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Editor’s note: This is the third in a threepart series evaluating DukeEngage since its inception in 2007. Today’s article addresses critiques of the program and discusses DukeEngage’s responsive strategic plan. Part 1 examined the student experience with DukeEngage and Part 2 analyzed the relationship between DukeEngage and the Duke brand. As an international service program, DukeEngage faces the challenge of proving that it offers students more than just a free trip abroad. DukeEngage’s strategic plan for 2017 outlines ways to address several shortcomings of the program, which has a $4 million annual budget and fully funds more than 400 students to participate in immersive service projects around the world every year. For instance, the onetime, rather than sustained, nature of DukeEngage prompts criticism of this particular service model. Additionally, students consistently show more interest in international offerings than domestic sites, raising questions about what makes overseas service more attractive. Duke also faces a challenge in connecting students’ summer experiences into their broader Duke career.
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Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series evaluating depression among students on campus and how they seek help. Today’s article analyzes how Duke students fit into the trend of increasing rates of depression at universities nationwide and why some students choose medication over other treatment
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He began to lose his interest in academics and lost the ability to focus on anything. Finally, in college, he was diagnosed with depression. “During my senior year of high school, typical senioritis came in around Christmas,� SEE DEPRESSION ON PAGE 3
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Episodic engagement Some of the most pervasive critiques of DukeEngage are, firstly, that students see the program as a travel opportunity as much as a service experience and, secondly, that engagement projects are episodic. Inherent constraints of the program—a typical duration of two months and little infrastructure and resources for students to return to their project site—make it hard for the program to combat the critique that it offers short-term “voluntourism.� Higher student interest in international
options. Tuesday, The Chronicle will assess what about the college environment makes students more susceptible to depression and will explore alternative treatment options to medication. Although he had been a diligent student throughout the majority of high school, something shifted for Advait Ghuge, now a senior, before he arrived at Duke.
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Future Duke Student Government elections will not be bound by campaign timeline constraints or arbitrary spending limits. After the April 11 Daniel Strunk DSG election was postponed to April 16, the Board of Elections decided to disallow further campaigning. But on April 14, the DSG Judiciary ruled to overturn the decision, removing the campaign restrictions. The Judiciary determined that it was not within DSG’s power to restrict free speech via social media. Addition-
ally, the ruling nullified the Board of Election’s ability to determine start and end dates for campaigning. “The most immediate ramification is that specified election periods have been declared unconstitutional, so theoretically someone could start running for DSG president for next year, right now,� said Chief Justice Daniel Strunk, a junior. The complaint was initially filed by freshman Bryan Dinner, a candidate for vice president of social culture, and sophomore Cynthia Wang, a candidate for senator for academic affairs. Strunk added that a candidate’s ability to campaign is part of having the freedom of speech as guaranteed
by the DSG bill of rights. By implementing an election timeline, the Senate was infringing on the freedom of speech and expression of the candidates, said Strunk, who is also a columnist for The Chronicle. President-elect Stefani Jones, a junior, wrote in an email Sunday that the change will not have a large impact on how DSG election cycles operate. “I can’t see students embracing the idea of perpetual DSG elections, so candidates will be pressured to not start too early,� Jones said. “DSG can still have a filing deadline for candidates to be on the ballot, so I’d expect campaigns to
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DUKEENGAGE from page 1 opportunities over domestic opportunities may support this argument. For example, Mlyn noted that the program in Cape Town, South Africa—a location that would be expensive for many students to travel to on their own—consistently yields the highest application numbers. Still, he argued that most participants do not view it as a free travel opportunity. “It would be hard to find a large group of students who experience it as voluntourism,” Mlyn said. “We don’t want to be a voluntourism program.” The episodic critique is difficult for the program to dispel, because its structure has students intensively engaging in service for a short period of time rather than over an extended period. Edward Skloot, professor of the practice of public policy and director of the Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society, said the fact that DukeEngage runs based on an academic schedule is unavoidable, but it might weaken the program. “People come, people go, kids come, kids go, faculty come, faculty go,” said Skloot, a member of the DukeEngage National Advisory Board. “There might be very little overall long-term effect.” Sherryl Broverman, associate professor of the practice of biology and program director for DukeEngage’s WISER program in Muhuru Bay, Kenya, noted that she tries to give opportunities for students to return to Muhuru Bay after their DukeEngage summer there. The community finds more value in continued relationships rather than one-off encounters, she said. The strategic plan does not note critiques of voluntourism or episodic service specifically, but it does mention the need to create a stronger tie between DukeEngage and a student’s overall Duke experience. Helping students tie their summer back into their four years at Duke will help the program reply to some critics who argue that the program is short-term voluntourism. “It’s not episodic if students link it back,” Mlyn said. “Ultimately, we’re limited by the fact that we’re a University,
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students go to school during the year, that you’re all 18-21, and the skills and energies you bring to this are all determined by that.” International trumps domestic DukeEngage has seen consistently lower student interest in domestic programs as compared to the international ones. This raises questions about the role that location plays in students’ choice of programs. Since its creation, 25 percent of DukeEngage students have participated in domestic programs and 75 percent in international programs, according to the 2017 strategic plan. Independent project proposals similarly had more focus on international work than domestic—in summer 2012, only one independent project was domestic. Even now, DukeEngage is adjusting to make domestic programs more desirable to students. After a period of low interest expressed in DukeEngage Durham, the program changed this year to include time spent in both Durham, North Carolina and Durham, England. Students will spend a month in each location. “Students vote with their applications, and they stopped applying to our Durham program,” DukeEngage Executive Director Eric Mlyn said. “But we’ve always wanted to try a program that linked the local to the global. We try to create student demand.” For summer 2013, there are 11 domestic programs and 28 international programs. By 2017, the program plans to increase the share of participation in domestic programs to 35 percent of DukeEngage participants. It also plans to increase the share of domestic independent projects to 15 percent of all independent projects. To promote interest in domestic programs, DukeEngage will replace outgoing international programs with domestic projects and will offer more domestic programs in urban areas. “Domestic is not sexy, rural is really not sexy,” said senior Emily McGinty, who works with the DukeEngage program in Hot Springs, North Carolina. “People say DukeEngage is my ticket to go someplace I may never go otherwise.” Although students who seek domestic
programs are in the minority, many say that their experience is more rewarding and deserving of more attention. According to survey findings collected by DukeEngage during summer 2010, students in domestic programs reported gaining more insights about themselves and greater gains in self-confidence than students in international programs. Improving connections DukeEngage administrators agree that the best way to address critiques and weaknesses of the program is to help students to synthesize DukeEngage and to tie its experiential nature back into the more traditional Duke education. In this vein, the strategic plan calls for establishing more curricular connections and increasing faculty engagement. “We need to help students connect their DukeEngage experience with the overall arc of their educational trajectory,” said Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education. Existing structures like Duke’s global advising program—started in 2011—help students integrate DukeEngage into their overall Duke experience. The proposed experiential learning certificate, approved by Academic Council in February, is another mechanism the University hopes will help with this. Having faculty members on campus will bridge the gap between the summer project and the school year, Mlyn said. Beginning 2013, no new programs will be started without leadership from a Duke faculty or staff member. Before, new project ideas were often driven by volunteer-sending organizations, such as Social Entrepreneur Corps, which leads DukeEngage Guatemala-Antigua and Nicaragua-Granada. “We are convinced that having faculty attached to programs deepens the impact after students come back and before they leave,” Mlyn said. DukeEngage has created a new position called the faculty liaison—a faculty member who advises students before the summer, when the students are in the field and after the summer. DukeEngage will eventually attach a faculty liaison to every program, starting with DukeEngage Guatemala and Tucson, Arizona in
summer 2013. Bringing on more faculty mentors may be a challenge, Broverman noted, because many faculty who are active in student mentoring already participate in some facet of DukeEngage. In addition to greater faculty involvement, long-term evaluation of students’ experience with DukeEngage will help frame improvements to how it fits into the rest of a Duke student’s life, Skloot said. “How has this altered young people’s career paths, life paths, relationships with people?” he said. “It’s still a little early to see the outcomes. This is how we’ll see if the mission is accomplished.” The reporter participated in DukeEngage South Africa-Durban 2012.
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DEPRESSION from page 1 Ghuge said. “Between then and the end of the next two years, I have almost no memory, and that’s attributed to depression. I didn’t realize I had it.” Ghuge’s story is just one example of a burgeoning phenomenon in the United States. Today, the number of students entering colleges and universities nationally who seek treatment for depression is higher than ever, said Gary Glass, assistant director for outreach and developmental programming at Counseling and Psychological Services. Duke does not keep data on the number of students diagnosed with depression because the disorder is complex to diagnose and many students choose to receive treatment outside of the University. But 30 percent of students entering Duke in 2011 were already using medication to treat depression, said Donna Lisker, associate vice provost for undergraduate education. In order to gauge the prevalence of depression on college campuses over time, CAPS draws information from reports written by the Center for Collegiate Mental Health, CAPS Director Kelly Crace wrote in an email Apr. 5. The pilot report was published in 2009, and statistics from Duke have been included in every annual report. The 2009 report notes that depression is the most frequent problem experienced by students seeking psychological and psychiatric treatment. The current estimates also indicate an increase in the prevalence of depression compared to several decades ago. The average age of onset is also on the decline, making depression a “particularly salient problem area for college student populations.” Although Ghuge had not yet identified what was wrong, he decided to take a semester off to spend at home. When Ghuge returned home for the se-
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mester, he and his parents began to accept that Ghuge might have depression. With his family, Ghuge eventually decided to try medication. “I still remember the first day I took my medicine,” he said. “It was as if a veil had been removed from in front of me.” Deciding to medicate Although CAPS offers a range of treatments for depression, Glass noted that sometimes medication is the best option to combat physiological manifestations of depression. There are several psychiatrists at CAPS who can prescribe anti-depressants to students for the first time or work with students already on anti-depressants to moderate dosage. According to the Center for Collegiate Mental Health 2012 report, 13 percent of students surveyed nationwide started taking a prescription for mental health concerns after starting college, 8.7 percent reported having taken medications before coming to college and 10.1 percent took medications before starting college and continued to do so. The remaining 68.2 percent of respondents had never been medicated for mental health reasons. “Nationally, more students come into college with medication, and this accounts for some of the rise in college students being depressed,” Glass said. “But it’s not necessarily an indication that college students are more depressed.” An ‘elusive’ diagnosis Despite the growing trend of students either identifying themselves as depressed or seeking help for symptoms of depression, the condition is still elusive, Glass said. It is hard to identify students as depressed because nearly all individuals go through periods of unhappiness or stress, he added. “Our philosophical assumption is that students are going through such profound life
experiences that it makes more sense to think of how students are developing than simply what diagnosis we would assign,” he said. “It’s often more helpful to recognize the symptoms of depression as indicating that help is needed.” CAPS offers a range of counseling services and treatment options to students who show symptoms of depression but lack an actual diagnosis. To diagnose depression is to diagnose a “constellation of symptoms,” Glass added, and is further complicated because individuals do not have to have all symptoms to be clinically considered depressed. Symptoms include impaired concentration, apathy and loss of interest, sad or numb moods, irritability and suicidal thoughts. Depression can be recurrent or single-episode, and each of those disorders has sub-categories of mild, moderate and severe. Taking time off Although Ghuge had not yet been diagnosed with depression when he decided to take time off, he said the disorder seriously affected his ability to function as a student. “My grades had declined, and my motivation to study was gone, whereas before I was an extremely motivated student,” he said. “Depression takes whatever intellectual gift you have and makes you unable to use it. Easy things become things you’re unable to do.” Senior Ahmad Jitan, who was diagnosed with depression his sophomore year, said the stresses of being at Duke made him feel as though his depression was affecting his life more significantly than it had in the past. This led Jitan, also a columnist for The Chronicle, to consider taking time off from school. “The competitive environment brought more of it out,” he said. In order to take time off from Duke, students are required to provide documentation from a medical provider that states their sup-
port for a leave of absence, which students then give to their academic dean, Amy Powell, associate dean of students and director of the case manager office, wrote in an email Tuesday. During his time off, Jitan traveled to foreign countries and spent time at home. “[I] gave myself time and space to heal [and] to process it and to find myself,” he said. Getting back into life at Duke after his leave of absence was also difficult, he added. “There was a process of realizing that I was taking a nontraditional path for my education and realizing there’s nothing wrong with going at my own pace,” Jitan said. “There was also a lot of forming new relationships because some of the people I came in with were graduating earlier [than I was].” When students return to campus, the University provides outreach and support through the Office of Case Management, Powell said. “A lot of it is relearning how to study or finish a task all the way through or disciplining yourself to get up in the morning,” Ghuge said. “It makes you highly introspective…. You have to learn about how different thought processes affect you and how to avoid falling into the pitfalls of those processes.”
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JUDICIARY from page 1 naturally start close to that deadline.” This is the first time that the Judiciary has decided a case based on the bill of rights, which was enacted Feb. 8. “It is important to note that we didn’t necessarily want to come to this decision. This was a decision that we, as justices, had to come to legally based upon the doctrine that we had to evaluate,” said Associate Justice Joseph Denton, a freshman. “It was actually a very natural decision, and it was made unanimously.” The Judiciary has jurisdiction to oversee any case brought before them that has to do with any student group, DSG, tenting or the Student Organization Finance Committee. Associate Justice Max Schreiber, a
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freshman, added that the dissolution of specific dates to begin campaigning will change some of the dynamics of DSG election cycles. “Timing is a big thing politically, and that has never been an issue with Duke elections before because the timeline for everybody to start was always the same, and the timeline for everybody to finish was always the same,” Schreiber said. “Now this decision adds this whole element politically to the length of one’s campaign [and] the start of one’s campaign.” He added that the open election timeline will “add a lot of twists to elections in years to come.” Associate Justice Kory Painter, a senior, said the revised timeline policy will add a new dimension for candidates to set themselves apart from one another. “It will demonstrate the quality of
campaigns and how efficient they are,” Painter said. In addition to removing restrictions on campaigning timelines, the ruling redefined DSG’s role in determining campaign budgets. Although the Senate can still set a budget for a campaign, they can no longer determine how the money can be spent, at what rates candidates must pay for campaign materials or assign values to campaign materials that do not have a monetary cost—such as posting to social media. “It was very clearly written in the student bill of rights that DSG can establish a cap on the amount of money a candidate can spend during a campaign,” Strunk said. “[But] they can’t charge you for actions like creating a Facebook page that are inherently free and that candidates wouldn’t be charged for oth-
erwise.” He added that it infringes on a candidate’s freedom of speech to set arbitrary price values. Painter said the Judiciary reaches its decisions through a “round robin” discussion process, in which Strunk guides the conversation, and each justice discusses his or her views until an agreement is reached. Strunk said it is important for students to know how to use the Judiciary as a method to manage disputes when a student group violates rights guaranteed by the bill of rights. “The Judiciary is here as a resource to help settle any disputes that might involve the recently ratified bill of rights, just as we did in this case,” Strunk said. The Judiciary had seven cases filed this year, and six were seen through to trials.
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Judiciary oversteps bounds One week ago, the Duke The Judiciary’s decision, Student Government Judicia- which is rooted almost entirery issued its first ruling based ly in the “freedom of speech” on the new DSG bill of rights. clause in the DSG Bill of We believe the ruling has neg- Rights, has three main pillars. ative implications both for First, the Judiciary ruled that the regulation the Board of of undergraduElections caneditorial ate elections by not assign monthe Board of Elections and etary values to candidates’ the DSG policy-making pro- “speech acts.” Secondly, the cess more broadly. BOE cannot regulate speech The case, Dinner and acts that have no actual monWang v. Board of Elections, etary cost, and thirdly, neither contended that the Board of DSG nor the Board of ElecElections had misinterpreted tions has the ability to specify the Senate’s extension of or enforce a timeline when this year’s Senate and Class these speech acts occur. Council elections, which The ruling strips the Board were postponed due to a of Elections of most or all of technical error. Dinner and its regulatory power, and we Wang also questioned the believe that each of its comSenate’s regulations on the ponents has the potential to way candidates spent money negatively affect the student on campaigning. election process. As it stands,
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many student elections devolve into popularity contests, and deregulation will only shift the discourse further away from relevant concerns about the candidates’ platforms. The third component allows candidates to start campaigning weeks, months or even a full year ahead of elections. Although it is hard to discern whether this will be a net benefit or detriment to “less popular” candidates, the possibility of an effectively never-ending election cycle means a lot more noise, and very little added value, to campus discussion. Most troubling is that these problems are self-manufactured and confirm our initial skepticism about the DSG Bill of Rights. When the Board of Elections set election timelines
and fielded complaints from candidates, it generally worked smoothly and was never the focus of major criticism. It remains to be seen, moreover, how the ruling will affect the highly regulated Young Trustee elections, which have a twostage electoral procedure. The Bill of Rights, which is intentionally vague and open to broad interpretation, substantially bolsters the Judiciary’s power of judicial review and, by extension, makes it into a powerful undergraduate policymaking body. The U.S. Supreme Court has large review powers in part because considerable separation exists between citizens and the government. With Duke’s undergraduate government, the separation is much less significant. Disgruntled individual
students are often able to affect widespread campus change outside the DSG system. The Judiciary’s increased power is harmful for at least two reasons. First, its members are neither the most qualified nor representative undergraduate policymakers. Those titles, theoretically, fall to the DSG Senate and executive board. Second, future rulings have the possibility to impact student groups outside of DSG. While we believe the Judiciary should serve as an objective third party to resolve certain issues, the possibility that its broad rulings might affect otherwise autonomous student groups threatens both their independence and the mission that student organizations are meant to carry out.
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n writing my last column, I didn’t want to be that ate, plan to have lunch with someone new every overly nostalgic, cliché, doesn’t-want-to-graduate single day.” While that sounds like a wonderful idea, senior who won’t stop gushing about memories one that I wish I had attempted two years ago, I’m and sharing things on her bucket list. What follows is in a new place, one in which my joy doesn’t come a toned-down version of that. out of having the widest network of Over the past year, I’ve started to friends, but appreciating all of my approach my friendships, relationfriendships, no matter what stage ships and plans differently. During they’re in. my first and second year, I used to get A mindset change also hit me so antsy and insecure about spendwith “going out.” A friend once told ing time with friends—I just HAD to me somewhat regrettably, “I’ve hardbe in the know about every detail in ly gone out at all this semester. I’ve their lives, like Oh-Em-Gee. You were been so lame.” After a pause, I asked jaimie woo there once, right? You’d feel SO left her, “But are you happy? Have you times like these out if you passed on just one Saturday been happy?” She replied with a yes Night Shooters or if you weren’t inand a genuine smile. I told her then cluded on trips to the Marketplace. I’d feel disheart- that was all that mattered. No longer experiencing ened upon realizing that I’d lost touch with certain the deeply rooted Fear Of Missing Out that I used to people, the same people I’d share all my secrets with feel during my first year of college, I told myself that or spend day in and day out with only months ear- I would only go/do/see things that I truly wanted lier. I’d come across folks who used to be my back- to. I discovered how to sift through all of the friend bone, and pass by them with merely a smile and ca- pressure and the seeping FOMO to ask myself: Do sual hello. “I used to be so close with her!” I would you REALLY want to go to Quarter Beers tonight? think. “What happened? Why doesn’t he confide in Are you actually looking forward to seeing this play? me anymore? Why am I always the one to reach out For some of these questions, the answer was a simto her? What happened?” ple, “Hell no.” For others, it was an obvious yes. I But life happened. Where has all the love gone? have started doing the things I want to do, even if it It’s still there … but it’s evolved. I’ve learned to accept means doing them alone—going to the Arts Annex the fact that that while some friendships strengthen to paint, seeing Choreolab by myself, staying home and new ones form, others fade. And that’s perfectly to catch up on “New Girl.” When I wanted to go to okay. I used to focus so much of my energy and time Shooters, I had the most carefree and fantastic time, on the people that seemed to be just beyond my full of bull-riding/bar-dancing fun. However, if after grasp, that I lost opportunities to spend time enjoy- 30 minutes at Satis I found myself feeling bored but ing myself with friends who were patting my back. my friends were having the time of their lives, I’d While some friendships naturally wane, new ones de- take a cab home. Like my friend, whom I rarely see velop in their place. I’ve even invested myself in a re- but whose company I cherish nonetheless, I was haplationship knowing that it will soon end once I grad- py with what I was doing because I chose it. uate. I don’t regret not meeting him sooner, simply My whole four years of college would have been a because our relationship wouldn’t have been what it lot easier if I thought this way. There would have been is right now. When I do eventually catch a break with less social anxiety, fewer regrettable nights and more some friends I haven’t seen in awhile, we have an authentic enjoyment. Yet I don’t regret the way my incredible time together, laughing ‘til our stomachs Duke experience has evolved. I look back and wonhurt so much that we’re gasping for air. I’ve come to der not where all the love has gone, but where the appreciate those moments—I am happy when those time has gone. My outlook on friendships is constantly moments happen maybe once a month, rather than shifting, but for now, I’m in a great place to jumpstart sad that they don’t happen everyday. Enter cliché: my new life beyond Duke’s Gothic Wonderland. What matters isn’t what does or does not happen, but rather what you choose to make of it. Jaimie Woo is a Trinity senior. This is her final column A Duke alum once advised me, “Until you gradu- of the semester. You can follow her on Twitter @jwoo9913.
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ear Dookie, also its scars, bruises and adult acne. It can Question: Why do you suck so be offensive and unsettling, but it forces much? You’re the worst. Not one people to think about things by getting at word of your “advice columns” offers valu- them when their defenses are down. To atable advice. tempt to censor such provocative speech in—Not Amused fantilizes those creating and Dear Pretty Amusing, consuming humor, alienates First and foremost, conthose whose opinions are gratulations. Scientists have not cemented and recesses said that higher-level cortiinto a neoliberal bubble cal functioning is necessary that is isolated from how the for the development of lanworld really is. guage, but you’ve proved Maybe we’re already them wrong. Maybe your monday monday stuck in that bubble. Monquestion is like that novel day, Monday exists to critidear dookie they say a chimp could write cize the uncriticizable, but if if it threw its feces at a comthere’s something I learned puter enough times—but I’d like to believe in a semester as Double D, it’s that Duke I’m experiencing a miracle. You, sir, are an students are horrible at taking criticism. inspiration to us all. They interpret critique as an invalidating Secondly, I’d like to extend further felic- personal attack. They attempt to refute crititations for your bold idea. You pointlessly icism in any way possible—brushing it off as and anonymously attacked a Chronicle unimportant or trying to explain it through columnist! And more, it was Monday, Mon- some flaw of the critic. Any recognition of day! What bravery, what heroism! You’ve fault is superficial and defensive, serving to truly made an impact on Duke’s campus, try to nullify the criticism instead of face it. and really, the world. Does anybody know These passionate, intelligent students are if the Nobel Peace Prize is still available? so self-involved and invested in their own Never mind, they probably already gave it infinite correctness that they never stop to to Obama. think there might be some merit to the arIn all seriousness, I didn’t ask for this guments of others or benefit to acknowledgjob. It was offered to me, and I was pretty ing fault. I blame participation trophies. hesitant to take it. It wasn’t just that satire So as for the Dookie’s final advice? After isn’t my style (as some have pointed out a semester as a half-closeted Monday, Moncondescendingly, I’m rather blunt—and day, I could think of many things. There is apparently, comedy and critique don’t ex- no benefit to treating those who have difist outside of subtlety). It was that I’d seen ferent opinions from you as “less than”—in Monday, Monday get torn apart for … well fact, it’s just really awkward. You can tell real … anything. It’s either too raunchy or not friends and mature people by their ability to raunchy enough. It’s not satire or it’s not disagree with you and like you at the same GOOD satire or it’s TOO good and indi- time. No matter how egalitarian you conrectly promotes what it satirizes. So many sider yourself, you must watch your bigotry, self-appointed, self-righteous critics make because when in a liberal environment, it is the same error: They enter the coliseum the liberals who can be the closed-minded with their thumbs down. They’re ready ones. Re-evaluate social movements, because to be offended, searching for something as they currently stand, some are more aliento disapprove of. Worse still, they assume ating than effective. And if your anonymous Monday, Monday EVER means ANY- advice columnist persona has an email adTHING they say. dress, do not sync it with your Gmail, beThe point of the anonymity of the col- cause you might accidentally use it to email umn, in my mind, is so the author CAN professors for three straight weeks. mean nothing. It is so they can be intentionBut as for the best piece of advice I can ally incendiary in order to cause outrage and give after a semester as Duke’s most historconversation in ways that facts, orchestrated ically criticized columnist? Learn to take discussions, statistics and personal stories criticism. Nothing is perfect, but we forget continually fail to do. As Dear Dookie, my that this applies to ourselves and the things goal wasn’t to please—it was to provoke. To we are passionate about. We must accept get people talking—or better, thinking— critique both from people we agree and about important issues that are hard to talk disagree with, because those who think about. Usually, this meant taking an extreme, differently are not necessarily wrong. Not opposite viewpoint from the one I actually every statement against your personal behold in order to point out its flaws or bring lief is an affront to your humanness and its existence to light. I thought this was pretty character. And most of all, quit taking clearly what I was doing. I literally referred yourselves so seriously. Because if you conto myself as a piece of s**t. Did anyone re- sider your features and flaws so significant ally expect valuable advice from a turd? I that you cannot even laugh at them, how know—it may be hard to understand. Satire, can you expect to confront them? To move snarkiness and sarcasm are harder for some forward, we must face criticism with dignipeople to follow than the plot of a “Dora ty and understanding—or else, eventually, the Explorer” episode. We’re going through everything will go to dookie. WHAT forest?! Remind me a 12th time. Get With love from above all you b****es, Map back out here! Your Dearest Dookie, Lillie Reed. I refuse to believe that satirizing, criticizing or making light of touchy subjects Lillie Reed has used the word “pterodactyl” is necessarily destructive. Humor brings in every single one of her final columns so far. to light not only society’s bright spots, but So. Pterodactyl.
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he tragedy in Boston is a heavy tions are understandably high, but weight on the heart of every these emotions should not lead us to American. We pray that God target a certain group of people based ease the pain felt by the victims of the on the actions of a few. One such inBoston bombings, their cident is of a Saudi stuloved ones and all those dent attending the Boswho have been afflicted ahmed alshareef ton Marathon. As people with fear and turmoil. We shajuti hossain were running in fear pray that they have the away from the bombings, guest column patience to persevere. he was unfairly identiHumans are most fied as a suspect. He was united in times of misfortune when un- tackled, arrested and questioned for explainable acts of evil call for solidar- 24 hours after instinctively running ity. Such unity is found in inspirational from danger. Countless other Ameri“We are Boston” posters all around the cans, Muslim and not, are affected by world. American Muslims share in this the consequences of Islamophobia and unity, but there remains unwarranted the mental dichotomy between being concern implicating Muslims and Islam American and being Muslim that it inas the cause of these atrocious acts. As duces. Not only does it create fear of Muslims, our individual responses ulti- discrimination in the heart of Muslims, mately focused on the same fears: How but it also creates an understandable do we express our empathy to the vic- fear of Muslims for those coping with tims without appearing apologetic or the aftermath of the tragedy. reinforcing imposed collective guilt? —Since 9/11, American Muslims In response to these issues, the follow- are more fearful and anxious of attacks ing are reflections of some American on our beloved nation. We are forced Muslim students at Duke. to balance defending our faith and de—Human nature teaches us that vi- fending our country—two things that olence is wrong. Yet when tragedies of are not mutually exclusive. Islam is, mass violence strike, we find ourselves as most at Duke have come to know, looking for answers as to how a fellow a religion of peace. Unfortunately, to human could have committed such evil. most Americans, Islam spreads hatred In search of these answers, it is unfor- and violence and propagates terrorists. tunate that our society often draws the This isn’t Islam. Muslims are taught connection to Islam. Islam has played a that love and compassion are exemfundamental role in how I treat my fel- plary traits. Islam condemns destruclow humans. Islam humbles me in my tion and murder. How do we convey mortality and reminds me that life is that our hearts ache with the rest of too short to bring people down. Islam America? Whether or not the perpeteaches me to help and support others trators of a violent act are Muslim, I as I can. It is this message that I hope am angry at them just as everyone else I can leave you with as a fellow Dukie, is. I hope that if, in the future, there Muslim and human. is, God forbid, another attack, people —After seeing the atrocities in the won’t be so quick to blame Muslims for news, I thought to myself, “I hope they the incident. And, even if the attacker weren’t Muslim. ...” We know that Is- is a Muslim, I pray that people will unlam does not condone [the perpetra- derstand that Islam doesn’t equal tertors’] behavior, but it is difficult to rorism and that all Muslims cannot be know how defensive we should be, if blamed for the acts of a few. at all. If we keep quiet, people may asAt first we were uncertain about sume that Islam is to blame. If we con- how to respond, but Duke students restantly defend ourselves, it seems like sponded admirably by not connecting we’re trying too hard to cover up some Islam to the horrendous acts. One of dirty little secret. Some of us are ex- the most inspirational responses was hausted. Exhausted from seeing Mus- a meme posted on Facebook by a fellim names associated with attacks in low non-Muslim Duke student: “Keep the news, exhausted from explaining Calm and Resist Islamophobia.” It had that those few people are completely over 100 shares. Our hope is that in misconstruing the peaceful religion of this collective American unity, every Islam. They use false justifications and person can come together to support turn our beautiful faith into a mon- those suffering in Boston and elsester. The conversation among Muslims where around the world. continues to emphasize using our actions to show how both America and Ahmed Alshareef, a Pratt junior, and the Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Shajuti Hossain, a Trinity sophomore, Blessings be upon him) teach us to be are the president and vice president of the kind and caring to our fellow human Muslim Students Association, respectively. beings. Hamid Ali, Pratt ’12, Nadir Ijaz, Trinity —In the chaos of last week’s events, ’12, Hodan Mahmoud, a Trinity junior, fear spread: fear for the victims and Yossra Hamid, a Trinity freshman, and their families, fear of suspects on the Abdul Rahman Latif, a Trinity freshman, loose and fear of the aftermath. Emo- also contributed to this piece.
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Duke wins ACC title in landslide McCallie receives extension
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Overcoming firm greens and swirling winds, the Blue Devils closed out the ACC Championships in style Sunday, capturing the conference title for the 18th time in school history. No. 3 Duke posted daily totals of 293, 292 and 297 en route to a 24-stroke victory at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C. The victory—the team’s first of the year—featured top-10 individual finishes from four of the five Blue Devils. “I think what’s important—maybe even more important than the fact that we won— was the fact that we won by 24 strokes,” head coach Dan Brooks said. “We needed to play well because we have our sights set on big things. We needed to play well enough to win by a big margin to know that we are playing at the level we are capable of.” The team entered Sunday with an 11-shot lead, which it managed to stretch throughout the day despite firmer conditions on and around the greens. Rain Friday night resulted in softer greens for Saturday’s round, but drier and windier conditions led to Sunday’s quicker and harder greens. Junior Laetitia Beck and senior Lindy Duncan found themselves in contention Sunday before their hopes for an individual title were dashed by double bogeys on the 15th and
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Duke captured its 18th ACC title with a commanding victory, winning the tournament by 24 strokes. 11th holes, respectively. Beck, who started the day six shots off the lead, followed a one-over-par front nine with birdies on the 10th and 12th holes to pull within striking distance of Virginia’s Brittany Altomore, the eventual champion. But an errant shot by Beck on the par-5 15th found the water and resulted in a double bogey that
proved to be the difference. Beck finished in second place with a six-over-par 219, two shots back of Altomore. “I am not happy with the way I played this week,” Beck told GoDuke.com. “Even today I made a lot of birdies, but then also a SEE W. GOLF ON PAGE 4
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Cunha caps off undefeated campaign by Olivia Banks THE CHRONICLE
An enthusiastic crowd packed the seats of Ambler Tennis Stadium Sunday to celebrate Henrique Cunha, the team’s only graduating senior, as the Blue Devils took on N.C. State. He did not disappoint. By cruising to a 6-1, 6-0 victory against the Wolfpacks’ Robbie Mudge in what head coach Ramsey Smith called “one of the best singles matchNCST 0 es of his career,” DUKE 7 Cunha wrapped up his final season of collegiate tennis with a perfect 16-0 record in dual matches and led No. 10 Duke (21-4, 9-1 in the ACC) to a 7-0 victory. “I couldn’t have asked for a better season,” Cunha said. “It’s just unbelievable.” A native of Jau, Brazil, Cunha entered Sunday’s contest with 144 singles victories in his career and will leave Duke as the most decorated player in program’s 108year history. “Each year the team has gotten better, and that’s not a coincidence,” Smith said. “It’s because the guys are following his lead and he’s set such a high standard.” Cunha’s silent yet commanding presence has been a guiding force for the Blue Devils, setting an example for his teammates and leading the squad to an undefeated season at home. “He’s just the whole package,” Smith said. “He wins, he wins the right way, he’s
a good sport and a great representative of the University. He’s a great teammate, a great leader and stays extremely humble.” All three doubles courts faced aggressive net players against N.C. State (13-9, 6-4), but a combination of high lobs and strategic passing shots allowed the Blue Devils to neutralize the attacks of larger opponents, keeping the points evenly matched. Cunha, alongside doubles partner Raphael Hemmeler, took on the No. 12 dou-
bles team in Sean Weber and Dave Thompson of N.C. State. At first, Duke struggled to put the ball past a 6-foot-4 Weber at the net, going down a break early. But as the Cunha and Hemmeler began to settle into their strokes, they attacked the net and managed to keep the ball deep and their opponents subdued at the baseline, winning three straight games and taking an SEE M. TENNIS ON PAGE 4
This season, Joanne P. McCallie won two of the three “championships”: ACC regular season and ACC Tournament titles. But the third, a national championship banner, has eluded her during her six seasons at Duke. After signing a contract extension last week that will keep her in Durham through the 2018-19 season, McCallie said reaching that ultimate plateau remains the goal. The Blue Devils have reached four consecutive Elite Eights but have yet to make a Final Four with McCallie. “It’s a little bit of a falsehood to act like the Final Four is the place to be,” McCallie said. “You want to say you’re pursuing championships and want to bring a national championship home to Duke. I don’t have any interest in going to a Final Four and not getting it done.” With a 33-3 record this season—and two of those losses coming after a seasonending injury to star point guard Chelsea Gray—McCallie improved her record to 174-35 at Duke. The Blue Devils won the ACC Tournament in March for the third time in the last four years and have claimed at least a share of the regular-season title in each of those years. They won the conference outright this year with a 17-1 regularseason record. The season ended with a loss to Notre Dame in the Elite Eight. McCallie’s signature for success has been annually bringing in one of the nation’s top recruiting classes. All four classes on next year’s team include at least one top-10 recruit, according to ESPN. The rising senior class has five players in the top 100 while the incoming freshman class features three players in the top 12, in addition to No. 32 Kianna Holland. McCallie, though, said she “is not a big rankings person” and narrows down the crop of top players to a select few whose character fits the Duke brand both on and off the court. “Academics have to be important to the kids we recruit. I’ve had kids tell me, ‘Academics aren’t important to me,’ and I tell them, ‘Well, then you don’t belong at Duke,’” McCallie said. “At the bigger schools, they’re recruiting everybody. I feel very fortunate that we have a smaller, very high-quality pool.” Athletic director Kevin White cited the basketball players’ successes athletically and academically in a statement announcing McCallie’s extension Friday. “With her extraordinary winning percentage, coupled with outstanding graduation rates and academic success, we are extremely proud to have an elite coach such as Joanne firmly established as the leader
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With a win Sunday, Henrique Cunha completed his senior season with a perfect 16-0 singles record.
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Top-ranked Tar Heels sweep Blue Devils by Danielle Lazarus THE CHRONICLE
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—After winning two series against ranked ACC opponents this season, Duke traveled down Tobacco Road to face its archrival, No. 1 North Carolina. The Tar Heels, however, lived up to their top ranking and swept the Blue Devils in a three-game weekend series. Fueled by its starting pitching, North Carolina allowed Duke (22-20, 8-13 in the ACC) just three runs in the series, defeating the Blue Devils 7-1, 4-1 and 10-1 at Boshamer Stadium. “They’re the number one team DUKE 1 in the country and 7 they played like it,” UNC Duke head coach DUKE 1 Chris Pollard said. “We’re obviously 4 UNC disappointed and our confidence is DUKE 1 shaken, but that’s 10 what the ACC will UNC do to you.” After a thunderstorm Friday postponed game one, junior Drew Van Orden (2-5) was on the mound Saturday to start the doubleheader against the Tar Heels (39-2, 18-2) instead of sophomore Trent Swart. Swart has started the opening game of every other ACC series this season. “It’s hard when you have a doubleheader to pitch the second ballgame, because you have to sit around and watch that first ballgame unfold,” Pollard said. “My feeling has always been when you’re in a doubleheader like that and you have the choice, you start your best guy in the second game.” Despite throwing six innings of one-run ball against then-No. 15 Georgia Tech two weeks ago, Van Orden’s outing was reminiscent of his performance last week against No.
6 Florida State, when he gave up seven runs in seven innings. The right-hander relinquished six runs—five earned—over 5.2 innings of work against North Carolina, but what hurt the Blue Devils the most were the free passes he gave to the Tar Heels. Van Orden surrendered three walks, a balk, threw a wild pitch and hit four different North Carolina players. “Against really good teams, and North Carolina is a really good team, you can’t do that to yourself,” Pollard said. The Tar Heels capitalized on Duke’s pitching miscues. North Carolina plated two runs in the first inning after Van Orden hit shortstop Michael Russell with a pitch with the bases loaded to score center fielder Chaz Frank. One pitch later, third baseman Colin Moran scored from third on a wild pitch. In the fourth inning, catcher Matt Roberts gave the Tar Heels a 3-0 lead after scoring from third on a passed ball, and in the fifth Russell was hit by a pitch for the second time and later scored on a Parks Jordan sacrifice fly. Swart (4-3) appeared to be more settled than his teammate in game two, giving up only three runs—two earned—in six innings. North Carolina got to Swart early, with Frank, designated hitter Landon Lassiter and Moran loading the bases with no outs off a double, single and hit by pitch respectively. Swart induced back-to-back groundouts but Frank and Lassiter crossed the plate to give the Tar Heels an early 2-0 lead. North Carolina never looked back and tacked on two more runs to win 4-1. “Trent pitched well enough to win the ballgame,” Pollard said. “We needed to execute better offensively.” Although Duke came closer to winning in game two, game three was the most lopsided of the series in favor of North Carolina, which crushed the Blue Devils 10-1. The Tar Heels once again got an early first-inning lead when
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The Blue Devils’ bats fell silent against North Carolina as the team managed just three runs in the series. right fielder Brian Holberton smacked a threerun home run to right field. Blue Devil starter Robert Huber (5-4) rebounded in the second with a scoreless inning, but gave up four more runs before a fifth-inning exit. “One of the things we need to fix is that we find ourselves playing out of the hole a lot,” Pollard said. “When you have a team like that who scores two or three runs in the first, you find yourself playing catchup the whole game.” Duke third baseman Jordan Betts was the lone offensive bright spot, notching a hit in each game of the series. Betts provided the only offense for the Blue Devils in games one and two with a solo home run in each.
North Carolina’s stellar pitching limited Duke to only three runs in the entire series. The Tar Heels’ starting trio of Kent Emmanuel (8-1), Benton Moss (7-0) and Hobbs Johnson (2-0) is among the best rotations in the country, with each pitcher posting an ERA below 3.00. “Carolina, the way they pitch, they make a lot of teams look bad offensively,” Pollard said. “And then you play [Florida State and North Carolina] back-to-back, it beats you up a little bit. We have to learn from the things we didn’t do well… and the good thing about baseball is that there’s not a lot of time to dwell on what happened. You just have to do a good job of regrouping.”
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Hommel and Trimble lead Duke past Ohio State by Nick Martin THE CHRONICLE
After dropping three of its previous four contests, No. 9 Duke needed a strong win to build some momentum before heading into the ACC Tournament. The Blue Devils managed just that Saturday afternoon against Ohio State. Led by senior Makenzie Hommel, Duke (11-4) pulled away 9 OSU late in the first half cruise to a 15-9 DUKE 15 to victory against the Buckeyes. “As a unit, coming off three away games with two of them being a loss, I think this was a chance for us to gain our momentum back,” Hommel said. Hommel paced the Blue Devil offense, notching a career-high five goals against the Buckeyes. It was her first half performance that set the tone for the game. The senior matched the entire Ohio State (6-8) offense in the first half with three goals of her own. Duke jumped out to the early lead, with freshman Kelci Smesko putting the Blue Devils ahead only 1:09 into the game. The Buckeyes were not held scoreless for long. Mary Kate Facchina scored on a free position shot to knot the score at one apiece. The senior played alongside her sister Cara, who also notched a goal in the opening half. Following Facchina’s goal, Hommel decided it was time to step up and the
senior did just that, scoring the next two goals for Duke. After going goal-for-goal with the Buckeyes, Duke went on a tear in the last five minutes of the first half. With their lead whittled down to one following a goal from Cara Facchina, the Blue Devils reeled off three goals in two minutes. The final goal of the half came off an assist from sophomore Kerrin Maurer and gave Hommel her 40th goal of the season. Both teams entered Saturday’s contest averaging 26.5 shots per contest, but tight defense by both held them in check early on, with Ohio State and Duke taking nine and 10 shots, respectively. Even though they only took 10 shots, the Blue Devils were efficient in the first half, with eight of those shots being on goal. Seven of those shots-on-goal found the back of the net. It was the exceptional play of the Buckeyes’ Facchina sisters that kept Ohio State in the game, scoring two of their three first half goals. Hommel took advantage of the Buckeyes’ aggressive defense, maneuvering past defenders to open lanes for herself. On the other end of the field, Duke made sure to close these kinds of gaps, denying any easy cuts to the goal for Ohio State. “We were able to spread it out wide and draw the defense out so it was easier to create lanes and the defense was sliding and our players were getting open,” DARBI GRIFFITH/THE CHRONICLE
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Taylor Trimble scored four goals for the Blue Devils in the team’s final game before the ACC Tournament.
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Wolf nets five, Blue Devils down Rutgers by Lopa Rahman THE CHRONICLE
In Duke’s final contest before the ACC Tournament, the team’s ninth consecutive victory was accompanied by a slew of personal milestones. The No. 7 Blue Devils (11-4) cruised past Rutgers 16-7 Saturday at Yurcak Field in New Brunswick, N.J. Junior Jordan Wolf, who led all scorers with five tallies, became the 15th Blue Devil to notch 100 career goals. Classmate Brendan Fowler scooped up DUKE 16 eight ground balls, typing CJ Costabile’s single-season record of 144. 7 RU With two tallies apiece, freshman Deemer Class and senior Greg DeLuca recorded the first multiple-goal games of their careers. Class was not the only freshman to earn points in Saturday’s contest. Myles Jones added two goals, and Case Matheis notched four assists on the evening. “We got some terrific contributions from our freshmen,” Duke head coach John Danowski said. “We’re really happy with the play of our freshmen.” Fowler posted a dominant performance at the faceoff X, winning 16-of-22 faceoffs against Rutgers sophomore Joseph Nardella, who entered the game ranked third nationally in faceoff percentage. The Scarlet Knights (2-12) are the first team on Duke’s schedule with a better faceoff man than Fowler. The junior came into the contest ranked fourth in the country. Between the pipes, Rutgers freshman Kris Alleyne made 20 saves, and Duke’s goalkeepers combined for eight. The Scarlet Knights’ rookie goaltender stopped 55.6 percent of the Blue Devils’ shots on goal, but Duke’s high-scoring offense proved too difficult for Rutgers’ defense to overcome. The Blue Devil defense, on the other hand, caused 10 turnovers and limited Rutgers to eight shots on goal
in the opening half. “Defensively, there was a much better focus,” Danowski said. “We communicated better. We got organized underneath the ball and played well as a unit.” After trading goals with Rutgers to start the game, Duke went on a 4-0 run powered by two tallies from Class. The Blue Devils held the Scarlet Knights scoreless for 10:49 before Rutgers junior Benjamin Schwing ended the drought early in the second quarter. The Scarlet Knights found the back of the net just one more time in the period, but Duke tallied four more goals, building a 9-3 halftime advantage. Wolf scored two of the Blue Devils’ second-quarter goals. Duke rattled off five consecutive tallies—including two from Jones—in the third period before Rutgers sophomore Rich Rambo ended the Blue Devil run. Wolf opened the final quarter with a pair of goals that extended Duke’s lead to 16-4. The Scarlet Knights scored the final three goals of the game, but their late push wasn’t enough to edge the Blue Devils. “At the end of April, what you’re always looking for regardless of who you are playing next is: ‘Are you playing the right way? Are you learning the lessons from the games before and carrying them forward?’” Danowski said. “This week we did that.” Duke hopes to continue on that track when it begins postseason play next weekend at the ACC Tournament in Chapel Hill, N.C. The third-seeded Blue Devils, who defeated North Carolina 10-8 during the regular season, will take on the second-seeded Tar Heels in the semifinal round of the tournament Friday. With its ninth straight victory in the books, Duke is entering the postseason with the longest active winning streak in Division I.
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Junior attack Jordan Wolf scored five goals to lead Duke past Rutgers and notch the team’s ninth straight victory.
WOMEN’S TENNIS
Duke drops third straight, falls to Maryland by Olivia Banks THE CHRONICLE
Duke has endured a difficult six-match stretch since the loss of Ester Goldfeld to a hand injury, leaving the team to compete with only five players. The No. 11 Blue Devils continued their recent struggles, falling 4-3 to Maryland Friday at the Cole Tennis Courts, giving the Terrapins their first conference win of the season. After having to forfeit both a doubles and a singles match, the Blue Devils (14-8, 5-5 in the ACC) were at a disadvantage before play even began. With the match tied at 3-3, the final point came down to court one, where junior Hanna Mar and Vroni Van Berlo fought it out in an exhausting three-setter. After dropping the first set 6-1, Mar rallied to a second set victory to send the match into the third and final set. Mar broke serve for a 4-3 lead and held to go up 5-3, but dropped four straight games to give Van Berlo the third set, 7-5, and Maryland (6-15, 1-10) the match. “This was by far the toughest DUKE 3 loss we’ve had,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “We can’t let 4 MD a team like Maryland just hang around, and that’s what we did.” Duke fell into a deep hole to start the match. After forfeiting the final position on the singles ladder and the third doubles slot, the Blue Devils dropped the doubles point to Maryland. On court one, the doubles team of senior captain Mary Clayton and Mar were tied with the Terrapins’ Van Berlo and Sarah Gealer 4-4, but were unable to hold serve and fell behind 7-5 before dropping the final game and giving Maryland the doubles point. “In losing the doubles point, we gave them a little bit of confidence,” Ashworth said. “They started to believe that they could win and we started to get a little bit tight.” In singles, the Blue Devils got off to a strong start. Sophomore Annie Mulholland demolished the Terrapins’ Olga Gaistruk 6-1, 6-1 on court three, putting the first point on the board for the Blue Devils. Junior Marianne Jodoin soon followed with a 6-0, 6-1 victory against Nataliya Bredikhina, tying the match at 2-2. On court five, senior Nicole Lipp was unable to slow Gabriela Srodowski, dropping a hard-fought first set
6-4, followed by a quick 6-1 second set. Clayton claimed her 29th-career ACC singles victory after defeating Sarah Gealer 7-5, 6-1. The senior’s victory knotted the match at three before Mar fell and Duke suffered its third consecutive loss. As the Blue Devils prepare for the upcoming ACC Tournament, Ashworth maintains that the team’s ex-
pectations have not changed and is confident that the girls will continue to persevere despite the situation. “It’s been such a roller coaster,” Ashworth said. “This has been a season like I’ve never had here, but our girls are tougher because of it and I hope that they can look back and know that they’ve given all that they can during this regular season.”
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Hanna Mar dropped the decisive match as Duke fell to Maryland for the Terrapins’ first ACC victory of the season.
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MCCALLIE from page 1 of the Duke women’s basketball program,� White said. McCallie said she and White first began talking informally about an extension last spring and hammered out the details once this season ended. Financial terms were not disclosed. McCallie said her relationship with White and his ability to lead Duke’s athletic department is a big reason why she is so committed to the University in the long run. “He’s on the pulse with everything that’s going on,� she said. “He’s pretty incredible with his knowledge of the national scene, markets and what’s going on in women’s
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basketball.� McCallie added that her family has grown extremely fond of Durham. When she moved from Michigan State to Duke in 2007, it was difficult on her then-13-yearold daughter Maddie. Now, McCallie’s son Jack is 13. “From a family perspective, we feel so fortunate we can be at Duke,� McCallie said. And now entrenched for at least five more seasons in Durham, McCallie hopes to bring home Duke’s first women’s basketball championship banner to Cameron Indoor Stadium. “We’ve never met all of our goals since we’ve been here but in the process we’ve accomplished a great deal,� she said. “Someday it would be nice to go three for three.�
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lot of mistakes.� After putting up an even-par 71 to finish Saturday just three strokes off Altomore’s lead, Duncan went six-over for her last 15 holes to finish with a 77 that left her tied for third at eight-over-par. “Lindy is going to play to win, and she is never going to be happy if she doesn’t win,� Brooks said. “It was really tough to make up ground out there.� Duncan’s chances for an individual title all but ended on the par-4 11th hole, when her approach landed 20 feet short of the flag before bouncing off the firm green, rolling off the back and coming to rest out of bounds. Duncan also had trouble putting on the course’s Bermuda greens, which she described as being a different speed all three days. Junior Alejandra Congrejo birdied two of her final five holes to go one-under on the back nine, but never had a legitimate shot at the title. She finished tied with Duncan for third overall. Freshman Celine Boutier finished six strokes back with a 223 that left her tied for sixth. “I had a feeling we’d win, to be honest, so my mind today was on how we well were finishing up. How strong are we? How patient are we on the last five holes? Are we staying tough? And I was very pleased,� Brooks said. The Blue Devils will now have a three-week break before they compete in the NCAA Regional Championship May 9.
Hommel said. Both squads opened the second half looking to attack, and did so successfully, scoring three goals apiece in the first 10 minutes. But the defense set in after the 20-minute mark. With the exception of a Blue Devil goal by Maddy Morrissey with 18:16 left, Duke and Ohio State remained scoreless for nearly 11 minutes. Katie Chase brought the Buckeyes within five with just less than 10 minutes to play. Unfortunately for Ohio State, this would be the last time it came close to mounting a comeback. The Blue Devils went on to score three straight goals to put the game out of reach and secure the victory. Duke was able to do so after it turned up its defensive intensity, not allowing Ohio State a clean look at the goal for the majority of the final 20 minutes, excluding a free position shot by Alli Dawson with 1:10 remaining and the game already decided. “They play a very, very different style than what we’re accustomed to playing,� Duke head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “We did a great job of denying their cuts.� Cara Facchina closed the game with a goal with 22 seconds remaining, bringing the sisters’ total to three on the day. Moving forward, Duke will face No. 5 seed Virginia Thursday to kick off its ACC Tournament play. “Next weekend is a big test at the ACC Tournament,� Kimel said. “We’re going to have to play really well against a very good Virginia team who’s going to be desperate for a win.� If the Blue Devils can defeat the Cavaliers on Thursday, they will prepare for a rematch against top-ranked Maryland. But Kimel maintained that her team will take things slow and focus on a Virginia team that is looking to avenge an early season loss to Duke. “There’s so much of the season that’s got to be played, there’s so many big games left,� Kimel said. “For us, we have really tried this whole season to just take this one game at a time. I think as a young team you have to do that.�
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Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie will call Cameron Indoor Stadium home through the 2018-19 season.
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8-5 victory. “I was a little bit nervous today because of senior day,� Hemmeler said. “But it’s just so much fun with him on the court because we are also close friends off the court.� On court three, juniors Fred Saba and Chris Mengel took on Beck Bond and Austin Powell, staying on serve until a powerful overhead smash by Saba secured the first break of the match, giving the Blue Devils a 6-4 lead. The pair then went on to clinch the doubles point with an 8-5 win. Duke will be the No. 2 seed in next week’s ACC Tournament. The Blue Devils will face either No. 7 seed Florida State or 10th-seeded Georgia Tech Friday in Cary, N.C.
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