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Students Candidates’ pasts not open to DSG grapple with gender norms by Jack Mercola THE CHRONICLE
Given the legal privacy of student records and the lack of definitive University sanctions when suspended students return to campus, a rapist could serve as Duke Student Government president or in another leadership position. Following a flyering campaign that accused a DSG vice presidential candidate of sexually assaulting another student, DSG President-elect Stefani Jones, a junior, said a policy barring those alleged or found responsible for sexual assault from running or holding office could never be enforced. Flyers posted early Friday morning accused sophomore Fedja Pavlovic of sexually assaulting another student. Pavlovic, who subsequently dropped out of the race for DSG vice president for residential life, denied these allegations, calling the flyers slanderous and libelous. He issued an official statement the following day that announced his withdrawal from the election, citing “irretrievable public damage” done to his campaign. It is unknown who is responsible for posting the flyers. Due to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which requires schools to gain a student’s consent prior to the disclosure of education or behavioral information, those who facilitate DSG elections have no access to disciplinary records of any potential candidates, Jones said.
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Even as Duke moves forward with transgender friendly policies, student leaders are worried about transgender students being able to comfortably transition genders on Duke’s campus. Blue Devils United, the Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender life and Duke Administration are hoping to make Duke more welcoming to transgender students while maintaining a comfortable environment for the whole student body. Duke is taking large steps to these ends—such as having gender neutral housing available to students and including gender-reassignment surgery in the Duke health insurance plan offered to students—but continues to struggle to create a completely comfortable environment for students hoping to transition. “Duke in general is a campus where gender norms are pretty strong,” said junior Jacob Tobia, president of Blue Devils United, noting most students aspire to align with the norm. “While that’s good in some respects, it makes it harder for someone who is different to be different, particularly transgender students.” Lawrence Evalyn, Trinity ’12, said his transitional phase at Duke was characterized by a sense of indifference from a lot of the administration. “My experience at Duke was that the actual people were great—I didn’t hear a single transphobic slur or joke,” Evalyn said “But the institution is pretty indifferent in ways that can cause some serious pain.” Evalyn cited his inability to get his previously feminine name changed to his preferred name in academic systems, including ACES, which had the effect of unintentionally exposing him as a transgender individual to all of his classes and hall-mates. His experience would have been different if he had taken an approach that aimed to change administrative policies, rather than only his individual situation as transgendered life is a very complicated issue, he said. Many systems that operate bureaucratically don’t have the resources to deal with SEE TRANSGENDER ON PAGE 3
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Duke Student Government, meeting shown at bottom, cannot verify the disciplinary records of candidates. The question surfaced after the flyer above accused Fedja Pavlovic of sexually assaulting a student
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Many greek organizations on campus have taken steps toward reducing gender violence at Duke by committing to train their members to prevent, act, challenge and teach. The incoming members of many groups overseen by the four greek councils are now required to participate in PACT training, a student-facilitated workshop sponsored by the Women’s Center. The five-hour sessions promote awareness and dialogue about gender violence and equip participants with behaviors and strategies to combat forms of gender violence including sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking and relationship violence.
“The reduction of sexual misconduct is something that the four group councils have put at the forefront of all of our agendas,” said junior Segun Babatunde, president of the National Pan-Hellenic Council. The councils began to discuss PACT training in response to evidence of gender inequity published in the Spring 2013 Greek Culture Initiative report, wrote junior Ian Zhang, president of the Inter-Greek Council, in an email Wednesday. “It all starts with recognizing that inequality and gender disparities exist on campus. The GCI was a quantitative reaffirmation of what Duke students already know,” Zhang said. “For the members of IGC and leaders of the entire greek community, the answer is
very clear—fix it.” The IGC, the NPHC and the Interfraternity Council are all committed to training executive board members, along with new members. President of the Panhellenic Association Katie Howard, a junior, said presidents and risk managers are going through training. She added that for each president who has already been through training, Panhel is sending another member of the organization to receive PACT training. By training new members and executive members alike, Zhang said he hopes to create institutional change from both the top SEE PACT ON PAGE 4
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1. Innovators and collaborators meet with students and faculty at the Duke Global Health Institute’s symposium on scaling innovation on Friday. 2. Students organize and participate in the American Cancer Society’s annual Relay For Life on the main quad on Saturday from 11AM to 11PM. 3. Diya invited students Saturday to Holi, a Hindu spring celebration where students throw colored paint on each other.
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TRANSGENDER from page 1 transgendered people, including Duke, Evalyn noted. The newly approved policy allowing students to choose gender-neutral housing is integral to creating a comfortable living environment for transgendered students, he added. “I couldn’t imagine trying to transition while staying in single sex housing— I couldn’t imagine it,” said Evalyn, who joined and lived with a co-ed fraternity. Evalyn noted that things like hall decorations and gender specific bathrooms were points of extreme concern in his residential experience. “Working to establish gender neutral housing was important because it creates safer spaces in which trans students can transition and it increases their living options,” Tobia said. Evalyn also used university medical resources during his transition and said he was extremely pleased with both the cost and the care. He explained that another important aspect of transitioning is the ability to use unisex bathrooms, and said that he is uncomfortable every time he uses the male single-sex bathroom at his current workplace. Tobia wants to work to establish more unisex bathrooms around campus to allow transgender students a safer place to transition on campus. “For some transgender folks, it’s about going from male to convincingly female,” Tobia said. “They need to negotiate when they feel that they look like a man or woman enough that they can safely enter [gendered bathrooms], and unisex restrooms provide that intermediary step.” Tobia, who has worked with the LGBT center and Duke administration, hopes to increase the university’s ability to iden-
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Students enjoy food and games at the International Association’s Springternational Friday afternoon. tify and help the needs of students going through the transitional phase. “The approach that I’ve taken has been to try to create safer spaces and policies for transgender students in the hope that those students are able to be more comfortable on campus,” Tobia said. Even if policies accommodate the comfortable transition of transgender students, efforts are hampered by the campus culture found at Duke, explained Tobia. “Society in general is relatively gender normative, and by and large Duke is no exception,” said Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek. “We try to look at our policies, our
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vidual on campus is ready to move in that direction.” Although steps have been taken to create a more inclusive environment for transgender students, identifying, understanding and accepting issues that transgender students face on campus is a large undertaking. “After [institutional policies], it really comes down to campus culture,” Tobia said. “People are much less likely to come out and be comfortable when they don’t know that they have support—and they do, they have massive support.”
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PACTfrom page 1 down and ground up. All incoming executive and new general body members of the IGC will undergo their PACT training Friday. IFC members’ responses to the trainings have been overwhelmingly positive, said junior Chris Brown, IFC director of public relations, who participated in PACT training with his fraternity, Kappa Alpha Order. Several IFC chapters completed the workshop in the Fall. “All of the chapter presidents have been 100 percent behind it,” Brown said. “The part that really makes it work well was that it was just an open and honest dialogue, and you were able to say what you felt and exchange those ideas with everyone there.” The workshops are an early stage of
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systemically combating gender inequity issues. “Obviously it’s not the only step, but the information and education that it gives along with the fact that it inspires further discussions and awareness is something that we really value,” Babatunde said. Amy Cleckler, gender violence prevention program coordinator at the Women’s Center, said she is excited about the greek call-to-action. But she noted that the Women’s Center does not have the resources to train all members of the greek community by the end of the year. “We only have six student facilitators,” Cleckler wrote in an email Thursday. “We will train as many of them as we can, but it’s not possible for us to train them all.” Moving forward, the program plans
to offer open-call trainings to greek students in the Fall and provide opportunities to train all new members in the following Spring. “We hope that individual chapters will provide the incentive for their members to join the trainings,” Cleckler said. “We can only offer the trainings and hope that students attend.” She added that the PACT workshops are conducted in groups with fewer than 30 members due to the sensitive nature of the conversations that take place. The PACT program did not intentionally target greek students, but training organized groups is easier, Cleckler said. “We feel that these trainings are equally needed by all students at Duke in order for the community to learn skills to recognize and intervene in situations of gender violence,” she said.
DSG from page 1 University officials—including Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta and Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director of the Office of Student Conduct—declined to comment on Pavlovic’s disciplinary record due to FERPA. No evidence to confirm the allegations against Pavlovic has been made public. Although the incident has stirred campus conversation concerning the interplay between a student’s disciplinary history and his or her eligibility to serve on DSG—especially concerning acts of sexual assault or harassment—there is no enforceable means to prevent a student from pursuing or holding DSG positions. “Even if we wanted to create a policy about [those found responsible for sexual assault or harassment], it would be impossible,” Jones said. “We would never know which students were in violation of that policy.... If it existed, it could never be enforced.” In matters concerning sexual assault or harassment, a candidate’s disciplinary standing is very much of public interest, and the publicity a candidate receives in his or her campaign could be one of the “largest triggers for a victim,” Jones added. She called for one of two reforms—either the Office of Student Conduct should release names of students found responsible for these violations, which she acknowledged will not happen so long as FERPA is in place, or disciplinary sanctions for these violations should become more serious. “On many campuses, sexual assault is grounds for expulsion,” she said. “Duke’s sanctions need to make sense—cheating can be grounds for expulsion, while some found responsible for sexual assault can be suspended for only one year.” She added that for less serious conduct violations, however, students should not be barred from running for DSG positions, noting that some DSG senators have served suspensions and other disciplinary sanctions.
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Rhodes, Zionce ready for second terms The breadth of topics consequences for all students. impacting students at Duke This year, two important races extends far beyond the pur- are uncontested—Derek Rhoview of any individual student des and Jacob Zionce will both leader. Annually, Duke Student win second terms and serve Government is confronted with next year as vice president of challenges in an Durham and array of discrete regional affairs editorial yet interlocking and vice presispheres, many of which impact dent of residential life, respecstudents in tangible ways. To ef- tively. While contestation and fectively represent the student the exchange of ideas is a crubody, DSG requires a cadre of cial element in fostering stuengaged vice presidents com- dent representation, the Editomitted to understanding the rial Board is heartened by the intricacies of their committee’s diligence, insightfulness and core issues. They must work to passion evinced by the candiengender a broader awareness dates for these positions. of how these issues impact stuA participant in Durham dents, while also connecting politics since he was six years their own projects to the mis- old, Rhodes possesses a wealth sion of DSG as a whole. of knowledge regarding the Put bluntly, DSG vice presi- complex relationship between dents are important—their Duke and the surrounding capabilities and decisions have community. He deconstructed
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I am a friend of Fedja’s—or former friend, that is. I stopped being friends with him when I heard about the assaults. ...The idea that he could be a DSG representative at this school—representing not only the student body, but also the people he has raped—is abhorrent. ... — “JohnS” commenting on the story “Fedja Pavlovic denies allegations of rape.”
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reductionist narratives about a town and University in constant tension, and insightfully described his role as a facilitator seeking to enhance collaboration between students and community members. Impressively, Rhodes transformed student issues into greater Durham issues—specifically, his understanding of the interaction between University and town policies with regards to alcohol, noise and neighborhood relations should help ensure that the interests of all relevant stakeholders are accounted for in future discussions. Going forward, we hope Rhodes keeps working to enhance awareness about the pathways available for Duke students to connect with the Durham community. Initiatives like the Duke-Durham
discount program seem like they would be broadly popular with the student body, and would benefit from an infusion of student enthusiasm. Issues like the lack of student engagement with local politics could be ameliorated if students knew how much the decisions of local lawmakers—on topics like voter identification laws and city ordinances—impact their individual lives. In his second year as vice president of residential life, Zionce seeks to continue to monitor and improve the experience of students under the new house model. His understanding that the house model is a multi-year commitment involving many different phases, allows him to maximize his efficacy by tailoring his efforts to the issues with the highest cur-
rent saliency. Further, we commend Zionce for his attention to detail and his pursuit of actionable improvements to residential life, and we hope it continues in his second year. Minor tweaks to the housing system—such as revising the requirement that all house presidents live in section, and his reworking of the Residential Group Assessment Committee’s prescriptions for what portion of each class must live in the house—are generally uncontroversial, but hugely important to the students they impact. We hope that Zionce continues to combine his broader institutional understanding of housing with his awareness of how students interact with residential policies in ensuring that the residential experience is a positive one for all.
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y grandfather looked fragile, a shell of niece—the start of our fourth generation—but his former self. We had just finished the then I realized that she would never have the part of Passover Seder called “Eating of chance to hear my grandfather’s powerful stothe Festival Meal”—a delectable sampling of salty ries the same way I did. parsley, bitter herbs, dry matzah, hard-boiled “The extra level of pain that I feel today stems eggs and, of course, those oh-sofrom one troubling fact: I am part juicy balls of gefilte fish. It’s hard of the last generation to personally david estrin to get more “festive” than that. know Holocaust survivors as allies guest column Several palette-restoring matzah in preserving memory.” balls and pounds of brisket later, I With this daunting challenge in returned to the sight of my grandfather sitting mind, I returned to Duke compelled to honor with us, but strangely alone, removed even. my grandfather’s legacy. I wondered, “How can I “Where is he?” I wondered to myself. “What is preserve his memory in a way that would be relhe thinking?” Only later would I realize that the evant and meaningful to the Duke community right question was, “When?” and future generations?” I knew what was coming, or at least I thought I Last year, with the support of Muslim Life did. We were approaching the part of Seder that at Duke and Jewish Life at Duke, I led a small includes a prayer for those who perished in the group of students to do just that. On Holocaust Holocaust. Just before my grandfather was set to Remembrance Day, 120 students and faculty of speak, I took his hands into my own and recalled all faiths spent 10 hours reading the names of a vivid memory from my childhood. Papa was 22,000 victims from six different genocides. playing “Mr. Fix-it” around the house, and I was We intentionally chose to recognize other his assistant. When I couldn’t quite get a screw in genocide victims to remind ourselves that we must tight enough, he would just grab it with his big, do better in our promise of “never again,” and to strong hand and twist it tight with a silly grunt declare that each life lost to senseless violence is that would make me laugh for good measure. equally tragic and important to remember. Holding his heavy hands I wondered, “Where Today, one year later, we are building on that have these hands been? What have they done? important message and Duke’s powerful display Who did they help … or maybe even hurt? of community by reading over 50,000 names in 24 The fork-to-plate clanks fell silent as my grand- hours in partnership with schools and communifather stood to speak. ties worldwide—from Gainesville to Cape Town. “Passover is not exactly the happiest night The Coalition for Preserving Memory (CPM) of my life. And every year since I was liberated, invites you to join us on campus and in social when Passover comes, I am falling apart. When media as we remember humanity’s worst to inwe went from Auschwitz, selected and separat- spire humanity’s best. Stand in solidarity with ed, they sent us to Mathausen concentration fellow Dukies and students around the world by camp. We were 144 of us—my father, uncles, tweeting @TodayWeRemember using the #Tomy whole school.” dayWeRemember hashtag. You may also pick up My grandfather described knowing immedi- a commemorative ribbon by the name reading ately there would be no “ausgang,” no exit—not lectern. At the conclusion of name reading, join alive at least. At most, they had 90 days to live, if us at 6 p.m. as we come together at the Mary Lou you call what they did “living.” Center for a student panel discussion led by LarEight months later, my grandfather had sur- ry Moneta, vice president of student affairs and a vived to see another Passover, but he had no one second-generation Holocaust survivor. left. “They were all killed,” he continued. “And Today, I remember my grandfather, who surthis is the pain that is in my heart every single vived Hitler’s death camps, my grandmother, day—that I am here, liberated, and all those who hid for her life in a Budapest ghetto, and my people suffered, and I came back—alone, alone, grandparents, who fought for their lives in the alone. This is the pain of my Passover. Thank you frigid forests of Lithuania. And I also remember for listening.” the millions of others who perished at the bloody A few weeks ago, I found myself standing be- hands of injustice in Armenia, Cambodia, Bosfore that same audience with the impossible task nia, Rwanda and Darfur. Until sundown, let us of filling the void my grandfather’s passing had remember together and embrace our common left. I recalled his words and decided to build on humanity in honor of those who never had the the pain of his Passover with a bit of my own. chance to do so. I thought about the incredible joy my grandfather would have had to see my new baby David Estrin is a Trinity senior.
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he North Carolina General Assem- from First Amendment constraints, would bly, firmly in the grip of closet theo- immunize North Carolina from federal crats, libertarian extremists and cor- court rulings and establish a state religion. rupt corporate shills, is engaged in a full-on Proto-fascist aspirations to impose attack on our state’s underprivileged com- bigoted moral stances on the general munities. In the past few population have also been months we have seen young expressed in proposals to people, women, people of criminalize the exposure color, the LGBTQ and the of women’s breasts (HB poor targeted by punitive 34), introduce lies about legislation that comes from the risks of abortion into a place of distilled hatred public sex education curfor society’s historically disricula (SB 132), impose a advantaged. two-year waiting period for prashanth Those of us from or in divorce (SB 518) and strike solidarity with these groups kamalakanthan down gender-nonspecific subalternatives of human beings—our famhousing at UNC (SB 658), ily and neighbors—have among others. been forced into a real, urgent binary: ReComplementing these suffocating sist or be run over. social policies are an economics deeply The most recent story was one that was rooted in racism and class hatred. Gov. Mclong promised. House Republicans last Crory’s new budget proposal, engineered Thursday introduced House Bill 589, a by Koch-associated libertarian millionaire strict voter ID law requiring photo iden- Art Pope, cuts social services to levels not tification to vote. At Duke, where most seen in 42 years. Proposals to eliminate the students are out-of-state, this adds a sig- income tax in favor of a regressive sales nificant new hurdle to the ballot box. In tax would radically shift the tax burden broader terms, the legislation is an ef- onto the backs of the poor. Lawmakers fective poll tax, costing voters $10 just to have already denied federal funds for the receive an ID in a state where roughly a jobless and uninsured, punishing more third of African Americans and Latinos than 170,000 long-term unemployed and live in poverty and more than 600,000 500,000 uninsured poor. Slashing all social North Carolina voters, disproportionately benefits also signals that everything is for poor and of color, lack photo identifica- sale, including judicial races and the state’s tion. A free ID can be obtained only by Medicaid system. signing an affidavit citing “financial hardThe message being sent to those of us ship” under penalty of perjury. And the without the blessings of historical social underlying motive of sweeping disenfran- privilege is clear: The state does not want chisement is plain. Advocates cite con- you. My friends at already underfunded cerns over confidence in government, but public universities worry over discussions the data show only two cases of in-person of closing entire campuses, while Latino voter fraud over the past decade. comrades have expressed outrage over The photo ID bill is only part of an the closing of the state’s tiny Latino afenormous disenfranchisement program fairs office, which has a whopping one in planning. North Carolina is now lead- full-time employee. ing the country in efforts to shut down Attacked from all sides, our only hope democracy. Fortuitously numbered Senate is to form solidarity within and across comBill 666 nearly halves the early voting pe- munities and engage in resistance. Actual riod (other proposals cut further) and al- resistance that has the power to create malows votes cast only at the county board of terial change in people’s daily lives only elections office. Senate Bill 667 would im- begins with op-ed columns, research briefs pose an added $2,500 tax burden on the and scholarly panels. Aristocratic powerparents of college students who vote where brokers like state Deputy Budget Director they attend school. Same-day registration, Art Pope, North Carolina’s single largest straight-ticket voting and re-enfranchise- political donor and the man largely behind ment of ex-felons are also under attack. the dark money groups that have seized our In maybe the most Orwellian of these pro- institutions, hardly care that their political posals, persons adjudicated “incompetent” programs are being explained in public. by the state would be banned from voting, If we are to create positive change to even if their mental health has nothing to counterbalance the devastation we face, do with their ability to understand voting. we need to take the next step, putting bodSadly, voter disenfranchisement is hard- ies in the streets, adding voices to public ly alone in cementing North Carolina’s na- hearings. What is at stake is not just the tional infamy. A George Wallace-style nul- passage of isolated bills or the résumé islification bill, the Rowan County Defense sues we’ve outlined as our “passions.” Our of Religion Act, was a briefly-lived national basic notion of what constitutes a commuembarrassment for the state, gaining the nity of human beings bonded by respect support of 14 House members before with- and common dignity is under attack. Siering under public scrutiny. Seeking to lence is no longer an option. express solidarity with the Rowan County Board of Commissioners, being sued by Prashanth Kamalakanthan is a Trinity juthe ACLU for publicly invoking sectarian nior. His column runs every other Monday. You prayer, the resolution freed Rowan County can follow Prashanth on Twitter @pkinbrief.
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ear Dookie, are the words of a strong, black woman who Hi! I’m a newly admitted stu- don’t need no man. Travis Porter praises dent here for Blue Devil Days!! Boy, such “top-notch b****es”, and in doing is Duke swell! I was wondering if you had so creates an attainable image for women any advice for a kid picking colleges—po- to strive for. I’m fairly certain the whiners tentially a new Dookie! (Is are just white (or basically that how you guys—I mean white) biddies who don’t Y’ALL—spell it? Guess so!) understand rap music. I Love, Pumped Pre-Frosh propose we create a student Dear Freaking Out group—a Coalition for a Freshie, White People Music-Free Hello, and welcome back Duke—to spread underto the bottom of the totem standing of hip-hop to these pole! I don’t really know fund babies. Maybe monday monday trust what advice to give an inthen these snow bunnies dear dookie coming freshman, because will step out of the sorority I generally avoid speaking house and accept that “Ayy to them and have no idea what type of first Ladies” is the modern ballad of the empowworld problems they experience. However, ered woman. As you’re a pre-frosh and probably still I think I can answer all your questions in 30 words or less: Yes, an electrical engineering, have a desire to learn things, there are a few Spanish and chemistry triple major is total- lessons you can take from this Travis Porter ly doable, you WILL be the smartest kid at hullabaloo. Perhaps the most important is Duke and yes, your penis does get bigger in how highly the Duke intellectual culture values the opinions of others. To think, you college. Thank GOD, amiright? Now I suppose you want some selling can barely have a high school diploma (if points of why you should choose Duke. that) and write songs that say things like The main reason is its social culture. All “Run it in that p***y like a crash dummy!” top-10 schools have fairly equal academic and the Duke student body will still think programs (plus or minus exorbitant grade that your voice is significant and impactful inflation for the sake of Daddy Donor, enough to start a protest about. Because *cough* Harvard *cough*). What sets we’ve now realized the impression such Duke apart is life outside of the library— powerful and respected figures could have mostly because that life exists. Our innova- on Duke students, next year’s LDOC will be tive merger of “work hard” and “play hard” headlined by Barney and Friends and Steve has garnered us encouraging feedback, as from Blue’s Clues, so as to promote a posiseen in our constant positive media pres- tive learning experience. But Duke isn’t just about equality in the ence. This incessant, untiring national attention, which members of the Duke social scene. Administratively, we are also community often seek out for internally constantly creating an accepting social clisolvable problems, will only increase the mate, even for those students most down on their luck or without knowledge of laws value of your future degree. See, we at Duke are constantly looking or basic morals. Why, just this past week we to better ourselves. Always a step ahead of allowed a suspected sex offender run for our peer institutions, we figure the best way DSG office! I mean, neither we nor DSG to change culture is not preventive, but in have any way to prove that he actually comretrospect, by freaking out whenever any- mitted those crimes, but we’re, like, pretty one does anything we deem wrong. A re- sure. It’s not like anything bad has come cent example is LDOC. I can assume by the of hasty allegations in the past. Either way, fact that you’re here today that you don’t look at it as a reflection of our accepting know what Travis Porter is, because you’re community. Not only do we not expel sexprobably not black. Duke is a forward-think- ual assault perpetrators, but we also don’t ing school, and has black and non-black hold rapists to any different standards students come to different “new student than regular students. This is the dream of weekends.” This innovative approach al- equality that Martin Luther King, Jr. had lows black and white people to justify their in mind. I know I’ve made a convincing case to self-segregation to themselves once they actually get here. Like I said, we’re always one come to this school. But really, thank Duke students and administrators. This college step ahead. Anyways. Travis Porter is this famous rap community works hard every day to make trio that will Bring It Back at LDOC. A time- this reality possible. And this openness and ly 47 days after the show was announced, community building doesn’t just make life students began caring about Travis Porter’s enjoyable and constantly entertaining for “sexism.” Keeping with tradition, these fem- the Duke student body. It also impacts the inists and pinnacles for political correctness pre-frosh, like you, choosing a college in an have decided that diversity is okay as long increasingly competitive market. Certainly, as it abides by what liberal, rich, white girls that’s something we Dukies never forget. like. Now, my guess is that they’ve simply never heard a Travis Porter song, because The Dookie looks forward to the Class of they’re basically sonnets of women’s em- 2017, mostly because in light of recent events, powerment. As a female voice says in one there will be no women or racial minorities in it. song: “You wanna see some a**, I wanna Now if we could just think of something to deal see some cash. Keep them dollars coming, with the gays. … Follow the Dookie on Twitter @ and that’s gonn’ make me dance.” These DearDookie.
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Second half run leads Duke past High Point by Lopa Rahman THE CHRONICLE
Down by just two goals at halftime, High Point didn’t look like a brand-new program that took the field for its first season in 2013. But the Panthers’ ability to keep pace with the Blue Devils quickly diminished after the break. No. 9 Duke’s second-half surge exposed High Point’s inexperience on both ends of the field and propelled the Blue Devils to a 17-6 victory at Koskinen Stadium. “We couldn’t win faceoffs in the third quarter, and [Duke] went 6 HP on a nice, long run there,” High 17 DUKE Point head coach Jon Torpey said. “That’s a great team and a great measuring stick for our guys to see where they need to be. But I’m very pleased with their effort. Our guys didn’t stop fighting the whole time, and that’s the mentality we like to take on.” The opening half was a back-and-forth affair, with the Panthers (3-9) never trailing by more than three goals. Despite taking fewer than half as many shots as the Blue Devils (9-4) in the first two periods, High Point headed into the locker room within two tallies. “[The game] was going up and down,” Duke freshman Case Matheis said. “We had a lot of opportunities, and sometimes they didn’t fall.” The Blue Devils broke the game open in the third quarter, rattling off eight consecutive goals. With a 1-of-10 per-
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Freshman attack Case Matheis notched five points as Duke blew out High Point Friday. formance at the faceoff X, the Panthers had virtually no possession in the third period. In addition to Duke’s dominance in faceoffs, Blue Devil head coach John Danowski praised his team on its overhand shots, ball-sharing and ability to finish. Matheis attributed Duke’s elevated level of play to the pep talk in the locker room given by the Blue Devil staff. “At halftime, the coaches gave us a speech saying that we have to play Duke lacrosse and play fundamentally right, and that if we do that things will take care of themselves,” Matheis said. “So
we came out, played Duke lacrosse and played like we knew how to.” Matheis, who led the Blue Devils in points with two goals and three assists, kicked off the scoring 35 seconds into the game. The freshman followed that up 30 seconds later with a dish to senior Bill Conners, who netted a goal to give Duke a 2-0 lead. High Point freshman Dan Lomas— the Panthers’ leading scorer—quickly responded, scoring the first of his teamhigh three goals. Behind two tallies from freshman Michael Messenger and outstanding play by redshirt sophomore
goaltender Austin Geisler, the Panthers stayed in the game for the opening half. Firing a season-high 32 shots in the first half, the Blue Devils attacked the goal relentlessly, but Geisler staved off Duke’s offense with 13 saves. The redshirt sophomore saved a shot with his legs as time expired in the first quarter and recorded a crucial stop with nine seconds remaining in the second period. The Blue Devils started the second half in explosive fashion, opening up the game with an 8-0 run that ended with a goal from Lomas. After Duke struck again 49 seconds into the final quarter, Geisler was pulled out of the game. With 31 freshmen and just nine sophomores, juniors and seniors on their roster, the Panthers were no match for the Blue Devils’ veteran-heavy squad. Seven of Duke’s eight unanswered goals were scored by upperclassmen. “Depth helped us in that third quarter,” Danowski said. Geisler’s removal from the game didn’t make matters any better for High Point, which gave up three goals in the final period while only scoring one of its own. The Panthers outshot the Blue Devils 11-9 in the fourth quarter, but the shots didn’t fall, dooming High Point to its ninth loss of the season. “[High Point] battled,” Danowski said. “I thought their coaching staff did a terrific job, and they’re going to be a great program going forward.”
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Blue Devils fall on senior day Duke picks up pair of wins by Ali Wells THE CHRONICLE
The No. 6 Blue Devils fell to Georgia Tech 4-0 and Clemson 4-1 this weekend in their first conference losses of the season. Forced to compete with only five players after Ester Goldfield was forced to sit out the weekend’s matches with a hand injury, Duke (13-5, 4-2 in the ACC) forfeited one match of doubles play and a singles point to the Yellow Jackets (10-7, 4-3) Saturday. Marianne Jodoin and Annie Mulholland defeated Elizabeth Kilborn and Muriel Wacker 8-6 in the 4 GT second doubles position, but HanDUKE 0 na Mar and Mary Clayton were not able to maintain their early lead, CLEM 4 losing in a 7-3 tiebreaker to give Tech’s Megan Kurey and DUKE 1 Georgia Kendal Woodard the set 9-8 and the doubles point. Although Jodoin and Mar both took their first sets against Natasha Prokhnevska and Kilborn 6-1 and 7-5, respectively, they could not finish their matches before Nicole Lipp fell to Wacker 6-1, 6-0 and Clayton lost to Woodard 6-3, 6-2 to decide the match. Despite the forfeited third doubles position, the Blue Devils were able to clinch the doubles point Sunday against the Tigers (10-6, 5-2) on senior day. Clayton was plagued with unforced errors in the first two games, but she and Mar were able to break serves of both Tristen Delwar and Yana Koroleva, winning three straight games to take the lead they would hold until the end of the match. Mar drove home a winner between Delwar and Koroleva to win 8-6 on Clayton’s serve. In the second doubles position, Jodoin and Mulholland played aggressively at the net but only traded games with Tigers Beatrice Gumulya and Romy Koelzer to trail 8-7. A decisive winner by Mulholland fought off match point and sent play into a tiebreaker, which Duke took 7-2 to clinch the doubles point. Dewar quickly defeated Lipp on court five 6-0, 6-0 to give the Tigers a 2-1 advantage. Mar was not able to engage
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her dominant net play as Liz Jeukeng’s one-handed backhand kept her confined to the baseline, losing 6-3, 6-1. Jodoin and Mulholland both took their first sets against Koelzer and Gumulya before the match was decided by Clayton and Koroleva on court two. Koroleva broke Clayton’s serve early in the first set to take a 3-1 lead, but Clayton took three straight games to win the first set 6-4. Clayton was unable to slow Koroleva in the next two sets and was forced to return from the corners against the 6-foot Russian, falling 6-0, 6-0 and giving Clemson the 4-1 win.
The No. 9 Blue Devils moved down the Atlantic Coast on a mission, conceding just two points in their two matches against No. 19 Clemson and Georgia Tech. Duke (18-4, 6-1 in the ACC) downed the Tigers (14-4, 3-2) 7-0 Friday and beat the Yellow Jackets (8-12, DUKE 7 1-6) 5-2 Sunday. With Friday’s win, Blue Devil CLEM 0 head coach Ramsey Smith recorded his 100th win as a coach, makDUKE 5 ing him one of just four coaches in the program’s history to win at 2 GT least 100 matches. He also became the first person in the team’s history to win at least 100 matches in singles and doubles as a player, as well as head coach. “It is pretty neat,” Smith said. “Obviously it’s about all the players [on the teams I have been a part of]. We’ve had some great teams historically. Right now, we are mainly focused on finishing this season strong.” Despite conceding the first doubles match of the day to the Clemson, as the tandem of junior Fred Saba and freshman Daniel McCall fell to the Tigers’ Hunter Harrington and Gerardo Meza, Duke rallied to win the doubles point with victories on courts one and two. “We didn’t play great at [third] doubles, so our one and two teams really stepped up,” Smith said. “Some guys are going to have off days sometimes, but their teammates definitely helped pick them up.” Jason Tahir and Michael Redlicki recorded an 8-4 win on court two and the top-ranked duo of Henrique Cunha and Raphael Hemmeler won their match 8-3. “[Cunha and Hemmeler] are in a great rhythm right
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With its weekend series against No. 15 Georgia Tech coming down to the final game, Duke decided that it needed an extra boost to stay loose and snag the series victory against the Yellow Jackets. So, at the request of the upperclassmen, the songs of Michael Jackson replaced the team’s usual walk-up music, allowing the Blue Devils to win game three and a thriller of a series. “I didn’t know anything about the music until the game started,” Duke head coach Chris Pollard said. “It was an effort to make everyone loose, and obviously… it worked.” Even without the King of Pop’s 0 GT help, the Blue DevDUKE 2 ils (19-14, 8-7 in the ACC) set the tone 2 GT in game one with 2-0 victory. Duke DUKE 1 astarter Trent Swart pitched eight shut0 GT out innings, blanking the Yellow Jack3 DUKE ets for the first time since Feb. 17, 2012. Georgia Tech (23-9, 9-6) came into the series boasting one of the ACC’s most potent offenses, leading the conference in batting average, home runs and slugging percentage, but Swart and sophomore closer Andrew Istler tore through the lineup, scattering only seven hits throughout the game. “The way [Swart] came out and threw the ball in the first eight innings of game one set the tone for the whole weekend,” Pollard said. “You hear a lot about their club and how good they are offensively coming into the weekend, and for him to go out and pitch the way he did gave our staff confidence that we can have success against these guys if we execute.” The Blue Devils got another command pitching performance in game two from starter Drew Van Orden. The junior held the Yellow Jackets to three hits over six innings of one-run ball. Offensively, Duke struck early when senior catcher Ryan Munger singled home freshman shortstop Kenny Koplove in the bottom of the second inning. Georgia Tech, however, responded immediately in the top of the third, when catcher Zane Evans singled home third baseman Sam Dove.
>>Duke’s series win against No. 15 Georgia Tech this season marks the second time that the Blue Devils have won a series against a ranked ACC opponent in the 2013 season. Then-No. 24 Miami was the first giant to topple at Duke’s feet when the Blue Devils posted back-to-back wins against the Hurricanes March 8 and 9. >>Duke has not won series against two ranked opponents in the same season since 2010, when it took two of three games from then-No. 11 North Carolina and then-No. 11 Clemson.
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Trent Swart threw eight scoreless innings in the first of Duke’s two weekend wins against Georgia Tech. The game remained locked at 1-1 until the top of the eighth. After freshman Michael Matuella relieved Van Orden with a scoreless seventh of his own, Istler took his place on the mound to face the meat of the Yellow Jacket lineup. Right fielder Daniel Palka led off the inning with a double to rightcenter field, which was followed by Evans being walked. With two outs, two strikes and men on the corners, Istler gave up a single to designated hitter Thomas Smith, which scored Palka and gave Georgia Tech the lead. Despite Duke center fielder Grant McCabe reaching second base in the Blue Devils’ half of the ninth, Duke was unable to score and relinquished game two to the Yellow Jackets. “It was a very evenly played baseball game,” Pollard said. “It took a two-out, twostrike single in the eighth to make a difference. But to hold a team like Georgia Tech to two runs… speaks volumes to the job that
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Second baseman Andy Perez knocked two triples in a 3-0 victory against Georgia Tech Sunday.
[our staff] is doing.” The series came down to game three, with junior Robert Huber starting for Duke. Huber, however, quickly calmed the nerves of the near-capacity crowd at Jack Coombs Field by one-upping both Swart and Van Orden. Huber pitched his second straight completegame shutout while surrendering five Yellow Jacket hits and only one walk through nine brilliant innings. “Everything was working off my fastball today,” Huber said. “It’s a testament to the fact that if you pitch off your fastball, you’ll have success. Every pitcher this weekend had success off their fastball. We were able to limit the damage when they got on and that was the difference.” Huber received run support early from the offense, which got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the first. Second baseman Andy Perez led off with a triple, and scored after right fielder Jeff Kremer hit a sacrifice fly to left field. Then, in the second inning, catcher Reed Anthes led off with a single and was soon knocked home by another Perez triple. Anthes singled again in the sixth to score left fielder Mark Lumpa to finish up a 2-for-4 day. Perez hit .454 overall against Georgia Tech. His head coach attributed the second baseman’s success to Duke’s bold musical selection. “I think Andy Perez needs to stay with the Michael Jackson walk-up music for the rest of the year,” Pollard said. The story of the weekend, however, was the pitching. Duke’s pitchers held Georgia Tech to only two runs in 27 innings. Before this series, the Yellow Jackets hadn’t scored fewer than 18 runs in a three-game series this season. The performances of the Blue Devils on the mound, especially against an offensive juggernaut like the Georgia Tech, bode well for the team as Duke enters the second half of the season. “We’re proud that, at the halfway point, we’ve put ourselves in a very competitive position moving forward,” Pollard said. “But we can’t be fast-forwarding too far off in the distance. I think one of the things these guys have done a really good job of is just focusing in on the task at hand and that’s the way we need to keep attacking things.”
>>The Blue Devils shut Georgia Tech out twice during the weekend series. The last time the Yellow Jackets were shut out twice in the same series was March 15, 1955 against Georgia. >>With the win, Duke’s ACC recordd improves to 8-7 at the midpoint of conference play. The last time the Blue ue Devils finished with a record above .500 in ACC play was 1994, when they finished 16-8. >>With just one more victory, Duke would match its ACC win total from last st season, when it went 9-21. The Blue Devils have already surpassed their confer-ence win total from the 2011 season.
With Sunday’s win against Georgia Tech, Duke won its second seri
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Blue Devils win 12 events at Duke Invitational by Staff Reports THE CHRONICLE
The Blue Devils secured 12 first-place finishes Friday and Saturday at the Duke Invitational—the highest total in program history—highlighted by sweeps of the men’s and women’s 800 meter, shot put and pole vault. In a field that included more than 1,000 athletes competing in a full array of track and field events, the Blue Devils took advantage of two beautiful sunny days to set multiple personal bests and excite their home crowd in one of the two track and field meets held at Wallace Wade Stadium all year. For Duke, freshman Michael Foley got things started off in the invitational’s first event by breaking the school record in the men’s hammer with a throw of 189 feet, four inches. After improving his distance on each attempt, Foley’s fifth throw set the record and secured a first place for the Paradise Valley, Ariz. native. Senior Andrea Hopkins earned her first win of the season w in the women’s javelin with a throw of 147 feet, six inches, and Blu Devils had two first place finishes barely an hour into the Blue t the two-day event. Redshirt junior Michelle Anumba finished out the field events ev for the day by earning second place in the women’s hammer h throw with a mark of 178 feet, eight inches. On the track, sophomore Elizabeth Kerpon started the t day off by running a season best 1:01.77 to finish t third in the 400 meter hurdles. Shortly thereafter, junior Gabby Levac outkicked fellow Blue Devil Cydney Ross to finish first in the 1,500 meter with a personal best time of 4:24.52. Ross also finished with a personal best, crossing the line in 4:25.38 to earn second place. In one of Friday night’s final races, fifth-year senior Ja James Kostelnik earned Duke its fourth first-place finish of the day, winning the men’s 5,000 meter. Kostelnik’s personal b best time of 13:59.02 ranks fifth all-time for any Blue Devil in the event. Th The top finishes kept on coming for Duke Saturday. So Sophomore Stephen Boals started off the winning by taking ho home first place in the men’s shot put with a mark of 54 feet, 11 inches. Boals also recorded a personal record throw of feet, 10 inches to take third in men’s discuss. 170 fee Afte After taking home second-place Friday in the women’s hamm hammer throw, Anumba came back Saturday to take first place in the sshot put with a throw of 54 feet, 11-and-a-half inches. Fre Freshman Megan Clark and sophomore Ian Rock closed out the field events for the weekend by sweeping the pole vault. Clark aand Rock earned the top spot by clearing jumps of 13 feet, o one-and-a-half inches and 15 feet, seven inches, respectivel tively. The Blue Devils also swept the second-place spots in the pole vault, with Emily Mattoon clearing a jump of 12 fee feet, seven-and-a-half inches and Justin Amezquita clearin ing 15 feet, one inch. After coming in second place in the women’s 1,500 Fri Friday, Ross came back Saturday to capture first place in
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More than 1,000 athletes competed in this weekend’s Duke Invitational at Wallace Wade Stadium. the 800 meter with a time of 2:05.54. Freshman Michael Filipczak came in first place in the men’s 800 with a time of 1:49.74, breaking the 1:50 mark for the first time in his young career. Perhaps the most exciting single events of the day were the men’s and women’s 3,000 meter steeplechase, where four personal bests were set by Duke runners. mpson won the Sophomore Shaun Thompson onal best time of men’s division with a personal 8:58.04. Junior Dominickk Robinson also set a new personal best, finishing second n the women’s with a time of 9:01.00. In ermeer set a division, senior Esther Vermeer new personal record of 10:30.37 to earn second place. shed The Blue Devils finished ents off the day’s track events by taking home first place eter relay. The in the men’s 4-x-800 meter zak and sophoteam consisted of Filipczak nry Farley and mores Kyle Moran, Henry Nate McClafferty. Both on the track and in ccess in the field, Duke saw success a multitude of events against mpetition a large field of competition n. The prep- a from across the region. d’s invitational will ration from this weekend’s prove crucial to achievingg successes, both perss than two weeks at the sonal and as a team, in less ACC Championships.
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Duke excelled both on the track and in the field this weekend, recording 12 first-place finishes.
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es of the season against a ranked ACC opponent.
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Michael Filipczak took home first place in the men’s 800 meter and led his relay team to a victory at the Duke Invitational.
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Duke finishes 7th at Aggie Invitational
Lindy Duncan misses cut at Kraft Nabisco
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The Blue Devils were led by two youngsters and a veteran in its seventhplace finish at the Aggie Invitational this past weekend in Bryan, Texas. The competition was fierce in a field that featured 11 other top-50 teams. Freshmen Mads Soegaard and Motin Yeung recorded 10th and 14th place finishes and senior Brinson Paolini—one of five finalists for the 2013 Byron Nelson Award—came in tied for 18th. Yeung was the only Blue Devil to finish the Invitational under par, recording a one-under par 215 for the tournament. “He had a solid week and anytime you can finish in the top 10 with the number of players that are ranked in the field, obviously that’s some solid play,” Duke head coach Jamie Green said. “He has that to look back on going forward…. He didn’t finish two of the rounds the way he would have liked to, but he has every capability and has really played solidly for us this year.” Soegaard finished close behind with a two-over 218 and Paolini recorded a three-over 219. “Mads played very well [Sunday] and really fought to get back into the top 15 and against a field like this, that’s pretty good,” Green said. “He played very consistently…. And that bodes well for us to have two freshmen pushing the envelope a bit and showing the guys around them
how things are done. Brinson is showing why he’s a true all-American contender this year. He has had a great career.” Duke finished with identical scores of 296 on days one and two and finished day three with a three-under par 285. “We were more balanced in our scoring [Sunday],” Blue Devil head coach Jamie Green said. “Motin played very consistently and he had a little more help [in the third round]. Mads also had a great day [Sunday]. We had three under-par scores and that will definitely make a difference.” The Blue Devils finished the tournament with a 13-over par 877 and the No. 2 team in the nation, Alabama, won the invitational with an 18-under par 846. Duke was able to beat out the two teams it was partnered with in the final round of play in LSU and Oklahoma. The Tigers and the Sooners finished with scores of 878 and 879, respectively. The Blue Devils’ next tournament will be the ACC Championships which will take place in New London, N.C. April 26-28. “Well everybody wants to win [ACC Championships and the National Championship],” Green said. “These guys are starting to see what their potential is. From the beginning of the year, these guys have been talking about lofty goals and contending to win ACC’s and becoming national champs. It’s really a step by step process.”
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High winds and a slow start kept senior Lindy Duncan from making the weekend of the LPGA’s first major of the season. After following up an opening-round 81 with a three-under 69 Friday, Duncan missed the cut at the 2013 Kraft Nabisco Championship by just one stroke. Her six-over-par 150 had her tied for 74th when second round play completed with the cut line at five-over-par. “This was the most comfortable I’ve ever been in a professional event,” Duncan said. “It didn’t show in the first round, but I had a lot of good practice rounds, and I felt really good about my game.” A non-factor for the rest of the tournament, the wind picked up Thursday afternoon, resulting in higher scores for those still on the course. A late tee time meant Duncan played the majority of her first round in the windy conditions. “I just didn’t get off to a good start and I had a terrible rhythm going all day,” Duncan said. “I just started to panic a little bit out there because I felt like I wasn’t competing the way I should have been.” Duncan said she gained a new perspective after the round by recognizing the pressure she put on herself. “It was a big wake-up call,” Duncan said. “One of my biggest weaknesses is that I’m just too hard on myself.” With calmer conditions and a healthier attitude, Duncan posted a bogey-free 69 Friday—a score that was bettered that day by just
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Senior Lindy Duncan competed in an LPGA major last weekend for the third time as an amateur. five professionals. “It was the first time in a long time where I really just let myself play,” Duncan said. “I’ve been a little uptight the last few months and that was a big round for me.” The Kraft Nabisco is one of five majors on the LPGA tour and is held annually at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif. It was Duncan’s fifth LPGA tournament and third major as an amateur—she played in the 2009 and 2011 U.S. Opens, making the cut in 2011. The three-time All-American will rejoin the Duke team this week as they travel to Arizona for the PING ASU Women’s Invitational.
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M. TENNIS from page 3 now. It gives the team so much confidence now,” Smith said. “We have such a good shot of winning the number one doubles every single match. They are playing very aggressively. They have a lot of patterns that they can of go to. They have such great chemistry and are playing some really special doubles.” The tandem is now 28-3 on the season. Hemmeler, a sophomore from Switzerland, said he truly enjoys playing with Cunha. “It’s his senior year, and we are really close and we always have fun,” Hemmeler said. “Before the matches, we talk about how we are going to try to control every match. We try to enjoy ourselves and play together.” The Blue Devils then went on to sweep Clemson in singles. Hemmeler recorded his 28th victory of the season with a 6-1, 6-0 decision against the Tigers’ Zachary Rigsby. At the top spot, No. 5 Cunha continued his undefeated run this season, beating No. 17 Yannick Maden 6-4, 6-4. Duke headed into singles play Sunday with a point under its belt after winning doubles. This time, Saba teamed up with Chris Mengel and crushed the Yellow Jackets’ Garret Gordon and Colin Edwards on court three by a score of 8-1. Cunha and Hemmeler finished a little while after with an 8-2 win on court one. The Blue Devils saw a handful of competitive, back-andforth matches on the singles side against Georgia Tech. On court two, Michael Redlicki conceded the first set 6-0 to Yellow Jacket Juan Melian, but went on to win the match, notching second- and third-set victories of 7-5 and 6-1. On court four, Hemmeler also found himself in a tight one with Eduardo Segura. After winning the first set 6-1, Segura came back to win the second set in a tiebreak, 7-6. With the match tied at a set apiece, Hemmeler put his foot down and cruised to a 6-0 third set win to secure the victory. “I was lucky to have a really good start,” Hemmeler said. “I struggled a little with my serve today. He always broke me back and immediately after, I broke him. He started playing better and didn’t miss a lot of balls…. I was really ready for the third set. I played really aggressively and put a lot of pressure on him.” With Cunha out for the singles portion of the Georgia Tech match, all of Duke’s players were forced to play up one spot, moving No. 25 Saba to take on No. 79 Juan Spir at the No. 1 position. Saba dropped his match 6-1, 6-4 following a decisive 6-2, 6-1 victory for Jason Tahir on court five. Freshman Josh Levine was brought in to play on court six for Duke and recorded a point for the Blue Devils by beating Georgia Tech’s Colin Edwards 6-3, 6-2. Duke’s three remaining regular-season matches will be played at Ambler Tennis Stadium, the next one coming Sunday against Miami at noon. “We have built up a lot of good momentum right now,” Smith said. “Our goal is to finish strong and prepare our best for each match, one match at a time. Now we have to focus on Miami.”
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Henrique Cunha kept his unbeaten singles record alive with another win this weekend.
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Mary Clayton was honored on senior day with induction into the Duke Tennis Hall of Fame.
W. TENNIS from page 3 “She came off great in the start of the first set and the start of the second set and never really lost momentum. I couldn’t really do very much to change [that],� Clayton said. The Blue Devils celebrated seniors Lipp and Clayton before the match began. Lipp, “the angel sent from women’s soccer� in the words of her teammates, was applauded for her attitude, support and valuable team spirit. “It was equally special in a little different way,� said Lipp when asked to compare this to her first senior day with the women’s soccer team. “It was a lot of fun. It was a special day to share with Mary.� Lipp said she is grateful for the opportunity to step in for the team and has enjoyed this challenging experience. Clayton was honored Saturday with a place in the Duke Tennis Hall of Fame.
She has led Duke to a 89-21 overall record and a 32-7 conference record during her four-year career. She is only the 21st Blue Devil to surpass the 100 careerwin mark and looks to tie Monica Mraz and Kathy Sell for the third-most ACC singles wins in a season with a 28th victory on the road next week. “We have good leadership with Mary,� head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “She’s handling the team just like I am, keeping everybody up and fighting and realizing that we still have a lot of things ahead of us to play for.� Duke has wrapped up its home schedule and will face Florida State Friday and No. 10 Miami Sunday. Ashworth said the girls needed to stay focused on unity as a team. “The adversity just keeps coming our way, and we just have to keep staying together and believing in each other, trusting each other and being ten people strong,� Ashworth said.
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