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Photo Illustration by Han Kang | The Chronicle President Richard Brodhead will step down as president June 30, 2017 and will take a year’s sabbatical before returning to teaching and writing.

Staff Reports The Chronicle President Richard Brodhead announced Thursday that he will retire June 30, 2017 after serving 13 years as president.

Brodhead—who is also the William Preston Few professor of English— became the ninth president of the University in 2004, succeeding former president Nannerl Keohane. He spoke to the Board of Trustees and the Academic Council Thursday to share his plans.

After taking a year’s sabbatical, he plans to return to teaching and writing, he said in a message to the Duke community Thursday. David Rubenstein, Trinity ‘70 and chair of the Board, said in a Duke Today release that the Board will appoint a search committee for Brodhead’s successor at its May meeting.

“When I first came to Duke, I encountered a school that was clearly in the top rank of universities but that had a distinctive spirit within this group. Duke has an unusually strong sense of community, and what binds people together is a vision that Duke is still being created, still reaching for the further thing it could become,” Brodhead said in his message. “It is Duke’s nature to keep pressing to live up to its highest potential,

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and we have made striking progress in the past 12 years.”

Brodhead’s full message to the Duke community can be viewed online.

Brodhead was responsible for launching DukeEngage—a service program that has given more than 3,600 undergraduates the opportunity to perform service work both domestically and internationally—as well as the Duke Global Health Institute.

During his tenure, Brodhead oversaw the Duke Forward fundraising campaign, which has already raised $3.1 billion toward its goal of $3.25 billion and is scheduled to end June 30, 2017. The University has also invested in Durham’s public education system and the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership.

However, Brodhead’s presidency has also been marked by the Duke lacrosse case in 2006. In a March 10 article in The Chronicle, he noted that the case had had a significant impact on his legacy as president, but noted he was “at ease in my conscience with the role that I played.”

The University has also taken significant steps to expand internationally under Brodhead. Duke Kunshan University—a joint venture between Duke and Wuhan University in China—launched in 2014. Duke also began a partnership with the National University of

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Singapore in 2005 to form the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School.

In addition, Brodhead has initiated construction and renovation projects for Baldwin and Page auditoriums, the Rubenstein Library, Duke Chapel, Duke Medicine Pavilion and Cancer Institute and athletic facilities. A new arts center is undergoing construction and the newly-renovated West Union will open this summer.

“With many critical initiatives nearing completion, it seems the right time for Duke to recruit a new leader to guide the next chapter of its progress,” Brodhead said in the release. “Nothing in a university is the work of a single person, and in the year to come, I’ll look forward to chances to thank and celebrate with each of you who have helped build the Duke of today.”

In 2004, Brodhead was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was later named named the co-chair of the Commission of Humanities and Social Sciences, which works to improve teaching and research in the humanities and social sciences. He is also a trustee of the Mellon Foundation and previously served as a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

“Dick Brodhead is one of Duke’s transformative presidents,” Rubenstein said

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in the release. “The entire Duke community is therefore very much in his debt for the leadership he has provided over the past 12 years—and no doubt will continue to provide. That Duke will have another year of Dick’s commitment, vision and energy is our good fortune.”

Brodhead came to Duke after a 32-year career at Yale University. He graduated from Yale in 1968 and received his Ph.D. there in 1972. After joining the Yale faculty as the A. Bartlett Giamatti professor of English and American studies and serving as chair of Yale’s Department of English for six years, Brodhead was named dean of Yale College in 1993 and held that position for 11 years before coming to Duke.

A scholar of nineteenth-century American literature, Brodhead has written or edited more than a dozen books, some of which analyze the works of authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and William Faulkner.

Rubenstein noted the search for Duke’s next president will begin after the Board of Trustees appoints a search committee in May. “But we will do so fully recognizing that Dick’s vision, work ethic, intellect, and eloquence will be extraordinarily difficult to match,” Rubenstein said in the release.

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Brodhead reflects on challenges, goals for final year to have the same excellent experience. The most important things a president does are never accomplished in a year, in a sense they’re never accomplished.

Abigail Xie and Claire Ballentine The Chronicle President Richard Brodhead announced Thursday that he will step down from his position in June 2017 and will return to teaching and writing after a year’s sabbatical. The Chronicle’s Claire Ballentine and Abby Xie sat down with Brodhead to discuss the challenges that he and the University face and his plans for his final year as president.

The Chronicle: Why did you decide now to announce that you would be stepping down?

Richard Brodhead: Well, I think that it’s been in my mind for quite a while that this would be the appropriate time. I have three terms as president, the last term runs through 2017, and I thought that why not just use that to decide for us. The best president of the United States—their term ends when their term ends. The worst president of the United States—their term ends when their term ends.

So I thought that sounds like a good date. I will have been president for 13 years—that’s a long time. And there are a lot of things that will come to fruition this year and next—the construction, the [Duke Forward] campaign, Phase 2 of the China project and so it just seemed to me like a good time.

TC: What will your role be in the search process for the new president?

RB: My role will be to answer any questions that anyone wants, but other than that I won’t play a role in choosing the next president. I think this is the first secret of good management, for people not to pick their own successors.

TC: What are your goals for the next year, both

TC: What worries you the most about where Duke is right now?

RB: I’ve never regarded the existence of conflict or debate as a sign of un-health in a university. I actually regard it as a sign of health in a university. That’s what they’re for, for the issues of the world to be articulated and for people to try to educate each other. My deepest worry about Duke is that it would stop trying to become better. That’s the history of this place. If you looked at this place in 1970, you would not recognize the place this school has become, in really every respect.

Fulya Keskin | Chronicle File Photo Brodhead noted that he is proud of his leadership during the Duke Forward campaign, the launch of Duke Kunshan University and the construction of new campus facilities.

broadly for the University and more specifically with the changes you hope to institute?

RB: The important things that are accomplished at a university aren’t done in a week or a month. They take a long time because you have to harvest the thinking of many people.

So I would say the things I hope and expect to see completed are four principal things. First, the Duke Forward fundraising campaign.

We’re at $3.15 billion so we’ll actually reach the goal [of $3.25 billion] this summer, but we’ll run the campaign for another full year because obviously the goal wasn’t really the goal. Once you reach the goal, the goal will become the springboard on which to go further. Also, the very intense wave of campus construction will very largely be done. The library finished this year, the Chapel will be finished in a week or

so, West Union will open this summer and the arts building will be substantially done. Third, Duke Kunshan University has been open now for a year and a half, but there is a plan for a second phase, and next year will be the year that the faculty and Trustees decide how they want to proceed. And fourth, there are a number of projects underway that have to do with the issues of diversity and inclusion on campus, and I think that a lot of work was done this year and a lot of progress will be made in the next year.

The faculty diversity committee will be done. I’ll be receiving the report from the task force on bias and hate issues within the week. I think that both of those efforts will help us figure out how to take practical steps to keep this place moving forward in such a way as to guarantee that everyone who comes here has the opportunity

TC: Given recent protests and issues of discrimination on campus, how do you see the University getting better?

RB: The task force will be bringing in some specific recommendations. In the faculty world, the diversity report was a truly excellent piece of work. It reminds us the importance of the continuing effort to make sure that every position that’s ever filled at the University gives the chance for talent to be identified and to guarantee that when people join this community, they join it as equals of anybody else and have the chance to have the same good experience. Duke has made extraordinary progress, but the more progress you make, the more you realize that there’s still places we haven’t reached. I think we have a pretty good record of identifying things and saying ‘here’s what we’re doing about this.’ I gave my faculty address the year of the 50th anniversary of integration at Duke on the subject of race in See BRODHEAD Q&A on Page 4

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Students praise LDOC Duke researchers aim activities, concert lineup to treat chronic itching Katherine Berko The Chronicle Despite worries that the Last Day of Classes would be impacted by forecasted rain, the concert carried on without interference from Mother Nature.

LDOC committee chairs Kristin Miller and Holly McLean, both seniors, said that compared to previous years, this year’s LDOC was less stressful and went more smoothly.

Although the LDOC committee never publicly shared any plans for inclement weather, the concert was held on Abele Quadrangle and finished before the rain started later in the evening.

“We were so relieved about the weather,” Miller said. “As we were taking our committee

picture on the stage, I felt a drop on my head.

The timing could not have been better.”

LDOC daytime programming included free massages by the Chapel, food trucks, morning yoga, bubble soccer and face painting. This year’s lineup featured Rae Sremmurd, Matoma, Saint Motel and Wes Walker & DYL. McLean said she really enjoyed last year’s line-up and wanted to replicate its diversity in music style for this year’s LDOC concert.

She compared Saint Motel’s laid-back set to Misterwives last year and Rae Sremmurd to T-Pain and Jeremih’s energy. This year, the committee added a tropical EDM artist, Matoma, which McLean noted is becoming more popular.

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Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Students said that this year’s LDOC lineup, which included Rae Sremmurd, Matoma, Saint Motel and Wes Walker & DYL, all had high-energy performances.

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Sarah Feng The Chronicle Duke researchers are shedding light on the role skin cells play in influencing the body’s response to external stimuli, opening up possibilities for new drugs to treat acute and chronic itches.

A recent study, published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, found that skin cells not only function as a protective layer but also actively participate in the sensory perception process. A protein called TRPV4 in cells of the skin’s outer layers helps pass along external stimuli—such as sensations of itching or pain—to nerve cells and to the brain.

“The study was conducted in the context of a wider interest of my lab, which is to understand how sensory transduction works in the context of nerve cells being obvious players in the process, and how nerve cells are stimulated that leads to the sensory perception,” said Dr. Wolfgang Liedtke, one of the study’s authors and professor of neurology and anesthesiology.

Liedtke explained that the TRPV4 protein has been the focus of his work for more than a decade, but for the most recent study, he realized that itching was potentially tied to TRPV4.

“I discovered the TRPV4 myself about 15 or 16 years ago, and I have stuck with this molecule,” Liedtke said. “Also, my evidence led me to believe that the TRPV4 ion channel does play a role in itch.”

Liedtke first conducted his research on genetically-engineered mice to test his

Special to The Chronicle Dr. Wolfgang Liedtke’s study found that proteins in the skin transmit stimuli to the brain.

hypotheses before working with human skin cells.

“I generated two types of mice based on the TRPV4 gene—one that has no TRPV4 gene at all in any cell of the organism and the other with TRPV4 only in the skin,” he said. “We found in the second type of mice that itching depends on TRPV4 ion channels.”

The results of the study have profound implications in medicine and may help to pave the way for specific drugs in the form of lotions that treat itching from allergic reactions or mosquito bites, Liedtke explained.

He added that researchers are trying to transition from studying acute temporary itching to studying chronic itching, which has become a See ITCHING on Page 4

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BRODHEAD Q&A from page 2 the history of Duke, and I identified one thing that I thought had conspicuously not been accomplished and that had to do with the diversification of the senior leadership of the University.

And even though I gave that talk only three years ago, between then and now, we have the first African-American chancellor of the health system, the first woman provost, the first AfricanAmerican dean of arts and sciences and the first South Asian dean of engineering. And all of this going by the very best candidate we can find. So I think that Duke’s record shows that excellence and diversity are compatible goals.

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TC: You recently visited Duke Kunshan University. What has progress been like with Kunshan recently and how do you hope to see it progress in the next year?

RB: Universities are complicated things. They’re not created in a day or a year. I would say, when I go now and see that the school that has been open for 18 months—and has already been selected by the World Health Organization as its Asia research site and is already landing grants in environmental research from Chinese provinces and governments—I feel great about it. The faculty and students I spoke to there were very excited about their experience. But we know it’s still the very early days.

Compared to the history of some universities that now seem like they must always have been just like how they are, this place is off to quite a good start. A very important difference is that now we have 50 or 60 Duke faculty that have been over there and can actually testify to what Kunshan is like.

TC: How were you affected by the recent protests?

RB: I’ve lived in universities since I was 17 years old. I’ve never lived anywhere but universities. This is not the first protest I ever saw, and it will not be the last. I respect the rights TC: What do you think is the most defining moment of your and the history of protest. I think that we attempted to engage presidency? in conversation, and when it was clear that was going nowhere, RB: There’s so many that stick out in my mind. Was it we did what we thought was right to do. thrilling to win national basketball championships? Of course.

I would say the moment that The Duke Endowment gave

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That’s the first thing I made an issue of when I came to Duke.

Duke has great financial aid policies—older schools have big endowments for financial aid, Duke had a very small one, so I’ve tried to build resources to sustain forever the financial aid commitments of this school. And so that day, I was given basically a $75 million check with which we raised $300 million, and I felt a lot of satisfaction.

TC: What would you say your biggest regret is?

RB: I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about regrets.

TC: Perhaps your most challenging moment as president?

RB: Well my most challenging moment was certainly the lacrosse incident. The main thing to regret about that is that it ever happened at all. If untruths could be known to be untrue when they’re spoken—that event would’ve been over in an hour.

TC: You announced you’re planning on going back to teaching. Why did you decide that and how do you think that transition will be?

RB: I’m a person who only ever wanted to be one thing in my whole life. I regard every job I’ve had as building on my original ambition, my original passion, which is the love of teaching. I will have been president for 13 years. I was dean at Yale for 11 years—I will have had 24 years of extraordinarily varied and demanding days. I would think a good idea for me would be to take a little time to just be free. To just ask, what in fact do I want to do next? I never spend any time thinking about that. I haven’t made any plans for my post-presidential life. I don’t doubt that I’ll come up with some good ones.

TC: Where do you plan on doing the teaching? Would it be Yale, would it be Duke? You’ve previously mentioned you’d like to be a guest lecturer at DKU. RB: I don’t have any answers at all for anybody about my post-presidential life. The first thing I would like is to have a little freedom to stop and recalculate. I taught at Yale for many, many years. I lived in Connecticut my whole life before I came to North Carolina. Since I came to Duke, I consider myself a complete native of this place. I hope people have some sense of how much I love this place. But as for what I’ll teach—I have no idea what the answer is. All in good time. I still have a day job.

ITCHING from page 3 significant health problem in recent years.

“So far, we have mainly focused on acute and rapid forms of itch, but many human diseases related to itch are chronic,” Liedtke said. “So we need to start studying the chronic itch, which is more time-consuming and delicate.”

Future research will focus on how skin cells communicate with nerve cells and the type of biochemical signals that skin cells release when doing so, he said.

“I also noticed that people respond differently to itching,” Liedtke said. “Therefore, it would also be interesting to examine why some people are more sensitive to itching than others.”

LDOC from page 3 After booking the first three artists, the committee still had money left in the budget and decided to bring in Wes Walker & DYL. “We thought that would be kind of fun just because ‘Jordan Belfort’ is such a Shooters song, and he’s an up-and-comer, so we thought he would fit with the Duke culture,” McLean said.

Many students also said that this year’s LDOC and the performing artists were comparable to last year’s lineup.

Senior Amari El-Amin, who was abroad during LDOC last year, said she looked forward to this year’s lineup. She also noted that she was grateful for all the free water bottles, but that she would have liked to see free water bottles on Central Campus as well.

Freshman Ellie Pasquale said that she enjoyed her first LDOC experience because of the daytime programming.

“LDOC definitely lived up to all the hype,” Pasquale said.

“The food trucks, free barbecue and water everywhere were definitely pluses. The high energy of all the performers made the concert a blast.”

Students also noted aspects of LDOC that could be improved.

“I didn’t like that I had to show my Duke ID to the security even though I already had a wristband, a wristband that required me to have a Duke card in the first place,” El-Amin said.

As far as recommendations for future LDOC Committees, McLean and Miller advised troubleshooting earlier in the day and getting more diversity in the lineup.

“It was obviously clear that [it] was all males this year, but we would love to see the next committee maybe bring some female artists,” McLean said.

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LIGHTNING DOES NOT STRIKE TWICE

Blue Devils unable to complete second straight ACC tournament comeback after weather delay Seth Johnson The Chronicle After using a 3-1 run to pull within one goal of the Orange, the last thing the Blue Devils wanted was to have their momentum stalled.

But thanks to a rainstorm and nearby lightning, Duke’s pursuit of an eighth ACC title came to a screeching halt.

Following a three-hour weather delay in the middle of the fourth quarter, the third-seeded Blue Devils fell to fourth-seeded Syracuse 14-8 in the ACC CUSE 14 c h a m p i o n s h i p final at Fifth Third DUKE 8 Bank Stadium in Kennesaw, Ga. After the weather delay and relocation to a nearby turf field at Kennesaw State University to finish the contest, No. 14 Duke came out flat in the final 7:10 of the contest, allowing the No. 7 Orange to explode for a 5-0 run to seal the victory.

Although Duke (10-7) had allowed just 26 goals in its last four games, Syracuse (10-4) made sure that it broke through the improving Blue Devil defense early and often Sunday. Even before the weather delay—imposed once lightning struck within eight miles of Fifth Third Bank Stadium—the Orange jumped out to an early lead in the first two minutes of the game and never looked back. Syracuse’s crisp

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Freshman Brad Smith scored two goals to keep Duke close before a late 5-0 spurt gave Syracuse its second consecutive ACC title.

ball movement and spacing led to five Orange players scoring at least two goals, led by Tim Barber’s four-goal, one-assist performance and Sergio Salcido’s twogoal, four-assist effort.

Duke fought back after Syracuse’s hot start, tying the game three times at one, two and three goals apiece, but never held a lead in the contest, falling to

Syracuse for the third consecutive year in the ACC championship and second consecutive year in the title game.

In their final ACC tournament game, the Blue Devil seniors struggled offensively, going scoreless for the first 40:48 of the contest. Not until All-ACC midfielder Myles Jones broke through on an unassisted bounce shot in the

third quarter did a senior and Duke’s first-line midfield of Jones, Chad Cohan and Deemer Class find the back of the net.

Jones finished the game with two goals on seven shots—extending his active point streak to 52 games—and Class and Cohan remained scoreless for the entire game, despite combining for 15 shots. Fellow senior Case Matheis was also held without a goal after he and Cohan combined for four goals and five assists to lead Duke past Notre Dame 10-9 in Friday’s semifinal.

Syracuse’s ability to slow down all of Duke’s seniors—who combined for 13 points Friday—after getting torched for 16 goals in the teams’ regular season meeting proved to be the difference Sunday, with Orange goalkeeper Evan Molloy recording 13 saves en route to ACC tournament MVP honors.

But even though Syracuse slowed down the Blue Devils’ stars, for three and a half quarters, Duke’s secondline midfield picked up the slack led by freshman Brad Smith. Smith netted the Blue Devils’ first goal of the game, lining a shot into the upper-left corner of the net. Barely more than six minutes later, sophomore Matthew Giampetroni scored from the left wing for Duke’s second goal, as a Syracuse defender slipped on the attempted ride. Smith See M. LACROSSE on Page 8

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Duke unable to hold late lead against UNC in ACC tourney Ben Feder The Chronicle

Six days after getting crushed 16-8 at No. 3 North Carolina, the Blue Devils knew they needed a more stout defensive effort and a fast start in Friday’s rematch.

No. 17 Duke got both in Friday’s ACC tournament semifinal, but the topseeded Tar Heels scored the final three goals of the game to win their 12th straight contest.

The fourth-seeded Blue Devils got off to a hot start for the second straight day, jumping out to a 3-0 lead against North Carolina and seizing a 6-4 advantage early in the second half before eventually DUKE 6 falling 7-6 at Lane Stadium in 7 Blacksburg, Va. UNC Freshman attack Olivia Jenner and senior goalkeeper Kelsey Duryea led the way for Duke, with Jenner pouring in three goals as the Tar Heels focused on the Blue Devils’ leading trio of Kyra Harney, Kelci Smesko and Maddie

Crutchfield. Duryea recorded 12 saves to keep North Carolina at bay for much of the night.

But even with Duryea and the Duke defense shutting down the sixthranked offense in the nation at 14.2 goals per game, the Tar Heels tied the game at six with 13 minutes left before senior midfielder Kelly Devlin took advantage of a failed Blue Devil clear to score the go-ahead goal with 9:35 remaining. Goalkeeper Megan Ward— who notched 10 saves—and the North Carolina defense shut Duke down the rest of the way.

Although the Blue Devils were held scoreless the final 18:10, Duke head coach Kerstin Kimel said she was proud of the way her team rebounded from last week’s rout to nearly pull off the upset.

“Our defense really came ready to battle. I’m so proud of their effort. They really held North Carolina in check,” Kimel told GoDuke.com. “We competed hard the entire game, and I’m super See W. LACROSSE on Page 8

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Freshman attack Olivia Jenner set a program single-season record for faceoffs won Friday and led the Blue Devils with three goals.

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Blue Devils avoid sweep with 2-1 win Sunday David Rieder The Chronicle RALEIGH—Duke struggled all weekend with runners in scoring position but finally got a timely ninth-inning hit Sunday to salvage the final game of a critical ACC series.

Sophomore Michael Smiciklas singled with two outs in the top of the ninth inning to drive in sophomore Jack Labosky from third base, and closer Mitch Stallings pitched 2 2/3 scoreless innings to push the Blue Devils past No. 12 N.C. State 2-1 DUKE 2 Sunday afternoon at NC ST 3 Doak Field at Dail Park.

DUKE 2 With just two ACC series left on NC ST 12 its schedule, Duke DUKE 2 is trying to secure NC ST 1 a spot in the ACC tournament by notching one of the 10 best records in conference play. Even after losing the first two games of the series Friday and Saturday, the Blue Devils knew they had plenty to play for Sunday afternoon.

“It’s as big as it gets,” Duke head coach Chris Pollard said. “I preach and preach and preach to our guys to treat every day the same, and no one game is bigger than the next. But I went off the script last night when we got back to campus, and I told our guys this is a mustwin. I told our guys, ‘Treat it like it was a onegame season, and put everything on the line.’

And they did that. They were tough enough to stay in the moment and compete to the

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Senior goalkeeper Kelsey Duryea recorded 12 saves against No. 1 North Carolina Friday.

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It took some time, but the Tar Heel attack came alive when it needed to most Friday. After Duke (10-8) raced out to quick leads to start both halves, North Carolina responded with three straight goals of its own in both instances. The Tar Heels (15-2) took advantage of nine second-half Blue Devil turnovers and a 21-9 edge in ground balls collected to pepper Duryea with shots down the stretch.

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very end of the ballgame, and I’m extremely proud of our program.”

After losing on a walk-off hit Friday and taking a 12-2 pounding Saturday, the Blue Devils (25-20, 10-14 in the ACC) got off to a slow start Sunday. N.C. State starter Ryan Williamson struck out the side in the top of the first inning before Duke starter Brian McAfee gave up an early run on a Joe Dunand RBI single.

But Wolfpack designated hitter Chance Shepard struck out with two aboard to end the threat, and McAfee settled into a rhythm as he has so many times this season. In another quality start, McAfee retired 16 of the final 21 batters he faced, scattering seven hits throughout 6 1/3 innings and surrendering just the first-inning run.

Duke got on the board in the fourth inning when freshman Jimmy Herron earned a leadoff walk, advanced on Chris Proctor’s base hit and came around to score on a Labosky RBI single. But Justin Bellinger and Zack Kone both struck out with runners on the corners before Smiciklas lined out to end the threat.

The Blue Devils threatened again in the sixth inning when Herron was hit by a pitch and advanced to second on Proctor’s sacrifice bunt, but N.C. State (31-12, 12-7) went to its bullpen to get out of the jam. Evan Brabrand got Labosky to fly out to center, then second baseman Stephen Pitarra made a diving stop to rob Bellinger and retire the side.

“They probably took five hits away from us away. And that’s hard—that can be deflating,” Pollard said. “Pitarra was especially good. Pitarra took three hits away who netted two goals—North Carolina’s 25-18 edge in shots was ultimately too much for Duke to overcome. But Kimel’s squad showed improvement to hang with the nation’s top-ranked team just six days after getting blown out.

“Clearly, we played a lot of defense in the second half. The difference between this game [against the Tar Heels] and the last game was that our defenders gave Kelsey shots that she could save,” Kimel said. “I don’t think that you could have asked a lot more from our defensive group today.”

Jenner’s standout performance was the other big reason the Blue Devils had the Tar Heels on the ropes for much of the game.

The Annapolis, Md., native scored two early goals and won all seven secondhalf faceoffs to help Duke stay alive despite its turnovers. Jenner set the Blue Devils’ single-season record for faceoffs won with her fourth draw control of the contest and fueled Duke’s offense as Harney, Smesko and Crutchfield were neutralized, combining for just one goal on eight shots and no assists. “[Jenner] was the reason we were in the game. Other than our defense, she was the reason because she was so competitive on the draw, whether she was winning it to herself or putting it in a place where people around the restraining line could win it,” Kimel said. “I thought that she did an unbelievable job and was super poised for a freshman today.”

Friday was not the first time in recent

Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Sophomore Michael Smiciklas drove in the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth inning Sunday afternoon to help Duke salvage the final game of a three-game series.

from us at least at second base.”

In the bottom of the seventh inning, McAfee allowed a one-out single to Wolfpack catcher Andrew Knizner, prompting Pollard to pull out his starter so he would not have to face Evan Mendoza, who had already singled twice off McAfee.

Reliever Ryan Day walked Mendoza, then Pollard turned to Stallings for an extended outing.

“Coach Pollard told me yesterday, ‘Be ready to go in the eighth,’” Stallings said.

“With a week off after this, no point in saving something in the gas tank.”

Stallings got the final two outs in the seventh then gave up a leadoff single to Brock Deatherage in the eighth, but Proctor threw out Deatherage stealing. With two outs, Stallings got Preston Palmeiro to ground to Bellinger after an 11-pitch at-bat. Bellinger lobbed the ball to Stallings, who appeared to beat Palmeiro to the bag, but the first base umpire called Palmeiro safe.

Stallings walked Shepard but managed to get out of the inning unscathed with the score 1-1 to set up the Blue Devils’ rally in the top of the ninth.

weeks the Blue Devils blew a late-game lead. Against then-No. 7 Notre Dame April 16, Duke let a two-goal lead slip away in the final three minutes and eventually lost in overtime.

But after knocking off No. 15 Virginia Thursday and nearly shocking the Tar Heels Friday, the Blue Devils have momentum to build on in practice this week before they find out their NCAA tournament fate during next weekend’s selection show.

shots on goal.

On the other end of the field, Duke was only able to put 21 of its 41 shots on goal, with Molloy—who did not face the Blue Devils in the regular season matchup—and the Syracuse defense shutting Duke down after the weather delay.

The Blue Devils will return to action May 8 on Selection Sunday at Boston University for their final game of the season. Faceoff is set for 1 p.m., before Duke discovers its NCAA tournament fate when the Division I selection show airs at 9 p.m. on ESPNU.

M. LACROSSE from page 7 recorded his second tally—giving the second line its third goal of the game— in the third quarter after streaking across the box.

After snagging 29 ground balls Friday in the semifinals—seven more than Notre Dame—the Blue Devils were outhustled on the ground by the Orange Sunday. In a sloppy first-half affair, Syracuse jumped out to an 18-13 lead in ground balls, keeping possession out of the Duke sticks. By the end of the contest, the Orange were plus-11 on the ground after collecting six more loose balls than the Blue Devils in the final period to pull away.

Although the defense was unable to corral critical ground balls for much of the afternoon, junior goalkeeper Danny Fowler kept Duke in the game.

Fowler finished with a season-high 17 saves despite the Blue Devils’ defensive struggles, which led to 31 Syracuse

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Due to weather, a formal press conference was not held after Sunday’s game.

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Goalkeeper Danny Fowler posted a seasonhigh 17 saves Sunday in Duke’s 14-8 loss to Syracuse.

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BASEBALL from page 8 Proctor singled on the first pitch of the inning from N.C. State’s Tommy DeJuneas.

Labosky attempted a bunt to advance Proctor to second base, but DeJuneas fielded the ball cleanly and got Labosky out at second.

After a Bellinger walk, Kone hit a grounder to Pitarra to advance the goahead run to third base. Three pitches later, Smiciklas lined a ball into the gap between first and second base, plating Labosky to put the Blue Devils on top.

“I was looking for something up,” Smiciklas said. “I noticed he was throwing a lot of changeups to lefties—he threw a lot to Bellinger. He threw me a changeup up, and I was just on top of it.”

Bellinger attempted to score on the play but was tagged out, but Stallings showed

he did not need an insurance run Sunday, retiring all three Wolfpack batters in the bottom of the ninth and striking out Pitarra to end the game.

Duke will have six days off before its next game as the Blue Devils focus on final exams before returning to action with a doubleheader next Sunday at home against Gardner-Webb. Duke has just two ACC series left to earn a spot in the conference tournament—against Florida State May 13-15 and against Pittsburgh May 19-21.

“The college baseball season is a marathon, but at the end of the marathon are two sprints.

You get this sprint here to the front side of exams, you have a week off to get your body fresh and then you sprint it out the rest of the way and you completely empty the tank,” Pollard said. “So we’ll freshen up over the next couple of days, and then we’ll be ready to totally empty the tank.”

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Reflect and engage Seniors prepare to bid farewell to Duke, capturing snapshots of an ever-growing university for which the only constant is continuous change.

Over the past year, by shedding its antiquated edifices, both literal and not, Duke has created and expanded spaces for interfaith reflection, global engagement and intercultural discussions.

The most meaningful evolutions, however, have occurred to the foundation of the university itself, driven directly by students, faculty and staff. In a year marked by protests, when even curriculum proposals highlighted a need to explore the “Duke Experience,” we turn to reflect on the essential lessons of a Duke education and its impact on the shaping of campus outside the classroom.

The physical remodeling of campus touched the heart of campus this year with the Chapel breaking free of its scaffolding and the beloved West Union emerging from the shadows of construction fixtures and cranes. The trend will only continue as the renovations to Wannamaker, Giles and other dorms and the deconstruction of Central Campus set the stage for new buildings and facilities. The magnitude of physical changes, however, pales in comparison to the scale of shifts in social awareness on campus.

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s was the case several times this year, the morning of Wednesday, October 7, I woke up not to my alarm clock, but to a call from one of The Chronicle’s dedicated staffers.

After a few hours of sleep following a long night of production, I was still half asleep until I heard him say, “We won the Nobel Prize.”

I immediately jumped out of bed and started firing off questions—Was the news out on our social media platforms? Was someone working on a brief? What did we have planned for follow-ups?

I was relieved to hear that the answer to the first two questions was “yes,” as I moved from my dorm room to

of the many journalistic and managerial lessons I was fortunate enough to learn this year and is the main reason there is a common setting for some of my most memorable moments of 2015-16. The main exception to this rule is Vice President Joe Biden’s campus visit in February, which I had to leave the office to cover—not that I’m complaining.

The Chronicle office is where I spent much of last summer’s first session learning how to adjust from covering sports to leading our news coverage and coverage across all sections. It is where I returned in late August to learn that $15,000 of our camera equipment had been stolen, and where I worked with our

Amrith Ramkumar EDITOR’S COLUMN my real home for much of the year—our office in 301 Flowers, which has everything I need but a shower—to plan the rest of our coverage.

The rest of the morning was a blur of publishing the story, trying to get in contact with Dr. Paul Modrich and eventually finding out that a press conference had been scheduled for later that afternoon at UNC. After a mad scramble, two writers and a photographer volunteered to travel down 15-501 to the press conference and another young staffer started crafting a longer story about Modrich’s victory for Thursday’s paper.

Later that afternoon, two more news writers decided to pursue a video project to compare student reactions to Duke’s second Nobel Prize win ever to their thoughts on the University’s fifth men’s basketball championship that was won in April.

Amid all of these moving parts, my job was to stay at home and make sure all of the pieces to an ever-changing puzzle came together.

In sports—the department that originally drew me to The Chronicle—staying at home means focusing on one’s defensive assignment. Being editor of The Chronicle gave me a different assignment each day in 301 Flowers, and on October 7 that meant learning about the nuances of Modrich’s research on DNA mismatch repair, even though I hadn’t thought much about DNA since high school biology.

Looking back at how our coverage came together that day and so many others, I am reminded of what any coach can tell you—staying at home pays off.

Anyone who knows me would tell you it would have been natural for me to try to take on one or two aspects of coverage myself rather than focusing on the big picture, but as editor I was forced to go against my instincts and trust others more than I ever had before, and our coverage was much stronger as a result.

The importance of providing strong leadership in Flowers when the unexpected happened was just one

photographers to overcome that adversity.

A few weeks after Modrich’s Nobel Prize win, 301 Flowers is where I tried to help our sports staff make sense of Duke football’s Halloween “loss” to Miami after an eight-lateral kickoff return. Like everyone else, we couldn’t.

During second semester, this is where within weeks our biggest investigative stories of the year, a supplement about how a 10-year old case changed Duke and coverage of one of the University’s longest protests in recent memory all came together.

It is also where I sit now, enjoying the final moments of my editorship while trying to pass on as much of what I learned this year as possible to next year’s Chronicle leaders.

Remembering these moments and so many others that made my year unique, I don’t find myself lamenting the negative effect many of these days had on my academic performance or general well-being.

Rather, I feel thankful that I got to experience them with individuals that made this year unforgettable, and excited knowing that for one more year I will get to call The Chronicle home.

None of this would have been possible without the countless leaders that came before me, many of whom believed I could be an effective editor before I did. Before I move back into the sports hall and post-editorship retirement, I also have to thank Rachel Chason, Gautam Hathi, Ryan Hoerger and Ryan Zhang for their enormous contributions this year. To the rest of our editorial staff and Chrissy Beck, Megan Haven and the rest of our business staff, thank you for all of the memories and all of your contributions. You are all the reason staying in 301 Flowers made this such an unforgettable year.

Amrith Ramkumar is a Trinity junior and editor-in-chief of The Chronicle. Like his predecessors, he aches with the knowledge that he will never be either again.

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Goodbye to (some of) all that

’ve been thinking lately about the phrase “college experience” (let’s leave aside its more insidious sibling, “college career”). There’s a certain pressure to have an individual definition of this supposedly singular experience, a cohesive personal narrative of the past four years.

This is what’s expected of you at graduation parties and on job interviews and when you’re asked, “How did you like Duke?”

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be smart enough; if you just skip one more meal, maybe you will be thin enough; if you just erase yourself a little more, maybe you will be close enough to the sort of girl he likes. I am unable to fall asleep, again. I am sitting in the passenger seat of my mother’s car, parked by East Campus and telling her no, I don’t need to see a therapist, I’m fine, can’t you see? And she is saying, “Sometimes, you just sound so small,” as both our eyes fill with tears.

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Livin’ your best life

y the time high school graduation rolled around just four short years ago, I was more than ready for it. Sure, I had enjoyed my time there, and my friends were amazing, but I was ready for the next step. That entire summer was basically just a countdown until I could go to Duke—O-Week could not have come fast enough.

My first impressions on campus were exactly as exciting as I had dreamed.

This place—my new home—was made

Emma Baccellieri

Carleigh Stiehm

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senior columns. I struggle with this. Perhaps because so much of my four years was spent at The Chronicle—learning the danger of falling prey to any convenient narrative— but looking back, it’s difficult for me to find any consistent arc in the weird kaleidoscope of moments that has been my time at Duke.

Mostly, looking back, there is The Chronicle and the dumb way that I loved it.

These columns often talk about the work demanded of the paper’s upper masthead positions, but I will only say that top editors are encouraged to take a few hours off on one night per week. People generally look forward to this precious time, when they escape the office for ordinary human tasks such as sleeping and showering. I dreaded it. I fought my colleagues every Tuesday, begging to stretch the 60 hours of my workweek to 65, unable to stand leaving my desk in the middle of production. I hated thinking of the paper without me, I’d say. But really— though I didn’t quite recognize it then—I hated thinking of myself without the paper.

This was how I loved The Chronicle.

As far as relationships go, The Chronicle and I were something very much flawed and illogical. But I don’t think we were a mistake. I think there is something to be said for loving stupidly and completely.

I think there is something to be said for loving in a way that is not transactional, with no expectation that your devotion will reap you any returns, and I think there is something to be said for loving in a way that is decidedly uncool and so very not “chill.”

There is danger here, to be sure, where love blurs into obsession or possession.

But I like to think there is something to be said for investing yourself fully, beautifully, dumbly. For me, at least, there was.

The Chronicle was much of my “college experience,” but it was certainly not all of it. And this is where the struggle for a narrative gets truly fraught, looking back on everything else.

Sometimes, it is hard to see anything other than the origins of my fault lines, these errors and regrets and heartbreaks. I am holding back hot tears in a professor’s office as I hear that I’m in danger of failing, I am fighting bitterly as a friendship disintegrates, I am miserably alone and struggling to breathe in a dormitory hallway. I am desperately making frustrated bargains with myself—if you just work through the night again, maybe you will

This little disastrous collection is part of the college experience often omitted from the “college experience,” but it’s thankfully very far from my whole. I am laughing until I cry on the floor of my best friend’s room, over nothing at all. I am driving to the ocean at three in the morning, a little too fast, because a friend has said that if we leave now, we can watch the sun rise and get back in time for class the next day. (Seven hours later, I am in said class and struggling to stay awake, sand in my shoes, confident that what we did the night before was both iridescently fun and supremely stupid.) I am hugging strangers as the confetti falls on a national championship. I am eating at ten fast-food restaurants in one day. I am kind of aware that I am not “enough,” and I don’t care at all.

The past few weeks have been heavy with the weight of last times. I was, at first, concerned with making sure these last times mattered in the way I felt they were supposed to. Lately, I’ve cared less about this. For my Last College Friday Night, I watched old movies with friends as we drank the last of our apartment’s good liquor (“good” being a relative term).

But at one point, I sneaked upstairs to watch the last innings of a baseball game.

My favorite team lost, due in no small part to the fact that they struck out 18 times.

Before I went downstairs, just for the hell of it, I looked up their record for single-game strikeouts. Twenty-one. In 1986, an away game in Seattle with paltry attendance at the old Kingdome, an absurdly insignificant September match-up between two really bad teams whose seasons had long ceased to mean anything to anyone. Twenty-one strikeouts in one game.

And they won, 5-4. They set the team record for failure in a single night, in a forgotten game that meant nothing at all, and they still won. I’m not sure how much this has to do with my “college experience,” but I very much like that it is true.

Emma Baccellieri is a Trinity senior and editor-in-chief of Towerview Magazine. She was news editor of The Chronicle’s vol. 110. She would like to thank everyone who made v110 survivable (but especially Carleigh); mentors Lauren, Julian, Nicole, Anna, Danielle and Elysia; and all of the wonderfully talented babies she leaves behind. And for their endless love and support, her family, Corey, Taylor, Spiegz & Co. and BDGT.

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for me, and everything felt right. That is until it came time for my parents to leave Duke, without me. This was exactly what I had prepared for, what I had wanted, so why did it feel so wrong to see them leaving without me?

And I cried. A lot.

It didn’t make sense. I had spent so much time picturing my new life as a college student, but I felt so overwhelmed at what I leaving behind, that I just couldn’t shake a feeling of sadness. Everywhere I looked, there were people telling me I should feel happy about by situation, and I agreed with them. There was so much that I should be feeling happy about! So I resolved to feel happy and move on. I assured myself that there would be no more pointless crying in college.

I was wrong.

During my four years here, I have sobbed more times than I could ever count: failed exams, drunken fights, fears about the future. No experience conjured more crying for me at Duke than my time with The Chronicle. When I decided to run for editor-in-chief as a sophomore, I traded in afternoon lunches with friends for meetings that lasted hours on end to prepare for the position.

I learned everything that I possibly could about the organization and my potential role in it. And when the night of elections finally came, I was ready for it. My platform was ready to go, and my speech was a full reflection of how much I had come to love the organization. Getting the call that I had won was one of the most exciting single moments in my life. The editorship had become my biggest goal, and I had accomplished it.

Immediately I started crying. I was so happy in ways that words couldn’t describe. But as the reality of the situation set in, I came to the realization that my win meant that the three other candidates in the race had lost. In all of my preparation, it hadn’t occurred to me that the best-case outcome for me would mean the worst-case for three of my closest friends.

So pretty quickly, those happy tears turned into confusion. Over the next several weeks, everyone around me echoed congratulations and excitement for me. They told me how happy I should be that I won. And I

really was happy. But that didn’t mean I also couldn’t feel sadness at the pain of my friends. Everyone was telling me to feel one way, but in reality there was a lot more to my emotions than anyone else understood.

When I tried to conform to the emotions that others expected me to feel, I ended up alienating aspects of my experience that made it feel complete.

I wasn’t whole without acknowledging everything that I was feeling, even when it was messy and imperfect.

Whether I was crying with joy over how good the first sip of a Cookout milkshake felt in my mouth or sobbing out of frustration at a B+ that I just couldn’t get to an A, every emotion I felt while I was a student was part of my Duke experience. And rather than listening to how others said I should be feeling, I wish I would have trusted myself to feel every ounce of joy and sadness that came my way.

Even now, as I prepare to leave Duke and head off to the next stage of pretending to be an adult, everyone around me is telling me how excited I should be at the new opportunity. And I am. I am so excited that I can’t help but smile at just the thought of it. But I am also sad. I am sad that I am not going to see the Chapel everyday. And I am sad that I wont ever attend another class as a Duke undergraduate. And I am sad that this phase of my life—one that I have come to love so deeply—is over.

And that’s okay.

No one gets to dictate how I feel, and there is no right or wrong way to feel about something that matters. So I am embracing this confusing mix of emotions that I am feeling as graduation approaches, and I am doing it with the joy of knowing I am lucky to have had an experience that I loved enough to produce these strong feelings.

So look out real world, I’m coming your way living the life that I love and loving the life that I’m living. And if anyone needs me, I’ll probably be the one crying.

Carleigh Stiehm is a Trinity senior.

She served as the editor-in-chief of The Chronicle’s 110th volume. She would like to thank her parents for offering her a place to sleep inside the fence despite the weekly requests for support—financially and emotionally; her sister for being a partner-in-crime during people watching marathons at Olive Garden; all of the Chron past (Danielle, Elysia, Lauren) and present (Nick, Elizabeth, Georgia, Amrith) for creating a family in 301; Abigail, Ana and Patricia for keeping her young; and Emma for being the best co-dh, news editor, roommate, feminist theorist and friend a girl could ask for. But mostly she would like to thank her dog for being the best.

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