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Duke loses 83-74 in ACC quarters to Maryland Hungrier Terrapins upset Duke in ACC quarterfinals

Blue Devils get a 2-seed in the NCAA Tournament

by Brady Buck

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GREENSBORO, N.C.—Two very different teams stepped on the floor Friday night—one was playing for its NCAA Tournament life and the other, uncharacteristically, lacked any sense of urgency or rhythm.

Duke’s team slogan for the year has been “fight,” but that mindset and demeanor were nowhere to be found in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals. The second-seeded Blue Devils trailed seventh-seeded Maryland the entire game and lost 83-74—the team’s second consecutive loss in the Greensboro Coliseum dating back to last year’s upset loss to Lehigh in the NCAA Tournament’s Round of 64.

The defeat is also the sqaud’s first loss this season with senior forward Ryan Kelly in the lineup.

“I didn’t think we were hungry tonight,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “They’re trying to survive, and they played like it. A lot of teams in that position sometimes get nervous or they make a lot of mistakes. Instead, Maryland rose to the occasion.”

Historically, the Blue Devils (27-5, 14-4 in the ACC) have been the ones to rise to the occasion and play their best in the ACC Tournament, having won the conference championship six of the last 10 years. Instead, Duke’s performance was very reminiscent of disheartening NCAA Tournament losses in recent years, while also marking the second time this year the Terrapins have defeated the Blue Devils.

As seen in previous postseasons, perimeter defense was again a major vulnerability in the team’s setback against the Terrapins. Maryland’s red-hot swingman Dez Wells—who was coming off a 21-point outing against Wake Forest Thursday night—hung a career-high 30 points on the Blue Devils.

The 6-foot-5 wing did it in impressive fashion—with 3-pointers, dunks, jumpers and a 10-for-10 performance at the foul line—while playing in his home state of North Carolina

against an in-state program that never recruited him.

“I thought they were terrific, and Wells built on his performance from last night,” Krzyzewski said. “He’s had a good year, and he’s a really good player.”

And to help fuel his teammates’ confidence and deflate what little Duke had, Wells slapped the floor—a Blue Devil tradition—during the game.

“I was trying to energize my guys,” said Wells, who was forced to transfer from Xavier last year after being expelled. “And at that moment I was thinking we have to get a stop. I do whatever I have to do to get my guys pumped.

No shots at Duke or anything like that, I just wanted to get

Duke went one and done in the ACC Tournament.

And in the process, it lost a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

The Blue Devils—who entered the ACC Tournament ranked No. 2 nationally—received a No. 2 seed in the 2013 NCAA Tournament’s Midwest region with their first game against 15th-seeded Albany in Philadelphia.

Louisville received the top overall seed in the Tournament and is also in the Midwest region, with Kansas, Indiana and Gonzaga also getting No. 1 seeds. The Blue Devils beat the then-No. 2 Cardinals 76-71 in the Battle 4 Atlantis championship game in November.

“We’re focusing on the first team we play,” Duke forward Ryan Kelly said in a Blue Devil Network interview.

“Every game has to be considered a championship.”

The Sweet 16 and Elite Eight for the Midwest region will take place in Indianapolis.

“We thought we had six teams for those first four spots,” said NCAA Selection Committee chair Mike Bobinski on CBS after the seedings were announced. “It was a constant source of conversation.”

Miami, which received a No. 2 seed after winning the ACC regular season and Tournament titles, was the closest to getting on the top line.

“We put Gonzaga just ahead of them based on what we had seen and evaluated,” he said.

Michigan State received the No. 3 seed in the Midwest region for a potential Sweet 16 showdown between two of the top coaches in college basketball, Mike Krzyzewski and the Spartans’ Tom Izzo.

Duke (27-5, 14-4 in the ACC) lost 83-74 in the ACC

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Maryland’s Dez Wells, right, celebrates during his team’s upset of Duke. Wells scored a game-high 30 points.

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Die by the 3 Cold outside shooting leads to Duke’s early ACC exit

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GREENSBORO, N.C.—On Duke’s first possession of the game, Ryan Kelly—the Blue Devils’ most efficient 3-point shooter—got an open look from beyond the arc and launched. Clank.

On Duke’s final possession of the game, sophomore wing Alex Murphy hoisted an attempt from distance, his first shot of the game. Air ball.

And it wasn’t much different in between for the secondseeded Blue Devils, who shot 4-of-25 on 3-point attempts in an 83-74 loss to seventh-seeded Maryland in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals.

Duke (27-5, 14-4) entered play making 41.6 percent of its 3-pointers, the fourth-best clip in the nation. The Terrapins finished 8-for-20 from 3-point range, an improvement on their season percentage of 33.1, the fourth-worst clip in the ACC. “It’s a hell of a thing,” said Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski about the teams’ 3-point shooting. “It’s a phenomenon, you witnessed an amazing thing. I just wish we were the thing that was amazing.”

Kelly entered play making 53.1 percent of his long-distance attempts and finished the game 0-for-6 from beyond the arc. The senior forward also spent much of the game’s final minutes on the bench as he was unable to effectively defend against Maryland’s small lineup that was featuring four guards at many points.

“Obviously the ball wasn’t going in, but we have to keep shooting them,” Kelly said. “That’s our offense. The biggest thing is it can’t affect our defense, and there’s no question that it did.”

Curry was the only Blue Devil to hit multiple 3-pointers—going 2-of-7—and finished with 15 points, all of which came in the second half.

The Terrapins (22-12, 8-10) never trailed in the contest,

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Seth Curry was the lone Blue Devil to hit multiple 3-pointers against Maryland, going 2-of-7 as Duke combined to shoot 4-of-25 from deep. scoring the first five points of the game, beginning with a 3-pointer from Jake Layman after Kelly’s first miss.

Duke went on to miss its first seven 3-pointers of the game until Tyler Thornton—who started for the second consecutive game—made one with 2:40 remaining in the first half. That was the team’s lone make on 10 attempts in the first period as it went into the break trailing 34-26.

Thornton finished by connecting on 1-of-5 3-point attempts, including two misses on open looks within a 23-second span with around two minutes left in the game.

Rasheed Sulaimon, who began the game on the bench in place of Thornton, missed both of his shots from deep.

The freshman guard, however, was the only Blue Devil to develop any offensive rhythm in the first half, scoring 12 points before halftime and 16 by the game’s final buzzer.

“He did a good job,” Krzyzewski said. “It’s not about one guy.”

Neither Thornton nor Sulaimon, however, could find a way to stop Maryland swingman Dez Wells, who continued his stretch of strong play with a career-high 30 points on 9-of-13 shooting, including 2-of-2 shooting from 3-point

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Duke beats UNC to take ACC Tourney title

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GREENSBORO, N.C.—The ACC tournament title game didn’t start the way Duke wanted—North Carolina led Duke 16-10 with 12:41 left in the first half. But the Blue Devils went on an 11-0 run and never trailed the rest of the way, taking home the ACC tournament title.

“We took some shots and 73 bad UNC missed those,” Tar DUKE 92 Heel head coach Sylvia Hatchell said of her team’s first-half slide. “We had a couple costly turnovers that led to quick and easy baskets for them.”

The top-seeded Blue Devils (30-2, 17-1 in the ACC) took complete control midway through the first half Sunday afternoon at the Greensboro Coliseum, leaving little chance for third-seeded North Carolina (28-6, 14-4) to claw its way back into the game. Duke knocked off the Tar Heels 9273 to capture its eighth ACC tournament title in program history and third in the last four seasons.

The focal point of the Duke’s first half dominance was the play of its post players: junior forward Haley Peters and sophomore center Elizabeth Williams.

With the score knotted at 16, Peters stepped back and connected on a 3-pointer that gave Duke the lead it would never relinquish. She then found the ball in the post on consecutive plays for two more easy hoops. Peters finished the first half with nine points on 4-for-4 shooting.

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The Blue Devils hoist the ACC Tournament trophy in Greensboro after beating North Carolina 92-73. ways attacking and leading her team, which was very, very important to us,” said Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie.

Williams—a sophomore and two-time ACC Defensive Player of the Year—made ACC history in the first half by blocking a shot in her 65th consecutive game, breaking the record once held by LaToya Pringle of North Carolina.

When not terrorizing Tar Heels in the post—she had three steals to go with two blocks—Williams was beating North Caro-

lina on the block. She ended the game with 24 points on 8-of-16 shooting—including a perfect 8-for-8 from the charity stripe. “[Williams] is long so you have to make fakes and try to get the person open in other ways because you can’t just throw it past her because she’s so long,” said Tar Heel guard Tierra Ruffin-Pratt.

Williams, Peters and Alexis Jones earned All-ACC tournament first team honors.

Jones was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player. Blue Devil guard Tricia Li-

ston also earned a spot on the second team.

The second half was the freshman Jones’ time to shine. Jones has been brilliant for Duke since Co-ACC Player of the Year Chelsea Gray went down with a dislocated kneecap last month. After a 2-for-7 performance in the first half, Jones caught fire immediately upon coming out of the locker room.

“From what I can see [Duke is] probably a better team with Alexis Jones out there than with Chelsea Gray,” Hatchell said.

“Alexis has done a great job.”

Jones hit 7-of-9 from the field in the second half while also providing stifling defense and tying the team lead in rebounding with eight, despite being the shortest player on the court most of the game. She ended the afternoon with 24 points and four steals.

“I think she’s done a great job,” Gray said of her understudy. “I’m really, really proud of her. She’s come a long way—definite improvement—so I just can’t be more happy with her right now.”

The North Carolina offense was unable to get comfortable throughout the contest. After a strong first half for senior center Waltiea Rolle in which she scored 10 points, she was held scoreless for the entirety of the second half.

Tierra Ruffin-Pratt, who leads the Tar Heels in scoring with 15.1 points per game, was kept off the scoreboard in the first half, but finished with 25 points despite playing most of the way with four fouls.

With the ACC tournament championship in tow, Duke will now rest up in preparation for the NCAA tournament in two weeks. Still in contention for a No. 1 seed, the Blue Devils will learn their tournament matchup Monday.

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After slow start, Duke upsets two top-10 foes Reigning national champ, No. 4 Loyola falls at Koskinen

Duke takes down No. 6 Tar Heels in Chapel Hill

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After starting the season 2-4 for the first time since 1992, Duke was in unfamiliar territory when it squared off with defending national champion Loyola.

But the Blue Devils did not look like the team that had dropped four out of its first 8 six games, instead a team that LOY had made six straight trips to the DUKE 9 NCAA tournament’s championship weekend.

Duke avoided its worst start since 1981 with a 9-8 upset of the then-No. 4 Greyhounds March 8 at Koskinen Stadium. The two teams combined for just nine goals through the game’s first three quarters, but the Blue Devils exploded for five tallies in the fourth quarter to get their season back on track.

“I don’t think that we ever had control of this game,” Loyola head coach Charley Toomey said. “You talk about the history of Duke and Duke is a very good team.

They’ve played quality opponents all year long and the record does not reflect how good that team is.”

With the Blue Devils clinging to a 9-7 advantage late in the game, Loyola’s Justin Ward scored his second goal of the game to cut the margin to one with 1:13 remaining. Blue Devil midfielder Brendan Fowler responded by winning the ensuing faceoff, but a poor clearance attempt gave the Greyhounds possession with a chance to tie the game.

After calling timeout with 33 seconds remaining, Loyola advanced the ball deep into Duke’s end, but tenacious defense on Ward by Blue Devil defender Bill Conners kept the Greyhounds from getting a shot off as time expired.

“Billy was just fundamentally sound. One of our

goals all week was that if you want to beat a team like Loyola you have to win your individual battles,” Duke head coach John Danowski said. “We haven’t been terrific defensively, and we’ve given up a lot of goals. It’s something we’ve worked hard on this past week.”

Duke found the back of the net early, jumping out to a 3-0 lead when junior attack Jordan Wolf darted from behind the net and beat Loyola goaltender Jack Runkel with 8:17 remaining in the first quarter.

But the game shifted to a defensive battle. Both

After pulling off a 9-8 upset of then-No. 4 Loyola— the reigning national champions—March 8, No. 17 Duke went into its game against DUKE 11 No. 6 North Carolina Wednesday in search of its second top-10 vic8 UNC tory in five days.

The Blue Devils got what they were looking for, as they toppled their Tobacco Road rivals 11-8 in Chapel Hill.

“We definitely built off of Loyola,” Duke senior Josh Offit said. “Just trying to stay patient, stay in the game plan and really work together as an offensive unit and execute the plan. And I thought we did a solid job with that tonight.”

Junior Brendan Fowler keyed the Blue Devils’ success in faceoffs and ground balls. The midfielder won 17-of-23 faceoffs against a North Carolina squad that utilized three faceoff men to no avail. With a career-high 13 ground balls, he helped Duke dominate the ground ball battle 39-24.

“Brendan Fowler was spectacular,” Duke head coach John Danowski said.

Four different Blue Devils had multi-goal performances. Junior Jordan Wolf led all scorers with three goals, while Offit, junior Josh Dionne and senior David Lawson chipped in two apiece. Senior Jake Tripucka tallied two assists for the Blue Devils.

“We have a lot of maturity on offense,” Wolf said.

“All six of us can play midfield attack, and that translates into how dynamic our offense can be.”

Duke sophomore goalkeeper Kyle Turri, who made

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“We’re getting better [defensively]…. There are some subtleties that the guys are picking up,” Danowski said. “Kyle Turri again was extremely solid in goal, and as he starts to gain experience the hope is he’ll get better and better.”

Duke and North Carolina went goal-for-goal for the first six scores of the first quarter before Blue Devil freshman Case Matheis scored with 40 seconds remaining in the period to give Duke a 4-3 lead that it would not relinquish. The Blue Devils went on a 4-1 run in the second quarter, building an 8-4 advantage going into halftime.

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15-2 and putting together a three-goal run behind a pair of goals from sophomore Joey Sankey. Duke’s scoreless quarter marked the first time this season that the Blue Devils went a full 15 minutes without a goal. “[I just told them] to take a big deep breath,” Danowski said. “We struggled clearing a couple of balls.”

Duke ended its scoring drought in the final period when Tripucka found Lawson for his second score of the game. North Carolina senior Davey Emala brought the game within one off a dish from classmate Marcus Holman, who led the Tar Heels with two goals and two assists on the night.

The Blue Devils did not let North Carolina inch any closer, however, holding the Tar Heels to one possession in the final 7:40 of regulation. Duke added two insurance goals to ice an 11-8 victory.

“It was a really good ACC game, physical and some great plays,” Danowski said. “We knew [the Tar Heels] were going to make a run because they’re a terrific team. I thought the guys handled it well.”

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LOYOLA from page 9 teams’ netminders stepped up to make crucial saves, and Duke fed off the energy of sophomore goaltender Kyle Turri, who made his first start of the season Friday.

Starting goalie Dan Wigrizer did not dress for the Blue Devils’ matchup with the Greyhounds due to what Danowski described as an upper body injury. Wigrizer had struggled in Duke’s first six games of the season and was pulled from the Blue Devils’ 16-7 loss to No. 1 Maryland last weekend after allowing five goals on seven shots in just 15:43 of action.

The Greyhounds held the Blue Devils scoreless for a span of 24:02, going on a 4-0 run to take a 4-3 lead into the locker room. Duke missed a number of scoring opportunities in the second quarter, but could have trailed Loyola by a larger margin if not for the play of Turri.

Turri finished with nine saves on the night and turned away multiple Loyola shots with the Blue Devils facing a minute-long man-down situation midway through the second period.

“Kyle has stepped in for us before and he has a lot of experience,” Danowski said. “We were delighted with his performance tonight.”

Duke broke its scoreless drought when senior attackman Josh Dionne found the back of the net for his second goal of the evening just 45 seconds into the third quarter. Loyola’s Phil Dobson fought off two defenders to give Loyola back its one-goal edge, but scores on back-to-back possessions by freshman Case Matheis and senior Josh Offit gave the Blue Devils their first advantage since the game’s opening quarter.

Fowler struggled from the faceoff X for Duke through the first three quarters, but was able to win 6-of-9 draws in the fourth quarter to provide the Blue Devils with a much-needed advantage in possession.

“You have to give their wing play some credit. Fowler is good at the X but he picks up a lot of ground balls,” Toomey said. “I thought that when the whistle blew, we had a good chance. But I think as the game went on his athleticism just took over.”

After Offit scored his second goal of the evening and Christian Walsh put one home 55 seconds later to give Duke an 8-6 advantage, Loyola’s Pat Laconi responded to keep the game within reach. But senior Jake Tripucka worked behind the goal and found Wolf cutting down the heart of the Greyhound defense for his second score of the game with 3:45 remaining.

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springbreak Duke students may have been on vacation the past week but Duke’s Spring sports were still in action.

Here’s a quick recap: Duke baseball takes series against then-No. 24 Miami The Blue Devils kicked off its ACC schedule with a series in Coral Gables, Fla. against the Hurricanes, taking the first two games of the series 4-2 and 9-2. Miami salvaged the finale 5-3.

Duke then beat N.C. Central and Quinnipiac before getting swept by Virginia Tech this weekend.

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Mason Plumlee went 8-for-12 for 19 points in Duke’s loss to Maryland but could not make up for Duke’s 4-of-25 shooting performance from beyond the arc.

Women’s tennis falls to Indiana No. 2 Duke finished its non-conference slate in Las Vegas, losing to Indiana 4-2.

Women’s lacrosse goes 3-0 No. 6 Duke improved to 8-1 on the season with wins against No. 11 Georgetown, Jacksonville and No. 13 Dartmouth.

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Although Duke trailed the entire game, it was able to bring the game within one in the second half after a Mason Plumlee free throw with 13:02 left. Plumlee, who led the Blue Devils with 19 points on 8-of-12 shooting, then appeared to tie up the game on the next possession, but the basket was whistled back after a charge was called on the senior forward.

The Terrapins opened up a 12-point lead after that call, though, Duke narrowed it to six points with 2:34 left. But on the next possession, Thornton put up the first of his two consecutive misses from beyond the arc, allowing Maryland bring the lead back to double digits and close out the game.

“We got a lot of good looks, but our offense wasn’t sharp from the start,” Curry said.

The strongest part of Duke’s play was its ball-handling, turning the ball over just six times. That and eight offensive rebounds—

one more than the Terrapins collected—allowed the Blue Devils to take 65 field goals, compared to Maryland’s 51.

And even though Duke was able to hit 23-of-40 shots from inside the arc, its 3-point struggles proved too much to overcome.

“Good shooters don’t think about their last shot,” said Duke point guard Quinn Cook, who finished 1-of-4 from distance.

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HUNGRY from page 2 my guys energized.”

It certainly worked. Maryland was terrific from downtown and at the line—shooting 8-of-20 and 23-of-25, respectively. Maryland’s three other perimeter players—Nick Faust, Jake Layman and Seth Allen—notched 10 points each against Duke’s backcourt.

Unlike the last meeting, Terrapin center Alex Len did not outplay Mason Plumlee, but the former did enough damage—10 points on 5-of-8 shooting and eight rebounds—in the post to help his team reach the ACC Tournament semifinals for the first time since 2009.

Plumlee and freshman guard Rasheed Sulaimon were two of the lone bright spots for the Blue Devils. The two played aggressively throughout the contest and finished with 19 and 16 points, respectively, to lead the team.

Duke’s defensive woes were aggravated by its icecold shooting on the offensive end. The Blue Devils finished the game shooting a paltry 4-of-25 from downtown. And the “die by the three” narrative rang true, especially when junior guard Tyler Thornton had two

good looks at treys that would have cut the deficit to three and five points, respectively, in the closing minutes of the game.

“We got a lot of good looks, but our offense wasn’t sharp from the start,” said senior shooting guard Seth Curry, who did not score in the first half but scored 15 in the second.

“We weren’t cutting hard, things like that, screening hard, things like that. So, that kind of always plays into how you’re shooting.”

In the last matchup in College Park, Maryland crushed Duke on the boards by a margin of 40-20. This time around the gap was not as wide, but it was still enough—38-to-28— to keep the Blue Devils at bay.

The good news for the Blue Devils: this loss and underwhelming effort occurred now and not in the NCAA Tournament—when it is do or die.

“One of the things during this time of the year ... is that if you lose, it’s final,” Krzyzewski said. “Our team did not feel that. And now we have to understand that that’s the way it is. I mean, if you don’t do it, it’s done. I don’t care what your record was, or whatever. It’s over. It’s one and done.”

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Maryland swingman Dez Wells torched the Duke defense, going for 30 points on 9-of-13 shooting, including 2-for-2 on 3-pointers.

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Tournament quarterfinals to Maryland, the Blue Devils’ second loss to the Terrapins this season. The loss marked Duke’s first of the season with Ryan Kelly healthy after the senior forward missed 12 games during conference play with a foot injury.

All of the Blue Devils’ losses came against ACC foes, though they thrived in non-conference play with three wins against top-five teams: then-No. 3 Kentucky, thenNo. 2 Louisville and then-No. 4 Ohio State. Duke also beat then-No. 5 Miami at home, after losing to the Hurricanes on the road.

Four ACC teams made the tournament. The Hurricanes are the No. 2 seed in the East region, where N.C. State is the No. 8 seed. North Carolina received the No. 8 seed in the South region.

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Virginia and Maryland, both of which beat Duke this year, were on the Tournament’s bubble and did not receive berths.

Duke has the top Ratings Percentage Index, according to ESPN, one of the metrics used by the NCAA Tournament selection committee. The Blue Devils also have the most difficult strength of schedule in the country.

In last year’s NCAA Tournament, the second-seeded Blue Devils lost to 15th-seeded Lehigh in the Round of 64.

“We’re excited with the position we’re in. We’ve got some time to prepare here. Every team we’re going to face from this point on is capable of beating us and we’re certainly capable of beting them—that’s how we have to approach it,” Kelly said. “A loss is the end of your season, so we just have to keep winning.”

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He had no spouse, son or daughter, but when chemistry professor Jim Bonk died Friday at 82, his family numbered some 30,000.

This is a low estimate for the number of undergraduates Bonk taught in his 53 years of service in Duke’s chemistry department. He taught the introductory chemistry classes, Chemistry 11 and 12, up until 2001, becoming so identified with the courses that students began calling them Bonkistry. He continued teaching through Fall 2012 even as he battled prostate cancer.

“He was the most student-centric faculty member I ever ran across. He was always concerned about the students,” said chemistry professor Steven Baldwin, who has worked with Bonk at Duke since 1970 and counts him among his best friends.

“He would come in on a Sunday if a student was having trouble and just talk to them, whether it was for class or a boyfriend or girlfriend thing.”

Bonk’s colleagues remember him for his mentoring, humor and dedication to his students above all else. He excelled in preparing freshmen chemistry students and as director of undergraduate studies, said Baldwin, director of graduate studies in chemistry.

Bonk’s general chemistry course included two and sometimes three sections of 300 students per semester. He succeeded by making the material accessible to both the well prepared students and those new to the subject.

“He made the material accessible to everyone,” Baldwin said. “These are freshmen—some

James Bonk taught chemistry at Duke for more than 50 years, teaching a class affectionately known as “Bonkistry.” He died Friday at 82 years old.

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Students could complete Internships increase medical school in 3 years as economy improves

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As some medical schools around the country experiment with a three year model, pre-meds must weigh the costs and benefits of the new approach.

Duke School of Medicine and the vast majority of schools around the country offer a four-year Doctor of Medicine degree, but that may change in the future as prominent medical institutions such as New York University School of Medicine implement accelerated three-year programs.

A small percentage of applicants accepted to NYU in 2013 will have the option of pursuing a three-year medical degree with a guaranteed residency at NYU Langone Medical Center following completion. Advantages to completing medical school earlier include preventing a predicted doctor shortage and alleviating student debt since students would be paying for three years of schooling instead of four. Tuition at top medical schools can cost between $40,000 and $50,000 per year.

These benefits, however, are not enough to immediately sway prospective medical students.

Kelly Murphy, a pre-med senior, was accepted to several medical schools including Duke School of Medicine. Even with the three-year option, Murphy said she would still prefer to stick to the traditional fouryear route.

“I certainly wouldn’t want my doctor to be undertrained,” she said. “While many people can likely handle the expedited program, the time to mature and develop over four years is also very important to consider.”

Murphy said she was concerned that shortening to a three-year curriculum could inhibit the quality of education that students need to be successful in their field.

An accelerated program could also be sufficiently more stressful on what for many students is already a stressful academic environment.

Andrew Yuan, a pre-med junior, said

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Internship opportunities for students, particularly undergraduate upperclassmen, have been broadening as a result of the recovering economy, career counselors say.

The Duke Career Center currently has more than 300 internships in its eRecruiting database, the majority of which are paid, said Anne Lyford, associate director for employer relations at the Career Center. Lyford and Suzanne Valdivia, assistant director of undergraduate internships at the Sanford School of Public Policy, both noted the relative improvement in the internship market compared to last year as a result of an improving economy.

“People’s perception of the economy is coming back,” Valdivia said. “There is more flexibility in the job market now. [Interns are less frequently] squished under someone else’s job title.”

Lyford said there was no specific data available about Duke students and the in-

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crease in the number of opportunities this year compared to last.

Recruiters have been asking for more applicants to their programs than they have in past years, said Elise Goldwasser, undergraduate career advisor and senior director of the internship program at Sanford. She noted that even though Sanford and other career centers at Duke are not placement centers, they connect students and employers and also educate employers on the importance of having interns.

“We are seeing more and more employers hiring summer interns,” Lyford said.

“Not only because of what interns contribute, but they can [also] assess the performance of the intern and see if they will hire them [after graduation].”

Employers focus primarily on college juniors, but sophomores have also been successful at obtaining similar work experiences, she added.

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While still in high school, Emily Briere (left) and her twin brother Nick (right) founded three companies. The two are now sophomores at Duke. They are pictured with their younger brother Chris (center).

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Sophomore twins Emily and Nick Briere were singled out from their first day on campus.

In Fall 2011, the Brieres were mentioned in the freshmen convocation as the twins from Connecticut whose parents, both Duke alumni, instilled such a love for the University in them that they both applied early decision. The twins were also recognized for founding three startup companies while they were still in high school.

The Brieres have put their high school startups on hold while they attend Duke,

as they want to explore other interests and have a traditional college experience, Nick said. But he still records voiceovers and creates videos for one of those companies, Cut-Out Kids, to help pay tuition. Through Cut-Out Kids, the Brieres create simple whiteboard animation videos to illustrate difficult concepts for businesses.

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Tensions between detainees and the military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have spiked in recent weeks, with a hunger strike at one of the camps reflecting growing despair that the Obama administration has abandoned efforts to repatriate prisoners cleared for release, according to defense lawyers and other people with access to information about detention operations.

A majority of the 166 detainees remaining at Guantanamo Bay are housed in Camp 6, a facility that until recently held men the military deemed “compliant.� But the camp, where cell doors are left open so detainees can live communally, has been at the center of a series of escalating protests since January.

The lawyers and human rights advocates said there is a mass hunger strike at Camp 6 that is threatening the health and life of a number of detainees. In a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, they said they have received “alarming reports� that men have lost “over 20 and 30 pounds� and that “at least two dozen men have lost consciousness due to low blood glucose levels.�

A military official said 14 detainees are on hunger strikes and six of them are being force fed. Others have been refusing meals but eating non-perishable food stashed in their cells, officials said.

In a statement, Navy Capt. Robert Durand, a spokesman for Joint Task Force Guantanamo, said “claims of a mass hunger strike . . . are simply untrue.�

The International Committee of the Red Cross, the only outside organization allowed unrestricted visits to the camps, said it visited Guantanamo from Feb. 18 to 23 and “is aware of the tensions at the detention facility.�

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“The ICRC routinely follows the situation of detainees on hunger strikes and continues to do so today,� the group said in a statement. “The ICRC believes past and current tensions at Guantanamo to be the direct result of the uncertainty faced by detainees.�

Officials at the ICRC would not comment on information obtained by The Washington Post that a Red Cross employee was splashed with a mixture of feces and urine during the February visit. Durand said guards have been splashed with bodily fluids.

The immediate trigger for the protests was a series of searches in Camp 6 in which detainees alleged that their Qurans were desecrated by guards who looked through them.

Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Todd Breasseale said that no member of the guard force ever touches a Quran and that any examination of Qurans would be conducted by the facility’s cultural advisers, most of whom are Muslim. He also noted that detainees have in the past used their Qurans to hide contraband.

Of the remaining detainees at Guantanamo, the administration has said, more than 80 are cleared for release if they can be returned to their home country or resettled in a third country.

But Congress has imposed a series of restrictions on transfers out of Guantanamo, which have ground to a halt.

In January, the administration closed the State Department office charged with negotiating the transfer of detainees and accelerating the closure of the facility. “Part of this is the general, absolute loss of hope, people having forgotten about Guantanamo and the administration having no plan for closure,� said Pardiss Kebriaei, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents a number of detainees.

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Duke recognized Bonk’s teaching with many top honors, including, most recently, the University Medal for Distinguished Meritorious Service in 2011.

Central to Bonk’s teaching style was his sense of humor, which surfaced in several incidents that have since become campus legend. At one point, a group of students went out of town to party before one of Bonk’s exams. They asked to take the exam late, saying they were delayed by a flat tire on the trip back.

Bonk reportedly agreed, and at a later date administered the make-up exam with each student in a separate room. The exam was two pages long. On the first page was a straightforward five-point problem. The second page had just one question, worth 95 points:

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Reports varied about when exactly this took place, and just how much of it was true.

Friends of Bonk said that he did not gloat about it, but quietly confirmed that something of that nature did occur.

At a different time, in the 1970s, students competed with each other by throwing pies at notable campus figures, acquiring points for each person hit. When a student came into one of Bonk’s lectures and threw a pie that hit him in the shoulder, the intruder had not anticipated the athleticism of his chosen target, who jogged several miles a day.

“Jim chased him all through campus including the trails on the golf course,” Baldwin said. “I don’t know who the kid was, but my understanding is he was a varsity athlete, so to be run down by a forty-year-old guy must have been surprising.”

His passion for chemistry manifested itself in teaching rather than research. Baldwin noted that Bonk rose to the rank of full professor without ever doing any research.

“It would be interesting to hear from the Duke administration if that would be possible today,” he said. “Chemistry education was what he wanted to do from the time he applied for this job until the very end.”

Bonk passed his passion for teaching on to others, like Lou Charkoudian, whom he mentored when she was earning her Ph.D. at Duke. She and a group of graduate students wanted more teaching instruction than they were getting, and they turned to Bonk for help. He worked with them to develop a class that introduced the basics of science through crime scene forensics.

Bonk cleared the administrative hurdles to allow the graduate students to teach the course, then sat in on their lectures and worked with them to revise and expand the course for the next year.

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Charkoudian will take up a teaching position at Haverford College this Fall.

When Bonk stopped teaching general chemistry, he started teaching an environmental chemistry course for non-majors. Last semester, he co-taught the Introduction to Chemical Research course with Christopher Roy, chemistry professor and assistant director of undergraduate studies. Bonk taught the first half and Roy taught the second. Bonk entered hospice care in December.

“Jim had always talked about how he was going to teach right up until the end,” Roy said. “He was pretty close. He was teaching up until last semester.”

Outside of the classroom, Bonk worked for the tennis team as an assistant coach and adviser.

He also brought with him tutoring skills that he developed as a graduate student at Ohio State University, where he tutored Coach Woody Hayes’s football team. Bonk developed a tutoring program for Duke athletes in the late 1960s, Baldwin said, which formed the basis for the “absolutely terrific” tutoring program at Duke today.

Bonk never married and has no surviving family members. Baldwin said that because of this, Bonk took on the responsibility of writing his own obituary.

“I was going to write him an obituary until one day he said, ‘Don’t worry about it, I’ve already done it,” Baldwin said. “He had this incredible sense of responsibility. He knew it had to be written, and there was no one else to write it.”

Bonk may not have family to carry on his name, but Bonkistry will continue to hold a place in the Duke lexicon.

“All the people he taught over the years that became researchers or teachers, there’s a little part of him in all of them,” Charkoudian said. “For someone without kids, he’s leaving quite a legacy.”

MED SCHOOL from page 1 that if the three-year option were offered at more schools, it would definitely affect his decision of where he would apply.

“I would be curious to see how different schools handle the [accelerated] program,” Yuan said. “I would probably end up applying to both three-year programs and traditional four-year programs.”

Yuan noted, however, that although tuition costs are high, they are eventually paid off. Murphy agreed and added that most students take on this substantive amount of debt with the knowledge that it is an investment in their future.

Duke School of Medicine already has a curriculum that is different from that of its peer institutions. Medical students learn the core basic sciences in the first year, compared to most medical programs, which require this for the first two years.

Students then spend the second year finishing clinical clerkships, the third completing research and the fourth on elective rotations.

Murphy said she favors this unique curriculum over a three-year option because it puts an emphasis on allowing students to conduct research during the third year.

“Today in medicine, research plays an ever increasing role in daily practice, where what you might learn in medical school becomes outdated by the time you begin your fellowship,” she said.

Duke does not currently offer an accelerated program option, but success at NYU and other top universities could make it a possibility in the future.

“I hope that Duke maintains its four year program as is,” Murphy said. “I have every confidence in the administration to research and learn the best way for its students to graduate as the most competent young physicians possible.”

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Increase credit for labs Duke must respond to dis- bling up on lab courses would crepancies in course credit as- likely feel overextended besignment for time-intensive lab cause of up to a whopping 10 classes, often in natural scienc- additional hours of in-class es, that meet for four or more lab time. That is a huge time hours per week compared to commitment—above and bea lecture-only yond that of course. Duke students who editorial should assign take no lab 0.5 or 0.25 credits to lab sec- courses—which works out to, tions to recognize the addi- on average, two additional tional time these courses take hours per day of class. Credup. When the lab is focused iting an additional 0.5 credits on technical skills or experi- for both courses, for a total ment design—not concepts of one full credit per semesclosely integrated with lecture ter, means that the student material—the standalone lab can forego a fourth full-credit course, graded independently class, lessening his or her acaof the full-credit course, is also demic burden considerably. a good idea. This practice, al- Effective learning prioritizes ready implemented for several quality over quantity, and chemistry lab courses, should numerous uncredited class be extended to other courses hours decreases both the wellas necessary. being and educational experiCurrently, a student dou- ence of a student.

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But assigning credits should not become a complicated calculation weighing in-class time, out-of-class time, intensity and scale of thinking, and so forth. Duke has smartly adopted the policy of offering a single credit for the vast majority of its courses as opposed to, say, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which offers one-, two-, three-, and four-credit hour courses. When it comes to incremental differences in time spent in class, differentiation between courses is unproductive—especially when one considers that number of contact hours does not always correspond to the degree of learning. But, for mental and physical health, students required to attend class for a high number of additional

hours—four or more hours above than an average class— should be cut some slack.

We do have some cautionary notes. First, Duke should limit the number of half-credit or quarter-credit lab credits that count toward the total 34 credits required to graduate.

Currently, Duke has such limits in place for partial-credit physical education, performance and house courses. A similar limit should be considered for lab courses to ensure students still obtain a reasonable breadth of knowledge before they graduate.

Second, since tuition for summer courses is charged per credit, students taking lab courses over the summer will experience an increased financial burden. Duke should be prepared to provide com-

mensurate aid with this increase in expense.

Third, assigning more credits to lab courses can create behavioral changes in Duke’s GPA-fixated academic culture. Already, time-intensive lab courses are perceived to be relatively difficult, leading science students to take apparently easier courses to compensate for potential hits to their GPA. Weighting these lab courses more heavily could exacerbate this practice, which would have pernicious effects for Duke’s weak intellectual culture.

Correcting discrepancies in course credits for lab courses would improve the lives of science students, acknowledging the hours they spend in class and helping them maintain a balanced academic life.

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do not pretend to be an expert on inter- It seems likely that U.S. and Western Europenational military affairs. But it seems we an naval forces active in the Black Sea would have entered a new age of post-Cold War have at least mounted some sort of dolphin war craft. Last Tuesday, media outlets across defense. (What might constitute a dolphin dethe United States reported the esfense system remains to be seen, cape of several Ukrainian “attack” however—perhaps a Sea World dolphins. RIA Novosti, a Russian dolphin trainer with a bucket of news source, reported that the fish. …) “killer” dolphins swam away from While a disgruntled museum their handlers during training employee’s fake memo may not exercises in order to search for be precisely analogous to the Onmates. The Russian media stated ion’s article naming Kim Jung Un that the Ukrainian Defense Minthe “Sexiest Man Alive for 2012,” joline doedens istry denied these reports and the two fake news stories do have wait a minute refused to even acknowledge the a couple of things in common. existence of the dolphins. Given For one, both stories could apthe repeated sightings of killer dolphins in pear on a “Spot the Onion Story” quiz. For anthe Black Sea, the Defense Ministry’s denials other, both stories feed on the Internet’s love seemed baseless. of the ridiculous.

The attack dolphin training program origiThere are three kinds of stories that are nated in the Soviet era, when dolphins were shared on social media—Onion stories, stories trained to find military equipment such as that could be in the Onion and stories about mines on the seabed, and to attack divers and significant current events with a global impact carry explosives to plant on enemy ships. After (e.g., the election of Pope Francis). Problems the breakup of the Soviet Union, the program arise when news outlets mistakenly identify a was handed over to the Ukrainian navy. The story’s category. The People’s Daily was so eaprogram redirected its energies to focus on ger to share the great news of the North Komore civilian tasks, such as working with dis- rean leader’s new title that it forgot the lesson abled children. it should have learned a couple months before, In 2012, RIA Novosti learned that the killer when Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency redolphin-training program had been restarted. ported a fake Onion poll that found AmeriA source told the Russian news agency that the cans preferred Iranian President Mahmud dolphins would be trained to fight with special Ahmadinejad over President Barack Obama. knives and pistols attached to their heads.

Similarly, American news outlets were so inUnfortunately for those who have always trigued by the idea of rogue attack dolphins wanted to see a science fiction movie come to on the prowl for mates, that it took several days life, the crisis of the escaped attack dolphins to discover the fake memo at the center of the appears to be based on a fake memo. Apparent- concoction. ly, the “unnamed expert” cited by RIA Novosti So what lessons can we learn from the Dolwas actually a disgruntled museum employee. phin Dynamo Debacle of 2013? First, we can The spread of this fake memo halfway across be happy that the story was only a blip on our the globe is certainly an interesting exercise in spring break radar screen, rather than the inthe importance of checking your sources. But stigator for a national discussion about dolphin it is also a small example of just how much the defense systems. Second, we should really work balance of power has changed over the course on our post-Soviet Eastern European geograof the past three decades or so. phy skills (the Black Sea probably remains an If The New York Times had run a story amorphous blob somewhere in Eastern Europe about escaped Soviet attack dolphins in 1983, for most people who read the original story). how would the world have reacted? Would And finally, if it looks like an Onion story, wait Americans and Western Europeans have sim- a couple of days before accepting the story ply read the article, smiled a little and gone as true. Because your social media instincts about their daily lives? Or would there have can recognize the ridiculous at the click of a been a sudden explosive interest in the U.S. mousepad.

Navy’s own dolphin training program? (Which does actually exist, I might add—the U.S. Joline Doedens is a first-year law student. Her colNavy had dolphins “in theater” in the Persian umn runs every other Monday. You can follow Joline Gulf during the American invasion of Iraq.) on Twitter @jydoedens.

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ear Dookie, That is OUR word. Gingers and only gingers can use It’s St. Patrick’s week!! Soooo excited to the word so we may bond with other gingers and fill wear my green and have some fun! Any tips on space in classical Irish dance songs. Just remember how to make this St. Patrick’s the best one EVER? that when you sing along, you best hope you remem—Irish ber to sing awkwardly quietly when Dear Probably Not Irish, that word comes along, or you’re goAnother year, another St. Patrick’s ing down faster than a Protestant at an Day. I can’t believe it came again so fast.

IRA meeting.

As I am Irish myself, I think I have some St. Patrick’s Day in America doesn’t advice for you: Don’t celebrate St. Patstop at denigrating our culture, but rick’s Day. Hold on to your claddaghs, trivializes our history. How many of you kids. The Dook is about to drop some actually know the history of St. Patrick knowledge on you. monday monday —the elusive, petite inventor who creFirst off, I can’t believe anyone wants ated an addictive and strangely lucky dear dookie to drink anything right now. Didn’t marshmallow cereal that he shared spring break end like, yesterday? If you with Irish children during the potato did break right, then THINKING about alcohol in famine? Later, driven mad by the competitive cereal your proximity should make you nauseous. To refer business, he ran off, claiming that “they” were after to my current state as a weeklong hangover does not his lucky charms (which, history agrees, was probably do it justice. I went on a cruise, and dear God, it’s like a euphemism for his testicles). And although you’re beach week meets Dramamine. I considered staying happy to joke about them and make shots named afdrunk for the rest of my life to avoid this hangover. ter them, do you even KNOW what an Irish car bomb And more importantly, after being reminded of the is? No one should make Irish car bomb jokes. Irish outside world, I don’t know how I could ever handle car bomb jokes are NEVER funny. God, this is why we North Carolina parties. I just spent a week getting still need Irish History Month. drunk with Duke kids in a club on a cruise ship. Going And of course, the people who throw these parties out in Durham would be like, so lame. are blissfully if not intentionally ignorant of the pain But leftover drunkenness and cultural superiority they cause. St. Paddy’s as it exists today perpetuates are not the only reasons St. Paddy’s Day should die. deeply painful and excluding stereotypes of the sociFirst off, I look bad in the requisite Kelly green, as etally disadvantaged Irish Americans. Do you know does most anyone. But moreover, its celebration at what it is like to enter a room, and for everyone to asDuke and across the United States is an assault on sume that just because you’re Irish, you’re awesome the Irish cultural tradition. This mockery should be to party with? Can you imagine that type of pressure? banned and punished. And I’ll tell you why.

No, you can’t, you privileged bastard.

First off, this abhorrent “party” reduces the personSo how do we rid our campus of this green monhood of the Irish down to stereotypes. If the Irish were ster? The only effective approach is the time-vetted really like you bigots represent us, our only activities strategy of student activism: self-centered egalitarianwould be wearing green and drinking Guinness. That ism and never letting anything go, ever. If we are aconly describes like, 50 percent of the Irish population. tively offended by everything (well, everything excluThe rest of us are offended by the association and sively contrary to our interests, that is), we can vilify stereotype, as those type of Irish people are inferior, any supporters of St. Paddy’s day and expose them and cliché. If you want to represent us in costume, you as uncultured stains on Duke’s socio-economically need to represent the full cultural diversity of the Irish diverse campus. If nothing else works, we can always people at once. Ireland has like, a whole three skin report it to Jezebel. With hard work, we may successshades. I think I even saw a black person there once, fully end this totalitarian, anti-Irish regime in time but it might have just been Colin Farrell. for a holiday everyone can get excited for: Cinco de But the worst might be the hypersexualization. Mayo! (Remember, you must say it with a gringo ac“Kiss Me, I’m Irish!” shirts might be the worst thing cent. Don’t act like you’re doing anyone a favor by that has happened to Ireland since Bailey’s stopped rolling those R’s.) being sold in barrels. We Irish will not be reduced to your desires to experiment with fire crotches. I’m You’ll have to excuse the Dookie for any typos or split intired of being just another freckled fetish or lepre- finitives, as I am Irish and therefore drunk. Now excuse me, chaun lover. Why do I have to be a “hot ginger”? Why I must remove Kelly green from all Crayola boxes in the Duke can’t I just be “hot”?!

Store. This isn’t a color you understand, so stop f**cking Oh, and on “ginger.” You can’t use that word. using it. Follow the Dookie on Twitter @DearDookie.

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ast week I was lucky enough to travel through the ancient city of Athens. The birthplace of democracy and Western philosophical thought is going through a period of tremendous upheaval. The Euro crisis that precipitated in Greece has shocked financial markets around the world. It has also led to some serious governance changes within this Mediterranean nation. Austerity measures imposed by the IMF and EU have resulted in anger and colin scott riots across the country. As I the view from carr was traveling with my father through the city we became accustomed to the metal plated vans of the riot police and their modern day armor. The austerity measures are widely despised, and increased taxation by the coalition government has resulted in a number of strikes and protests. During our stay, the workers from archaeological sites and museums organized a 24-hour strike, and another group incited a riot near the Parliamentary building.

Driving through the city I was struck by the repetition of two words: “Wake Up.” Scrawled throughout the city by youths, angry about their future economic prospects, the phrase was everywhere. I saw it on buildings throughout the city and into the suburbs. It was written on stately governmental offices and near the coast on rocks leading out to the Temple of Poseidon. The message was everywhere, and I began to think about what it could possibly mean. Wake up from what? Journeying through one of the most exciting cities of the ancient world and standing in the shadow of the Acropolis, I was very much awake. Greece, however, is in the process of waking up. The populace is finally stirring and beginning to realize the extent of the financial mismanagement that has plagued their country for the last decade.

I think the words speak to the danger of complacency in democracy and the dangers that can come from political apathy. This is applicable outside of the Greek context and offers an important lesson for us today.

Broadly speaking, the crisis in Greece was brought about by an electorate that was not aware of the decisions its government was making in its stead. Democracy was essentially withering on the vine of its birthplace. The misappropriation of public funds and a bloated bureaucracy were ignored until the deficit of Greece swelled to an unmanageable amount. Now austerity and budget cuts are needed to right the balance that should have been addressed years ago. The parallels in our own country are easy to spot. We also have a budget deficit that is becoming a problem. Though we are still a long way from becoming another Greece, we need to address the issue now. We need to splash some water in our face and realize that democracy takes work.

Felix Frankfurter, a former associate justice of the Supreme Court, once wrote, “Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.” We must constantly work toward the goals of democracy and just representation. They are not a given. Political apathy is not a luxury our country can afford if we are to continue to maintain our place in the world. Not every citizen or student has the time to become an expert on every issue that our lawmakers address, but we should have an understanding of the broad decisions that they take in our name. Our representatives are exactly that—representatives. They represent that views of their constituents and make choices in the name of the people who have elected them. They do not wield power in their own right but through our consent. That’s huge. It means that we are responsible for the choices they make. If that doesn’t align with our morals or values, then we have a responsibility to vote them out of office. Democracy started in Greece, and it has come to its zenith in our country. The United States has arguably created the world’s strongest and longest-lasting liberal democracy, and we have an obligation to actively participate in it. We have a duty to ensure that the choices made through the power of our consent line up with our own principles. The presidential elections may have passed, but the work of democracy never stops.

Whether you are a pre-med or a biomechanical engineer, the choices our government makes affect you, and you have the right to be heard. Greece stands as a stark reminder of the dangers of political apathy—one that should encourage all of us to “Wake Up.” Colin Scott is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Monday.

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The window of opportunity for finding ideal, paid internships narrows considerably after spring break, Lyford said, but it is still possible with dedication and commitment.

“There are still great internships to be had, but you need to be proactive in the search out there doing work and making contacts,” Lyford said. “It takes time.”

Internships in public policy differ in time frame from those in the private sector, Goldwasser said. She noted that local agencies might not even list their summer internship opportunities until the middle of March.

“They still think it is the winter,” Goldwasser said. “We think they’re wrong.”

The different application deadlines complicates the process for students, Goldwasser said. Faced with the different timelines, students must do a “complicated dance” of accepting offers earlier in the season and waiting for deadlines yet to approach, Goldwasser said. This results in an undesirable situation of weighing costs against benefits in coordinating summer plans that will best prepare a student for his or her career path.

International internships, which have become increasingly popular, also deviate from the traditional timeline for domestic summer internships—most do not

BRIERE from page 2 and parents. The network was rolled out in a pilot project for the Brieres’ Mansfield, Conn. school district and saved the district so much money in postage that they could hire a new teacher, Superintendent Bruce Silva said in a testimonial on the MoxMe! website. A third business, Certamen.com, focused on creating online academic competitions among schools.

The Brieres’ success has continued at Duke, although they have taken markedly different paths. Nick is an English major who is also pursuing a certificate in politics, philosophy and economics, while Emily is a mechanical engineering major and mathematics minor who plans to earn a certificate in aerospace engineering.

This semester, Emily got a call from NASA telling her that she had been selected as one of 10 recipients worldwide of the NASA Academy internship this summer at the Ames Research Center in California. It is one of the most prestigious internships at NASA, said Neal Simmons, Gendell assocaite professor of the practice of mechanical engineering, who recommended Emily to the program.

“I literally couldn’t talk when they called to offer it to me,” Emily said. “This is my dream.”

She said her dream began out of questions she had when she first learned about the vastness of space.

“We learned that space was infinite, and I didn’t understand that,” she said. “How can space go on forever? And if it stops, what’s beyond that? The majority of people walk around Earth not even thinking about how there’s so much more out there, and what is it? And figuring that out is what I always thought I wanted to do.”

Her original childhood dream of becoming an astronaut morphed over time into her current goal of becoming an aerospace engineer in mission control at

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open applications until much later in the spring. International internship opportunities have held steady in recent years, said Carmella LaBianca, global policy advisor for Sanford career services, but almost all internships outside of the United States directed at American students are unpaid.

“If you want to intern abroad, be flexible with waiting around,” LaBianca said.

“At the [United Nations for example], they don’t have time right now to think about interns, so they put it off until the end. International offices don’t always jump into action.”

LaBianca explained that international internships teach cross-cultural and communication skills that employers value, particularly for graduate students interested in global policy. Other areas of expertise, such as language skills and knowledge of diverse cultures and countries, are appealing to companies with an increasingly global perspective, she said.

Although the numbers and diversity of opportunities available to both undergraduates and graduate students reflect an improving economic climate, Goldwasser said she is not sure whether the trend will continue.

“I am concerned with a sequestered government, whether that will have an impact on government relations and private companies,” Goldwasser said. “I always hope for the best and prepare for the worst.”

NASA. In past years, NASA has selected around 10 Academy interns among more than 600 applicants. The paid internship can be a springboard into employment at NASA, and interns also skydive, try out flight simulators and travel on weekends to other NASA research centers.

Simmons said Emily is up to the challenge.

“I recommended Emily because she is a standout student who I believe will excel at all that she does,” he wrote in an email.

“She is intrinsically motivated to learn and understand new ideas and concepts. This coupled with her intellect and dedication will serve her well in her career and life.”

Emily has not yet taken any aerospace engineering classes at the University, so she hopes the experience this summer will help her decide if she really wants to pursue the field as a career.

As interested as she is in the problemsolving aspects of mechanical engineering and entrepreneurship, however, it is difficult to talk to Emily about aerospace engineering and not notice her passion for the subject, Nick noted.

“Her eyes just light up,” he said.

Nick’s future, on the other hand, may be less clear than Emily’s, but he knows he will continue to be an entrepreneur of some kind.

“I’ll definitely end up with my hand in the startup world,” he said.

He is a shareholder in Campus Enterprises, where he is currently working on a new educational venture, and this summer, he will work at a startup accelerator at the University of Connecticut. Nick is also an avid guitarist, having played for more than eight years, and he additionally volunteers at a retirement home off East Campus by playing the piano for residents.

Although the twins are pursuing diverging interests compared to their time in high school, they try catch up on their busy lives by having lunch once a week.

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