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Students petition against change to misconduct policy

Blue Devils smash the Seminoles

by Matt Barnett THE CHRONICLE

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Students are standing up to the recent changes to Duke’s sexual misconduct policy that reduce the timeframe in which students can report alleged incidents of sexual assault. This January, the Office of Student Conduct reduced the reporting period for sexual misconduct from two years to one year after the incident occurs. Some students are concerned that this change might discourage victims who are uncomfortable reporting the incident without ample time to recuperate. A petition asking administrators to reverse the policy started to circulate April 1 and has acquired about 1,000 signatures as of Saturday, said senior Ebonie Simpson, Duke Student Government vice president of student life and an intern at the Women’s Center. “I hope that students are really understanding that this affects everyone—it’s not an issue that just affects women,” said Simpson, who was one of the petition’s main architects. “I just hope that the administration responds effectively and efficiently. The school year is almost out.” Stephen Bryan, director of the Office of Student Conduct and associate dean of students, deferred all comment to Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta. The petition, which is sponsored by women’s issues blog Develle Dish and Duke Student Government, lays out three primary grievances with the new statute of limitations: victims of sexual assault have less time to seek redress, perpetrators of sexual violence are less likely to be held accountable, and incidents of sexual assault will continue to be under-reported.

The No. 3 Duke Blue Devils improved to 19-2 on the season in a 4-2 win over ACC rival Florida State at Ambler Tennis Stadium. SEE PETITION ON PAGE 6

DSG PRESIDENTIAL RACE

Brown aims to increase outreach Sigma Pi by Maggie Spini THE CHRONICLE

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Junior Chris Brown, a lifelong Blue Devil, draws on his love for Duke in his approach to student advocacy. Brown, external chief of staff for Duke Student Government, is running for DSG president with a goal of improving communication between senators and the student body and ensuring a smooth transition to the house model. “Now is a crucial time to be getting student input,” Brown said. “[One thing] I bring to the table is my attitude and my perspective.” Brown said he wants to put DSG in stronger dialogue with students by creating a director of communications position within his administration. This individual would help him write memos and letters directly to students. If elected, Brown said he will focus on the implementation of the house model and planning for

Chris Brown, a junior, currently serves as the Duke Student Government external chief of staff.

fraternity to receive charter by Marianna Jordan THE CHRONICLE

The Duke chapter of the Sigma Pi fraternity will receive its charter in an official ceremony Saturday after completing the process in record time. The Iota-Xi chapter was the fastest Sigma Pi colony to ever be chartered, said Sigma Pi President Max Coar, a sophomore. After receiving colony status in Spring 2011, the chartering process lasted one year, though many chapters complete it in up to two years. Sigma Pi is already a member of the Interfraternity Council at Duke and will have a house under next year’s house model, but the national charter will give them voting rights in national fraternity matters and access to greater alumni support.

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Lindy Duncan wins third tournament of the season, SW 5

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“... life as a Chinese engineer is not necessarily paradise or even a guarantee of decent living.” —Kristen Lee in “Imitation life.” See column page 8

Brinson Paolini captures first career win, SW 3

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SAN FRANCISCO — In 2005, Stockton, Calif., unveiled a gleaming arena and ballpark on its riverfront, part of a $145 million plan to draw people downtown. Now the city—located about 80 miles east of San Francisco—is negotiating with creditors to stave off bankruptcy. The 10,000-seat arena, a glass-walled symbol of the city’s fight against a soaring crime rate and downtown blight, was one piece of a redevelopment boom that also saw the addition of a 5,000-seat minor league ballfield, a 650-space parking garage, a 66-slip marina and the purchase of an eight-story city hall. “This is the project that’s going to bring folks home, and it’s going to bring people from around the region to Stockton,” then-Council Member Leslie Martin said in 2004 when the waterfront revival was approved. The new city hall stands empty because the government can’t afford to move in.

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Bake Sale for the Innocence Project Reintegration Team Law School Star Commons,10 a.m.-1 p.m. Come enjoy some tasty treats! The team will be raising funds to help wrongfully convicted individuals readjust to life outside prison.

Monday Motivations Multicultural Center, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Students, faculty, staff and community members are encouraged to join us to start their week off with free food and friendly people.

Opposition to demolition Maliki consolodates power of forests at Va. Tech grows as US influence wanes BLACKSBURG, Va. — The Virginia Tech athletic department is determined to press ahead with a plan to destroy a quarter of the forest there: about 140 trees, including six to eight great white oaks, some of which are estimated to be more than 300 years old.

BAGHDAD - On the face of it, Iraq’s first springtime since American troops withdrew in December is turning into the most peaceful and promising the country has witnessed in a decade, offering what U.S. and some Iraqi officials say amounts to a vindication of President Obama’s Iraq policy.

Autism Awareness Week- Day 1 Bryan Center Plaza, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Autism Speaks U: Duke (formerly the Duke Autism Foundation) will be tabling with blue cake pops and autism facts.

Stress-ism’s: Managing Stress when En/Countering Racism Multicultural Center, 6-7:15 p.m. Join CAPS, Duwell and the CMA in this healthy discussion about the existence and ramifications of racism on campus. —from calendar.duke.edu

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ence. They would come to the Women’s Center, and we would talk about it and sometimes they knew exactly what they were going to say and sometimes they had to think about it. Then there was always this moment with every survivor when they would sit down and they had to write it out. It had been in their heads until they wrote it out and watching them write the words, sometimes we knew where it was going and it was just so gut-wrenching to watch them write out those words. It was just unbelievable. And they would write it out and we would go to wherever they wanted and we would take the shots. They got to decide the angle, the space. It was for them. It was very cathartic for most of them, if not all. TC: How did you deal with revealing the faces of survivors in a tight-knit college community? NS: My initial concern was that we’re not going to get people to volunteer, because it is such a tight-knit community, campus is fairly small. But it was a really great idea in the sense that these narratives are frequently silenced, and it was a deliberate attempt at instituting these voices back into the mainstream Duke public narrative. And obviously the survivors have the option of either showing their faces or not showing their faces, or showing parts of their faces, whatever they are comfortable with. Because ultimately, the project is for them. TC: How do the revealed faces affect the viewer? NS: I was recently having a conversation with someone about the one in five statistic—one in five American women has been sexually assaulted. And there was a lot of disbelief towards that statistic, because it means one person out of every five women I know has been assaulted, and they’ve never come to me [about that]. And part of why showing faces was so important and so powerful was to indicate that just because you don’t know about it doesn’t mean it’s not happening, especially since the topic is so taboo. And the point is to not make assumptions about people’s experiences, men or women. TC: What effect do the hidden faces have?

Neha Sharma is pictured in the “Breaking Out” exhibit in the Women’s Center, which displays victims of sexual assault.

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The Chronicle: How did you develop the idea for this project? Neha Sharma: Over winter break, I discovered Project Unbreakable online, which is artist Grace Brown’s project—she started it in October 2011 and it’s basically the same thing—she photographs survivors of sexual assault holding the words the perpetrator said to them. Develle Dish played around with the idea of bringing something like this to Duke as early as January, but it didn’t really crystallize until we became aware of the new sexual misconduct policy, and we thought it would be even more important to bring it to Duke and open up discussion of sexual assault on campus. TC: How did you handle the role as the point of contact between the survivors and the wider world? Kristin Oakley: We offered to be that medium between the survivor and the people in the outside world so the person could focus on being there and doing their part. We did a fair amount of guiding with the pose and the location. We trekked all over campus. As you can see they’re taken from the far end of East to right on West. We didn’t have to do a lot of guiding or direction with the expression. It was a pretty serious venture the whole time, so the expressions showed that. We let each person take their own direction. We would bring them to a spot that we’d agreed on and [let them] stand as they wished. We would try out a few poses and a few different stances. TC: What sort of power did the signs play in the pho-

tography process? KO: They were sort of the second character in the photograph. We did one shoot that was half in the rain, and we had to keep the posters dry, tucked into our bodies or underneath umbrellas or in bags. And it wasn’t just us. Each person was worried about how their poster would look. They picked their color, they made the poster look just the way they wanted it to. NS: It was hard because through the process itself there were some who shared their stories and some who didn’t. It was a really emotionally draining experi-

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The “Breaking Out” exhibit, on display in the Bryan Center last week and now in the Women’s Center, features photographs of Duke students who are victims of sexual assault, holding signs bearing the words of the assaulter or of friends’ responses to the assault. The project, sponsored by Duke’s feminist blog Develle Dish, came as part of a broader sexual assault awareness campaign launched in response to a recent change by the Office of Student Conduct, which reduced the time frame for students to report a sexual assault from two years to one year. Breaking Out director Neha Sharma, a junior, and photographer Kristin Oakley, a senior, recently spoke with The Chronicle’s Julian Spector about their project.

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Iran nuclear talks set for this week by Thomas Erdbrink THE WASHINGTON POST

TEHRAN, Iran — Nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers, including the United States, are slated to begin Friday in Istanbul, Iranian state media said Sunday. Iran's official English-language Press TV quoted an unnamed official at Iran's Supreme National Security Council, which handles the country's nuclear program, as setting the date and place of the talks. Reuters quoted a spokeswoman for the European Union foreign policy chief confirming that the talks would take place this week in Istanbul. The site had been in question after Iranian politicians declared that Turkey, a key negotiator in the talks, was no longer neutral ground because it actively opposes Syria, an Iranian ally. The uncertainty about the location had prompted Western worries that Iran was not planning to seriously engage the world powers—the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany—in the first talks since January 2011. The six nations are expected to press Iran to accept curbs on its nuclear program that would make it far more difficult for Tehran to build a nuclear weapon. A key demand, Western diplomats say, is that Iran halt production at its uranium enrichment plant near Qom, a Shiite holy city about 90 miles south of Tehran, which was built in mountain tunnels beyond the reach of all but the most advanced bombs and missiles. The United States also expects Iran

to fully suspend production of 20 percent enriched uranium, which Iran says it needs to power a 43-year-old U.S.-built nuclear test reactor that produces radio isotopes. In a signal that Iran is willing to negotiate over its stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Fereydoon Abbasi, said Sunday that his country had already “foreseen” to stop that activity and lower the enrichment levels. “We do not produce more 20 percent fuel than we need,” Abbasi told the Islamic Republic Student News Agency. He said it was easy to change the centrifuges now enriching uranium up to 20 percent and use them for making nuclear fuel up to 3.5 percent enriched. “Our systems are capable of making this change,” Abbasi said. The closure of the facility near Qom, called Fordow, requested by Western officials, is “not logical,” Abbasi said, stressing that the mountain bunker was no different from Iran's main nuclear facility at Natanz. He also said that Iran’s only semi-operating nuclear reactor, in the town of Bushehr, was running on fuel provided by Russia. Last month, some prominent Iranian elected officials and analysts—many of them close to Iran's hard-line leadership— said it was highly unlikely that Iran would accept even a temporary halt in its production of enriched uranium. They said recent economic sanctions and military threats against the SEE IRAN ON PAGE 6

Q&A from page 3 NS: Those photographs in which faces are not present are about possibility, and about walking through campus and knowing there are people on this campus who had to go through that, and whose photographs are sitting there in the Bryan Center. It brings a sort of immediacy to the issue which is really important, because it’s easy to distance oneself from sexual assault and say it happens over there, it happens to other people. But it doesn’t. It happens to us. TC: Are these personal voices a reaction to the kind of statistics that have been used to argue for cutting the statute of limitations? Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director of the Office of Student Conduct, told The Chronicle that 96 percent of sexual misconduct cases reported to his office over the last 10 academic years were reported within a year of the incident. NS: Ultimately whatever percent report after a year, those are still human beings. Sexual assault is still sexual assault. It doesn’t matter if it’s been 365 days or 380 days. TC: Neha, you are one of the subjects in the exhibit. How did you decide you wanted to publicly identify yourself as a survivor? NS: I wanted to own it. I wanted to own the experience. It functioned differently for different survivors. For me, it was about owning the act because there is a lot of shame that came with what happened. And by putting my face out there, I wanted to indicate that I didn’t want to be ashamed anymore, and if anybody thought less of me for it they could go straight, directly to hell. And any time you show a face like that, any time you put your face into public knowledge, so to speak, in this really intimate sort of experience, it was to shock people who do know me, because I certainly haven’t broadcast it. And the message was to not make assumptions about people, because you actually don’t know. TC: Do you get the sense that people are receiving your intended message? NS: I’ve been talking to people who have been reacting to the exhibit. Sometimes I’ll get reactions that say this was really important because it’s important to tell women that sexual assault happens. That’s not why we did this. We didn’t do this so we can warn women on this campus that they could be raped. First of all, men also get raped. And second of all, the takeaway from the words in those posters shouldn’t have been to put responsibility back on people who have been assaulted. The point of the exhibit was to acknowledge that it happens in our community and that there is therefore a communal

responsibility to talk about it and show support for survivors, not for potential survivors to be careful. It’s a culture—it’s not anomalies, and I hope people understand that. Rape culture is basically a culture that produces sexual assault systematically, produces acceptance of it systematically and produces all the minor harassments that actually lead of to the assault systematically. And it produces a silence around it. And there’s a tendency in our culture to distance ourselves from the perpetrators as well: “I couldn’t possible know any perpetrators. Perpetrators are anomalies, they’re crazy, they’re pariahs in society.” The reality is that’s not the case. Did you see how many quotes are up there from boyfriends? And it’s not women seeking out rapist boyfriends, it’s us living in a rape culture in which perpetrators are normal, they’re normal guys. TC: How did the emotional intensity of this project affect you as the photographer? KO: It put a face to a statistic for me. I’ve always heard the statistics, everyone hears the statistics, but I’d never known the faces that went with them, and as the photographer I know all of the faces. The average visitor to the exhibit wouldn’t know all of the faces, but I do and it was difficult because I started to see one after another. This is putting a person, putting a face, putting an experience with just a statistic you hear, just a number. It personalized it for me. The responses I heard made me really happy because they meant the work was getting out there, people were seeing it, people were experiencing it, and it was just getting them to think, and that’s part of what we need is for people to not just push it under the rug or put things on the back burner but to be aware of what’s happening on campus. And to realize it is happening on campus. I had a lot of people who asked, “Are these all Duke students?” Yeah, these are all Duke students. “Wait, are these actually quotes from their experiences?” Yeah, this is each and every one of their experiences. It’s hard for people to wrap their minds around it that these are Duke students—it happens to Duke students. We’re not all protected. Bad things do happen, and I think it was good to get people to realize, because when you start talking about things people start realizing that it’s happening around them. TC: What’s next for “Breaking Out”? NS: We hope to bring it back next year actually, because the silence on campus in regards to this is atrocious and unacceptable. So hopefully they will change the policy. We have the petition going. But independent of whether they do or do not change it, we’re bringing the campaign back, with new photos. Especially because we barely publicized for this, and I feel like this campus is actually itching for this discourse. We need it. So we’re going to bring it back.

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BROWN from page 1 renovations to the West Union Building, projected to begin summer 2013. He noted that he wants to ensure student satisfaction in the first year of the house model by creating an easy flow of information between house members and their representatives in DSG. One of his priorities is to establish DSG as the body that students should go to with concerns about the house model, and reflexively, DSG as a body that will seek students’ input. Student perspectives on West Union renovations, before and during construction, will also be important for facilitating smooth transitions next year, Brown said. Student interest spaces should be accessible and open to student programming, and dining options should not be limited by the construction. “We’re at a pivotal point… in the founding of institutions and organizations that, if done right, will be in place for generations,” Brown noted. Brown—DSG vice president for athletics and campus services as a sophomore and a senator for Durham and regional affairs as a freshman—also serves as a student representative on the Facilities and Environment Committee of the Board of Trustees. He noted that his accomplishments include lobbying for hybrid buses, making Central Campus more accessible by changing bus schedules and lobbying for renovations to bike lanes on campus, which resulted in Duke becoming nationally recognized in March as a bike-friendly university. Brown has also increased DSG outreach to students through ad hoc committees, and he also worked on tailgate policies. “I’ve been on the executive board of two presidents who handled administrations very differently. In both cases, I’ve understood what is effective and ineffective in different situations,” Brown said. “What’s different is my attitude—if we engage [students], anything is possible.” Senior Jordan Stone, who has known Brown for three years as a fellow member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, said he is confident that Brown, in his consideration of the student perspective, will move the ownership of the house model into students’ hands. “One qualification that supersedes all others, beyond the breadth and depth of experience already acquired through his three years on DSG... is Chris’ ability to listen,” Stone wrote in an email Sunday. “The political world, at the university level especially, breeds a culture of exclusivity.... Chris doesn’t ascribe to that flavor of government.” Emma Rasiel, director of the Financial Education Partnership and assistant professor of the practice in economics, who taught Brown as a student in the Fall, said his character makes him a good candidate for DSG

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president. “He is sensible and mature,” Rasiel said. “He sees the big picture and knows how to get things done.... He would be a good person for people to come to and talk to.” In his campaign, Brown is emphasizing his love for Duke, and as the son of two Duke graduates, he said the University has always been a significant part of his life. “I bring a full plate of Duke experiences to the table,” Brown said. “With the most DSG experience and a lot of Duke experience out of that, including fanship for my whole life... I’ve bled Duke blue from day one.”

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“We demand that the [sexual misconduct] policy not limit the ability for victims to report sexual misconduct while they and the accused are enrolled at Duke,� the petition states. Duke made this change to the policy in order to align with Department of Education Office for Civil Rights requirements. The federal terms mandate that there cannot be different standards for students and for employees regarding the statute of limitations and reports of harassment, Moneta said. He added that it was easier to amend the student policy to match the existing terms for faculty and staff rather than the inverse. “I don’t want to create the impression that [reversing the policy change] is inevitable or even likely,� Moneta said, adding that the Office of Institutional Equity and Student Affairs would have to coordinate that change. The amended sexual misconduct policy includes additional changes. Students now have right to appeal an Undergraduate Conduct Board decision regarding sexual misconduct. In line with a federal mandate, the standard of evidence for all cases has been changed from “clear and convincing� to “a preponderance of evidence,� which means that the accused will be found responsible if the evidence shows that he or she is “more likely than not� guilty. Junior Sunhay You, Develle Dish editorin-chief and petition organizer, said she was shocked by the reduction of the reporting time for victims of sexual misconduct when

OSC informed students of the updates in a January blast email. “We didn’t think students were aware the change had happened—we also didn’t think students were aware what the experience of a sexual assault survivor was,� You said. “We needed to raise awareness around why the statute of limitations should be longer and about why survivors might need longer than a year.� The next step for the petition’s organizers is to lobby the administration, Simpson said. The petition’s launch coincided with the opening of “Breaking Out,� a photography exhibit by Develle Dish that features student sexual assault victims holding posters displaying the words of their attackers. The exhibit was on display in the Bryan Center last week and is now available on Develle Dish. Junior Neha Sharma, a staff writer for Develle Dish, organized the “Breaking Out� campaign. The blog decided to launch the campaign in response to the policy change, Sharma said. “[It] is a great way to communicate to [the OSC] that the student population does care about this issue and is not okay with this policy change,� she said. You believes the petition and campaign have made it easier for survivors and supporters to voice their concerns about the policy and sexual misconduct. She noted that although there has been an outpouring of support in response to the petition and the “Breaking Out� campaign, sexual assault is still a taboo subject at Duke. “The supporters are becoming more visible and louder, but at the same time the fear is still there,� You said.

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IRAN from page 4 country have made Iranian leaders even more determined to continue enriching uranium, despite the worsening toll on Iran’s currency and oil industry. “Please do not make the general public expect any freeze on the enrichment of uranium,� said Hossein Sheikholeslami, a former Iranian ambassador to Syria and once a leader of the student movement that took 52 U.S. Embassy workers hostage in 1979. “We regard this as our inalienable right.� The enrichment facility near Qom houses Iran’s fallback nuclear energy program—a series of centrifuges hidden deep inside a mountain bunker. Iran has

said that it built the facility to protect its nuclear technology from attack by Israel or the United States. “Closing down that site is out of the question,� said Sheikholeslami, who is a key adviser to Iran's former top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani. But Iran might be willing to talk about its stockpile of the higher-grade uranium, he said. Iranian officials say they were forced to enrich the uranium to a higher level in order to keep their U.S.-built reactor running after Western powers refused to deliver new batches of fuel in 2009. “I don’t think we can trust the West for now giving us that fuel, but Iran’s negotiating team might be willing to debate this option,� Sheikholeslami said.

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Duke holds off Eagles, Doherty, Goodermote n ends three-game skid by Lopa Rahman THE CHRONICLE

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Winning the draw control battle propelled the Blue Devils to victory in their final ACC game of the regular season. On Saturday against Boston College (6-7, 1-4 in the ACC), No. 8 Duke (9-5, 3-2) ended its three-game losing skid and eked out a 12-11 win at Koskinen Stadium. The Blue Devils have improved their ability to 11 control the draw BC Duke 12 since their loss to Virginia Mar. 26, when a poor performance on faceoffs cost them the game. “I think the big thing is the draw control,” Blue Devil head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “That was obviously a huge factor to be able to have the ball and generate on offense.” Duke senior Emma Hamm led all scorers with five points, including two goals and three assists. Boston College graduate student Kristin Igoe led the Eagles with four goals in the first half. Igoe struck first less than a minute into the game, but the Blue Devils’ leading scorer, Taylor Trimble, and sophomore Molly Quirke answered with a goal each. Freshman Mikaela Rix and senior Brittany Wilton responded with two more Boston College goals to give the Eagles a 3-2 lead with 23:32 left in the half. After winning the ensuing draw, Hamm needed just 12 seconds to score and spark a 4-0 Duke run, but the Eagles staged a rally of their own, including two tallies from Igoe and a goal from sophomore Kate McCarthy. Trimble put Boston College’s run to a halt with a score off a pass from Hamm, but the Eagles netted two more goals to take an 8-7 lead at the half. In the second period, the Blue Devils so-

lidified their defense, holding Igoe scoreless. “We decided that we were going to faceguard [Igoe] in the second half and just didn’t let her have the ball very much,” Kimel said. Although the second half proved more successful for the Blue Devil defense, the team exhibited a less potent offensive attack. “[In the first half], our offense was really rattling off goals, really had good mojo moving the ball, and the defense was struggling,” Kimel said. “It reversed itself in the second half, where our attack was not finding a good flow of the game, and our defense really tightened up and did a good job.” Boston College senior Sam Taylor started the second-half scoring 10:46 into the period. In the next six minutes, Duke answered with tallies from seniors Kat Thomas and Kim Wenger. Thomas, an All-ACC selection last season, was appearing in her first contest of the year after being sidelined due to injury. With less than 10 minutes remaining in regulation, Wilton notched her second goal of the day. The Blue Devils finally found an offensive spark with 3:52 left on the clock, building a 12-10 advantage powered by a three-goal run. With just 17 seconds left to play, Eagle junior Brooke Blue found the back of the net to pull the game within one. Hamm won the final draw of the contest, denying Boston College the opportunity to tie the game. “We’ve got to find a way to play more consistently,” Kimel said. “We’ve been up and down throughout the course of the season, and in the games we’ve really performed well, we played consistently for 60 minutes and both units had really strong outings. I’d like to see us play more consistently from one half to the other, and from one unit to the other.”

Facing an unranked, nonconference opponent, the Blue Devils were afforded one last chance to improve before their regular-season finale against No. 1 Virginia. But it took a furious fourth-quarter rally to propel Duke to an 11-10 victory over Marist Saturday afternoon at Koskinen Stadium. Trailing 9-7 Marist 10 heading into the Duke 11 final period, the No. 8 Blue Devils (10-3) scored four times in the fourth quarter and limited the Red Foxes (5-4) to just one goal. “I was pleased with our fourthquarter effort,” Duke head coach John Danowski said. “We played a little bit more man-to-man offense against their zone, and we got better looks and better shots.” Although the Blue Devils fired 49 shots, they struggled to convert due in part to Marist goalie Craig Goodermote, who recorded 19 saves on the afternoon. “Their goalie played really, really well,” Danowski said. “We got some good looks, didn’t make them, and it was a game.” The Red Foxes jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first 2:28 of play, but the Blue Devils answered with tallies from sophomore Christian Walsh, freshman Kyle Keenan and senior Justin Turri. With 3:48 remaining in the period, Jack Doherty scored off a Duke turnover, but the Blue Devils’ Brian Dailey, a freshman, netted his first career goal just seven seconds later. The second quarter was all Marist until less than a minute remained on the clock. The Red Foxes exploded on offense with a four-goal run, including three from Doherty, who led all scorers

with five goals. “[Jack Doherty] was clearly the best player on the field,” Danowski said. “[At halftime] we changed assignments a little

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Emma Hamm had a game-high five points and helped Duke control the draw in the team’s win over the Eagles.

Duke entered the weekend as part of a three team race for second place in the conference along with No. 21 North Carolina and Florida State. After a tight win over the Seminoles Friday, the No. 7 Blue Devils are set up for a deciding match against the Tar Heels in their regular season finale. Duke (18-3, 7-1 in the ACC) defeated Florida State by a 4-3 margin despite losing the doubles Duke 7 point for the first Miami 0 time since a Mar. 9 loss to PepperDuke 4 dine and then swept Miami 7-0 3 FSU for a perfect trip through the state of Florida. The first victory of the weekend handed the Seminoles (16-6, 7-2) their first ACC loss and gave the Blue Devils the crucial tiebreaker in the standings. “It was a big weekend for us,” head coach Ramsey Smith said. “In the past we’ve had trouble winning both matches in Florida, beating Florida State and Miami. It’s a tough place to play.” After the teams split the first two

doubles matches, Duke’s Henrique Cunha and Chris Mengel fell to the Seminoles’ Blake Davis and Jordan Kelly-Houston. Cunha claimed revenge quickly, however, opening singles play with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Kelly-Houston in the No. 1 spot. That victory evened the match at 1-1 and swung momentum over to the Blue Devils. Following two wins from each team, Mengel managed to fight to a 6-4, 6-4 win over Davis. The victory put Duke ahead by the final margin of 4-3 and kept the Blue Devils in the chase for the ACC tournament’s second seed. Two days later against Miami (8-10, 1-8), Duke did not face nearly as much pressure in its 7-0 romp. After sweeping the three doubles matches, the Blue Devils cruised to straight set wins in all six singles matches. “Today we were able to beat Miami without dropping a set in singles or doubles, so it helped us build confidence,” Smith said. Sunday afternoon’s events in Northern Florida could also prove beneficial to the Blue Devils. North Carolina defeated Florida State 4-3 Sunday to move into second place in the conference, a half game ahead of Duke. The loss, and a looming SEE M. TENNIS ON PAGE 6

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goals by a stalwart performance in goal from Craig Goodermote.

Duke freshman Will Haus pulled the game within two goals, and Marist headed into the locker room with a 7-5 advantage. “Defensively, they played zone, something you don’t see every week,” Danowski said. “What you hope for when teams play zone is to get a lead. When you get a lead it’s hard for teams to stay in the zone. But we didn’t have a lead, so they could stay in it. They were gaining confidence, and the goalie was making saves.” The Red Foxes kicked off secondhalf scoring with a goal from freshman Drew Nesmith and held the Blue Devils scoreless for the first 11:10. With less than four minutes remaining in the third quarter, Duke finally found its spark as junior Tommy Patterson and senior Robert Rotanz found the back of the net to bring the Blue Devils within one. Marist did not let Duke have the final goal of the period, however, as Red Fox freshman Colin Joka scored with 1:27 left on the clock. In the first six minutes of the final quarter, junior Josh Offit and sophomore Jordan Wolf knotted the game at nine with a pair of goals. With 5:31 left, Doherty scored his fifth and final goal of the day, but was answered by a tally from Walsh and junior David Lawson’s gamewinning goal. The Blue Devils will face No. 1 Virginia in what might be their toughest matchup of the season Friday. Danowski emphasized the importance of going into it with the same mindset as any other game. “It doesn’t matter that you’re playing Syracuse, it doesn’t matter that you’re playing Marist, it doesn’t matter that you’re playing Virginia—what matters is that you play the right way all the time,” Danowski said. “And hopefully that’s part of the lessons that our guys are learning.”

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It was a weekend of championships for junior Brinson Paolini. After claiming the individual title at the River Landing Intercollegiate Saturday in Wallace, N.C., Paolini hit the road with his father to attend the final day of The Masters in Augusta, Ga. The Blue Devil has attended at least one round at The Masters, be it a practice round or a championship round, since he was one year old. “My dad is definitely more excited about [the Masters] than today,” Paolini said. “And I kind of am too.” Paolini sat in 26th place after the first day of play but fired a final round 6-under-par 66 to claim the title and help guide Duke to a runner-up team finish. After shooting a 1-over-par 73 in the opening round, the Virginia Beach, Va. native rallied on the

second day of play and ultimately finished the tournament with an 8-under 208 for a one-shot victory of Liberty’s Niklas Lindstrom. “It turned out to be a great weekend,” Paolini said. “I stayed really patient and tried to always stay in the moment. [On day two] I got on a roll and rode it for as long as I could.... It was definitely a test of patience.” Due to bad weather on day one of the tournament, the players were held to just 27 holes instead of the intended 36, making individual standings difficult to judge since play had been paused mid-round. Without specific knowledge of where he stood relative to his competition, Paolini focused on his individual game, which led to him to his first ever collegiate title. “Brinson has played a lot of good golf SEE M. GOLF ON PAGE 6

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Duke effectively knocked Florida State out of the race for the second in the ACC by winning Friday’s match.

The Blue Devils took on two visitors from the Sunshine State over the weekend, avenging last year’s loss in the ACC tournament to Florida State, and defeating conference-leading Miami. Last Friday, No. 2 FSU 3 Duke (19-2, 8-0 Duke 4 ACC) upended the No. 7 HurriMiami 0 canes (16-3, 7-2) 4-0. Miami—who Duke 4 led the ACC standings—had been unbeaten in the conference before arriving in Durham. The following day, the

Blue Devils took on Florida State (11-8, 4-5), winning 4-2 and continuing their eight-match win streak. “We out-competed them,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “I didn’t think we hit the ball great, but we were really determined and really focused to play good singles.” Singles have been strong point for Duke this season, which carries a 0.909 winning percentages for singles matches in the ACC. The Blue Devils have struggled in doubles, where they hold a 0.667 winning percentage. The Hurricanes took a quick 8-4 victory SEE W. TENNIS ON PAGE 6

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After weeks of competing on the road, the Blue Devils brought the competition home this past weekend for the Duke Invitational. True to form, several Blue Devils broke personal records at Wallace Wade and still more took top-five finishes as well. Since the ACC outdoor championships are rapidly approaching and available spots on the roster are highly contested, some of the athletes faced the added incentive of competing their way into one of the team’s 60 available slots. Senior Carly Seymour earned the Duke women one of their two first-place finishes as she took the top spot in the Sally Meyerhoff 3000m—an event created to commemorate Meyerhoff, a Duke alumna who passed away Mar. 8, 2011 in a bicycle accident—with a time of 9:33.74. The other first-place finish on the women’s side came in the field, where Erica Brand threw the discus 50.77m to take the title, a full 2.08m farther than N.C. State’s Brittany Hampton secondplace effort. “[The throwers] looked pretty good, and everyone is getting very, very consistent,” assistant coach B.J. Linnenbrink said. “With consistency comes even bigger throws and more personal records.” The remainder of Duke’s top finishes came as the men stepped up to compete. On Friday, junior Domenick DeMatteo stepped on the track to run his first 5000m race, looking to break 14 minutes and qualify for NCAA regionals. DeMatteo ran a 13:50.22 in his longdistance debut, leading his teammate Andrew Brodeur, who took fourth with

a time of 14:01.58. “A 5k is the longest event on the track I’ve ever run, and I wasn’t sure what to expect going into it,” DeMatteo said. “But I think I’m right where I want to be at. I’m feeling very fresh and feeling good at races and also getting very good training in.” Freshman Shaun Thompson also showed that he was just where he needed to be this past weekend as he competed in the 3000m steeplechase. The freshman broke the nine-minute barrier with his time of 8:58.48 and led his teammate Domenick Robinson across the finish line. Thompson’s time stands out when compared to that of Duke’s former steeplechase All-American Ryan McDermott, who did not break nine minutes his entire freshman year. The next first-place finish on the track came from junior Curtis Beach, one of Duke’s two most recent track and field NCAA champions. Beach ran the 800m in a time of 1:47.99, finishing over a second in front of the rest of the field. Duke’s 4x800m team wrapped up the last of the wins on the track. Stephen Clark, Brenden Pierson, Kyle Moran and Nate McClafferty finished with a time of 7:39.44 to take the top spot. In the field, Justin Amezquita and Michael Barbas brought in two more wins for the Blue Devils. Amezquita’s 5.00m mark in the pole vault earned him the top spot in his event, while Barbas threw 17.43m for his title. Many of the other Duke athletes who competed at Wallace Wade earned topfive finishes in their events and took down personal records. With tougher competitions in the near future, these success have lent the Blue Devils even greater confidence as they get ready to compete at the ACC outdoor championships in less than two weeks.

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fromstaffreports Lindy Duncan continued to solidify her position as the best golfer in the nation with a win at the Bryan National Collegiate over the weekend. Duncan shot a 4-under-par 212 over three rounds, beating out UNC Greensboro’s Fanny Cnops by two strokes. The victory is her third of the season, and her

seventh top-10 finish. The junior had a season-low 26 putts in her final round, highlighted by an 18-foot eagle putt on No. 12. Stacey Kim and Alejandra Cangrejo finished tied for ninth and 16th, respectively, at the 6,323-yard, par-72 Players Course at the Bryan Park Golf and Enrichment Cen-

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ter in Greensboro, N.C. As a team, Duke started the final day in sixth place, nine strokes out of the lead, but rallied for a 1-over-par round to finish tied with Tennessee. The Volunteers earned the victory on a playoff hole, though, earning four even-par scores while the Blue Devils registered a double bogey. Florida State finished seven strokes behind in third place, and Ohio State and North Carolina rounded out the top five, three strokes behind the Seminoles.

Marcus Stroman continued his dominance on the mound, but the Blue Devil bats stayed silent as Clemson (18-14, 8-7 in the ACC) swept a three-game set at Jack Coombs Stadium. In Friday’s opener, Stroman received just one run of support in a nine-inning, 13-strikeout performance on the mound, and Duke (13-20, 5-10) lost 4-1 in 11 innings. The junior leads the ACC with 85 total strikeouts, Tigers 4 19 more than his competiDuke 2 nearest tor, and has aljust two runs Tigers 11 lowed in his last 19.2 inDuke 5 nings pitched. The Blue Devil Tigers 4 offense rallied for five runs Saturday Duke 1 afternoon, led by catcher Mike Rosenfeld, who went 3-for-5 with two RBI

and two runs scored. Clemson, though, broke open a 6-5 game in the top of the ninth inning, scoring five runs off a trio of Duke relievers to secure an 11-5 win. Blue Devil starting pitcher Robert Huber threw seven scoreless innings against the Tigers Sunday, staking Duke to a 2-0 lead. But reliever Andrew Istler allowed four in the eighth and the Blue Devils could not mount a comeback, falling 4-2. Duke has now lost five of its last six conference games and is tied for last in the Coastal Division with Virginia Tech, a team it swept earlier in the season.

Blue Devil epeeist Dylan Nollner made the most of his first appearance at the Junior World Championships in Moscow, finishing in 10th place. The sophomore went undefeated in pool play to earn a No. 7 seed in the bracket of 64. He defeated Finland’s Rasmus Mellanen, 15-11, and South Korea’s Byeungchan Jung, 15-9, en route to the table of 16, where he faced Italy’s Marco Fichera. Fichera jumped out to a 4-0 lead and never looked back, though, winning the bout 15-4. Nollner earned a silver medal at the Junior Olympics in February and finished 17th at the NCAA championships Mar. 25.

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M. GOLF from page 3 for Duke,” head coach Jamie Green said. “He helped put us in a position in that final round to make a charge [at the lead], but unfortunately we couldn’t get enough guys to help.” Duke finished the tournament in second place to Liberty, who claimed the team title by finishing nine shots ahead of the Blue Devils. “They are a really good team,” Green said. “They’ve got a lot of talent over there…. We didn’t finish second to a weak team at all. I was proud of our guys and happy they got focused and realized what things they needed to to to tidy up their games on day two, but unfortunately we couldn’t make up enough ground.” The Blue Devils moved up the board from fifth place on day one to finish the tournament in second place overall. Junior Julian Suri finished the tournament in 12th place with a two-under-par 214, and senior Spencer CAROLINE RODRIGUEZ/THE CHRONICLE

Mary Clayton clinched the first singles point against Florida State, beating Amy Sargeant 6-1, 6-2 to tie the match at 1-1.

W. TENNIS from page 3 when Liat Zimmerman and Melissa Bolivar overcame junior Mary Clayton and freshman Ester Goldfeld. Duke was resilient, however, as sophomore Hanna Mar and freshman Annie Mulholland won a tough 8-6 effort, before the 25th ranked duo of freshman Beatrice Capra and sophomore Rachel Kahan clinched the doubles point with a 8-4 decision over Gabriela Majia and Lina Lileikite. The momentum carried over into singles play, where the Blue Devils refused to allow Miami to gain confidence. Freshman Monica Turewicz captured a quick 6-2, 6-2 win over Brittany Dubins to put Duke up 2-0. Kahan and Clayton soon followed suit, each finishing in straight sets to clinch the win for the Blue Devils. The match ended a 14-game winning streak for the Hurricanes. With less than 24 hours of rest, Duke was back on the court to take on the Seminoles. “[Florida State] always gives us trouble,” Ashworth said. “They are gritty and they make you earn points.” This proved true in doubles play, where after capturing the first win, the Seminoles staged a comeback against the Blue Devils. Mar and Mulholland were the first to succumb to Florida State. Despite a good effort, serving errors proved lethal, allowing the Seminoles to take an 8-6 win. All eyes quickly turned to court two where Capra and Kahan vied for the doubles point against Florida State’s Ruth Seaborne and Leyla Erkan. Despite tying the match up to 7-7, Capra and Kahan were unable to take the lead,

losing 9-7. “I didn’t think we played very good in doubles,” Ashworth said. “We didn’t serve very well today, but after doubles, we talked about how we needed to come out with energy in singles.” The energy showed immediately, as Clayton earned a 6-1, 6-2 win over Amy Sargeant to tie the match at 1-1. “Mary doing a good job wining a quick match is something we always look for,” Ashworth said. “It’s always been kind of a mark of our program—lose the doubles point [and] you’ve got to get a quick singles match.” Kahan then took a dominating 6-4, 6-0 victory and within seconds Capra followed to put the Blue Devils up by two. Florida State remained unwilling to back down, cutting the lead to 3-2 after Francesca Segarelli outlasted Mar 6-3, 6-3. The clinching point occurred on court six, where Monica Turewicz defeated Carolina De los Santos 6-4, 6-3 to end the match. “Once I got up on her, she lost a little bit of confidence so I tried to make sure that I was constantly on her and attacking,” Turewicz said. “I tried really hard to keep my energy up. I win most points when I’m positive and energized.” With the victory, Duke is now tied for the lead in the conference standings with rival No. 8 North Carolina. The two will face off this Thursday in a battle that will likely decide both the regular season ACC champion as well as the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament.

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M. TENNIS from page 2 road matchup against No. 2 Virginia, the clear favorite to win the conference, will likely relegate Florida State to the conference’s fourth seed. The Blue Devils and Tar Heels, whose lone ACC losses came to the Cavaliers, will almost certainly determine the second seed this week. But regardless of the outcome, the Tobacco Road rivals will likely be the second and third seeds in the conference tournament, delaying any potential matchup with Virginia until the final. “We’re fighting for seeding in the ACC tournament,” Smith said. “It’s nice to finish the weekend with two wins because it feels good going into Wednesday.”

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ployees little time to search for alternative employment opportunities. Instead, the University seems to believe that the larger onus of communication falls upon the union. This is vaguely reminiscent of the housekeeper mistreatment incident, in which communications between the University and union employees was impeded by the lack of an impartial translator. In general, the University is not fully keeping its obligation to communicate to its workers in a thorough and timely matter, regardless of the union’s parallel obligation. Communication about work hours should not stop at telling the union; it should also be communicated directly to the employees by the University. In the future, the Univer-

sity must balance fair treatment of dining employees with smart finances. The University has a duty to give its staff adequate notice of changes in hours, information that can have a direct impact on their income and financial decisions. Losing two weeks of work can make a substantial difference in an employee’s budgets, affecting rent payments, child care costs and even credit scores. We do not necessarily disagree that, in the future, the University should not keep staff on during this interim summer period. However, we object to the process by which the decision was reached. This decision should have been reached and communicated to workers much sooner, as the affected time period is

merely one month away. This sort of lapse in communication is harmful and can be prevented through relatively simple and easy measures. Although most of the damage has already been done in this incident, there is still room to make amends. Rather than writing off the workers’ concerns, the University should consider employing the workers during the upcoming interim summer period anyway, even if there is not an abundance of meaningful work available. Short notice for substantial changes in work hours can have a potentially tremendous impact on the financial decisions of dining employees. We have a duty to treat them with more fairness and respect.

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he Nightmare. Light guides your eyes to the promoted pathway is truly the glittering road to center of a dark room, where a girl dressed success that Chinese parents consider it to be. Unin a school uniform looks up at the chil- like the slowing supply of Chinese manufacturing dren’s backpacks that dangle above laborers, the number of Chinese colher. The backpacks are accompalege graduates is on the steady rise. nied by threatening metal daggers, The New York Times article “How and she is surrounded by the weight the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work” of a three-ton circle made of graded highlights the immense supply of examination booklets and children’s educated engineers in China. When drawings. “The Nightmare” is a Apple needed 8,700 industrial engisculptural art exhibit created by Li neers to oversee an assembly line of Zhanyang in reaction to the school 200,000 workers, the company prekristen lee pressures that his daughter and othdicted it would take nine months to between worlds er Chinese children face. find enough American engineers. This obsession with high In China, it took only 15 days. achievement and education is tied up in ConfuHowever, life as a Chinese engineer is not neccian values, but it is also becoming increasingly essarily paradise or even a guarantee of decent livrelated to western materialism, China’s economy ing. Some of Beijing’s most recent graduates are and upward mobility. In China, “Battle Hymn of labeled “ants” for their hardworking attitude but a Tiger Mother” is a best seller. Even during the cramped living quarters. Until being relocated by Cultural Revolution, when scholars lost favor with recent redevelopment, many young Chinese engithe government, China strived to raise its literacy neers lived in small, 20 square-meter rooms in the rates. And despite the push for achievement and poor Beijing suburb of Tangjialing. According to academic success, the odds are still slim for a rural Chinese sociologist Lian Si, there are no fewer than Chinese child to attain a university education. 10 “intellectual slums” near Beijing. While out to dinner with a group of Peking China has catapulted itself onto the internaUniversity students, I met one student who had tional stage and is positioning itself to become the migrated to Beijing for college after living his en- most powerful country in the world. To maintain a tire life in a rural village. He was the only person global appearance, the country has gone to some in his village to ever attend college. Though he humorous and not so humorous lengths. In 2008, was quick to downplay his achievement in gaining China decided to control the weather. The govadmission to the Harvard of China, he described a ernment flew planes that dropped dust particles long and taxing road to success. He said that dur- in an effort to stimulate the formation of clouds ing his last two years of high school there were no so that it would not rain during the Beijing Olymweekends or holidays. Every day he would wake pics. During the development of a national road, up at 6 a.m. for reading classes, eat breakfast at the government paid the owners of houses near school, attend eight classes and end the school day the road to repaint and redecorate. Chinese “inat 6 p.m. After eating dinner at home, he would tellectual slums” and inhospitable factory working return to school for another three to four hours conditions seem to be a less laughable matter. of studying and lecturing from the teacher to preIn contrast to India, where I observed poverty, pare for the National Higher Education Entrance corruption and inequity on a regular basis, ChiExamination or Gaokao, an entrance exam into na’s societal problems are less obvious in glistenall higher education institutes. The examination, ing Beijing. It took a walk down a quiet street for a which tests math, English and Chinese, looms Peking University student to say, without provocalarge in the minds of Chinese school children. It tion, that the most difficult problem China faces is is the score that will determine their future. its own inequities in health and education among On the wall installation of “The Nightmare,” its people: rural and urban, low and high income. bundles of sharpened pencils stick accusingly out- In “The Nightmare” Li Zhanyang comments on wards at the onlooker. The pencils are wrapped in the loss of childhood in search of economic and the red scarves that are typically worn to distinguish academic success. These issues seem to be the rethe highest achieving primary school children in sult of China’s rapid growth, but the real question China. These scarves are a symbol of the national remains: Whose nightmare is this? flag and Young Pioneers of the Communist Party. At a young age, Chinese children understand the Kristen Lee is a Trinity junior who is spending the need to achieve and receive high marks. Competi- Spring in Udaipur, India and Beijing, China through tion in the Chinese educational system is intense the Duke Global Semester Abroad Program. Her column and the pressure is constant, but it is unclear if this runs every other Monday.

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o I got a pfrosh this weekend—this wrestler dude I called Rocky. He was pretty chill, but seemed like one of those built guys that pack on muscle to cover up their missing personality. I mean he’s definitely first round cut material if he rushes next year, but he was alright by his own accord. Over my two nights with him I learned how to be the best host possible: It’s not the devil about being nice or showmonday, monday ing off the campus. Being a great host is just about showing your kid how f***ing sweet you are. When he got to my room Friday night, I knew Rocky had been inundated with the same questions 100 times that day, so I didn’t bore him with trite formalities like “What do you plan on studying?” or “What’s your name?” No, first things first: I needed to get him some alcohol ASAP, because otherwise this kid was definitely gonna be super awk. I didn’t want him out there meeting girls and talking to my friends sober… What kind of Duke experience would that be? I mean I have a responsibility to represent myself and this school accurately. Still, I knew he was a young’n so I went easy on him and just busted out the Malibu. As we took shots, Rocky insisted on having that lame scripted conversation about what to expect if he came here despite my attempts to show him all the dope stuff I’ve stolen from the Allen Building. So I played along and explained the basics of coming to Duke: “Before you arrive, the school offers you the opportunity to join a cult. These cults hold week-long initiations before orientation week and they’re pretty fun as long as you get into one of the two legit ones. Then when you get here for O-week you’ll meet your FAC, who’s an upperclassman that you help move in early. That’s pretty much the extent of your relationship unless he notices you’ve got hot friends, then he’ll probably invite you to some parties.” “In that first week you’ll group up with freshmen in your dorm who will be your placeholder friends for a couple months until you join a frat” (or in my pfrosh’s case, probably an SLG… if he’s lucky). “Then I’m told the next seven semesters fly by and you spend the rest of your life suffering from a severe case of nostalgia that can only be soothed by giving the school loads of money.” “Oh. Neat.” Rocky replied. I poured him another shot hoping it would help him stop saying things like “neat.” Saturday I took Rocky to the gardens to show him there’s a s**t-ton of chill spots to smoke weed. Now whenever you smoke with somebody new it’s important to test out their sense of humor. So as we walked past the little Asian house I put my hand on the small of this kid’s back, turned to him real slow, and as a smile creeped across my face I asked, “So… you tryna get one of those unofficial graduation requirements out of the way right now?” The bewildered look on his face told me he didn’t get the reference. I wasn’t really gonna serve Rocky that Kung Pao dickin’; I was just trying to see if the kid could take a joke. But when he asked me for an explanation it made him subordinate to me, and that’s when it dawned on me: You gotta use as much Duke slang as possible when talking to visiting kids. Pfroshes don’t know all the lingo, inside jokes and acronyms that we take for granted as part of everyday life here, and that’s something that should be exploited. These kids have never been to the BC or LSRC. GDI, YBTT and DTD aren’t yet terms loaded with judgment for them. Their hook-up lexicons don’t include Duke staples like DFMO, DTF or .ppt. All these letters have no meaning for pfroshes yet, so we just sound like a bunch of really sweet dyslexic kids reciting the alphabet. These high-schoolers come to Duke for a couple days to get a feel for our school and if you’re their host, whether you like it or not, the main thing they’re getting a feel for is you (just make sure you report that s**t within a year). So be your best self for the short time your pfrosh is with you. Rocky and I may only have been paired together because we share a race, but over the course of one weekend we learned a lot about each other. I learned that even huge wrestler guys start college like gasping newborns, totally dependent on their host. And Rocky learned that I’m f***ing sweet. The Devil has blue days… but then again, who doesn’t? :/

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s a self-proclaimed theory nerd, I have spent the ma- pregnancy, and the fetus would have the upper hand. jority of my Duke career trying to answer what may Look at the case of Angela Carter, a 27-year-old lung seem like superfluous questions. What is epistemol- cancer patient who was 25 weeks pregnant. Together with ogy? Phenomenology? Post-structuralism? All her family and her doctor, she had deof these lead to the ultimate question: What is cided to stay alive as long as possible, but a person? Needless to say, I never anticipated the hospital called an emergency meetthat any of these questions would ever migrate ing and held that the fetal rights outfrom the realm of abstract theory into the poweighed Angela’s rights to life, and orlitical sphere. Then this election began. dered an emergency C-section. Neither Where before the election pro-choice Angela nor her baby survived. women were only worried about Roe v. Wade Look also at the case of Laura Pemgetting overturned, now it seems as though berton, a Florida resident and mother of joline doedens seven children. Griswold v. Connecticut, which established When she was pregnant wait a minute the right of married couples to use contracepwith her fourth child, she didn’t want to tion as a matter of privacy, is also threatened. have another C-section, so she decided to It seems as though women’s bodies have moved from the stay home to have her baby. While she was in active labor, seclusion of the private sphere of familial relationships the state attorney and the county sheriff came to her house, and marriage into the public sphere of a political debate arrested her and took her to the hospital, where she was over women’s reproductive rights. It is no longer just a forced to have a C-section. When she argued that her right question of whether a woman has the right to terminate a to bodily integrity had been violated, the court told her that pregnancy. Now a woman’s right to determine whether or the fetus’s rights outweighed her own. Not only did she go not she gets pregnant is threatened. It is as though a wom- on to have three more children naturally, but she also bean’s reproductive health can no longer be considered an came a pro-choice supporter. Before the incident, she had integral part of her personhood. In fact, in the case of been staunchly opposed to the legalization of abortion. recent fetal personhood amendments, something created Finally, look at the case of a woman in Utah, who was within the woman’s body and dependent on her for sev- arrested on murder charges after the birth of her twins, eral months could now be considered another person. one of whom was stillborn. Apparently, since she had reThis is no longer just an issue of pro-life and pro-choice. fused a C-section several weeks earlier, she was culpable Not only do we need to remember that the vast majority for the fetus’s death. Once again, the fetus had more of women who do get an abortion do so because they be- rights than the mother. lieve they won’t be able to provide for the child, but we This is not to say that everyone should suddenly bemust also recognize that fetal personhood amendments come pro-choice. I just think the question of women’s affect all pregnant women. Personhood USA’s Person- reproductive health needs to be reframed. Rather than a hood Pledge, which was signed by the Republican candi- moral issue or an issue of privacy, abortion rights and fetal dates (except Mitt Romney, who said later in an interview rights need to take into account a woman’s personhood. that he absolutely agreed with the measures), promises Of course, this doesn’t take away the question of when a to “pursue an amendment to the Constitution that would fetus becomes a person, but I think it is important to reprotect the full inalienable ‘personhood’ rights of zygotes member that the woman is already established in society. by extending the protections of the 14th Amendment to She has a life, she has relationships—she is already a senafetuses from the moment of conception and by outlaw- tor, a bank teller, a teacher, a scientist, a criminal, a thief, ing any medical technology or practices that inhibit im- a doctor or a regular old middle-class citizen. Of course, it plantation of a fertilized egg.” That means, as Catharine would be ideal if both the future life of the fetus and the MacKinnon feared, that “the fetus could be given the current life of the mother could be preserved, but that right to the use of the pregnant woman’s body from con- should be left up to the woman, and possibly her family. ception to birth.” Where does this leave the woman? It If we maintain the traditional configuration of the family, seems as though she is stripped of her personhood for she is the one who will be tasked with molding the fetus nine months, and reduced to a mere incubator for a pos- into a person with relationships and a place in society. sible future president, senator, doctor, scientist, mediocre student, criminal, murderer or regular old middle-class Joline Doedens is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every citizen. Her life could even be threatened by a difficult other Monday. Follow Joline on Twitter @jydoedens

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SIGMA PI from page 1 “Everyone who is involved is super involved and really into it,” Coar said. “If someone doesn’t want to be involved in this process, then they’re likely not in the chapter.” Nationals accepted the colony’s application for a charter unanimously, he added. To receive a charter, the national fraternity requires colonies to complete four different levels of tasks, ranked according to importance for the chapter. Each task is assigned a point value with a total of approximately 4,000 possible points. When the Duke chapter completed 80 percent of the total possible points, it was able to file a petition to the national fraternity to receive a charter, Coar said. The fraternity began to pursue a Duke presence last Spring. Two expansion consultants from the national organization arrived at Duke in early February 2011 to begin recruiting, and Sigma Pi received colony status March 26, 2011. Adrian Rodgers, one of the consultants, noted that there is a list of criteria for colonization, including alumni in the region, the number of greek students on campus and the quality of the institution, which can be measured by the amount of endowment funds available. “Duke was a no-brainer for us because the University has a very strong community, and the greek advisers are excellent,” Rodgers said. “We were allowed to be very selective in who we recruited to be in our initial group, because the guys really understood what it meant to start a fraternity.” The University realized that many students rushing fraternities were not receiving bids, so they decided to expand

the greek system, Coar said. Several national fraternities made presentations at Duke highlighting the contributions they could make to the existing greek system on campus. One standout feature of Sigma Pi was its Altruistic Campus Experience program, which organizes members to give back to their campus communities. Each Sigma Pi chapter develops a unique ACE project suitable to the needs of their particular campus. Sigma Pi hosted an event in Krzyzewskiville during the 2012 tenting season that highlighted responsible drinking practices. As an extension of this project, the fraternity will be hosting a hazing awareness event at the end of April to foster a discussion about the dangers of hazing, Coar said. Plans for the event are still tentative. Sigma Pi brothers noted several reasons for their decision to join the new fraternity, particularly the chance to become involved in something new as a motivating factor. Senior Alex Irwin joined Sigma Pi as a chance to expand his opportunities at Duke. “As a junior, I was settled into life at Duke and would have been fine had I stayed where I was, though I decided to see where it would lead me,” Irwin said. “It’s been really fun.” The biggest challenge for the chapter now is finding an identity, Coar said. The chapter has many great people and ideas, but the next step is to determine how the chapter will fit into Duke’s existing greek system. “I want to offer something different from the average greek experience while still offering something compatible with the Duke experience,” he added. “This balancing act is something that I’ve been working on as president.”

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Daniels had one of the best seasons by a Duke defensive back in school history as a senior, amassing 126 tackles, two interceptions, 14 pass breakups and a caused fumble as the fulcrum of the Blue Devil defense. He earned All-America second team and All-ACC first team honors while ranking third nationally in pass breakups, fifth in passes defended and third among all defensive backs with 9.82 tackles per game. Daniels started 36 consecutive games, played over 2,700 career snaps and is one of only 14 Duke players to record over 300 career tackles. He brought that same dedication to the classroom where he owns a 3.274 grade point average and is on pace to become a four-time member of the ACC Academic Honor Roll.

Dunworth was a four-year starter on the Duke volleyball team and one of the top attackers in school history. A versatile 6-1 outside hitter and middle blocker, Dunworth helped Duke capture two ACC Championships, four NCAA Tournament berths and ended her career ranked seventh on Duke’s all-time kills list. She led Duke to its most successful postseason in school history in 2010 as the Blue Devils advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight where she was named to the NCAA All-Regional Team. Dunworth was even more successful in the classroom where she owns a 3.90 grade point average as a Biology major, was the 2010 ACC Volleyball ScholarAthlete of the Year and a two-time Academic All-District III selection.

Rory Erickson-Kulas has been a member of the Duke rowing team for four years. She has powered the Duke varsity eight to back-to-back top-three finishes at the ACC Championships. As a junior, she led the varsity eight and open eight to first place at the Head of Genesee and the Head of the Potomac. In 2010, she was tabbed All-ACC after winning first with the varsity eight in the US Rowing Collegiate Championships. She has been even more successful in the classroom and is a two-time CRCA Rowing Scholar-Athlete selection and a two-time member of the All-ACC Academic Rowing Team.

Ward will end her college career as the most decorated fencer in Duke history and one of the best to ever grace an NCAA strip. A two-time NCAA Champion and a bronze medalist at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Ward is Duke’s career and regular season wins leader and boasts a 227-6 (.974) record during her four years. The 2009 and 2011 NCAA Women’s Saber Champion and the 2010 NCAA Runner-Up, she earned All-America honors three times and is the only Duke fencer to advance to three NCAA Championship bouts. She is also an Academic All-District III selection and a three-time member of the ACC Academic Honor Roll.

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