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Jones elected president, Doytchinov wins EVP by Carleigh Stiehm THE CHRONICLE
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Junior Stefani Jones will serve as Duke Student Government president next year.
Junior Stefani Jones will be the president of Duke Student Government for the 2013-2014 academic year. Jones, current vice president for equity and outreach, defeated her opponent junior Patrick Oathout, current executive vice president. In the Thursday election, Jones won by a vote of 1,497 to 725. Jones received 66.5 percent of the vote. Oathout received 32.2 percent, and write-in candidates received the remaining 29 votes, junior Sam Marks, DSG attorney general, wrote in an email Thursday. “I am so, so excited, and I couldn’t feel more excited to be able to represent the student body next year,” Jones said. “I couldn’t ask for a better opponent or some-
one that I respected more than Patrick.” Sophomore Nikolai Doytchinov, current vice president for academic affairs, was elected executive vice president. Doytchinov, who was the only candidate on the ballot after sophomore Tre’ Scott removed himself for the race Tuesday, received 90.56 percent of the vote. “I am really excited and really honored. It is really humbling to be officially elected now,” Doytchinov said. “I am very excited to be working with Stefani, who is such a great advocate for students, next year.” A total of 2,251 ballots were cast this year, compared to 2,542 votes last year. The turnout was approximately 33 percent of all undergraduates Oathout was docked 30 votes from his total following a ruling by the DSG Ju-
diciary. The group found that Oathout violated election policies by hanging a campaign banner in the East Union building on a balcony facing the Marketplace without permission from University Center Activities and Events or proper installation by UCAE, chief justice Daniel Strunk, a junior, wrote in an email Wednesday. Oathout and Strunk are columnists for The Chronicle. Marks added that the election process went “very smoothly” this year, and there were no complaints filed on election night. “I want to commend all of the candidates because I think they did a tremendous job campaigning, and the campaign SEE DSG ON PAGE 4
Duke takes on the small-ball Tar Heels by Brady Buck THE CHRONICLE
Bigger isn’t necessarily better—just ask the Tar Heels. Before its first meeting against No. 3 Duke (26-4, 13-4 in the ACC) Feb. 13— when the Blue Devils eked out a 73-68 win—North Carolina looked like a team that would be lucky to get an at-large bid to the Big Dance due to its constantly changing rotations and resulting lack of chemistry. But now with a small-ball lineup, the Tar Heels (22-8, 12-5) have considerable momentum heading into their 9 p.m. showdown with Duke Saturday at the Dean E. Smith Center. North Carolina (22-8, 12-5) first used
that small lineup against Duke, and since that setback, the Tar Heels have won six consecutive games. Playing their best basketball of the year, North Carolina is now a shoo-in for the NCAA Tournament and can make some serious noise in the postseason. “That’s what we’ve talked about with this group. In the preseason I said I thought my team would get better and better as the season went along and I really think they have,” Tar Heel head coach Roy Williams said in his postgame press conference after defeating Maryland Wednesday night. “The small lineup gives too much credit to coaching. The kids have really bought into SEE M.BASKETBALL ON PAGE 8
ARTS AND SCIENCES COUNCIL
Council approves new global health major by Ryan Zhang THE CHRONICLE
Starting soon, students will be able to take on a global health major. The Arts and Sciences Council approved a proposal for the new major at their meeting Thursday. Global health will be a co-major, meaning students will only be able to take it on as second major. The co-major will consist of 10 courses,
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an experiential learning requirement and a senior seminar that will bring students together in multidisciplinary teams. The program, which has been part of council discussions since Spring 2012, will be reviewed after five years. “We’ve always been good at interdisciplinary research… we have not done as good a job at driving such interdisciplinarity into the curriculum,” Dean of Arts and
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North Carolina forward James Michael McAdoo is the lone big man in the Tar Heels’ starting lineup. Since losing to Duke, North Carolina has gone 6-0 with its crew of four starting guards. Sciences Laurie Patton said. “The global health major is one step toward that goal. As a co-major it does so by protecting the other disciplines even as it engages them.” Much of the council’s discussion prior to the vote centered on potential difficulties that could arise for students as they attempt to combine the global health major with a second major. Gary Bennett, director of undergraduate studies for the Duke Global Health Institute, said it will be possible to study global health alongside the humanities. Biology, public policy, cultural anthropology and international comparative studies, among others, will likely constitute the majority of second majors, Bennett said. “Our expectation and hope is that it
will be paired with a wide range of majors across the campus,” Bennett said. “Our intention is not for the global health comajor to pair exclusively with a natural science major.” Chantal Reid, assistant professor of biology, shared concerns about the pre-health students who already have a number of additional requirements but also want to take on global health as a co-major. But many students already take on double majors, Bennett said, adding that the global health was designed specifically as second major. Bennett also noted that students will be strongly advised to enroll in language courses beyond the Trinity College of SEE MAJOR ON PAGE 3
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Uni offers undergrads internships near DKU by Tony Shan THE CHRONICLE
Duke is offering undergraduates a summer internship Kunshan, China, in close proximity to the future campus of Duke Kunshan University. The five-week internship, which will run from June 7 to July 12, is organized by the Office of Global Strategy and Programs in conjunction with City of Kunshan leaders to provide students with the chance to gain work experience while exploring China. The program will also seek to help Duke establish a good relationship with the municipality of Kunshan and obtain valuable feedback in
light of the future opening of Duke’s new China campus, said Lee Baker, dean of academic affairs for Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and associate vice provost for undergraduate education. “Just like Duke wants a good relationship in Durham—get[ting] our students out in Durham and doing service... we want our students to be integrated into Kunshan, as well,” Baker said. Selected students will first engage in one week of language and culture training, followed by four weeks of an internship at a company, with opportunities for cultural excursions. Although the details of the exact internships of-
fered are still being worked out with Duke’s partners in Kunshan, Baker expects that there will be a fair variety including government, manufacturing and advertising. “The internship came to record very quickly,” said Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education. “We wanted to get the word out while students are still applying for internships— even if we don’t yet know the details.” Nowicki said the program will adopt parallel approach, building a selection of internship options while evaluating student applicants. That way, once applicants are chosen, they can be placed
into the internship that is most suited to their interests. He noted that in order to ensure that the final group consists of a diverse set of students, the program will not target students of any particular major, nationality or gender. Even though the program specifies that there is a language component to the program, it is more of a guideline than a requirement, he added. Having participants who do not speak Chinese will actually help answer the question of how these students handle an immersive program. The hope is that the experiences of these students will give Duke valuable insight into how to think about the future student experience at DKU. Students are expected to arrive at the campus Fall 2014. “As we continue to develop a plan for DKU, it would be good to have undergraduates have some
experience over [in Kunshan],” Nowicki said. “The stories of students who have been there, lived there and worked there will be useful to tell us how DKU will work.” The current focus of the DKU initiative is to develop the campus, said Nora Bynum, vice provost for DKU and China initiatives. Given that DKU residences are still under construction, students who are accepted for this internship will likely be placed in apartments in the city, although the details of these living arrangements are not yet clear. Nowicki, however, believes that the distance between these apartments and the campus will not take away from the lessons that Duke can learn for DKU. “I’m sure that those students will be taken to DKU and will be involved in a lot of stuff there,” he said. SEE DKU ON PAGE 3
Uni to put eco-friendly bulbs in streetlights by Andrew Luo THE CHRONICLE
In an ongoing effort to become climate-neutral by 2024, Duke will replace streetlights with energy-efficient lightbulbs. After conducting a complete survey of light fixtures on campus, Duke Facilities Management will replace 1,460 lamps with LED lightbulbs. The project, which is part of Duke’s commitment to the 2009 Climate Action Plan, is expected to save the University $188,000 in energy and operational costs annually. The University seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 21 percent by 2015, according to the action plan, published by the Campus Sustainability Committee. So far, all the replacement LED lightbulbs have been ordered, and on-site work to replace the existing light fixtures will
start in May, said Steve Palumbo, energy manager for Facilities Management. “With the new LED street lamps, we will not need to change them nearly as often,” Palumbo said. “It’s a big step forward in the [Climate Action Plan].” The replacement bulbs are projected to remove 631 metric tons of carbon from Duke’s carbon emissions, he noted, equal to the amount of electricity used by 94 average U.S. homes annually. The new LEDs—which will be installed by Facilities’ high voltage technicians, who are responsible for the installation, operation, maintenance and distribution of electric power on campus—are expected to last about 40,000 hours. The existing lamps only last about 10,000 hours, he added. The upgrade in light bulbs will also come with aesthetic changes. Palumbo
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The University is replacing street lights with energy efficient lightbulbs in its effort to become carbon neutral by 2024. noted that there are currently several different styles of lamp posts on campus, and the upcoming change will try to make them more uniform by adding brown caps and a glass prism cover. Replacing streetlights is just one of
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many initiatives led by Facilities Management, Palumbo added. The University is looking to equip classrooms with motion detectors that turn off the lights SEE LIGHTS ON PAGE 4
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SpringBreakSoundOff Spring semester is a busy time for some students with time-consuming events such as tenting, selective living group recruitment and job and internship applications on top of schoolwork. Spring break arrives about two months into the semester, marking the six-week countdown to LDOC. The Chronicle’s Raisa Chowdhury asked Duke students for their thoughts on the eve of Spring break. “I’m looking forward to sleeping.” —junior Sonam Aidasani “Pretty ready for spring break. It’s been like a hard three months. I’m getting burned out because I’m overloading and I’ll just be here chilling, doing some shadowing and going to a dance conference. So I’m just excited for that.“ —junior Rebecca Pham “I hope it’s sunny!” —senior Ellie Bullard “I’m ready for a break and St. Patrick’s Day with my sister in Charlotte. My plans are a little up in the air. We were going to go to Savannah, but hotels are expensive.” —freshman Aline Swiec “I am very ready for it. It’s been a busy past three weeks for me.” —freshman David Clancy “I have a lot of feelings.” —junior Katie Guidera
“It’s bittersweet because it’s my last spring break as a college undergraduate, but I’m excited to enjoy my break and relax and come back prepared to go out with a bang.” —senior Nazanin Amini “I’m really looking forward to a week of Netflix and home-cooked meals.” —freshman Chioma Iwelumo “I’m tired. I’ve got a lot of work. I’m visiting my twin brother, so it’s just always nice to see him.” —junior David Mayer “It’s Thursday. I’m pretty tapped out.” —sophomore Emily Cohen “Destin. I’m going to Destin. Hanging out with friends, blowing off some steam.” —senior Willy Hughes “I’m really happy—this is the first meal I’ve been able to enjoy for a really long time because I’ve been so stressed out with work and school. Coming back from abroad is really hard, so spring break is a needed break.” —junior Julie Arnold “We’re on the golf team, so we got a tournament in Myrtle Beach, so we go there and head to our house in South Carolina. We’ve got a good chance to win, so we’ll see what happens, but it will be fun. It won’t be stressful.” —junior Austin Cody
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MAJOR from page 1 Arts and Sciences requirements to better prepare them for potential fieldwork projects abroad. He added that for many students, languages might be a natural choice for their other major. “There are lots of potential opportunities for overlapping, particularly in the focus study portion of the major, so I expect to see many language co-majors,” Bennett said. A director of academic engagement will be hired specifically to work with and advise students considering the global health co-major. In other business In an update on the Duke Forward capital campaign, Patton announced that Trinity has reached nearly $200 million of its $435 million goal. Also in her “Dean’s Corner” presentation, Patton noted that a task force on advising will review different aspects of the advising process and consider other options, including whether the University will adopt a four-year advising model. The group recently met for the first time.
DKU from page 2 “Even if they don’t live on the actual campus, [Duke] can still learn a lot from them.” This year’s internship will not be the first time that Duke students will have traveled to Kunshan. In addition to the Duke men’s basketball team’s exhibition game last year and a Duke dance troupe that toured China with a stop in Kunshan, there is also an official DKU student advi-
Duke will partner with the University of Virginia to develop a program providing courses on lesser-taught languages, such as Creole, Tibetan, Turkish, Swahili and Uzbek, Patton said. Ruth Day, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience, delivered the results of a faculty survey about various models of interdisciplinary studies at Duke. According to the results, faculty are spread across two groups. Some are group interdisciplinarians, single-subject experts who work with other experts to solve problems of mutual interest, and others are individual interdisciplinarians, experts in multiple fields of study who combine them in their work. In the survey, Trinity faculty were asked to report on their personal experiences with interdisciplinary research and teaching, as well as their ideas for expansion or improvement. One survey response noted that interdisciplinary studies are crucial in “avoiding tunnel vision, [the] narrowness of talking to a tiny audience of specialists.” Faculty reported studying a variety of interdisciplinary topics, such as religious experiences in East Asia, biogeochemistry, neuroethics and gender in the biblical world. sory council that has sent members to visit the campus. Nowicki noted that the internship, however, will provide the closest comparison to what future DKU students will experience and the feedback will ensure the quality of DKU. “DKU is a new program, so everything is being done for the first time,” Bynum said. “But we have the same standards for it and the internship that we have for any Duke program.” Lauren Carroll contributed reporting.
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LIGHTS from page 2 automatically if there is no one in the rooms. Additionally, Facilities Management is starting a water consumption project to replace toilets, faucets and urinals in several buildings on campus, including the Bryan Center and French Family Science Center. The changes are expected to reduce water consumption by 9 million gallons per year. “One of the main motivations for changing the light bulbs is because energy efficiency is one of the points in the neutrality goal,” said Casey Roe, sustainability out-
reach coordinator for the Duke Sustainability Program. But the sustainability strategic plan is broader than mere energy conservation, Roe noted. The University also focuses on waste and recycling, as well as water management. Duke has been on track in meeting its sustainability goals so far. According to the 2012 Sustainability Strategic Plan Progress Report, Duke reached a 16 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the 2007 baseline. With both the Duke Cancer Center and Chilled Water Plant #2 receiving Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold certification this year, Duke now has a total of 26 LEED-certified buildings on campus.
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Sophomore Nikolai Doytchinov will serve as Duke Student Government executive vice president next year.
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was extremely professional,” Marks said. Jones said she is looking forward to a relaxing spring break before she begins implementing her platform for next year. First on her agenda as president is meeting with student leaders on campus to discuss to potential changes on campus next year. She added that she wants to immediately begin working on additional dining options for students in the Fall to compensate for dining lost due to West Union renovations. Oathout said he is honored to have run against Jones. He added that it was clear by the work that she put into her campaign that Jones wanted the position as much as he did. “She really ran one of the best campaigns that I have ever seen at Duke,” Oathout said. “I look forward to serving under her next year because I do plan to stay involved with DSG in some capacity.” Senior Alex Swain, president said Jones will be a great voice for the student body. “I am really excited for new president and executive vice president,” Swain said. “They both really have a real vision of advocacy and what advocacy means for the student body.”
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Duke looks to continue its ACC dominance by Zac Elder THE CHRONICLE
Even with the recent loss of star guard Chelsea Gray, Duke enters this weekend’s ACC tournament as the No. 1 seed and a heavy favorite to win. And after going one-and-done in last year’s ACC tournament, losing to N.C. State in the quarterfinals, Duke will have its No. 8 chance for revenge NCSU against the eighthvs. seeded Wolfpack in No. 1 the quarterfinals. Duke “It’s three games,” Duke head coach Friday , 2 p.m. Joanne P. McCallie Greensboro Coliseum said. “You can earn ACC Tournament three games, and that’s a special thing to do at this time of the year. Literally it’s either play games or practice. So you want to earn three games.” Without Gray, the Blue Devils (27-2, 17-1 in the ACC) clinched their fourth straight regular season title two weeks ago by taking down a tough Maryland squad, ranked No. 8 in the nation at the time. They followed that up with a win against a ranked Florida State squad, but later dropped their first ACC game to Miami before finishing the season with a victory against North Carolina. Only the Hurricanes found the right strategy to knocking off the ACC’s top team, taking down Duke last Thursday in
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With Chelsea Gray injured, freshman Alexis Jones has stepped up to handle the Duke offense. Coral Gables 69-65. If not for the slipup against the Hurricanes, the Blue Devils would have finished with the first 18-0 season in conference history. Despite dominating in the conference
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with relative ease, Duke may not slice through the competition in Greensboro quite so easily. The Blue Devils have a first-round bye before their first game against N.C. State,
which defeated Clemson 56-45 in the first round. Duke beat the Wolfpack 67-57 this year in Raleigh. The Blue Devils will face the winner of No. 4 Florida State (21-8, 11-7) and either No. 5 Miami or No. 12 Virginia Tech in its second game. Assuming the Hokies do not upset both the Hurricanes and the Seminoles, Duke will be faced with a tough opponent in the second round. Miami obviously knows how to beat the Blue Devils, especially when they do not have Gray bringing the ball down the court. And Florida State played physically enough to hang in with Duke for almost all of 40 minutes of their game Feb. 22. If Duke makes it through the semifinals, it will most likely face either No. 2 Maryland (23-6, 14-4) or No. 3 North Carolina (26-5, 14-4). After beating the Tar Heels by 21 in Chapel Hill in early February, the Blue Devils only topped North Carolina by seven in their last game of the regular season. The Terrapins are the best rebounding team in the nation, and will look to use their physicality to overpower Duke in a potential championship matchup. McCallie seems optimistic heading into the weekend especially after the hardfought victory against the Tar Heels. “I think what it does is give us great experience because it was a physical game,” SEE W. BASKETBALL ON PAGE 8
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I’m in the UNC band, Blue Devils seek first but I root for Duke win against ranked foe by Aaron Hanner THE CHRONICLE
Aaron Hanner, a freshman at North Carolina and the son of a Duke graduate, wrote this letter to The Chronicle about why he remains a Duke basketball fan despite attending UNC. With a mother who was a team manager, I was born into Duke basketball. She witnessed the rise of the Krzyzewski era. She felt the joy of victory with the illustrious team of ‘86, featuring Johnny Dawkins and Jay Bilas spearheading a sweep of the ACC Tournament. She felt the agony of defeat with a heartbreaking, last-minute three-point loss to Louisville in the NCAA Tournament. She raised her kids well. Even in the (embarrassingly long) time of my life when I couldn’t care less about sports, I still knew Duke was king. We lived and breathed basketball from the first day of the season to the last. There was no hope of sleeping through the hell raised in our living room during games, and God help anyone who walked in our house during the month of March. Verbal altercations with the deluge of indoctrinated Tar Hole fans at school were frequent and ruthless. Jesus came first in our family, but Coach K was a close second. Despite all this, when college deci-
sion time came, I happened to end up at that school eight miles down the road. I know, it’s terrible, but Duke doesn’t have my major and academics come before athletics. When it does come to athletics, though, all bets are off. I was born a Blue Devil and I’ll be a Blue Devil to the last, “Tar Heel dead” be damned. Seeing those powder-blue argyle-wearing ninnies take the court makes my blood boil. If I see one more person write the word “d00k” and delude themselves into thinking it’s actually funny or clever, I’ll explode. I have never felt a more vindictive joy in my life than standing in a crowd of Carolina fans watching the beating Duke gave their team back in February. My friends here have learned to accept me in spite of it all, but I still get a steady stream of grief for it. Oh well, I’ve learned to let it slide. Tar Hole fans always have been and always will be a dime a dozen next to the True Blues. I just wanted y’all to know that you still have a Daniel in the midst of the lion’s den, a proud Blue Devil living smack in the middle of Tar Heel country. Saturday evening’s gonna be rough. The team is getting better. They’re mad as hell. So SEE DUKE FAN ON PAGE 7
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After losing all four games that they have played against ranked opponents this season, the Blue Devils fell out of the top 20 for the first time since 2006. And it won’t get any easier during Spring Break when Duke hosts No. 4 Loyola, the reigning national champions, Friday evening at Koskinen Stadium before heading to Chapel Hill to take on No. 9 North Carolina next Wednesday. “It’s an athletic cliché, but we really take games one at a time,” Duke head coach John Danowski said. “[The Loyola game] is a great opportunity for our program to measure up and see how we’re going to fare against the defending national champs.” Following Duke’s 16-10 loss to Maryland in the NCAA semifinal last year, Loyola (4-1) routed the Terrapins 9-3 behind Eric Lusby’s four goals, winning the first national title in school history. The Greyhounds lost Lusby, who ranked sixth in the country in goals per game with 2.84, to graduation last year. They return their other five doubledigit scorers, however, with the most notable being senior Mike Sawyer and junior Justin Ward. Sawyer notched 52 goals last year—just two fewer than Lusby—while
Ward, who led the team in assists with 31, only found the back of the net 12 times. Inside Lacrosse writer Christian Swezey selected Ward as a “sleeper pick” early in the season, a prediction that has proven accurate thus far. Ward is the Greyhounds’ leading scorer with 14 goals this season, and Sawyer follows closely behind with 12 tallies on the year. “[Ward] can work behind the cage to pass, set picks and create shots for himself,” Swezey said. “Last year [Loyola] had Lusby on left and Sawyer on right, so Ward fed them the ball and didn’t force shots. This year he’s stepping in for Lusby.” In addition to containing the Greyhounds’ high-powered offense, Duke (24) will have to break through their sturdy defensive unit. Senior defensive midfielder Josh Hawkins and junior defender Joe Fletcher were two of just 15 players in the country to be named Inside Lacrosse First Team Preseason All-Americans, and junior goaltender Jack Runkel garnered ECAC Defensive Player of the Week honors after helping the Greyhounds win both of their games last week. Although Loyola handily defeated Duke 13-8 when the teams met last season, Loyola SEE M. LACROSSE ON PAGE 6
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DIVING
McCrory leads Duke to the Zone Championships by Sarah Elsakr THE CHRONICLE
For divers, the road to the NCAA Championship takes a few steps to travel. First, there are the regular season competitions, which include qualifying for the NCAA Zone Diving Championships. Then, the journey continues with a complicated qualification process at the Zone meet that determines if they receive a berth to the NCAA Championship. Select Duke divers will be traveling to the Zone meet in Knoxville, Tenn. Monday to take on the competition from Zone B, including divers from states such as Alabama and Florida. “The Zone meet is very important—it’s the way that you qualify for the national championship,” head diving coach Drew Johansen said. “The preparation is a yearlong process…. Now at the end of the year with all those meets under their belts and just coming off the ACC Championships they should be confident and ready to go.” The divers who qualified for the Zone meet include junior Nick McCrory, senior Jordan Long, sophomore Clay Pinckney and freshmen Deon Reid, Jaimee Gundry and Kendall McClenney. McCrory, McClenney and Reid have all qualified in three events— the 1m, 3m and platform. McCrory recently earned yet another title—ACC’s most decorated diver. McCrory swept the men’s diving titles at the ACC meet and now owns seven ACC diving crowns in his career. Regardless of which specific dives they will be competing in, all of the athletes have been preparing for these final competitions throughout the year, using dual meets and other regular season contests as practice.
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Duke’s Nick McCrory will look to advance his successful season at the NCAA Zone Diving Championships. Although some may prefer specific dives or have areas they consider their specialties, Johansen emphasized that the athletes focus on all of their dives, not just their favorites. “We really try to focus on the whole list of dives,” Johansen said. “In the end [what matters is] the total score of all six dives that they do. So you’re not going to win the meet or qualify for nationals based off one dive—you have to be consistent across all six. So that’s really our focus about the total number of points you can score rather than how many points you can score on one specific dive.” McCrory, who won a bronze medal at the
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2012 Olympic Games in London, echoed this sentiment, saying that although certain dives may appeal to him more than others, there isn’t one he he relies on. “I am working on some harder dives to put in my list right now so I’m looking forward to seeing how that goes for the rest of the season,” McCrory said. “Platform has been kind of my specialty, that’s what I competed internationally, that’s what my two NCAA titles are on, but that takes a toll on your body after a while. In platform I’ve moved one of my dives that I competed in at the Olympics from 10-meter down to
7-meter so that’s increased the degree of difficulty so that’s one new thing, and in the 3-meter I’m toying with a few new dives.” Due to the bodily stress accompanying a platform dive, McCrory will be shifting to a focus on springboard dives, highlighted by the fact that he is already debuting new dives in the 3m. Although he is more focused on the individual dives rather than the broad competition, McCrory named Stanford’s Kristian Ipsen as a strong competitor as well as a friend, noting that they will have an upcoming “showdown” at the NCAA Championship meet. Other divers, such as Long, are still unsure of their chances of securing qualifying scores, though they are heading into the meet with a compete-to-win mindset. Long has shown significant improvement this season, and will hope to continue this trend in Tennessee. “He made the final at the ACCs which was one of our benchmarks for him,” Johansen said. “If you’re in that final at the ACC Championships then you’re in the mix at the Zone meet to take that next step, so he’s been doing very well for us this year.” As Long and McCrory join their teammates at the Zone meet, they have a tough challenge ahead of them physically, though Johansen noted that he is sure that all of the divers making the trip are prepared for the task at hand. “You know we usually take from what we’ve learned from ACCs based on how they’ve performed there and we can tweak their training a little bit,” Johansen said. “[But] it’s more the mental approach than the physical approach—the bodies are ready, the divers are ready.”
M. LACROSSE from page 5 head coach Charley Toomey believes that the Blue Devils’ veteran attacking trio of juniors Jordan Wolf, Josh Dionne and Christian Walsh will pose a challenge to his experienced defense. “We’re looking forward to a great game,” Toomey said. “We have a battle on our hands Friday night.” After playing Loyola, Duke will make the short trip to Chapel Hill Wednesday to take on North Carolina (2-2), which is coming off a 10-9 loss to No. 2 Notre Dame in triple overtime. Last season, the Blue Devils defeated the Tar Heels 13-11 at Koskinen Stadium. When the teams met again in the ACC championship game, North Carolina took a 4-2 halftime lead, but Duke rallied to a 12-9 victory, claiming the conference crown. “[Wednesday’s game] is definitely circled on both teams’ calendars because of the rivalry,” North Carolina senior Marcus Holman said. “It was a tough loss in the ACC championship. [The upcoming game] is going to be exciting, and we’re going to give [Duke] everything we have.” The Tar Heels return their starting attack line of Holman and sophomores Jimmy Bitter and Joey Sankey, who have scored 11, nine and eight goals this season, respectively. Holman, an All-America selection who notched 39 goals and dished out 35 assists last year, finished the season ranked fifth in the country in points per game with 4.35. Bitter earned the starting nod in the middle of the 2011-12 season, energizing North Carolina’s offense and picking up AllAmerica honors after a standout rookie campaign. Rounding out the Tar Heels’ offensive unit, Sankey is known for his frenetic style of play, with frequent goals
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Duke goalkeeper Dan Wigrizer will face two tough opponents this week in Loyola and North Carolina. off turnovers and 50-50 ground balls in the offensive zone. “Marcus quarterbacks our offense,” North Carolina head coach Joe Breschi said. “He organizes us, gets us in the right spots and keeps everybody on the same page, and he’s got the ability to shoot, score and feed. Jimmy is a dynamic player. He does a great job of being explosive off the dodge and causes matchup issues. Joey is just everywhere. He’s Mr. Utility. [Our attack] wreaks havoc as a group.” After its tough test against the Tar Heels, Duke will play Towson (2-3) Saturday at home. The Tigers have suffered blowout losses at the hands of Loyola and No. 6 Johns Hopkins.
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Tuesday against Virginia Tech on senior night, columnist and basketball beat writer Tom Gieryn attended his last Duke home game in the student section at Cameron Indoor Stadium. This ballad reflects on his memories and experience. Walking into the rain after our last home game, It was hard to know quite how to feel. The season’s not over, the best not done, no sir, But the last one at home’s a big deal. Couldn’t help but be thankful for a memory bank full Of wins and 3-pointers galore. So as I stood there, I said a quick prayer In honor of Cameron Indoor.
DUKE FAN from page 5 are the students, and they’re gearing up big time. The Dean Dome will be loud, energized and doing their best to make this potentially the most difficult away game all season. And I want you to take it out of them. I want you to beat them, so, so badly. I may be wearing Carolina blue and playing in the band section, but the little Duke blue fire is still burning in my heart. And it would experience no better vindication than seeing a healthy Ryan Kelly (praise be unto him) and the rest of the boys beating the ever-loving Tar out of the Heels, so to speak. Duke is still king in my SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE book, and y’all have my best wishes. Go to hell Carolina, and rip ‘em up, Aaron Hanner is a North Carolina freshman who plays in the band but writes that he is a Duke fan because of his mother, who graduated from the University in 1986. tear ‘em up, give ‘em hell Duke!
I’ve oft stood in those bleachers in spite of my teachers And too many papers to write. Nearly shed a few tears looking back on four years That began with those loud freshman nights We’d head out to Club Cameron, hoped to see Zoubek slam one But still I’m not sure he can dunk it. But those offensive rebounds, and a beard world-renowned Led us on to the ‘ship—who’d have thunk it? ‘Twas 61-59, Zoubek missed from the line, With 3.6 still on the clock. Howard’s illegal screen, Hayward’s look, it was clean. To this day I can’t watch that last shot. But it banked off the glass, rimmed out and at last Blue Devils were champions once more. Benches ne’er burned so bright as that warm April night When Cameron saw Order Restored. Here’s to Nolan—he’s rollin’, dunks imported from Poland To opponents we’d say, you got Czyz’d on And man, who could stop that old pick-and-pop When Andre (all day) got his biz on?
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W. BASKETBALL from page 5 McCallie said. “It mirrored games that could occur in tournament settings—very physical, very demanding. I think having that experience as a team was very important to us.” But the Blue Devils have more improvements to make before heading into the ACC tournament and beyond. “The areas of growth need to be in rebounding, particularly offensive rebounding, and defensively we need to be very effective in stopping go-to players,” McCallie said. “Offensively we need to cut turnovers way down and be a little bit more patient in allowing things to develop on offense. We need to control the ball a little bit more, meaning work it, pass it, play inside-out and really break down
ketball player in the world—will be in the house for his official visit. And the intensity will only be higher since Austin Rivers’ game-winning 3-pointer lifted Duke past the heavily-
favored Tar Heels at the Dean Dome last season. “I was crushed,” Williams said in February about the Blue Devils’ comeback in that game.
defenses and hopefully get som some more transition opportunities as well.” Duke’s biggest challenge will be continuing to learn how to play without Gray, a first-team All-ACC guard and the team’s top passer and court leader. The Blue Devils lost 12.6 points, 5.4 assists, 5.3 rebounds and 3.6 steals when the junior guard went down with a discolated knee against Wake Forest. Duke has been inconsistent in its final four games without Gray. Freshman point guard Alexis Jones has picked up most of the ball handling responsibility left behind by Gray and has stepped up to assume the role as floor general. The Irving, Texas native recorded 15 points and nine assists against the Terrapins at College Park and then earned the ACC Freshman of the Week award—for the second time this season—scoring a career-high 22
against North Carolina Sunday. Jones’ play will be essential to the Blue Devils’ success this weekend. Also key will be junior guards Chloe Wells and Richa Jackson. Both have seen increased minutes since Gray’s injury, and both have shown their ability as scoring threats. Wells knocked down four 3-pointers and totaled 15 points in the Feb. 23 win against Florida State, and Jackson has averaged 7.3 points with Gray on the sidelines. The inside duo of junior Haley Peters and sophomore Elizabeth Williams combine for 27.4 points and 14.4 rebounds a game. Both interior players will have to come up big against teams like Florida State and Maryland that constantly crash the offensive glass and convert second-chance attempts. Williams—another Blue Devil on the All-ACC first team—also serves as a de-
fensive stopper in the paint, averaging 2.9 blocks per game, and is in the running for the Naismith Women’s College Player of the Year award. Although the Blue Devils will be without one of their best players, they are in a good position to win all three of their potential games and head into the NCAA tournament riding the momentum of a regular season title and a tournament title within the ACC. “It’s really about us bringing the energy, making that transition from the regular season which is very much a marathon,” McCallie said. “I think the regular season is by far the hardest to win, but I think the tournament’s a blast. I think it’s fun to win and we’ve had that experience, but its much more like a sprint, and so the idea for us is to play our game and work really hard to earn each game.”
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MASON PLUMLEE 17.0 PPG, 10.2 RPG RYAN KELLY 15.0 PPG, 53.1% 3-pointers RASHEED SULAIMON 11.7 PPG, 0.8 SPG SETH CURRY 17.0 PPG, 43.9% 3-pointers QUINN COOK 12.6 PPG, 5.3 APG
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(Projected lineups, statistics from 2012-13 season) The Duke frontcourt is much DUKE UNC stronger than the first time 77.9 PPG: 78.7 these two teams met with 68.6 PPG DEF: 65.2 FG%: Ryan Kelly back in action. That 47.6 44.6 3PT%: could present problems for 41.9 37.6 FT%: North Carolina’s small lineup. 72.5 65.8 RPG: 39.9 34.1 APG: 14.9 17.6 Since losing to Duke the first 3.5 BPG: 3.9 time Roy Williams went with SPG: 8.4 6.6 his small-ball lineup, the Tar 10.7 12.7 TO/G: Heels have won six in a row The breakdown and look dangerous with the This is a different North Carolina team than the speed they put out on the meeting, plus the Tar Heels have homecourt floor. advantage. The Blue Devils, however, are differCoach K still uses a small roent in their own right with Kelly adding a new tation but Duke’s bench has element on both ends of the floor. This should more assets with Kelly back be a close one, but the Blue Devils hold the edge in the fold, allowing him to with their size and shooting ability. choose from Alex Murphy, Amile Jefferson and Josh Hairston up front.
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the sense of urgency, the unselfishness, the gang rebounding and the total play on the offensive and defensive end of the floor.” After losing four first-round NBA draft picks from last year’s team, Williams deserves credit and perhaps even consideration for ACC Coach of the Year. Disregarding the orthodox starting lineup of two big men on the floor before the first edition of the Tobacco Road Showdown, Williams put his five best players on the court, regardless of position. And the strategy has worked wonders for him. Starting a lineup of four guards— Marcus Paige, Dexter Strickland, Reggie Bullock and P.J. Hairston—alongside big man James Michael McAdoo has salvaged North Carolina’s season. The move has allowed the team to surge to the No. 3 spot in league standings. Victims of the Tar Heels’ new lineup and renewed swagger include Virginia, N.C. State and Maryland, which have all lost to North Carolina by double digits. “I don’t know how to make my team peak and neither does anyone else,” Williams said following the Maryland game. “None of us is that much smarter than the other guy. If I knew how to make my team peak then so would they. Every-
body would be peaking and how the crap would you know who’s peaking. We work as hard as we can every single day. I tell my team all the time, if you bust your tail every day you’re going to get better as we go along.” Maturation has been a ke key process in North Carolina’s turnaroun turnaround. Paige—a slight but talented freshman floor general—has come into his own, for the most part, these past several weeks after a rocky first three-quarters of the season. The Iowan rookie is averagin averaging 5.8 assists per game in the last five contests. Netting 22 points in the team’s most recent win at Maryland Wednesday night, Hairston—a 66-foot-5 physical sharpshooter—is likely the most crucial ingred ingredient to the team’s recent success success. As a starter this year, the sophomore is averagin averaging 17.7 points per game. Defensively, Hairston h has been able to play big bigger than he actually is while often guarding opp opposing team’s power forwards. Defe Defending N.C. State’s 6-foot-9 C.J. Lesl Leslie in the two team’s matchup weeks aago, Hairston held him to just six poin points as the Tar Heels defeated the Wolfp Wolfpack 76-65. A 6-foot-9 hybrid forward, for McAdoo and Bullock Bullock—a versatile swingman—have continued to play we well as of late as both lead th the team with slightly more th than 14 points per outing. The atmosphe atmosphere of Saturday’s showdown w will be amplified immensely as Andrew W Wiggins—the consensus best high schoo school basketball player and perhaps the best amateur bas-
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Leftover endorsements Robert Lefkowitz for strated little acuity for teachDuke’s Most Awesome Person ing open-field tackling. Both The editorial board would candidates were similarly quallike to endorse Dr. Robert ified—Lefkowitz was recently Lefkowitz for most awesome honored with a Nobel Prize, person of 2012-2013 over head and Cutcliffe coached Peyton Manning. In football coach the end, we reDavid Cutcliffe. editorial lied on our traThis decision was not an easy one. While both ditional method for deciding candidates evinced a high lev- between two indistinguishable el of expertise, both lacked the candidates—a coin toss. Miles Plumlee for Best Perbroad institutional knowledge necessary to fully fulfill the du- formance on NBC’s “Parks ties of this role. Bewilderingly, and Recreation” In yet another close race, Cutcliffe seemed completely baffled when we grilled him the editorial board has deabout “the elucidation of the cided to endorse former basmolecular properties and ketball star Miles Plumlee over regulatory mechanisms con- comedic actress Retta, Trinity trolling the function of G pro- ’92, for Best Performance on tein-coupled receptors.” Simi- NBC’s hit show “Parks and larly, Lefkowitz showed only a Recreation.” While Retta in rudimentary understanding the role of Donna Meagle has of the play-action, and demon- been a consistent and hilari-
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n numerous occasions, members of my you buy and display in your various permanent extended circle of friends have ques- and vacation homes will be a marker of your tioned the value of studywealth and sophistication. You ing art. They say that studying art molly superfine must know art to compete with is easy, is inapplicable to real life your friends and rivals alike. The guest column and leads to a “soft” profession. I’d artists you fund become an extenlike to take this chance to defend sion of your cultural credibility. art and its history. I posit that art history is intel- The curators, art consultants and gallery owners lectually stimulating, aesthetically engaging and that you know will help you become an arbiter challenging. Art itself is vital to the ways in which of what’s hot on the market (read: make more we understand the past, empathize with the hu- bank) if you respect what they do and have some man condition and construct the future. knowledge about the field. When you study art history, you do not simply To those aspiring scientists and engineers, art look at a painting from the 16th century and de- will be how you understand the past and envision scribe the colors you see and the people in the the future of your field. It is how to communicate piece. First you synthesize political, social, eco- your ideas to others, how to become a part of sonomic, scientific, architectural, legal, geograph- ciety and how to make your field accessible. Art ic, medical and cultural histories to understand provides great insight into the evolution of medithe piece within the context of its time. Then, cine and chemistry. Architecture is a reflection you take the narrative of the artist and integrate of the values of societies and is studied alongside that into your understanding of the piece. Finally paintings and sculptures, as they are all part of you consider the piece and how it influences and the aesthetic and social landscape of cultures. connects with artists and artworks of its time and To all future politicians and policy makers, art of times to come. You rigorously dissect, translate can convey a message and drive a point home. and synthesize your initial reaction, the artist’s Artists can create the way in which the masses intention, the history that you know and the fu- relate to a public figure: Think of Shepard ture that might follow. In studying art and art his- Fairey and his creation of the ever-popular red, tory, you develop an aesthetic eye and a language white and blue Obama “Hope” poster. I suggest that empowers you to understand more of what getting on board and understanding aesthetic you see. You learn to look critically. You become discourse and how it can be helpful to your projan informed global citizen. ect. The Medicis did it—why not you? In my time studying art history at Duke, I To those who want to go into journalism, have studied medicine and the use of cadavers advertising or marketing, art can be the greatduring the Italian Renaissance, and theories of est tool of communication. When you present immigration, cultural development and urban information, make a website or create a spread planning; I have studied the chemistry of art in a newspaper or magazine, you use design materials and why some are more effective than concepts. Having an “eye” will help your career. others; I have studied dictators, peasants, sol- When reporting, knowledge of art will help you diers and teachers; I have studied international draw connections to other facets of life that you trade and economic development, the stock may not have known otherwise. market, the history of food and literature and To all those who will be educating the next philosophies of the mirrored self and totemic generations, art is a tool to encourage students societies; I have studied languages and the con- to be imaginative and creative, analytic and destruction of the Latino/a identity and what it scriptive. Through art—studying it or making means to be from Latin America; I have studied it—students learn not only how to think deeply, feudalism, socialism, sexism, feminism, racism, but also how to express themselves. Students communism, capitalism and federalism; I have who create art and are comfortable with discusstudied the history of the press and media, the sion are more self-aware, inquisitive, curious Bible, the Quran and the Torah. I’m sure many and reflective about themselves and the world other courses of study at Duke incorporate all around them. of these into their syllabi as well, and art history To those future curators, artists, art advisors, is no exception. gallery owners and museum educators, I thank To all aspiring professionals in all fields, art you for knowing this already. and art history are crucial. To those in doubt, call me when you start colTo all who wish to enter the investment- lecting. banking world, the art market will be your best frenemy as you start making bank. The art that Molly Superfine is a Trinity senior.
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lettertotheeditor DSG responds to Daily Tar Heel article We are writing on behalf of Duke Student Government to express our disappointment in UNC’s student-run newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, for allowing the publication of the March 5 article, “Durham crime crosses over into Chapel Hill.” As collaborators on a variety of student issues on both campuses, we find it important to maintain healthy dialogue and conversation between Duke and UNC students. Unfortunately, this article was not an example of productive discourse, nor was it logically sound or factually accurate. We are deeply saddened that our friends at UNC—which, as the article points out, is a mere 10 miles away—note the lack of “fences” and “check points” between the two cities, as though such measures might be necessary. We must hold the The Daily Tar Heel accountable for approving the article for publishing. Standing with over 6,000 undergraduate Duke students who chose to make Durham their home, Duke Student Government encourages the The Daily Tar Heel to formally retract the article and apologize for the incendiary content. The rela-
tionship between Durham and Chapel Hill, both cities with prominent universities, must be cherished. This relationship contributes to positive college experiences fostered by sports rivalries and collaborative academic engagements. The article is not representative of the positive interaction that occurs between Duke and UNC each and every day. We acknowledge that there is crime in Durham, but, as pointed out by a March 6 article in The Chronicle, Durham crime is at a 23-year low. It is counterproductive for UNC students to perpetuate the divide through articles such as the one printed in The Daily Tar Heel. DSG’s Durham and Regional Affairs Committee will continue forging important community relations through programs such as our Unity Dinner with both NCCU and UNC student governments and the Robertson Bus program, just to name a few. Derek Rhodes, Trinity ’15 DSG vice president of Durham and regional affairs Willa Townsend, Trinity ’15 DSG director of communications
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Double conviction: Israel in stories srael knows the importance of the high ground. that is home to 4,700 Palestinians, most of whom are deThis is obvious to me as I stand atop Masada, a moun- scendants of the people forced from their homes in the tain in the Judean desert. The plateau is 1948 expulsion. covered in ruins of an ancient Roman palKeys are a symbol in the camp. Many of ace. Looking out from the plateau, the Dead the Palestinians left their homes with the Sea forms an extraordinary backdrop for a promise that they would return in a few days. lifeless, monochromatic foreground dotted With each day, their keys got heavier, loaded with ruins of four Roman siege camps. as they were with both tragic war stories and According to the Roman-Jewish histohopes of return. The keys are treasured famrian Josephus, in 66 CE Jewish rebels overily heirlooms. The present is often grim in took the Roman palace at Masada to prothe camp. There is an omnipresent budget ellie schaack vide a base camp for Jewish resistance to crisis, with services like schools perpetually brave new world religious persecution. Factions of rebels had poorly funded. Overcrowding is rampant. coordinated efforts from Masada for years, Extended family living 20 minutes away can while the Romans invaded Jerusalem and sieged the Sec- be almost impossible to see due to Israeli security measures. ond Temple, a holy place for Jews. In 73 CE, the Romans In the midst of despair, people look to the eulogies and marched on Masada. They sent an army of an estimated 10 promises contained within the keys. thousand soldiers to fight against the 960 men, women and Nearby, on a hill that looks perfect for a settlement, Palchildren who inhabited the fortress. estinian Daoud Nassar runs his family farm. He is a rare When the Romans arrived, according to Josephus, the case in that he holds all of the paperwork from Ottoman, entire community had committed mass suicide. Legends British, Jordanian and Israeli governance, and he had the say that the Jewish commanders ordered everything to be resources to take on a years-long legal battle costing him burned except the food, as a sign to the Romans that the upwards of $100,000. Because of his unique situation, Nasdeath of the people was voluntary: They preferred death sar has been allowed to keep his land despite its identificato slavery. tion as prime settlement territory. Thousands of years later, the story of Masada is a key culWhen Nassar speaks, he has a surprising calmness, gentural symbol for Israel, because still today, the Jewish people tleness and surety. His motto is: “We refuse to be enemies.” fight for the same land. When building codes forbade construction on his land, he They create settlements atop Masada-like hills through- lived in the caves on his property, painting the walls to transout the West Bank because, tactically, it makes sense. Israel form them into works of art. When the government tried knows the importance of the high ground. to build a road through his property, he, with the help of Even as someone with no familial, religious or histori- the community, set up a road block. These days, the Nascal connection to the state of Israel, after visiting the settle- sar family plants olive trees and hosts programs for local ments for the first time, I felt I could understand Israeli schoolchildren and foreign volunteers who come from all nationalism. The settlements are clean, developed and corners of the world to encourage peace. well-designed. Israel has had half a century to build a naOnce, an Israeli settler came to hear Nassar speak. He tion from nothing, and it has done an admirable job of spoke about many Palestinians’ very limited access to clean it, even while constantly fighting due to unceasing attacks freshwater. “We have swimming pools,” the settler said to from all sides. From sands that had been declared unus- him, her face white. able, technology like drip irrigation and water recycling Walking through the streets of Bethlehem at night, I brought sustenance. From sands that had only ever known walk along a wall that divides the West Bank from Israel. It tyranny and imperialism, democracy emerged. is covered in poetry about oppression. In the distance, I see One evening, I stand on a settlement street looking out hilltops in the West Bank covered in settlements, their lights at the desert below, land made somehow more beautiful twice as luminous as those of the city surrounding me. by the fact that so many consider it holy. It feels like lookI am on the Israeli settlement hill and in the Palestinian ing out at the Dead Sea from the top of Masada—only, this valley down below. I’ve split in two. time, with success, not defeat. At the Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem, a giant Ellie Schaack is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every sculpture of a key lies atop the entrance arch to a camp other Friday.
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y name is Epworth. Epworth Inn. I know who you are. I see you walk by on Wednesdays and Saturdays as you persevere toward that lofty goal: Shooters. When you, albeit rarely, turn your gaze toward me, I am happy for but a moment. For I realize that I am nothing to you, nothing but a vessel for your post-Shooters expi praveen cremental urges. Sometimes, life of pi you give me hope. You enter my hallowed halls bearing boxes of Papa John’s, and you eat and laugh and talk and I am happy. And then you hurl in my guest bathroom. Why? Why, I ask. I can be there for you in so many more ways. I have heard of that vaunted, multi-purpose sex-chamber—Belltower Residence Hall’s kitchen. How gauche. My kitchen has abetted the glories of fornication since 1894. Even today, I look on with pride as Epworth’s classes of 2015 and 2016 keep the tradition of the kitchen going. Keep it classy, children. The very mention of “Gilbert-Addoms, second floor,” lets fall a hush amongst the crowd. Enter once the bowels of GA’s second floor and forever be lost. Be that as it may, my wide, empty halls and my basement will swallow you up much like other creaky, isolated, woods-surrounded white houses often do. Come, I welcome you to Duke’s own House of Horrors. I will not discriminate; whether rich, poor, black, white, man, woman, LGBTQ or straight, you are all welcome (cough, Aycock). Furthermore, my neighbor is cocky enough to deny admittance to persons of cockroach-y and rat-like countenance (disgraceful). Not I. I must concede that such persons are admitted to the first-floor and not a single place else, but they are admitted nonetheless. My roach population, an unparalleled predicament during the first week of August 2012, was soon curbed by my growing rat population. And then there are the 50 or so Epworthy Epworthians. Fumigation, you say? Fumigation, you say, and arriveth the entirety of the fire brigade. One need only utter one-half of the appellation ‘fume,’ and so help me, the constabulary, the fire brigade (quite the steamy lot, I must say) and the curious will assault the rotting, wooden giant that is me, Epworth. Twice past have I burned, reduced to a third of my birth’s glory. Once more shall I burn as they tear me down to build another. But I digress. Stripped of my microwave due to its nature as a perilous, fiery instrument, I can no longer feed my children. And they shun me much in the manner that you do. Let them. For I am privy to the secrets of their cult. Let them shun me, and I will reveal all that I know of my masses, faces pale from never having reveled in Durham’s sun. Nights pass, and my walls cannot silence the sounds of debauchery. Sit in my commons, savor some popcorn and lend your ears to the doings of the rooms around. As Epworth Inn, it is unbecoming of me to gripe. By virtue of my name, I must act the graceful, welcoming host. Please, come enjoy my uneven floors, walls and ceilings as you would enjoy the wonders of other amusement parks, places that exist for your entertainment. I cannot speak to my children’s opinions of your self-guided tours as you parade around the spectacle that I am. But little do you know, as you enter in awe, that you make a spectacle of yourself as you parade through my hallways. I am Epworth. You may not believe that I exist. I may not exist. You have never, ever met a single soul from Epworth. I am the house, the myth, the legend. And so, I humbly offer my services as destination for K-ville’s 2014 scavenger hunt—let’s mind-f*** those lily-livered Crazies. Pi Praveen is a Trinity freshman. Her column runs every other Friday.
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