in the United States can directly inform the planning in a news release. If currently low oil and gas prices at the Nicholas School. and implementation of hydraulic fracturing practices were to rise, it could cause water use Amount of more water used per However, the Nicholas elsewhere as other countries such as China, Mexico and to spike, the researchers said. School study utilized data from Argentina bring their unconventional natural gas reserves According to the study, water use hydraulic fracturing well in 2016 than well into the fracking age, as it online,” Kondash added. in 2011 and wastewater volumes from the investigated data from industry, The Duke team was composed of Kondash, Vengosh and fracking process could grow 50-fold governmental and non-profit Nancy Lauer, a 2018 Nicholas School doctoral graduate. in unconventional gas-producing regions and 20-fold in sources from 2011 to 2016. “This study provides the most accurate baseline yet for unconventional oil-producing regions by 2030. This provided a more accurate view of the environmental assessing the long-term environmental impacts this growth In fact, Kondash noted that even if prices and drilling demands of large-scale fracking and potential long-term may have, particularly on local water availability and rates remain as they are, the study’s models still project large effects, the reserchers argue. wastewater management,” Kondash said.

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‘Gametime’: FACs do move-in day’s heavy-lifting By Bre Bradham Editor-In-Chief

Charles York | Special Projects Photography Editor A group of FACs pose in front of Randolph dorm on move-in day.

Hundreds of students in blue and pink shirts line the sidewalks of East Campus. They swarm each family’s car like ants, looting the mini fridges and printers and boxes of clothes as the helpless firstyears look on. They haul the luggage into doors and up the stairwells and place it inside each first-year’s dorm. In between the runs, they dance to blaring music on speakers and surprise the Class of 2022 with jumping waves and loud cheers. Then they do it again and again and again, until all 1,753 new students are moved in. These upperclassmen, whose enthusiasm defies the summer heat and the heft of carrying a refrigerator up multiple floors, are first-year advisory counselors. They’re FACs.

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Residents of 300 Swift unable to access their balconies as HRL verifies there are no safety risks By Jake Satisky

apartments while their dorms were being renovated—for this upcoming year, residents of Craven quadrangle will live there. The apartments are fully furnished and feature stainless steel Duke students living in the apartments at 300 Swift appliances, granite countertops, and televisions. The complex have access to their own kitchens, bathrooms, and has its own gym and pool as well. living rooms—but as of right now, Gonzalez was confident the balcony not their balconies. Give me a balcony, or give Housing and Residence Life is restriction would not last too long. “We expect the review to be concerned that the balcony railings me death. finished shortly and we will know may not be totally satisfactory, so the management company at 300 Swift has zach starr better at that time the duration of SOPHOMORE 300 SWIFT RESIDENT the restriction,” he wrote. “We will restricted balcony use indefinitely. Residents are being informed continue to keep residents informed of progress and the timing of any additional work needed about the restriction as they move in, said Joe Gonzalez, Chronicle File Photo for completion of this project.” assistant vice president of student affairs and dean for Duke purchased 300 Swift in December 2016. residential life. “Greystar, the management company at 300 Swift, identified a potential concern regarding support for the balcony railings that might be insufficient,” Gonzalez wrote in an email. “Though the balconies have passed all inspections during construction and purchase of the property, we felt it important to verify no safety risk exists.” Gonzalez emphasized that the balcony design is not unusual, but he and Greystar hired a third-party engineering firm to run safety tests just to ensure the the balconies are perfectly safe. He added that notices on balcony doors will be put up until the safety review is finished. Senior Adam Bullock, who lived in Swift last year, never noticed anything wrong with the balconies. “My balcony was definitely a big plus on top of an already incredible apartment, and my roommate and I used it often,” he said. “But, given that it’s an atypical feature for a Duke living space, I don’t think I would have been too upset if I hadn’t been able to use it.” Sophomore Zach Starr is moving into Swift this fall. He thinks that although safety is important, Duke students should still be able to use the amenities at 300 Swift—even if a safety course or information sheet is required. “I personally think [the balconies] were a big deal, being able to step outside, get fresh air, and enjoying the space Philip Glass’s Itaipu and Eric Whitacre's Deep Field with others is all part of what I expected to be able to do as part of living in Swift,” Starr wrote in a text. “Give me a with the Choral Society of Durham and the Durham Medical Orchestra balcony, or give me death.” Duke purchased the apartments at 300 Swift in Spring Break tour to California December 2016 in order to provide temporary housing for students living in renovated dorms. Info & Ice Cream: 8 pm on Sunday, Aug. 26 in Room 104 Biddle Music Bldg. For 2017-18, students in Crowell quadrangle lived in the University News Editor

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o Run the Al-Buehler Trail at WaDuke o Cook dinner in your dorm o Chill with the lemurs at Duke’s Lemur Center o Go to a Def-Mo show o Live it up at an SLG event o Visit the Duke Marine Lab o Chat with a basketball player o Run for the bus (it doesn’t count if you catch it) o Treat yourself on food points at the Commons o See the fall foliage in the Blue Ridge Mountains o Ride the bull then dance in the cage at Shooters o Order The Pile at Geer Street Garden o Make Dean’s List o Go to the activities fair as a freshman, sign-up for 10+ clubs, and get spammed with emails for the next four years o Take a dip in the ocean at Wrightsville Beach

o Tent in K-Ville o Host a Duke radio broadcast o See the Pitchforks or another student a cappella group perform o Dance for a cause at the Duke Dance Marathon

o Enroll in a golf class at The Washington Duke o Go-kart at Frankie’s Fun Park o Take an art class o Actually check a book out of the library o Get outside your comfort zone and study in a brand-new city for a semester o Sample local food at the Durham Farmer’s Market on Saturday o Paint your face Duke blue and show your spirit in the student section at Cameron o Cheer on the Durham Bulls

o Meander through the Duke Gardens o Dip a grilled cheese into some tomato soup at the Divinity Cafe o Check out local art galleries at Third Friday Durham

o Go “crazie” at the Duke-UNC basketball game o Buy wine or champagne on food points o Read an issue of FORM and check out The Standard o Quiz yourself at Trivia Night at Fullsteam o Indulge at The Parlour (get the advanced bowl with up to four scoops) o Take a class on a topic outside of your major that’s not o See the Ciompi Quartet perform a requirement at Baldwin o Check out the o Tailgate for a Duke football galleries at the game 21c Museum o See a local band play at Motorco Hotel o Go to The Nasher to check-out art exhibits, then grab brunch at o Get kicked out of Perkins at the Café closing o Treat yourself to a steak dinner at o Attend a Angus Barn Chapel service o Bring your family members to o Make it to Shooters (just make sure they midnight leave by midnight) pizza on o Take a service-learning class LDOC o Grab lunch at the Law School

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EFORE YOU GRADUATE o Dress up and head to Franklin Street for Halloween o Flunch a professor o Grab a burger at King’s Sandwich Shop o Sample bites at a Food Truck Rodeo o Go to a sporting event outside of Cameron or Wallace Wade o Make your way to a Carolina Hurricanes game at PNC Arena o Walk the American Tobacco District o STINF a class – we won’t ask any questions o Study in the Mary Duke Biddle Music Library o Play volleyball on central o Attend a rally o Drink out of a famous blue cup at He’s Not Here in Chapel Hill o Grab breakfast on 9th St. at Happy and Hale or Elmo’s o Watch live music at the Coffeehouse o See an event at DPAC o Go to O-week after your freshman year o Grub for free at Midnight Breakfast o Make your own bagel sandwich at Monuts… then get a donut for dessert o See a show at the Carolina Theatre

o Table for a cause o Take an impulsive trip to another college campus o Show up to a frat party o Do the walk-up line for a nonUNC game o Watch a game with friends at Satisfaction o Drive through Cook-Out late night and order a milkshake o Attend Me Too Monologues, All of the Above, or a Hoof ‘n’ Horn production o Play an IM sport o See a movie at the annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival o Treat yourself to an ice cream sandwich from Rose’s Meat and Sweets Shop o Get a Cosmic burrito after a long night out o Instagram the Chapel/take a Chapel selfie o Travel to an away sporting event o Devour chicken and waffles at Dame’s o Go wild at beach week in Myrtle Beach o Study in the Gothic Reading Room o Explore the tunnels on East Campus o Study at Cocoa Cinnamon o Run around the East Campus loop o Swim in the Central pool

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Flashback: First-year advice from the ‘80s By Lexi Kadis Senior Editor

Editor’s note: This story is the final entry in a summer series called Flashback, which looked back at Chronicle stories from years past. Amidst moving in and making new friends, first-years receive a boatload of advice from faculty, administrators and upperclassmen. This week, Flashback looks back at the orientation in 1985 and the advice that was given to the class of 1989. “For 1,440 freshmen, life at Duke began Wednesday morning. They spent the day moving into dormitories, battling for their Duke Cards and being advised by administrators, professors and sundry upperclassmen,” reporter Whit Cobb wrote in the article. Cobb compiled the most salient quotes from two administrators—Richard White, dean of Trinity College at the time, and Elizabeth Nathans, then-assistant dean of Trinity College. White told the first-years to make the most of their liberal arts education, noting that “a real liberal education is greater than the sum courses that make up the curriculum.”

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However, he also warned the incoming students that their peers at Duke would be more academically competitive than those in their high schools. “You are among the top academic achievers in the country, but 50 percent of you will be in the bottom half of your class at the end of this semester,” White said. Elizabeth Nathans advised students to own their learning at Duke, but also to be careful with their newly-found freedom as college students. “The faculty are not here for your entertainment,” Nathans said. “The faculty are not even here to teach you, in one sense. You must teach yourselves.” She also highlighted the resources available to first-years to help them with the college transition, adding that “it’s OK to admit to needing help.” Both White and Nathans urged students to explore all the opportunities that Duke offered. “Be venturesome these next four years,” White concluded.

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Garden sculpture comes down early due to destabilization By Nathan Luzum Senior Editor

A stickwork sculpture dubbed “The Big Easy” is resting easy after being removed from the Duke Gardens. In response to consistent heavy rains and flooding which destabilized the structure, the installation was slated for removal. There are currently no plans to replace The Big Easy, which has been a focal point of the Duke Gardens since the spring of 2017 and was removed Wednesday, according to the Gardens’ website. “The Big Easy was a pleasure to have while it was with us, and it will be long remembered for the happiness it brought to those who knew it,” wrote William LeFevre, executive director of Duke Gardens, in an email to The Chronicle. The sculpture was installed in the Duke Gardens thanks to a donation from a faculty member who died before its completion, LeFevre explained. The Big Easy was made from maple and sweetgum cuttings harvested from the Duke Forest in February 2017. LeFevre added that the sculpture’s creator, Patrick Dougherty, asked for the installation to be taken down after two years. Although the plan was to wait for the full two years—until February or March 2019—excessive flooding shifted the removal date forward. The Big Easy was cordoned off Tuesday with yellow rope and a note explaining that “the sculpture is no longer in a stable condition” and thanking visitors for “enjoying the sculpture since its installation.” Seven pieces of the sculpture that remained intact during removal are being displayed throughout the Gardens, according to a post on the Gardens’ Instagram page. “If we were to install another similar stickwork sculpture, we would most likely place it on higher ground, but in any event, such works of environmental art are subject to the elements and inevitably decay,” LeFevre wrote. He added that The Big Easy’s removal also resembles a series of events that befell the Gardens in the late 1930s when excessive rain washed away beds of flowers on the South Lawn. The next batch of flowers were planted on higher ground, which established the modern-day Terraces.

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Neal Vaidya | Staff Photographer Darren Beattie, Ph.D. ‘16, was recently ousted from a speechwriting position at the White House for attending a controversial conference.

Trump’s victory at a Political Science department gathering prior to the election. He was a signatory on a list of “Scholars and Writers for Trump.” He told The Chronicle shortly after the election that he had believed Trump would win since July 2016, citing Trump’s “provocative” position on immigration that pushed back on Republican donors’ views. Beattie clarified that did not mean that he liked the way Trump phrased those remarks. “My point is that his willingness to take a position on immigration so antithetical to corporate Republican donors and then not be cowed by the usual shaming tactics reflected early on a certain independence and flexibility that led me to think we’re dealing with a very different type of candidate than we’re used to,” Beattie wrote in an interview with The Chronicle in Nov. 2016. Beattie said the election could be viewed as “a referendum on globalization as it has been practiced over the past 30 years.” In March 2017, Beattie wrote a guest column in The Chronicle defending Trump’s “travel ban” and criticizing Duke for signing onto a letter condemning it.

He called the universities’ letter a “lazy document that fails to do justice to a complicated and contentious issue.” Duke was wrong to lend institutional support to it, he said. At a panel discussion on campus in April 2017, Beattie further defended Trump’s immigration ban, but said it was not doing enough to prevent refugees from entering the United States. “I would say at this point the order has been, unfortunately, quite a failure,” he said. “If you look at the refugee intake, it has barely been curtailed at all. It has been equilibrating at previous levels.” Beattie said the ban should be expanded to include Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states. In the Nov. 2016 interview shortly after Trump was elected, The Chronicle asked Beattie if Trump, who is not a career politician, would run for re-election. “Seriously? Of course Trump will act to get re-elected. Whether he will get elected will depend on how serious and effective he is in following through with the most important campaign promises,” Beattie stated to The Chronicle in 2016. “I’m optimistic but prepared to be critical when necessary.”

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Charles York | Special Projects Photography Editor FACs train for three days before jumping into “gametime”—move-in day. They spend the day unpacking firstyears’ cars and carrying the belongings into the first-years’ new dorm rooms.

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he end of my DukeEngage program has come. I spent the past seven weeks in Boston, one of the most historically rich cities in the country. I’ve learned about the lives of the Founding Fathers, Boston’s controversial track record with segregation, and the cultural heritage that accompanies the Northeast all while working as a marketing intern at a mentoringbased nonprofit. Yet, as the program drew to a close, I found myself reflecting more on the lessons I’ve learned at Duke and less on the experiences I’ve had over the past two months.

Ryan Williams COLUMNIST I was not excited going into my freshman year. I thought applying for and accepting my spot in a preorientation program would lift my spirits, but nothing could shake the reality that I was leaving behind everything I knew to study in a place so unfamiliar. The comfortable life I had in Houston was being traded for a life unknown. I have no family in Durham and none of my friends go to school anywhere near North Carolina. Sure, I had the luxury of attending Blue Devil Days and meeting my roommate. But, because I wasn’t sure I would even attend Duke until the day I had to make a decision, I didn’t bother meeting many people or learning about the

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campus I would soon call home. So, when the day came for me to board the plane, I was filled with more worry than optimism, more terror than joy, and more regret than excitement. I would love to say that everything changed the moment I arrived on East Campus or when I sat in my first class or even as I joined clubs and organizations, but that would be a lie. For a long time, Duke did not feel like the place for me. No matter what I did, I had a hard time feeling like I was supposed to be at Duke. I went to basketball games, went to plays, went to Shooters (more times than I’d like to admit); I studied hard, attended all my classes, I formed relationships with most of my professors; I joined way too many clubs, I made friends everywhere I went, I even tried to meet people through Tinder. My experiments in inclusion went on for months. Everything I did to force self-inclusion on Duke’s campus made my isolation that much more pronounced. Then, one day during my second semester, I realized that I was so incredibly lucky to be attending a school that pushes me to succeed. Duke has a funny way of equipping me with the tools I need to thrive while also depriving me of basic stability. Optimists call it baptism by fire. Administrators call it experiential learning. I call it what it really is: tough love. Each painstaking moment of my first year at Duke has made me a more well-rounded person capable of making it in the real world. Joining too many clubs early on taught me time management, bombing my first college essay taught me that I’m not above asking for help,

surviving the rush process taught me how to be sociable in almost any setting, and experiencing (most of) LDOC taught me that my hard work eventually pays off. Each of these realizations has made adjusting to life in Boston much easier. Just like coming to Duke, my first few days in Boston were terrifying. I only knew a handful of people in my program and have only ever lived in the South. But having gone through a similar experience once before, I knew how to handle being thrown into an unfamiliar situation and making it out alive. I knew to take coffee breaks when the assignments piled up at work. I knew that treating myself with TeaLux or Tasty Burger at the end of the week would give me something to look forward to when things slowed down. I knew that breaking off from my group some nights to watch reruns of Survivor would be the only way to stay sane around my eclectic group of eleven. Being in Boston was a lot like the first few months at Duke: intimidating, mentally rigorous, and socially draining. If I’ve realized anything this summer, it’s that the key to fitting into Duke and fitting in Boston is the same. Learning how to be an actual person in a new environment was the hardest part of my first year but treating my highs and lows as chances to learn and grow gave me the freedom to begin enjoying life. I learned how to navigate one highly-educated, very wealthy, traditionally white space, what’s stopping me from navigating them all? Ryan Williams is a Trinity sophomore.

‘Sing, Unburied, Sing’ and us

cknowledging our roots as an intrinsically collaborative species, I wonder if it is entirely unrealistic to imagine a society in which individuals give and receive assistance readily, regardless of personal identity. When I reflect on society’s current status though, I realize we are moving in quite the opposite direction. It appears that though our web of diverse, global communities

despise Leonie, blame her for her selfishness, and mark her as a helpless addict. However, when Ward forces us into Leonie’s perspective through shifting narration tactics, we develop a more compassionate understanding of the mother’s internal conflicts, thus allowing us, at the very least, to humanize her. Applied more generally, individuals can initiate reciprocal kindness with others simply by shedding

Carsten Pran GUEST COLUMNIST becomes increasingly connected every year, our personal regard for others diminishes in tandem. Perhaps we owe our shrinking spheres of regard to our self-imposed social barriers. Whether intentionally or instinctively, we tend to clump into subdivided masses in high-diversity settings, uniting along contours like race, religion, and political affiliation. These days we form such ‘tribes’ not to seek security from nonhuman dangers as our ancestors would, but rather to pursue a degree of protection from others with conflicting beliefs. While I still uphold the value of social identities, I also find that when we only readily assist those with whom we share nuclear commonalities, we not only rob ourselves of a more substantial support network, but we also deprive society of crucial synergy. The dysfunctional community in Jesmyn Ward’s “Sing, Unburied, Sing” illustrates the consequences of such division. Rigid social barriers mar the story’s segregated Mississippi town, confining the novel’s black central family into self-sufficiency; the only refuge from surrounding racism and injustices. Under these conditions, the family members must depend entirely on each other, or otherwise simply themselves, for survival. On one hand, drug-addicted Leonie abandons her duties as a mother in an unbridled pursuit of her personal vices. On the other, patriarch Pop and young Jojo work tirelessly for terminally-ill Mam and toddling Kayla, oftentimes neglecting their own wellbeing in the process. This dichotomy between self-care and care for others reveals how divided communities hinder our ability to receive and reciprocate support effectively. If the end goal is a reliable and extensive network in which our egoistic and altruistic interests exist in harmony, we must first destroy the prejudices which hinder us from doing so in the first place. Take the character Leonie for instance. Based on her preliminary description, it is easy for us to

their prejudices, understanding the social pressures others confront, and offering assistance with any act, no matter how small. That being said, the road to balanced communion runs two ways. We cannot allow ourselves to utterly surrender to the whim of those who depend on us, lest we completely sacrifice our own personhood and well-being as Jojo and Pop had. In this sense, the mantra “Please remember to put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others.” holds true beyond the airplane seat. Oftentimes, we find ourselves inundated with stress, stumbling with the cumbersome load of responsibility which makes it especially difficult to find time for ourselves, much less time for others. For this reason, as important as breaking down interpersonal barriers and offering a hand to others is, our ability to ask for and accept help is equally crucial. During our time at Duke, amidst unparalleled diversity and competition, many of us may gravitate towards our social comfort zones and work exhaustedly to exude an aura of ‘effortless perfection.’ These decisions will, in turn, endanger our ability to form necessary support networks from which we can derive and contribute mutual care. In the stressful times that will inevitably come, each one of us can benefit from an environment that encourages us to move forward and does not abandon us in the interest of competition. Though society at large may take more time to mend, if we individually work to promote a common understanding and free ourselves from the stigma of reaching out for help, I believe we can all create a campus in which altruism and selfcare exist concurrently. Carsten Pran is a Trinity first-year. This essay won the annual Duke Honor Council summer reading contest.

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Fill the void: On the empty space outside the Chapel

n 2017, President Vince Price made a bold decision. At the height of protests against monuments commemorating the Confederacy, anonymous protesters damaged the sculptural portrayal of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on the exterior of Duke Chapel. Without delay, Price had the statue taken down and promised a debate. The happy result: tensions did not escalate, and Duke demonstrated an

Ralf Michaels GUEST COLUMNIST institutional awareness of its historical baggage. (Compare that to UNC down the road, where protests against Silent Sam, the Confederate statue on campus, led to no resolution. Monday, the day before classes started, protesters took it down overnight, in a widely reported scene.) Three weeks after Duke’s statue was removed, Price set up a commission which began a long debate on what to do with the newly empty space. In 2018, President Price made a decision that was less brave, unfortunately. In an email last week he decided to follow a recommendation the commission made last December: to leave the space empty. The commission had recommended doing this for a year. President Price now apparently wants the space to remain empty indefinitely. The justification, borrowed from the Dean of the Chapel, is that the empty space may be seen to represent “a hole that is in the heart of the United States of America, and perhaps in our own human hearts—that hole

that is from the sin of racism and hatred of any kind.” A plaque will explain this. That is certainly heartfelt. But it is also, ultimately, nearly as empty as the space itself. “The sin of racism and hatred of any kind” is generic. It turns into an abstraction what is a very concrete experience in the South, in Durham, at Duke University. Our sin is not racism and hatred “of any kind,” it is a specific history of slavery, racial segregation, the erasure of African-American innovators (like Julian Abele, the architect), and later, of gentrification of historically black neighborhoods and antiblack violence. What is worse, the empty space further reinforces the very problem it is supposed

to address, namely the absence of AfricanAmericans in our celebrations of Southern history. Price calls the empty space “a powerful statement about the past, the present and our values.” But what exactly is this statement, and what are these values? There used to be six white men on the outside of the Chapel. Now there are five and an empty space—an invisible man, to invoke Ellison’s novel. We commemorate the absence of African-Americans by perpetuating that absence. We deplore that African-Americans have been invisible in the past, and we continue their invisibility into the future. There are plans to compensate for this by commemorating elsewhere on Campus the laborers involved in building Duke and the first African American

Henry Haggart | Sports Photography Editor A plaque will be installed near the Chapel’s entrance explaining why the space where the statue of Robert E. Lee stood remains empty..

student, as well as some sort of exhibit to show the history of different buildings and emblems on Duke’s campus—a promising start, but also a kind of renewed segregation. None of this would be necessary. The commission had also recommended an alternative (and, one might add, much more intuitive) option for the empty space, namely a statue of a different individual—Martin Luther King or Pauli Murray. Among the two, Pauli Murray seems the more obvious choice, given that she more strongly than Dr. King represents the locality. The Commission seems to have shared the sentiment, suggesting that if the empty space was to be filled with a new individual, it should address the lack of commemoration for women and people of color in Duke Chapel. Yale University has named a residential college after this Durhamite civil rights activist and Episcopalian priest. The space outside the Chapel seems the most obvious place for Duke to follow suit. Maybe there is still time for this? In 2018, Murray was made a permanent part of the Episcopal Church’s calendar of saints, commemorated July 2nd. July 2nd, 2019 might be a good date to announce that the space has been empty long enough and will now be filled again. Filling the void, making our home saint visible as a representative of that other part of our history, would be a good step in Duke’s efforts, so admirably led by President Price so far, to confront and move beyond the problematic parts of our legacy. Ralf Michaels is the Arthur Larson professor at Duke Law School.

Dear Noah: A letter to my brother on O-Week

ear Noah, Exactly three years ago, I stood where you now stand: on the doorstep of the rest of my life. It was my first day of college, and I had so many thoughts running through my mind. Who are my friends going to be? Will I find my passion? Is this prison cell of a dorm room really where I’m going to be living for the next nine months? I felt much uncertainty, and even more excitement, as I crossed the threshold into my future. What followed was an exhilarating first year at Duke, a series of highs and lows, of 3 a.m. conversations with soon-to-be best friends and unshakeable feelings of insecurity, doubt and fear. The next year will be the best of your life, but it will also challenge you in ways you don’t expect and influence the next three more than you realize. As your embarrassing older brother, I feel it is my sworn duty to publicly share some lessons I have learned during my voyage so that you may

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more mindfully navigate your own. But before I delve into this initial article, I want to go over a few basic rules for this column as a whole. Rule #1: I don’t know everything…in fact, the more I learn, the more I understand how little I know at all. So take everything I say here with a grain (or pound) of salt. Rule #2: I know more than you. Our respective understandings of the world are tied to our experiences and I’ve had about three more years than you. Though you can solve a 5x5 Rubik’s Cube and enumerate pi to the 50th decimal place (what a talented young man!), you’re overconfident about your understanding of the world. I was too. Accept that there are people who know more than you and humble yourself so that you may appreciate the advice that comes your way.

Rule #3: Use these articles as a syllabus, not an answer key. I’m not going to tell you what to do because I have no control over your actions. Unfortunately for me, you are approximately 120 percent larger than my 5’10 skinnyJewish-boy physique, so my ability to assert my will over you, physically or otherwise, is severely limited. Therefore, I’m going to be writing to you about general ideas, as well as providing tips and tricks of the trade; stuff I wish I had known during my first year. Stuff that no one told me. Rule #4: No matter what I say, you are going to learn the most through your failures. Through screwing up, getting rejected, and feeling defeated. Treat each of these experiences as an opportunity to learn and grow and never be afraid to ask for help. And so, with that preface in the bag, let’s do this. #1: The (un)Official O-Week Playbook O-Week is like having your bar mitzvah…only it’s several days long, you celebrate with about 1,700 people you’ve never met, and have almost no adult supervision. Okay, it’s nothing like your bar mitzvah, but it is awesome and only happens once. It’s an amazing way to start off the year and it goes by fast, so make the most of it. Here are a few musings to consider as you go about the next few days. 1. OLD PEOPLE When Mom and Dad drove off and left you on your own, you thought you were rid of authority figures in your life. But wait! Your RA just called you into a mandatory hallway meeting and your FAC is forcing you to show up to mandatory FAC chats. What gives? I thought I could do whatever I want to do now that I’m in college…right? While the repercussions for disobeying these new authority figures are relatively minor, your FAC, RA, GR, and FIR are all amazing, whom you should get to know. Your FAC and RA especially, are only a few years older than you and really could be potential friends and reliable sources of support and advice. My FAC gave me a textbook I needed for a class and my RA and I still text regularly to this day. 2. ATTENDING EVENTS O-Week has many events, most of which might seem trivial or boring from the description. However, there are

groups of students and administrators who spend months planning each event. You get out what you put in, and going to each event gives you a shared experience to talk about with your new classmates. 3. MAKING AN INTRODUCTION You will be meeting so many people and will be having the same conversation over and over again. Where are you from? What dorm are you in? What do you want to study? If you’re like most people, you’ll forget most answers to all of these questions. Try to remember someone’s name and face, and also ask them a unique question that will help you actually learn something about who they are. Instead of ‘where are you from?’, ask ‘where do you call home?’. Instead of ‘what major are you?’, ask ‘when was the last time you laughed so hard that you cried?’. You’ll remember others by their answers, and they’ll remember you from your questions. 4. GOING OUT VS. STAYING IN Each night, there will probably be a bunch of parties that everyone will be talking about, and it’s easy to feel like you are missing out should you decide not to go. If you want, you should get out and have a good time. Welcome to college! But remember that you are going to have the option to spend your evenings singing and dancing and drinking really until the point where you have children of your own. What does expire, however, is the window of opportunity to get to know those around you before friendships and friend groups start to solidify. There will be plenty of nights to go out. Spend some of them getting to know people. 5. BE SAFE As wonderful as O-Week is, there are some downsides to such excitement. There is plenty of access to alcohol and irresponsible drinking often leads to alcohol poisoning and hospitalization each year. Additionally, male dominated social spaces on college campuses (fraternities) are hotbeds for sexual assault. If you see any type of inappropriate behavior, act responsibly and don’t be a bystander. 6. SLEEP Lastly, try to get some sleep. But you’re pretty good at that. Grant Besner is a Trinity senior and columnist.

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SOHN-SATIONAL Heinsohn shines as Duke plays No. 15 Georgetown to scoreless draw By Conner McLeod Blue Zone Editor

Two of the best defense and goalkeeper tandems in the country resembled brick walls on either side of the field, making it impossible for the offenses to find good shots to take, let alone find the back of the net Friday. On a hot day at Shaw Field in the nation’s capital, No. 11 Duke faced off in a close matchup against Georgetown. After a full 90 DUKE 0 minutes of play and two overtime periods, G’TOWN 0 the game resulted in a 0-0 draw, with neither team able to get past the stingy defenses. “I knew that the defenders and the rest of the team had my back...I knew that if I messed up or played a bad back they would be there to recover for me,” redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Brooke Heinsohn said. “[Senior defender Chelsea Burns], after the game just kind of like laid on the ground and I could tell she left everything on the field.” Contrary to the box score which showed 24 and 15 total shots from the 15th-ranked Bulldogs (1-0-2) and Blue Devils respectively, both defensive lines made it difficult for any forwards to create open shots. On the minimal defensive breakdowns by Duke (1-1-1) which allowed for good offensive chances for Georgetown, Heinsohn was there to clean it up, notching a

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Taylor Mitchell and the Blue Devil defense locked down Georgetown’s offense Thursday. season-high 10 saves. Heinsohn, who did not play her best in the team’s loss against Illinois last week, impressed her teammates and coaches alike with her poise—this is her first season as a starter for the Blue Devils. “I thought she was there for us today and our line felt really, really confident that she was really

tuned in,” head coach Robbie Church said. “We understand it’s going to take a while and she’s going to need some more experience, but she’s getting there. But I’m really proud of how she bounced back from a subpar game.” Heinsohn wasn’t the only goalkeeper who had a career performance in Thursday’s match;

Bulldog goalie Arielle Schechtman had eight saves, which stopped the Blue Devil offense from executing as well as they would have liked. There were a couple of moments throughout the game where it seemed like Duke could have turned a good pass or counter-attack into a goal, but the team’s lack of experience on the offensive side of the ball seemed to hinder them from doing so. With five freshmen starting in the team’s last game against Illinois, only Delaney Graham got the nod from Church in today’s starting lineup which still featured four sophomores who did not get much playing time last season. “For them to play at this level for 90 minutes and play as hard as we need to play, it’s going to take some learning,” Church said. “They’re getting better, they’re very coachable...we’ve got a long way to go but we’re going to get there, we’re absolutely going to get there and this game gave us some hope moving forward.” The team leaders like senior forward Kayla McCoy did play well, as McCoy stayed aggressive the entire game, putting up two shots, both on goal, forcing the Bulldog defense to focus on her. “She battles and fights every time out there,” Church said. “We got to get all our players to play like her. I know she’s frustrated because she’s a forward and doesn’t have goals yet but they’re coming, and they’re going to come in bunches.” Duke will come back home and get a couple of days rest before facing off against Elon in Koskinen Stadium next Sunday at 5 p.m.

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Blue Devils to open 2018 slate against top-20 opponent By Jason Atwood Associate Sports Editor

More than 30 years removed from its first and only national championship, the 2018 Duke men’s soccer team enters the season with optimism and high expectations. The 10th-ranked Blue Devils will open their regular season No. 20 Friday evening at FIU Koskinen Stadium vs. when they host No. 20 No. 10 Florida International Duke University. Duke is looking to build off Friday, 7:30 p.m. an impressive season Koskinen Stadium that ended with a run to the round of 16 in the NCAA tournament. “We’re very excited about how things have gone in the preseason, so we’re very optimistic about how our team is going to foray into the regular season,” head coach John Kerr said. “We have a nice blend of experienced players coming back alongside some very talented young freshmen and the

two graduate players are looking really good as well.” Although the squad lost nine seniors in the spring, mostly on the defensive end, the team is receiving an infusion of talent in the form of the sixth-best recruiting class per Top Drawer Soccer. The class, composed of seven freshmen and two graduate student transfers, looks to complement the 19 returning players. “We’ve been working a lot on our defense this preseason making sure that everyone knows their role and hopefully we can continue our strategy of pursuing shutouts,” Kerr said. “We have a couple new guys back there but we still had shutouts in two of our three games this preseason which was pleasing.” Looking to replace the void left by seniors that Duke lost on the backline, Kerr has been experimenting with his defense. For instance, after playing more in the midfield last season, Kerr has decided to shift captain See M. SOCCER on Page 6

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Duke to face 8th-ranked BYU in season opener By Emily Davis Associate Sports Editor

After missing the NCAA tournament again last season during an injury-ridden campaign, Duke will now have a unique opportunity to face a dominant team that consistently makes it to the postseason. The Blue Devils will open their season at Cameron Indoor Stadium against No. 8 BYU Friday at 7:30 p.m. No. 8 Duke will then face BYU the Cougars again vs. on Saturday at 6:30 Duke p.m. After losing a lot of experience and talent from FRIDAY 7:30 p.m. Cameron Indoor Stadium last season due to numerous graduations, the Blue Devils now feature five freshmen on their roster and will look to both develop their young players and challenge their upperclassmen. Duke lost libero Nicole Ellatrache—who averaged 4.32 digs per set last season— in addition to outside hitter Cadie Bates—the team leader in kills last season with 376. Bates also averaged the second-highest digs per set on the Blue Devil squad with a sharp 3.17. Duke will also be without its team leader in assists per set Emma Paradiso and Anna Kropf. The Blue Devils will rely on freshmen talent

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Nicole Ellatrache’s veteran presence will be missed on a freshmen-heavy Blue Devils squad in 2018. to help fill in the gaps left by graduation. “The freshmen are doing a great job. I attribute that to our upperclassmen and

how they’re trying to get everybody to come together,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “The freshmen are working very hard and

are very committed to the team.” See VOLLEYBALL on Page 6

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No. 3 Duke set to open season this weekend Associate Sports Editor

For the fifth straight season, Duke has been ranked in the top five of the National Field Hockey Coaches Association preseason poll. If the Blue Devils hope to prove they deserve the No. 3 spot, they will need to overcome two top-25 opponents on opening weekend in William & Mary and Liberty. Duke will open its season at home against the No. 22 Tribe Friday evening before No. 22 returning to Jack W&M Katz Stadium Sunday vs. afternoon to play the No. 3 No. 23 Flames. Duke The Blue Devils return six starters FRIDAY 6 p.m. Jack Katz Stadium and 14 letter-winners from the 2017 squad that bowed out in the No. 23 Liberty quarterfinals of the vs. NCAA tournament as a part of a 17-4 season, No. 3 finishing No. 2 in the Duke final poll. SUNDAY, 1 p.m. The team is Jack Katz Stadium headlined by senior forward Rose Tynan and junior midfield/ forward Margaux Paolino. The former was named to the ACC second-team last year while the latter received a first-team nod, with both chosen to the preseason All-

ACC team this year. With Tynan heading the attack with 17 goals and 39 points in 2017, Duke returns about 55 percent of its scoring. Meanwhile, Paolino benefited from playing for the U.S. women’s national team over the summer as a part of the World Cup, scoring two goals in three games. Debuting against William & Mary has become somewhat common for the Blue Devils, who have beaten the Tribe in all three openers. In last year’s opening day, Duke shut out William & Mary 5-0, starting a run of three straight clean sheets. Tynan had two goals while the Tribe were limited to just two shots, pushing the Blue Devils’ overall ledger against the CAA opponent to 26-8-1. If Duke hopes to continue its success against William & Mary, it will need to control the midfield with junior midfielders Christie van de Kamp and Cassidy Goodwin earning preseason CAA all-conference honors. There will be no rest for the Blue Devils following Friday’s contest, with less than a 48-hour turnaround before they face off against Liberty. Meeting for just the fifth time, Duke is undefeated against the Flames, coming away victorious 4-3 in overtime on the road last year thanks to a game-winning goal from Tynan. The Blue Devils will need to maintain their poise against an experienced Liberty squad, which is returning 86.7 percent of its scoring. The Flames are led by senior

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Blue Devils aim for more consistency in 2018 By Michael Model Sports Editor

Last December, Duke stood on Ford Field as champions. Even after a rocky campaign, one in which they started 4-0 before losing six straight, the Blue Devils were able to earn a second bowl victory in three seasons. But if Duke wants to play in December yet again, it will need allaround consistency to maneuver its most daunting regular-season slate in years. The Blue Devils were picked to finish fourth in the ACC Coastal Division in the league’s preseason poll, just a year removed from a fifth-place finish following a 3-5 conference ledger.

The Blue Devils, however, will need to avoid patches of stagnant offense and rely on an experienced group of starters in order to dominate in Durham. Duke is favored, per ESPN’s Football Power Index, in all but one of its home matchups, yet the Blue Devils are underdogs in five of six road contests—a slate which includes games at Northwestern, Miami and Clemson. “At one point, we were at the top of the mountain, you’re feeling good about yourselves, and next thing you know you’re trying to crawl out of a ditch,” redshirt junior Joe Giles-Harris said of 2017 at ACC Media Day last Wednesday. “We have to be consistent, we have to be humble, and we have to be ready to go, and that’s the biggest thing. Learning from those mistakes and knowing what to do to avoid that this year.”

Duke will be reminded of its low points from 2017 immediately, opening the season against a run-heavy Army team that handed the Blue Devils their sixth consecutive loss in a 21-16 defeat on Veterans Day. The key for Duke will be to help quarterback Daniel Jones find a rhythm and get its offense running north-south rather than east-west. Despite leading Duke to early victories against the Wildcats, Baylor and North Carolina, the Charlotte native became less effective as the season progressed—his completion percentage decreased in each of the Blue Devils’ first six contests, with the low point a 14-for42, 124-yard performance in a 28-21 loss at Virginia. The dual-threat quarterback rediscovered some effectiveness towards the end of the season, though, completing better than 60 percent of his passes as the Blue Devils finished the year 3-1. And he’ll look to stretch the field more this season with his favorite downfield target, the explosive T.J. Rahming, returning for his senior season. “It’s certainly an exciting position to be in as a quarterback with the receivers we have coming back and a lot of the same faces in the same positions,” Jones said. “This summer, growing with those guys, we’ve been able to take the next step with a lot of them. And older guys that kind of know what’s going on and know what we expect have made it easier for the younger guys to step in and get going.” Jones should receive some assistance carrying the offense with redshirt sophomore Brittain Brown looking to build on a strong freshman campaign. The Canton, Ga., native rushed for 701 yards and seven touchdowns, leading the team with 5.4 yards per carry. Brown should take on the bulk of the load in the Blue Devils’ backfield this fall after the graduation of leading-rusher Shaun Wilson, and he will be essential to Duke’s ability to drive the ball downfield and generate long possessions. “[Brown’s] the complete package,” Jones said. “He’s physical, See FOOTBALL on Page 6

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With Allen gone, Duke searching for new leader By Hank Tucker Associate Sports Editor

When Mike Krzyzewski was asked this June about who he will look to for leadership this winter, he didn’t hesitate. “Me,” the Hall of Fame head coach said. “I’m looking for me to be the leader, and my staff.” It was the only logical answer to a question without an obvious answer, as the Blue Devils prepare for a season with as young a team as they have ever had. Everybody on Duke’s current roster has combined to start nine college games, and the Blue Devils lost more than 86 percent of their scoring from last year’s team. There is no clear-cut senior captain like Grayson Allen, Amile Jefferson, Matt Jones, Marshall Plumlee, Quinn Cook—the line of succession can continue endlessly. The team’s only senior this season is Antonio Vrankovic, a career role player who was on the floor for 181 total minutes in his first three years and isn’t expected to crack the regular rotation again this season. Instead, four of the top seven freshmen in the nation will likely swallow up most of the available playing time, but Krzyzewski is well aware of the challenges that will come with such a young team. “We need to get to know one another before giving out, ‘You’re a starter, you’re a captain, you’re the three man,’” Krzyzewski said. “Let’s find out who we are before we do that.” The two veterans who appear to be leading candidates along with Vrankovic for team captain honors are junior Marques Bolden and Javin DeLaurier, who both figure to share significant time in the frontcourt for a team that is deep on the wings but thin in the post. Bolden started two games in February when one-and-done phenom Marvin Bagley III was sidelined with a mild knee sprain, See M. BASKETBALL on Page 7

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with 21 passes defended and tied for third in the nation with six interceptions, putting his name in the conversation to be a preseason All-American. Duke still needs to improve its defense on explosive plays after allowing nearly 15 yards per reception and constantly being plagued by long touchdowns throughout the 2017 season. The Blue Devil defense has anchored the team in recent years, and there is little reason to expect that to change in 2018. But if Duke is inconsistent offensively and unable to dominate its home turf, there’s a decent chance David Cutcliffe’s team could be watching postseason play from home come December. “We want to be consistent,” Giles-Harris said. “There were also moments in games where we had mental breakdowns and we beat ourselves more than we let somebody else beat us.... If you’re going to beat Duke’s defense, you’d better give it your whole shot.” Winston Lindqwister contributed reporting.

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M. SOCCER FROM PAGE 1 Ciaran McKenna to the back line. His intelligence and leadership should help anchor a dominant Duke defense and provide a capable last line of defense before keeper Will Pulisic. Kerr also expects incoming freshman Aedan Stanley to play a big role after a spring spent with the U.S. U20 Team. The defensive performance in the preseason was encouraging as the Blue Devils allowed just one goal across 285 minutes of play. However, Duke only managed to score just two goals of its own in the same span. Because of that, Kerr is preaching offensive execution this weekend. But, with three of the top four goal scorers returning—complemented by a host of skilled players— Kerr is confident that his team will score more than it did in the preseason. Since the John Rennie Nike Tournament was renamed for the longtime Duke head coach in 2010, the Blue Devils have thoroughly dominated the tournament. They have won the last two titles and four of the last six. Despite that run of success, the Blue Devils are anticipating a difficult stretch of games this weekend. “We always want to start off the season with a bang and winning the John Rennie Invitational has historically been a good sign for wonderful things ahead,” Kerr said. “But we’re not taking anything for granted, we know that Florida International is coming back after us knocking them out in the playoffs last year with a chip on their shoulder, so we know that it’s going to be a really tough game on Friday night. But it’ll be a fun weekend and hopefully the fans will see some good soccer.”

VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 2 Duke still has quite a few weapons, including sophomore Peyton Schwantz and junior Samantha Amos—both of whom led the team in kills last season behind Bates. Schwantz is returning after a stellar freshman campaign that garnered her ACC All-Freshman honors and double-digit kills in 23 of the Blue Devils’ 31 matches. Amos—who is now joined on the team by her sister, freshman Alex Amos—posted 12 matches last season with four or more blocks and hit .252 on 705 attack attempts. “Alex is doing very well,” Nagel said. “There is competitiveness between the two and that’s a lot of fun and is going to continue to be a lot of fun.” Duke also returns redshirt junior Leah Meyer from injury, who was named preseason All-ACC last year before her season was cut short after only six matches. The stories could not be more different for the Cougars and the Blue Devils. BYU finished last season in a loss to Kentucky in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament and with an overall 30-3 record, while Duke failed to reach the NCAA tournament and won only 19 matches. A win against the Cougars this weekend would provide a muchneeded boost to the Blue Devils’ resume and give a young Duke team confidence going into another competitive year. “BYU is a really strong opponent, but that’s one of the reasons we’re playing these matches,” Nagel said. “They’ve done very well historically and they’re going to be very good again this year. We’re just excited that they’re coming to see us here in Durham.” Leading the Cougars are a strong senior core, including setter Lyndie Haddock and outside hitter Roni Jones-Perry. Haddock averaged over 10 assists per set last season and Jones-Perry tallied 569 kills. BYU also relies heavily on junior Mary Lake, who had 533 digs last season, averaging 4.52 per set. She was also named an AllAmerica Honorable Mention. “We’re still working through things. We hope to be a team that continues to get better throughout the whole season—that’s obviously the goal,” Nagel said. “But we certainly are excited about what we’ve seen from this group so far.”

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M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 5 but he played at least 20 minutes in a game just once this season. A knee sprain of his own that kept him out for most of January hampered Bolden’s conditioning level, but it is uncertain whether he will be able to play more than 20 minutes on a regular basis as a potential starting center. After Bolden’s two starts, Krzyzewski put DeLaurier in the lineup instead for five games in a row—the first five starts of his career. The 6-foot-10 forward was more athletic and versatile in Duke’s zone defense and played 30 minutes in its marquee road win at Clemson, but his playing time dwindled with Bagley back in the fold. Neither big man averaged more than four points or rebounds per game, though they will certainly get more opportunities this season with Bagley and Wendell Carter III both selected in the lottery in the NBA Draft last June. Oftentimes, those opportunities might come with four freshmen surrounding them on the floor. “I always had guys like Grayson, Matt Jones, Amile, who set great examples for me coming in a freshman, and now it’s sort of a changing of the guard. Those guys are gone now,” DeLaurier said. “We’ve been here before, we know what to expect from the season, so now it’s our job to really be a good example for these young guys.” The Blue Devils will also be looking for their talented wings to develop into on-court leaders, and they will got a head start on that process when they practiced 10 times and traveled to Canada for three games last week. Krzyzewski suggested that he will try to give freshmen more chances to bridge the divide in working with the team’s veterans. “I’m really anxious to coach all these guys and see the impact of the freshmen on the upperclassmen and the upperclassmen on the freshmen,” Krzyzewski said. “We need to develop that better.” The newcomer who might have the ball in his hands the most already has a high bar to live up to in terms of freshman leadership. Tre Jones’ brother, Tyus, was an effective and beloved point guard in his lone season to help lead Duke to the 2015

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national championship, and the younger Jones will hope to earn a similar level of respect. Krzyzewski called Jones a better penetrator than his older brother, and Jones described himself as a “pass-first point guard” last week on campus at K Academy, where he spent time with classmates Cameron Reddish, Zion Williamson and most of the Blue Devils’ returners. “I’m going to just try to be the greatest leader I can on the defensive end,” Jones said. “I’m going to try to be a great leader to

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set the tone on the defensive end every single I come in here, just doing whatever I can, doing whatever the coaches ask me to help the team win.” But there is no Cook this time around for the freshman Jones to lean on, and in hostile environments this season, he will look to Krzyzewski for guidance. The head coach is in no hurry to name captains and has taken it upon himself to be the true captain of this year’s Blue Devils, though it remains to be seen where the oncourt leadership will come from, if it ever comes at all.

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Freshmen Zion Williamson and R.J. Barrett carried the load offensively for the Blue Devils last week in Canada.

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