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Students elect Chris Brown to Young Trustee by Carleigh Stiehm THE CHRONICLE

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Chris Brown was elected undergraduate Young Trustee after a race against fellow seniors Ashley Alman and Gurdane Bhutani. A total of 2,286 votes

were cast in the Young Trustee election. Because no candidate received more than 50 percent of the total vote, an instant runoff vote between Brown and Bhutani determined the winner. Brown received a total of 1,519 votes, and Bhutani received 1,337 votes after the instant runoff. “Technical difficulties” prompted an extension of the voting deadline by two

hours, and a complaint brought to trial by the Duke Student Government Judiciary delayed the results announcement. The polls closed at midnight on Thursday, two hours after the projected closing time. The results were announced around 4:30 a.m. Friday. Alman and Brown were each docked 30 votes from their totals—reflected in the reported

numbers—for violations in DSG campaigning policy based on the complaint filed by Bhutani. “This opportunity truly means more than words can describe to be able to serve Duke actively for the next three years,” Brown said. SEE BROWN ON PAGE 3

DKU construction Too late for State near-dormant in 2012 Duke wins 95-85 Communication, funding poses problems for progress by Lauren Carroll THE CHRONICLE

Poor management and insufficient funding contributed to major construction problems that have caused the fifth significant delay of Duke Kunshan University’s opening in three years. The campus’ opening has been delayed another semester to Fall 2014. Construction slowed to almost a full stop in 2012 despite promises of development from the Kunshan government, which manages and funds the campus’ construction. Currently, none of the campus’ six buildings are near completion. Duke ad-

ministrators now expect that Kunshan developers will finish two of the campus’ six buildings by Spring 2014. Yet as of September 2012, Kunshan maintained that five of the six buildings would be ready by July 2013. More significant than the delay is the difficulty Duke had working with the city of Kunshan in 2012 to get problems fixed and move construction along. Limited by its lack of leverage on the project and frustrated by the city’s lapses in communication, Duke approached the city in late SEE DKU ON PAGE 4

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Marsicano hopes to bring grad voice to the Board by Ryan Zhang THE CHRONICLE

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Public policy master’s student Chris Marsicano emphasizes his love for Duke in Young Trustee campaign .

If elected, Graduate Young Trustee candidate Chris Marsicano says he would give back to Duke by serving as a voice for his peers. Marsicano, a second-year master’s candidate in public policy said he would focus on increasing graduate students’ representation in University matters, which he feels has been lacking in the past. He noted that although the graduate student population outnumbers the undergraduate population, graduate students are not well represented on the Board of Trustees. “While a Trustee’s job is not to be representative of any one constituency, I think it’s very important that the Young Trustee SEE MARSICANO ON PAGE 3

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Mason Plumlee made 9-of-11 field goals en route to a 30-point performance to lead Duke to a 98-85 win against N.C. State by Bobby Colton THE CHRONICLE

From even before the opening tip, the whole building could tell No. 4 Duke showed up ready to avenge last month’s loss as the team played host to N.C. State at Cameron Indoor Stadium Thursday night. Leading by more than 20 points for much of the game, Duke pulled out a 98-85 victory as the Wolfpack narrowed the lead to single digits in the final minutes, but the comeback attempt was ultimately too late and the deficit too large. “That was ACC basketball tonight,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I don’t know if we can play any harder or better in the

first half.” The Blue Devils (20-2, 7-2) came out fired up thanks in part to a Mason Plumlee pregame speech out by center court just prior to the jump ball, while the Wolfpack (16-7, 5-5) started the game sluggish. “We wanted to avenge that loss in Raleigh, but more so we just wanted to keep playing well,” senior guard Seth Curry said. “Nobody really had to say much to get us up for this game. Everybody was motivated and everybody came out with a lot of energy from the jump.” N.C. State’s start was so slow that Tyler SEE M. BASKETBALL ON PAGE 8

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Students from other universities may have the opportunity to receive credit for two Duke Coursera courses. Coursera, a California-based online education company, has submitted five of its Massive Open Online Courses to the American Council on Education’s College Credit Recommendation Service, which evaluates each course and determines its eligibility for credit equivalence. Among the five MOOCs submitted were two Duke courses: Genetics and Evolution taught by professor Mohamed Noor and Bioelectricity taught by professor Roger Barr. Both have been recommended for credit by the ACE. Both Noor and Provost Peter Lange agree that Coursera is no substitute for an actual course taught at Duke, even if the Coursera course is taught by Duke faculty. Duke will not be giving credit for Coursera courses, Lange said. “[Coursera] is the baseline material, the lite version of the app,” Noor said. “The Duke experience is much greater. [Coursera students] don’t have reinforcement during class, a lab section, and [they] don’t have access to the professors and the teaching assistants.” More than 2,000 colleges may consider ACE credit recommendations, including Johns Hopkins University and the University of California at Berkeley, but Duke currently has no plans to participate in the credit granting program. Using Coursera is free, but to receive credit, students must pay from $100 to $190 to confirm their identities, take tests monitored via webcam and gain transcripts with ACE credit recommendations. The new for-credit program is another addition to a series of self-improvements that Coursera has made over the past few months. The most recent one was Signature Track, a tool that used keyboard typing pattern recognition to verify the identity of the student taking the course. Coursera’s new for-credit program is developed from Signature Track. If a student attends a college that has an arrangement with ACE, the student can now receive col-

lege credit for a Coursera course, which can be applied towards graduation. Whether a certain university participates in that arrangement, however, is completely up to that institution, Lange said. Additionally, high school students could use Coursera credit as an alternative to Advanced Placement credit. “This is a great opportunity for people applying to colleges, almost like an AP that you can take at home,” said Noor, professor and associate chair of biology. Students who plan on taking the course for credit will be required to use Signature Track as well as take an online proctored exam, the prices of which will depend on the class, according to Coursera’s official website. Students will only be required to pay for their Coursera courses if they would like course credit. The program will work just like any other source of transfer credit. Students will receive an ACE CREDIT transcript, which can be given to any participating college. As a result of Coursera’s shift to charging students who want course credit, people have questioned whether this changes the goal of Coursera to provide free education globally. Noor does not think that the objective of the new program is to earn profit, although Duke does receive a small share of the revenue. Coursera still provides education to a global audience, only now they are expanding the way courses can be used. Jacob Vigdor, professor of public policy and economics, does not think the MOOCs will be an effective money making product for Duke anyway. “I’m on board with the idea that MOOCs are good for students, and that Duke is part of an elite club of universities participating in the MOOC scheme,” he said. “But where I’m not so much on board is this notion that MOOCs are going to be a big money maker.” Because the free version of the courses is still available, Coursera will still serve as a platform that provides easy access to education globally, Lange said. “The span is just as big,” Lange said. “But now there are options within that span for different kinds of students with different kinds of purposes in taking those courses.”

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Starting Friday, students will be able to look to the dark side. A new Bryan Center installation portal will allow students at Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to interact through video. Want to take a look at Chapel Hill without having to travel down Tobacco Road? A video portal to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will be officially unveiled in the Bryan Center at 2:15 p.m. The portal is on the center’s first floor, and UNC’s portal is located in their Union. For the first conversation, President Richard Brodhead will speak to UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp. Each portal has a high-definition monitor, a microphone and speakers, allowing for easy communication from both sides.

The $5,000 budget was split equally between the schools. The portal is the brainchild of Duke sophomore Zac Elder and UNC sophomore Christopher Batchelder. “We just thought it would be really cool to have another connection between schools that share so much already,” said Elder, a sports associate editor for The Chronicle. After Friday’s ribbon cutting ceremony, the portal will be open to everyone. —from Staff Reports

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MARSICANO from page 1 for graduate students speak up for what graduate students need,” Marsicano said. Marsicano—son of current Trustee Michael Marsicano, Trinity ’77—has experience in various leadership roles at Duke. He serves as a member of the University Judicial Board, as well as an Honor Board representative for the Sanford School of Public Policy. He is an East Campus graduate resident and also serves as the attorney general for the Graduate and Professional Student Council. As Graduate Young Trustee, Marsicano said he would focus primarily on bringing graduate students together from different areas of study. He envisions a number of projects that would encourage students from the various graduate schools to make an impact beyond campus together. “We have a fabulous institution down the road—and I don’t mean [the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill], I mean North Carolina Central University,” he said. “That school is a great example of an untapped community in Durham that we can really work with to do some great things in this city.” Marsicano said he is also excited about Duke Forward—the University’s $3.25 billion capital campaign. He said he is especially interested in helping support the arts, humanities and social sciences, which he said have been neglected by campaign planning

so far. Mac McCorkle, associate professor of the practice of public policy, said his former student and teaching assistant would make an excellent Young Trustee because of his enthusiasm for Duke. “Chris strikes me as a dynamic leader who is really right out of the Sanford tradition,” McCorkle said. “He knows Duke tradition, he’s very well-informed, and he’s an activist.” Marsicano said he has good reason to be so enthusiastic about the University. “I literally owe Duke my life,” Marsicano said. “My grandparents met when they were students here. My parents met when they were singing in the Chapel choir together. I was born at Duke Hospital. Duke has given me so much, and I want to give back—one of the best ways I can do it is by being a Young Trustee.” Zoelene Hill, a second-year Ph.D. candidate at Sanford, highlighted Marsicano’s dedication to making the University even better. She noted in particular a time she asked him about Duke disability services, and she said he checked in on her periodically to make sure she had what she needed. “Most people would have given a quick answer and kept moving, but he definitely followed through and showed true concern,” she said. Hill added that Marsicano’s energy and work ethic would help bring together and strengthen the graduate student community if he is elected.

BROWN from page 1 Brown, a member of The Chronicle’s independent editorial board, began serving on the Board’s Facilities and Environment Committee in May 2010. He served for two years before he was selected to serve on the Business and Finance Committee in Sept. 2012. “I am excited that the student body has chosen its next Young Trustee, and I think Chris is going to do a great job,” said DSG President Alex Swain, a senior. Bhutani received six endorsements, Brown received two, and Alman received one. “I am incredibly thankful for the wonderful support that I have received during this process. It has been a truly humbling experience to get to work with so many wonderful people during this campaign,” Brown said. “I have the utmost respect for the other Young Trustee finalists and their many contributions to Duke.” As Young Trustee, Brown will serve one year on the Board as

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by Bhutani, “vote docking is necessary to provide a correction mechanism and provide restitution to candidates who may have suffered in the campaign due to the illegal actions of the other candidates.” The BOE initially decided to dock Brown and Alman 30 votes each for their totals, but this decision was overturned following appeals from the two contestants. The BOE upheld their guilty findings but overturned the ruling to dock votes. The Judiciary unanimously voted in favor of Bhutani’s request to ultimately dock 30 votes each from Alman and Brown. “Honestly Chris Brown is one of my closAshley Alman est friends at Duke, and has been since I got here,” Alman said. “If I was going lose to anyone, I am glad it was him.” Bhutani could not be reached for comment in time for publication.

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a nonvoting member and two years as a voting member. “I want to be the Young Trustee that communicates with the student body and the job starts now,” Brown said. “I have a lot of time between now and May 12, and I plan to utilize it to ensure I am the most prepared Young Trustee as possible.” After the polls closed, the Duke Student Government JuGurdane Bhutani diciary met to review a formal complaint filed by Bhutani. The complaint requested that the Judiciary uphold a previous decision to dock 30 votes from Alman and Brown final totals. This complaint follows a prior complaint filed by Bhutani on Feb. 1 that requested the DSG Board of Elections take punitive actions against Alman and Brown’s campaigns, as they had violated policy when hanging banners in the East Campus Marketplace. According to the complaint

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2012 refusing to move forward with the project unless the government adjusted its construction strategy and built buildings that met Duke’s standards for the campus. In response, the city of Kunshan recognized the persistent issues and is now rectifying construction management and increasing funding to get the project back on track. A year of stalemate In early 2012, administrators became aware of serious construction issues but did not fully understand their causes. Construction was slow, workmanship was shoddy, and there was little followthrough on Duke’s requests for solutions in the following months, said Paul Manning, director of the Office of Project Management and the University point of contact for DKU construction. Construction crews made almost no progress on the campus in 2012. “In effect, they lost an entire year of really progressing,” he said. Duke administrators’ concerns about the construction peaked in April, but Kunshan did not admit its management’s structural and fiscal failings until the end of 2012, Manning added. “It took a while to understand what we’re dealing with because they don’t tell you much,” he said. “You have to delve in and figure out what the real issues are behind the consequences that you’re seeing.” It became clear that there were some serious issues with the group managing DKU’s design and construction—a development group called Kunshan Science, Technology and Education Park. Kunshan construction workers are not highly skilled, so they learn as they go and work slowly, Manning noted. Kunshan also had significantly underestimated how much money it needed to build a 200-acre campus that met Duke’s quality standards, Manning said. The cost of building DKU in the United States would be approximately $260 million, according to the 2011 Duke-Kunshan Planning Guide. Kunshan was trying to complete the project for less than that— skimping on quality—but Manning de-

The communication problem Much of the campus’ construction has been plagued by information failings and lost or simply ignored requests. Communication between contractors and designers—sometimes between 40 and 50 different groups—was poorly managed, and there was no Chinese government team specifically charged with managing K-STEP’s progress on DKU, said Duke project manager Dudley Willis. Duke committed $5.5 million toward design and construction oversight for the project in 2010. The money pays for several private American-based firms, including Gensler, Syska Hennessy Group, Thornton Tomasetti and Jones Lange Lasalle. The latter firm currently has five on-site people—up from three in earlier years. The firms identified problems but did not have the authority to effect change. Although Duke officials visited the campus every two or three months, there was no representative on the ground in China consistently through

“It took a while to understand what we’re dealing with because they don’t tell you much.” — Paul Manning, director of the Office of Project Management the first few years of construction. Duke is increasing its own oversight in 2013 by sending Willis to Kunshan full time to bring some clerical organization to the project and expedite the process of sharing designs, revisions and additional information between the involved parties. Manning noted that it would not have been prudent to send Willis or another project manager to China before now. “Until [the Chinese are] convinced that there’s an issue, they don’t have an issue,” Manning said. “You can be there every day and giving the right answers,

but they’re not responding because they don’t have the money, and they can’t manage.” Duke’s on-site firms noticed glaring problems with construction in early 2012 and immediately informed K-STEP and Manning. When K-STEP did not resolve the concerns, Manning contacted K-STEP’s top management. As the year went on, Manning said he realized his efforts were futile and contacted Provost Peter Lange who he hoped could spur concrete change. Lange contacted Vice Mayor Jin Ming, who is in charge of higher education for Kunshan. Duke continued to move up the Kunshan government ladder with its concerns, eventually reaching one of the top officials in the city—the local communist party secretary Guan Aiguo, Manning said. “[We essentially said] ‘We’re not going to move into the building until they are at our standards,’” Manning said. “It never got to the point that [we said], ‘We’re not going to do this deal.’” Rectifying the situation Once that message reached top Kunshan officials, the two parties entered into discussions about completing a campus with Duke-quality standards in a timely manner. The city of Kunshan approved funding increases that will allow it to adhere to Duke’s construction timeline and to meet the University’s quality standards. The increase now reflects a total expenditure of approximately $260 million, the figure appropriate for a similar project in the United States, Manning said. Kunshan has also assigned a governmentbased management team to oversee KSTEP, which is led by Vice Mayor Jiang Hao, who was previously not involved with the project. The Chinese construction crew will have to redo some of the already completed work, contributing to the delay, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said. Because of the slowed construction in the past year, many projects have remained dormant and unattended, leaving them exposed to weather. K-STEP is still employing unskilled workers, but the new management is expected to speed

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them along. Now that Kunshan has employed a new building crew, Trask said he is “optimistic” about the campus’ timely completion. ‘Realignment of expectations’ Amid the adjustments, it was clear there needed to be a “realignment of expectations” for when the campus will be ready to host students, said Jim Roberts, executive vice provost for finance and administration and member of the future DKU board of directors. “There’s a number of us who have worked on it for a while who recognize that the pace is not always what it would be [in Durham],” he said. “We’ve learned to be patient but stick by our standards.” Administrators have worked to open the lines of communication with the highest level of Kunshan leadership, Roberts said. In the beginning, Kunshan officials did not have a full understanding of what a world-class university—by Duke standards—looked like. In August 2012, Chinese construction leaders and experts came to Durham to learn about Duke’s quality control policies by touring the campus and meeting with facilities management administrators. “They see our point that in the long run, DKU needs to be first class,” Roberts said. “They’re much more dedicated now than they were at first.” In retrospect, progress would have been more efficient if Duke could have partnered with a private entity—as opposed to the city of Kunshan—even though that is not a possibility in China, Manning said. If Duke had put more of its own resources into the project, the University would have more leverage to move the campus’ completion along at a faster pace, but Duke did not want to bear those costs, he noted. “We have the best conditions that we could have hoped for, understanding that they are building this at their costs,” Manning said. Duke is still waiting for final establishment approval from the Chinese Ministry of Education, which is necessary for DKU to offer independent degree programs and begin recruiting students to the campus.

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As close as it got at the end, Thursday’s 9885 win against N.C. State sure felt like a statement, and it was Duke’s second in a row. After the Blue Devils lost their first two road games, they grinded out a close win against Wake Forest on the road before blowing out Florida State in the first few minutes of the game. And facing the team that handed it the team’s first loss of the season, Duke (20-2, 7-2) did the same thing to the Wolfpack: Shot out to a commanding lead in the game’s first few minutes and never looked back. When asked if revenge was on Duke’s mind Thursday, Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski said no. But there’s no doubting this game and the way Duke did it had some extra meaning. “If you are always playing revenge, that means you’ve lost,” Krzyzewski said. “I don’t want to play revenge games. You’ve got to learn to play like we want to win.” Whether or not they came out Thursday for revenge, Duke was a team on a mission from the opening tip. With a swagger in their step, the Blue Devils came out confidently and on fire in the first half, looking like they wanted to seal the deal early. Duke shot 10-for-17 from 3-point range in the first half and went into the break with a 58-37 lead. “We shot it pretty well tonight,” Blue Devil senior Seth Curry said. “We got a lot of good

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When Duke and Denver met in the regular season finale last year, the Pioneers handed the Blue Devils an ugly 15-9 defeat. The loss has not left the minds of the No. 6 Blue Devils, who will open their 2012-13 campaign against No. 9 Denver Saturday and Jacksonville Sunday. “Obviously last year is in the back of our minds a little bit, but the focus is on doing the things we’ve been doing in practice in our first game,” senior captain Bill Conners said. The Blue Devils return their starting attack line of juniors Josh Dionne, Jordan Wolf and Christian Walsh, who collectively recorded for 102 goals last season. Top recruit Case Matheis will add to the rotation, rendering it possible that he, Dionne, Wolf and Walsh will see time at the midfield, Duke head coach John Danowski said. In the midfield, senior Jake Tripucka is the only returning starter, and senior captains Josh Offit and David Lawson will join him in the lineup. THANH-HA NGUYEN/THE CHRONICLE

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Duke heads to Charlottesville, Va. Friday to take on Blue Devil alum Joanna Boyle and her talented Virginia squad. The No. 5 Blue Devils (20-1, 10-0 ACC) will look to continue their undefeated conference streak by containing the Cavaliers’ two primary scoring threats and improvNo. 5 ing on their reDuke bounding perforvs. mance. “We only outUVA rebounded [North Carolina] by five,” Friday, 7 p.m. Duke head coach John Paul Jones Arena Joanne P. McCallie said. “We haven’t been as dominant as I think we can be when everyone pulls their weight and does what they need to do. What I mean by that is— defensive boards, guards doing a great job boxing out and getting boards, and the offensive rebounds approaching more like 20 to 25, not 17. We are trying to build that number.” Along with an emphasized focus on physical play on the boards, McCallie high-

lighted a pair of individual matchups crucial to beating Virginia (14-7, 6-4 ACC). Junior guard Chelsea Gray will most likely draw the assignment for Cavalier junior guard Ataira Franklin, who leads Virginia in scoring with 13.2 points per game and also contributes three assists and more than two steals per game. Gray puts up similar numbers, averaging 12.9 points, 5.8 assists and 3.8 steals per game. “Franklin is terrific on the wing,” McCallie said. “It’s a team effort to guard her. Chelsea will get the look first. But she’s terrific off the bounce. She does it all—rebounds and shoots the three. You have to limit her touches and make her work very hard on every possession.” The second prominent matchup pits junior forward Haley Peters against Cavalier Telia McCall. The senior forward SEE W. BASKETBALL ON PAGE 7

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After bouncing back from its first loss, Duke returns home this weekend to welcome two top-25 opponents in three matches. After taking on No. 14 Tennessee (10-0), Friday at 6 p.m., the No. 9 Blue Devils will play a doubleheader Sunday, starting with No. 21 Michigan (4-1) Sunday at 12 p.m. and capping off the weekend with a match against North Carolina Central (0-0) Sunday at 5 p.m. Duke (6-1) suffered its first loss of the season last Friday at then-No. 25 Illinois, losing 4-3, but managed to rebound with a shutout win against Notre Dame two days later. “We learned a lot from the Illinois loss,” Blue Devil head coach Ramsey Smith said. “We did several things poorly, and we corrected those things and played really well on Sunday, so I feel like we’re back on track, and we’re excited to play a couple matches at home this weekend.” The Duke players echoed Smith’s sentiment in their evaluation of the early-season defeat. “It was a real wake-up call for us,” junior Chris Mengel said. “These matches—they aren’t played on paper for a reason. You might be one of the most talented teams, but

we’ve got to still come out and impose our will on these other teams too.” With undefeated Tennessee coming to Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center, Duke faces perhaps its most talented foe yet. Although Duke defeated the Volunteers in Knoxville 6-1 last season, this season’s squad has shut out nine of its 10 opponents, including Illinois two times. “The team’s got very good the chemistry [this year],” Tennessee head coach Sam Winterbotham said. “They really have put their nose to the grindstone and continued to work to get better.” No. 9 Mikielis Libietis has played especially well, winning more matches this year than he did all last season. He currently holds a 7-0 record in dual matches. The Volunteer sophomore will face his biggest test of the year against No. 11 ranked Blue Devil Henrique Cunha, who is also undefeated in dual matches so far this season. “[Cunha’s] a gentlemen out there on the court,” Winterbotham said. “He competes his tail off every time, and for us at that matchup, we have a good, young player who’s really gotten a lot better and certainly SEE M. TENNIS ON PAGE 7

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Friday marks the beginning of the 2013 ITA National Indoor Championships in Charlottesville, Va., as Duke battles to replicate its early-season success from a season ago. But the No. 3 Blue Devils face a difficult path to make it to the championship match for the second consecutive season. All of the teams in the sixteenmember field are ranked nationally within the top 21. Notable in the draw is defending champion and current No. 2 UCLA, which swept Duke 4-0 in the finals just a season ago. Despite the lofty expectations and the Bruins looming on the opposing side of the bracket, head coach Jamie Ashworth is confident that team will use its knowledge from a season ago to propel it through the tournament. “I don’t think we’ll be nervous at all,” Ashworth said. “We can use our experience from last year to know what to expect and know how the crowds will be…. If we play with a lot of confidence and energy, we can do it.” If the early season matches are any indication, the Blue Devils have the talent and ability to make it through the field. Duke (4-0) has yet to lose a singles or doubles match within its first four contests. That includes a convincing victory against perennial championship contender No. 14 Northwestern on the road in Evanston, Ill. Looking forward to the tournament, the Blue Devils will use the resounding victory over the Wildcats as further assurance of their potential as a team. “We needed that Northwestern match to give ourselves some confidence against a good team,” Ashworth said.

“We played extremely focused and with a good sense of urgency. We have to do the same this weekend.” One area of concern for Duke, however, is that the team has not encountered a tournament atmosphere so far this season. The National Indoor Championships include a grueling four matches in four successive days against top-ranked competition. And last year‚ despite having nearly an identical team—the Blue Devils came out flat and came within eight points of losing in the opening round. A similar performance against first-round opponent No. 15 Baylor could result in an early exit. Ashworth remains optimistic, though, that his players now have the experience to mentally fight through the matches. “Last year the four freshmen were really in their first big collegiate national event,” Ashworth said. “But this year they know what to expect…. And growing up they all play in tournaments with as many as six matches in six days. It’s nothing new for them. As a team we kind of do some periodization with our conditioning to make sure that they are ready.” Beyond the talent and training going into this weekend’s tournament, the Blue Devils also boast the intangible of a strong history at the ITA Nationals. Duke made two straight semifinal appearances before last year’s run to the championship. The Blue Devils also won the event in 2003. Looking forward to the biggest tournament of the early season, Duke must maintain it’s intensity to walk away as champions. The resounding victory against Northwestern was impressive, but the Blue Devils must refrain from being content. “Our girls know that this is as good as it gets when you have sixteen of the top 21 teams in the country,” Ashworth said. “We’ve been building for this tournament for the past couple of days. And I don’t think we’re at all complacent. We’re just excited to play against really good competition.”

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After going nearly perfect at the Sollee Invitational last weekend at MIT, Duke returns home to Card Gymnasium to compete in the annual Duke Home Meet this weekend. Seven teams from across the country will fence this weekend. Among the seven are some of the nation’s top teams, including powerhouses Notre Dame, Penn State, and Northwestern. The Blue Devils, who ring in at No. 10 in the men’s rankings and just outside the top 10 in the women’s poll, hope to continue their success at home in what they consider to be one of the most important meets of the year. “The Home Meet is our one opportunity to play in front of a friendly crowd,” assistant coach Darius Wei wrote in an email to The Chronicle. “Most people haven’t had the opportunity to see the sport up close and personal. Here’s that chance, right on campus, and there’ll be Olympians and World Championship team members in attendance.” Saturday, the men compete in eight rounds and on Sunday the women compete in seven. Each round will consist of two schools vying against each other with nine individual bouts per weapon and 27 bouts in total. In this format it is possible for two weapon squads to lose but for the team to still pull out a close victory. With three top-ranked teams

in the field that are known for their depth and strong play, the Blue Devils’ win last weekend has boosted the team’s confidence. “We definitely have a better mentality because of last weekend. We are in higher spirits. I mean personally women’s foil had not been too great until last week where we went undefeated,” junior foil Jessica Kang said. “This week we fenced for every one touch and mentally prepared ourselves because we know they are going to be harder [to beat], so it’s just step by step instead of thinking we have to win.” Wei also noted that even though there are top teams coming to compete, Duke cannot forget about North Carolina and Johns Hopkins, who are gearing up to try and knock off a topranked opponent. But if Duke were to beat any of the three top teams it would not only mean a boost in rankings but also in morale and confidence. “Penn State, Notre Dame, and Northwestern are top-ranked opponents who have both quality and depth,” Wei wrote. “Our fencers are extremely motivated. They’re chomping at the bit to take the championship contenders down a notch in front of a friendly crowd. Against those teams, our fencers need to be at the very peak of their game and maybe just a little more. We can’t dance with the champs, we have to knock them down.”

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W. BASKETBALL from page 5 N.C. STATE from page 5 provides Virginia with a strong presence in the paint averaging almost 8.5 points and eight rebounds per game. Peters does it all for the Blue Devils. While often facing the opposition’s premier scorer or rebounder, Peters averages 11.9 points and leads Duke with 7.2 rebounds per game. “McCall—Haley Peters draws that matchup, at least to begin with,” McCallie said. “It will be a team effort. She can really put the ball on the floor, right or left. She likes to score from the high post, she likes to take it to the rack hard.” Defending Franklin and McCall, especially keeping them away from the foul line, will be of utmost importance to the Blue Devils if they want to continue their hot steak in the ACC. “What’s important is limiting their touches and defending aggressively and then not fouling them,” McCallie said. “We don’t want either one of those two to go to the free throw line.” Looking ahead to the fast-approaching NCAA tournament, McCallie is pushing her team to play harder and smarter, for longer stretches of the game. Duke’s main focus heading into the final leg of conference play: Put together a complete game at a high intensity level without slacking for long periods of time. “We are just trying to play more minutes—more consistency and more minutes,” McCallie said. “We’ve had some great halves—the second half against Miami and the first half against Carolina. But the whole idea is trying to really put some special minutes together and extend it to 30 minutes. We haven’t played 30 minutes in any game, so let’s extend it to 30, and then maybe talk about extending it further.”

looks, and we had a lot of energy defensively, and that translated to the offensive end. We came out really motivated and with a lot of energy, and that showed.” Seth Curry, who has been battling a leg injury and has seen limited practice time the entire season, came out and dropped 26 points on the night in 35 minutes on the floor. Curry’s classmate and National Player of the Year candidate Mason Plumlee was even better, 30 points on 9-for-11 shooting from the floor. “Mason is playing as well as anybody in the country,” Krzyzewski said. “His moves inside are really beautiful. He’s playing through contact and instead of just taking a hook, he is feeling the defense and working in when he passes the ball out.” Mason looked determined all game long, repeatedly flexing his muscles and clenching his jaw as he made his way down the floor. He sat just a few seconds out of the entire 40 minutes. “We tried not to make more of [this game] just because we lost to them before,” Plumlee said. “We just looked at it as our next ACC game…we have a good thing going right now and we want to keep that momentum going.” But Curry and Plumlee weren’t the only Blue Devils to put up big numbers. Sophomore floor general Quinn Cook contributed 21 points for Duke in his 35 minutes on the floor. Standout freshman Rasheed Sulaimon added 11 points for the Blue Devils, but set the game’s tone with six quick points. Redshirt freshman Alex Murphy along with freshman Amile Jefferson also played some big minutes for Duke and provided the Blue Devils with new blood and a spark on both ends of the floor. Murphy ended with just four points, but two of them were on an

electric two-handed slam. “Quinn [Cook] had a great game… Everyone on our team contributed. Amile [Jefferson] and Murph [Alex Murphy] gave us some great minutes at the four,” Krzyzewski said. Duke will look to keep up the momentum created by its last two significant victories against ACC opponents when they travel to Boston College. The Blue Devils hope to start the rest of its games this season as well as they have the past two games. But they need maintain the same focus in the second half as they have demonstrated early in games—Duke shot 0-for-7 from 3-point range in the final 20 minutes, allowing the Wolfpack to claw back in the game. The inconsistency may be exacerbated by the absence of senior forward Ryan Kelly, who is out indefinitely with an injury, were in the lineup. “We can’t start any better than we have in the past two games,” Krzyzewski said. “We would love to have Ryan [Kelly] back, but we have learned to play with this group. I am not saying we are a great team, but we are a good team now with this group. Again, we got off to an unbelievable start.” Despite the Wolfpack climbing their way back into the game in the second half, Duke was able to hold them off even as N.C. State (16-7, 5-5) got within eight points. But Duke was not going to let the Wolfpack celebrate momentous victory over them for a second time this season. As tense as the final moments seemed, the Blue Devils never trailed during the entire game. “That was ACC basketball tonight,” Krzyzewski said. “I thought both teams played their hearts out. I don’t know if we can play any harder or better in the first half… It would be nice if both of us were healthy in March, because we both have really good basketball teams.”

M. TENNIS from page 5 do some things that can cause trouble for most players. I think Henrique is the favorite in pretty much every match he’s going to go into this year, so we’ll do the best we can against him.” The Wolverines’ top seeded singles player will also present a challenge for Cunha. Evan King, an unranked senior, defeated the nation’s No. 2 singles player Matija Pecotic, winning by a resounding score of 6-0, 6-1 last weekend to improve to 8-0 in dual matches on the season. “He’s always been one of the most talented guys out there,” Smith said. “The last four years he’s been one of the most talented guys. When he’s locked in and focused, he’s as good as anyone, but Cunha’s played well against him. Cunha plays well against just about everybody.” Cunha defeated the Michigan player twice in 2012. In one of last year’s matchups, King jumped out to a 5-1 lead in the first set but eventually lost. “Cuhna’s proven that he’s been the more dominant player when those two have met so far,” Michigan head coach Bruce Berque said. “I’m sure that Evan’s going to go nationals… based on how he’s played so far, but he’s going to have to play at the top of his game to have a chance.” Beyond King, the Wolverines boast a deeper roster than last season, said Berque, and feature the No. 48-ranked singles player Vlad Stefan. They also may benefit from the early-season match setting. “They’re a good indoor team,” Smith said. “They play a lot of indoors up there.” Smith still has confidence in his team to keep a perfect record on its home court. “Two solid teams, but I like our chances, and like I said, it’s tough to beat us at our place,” Smith said.

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M. LACROSSE from page 5 On the defensive end, Duke returns senior goaltender Dan Wigrizer, Conners and juniors Chris Hipps and Henry Lobb. An important addition to the defensive rotation is redshirt senior Dan DiMaria, who transferred to Duke after playing three full seasons at Harvard. The faceoff responsibility will fall on junior Brendan Fowler and senior Greg DeLuca after the graduation of CJ Costabile, last year’s faceoff specialist and recipient of the Lt. j.g. Donald MacLaughlin Jr. Award as the nation’s top midfielder. The Blue Devils will face a Pioneer squad that returns five of its seven leading scorers from last season, including the starting midfield line of junior Jeremy Noble and seniors Chase Carraro and Cameron Flint. The trio has started together for the past two seasons, establishing itself as a force to be reckoned with. The three midfielders combined for 55 goals last year. “We’ve played together for so long that we know what to expect from each other and are aware of each other’s tendencies and habits,” Noble said. Denver lost its leading scorer, Mark Matthews, to graduation after he scored 47 goals last season. Denver head coach Bill Tierney hopes that highly-touted freshmen Gordie Koerber and Tom Moore will fill the void left by Matthews and fellow graduate Alex Demopoulos, who scored 20 goals last season. Koerber and Moore were ranked No. 31 and No. 42, respectively, in Inside Lacrosse Power’s top 100 Freshmen. “He’s got a great shot left-handed,” said Duke sophomore Kyle Turri of Moore, a high school teammate. “In high school, teams had to force him to the right because if he had to step on people lefty he was

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probably putting the ball in the cage.” On the defensive end, Tierney has yet to decide who will start in goal. Junior Jamie Faus anchored the defensive unit during the 2010-11 season, when Denver reached the NCAA semifinals before falling to Virginia. After the goaltender was sidelined due to injury early last season, sophomore Ryan LaPlante took over, recording a .535 save percentage. He put up a career-high 16 saves against the Blue Devils. “We have two really viable goalies,” Tierney said. Exactly 24 hours after playing the Pioneers, Duke will take on Jacksonville, which fell to the Blue Devils 16-7 last season. “We don’t think in terms of revenge,” Dolphin head coach Guy Van Arsdale said. “We have the utmost respect for Duke lacrosse and coach Danowski, and the level that they’ve achieved is something that the rest of us aspire to. We’re honored to be on the field with them and compete with those guys.” Jacksonville’s seniors constitute the first group of four-year players that the young Dolphin program has had. Seniors Cameron Mann and TJ Kenary were among Jacksonville’s top three scorers last season with 19 and 17 goals, respectively. The duo combined for three of the Dolphins’ seven goals against the Blue Devils in last year’s matchup. “Cameron Mann is a very talented player and a leader,” Van Arsdale said. “He’s a guy that we count on in lots of different ways, for more than just scoring points. “TJ Kenary has done a great job of being a goalscoring threat.” Jacksonville’s focus, much like that of Denver and Duke, is finding out more about itself as a team this weekend. “We’re trying to come together as a team and develop some identity,” Van Arsdale said.

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M. BASKETBALL from page 1 Lewis, starting his first career game in place of the injured Lorenzo Brown, was the team’s only scorer for the first 6:53 before C.J. Leslie hit a free throw. “I’ve been playing with [Lewis] since I was nine years old,” said Quinn Cook, who was not surprised by Lewis’ hot start. “He’s a great player.” When the Wolfpack awoke from their early game stupor, Duke was already out to a sizeable lead thanks to a 3-point shooting clinic put on by the starting guards Curry, Cook, and Rasheed Sulaimon, who combined to hit 10 shots from deep in the first half. “Seth was hot,” Plumlee said. “Rasheed hit some really unbelievable shots to start the game, and he really got us going.” But the second half was a different story as the Blue Devils did not hit a 3-pointer in the final 20 minutes, giving the Wolfpack room for a comeback. Richard Howell, who did not score until the 6:50 mark in the first half, caught fire to finish with 23 points and nine rebounds. “Howell, I think of all the players in our league he is the unsung great player in our league,” Krzyzewski said. “Howell can play for anybody. He is such an easy guy to play and he puts up such amazingly efficient numbers, big time numbers.” As Duke’s 3-point shooting waned, the one constant for Duke over the two halves was the stellar play of Plumlee. When the 3-pointers stopped raining for the Duke backcourt, Plumlee asserted himself under the basket against the powerful Howell, getting the Wolfpack big man in foul woes and limiting his effectiveness down the stretch. “I always want the ball, and sometimes coach will just get an ‘iso’ for me, and … whether they mean to or not they’re trying

not to foul and you can really be even more aggressive,” Plumlee said. Howell and Leslie both fouled out by the game’s end as Plumlee finished with 30 points on 9-for-11 shooting from the field and 12-for-16 from the free throw line. The performance marked Plumlee’s second 30-point performance in three games. “I think [Plumlee] is playing as well as anybody in the country,” Krzyzewski said. “His moves inside are really beautiful because he is playing through contact. Instead of taking a hook, he is feeling the defense.” N.C. State was able to cut Duke’s lead down to nine with four and a half minutes to play, and was able to continue to chip away even after losing Howell to fouls with 3:41 remaining. Leslie picked up right where Howell left off, drawing fouls on Duke and coming up with big stops on the defensive end. Just as if it were scripted, Mason Plumlee came to the rescue to help seal Duke’s win. Leading by just nine, Plumlee rejected Leslie’s shot at the rim with just over a minute left, leading to Leslie’s fifth and final foul. “There was a similar play at their place,” Plumlee said. “I think we were down three or something, and he had that same move and converted it…so I was happy to get a stop.” Scott Wood—who suffered a groin pull in the first half but played through the pain in the second—tried to keep the Wolfpack in the game after both Leslie and Howell fouled out, but it was too great an obstacle for N.C. State to overcome. The Wolfpack narrowed the lead to eight, but never got closer. “What a performance by both teams,” Krzyzewski said. “We beat a really good basketball team tonight, and I am proud of my guys.”

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n a visit to Robben Island, a tour group of ture. In spite of predictions two decades ago, the ecologists peered down on the mat in Nel- world today associates genocide with Rwanda and son Mandela’s prior cell. The apartheid Sudan, not South Africa. Truth commissions are prison forced an examination of found across the world. Argentina South Africa’s troubled social history and Chile are among other nations in the middle of a semester dedithat created their own to move cated to exploring South Africa’s beyond a troubled past. Can testimarvelous natural history. I asked a monies of own prehistory hold the friend from Johannesburg if she had same restorative power? ever visited the site before. RespondThe TRC also created an aming that she hadn’t, she elaborated nesty committee that would hear the hesitantly, “It so often feels that SA testimony of those in the apartheid is stuck in what happened. … We’re regime. South Africa finally could obsessed with our history.” Around duke partnership look its torturers in the eye and ask, the country, in lectures and plays, we “Why?” This created the most gripfor service heard the same thing: We cannot let ping moments of the entire commisthink globally, the past paralyze us! sion, such as when security officer act locally How can a people look back at Jeffrey Benzien demonstrated how past atrocities without paralysis? This he water-boarded activists and later is the global struggle—to move past the sufferings broke into tears. When we look at injustice, we canand prejudices of a previous generation or our own not only proclaim, “Never, never and never again.” past. It’s a societal query, and though it does not We must also ask, “Why?” How are people able to demand a biological analogy, I will offer one that commit atrocities? We wonder about virtue and hufeels appropriate. man nature. Studies such as the Stanford prison exI have encountered peers and professors who periment and Milgram’s experiments on obedience are deeply uncomfortable with studying humans and authority reveal how flexible our morals can be. biologically, as animals. This happens to be the In the past 50 years, we have begun to construct a essence of my field of study: evolutionary anthro- revolutionary self-image as a xenophobic and patripology. Sure, the past 10,000 years have been in- archal, yet empathetic and altruistic, organism that teresting, but what do the past 3.5 billion have to is inseparable, but not ruled by its heritage. say about the problems we face today? So, these disOnly when we see perpetrators as human are we comforted individuals often reel when I reference able to come to grips with a fuller image of humanphysical underpinnings of social injustices. ity. Truth can become a tool to combat modern inAnthropologists look back on history to our equality and a safeguard against future tragedies. own horror. We conclude that human prejudice is The goal is not to change who we are (reminiscent ancestral, though some (mostly cultural) anthro- of eugenics), but rather to reconcile our biological pologists respond that this is absolutely not the predispositions with our visions of how we want the case. They might point to the egalitarian nature of world to be. This can only happen if we are frank early human society. They may argue that modern about our evolutionary past. institutions produce inequities anew. Female opI’m reminded of Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhousepression must have begun when patriarchy invaded Five,” which helps us understand that it is human some early human society. The biologist stops here. nature to look back, and that just when we do, we Such a root community never existed. A power in- get stuck. Vonnegut draws on a biblical flight from equity and a sexual division of labor are part of our Gomorrah to explain that reflection threatens to evolutionary lineage. What’s worse, the demonic turn us into pillars of salt. I don’t think we are fated male’s legacy of aggression is still in our DNA for to this paralysis. The TRC offered a way forward by our children to inherit, and their children after— casting light into the corners of apartheid; learning just as the atrocities of a country’s past are too often more about our history frees us. Contrary to popuinseparable from modern identity. lar belief, people are smart. We are all intrigued by In the wake of apartheid, the new government the origins of war and gender, slavery and altruism. formed the Truth and Reconciliation Commis- Like Vonnegut said, that’s human nature. sion. The TRC set out to uncover the “nature, causes and extent of gross violations of human Ben Finkel, Trinity ’13, is the co-president of Ubuntu. rights” committed during the worst of the apart- This column is the fifth installment in a semester-long seheid. A symbolic entity, it offered the opportunity ries of weekly columns written by dPS members addressing for dialogue between victims and perpetrators. Yet the importance of social action, as told through personal arguably, it paved the way for a more peaceful fu- narratives. You can follow dPS on Twitter @dukePS.

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Why I’ll try (and fail) to change the world

t was LDOC, and I was sitting in my last ry, not a single person or state was convicted class of the year, crying. of genocide—despite atrocities in Somalia, The sounds of partying on the quad Iraq, Rwanda, Cambodia, Yugoslavia and so filtered in with cheery sunmany more. light through the windows. Lemkin devoted his enThe room felt festive. Yet tire existence to making there I was, tearing up. genocide prosecutable unIt wasn’t for the reasons der international law. He you might expect. I wasn’t did it as the horrors of the dealing poorly with senHolocaust were coming to timental endings due to light, and the international excessive alcohol consumpcommunity was as amenable ellie schaack tion. I hadn’t just broken up as it ever would be to the resbrave new world with a senior boyfriend who olution. It was the ideal set was heading out into the real of circumstances for social world. I hadn’t received a grade in organic change. And still, he essentially failed. chemistry that killed long-cherished mediMy professor stood before us and spoke cal school aspirations. softly in a voice that nevertheless carried No, I was living another stereotype: the over the sound of people shouting on the college idealist who comes to realize that quad outside. her lofty hopes of changing the world are He said that he knew many of us were a child’s fantasy. My international human fueled by a desire to change something rights professor was prompting this realiza- about our world—problems with the envition as he stood at the front of the much- ronment or public education or oppression smaller-than-normal class, delivering his of the weak. He told us that these problems final lecture. were nearly insurmountable, and we were It had been a frustrating semester. In the going to fail, even if we gave up everything class, we were exposed to a horrifying ac- in the attempt, like Lemkin did. But he also count of modern history filled with disturb- told us—and this was the beautiful irony ingly frequent atrocities. Then we learned that brought me to tears—that things only about incredibly committed people who de- ever change when people try nonetheless. voted their lives to bettering the world. We The political scientist Anthony Downs saw them spend decades fighting to make describes a “paradox of voting.” He argues these atrocities illegal under international that voting is irrational because the costs law and find a way to legalize intervention of voting almost inevitably exceed the bento stop them. And we saw them fail. efits, so small are the chances that your vote We learned about people like former matters. Even five minutes isn’t worth your Duke Law professor Raphael Lemkin, a Pol- time—it’s more likely you’ll get hit by lightish Jew who escaped to the United States in ning this year, for instance, than that your 1941 to witness the Holocaust from across vote will decide the next president. Simian ocean. He lost 49 relatives, including his larly, trying to change the world may seem mother and father. irrational, so small are the chances of any He dedicated his life to making geno- meaningful success. cide illegal under international law. EventuBut Downs misses something crucial. I ally, he got the U.N. to pass a resolution for think people vote not to decide elections a Genocide Convention. It took him years but because they want to live in a society of unceasing work. Renowned historian Sa- where people vote, where crucial decisions mantha Power tells of the aftermath of the are made by the people who are affected Convention’s adoption, writing, “Journal- by them. Analogously, we try to change the ists finally tracked [Lemkin] down, alone in world because we want to live in a world the darkened assembly hall, weeping. … He where people care, where everyone tries had been victorious at last, and the relief to make the world a better place. We can’t and grief overwhelmed him. He described will that world into existence. All we can the pact as an ‘epitaph on his mother’s do is be one small part, one water molegrave’ and as a recognition that ‘she and cule in the slow-moving wave that brings many millions did not die in vain.’” this world closer and closer to the place we It’s a story we all want to believe in: A imagine it could be. man goes on a quest to change the world, Humanitarian law is weak and ineffectuand he succeeds. al. But, thanks to millions of people quietly Yet we learned in class that this perceived dedicating themselves to the work, it exvictory turned out not to be such a victory af- ists today, and it didn’t 70 years ago. It gets ter all. Faced with overwhelming opposition, stronger every day. Lemkin could only negotiate language with little legal force, and that made the crime alEllie Schaack is a Trinity sophomore. Her colmost impossible to convict. For half a centu- umn runs every other Friday.

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Item four: Learn the meaning of Crazie

othing’s more amusing than and took a good look around. watching a stranger’s face as you That year was a hard one for me. As a explain to him or her that you freshman, there are moments when you currently live in a tent. Many of these question whether you will ever find your strangers are from far off lands and of- place in college and days when you miss ten stay in herds as they explore an un- home so much that you wonder what known territory with the help of a “tour could possibly be worth leaving it. I quesguide.” These people are probably re- tioned my choice often, and there were lieved that the safety of the herd pro- times when I thought I’d simply transfer tects them from an unpredictable and to a college closer to home. often hostile species, the Crazies. But in the moments after we won the If you are like one of championship, I forgot those strangers, then the about my worries and mynext item on my graduaself. All I thought about tion bucket list is for you: was my school, my pride learn what it means to be and my part in a bigger a Crazie. movement. When considering the And then we burned characteristics of a Crazie, some benches, and I knew knowledge of a century this was home. sony rao of basketball trivia and We all have our reasons getting buckets intense survival instincts for taking the Crazie path. since 1991 may spring to mind, but For some it is part of our these only touch the surupbringing: We learn adface of the authentic Crazie. The true dition, then subtraction, then who made Crazie holds a skill that very few pos- the amazing last-second shot in the 1992 sess, a skill that, I believe, is essential NCAA East regional final against Kento learn before leaving the safe walls of tucky. For others, it begins as one of the the Gothic Wonderland—the ability to first social experiences at Duke. At the forget oneself and feel complete unity core of these different reasons, however, with others. is a feeling of primordial unity with othMy philosophy professor calls this ers that no individual accomplishment phenomenon a “Dionysian” experience, can give you. There is a sort of selflessa feeling of unity with nature that the ness in the pride that comes from seeGreeks discovered to be the essence of ing a championship win that cannot art and tragedy. Centuries later, the Ger- be compared to the pride of having a man philosopher Nietzsche would revive research paper published or winning a this early knowledge and cite the Dio- prestigious award. nysian experience as the key to reviving Becoming a Crazie transformed how German culture. I see Duke; it also transformed the sort Many associate Dionysian revelry of fulfillment that I will strive to bring to with an intense state of intoxication. others when I leave. A year ago, when stuBut for those who do not enjoy intense dent turnout in Cameron was abysmally headaches and dehydration, I suggest low, I wrote a column about our first loss that you attend a Duke basketball game in Cameron after three years of undefeatinstead. Not because the team needs ed home games. This year, when record any more fans or because you feel you numbers of black tents popped up in Kwould be shunned if you left Duke with- ville, I am writing about a much stronger out attending at least one (which un- and more experienced team. doubtedly, you will), but because it is There are highs and lows of being one of the best ways to feel united with a Duke fan. They may even reflect the others on campus. highs and lows of your personal struggles Like you, I was skeptical of the Crazie and triumphs. But if you remember that phenomenon when I first came to Duke. you are not alone in these struggles and As a Miami native I thought tenting was that the best sense of fulfillment comes a crime against humanity and suspected when you share it with others, then I that the painted fans were undergoing promise that you too can leave here resome sort of smurf-phase. I didn’t un- membering Duke not as “my school” but derstand until the last 3.6 seconds of the as “our house.” 2010 NCAA championship game, as I And in our house, if you’re not Crastood in Cameron with hundreds of oth- zie, you’re just plain crazy. ers and watched Gordon Hayward’s halfcourt shot bounce lightly off the backSony Rao is a Trinity senior. Her column board and barely miss the rim. As the normally runs every other Wednesday. You crowd in Cameron erupted, I stopped can follow Sony on Twitter @sony_rao.

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