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Six weeks after earning bowl eligibility for the first time since 1994 with a last-second victory against North Carolina, Duke finally has a date on its postseason calendar. The Blue Devils have accepted an invitation to play at the Belk Bowl at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C. and are set to square off with Cincinnati Dec. 27 at 6:30 p.m. The game will be televised nationally on ESPN. Each team will receive a $1.7 million payout for its participation in the game. “We are thrilled to announce that Duke University will be playing in the 2012 Belk Bowl against the University of Cincinnati,” said Will Webb, executive director of the Belk Bowl, in a press release. “Duke has made great strides this season, and we are very proud to have them representing the ACC against the co-champions of the Big East. We feel that the Blue Devils will provide a good matchup against the Bearcats in Charlotte. We look forward to hosting both Duke and Cincinnati, and their fans, for the 2012 Belk Bowl and all the surrounding events.” After a 6-2 start, Duke (6-6) finished the 2012 regular season on a four-game losing streak, dropping conference tilts to Florida State, Clemson, Georgia Tech and Miami. A win in the Belk Bowl would clinch the team’s first winning season in 18 years and be the Blue Devils’ first bowl victory since the 1961 Cotton Bowl, when Duke defeated Arkansas 7-6.
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exposure to the ACC this season. The Bearcats defeated Virginia Tech 27-24 in a neutral site game Sept. 27. “One of the more attractive things about the Belk Bowl is [playing] such a quality opponent like Cincinnati, a team that has had so much success in recent years,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “It’s something that you’ve got to do. You’ve got to beat teams like that. You
The Board of Trustees primarily focused their attention this weekend on long-term strategic goals of the University rather than major action items, said Board Chair Richard Wagoner, Trinity ’75. The Board received a presentation from Provost Peter Lange on the state of the University’s faculty. The presentation provided a 10-year overview of the growth of the University as a research institution and the changing makeup of the faculty. Other updates included reviews of athletics and the School of Nursing. “[Lange] presented very interesting metrics on faculty quality, and we also talked about the composition of the faculty,” Wagoner said. “It’s what we talked about 12 years ago, and we’re actually following through on that.” Duke performs very well on major indicators of faculty quality, ranking as the fourth most research-productive university in the country, Lange said. The University’s reputation reflects a “steep uptick” in the level of research expenditures. It ranked fifth nationally in research expenditures with $983 million spent on research in 2010.
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The Blue Devils will square off with Cincinnati in Duke’s first postseason appearance since 1994. The Blue Devils have made just two bowl appearances since then, falling to Texas Tech 49-21 at the 1989 All-American Bowl in Birmingham, Ala. and suffering a 34-20 defeat to Wisconsin in the 1995 Hall of Fame Bowl. The Bearcats (9-3) earned a share of the Big East championship this season—their 5-2 conference record tied them with Louisville, Rutgers and Syracuse for the league title. A matchup with Duke will be Cincinnati’s second
A different kind of greek Symposium to address Black fraternities and sororities follow their own traditions in choosing new members by Raisa Chowdhury THE CHRONICLE
The students shouting on the Baldwin Auditorium steps Friday may have surprised some onlookers, but for others the probate signified the culmination of the largely secret entry process into a cultural fraternity. Duke’s eight historically black fraternities and sororities in the National Pan-Hellenic Council hold probate ceremonies to present new members to the public and showcase performances by those new members of the organization. Whereas Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association members join through a formal recruitment process, prospective NPHC members seek out the organization they wish to join. Many students, however, have misconceptions about probates and these or-
ganizations in general. “One of the issues that we deal with is that more often than not, people will have no idea what’s going on when they see a whole lot of black people standing around yelling and screaming because there is a normalization of what greek life is on campus,” said senior Ehizele Osehobo, first vice president of NPHC and president of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. “IFC and Panhel are the largest councils on campus and so it’s natural that people would expect that to be what Greek life is about.” IFC and Panhel are the largest greek councils on campus, so they come to define many students’ expectations of what greek life means, Osehobo said. The NPHC and Inter-Greek Council—the SEE PROBATE ON PAGE 4
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The Duke Lemur Center is hosting a symposium about lemur conservation Monday.
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“It’s an irony that the anniversary of our desegregation will be celebrated with a contemporary version of segregation....” —Karla Holloway in “Shaping our celebration.” See letter page 9
The Duke Lemur Center will host a symposium on conservation in Madagascar and the effect deforestation has on lemurs. Hosted with the Duke Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, individuals from around the country will discuss the challenges of conservation in Madagascar and how it affects both communities and lemur species. Monday’s daylong event will be comprised of experts hailing from different fields, including conservation, botany, economics and anthropology. “What we are hoping to do is stimulate discussion on these issues between people from different areas—by getting this group of people together maybe we’ll develop SEE LEMURS ON PAGE 8
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Pentagon to greatly Egypt high court halts expand spy network work amid political crisis by Greg Miller THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will send hundreds of additional spies overseas as part of an ambitious plan to assemble an espionage network that rivals the CIA in size, U.S. officials said. The project is aimed at transforming the Defense Intelligence Agency, which has been dominated for the past decade by the demands of two wars, into a spy service focused on emerging threats and more closely aligned with the CIA and elite military commando units. When the expansion is complete, the DIA is expected to have as many as 1,600 “collectors” in positions around the world, an unprecedented total for an agency whose presence abroad numbered in the triple digits in recent years. The total includes military attachés and others who do not work undercover. But U.S. officials said the growth will be driven over a five-year period by the deployment of a new generation of clandestine operatives. They will be trained by the CIA and often work with the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command, but they will get their spying assignments from the Department of Defense. Among the Pentagon’s top intelligence priorities, officials said, are Islamist militant groups in Africa, weapons transfers by North Korea and Iran, and military modernization underway in China. “This is not a marginal adjustment for DIA,” the agency’s director, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, said at a recent conference, during which he outlined the changes but did not describe them in detail. “This is a major adjustment for national security.” The sharp increase in DIA undercover operatives is part of a far-reaching trend: a convergence of the military and intelligence agencies that has blurred their oncedistinct missions, capabilities and even their leadership ranks. Through its drone program, the CIA now accounts for a majority of lethal U.S. operations outside the Afghan war zone.
At the same time, the Pentagon’s plan to create what it calls the Defense Clandestine Service, or DCS, reflects the military’s latest and largest foray into secret intelligence work. The DIA overhaul—combined with the growth of the CIA since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — will create a spy network of unprecedented size. The plan reflects the Obama administration’s affinity for espionage and covert action over conventional force. It also fits in with the administration’s efforts to codify its counterterrorism policies for a sustained conflict and assemble the pieces abroad necessary to carry it out. Unlike the CIA, the Pentagon’s spy agency is not authorized to conduct covert operations that go beyond intelligence gathering, such as drone strikes, political sabotage or arming militants. But DIA has long played a major role in assessing and identifying targets for U.S. forces, which in recent years have assembled a constellation of drone bases stretching from Afghanistan to East Africa. The expansion of the agency’s clandestine role is likely to heighten concerns that it will be accompanied by an escalation in lethal strikes and other operations outside public view. Because of differences in legal authorities, the military isn’t subject to the same congressional notification requirements as the CIA, leading to potential oversight gaps. U.S. officials said that DIA’s realignment won’t hamper congressional scrutiny. “We have to keep congressional staffs and members in the loop,” Flynn said in October, adding that he believes the changes will help the United States anticipate threats and avoid being drawn more directly into what he predicted will be an “era of persistent conflict.” U.S. officials said the changes for DIA were enabled by a rare syncing of personalities and interests among top officials at the Pentagon and CIA, many of whom SEE SPIES ON PAGE 8
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CAIRO — Egypt’s top judges suspended work indefinitely after Islamist supporters of President Mohammed Morsi swarmed the highest court Sunday, chanting “We will not leave!” shouting insults and blocking the judges from entering on the day they had been expected to dissolve the country’s Islamist-dominated constitutionwriting panel. In a statement from the Supreme Constitutional Court that underlined the increasingly personal conflict between Morsi and the judiciary, the judges described a campaign of “moral assassination” against them and said an “environment charged with hatred and malice and the need for revenge” led to Sunday’s “appalling and shameful scene.” The 19 judges—appointed during the regime of President Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted nearly two years ago — said they would suspend work until they were able to continue “without being subject to moral or physical pressure.” It was another day in Egypt’s rocky, emotionally charged democratic transition, one in which the revolutionaries who drove out Mubarak are increasingly divided, with Islamists on one side and liberals, secularists —and, increasingly, the judiciary—on the other in the quest to forge a modern identity. Morsi, who is backed by the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, has been in a power struggle with the judiciary since his election in June. The high court dissolved the democratically elected Islamist-majority parliament just as Morsi was taking office, severely curtailing his power. And the judges had been widely expected on Sunday to dissolve the constitution-drafting assembly, dominated by Islamists. But Morsi has pushed back hard, issuing a constitutional decree Nov. 22 that places nearly all his actions temporarily beyond judicial review and pushing the constitutionwriting panel to approve the nation’s new charter Friday.
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Among its many provisions, the charter shrinks the number of judges on the high court from 19 to 11. Despite large opposition protests to his moves all week, Morsi on Saturday called for a Dec. 15 national referendum on the charter, a vote that will require the supervision of the judiciary, which he seems only to be enraging further. Muslim Brotherhood officials staged a massive demonstration Saturday to show support for Morsi but said they had not ordered Sunday’s protest outside the high court. But members of the intensely hierarchical organization rarely take such steps independently, and several protesters outside the court Sunday openly identified themselves as members of the group. Heba Morayef, Egypt director in the Middle East and North Africa division of Human Rights Watch, said that Sunday’s confrontation was all the more perplexing and distressing because Morsi had seemed in recent days to be winning his battle with the judiciary. “To choose to do that at a time like this, it’s not just adding insult to injury, this is a full onslaught,” she said. “Intimidation of judges is an extremely serious matter. For Morsi’s party to be involved in that is a terrifying precedent. We do not want to get into a situation where those who criticize the president have to fear for their lives.” Morayef said that although the judiciary needs reform, Morsi’s tactics were counterproductive in achieving a goal that most of the country supports. Khaled Abu Bakr, a legal expert with the International Union of Lawyers, said Sunday’s demonstration was essentially a crime. “The president and the Interior Ministry should protect judicial institutions and enable the judges to do their jobs,” he said. Abu Bakr added that Morsi could have easily called off the protests outside the court. “There is a battle between the constitutional court and the president,” he said. “Even the head of the constitution-drafting assembly session said that we are practicing constitutional revenge.”
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BOT from page 1 Endowed professorships across many departments have contributed to the quality of faculty, Lange added. The ongoing capital campaign, Duke Forward, aims to raise $250 million for more than 100 new endowed faculty chairs. In terms of demographics, the faculty has shifted to older, tenured professors, a trend that the University should counterbalance by hiring younger professors, who tend to be paid less, as they actively pursue their research tracks, Lange said. The faculty review, however, refers to the broad outlook of the University, and individual departments will evaluate their needs as they hire new members. The faculty’s racial and gender composition has become more diverse, Lange noted. The University has substantially increased the number of black and female faculty, but women are still significantly underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. “We always focus on background and diversity,” Lange said. “Unfortunately, for women in the STEM fields, those numbers are not rising as fast at Duke or elsewhere.” Wagoner noted that the Board wants to maintain active communication with the faculty. He presented to the Academic Council at its meeting Thursday, becoming the first chair to do so.
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Director of Athletics Kevin White also presented a strategic overview of Duke athletics. His presentation included information about the department’s finances, compliance with NCAA regulations and the academic performance of athletes. Duke maintains rigorous practices to ensure high academic performance among student athletes, White wrote in an email Sunday. Administrators must “stay nervous” and constantly monitor the balance of athletics and academics to avoid scandals like those at other programs such at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “We came away very impressed with the amount of resources Duke puts in [academics among athletes], along with learning more about the potential risks and how we can manage those,” Wagoner said. “It’s about who you hire.” White added that Duke Forward will help fund major facilities improvements, including renovations to Wallace Wade Stadium, Cameron Indoor Stadium and a new track and field stadium. Athletics, which aims to raise $250 million through Duke Forward, has allocated $100 million for these facility improvements. A $10 million gift in October will create a new building to house a ticket office, department offices and additional training facilities. White also gave the Trustees a better frame of reference on conference realignment, Wagoner said, following the departure of the University of Maryland from
the ACC and the addition of the University of Louisville. President Richard Brodhead said Duke was committed to staying in the ACC in an interview last week. The Board also heard a detailed presentation about Duke’s School of Nursing, which has expanded its programs in the last decade and recently broke ground on a $20.2 million building addition in October. Catherine Gilliss, dean of the School of Nursing and He-
In other business The Board approved a resolution of tribute honoring Dr. Robert Lefkowitz, James B. Duke professor of medicine. Lefkowitz was named one of two Nobel Prize winners in chemistry in October for his research in cell receptors. The Trustees greenlighted construction of a chilled water project, estimated to cost $10 million, that will cool buildings on East Campus.
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PROBATE from page 1 other cultural greek council at Duke— are not as well known on campus and struggle with balancing how to target a specific group while still appealing to the broader Duke community, he added. “I’ve talked to people about why they don’t come to black parties and they say, ‘I don’t want to be the only white guy there,’ or a girl says that if she’s dancing on a black boy, she doesn’t want some black girl coming up to her telling her to get off of her man,” Osehobo added. “Basically people don’t want to be the minority and aren’t used to it. I go to class, and I’m one of the few black people there. I want to be normalized the same way that IFC and Panhel are so I can put up a flyer and everyone considers coming.” Junior Ciera Price, president of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, noted that her organization wants to branch out beyond the black community. “You don’t have to be afraid to come to the events that are hosted by a cultural organization if you’re not that ethnicity,” she added. “I would hope most people at Duke are able to go and have interactions with different groups.” Price said that students can begin exposing themselves to diversity even if they have not in the past. NPHC organizations are grounded in their history, defined by combating discrimination, producing members who help improve black communities and a philosophy of an “inclusive we,” Ohesobo said. Therefore, they focus more on service compared to IFC and Panhel organizations that focus more on social life, he added.
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“We don’t want people who just want letters across their chest,” Osehobo said. “The benefit of our organizations is that people want to join us. It’s not shotgun—spread it out to everyone and see who bites.” The NPHC does not have a formal rush process. Instead, interested students must be proactive and do research on their own by going to different academic and social events held by the organizations. “The reason people are screaming and being so hyped is because people have gone through such a long process and have a lot of pride,” Osehobo said. “Because of the amount of preparation that goes in, it really means a lot by the point of the probate.” It is important for members to be very informed because joining an NPHC organization is a lifelong commitment and so it’s very important to pick the right one, said junior Floyd Wilks, Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity president. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity held a probate on the steps of Baldwin Auditorium Friday, which approximately 200 students attended, Wilks said. “Our probate went really well, and the boys that joined did a really good job of being really intense,” Wilks said. “The thing that kind of sucks is sometimes it’s not understandable [to onlookers].” Though the Facebook event for Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity’s probate Friday was not visible to the public, Wilks said it was open to everyone, but the person who made the Facebook event forgot to make it public. Probate times and locations are often painted on the bridge and publicized using tools such as Facebook. “Probates are not meant to be secret,”
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Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity performs a step routine earlier this semester. National Pan-Hellenic Council chapters often use step shows to inform the student body about the rush process. Osehobo said. “People just don’t take notice.... We don’t want it to seem that NPHC is going out of their way to hide things,” Osehobo said. Some, however, see secrecy as an important aspect of the internal affairs of these greek organizations. For Wilks, the tendency for secrecy arises from the personal nature of the process of joining an NPHC fraternity. “Part of the NPHC is that we value secrecy and having that type of secrecy sets us apart from any other African American organization,” Wilks said. “Groups in general value secrecy a lot when it comes to certain information that only
members should know.” This approach also has its detractors. Sophomore Greg McLean, for instance, describes himself as involved with the black community at Duke, but he does not consider himself to be informed about NPHC organizations. “It’s good that they know the people joining are seriously interested in joining... and that they’ll become involved members,” McLean said. “But it’s a bad thing in that I don’t think they’re necessarily transparent enough, and I think that puts a lot of people off. Maybe if they told more about themselves more people would be interested.”
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Three phases Last Wednesday, Dean of id foundation in the academic Arts and Sciences Laurie Pat- discipline of their choice. In ton outlined her vision for the order for meaningful integraDuke undergraduate liberal tive learning to take place, arts education, in which Duke Duke needs to solidify its instudents would seamlessly in- tradisciplinary curriculum tegrate many before working diverse interests towards the ineditorial into a single terdisciplinary course of study, driven more by goals Patton has articulated. the weaving together of flexThe undergraduate eduible and intersecting passions cation is broken into three than the accumulation of dis- rough phases. The first phase crete credentials. We support is pre-major exploration, in Patton’s emphasis on integra- which students collect infortion but believe integration mation about various fields must be practiced in measure. they may be interested, ultiIntegration, practiced without mately ending in the declaramoderation or thoughtfulness, tion of a major field of study. may create an overly customiz- After major declaration, stuable choose-your-own-adven- dents begin specializing, firmture approach to education ly establishing proficiency in where students integrate vari- the premises and methodoloous interests before—and at gies of their respective fields. the expense of—gaining a sol- The third phase—where we
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believe true integrated learning lies—is applying the tools from their major to problems connected to but outside of their major. But the quality of integrated learning in the third phase depends crucially on the quality of foundational learning in the second phase, and we hope Patton remains highly cognizant of this fact. Too many students graduate from Duke without understanding the basic underpinnings of their major field of study. In other words, they never fully digest their discipline’s core or canon, its basic principles and the nature of its inquiries. Disturbingly, these students never attain any fluency in the parlance of their major, the language that the main practitioners use to tackle relevant questions. That is why, for
example, some students in upper-level English electives lack basic tools of textual analysis. In the quest for interdisciplinary and personalized education, students start to lack a shared intellectual foundation with their peers, particularly in the humanities. By not preserving the integrity of specialization, interdisciplinarity also suffers as students have no intellectual home base to speak from. Only after achieving a certain mastery of their major can students genuinely explore how other disciplines might be integrated into their intellectual life. In this third phase of the undergraduate education, Duke students flex their academic muscles—trained through rigorous study within their major—to apply force to problems outside of their
major. Without any serious attempt at specialization first, students attempting integrated learning are more likely to be wandering dilettantes, bereft of any practiced methods. Patton has a sizeable task ahead of her: Strengthening knowledge within the major while encouraging integration with intellectual projects outside of the major. It is a charge that may seem difficult and even contradictory at times, but one that is crucial to Patton’s goal of integrated learning. If the liberal arts curriculum is supposed to be more than the sum of its parts, the requisite parts—including, most importantly, one’s major—must first be sound themselves. In tomorrow’s editorial, we attempt to provide some more concrete strategies to that end.
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That’s like, AIDS on your face right?” I in- choosing a product to support the RED camstinctively froze. We were in the middle of paign spearheaded by Bono. In many minds, I the Bryan Center on a bustling career-fair doubt that it’s even that—it’s just a word, an acday. Some of the girls tottered ronym that stands for some sort over in heels to look at the table of suffering far, far away. And in joy liu I was standing behind. A few stiff, many ways, those ways of thinking guest column buttoned-up boys briefly glanced about it wouldn’t be completely at the homemade marker postwrong. Maybe at one point in er—“FACE AIDS,” it read, “Can you dance time, that was the face of AIDS. But that’s not for the fight?”—before turning away, satisfied what it looks like today. that we weren’t a recruiting company. Still, a Today, AIDS can look like, well, just about few students I knew stopped by for a quick, anyone. With advances in antiretroviral drugs, casual chat before heading off. So I didn’t prevention of mother-to-child transmission, think it was unnatural when I shouted over and the development of a vaccine in the works, the crowd to a classmate that I hadn’t really the rate of new cases of HIV has hit a plateau. talked to for over a semester. He sauntered Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for an over. His eyes caught sight of the poster, and AIDS-free generation during the International forgoing any form of greeting, he made the AIDS Conference this summer. There are still opening comment that connected the name visible high-risk groups—intravenous drug usof the organization with having AIDS on your ers, commercial sex workers, children of HIVface. Of course it was a joke. After all, it took positive mothers—but 25 years after the first him almost half a minute to finish laughing World AIDS Day was celebrated, the face of enough for me to get a word in. Yes, maybe AIDS has changed. In many ways, it has lost that name lends itself to misinterpretations, that easily generalizable public face. Now, it misspellings and snide remarks, but the fact may be the idealistic, young, Peace Corps volthat this experience has been shared by many unteer who made an impulsive decision one who are a part of this organization on Duke’s night. It may be lively children who will live campus reveals a much deeper skewed, some- with AIDS their whole lives. It may be students times unknowledgeable view of what HIV/ on this campus. AIDS now looks like. AIDS on your face? Yes, it’s an easy joke. The comment, although not intended to You’re allowed to poke and prod at it just as be construed seriously, made me think. What much as the next issue, but at least take the modoes AIDS on your face look like? Maybe two ment to think about what that comment means. decades ago, it would have looked like a gaunt, What does AIDS look like today? The truth is, gay man as he faced doctors who told him that I don’t really know anymore. All I know is that AIDS was essentially a death sentence. Maybe I’ve seen many of those faces. Sometimes I’ve in the 1990s, it would have looked like a seem- known because the stories have been entrusted ingly healthy, infallible man like Magic Johnson to me. Other times I don’t. But to someone as he stood before the press to announce his who is positive, that comment would not be a status. Today, to many students, it may be the joke because the reality is that they have to face pictures of young children and women in sub- AIDS every single day. If nothing else, we can at Saharan Africa who have been revived by the least respect that. power of antiretroviral drugs—people who are somehow in need of student volunteer services. Joy Liu is a Trinity junior and the President of Sometimes, there is no face at all. Perhaps it’s FACE AIDS Duke.
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he fall semester is quickly coming to a close. take with a societal motivation is the fact that the By now most of the senior class is either safe needs and wants of others have become the valifor employment or frantically applying to dation for what you choose to do with your life. grad schools and jobs. Some of us are This alone is an equally terrible reastill trying to figure out what we want son to choose a career path. Note to do for a living. We have reached that in saying “others,” I’m includa critical point in our lives; the next ing people who aim exclusively to steps we take can dramatically alter satisfy their parents’ wishes or culour personal journeys. The feeling tural expectations. of urgency lies mostly with seniors, When it comes down to it, there but undergraduates of all classes are is exactly one valid motive for deterdiscerning what they should do after mining how to live your life. That michael cook Duke. Put more deeply, they are dismotive is your own rational self-inatlas chugged cerning who they want to become. terest. You should make your career I cannot answer these questions for choices based upon what you believe you, but I can impart a little senior experience to will make you happiest in the long run. Don’t pick frame them. a big four job because it’s high-paying; pick one The most common mistake I see people make is because the work makes you happy and because the pursuit of a career path in the name of money you see value in it. Don’t go for research or social or material gain. At Duke this is visible in the so- service for the sake of others; go for it because you called Big Four phenomenon. For those of you un- find your research fascinating or because you obaware of the career vernacular, the Big Four are: tain a sense of personal fulfillment from helping pre-law, pre-med, finance and consulting. Note that others. Do it because you think it’s a good way for all of these are solid jobs, and ones highly valued you to make the world a better place. No matter by society. I do not take issue that so many people which path you take, you and you alone have the flock to such high-paying jobs. Money is a society’s right to your own life. standard of value, and what these professions do In choosing any other motive, you will inevitaare extremely important to society. However, there bly fail in one of two places. Scenario one is job are definitely people picking these jobs for the failure. The fact that you’re miserable marks evmoney and that’s the unfortunate part. Money is erything you do, and it shows in the quality of your necessary for survival, but pay alone is a terrible work and in your interactions with others. Scenarreason to choose a career path. io two is more subtle. Everyone is happy with the Importance to society, another mistaken mo- work you do … except you. You wake up one day tive I see, is widely regarded as a nobler motive. As and realize that you made a terrible mistake. You they say, it’s not about the money. It’s about help- let the validation of others, through money, praise ing others. There is nothing inherently wrong or prestige, stop you from choosing the life that with helping others. Though I express strong dis- you wanted to live. dain for government entitlements, I strongly adAs I said before, I cannot tell you what path you vocate private citizens trying to make the world a should take. I cannot tell you because I cannot posbetter place in whatever way suits them. That be- sibly know what makes you happy. You have a life, ing said, picking careers like research, social work and that life is yours to live. We’re all Duke stuor the armed forces in the name of serving society dents here. We’re fairly smart people, and I firmly disregards the fact that many other jobs (includ- believe that every single student on this campus ing the Big Four) do wonders for the common can find what makes him or her happy and pursue good. Doctors and lawyers are more obviously im- it righteously. portant, but a strong banking system and efficient This is my last column as an opinion writer. management practices are also vital to a healthy Thank you all for reading. economy. Loans and other investments provide (The author would like to thank John Allison for the growth of businesses across the nation and IV for his “Leadership and Values” talk. It was an allow people to plan their futures into retirement. inspiration for this article.) Consulting firms help to maximize the productivity of existing companies (including charities and Michael Cook is a Pratt senior. This is his final colhospitals), benefiting everyone. The larger issue I umn of the semester.
lettertotheeditor Shaping our celebration of racial integration I’m looking forward to the activities and programming that will note the 50th anniversary of the first black students at Duke. The Chronicle’s Nov. 27 report on the plans, “Duke will conduct a yearlong celebration to honor 50th anniversary of racial integration,” indicates that many have already dedicated time and talent to planning this “yearlong celebration.” However, one aspect of that news story leaves me with some strategic concerns. In my judgment, the measure of the anniversary project’s success will depend on the active engagement and leadership of diverse administrative, student and student-services communities. Of course we should anticipate that those with nominative interests in black students and/ or black culture will be prominent participants. If those are the only voices we hear from, however, we’ve lost the opportunity to model the principles we claim to celebrate. In fact, one
opportunity to articulate a principled practice of diversity is already lost with the institution’s support of BSAI weekend. It’s an irony that the anniversary of our desegregation will be celebrated with a contemporary version of segregation. Although it is disappointing that the BSAI weekend decision no longer has an opportunity to be shaped by a community’s principles rather than political expediencies, I sincerely hope that the rest of the anniversary plans manage to avoid that disappointing paradigm. In my judgment, a community that values diversity and inclusion might best articulate these values by shaping a celebration that will depend on, anticipate, name and encourage a diverse community of celebrants. If we start from that premise, we might see a Duke that mirrors the event it celebrates. Karla F. Holloway James B. Duke Professor of English and professor of law
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I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling 22,” sings Taylor Swift on her most recent album, and I think it’s a line that’s indicative of the situation I find myself in as my time at Duke begins to end. It also might be indicative of my general attitudes that in a column that is supposed to encapsulate my views on satire, the Swift I chose to quote was Taylor, not Jonathan. But first, to the formalities: I am, or at least was, the Grumpy Trustee. I figured I should say that explicitly, in case you were confused as to what this column is about, and why there’s a new guy on the opinion pages this Monday. Also, congrats Stewart: You got it right that one night at Sati’s. Normally, this column takes the form of a grand defense of the offensive tools one uses to create satire, but because my targets were harry liberman perhaps a little too direct, and bemonday, monday cause the offensive things I said were couched in old-timey prose that probably bored most into apathy, I don’t think that defense needs to be made. For that reason, I’m going to try a different tack, and make an argument about what I was bemoaning in all of the non-political columns I wrote this semester (for the obvious reason that my political satire was so effective that it doesn’t need a defense. I’m pretty sure I single-handedly won Barack re-election). In short, the message is this: Duke is changing, and I’m not sure it’s for the better. Philosophically, the University has recently taken the tack that being “academic,” inquisitive and invested in the fundamental problems of society, is diametrically opposed to “fun,” represented by all the dumb college-y things we engage in on a regular basis. It is not an unreasonable point: If you spend time engaging in one type of activity, it may become difficult to engage in the other. It’s also easy to see the largest excesses of “fun,” when it leads to dozens of EMS calls (or worse), and to question whether the University should allow such behavior. So, should a school that fancies its students the leaders of tomorrow support those same students dressing up like squirrels on weekends, and looking like sophomoric idiots? I would respond by simply saying, “absolutely.” At a certain point, the ideological pursuit of perfection becomes self-defeating and ignores all the delightful messiness that occurs on the sides of life. I loved my classes at Duke. Choosing to be an English major for no “practical” (a crushing word if there ever was one) reason was the best decision I made in college, and I’ve actively savored every class I’ve taken in that department. I’ll remember professor Ferraro’s “Billy Budd”-related double entendres and the actual method to Melville’s madness, as well as anything else in college. Even though I enjoy academia, I still spend a lot of time wondering whether if, in the school’s attempts to emphasize academic pursuits, we’re drifting toward better inquiry, or simply trendier inquiry. No amount of “humanities labs” can substitute for the simple virtue of a well-taught seminar. Programs like DukeEngage can often be great, but it still stuns me how many people return from them convinced of the utter hopelessness of civic service. Increasingly, it seems to me that the greatest enemies of academia aren’t drunk college bros, but academics themselves, more invested in appearing innovative instead of doing the legwork to be truly innovative. But I’m not here to provide solutions. I really just want to encourage everyone to savor the stupid stuff, the fun side of Duke, because the chances to be young and foolish vanish slowly as college ends. Going to a Christmas party in Cookie Monster pajamas and singing “Semi-Charmed Life” loudly in my fraternity’s common room didn’t prevent me from enjoying my classes. It shouldn’t prevent anyone else. College is fun. It’s also, in various parts, heartbreaking, hilarious, stupid, brilliant and everything in between. You’ll have unbelievable relationships develop, break and solve themselves in the long run. You’ll never be more embarrassed about the things you did, but you’ll never laugh more about the same things. You should do everything the clichés tell you to. Major in what you love (or, more practically, second major in it). Dive into awkwardness. Experience everything. Make friends you never thought you would. And above all, remember this: These four years are but a brief bit of your life, and you’re a fool if you don’t take advantage of every goddamn second. Harry Liberman is a Trinity senior, who clearly has gotten afflicted with second-semester senior nostalgia a little earlier than most. Also, yes, this column is wildly unfocused. Come at me if that’s a problem.
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SPIES from page 2 switched from one organization to the other to take their current jobs. “The stars have been aligning on this for a while,” said a former senior U.S. military official involved in planning the DIA transformation. Like most others interviewed for this article, the former official spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the classified nature of the program. The DIA project has been spearheaded by Michael Vickers, the top intelligence official at the Pentagon and a veteran of the CIA. Agreements on coordination were approved by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, a former CIA director, and retired Army Gen. David Petraeus, who resigned abruptly as CIA chief last month over an extramarital affair. The Pentagon announced the DCS plan in April but details have been kept secret. Former senior Defense Department officials said that the DIA now has about 500 “case officers,” the term for clandestine Pentagon and CIA operatives, and that the number is expected to reach between 800 and 1,000 by 2018. Pentagon and DIA officials declined to discuss specifics. A senior U.S. defense official said the changes will affect thousands of DIA employees, as analysts, logistics specialists and others are reassigned to support additional spies. The plan still faces some hurdles, including the challenge of creating “cover” arrangements for hundreds of additional spies. U.S. embassies typically have a set number of slots for intelligence operatives posing as diplomats, most of which are taken by the CIA. The project has also encountered opposition from policymakers on Capitol Hill, who see the terms of the new arrangement as overly generous to the CIA. The DIA operatives “for the most part are going to be working for CIA station chiefs,” needing their approval to enter a particular country and clearance on which informants they intend to recruit, said a senior congressional official briefed on the plan. “If CIA needs more people working for them, they should be footing the bill.” Pentagon officials said that sending more DIA operatives overseas will shore up intelligence on subjects that the CIA is not able or willing to pursue. “We are in a position to contribute to defense priorities that frankly CIA is not,” the senior Defense Department official said.
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The project was triggered by a classified study by the director of national intelligence last year that concluded that key Pentagon intelligence priorities were falling into gaps created by the DIA’s heavy focus on battlefield issues and CIA’s extensive workload. U.S. officials said DIA needed to be repositioned as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan give way to what many expect will be a period of sporadic conflicts and simmering threats requiring close-in intelligence work. “It’s the nature of the world we’re in,” said the senior defense official, who is involved in overseeing the changes at the DIA. “We just see a long-term era of change before things settle.” The CIA is increasingly overstretched. Obama administration officials have said they expect the agency’s drone campaign against al-Qaida to continue for at least a decade more, even as the agency faces pressure to stay abreast of issues including turmoil across the Middle East. Meanwhile, the CIA hasn’t met ambitious goals set by former president George W. Bush to expand its own clandestine service. CIA officials including John D. Bennett, director of the National Clandestine Service, have backed DIA’s plan. It “amplifies the ability of both CIA and DIA to achieve the best results,” said CIA spokesman Preston Golson. Defense officials stressed that the DIA has not been given any new authorities or permission to expand its total payroll. Instead, the new spy slots will be created by cutting or converting other positions across the DIA workforce, which has doubled in the past decade—largely through absorption of other military intelligence entities—to about 16,500. Vickers has given the DIA an infusion of about $100 million to kick-start the program, officials said, but the agency’s total budget is expected to remain stagnant or decline amid mounting financial pressures across the government. DIA’s overseas presence already includes hundreds of diplomatic posts—mainly defense attachés, who represent the military at U.S. embassies and openly gather information from foreign counterparts. Their roles won’t change, officials said. The attachés are part of the 1,600 target for the DIA, but such “overt” positions will represent a declining share amid the increase in undercover slots, officials said. The senior Defense official said DIA has begun filling the first of the new posts.
LEMURS from page 1 some ideas,” said DLC conservation coordinator Charlie Welch. “We are not expecting to come up with oneline solutions, but maybe with a group of people like this together, we can come up with some ideas that might help.” Participants at the symposium will discuss an array of topics, ranging from the challenges of conservation in Madagascar to the implications of combatting timber thieves. Welch noted that there will be disagreements on current conservation efforts in Madagascar because different opinions will arise based on an individual’s designated field of study. Sociologists who attend the symposium, for example, believe that conservationists have overstepped their boundaries and, instead of achieving what it seeks to accomplish, is hurting communities, he added. One such example is slash-and-burn agriculture— whereas most conservationists maintain that the practice is detrimental to the environment, sociologists at the symposium will claim efforts to stop the widely used practice will hurt communities who rely on this traditional farming technique. Lou Brown, education and outreach associate at the Kenan Institute and visiting associate professor of cultural anthropology, said the differing perspectives elucidate that issues in Madagascar are multidimensional and require studying multiple fields. “You can’t stay in your silo and only study biodiversity or only study the relationship between society and the natural world,” she said. “You have to work in different disciplines or you won’t have a complete understanding of everything.” The symposium will close with an open discussion on the topics presented throughout the day and where participants stand on varying viewpoints. “It’s a very, very complex problem in and of itself and it’s good for people to see that,” Welch said. “Americans tend to oversimplify things into black and white where you’ve got the good guys and the bad guys, but it’s just not that simple.” The symposium will run from 9:30 a.m. until 6 p.m. Monday in West Duke 101.
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If defense wins championships, then head coach Joanne P. McCallie and the No. 4 Blue Devils should have a lot to look forward to this season. Duke held No. 10 California to 20 first half points and outrebounded a physical Golden 63 Bear team, easily notching a 77-63 CAL at Cameron Indoor Stadium DUKE 77 victory Sunday afternoon. “We knew coming into the game that they were going to be physical and it was going to be a bloodbath out there,” junior guard Chelsea Gray said. The game actually opened in California’s favor, leading 13-10 with just over 14 minutes remaining in the half. That would be the last time the Golden Bears had the lead, however. After a layup by senior center Talia Caldwell pulled the Golden Bears within five with eight minutes left, the Blue Devils (6-0) went on a 10-0 run, putting the game in their control for the remainder of the contest. The Golden Bears (6-1), led by head coach Lindsay Gottlieb, shot an underwhelming 21.9 percent from the field in the first half, mostly thanks to a swarming Blue Devil defense that produced 13 turnovers and five steals in the opening half. “We started off pretty hot, and they were hot. And then we missed a couple shots and that made us tighten up,” Gottlieb said. Sophomore center Elizabeth Williams, who is still recovering from a stress fracture in her left leg, set the defensive tone early, registering two blocks in only six minutes of playing time in the first half. She finished the game with four blocks, as well as 12 points and five rebounds. Williams, however, was used sparingly in the first half due to foul trouble, making way for senior center Allison Vernerey to come off the bench, and she put forth a sixpoint, seven-rebound effort. The rest of the game belonged to Tricia Liston and the Blue Devils’ zone defense. Frustrating the Golden Bears
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Playing a team that included one of her best friends, Chelsea Gray scored 13 points and recorded nine assists against California. constantly, Duke mixed between a full-court and halfcourt press, falling back into a zone that was bolstered by Gray and Williams, who combined for six blocks and four steals. “I thought [Duke] did a nice job of spreading out our guard play and yet still collapsing on our post,” Gottlieb said. Although Gray struggled from the field, she made her
presence felt on defense by grabbing eight rebounds, tying with Liston to lead the team. On the offensive side of the court, Gray and Liston ran the drive-and-kick to perfection, with Liston knocking down 9-of-16 shots, including two 3-pointers. “It helps a lot when you have someone like Chelsea on SEE W. BASKETBALL ON SW PAGE 6
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Blue Devils split dual meet at Northwestern by Lopa Rahman THE CHRONICLE
The Blue Devils split their opening dual matches of the season, falling to No. 13 Northwestern 33-12 and defeating Stevens Tech, an unranked Division III team, 3315 in Evanston, Ill. Saturday evening. “I think our guys are stepping up and starting to compete a little harder,” Duke head coach Glen Lanham said. Two Blue Devils, redshirt sophomore Brandon Gambucci and redshirt freshman Dylan Ryan, won both bouts that they competed in. Eight of the nine Duke wrestlers won at least one match. Ryan, who is called “Rhino” by his coaches and teammates, struggled in the early-season tournaments, posting a 0-6 record. Lanham emphasized improvement throughout the season over records, noting that if wrestlers perform well in the final test of the season—the ACC tournament—they will secure themselves bids to the NCAA meet. This weekend, Ryan was an example of the improvement that Lanham hopes to see in his wrestlers. “Rhino did a great job of adjusting his attitude and technique,” Lanham said. “Rhino is capable of wrestling at a high level, but he needed to have the attitude that he can compete and win. He changed his attitude and transferred what he did in the room to what he did on the mat.” Ryan, fellow redshirt freshman Marcus Cain and Gambucci were the only Blue Devils to win their matches against the Wildcats. In the Keystone Classic Nov. 18, Ryan lost to Northwestern senior Marcus Shrewsbury 5-4 in the 184-pound weight class, and Cain lost
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Brandon Gambucci won both of his weekend matches against Northwestern and Stevens Tech.
to Wildcat sophomore Dylan Marriott 7-5 in the 149-pound division. Ryan and Cain avenged these close losses Saturday, defeating the same opponents in hardfought matches. Lanham believes that like Ryan, Cain made adjustments in practice that helped him come away with the win against a tough Northwestern opponent the second time around. “Marcus made some nice adjustments,” Lanham said. “The assistant coaches worked with him on a couple areas of attack. He really got those down. He did a great job with his defense as well.” Just minutes after losing to the Wildcats, the Blue Devils retook the mat against Stevens Tech. Lanham believes that the score, 33-15, does not accurately reflect Duke’s domination of the underdog opponent. “The score does not tell the match,” he said. “We pretty much handled them. The score doesn’t reflect that because we had a forfeit. That’s six points right there. I felt comfortable with what our guys did out there.” Redshirt freshman Andrew DeHart forfeited his match in the 157-pound weight class due to a knee injury. Although the Blue Devils beat Stevens Tech, Lanham was quick to acknowledge that they have tough wrestlers on its roster. The closeness of some of Duke’s matches against the Ducks was a testament to that. “I know there are tough kids, whether it’s Division I, II or III,” he said. Lanham said that competing against Northwestern was great preparation for the Blue Devils’ upcoming tests against Eastern Michigan and No. 14 Michigan on the road in Ypsilanti, Mich. next weekend.
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Rebounding, depth key the Blue Devils’ win have just got to get that mentality no matter who we play.” Duke’s success on the glass, in conjunction with its sharp zone defense, was critical in staving off California’s fast-paced offense, especially early in the game. The Blue Devils forced 13 first-half turnovers. In the end, the Golden Bears shot just 35.9 percent from the field. “Our inability to make shots in that first half when they went to the zone was a problem,” California head coach Lindsay Gottlieb said. “Their zone was really lengthy and it bothered us. We didn’t get the looks that we wanted right away.”
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After cruising to five wins against unranked opponents, the No. 4 Blue Devils expected No. 10 California to put them to their first real test. The Golden Bears did just that, but Duke passed with flying colors in a 77-63 victory, proving that they have Game the defensive capabiliAnalysis ties and offensive weapons to outplay tough opponents. “We knew coming into the game that they were going to be physical and it was going to be a bloodbath out there,” Duke junior guard Chelsea Gray said. “We just had to focus on rebounding and getting stops when we needed them.”
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Tricia Liston led Duke against the Golden Bears with 22 points on 9-of-16 shooting from the field.
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Duke shows its skills on the glass The Blue Devils’ focus on rebounding paid off against the Golden Bears, a strong rebounding team. California, entered the game ranking fifth in the nation in rebounding margin, pulling down 66 boards against its last opponent, Old Dominion, Friday night. Duke outrebounded the Golden Bears 41-37. Twenty-six of the Blue Devils’ rebounds were on the defensive end, preventing the Golden Bears from collecting too many second-chance opportunities. “We’ve been working towards this,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “We’ve been having rebounding conversation almost too much. [California] caught our team’s attention a little bit because they realized, ‘Wow, these guys can really rebound the ball.’ We
‘A complete team’ The other important piece of the puzzle in Sunday’s matchup was Duke’s offensive arsenal. Five Blue Devils scored nine or more points. “They’re such a complete team,” Gottlieb said. “They showed that when Elizabeth Williams got in some foul trouble, and they were still just as dangerous. What makes Duke really good is that all five players on the court are a threat.” Junior Tricia Liston, who led Duke with 22 points, elaborated on the benefits of the Blue Devils’ depth. She noted that when the team is healthy, the bench is deep enough to have five substitutes and the combinations that McCallie can come up with can pose matchup nightmares for opponents. “You can go big or you can go small,” Liston said. “At every position you have a different strength—someone can do SEE WBB ANALYSIS ON SW PAGE 6
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DUKE DESTROYS DELAWARE by Michael Schreiner THE CHRONICLE
By quickly putting a large lead in between themselves and their opponent, the Blue Devils made Saturday’s game more about themselves than Delaware. Despite playing without one of the team’s leading scorers in senior guard Seth Curry, who sat out with a left ankle injury, No. 2 Duke (8-0)—led by its big man duo of Ryan Kelly and Mason Plumlee—never let up in its domination of Delaware (2-6) en route to an 88-50 victory. “The way we played for 40 minutes—it was different than you would expect, different in a very positive way,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Sometimes in these situations, our fifth game in 10 days, there is a chance for a letdown and we didn’t have that tonight…. Instead they continued to play hard.”
Without anyone taller than 6-foot-9, Delaware struggled to contain Duke’s big men. Both Plumlee and Kelly finished with 18 points, despite playing just 24 minutes each, and Plumlee added 11 boards. Despite the duo sitting for a combined 13 minutes in the second half, the Blue Devils finished with 40 points in the paint—14 more than Delaware. Kelly got off to a good start in the Blue Devils’ win, scoring the game’s first two buckets on a smooth jumper off a pumpfake and then a layup. The senior’s midrange shot was on all afternoon, as he went 6-for-9 from inside the arc and was able to slash through the Blue Hens’ zone to create his own shots. “I’m pretty confident, especially with my midrange jumper,” he said. “That’s something that I know I have in the bank a little bit, and when you know teams go to
2-3 zones I love getting to that free throw line area. I’m confident I’ll knock those shots down.” The Blue Hens also fell victim to the Duke’s size and athleticism on the other side of the court, as they were rarely able to create an uncontested shot. Delaware finished the game shooting just 27.7 percent from the field. “It was real frustrating,” Delaware guard Devon Saddler said. “We usually make our shots and today our shots just weren’t falling, so it was frustrating.” Duke was without Curry from the start due to an ankle injury he sustained in the second half of Wednesday’s victory over Ohio State. Curry’s absence did not appear to slow the Blue Devils though, despite the fact that his replacement, junior guard Tyler Thornton scored just three points in the game. Thornton made his presence felt in other aspects of the game though, as he dished out 10 assists and was able to grab six rebounds. “[Thornton is] such an easy guy to play with,” Krzyzewski said. “We can plug him in anywhere—he’s a winner.” Thornton’s teammates in the backcourt, sophomore Quinn Cook and freshman Rasheed Sulaimon, each added six assists and turned the ball over just three times combined. “[The passing is] great because you have to respect us,” Cook said. “I can dish the ball, Rasheed can score and dish the ball, and Tyler can dish the ball, so you know, we’re always looking for our teammates and looking for open players.” The Blue Devil lead, which built steadily throughout the game and never dipped below 36 in the final 10 minutes of play, translated into increased playing time for Duke’s bench players. That has rarely been the case this season with Duke’s starters scoring 92 percent of the team’s points entering Saturday. Redshirt freshman Alex Murphy and
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When beating top-five opponents Kentucky, Louisville and Ohio State, the Blue Devils were essentially deploying only seven men, including senior guard Seth Curry, who is still at well below 100 percent while dealing with a lower-leg injury throughout the preseason. With Curry unable to go Saturday against Delaware at Cameron Indoor StaGame dium due to a left ankle Analysis injury, the Duke bench received a little extra time and performed quite admirably. “We already knew [the bench] could do it, but the fact that they are out there and got those minutes is great,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “You never know [if Seth] is going to be able to play.” Duke cruised to an 8850 victory agaisnt the Fightin’ Blue Hens, with everybody stepping up p to urry. fill the void left by Curry. Tyler Thornton drew the start and handed outt 10 assists. Josh Hairston overcame foul trouble to grab six rebounds and block a shot. Even senior walk-on Todd Zafirovski joined the party with his first career points. However, no two players stood out more than forwards Alex Murphyy and Amile Jefferson. “That’s really y’alls ls first time seeing [Murphy and Jefow from ferson], but we know practice that those guyss are good ard Mason players,” senior forward hey get some Plumlee said. “Once they h can depend game experience, coach epend on them, on them and we can depend and that will make us a better team if we can go deeper.” Murphy, a redshirt freshman, and Jefman, had given the ferson, a true freshman, eason for optimism Blue Devil faithful a reason
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With the Blue Devils Dev holding a comfortable lead, Duke’s bench had its time to shine against Delaware. prior to the season. Murphy looked active and effective in the team’s Blue-W Blue-White scrimmage and started eeach exhibition game. Jefferson too used the exhibifer tio tions to announce his arrival to Durham, averaging 13.0 p points and 4.0 rebounds in tthe two contests. Once the se season kicked off, however, b both players were left with bit minutes off the bench, that is, if they received any at all. Jeff Jefferson has found his way onto tthe floor in every game, but the sa same has not been the case for M Murphy. “It “It’s been frustrating personally, but bu the team comes first, and what we’ve done to this point is ob obviously great,” Murphy said. The frustration subsided af after both Murphy and Jefferso son saw a career-high 21 minute utes of action Saturday. Mur-
Duke’s bench saw some extra time in the blowout win, scoring 27 points. Amile Jefferson led the effort with 12 points.
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Duke’s defense smothered Delaware, which shot just 27.7 percent from the field in the game.
phy tallied 10 points and Jefferson added another 12. “Seeing some shots fall, it definitely helps your confidence a little bit and you loosen up a little bit. It feels good to be out there,” Murphy said. Where the young forwards really made their presence felt was on the boards. Murphy ripped down seven rebounds, and Jefferson had six of his own, including three on the offensive glass. “I feel like that’s just the type of player I am,” Jefferson said about his rebounding tenacity. “When I get a chance to showcase that I’m going to try my best to do it.” For a team that has been consistently winning games despite losing the rebounding battle, the added effort has not gone unnoticed. Plumlee is having a superb rebounding season, averaging 11.0 per game, but senior forward Ryan Kelly is averaging just 4.6 rebounds per game, down from 5.4 last season, even though he is playing five more minutes each contest. Hairston, who has been the team’s first big man off the bench, is adding just 2.4 rebounds to the frontcourt’s total. “It will help our team,” Plumlee said of the rebounding effort put forth by Murphy and Jefferson. “They have a chance to be our best rebounding perimeter guys. If those guys can rebound, that gives us a different element.” Despite the senior captains, Plumlee and Kelly, heaping praise onto the neophyte forwards, Krzyzewski cautioned that change is not in the cards for the immediate future. “Those guys are good guys, but you know what, for me the main guys to develop are Mason, Ryan and Seth. To see Alex and Amile play so well today, that is great, but it doesn’t mean that we are going to get this wave of substitutions and things like that.” While a changing of the guard is unlikely for now, the fact remains that Murphy and Jefferson showed they can help this Duke team immediately and could be deployed once again down the road this season. “When you get into February and March you can’t just go five or six, you need to have a bench and be able to give guys a rest,” Murphy said. “Obviously you’ve seen what the first five can do, but I think developing a bench is a big part of what we’re going to do if we want to make a run late in March.”
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Duke students have not had a chance to see the Blue Devils in a bowl game since the 1995 Hall of Fame Bowl. Thanks to an unnamed donor, some will get to attend Duke’s appearance in Dec. 27th’s Belk Bowl against Cincinnati for free. Students received an email Sunday night stating that the athletic department will hold a lottery Tuesday Dec. 4 for students to get free tickets just by presenting their Duke Card, made possible “through the generosity of a donor.” In a video message accompanying the email, Duke defensive back Ross Cockrell said 500 students will have the chance to win tickets for the game in Charlotte. “A great student showing in Charlotte not only supports the program but also makes a statement for future bowl invitations as Duke looks to consistently compete and play in postseason games going forward,” the email states. Cockrell led Duke’s defense this year with five interceptions, earning first-team All-ACC honors. “On behalf of my teammates, we would like to thank all Duke students who have supported us throughout this season,” Cockrell said in the video message. “We are excited that Duke will be headed to Charlotte, North Carolina for the Belk Bowl on Thursday Dec. 27, and we want you to join us.”
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Students stormed the field after Duke’s bowl-clinching win vs. UNC and will get free tickets to the game in Charlotte.
It didn’t take long for Duke to get going in its indoor track and field season. In the Blue Devils’ first indoor meet of the season at the JDL Fast Track College Kick-Off—the track and field team’s only meet of the Fall semester—senior Cydney Ross broke a facility record, finishing the 1,000m run in 2:49. “Cydney ran a great race,” director of track and field Norm Ogilvie said to GoDuke.com. “Her time on a flat track in December is really good and makes us excited about her future.” Ross was one of five Blue Devils to finish in first at the meet in Winston-Salem, N.C. Also on the track, sophomore Elizabeth Kerpon finished first in the 300m dash and Henry Farley, Dylan Newman, Kyle Moran and Nyall Islam combined to finish first in the 4x800m relay. In the field events, junior Justin Amezquita and sophomore Stephanie Skove earned top honors in the pole vault. “We were just trying to see where people are in their training and give opportunity for kids to compete before Christmas,” Ogilvie said. “Overall, it was a really good day for Duke on both the men’s and women’s side.”
WBB ANALYSIS from SW page 3 W. BASKETBALL from SW page 2 something that someone else can’t.” Second half defensive woes Although Duke’s capabilities on both ends of the court were on display Sunday, the Blue Devils’ defensive slide in the second half should not be overlooked. They went from holding the Golden Bears to a 21.9 field-goal percentage in the first half to allowing California to hit 50 percent of its shots in the second half. McCallie attributes Duke’s late defensive struggles to her team getting too complacent with its lead. “We didn’t play as aggressively,” she said. “We played a little bit to the score too much. We had a lead for a long time. We have to get out of that. We have to really want to make plays on every possession. I think anytime you give up 43 points in the second half you’re not going to go home liking that.” Duke opens its ACC schedule Thursday against Georgia Tech. The conference is known for its physicality, McCallie said, noting that the Yellow Jackets in particular play a physical brand of basketball. Playing an up-tempo game against a physical Golden Bears squad afforded the Blue Devils a key opportunity to prepare for the matchups on their ACC slate. “It was a good game for us and great preparation for our game on Thursday [against Georgia Tech],” she said.
the floor,” Liston said. Many expected the Golden Bears to come in and outrebound the Blue Devils, as California was coming off a school-record 66-rebound effort against Old Dominion. Duke did not let California best them on the boards though, outrebounding the Golden Bears 41-37 through an all-around team effort—five players recorded at least five rebounds. “I think we rebounded better because we knew they could too,” McCallie said. “What we’ve got to do is rebound great no matter who we play.” One thing that lived up to the hype was the high-profile point guard matchup of Gray and California’s Brittany Boyd. Boyd had a relatively quiet first half with only eight points, but exploded in the second half for 20, leading all scorers with 28. The total may have been higher, but Boyd was forced to sit out part of the second half due to foul trouble. “I was just taking what they were giving me,” Boyd said. For the majority of the second half, the Blue Devils maintained a 17-point lead, trading baskets with the Golden Bears, who shot 50 percent from the field in the second half, as well as 80 percent from behind the arc. California mounted somewhat of a comeback in the final seven minutes, getting within 10 several times, mostly thanks to layups from Boyd. “I like how our team responded in the second half. We played a little bit more of our brand of basketball,” Gottlieb said. “Of course, against a team like Duke, you can’t put yourself in that kind of hole because they’re so good.” This game also featured junior guard Chloe Wells’ return to the court, after nearly a year’s absence following a suspension from the University last spring and an in-
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Battling foul trouble, Elizabeth Williams played just 24 minutes but contributed 12 points and four blocks. jury to begin this season. Wells only played four minutes, but was welcomed with a standing ovation from the crowd. Sunday’s contest should serve as a reas-
suring note for the Blue Devils, who open ACC play this week as they face Georgia Tech (3-3) this Thursday at 7 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
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Duke to play Cincinnati in the Belk Bowl BOWL from page 1 need to win these postseason bowls. These are all steps that we’re taking and to me it presents itself as a huge challenge. But what an opportunity it is for our program on national television. I think our guys are excited about the challenge.” The 2012 Belk Bowl will be the first meeting between Duke and Cincinnati on the gridiron. It will also be the Blue Devils’ first postseason game played in the state of North Carolina. Not only does the bowl game’s close proximity allow an easy commute for a number of fans as well as Duke students— who will receive free tickets to the game thanks to an unnamed donor—it will also signify a homecoming for a number of Blue Devil players who hail from the Charlotte area, including Jamison Crowder, Brandon Braxton, Ross Cockrell, Jela Duncan and Justin Foxx. “I’m truly excited that it’s Charlotte,” Cutcliffe said. “How appropriate is that for our team and our fan base. It’s an area in recruiting that is extremely important to our program. We couldn’t be happier.” The team will travel to Charlotte Dec. 22 with bowl festivities set to begin that evening. The week’s schedule will feature a number of receptions and events for players and fans, including a trip to Charlotte Motor Speedway and a shopping spree at the flagship Belk store in nearby Southpark, N.C.—which will feature an expanded “Big & Tall” section for the players—and a trip to the Levine Children’s Hospital on Christmas Eve. The Blue Devils have nearly four weeks to prepare for their matchup with Cincin-
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at what our team can look like,” Cutcliffe said. “There are times when we will let our seniors finish a few periods early and actually take a real look at what our 2013 team minus the signees that we’re going to have. It’s interesting to watch some leaders emerge when they’re not out there in the shadows of those seniors, some of those rising seniors take charge. I always sit back and look forward to that.” The ACC’s Coach of the Year is not taking the next few weeks of practices lightly,
however. He added that the Blue Devils could have some tricks up their sleeve for their first bowl appearance in his tenure at Duke. “I’m even considering a few little position changes as we go into this thinking ahead,” Cutcliffe said. “I haven’t talked to the players, but I’ve done a lot of thinking about this over the last three or four weeks of the season. I’ve got some things that we’re going to want to look at, and I might do it as early as the [bowl] game.”
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M. BASKETBALL from SW page 4 freshman Amile Jefferson each played a career-high 21 minutes while Josh Hairston was limited to just 11 minutes due to foul trouble. All three played in the first half, but were given the reins for the final 10 minutes of the game with the win firmly in hand. “Some guys didn’t [play] as many minutes as they would’ve liked it, but I think it’s good for developing our bench,� Plumlee said. “Josh has played more than the other guys, but for them to grow they have to not only do it in practice but also in the game, and that’s why I thought this game was big for them.� Senior walk-on Todd Zafirovski scored his first two points in the win, much to the delight of the Cameron Crazies who began chanting “We want Todd� in the second half. Zafirovski also added a rebound and block. Perhaps the only aspect in which the Blue Devils came up short was defensive rebounding. After Ohio State grabbed 18 offensive rebounds Wednesday, Duke allowed Delaware 14 second-chance opportunities while creating just 10 for themselves. Despite the great opportunity his bench players had to develop, Krzyzewski was happiest about the play of his team as a whole after the game. “I feel good about everybody’s play today. Everybody played well today,� he said. “Not one guy played less well than the other guy. They were terrific together.�
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