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Trump inauguration leaves many students apprehensive Kenrick Cai The Chronicle Students expressed feelings of unease after Donald Trump officially became president last week. Trump was sworn in Friday, prompting demonstrations that drew millions worldwide. On campus, some students described the transition of power as “surreal” and “confusing.” “Up until now, it’s kind of felt like a joke,” first-year Georgia Lala said. “So watching it happen—everyone was live-streaming it on the day—[it] was very hard to concentrate because it just didn’t feel real.” Sophomore Katie Tsang said she was concerned about Trump finally assuming control of the executive branch. “The scariest thing about him actually being in power now is that Obama now doesn’t have the power to put precautions in place,” she said. Trump’s inauguration speech was a return to his “exclusionary rhetoric,” sophomore Kat Tan said. “It underscores how this might not actually be an act—this is how he actually sees the world,” she said. “People can’t even fool themselves into thinking ‘well, he just did it for the votes,’ because he’s president now, and he’s still saying those things.” Moreover, Tan said she was nervous about the “continuation of lies,” pointing to White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who spent part of his first briefing in the role making a false claim about the size of the inauguration crowd. Trump’s support may be “wavering” among many Asian Americans, Tsang said,

Jack Dolgin | Chronicle File Photo Donald Trump (pictured here in Raleigh) was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States Friday morning.

noting some in that community share more conservative values. “Now, Trump’s going on about how China should take care of North Korea, and he’s starting to talk about ending economically beneficial relationships with China in favor of Taiwan,” she said. “That’s all alienating a lot of Chinese Americans who were very strong supporters of him.”

Sophomore Aaron VanSteinberg, an Oklahoma native, said that although he knows a number of Trump supporters, their reactions to Trump’s inauguration were muted compared to past inaugurations. “I didn’t see the sort of triumphant thing that during the Obama era we’ve taken for political victory, like in 2009 and 2013, when everyone was talking about them,” he said.

A “dark cloud” of emotion hung over many who opposed Trump, Tan said. She added that the women’s marches across the world were evidence for the “pain” that they felt after the election and inauguration. An estimated 500,000 protestors participated in the Women’s March on See TRUMP on Page 4

Duke community treks to D.C. for Women’s March, inauguration Alethea Toh The Chronicle

Special to The Chronicle The Women’s March in Washington, D.C. had about three times more people than Trump’s inauguration, according to crowd scientists.

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Duke community members made their way to Washington D.C. this weekend for two very different events—President Donald Trump’s Friday inauguration and the Women’s March on Washington the next day. Among those who attended Trump’s inauguration were first-year Jake Chasan and junior Colin Duffy, both of whom support the new Republican president. Chasan said he believes that being in D.C. for inauguration weekend was a rewarding experience. “I have friends who came to Washington D.C. to attend the inauguration and others who came to the Capitol in protest,” he wrote in an email. “This is democracy, the ability for people to share their opinions. Without

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this, America would not be ‘land of the free, home of the brave,’ in the words of our ‘StarSpangled Banner.’” Duffy, who is chair of the Duke College Republicans, wrote that he was inspired by many Trump supporters whom he met and who come from all walks of life. The people who stood next to him at the ceremony, he wrote, included “a gay pilot from Missouri, a school teacher from Tennessee and a Latino husband and wife.” To Duffy, one of the most inspiring parts of Trump’s speech were his references to the “forgotten men and women,” and the hope that the speech could start the country on a path of unification. “While coming from different identities and perspectives, they all shared a beautiful vision of hope and pride in their country,” See WOMEN’S MARCH on Page 4

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Durham residents launch Can secondhand smoke harm a fetus before its conception? protest against Trump Matthew Gayed The Chronicle

Bre Bradham | The Chronicle Organizers of the event in downtown Durham estimated that between 300 and 400 people were in attendance, many of whom chanted, “Trump says ‘move back’, we say ‘fight back’!”

Bre Bradham | The Chronicle Peter Sigal, professor in the department of history, attended the rally with a sign reading, “Stop Trump, Pence, Bannon.”

demonstrate that vulnerability extends to the period prior to conception, not just during gestation itself.” The research team—with senior author Frederic Seidler, an assistant research professor of pharmacology and cancer biology—created a tobacco smoke extract with low nicotine concentrations to mimic secondhand smoke. This extract was introduced into the rats during the three different periods, each 10 days apart. These rats were then tracked during a period of 150 days to assess the long-term effects of the smoke exposure.

Although the effects of smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke during pregnancies are relatively well-known, new Duke research suggests that being exposed to secondhand smoke even before conception could still affect fetal development. The scientists mimicked the effects of secondhand smoke exposure in female rats before mating, in early gestation and in late gestation. Detrimental effects on See SMOKE on Page 4 fetal brain development were greatest after the pregnant rats were exposed during late gestation, but surprisingly, the team found that certain brain circuits in the fetus were still impaired when rats were exposed before they had even mated. The research also concluded that exposure to secondhand smoke during any of the time periods did not significantly change the proportion of pregnant rats that gave birth, the amount of weight the mothers gained or the number of babies born to each mother—but instead that the major effects happened to brain development. “The study emphasizes the need for parents to avoid secondhand smoke exposure even before pregnancy, as well as throughout the term of pregnancy,” wrote Theodore Slotkin, first author and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, neurobiology and pharmacology Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and cancer biology, in an email. “To The study exposed rats to tobacco smoke our knowledge, this is the first study to extract before they mated.

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Medical student works to combat iron-deficiency in India Heather Zhou The Chronicle A Duke medical student is working to improve nutrition and combat anemia among Indian women, and a new study indicates she has been successful. Rajvi Mehta has been working since 2011 on creating the iron-rich supplement bar GudNesS with the help of Let’s Be Well Red, a group she founded to tackle irondeficiency anemia in India. According to a 2015 report from Indian pathology lab SRL Diagnostics, about 59 percent of Indian women suffer from this condition, in which the body lacks enough iron to produce oxygen-transporting hemoglobin. Metha got the inspiration to create GudNeSs in 2011, when she was a sophomore at Brown University and started to feel sick. Eventually, she was diagnosed with anemia. “That was surprising to me because being born and raised in Mumbai, I [had] never heard of it, and I didn’t know why,” Metha said. She then established LBWR to provide free blood tests and nutritional guidance as well as mass-produce the iron-fortified GudNeSs bars. The organization, which currently operates in three different locations and generates 100,000 bars each year, aims to supplement what Mehta said is the typical yet problematic Indian diet. “Most people in India are vegetarian. Very few people would consume iron-rich meat such as red meat and fish on a regular basis,” Metha said. “The average Indian diet consists of 9.5 milligrams of iron, but on a daily basis you should be getting 14 to 15 milligrams of iron.”

Special to The Chronicle Rajvi Mehta had the idea for creating an iron-fortified bar after she was diagnosed with anemia as a sophomore at Brown University.

Simply providing nutritional information and diet instructions does not solve the problem because people find it difficult to stick to the diet in the long term, Metha said. For this reason, her team developed the GudNeSs bar based on the Indian delicacy chikki to supply people’s iron needs. By handing out samples at Indian high schools, Metha and her team spread the GudNeSs bar in the country and gradually began large-scale production. When she came to Duke for medical school, she collaborated with researchers to conduct a clinical trial on the bar’s efficiency. And a recent study released earlier this month has confirmed that the

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group, with the latter group receiving GudNeSs bars for three months. Blood tests after the three months showed a positive connection between consumption of the bars and reduced anemia prevalence. The study evaluated this by examining changes in levels of hemoglobin and hematocrit, or the volume of red blood cells in the blood. Having too few red blood cells is an indicator of the presence of anemia. “It was possible to implement the research in a rigorous way, and the results themselves show that we have a sustainable and implementable solution to this very severe problem of anemia in women of different ages,” Turner said. Mehta added that the next step of the research would be to collaborate with the Global Health Institute Evidence Lab to conduct real-life programmatic evaluation and to make the bars accessible to all who need them. Winning a $50,000 grand prize from the Duke Start-Up Challenge has also helped Metha expand production, and she added that her team will partner with the Indian government. “Right now, we are focusing on India because we are not even close from supplying enough for the needs in India,” Metha said. “But we do get orders from neighboring countries like Singapore and Nepal.” As for her medical studies, Mehta plans to eventually become an ophthalmologist and will transition her GudNeSs leadership role to someone else. “I am thrilled that my colleagues and I were able to develop a solution that has proven to be effective among a high-risk population,” she said. “Making an impact in global health has long been a goal of mine.”

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SMOKE from page 2 At all three exposure times, acetylcholine receptor activity was impaired in the brain, and nicotine is known to affect these receptors. Moreover, the study also found that there was no “critical period” for smoking—smoking can affect the fetus even before conception. “That has important implications for public health— women need to avoid secondhand smoke exposure not just while they are pregnant, but in the period prior to conception as well,” Slotkin wrote. “As we state in the paper, basically this warning then extends to women of childbearing age, regardless of whether they are pregnant or even planning a pregnancy.” The study pointed out several potential reasons for why exposure to secondhand smoke before a pregnancy could result in developmental changes down the road. Remnants of nicotine even after it has metabolized could linger in the body, the mother’s physiology could be altered somehow, the smoke could cause epigenetic changes in the eggs or the effects on the fetal brain could be related to nicotine withdrawal.

Epigenetics refers to changes in the regulation of gene expression in an individual, and studies have linked maternal exposure to tobacco smoke and epigenetic changes during pregnancy. However, as Slotkin’s study points out, there may be a link to tobacco exposure even before conception and epigenetic alterations. If these pre-conception changes are proven to be due to epigenetics, this could provide the link between secondhand smoke exposure before birth and fetal developmental problems. Slotkin noted that he plans to investigate these epigenetic links in new ways. “Prior studies of smoking and epigenetic changes have involved sampling blood, and there is no guarantee that these changes (or lack of changes) are reflective of what is going on in the developing brain,” Slotkin wrote. “Uniquely, we’ll be looking at changes in the brain and comparing them to what is found in the blood, to see if the peripheral markers are predictive or related to what happens in the brain.” Such a study could provide key insights into the effects of the mother’s exposure between conception and early pregnancy to the chemicals and agents that can affect the fetus.

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TRUMP from page 1 Washington, and at worldwide marches, the total attendance was estimated to be nearly four million people. While acknowledging the historical significance of the protests, Ananya Chaurey, a first-year master’s student in the Nicholas School of the Environment, conceded their impact on the administration may be limited. “I think the protests were a natural reaction, but it’s not like it’s going to change anything for the next four years,” he said. Echoing that sentiment, first-year Linh Bui noted that the marches were not enough to change America. “The marches do unify a large chunk of America, though,” she said. “I believe that people should unite to work together rather than to cause division.” Tan said that even within protests like the Women’s March, it is important for organizers to listen to marginalized groups, such as people of color. “Some people’s voices speak louder than others, but that doesn’t make their lives anymore relevant or valuable,” she said. “It has different implications for everyone, and the people who are resisting have to keep that in mind so we don’t fracture.” Ultimately, the future of the nation is beyond the identity of the president, first-year Peter Sun emphasized. “The system is not just about Trump,” he said. “There’s a lot of uncertainties about what’s going to happen. Rather than emphasizing the fear, maybe just sit and watch and do your own homework on how you might be able to foster a change or demonstrate that you are against this—like the protests—if something bad really happens.”

WOMEN’S MARCH from page 1 Chasan wrote. “A lot of them said this was the first time they had a politician who truly stood up for them.” But Saturday featured the Women’s March on Washington, which drew in a crowd of about half a million in protest to the inauguration the day before. Although Duffy and Chasan attended the inauguration out of a sense of optimism, other students and faculty attended the marches to overcome feelings of powerlessness and despair. Marion Quirici, a lecturing fellow at the Thompson Writing Program, was among the march’s attendees. Quirici said the march created an environment that empowered a large number of citizens to actively protest the Trump administration. “Every time we turned a corner, there were more people— more creativity, more love,” Quirici said. “It was all incredibly peaceful and positive, and I can’t describe the feelings of hope each time I entered a new area of the protest.” First-year Victoria Grant said she was pleased the march fostered a sense that change was possible, and first-year Niyah Shaheed said she believes the march’s worldwide influence would help reaffirm America’s global image. “I thought the march definitely achieved its purpose of showing the American people and the rest of the world that the bigotry and hate surrounding Trump’s campaign wasn’t representative of the attitudes of most people in this country and that we would actively fight to keep this bigotry from prevailing,” she said. The march’s attendees should fight for everyone’s rights, said first-year Alexandra Kunzle, such as those of marginalized women. Quirici agreed, arguing that it is imperative to sustain the movement in the long run and not just fizzle out after one march. “I am so encouraged and impressed that so many people turned out for marches all over the world this weekend,” she said. “But it isn’t enough to listen to Ashley Judd and be entertained by Alicia Keys.”

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Matt Jones’ gambles pay off in second half to spark dominant comeback win Amrith Ramkumar The Chronicle Matt Jones has drawn a lot of criticism from fans this season. The senior went 3-of-19 from 3-point range in the month of December, with many questioning how many minutes the ultimate glue-guy should see with Duke finally fully healthy. Jones put those concerns to rest—at least momentarily—by resurrecting a lifeless Blue Devil team in the second half Saturday night. After No. 18 Duke’s lowest-scoring first half of the season resulted in a 3625 halftime deficit, Jones inspired his teammates by making three 3-pointers during a game-changing 20-0 run the Blue Devils used on their way to a 70-58 win against Miami at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Duke interim head coach Jeff Capel started Jones and fellow reserves Frank Jackson and Marques Bolden in the second half, and the switch saved the game—and perhaps the season—for the Blue Devils. “We just got to a point where we were fed up. We needed to fight and everybody needed to fight,” Jones said. “I decided to gamble. I knew we had nothing to lose. We had to make a play. It just so happened that two of the balls we wouldn’t have gotten in the first half

Jeremy Chen | The Chronicle Graduate student Amile Jefferson helped the Blue Devils finally string together several defensive stops in a row in the second half in his first game in two weeks.

went our way in the second half.” Following a scoreless first half, Jones set the tone coming out of the locker room when he snuck behind Miami’s Kamari Murphy for a steal and transition layup. A few possessions later, Jones caught Ja’Quan Newton napping, coming up with another steal and calmly draining

his team’s first 3-pointer of the game— Duke had missed its first 10 triples of the contest—to cut the deficit to 37-32. Then the floodgates opened. The Blue Devils rattled off 15 more consecutive points with Grayson Allen and Luke Kennard on the bench to start the second half, locking down the Hurricanes after halftime to prevail

in graduate student Amile Jefferson’s return from injury. Jefferson missed road losses at Florida State and Louisville with a right-foot bone bruise. Although he had just five points on 1-of-4 shooting, the Philadelphia native led the team with 12 rebounds. “We got on each other and we decided to sink or swim…. The coaches made a change and they put it on us to be Duke and to represent that name on the front,” Jefferson said. “We came out [in the] second half and we were tough and we were tough because of Matt. Matt made us all tough and when we play like that, we’re a really good basketball team.” To say Saturday’s game was a tale of two halves might be an understatement. Miami (12-6, 2-4 in the ACC) used the same formula that led to wins against Duke the past two years to take control in the first half. The Hurricanes used pickand-rolls on every possession to spread a leaky Blue Devil defense out for drives to the hoop and kick-out 3-pointers. After Duke (15-4, 3-3) started the game ice cold but cut an early deficit to 18-17, Miami went on a 9-0 run sparked by Davon Reed to quiet the home crowd. Reed scored 12 first-half points on four made 3-pointers set up by dribble penetration as the Hurricanes See M. BASKETBALL on Page 8

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Jefferson, unlikely unit swarm Miami’s pick-and-rolls Drew Johnson The Chronicle Duke got off to a difficult start against Miami’s offense Saturday night as the Hurricanes ran several screens on their opening possessions to create driving opportunities for guards Davon Reed, Ja’Quan Newton and Bruce Brown, challenging the Blue Devil forwards to overcome their recent defensive woes in the paint. At first, it seemed that Miami would do just what Florida State and Louisville did last week—score at will as Duke’s help defense arrived late and the Blue Devils got in early foul trouble. But the unanticipated return of cocaptain Amile Jefferson combined with impressive performances from several other unlikely heroes allowed Duke to right the ship in the second half despite an 11-point halftime deficit. “This was a big moment for us in coming together,” Blue Devil junior Grayson Allen said. “We talked, and the guys were angry at halftime with the way things were, and they changed it. They came out and played great basketball and energetic basketball and got stops. We got a lot of stops and that led to our run.” When interim head coach Jeff Capel told the media Monday on the ACC’s weekly teleconference that Jefferson was “still day to-day,” many assumed he

meant that come Saturday, Jefferson— who had missed his two previous games with a right-foot bone bruise—would either not play at all or play very limited minutes. But about 30 minutes prior to tipoff, Duke announced that Jefferson would start against the Hurricanes, and the Philadelphia native’s ability to communicate, command and transform the team’s defense was on full display as his team improved throughout the game and eventually found itself turning 12 secondhalf Miami turnovers into 25 points. After practicing Thursday and Friday, Jefferson was back fighting through pain to log 34 minutes Saturday night. “He’s the best communicator we have,” Capel said. “You know some guys, you can talk to them on the bench or during a break in action. Amile can do it in real time, he can see things, he can communicate it, he can make guys go. He’s an amazing leader. He gives us versatility defensively that we don’t have when he’s not there.... He’s as valuable of a guy, I think, as there is on any team in college basketball.” The graduate student made his biggest impact crashing the boards, where he posted 11 defensive rebounds against a Hurricane squad that entered Saturday’s matchup as one of the best offensive rebounding teams in the ACC. The one area where Jefferson failed to impress, though, was on offense. But fellow big man Marques Bolden had no

Austin Peer | The Chronicle Freshman Marques Bolden had the best game of his young career with eight points and four rebounds inside.

trouble picking up the slack. Although Bolden had failed to score from the floor in 16 minutes of his most recent playing time before Saturday, the Desoto, Texas, native used multiple powerful dunks to grind out a 4-of-6 shooting performance, good enough for a season-high eight points. As Jefferson and Bolden combined to create a wholesome interior presence, Duke saw a tandem of guards excel individually on both ends of the floor—

but it was not the usual suspects who helped the Blue Devils find their way. Starters Allen and Luke Kennard struggled in the opening half— combining for 13 points on 3-of-12 shooting in the first 20 minutes—and were replaced to start the second period by senior Matt Jones and freshman Frank Jackson. Both guards played lock-down defense See DEFENSE on Page 9

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Blue Devils hoping to Duke runs past Boston lock down N.C. State College with 34-2 spurt Mitchell Gladstone The Chronicle For the past year and a half, it seems like the Blue Devils have been searching for a defensive identity with Amile Jefferson in and out of the lineup. But with its leader back on the court, Duke showed it is capable of playing suffocating defense Saturday night. Now the Blue Devils hope to show they can do it consistently. After storming past Miami thanks to a frenetic defensive effort that sparked a 20-0 second-half surge, No. 18 Duke will look to move back above .500 in league play as it hosts N.C. State at 7 p.m. Monday at Cameron Indoor Stadium. With Jefferson’s return against the Hurricanes, the Blue Devils will have their full complement of players once again when they face off against a Wolfpack team that sits near the bottom of the ACC standings and has struggled to defend. N.C. State is allowing 84.7 points per contest through seven conference games and surrendered 107 points in a 51-point loss at North Carolina two weeks ago. However, up against Wolfpack freshman Dennis Smith Jr.—the ACC’s fifth-leading

scorer at 18.9 points per contest—less than 48 hours after Duke’s emotional win, the Blue Devils will need to bring the same defensive intensity once again Monday night. “We can play defense, we just have to want to play defense,” senior Matt Jones said after Saturday’s game. “We have to fight and hone in on that end. If we do that, we can play with the best of them with our length and athleticism.” The 6-foot-3 Smith Jr. enrolled at N.C. State (13-7, 2-5 in the ACC) as the No. 4 recruit and top-ranked point guard in the Class of 2016 and has proven himself to be the Wolfpack’s lone bright spot this season. In addition to leading his team in points, the Fayetteville, N.C., native is averaging 6.6 assists and 4.4 boards per game. In the N.C. State backcourt, redshirt senior Terry Henderson averages 15.0 points per night and sharpshooter Maverick Rowan shoots better than 40 percent from 3-point range to give Smith Jr. kick-out options when he drives to the hoop. Reserve Torin Dorn is also shooting nearly 45 percent from beyond the arc and the Wolfpack boast a pair of inconsistent big men with junior Abdul-Malik Abu and and freshman Omer Yurtseven. Both See N.C. STATE on Page 8

Jeremy Chen | The Chronicle Freshman Frank Jackson had another nice game at home Saturday with 10 points, four assists and no turnovers, helping relieve some ball-handling pressure put on Grayson Allen.

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Cole Winton The Chronicle After thrashing No. 17 Virginia Tech on Thursday by 25 points, Duke looked like it had regained the focus it had recently lost in dropping two of its previous three games. That was until the Blue Devils came out flat-footed against Boston College. But despite a slow start that saw the No. 15 Blue Devils up only one point at the half, a 34-2 secondDUKE 67 half spurt sent 44 Duke to a 67-44 BC win against Boston College Sunday afternoon at the Conte Forum in Chestnut Hill, Mass., allowing the Blue Devils to end their two-game road losing streak. After Duke turned a four-point deficit into a 15-point lead in the third quarter, the Blue Devils kept their foot on the gas pedal in the fourth quarter to make sure the Eagles found no life after halftime. Lexie Brown led the way with 22 points on 10-of-17 shooting, with Rebecca Greenwell and Kyra Lambert joining her in double figures.

“[Head coach Joanne P. McCallie] told us we needed a better offensive poise,” Brown said at the postgame press conference. “I think we were taking a lot of rushed shots in the first half. Our defense was great though considering we were still up despite our poor shooting performance.” Sunday’s game was truly a tale of two halves. Despite having much more talent on the roster with the backcourt trio of Greenwell, Brown and Lambert, Duke simply could not create any kind of separation from Boston College (8-12, 1-6 in the ACC) early on. Part of the problem was what looked to be another off game from the standout redshirt junior Greenwell and more turnover woes on the road. The Blue Devils (17-3, 5-2) coughed it up 10 times in the opening 20 minutes, allowing the Eagles to generate extra possessions against Duke’s matchup zone defense and keep the more athletic Blue Devils out of transition. And after missing her first five shots from the field, Greenwell seemed on track for another disappointing ACC road performance. But she was able to turn it around to finish with 14 points and five See W. BASKETBALL on Page 9

Sujal Manohar | The Chronicle Junior Lexie Brown scored 22 points on 10-of-17 shooting, keeping the Blue Devils afloat offensively before their second-half run.

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Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle The Blue Devils scored 25 points off 12 Miami turnovers in the second half Saturday night.

racked up eight assists to the Blue Devils’ one in the opening 20 minutes. “It was a lack of everything. We weren’t tough, we didn’t do it together, we got down, maybe tried to do some stuff on our own,” Capel said. “Because our defense was so poor, we were not able to get out in transition like we were in the second half. It was a combination of all of that.” But in his fourth game standing in for head coach Mike Krzyzewski—who is still recovering from back surgery—Capel’s decision to bench two of the team’s three leading scorers in Kennard and Allen paid off. With Jones, Jefferson, Jackson, Jayson Tatum and Bolden—who had his best game of the year with eight points and four rebounds—on the court, life became miserable for Miami’s guards.

Miami made just five shots in the first 18 minutes of the second half, with the Hurricanes’ 12 secondperiod turnovers leading to 25 points and letting Duke pull away when Kennard and Allen returned. Tatum, Jackson and Kennard joined Jones in double figures by combining for 35 points. Tatum ended up leading the team in scoring with 12 of his 14 points coming after halftime, and Jackson also had a bounce-back game with 10 points, four assists and no turnovers sharing time with Allen as the Blue Devils’ primary ball handler. “We just need everybody when your number is called. It just showed for the three guys that didn’t start, they weren’t pouting, they weren’t upset, they were the first three guys running out off the bench when we were getting stops,” Tatum said. “That gives us confidence that our teammates are still fighting and trusting.” Duke will have to recover quickly from the emotional win as they host N.C. State Monday evening looking to get back above .500 in conference play.

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players are capable of scoring inside and crashing the glass but struggle mightily on the defensive end. With the quick turnaround—something that Duke struggled to handle last season, losing two consecutive Big Monday matchups in late January—keying in on Smith Jr. will be crucial for the Blue Devils to keep N.C. State at bay at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Wolfpack have not beaten Duke away from home since 1995. “We’ve handled it this year. We played back to back earlier in the year with less guys,” Blue Devil interim head coach Jeff Capel said Saturday. “Having a day helps us. We’ve got to get some rest, get some treatment.... We’re going to play against a team that can really score and as talented of a guard as there is in college basketball.” Duke (15-4, 3-3) struggled to find an offensive groove for the first 20 minutes of Saturday’s contest as it had for much of the early portion of its ACC slate. Excluding a lopsided 53-point victory against Georgia Tech, the Blue Devils have averaged 75.8 points per game, with sophomore Luke Kennard making up nearly a quarter of the entire Duke scoring offense and the Blue Devils’ assists numbers taking a big dip. Against the Hurricanes, though, defense led to offense in the second half. The Blue Devils scored 31 points off 18 Miami turnovers as Kennard sat on the bench for the entire run that turned the game on its head. All eight Duke players who saw action registered at least two points and the Blue Devils shot nearly 67 percent from the field in the second half. Facing a very vulnerable Wolfpack defense that N.C. State head coach Mark Gottfried described as needing “to get a little tougher” after falling to the Yellow Jackets at home last weekend, Duke should not have trouble finding offense— especially in front of its home crowd. “We came in at halftime and talked about how we needed life, we needed energy. We had none of that in the first half. There were bad looks, we weren’t tough, all of those things,” Capel said. “That group that started the second half gave us life, they gave us energy. The crowd gave us energy. Our crowd was amazing from the start. They wanted to give us life.” Amrith Ramkumar and Drew Johnson contributed reporting.

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game. In Sunday’s game, McCallie’s team also showed it could extend defensively in a fullcourt press to speed up an overmatched opponent. With the switch that allowed Duke to knock off then-No. 3 South Carolina and then-No. 8 Louisville flipped, the Blue Devils held Boston College without a field goal for more than 15 minutes during the game-defining run. “[We just tried to] make them uncomfortable, make their point guard uncomfortable,” Lambert said. “Our defense created our offense, so we got a lot of easy scores in transition.” Duke finished with 27 points off 25 turnovers, resulting in an imposing 34-14 edge in points in the paint. But after another slow start, the Blue Devils will look to make adjustments and come out of the gate stronger with a test at No. 6 Notre Dame Thursday next on their schedule. Duke has yet to beat a ranked team on the road and was blown out at then-No. 6 Florida State Jan. 8.

and combined to force five turnovers, and even fed off each other to help bring their team back following intermission. During back-to-back Miami possessions early in the second half—and during a span of 33 seconds—Jackson and Jones each forced a Miami turnover and then dished the ball to the other, resulting in a five-point swing that allowed Duke to take back the lead with 15:11 to play. Jones finished the game with 13 points and went 3-of-5 from downtown, and Jackson also had an efficient shooting performance, going 4-of-7 from the floor in addition to leading the team with four assists. The duo showed it was perfectly comfortable stealing the spotlight from Allen and Kennard, and thrived when it mattered most—so much so that Capel said he would have to consider using the

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recently published New York Times infographic that documented the wealth of college students’ households sent a wave of electricity through Duke’s campus, sparking discussions about income diversity at the university and Duke’s image as an elite institution of higher education. Drawing on millions of anonymous tax filings and tuition records collected at the Equality of Opportunity Project, the infographic painted an image of Duke as a center of education in large part dedicated to the children of the 1% rather than as a great equalizer. Judging from social media, there seemed to be two broad classes of response to the Times report. On the one hand, some students found the statistics to be unsurprising. Duke has long been considered a bastion of elitism (a tar brush that even stretches the men’s basketball team). Students from lesser means, and to some degree those from middle class backgrounds, have accepted that the Duke experience—eating at a student union that costed around 90 million dollars and going to class with children of CEOs—is privileged and sometimes alienating. On the other hand, some students were surprised to see the distribution figures in their full numerical starkness. To make better sense of the report, it is useful to determine which Duke-relevant statistics merit the most

attention. The most striking figure was the distribution of extreme household incomes. Only 3.9 percent of Duke students came from the bottom quintile of households while 69 percent came from the top quintile. That disparity calls into question the success of Duke’s efforts to market itself to talented students from lower income levels and gives credence to the idea that Duke is an elite, income-exclusive school. Higher education has long been thought to be a means for talented children of the underclass to take their

Editorial rightful positions among the social strata. This mythos has a problem if so few of those children have access to Duke and other similar schools. Duke has made some laudable strides in making itself affordable to low-income students (e.g., instituting the Washington Duke Scholars program for first-generation college students). But even so, it is unclear whether its smattering of new programs have increased low-income students’ access to the university: the percentage of students coming from the bottom 60% of households has scarcely changed in the last 35 years.

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In addition to pointing out some serious issues at Duke, the Times infographic also contained some flashy statistics that can be largely ignored. The statistics on mobility—a miniscule 1.6 percent of Duke students jumped from a bottom-quintile upbringing to a top-quintile life— are more a reflection of the fact that Duke has so few low and middle-income students. If 69 percent of the population starts at the top quintile, not many students are mathematically left to be able to rise two or more quintiles. The median income at age 34 statistic, which putatively serves an indicator of future success, is as much about the sectors that Duke students choose to enter as much as it is about the quality of a Duke education. What we should take away from this report is that Duke has a decision to make. Although Duke students do well, a narrow segment of the US population has access to the university. Whatever Duke has done to make itself more affordable and accessible to lowincome students has not worked. If it is true that the university’s relatively small endowment limits its potential to implement free-tuition schemes, it ought to reduce the back-patting rhetoric about providing 50 percent of students with financial aid and be more forthright about its shortcomings. Otherwise, it ought to put more effort where its mouth is.

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hen I sat down to write my “reaction piece” to the results of the presidential election—now a two-month-old headline—I couldn’t find the words. My thoughts from that day remain stored in the Notes section of my iPhone, abandoned without inspiration or desire to put together a column, let alone a Facebook post or tweet. I went at the story from all angles: the “inflammatory stance” and the “satirical stance,” the “call-to-action” and the “shameful resignation,” the “time for mourning” and the “time for hope.” But none of these stances felt mine to take; the words already spoken by others had said enough, and I wasn’t in the mood to search for the right words to put out into the world as “my opinion.” So I took time off. I dove back into more comfortable circumstances, positioning myself in the crosshairs of myself and of myself in the world to figure out where I might stand in the future when it was time to speak up. I enjoyed the rest of my semester at Duke, but remained journalistically silent. I edited the work of others but I did not write. I read and listened, watched and learned. Separated from the call and duties of my

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All the while, readers—who look to both professional journalists and Facebook prophets for reason and resonance—share the concern and exhibit their passion for something to be done, but find themselves helplessly disconnected from impactful dialogue or action. What seems like an opportunity for insight and action is actually journalistic fool’s gold. So how to actually get to Donald Trump? It’s actually quite simple, and a bit selfish: we need to talk more about ourselves. For my column, “trump and i” to become something effective, I need to reach his sphere of influence only after I’ve reached my own smaller spheres of influence. That is, I must take on the hard work of self-awareness and self-critique before I can juice the lowest-hanging orange fruits of my labor. As counter-intuitive as it may be, I need to locate the “and” of “trump and i,” those intersections where my opinion, my experience, my interests and my columns might influence his. And coming from my notorious zip code, schooled at the Ivy-ish Duke University, those intersections happen to be possible. At a school populated by too many members of the 1 percent, staking out shaky, although well-

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own column, I was brought closer to the words and experiences of others, and with that, closer to finding where I might add to the conversation. What I discovered took even more time to fully process. For as I stepped further away from the commentary platform that this newspaper provides, I realized just how close I’ve always been to understanding and touching the realities of the people who influence my opinion, and just how far away I’ve been from the headline himself: Donald Trump. Maybe I didn’t hear it from my notorious area code or from the confines of an “Ivy-Plus” university. Maybe I didn’t hear it on Career Day from soon-tobe consultant friends or on the day of the Women’s March from soon-to-be-further-alienated groups of people fighting injustices I do not directly know of, many of whom look nothing like me. But on the day of the inauguration, a President Donald Trump happened and I, a college newspaper editor with an extreme case of writer’s block, could do nothing to stand in its way. It was too easy to pick apart Donald Trump and sound smart in doing so. Journalists—be they those of traditional news organizations or those who take pleasure in the virtual applause of social media socialites—took (and continue to take) the raw and seductive bait he always finds a way to provide. Spinning the same story with different headlines, over and over again until the Don-man cries “Fake news!” and births a new headline.

intended, paths toward political correctness, too often characterized by closed, hushed networks and cliques, yet vitalized and revitalized by the ever-quickening pulse of the interested and interesting student body—who also read and react to the school newspaper—we touch on issues relevant to Donald Trump by just being here. So Trump and I are going to have a talk on our terms this semester. Home-court advantage for the Cameron Crazies—an analogy that would not be lost on a cooler president. Through this platform, we’ll talk about what we know here, and what we want to know here and—when it works—figure out just how we fit into the national headlines of Donald Trump and friends. Meanwhile, I’ll read and listen, watch and learn, with the continued honor of editing the words of over 30 other Chronicle columnists watchdogging our campus and our world. With the right mindset, it’s possible to have conversations at Duke that get us closer to a collective solution to the issues facing our own community. Who knows? Maybe “trump and i” will actually have some fun. Or it’ll become a shouting match between two loud people with big job titles and small hands, who call each other “fake news” before it all comes crashing down. Crossing my fingers for the fun. Jackson Prince is a Trinity sophomore and editorial page editor of The Chronicle. His column, “trump and i” runs on alternate Mondays.

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ounseling and Psychological Services announced Wednesday that they are preparing for “record numbers” of appointment requests coming in this January. The source of significant strife from the student body at the start of the spring 2017 semester, however, has nothing to do with the watery nutella at the West Union Café or pervasive institutionalized racism across the United States. Multiple counseling professionals employed in the CAPS office report the the annual phenomenon known as “Top Tier Tears” as the cause of the sudden significant uptick in appointments at the center. According to the two employees Monday Monday overheard gossiping in the lobby, CAPS instituted a number of different proactive steps in order to prepare them for the annual occurrence. The therapists, who go otherwise largely underutilized by the Duke student body, were sent home over the holiday break

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their biggest sale of the year, Panhel and IFC have taken a few more gracious steps to prevent the proliferation of such pain in their young, impressionable possible new members (PNMs). “We try to warn the PNMs about the kinds of disappointment they may feel during Panhellenic recruitment,” one anonymous Panhel exec representative—who got every sorority she wanted on preference night—told Monday Monday. “We brought in that fun therapist guy who makes awkward jokes and is the first to tell them what paying $80 for orchestrated small talk and emotional distress may entail, but I guess some people are insisting we do a little more.” Panhel and IFC chapters have been granted the autonomy by the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life to approach the mental health issue individually and as they see fit. One recruitment chair told Monday Monday that “PNMs should just remember to trust the process, and they’ll end up in the right

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with hundreds of pages of briefings in the latest techniques in treating grief in young adults and recent posts on the Duke GreekRank discussion forum. “We tend to see a lot of kids coming back from the spring semester in a more depressed state,” said an anonymous CAPS psychologist who definitely isn’t Monday Monday’s therapist. “You’ve got a lot of shifting factors—the fallout after the holidays, the weather, kids coming back from abroad who just can’t seem to get good wine or a good ‘gram anywhere, as well as others. But by far and large, Greek rush has the greatest impact on this surge in appointment requests.” They reported a mid to late January surge of “despondent lululemon-clad debutantes—both male and female.” According to their colleagues, many of these students come to CAPS to seek treatment for grief, even if the student is not self-aware enough to realize that their life is not over. “I can’t remember who came up with the name ‘Top Tier Tears’...it’s pretty catchy, isn’t it?” asked an anonymous front desk worker. “But it’s actually pretty sad, when you think about it. So many students from all walks of life— I’m talking prep schools from New York City all the way down to Miami and to the Bay Area—come in here wailing at even the sight of a red Solo cup.” “I had one patient, a young lady, come to my office and say her ‘life was over’ the morning the third round of Panhellenic rush began,” said another anonymous counselor. “She had called into the office demanding an appointment that day. When I met with her, she told me she had been cut from all but four sororities— you can probably guess what four, if we’re being honest—and that despite her 3.8 last semester in biomedical engineering, her loving family and merit scholarship, her life was going to be ‘#over’ now that she didn’t get into the sorority she wanted.” The shift towards creating more awareness and accessibility for resources like CAPS on Duke’s campus represents a larger national shift towards destigmatizing mental health issues in all ages. And while CAPS prepares for

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‘Black Mirror’: News or Netflix?

ur culture has become inundated with cyber attacks. Attacks fostered by the identity-shielding force of our computer screens. We spend hours tucked into our dark rooms in front of televisions and computer screens. We stalk people’s profiles and judge them from afar. We like, tweet, post, tag, meme and rant all day, everyday. But sometimes we add to a toxic swamp by commenting maliciously and anonymously. The separation the screen gives us has allowed us to be cowardly, and to express the evil thoughts/negativity that resides within so many of us. No longer facing the repercussions of opining or bullying in person, we do what we would not have the nerve to do were the object of our nasty barbs standing in front of us. The internet has enabled us to be malicious with no consequences. My friends and I have become

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cloaks. Our president, Donald Trump, said in the first presidential debate, “Anyone could’ve hacked us. It could have been China. It could also be someone sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds.” We have come to a point in our world where Cyber Warfare is not fiction. We have the ability to attack a country through the internet without being detected. So as we, commoners, take part in smaller acts of rebellion on the internet, we just add to the technological advances that will result in a future of wars enacted through the cyber web. We make it acceptable in a sense. Normal. Implicit. A young girl will post an embarrassing photo on Facebook of her “friend” to make her feel bad. But, the poster wouldn’t mock her “friend” by the lockers for fear of getting in a fight or seeing that girl cry or facing repercussions. So, what’s the harm in tweeting a #deathto anyway?

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place. I mean, the means by which we allow women into our sisterhood are sacred and time honored. Myself, my big and all my sisters came to this sorority because we were able to hold multiple semi-interesting conversations over the span of 3-8 minutes on four separate occasions. I want our members—our ‘Best Damn Pledge Classes’ of the future, if you will—to have had that exact opportunity. That’s why I’m not changing anything.” She noted that over time her sorority developed a system to achieve the scientific Best Damn Pledge Class (BDPC). Their system is an amalgamation of individual scores based on short rush conversations that was actually based mostly on looks and race, a pre-determined “social media score” developed by stalking her accounts before the girl had begun rushing, the number of meaningful parties and pregames she attended in her first semester, as well as a “wildcard,” in which the rush chair herself could go through and individually manipulate all the numbers to cultivate the class she wanted all along. Mental health problems haven’t just plagued first-year women. An anonymous freshman boy I overheard on the C1 reported feeling inadequate at a recent second round signature party he attended for an unnamed fraternity— though based on his untied loafers, we can all guess which two it could have possibly been. He said that with so many PNMs and “hot, top-tier ladies” there, he barely had enough time to talk about meaningful things with the brothers, like where he was from and what sports he played in high school. “The DJ was so loud you could barely hear anything,” he told his clone/ friend. “This one junior couldn’t even hear that I was from Connecticut and played lacrosse and golf in high school, let alone that I was thinking of majoring in Economics with a concentration in finance.” Monday Monday scribbled this on a sweaty napkin between plays of “Mr. Brightside” and “Closer” on the Shooters II dance floor.

obsessed with a digital series that explores fictional and often dystopian story lines. “Black Mirror” intelligently comments on our society’s utter reliance on and obsession with technology and how it can control and/or ruin people’s lives. Each episode makes us question our lives, because all of them seem somewhat plausible in our increasingly savage modern world. However, one episode in particular, “Hated in a Nation,” hits a little too close to home to be a story of futuristic make-believe. In the episode, bees have become extinct and the British government has created millions of robotic bees which are able to pollinate. The public takes part in a new Twitter “game” where one tweets “#deathto” about someone one doesn’t like. The show calls it a game in an ironic way because in reality the person with the most #deathtos tweeted about them is killed at 5 p.m. each day. Once the public realizes that the game is real, there is an increase in the number of #deathto tweets daily, eventually putting the Prime Minister on the top of the list. Detectives discover that the robotic bees dispatched for pollination have been the murdering devices for those sent to death by the Twittersphere. Ultimately, the bees kill 388,000 citizens (all the citizens who had tweeted #deathto), “bringing to justice” all those who played the “game.” So, why did this seemingly fictional dystopia hit so close to home? Because I could see this “game” happening at any moment in today’s society. I could picture people either saying “No! This can’t be, let me tweet this to see if it’s actually true,” or “OMG I can kill a person with a tweet? Sweet!” Behind our computer screens, we feel impervious to the real-life implication of our actions. We are capable now of trolling and bullying through the internet without anyone knowing who we are. Our computers are both shields and invisibility

Is a tweet an actual action? Is it physical, physical enough to touch a person? How can it impact a person if you are not there to witness it? And who cares if that person is hurt—they deserve it, don’t they? Isn’t that how it works? That’s the mindset the internet has enabled—an emotionless one or rather one that refuses to recognize someone else’s emotions. One that shapes a society where people can get away with heinous acts and not be caught or prosecuted, making it more important than ever for people to have a moral code. And instead, we have become accustomed to it, numb to it. Numb enough to believe that our actions over our devices don’t really mean anything. Chat forums have become a hub for evil actions, enabling anonymous hateful conversation. There are chat forums focused on hating Obama, hating Jews, “Why Jennifer Lawrence Should Die” and so on. And with this outlet for evil speech, it’s almost as though it encourages and increases the hateful actions. We egg one another one and push each other to produce more hate. It subverts the worlds moral code, making our the globe more toxic than ever before. In the same way that people in “Black Mirror” tweet #deathto, U.S. citizens voted anonymously for a candidate who preached: the deportation of millions of illegal immigrants, and the refusal of entry to Muslims. Our dystopian society has just elected the ultimate bully. He mocked people with disabilities and sexually assaulted women and bragged about it. We elected a man that gets off on the excitement of a twitter battle. Like the world of “Black Mirror,” our country anonymously elected the embodiment of our own malicious impulses. But we did so anonymously, so who could it really hurt… Lizi Byrnes Mandelbaum is a Trinity sophomore. Her column, “dear dystopia” runs on alternate Mondays.

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