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‘ESSENTIAL WORKERS OF DUKE’ Marketplace staff keep dining hall open in pandemic

Chronicle File Photo Marketplace, the dining hall on East Campus, has remained open to serve students. Workers are altogether satisfied with Duke’s COVID-19 safety measures, but they still have concerns.

By Katie Tan Staff Reporter

When first-years walk into Marketplace, 36-year veteran cashier Julia Anderson greets them from behind a plexiglas barrier. A mask now covers her bright smile, and she can no longer offer her huge hugs, but she still says “Hi! How are you doing?” as she hands each student a plastic utensil set. Over at the beverage station, her colleague William Minor performs the same routine he’s had for years, preparing teas and juices and wiping down dispensers. Because all selfserve options are removed, Minor now also serves drinks to students. He passes paper cups and tea bags through the clear barrier’s small opening, being extra cautious about what he’s touched and how many times he’s changed his gloves. Much has changed in the East Campus dining hall. Indoor seating is closed for students. Most tables and chairs are wrapped in caution tape. Stickers line the floor, indicating the direction students should travel and the six-foot distance they should keep while standing in line.

The workers who make Marketplace run feel the changes. Both Anderson and Minor, who are good friends, noted how different the eatery’s atmosphere is. They are used to seeing long lines at food stations and loud, crowded tables. But as students rush in and out with takeout boxes, they are experiencing a sort

Workers praised Duke’s pandemic response on the whole, but had concerns about testing and symptom monitoring. of “separation anxiety” from the students, as Anderson put it. “The students are not really here at Marketplace because they can’t eat here, and we as employees can’t get to know them like we used to,” Anderson said. Sometimes students group closely together, chatting excitedly and temporarily forgetting about social distancing

guidelines, Anderson said. She gently advises them to stand at least six feet apart. “I understand that students have a lot on their minds when they come here, so they’re not necessarily thinking about social distancing,” she said. “I don’t mind reminding them about it, though. We all want students to stay healthy on campus and go home healthy.”

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So far, that hope for health has been the broader campus’s reality. Outlets across the country have praised Duke for successfully keeping the coronavirus at bay. The University has emphasized its consistent student testing, a staple of the semester for students and faculty alike. Overall, Minor and Anderson said they are satisfied with Duke’s effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. “Duke is doing their part by using all their resources to keep its community members safe. We, the employees, just need to See MARKETPLACE on Page 3

Duke bets big on quantum computing By Rosa Golchin Staff Reporter

Courtesy of Duke University Duke is expanding its quantum computing center in Durham by 10,000 feet, turning it into the new Duke Quantum Center.

Armed with shiny new technology and a major building expansion, Duke is pushing its quantum computing research to new heights. Since November 2020, construction has been underway to expand Duke’s existing quantum computing center in downtown Durham by 10,000 feet. The new Duke Quantum Center will host Duke’s Scalable Quantum Computing Laboratory, itself home to the Error-corrected Universal Reconfigurable Ion-trap Quantum Archetype. The center is anticipated to reach an operational state in March 2021 as one of five new quantum research centers funded by a $115 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. The ultimate goal of the project is to present a prototype of quantum systems equipped for advances in areas including computing, physics and chemistry. A quantum computer is a machine that can process a huge number of possible outcomes at once, with the ability to address problems which are typically deemed too complex or dense even for supercomputers.

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“Quantum computers process superpositions of numbers. It can compute many things at the same time because the computer is a quantum thing and exists in multiple states at the same time,” said Chris Monroe, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics who recently joined Duke’s quantum computing See COMPUTING on Page 3

INSIDE THIS WEEK’S ISSUE Students get excited over snow The year’s first snowfall was a common experience in another socially distanced semester. PAGE 2

Meet the Class of 2024 See a sample of the results from our first-year survey, with full coverage at chron.it/2024survey PAGE 3

The best lacrosse team ever? Breaking down a team stacked with talent.

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Excitement over snow brings students together By Matthew Griffin Editor-in-Chief

Preetha Ramachandran University News Editor

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The first campus snowfall of the semester came on Wednesday, bringing a communal experience for students who are once again adjusting to socially distanced life at Duke. More than an inch of snow fell in the early hours of the morning. Although Duke did not cancel classes or activate severe weather policies, students found excitement in the winter weather. Sophomore Winnie Lu wasn’t sure it was going to snow when she first saw the weather reports. “I [knew] from earlier, from checking the weather app, that it was supposed to snow, but I didn’t believe it,” Lu said. Later, when one of her suitemates alerted her to snow, she went outside to “stomp in the grass” and make snowballs. Simran Sokhi, a junior from Singapore, stayed up to watch the snow fall and do homework. “I live in Crowell, so I’ve got a nice view out my window,” she said. “I kept looking every five minutes, honestly.” Sokhi ventured outside in her slides and socks. Senior Laura Benzing woke up early on Wednesday and saw sunlight coming in through her window. She thought it would be a warm day until she saw an Instagram story posted by a friend. “He posted a video at 3 a.m. of all the snow as he was walking out of lab,”

Benzing said. Classes kept some students from fully enjoying the snowfall. “When I woke up I saw the snow and I was very excited,” first-year Annie Lin said. But Lin had two online classes Wednesday morning, and by the time they were over the snow had mostly melted. Megan Zheng, a junior, also had classes in the morning. Towards the end of her last class, junior Grace Dessert—one of her roommates—brought her a snowball from outside. “I had an 8:30, so I got out in the morning and got to see the snow,” Dessert said. “I remembered that Megan wanted to see the snow so I picked up a nice, thick piece of snow, made it into a ball, and carried it home like a little baby in my scarf.” The snowball, which the two named Steve, is housed in their freezer. “I really wish it had snowed more,” Zheng said. “I think everyone was really excited and it was something that a lot of people bonded over. I feel like a lot of people are feeling disconnected, and when something in common happens with everyone, people love it a lot.” Junior Sagar Shah, who is from Orlando, said he’s only experienced snow in Durham. Most of the snow had melted by the time he went outside on Wednesday, but he found a small snowman still standing on a West Campus bench. “I thought, ‘You know what, that snowman is the human species,’” Shah said. “Resilient.”

Simran Prakash | Photography Editor Students wait for the bus after the first big snowfall of the academic year, which arrived Wednesday.

Simran Prakash | Photography Editor The Chapel stands above a snowy quad on Wednesday afternoon.

Simran Prakash | Photography Editor Snow blanketed campus in white after the first big snowfall of the year.

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MARKETPLACE FROM PAGE 1 do our part,” Anderson said. However, Anderson and Minor are unsure about Duke’s exact testing policies for food service workers. They say the guidelines are much more lax compared to those governing students and other workers. During the fall semester, the two were only tested once, in October. Over winter break, they were tested a second time, and they will be tested a third time now that the spring semester has begun. “I’ve been told that we’re put in a lottery system for testing,” Anderson said. “Some of my coworkers have told me they’ve gotten notifications on their phone or email to get tested.” “Duke Dining team members take part in the University’s free asymptomatic and weekly surveillance COVID testing,” said Barbara Stokes, director of residential dining services. She highlighted the department’s broad efforts to respond to the pandemic, including mask and glove requirements and training for dining staff on preventing coronavirus spread. “We are happy to report that we ended the semester with no [Marketplace] team members having contracted the virus,” Stokes said. Duke Emergency Coordinator Kyle Cavanaugh wrote in an email that faculty and staff were increasingly included in voluntarily testing “as additional capacity was made available.” “By midsemester, anyone on campus who wanted to participate in surveillance testing had the opportunity to do so,” Cavanaugh said. The upstairs section of Marketplace is one of seven oncampus locations for COVID-19 testing. Minor believes Marketplace should not be one of the testing sites, and that a vacant building should be used. “Why bring the testing inside this building where we are working?” he asked. Cavanaugh wrote in an email that testing locations were chosen by a team including environmental health and facilities staff, and that there has not been a single instance of transmission at a testing site. “The second floor room in [Marketplace] provides for easy access for students, staff, and faculty,” he wrote. “The site is large enough to safely allow for individuals to participate in the program.” Marketplace employees are required to report any possible COVID-19 symptoms daily through the SymMon app. Minor expressed his concern with the app’s effectiveness among dining staff. If workers need a paycheck, he said, they may not be

entirely truthful about their symptoms. “We have a lot of older people in this building, and almost everybody is on some type of medication. Some side effects include things like headaches. Workers might be afraid of being quarantined just from stating they have a headache on the app,” Minor said. Minor also mentioned he’s never gotten an email notification to get tested. Like many other Marketplace employees, he didn’t even know he had a Duke email account prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. “And I’ve been working here for 35 years!” he said. He credited Stokes for helping all Marketplace employees set up their Duke emails before the University shut down last March. The move allowed dining service workers to host Zoom meetings to prepare for the return of students in August. Stokes has gotten creative to find ways for Marketplace staff to continue working over the two-month winter break, Minor said, including deep cleaning and virtual training.

‘We’ve got to work as a family’

Charles Gooch, a longtime Marketplace worker and the current chief steward for the Local 77 union, which represents most of the dining hall’s staff, said the job comes with unique experiences. He’s constantly exposed to young, bright minds, which helps him keep his youthful thinking. “I’ve met young folks from all over the country and from all over the world, from China, Pakistan, Turkey. I wouldn’t have met them without being at Duke, so I feel very blessed to be here,” Gooch said. Working at Marketplace during the coronavirus pandemic comes with its own unique experiences: namely, interaction with dozens of students and coworkers, any of whom could carry the virus. Many Marketplace workers worry that if they are infected, they will pass the virus to their children and grandchildren at home, Gooch said. Gooch, who wore a hat that said “If you can read this, you’re too close”, said he thinks dining service workers should receive hazard pay. “We are essential workers of Duke because our work requires us to come on-site,” he said. “We feel like we should be compensated in the right way.” Still, Gooch feels grateful to be in Duke’s dining department, saying that the department is one of the strongest in Local 77. He commended Stokes for truly caring about what each of the dining service workers go through and deal with. “If we had more management like Barbara Stokes, the union probably wouldn’t even exist!” he said.

COMPUTING FROM PAGE 1 team. “Not all applications work well, but some of them do, like optimization problems where there is one answer to the question.” These quantum computers allow researchers to pick up many long-abandoned problems, such as the construction of weather system models and the prediction of financial markets. Duke’s team includes a variety of experts. Its roots can be traced back to Jungsang Kim, a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, and his proposition of an optical approach to ion trapping, which is “holding a charged atom in place with electromagnetic fields and manipulating them with laser light.” This led to Duke launching its first quantum information lab. Other founding members of the team include Iman Marvian, a quantum information theorist and assistant professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering; and Kenneth Brown, professor of electrical and computer engineering. The team will further expand this year with the addition of physicist Marko Cetina; quantum experimentalist Crystal Noel; and Chris Monroe, architect of the U.S. National Quantum Initiative. Each of the team’s experts specializes in a different area. Kim is skilled in quantum optics; Cetina is focused on ion traps and cold neutral atoms; Noel works on trapped ion systems,; and Monroe contributes his knowledge on combating noise processes in ion traps, which can cause quantum systems to falter. The DQC will fabricate quantum computer systems based on trapped ions, and the Duke quantum archetype will be uniquely tailored for research. Users will be able to inspect the core of the system and collaborate in their research. The team of experts at the center are also collaborating with researchers at other institutions with the shared goal of improving the next generation of quantum computers. Duke’s researchers are employing an approach using qubits, short for “quantum bits,” made from individual atomic ions in a vacuum. Qubits are the basic unit of quantum information, and their use can bring the vision of a scalable quantum computer to fruition. Duke’s quantum computing team is using ytterbium atoms for the trapped ions. The current system uses 20 qubits, and along with the construction of the new center, the team will pursue a 50-qubit system, as well as smaller systems. By using trapped ion qubits, which simultaneously exist in multiple states, these quantum systems have the power to perform incredibly quick computations. Study areas for the team include quantum error correction, See COMPUTING on Page 8

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‘Built to destroy NCAA lacrosse’ Inside how the most hyped college lacrosse team in recent memory came to be By Evan Kolin Sports Editor

Duke men’s lacrosse is not only the consensus preseason No. 1 team in the country, it’s reached “superteam status,” as Inside Lacrosse so eloquently put it. “An embarrassment of riches,” also per Inside Lacrosse. “Built to destroy NCAA lacrosse,” according to the LaxFactor lacrosse podcast. Yeah, I think you get the point. But there’s reason for the preseason hype. Thanks to the NCAA’s extra eligibility ruling, Duke brings back every starter from a 2020 squad that finished the shortened campaign ranked No. 8, but showed signs of proving it was even better than that. That group includes fifth-year senior JT GilesHarris, US Lacrosse Magazine’s Preseason Defenseman of the Year. The Blue Devils will also welcome the return of senior attackman Joe Robertson, who led Duke in goals and points en route to a Final Four berth in 2019 but missed the 2020 campaign with an ACL tear. He’ll rejoin an offense that, led by stud freshman Dyson Williams, still ranked No. 11 in the country in scoring without him last season. On the recruiting trail, Duke brings in six top-50 recruits including attackman Brennan O’Neill, the No. 1 overall recruit who’s been labeled a generational talent and “the Zion Williamson of lacrosse.” And that’s before we even get to the transfers. The Blue Devils added five graduate transfers over the offseason, including second-team preseason All-American Mike Adler at goalie, honorable mention preseason All-American Dan O’Connell as a faceoff specialist and—wait for it—attackman Michael Sowers, the consensus top overall player in the country. Do the first couple quotes make sense now? While Duke is just days away from beginning this potentially historic campaign, it’s been a long road to get to this moment, one filled with an abrupt ending, an offseason to remember and months of build-up. A season cut short March 12, 2020 is a date that will live in infamy for anyone involved in sports, and

Giles-Harris is no different. The 2019 ACC Defenseman of the Year remembers practicing and getting ready for team pictures—two days after destroying Jacksonville 18-8 for the Blue Devils’ fourth straight win— when head coach John Danowski told everyone that the Ivy League had cancelled its spring sports seasons the previous day. At that point, Giles-Harris said he and his teammates “were a little bit nervous,” especially when they found out while taking team pictures that the ACC had cancelled its men’s basketball tournament. Then, later that night, it became official. “We got called in for another meeting at night,” Giles-Harris said. “And we figured we all kind of knew what we were about to hear, but we didn’t really want to believe it. And we all sat down in our team room, and we heard...our season was cancelled—or it was postponed indefinitely, but we all pretty much knew that it was cancelled.” Giles-Harris said it was “a tough moment,” especially given the fact that nobody had any idea the NCAA would later grant spring athletes an extra year of eligibility. “It was devastating,” Danowski added. “It was emotional. Not just emotion for the season, but for a lot of things. There was just a little bit of fear of the unknown, what was going to happen going forward. And nobody thought that there would be a fifth year, and so at the time, it was extremely emotional, a lot of tears.” What made the news even more difficult to grasp was the manner in which Duke’s previous two seasons had ended. In May 2019, the Blue Devils led Virginia 12-10 with less than a minute remaining in the national semifinal. But then, the typically stout Duke defense allowed two Cavalier goals within a 31-second period before losing in double overtime. A year prior, the Blue Devils made it all the way to the NCAA championship game, where they lost to Yale 13-11. “I think that for a lot of programs, you have to experience losing in the big games to

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Joe Robertson led Duke in goals and points en route to the Final Four in 2019, but missed all of the shortened 2020 season with a torn ACL. decide how badly you want to return there,” Former Dartmouth defenseman James Sullivan Danowski said. “And I think that was certainly is one member of that trio, though it didn’t seem part of the emotion as well.” like that would be the case at first. “I didn’t answer [Sullivan’s] call,” Danowski An offseason for the ages said. “I loved him on tape, and I thought he Just over two weeks after that infamous was a terrific player. But it was just one more March afternoon, the NCAA announced that person—at the time we were overwhelmed spring student-athletes would receive an extra with all this interest. And [Sullivan] just called year of eligibility, meaning Giles-Harris and his up and said, ‘Coach, I’m coming. I don’t care. senior classmates I’d like to try out.’ And he’s a great kid. And we could return to love him. But there were others that we had Durham and to dissuade. We had to say, ‘No, there’s just no avenge their two room at the end.’” years of heartbreak. The other two former Ivy Leaguers hailed However, it from Princeton: best friends and roommates wasn’t quite that Phil Robertson and Sowers. Robertson, the older brother of Duke’s Joe INSIDE LACROSSE simple. G i l e s - H a r r i s Robertson, is a high-level finisher who led the told The Chronicle NCAA in shooting percentage in 2018. in the spring Sowers, meanwhile, was the holy grail of the that while almost everyone “wanted to come transfer market. The Pennsylvania native enters back,” the allocation of scholarship money this season ranked second in NCAA Division I was something the program and individual history with a career points per game average players were still figuring out. While part of the of 6.43, and fourth all-time in career assists NCAA’s extra eligibility ruling included the use per game at 3.85. At the time the 2020 season of the NCAA’s Student Assistance Fund to pay was cancelled, he was averaging a blistering for the extra scholarships, that money couldn’t 9.4 points per contest—1.2 points per game be used to pay for everyone. ahead of the NCAA single-season record— Nevertheless, by June 12 US Lacrosse and was the heavy favorite to bring home the Magazine reported that Giles-Harris was Tewaaraton Award as the nation’s top player. “expected to be at Duke all of next year,” and His addition is what transformed Duke from by July 16 the team confirmed the return contender to superteam. of the star defenseman in addition to nine But those three aren’t the only graduate other 2020 seniors. newcomers. While this was all going on, Danowski Duke added two other transfers to round and his staff were navigating perhaps the out its historic haul in Adler and O’Connell, most hectic transfer market they had ever both of whom will fill key roles for the team been a part of, one in which schools with an this upcoming season and whose transfers were elite combination of a top-tier lacrosse team actually unrelated to COVID-19 or the extra and elite graduate programs became a prime year of eligibility. landing spot for players looking to exercise Danowski said he had heard during the their extra season of eligibility. middle of the 2020 season, before any talk of Hence, Duke was a popular option for many. cancellation, that Adler wasn’t going to return “There were over 35 students who had to St. Joseph’s the following year. Fast forward expressed an interest to transfer to Duke to to May, and the Blue Devils secured one of the play lacrosse,” Danowski said. “We had to say top goalies in the country. no to a whole bunch. I mean, it was really, O’Connell, meanwhile, had actually been really different.” planning to come to Duke this season since In the end, the Blue Devils added five graduate September 2019, after a unique background transfers to complete their roster, three of which that saw the Massachusetts spend his freshman came from the Ivy League and stemmed from year of college only playing club lacrosse at the conference’s tradition that graduate students South Carolina before using his first three years cannot compete in sports, which made transferring the only option for athletes that wanted to use their See LACROSSE on Page 8 extra eligibility.

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Michael Sowers ranks second in NCAA Division I history in career points per game and fourth all-time in career assists per game.

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100 days left cooked meals always feature a rotation of pork-, chicken- or fish-based broths complemented by assorted vegetables, from radishes to watercress and herbs such as goji berries, red dates and ginseng. Soup drinking, like warm water consumption, reflects traditional Chinese medicine principles. Not only are Chinese soups as delicious as they are varied; their ingredients are believed to mediate

white symbol elegantly captures their interdependence, showing how one waxes as the other wanes, the center of each half dotted with the opposing force— one growing out of the other. In traditional Chinese medicine, the key to good health is balance between yin and yang. Soup is a form of medicine in maintaining this balance. In my grandmother’s kitchen, the ingredients are

balance within the body. Chicken noodle soup might be the closest comparison I can draw within an American context. Having once held a clearly undeveloped palate and a blatant disregard for soups in my younger years, viewing them as just a few ingredients removed from hot water, I now hold the potentially controversial opinion that soup, not rice, is the cornerstone of Chinese meals. Embedded within the practice of Chinese soup making is the fundamental philosophy of yin and yang. The duality of yin and yang represents the connected, complementary and yet contradictory elements of all aspects of the universe. Their relationship is not static, however, but shifts in a dance of mutual transformation. The spiral-like black and

carefully selected. It is brought to a boil, then a simmer, in a process that has no patience for haste. Through the centuriesold practice of drinking Chinese soups, I am nourished not only by the labor of love in food creation, but also in body, mind and spirit. I feel the echoes of that tradition when I begin my early mornings sipping warm water. It’s a poor substitute for soup, I know, but something about the soft bubbling of a roiling boil that builds to a satisfying click soothes my jetlagged weariness. Where waking up before 11 a.m. was unthinkable during winter break, I find myself appreciating these moments of stillness that darkness before daybreak brings. Encounters with the early hours

Hannah Homma Tong COLUMN at a lifetime high, while the practice of drinking warm water is one I’ve inherited from my family in Hong Kong. Back home in Hong Kong, hot water dispensers (which also function to brew tea) are as ubiquitous in kitchens as fridge water dispensers are here in the United States. Chinese culture possesses a general aversion to the consumption of cold water, stemming from the precept in traditional Chinese medicine that cold water disturbs the balance of the body. You would be hard pressed to find restaurants in Hong Kong that serve the American restaurant standard of water with ice. Hot tea and warm or room temperature water are usually preferred. Soup is another indispensable part of Chinese culinary culture. Home

of the day— whether through late nights spent with loved ones, all-nighters as a result of time mismanagement or wake ups as the side effect of crossing time zones—have always filled me with a sense of optimistic existentialism. Lately, during these mornings in the days that are the start to the end of my time at Duke, I’ve been meditating on these concepts of balance and duality. In facing this semester, I’ve felt as though I am teetering on a precipice to the great unknown. I am equal parts excited and terrified, eager for a new chapter but filled with melancholy for the memories, routines and minutiae of life that I will leave behind. I worry about spending time wisely, with an increasing sense of urgency as the pace of the semester picks up and yet recognize that this awareness has brought me a profound consciousness of the precious value of this place in this moment of time, with relationships that will never be configured in this particular way again. In the last 100 days of our undergraduate journey (for us seniors at least), I hope we find a balance that brings harmony, to make peace with our time here. And have some soup—it’ll make you feel a bit better along the way. Hannah Homma Tong is a Trinity senior. Her column runs on alternate Thursdays.

Biden is president and we’re all on drugs W

e’re one week into the Biden administration, and I can confirm that my colleague Reiss Becker was correct in his evaluation that the President is a “political opioid.” At the time, I thought that my fellow columnist was speaking figuratively to justify voting for Donald Trump. Now I can see that Becker was being literal—Biden

But luckily I’ve been taking Mitch McConnell, who is a political Lactaid, and my stomach hasn’t been acting up as much as I would have expected during this administration. Some other realizations I’ve had this week: Nancy Pelosi is political ketamine. She causes increased heart rate and blood pressure, nausea, vomiting, numbness,

Jordan Diamond DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH has drugged America. My experience with drugs and politics runs deep; I once smoked weed with Kamala Harris. Even considering the time that the future-Veep and I consumed edibles together, I have never felt so sedated as I do these days. I think that these feelings started during the inauguration. As Biden placed his wrinkled hand upon his family’s bible, I felt all the acute pain dissipate from my body. The octogenarian’s call for unity reached the receptors in my nervous system like a drug prescribed as recovery for wisdom tooth removal. With each carfentanilic executive order, I eased further into comfort. By the time Biden phoned Emmanuel Macron this week, my political opioid tolerance had kicked in and the effects were waning, but at least my political cough was strongly politically suppressed. I know that my fellow Americans feel the same. Who among us can not say that we’ve experienced political itchiness, nausea, respiratory depression, constipation, and euphoria alike over the last week? I also agree with Becker that Biden is “a warm glass of milk” (in addition to being a political Vicodin).

depression, amnesia, hallucinations and potentially fatal respiratory problems. She is injected into horses and other animals as a form of veterinary anesthesia.

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Bernie Sanders is political liquor and AOC is medical grade political marijuana; taking them together results in a sick socialist cross-fade. Not for the faint of heart. It would seem, at face value, impossible for politicians to be drugs. Surely, politicians are just those who are professionally involved in politics as elected officials whose policymaking is responsible

our rational discourse as writer and reader must be founded, I, in turn, must be dismissed as some nonsense chronicler whose reportage in this paper’s esteemed opinion section is tied to his own search for vanity and attention through the publication of headlines that will generate clicks. But alas, my current hangover suggests otherwise; I suspect that yours does too. For what is participation in our polity but a literal addiction—one to the frequent consumption of that which harms us yet repeatedly promises to alleviate our suffering, one to the reliance upon a dealer for impacting their constituents’ lives and whose monopoly on and enforcement experiences. of violence ensures its users’ continued Becker must be figurative, for if we are all reliance upon it, one to the comparison of being drugged by the Biden administration public servants whose collective inaction in regards to a pandemic has killed over 420,000 Americans to different narcotics? But then again, how could we reasonably expect Congress to respond to such a crisis after a good huff of Andrew Cuomo? This is all to say—as with any high, there are only two real options to treat this situation. We can ride the high of the Biden administration, numbing our pain at the risk of adverse side effects of the drugs overprescribed to us due to the pharmaceutical industry’s monied interests. One day, perhaps we can sober up and stop expecting politicians working within oppressive systems to offer us real relief from the systemic problems we face. Alternatively, we can have a huge panic attack and make our friends call EMS on us. and our nation’s political system at large, Either way, Hillary Clinton is poppers. how could we trust the very perception which allows our rational evaluation of politics and drugs to function? Jordan Diamond is a Trinity senior. His For the sake of preserving the mutually column “Diamond in the rough” runs on accepted base of perception upon which alternate Wednesdays.

Bernie Sanders is political liquor and AOC is medical grade political marijuana; taking them together results in a sick socialist cross-fade. Not for the faint of heart.

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What a rush! Ted Cruz is a seditious acid trip. Ingestion is known to result in hallucination, including the belief that a pedophilic cabal plotting against Trump is being slowly exposed on 4chan.

LACROSSE FROM PAGE 5 of NCAA athletic eligibility at Holy Cross. His abilities as one of college lacrosse’s best faceoff specialists provides yet another unique advantage for the Blue Devils. However, talent can only go so far. And with so many new faces coming to Durham, Danowski had to make sure his squad learned to embrace one another. ‘There’s no Shooters on Saturday night’ “With the talent we have, the sky is certainly the limit,” Sowers told US Lacrosse Magazine in June. “But for us, it’s about what we’re going to do from September to January that will define us.” By that, Sowers meant forming chemistry with his new team, something that’s a whole lot harder with COVID-19 restricting campus interaction off the practice field. To help combat that issue, Danowski formed the Duke Outdoor Lacrosse League (D.O.L.L.), an intrasquad league played on weekends. The D.O.L.L. functioned just like a professional league, with an official draft separating the Blue Devils into two teams, a league commissioner moderating the draft, GMs and coaches on each side and even a trade deadline. While the league certainly helped the Blue Devils sharpen their skills on the field—the intense late-game battles between the two teams’ No. 1 picks, Sowers and Giles-Harris, were reportedly quite the spectacle—Danowski said the main goal of the D.O.L.L. was about providing his players something to look forward

to each week. “Our guys live at Shooters. You realize that there’s a social void. There were no football games to go to, no tailgates, no soccer games to go to…. There was no outlet for the guys. There’s no Shooters on Saturday night,” Danowski said. “So one of the things that we wanted to provide in the Duke Outdoor Lacrosse League was just an outlet, like a Friday night, Saturday night, something to look forward to and something to do. And that was the number one motivation behind setting it up.” Giles-Harris added that integrating all the newcomers was also made easier by prior relationships and the transfers themselves. “It’s pretty easy because they’re all great guys,” Giles-Harris said. “We all kinda—someone kinda knew them before, and once we got there it was kind of like, ‘That’s your boy, that’s my boy, too.’ So that was pretty easy…. I think it’s been going pretty smooth. Like I said, it’s a lot easier because they’re all good guys.” Best team ever? There’s no denying it—this year’s Duke squad enters the 2021 season as one of the most hyped college lacrosse teams in recent memory, one that has the talent to be remembered for a very long time. But you wouldn’t get that sense from talking to anyone within the program. “Before the season begins...you have no idea,” Danowski said regarding how he thinks this year’s team stacks up against all the teams he’s ever coached. “Without any scrimmages…. I remember one year we scrimmaged Bucknell, and

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they kicked the tar out of us in the scrimmage. And it woke everybody up. Everybody thought, ‘Hey, man, FROM PAGE 3 we can just walk out here and play against Bucknell and beat them.’ And we didn’t. ion trapping and novel photonic devices. The “Until you step on the field, the game is research and foundational work done by DQC different. You can practice one way and look has already attracted interest from institutions great in practice, but once the lights are on— including the Georgia Institute of Technology and unfortunately, there’ll be nobody in the stands— Harvard University for the use of the SQLab to but once the lights are on, you don’t know how test research ideas. your goalie’s going to react, you don’t know if you “We’re interested in doing science and can win a faceoff. You don’t know if all of a sudden having collaborators that want to run the chemistry that you saw in practice becomes interesting scientific applications; this is the every man for himself. I think the excitement is: place for them,” Monroe said. What could this be?” Monroe said there is the potential for many That last question is the one on every fans’ complex interactions beyond the capabilities mind as well. Could this team go undefeated? of traditional computers. “A lot of the early Could it become the best Duke team ever? Could applications of quantum computers will be it become the best college lacrosse team ever? scientific in nature. We can use quantum It’s far too early to answer any of those computers to test theories about how black holes questions. But with the talent the Blue Devils deal with information,” he said as an example. boast, they’re certainly reasonable questions to In the long run, the DQC wants to speed up the think aloud. transfer of quantum computing technology from “We haven’t been through any adversity yet,” the lab to the market and increase its accessibility, Danowski added. “Usually when your team has to ultimately aiming to “put quantum computers get backed up against the wall, then you figure out directly into the hands of users,” Monroe said. who they are. I don’t know yet. And I’m curious.” The chief value of quantum computing Another thing this team will have to wrestle centers is their ability to solve complex with to keep its goals within reach is staying safe optimization problems, testing many possible off the field. Danowski said that the program solutions and eventually converging on a single administered over 1,700 COVID-19 tests in the answer. Fields that would benefit most from fall without a single positive. And while seven these applications include artificial intelligence, members of the team tested positive during winter cybersecurity, and chemical, environmental, and break while away from the program and two financial systems. more tested positive upon arriving in Durham Monroe pointed to understanding from winter break, none have tested positive once molecular design as one of the possible they returned to practice. applications of quantum computing which In short, “the bubble works,” as Danowski most excites him. He explains that scientists put it. lack a complete understanding of the workings To ensure it keeps working, however, of naturally occurring molecules that channel Danowski has emphasized accountability for light with extraordinary efficiency, which is every individual on the team. where quantum computers come in. “The buzzwords we’ve been using: discipline, “If we can model how that works, maybe we maturity and common sense,” Danowski said. could design new molecules to make better, more“We’ve been using those since July. I put that on efficient and cheaper molecules to harvest solar almost every text and every email: discipline, energy. That same type of computer program maturity, common sense.” might be able to help you model chemical reactions, If the team follows that mantra, and continues catalysis, to build better drugs,” Monroe said. to gel on and off the field, the program’s fourth Monroe praised the University’s national title is well within reach. And potentially, administration for their commitment to the a whole lot more. project, citing it as a compelling reason to join. “I think we definitely have the potential to “All the way to [Provost Sally Kornbluth] and be,” O’Neill said, before pausing. “I don’t wanna [President Vincent Price] they’re totally behind say that we’re gonna be oneThe of New the greats, but we this vision, we’re going to do things in ways York Times Syndication Sales and Corporation 620 Eighth Avenue, New N.Y. else 10018 could be, if we really work well together.” thatYork, nobody is doing,” Monroe said.

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