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Dorm room dispatches Anisha Reddy | Staff reporter Staff reporter Anisha Reddy’s West Campus dorm room, midway through a week during which on-campus students were confined to their residences except for certain essential purposes.

Monday, 2:00 p.m.

Economics problem set. Chinese essay. Outline for research project. I’ve been staring at my planner for ten minutes, but I struggle to start even one task. I feel like a trapped Westview resident from Wanda’s Hex in “WandaVision.” I need to act normally, because work still has to be done, but I also feel an invisible force chipping away at my sanity and disrupting my productivity. I need comfort, a sense of familiarity. Instinctively, I reach for my phone and text my brother, a junior on West Campus: “Wanna take a walk sometime this week, we’re allowed gatherings up to three and I hate solitary confinement.” Three minutes later, a reply: “Yes PLEASE/ I’m going crazy/ U free today honestly.” Good to know we’re both feeling the same way. We meet on West. The gray sky and light drizzle match our dreary mood as we dodge sidewalk puddles and contemplate how we’ll cope with the week. But after a few minutes, we find ourselves teasing each other as if it were any normal day, momentarily forgetting about the week ahead. We’re about to go our separate ways when a ray of sunlight slices through the clouds and bathes the Crowell clocktower’s stone walls. Riding the bus back to East, I notice three first-years surrounded by brown paper bags and a stack of pizza boxes– food from West Union to last them a coupleof days. “Sprout, Tandoor, Il Forno,” one of the first-year students, Gargi Mahadeshwar, tells me. “We don’t have card access. We had to wait to be let in.” I should do that, I think to myself. But after a few moments, I dismiss the idea. I think I’ll be fine sticking to Marketplace just for this week. -Katie Tan, staff reporter.

Wednesday, 9 a.m.

“Morning guys,” my friend Nathan Nouri, a sophomore, sends a text in our friends’ group chat. “How is everyone?” We’re tired, bored and missing each other. Wednesday feels a lot like Tuesday, which felt a lot like Monday. As I walk through my dorm hallway to go brush my teeth, I can just barely hear my blockmates behind their doors, each of them cloistered in their dorm rooms. Luis, cycling on his

stationary bike and listening to music. Parker, climbing out of bed. Alex, chuckling at a YouTube video. When I return to my room, Nouri has shared a photo in our group chat: a piece of paper, on which he’s listed each day of the lockdown. He’s crossed out Days 1-3. He sends another text: “Today is halfway.” - Chris Kuo, features managing editor,

After a spike in COVID-19 cases that administrators attributed to in-person fraternity rush events, Duke issued a weeklong “stay-in-place” order that included a move to entirely online classes, restrictions on when on-campus students could leave their residences and a ban on on-campus students coming to campus except for essential activities. The order ended 9 a.m. Sunday. Here are some students’ experiences from a week in lockdown. Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.

A peek through the blinds confirms my suspicions: the sky is overcast and gloomy, just like it has been all week. It almost feels like the weather is part of a cruel joke, with the lack of social interaction, the isolation in our rooms, and the perpetually grey skies conspiring to keep spirits low. I look out my window to Keohane Quad to see students milling around alone or in pairs. They seem adrift to me, like prisoners in a yard, outside only to escape the boredom of their rooms. Time passes weirdly under lockdown. Alone with the fluorescent lighting and stale air of my dorm, I’ve completed the same cycle: wake up, attend online class, eat

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by myself, do homework, go to bed. I never know what day or even what time it is without checking my phone because everything is blending together into one long lockdown. And it’s only Wednesday. I get a text in a group chat: “Does anyone want to go on a walk before it gets too dark?” I scramble to “like” the message, desperate for something to do. A few minutes later, three friends and I separate into two pairs and set off on our long, meandering stroll around West Campus. As we walk, first-year Lindsey Weyant remarks, “I really needed to get out of my room. Sitting in one place all day has been terrible for my mental health.” I agree, and the simple act of commiserating with someone immediately lifts the weight off my chest. I realize that those kids I had looked down at earlier had the right idea, that the key to getting through this week is the same as the key to getting through this school year. We have to deliberately make time to get out and do something every day, and we have to make time to check on each other. By the end of our stroll, my restlessness has quieted. I stop to marvel at the cherry blossoms in full bloom. They remind me that the beautiful North Carolina spring is almost here, so long as we get through the next few days. I take one last deep breath, gulping a lungful of the crisp evening air, and head inside. -Anisha Reddy, staff reporter. See LOCKDOWN on Page 2

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Students find fault with frats amid party-linked lockdown By Jake Sheridan Features Editor

Rebecca Torrence Staff Reporter

Drops of black paint rolled down the technicolor wall under the East Campus bridge. The stretch of concrete was already crowded with art, but that night a message written in fresh paint stood out from them all. “F*ck IFC!” read the wet graffiti. The phrase, scribbled at least three times on the night of Mar. 14 by a quartet of firstyear students, stood plastered next to another painting—one as long and tall as a bus that shared the same message, but with the word “Frats” in place of “IFC.” Both expressions appeared in the final hours before Duke implemented a stay-in-place order as COVID-19 cases among undergraduates soared. University administrators have repeatedly blamed the outbreak on recruitment events and parties held by members of disaffiliated fraternities. That distinction was not missed by Duke students, many of whom were barred for a week from leaving their dorms except for essential activities. In graffiti and group messages, social media and online petitions, many students have expressed anger with fraternities and their members. First-year Elyana Riddick, who said she had been put off by fraternities when they disaffiliated, was among those students. “This weekend, when we had the spike in COVID cases, it just kind of pushed me over into a lot of anger and a lot of resentment,” said Riddick.

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Duke didn’t single out members of the Durham Interfraternity Council until March 10, a few days before instituting the stayin-place order. Mary Pat McMahon, vice provost and vice president of student affairs, said she realized the need to identify the Durham IFC’s responsibility for the increase in cases after having conversations with multiple students who expressed frustration that Duke hadn’t publicly connected the surge to fraternities. “We had this idea that people would draw their own conclusions from the information,” she said. “But we made the decision that we needed to name it more clearly so students could make their own decisions from there.” Durham IFC released a statement March 15 that said the organization was “disappointed that some individuals within fraternities violated the expectations we established for virtual recruitment which may have contributed to an increase in cases of COVID-19 within the Duke student population.” The statement promised new accountability measures to prevent future COVID-19 violations, including a reporting hotline and judicial board. Fraternities have faced increased pressure over the last year. Last summer, a group of students called for the abolition of Duke Interfraternity Council fraternities and Panhellenic sororities, alleging the groups harbored a culture of racism and sexism. The movement saw approximately 400 students disaffiliate from such organizations, the vast majority of whom were women leaving sororities, according to self-reported data.

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Duke plans for ‘close to normal’ fall semester, administrators tell faculty BY CARTER FORINASH | 03/18/2021 Duke’s summer and fall plans include expanded on-campus living and the possibility of international travel for students. In August, Duke’s Panhellenic Council petition March 13 calling for Duke voted to no longer allow sorority chapters to sue the Durham IFC for “reckless to host parties with all-male organizations. endangerment” of the Duke and Durham Last month, nine Duke IFC fraternities communities. In the first few hours after disaffiliated from its creation, hundreds the University and We made the decision that of people signed the formed the Durham petition. As of Saturday IFC to avoid rules we needed to name [the night, the petition has regulating housing cause of the COVID-19 over 1,500 signatures. and preventing Senior Madeleine spike] more clearly so spring rush. “Mac” Gagné, who has Although Duke’s students could make their been collaborating with a ck n ow l e d g em en t Parks on the project, of the Durham IFC own decisions from there.” said this immediate as a major driver outpouring of support felt mary pat mcmahon validating. of positive cases VICE PROVOST AND VICE PRESIDENT FOR sparked resentment “The rate that it grew STUDENT AFFAIRS towards fraternities, just reflects that the it wasn’t until the anger we found comfort University announced the stay-in-place in knowing we were both experiencing was order that some students rallied around something that so many other members of their mutual indignation. See FRATS on Page 12 Senior Anya Parks started an online

Mahadeshwar and three other girls hustled to the first floor and sat six feet apart in the hallway. “I don’t think anyone was freaking out about it, because the weather looked fine outside,” she said. The tornado warning was just another bizarre event in a surreal week. I imagine ourselves 10 years later, gathered at Duke alumni reunions, shaking our heads and wondering how our college experience could have ever ended up like this. -Katie Tan, staff reporter.

Katie Tan | Staff reporter Staff reporter Katie Tan’s dorm room during the weeklong stay-in-place order.

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Friday, 3 p.m.

Yesterday’s update on the shelter-in-place from Duke admin was slightly encouraging. I’m cautiously optimistic that we’ll all be freed by Sunday morning. I check back in with Mahadeshwar. For her, the week’s been a blur of online classes and doing work alone in her room, dotted with brighter moments of walking outside

and FaceTiming friends. She misses being able to study in her usual spot: one of Bell Tower’s classrooms on the first floor. “Having to do everything in my room and having to study alone instead of with other people was hard,” she said. Mahadeshwar actually did end up in Bell’s first floor this week—to shelter during Thursday’s tornado warning. Around 6:40 P.M., a loud siren blared across East Campus and phones flashed with a message from DukeALERT: “Tornado Warning Main Campus-Durham. Seek safe location! Avoid windows/doors.”

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baked chocolate banana bread. Reyes walked on nature trails around campus to find peace. Je went on runs when she felt overwhelmed. I finally picked up the mass of clothes from the floor of my dorm. Even fire alarms found a new meaning this week. When one went off in Hollows B on Thursday, some students were grateful instead of grumpy “It was nice just to finally have some human contact,” Derocher said. We’ve also seen our community come together, even when apart. It was nice to see “people’s commitment to Saturday, 4 p.m. bettering the community” this week, Reyes said. The middle of March—with warm weather, “It restored my faith in Duke in a time where March Madness, and the return from spring community is hard to come by.” break—normally brings Duke students -Leah Boyd, university news editor. together. Not this year. This week, we’ve felt alone. “The realization of lockdown didn’t really hit me until I actually went outside on Sunday and everything was just deserted,” sophomore Malenie Reyes said. Sophomore Chloe Derocher didn’t feel the mental effects of the shelter-in-place until she finished most of her work for the week. When she realized she couldn’t end the week by seeing her friends, she started feeling down. “Ever since Friday, I’ve been feeling kind of sad and lonely, especially when I remembered I couldn’t get dinner with all of my friends or hang out with them that night,” Derocher said. We’ve learned to appreciate all those moments from life before sheltering-inplace. Sophomore Jihyeon Je felt she used to take the “little things” for granted, like playing board games with friends. She misses Wilson Recreation Center and being able to say hello to friends on the Bryan Center Plaza or when grabbing food. Anisha Reddy | Staff reporter But even in isolation, we’ve had small Trees on campus began to bloom during the moments of joy. Derocher and her suitemate stay-in-place order.

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DSG president-elect Christina Wang values people-first leadership DSG attorney general. She had been elected the 2020-21 DSG president, beating junior Carlos Diaz, with 52.2% of the votes. When the pandemic forced Duke to “My roommate had just gotten a job offer transition online last March, junior Christina at the exact same moment,” Wang said. “So she Wang decided that, as a way to cope, she would burst into my room and she was like, ‘I got the try and keep herself busy. job!’ And I was like, ‘I won the election!’ Then the newly elected Duke Student ” Government vice president of equity and The path to the presidency outreach, Wang spent up to 10 hours a day On one of her first days as a Blue Devil, working on DSG over the summer. Though Wang decided that she wanted to be part of DSG wasn’t in session, she helped create the DSG. She was sitting in a packed Cameron Blue Devil Buddies mentorship program, call Indoor Stadium during convocation, a few for a S/U grading policy and found the Student rows from the stage where Kristina Smith, Advocate’s Office. Trinity ’19 and DSG president at the time, was “I really was just giving my all at that time to giving a speech. DSG, and that illuminated for me the potential “I just remember being so awestruck, so that DSG has,” she said. “I saw DSG taking inspired, hearing her and seeing her speak a step forward and being proactive to help about how passionate she was about making address students’ needs.” Duke a better place,” Wang said. After the summer, Wang realized that she Wang asked Smith to have lunch with her. wanted to be the one to lead DSG in reaching During the lunch, Wang recalled that Smith its potential. But there were still moments of encouraged her to run for senator for the equity doubt during first semester, and she wondered and outreach committee. if someone else would be better for the role. But Smith, who has witnessed Wang’s She finally came to a decision over winter “advocacy for equity and justice grow break, when her friends sat her down and urged tremendously since her first year,” pointed out her to run for DSG president. in an email that “as soon as she stepped foot “They were like, ‘You really care so much onto campus and into DSG, she wanted to be about this. And you’re in a position where on the equity and outreach committee.” you’ve done the work, you’ve built the “She encouraged me to do all the things connections, you have the experience and that I wanted to do, to go out there and not be a good understanding of what DSG is now, afraid to try to create change, even if I was a but also a vision of what you hope for it to newcomer to it,” Wang said. become,’” she said. “And I think that latter part Part of Wang’s hesitancy to run for president is what’s most important to me.” had to do with the anxiety of putting herself Almost exactly a year after Duke shifted to in the spotlight and opening herself up to remote learning, Wang was taking a nap when See WANG on Page 12 she received a call from senior Jason Scharff, By Milla Surjadi Staff Reporter

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staff note North Carolina Tinder is weird. A cursory glance at my Tinder deck reveals three things: first, North Carolina guys like taking unappetizing fish pictures; second, there’s not many gay men in North Carolina; third, North Carolina guys are racist. As a gay Taiwanese American man, navigating these appearance-driven dating apps has been challenging — I get the

impression that a lot of these men have lived in homogenously white communities their entire lives. It’s rare that anime or boba aren’t brought up in my brief conversations with them, or that I’m not asked where I’m really from. But this isn’t a conversation that’s had in the mainstream — Asian American experiences are usually relegated to lighthearted op-eds about stinky school lunches or tweets from verified accounts championing diversity on movie

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screens. In the gay male community, anti-Asian racism is a normalized behavior channeled through sexual “preferences” and a lack of representation in mainstream queer media. In a broader context, discourse about Asian American experiences more often than not glosses over our struggles in a way that panders to Eurocentric ideas of the model minority. So this week has been particularly jarring. This week, eight people, six of them Asian women, were shot to death in Atlanta, Georgia. It doesn’t help that the shooting was described by the deputy sheriff as a “really bad day” for the shooter. Yet again, Asian Americans have been condensed into statistics, leftovers of a “really bad day.” The killings fall into a pattern of anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander hate crimes amid the pandemic. As I write this from New York City, I am cognizant — and wary — of the fact that this city has had “the largest increase in reported hate crimes against Asians last year.” I grew up in a predominantly Asian suburb of Los Angeles, California. Last semester was a culture shock: as I flew to North Carolina in search of new perspectives, I was forced to become more cognizant about my racial identity. What role did my race play in Duke’s social landscape? What role did my race play in my experiences on dating apps? What did it mean when the white man on 9th Street yelled “Ni hao” at me? What gives me hope — only partially, because I know that digital activism is inherently performative to some extent — is the massive social media spotlight that we’ve been given recently. My social media feed has been dominated by posts responding to these acts of hate: Asian women sharing their stories of hypersexualization and fetishization, Duke

students sharing GoFundMes for families of the victims of the Atlanta shooting and corporations have attempted to voice diluted messages of support. I am well aware of the criticisms behind Instagram activism; however, what strikes me is how Asian American voices have entered the conversation: that we, too, are more than the model minority monolith that we have been painted out to be. I forget about this a lot — that we hold power in our platforms, whether that’s through a column in the Duke Chronicle or our Instagram accounts. A few years back, whistleblowers Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor published a piece about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault allegations. And then, we started to rally for survivors of sexual assault under the #MeToo hashtag — we came to the harsh realization that we were all complicit. In the blink of an eye, a few paragraphs of text catalyzed a social movement that reconfigured our cultural paradigms around manhood and workplace power dynamics. In the same way, our current social media movement to #StopAsianHate may have started with story reposts; but nevertheless, it is enabling us to force our own narratives into the mainstream and steer away misconceptions about our identities. That inherent power of the platform — the ability to amplify the voices of the voiceless — is something I need to remember more as a writer. I’m still trying to figure out the purpose of my writing. Maybe this is it.

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a life while Cyborg hacks his way into giving money to those who need it. Additional scenes The long-awaited “Zack Snyder’s “Justice like these show us why they are heroes and why League” is finally here. For any other film, there Batman is trying to recruit them — a stark wouldn’t be as much excitement and anticipation contrast to the theatrical version. Lois Lane for a movie that was originally released in 2017, is no longer a background character part of but fans of the DC universe have clamored to see Batman’s contingency plan in case Superman Zack Snyder’s original vision for this superhero goes rogue, but rather a fully developed alliance. After watching both back-to-back, the character filled with emotional turmoil from difference between the original release and the the very beginning of the film. new version is truly night and day, and despite There are also scenes where, once the super the additional two hours, the investment in a team is together, they have time to meaningfully new cut was worth it. interact with each other. Aquaman and Flash Joss Whedon’s version of “Justice League” have a nice heart-to-heart after a painful was marred by harsh critical reviews and battle with resurrected Superman, and it’s a disappointing box office numbers. This version moment that makes the Justice League feel like cut down a lot of the original storyline in order more of a team rather than a ragtag group of to create a more streamlined movie, but it only emotionless superhumans. Even Superman is made “Justice League” feel sloppy, rushed and given time to process his own resurrection. While underdeveloped. Scenes were incoherently he is still limited in his role as the ultimate strung together at times, and the movie weapon, his relationships with Lois Lane, bounced from one hero to the next without any Martha and Batman feel more emotional thorough background or significant character because of the additional scenes dedicated to development. Frankly, the theatrical version show how devastated the three felt after his is driven by plot, stripped of any compelling death. These scenes are bright examples of motives and filled with confusing scenes that why action movies still need more than just made me ask: “Did I miss something?” plot-advancing dialogue. The film’s characters Zack Snyder’s version addresses just about and their relationships with one another make every issue found in its predecessor. The plot is us care about the team, so when they work essentially the same: Batman forms an alliance together and risk their lives for the fate of with the world’s greatest heroes to defend Earth humanity, we actually feel the stakes and root from an alien invasion. However, the additional for their success. two hours create a clearer and more engaging Much-needed attention is paid to the film’s journey that fixes many of the original’s villain Steppenwolf, who was originally a vague mistakes and takes the time to delve into every and uninteresting character, but he transforms character’s background and motivation. into a motivated monster fighting to bring back All across the board, characters were vitally an even deadlier, ominous villain. He looks a lot expanded. We are introduced to heroes like more menacing, and he feels a lot more deserving Flash and Cyborg through their complex of his fate by the end of the four-hour film. backgrounds and inherent desires to help Even the smaller tweaks were distinctly other people. We see the Flash speedily save noticeable. Fights were enhanced with a new Staff Columnist

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stellar score from Thomas Holkenborg, though there were moments where the musical additions felt overpowering and unnecessary. Scenes misplaced in the original version were swapped and corrected, which easily eliminated a lot of the confusion from the first version. The biggest drawbacks to “Justice League” is its uncomfortably long runtime, but the chapter structure allows viewers to break down the movie and space it out like a binge-model

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TV series. I’d recommend taking plenty of breaks in between, but this version of “Justice League” is worth watching, especially if you want to get the theatrical version out of your head. This version was never supposed to see the light of day, but fans’ push for this mega movie has partially saved the Justice League from embarrassing doom and renewed DC enthusiasts’ faith in what is to come from their favorite superheroes.

‘Spaceman’ is Nick Jonas’s COVID-era tribute to love By Ellie Selden Contributing Writer

Nick Jonas put his brothers aside for this one and returned to the solo stage with Spaceman, an album that is, dare I say, out of this world. Released Mar. 12, this is his first solo album since the Jonas Brothers reunited around this time in 2019, leaving many fans wondering what this means for the boy band. However, the surprise release of the deluxe version provides some reassurance as track “Selfish” features both Joe and Kevin. Following the news, he wrote on instagram “Told you @jonasbrothers weren’t going anywhere.” Phew. Since Disney-era JoBros, Nick has shown his affinity to grow as an independent artist. Even though he has reunited with his brothers, that fact has not changed, and the two are not mutually exclusive. The album reflects on pandemic life in an attempt to be relatable and create a connection between the art and the audience. The album is divided into quarters that follow distance, indulgence, euphoria and commitment. The youngest band member has created a story and carefully-sequenced piece of art with the release of this album, not just a bunch of songs thrown together under a shiny cover. The emotional distress of quarantine is expressed through the first three songs followed by two about pandemic coping mechanisms. Instead of just stating all of the emotions he has been experiencing in isolation, Jonas uses the second half of the album to offer an antidote: love. This album is an ode to Jonas’ wife Priyanka Chopra Jonas and the amount of time they have spent together during the pandemic. The title track’s music video follows the artist on a search to find his wife. This love letter comes as the two announced this year’s Oscar nominations, a list

that included The White Tiger, a film starring and produced by Ms. Chopra Jonas. The two are quite the power couple — on the nomination stream, fans flooded their comments with gushing compliments. After the “Spaceman” music video came the “This Is Heaven” video which Jonas describes as being “sort of the center point, and kind of the thing that propels us into the theme of commitment, honestly just one of my favorites.” The music videos are rolling out in the intentional order of the album to complete the artistic vision. Harry Styles, another teen sensation, just won a Grammy for his post-boy-band solo career. Could this offer some insight to Jonas’s future career goals? Styles’s win proves that it is possible to escape the boy band reputation and gain respect from the Academy. Whether or not this is what the teen sensation is eyeing, this album shows true artistic growth. Out of the three brothers, Nick has definitely done the most to mature his image and make a name for himself independent of the Jonas Brothers brand. In 2012, he returned to Broadway, reminding everyone that he’d spent much of his childhood in the theatre. The multi-talented artist began his career at age 7 on Broadway and left to form the Jonas Brothers. Nick was the one to get discovered for his voice, and his brothers piggybacked on his signing with Columbia Records to round out the iconic band. Besides being a triple threat, he is a talented songwriter and can play the guitar, bass, piano, keyboard, percussion and drums. His talent carried the band, so it makes sense that he has been the most successful solo artist to emerge. Though Nick Jonas is by no means a new artist, he is starting a new chapter in his career. He went from his childhood theatre career to

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“Spaceman” reflects on pandemic life in an attempt create a connection between art and audience. the Jonas Brothers to his solo career and back to the Jonas Brothers. Now he is back on his solo career, but it is different. He has gone through metamorphosis and come out the other side. It has been almost five years since the release of the artist’s last solo album and like any other twenty-something, he has changed a lot in that time period. One stark development — his marriage to his muse, Priyanka Chopra. Chopra

has made her way into Jonas’s heart and creative soul, illuminating greatness into his music. Even though his career seems like it has been plentiful since it has been going 21 years strong, it is important to remember that he is only 28 and has tremendous room and ample opportunity to change and improve his talent. “Spaceman” represents one of many new projects that will hopefully come from Jonas in the future.

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Duke shocks the world at NCAA Championships By Evan Kolin Sports Editor

Both the Blue Devil men and women were competing in their first NCAA Championships since 2012, and they made sure to make the most of the opportunity. Duke’s men’s and women’s cross country squads finished 16th and 27th, respectively, Monday at the NCAA Championships in Stillwater, Okla. The men’s performance was particularly impressive—they entered the meet as one of just four unranked teams in the 30team field, but outperformed all of their unranked peers as well as four top-15 squads en route to their best finish in the NCAA Championships since 2001. “We kind of knew all along that we were capable of doing it,” senior co-captain Alex Miley said. “I think what made it so shocking was the fact that so many other running communities out there thought that we would honestly end up last or close to. I mean, we were unranked and then getting 16th...I would say internally, that was something that we knew we were capable of doing it.... But when you really get it done, I mean, it’s something special. Just all of us after the finish line, just looking at each other, like, this is a new era.” Miley led the way, finishing in 68th in the 251-person race. The Minnesota native sat in 169th place after the first two kilometers of the 10-kilometer course, and just 80th entering the final kilometer, but gave it his all down the final stretch in the last cross country race of his Blue Devil career. “Just going in, it was [fellow senior] Paul Dellinger and I’s last race wearing a Duke

uniform and it’s our last cross country race that we’re ever going to have most likely. And I think that’s something going in as a senior, you’ve put [in] a lot of effort throughout the years,” Miley said. “And I just think, like, running for the guys. That was something that when we were meeting all together for dinner, we looked at each other and we knew [that] we were going to run for the the guys that were also wearing the Duke Blue Devils jersey.... I just wanted to put it all out there.” Head coach Rhonda Riley was also quick to praise the performances of Miley and Dellinger. “They’re both seniors, and they’re going to be graduating this year and won’t be able to be running for us next year,” Riley said. “And they just ran with a lot of heart and really just put it out there.” Senior Josh Romine followed Miley in 96th place, with Dellinger, sophomore Zach Kinne, senior CJ Ambrosio, freshman Jared Kreis and junior Chris Theodore finishing in 106th, 114th, 153rd, 155th, and 170th, respectively. On the women’s side, senior Michaela Reinhart led the way for the Blue Devils just as she has for nearly every race this season, finishing in 112th in the six-kilometer, 256-person race. But Duke’s next finisher came as somewhat of a surprise, with freshman Victoria Patterson clocking in at 142nd place. Patterson finished a mere ninth on the team and 91st overall at the ACC Championships in October. “The individual that really stands out [for the Blue Devil women] probably would be freshman Victoria Patterson,” Riley said. “She just ran with such confidence and poise and was able to be second for us. And that’s

a great result for a freshman.” Sophomore Samantha Schadler, seniors Sara Platek and Amanda Beach, sophomore Caroline Howley and freshman Charlotte Tomkinson rounded out the squad in 146th, 163rd, 216th, 218th and 223rd place, respectively. Most of the team now has their eyes set on the outdoor track and field season, which is set to begin this weekend at the Bob Davidson Invitational in High Point, N.C. But there’s something different between the multitude of events during a track meet and the singular goal of a cross country race, something departing seniors such as Miley will undoubtedly miss. But like he said, this could be the start of “a new era” for Duke cross country, with

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Miley and his teammates doing their job to pave the way. “Being the last cross country race for me—trying to be a leader on the team is something I’ve really focused on and it’s been important to me,” Miley said. “But as we move forward next year for cross country, we have great leadership on our team and we have guys coming back.... There were a lot of alumni that were staying connected with the race and nationals, and they’re going to continue doing that for outdoor [track and field], but I think it’s just the cascading snowball effect. I mean, there’s eight of us that went to nationals, but it’s every guy on the team. If you look from top to bottom, guys are committed, and that kind of culture goes a long way.”

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Senior Michaela Reinhart led the way for the Blue Devil women, just as she has for nearly every race this season.

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Blue Devils dominate in first home match since October By Jonathan Levitan Staff Writer

As the saying goes, there’s no place like home. No. 5 Duke showed out Wednesday in its first game in Koskinen Stadium since Oct. 9, hurdling past visiting Coastal Carolina by a final score of 6-0. The Blue Devils got three scores within the 13 minutes from 0 first CCU the forward duo of 6 freshman Olivia Migli DUKE and junior Mackenzie Pluck and never looked back, taking a 5-0 lead into the half. The first-half outpour allowed head coach Robbie Church to rest his starters and field a whole new lineup in the final frame. “We have more talent on the team than Coastal Carolina does. But what we wanted to do, mainly, was not have talent win the game,” Church said. “We wanted us to play, and play better. And I thought we played really, really well.” “It was fun to be home, no question about it,” Church added. The Blue Devils (9-4-2) struck early and often en route to the blowout victory, with Migli’s early play setting the tone. The freshman forward saw her first shot saved just 17 seconds into the game on a cross from senior right back Delaney Graham, and a little over a minute later missed the header wide left off the first of Duke’s 13 corner kicks. Migli’s third shot proved the charm, however, opening up the scoring in the sixth minute with a top shelf finish from well beyond the box. On a night in which a number of players produced in the box score, Pluck managed to particularly stand out, tying a career-high with two assists to go along with her score in the

seventh minute. After breaking out for eight goals in her wildly successful 2019 campaign, Pluck’s unassisted goal Wednesday was her first of the 2020-21 season. “I think Mackenzie Pluck is playing outstanding. I think her turning ability to run at players, her confidence right now, is extremely high. And we’re just really, really proud,” Church said. “And she’ll be the first to admit it—she didn’t have a great fall. But she has really bounced back in the spring and she’s a handful out there.” While Pluck and Migli certainly stood out, a number of Blue Devils found their way to the end of the rainbow on St. Patrick’s Day, with sophomore Sophie Jones, senior Tess Boade and junior Marykate McGuire all netting goals of their own and Graham totaling two assists from the back line. McGuire’s goal was her first since scoring twice in a 4-3 overtime win against Wake Forest in the fall opener. Especially notable was Jones’ goal, as it marked the first-team All-ACC midfielder’s first score of her already decorated collegiate career. Despite a consistently high level of play that has Jones in the running for the prestigious Hermann Trophy as the best player in college soccer, the former Gatorade National High School Player of the Year had struggled to find the back of the net until Wednesday night. “The one area we’ve talked to Sophie and the one area she knows she has to try to continue to get better is scoring goals and getting on that score sheet,” Church said. “So it’s really good to see her score that goal tonight, because she’s so good all over the field and she’s good in the scoring area—she’s just a couple of times been unlucky. But it was good to see that ball go in from her tonight.” Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the

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Freshman Olivia Migli sparked Duke with two goals in the first 13 minutes, her fifth and sixth scores of the season. night was that 25 Blue Devils saw the field, with Church opting for a hockey-style line change at the break. Junior goalkeeper Holly Stam saw action for the first time this season, finishing off sophomore starter Ruthie Jones’ clean slate, and a number of other Blue Devils also made their season debuts. Duke’s depth was on full display in the second half, with stellar play from McGuire, sophomore Emmy Duerr and freshman Grace Watkins all occupying the front third until the final whistle. While the pace of play was noticeably slower than in the first half and the intensity understandably fading, the second unit kept the pressure on in an

impressive tour de force, yielding not a single shot on goal from Coastal Carolina (7-7) in the final 45 minutes. The Blue Devils will have some time off before taking on No. 7 West Virginia on the road March 27. The two teams last faced off in Sept. 2017, with then-No. 11 Duke beating the then-third-ranked Mountaineers 4-0. “I really like where we are right now,” Church said. “We’ve got 10 days to prepare. We got to be better than we are now for West Virginia. But really looking forward to taking that step forward and seeing exactly where this group is against a nationally ranked team.”

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Duke places 2nd at the Big Four Challenge By Eric Gim Staff Writer

If history could repeat itself, then Father Time was not merciful toward the Blue Devils at the Big Four Challenge. Featuring No. 5 Duke, No. 3 Wake Forest, N.C. State and North Carolina, Saturday’s match play tournament at the par-72 Lonnie Poole Golf Course in Raleigh, N.C., boiled down to a 2019 NCAA Championship rematch between Duke and Wake Forest. While the Blue Devils were able to narrowly secure their seventh national title with a 3-2 victory two years ago, they were on the opposite end of the score this time around. Despite the tough loss, senior Jaravee Boonchant was able to lead the Blue Devils to a dominant performance against N.C. State in the first round while securing a second head-to-head win against the Demon Deacons in the final round. Coming off a sixth-place individual finish at the Valspar Augusta Invitational March 13-14, Boonchant—in her second

tournament back after spending a full calendar year in her home country of Thailand—continued her strong performance in Duke’s first match against N.C. State. The three-time All-American made a statement from the first hole by collecting a birdie to start off oneunder par against the Wolfpack’s Natalie Armbruster. She would not lose this momentum through the remainder of the first nine holes, increasing her lead to five-under par and eventually turning that into a 7&6 win. “This morning, it was cold and I wasn’t feeling that great with my shots, so I tried to be conservative with them,” Boonchant said in regards to her first-round strategy. “This meant trying to hit as many greens as possible and playing it safely. It ended up working out pretty well.” Where Boonchant really shined, however, was in her second matchup against Wake Forest’s ace Lauren Walsh, who is individually ranked 14th in the nation. Despite starting off one stroke behind

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Walsh, Boonchant quickly reversed the score to even with a par in the second hole. After a long even-stalemate with minimal changes to the lead, Boonchant sunk a 10-foot par putt on the 14th to retake a one-under par lead. She went on to drain a birdie from 21-feet on her 16th and closed the match with a par on the 17th to secure a 3&1 win against Walsh. “I was trying to play my own game and stayed focused throughout. I struck the hole whenever I had a chance and just was patient and tried to win the hole,” Boonchant said. “But [Wake Forest] is a very strong team and it was nice getting to compete against them, especially since we will be seeing them again at the ACC tournament and at nationals. It was a very good practice [for what’s to come].” But it wasn’t just Boonchant who welcomed the fight against Wake Forest. Head coach Dan Brooks echoed Boonchant’s sentiments when they found out that they would be match-playing against their 2019 NCAA Championship final-round opponent. “The energy of our team was excellent. Wake Forest is a really good team, but we have a fun and friendly rivalry going on with them—we just love to do battle with

Wake [Forest],” Brooks said. “Our team had great energy going into this match and we just didn’t come out on top despite giving a hard fight.” Brooks went on to highlight the games of several Blue Devils from throughout the tournament. Besides Boonchant’s “veteran experience,” junior Gina Kim’s “strong mentality” and sophomore Erica Shepherd’s swing adjustments were all factors that helped the Blue Devils put up a strong fight. “Even though we lost, I saw all the girls fighting through and playing solid golf. I think it was a very good practice and experience for the postseason so I am very looking forward to that,” Boonchant said. “I am confident that we will do well at the ACC tournament and at nationals.” The Blue Devils will play one more regular-season tournament as a team April 6-7 in Charlottesville, Va., for the Cavalier Match Play, but prior to that event, Boonchant, Kim and Shepherd will compete in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur held March 31-April 3 in Augusta, Ga. Duke will compete in the ACC Championships April 15-18 in Greensboro, N.C.

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criticism. She’s forthcoming about her fear of attention, “which maybe people wouldn’t think is the case, given that I ran for president,” she said. But Wang also worried about how much work it would take to run a campaign, and she didn’t want to burden her close friends. “It’s frankly so embarrassing for me to reach out to people and ask them for their help,” she said. “And I never want to ask more of people, of their time or labor, than I need to.” When Wang formally decided to run, people pointed her to sophomore Finn Brauer and junior Amanda Kang, both of whom had experience working on political campaigns outside of Duke. Both instantly agreed to join as her campaign managers, even though they weren’t particularly close with Wang nor familiar with the inner workings of DSG. “That’s something that she was conscious of,” Kang said. “She was really good about bringing a diversity of people’s engagements, concerns and experiences to her campaign.” As part of her campaign, Wang met with cultural and identity student groups on campus to hear about their work and priorities. Brauer recalled that when Wang told her campaign staff that she wanted to meet with Mi Gente, Duke’s umbrella undergraduate Latinx student organization—which is led by her opponent, Diaz—someone pointed out that they were unlikely to endorse her. “Christina was basically like, ‘I really don’t care, it’s important to me. Meeting with these

groups isn’t about an endorsement. It isn’t Leading with empathy about campaign clout. This is something I want Wang’s presidency next year will be defined to do,’” said Brauer. by the relationships she cultivates with DSG When polls opened, Wang went onto the BC members, student groups, administrators and Plaza and began speaking with students, asking the student body at large. them if they had voted yet and if not, pitching her “I know this is a Joe Biden quote, but change platform. With first-years, for example, she would does move at the speed of relationships,” she talk about the Blue Devil Buddies program. With said. female students who said that they were interested Her goals, which include a restructuring in uplifting women at Duke, Wang would tell of DSG’s project model, focus on uplifting the them about the work she had done to prevent ongoing work and priorities of cultural and gender violence, Kang explained. identity student groups. “I know she was a little nervous, just “I don’t want senators coming in being like, because it was the day of ‘Oh, I want to do this,’ the election,” Kang said. “I really strive to listen to or ‘This is my idea,’” she “But you could tell how others. That’s my main said. “It’s not about you. easily she was able to If you’re joining DSG, connect with people on priority in life. Alway. It’s you’re doing it as an act the different things that always people first.” of public service.” they cared about.” Wang acknowledged christina wang DSG’s The next day, when history of JUNIOR AND DUKE STUDENT s h o r t c o m i n g s , Wang found out that GOVERNMENT PRESIDENT-ELECT especially she had won, she texted towards a crying emoji into the marginalized groups. campaign manager group chat. She understands that it may be difficult for “I panicked. I was freaked out,” said Brauer, student groups to trust DSG “as a mechanism who was in the middle of a run when he of support for their activism.” She recognizes received the text. “I was like, ‘This is horrible, that building trust takes time, but she hopes I’m on a run, I’m all sweaty, this is bad.’” that welcoming criticism and collaboration, Her next text let them know she had won. and fostering these connections now “This year has been a lot. And I think gut will translate into sustainable, long-term decisions are valuable, but in a year like this, relationships between organizations. everything that we’re going to be doing is going “She believes in what the Duke experience to be new,” Brauer said. “There’s a lot of people could be and isn’t afraid to be critical of what on campus who have had different experiences it is,” Smith wrote. “While I don’t know if there than other people. I think that reconciling is a way to be fully prepared for this role—for that will take a really thoughtful leader, and the ways that you must offer your opinions, Christina will take that in stride.” ideas, agreements, and disagreements in rooms

full of powerful people—I believe with the utmost confidence that Christina will rise to the occasion.” Smith also highlighted the importance of the president being “rooted in the community,” she wrote, describing Wang. “Sometimes, you’re the only student in the room, the only student whose opinion administrators are going to ask for, so it’s your responsibility to be in tune with what students need,” Smith wrote. “It’s a powerful role, and I don’t know if the profile pictures and endorsement contests make that power quite clear.” Wang also plans to expand DSG’s transparency and accessibility with the student body through increasing meetings with student groups and sending members into first-year spaces to gauge new students’ knowledge of DSG. Wang said that she agreed with a lot of points on Diaz’ platform, which included rectifying structural and accountability issues within DSG. But she doesn’t see her experience in DSG as a hindrance to creating real change. “I’m not afraid to hold administrators accountable despite having worked with them before,” Wang added. “I think it’s a strength that I’ve worked with them before, because I can be upfront and be like, ‘Look, you know me, and you know that I’m serious about this.’” Despite the responsibilities of the role, Wang’s guiding principle is simple: she hopes to lead with empathy. “I really strive to listen to others. That’s my main priority in life. Always,” she said. “It’s always people first.”

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Searching for accountability

Asked Sunday about specific plans, Santee clarified that the judicial board will Durham IFC’s statement said the not try individuals, who will be referred to organization had created an email for people Duke’s contract tracing and student conduct to report violations of the Duke Compact by protocol. Instead, the judicial board will fraternity members. Santee told the Chronicle address situations in which there are “a lot of in a previous interview that he will contact people, 10 guys in one chapter or more.” Gagné said she hopes the town hall will Duke student conduct, contact tracers, and fraternity presidents if a fraternity provide an opportunity for members of member is reported to be in violation of the the Duke community to give constructive feedback to the coronavirus Durham IFC. protocol. “If you really Santee also “If you really do care about how the rest do care about said that the of the community is being influenced how the rest of newly-formed the community Durham IFC by your actions, then you need to say is being judicial board, that you’ve put concrete thoughts and influenced by composed of concrete plans into making sure this your actions, one volunteer then you from each doesn’t happen again,” need to say f r a te r n i t y, you’ve could be mac gagné that SENIOR put concrete called upon thoughts and when greater concrete plans restrictions are into making sure this doesn’t happen again,” necessary. The statement also said the Durham IFC she said. had a “productive conversation about our A cultural shift plans” with Duke administrators. A similar frustration, molded by loss, McMahon said she hopes the Durham IFC will continue to communicate about spilled into a 1,300-person first-year student GroupMe chat. Riddick was among those these issues. “I’d much rather have the students who entered the mix of students denouncing checking in with us than operating without and defending Greek groups and students that traveled. consultation at all,” McMahon said. In the group chat, Riddick criticized the rush She declined to comment when asked if she’s concerned about Durham IFC’s ability to events and travel. Other students fired back. “wait why are u mad bro,” one wrote. hold their members accountable. “Because I could die of COVID so some Parks, however, said she is “uncomfortable with the idea that an institution can regulate white boy can drink a stale ass white claw,” Riddick replied, referring to fraternity itself.” “If an organization hasn’t really done a good members who broke COVID-19 rules. She said she doesn’t think all fraternity job of holding itself accountable in the past, how can you realistically expect them to do that members are bad—they’re in her classes, and she gets meals with some. Riddick also now?” she said. Gagné said she thinks the Durham IFC doesn’t blame the outbreak solely on them: needs to provide more information about She pins it on student travel too. (Duke chief their plans to regain the community’s trust, spokesperson Michael Schoenfeld wrote in a such as outlining what exactly the judicial Sunday email that large gatherings and rush board would do if a fraternity member is parties were the “predominant cause” of the found to be in violation of the coronavirus recent outbreak, and that travel was not a major factor.) protocol.

Still, Riddick said it only makes sense to her that the groups face public criticism. She said that the actions of fraternity members are public and affect people outside their organizations. “If that’s the face you put out in public, I get to comment on that in public, and I get to criticize that,” Riddick said. She said there’s a push in her circle to not join selective groups and to instead “just exist at Duke.” “I know the culture has definitely shifted,” she said. “I know people aren’t really looking to join frats and sororities… they feel it’s too exclusionary or they just can’t afford it, or they just don’t like the culture.” When she spoke with The Chronicle, Riddick was quarantined in a room at the JB Duke Hotel. Duke contact traced her after a friend she saw tested positive for COVID-19 during the spike. As she studied for a midterm, Riddick said a parking garage blocked the sun from her hotel room. “Sometimes it’ll be three o’clock in the afternoon, and sometimes it’ll be two in the morning, and I wouldn’t know the difference,” she said. Like the other students, Santee said he had seen comments critical of both him and fraternities on social media. He said he doesn’t pay them much attention. “If people say more substantive things, then I’m happy to talk,” Santee said Sunday. “The stuff on Facebook, the writing on the wall, that’s not really gonna make a lot of positive change.” At the East Campus bridge a week earlier, at the start of a painful, isolating seven-day lockdown, the words on the wall seemed to stand for more to the painters. “When I screw up, when I hurt somebody, I hope they’re not scared to call me out,” said one painter, who asked to remain unnamed for fear of public bullying. “If I could safely party, I’d do it,” the painter added. A 9 p.m. curfew imposed by the stay-inplace order abruptly ended the interview at the bridge. The four painters didn’t have enough time to finish outlining each of their white antiGreek life jabs in black paint, either. They had five minutes to make it back to their dorms. Matthew Griffin contributed reporting.

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FROM PAGE 2 the community were experiencing as well,” Gagné said. Parks said she initially advocated for suing the Durham IFC to target the privilege of many fraternity members, which she thinks promotes a reckless mentality that resulted in more positive COVID cases. “Money protects you,” Parks said. “It’s no longer a matter of, ‘What can I get away with?’ It’s, ‘How much do I have to pay to do this action?’” Parks said she has since learned that, after the fraternities disaffiliated, Duke lost the power to hold the chapters accountable. She said Duke could sue the national organizations, which seemed complicated and unlikely, or sue the members of each chapter. “We’re not out here trying to sue individual brothers—it’s a systemic issue,” she added. In a Sunday interview, Durham IFC President Will Santee, a junior, also said it would be unfeasible for Duke to sue Durham IFC, and disagreed that the organization recklessly endangered the community. “I wouldn’t say there was a single person who was like, ‘I know these parties are happening and I’m not stopping them, I know these people have COVID and I’m not stopping them,’” he said. Parks and Gagné now hope to host a town hall with representatives from the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards, Duke Student Government, and the Durham IFC. The two created a poll for those who signed the petition to suggest mechanisms of accountability, such as requiring the Durham IFC to consent to random event inspection by Duke. Asked if he would participate in the town hall, Santee said he hadn’t yet heard about it but supported the idea and plans to reach out to the petition’s creators. He said that such different sides—people in Greek life and people who want to abolish it—might not change one another’s minds, “but at least we’ll come to some common ground on ways to, in the short term at least, fix some problems that are pervasive especially within the Greek life system.”