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By Bre Bradham Investigations Editor

In 2004, Alana Beard became the first woman to have her jersey hung up in the rafters of Cameron Indoor Stadium. Now, after a record-setting college run and all-star WNBA career, she’s hanging up her basketball shoes too.

Beard, who played at Duke from 2000 to 2004 and is the Blue Devils’ all-time leading scorer, announced her retirement from the WNBA after 15 years on the Tim Fletcher radio show Jan. 23. “I’ve been craving this transition for a while now,� she told The Chronicle. “I’ve been preparing, and I can say that even at Duke, I’ve always been cognizant of the fact that basketball doesn’t last forever.�

The Shreveport, La., native fell in love with

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basketball while playing on the weekends with her family and found her competitiveness schooling her older brother and his friends on the court. Beard walks away from her playing career with a lengthy resume that reflects her elite combination of scoring ability and lockdown defense.

The 2004 National Player of the Year holds 10 Duke career records, including the most steals and minutes played, also leading the Blue Devils to a pair of Final Four appearances. She picked up ACC Player of the Year honors three times and was named first team AP AllAmerican three times while leading the Blue Devils to four consecutive years of ACC regular season and tournament championships.

That’s all before she was picked second in the 2004 WNBA draft and went on to be a four-time All-Star, two-time Defensive Player of the Year and leader of the 2016 champion Los Angeles Sparks. “As good as she is on the court, she’s a better person,� said Gail Goestenkors, who was head coach of the Blue Devils during Beard’s time in Durham.

‘The finest women’s basketball player to play at Duke’ Beard was not originally on Goestenkors’ recruiting

radar, but when the Duke coach was scouting other players at a tournament during the summer after Beard’s junior year, she saw her play and was immediately interested. “From the first time I saw her go up and down the floor, I knew I wanted to coach her,�

Goestenkors said.

Beard said she knew she wanted to come to Duke after her first drive through campus during an official visit. Despite coming in as a homesick freshman, she was always a leader on the court because of her work ethic, Goestenkors said. “Anytime I stepped up on the court, my goal was to be at my best at all times,� Beard explained.

Beard walked into a program that had a foundation and high expectations. The Blue See BASKETBALL on Page 3

How coronavirus upended international DKU students’ semester

By Maya Miller Staff Reporter

For students at Duke Kunshan University, their semester has been anything but typical.

Classes have been postponed, DKU has extended campus restrictions until Feb. 24 and most students have gone home. On Jan. 21, DKU announced via email the formation of an Emergency Preparedness Task Force made up of university leaders and the emergency crisis team. The task force would “develop an action plan to protect the members of our community and to keep us safe as possible given the uncertainties surrounding the spread of the virus,� the email read.

Around that same time, DKU first-year Joanna Crane, from Amsterdam, said she came down with a “really bad flu.� For nearly four days she was bedridden with a fever of 102 degrees, and the medicine from the campus clinic wasn’t working.

By Saturday—the day that DKU locked down campus and postponed classes—she decided she needed to see a doctor again, but the campus clinic was closed due to the Lunar New Year break.

She called the campus emergency hotline hoping someone could drive her to a nearby hospital in Suzhou. She was told to take a taxi.

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Matthew Griffin elected Vol.116 editor

By Maria Morrison Health and Science News Editor

Charles York | Photography Editor Matthew Griffin was unanimously elected by The Chronicle staff.

Sophomore Matthew Griffin was elected as the editor-inchief of The Chronicle’s 116th volume.

In a staff-wide election Friday evening, members of the student newspaper chose Griffin to succeed junior Jake Satisky as editor-in-chief of The Chronicle and president of the Duke Student Publishing Company, Inc., the publisher of the independent, student-run daily newspaper.đ&#x;“ˇ Griffin—a political science major with a minor in French and a certificate in policy journalism and media studies—is currently a university news editor and will begin his one-year term as editor-in-chief April 22. “What’s so great about student journalism is that we’re at this university where there’s so much going on and so many people with so many backgrounds and interests and areas of

expertise,� Griffin said. “I want to capture as many of these as possible.�

As editor, the Charlotte, N.C., native will focus primarily on making The Chronicle a “digital-first� organization while capturing the spirit of campus life. “Pushing forward online is not just an obligation for The Chronicle, it’s also an opportunity to tell stories in new ways, whether that’s in a digital way or in a non-traditional text way, but to really experiment with how The Chronicle does journalism,� Griffin said.

Readers can expect to see an expansion of The Chronicle’s digital presence and a change in the structure of the print product. This doesn’t necessarily mean more content, Griffin clarified, but instead more curated content that has a specific voice and more emphasis on interactive elements.

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How much does it cost to maintain Abele Quad?

And more grass information you need to know

By Maria Morrison Health and Science News Editor

Every time you trudge through the grass on Abele Quad as a shortcut to Perkins Library, remember that you’re stepping on something worth more than two years of Duke’s tuition.

The grass on that main lawn, one of the first things to greet visitors to the University, costs approximately $150,000 per year to maintain, wrote Vice President for Facilities John Noonan in an email to The Chronicle.

“It has been studied and verified that student decisions to attend and stay at a school can also [be] related to the appearance of its building and landscape,” Noonan wrote.

The Abele Quad lawn is a cool-season grass best suited for spring and fall climates, wrote Superintendent of Grounds Scott Thompson in an email to The Chronicle. During the summer and winter, the grounds staff primarily focuses on preventative maintenance, including “pest-monitoring, irrigating for plant health and mowing when needed,” he added.

During the busy season of grass care, the grounds staff works on irrigation, aeration, fertilization, seeding, edging and monitoring for diseases.

“For larger events, we will cover the lawn with event flooring to try and mitigate any damage,” Thompson wrote.

“We also reduce irrigation to help keep the ground surface firm prior to it receiving heavy foot traffic.”

He explained that the soil undergoes aeration to minimize the effects of compaction after the event, and the normal irrigation cycle recommences along with fertilization.

Athletic field grass, in contrast, is dyed green ahead of sporting events when needed, Thompson noted. Football players have also been told to stay off the turf at Brooks Field at Wallace Wade Stadium.

Beyond recreation and aesthetics, Duke’s greenery provides health and environmental advantages to the campus and those on it. Thompson cited less runoff and erosion, filtration and purification of water, carbon sequestration and improved air quality as some of the benefits of healthy lawns.

There is no specific individual donor for the Abele Quad grass, unlike certain lawns at Duke. Noonan wrote that the cost of other landscaping on campus, such as that around the Brodhead Center and Rubenstein Library, is covered by specific donors as part of the overall cost of the building’s project.

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GRIFFIN FROM PAGE 1 “Digital can really capture the spirit of life on campus in a way that isn’t necessarily The Chronicle injecting a voice or a tone but just capturing campus life,” Griffin said.

The printed paper, in Griffin’s plan, will transform into “a more niche product, more focused on features and long-term stuff,” using visually appealing themes and covers to entice students to pick up the editions.

Griffin also aims to include more campus voices in both The Chronicle’s staff and stories.

“It starts with dialogue. I don’t have all the answers and I can’t pretend to have them,” Griffin said regarding how to diversify the organization. He plans to create “policies that foster inclusion and diversity that will, year over year, transform The Chronicle.”

Satisky noted Griffin’s work ethic and dedication as valuable skills that will make him a fantastic pick.

The outgoing editor recalled a time when Griffin was covering a rally in Washington, D.C. during the Supreme Court hearing about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

While he expected Griffin to speak to students after the rally, Satisky was surprised to hear that he was traveling to attend the event, and even more surprised when Griffin offered to help edit other stories on the drive home.

“It’s really indicative of his spirit,” Satisky said. “He takes assignments and goes above and beyond.”

Managing editor Nathan Luzum, a senior, cited Griffin’s close attention to both big picture goals and small details as one of the characteristics that make him most fit for the position.

“Matthew’s commitment to The Chronicle during his time here has been nothing short of outstanding. I have full confidence that he will excel in the role,” Luzum said.

Sophomore Priya Parkash, also a university news editor, is sure that Griffin will go above and beyond for the sake of the paper. She remembered how Griffin’s goal has always been to run for editor-in-chief, and she is excited to support him during his tenure and see what he will bring to The Chronicle.

Regarding the legacy that he intends to leave, Griffin noted that The Chronicle is doing a good job transitioning to a digital-first organization, but still has a long way to go.

“I see next year as a time when we need to get a sense of our identity and what The Chronicle looks like going forward,” Griffin said, “not just for one year, but for the next decade and the rest of our time.”

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BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 1 Devils were the reigning ACC champions, and two seasons before she arrived they had made it to the national championship game.

She would lead the team to similar heights, making it to the Final Four twice while topping Duke’s all-time scoring list with 2,687 points. The Blue Devils captured the ACC championship all four years, though a national title continued to elude them.

They also slayed giants. During Beard’s senior year, Jessica Foley hit a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to take down powerhouse Connecticut, cutting the Huskies’ win-streak off just short of 70.

The Blue Devils had been down by as much as 20 points in the game, but Goestenkors said she knew they were going to win as she headed toward the locker room at halftime.

“We could hear [Beard] inside the locker room yelling at her teammates that this was not acceptable and this was not going to happen,” Goestenkors said. “I got goosebumps, because I knew, when I heard Alana speak like that, I knew we were going to win. It was priceless.”

Later that month, Beard would become the first woman to have her number lofted to the Cameron rafters as her parents watched. ThenDuke Athletic Director Joe Alleva called Beard “obviously the finest women’s basketball player to play at Duke University, and one of the best to play anywhere in the country.”

A few months later, Beard would be named the AP National Player of the Year and go on to be drafted second by the Washington Mystics.

‘[She] deserved to win championships’ Beard spent several years with Washington, including a trio of All-Star team nods, and led the team in scoring for four years before injuries sidelined her for two seasons. She started over with the Los Angeles Sparks in 2012.

In Los Angeles, Beard’s defensive prowess shone through as her scoring cooled. She was

named the league’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2017 and 2018 and started every game in their 2016 championship campaign. The Sparks beat the Minnesota Lynx to win the championship, and it was a full-circle moment for the recordsetting player who had come oh-so-close to winning a national title at Duke.

“When Alana won the WNBA championship, I can’t tell you how happy I was for her, because she’s someone who deserved to win championships… I think I cried because I just felt so happy for her finally getting to win that championship,” Goestenkors said.

After pushing through a potential career-ending injury just a few years before, Beard said capturing the championship made it all worth it.

Beard missed about half of the 2019 season with a hamstring injury.

She said she decided to retire in part because she never wanted to make herself play if her body wasn’t able to, but also to keep from taking a spot away from a younger player.

“I never ever want to take an opportunity away from a young woman who has been dreaming of playing in a WNBA her entire life,” Beard said. “I’ve had 15 great years, some ups and downs, but that’s just the way it goes. There’s someone else that’s coming in behind me that wants to experience what I just experienced, and who am I to take that from them?”

But she wasn’t planning on announcing it when she went on the radio show last week. After the host asked her if was going back for her 16th year, she decided to be honest and say “no.”

“I remember walking out of the radio station and getting into my car and seeing someone

tweet something about it, and I just grabbed my head was like, ‘Oh God, I literally just announced my retirement,’” Beard said.

It wasn’t just friends and family that noticed. Players, coaches and reporters tweeted to congratulate Beard on her career.

So did Kobe Bryant, who welcomed her to retirement “after an amazing career” in one of his last tweets before he died. “[The tweet] did something to me. It felt absolutely amazing. It put everything into perspective in terms of what I’ve done throughout my career,” Beard said the day after his death, her voice still raspy from crying.

Instead of tweeting him back, Beard had sent him a private message a few hours before the helicopter crash, telling him that she admired his approach to the game and life after basketball, particularly how he interacted with his daughters. And she thanked him.

“I only hope he understood the impact that he had on people around the world,” Beard said.

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ACC Network, which recently led her to media row covering a Duke women’s basketball game against Clemson.

As to whether she would ever return to the sideline to coach, Beard said that she never considered coaching, but that she loves it. And she would only want to do it at one place.

“I always said that the only place I would consider is Duke,” Beard said.

For now at least, her legacy at Duke hangs up in the rafters, sits on top of handfuls of records lists and pops up in the media guides she often reads to prepare for analyst duties.

“As I’m reading, I see my name and I keep seeing my name, and that’s when it starts to hit home that I did some pretty amazing things at Duke,” Beard said, acknowledging that it’s hard for her to say that.

When asked about what she hopes her legacy is, Beard doesn’t talk about the trophies or banners or retired numbers or scoring records. So what does one of Duke’s all-time best players hope she’s remembered for?

“That I was a great teammate,” she said. “The physical aspects of it, the accomplishments, the numbers, stats, the championships, none of that means anything if you’re not a great teammate, if you’re not a great person, if you don’t have a hand in the future of the game.”

‘None of that means anything if you’re not a great teammate’

Beard is making room for another player in the league by retiring, but she’s also aiming to make room for female athletes in a new space—venture capital. She hopes to head towards Silicon Valley and join a firm soon, with an eventual goal of opening her own firm to “be that bridge or that resource for other professional women athletes.”

Center and above: Chronicle File Photo But for right now, she hasn’t completely left the game of basketball. She’s an analyst for the Beard led Duke to two Final Fours.

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But the mood quickly soured when she It took more than an hour to sort out the stayed safe on campus. For example, the masks and her friends considered the implications confusion with the administration over China’s that the university provided were an even higher FROM PAGE 1 for students who had family in China. Meier popular messaging app WeChat. Eventually, protective grade than what the government was said she found one of her floormates crying students started calling parents and booking requiring at the time, said Aryan Poonacha, a “It wasn’t ideal, but, you know, life isn’t uncontrollably in the hall Sunday night. “She tickets home. first-year from Bangalore, India. ideal,” Crane said. was so overwhelmed with fear,” Meier said.

Charlie Colasurdo was already in Hong Kong “If it were to somehow spread to campus that The concern that she had contracted “The initial high crashed very quickly.” during break when DKU postponed classes on would be totally disastrous, especially if we were all coronavirus had crossed her mind, but Crane Some students were afraid to go home for Saturday night, and the first-year from Westport, still there,” Meier said. “They couldn’t risk it.” said it was very unlikely since she hadn’t ever fear they would somehow be responsible for Conn., wasn’t surprised by the news.

Poonacha agreed that it was better to err on been to Wuhan or been in contact with someone starting a coronavirus outbreak in their home “I think a lot of us kind of saw it coming at the side of caution. who had. countries—some of which that point,” he said. “We felt it was necessary in “I feel that it’s been an appropriate response She spent a If it were to somehow spread would not have strong enough terms of the uncertainty regarding the virus. I to take such extreme measures as DKU has,” Saturday night in health care infrastructure to think we were all happy to see it.” he said. the hospital, and to campus that would be handle such an outbreak.

Instead of finishing out the week in Hong All four students are now at home with her fever was down totally disasterous, especially “That was so sad, Kong, Colasurdo decided it would be safer their families. to 100 degrees in heartbreaking, to witness,” and more comfortable to wait out the crisis at Colasurdo believes DKU’s response to the the morning. By if we were all still there.

Meier said. home with his family. “I’d rather be home than coronavirus will only strengthen the program Tuesday, she was At first, it was unclear anywhere else,” he said. and its reputation. Evacuating campus, instead Mia Meier on a flight back to FIRST-YEAR AT DUKE KUNSHAN UNIVERSITY whether the $1,000 travel He spoke to The Chronicle from the Seoul of locking it down and quarantining students, Amsterdam. aid was just for students airport, where he was awaiting his connecting shows prospective students that DKU can After the classes who had already left campus flight home. effectively respond to emergencies and get were postponed, initial excitement quickly and were traveling or if every international When asked if they thought DKU people home to their families. turned dark. Mia Meier, a first-year from St. Louis, student was eligible. Meier said she and her responded adequately to the crisis, the students “It sets a good precedent for the future,” was cooking pasta when the administration friends were preparing to hunker down and said that the university took the necessary steps Colasurdo said, “and in a way it will make us postponed classes. She had heard from a friend wait it out on campus. to protect students and to make sure everyone more resilient.” that there would be an announcement about delaying classes on Saturday night, but no one knew exactly when it would arrive.

By this time, Meier said, many students and faculty had already left for the Lunar New Year break. She estimated only 150 students were left on campus. Meier was supposed to be traveling in the city of Nanjing with friends, but at the advice of many of her Chinese friends, she had canceled her trip earlier in the week.

The email came out around 7 p.m., and, in addition to delaying classes, the message said DKU would cover $1,000 in flight expenses for international students. There was an “initial euphoria” in the room, Meier said, when people realized this meant no classes and a free flight out of China.

“Because we’re from abroad, our first instinct is to travel and seize those opportunities,” Meier Charlie Colasurdo | Contributing Photographer (DKU) said of herself and her international friends.

Duke Kunshan University (shown above) has extended campus access restrictions to Feb. 24 amid the coronavirus spread in China.

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‘STRONG AS HELL’

Vernon Carey Jr. dominates as Blue Devils handle Syracuse in Carrier Dome

By Michael Model Associate Sports Editor

SYRACUSE, N.Y.—With Syracuse leading 21-14 and Blue Devil big men Vernon Carey Jr., Javin DeLaurier and Matthew Hurt all with two fouls in the first 11 minutes, Duke was in dangerous territory in the early going.

Rather than keel over and succumb to the pressure created by the 30,000-plus in attendance, Carey settled in and went to work against the undersized Orange frontcourt. The freshman phenom powered the Blue Devils back in front, leading a 35-18 run, with a team-high 26 points and career-high 17 rebounds as No. 9 Duke left the Carrier Dome with a 97-88 victory.

“They really didn’t have an answer for him tonight. With the 17 rebounds tonight, he was just unstoppable,” sophomore point guard Tre Jones said. “We knew he was gonna be able to dominate. They don’t really have a big to match up with him or DUKE 97 even a couple that can 88 match up with him.

SYR So I thought let’s just try to have him seal guys down low, continue to bury guys and just try to find him. We were doing that throughout the entire game and it really paid off.”

“Strong as hell,” added senior captain Jack White.

The Blue Devils (18-3, 8-2 in the ACC) used a pair of key runs to get back into the contest after the sluggish start from the field. Duke marched on a 7-0 run to knot the score at 21, and out of the break, the Blue Devils continued to flip the script from the opening minutes. Cassius Stanley quickly drained a triple and a pair of Carey makes gave Duke a 49-39 advantage, its largest lead of the night at the time.

The Blue Devils would stretch the lead to as much as 15 points at 71-56, but the Orange would not give in, cutting the deficit to as low as five points with less than four minutes remaining.

However, Stanley stormed up the court and converted an and-one to restore an eight-point edge with 3:01 on the clock. The Los Angeles native finished with 15 points. Fellow freshman Hurt had 12 points on the night, and Alex O’Connell added 11 in his strongest outing in recent memory as Duke showcased its balance once again. Another welcome development for the Blue Devils was their uncharacteristically strong performance from the charity stripe, as they went 29-of-33 on free throws.

“As a point guard it is my job to hit free throws, but as a team we know free throws is the thing that is going to help us to win at the end of the day,” said Jones—who made all 10 of his attempts. “We’ve learned from the past that missing free throws hurt us down the

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Vernon Carey Jr. had full control of the paint against Syracuse, pulling down 17 rebounds. stretch and so we really need to focus on free throws and on making those throughout the entire game.”

Carey and DeLaurier benefitted from getting more minutes alongside each other than they’d become accustomed to with freshman Wendell Moore Jr.’s returning to the lineup Saturday. After missing the last six contests with

a fracture in his left hand, Moore shored up the Blue Devils’ defense with his ability to guard the one through four. Duke clamped down on the Orange perimeter threats, holding Syracuse (13-9, 6-5) to a dismal 6-for-26 performance from deep.

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Unlikely heroes in DeLaurier and O’Connell emerge

By Winston Lindqwister Associate Sports Editor

SYRACUSE, N.Y.—Duke has been here before. Foul trouble on stars, opponents raining threes in the final minutes of play and the Blue Devils’ scoring relegated to the free throw line, all of which have been the tell-tale sign of a death knell for Duke.

Yet Saturday night, in front of a raucous crowd of 30,000-plus itching for an upset, the Blue Devils refused to let the same failures of the past haunt them, earning a key road win to kick off a tough stretch of ACC play. Through poise seen on all stages of the game, the Blue Devils fought through foul trouble to make the plays they needed to build a lead, icing the game on the charity stripe, also benefitting from unexpected heroes Javin DeLaurier and Alex O’Connell.

“We beat a really good team tonight,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Our kids had to hit pressure free throws, I think that was a key and Tre Jones was the key…. Down the stretch Tre didn’t turn it over, hit every free throw, beat traps and got the ball back. I’m really proud of him.”

Although Vernon Carey’s monstrous 26-point, 17-rebound performance deserves much of the credit for powering Duke to victory, the Blue Devils wouldn’t be leaving New York unscathed if it weren’t for explosive play from some unlikely heroes.

DeLaurier has always struggled with

fouling, and tonight was no exception. In his first minute of play, DeLaurier was whistled twice. To make matters worse for the senior captain, he notched his third on an overthe-back call, a mental error that put him in foul trouble with about 10 minutes left in the first half.

However, rather than pulling the senior forward for the rest of the half, Krzyzewski let DeLaurier play on. The Shipman, Va., native made the most of his coach’s trust in him.

DeLaurier recorded eight points on 4-of-4 shooting, taking advantage of Duke’s driving wings to open up the zone just enough for him to score under the basket. The Blue Devil forward put the exclamation mark on his night while catching a cross-court heave from Jones in the final seconds of the first half, faking out two defenders to bring Duke within one possession.

Even while trying to minimize contact, the senior captain effectively put the clamps on Syracuse’s Elijah Hughes and Marek Dolezaj, who cooked Duke from the interior to spark an early Orange run. Although DeLaurier was the second of three Blue Devils to foul out, the forward’s smart play was key for Duke’s mid-game run. “[Javin] caught the ball well,” Krzyzewski said. “He was 4-for-4 from the field and he caught some tough passes. The one in transition was a beautiful play in the last minute of the first half. We got that—all of a sudden we were down by one possession

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In O’Connell’s 15 minutes against Syracuse, he hit big shot after big shot, scoring 11 points off the bench in a 4-for-8 performance from the field to go along with two steals and a block.

and boom, boom, boom we had a fourpoint lead at halftime.”

O’Connell’s junior year has been anything but consistent, with his long-range shooting tanking to 25 percent coming into Saturday and his minutes limited due to frequent defensive errors. However, despite coming off a

cold stretch, the junior came off the bench for one of his biggest performances of the season Saturday, putting up his first double-digit scoring effort since Dec. 28.

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‘They don’t have fun’: Duke upset by Air Force

By Evan Kolin Assistant Blue Zone Editor

Duke led for nearly 51 minutes in its 2020 season opener, but in the end, the only score that matters is the one when the clock hits zero.

And Saturday afternoon, it was Air Force that came out on top.

The Falcons squeaked by the seventhranked Blue Devils 14-13 at Koskinen Stadium, powered by a 4-0 run in the middle of the fourth quarter. Duke won the face off battle 21-9 and out-shot Air Force 47-26 throughout the contest, but when the game was close, the Blue Devils just couldn’t get it done.

“The Duke kids get tight when the game is close versus an opponent that quote you’re supposed to beat,” head coach John Danowski said. “They don’t have fun. They don’t 14 enjoy it. I think the Air AF DUKE 13 Force kids were having a blast. They were having a lot of fun in the fourth quarter and I think our guys played really tight.”

Duke (0-1) led 12-10 with just under 12 minutes left to play, far from an ideal position against an unranked opponent, but still in control of the game. It was then that the team started to unravel.

The Falcons’ run started with 10 minutes left, when senior Jake Thornally found an inch of space against his defender and slung the ball in the back of the net to cut Air Force’s deficit to one. Three minutes later, another senior, Doc Szlachetka, sprinted his way right through the Blue Devil defense, bouncing it in to knot up the score at 12.

The visiting squad’s entire sideline proceeded

to flood the field following the game-tying goal, the Falcons’ sudden confidence taking everyone by surprise. But it wasn’t long until Air Force (10) struck again.

With just under three minutes remaining, junior Quincy Peene wrapped around toward the middle of the field, brought his stick back and fired in what would end up being the game-winner, raising his arms in triumph as he walked back the other way.

From there, the Falcons made smart use of the shot clock, taking their time with their offensive sets. Duke had an opportunity with 90 seconds left, but a Sean Lowrie pass right in front of the cage was deflected into the stick of an Air Force defender. Not too long later, freshman Brandon Dodd scored to put the Falcons up 14-12 with just 48 seconds left.

It wasn’t a coincidence that Peene and Dodd scored the final two goals for the Falcons—they carried Air Force’s offense throughout the entire day. Peene posted four goals and one assist, while Dodd added four goals and four assists in his first collegiate appearance. The pair either scored or assisted on 11 of the team’s 14 goals.

“They made the plays that were available to them,” Danowski said of Peene and Dodd.

“They didn’t force the ball, they didn’t force situations, they were very confident and very comfortable with the ball in their stick.

“With that being said, a couple times we had some of our younger guys—Kenny Brower’s a freshman and Frank Marinello’s a sophomore, it was their first start for both of them and it looked like it at times. But we have great faith in them and the hope is that they’ll mature and get better with more game experience and more time.”

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Depite winning 21 of the 30 total faceoffs Saturday, Duke could not put the Falcons away. in the contest’s final seconds. After freshman Dyson Williams scored with just seven seconds left, Danowski called timeout with a gamedeciding face off on the way. The Falcons would win the face off and storm the field, the upset victory finally in the books.

Duke started off the contest hot, with the game initially appearing like it would be a blowout in favor of the Blue Devils. Danowski’s squad scored three goals in the first 3:13 of action, eventually shooting out to a 5-0 advantage by the seven-minute mark of the first quarter.

But Air Force would fight back, never letting Duke pull too far ahead. The Blue Devils went into halftime up 9-5, with their edge cut to just 11-9 by the end of the third quarter.

“I don’t know that anything really changed,”

Danowski said of what happened after his team’s early lead. “Air Force kept playing and they made plays. The circle offense is a little difficult to prepare for, but you got to tip your cap again to John Grant—their offensive coach—and [head coach Bill] Wilson for doing a terrific job with their kids.”

Senior Joey Manown led Duke with three goals and five total points.

Next, the Blue Devils prepare for a road matchup at High Point, which, coincidentally, was the unranked foe that took down a second-ranked Duke in its 2019 home opener almost a year ago.

Those Blue Devils ended up bouncing back from that defeat to make the Final Four. Time will only tell what lessons this year’s team can take away from this loss.

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As the season draws to a close, Duke began its farewell to its seniors by attempting to complete a four-year sweep of the Tar Heels.

The Blue Devils returned to Taishoff Aquatic Pavillion for the first time since October for its Senior Day meet against North Carolina, but the day was bittersweet—and not just as a result of the emotional tributes to the seniors. Duke’s women defeated the Tar Heels for the fourth consecutive year in a nail-biting 152.5-147.5 victory, but the men fell short and lost 132-182.

“It was such high intensity and a lot of adrenaline,” said senior Alyssa Marsh. “Every girl on the block was shaking, but it was super fun to have that energy and this is one of the only meets where that comes out.”

Duke’s history against North Carolina UNC-W 147.5 had been completely lopsided for the last DUKE-W 152.5 77 years before the UNC-M 182 current senior class stepped onto the scene.

DUKE-M 132 Entering the 2016-17 season with a 73-meet drought against the Tar Heels, it seemed unlikely that Duke’s luck would change. However, with a star-studded class of

swimmers and divers, Duke flipped the script on North Carolina and swept all three of the following meets in the series.

The first two events, the women and men’s 200-yard medley relay, were some of the most intense races of the year and featured broken records and broken Tar Heel hearts. Just when the women’s hopes started slipping away in the event, Marsh swooped in to save the day with a school record 21.98-second 50-yard butterfly.

From then on, the women’s meet went back and forth, too close to call at any point.

After leading in the first two events, the Blue Devils fell behind for the majority of the meet, but were never far behind. In the second-tolast event, the individual medley, sophomore Easop Lee won by a razor-thin margin of .19 seconds, allowing Duke to pull ahead and secure the win.

On the other end of Taishoff Aquatic Pavilion, the diving squad put on an exceptional show, with senior Nathaniel Hernandez leading the way. Each time he walked to the front of the diving board, it was as if a drumroll began playing in anticipation of whatever gravitydefying stunt he had in store. The team captain of two years gave an all-time performance for his final home meet and ended the day with personal bests in the one-meter and threemeter diving events.

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Senior captain Alyssa Marsh said “every girl on the block was shaking” in the women’s team’s nail-biting win against the rival Tar Heels.

“There’s still a fair amount of the season left with championship season,” Hernandez said.

“But as far as dual meets are concerned, I was really happy with today.”

Both teams swam like their lives depended on it and the result was a breathtaking and

suspenseful meet, a worthy sendoff to Duke’s invaluable seniors. “[The seniors are] going to be a big factor when we head to ACC’s and NCAA’s, and when it’s all over we’re going to miss them,” said head coach Dan Colella. “But it’s not over yet.”

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STRONG FROM PAGE 6 Marek Dolezaj keyed the Orange’s strong start by attacking Duke’s big men and causing much of the foul trouble. Dolezaj led Syracuse with 22 points on the night, but his teammates could not give him much help, as the home team lost its grasp midway through the first half. The Blue Devils shut down the Orange’s leading scorer Elijah Hughes, holding him to a dismal 1-for-9 performance from downtown.

“We tried to pick them up early. When you don’t get to walk into your offense that changes rhythm a little bit. I think they were in real good shape, but it gets their legs a little bit and then we give them an amazing amount of attention,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “For most of the game, right until the end, we did not give up transition threes....

Running out of that zone, that’s one of the things the last couple days we practiced. We’ve got to get back. That’s why we did not press so

our guards could get back.”

After struggling to contain many of the ACC big men he was forced to guard in Moore’s absence, DeLaurier feasted offensively while playing at the four. The Shipman, Va., native compiled one of his more efficient performances of the season with eight points on a perfect effort from the field, despite battling foul trouble throughout the contest.

DeLaurier would foul out late in the second half, one of three Blue Devils to do so.

Saturday’s victory at Syracuse was a crucial start to the Blue Devils’ toughest stretch of the season. Duke will remain on the road for another week with battles at Boston College and North Carolina, before returning home for a likely top-10 matchup against Florida State Feb. 10.

“I like playing on the road, it’s fun. It’s fun to interact with other fans at their gym, and the other players,” O’Connell said. “It’s just fun to be on the road and be in that environment where people are trying to get in your head and mess with you. I really enjoy it.”

UNLIKELY HEROES FROM PAGE 6 startled when attacking the zone, O’Connell stayed poised through a jeering crowd. The junior Blue Devil rocketed bounce passes all around the arc, breaking Syracuse’s vaunted zone enough to give Duke clean lanes to drive.

And when O’Connell decided to hold on to the ball, the junior Blue Devil capitalized with a solid 11-point showing. If the junior Blue Devil can keep up this pace of play through the rest of the conference season, Duke will have yet another piece to a historically deep squad.

“The last few games I wouldn’t say have been rough, I just haven’t been in as much as any college player would like to,” O’Connell said. “Tonight, I was taking advantage of the minutes I was given and I feel like I did that to a pretty good extent. I was just trying to attack the zone, get my guys open shots or shoot the ball on my own.”

Although the Blue Devils were able to build a double-digit lead in the second half, Duke had to expel one final demon to come away with the win—free throw shooting.

Coming into the contest shooting 67.2 percent from the charity stripe—good for 277th in the nation—the Blue Devils couldn’t afford to leave any points on the table after Syracuse opted to play hack-aBlue Devil over the final three minutes of play. Though free throws have previously doomed Duke, the Blue Devils thrived on the line, making 29 of 33 free throws. Jones, a sometimes spotty shooter from the line at 71.2 percent before Saturday, stayed clutch down the stretch with a perfect 10-for-10 ledger to keep Duke’s lead afloat.

With two back-to-back road games ahead, the Blue Devils will need all their wits about them to survive in hostile environments. But if Duke’s play against Syracuse is anything to go off of, this crop of Blue Devils has the nerves to see even the toughest conference game through to the end.

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ince December 26 when the Durham Housing Authority (DHA) was first notified of elevated carbon monoxide levels at McDougald Terrace Apartments, close to 900 residents have been evacuated and placed in

affected units at McDougald Terrace will be fit for human habitation in early February as initially promised by DHA. The housing authority is rapidly burning through its reserve funds to pay for hotel stays, and though the city has committed funds to support

community editorial board hotels. At least nine residents have been hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning, and subsequent investigation has revealed abhorrent sewage, carbon monoxide leaks, and many failed federal inspections at the public housing complex. These revelations have prompted statements from local Representative David Price, the mayor of Durham Steve Schewel, and CEO of the housing authority Anthony Scott.

Despite Schewel’s effort to silence their protests during a recent City Council meeting, McDougald Terrace residents made their justified anger clear: they have lived in hotels and eaten unsubstantial food for three weeks, away from all they own, and they refuse to bear the violent brunt displacement for longer than they need to.

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hot take of the week “Honestly, watching sports live is worse than just watching them on TV.” —Jake Satisky, Editor-in-Chief, on February 2, 2020

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the renovations, McDougald Terrace, like most public housing in the United States, has been slowly starved of funding and left to rot by intentional disinvestment on the part of Congress and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Still, conditions in the public housing managed by DHA are especially bad, worse than any other county in North Carolina, and though the spotlight is resting on McDougald Terrace, similar concerns have been raised for years about Cornwallis Road and Hoover Road, two other DHA properties.

For the first time in a long while, public housing has made its way into the national discourse. In November, Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled a “Green New Deal for Public Housing,” and the Bernie campaign has been active in pushing their platform of Housing for All. There is a tension, though, between the goals of a presidential campaign and the longstanding and immediate needs of public housing tenants. Duke Students for Bernie (Duke4Bernie) sent an email this past week announcing a town hall led by Nina Turner “to discuss the recent Durham housing crisis and rally support for Bernie’s transformative Housing for All policy goal.” Turner shared the stage with Ashley Canady, president of the McDougald Terrace Resident Council, and Jillian Johnson, the Mayor Pro Tempore and member of DHA’s Board of Governors.

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community advocates and activists feel unheard, disrespected and angry leaves a bitter taste, especially given the ongoing conversations around the role of Duke students in Durham.

“I do not appreciate,” community advocate Joy Spencer said, “people, political campaigns, leaders of any sort, exploiting the current crisis that is going on here in Durham.” In as much as Sanders and his supporters have moved the housing conversation forward, it is easy to imagine why Spencer would not appreciate attention that only seems to coincide with an election year or support for a particular candidate. This is not to say that Housing for All or a Green New Deal would not make a difference to the lives of people in public housing around the country, but that to fixate on a candidate without room to acknowledge the way we have collectively failed to support those same residents does a disservice to the very ideals of a progressive campaign. Some of the messaging after the town hall from local political organizations, engaged directly with this reality, but as questions remain about how liberal city officials, especially those on DHA’s Board, were able to let conditions deteriorate, the point stands.

Regardless of who becomes the next president of the United States, work will continue on these issues and it will come first, as it always has, from the Resident Councils and dedicated community members like Ashley Canady, from restaurants like Zweli’s that provide hot meals, and from the numerous individuals that donate diapers, food, toiletries, and time. Campaigning is a worthwhile action, but we should not consider it the most valuable or impactful.

To do so would be to ignore the necessary and difficult community work of showing up for people consistently and reliably, and holding local officials accountable for deeply local issues.

It is through this that we find hope—instead of placing all bets on periodic campaign cycles, we can turn inwards to and recognize the community work that has always been done and will continue onwards, regardless of how national political campaigns pan out—a humbling thought perhaps, at a University that so tirelessly emphasizes the importance of prestige.

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ear David Sotolongo, Class of ‘82, At sixty years old, it’s understandable to look back on the “good old days” of K-Ville in its infancy and lament that the young people of

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today aren’t honoring your legacy with enough fervor. I, alongside many current students appreciate your sentiment—you, like us, want Cameron to be crazy. Many of us agree that our energy in the student section could be better, and efforts are always being taken, systematically and individually, to improve attendance and hype-up the line. We are not “only interested in Duke basketball if we are undefeated.”

There are several hundreds of students sleeping outside on this crisp thirty-eight-degree night that would be (and have been, trust me) rolling their eyes in response to your letter.

I encourage you to go back and watch Duke highlights from the 1982 season. After noticing the lack of a three-point line, you might find that Cameron was hardly more crazy then than it is today.

No jumping up and down on defense? No chants on offense? What is going on?

In 1980, it cost $4,230 to go to school here.

Admissions rates for top-tier universities were vastly higher than the mind-numbing 5.7% of regular decision acceptances offered this year. The Duke you attended is not our Duke, and I ask you to consider, just for a moment, that academic life for current students is somewhat less conducive to attending Tuesday night basketball games against teams in the

bottom half of our conference than it was when you were a student.

Maybe then you can understand why it’s so infuriating to open our newspaper and read meanspirited statements like “I am appalled” and “Shame on you.” On Tuesday, we were screamed at and embarrassed on national television by a seventy-two year old multi-millionaire that we literally, literally worship, for an innocuous (and I would even say friendly) chant, then afterwards we had to read the tweets and reddit posts calling us cowards for our reactions. Our elders have hardly been kind to us.

Though many of us have idolized Coach K since birth and are quick to forgive him, your words of anger are those of a stranger.

Empathize with us young people if you can. Your generation represents all that we resent—the jobs we can’t have, the futures you have stripped away from us, the planet you have ensured will be uninhabitable by the time we are left with it. If you wrote a letter calling for students to stay away from Duke basketball games it would be more effective in increasing attendance. We as students are tired of people like you telling us how much worse Cameron is now than it used to be, not just because it isn’t true—and it isn’t—but because we sincerely don’t care about your complaints. We want to improve the student section because it is our student section. The players on the court are our friends and our classmates.

I write this because I want you to know that we do care about Cameron, and the team, and K-Ville. I write this because I care. Shame on you.

Jaxson Floberg is a Trinity senior and line monitor.

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Groundhog predicts six What you get when you get a ‘W’ more weeks of YT campaign A S ome of what follows is factual, and some of it is made up, but it is all true.

This kid emails me on the last day of Drop-Add. She goes, “I was enjoying the class but my friend dropped, and she was going to help me write the papers. I’m not good at writing, and...”

s an expert reporter for The Chronicle, I was assigned to cover Groundhog Day and went to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania for the story.

Carol Apollonio

Monday Monday

RANTS FROM THE PODIUM

NOT NOT TRUE

There were some more words, but I’m not sure what they said. My office window burst open, and a great wind whooshed through, clearing the air of book mildew and mouse miasmas. My lungs filled with oxygen and delivered it to my brain, and I felt that I understood some things for the first time. Honesty is a bracing and rare commodity, and when you get a taste of it, the world feels fresh and real. This is especially true in the Land of Russian Literature, where I live.

I loved that kid! But I never got to know her.

My course is “W,” which means that we write “in the discipline.” You guys know this; it’s one of the obstacles, I mean, exciting intellectual opportunities, that you encounter as you make your way through the Trinity curriculum. You need two of these by the end of senior year (if your goals include graduating). So even if you manage to slither out of one before the end of Drop-Add, it still looms in your future, with me or some other gatekeeper standing between you and the credit. Students and professors actually have this in common: you have to take the class, and I (or one of my bros) have to teach it.

I know that some students think that they’re good writers, and some think that they’re bad writers. Human psychology dictates that the latter attitude predominates.

Regular people, including professors, tend to think about their writing this way too.

That’s not how I think about you or your writing, though. I know that you want to write a good paper for my class. But you’re not in my class because it’s a good place to turn in a good paper and get an A. You’re in my class because you are interested in the subject matter and because you want to develop your writing into an instrument for conducting thoughts out of your brain into the world, where they can become part of an ongoing conversation. Weirdly, if you think you’re a bad writer, my class is actually a great place for you to spend some time.

Now here’s the hard part; please sit down.

I don’t want to read your paper! I don’t want to read bad papers or good papers. I don’t want to read any papers at all. Your paper might overflow with ideas and spark. I might even like it, or learn something from it that I didn’t know before—which is often the case. Your paper may be devoid of adverbs, redundancies, overstatements, passives, theorizing, untethered pronouns, dangling participles, name-dropping, pretension, “AWK”s, and tangents. If it catches me in an unguarded moment, your paper might even wrest from my clutches the rare A+. But honestly, I don’t want to read your paper, or anyone else’s. I want to go pony riding, or to a movie, or out to eat. And if I feel like reading, I’m going to go for Chekhov. He wrote better than you. Better than me, too!

He wrote better than just about everyone. And lined up next to him on my walls are people like Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. They glare down from there, and tease me when I’m hunched over a stack of papers—or, let’s be honest, a stack of scholarly books. They go, hey, what’s that guy saying that I haven’t already said better? They even whine: why aren’t you spending more time with me?

I read your paper because it’s my job. Duke pays me to read your paper.

In other words, we’re in this together. There’s no denying the power dynamic at work. You have to make it through this process to get your W. And I have to show up

My editor, Leah, who was “too busy” YT Campaigning last week to grab lunch with me, booked my delayed flight on Spirit Airlines and my stay in a motel room covered in bodily fluids to report on the annual tradition—which started in 1887. It takes place on February 2, when Punxsutawney Phil either sees his shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter, or crawls out of his burrow and marks the beginning of spring.

Every year, consultants at McKinsey & Co translate Phil’s prediction to the public in a national celebration that I finally got to watch.

This year, however, Phil saw his shadow and spoke the following bone chilling proclamation to the crowd himself: “There will be six more weeks of Young Trustee Campaigning!”

This terrifying prediction surrounds this year’s annual, campus-wide YT elections, which hopes to find a definitive ranking of the most popular seniors in the class of 2020. Phil made the decision likely because the competition this year has been especially intense; the candidates run in similar social circles.

Accordingly, competition among the candidates has been at an all-time high in their efforts to get mutual friends to join their respective campaigns. A number of the candidates’ close friends were forced to sit out of campaigning since they’d been on the Young Trustee Nominating Committee (YTNC), making the pool of mutual friends smaller and competition for the remaining friends more intense. In case anyone was thinking it, I should note that it’s totally normal and not suspicious at all that YTNC members are close friends with the candidates.

The campaign has become so fierce that one of the candidates pretty much threw in the towel.

On Saturday, Tim begged his friend President Price to toss out the vote altogether and just select him. Tim is right to be skeptical of the process; it is unusual for a privileged white male not to get what they want. The reaction likely stemmed from Maryam specifically poaching her hyperactive strategy manager directly from Tim’s fraternity pledge class. Still, perhaps the fiercest candidate is Ibby Butt whose dry English sarcasm has turned into a campaign weapon.

Punxsutawney Phil is well aware of the dire state of the campaign because of his close personal relationship with the YT Candidates.

In fact, Phil recommended McKinsey & Co to the YT Candidates, and now every campaign is working with a McKinsey consultant either as a campaign manager or advisor. Punxsutawney Phil recommended McKinsey as the foremost experts in “faking it ‘til you make it,” which he felt was a good fit because that’s most of what a YT Candidate needs to do.

In the aftermath of the proclamation, I spoke with each of the campaign managers on how the candidates would address the longer campaign period. The common theme was that they’d be turning up their campaigns harder, unleashing attack ads, and scheduling lots of one-on-one “get to know me” lunches that, in order to show they’re just regular Duke students like us, they’d inevitably cancel.

I spoke with Leah’s team first about the campaign extension and they said she was making two major campaign moves: turning The Chronicle into a propaganda machine and forcing everyone in Kappa on her campaign to drop to increase their relatability.

Ibby pledged to bus voters in from UNC that

Honestly, I don’t want to read your paper, or anyone else’s. I want to go pony riding, or to a movie, or out to eat.

Carol Apollonio

Professor of the Practice

at work. Along the way, though, something worthwhile might happen. You do some thinking and some writing. I read what you write, I do some thinking, and I write something back. Then you write some more. And I read that too and write back. Along the way there might be some question marks and crossings out, even an outburst or two or an exclamation mark. I can only guess how it all feels at your end. Still, if the stars align, we may eventually find that we’re in a real conversation. And things get clearer and clearer. It’s just as simple as that.

I loved that kid. But I never got to teach her.

Carol Apollonio is Professor of the Practice of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke. Her column, “rants from the podium,” runs on alternate Mondays.

he would hide in his second home—First Floor Perkins. He also pledged to buy an endorsement from me at the insistence of both his roommate and his best friend/former DSG president Kristina Smith, who had respectively accepted that all Duke seniors should sell out and subtly break election rules to get ahead.

Maryam promised to form 6,682 new campus identity groups that she’d personally represent as president.

Tim would form two new clubs that borrowed language from the social justice movement: Empower the Men of Football and Students for Fraternity Justice. He also decided to spend the entirety of the $50k he won at his startup competition on the campaign trail.

Most of the attack ads being considered are directed at Tim, too. One proposed attack ad just said, “Tim, he’s white,” which was surprisingly effective in focus groups.

Because the aggressive reactions above were expected, Punxsutawney Phil’s proclamation precipitated complete chaos among the crowd in Punxsutawney while I was on the phone. The town hadn’t seen this much mayhem since the first few scenes of the movie Groundhog Day. Unlike in Groundhog Day, however, endless YT Campaigning is torture for more than just Bill Murray.

These extra six weeks will be torture for all at Duke—and our Instagram followers. Currently, the three leading campaigns are locked in a hardto-watch ego-measuring competition on who can better represent the selflessness of the social justice movement. Tim’s campaign has been a mess too—he’s differentiated himself by trying to use the word toxic to describe something other than the masculinity in his all-male, majoritywhite fraternity.

You might wonder why they’re willing to sacrifice so much, work so hard, and monopolize campus life to win this election. Well, their motivations are fairly superficial, and I’ve listed them here: Leah won an election in middle school with her campaign: “Rock your crocs,” and has since been addicted to winning popularity contests.

Maryam refuses to lose because she’s “championing a cause” and doesn’t want to go through the whole process of bringing in the site of her (and Leah’s) summer internship— The Southern Poverty Law Center in to sue and overturn an election result.

Ibby refuses to lose simply because he knows too much about the other candidates and their flaws.

Tim desperately wants to be voted in because he believes it’s his ticket in to his obsession—the elite, secret Duke Trident Society.

We’re all stuck watching this. Tim might freak out and just do something insane like a 3 a.m. drive to the beach for his “mental health,” Ibby might sarcastically insult everyone around him, Leah might force her boyfriend to fly in, and Maryam might just get drunk and curse like crazy, but all of us on campus are just going to have to deal with it. So let’s try to get used to it.

We should accept that we’ll see a lot of Leah’s quirky earrings and her smart sense of fashion; Maryam’s many coats and her badass attitude; Ibby’s bomber jacket, his well-groomed beard, and his annoying, late night renditions of Disney songs; Tim’s varsity jacket, his comfortable Allbirds*, his closet’s worth of Brooks Brothers, and his can-do personality.

I still had to wonder why Punxsutawney Phil decided to make this life-changing proclamation, so I interviewed him in his burrow on his thoughts on the process. Phil offered the following: “chuck-chuck.”

And thus, the extended winter of YT campaigning has begun; we can only hope to survive.

Monday Monday has not officially endorsed any YT candidates mostly because all of their inflated egos would explode from the pressure. *This was a paid-partnership with Allbirds whose ads have been harassing my Instagram feed for weeks.

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CULTURES OF THE SEA: ART OF THE ANCIENT AMERICAS Opening Reception & Gallery Talk at the Nasher Thursday, February 6 6 pm Join Duke students for a gallery talk on the exhibition they co-curated! Many works from ancient cultures are on view for the first time.

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FULL FRAME ROAD SHOW WINTER SERIES: “APOLLO 11” Wednesday, February 5 7:30-9:15 pm Carolina Theater

THE WILD GOOSE LAKE (2019) | YI’NAN DIAO Thursday, February 6 7 pm Rubenstein Arts Center, Film Theater

CURTIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WITH OSMO VÄNSKÄ, CONDUCTOR & JONATHAN BISS, PIANO Thursday, February 6 8 pm Baldwin Auditorium

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FROZEN IN THE TOILET PAPER AISLE OF LIFE Friday, February 7 7 pm Great Hall, Trent Semans Center for Health Education

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