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The Eta Prime chapter of the Kappa Sigma fraternity has been suspended by both its national organization and by Duke. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta announced the University’s suspension of the fraternity in an email to the student body Thursday. The email also addressed the recent controversy over the “Asia Prime”—later known as “International Relations”—party Kappa Sigma hosted Feb. 1. Students from the coalition that organized the protest against the party last Wednesday will meet with Moneta Monday to discuss their demands. Although Moneta’s email makes reference to the party and protests and directly refers to its effect on the Asian community at Duke, he said in an interview Sunday that the fraternity was not suspended at Duke because of the party. “[The suspension] has nothing to do with the Asian theme party,” Moneta said. “In my meeting with [Kappa Sigma leaders] we discovered other issues that are being investigated.” Moneta said he was unable to elaborate on the nature of the issues that resulted in the chapter’s suspension due to confidentiality agreements. He explained that the Office of Student Conduct is administering an ongoing investigation of Kappa Sigma’s conduct. Eta Prime president Luke Keohane, a senior, did not respond to multiple requests for comment. “The status of the Kappa Sigma fraternity will be subject to decisions made by their national organization in consultation with Duke,” the Thursday email reads. “Though the party itself was offensive and may not necessarily have violated the formal rules of the Duke Community Standard, the fraternity faces serious consequences.” The Kappa Sigma national fraternity released a statement Wednesday explaining that it is investigating Eta Prime’s “social event” from Feb. 1, which allegedly violated the fraternity’s Code of Conduct. “The Kappa Sigma fraternity finds that the actions which have been associated with the event are inappropriate and insensitive and Kappa Sigma does not condone such activity,” Kappa Sigma Executive Director Mitchell Wilson said in the release. SEE KSIG ON PAGE 2
After 73 years scattered throughout the Duke Medicine campus, medical students finally have a home. Found in the heart of the medical campus and Research Drive, the Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Center for Health Education provides a much needed home base for medical students of all years. Glass walls flood the structure with natural light, while students utilize study nooks to cram for an exam or nap before class. Before the completion of the LEED silver certified building, students learned and studied throughout the
basement of Duke Medicine’s Purple Zone, the Davison Building and occasional rented spaces for large gatherings. “It was really dark, always quiet and I felt like I was just trapped.” Terence Verla, second-year medical student and Pratt ’09, said of the previous medical school space. “Now that [the new building] exists I can look at it and say ‘We needed this’.... It feels like you’re actually alive now.” Although the center has been open for just three weeks, a dedication ceremony Friday celebrated the legacy of its namesake and the way this SEE SEMANS ON PAGE 3
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Students at the School of Medicine gather in the main atrium of the Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Center for Health Education, the school’s first centralized location in its 73 years of existence. The center has now been open for three weeks.
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Students and staff look into a new video portal to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Bryan Center installation is a collaborative project between the two universities.
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With Wednesday’s basketball game drawing nearer, many students’ attitude toward the neighboring school is more competitive than collaborative, but for those seeking partnership, a new opportunity is now available in the Bryan Center. Friday afternoon, a video portal between Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was officially unveiled, allowing students to see and converse with each other between the campuses. From the outside, each portal appears as a large oval television screen housed in a white cube. Inside the cube, the communication is enabled by a computer running Apple’s FaceTime software. The portal is the brainchild of UNC sophomore Christopher Batchelder, with Duke sophomore Zac Elder managing Duke’s half of the project. “We’re just capitalizing on the opportunity that comes with having two great universities so close together,” Batchelder said. “It’s a SEE PORTAL ON PAGE 2
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Students should not forgo discussions about sex with their partner before actually making the decision to do it, a counselor from Counseling and Psychological Services said in a talk on Friday. “Enriching Relationships: Thinking About Considering a Sexual Relationship,” was conducted by Gary Glass, assistant director for outreach and developmental programming at CAPS, and functioned as a part of the “One Sexy Week” forums hosted by the Women’s Center. The week-long programming was dedicated to instigating student discussion around sex and sexual culture on campus. In his talk, Glass said students must consider their personal values and what sex means to them beyond the obvious physical components. Often, discussions on campus surrounding sex do not address individuals’ concerns, but rather focus on the larger problems surrounding sexual culture and norms on campus, he said. “My work often deals with sex in a very negative way,” said junior Frank Lee, a gender violence prevention intern at the Women’s Center. “[The Women’s Center] wanted to portray the talks about sex in a more positive way.” Glass said it is important that students talk about sex with their partners in an open and positive manner before making sexual decisions. These conversations can largely be looked over because students may feel insecure about voicing personal concerns in a culture that does not always deem sex to be a serious matter, he added. “Invariably, the discussion around sex ends up being complaints about hook up culture and describing it as something that is inevitable and defining the campus experience,” he said. Glass’s talk took a different approach, however, focusing on how these stereotypes can influence daily conversations about students’ sexual decisions. Beliefs about what a person “should” be experiencing sexually in college can often interfere with what someone actually wants or values in a relationship, he noted. This notion of what a student “should” be doing can be a dangerous driving force in sexual
behavior. “‘Should’ is one of the most toxic words these days, especially in terms of sex,” he said. “I’m often telling people to stop ‘shoulding’ all over themselves.” Although the discussion was sparsely attended, students in attendance said they were eager to discuss how to change the way Duke students engage in conversations about sex. “[The talk] was a lot about staying true to yourself, more than conforming to any type of prescribed behavior,” said sophomore Jaclyn Dobies, a gender justice intern at the Women’s Center who helped organize “One Sexy Week.” “I’ve never thought about entitlement in regards to sex, and the connection between expecting things in certain situations—or feeling entitled because you have done certain things or haven’t done certain things.” Glass added that, for some students, sex can satisfy a variety of different needs—among those are a need for power, intimacy, fun, recovery or belonging. These complexities can be difficult to uncover in one conversation. He encouraged students to think about not only if, but why, they are considering sex in a particular context, highlighting four words that should be considered in this thought process: entitlement, or when sex is considered a “given;” conformity, having sex to abide by a social norm; integrity, adhering to one’s own personal values; and intimacy, the emotional closeness between sexual partners. He noted that entitlement and conformity in regard to sexuality often accentuate each other in social settings. Whenever there is a general assumption of sexual entitlement across campus, students who believe they are sexually entitled will have social power to create the perception that their expectations are the norm, Glass said. Unraveling concepts such as sexual entitlement, social conformity and personal integrity can deepen campus conversations surrounding sex and work towards correcting preconceived notions about what sex is on Duke’s campus. These topics will continue to be discussed in the “How to BE in LOVE” workshop series from CAPS, which begins this week and will focus on many issues accompanied by pursuing romantic relationships on campus.
PORTAL from page 1 really cool way to foster collaboration and interactivity between the two.” Duke’s portal is located on the first floor of the Bryan Center, between the box office and the Louise Jones Brown Art Gallery—UNC’s can be found in the Carolina Union. The two schools split the budget equally, Elder, a sports associate editor for The Chronicle, said. Design inspiration came from the video game Portal, in which players move through oval shaped portals to get to different locations, Batchelder said. “It’s a pretty basic premise, not any hard technological stuff, but it has a lot of exciting possibilities,” Elder said. The portal was developed as a purely social enterprise—motivated by the pair of high school friends’ frequent visits to one another—but it has the potential to be used academically as well, Bachelder said. “It would be really cool to have some academic components,” he said. “You could have classes use it to talk to each other, or professors could talk about research—anything.” The concept of the portal, however, has the potential to extend beyond the Triangle area.
KSIG from page 1 The student coalition formed in response to the party made demands of the administration at an organized protest last Wednesday. The measures included a requirement of 10 hours of community service for each member of the fraternity and the establishment of a Group Bias Task Force composed of leaders of student organizations representing groups that historically have been marginalized. A Bias Analysis Task Force already exists within the Office of Student Affairs to respond to claims of bias-related incidents, Moneta noted, but it is currently composed only of University staff. Administrators made the decision months ago to bring students into the group, although Moneta said the coalition may have been unaware of that decision when they made their demands. An application is open online for students to apply to the group, with one position for an undergraduate and one for a graduate student. No student applicants have been selected yet, Moneta said. The already-established
“It’s exciting because there’s so much we can do with it—we could potentially create an intercollegiate network of portals all across America,” said freshman Nick Camarda, who attended high school with Elder and Batchelder and helped with the development of the portal. The portal’s unveiling on Friday was relatively understated, as an inaugural conversation with President Richard Brodhead and UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp was canceled due to scheduling conflicts. Even without the allure of a launch event, though, the portal still managed to attract the attention of passing students, prompting several to wave or talk to the Carolina students onscreen. Duke students have responded positively to the unveiling of the portal. “It’s a really great thing, something I never would have thought of,” said sophomore Tre’Ellis Scott. “It just goes to show—this rivalry runs deep, but we’re all still students, all still in North Carolina, all trying to find the next big thing.” The portal is set to function during the Bryan Center’s operating hours and automatically turn off at night—meaning that it will be available during Wednesday’s game. Task Force may fulfill the requests made by the coalition if students are allowed to participate, he added. “One of the questions we will raise with the coalition is if they still want a separate [task force],” Moneta said. Senior Ting-Ting Zhou, president of Duke’s Asian Students Association and a leading member of the coalition that organized the protest, said that the meeting with Moneta and other administrators will be the first of many to come in the semester. “[Monday] will mostly be presenting our arguments to the administration and helping them to understand why we are asking for [them],” Zhou said. “[We want to gauge] how feasible and realistic they are and how we can implement them.” Zhou also said she and other members of the coalition have been meeting with Kappa Sigma members to come to conclusions on how to cooperate effectively and reach the resolutions that the coalition is searching for. “We hope that with permission from the national organization, they will take on our demands,” Zhou said. “We want to work together as much as possible.”
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SEMANS from page 1 building will serve faculty and students. The approximately $50 million project was built with the concept of flexibility in mind. Collapsible walls allow room sizes to change to accommodate different forms of gathering, and high definition screens and cameras stationed in each room enable seamless communication throughout the building. The entire design is catered toward team-based learning, as even the layout of classrooms allows groups of students to interact with professors more efficiently, medical school officials said. In the Body and Disease class taught by Victor Nadler, professor of pharmacology and cancer biology, teams of students organized in the horseshoe-shaped Learning Hall work on a case study to diagnose an unknown disease. On the morning of the dedication, it was Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, but the cases vary throughout the five-month, three hour class. A group of instructors run the course from a separate room, as assistants shuttle
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the diagnoses and possible interventions to the professors. These assistants are like Vanna Whites because they present the information much like the hostess of “Wheel of Fortune,” said Colleen Grochowski, associate dean for curricular affairs who has been highly involved in the design and transition into the new building. “But they don’t look like Vanna White,” Nadler said of the male liaisons. Previously, these Vanna Whites used to run down the hall and around the corner from the amphitheater to deliver the information. The new setup in the center, however, has a green room adjacent to the Learning Hall, allowing for more immediate communication. This level of detail indicates what was lacking in the previous spaces occupied by the medical school. After seeing how a distance from the professors and students disrupted the flow of learning, the Learning Hall was set up to expedite the process. The soundproof wooden panels and three overhead projectors are just some of the other additions intended to promote a team-based learning environment. This attention to detail emanates throughout the six-floor edifice. The student lounge, previously housed in a seventh-floor turret of the Davison Building, now spans a windowlined room with a pool table, foosball and access to a rooftop patio. Each of the student advisory deans has a designated room to host lunches, chats and midday student naps, a facet that did not exist in their previous basement quarters. “We wanted to build a building where all four years of students could congregate,” Dr. Caroline Haynes, director of student affairs and associate dean for medical education, said. “This location is central to everyone, and we are seeing students who never used to mingle meeting each other.” From carpets in wet labs to a rain-filtration system, the Center’s design takes 73 years of
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Medical students can utilize this outdoor patio to study, lounge and socialize, a place which the school did not have previously. experience to create an all-encompassing learning environment. “Imagine the effect of walking into one of these rooms with projections, write on screens, rearrangable furniture, collapsible walls, compared to chairs with tennis ball feet,” Grochowski said. “There will not be a tennis ball in this building for any reason.” When class is in session, paid actors and actresses from Durham sit in replica examination rooms on the fifth floor simulation corridor waiting for students to diagnose them. After the procedure is completed, students transcribe their process and possible interventions outside the rooms, while the actors inside record their doctor-patient interactions. One hallway over lies a suite of simulated operating rooms and intensive care units, where students perform life-and-death procedures on highly advanced dummies. The lifelike qualities of the dummies, which have a pulse and can be intubated, give students realistic practice for highly stressful situations. “You definitely feel the pressure as if you’re leading the group to try to resuscitate this sim-
ulation patient,” said Jay Willhite, a fourth-year medical student. “You know that everyone’s looking to you to try to save this patient.” The sixth floor, which commands the most expansive views of Duke Forest, Duke Chapel and the Medical Center, remains unfilled until the Medical School determines a use and source of funding for it, Grochowski said. This will leave space to develop new facilities based on evolving needs of the school in the coming years. Compared to peer institutions, Duke now has the “most modern” medical center, said Dr. Nancy Andrews, vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of the School of Medicine. If Duke were able to attract top students with the space the Medical School used to occupy, admissions can only become more competitive from the new space. “Unfortunately, we’re still doing interviews in the basement of Duke South, but next year interviews will be [in the Center], where students will be able to walk out on the roof garden and go into simulation labs, and it’ll make a huge difference,” she said.
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Several weeks of tenting leads up to the two-night personal checks, which feature food, friends and a concert. These are the last two nights of tenting before next week’s Duke-UNC game. 1. Students socialize in K-ville on the last night of p-checks, where each tenter has to be present for individual line monitor checks. 2. Electronic music group the Knocks performs under colorful lights at the personal checks concert. 3. A crowd dances and cheers at the personal checks concert, which also featured A-Trak and Tim Gunter. 4. Students choose from a selection of sausage sandwiches at the Baguettaboutit food truck.
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Liberal arts for all In a radio interview last across the state, we strongly month, North Carolina Gov. disagree with the extremity of Pat McCrory vowed to change McCrory’s comments and the the way the state funds higher role it implies for private unieducation in its public uni- versities such as Duke. versities and community colFirstly, McCrory’s comments leges. Through are problematic directing funds in assuming a editorial to fields that causal relationsupposedly offer better em- ship between certain disciplines ployment prospects, McCrory and low employability. What desired to shift away from McCrory does not take into fields that offer “no chances of account is the critical and mulgetting people jobs.” He cast tifaceted thinking obtained by the responsibility of teaching studying these disciplines and these disciplines—specifically liberal arts in general—thinksingling out gender studies ing that makes one a more proand Swahili—to private insti- ductive employee. Moreover, tutions, stating, “If you want to McCrory’s comments look take gender studies, that’s fine. suspiciously politically motiGo to a private school, and vated. If students graduating take it... I don’t want to subsi- from non-technical fields have dize that if that’s not going to higher rates of unemployment, get someone a job.” Like many why single out gender studies? public university students In fact, according to a George-
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ear Dookie, Lesbians and Dildos (a word I have never before I go to UNC, but I’ve heard from a few pluralized and hope to never pluralize again), national news outlets that y’all throw some Black People (because black people are hilarious) sick theme parties. I was wondering if you had any and the ever-popular Douchebags and Sluts. party planning tips. You may be wondering: Is there Peace, UNC Brah a line? The answer is yes. Your parDear Bra, ties should aim to portray life as it You caught us. We here at Duke is, and not rely solely on stereotype. are, indeed, notorious partiers. I There was a recent party at Duke mean, I went to college to mature not that broke this rule, shocking camjust academically, but socially as well, pus straight to its core. Yes, ladies which is totally why I’m here and not and gentlemen, I’m talking about at an Ivy. This social maturity is cul- monday monday Round Table’s “Rho Tau” party, in tivated through a rigorous four years which they openly mocked the esdear dookie of getting drunk in funny outfits. teemed greek community—the preBut throwing a theme party isn’t dominant white cultural group on all fun and games. At Duke, we believe in a balance: campus. I have two bones to pick with these prejuwork hard, play hard. While you were focusing on diced bastards: One: “greek party” is like, the most the party—crafting the perfect fratmail or invit- redundant phrase ever. And two: The party wasn’t a ing the sickest b****es—we were working hard to representation of reality. We all know that there are create the appropriate intellectual climate for our lots of different types of white people. Please don’t biggest bangers. See, you can’t make a theme party try to shove such a diverse cultural group into one if your school isn’t well informed and constantly identity. Let’s stay on the right side of history here. aware of the potential themes. Some of this incesConstructing themes based on real life groups sant awareness is natural, as we Dukies pride our- might get a little bit offensive, and that could get selves on our ability to appear socially conscious you in trouble. To that concern, I repeat Duke’s to our friends. However, you can always supple- official motto: Eruditio et Religio, which roughly ment your campus’s knowledge through a variety translates to “no press is bad press.” A party that of means, including (but not limited to): school makes the national news sounds like a pretty sick newspaper articles about women and minorities to party to me. Plus, does making the national news expose their true colors, segregating campuses and really mean ANYTHING anymore? I mean, Pilschools by both race and gender, purchasing a life- grims and Indians made the national news and time spot on the front page of Jezebel. it was basically a party theme for preschoolers. I The next important step is picking the theme. went to that party in second grade. We made cornLuckily, we live in America, where there is mucho meal and ate pumpkin pie. Not exactly a rager. inspiracion en todo la land-o (as the recente imiSo there you have it—the Dookie’s guide to grantes would say). How awful would it be to live partying. Just remember, no holds barred. Don’t in like, Asia, and try to throw a party? There are let anything hold back a potentially sick party only Asians in Asia. Everybody is the same. All par- theme, because funny things are inevitably ofties would be Asian themed, and that would be fensive, right? Given how things are going for us, terrible. Fortunately, America is a richly diverse you’re going to make the national news anyways, nation, and there are party themes literally walk- so do it for something that’s actually fun. The ing around us all the time. Just open your eyes, only remaining step is to publicize your party with and you’ll begin to notice that people fall into cat- mysterious flyers and artfully worded emails, and egories, and those categories have characteristics VOILA! Let there be sluts! attached. For example, all women are weak and Oh, and if party themes—I mean, people—get stupid, and Indian people sweat a lot, and all gay offended or insulted by your emails or themes and people are terrible at Yahtzee. This “melting pot” stop coming to your parties? Well, that doesn’t reor “tossed salad” or whatever it is we’re living in is ally matter, because you didn’t want those people just begging for you to reach in, grab a bite of a there anyway. culture and make it into a party theme. Now, we’re at a top 10 school and you’re not, The Dookie is a gay, transsexual, Blasian woman so you’re probably not as creative as we are. You raised in India and dating an impoverished, gendercan’t just steal “Asia Prime” or “Juveniles and Pe- queer Cherokee-Venezuelan, yet has never been offended dophiles” and expect no one to notice. So you by a party theme, which means they aren’t offensive. don’t have to stress your brain out, here is a short Got Q’s for the Dooks? Shoot an email to deardookie@ list of good possible themes: Nazis and Klansmen, gmail.com.
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hrough the public flogging of Kappa Sigma, Duke defend against his charges and immense legal fees is has congratulated itself for its progressivism, yet again isolated and little noticed. on precisely the issues of systemic racial injustice On our own campus, the completely opaque adminso routinely raised in the scandal’s aftermath, our cam- istrative review that reinstated housekeeping supervisor pus remains devastatingly silent. Linda Schlabach passed quietly. AllegaTo be clear: As the nationally-publitions of severe race-based discriminacized debacle of the Asian-themed “racist tion, routine humiliation and aggression rager” unfolded, I was proud to see the against housekeepers were dismissed Duke student body react with widespread last spring behind closed doors. Deoutrage. Hundreds of students gathered spite the numerous problems plaguing to protest the demeaning essentialization the internal hearings—no consultation of a group of flesh-and-blood human with some victimized staff, a risk to unbeings, and rightfully so. I energetically documented workers afraid to speak prashanth concurred with students’ concerns not because of their immigration status, kamalakanthan out just about causing offense but about refusal to disclose even which University subalternatives broader, deeper issues of structural and officials were involved in the review— institutional racism, ones that infect our the lack of student calls for justice has University just as virulently as the outside world. silenced the housekeepers’ struggle. Combating racism means addressing embedded Racism thrives in broader North Carolina as well. structures that empower certain groups to exploit oth- Last summer the Republican-led General Assembly overers through the social construction of race. Asians in the rode a gubernatorial veto to gut the landmark 2009 RaUnited States have a history of brutal racial exploitation cial Justice Act, which allowed a judge to commute the that cannot be glossed over by cute cultural kitsch. Asian sentences of three death row inmates who were able to Americans have since the beginning been haunted by the show racial bias influenced their sentencing. This same specter of violent racism, from the steep wage inequali- General Assembly recently set the state back decades ties and deadly working conditions of the Transconti- with racist redistricting, capitalizing on a noxious combinental Railroad to the lynching of Chinese immigrants nation of dark money groups and national operatives to across the American West, the unparalleled bigotry of flip North Carolina’s Congressional delegation from 7-6 the Chinese Exclusion Act to Franklin Roosevelt’s Japa- Democrat to 9-4 Republican. To do so, as Propublica renese internment camps. The hateful beating death of ports, state Republicans packed African-Americans into Vincent Chin in Michigan as late as 1982, eliciting no jail three districts, including one that “was 120-mile long, sentences, became a rallying point for the Asian-Amer- and sea monkey-shaped, connecting pockets of Africanican solidarity movement. In light of this dark history Americans from three different, distant cities.” still unfolding we cannot afford to close our eyes to antiActivists from across the state are currently building Asian bigotry in our midst. The same racist stereotypes a coalition against the NCGA’s ramrodding of racist deployed at the Kappa Sigma party undergird centuries- voter ID legislation, which has widely been criticized for old violence and marginalization. placing an undue burden on marginalized groups. A Yet Duke remains overwhelmingly blind to the hid- survey by the Brennan Center for Justice found that as eous racism plainly in sight outside of our University’s many as 11 percent of the general voting population minuscule social scene. don’t have adequate photo ID, and estimates rise to 25 In October 2012, an African-American woman percent for African-Americans. named Stephanie Nickerson was brutally beaten by The Duke community’s interest in these issues— Durham police, suffering a broken nose, blackened in stark contrast to the fury over the racist frat party— eyes and bruises—all for informing her friends of their ranges from modest to nonexistent. Such passivity and Constitutional right to resist a warrantless search. Ral- disinterest toward real, material racism surrounding us lies organized by the National Association for the Ad- each day amid professed commitment to fighting racism vancement of Colored People and allies this January, is specious and incredibly disappointing. Moreover, it is near-universally ignored by the Duke community, re- precisely the unaddressed nature of broader racism that sulted in the officer’s resignation and the dropping of feeds events like the Kappa Sigma party, which is sadly all charges against Nickerson. not without precedent at Duke. Twenty-one-year-old Carlos Riley Jr.’s struggle for jusIf only we could eradicate the world’s social injustices tice continues in similar obscurity. On Dec. 18, Riley Jr. without ever looking outside of our student body. But to was stopped by a plainclothes Durham officer in an un- consider ourselves truly committed to justice and equalmarked car. The officer showered him with expletives, ity, we must participate and engage in these daily strugthreatened to kill him and then, according to Riley’s gles, not only when it is convenient. lawyer, shot himself in the leg—a common occurrence when cops draw their weapons—alleging later that Riley Prashanth Kamalakanthan is a Trinity junior. His column Jr. attacked him despite the police department’s with- runs every other Monday. You can follow Prashanth on Twitter holding of the incident report. The grassroots effort to @pkinbrief.
lettertotheeditor Response to “DKU delayed again” and “A new level of uncertainty” The Feb. 8 article (“DKU delayed again”) and editorial (“A new level of uncertainy”) on Duke Kunshan University raised some important issues about the project. DKU is a partnership between Duke University, Wuhan University and the city of Kunshan to build a world-class university. This is an ambitious and complex project that has brought together academic, administrative and construction teams from China and the United States to create a brand new campus from the ground up, primarily funded by the city of Kunshan. Both of us have spent considerable time in Kunshan over the past few months, and we can attest to the importance city leaders give to this project, as well as to the level of attention DKU receives at Duke—from the senior levels of the administration to faculty to students and The Chronicle. What is notable is not that there
have been delays or misunderstandings over construction issues, but that the three sponsors of DKU are working together in common purpose to move this project forward. As the construction moves toward its final stages, the partners have put in place new processes and personnel to insure that the finished buildings will be widely acclaimed and an excellent home for world class academic programs. Duke faculty are also actively engaged in the academic planning for DKU with a level of innovation and enthusiasm that will help DKU fulfill its role as a model for American as well as Chinese higher education. Mary Brown Bullock, Executive vice chancellor, Duke Kunshan University Nora Bynum, Vice provost for Duke Kunshan University and China initiatives
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round 19 years old, I took what I now tell myself was a more mature look at my life and decided on some important standards that needed to be fulfilled. More specifically, I started thinking about my love life: What kind of partner am I looking for? What characteristics are important to me? Who am I compatible with and how does my family fall into place? And obviously most importantly, what would my “Notebook” ending kiss look like? As I answered these questions, I started to consider which qualities were absolutely essential in a potential partner, and jaimie woo I came up with a list. Well, ish. times like these My expectations for an ideal partner aren’t probably far from yours (nor from a Disney princess’s for that matter). He should be respectful, smart, engaging, open-minded and caring. He must appreciate Chinese culture, and just liking Panda Express doesn’t cut it. I’d like for us to be great friends, support each other and communicate well with one another. These are all important qualities, but there’s one more. I’m a very liberal person. I consider myself an activist and feminist. I plan on making a career in social justice and political advocacy. So it probably doesn’t surprise you that “liberal” falls into my list of crucial characteristics. I work at the Women’s Center for goodness sakes. He obviously needs to be pro-choice, profeminism and pro-Obama. Well, I guess my highly conservative, pro-life former partner from Tennessee who studies finance (shocker!) and reads incessantly about the economy and voted for Mitt Romney and thinks America will fall into the DEPTHS OF DESPAIR during Obama’s second term didn’t quite cut it, huh? Ifyousayitinonebreathitisnotsobad. Whenever I shared this tidbit with friends or mentors, I was met with “GASP! What?!” or a side-cocked head and puzzled expression. It was usually followed by “How is that working out for ya?” or “Interesting … didn’t see that one coming.” Ha. Trust me, neither did I. We’re different. Maybe that’s weird. I certainly had my doubts. But maybe it’s okay. Maybe it’s okay to become really close to someone who thinks differently than you and who is willing to challenge you. He didn’t blindly take what I said or how I thought and agree with me; he forced me to think twice to truly recognize my individual point of view. On a similar note, I challenged him to think more open-mindedly about race and gender relations, privilege and the power of stories. I realized that being conservative didn’t mean being incompatible or disrespectful. It just meant, well, different from me. My like for him didn’t delegitimize my passion for liberal politics (far from it), nor did it mean it was my responsibility to “enlighten” him. Entering a relationship or friendship with that mindset would leave any sane human being absolutely exhausted and disappointed. At the same time, however, I didn’t hide the fact that I wished he would have supported several of my beliefs, nor did I cover up my anger or disbelief when some sexist scandal hit the news. He recognized that my responses to racism, sexism and stereotypes are a part of who I am, and I learned that his commitment to the free market is a part of who he is. Our desire to move forward allowed us to engage and talk about uncomfortable topics. We learned how to address touchy subjects together and respectfully challenge each other, which meant no smirking. We were open-minded and willing to understand each other’s points of view. (“Wait, Jaimie, can you explain what you mean by feminism?” #progress.) Before, it was so simple for me to write someone off when they didn’t share my views (screw you, Mittens), but once I invested in a strong relationship with someone, and once I started to throw my biases and assumptions out the window, writing someone off as ignorant or insensitive would really just make me ignorant, insensitive and hypocritical. But similarly, for him to write me off as “too” sensitive or as someone who blew things out of proportion would have been pointless as well. Although we are no longer together, I can’t say it was due to political differences. Luckily, he’s still one of my closest friends. Recent events on campus have really challenged the entire student body. They have demonstrated that people react differently to the same thing, and that generalizations, attacks and undermining stories affect real people. But when we begin to tear down our defensive walls, we not only learn more about our friends, partners and fellow peers, but also tap into things we didn’t know about ourselves. My past relationship has taught me that this is not just one person or one party’s responsibility, but everyone’s. Maybe rather than writing each other off, we can learn how to communicate. We can discover that we all embody unique backgrounds that delve deeper than the generalizations that characterize conservatives, liberals, fraternity men, Asian women, Duke students and more. And in that process of this discovery, no smirking please. Jaimie Woo is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Monday. You can follow her on Twitter @jwoo9913.
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CHESTNUT HILL, Mass.—Sandwiched between a pivotal win over N.C. State last Thursday and an upcoming showdown with rival North Carolina on Wednesday, the Blue Devils’ road tilt Sunday night with Boston College had “trap game” written all over it. No. 4 Duke (21-2, 8-2 in the ACC) needed every second of the DUKE 62 game Sunday night to win 62-61 and 61 overcome a sluggish BC start, narrowly avoiding the Eagles’ upset bid. Down by one point with the ball, Boston College (10-13, 2-8) had a chance to win the game in the closing seconds. To force the Eagles into a more difficult final shot, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski made a crucial defensive adjustment by putting a quicker Rasheed Sulaimon on Boston College’s hot-shooting forward Ryan Anderson on the Eagles’ final possession. The switch forced Boston College into a tough jump shot that was well off the mark. Duke seized the rebound, as well as its fifthstraight conference win. “The last exchange we just felt, ‘don’t foul them and don’t let them get a rebound,’” Krzyzewski said. “We made one defensive adjustment on the high ball screen to put a guard on Anderson and put Mason [Plumlee] on [Eddie] Odio. That helped because then you could switch, and I think it stood them up just a little bit.” Looking as if it were about to put the game away, Duke led by six with 8:56 remaining, but SHAYAN ASADI/THE CHRONICLE
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In a tilt with two top-10 foes, Duke will play host to Maryland at Cameron Indoor Stadium tonight in the first of the two teams’ remaining matchups this season. The No. 5 Blue Devils (21-1, 11-0 ACC) will look to continue their undefeated streak in the ACC by winning the battle in the paint with the Terrapins. “[Maryland] is the best rebounding No. 7 team in the counMD try,� Duke head vs. coach Joanne P. No. 5 McCallie said. “You Duke have to give them credit for going to Monday, 7 p.m. Cameron Indoor Stadium the boards hard and being aggressive. It’s a great opportunity for us to put bodies on people and play a contact game.� The No. 7 Terrapins (19-3, 10-1) have the second-highest rebounding margin in the nation, pulling down 17.1 more boards on average than their opponents. A trio of inside players anchors Maryland’s post play, which is led by junior forward Alyssa Thomas, who averages 17.1 points and 10.3 rebounds per game. Senior forward Tiana
No. 6 Duke began its season with a loss to No. 9 Denver, and followed that up Sunday by giving up a goal in the opening minute to Jacksonville. But the Blue Devils moved swiftly to rebound and defeat the Dolphins 21-9 Sunday afternoon after falling 14-12 to the Pioneers Saturday at Koskinen 14 Stadium. DEN “We saw [the JackDUKE 12 sonville game] as a bounce-back kind of 9 thing,� Duke freshPC DUKE 21 man Case Matheis said. “We knew we played well against Denver, but we knew we could play better lacrosse, and we played a better overall team game [against Jacksonville].� The Blue Devils (1-1) won the shot, groundball and face-off battles against the Pioneers and headed into the locker room with an 8-5 lead, but they were done in by Denver’s 9-0 run in the second half. After the start of the third period, the game quickly fell out of the hands of the Blue Devils, who racked up five penalties in the first seven-and-a-half minutes of the second half. Two of the Pioneers’ goals during that span were off rebounds. “Denver certainly outplayed us,� Duke head coach John Danowski said. “Statistically we did a lot of really good things, but they executed better and made big plays. They did a good job, and we did not.� The Pioneers (1-0) held the Blue Devils
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Nomination letters are due by March 4, 2013 In 2003, Duke University re-joined approximately 50 other Southern universities in presenting the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award. This award program, sponsored by the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation, recognizes one graduating senior and one member of the faculty, staff, or graduate student body of Duke University and Health System for their outstanding commitment to service. The New York Southern Society established the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards in 1925 in memory of Mr. Sullivan, a southerner who became a prominent lawyer, businessman and philanthropist in New York in the late nineteenth century. The award seeks to perpetuate the excellence of character and humanitarian service of Algernon Sydney Sullivan by recognizing and honoring such qualities in others. • Recognition of Selflessness • Generosity of Service • Nobility of Character • Person of Integrity • Depth of Spirituality Mr. Sullivan was a man who “reached out both hands in constant helpfulness to others.â€? The guidelines to the Award describe him as an accomplished lawyer, a mediator, a powerful orator, a noted philanthropist, a courageous citizen during perilous times, and a deeply spiritual and devoted family man. Duke University is giving this award to a graduating senior and a member of the faculty, staff, or graduate student body who exhibit the qualities of Mr. Sullivan. These qualities of service, character and spirituality are recognized in their practical application to daily living. Nobility of character is a criterion that is defined by the foundation as “when one goes outside the narrow circle of self-interest and begins to spend himself for the interests of mankind.â€? The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award committee desires that this prestigious opportunity for recognition be available to students and employees alike regardless of their role at the University. This ensures that all who make significant contributions to the community and who lead lives of integrity will be considered as candidates for this unique award. For more information or to nominate a candidate, contact Sam Miglarese (for faculty/ staff/graduate student nominations) at sam.miglarese@duke.edu or Domonique Redmond (for Duke senior nominations) at dredmond@duke.edu. The nomination form is available at www.provost.duke.edu/sullivan.htm For other ways to recognize student leadership and service, visit http://osaf.studentaffairs.duke.edu/leadership/awards.html
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This past weekend the majority of the Blue Devils headed to Blacksburg, Va. to compete in the Virginia Tech Elite Meet, with just three—Juliet Bottorff, James Kostelnik and Brian Atkinson—heading to Seattle, Wash. instead. In each location, the Duke athletes proved that they were up to the competition, taking wins in several events and breaking a couple of school records along the way. Bottorff headed into the 5km race hoping to run a time that would earn her qualification for the NCAA Indoor Championships, looking to take advantage of the faster track and strong competition available at the Classic. Although whether or not she succeeded in qualifying will not be completely certain until closer to the Championship meet when other results come in, Bottorff is confident she accomplished her goal. “I’m [feeling] really good in general,” Bottorff said. “It went as well as I could have hoped, getting second in a meet like this is very good in terms of [qualifying for] nationals, historically. Being second bodes well for getting into nationals and the time… has always made it into nationals.” Bottorff crossed the line in a personal best of 15:52.38, breaking the school record set by Clara Horowitz in 2006. She finished shortly after Oregon’s Jordan Hasay, an NCAA Champion. “The Husky Classic has, for the last few years, produced fantastic distance results,” director of track and field Norm Ogilvie said. “Often runners will go out there and [set a new personal record] by a bunch and it gives an opportunity… to get to the NCAA Championships. That strategy worked for two of our runners—James Kostelnik ran a lifetime best in 8:07, Juliet Bottorff not only ran a lifetime best, she set the school record, 15:52, that’s a phenomenal time. That time that Juliet ran should… hold up for a berth in the NCAA Championships.” Kostelnik’s success came in the 3km race, where he finished in sixth. Kostelnik moved well into the lead with under 500m to go, putting about 30 meters between SEE TRACK AND FIELD ON PAGE 6
Despite the absence of the No. 11 player in the country in Henrique Cunha Sunday, the No. 9 Blue Devils (9-1) finished an action-packed weekend undefeated. Duke used some momentum from Friday night’s 4-1 win over No. 14 Tennessee to spearhead the team against No. 21 Michigan and N.C. Central Sunday at the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center. Blue Devil Michael Redlicki was proud of his team for stepping up in the face of injuries keeping Cunha and Chris Mengel sidelined Sunday. “The beautiful thing about Duke tennis the year is we can have anybody out and people can get subbed in and just like today,” Redlicki said. “Everybody stepped up and we took it to them. We can’t feel sorry for ourselves… Just go out there and do you, do what you can, and that’s exactly what we did.” Redlicki had a solid performance Sunday after suffering an unsettling 1-6, 6-1, 6-3 loss Friday to the Volunteers’ Brandon Fickey at the No. 3 spot in the lineup. On Sunday, the freshman, alongside sophomore Jason Tahir, beat the No. 30 ranked doubles tandem in the nation—Wolverines Evan King and Shaun Bernstein—playing at the No. 1 spot. After Duke clinched the doubles point with a second victory from Fred Saba and Mengel, Redlicki went on to win his singles matchup playing at the No. 2 spot. Redlicki, who was being heckled by Michigan players looking on from the stands during his doubles match, said the chatter only fired him up more. The freshman is already an emotional player who constantly pumps his fist and yells “Come on!” and he was even more animated with Michigan players trying to distract him from the job at hand. “Once I hear them heckling me in my house, that just makes me want to shut them down, and that’s exactly what we did,” Redlicki said. “I just always was an emotional player. I have really high highs…Playing with the crowd helps…. If people are really gunning for me, that just kicks me into a new gear and makes [me] want to perform.” Blue Devil head coach Ramsey Smith praised the young gun’s passion and ability to lift his team members’ energy levels. “He loves the attention,” Smith said. “He loves the crowd, he loves the team concept… I’m just really impressed with him…. He’s such a great competitor, and that’s his element right there in that position. He loves the attention and makes it really entertaining to watch.”
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Freshman Michael Redlicki said Duke’s depth allowed the team to deal with injuries to Henrique Cunha and Chris Mengel. Duke’s Raphael Hemmeler seemed ready to perform and take care of business swiftly against the Wolverines. After taking the first set, the sophomore was up 5-1 in the second set but was unable to close it out as quickly as he wanted to, ultimately finishing the set out 6-3. Hemmeler said he was anxious to finish off his opponent quickly so that he could then cheer on his teammates. “I was pretty confident, and I wanted to get off the court quickly and help the other guys a little bit, so I was not patient,” Hemmeler said. “I think the matchup was pretty good for me…. I knew how to play against him. I was just confident because we played a really good match against Tennessee Friday night.” Duke finished off the Wolverines 4-2 and then the Eagles later in the day Sunday, 7-0. Although they only had a few hours to recover after playing Michigan to turn around and play N.C. Central, Smith was confident his SEE M. TENNIS ON PAGE 6
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Duke men and women go 4-1 at Home Meet by Michael Schreiner THE CHRONICLE
Feeding off of a healthy home crowd and facing some of fencing’s best, Duke pulled off two major upsets as both the men’s and women’s teams won four out of their five bouts. The Duke Home Meet, held in Card Gymnasium and the season’s only meet in Durham, pitted the men’s and women’s squads against deep fields that each included Penn State and Notre Dame, both perennial fencing powerhouses. Aside from dropping just one bout, the women also captured the epee and sabre trophies, awarded to the day’s best team in each weapon. Saturday, the No. 10 men’s team defeated No. 2 Notre Dame 15-12 and added victories against North Carolina 18-9, Johns Hopkins 16-11 and Wayne State 18-9 to finish the day 4-1. The men’s only loss came at the hands of No. 1 Penn State, 21-6. The Nittany Lions went undefeated on the day and swept the weapon trophies. Senior captain Anthony Lin, who won seven of his nine matches, said the strong turnout in Card Gymnasium had a noticeable effect during the Blue Devils’ victory against the Fighting Irish. “To be out there representing your school and have the entire gym get fired up every time you get a point, it really invigorates our team,” Lin said. “I think we owe a lot of our Notre Dame upset to the fact that we had such a large crowd backing us up with every touch.” The women’s team replicated the success of the men Sunday, dropping just one of their five bouts. The women notched a 16-11 upset against No. 5 Penn State and only fell 16-11 to top-ranked Notre Dame, which came away with the foil trophy. The Blue Devils also slipped by Northwestern 14-13, and easily handled both North Carolina and Wayne State 18-9. “It speaks to the development of our program,” senior captain Emily D’Agostino said. “Beating teams that we haven’t before is just one of those things that really proves to us that all our hard work is paying off.” D’Agostino led the Blue Devils’ strong showing with a 14-1 record Sunday. D’Agostino called the competition the strongest pool of teams that the Duke Home Meet has fielded in her four years at Duke. “I think going into it there were a lot of nerves, but we tried to stay calm and feed off of the fact that we were at home,” D’Agostino said. “It worked out really well, and I’m really proud of us.” In addition to Duke’s strong showing in the win column, the Blue Devils pointed to the success of the Duke Home Meet itself as a reason for pride. “There’s nothing like it,” Lin said. “The Duke Home Meet is by far the best organized and best attended meet at any collegiate level.”
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Anthony Lin, top right, and Emily D’Agostino, bottom right, led the Duke men and women to 4-1 performances at the Duke Home Meet.
fromstaffreports Women’s lacrosse begins the year undefeated With an ACC win and the second shutout in program history, the Duke women’s lacrosse team began its 2013 campaign with a 2-0 start. Beginning Friday night at Koskinen Stadium, the No. 7 Blue Devils beat Virginia Tech 17-9 to pick up an ACC win led by the strong play of Kerrin Maurer. The sophomore matched a program single-game record with five assists, also adding three goals as the Blue Devils outshot the Hokies 33-17. Nine different Blue Devils recorded a point in the game, led by Maurer and Makenzie Hommel, who contributed three goals and two assists. Duke followed that up with the team’s first shutout since 1998, taking down Presbyterian 23-0, also at Koskinen Stadium. The Blue Devils had built up a 15-0 lead by halftime and finished the game outshooting the Blue Hose 41-3. Thirteen Blue Devils scored in the game, paced by sophomore Chelsea Landon’s career-high four goals and Brigid Smith and Taylor Trimble’s three goals apiece.
Wrestling team loses to Maryland Duke’s five-match winning streak was snapped Saturday at Cameron Indoor Stadium, where the Blue Devils fell 38-3 to Maryland. Duke’s lone victory came at the 157-pound weight class where Immanuel Kerr-Brown defeated Terrapin Brady Massaro 8-2. The Blue Devils almost recorded a second win when Marcus Cain built a 7-1 lead, but Cain was ultimately pinned in the third period. Duke (7-6, 0-3 in the ACC ) remains winless in the ACC, though it will have another chance to change that Tuesday at home against rival North Carolina.
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TRACK AND FIELD from page 4 himself and the rest of the pack. Before he could finish, though, he was caught. Despite that, Kostelnik’s time was still good enough to bump him up to fourth on Duke’s all-time list. Atkinson competed in the 5km race on the men’s side, finishing in 29th overall with a time of 14:24.41. In Virginia, several Blue Devils posted top performances as well. On the men’s side, sophomores Brian Schoepfer, Kyle Moran and Nate McClafferty and freshman Michal Filipczak put their best efforts together for a win in the distance medley relay, running the fastest time in the ACC this season in the event—9:54.56. Just the day before, Filipczak had joined fellow freshman Tommy Meister and sophomore Henry Farley in the 800m race, where they took fourth in 1:52.78, fifth in 1:53.09 and sixth in 1:54.01, respectively. All of the runners set personal records and Meister’s time was good enough
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to give him a chance to run for Duke in the upcoming Millrose Games. Several other Duke men excelled in their events as well, including sophomore Stephen Boals, who took fifth in the shot put with his throw of 55-7.75, a personal record as well as what is now the fifth place mark on Duke’s all-time list. Michelle Anumba took on the shot put for the women, logging a season-best 54-5.25 and taking second. Other field athletes took top spots as well, including senior Emily Mattoon and freshman Megan Clark who took third and fourth, respectively, in the pole vault with their vault of 12-7.5 and tied for the fifth spot on Duke’s all-time list. On the track, senior Ashley Brasovan took a first place spot in the 5km race with her time of 17:19.63, coming back after a long bout with injuries to cement her first collegiate win. Classmates Dana Morin and Sophia Ziemian finished shortly afterwards, taking third and fifth, respectively. In the 800m, senior Cydney Ross matched Braso-
van’s success with her first-place finish in a personal best time of 2:07.43. Ross took the lead early on and led the pack as she ran her way into the third spot on Duke’s all-time list. She was quickly followed by freshman Anima Banks, who took second in 2:09.21. Abby Farley crossed the line just after Banks, coming in sixth with her personal record time of 2:09.96. With less than two weeks until the ACC Championships, the athletes are eagerly looking ahead and encouraged by their success. “I’m looking to improve upon my time at ACCs,” Ross said. “I want to focus on running fast and hopefully contending for All-ACCs or a championship title…. I’m really excited to compete.”
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team would be ready to take the hard court when the clock struck 5 p.m. “Our guys are in good shape,” said Smith after the Michigan win. “It’s not going to be a problem. We will enjoy [our win over Michigan] for 15 minutes and go refuel and get back out there. These guys are tennis players and were made to play tennis. That’s what they do well.” Smith was right. His Blue Devils had no problem finishing the job Sunday. Duke heads to the National Team Indoors Friday in Seattle and hopes to have its entire lineup ready to build off this weekend’s momentous victories. “This was a huge weekend for us beating Tennessee and beating Michigan shorthanded,” Smith said. “It just shows the character that our team has.”
W. BASKETBALL from page 3 Hawkins leads the Terrapins in scoring with 19.6 points per game, while also hauling in an average of 9.9 boards. Junior center Alicia DeVaughn rounds out Maryland’s powerful trio, averaging 8.6 points and 6.6 rebounds per game. “Hopefully we can slow them down,” McCallie said. “They are great players. Hawkins is one of the most improved players in the league. You try to slow them down, but you can’t stop them.” If the Blue Devils want to continue their 11--0 start to conference play, they will need a big game from sophomore center Elizabeth Williams and junior forward Haley Peters. Williams and Peters have averaged a combined 14.0 rebounds per game this year, and Williams leads Duke in scoring with 14.9 points per game. Duke was outrebounded by Virginia 42-32 Friday. “For [Elizabeth] and I, especially after last game, you couldn’t ask for a better team to play against,” Peters said. “With our rebounding last game, it’s really the perfect game for us to play and see if we can get back on track and start to be more consistent.” To go along with the physical inside play of Peters and Williams, the Blue Devils will rely on their trio of perimeter threats: Chloe Wells, Tricia Liston and Chelsea Gray. All three are shooting above 40 percent from behind the arc. Liston has knocked down 46 3-pointers on the year and ranks second in the nation in 3-point percentage. Peters can also step back and knock down shots from behind the arc, shooting at a 47.1-percent clip this year. “A full 40 minutes of aggression and intensity—that’s what I would like to see, that immediate, intense, and intelligent basketball,” McCallie said. “I think we have great potential to play a whole lot better than we’re playing if we can get our aggression and intensity up, play the boards a little more and rebound and mix it up a little more. Add to that being intense and smart with the basketball, and I think we’ll be in good shape.” For Duke, the home court advantage of Cameron Indoor Stadium will also be important. All three of Maryland’s losses this year have been away from College Park, and the Blue Devils have not lost a home game against an ACC opponent since 2008. That loss, though, came at the hands of the Terrapins.
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M. BASKETBALL from page 2 that advantage quickly disappeared. The Blue Devils saw themselves on the verge of being knocked off by the worst team in the league with two minutes left, trailing 61-56. Registering one of its most resilient performances of the year, Duke held the Eagles scoreless the rest of the way. “[It was] a new game situation for us,” senior forward Mason Plumlee said. “I thought we handled it great. Those last two minutes we were so good. We weren’t [good] to start the game. We played in spurts today, but for those last two minutes, I thought we were great.” Going scoreless in the first half, Blue Devil guard Quinn Cook’s timely 3-pointer from the corner cut the deficit to two points with 1:58 to play. The sophomore scored all nine of his points in the second half. On Duke’s final possessions, Plumlee stepped to line with confidence and went 3-for-4 from the charity stripe to give the Blue Devils the advantage and the victory. “I just knew they were in,” said Plumlee, who battled through a physical Eagle defense to record a team-high 19 points and 10 rebounds. “They weren’t all in, but I just had that feeling that I knew they were going in so I just got up there and knocked them down.” Forced to delay its departure to Boston due to a blizzard Saturday, Duke arrived just a few hours before tipoff, and the change in routine appeared to negatively impact the squad, especially given the short rest. The Blue Devils came up empty on their first four possessions and committed nine of its 13 turnovers in the first half. Luckily for the Blue Devils, they went into the locker room with the game tied at 27.
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Quinn Cook scored only nine points, but all nine came in the second half as the Blue Devils eked by Boston College. Duke’s lack of intensity and inconsistent execution fueled Boston College’s confidence. The Eagles were patient and methodical throughout the night. As the game wore on, the crowd’s energy increased and Boston College made plays that nearly won them the game. Giving the Eagles hope to hang their season on a signature upset-win, Anderson—a 6-foot-8 forward with perimeter skills—scored in a variety of ways, and freshman guard Olivier Hanlan hit timely shots that allowed them to control the game for a large portion of the night. The two underclassmen combined to finish with 37 points on the night and were the only two Eagles in double figures. “We couldn’t make shots, and we were giving them easy buckets,” said Duke senior shooting guard Seth Curry, who finished with 18 points and became half of the highest-scoring brother duo in NCAA Division I history passing the Hansbrough brothers. “They just got more confidence from that. They kept playing well and we never really played as good as we needed to play the whole game, but we found a way to win.” In the second half, there were several occasions in which Duke—which trails ACC-leading Miami by two games heading down the stretch—looked poised to put the game away. Notably, Plumlee stole the ball near midcourt and finished it with a breakaway slam dunk at 12:30 to give Duke a five-point advantage. But, the Eagles stormed back each time with momentumchanging plays of their own. Hanlan’s two made free throws to put Boston College up five at 2:15 would have likely been enough to beat most of the conference’s inconsistent squads. On this night, however, Duke’s togetherness, experience and ability to persevere through adversity prevailed even when it never was able to get into a consistent groove. “I like that my team won and the way we had to win because nothing about tonight was easy,” Krzyzewski said. “These are games that anybody can lose. And throughout the country, everybody is losing them. Our guys found a way to win against a team that was also deserving to win.”
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M. LACROSSE from page 3 scoreless for the first 23:08 of the second half, claiming a 14-8 lead during that time. Duke mounted a four-goal rally in the fourth quarter, but it could not overcome Denver’s second-half rally. Pioneer sophomore Eric Adamson, who scored five goals all of last season, notched five tallies in Saturday’s upset. The attackman contributed four goals to the Pioneers’ nine-goal scoring run. Highlytouted freshman Gordie Koerber, ranked No. 31 in Inside Lacrosse Power’s Top 100 Freshmen, added three goals for Denver. The Blue Devils were led by juniors Jordan Wolf and Christian Walsh, who scored four and three goals, respectively. Denver sophomore Ryan LaPlante recorded a career-high 18 saves in the win. The goaltender made 16 saves—his previous career-high—last year in the Pioneers’ victory against Duke in the final game of the regular season. Duke’s loss to Denver marked its first seasonopening defeat since 1998. A day after falling to the Pioneers, the Blue Devils took on Jacksonville (0-1), which lost to Duke 16-7 last season. “We knew that we had to bounce back and play really hard,” Matheis said. “It was a great team effort. We had a lot of guys score the first goals of their
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careers today.” Matheis, the top-ranked recruit in the nation, was one of those guys, earning the first points of his collegiate career with a goal and two assists. Fourteen other Blue Devils found the back of the net. “I don’t think I’ve ever coached a team that had 15 different players score in one game,” Danowski said. The Duke midfield accounted for the team’s goals. Their contribution to goal-scoring depends on if the opposing team’s defense slides off the attackmen or slides late to the midfielders, Danowski said. He added that much of the scoring against Jacksonville occurred via 6-on-6, in-the-box sets. “While we did get some goals in transition, a lot of it was in the box, so we thought that our middies just were in the right spots,” he said. “Guys were unselfish, guys were making the extra pass, and people were finishing the ball today.” In addition to exhibiting a balanced scoring effort, Duke played organized team defense against the Dolphins. The Blue Devils allowed Denver to score goals from the restart—sets from behind the cage after the ball went out of bounds. In a stronger defensive effort Sunday afternoon, Duke did not let Jacksonville notch restart tallies. The Blue Devils hope to build off the momenSAM JACTEL/THE CHRONICLE tum of Sunday afternoon’s success as they prepare to face No. 3 Notre Dame next weekend. Freshman Case Matheis earned his first career points against Jacksonville with a goal and two assists.
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