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DPD QUIETS OFF-CAMPUS PARTIES

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By Matthew Griffin University News Editor

For years, Durham residents have had to deal with disruptive parties held by Duke students. A Durham Police Department initiative aims to change that.

The initiative, which began at the beginning of the academic year, lays out guidelines for officers dealing with off-campus parties, according to DPD officer John Wagstaff. While officers have discretion in how to respond to a call, students who live in a house that is the site of a noise complaint or other violations will be given a warning on their first offense, be enrolled in Durham’s misdemeanor diversion program on the second and get cited or arrested on a third violation, or if they fail to complete the program.

The idea is to “keep students clean from having a record, but ultimately change behavior,” said Wagstaff, who developed the program. Before the initiative, officers would typically give residents a warning, which might not change their behavior, or cite them for a noise, alcohol or other violation, which residents consider harsh because it leaves students with a record.

Wagstaff, who developed the initiative, suggested using the misdemeanor diversion program to address the problem.

According to a document summarizing the initiative provided by program coordinator Kelly Andrews, the program allows first-time, non-violent offenders to complete a “community diversion program based on individual needs and the referral reason”—such as some community service, Wagstaff said—instead of facing prosecution.

The program takes individuals between the ages of 18 and 26—now that 16 and 17-year-old individuals are no longer

charged in adult criminal court in North Carolina—with older adults participating at law enforcement discretion, Andrews wrote in an email to The Chronicle.

The initiative came after DPD officers met this summer with members of Durham Neighborhoods United, a group formed by residents in 2013 to coordinate their response to disruptive parties. At the meeting, DNU members expressed frustration about an increase in disruptions over the past year, said DNU acting chair Alicia Johnson.

Johnson emphasized that the diversion program is “educational, not punitive.”

While residents “want the parties to quiet down, and they basically want them to stop,” she said, “they’ve not been particularly excited about doing anything or starting any kind of process that could be damaging to the future of students.”

After DPD developed the initiative, DNU rewrote their protocol for residents who report off-campus parties.

The protocol tells residents that they can “express [their] desire for enforcement action and encourage the use of the Durham County Misdemeanor Diversion Program” when they talk to police officers. It also encourages them to talk to students before they call the police.

DPD officers visited locations with a history of disruptions early in the semester to tell them about the program and ask for feedback, and officers met with representatives of Duke Student Affairs, including Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek and the Interfraternity Council, to discuss the program.

“DPD and [Duke University Police Department] have worked together over the years to respond to complaints about See PARTIES on Page 4

DHS reports no hacking in Durham for 2016 election

By Maya Miller Contributing Reporter

A report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security closed the door on a multiyear saga of speculated foreign interference in Durham’s 2016 presidential election.

The DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency concluded that hacking was not to blame for the technology malfunctions in certain Durham County precincts in the 2016 general election.

Instead, according to a joint news release from the North Carolina State Board of Elections and the Durham County Board of Elections, investigators found that the issues were most likely the result of Durham County staff and poll worker error. An unfamiliarity with the electronic poll book (ePollbook) functions used for voter check-in—combined with a lack of adequate staff training and quality control by the technology provider, VR Systems—caused the malfunctions.

The federal investigation found “no artifacts suggesting malware on or remote access to” the ePollbooks and USB drives.

The report is “compelling evidence that there were no cyberattacks impacting the 2016 election in Durham,” wrote Philip Lehman, chairman of the Durham County Board of Elections, in the statement.

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DHS

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The ePollbooks, lists of eligible voters used by poll workers to check in people, presented poll workers at certain precincts with See HACKING on Page 4

“Keep students clean from having a record, but ultimately change behavior”

Special to The Chronicle Staff error, not malicious hackers, likely contributed to snafus in the 2016 election.

Who are the Young Trustee semifinalists?

The transfer portal is open for business

Doing the devil’s work

The world may never know, as the nominating committee chose not to release the list this year.

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Two key Duke football players will likely not return to Durham for the next football season.

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Columnist Annie Yang has American Grand Strategy and Hacking for Defense in her crosshairs.

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Food security, international students: Checking in on the new GPSC President, 3 months after assuming position

By Leah Boyd Staff Reporter

Every vice president knows they may have to take over for the president, but rarely does that situation come to fruition.

The sitting president of the Graduate and Professional Student Council, Anthony Monroe, stepped down from the position in October, leaving vice president Alyssa Florwick to fill his shoes. As GPSC President, Florwick, a Ph.D. student in biochemistry, aims to “carry forward the visions of the GPSC throughout the year” by continuing efforts with the Community Pantry, centralizing resources and supporting international students.

“We’d already laid a lot of foundational work,” she explained. “I talked to Anthony earlier in the year about some of the goals he wanted to carry forward. Highlighting the Community Pantry is a continued mission of ours, and I think we’re really broadcasting that a lot.”

From its founding in 2017, the Community Pantry has provided resources like food, professional clothing and childcare items to graduate students. GPSC will host a campus food insecurity symposium Feb. 14 based on a collaboration between Duke, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Durham Technical Community College, Florwick said.

“It’s highlighting essentially the issues, the stigma around food insecurity and the ways of moving forward about how campuses can support students,” she said.

Florwick wants GPSC to continue to centralize and highlight various campus resources for students through projects such as the existing Resource Directory Task Force.

She emphasized that though there is a bounty of resources available to help Duke students, “they’re just really not centralized and broadcasted in a way that students are aware of.”

She is currently working on a resource directory page on the GPSC website that is expected to be published by April.

Florwick also expressed an interest in working toward expanding resources available for international students at Duke. She hopes to help international students receive internships to enhance their graduate careers.

“The general sentiment is that, especially students who come internationally and come with families and their spouses, may not be able to get a visa to work and don’t often— some indication that there’s a financial need there,” Florwick said.

She explained that schools like the Sanford School of Public Policy have a lot of professional degrees where “internship experience is really integral for their success.”

However, there is “a little bit of a disconnect between how students know they can get those internships, if they knew beforehand that they could get those,” she added.

Under Florwick’s leadership, GPSC created the Task Force on International Student Affairs. The representatives are now discussing the creation of an international student internal committee within GPSC that could collect more data on international students to understand what resources the council could potentially offer.

“We want to know more about students who identify in that population without making them feel like we’re trying to target or identify them out,” she said.

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Courtesy of Duke Biochemistry Alyssa Florwick assumed the Graduate and Professional Student Council presidency in October, when her predecessor stepped down.

The task force for international students is just one of four select task forces that the executive committee approved during their current term, along with parking and transportation, sustainability and resource directory.

She also hopes to bring students from various schools together to build collaboration efforts, such as the collaboration of the Graduate School with all other nine schools at Duke for a graduate and professional student appreciation week.

“The Graduate School has done a graduate appreciation week in the past and we’re working with them to broaden that and in that are trying to create opportunities to have

students and student leaders from the other schools provide input,” she said.

Florwick wishes to strengthen the relationship between GPSC and Duke Student Government as well.

“I actually met with [DSG President Liv McKinney] this semester to talk about what’s going on with DSG and what they’re doing because I feel like we can learn a lot from each other,” she said.

She emphasized that some of the issues being tackled by GPSC task forces, such as the Task Force on Parking and Transportation, are issues for all members of the Duke community, See GPSC on Page 4

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Young Trustee semifinalists not revealed by nominating committee

By Ben Leonard Investigations Editor

Waiting to see who the undergraduate Young Trustee semifinalists will be this year?

You might never know.

Unlike in previous years, the Young Trustee Nominating Committee—a group convened by Duke Student Government and the University Secretary to evaluate applicants—voted not to release the names of semifinalists for the two-year seat on the Board of Trustees. Instead, the committee will only release the names of the finalists.

“Given that students will only vote on the 3-4 eventual finalists, the YTNC chose to respect the semifinalists’ privacy rather than release their names to the public,” committee chair and senior Gino Nuzzolillo wrote in an email to The Chronicle.

Applications for the position were due Friday, according to an email sent to the student body from Richard Riddell, senior vice president and secretary to the Board of Trustees. From the applicant pool, the

YTNC selects a group of semifinalists, whom the committee will interview during the following week. The YTNC chooses finalists by Jan. 20, setting the Young Trustee campaign in full swing—floods of Facebook photos, candidate websites and all—for the Feb. 11-12 election.

Young Trustees serve on the board for one year as an observer and then a second or third year as a full-fledged voting member. They are supposed to be fiduciaries of the University, not pushing a certain agenda.

“Young Trustees, like other trustees, demonstrate an ability to think broadly about the university, understand the role of the university in society, are curious about institutional issues facing Duke, and respect how universities are administered and governed,” Riddell wrote. “Young Trustees are independent and collegial and are good representatives of Duke University.”

Last year, Trey Walk, Trinity ‘19 and a leader in the People’s State of the University activist group, won the election, narrowly beating out Duke University Union President Brian Buhr, as well as Luke Farrell and Archana Ahlawat, all Trinity ‘19.

There is also a graduate Young Trustee selected every year. Unlike the undergraduate Young Trustee, the graduate Young Trustee is selected from three finalists by a Graduate and Professional Student Council vote.

Semifinalists interview with the Young Trustee Selection Committee in January.

Last year, William Brody, Trinity ‘12 and Fuqua ‘18, won the position.

Jake Satisky contributed reporting.

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Bible said.

But she cautioned that it is too early to draw conclusions about the program’s impact. students in a very reasonable and fair way,” “Time will tell over the next few years, because Wasiolek wrote in an email to The Chronicle. what we’ve been missing is kind of a consistent IFC President Harrison Labban, a senior enforcement of boundaries,” she said. in the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity who lives off campus, called the initiative “really gracious.”

“I think it fits in between, in that space where Durham residents have rights that FROM PAGE 1 should be respected, but they also understand that a lot of the students who are living in inaccurate information, including “erroneously Durham are living in homes for the first time identifying voters as having already voted, in three years, if not more, ” he said in an identifying registered voters as unregistered, interview. “And so there’s a bit of a learning and prompting poll workers to ask voters to curve there.” present their ID when ID was not required As of Dec. 10, residents of two houses under NC law,” the report said.

In response to these inaccuracies, the poll had been enrolled in the misdemeanor diversion program, according to Wagstaff. workers abandoned the ePollbooks in favor of paper He wrote in an email to The Chronicle check-in books, causing delays that inconvenienced that, by his estimation, DPD has seen fewer voters. Even after showing current voter registration calls for complaints since the program was documents, dozens of voters were turned away after implemented, and residents have reported being told they were ineligible. that “student neighbors are doing a better Shortly after the election, Durham County job minimizing noise.” hired Protus3, a Raleigh-based security consulting DPD was planning a statistical review of and investigative firm, to look into the mishaps. the program midway through the academic Protus3 concluded that “internal administrative year and again at the end of the year, Wagstaff error,” not external hacking, was behind some of said in October. the inaccuracies, according to the release.

Johnson said that Durham residents are However, the state board ultimately “extremely happy and very pleased” with the decided that the limited scale and scope of the investigation rendered it inconclusive. initiative.

Patrick Gannon, the state board’s public “It just brings a lot of peace and quiet to people who had been really troubled by these information officer, said that after a top-secret National Security Agency report was leaked to The houses,” she said.

Loralie Bible, who lives in Durham’s Intercept in 2017, North Carolina’s investigations Morehead Hill neighborhood next to a house division “ramped up” its own investigation. At rented by Duke students, said the family uses that point, it also started talking to other law earplugs to sleep when there is a party next door. enforcement agencies, including DHS. Gannon asserted that although there was no Her children have seen “students doing beer funnels off the top of the roof,” she said. evidence or confirmation of meddling, the state “The new protocol to me feels very helpful, board continued to question its conclusions because it seems like a consistent way to since there was not a full forensic analysis of the enforce the rules and give everyone a fair actual equipment used that day.

Because of these lingering questions, and chance,” Bible said.

She said that a resident called the police “because we wanted a more definitive conclusion,” on the house when this year’s residents held a Gannon said, the state reached out to DHS and disruptive party a few weeks into the semester. CISA for assistance in May 2019.

The residents quieted down after they were After months of forensic analysis on warned by the police—as of December, they the technology in question––24 ePollbook had only held small gatherings at the house, laptops, 21 USB drives and two images of FROM PAGE 1

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a desktop computer––the CISA “did not conclusively identify any threat actor activity,” according to the report.

Gannon wasn’t surprised that the CISA found no suggestion of foul play or meddling.

“Over three years later,” he said, “we still have zero evidence that it was anything other than human error.”

However, the report did “identify aspects of the [Durham County board’s] security that could be improved” in the future. Specifically, areas where “defense-in-depth” protections and “system configurations” could be improved to help reduce the risk of compromise in the future. For security reasons, the specific recommendations were redacted from the publicly released report.

Why did people suspect Russian hackers in the first place?

A New York Times article from 2017 put Durham at the center of the hype surrounding Russian election interference. The article acknowledges that there are multiple reasons for issues with the ePollbooks and other election software.

Susan Greenhalgh, vice president of policy and programs for the National Election Defense Coalition, was quoted in the article saying that the situation in Durham County “felt like tampering, or some kind of cyberattack.”

Also contributing to the lingering questions was a leaked 2017 top-secret National Security Agency report that suggested Russian hackers had targeted VR Systems, which provides equipment to eight states. While the company wasn’t explicitly named, the NSA report contains references to one of their products.

The apparent end goal, according to the report, was to gain access to the employee’s login credentials and “obtain information associated with election-related hardware and software applications.”

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, released in 2019, revealed that Russian military intelligence agency had installed malware on the network of an unidentified “voting technology company.” Ben Martin, chief operating officer of VR Systems, acknowledged that the report might be referring to his company, but denied that it was hacked.

‘This is a new administration, and it’s

a new day’

Derek Bowens, who assumed the position of director of elections for Durham County in 2017, explained that the county has implemented a substantial number of changes since the 2016 incident.

“We’ve run smooth elections in 2017, 2018 and 2019 without delays,” he said.

After 2016, Gannon said that the majority of counties, including Durham, have “learned a lot” and are electing to use ePollbooks provided by the state board instead of ones provided by VR Systems.

For voters who are concerned about a repeat in 2020, Bowens encourages them to rest easy. The county now uses the “latest and greatest technology”––new ePollbooks with encryptions––and has increased the intensity of its precinct trainings.

They have a emergency backup plan in case of technical failures and identification issues. Should the technology malfunction, all Durham County precincts now have paper poll books with peel-off labels. Poll workers have been trained on how to make use of these in the case of an emergency.

“This is a new administration [since 2016], and it’s a new day,” Bowens said. “We’ll conduct voting in the parking lot if we have to.”

Philip Lehman, chairman of the Durham County Board of Elections, did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

GPSC FROM PAGE 2 not just graduate and professional students.

In addition to working more with the undergraduate population, Florwick is determined to understand her own population more deeply.

“One thing that I’m really focusing on this year is trying to understand the heterogeneity of graduate and professional students because I think that’s something we struggle with as well,” she said. “We’re the advocates and the voices for our students and we want to be seen and know that students can reach out to us while also having the right things to advocate about.”

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

The Devils wear new Nikes in obliteration of Wake

By Glen Morgenstern Assistant Blue Zone Editor

After a concerning close game against Georgia Tech, No. 2 Duke turned to an unorthodox adage: to get your head right, you need to get your threads right.

Long gone are the days when the Devil wore Prada—the Blue WAKE 59 Devils broke out DUKE 90 the fifth of their six new Nikeprovided uniforms for their first ACC home

game with school in session.

Donning their new Gothic-themed navy blue uniforms, the Blue Devils looked right as rain and rained down hellfire upon the Demon Deacons Saturday evening in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Duke trampled Wake Forest 90-59, moving to a perfect 5-0 in ACC play.

“In my mind, [the uniform] is number one,” guard Cassius Stanley said. “They’re nice—a different shade of blue.”

“Oh yeah, my threads are right,” added center Vernon Carey Jr. Tre Jones once again ran the show for the Blue Devils (15-1, 5-0 in the ACC),

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Junior point guard Jordan Goldwire was one of five Blue Devils to score in double figures, putting up a season-high 10 points on an efficient 4-of-6 mark from the field.

scoring 23 points and dishing out five assists.

However, his teammates’ dominance made Jones’ 10-for-15 performance from the field—including 3-for-4 from deep—seem commonplace by comparison.

“Man, [Jones] shooting 10-for-15… efficient,” said forward Matthew Hurt.

“Following his lead is really great.”

Particularly from long range, navy-clad Duke couldn’t miss. Six different Blue Devils knocked down treys on the night, and Duke went 11-of-23 from beyond the arc as a whole.

This helped it overcome a weak night from the free throw line; the Blue Devils shot just 13-

for-25 from the charity stripe.

The Blue Devils owned the glass and everywhere else early against the Demon Deacons (8-7, 1-4). Duke had recorded seven rebounds before Wake Forest grabbed its first board. The Blue Devils buried their first four field goal attempts and scored 22 points in the paint in the first half.

Duke led 49-23 at intermission, virtually ending the game 20 minutes early. A vicious poster slam from Stanley in the waning minutes of the second half put the finishing See NEW NIKES on Page 9

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Sophomore forward Joey Baker drained both of his first-half 3-point attempts, spearheading Duke’s barrage from beyond the arc.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Boykin leads Duke to victory in overtime thriller

By Joe Wang Staff Writer

The contested mid-range shot is widely regarded as the least efficient way of scoring in modern basketball. Yet every once in a while, a killer emerges during crunch time to remind people how lethal this ‘obsolete’ skill can be.

In a back-and-forth defensive clash, the Blue Devils edged out a tough Virginia Tech team 7267 in overtime. Duke snapped a five-game losing streak with individual heroics and a tremendous team effort on both ends of the floor in Cameron Indoor Stadium Sunday afternoon. The Blue Devils eventually escaped the cold winter with a much-needed victory.

With seven minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Blue Devils found themselves on the verge of another close-encounter loss, trailing by nine points.

TECH 67 In her fourth game DUKE 72 back from a yearlong injury, redshirt freshman Mikayla Boykin single-handedly took over Duke’s offense in the dwindling minutes of the regulation.

“Thanks to Haley [Gorecki],” Boykin said when asked about her elite performance.

“Haley was being guarded really tight, so it was opening [the court] up a lot for other players.

I just stepped up and tried to hit big shots, but thanks to my teammates, it was kind of open for me. [I focused on] making the right play down the stretch.”

Boykin first hit a mid-range jumper off a pretty crossover, then followed up with another midrange shot off a hesitation move. By the time she made her third bucket in a row with a spectacular half-spin jumper, the Hokie lead had been cut to only one. In the final 30 seconds of the game when the Blue Devils (8-8, 2-3 in the ACC) desperately needed a basket to tie the game up, it was Boykin who penetrated the packed defense, carefully drawing the defenders towards her before dishing out a perfect dime to Leaonna Odom for a crucial lay-up that forced the game into overtime.

Boykin would go on to convert another difficult mid-range in the overtime period, as she finished the night with a career-high 14 points.

Nevertheless, Boykin’s tremendous individual showcase would not be possible if her teammates didn’t help set up the stage. Jade Williams had a big night with 11 points, seven rebounds, five steals and two blocks. The team recorded an incredible 11 steals, while successfully holding its own turnover number to just 13.

After some early errors that gave the visitors a 6-2 lead two minutes into the game, the Blue Devils demonstrated their determination to clinch the victory at home under the leadership

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A recent returnee from injury, Blue Devil guard Mikayla Boykin was the driving force behind the Duke victory Sunday afternoon. of Gorecki. The graduate guard opened her scoring account with a hard drive to the basket that earned her two shots at the charity stripe.

She went on to record six points, two rebounds, two assists, and two steals at the end of the first quarter to give Duke a solid 21-13 lead.

Even though Duke’s leading scorer had an off night, shooting 5-of-13 from the field,

Gorecki retained a high-level of focus through 44 minutes of playing time. When the Hokies (12-4, 2-3) opted to foul at the end of the game, Gorecki’s consistent stroke terminated any hope of a comeback. The Palatine, Ill., native notched a 17-point, 12-rebound double-double.

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Led by Jones, Blue Devil offense fires on all cylinders

By Spencer Levy Sports Features Editor

With one of the most lethal and efficient offenses in the nation, it is no surprise that five different Blue Devils have led the team in scoring on any given night this season.

From the opening minute Saturday night in Cameron Indoor Stadium, the Blue Devils fired on all cylinders, breezing past Wake Forest en route to a 90-59 victory.

Though Duke point guard Tre Jones starred with 23 points and five assists, the Blue Devils’ dazzling offense was led by a true team effort, with nine different Duke players scoring, including five Blue Devils that reached double figures.

“As a point guard, I’m trying to set up our offense, whatever is the best shot for our offense each possession,” Jones said. “I’m just trying to read how the defense is playing and how they’re guarding certain guys.”

Although Jones’ stat line pops out in the box score, the offense flowed well with Jones and Jordan Goldwire in the backcourt, each finding the open man when an opportunity presented itself.

The Blue Devils’ offensive dominance came in large part thanks to the 3-pointer, with five different Duke players connecting from deep in the opening half. After Jones kicked off the contest with a triple, freshman Matthew Hurt downed one from the corner, with Joey Baker, Cassius Stanley and Jack White also getting in on the fun. As a team, the Blue Devils shot 6-for-10 from

behind the arc before halftime.

In the first half, six Blue Devils scored at least five points, with Jones leading the way with 11 points and four assists, with the team as a whole shooting a deadly 62.5 percent from the field.

“I wish that all of them had eight points, so we have to improve on that,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said jokingly. “We will have pretty balanced scoring, with some guys scoring a little more.”

In the second half, the story was the same, as a healthy mixture of Duke’s rotation players saw action in the blowout.

In particular, after a strong first half with seven points, Stanley went on a run of his own, knocking down five free throws in a 75-second span to give him 12 points on the night. However, Stanley was not finished just yet.

With six minutes left, Stanley inched off to help on senior Javin DeLaurier’s defensive assignment. He then poked the ball out to Hurt, who picked it up and returned it to Stanley at midcourt with an open floor in front of the high-flying freshman. Two dribbles later, Stanley elevated from just inside the ACC logo in the paint for a righthanded slam dunk. On his next possession, Stanley dribbled right from the left wing, stopped for a split second to give him some space and drove right to the basket for his ninth consecutive point.

After Duke dominated inside in the first

Tre Jones paced the Blue Devils’ efficient offense, scoring a game-high 23 points.

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Jack White stuffed the box score Saturday, finishing with 11 points, six boards and three blocks.

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Brittain Brown, Aaron Young enter transfer portal

By Winston Lindqwister Associate Sports Editor

After a season marred by injury, redshirt junior running back Brittain Brown has entered the transfer portal.

Duke football spokesman Art Chase confirmed the news in an email to The Chronicle Wednesday, after 247Sports initially

reported Tuesday afternoon.

Brown’s former teammate, wide receiver Aaron Young, will also be entering the transfer portal, as he announced on his Twitter Wednesday afternoon. Unlike Brown, Young assured that he will not be returning to the Blue Devils.

In 2017, Brown established himself as one of Duke’s most lethal weapons on the ground, averaging 5.4 yards per carry with

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Brittain Brown began his Duke career with an impressive 2017 campaign, but injuries and splitting carries limited the Canton, Ga., native’s effectiveness the next two years.

seven touchdowns to his name. However, two shoulder injuries kept the Canton, Ga., native on the sideline for much of the next two seasons, as junior Deon Jackson and sophomore Mataeo Durant shouldered a majority of the Blue Devils’ rushing offense.

In 2019, Brown played just three games with a season-high 36 total rushing yards in the season opener against Alabama.

The preseason Doak Walker Award candidate will finish his 2019 spring semester at Duke before graduating in May. 247Sports also reported that Brown has already received offers from Vanderbilt, Wisconsin, UCLA and Alabama A&M. Young’s time with the Blue Devils was also marred by injuries and inconsistency, though the 6-foot-4 wideout had career highs in receptions, yards and touchdowns in 2019.

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Aaron Young had his best statistical season with the Blue Devils in 2019, but he will leave Durham for greener pastures in his final year of eligibility.

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CYLINDERS FROM PAGE 7 half, Wake Forest packed the paint, forcing the Blue Devils to score from the perimeter.

Without the paint presence, the Blue Devils relied on their shooters to continue to increase the lead. Carey did not have a lot to work with in the final 20 minutes, concluding his night with eight points and six rebounds.

“We didn’t get the inside stuff tonight

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although they packed it in,” Krzyzewski said. “When Vernon did get the ball, they were right there, so thank goodness our perimeter came through.”

When the Blue Devils hit the hardwood again Tuesday against Clemson, the recipe for a Duke victory will be that the Tigers can’t simply focus on shutting down the Blue Devil stars in Jones and Carey. The rest of the Duke team proved itself against Wake Forest to be able to step up and lead the team in spurts, causing headaches for any Blue Devil opponent.

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The Demon Deacons were able to keep star freshman Vernon Carey Jr. quiet Saturday night, but it came at the expense of their perimeter defense.

W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 6 Duke excelled in shooting beyond the arc and controlling the ball, two things the team has struggled with throughout the season. Leading the 3-point shooting attack for the Blue Devils was sophomore sharpshooter Miela Goodchild. After becoming the quickest Duke player to knock down 100 treys against Virginia, the Australian came into the game with a blazing hot hand, knocking down three shots from the perimeter. In addition to her regular production, she converted all three of her free throws to tie the game up at the end of the fourth quarter.

On the opposing end, the duo of Hokie freshman center Elizabeth Kitley and graduate

The Chronicle guard Taja Cole posed tremendous threats for this Duke squad all night. Kitley showed off her presence in the paint by scoring a game-high 21 points. Cole led several waves of Hokie pushback and walked out of Cameron with 15 points, 10 rebounds, five assists and four steals.

The Blue Devils will stay at home Thursday to take on the struggling Fighting Irish, hoping to clinch the second conference win in a row.

“It’s about not being satisfied with anything that we’ve done. We played great against Louisville, but we did not bring it to the next game. We’re all in the process of fighting human nature: you do not exhale, and you cannot relax,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “What we have to do is fight it and celebrate the process that we’ve had today. We need to bring it [next Thursday].”

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Sophomore sharpshooter Miela Goodchild got hot Sunday afternoon, leading the Blue Devil 2-point attack against Virginia Tech.

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NEW NIKES FROM PAGE 6 touch on an elegant Blue Devil victory.

Typical of this season, Duke spread around its offense. However, it wasn’t spread thin, as the team shot a mind-blowing 62.5 percent from the field in the half. Despite scoring 49 first-half points, only one Blue Devil reached double figures in the period—that was Jones, with 11 points.

“If our guys run, they’ll be hit,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “If you’re open, [Jones is] throwing it. We get to move their defense, and we can try to score on a defense that has had to rush back instead of walk back and set up.”

Joey Baker knocked down both of his longrange attempts in a 6-for-10 team campaign from deep in the first half. Baker went on to bury another 3-pointer in the second half.

The darkest moment in a game that was otherwise a Duke fiesta came when guard Alex O’Connell took a hit in the air as he leapt for a layup, landing hard on his right hip midway through the first half. Krzyzewski walked out to talk to O’Connell, who remained lying on the ground for about a minute before walking off the court.

O’Connell did return to the game, however.

He finished with one point in 17 minutes. “[He’s] good,” Krzyzewski said. “Well, we’ll see tomorrow. I think he’ll be all right.”

Are these Duke’s lucky uniforms? Will the Blue Devils return to the acclaimed Gothic jerseys throughout the rest of ACC play?

“Oh yeah,” said Stanley, the highlight machine. “We’re definitely going to try to wear these again. You don’t want to overwear them, but...”

Duke has just a day to recuperate before heading to Clemson for a Tuesday evening matchup against the Tigers.

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The one down moment Saturday night came when Alex O’Connell exited the contest with an apparent hip injury, though O’Connell would return later in the game.

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and renewed calls for its removal in the 1990’s in light of homophobic policies, still remains.

What has changed? I would argue it is the development of a sophisticated ecosystem of students, professors, and campus organizations maintaining American militarism and imperialism. Nowadays,

Hacking for Defense (H4D), on the other hand, is literally in cahoots with the military, solving actual national security problems. H4D is a DOD sponsored university course at 33 different schools with a mix of public, private, and military institutions participating. At Duke, H4D is sponsored by AGS,

students, out of their own free will and in the absence of coercion (unlike the low-income youth of color disproportionately targeted by military recruiters), function as modern agents of the American empire right from our campuses. At Duke, this manifests in the presence of groups like American Grand Strategy or classes like Hacking for Defense.

Why single out AGS and Hacking for Defense in particular? Both AGS and Hacking for Defense stand out as particularly visible and well-supported institutions. They are only two elements in an entire network of students, faculty and staff directly or indirectly invested in maintaining global American

Pratt, Science & Society and the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative. Hacking for Defense Inc., the platform spearheading this initiative, is a non-profit organization, and its website stresses that “no endorsement of H4Di by the US government, Department of Defense, or academic institutions is intended or implied.”

What’s remarkable is H4D’s language of “entrepreneurship”: figuring out solutions for “investors” and “customers.” For next semester, Hacking for Defense changed its name to “Mission Driven Startups,” which is an extraordinary rebrand.

Few names so wonderfully and concisely encapsulate

Annie Yang PLANTING SEEDS In the intervening decades between the 1970’s and today, many of the criticisms leveled by past student radicals still ring true. However, in some ways the university’s connections to American imperialism and in turn have become somewhat obscured, necessitating a robust analysis of the militaryindustrial-academic establishment for the 21st century.

What hasn’t changed? Duke still gets Department of Defense funding—as it has for decades. And the ROTC program, despite facing demands for its abolition in the 1970’s

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The image of a bumbling, reluctant empire and the United States’ propensity for historical amnesia are especially dangerous in combination with the veneer of plausible deniability offered to universities by programs like AGS and H4D.

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predominance, but they are some of the most prominent here at Duke.

On AGS’ part, the organization has perennially invited CIA directors, military commanders, secretaries of state, and even alleged war criminals onto campus. For reference, the CIA intervenes in and overthrows numerous foreign governments, unified combatant commands like SOUTHCOM and AFRICOM have divvied up the world according to American strategic interests. The State Department backs dictatorships and facilitates regime change across the globe.

But American neo-imperialism isn’t just about war and military occupations anymore, which is arguably the most important change since the Cold War. Comb through the rest of AGS’ invited speakers and there are plenty of scholars, journalists, businesspeople, and thinktank presidents. Here’s a visit from Lockheed Martin, the biggest defense contractor in the world. There’s a conversation with the Heritage Foundation, which has called for sanctions and regime change in Iran, Venezuela, and North Korea, just to name a few. And so on.

And of course inviting speakers is not the only action that constitutes AGS’ “grand strategy”; they also have educational and research opportunities that train students in the work of “grand strategy.”

And what is “grand strategy” anyway, but another term for American neo-imperialism? Grand strategy is about making the world safe for “democracy” and “free trade”—better known as capitalist governments molded by neoliberal austerity regimes and structural adjustment programs.

Under neoliberal neo-imperialism, the ideological and material work of maintaining Western/American dominance is subcontracted to intellectuals, researchers, private companies, nongovernmental and intergovernmental organizations, and ordinary civilians.

This is not to say that AGS is collecting CIA checks or money from the government (as hefty speaker fees make the opposite more plausible). But this is actually the point. In the neoliberal university, private scholars and organizations are doing, at a bare minimum, the ideological work of American imperialism—for free!

the penetration of neoliberal, entrepreneurial capitalism into the logic of American neoimperialism. The innocence (or banality) of the name “Mission Driven Startups” is also a testament to how normalized and obscured some of the University’s connections to imperialism have become.

Some pundits have argued that the American empire is in decline, others have suggested that we didn’t intend to become an empire in the first place. And former President Obama told the United Nations that “the notion of American empire...isn’t borne out by America’s current policy or public opinion.” The image of a bumbling, reluctant empire and the United States’ propensity for historical amnesia are especially dangerous in combination with the veneer of plausible deniability offered to universities by programs like AGS and H4D. By not technically being endorsed by the government or the DOD, such initiatives help universities more easily sidestep accusations of complicity with the militaryindustrial complex.

But the American empire, even if it is in death throes, still operates with calculated, ruthless intention—and with life or death consequences.

And the University still assists “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” The minimization of the ongoing violence of American imperialism coupled with the increasing obscuration of the university’s implications in the military-industrial complex demand clear-eyed analysis and bold action from today’s students.

As students in America at a “prestigious” institution like Duke University, we are perhaps especially positioned to challenge the new agents of imperialism in our own backyard. And perhaps for the sake of peace and justice everywhere, it is our obligation to do so.

Annie Yang is a Trinity senior. Her column, “planting seeds,” typically runs on alternate Mondays.

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hat happened during your winter break? Many Jews at Duke reconsidered publicly displaying their faith.

On December 10, two gunmen attacked a Jersey City, NJ kosher grocery store and Jewish school, murdering four people. Just weeks later, on December 28, a knife-wielding man carried out a stabbing rampage during a Hanukkah party at the home of Monsey, NY Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg.

tudent Health could have prevented it.

But they didn’t.

Two years ago, junior Joe Nagy visited Student Health for symptoms including sore throat, fever, congestion, swollen glands and a hoarse voice.

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Where is the outcry? Four days after the October 2018 massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue, Duke students gathered to paint a message of love and unity on the East Campus bridge. This was a powerful community response to the attack, which was commited with clear white supremacist motives. The suspect, Robert Bowers, accused the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, a Jewish nonprofit, of bringing “hostile invaders to dwell among us.” Such white supremacism is indubitably something we should all unite against.

The motives behind the attacks on Orthodox Jews in the New York City area are more complicated. Many of the attackers are African-American, members of a historically victimized group themselves. David Anderson and Francine Graham, the attackers in Jersey City, showed interest in the Black Hebrew Israelites movement, labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Grafton Thomas, the Monsey assailant, researched Hitler and “Zionist Temples” online.

In recent months, harassment and violent attacks against visibly Jewish New Yorkers have become disturbingly commonplace. In 2018, NYPD recieved over 200 reports of anti-Semitic incidents. Among the areas hardest hit by this rise in antiSemitism are those with large Hasidic Jewish populations such as the Crown Heights and Borough Park neighborhoods in Brooklyn. “A substantial proportion of these hate crimes involve brutal physical attacks on Orthodox Jews who are easily identifiable,” says Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism.

The targeting of visible Jewishness is a common thread throughout the recent spate of anti-Semitic attacks. Many Hasidic Jews can be identified with shtreimels (fur hats) or rekelach (frock coats). Religiously observant Jews cover their heads with kippot (caps), while Star of David necklaces are commonplace among secular Jews. Even visiting Jewish institutions, such as the Tree of Life synagogue, signals Jewishness to would-be attackers. Anti-Semites target Jews, not Jewish divisions.

We must ask ourselves what steps can be taken to combat this anti-Semitism crisis.

Many, including prominent Israeli politician Avigdor Lieberman, point to Israel as a safe-haven for Jews and push for immigration. Members of the Monsey Jewish community have expressed similar sentiment. “I am 50 years old and I have always dreamt of living in Israel,” Monsey resident Zvi Weill stated. “We have discussed it in the past and now I want it more than ever.”

A flight across the world to the Jewish homeland, however, only exposes Jews to another deadly form of anti-Semitism. Upon landing, their Jewishness becomes assumed, making them visible targets for anti-Semitic terrorist attacks.

In Israel, attacking Jews is an industry, oiled by an entity with international recognition and observer status at the UN. The Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority (PA) have promoted terrorist attacks against Jewish civilians since their establishment. Today, the PA’s Martyr and Prisoners Funds are used to incentivize the murder of Israeli Jews by financially rewarding convicted prisoners. According to David Makovsky and Ghaith al-Omari, senior fellows at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the PA has awarded monthly stipends to prisoners in Israeli prisons since 2004, when these funds were enshrined in Palestinian law. “There is an entire official compensation apparatus that rewards prisoners who spent more time in Israeli prisons,” they write in the Washington Post.

The practice of rewarding terrorism has been commonplace since the Second Intifada (2000-2005), when 719 Israeli civilians were killed in frequent stabbings and over 140 suicide bombings. In 2018 alone, the PA spent $330 million on payments to families of “martyrs” and convicted prisoners. 70% of these prisoners, according to the Israeli Prisons Service, “have blood on their hands.” Despite US Congressional action to stem this blood money, PA President Mahmud Abbas has vowed to keep it flowing. “Even if we have only a penny left, we will give it to the martyrs, the prisoners and their families,” Abbas stated. As of 2010, Arab citizens of Israel who commit terrorist attacks receive an annual bonus of $1,728 from the PA. The goal is clear: promoting the murder of Jews at the hands of their non-Jewish neighbors.

What would your reaction be if Robert Bowers, the Tree of Life synagogue assailant, were rewarded a monthly salary of $3,400? This is the reality for 10,500 current and former prisoners in Israel and the families of 37,500 terrorist “martyrs.”

It came as no surprise when the PA granted terrorist Hakim Awad a $14,000 annual salary after his conviction for murdering the Jewish-Israeli Fogel family. On March 11, 2011, Awad broke into the family’s home and slayed the five family members as they slept in their beds. After his conviction, Awad told the judge, “I am a person like you, I have no mental condition, I never had a serious illness. My only illness is the Israeli occupation.” This is no satisfactory justification. There is no explanation for murdering the Fogels, including 11-year-old Yoav, 4-year-old Elad and 2-month-old Hadas, that does not entail hatred towards Jews. What was Awad’s punishment? The Washington Post reports that he will be paid more than $1.9 million dollars from the PA Prisoners Fund by the end of his sentence.

Anti-Semitism sees no borders. Regardless of the attack’s location or motivation, anti-Semitic terrorists must face justice and their vile ideology must be rejected. We need to be unified in combating anti-Semitism, whether by crossing denominational lines or recognizing when actors across the world engage in blatant Jew hatred. It is unacceptable for Jews or members of any religious group to fear displaying their faith. Jews at Duke and their brave allies must work together to fight anti-Semitism in all of its forms.

VITAL SIGNS

Ezra Loeb (T’22) and Max Cherman (T’20) are executive members of the Duke Israel Public Affairs Committee.

The nurse practitioner performed a rapid strep test and swabbed the back of his throat for culturing. She prescribed Nagy with antibiotics after a positive quick strep result, though two days later the throat culture indicated that it was a false positive.

After Nagy finished the course of antibiotics, his symptoms stopped for a day—only to return significantly worse than before. His severely sore throat now gave him pain while swallowing.

Twelve days after his first appointment, he returned to Student Health, where the same nurse practitioner performed another rapid strep test and checked for mononucleosis. Results showed that Nagy had neither, so she diagnosed him with laryngitis—an inflammation of the voice box that usually resolves on its own—and simply suggested Tylenol for pain.

The next morning, he struggled to breathe.

“I opened my eyes and I felt like my throat was closing up. It was terrifying,” he said.

Nagy called Student Health, and the nurse’s response surprised him.

“I was really scared and they said all they could do was a strep test and test for mono again, tests that they had already done,” he said. “I was taken aback.”

Nagy knew that he was in danger and decided to go to the emergency room, where the doctor examined his throat with a telescope and soon diagnosed him with supraglottitis, a serious and life-threatening condition characterized by inflammation of parts of the larynx and closing of the airway.

He was monitored in the intensive care unit for four days, and then moved to a regular hospital room for another 24 hours.

The ER doctor told Nagy that he almost died.

“He said that if I came in later or didn’t wake up as early as I did that day, I probably would’ve died,” he said.

Beyond the near-death experience, Student Health’s misdiagnosis and nonchalant attitude toward Nagy’s two weeks of symptoms bore academic consequences.

He missed all of his midterms and needed a twoweek extension on schoolwork for recovery, which led to the stress of catching up for the rest of his first semester at Duke.

Nagy and his family have lost all confidence in Student Health.

“My mom told me to never, ever, ever go back to Student Health, so when I get sick now I just go to urgent care,” Nagy said.

Student Health’s carelessness also caused a Duke senior to suffer far longer than necessary. She asked that I only disclose her year for this story because she is employed by Duke Health and feared retaliation at work.

She visited Student Health during her freshman year for symptoms including painful cough, large amounts of mucus, fever, difficulty breathing, body aches and fatigue. The nurse practitioner diagnosed her with allergies and suggested over-the-counter allergy medication and nasal spray.

Two weeks later, her symptoms had worsened to the point where she frequently needed to step out during class due to uncontrollable cough or shortness of breath. The coughing also prevented her from sleeping through the night, affecting her mental health and ability to concentrate during the day.

She made another appointment with Student Health, but asked to meet with another provider.

Nonetheless, her request was ignored and the same nurse practitioner merely repeated her diagnosis from the last appointment and told her to continue using the nasal spray.

For the next month and a half, she followed the instructions given and hoped that the allergies would

improve over time, but relief never came. She revisited Student Health for the third time, when a different nurse practitioner prescribed her with an antibiotic called azithromycin and prednisone, a steroid that treats inflammation, to treat her “dry cough.”

Four days later, she finished the medications as prescribed with no signs of improvement. She wanted to see a doctor off campus, but she was overwhelmed by final exams and had no experience seeking out her own medical care. So she made another appointment with Student Health.

This time she also felt newfound tenderness in her left rib cage.

The nurse practitioner from her first two appointments returned to the case and diagnosed her with costochondritis, an inflammation of the cartilage in the ribcage. She simply told her to take cough syrup and Advil for pain.

Two days later, she felt a sharp pain where she previously felt the tenderness. She lifted up her shirt and saw a bruise “bigger than the size of [her] fist” on her left rib cage.

She returned home the next day for winter break and immediately saw a pediatrician. Through an x-ray, the doctor found that she had chronic bronchitis that went untreated for so long that the coughing fractured one of her ribs.

“It was very scary,” she said. “The Student Health system at Duke is really disappointing given the caliber of university we go to.”

The two students shared medical records confirming the events at Student Health.

John Vaughn, director of Student Health Services, said that he legally cannot speak on specific cases, but declined to comment any further.

In 2015, the Institute of Medicine, the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, reported that 12 million adults are misdiagnosed annually. It also states that “insufficient attention” has been given to diagnostic errors, a critical area that lacks data and reliable measures.

Diagnostic errors account for “approximately 10 percent of patient deaths” and “6 to 7 percent of adverse events in hospitals,” according to previous research cited in the report.

Patient misdiagnosis occur nationally, but reported experiences, and the dismissive attitude often cited by students, suggest that Duke Student Health is not doing enough to minimize this known and potentially lethal problem.

Both Nagy and the senior followed up with Student Health multiple times, giving them plenty of opportunity to catch their mistakes and examine the students more diligently or through alternative methods. Instead, nurse practitioners tossed patients with tests for two of the most common illnesses among college students or parroted the same suggestions for over-the-counter medication, regardless of the sensitivity or frequency of the student’s visits. The lack of doctor involvement in either student’s case is equally troubling.

The assumption that young people are healthy and not prone to illness is not an excuse to neglect taking their healthcare seriously. In making this excuse, Student Health puts us all at unnecessary risk.

Most businesses retain customers because their product or service is worthwhile. Student Health retains patients because most students cannot conveniently leave campus, do not have the experience or financial means to find outside doctors and recognize that they have already paid the mandatory Student Health fee of at least $400 per semester.

Student Health has fomented a black-box monopoly wherein dangerous misdiagnoses go unchecked, leaving unknowing students to fend for themselves. It’s time they own up to these institutional failures and start delivering the reliable, thorough care students deserve.

Rose Wong is a Trinity senior and a Local/National News Editor. Editor’s note: This column is part of a new recurring series on health at Duke called “vital signs.” If you have experienced a misdiagnosis at Student Health, contact Rose Wong at rosanna.wong@ duke.edu. This column was originally published on December 23, 2019.

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