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T H E I N D E P E N D E N T D A I LY AT D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2019 DUKECHRONICLE.COM

Duke senior becomes University’s 50th Rhodes Scholar By Jake Satisky

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEENTH YEAR, ISSUE 28

OPINION

Who speaks for the trees?

Editor-in-Chief

Senior Gabriella Deich has been named a Rhodes Scholar, the University announced Sunday. Deich becomes the 50th Duke student to win the prestigious scholarship, which pays for the opportunity to study at Oxford University. The Angier B. Duke scholar was one of only 32 recipients out of 963 applicants. “I didn’t know what to think—everything felt like it was moving in slow motion!” she wrote in an email to The Chronicle Sunday night. “It still doesn’t feel like it was real. I remember also being excited to get to tell the friends and faculty who have been so kind in helping me throughout my whole undergraduate career.” Deich is a Program II major studying biological and artificial intelligence. She co-founded the Arete Fellowship at Duke, and she has been involved with the Duke Effective Altruism and One for the World organizations, according to the release. Beyond that, Deich does research at Harvard Medical School, where she studies how to improve rapid diagnostics of infectious diseases. She has also worked as a summer research scholar and Lord Rothermere scholar in science ethics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Oxford, respectively. “The Rhodes has said many times they are looking for people and not CVs,” she wrote. “I have had an interesting and obstacle-filled path that has given me a different story/perspective.” At Oxford, she plans on studying computer science and global governance. She hopes to work in biosecurity and global catastrophic risk reduction during her career, according to the release. Deich explained that she left the education system when she was 12 and was self-taught until she enrolled at Duke when she was 18. “I have so much more to learn! I’m incredibly excited to experience Oxford and meet all of the scholars who have been selected this year,” she wrote.

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Despite the project’s sustainability goals, several environmental professors and graduate students still oppose Duke’s plan announced last month to potentially build new graduate student housing off of West Campus. The proposed plan, created in response to the increasing cost of housing in Durham, involves building apartments in the woods south of Towerview Road, east of Erwin Road and west of the Fuqua School of Business. During the Board of Trustees meeting, director of project management Paul Manning said that this location would be most convenient for graduate students as it was in close proximity to Fuqua, the Law School and the Sanford School of Public Policy. Manning wrote in an email to The Chronicle that Duke evaluated several sites before choosing their current selection. Three committees, two of which included

By Lily Levin Columnist

graduate students, also reviewed and approved the selected site, and the Graduate School had voiced its support for the project. He emphasized that the goal of the plan is “to preserve Duke’s natural landscapes,” which includes both protecting trees during construction as well as removing non-native species and re-planting native species. He wrote that the project will provide not only “new sustainable greenspace” but also housing for graduate students. However, certain conservation, biology and environmental science professors did not agree with the University’s choice of location for the new housing. Paul Manos, professor in the department of biology, said that the plan is “tremendously short-sighted” and if Duke is trying to promote green spaces, this plan would not be the right direction. “But I guess we’re at a point where the green space at Duke is being looked at from many different stakeholders,” he said. “And

Picture this: it’s 2 a.m. on a Saturday and you’re chest-deep in the rabbit hole of Modern Love. You’re a little upset because, yes, it’s cuffing season, and no, you’re not cuffed. So you’re living vicariously through the stories of other people… but sometimes it hurts to be reading these beautiful love fragments and knowing that they cannot and will not and do not apply to you. And then you stumble upon another tidbit of romantic news: an engagement! Between a woman named Katie Waldman and none other than Stephen Miller. I’ll admit it—this may have been my Saturday night. The phone nearly gave me a black eye after I dropped it on my face upon seeing the news. I may have broken down over my fourth tripleshot espresso of the evening. The article just… couldn’t be true. Stephen Miller is the punchline of my family dinners. My sister will tease: Tired of blaming Duke for all of your problems, Lily? Blame Stephen Miller. Or my mom might say, Oh, you’re scared of the devil? Try coming faceto-face with that man. Satan wouldn’t stand a chance. Or, Jews don’t believe in Hell but Hell believes in Stephen Miller. The idea that Stephen Miller had found love tore me through a quick pattern of quasi-grief: denial, anger, sadness. I wanted to sprint out of my dorm and run halfway to Swift Avenue in the 32-degree wind-chill weather and scream “Stephen F***ing Miller found love, and I can’t?” from the bridge across the underlit highway. But I couldn’t.

See TREES on Page 9

See MILLER on Page 10

Profs question graduate housing plan By Mona Tong

Stephen Miller can find love... but I can’t?

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Blue Devils hang on to defeat Hoyas in 2K Empire Classic championship By Derek Saul Sports Editor

Special to The Chronicle Gabriella Deich is a Program II major, studying biological and artificial intelligence.

NEW YORK—In danger of an upset to the unranked Hoyas, the Blue Devils needed their leader to step up. Immediately out of the locker room after a subpar first half, Tre Jones did just that. Georgetown forward Jamorko Pickett threw a lazy inbound pass to open the second half GTWN 73 and, unfortunately for him, Jones is DUKE 81 anything but lazy. The Duke point guard sprinted forward to steal Pickett’s pass, taking the ball in stride for a lay-in to break the 33-33 tie. After a Hoya miss, Jones would get to the basket again, finishing off a give-and-go pass from Jack White for another bucket. The next Blue Devil possession, Jones found Vernon Carey Jr. on a perfectly executed alley-oop. Georgetown head coach Patrick Ewing would call a timeout immediately after, his team now trailing 39-33. In just 64 seconds, Duke went from upset watch to a comfortable lead, all thanks to Jones. See M. BASKETBALL on Page 6

INSIDE — Hopefully, more than just a vestige of mediocrity | Serving the University since 1905 |

Mary Helen Wood | Photography Editor The Blue Devils’ third game this season in Madison Square Garden resulted in a third victory, and this time, a tournament championship.

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