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Pilot program offers students free Uber rides
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Shayal Vashisth The Chronicle Students, faculty and staff can now take free Uber rides to and from the Duke Lemur Center. The pilot program between Duke and Uber, a ride-sharing service, began this week. It allows Duke community members traveling to the Lemur center for classes and research opportunities to use a special promotion code to cover the cost of the ride. If student feedback is positive, Duke Student Government hopes to work with the administration to expand the program to include Student Health Center and offcampus doctor’s offices. “This increases people going to the Center, people can get involved in the Center and people can get jobs and not pay for the Uber there and back,” said sophomore Gerardo Parraga, a DSG senator for services who spearheaded the project. “If we really get a strong showing of people going to the Lemur Center and wanting to use this program, then we could maybe do that at the end of the semester.” Parraga said that he modeled the initiative after the University of Florida’s Safe Rides program, which offered student discounts on rides from 10 p.m. until 3 a.m. Wednesday through Saturday. The Uber program See UBER on Page 3
Special to The Chronicle A Duke-funded pilot program will give students, faculty and staff free rides to the Lemur Center.
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Khloe Kim | The Chronicle Center Marshall Plumlee scored the go-ahead basket to send Duke past N.C. State Wednesday after Brandon Ingram got the team off to a hot start.
Brian Pollack The Chronicle WASHINGTON—For most of the game, both offenses lit up the scoreboard with midrange jumpers and long 3-pointers from all over the court. But it was a shot from just a few feet away from the rim that turned out to be the biggest one. Marshall Plumlee’s offensive rebound and putback through contact with 1:14 remaining proved to be the differencemaker as fifth-seeded Duke outlasted 12thseeded N.C. State 92-89 Wednesday in the second round of the ACC tournament at the Verizon Center. Plumlee suffered a blow to face from teammate Matt Jones earlier in the second half—resulting in what Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski confirmed was a broken nose after the game—but returned to the floor just a few minutes later and ended up making the game’s most important play. “No doubt, that’s Marshall Plumlee to the max,” Blue Devil freshman Luke Kennard said. “We expect him to make big plays for us, and that’s exactly what he did—with a broken nose, that’s what it looks like…I’m proud of the way he played, I’m proud to be his teammate and that’s just the way he is.”
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For the most part, the game was a shooting clinic, and both teams finished shooting better than 50 percent from the floor and 40 percent from 3-point range. The Blue Devils (23-9) put together one of their most fluid offensive performances in weeks with consistent ball movement that led to four players scoring at least 17 points. It was not offense, though, but defense that helped Duke shut the door on the Wolfpack (16-17). After Plumlee’s key bucket, Kennard missed a jumper, giving N.C. State a chance to potentially tie the game with 30 seconds left. The Wolfpack put the ball in the hands of dynamic point guard Anthony “Cat” Barber—who finished with a game-high 29 points and seven assists—with their season on the line, hoping he could make a play as he had on numerous occasions already to bring N.C. State back from a late nine-point deficit. But as Barber drove to the hoop and tried to dish out to one of his teammates, the Blue Devils got a hand on his pass and sophomore Grayson Allen scooped up the loose ball to secure the win. “We knew that they got us a couple times on that. Knowing their history, they like to go to plays that they know will work,” Jones said. “We just have to trust in our game plan. We’ve been through that play over and over
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in the scouting report, and we just had to trust in that.” With Duke in the driver’s seat after building an 84-75 lead following a rare scoring drought for N.C. State, Barber answered the bell for the Wolfpack. The ACC’s leading scorer drained a triple from the corner while being fouled by Kennard, and made the free throw to complete the four-point play and cut the Blue Devil lead to 86-81. After Kennard answered with a jumper, Barber once again sliced through the Duke defense for a layup that brought the Wolfpack within five with less than four minutes to play. The Blue Devils had tried a myriad of defenders on Barber—placing Allen, Jones, Kennard and point guard Derryck Thornton on him at various points—and Allen picked up his fourth foul guarding the Newport News, Va., native late in the second half. Barber continued to torment Duke and hit another step-back jumper to bring his team within one. “Barber has been a great, great player. Not a good player, but a great player,” Krzyzewski said. “He not only produces points, but he produces attention with his See M. BASKETBALL on Page 12
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