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PHILADELPHIA—If it felt like No. 1 seed Syracuse barely had the ball after it nurtured a 5-0 lead against seventh-seeded Duke, it’s because the Orange barely did. Blue Devil faceoff specialist and tournament most outstanding player Brendan Fowler won 13 consecutive faceoffs in the second through fourth periods, allowing Duke to dominate possession en route to a 16-10 victory and the pro-
gram’s second national championship. “I told John [Danowski] after the game to buy his faceoff guy a big steak because he deserved one,” Syracuse head coach John Desko said. “We just couldn’t get the ball in the second half.” The Blue Devils brought home the trophy for the first time since 2010 after reaching championship weekend for seven consecutive seasons—all under head coach John Danowski and since the 2006 season was cancelled amid false allegations of rape.
Although the Blue Devils came out of the gate looking “tight” in the words of Danowski, they went on a 12-1 run in the second through fourth periods to secure a lead and the win. The Orange built a 4-0 advantage in the first period, even though Duke won 3-of-5 faceoffs. Fowler was 2-for-4 in those while getting whistled for a penalty and adjusting to the style of the referees. “I let it get to my head a little bit,” Fowler said. “Once I cooled down a little, and just stuck to what I do every day, I got into
a groove.” The junior then won 15-of-16 faceoffs in the second and third periods as the Blue Devils narrowed the gap and eventually took the lead. He finished the game 20-of-28. “We would say maybe this would be the week Brendan doesn’t win 65 percent of his faceoff and we figure out how to compete, how to win if he doesn’t,” Danowski said. “That day almost never came.” SEE M. LACROSSE ON PAGE 8
Chinese gov. bans Uni. finalizes Central topics in classrooms Campus upgrades by Carleigh Stiehm THE CHRONICLE
Chinese leaders have reportedly banned seven topics of discussion from university classrooms. Duke administrators have received no confirmation that this will impact the academic environment at Duke Kunshan University, said President Richard Brodhead. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported May 22 that the topics—freedom of press, universal values, wealth of government leaders, failures of the Communist party, judicial independence, economic neo-liberalism and civil societies— are banned because they are causing the country’s leaders to lose their ideological grip over students and younger faculty. The article said that the new bans had been decided in February after the nation’s new leaders were announced. “We heard the story, but we have no independent confirmation that this is even going to happen,” Brodhead said. “People don’t
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even really know the nature of what we are dealing with here.” He referred to the speculation that the topics have been banned as a “rumor.” Brodhead added that administrators have spoken to several Chinese universities—including Wuhan University, Duke’s partner school in Kunshan—and none have received communication of the ban. “We are aware of the news reports concerning seven educational topics and have been following the issue with our contacts in China,” Mary Bullock, executive vice chancellor of DKU, wrote in an email Saturday. “To be clear: we have not received any written or verbal decree from the Chinese government, nor any indication that one will be coming.” She added that DKU is still in the process of establishment. Although the university was originally set to open in Fall 2011, construction issues have led to delays. The SEE CHINA ON PAGE 6
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Originally built as temporary housing in the 1970s, the Central Campus apartments are receiving their last upgrades for the next decade. This summer, the University will complete interior enhancements on apartments as part of the Central Campus enhancement plan that began in Summer 2010, said Joe Gonzalez, dean for residential life. Past upgrades included additions to the campus, such as the creation of Devil’s Bistro and Mill Village, as well as external upgrades, such as repainting the exterior of Central Campus buildings and creating new walkways. The current renovations are focused only on the apartments themselves and invole interior upgrades, such as new floors and paint jobs. The work on Central Campus this summer will cost approximately $5 million, Gonzalez said, adding that the entire Central Campus enhancement project sums up to approximately $14 million.
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“It seems as though the current immigration system incentivizes illegal immigration” —Joline Doedens, “Immigration nation.” See column page 11
“It was work that was due,” Gonzalez said. “I mean, these apartments existed for 35 years and it was time for the maintenance to be done.” The interiors of the apartments between Anderson Street and Alexander Avenue were renovated in past summers with new carpets, bathroom doors, interior paint and fencing, among other changes, Gonzalez said. The rest of the apartments will be updated this summer with wood vinyl floors, new interior paint, new bathroom sinks and vanities, stainless steel hoods and refinished cabinets in the kitchen. Gonzalez added that some of the apartments will also be redesigned, transforming some one-bedroom apartments into twobedroom suites to accommodate students who don’t want to share a room—particularly seniors. Work will also continue to replace the outside stairwells on Central Campus— a project that also started three summers SEE CENTRAL ON PAGE 6
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What is going on at Duke and in Durham? This weekend, say goodbye to May and prepare for the balmy days of June in Durham. This week’s offerings are more activity-oriented. You can try your hand at salsa dancing, explore some smalll-town festivities and learn how to grow your own culinary herbs. If you’re looking for something to pass the time this weekend, The Chronicle’s Julian Spector has just the seasoning you need.
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Last Fridays y in Hillsborough, g 6:30-9:30 p p.m. The historic town of Hillsborough g is jjust a 20-minute drive from Duke and has p plentyy to offer, from m chocolate shops p to dog-friendly g y music bars. For the last Fridayy of the month, theyy put p on a festival of arts, food and music on the lawn of their old d courthouse. This week includes a performance by the Galactic Cowboy Orchestra, which blends bluegrass, rock, world music and a few other genress too. Now You See Me, at local movie theaters. Tricks and cash flyy hard and fast in this new thriller, which looks like it will be The Prestige g meetts Ocean’s Eleven. A team of illusionists is robbingg banks around the world and redistributingg the cash to their audiences as the necessaryy Hollywood y d FBI team races to keep up. An intriguing premise, and likable actors like Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson, should make it fun to watch.
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Gene Klein, pictured with his daughter, Jill. by Carleigh Stiehm THE CHRONICLE
Gene Klein travels the world with his daughter, Jill Klein, to discuss surviving the Holocaust and the amazing power of human resilience. The pair came to Duke to speak with administrators about the power of resilience. Jill is a marketing professor at the Melbourne Business School at the University of Melbourne and was a visiting professor at the Fuqua School of Business in 1994. She recently published a book, We Got the Water: Tracing My Family’s Path Through Auschwitz, which chronicles her father’s internment during World War II. The Chronicle’s Carleigh Stiehm sat down with the duo to discuss Gene Klein’s experience, the book and the importance of learning from our past.
The Chronicle: Mr. Klein, can you give us the background of your story? Gene Klein: I was born in Czechoslovakia, and I went to school there. My family consisted of my father, mother and two older sisters. We learned foreign languages in school—in gymnasium, which was a combination of high school with a little junior college....I decided to take German and Italian. In only a few years, you were fluent because the teachers didn’t mess around. In 1939 World War II started, Germany invaded Poland, and at the same time, this little part of Czechoslovakia—where I was living at the time—was given to Hungary, but we just continued going to school....Life was good....Then all of the killing started, and not just the Jews, all of the so called ‘undesirables’ too. And in the spring of 1944 my father was told to close his store, and we were told not to come to school anymore, and we were just waiting to see what was going to happen. In May of 1944, the Hungarian soldiers collected all of the Jewish families, and they told us we were leaving, but we didn’t know where. Then we were put on this train, then we arrived at this place, that I later found out was Auschwitz—the killing machine. Men, women and children were separated. The officers decided who was going to die and who was going to live. My father was selected to be killed, and I was selected to do slave labor. I had no idea what happened to my mother and sisters. Then I was shipped from Auschwitz to a slave labor camp. People who weren’t killed outright died from slave labor, hunger and conditions. In the fall of 1944, one of the officers asked the younger prisoners who speaks
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German, and I said that I did. There was a civilian German engineer who needed help for the next few weeks because he was surveying the road that was being built by the prisoners. And he began feeding me with his own food, which was very risky, and it actually saved my life because if I hadn’t gotten the extra nourishment, I would not have lasted. In 1945, all of the work stopped. I turned 17 around that time, and our camp was evacuated. All those who could walk were marched to the next camp, and those who could not walk were taken to be killed because they were useless. And we ended up in a big collection camp where there was no work and very little food because they didn’t want to feed you if you weren’t doing any work. Basically, it was a camp where you went to die. Fortunately, the Russians were coming closer and closer to our camp, and the guards took off, and we were liberated by the Russians. I decided to go home instead of going to the hospital. And as I started my journey home, a young woman—who was still in her striped uniform—recognized me and told me the good news—my mother and sisters were still alive, and they had been liberated by the Americans. It was fantastic news because four out of the five of us had survived, which is unheard of. TC: Can you talk a little about how you have learned to cope with being a survivor? Jill Klein: When you talk about resilience, a critical aspect is how you interpret the bad event that has happened to you— what kind of sense you make of it [and] what kind of meaning you [give] it. Why has this happened? Even the situation that my father was in, which was so incredibly awful,
there were still some choices he made about the mindset. The one freedom you had was your mental view of things. The key thing with coping strategies is figuring out how to move forward. GK: When you see a lot of dead people, which a 16 year old boy is not very used to, especially when you first see it, you are very taken aback. That is someone’s brother, someone’s husband and someone’s son. Then your survival instinct kicks in, I don’t know where it came from, but it was there. But that is not enough, so you have to put a goal in your mind, what you have to do in order to survive. In my case, I knew my father was killed, but I didn’t know about my mother and two sisters. What happens if they survive and I perish and my father is dead then they lose two male members of the family? So that gave me an incentive to try really hard to survive. The other thing was, if they kill me, they win, and if I survive, then I win. So basically I had to tell myself these two things before I went to sleep every night and every morning when I woke up. TC: Jill, why did you choose to write the book about your father’s experience rather than have a first hand account? JK: I don’t think my dad was going to write the book himself. In the book, I tell the narrative, and it isn’t just my dad’s story, it is his two sister’s and his mom’s as well. The chapters tell the whole story, and once they are separated at Auschwitz, the chapters alternate between my dad and the women in his family. In between, I have theses essays, called recollection, and they are about the process of piecing together their SEE Q&A ON PAGE 5
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Duke receives grant to foster diversity in science by Anthony Hagouel THE CHRONICLE
Duke faculty are coming together to form a comprehensive research community known as BioCoRE, with student participants from all levels of the University community. BioCoRE—the Biosciences Collaborative for Research Engagement— is supported by a $1.8 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and aims to maximize the participation of underrepresented groups in the scientific research world. The grant has allowed faculty members to implement an institutional and integrative program in hopes of developing financial security, improving scientific community and providing mentorship for students who hope to enter careers in science. “This is a program that endeavors to enhance the diversity of the scientific workforce, but it is not specifically a minority program,” said Dan Janes, a grant program official at the Institute. He added that the grant is given specifically to research intensive institutions capable of utilizing the funds. The program is co-directed by three faculty members who each represent a different aspect of the University. Kenneth Kreuzer, biochemistry professor and graduate faculty member, represents graduate students. Julie Reynolds, associate director of undergraduate studies in the biology department, handles undergraduate programs. Sherilynn Black, director of the Office of Biomedical Graduate Diver-
sity at the School of Medicine, is responsible for building community within the program. “The three of us had different areas of expertise, and we decided to combine them all to create this global institutional model to bring all of the scientific community together at Duke and to do it in an inclusive way,” Black said. “We wanted to make the program in a way that was inclusive and that benefited all different types of science, from thinking and input to the scientific process.” In order to create a program that accomplished the task of tailored integration throughout the University, the team conducted a yearlong self-study, Reynolds noted. “Duke has a lot of fantastic programming to support students who have an interest in science research,” Reynolds said. “One of the things that this grant will allow us to do is to integrate some of those existing programs into new programs to create a more systematic approach to supporting students in that process.” Undergraduates in the program are required to participate in four semesters of a paid internship at a research lab, one summer of support at a lab and a conference to present their research during their senior year. Black said that the students’ work in the research lab will be able to replace work-study, which is unique to BioCoRE. “Our idea is that students who need SEE BIOCORE ON PAGE 6
Q&A from page 3 story. I figured out that they were probably on the first train of the Hungarian deportation of the Jews, and I explain in the book how I pieced that together. But it also about what it was like for me to talk to them. The good and the bad side of having to ask these questions—about an unspeakable time—to your own family. GK: What really made me emotional about Jill’s book, and I am not just saying that because she is my daughter, was when she covered my father’s walk through the camp. She follows the path my father took through Auschwitz after he was sent to the gas chambers. She walks with him to the gas chamber, holding hands. JK: I reconstruct his path using photos and I say, ‘this is the part we all know, but no one remembers,’ because no one who was with him survived. It is very sad because at the end of the book, we reach the chamber together and I have to leave him. And that is the part of the book when the family kind of acknowledges that he isn’t coming home. Because until then, there was still hope. Even though they knew what him being sent to the chambers meant, it was all such chaos, they had hope that he was coming back. TC: Has it been difficult for you to retell your story over the years? GK: Not really. Usually I just whiz through it, but in some sessions, I break down about three times. When I get to certain parts, like when the German engineer gave me his food and when I was liberated, I break down sometimes. Fortunately, I kind of have the personality that when it is over, I forget about it. A lot of the survivors can’t do that. Their past is with them everyday for the rest of their life. But you
can’t ruin your life about what happened in the past. I can bring it up and talk about it, and then put it back. I concentrate on enjoying life. TC: Do you still see this level of bigotry in the world today? GK: Definitely, first there have been several Auschwitzs, several holocausts since World War II. Yugoslavia, and people are killing each other in Africa. And there is still anti-Semitism, like in Hungary. It is one of those things that just doesn’t stop. It is very discouraging, because you ask, didn’t you learn anything? But I think a lot of people didn’t. JK: The message of the story about the German engineer giving my dad his food is that, my dad doesn’t hate the Germans. Everyone is an individual, and you can’t lump everyone together. My dad has every right in the world to be angry with a group of people, but he doesn’t because he has seen the power of an individual. We have to remember that before we lump people together. TC: What do you think the youth of today should learn from your experience? GK: It is interesting because you think, is there anything good that has come from this, and in a way there is. Nothing will be as bad as this. There is nothing that I can go through in the rest of my life that can be as bad as that. JK: The biggest thing I take from his story is that you don’t stand by when people are being bullied. All of this would have been prevented if, when it all started, people did not let others be singled out. If people had just stood up, in small ways, this could have been stopped. That is what everyone should take from this. You don’t stand by when somebody is being bullied, it is your responsibility to step in.
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CENTRAL from page 1 ago. Three-quarters of the stairwells will be replaced by the Fall. The renovations are part of a broader initiative to improve the quality of life for students, along with the new housing model and the introduction of sororities and fraternities to Central Campus, said Vice President for student affairs, Larry Moneta. “We don’t make renovations for the sake of renovations,” Moneta said. An additional project involving the cleaning of the duct systems in Central Campus apartments, which began in March, is expected to be completed in June, Gonzalez said. The cleaning project began in response to many students reporting allergic reactions and breathing difficulties in the apartments. Ashley Tsai, Trinity ’13, said she had trouble breathing in her Pace Avenue apartment. She reported the issue to Housing, Dining and Residential Life multiple times throughout Fall 2012, and after seeing no conclusive action taken by the University, decided to pay out of pocket for her ducts to be cleaned last January, which resolved the issues. HDRL sent someone to clean her apartment in April. “It was a huge problem—I was sick all the time and I couldn’t concentrate on my work,” Tsai said. “It just frustrated me that there was all this money to spend on other things like expanding Wallace Wade... but we can’t even build these apartments for students to live in.” Moneta noted that complaints did not serve as the impetus to the various Central Campus renovations. “It wasn’t so much complaints, but our sense of excellence and what we like to provide to our students,” Moneta said. The ongoing renovations are separate from those in the University’s strategic plan that was approved by the Board of Trustees in
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2006. The strategic plan aimed to redevelop Central Campus into a “vibrant intellectual and residential community.” Renovations were delayed indefinitely due to the economic downturn in 2008. “When the economy changed, we realized we had sort of held off doing work on the Central Campus apartments, and we realized it was just time,” Moneta said. The University hopes to pursue the more extensive changes to Central Campus outlined in the strategic plan—estimated to require $350 million—in the future, but there are no concrete plans currently, Gonzalez noted. Moneta added that there are many competing projects, and the University had to make decisions about its priorities. Due to preliminary changes already made to Central Campus, administrators said it was possible to settle for the less costly upgrades.
CHINA from page 1 campus now has an expected launch date of Fall 2014. “Throughout this process, we have received assurances from our partners and authorities that DKU will be accorded the highest level of academic freedom, consistent with Duke University’s commitment to these values,” Bullock wrote. During the foundational process of DKU, Brodhead has maintained that the Chinese government will not be able to interfere with students’ academic freedom. “We have always understood that this is a potential issue, and we have always made it clear that DKU will require the highest level of academic freedom,” he said. Brodhead added that he has received many rounds of assurances that the Chinese government will not impede learning at DKU from the city, provincial and federal levels.
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He noted that the Chinese government has expressed approval of Duke’s presence in the country. “It is our hope and expectation that we can contribute to the education and civil debate on education issues when DKU opens for classes next year,” Bullock wrote.
BIOCOREfrom page 5 to have a job can either spend their time working at a library or as a lifeguard, or they can spend their time working as a paid researcher in a scientific lab,” Reynolds said. Further, undergraduates will receive individual pre-major advising from faculty members that will enable them to develop a more focused career path, Reynolds explained. Graduate students will be integral to developing a strong scientific community by acting as mentors and reaching out to undergraduates and faculty through programs designed to improve relations, Kreuzer said. “What I am most looking forward to seeing is my students becoming excited about Duke’s rich intellectual dialogue,” Pete Chhoy, graduate student in pharmacology and cancer biology, said. “I can think of no other program like this where students, graduate and undergraduates together, can engage in this intellectual dialogue and discourse.” The continued existence of the program rests on its future success. Although the grant covers BioCoRE for five years, its expansion will require more funds. “We will be looking to augment the program with other private sources as we go along,” Kreuzer said. “We hope that the
program will also create spinoffs that are self-supporting and potentially independent of the grant.” Due to an already extremely high participation response in both graduates and undergraduates, Black explained that the program has been built so that non-BioCoRE students can still reap its benefits. “One of the things that we really tried to focus on is making sure that this inclusive program was actually inclusive,” Black said, adding that non-BioCoRE students are encouraged to participate in programs open to the entire university enabled by large faculty support. Among these programs is a new monthly seminar titled “What Makes me a Scientist,” which targets institutional exclusion by highlighting scientific qualities and practices in students and faculty that may not be obvious. “We’re planning on having all different types of people who are engaged in science in some way,” Black said. “It will help the students understand that there may be a role in science for them even if they didn’t previously consider it.”
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Danowski changed the meaning of Duke lacrosse Even after two national championships in seven years, the 2006 Duke lacrosse scandal may never go away. Head coach John Danowski told Jake Tripucka as much when he recruitied him. Tripucka, who graduated in May, had initially been recruited by Kevin CassAndrew ese, the interim head coach in between the resignation of Mike Pressler and the hiring of Danowski. “When you commit to Duke—and Coach Dino tells you this when he’s talking to you—he goes, ‘Hey listen, the 2006 is never going to go away. It’s one of those things they’re always going to talk about it no matter how great you do, how many championships,’” said Tripucka after winning his second national championship in four years. The scandal may never go away, and it may always be among the first few results for “Duke lacrosse” in a Google search. (Even after Monday’s 16-10 national championship win against Syracuse, it’s in the top three). And it’s a shame that a set of lies, a district attorney’s ambitions and presumptions of guilt have made it that way. But in Danowski’s seven years as head coach with a semifinal appearance each
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John Danowski recovers from a victory shower after Duke’s national championship victory. season and two national championships, he has built a new standard and image for Duke lacrosse. Duke lacrosse doesn’t mean parties and rape (even if a North Carolina football player couldn’t help but tweeting about that after the win). It’s not a window into an overpriveledged and unruly Duke culture.
Duke lacrosse is something else now. “There’s a certain amount of discipline, a certain amount of work ethic, and then the last part is there’s a necessary team aspect that it has to be team oriented if you want to play on this weekend. Everything that we do from day one is team oriented,” Danowski said. “It’s like having children:
when they step out of line, you have to let them know. But we let them know why.” Nobody could have scripted the situation Danowski was walking into when he took over as head coach. After Monday’s win, Danowski said nobody scripts being down 5-0, like the Blue Devils were to Syracuse in the second quarter. What he could script in both situations: how his team reacted. At halftime, down 6-5, he told his players “we need to play Duke lacrosse over the next 30 minutes.” “Duke lacrosse is playing hard, scrappy, fundamental,” senior David Lawson said. “It’s doing things the right way.” It didn’t hurt that Brendan Fowler dominated at the faceoff X and helped the Blue Devils maintain possession the rest of the way, but the comeback showed the spirit Danowski instilled all season and has since he arrived in July 2006. Duke began this season 2-4, falling out of the national rankings and threatening its worst start in more than three decades. Two wins against top-10 teams later—one against reigning national champion Loyola and the other against archrival North Carolina—Duke was back on track. “Nobody envisions that,” Danowski said. “It’s just about showing up every day to work and taking each day one day at a SEE DANOWSKI ON PAGE 8
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PHILADELPHIA—Kyle Turri was never supposed to play in the national championship game. Initially, his spot was reserved for senior Dan Wigrizer. In 2010, as a freshman, Wigrizer led Duke to its first national title in program history, becoming only the sixth true freshman in NCAA history to go all the way as a starting goaltender. So the net was all Wigrizer’s again for his sophomore and junior seasons. He led Duke to its fifth and sixth consecutive NCAA semifinal appearances in 2011 and 2012, and was ready to return again in 2013 for his senior campaign. This year, making the postseason had added meaning for Wigrizer, since championship weekend was slated to take place in his hometown of Philadelphia. “To be home and to potentially win a championship in front of the home crowd… in the city where I grew up playing lacrosse— I could not ask for a better way to end my career,” Wigrizer said. “Being able to finish [in Philadelphia] is the best experience I could possibly dream of.” But six games into the 2013 season, the Blue Devils were 2-4. And Wigrizer, who had started each of those six games, had suffered one concussion too many after Duke’s March 2 loss against Maryland. In stepped Kyle Turri. It wasn’t as though Turri had no experience. He started three games during his freshman season in place of an injured Wigrizer and had relieved the senior along with freshman Luke Aaron and sophomore
Ben Krebs as a part of a four-goalie system that head coach John Danowski used during Duke’s early-season struggles. Turri was also no stranger to championships. He led West Islip High School to the New York state championship during his senior season in 2011. His older brother, Justin, a two-time All-American, was Wigrizer’s teammate on Duke’s 2010 national championship squad. And as a rising sophomore, Turri won a gold medal in Finland at the U-19 World Championship as a member of the United States Men’s National Team. “When it was time for Kyle to take over when Dan had to step down, it wasn’t absolutely new territory for him,” Danowski said. “Kyle is a winner.” But Turri’s first game as Duke’s new fulltime starter provided the ultimate test. His foe was then-No. 4 Loyola, the defending national champions. The Greyhounds had beaten Wigrizer the previous season, when he surrendered seven goals while making only one save in two quarters of work. The Blue Devils’ new netminder made his presence known immediately. Loyola scored with 1:13 remaining to cut Duke’s lead to 9-8. But Turri and the defensive unit held off the Greyhounds to secure the Blue Devils’ first victory in nearly three weeks. “We were certainly delighted with [Kyle’s] performance,” Danowski said after the game. “Your team is always a work in progress.” Turri would continue to be hot in the net, posting a 9-1 record throughout the rest of the regular season. “I was just trying to get better each game,” he said. “I had a few games where I played
pretty well and a few, not so much. But the coaches and I came to work every day to get better.” Turri continued to play with confidence heading into the postseason. However, after making 12 saves in a double-overtime win against Loyola in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, Turri made only two against Notre Dame in the quarterfinals. But arguably his biggest save of the tour-
nament came with 3:18 left against the Fighting Irish. With the Blue Devils down by one goal, Turri stopped Notre Dame attack Sean Rogers’ shot from point-blank range. His outlet pass to Duke midfielder Greg DeLuca set up a transition opportunity and gave Jordan Wolf the opportunity to set up Josh Dionne’s SEE TURRI ON PAGE 8
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TURRI from page 7 game-tying goal. Midfielder David Lawson scored the game winner for the Blue Devils less than a minute later. “We wanted to play for 60 minutes,” Danowski said of Turri’s performance. “We certainly don’t script these endings…. Kyle Turri, while he didn’t have a great day in the goal statistically, comes up with a big save on the outlet. He keeps his poise and allowed us to score the game-tying goal.” Turri was a different goaltender against Cornell in the NCAA semifinals. One week later, he dazzled with a career-high 16 saves, including four in the fourth quarter to keep a resurgent Big Red offense at bay. “Early on it took me awhile to get settled in, but I felt like I was seeing the ball well,” Turri said. “I was pretty happy about getting my saves up…. We just had to hold them off for the last few minutes… and keep our composure.” Kyle Turri was never supposed to play in the national championship game. But, 14 games after replacing Wigrizer, there he was. Stepping onto lacrosse’s biggest stage for the first time, Turri was unable to stop a sizzling Syracuse offense in the game’s opening
minutes. Although he notched four saves in the first quarter, the Orange recorded four goals on 15 shots. The Blue Devils found themselves in a 5-0 hole 42 seconds into the second quarter—their season on the brink. “[Coach Danowski] told us to relax,” Turri said. “It was a 60 minute game and we knew they were going to have a run in them. We knew we were too. We weren’t just going to step back.” So Turri saw the ball better. He recognized the outside angle shots and the bad angle shots. He relaxed and he did not step back. With Duke down 6-5 going into the third quarter, Turri held Syracuse to only one goal for the next 33:36. When Syracuse briefly threatened the Blue Devils’ lead in the fourth quarter, with back-to-back goals by star midfielder JoJo Marasco, Turri shut down the offense, making five stops in the final period. “I realized [we were going to win] with about four or five minutes left,” Turri said. “I still got nervous. I always get nervous, even with a six goal lead because you never know what could happen. But with four minutes left, I knew.” Kyle Turri was never supposed to play in the national championship game. But there was Kyle Turri, hoisting Duke’s second national championship above his head after the clock struck zero.
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time. And I think when you’re involved in athletics you learn to live that way, whether it’s Tuesdays in the weight room or film days or pregame night before meetings. You just keep on working and keep staying on task.” If anybody knows about slow starts and staying on task it’s Danowski. The Blue Devils began the 2010 season 2-3 before winning 13 of their last 14 en route to their first national championship in program history. Though his accomplishments in each season are individually impressive, more impressive is that he has consistently kept the program on task, even when nobody envisioned that Duke lacrosse could actually mean playing lacrosse. Looking back on it, nothing was right about Pressler’s “resignation” from Duke (something a settlement from the University later confirmed). It was a unique set of circumstances that brought Danowski to the Blue Devils. So it was only appropriate that Pressler’s Bryant Bulldogs—a program that was in Division II when he took over— were in the NCAA Tournament this year. But in the last seven seasons in Durham, Danowski has given a new life and meaning to Duke lacrosse. There’s no question he was the right fit. Lawson, one of the key seniors on this team who will walk away a twotime national champion, didn’t have many words to describe playing for Danowski, only saying, “He’s the best, that’s the only way to put it.” Each season only makes clearer what Danowski means not only to the program, but also the University. “Only guys who have played for Duke and played for Coach D know what Duke lacrosse is,” Tripucka said. “It’s about being a Duke man and everything that stands for.”
Jordan Wolf broke the ice for Duke to make it 5-1 in the second period and scored again with 1:51 left in the half to bring Duke within one at the break, trailing 6-5. The Orange struggled even more in the third period to gain possession as Fowler won all seven faceoffs in the 15-minute span. Paced by two goals each from seniors Josh Offit and David Lawson in the third period, Duke took a lead it would never relinquish and entered the fourth up 10-7. The offensive onslaught continued in the fourth, though Duke only won 4-of-10 faceoffs in the quarter while Fowler faced a new adversary. Senior Orange defender Brian Megill, who leads the team in groundballs and rarely spends time at the faceoff X, had some success pushing Fowler around and giving Syracuse some much needed possession. “I just wish I went out there two quarters earlier,” Megill said. Finishing with two fourth-quarter goals, Wolf paced the team with four scores while Josh Dionne and Josh Offit both added hat tricks. The Blue Devils finished the game scoring 10 of the last 13 goals. In the game, Fowler extended his singleseason record for faceoff victories to 339 while also finishing the season second in Division I history with 209 groundballs. But Fowler was a diamond in the X for Danowski, who said he did not recruit Fowler and that the Chaminade High School product got into Duke “on his own.” Danowski didn’t meet Fowler, who also plays football at Duke, until August of his freshman year. As a sophomore, Fowler broke his collarbone in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, a 12-9 win against Syracuse. “We take no credit for the recruitment of Brendan Fowler,” Danowski said.
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s the Syrian Revolution rages on between and several factions operating within the state itself President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the has exacerbated sectarian tensions in the Middle opposition materializing, no ceasefire seems East. The al-Nusra Front, a Sunni militant group on the horizon. Syria’s future appears desolate, ruth- currently fighting the Assad regime, has also been lessly bloody and utterly hopeless. deemed a terrorist organization. Cities like Aleppo and Homs have Other groups, such as the Syrian been partially destroyed by numerIslamic Front and al Qaeda in Iraq, ous episodes of endless fighting. Orboth of whom are Sunni, are seekganizations such as Shiite-led Hezboling to topple the current regime and lah, which the State Department has replace it with an Islamic state. The deemed a terrorist group, are now U.S., in this case, must flex its politiactively assisting the Syrian Army to cal muscles and institute a cohesive thwart future repulsive attacks from foreign policy that is committed to Zubair Akram a thriving democratic culture for the rebel forces. Syria contains a majority Sunni population and a small Shiite Syrian people. to think again minority to which President Assad Thirdly, American policy in the belongs. Assad’s tyrannical governMiddle East must be cognizant that ment espouses dictatorial rule in a virtual one-party Syrians today exercise their right to self-determisystem that remains vehemently opposed to few, if nation, something that was not fully realized after any, democratic reforms. More than 80,000 people Syria’s independence in 1946. The U.S. will have have perished since the conflict began more than to deal with the resulting implications of the Arab two years ago. Spring by remaining committed to the Arab world. President Obama and the American public reFor decades, Arabs in Egypt, Libya and Iraq were main staunchly critical of any humanitarian military deprived of fundamental rights in their own counintervention in Syria, which is home to roughly 20 tries. Syria, more importantly, has been under the million inhabitants. Previous lessons from the 2003 Baath Party system since the late 1960s—a governinvasion of Iraq have caused the U.S. government ment averse to political pluralism and the advanceto eschew any involvement beyond supplying non- ment of democracy. President Assad has been known lethal aid and reportedly providing CIA-directed co- for committing human rights abuses and hindering vert intelligence. When it comes to Syria, there are the political process to advance his own demagogic certainly very few hawks compared to doves in Wash- reputation. As we have learned from the events of ington today, but that is clearly a serious mistake. It the Arab Spring, ordinary Arab citizens have successis important to realize a few critical reasons why the fully toppled numerous dictatorships. Syrian citizens U.S. should begin to intervene further on behalf of are now illustrating this point by seeking to implethe opposition. ment a system that is compatible with their own ideThe primary reason the U.S. must do more in ologies and traditions. Syria is to break the existing Shiite Iraq-Iran-Assad Now may be the time to change how we deal with regime and Hezbollah axis. Altogether, these Shiite this political and humanitarian crisis. By not actively elements seek to maintain a balance of power against assisting the rebels, the U.S. is acting contrarily to their Sunni rivals, including Saudi Arabia, Turkey its own national interest, which would be defending and Jordan. Moreover, Iran’s nuclear ambitions con- its own security and its allies’ security. The United tinue to confound the U.S. If the U.S. wants to in- States, in order to increase its legitimacy and credcrease its already faltering legitimacy in the Middle ibility in the region, should begin to weigh the opEast, it should immediately aim to shift the balance tions that may potentially change the outcomes of of power against Iran by giving lethal aid to the reb- the conflict. els, which will gradually lead to Assad’s ouster. By keeping its cost-benefit calculation as part According to U.S. intelligence reports, Iran is cur- of the overall strategy, the U.S. should witness how rently using Iraq as a channel to transport weapons, much change can be realistic if it carefully assesses intelligence and other forms of physical support to the facts and important lessons from the Arab Assad, allowing the group to remain firmly in power. Spring. If it tests its options assiduously, we can fulfill With Hezbollah now sending units to fight along- our national objectives in the Middle East, one step side the Syrian Army, Israel—America’s primary ally at a time. in the Middle East—is susceptible to Hezbollah’s belligerence. The chaos in Syria might very possibly Zubair Akram is a Trinity sophomore. His second sumspill over into Lebanon, which would put Israel’s se- mer column will run on June 30. You can follow Zubair on curity further at risk. Twitter @ZubairAkram11. Secondly, additional radicalization of the rebels
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uring their first elementary school social studies for drones to patrol the border with Mexico around the lesson, American students learn that we live in a clock. According to a 2011 Gallup Poll, 43 percent of renation of immigrants . . . although perhaps not in spondents agreed that developing a plan to deal with the so many words. In any case, our students are taught to large number of illegal immigrants who are already living admire and respect the pilgrims for their brave and cou- in the U.S. was “extremely important.” In the same poll, rageous trek to the New World. Every Thanksgiving, el- 21 percent of respondents said the government should ementary school classrooms across the country dedicate a simply deport all illegal immigrants currently in the U.S. bulletin board to hand turkeys and the Mayflower. Every Similarly, according to a recent Fox News Poll, 73 percent fifth grader is expected to be able to rattle off the names of Americans favor taking measures to increase border seof Christopher Columbus’s ships: the Niña, the Pinta and curity before changing any other immigration policies. the Santa María. Naturally, in an ideal world every immigrant would have Later in elementary and middle school, in discussions the financial and social capital to go through the process about the industrialization of the United that my parents and I went through in orStates—the process that allowed it to become der to get our legal permanent residency. the behemoth of a nation that it is today— Moreover, the U.S. is perfectly justified students are introduced to the metaphor in closely scrutinizing the individuals it of either the melting pot or the salad bowl. places on the path to citizenship. But does Both represent the United States as the comthere have to be such a significant finaning together of heterogeneous groups, or cial burden on the applicant? A simple “ingredients,” to form a cohesive or at least family-based petition, where a U.S. citizen complementary whole. or legal permanent resident petitions to Joline Doedens have a family member immigrate to the How did we get to where we are today? There were about 2.9 million American IndiUnited States, comes with a $420 filing wait a minute an and Alaskan Natives in the United States fee. And that does not include processing in 2010. That’s less than 1 percent of the fees, travel costs or attorney fees. Once total population. There were only about 24 million peo- an immigrant is legally in the U.S. and wants to adjust ple who identified their ancestry as “American” in 2011. to permanent residency, he or she must be prepared to That’s only about 8 percent of those living in the United shell out an additional thousand dollars just to file the States. Clearly, we are still a nation of immigrants. So how I-485 form. And then there’s the cost of translating official does a nation of immigrants solve the problem of an esti- documents and the attorney’s fees once again. There are mated 11 million undocumented immigrants? fee waivers for some forms, but only for those earning less In the interest of full disclosure, I should mention that than 150 percent of the national poverty level or suffering I am an immigrant. I came to the United States at the age “financial hardship,” as determined by U.S. Citizenship of three, and I have been a legal permanent resident, or a and Immigration Services. “green card holder” for almost 18 years. My parents went In other words, it seems as though the current immithrough the legal immigration process: My father was gration system incentivizes illegal immigration. If an essponsored by his employer, my parents were represented timated 11 million people can live “in the shadows” for by a private immigration attorney and, after a little more decades, while documented immigrants spend years and than two years, we had our green cards. It was a long and thousands of dollars risking rejection, what’s the practical arduous process that included extensive internal medical advantage of using the proper channels? Rather than simexaminations (for the women only) and expensive trans- ply beefing up border security and creating a new path to lations of official documents. Since we were lucky enough citizenship, we should look more closely at how to reinvigto have the financial means and the favored Western Eu- orate the immigration-based model that built this nation ropean origin, we came out the other side relatively pain- into what it is today. Immigration reform must do more lessly. than increase staffing at application processing centers. It Needless to say, it is neither easy nor cheap to enter must also make the system accessible to qualified individuthe United States as a legal immigrant. Yet the American als who wish to immigrate to the United States. attitude toward immigrants is internally inconsistent. On one hand, most American-born, U.S. citizens recite their Joline Doedens is a second-year law student. Her second summer ancestry with pride—one-quarter Irish, half German, column will run on June 20. You can follow Joline on Twitter @ one-sixteenth Dutch and so forth. On the other hand, jydoedens. the immigration reform bill currently in the Senate calls
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s a high school junior just two years ago, I had barely scraped the surface of understanding the college admissions process. My naiveté was my own doing, of course, and soon enough I would be flipping through the newest edition of the “Fiske Guide to Colleges” hoping to get an idea of what was out there. Among the four colleges I hand-picked from the book happened to be good ole Duke, and all received thorough examinations through College Prowler, among various other online sources. From what I gathered, I was able to conclude that Duke was a pretty good school in many respects. But whenever I thought about Duke, there would be this phrase that struck me time and again: hookBryan Somaiah up culture. It seemed that, rebreaking barriers gardless of the resource, “the hook-up culture” was a phrase that seemed pervasive in defining the Duke social scene. It appeared to me that, instead of giving thoughtful insight into the many social aspects of Duke, this was, and always has been, the catchall phrase to describe the situation, which is a lazy cop-out at best. The Fact or Fiction section of the “Duke Life” website attempts to clarify a few unfounded preconceptions. But is this really necessary? Why does this stigma even exist in the first place? To put it simply, Duke students are hardly deserving of the wrap they get. Barring the characteristic booty-shaking and lipsmacking seen at Shooters, there is very little that makes Duke stand out from the rest of the crowd. Though my first LDOC was indeed a night to remember (or forget), it is quite difficult to compare Duke’s social culture to that of a state school when everything is put into perspective. Whether it is based on anecdotal evidence from folks at home, stories from fellow Duke students or even the most basic Google searches, large state schools are far more infamous for their social scenes. I do admit: I am a rising sophomore and can’t really speak on behalf of the entire student body; however, I have seen friends and acquaintances maintain relationships both at home and at Duke, and I know many more that are still looking or aren’t interested in random hook-ups at all. The Duke Social Relationships Project Report, released in 2012, indicates that 45.5 percent of students had not experienced any hookups in the past six months, with hook-ups being defined as any “acts of physical intimacy with a partner with whom you are not currently involved in a serious relationship.” Additionally, according to the 2012 National College Health Assessment, 32.8 percent of all college students had no sexual partner in the last year. This means that there are 12.7 percent more Duke students than average college students who choose not to have physical intimacy. Since the DSPR accounts for all physical interactions between two partners, and anything short of sex is included in the 32.8 percent of the NCHA’s findings, it is noteworthy that such a significant difference exists. Duke is undoubtedly a prestigious university where academics are the primary focus of any student. Thus, it would make sense for a hard-working student to avoid long-term relationships and choose only to hook-up, in an effort to concentrate on his or her work. Unlike other top institutions, Duke’s campus is viewed as more social and lively, but the belief that with a more outgoing group of people comes a greater number of hook-ups is a brash generalization. It is easy for the uninformed individual to make this assumption because of our reputation, and efforts have definitely been made by The Chronicle and other news sources to portray this development as a cultural phenomenon rather than a Duke-specific quality. At this point, I may be pointing out the obvious, but the foundation for this perception is weak. Since Duke’s academic reputation is not as prominent among the general population as some of its peer institutions, having any negative notion associated with the school can be detrimental to its image. Although this did not affect my decision two years ago, it could potentially influence the choice of future applicants. Perhaps just by writing this column with the word “hook-up” in the title I could further hurt our image, but with increasing awareness of this issue, it should only be a matter of time before more students seek to change this perception. Bryan Somaiah is a Trinity sophomore. His second summer column will run on June 30. You can follow Bryan on Twitter @Bee_Smoove.
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