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LDOC successful, but with no lastminute surprises by Natalie Wegner THE CHRONICLE
Some are questioning whether the Last Day of Classes really saved the best for last. Preceding Wednesday’s LDOC celebration, many students were still hopeful of a possible surprise artist at the end of the concert. Following semester-long rumors, some students stayed past the end of the show to chant and stay to try to catch a glimpse. Hopeful concertgoers were turned away by security after 11 p.m., however. The only change in the lineup that occurred was the removal of sophomore Spencer Brown, known as Spencer Bruno, due to other artists going past their set times. Despite the time restrictions and some students’ disappointment with the lineup, LDOC committee co-chairs Evan Reilly, a sophomore, and Kenny Johnson, a junior, were overall pleased with the event and general feedback. “We have received positive feedback from both students and administrators about the entire event,” Johnson wrote in an email Friday. Most of the artists were relatively unknown to some students, which may have led to low expectations and rumors of a possible surprise artist. LDOC used the tagline “Best for Last” to promote the event, starting a flurry of rumors centered on the possibility of a surprise artist like Bruce Springsteen making VICTOR YE/THE CHRONICLE
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Dillon Francis headlined the Duke University Union’s annual Last Day of Classes concert Wednesday, April 23. Other performers included Ruby Jane Smith, Youngblood Hawke, Skizzy Mars and Spencer Brown.
Administrators note increase in resume fabrication incidents by Sasha Zients THE CHRONICLE
Administrators have noted an increase in incidents of resume fabrication at Duke in the past several years. Resume fabrication is characterized as the misrepresentation of information, such as grade point average and previous work experience. The Office of Student Conduct has seen increasing reports of student fabrication incidents in the past five academic years, said Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director of OSC—perhaps fueled by the degree of competition found both within in the University and in the job market outside. There were four reported incidents of resume fabrication in the 2009-10 school year. The following year, there was only one
reported incident, but in the past three academic years, rates have spiked—eight incidents were reported in the 2011-12 school year and seven incidents in 2012-13. This academic year has seen eight reported incidents of resume fabrication. “Anecdotally, it seems like the numbers are increasing,” Bryan said. “In the past couple of years, there have been more cases.” Bryan said he would speculate that resume fabrication is prevalent at schools with Duke’s level of selectivity, though he noted that he is on a national listserv for issues like these and has not read about many incidents. Duke’s “secretly competitive” nature could be another factor, Bryan said. He noted a “cool factor” that contributes to the stress of students who want to achieve at a
high level while appearing effortless. He added that reported cases of resume fabrication have most commonly been economics majors. Some might suspect that this increase is due to more stress associated with the job market, said Sue Wasiolek, assistant vice president for student affairs and dean of students. Bryan added that his guess is that since the 2008 economic crisis, the prevalence of resume fabrication has increased. “I can only imagine that it is because students are trying to do all that they can to bolster their candidacy,” Wasiolek said. Wasiolek noted, however, that it is difficult to tell whether the ability to detect incidents of resume fabrication has increased with the use of technology or the number of incidents
themselves have increased. Raising the grade Bryan noted that most cases pertain to boosting grade point averages on paper. “It’s usually a GPA issue—it’s easily verifiable and it’s brought to us by a faculty member,” Bryan said. Bryan added that faculty members usually discover instances of resume fabrication through viewing e-recruiting profiles of students with whom they are working or when students are required to submit their resumes for “permission-only” courses. “This is not a rounding issue,” Bryan said. “Students are stating a GPA that they’ve never been close to having.” See RESUME, page 5
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The United States is currently not producing enough workers in the science and technology fields, and women at Duke are trying to bridge the gap.
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When President Barack Obama signed a pair of executive orders aimed at bridging the gender pay gap earlier this month, he noted the importance of encouraging women to enter science and technology fields. According to the US News and World Report/Raytheon STEM index, jobs in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math are rapidly increasing in prevalence, spiking
30 percent from 2000 to 2013. The United States, however, is not currently producing enough workers with the skills required to take on many of these careers, the report states. And the gender gap could be a contributing factor—White House numbers from 2011 said women comprise just 24 percent of the STEM workforce. Some women at Duke are taking efforts to increase this figure. Haiyan Gao, chair of the physics department and one of the only female
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chairs of a STEM department at Duke, said if the country is going to improve the gender gap, America’s early education system must change. “It is very important to introduce [STEM subjects] to students early on,” she said. “[The fields] are difficult, but [they are] also a lot of fun. When you are very young, you are fearless.” When Gao attended college in the United States, she had already studied physics for five years in China. She said her familiarity with the subject was
important in her decision to pursue the field. “When you are thinking about what you are going to major in, you are going to do something you are familiar with,” she said. The leaders of Duke FEMMES are attempting to create that type of familiarity. FEMMES—which stands for Females Excelling More in Math, Engineering and Science—is a student-run program dedicated to exposing young women to STEM subjects through workshops and other activities. “What we are trying to do with our program is provide girls with female mentors in the STEM field,” said junior Janvi Shah, an associate FEMMES program director. Gao said female mentors are important when it comes to inspiring girls to pursue STEM fields. She said the reason she became a physicist was because of the inspiration and encouragement her female physics teacher provided. FEMMES works with Durham girls ranging from fourth to sixth grade. The organization runs an after-school program and a summer camp and hosts an annual capstone event, among other programming. During the capstone event, the girls hear from women in the STEM field and do hands-on activities with female professors, graduate students and undergraduates in Duke labs. Gao said although the STEM fields are challenging, it is important to show young women that they are worth the hard work. “Interesting or cool people can be scientists,” she said.
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OSC has also seen incidents of students falsifying volunteer opportunities and internships. Bryan noted one incident when two employers were talking and discovered that a candidate reported an internship with one of the employers that he or she had not done. “These cases are much more difficult to discover and they have come to us serendipitously,” Bryan said, adding that OSC does not randomly pull resumes from e-recruiting. Employers can compare transcripts versus resumes, Bryan said, noting that it is standard practice that a candidate sends a transcript at some point during the selection process. Consequences of fabrication The penalty for students who fabricate information on their resumes varies. Though the smallest changes in numbers are still significant, the greater degree of discrepancy, the more OSC can “infer malintent,” Bryan noted. He added that he has heard “excuses of all kinds”—including students who have said that they calculated wrong, that they had included their major GPA, they sent the wrong file and that they used a resume template from another student. In terms of disciplinary measures, Bryan said that OSC separates the internal falsification—within the University—from external falsification. “We’ve tended to not suspend BY THE when it’s internal, but when a NUMBERS student has used a false resume on e-recruiting or sent it to an employer, we typically suspend for Reported incidents of two semesters,” Bryan said. resume fabrication in the Sending false information 2009-2010 academic year devalues employers’ trust in Duke as an institution, Bryan said. Bryan added that there Reported incidents of have been internal cases that resume fabrication in the have been reduced to a faculty2013-2014 academic year student resolution and some external cases have brought down the two semesters to one semester, or probation. Wasiolek noted that the University has had very low rates of recidivism. She said that the process is intended to be “educational,” so that students are learning what they did wrong and changing their behavior. Bryan said he believes that resume fabrication is underreported and that there are likely many more cases that have not be discovered. He noted that it would be “interesting” to check the information on 25 random resumes. “We do not actively search for anything,” Bryan said. “But we empower students and when that trust is abused, it is hard to gain back.” Wasiolek and junior Dominique Beaudry—chair of the Duke University Honor Council executive board—both noted that resume fabrication is a clear violation of the Duke Community Standard and an ongoing byproduct of an ultracompetitive environment. “The discussion on resume fabrication is interesting because a lot of students see it as a victimless crime… Whereas in reality, not only does it lessen the chances of honest students getting that [job] and perpetuates a false sense of success, but I really have issue with it because it creates unattainable standards,” Beaudry wrote in an email Sunday. Beaudry noted that the Honor Council is working to add a First-Year Advisory Council chat about the community standard during Orientation Week and to push faculty to adopt clearer guidelines on the ethics of collaboration.
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Students took a break from studying for final exams to see The Duke Pitchforks, an all-male a cappella group, perform their last show of the year at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens Sunday afternoon.
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an appearance. Further evidence that Springsteen was scheduled to perform in Raleigh the next day added to some people’s speculation. “I didn’t know any of the artists beforehand so [I] had pretty low expectations for the concert,” senior Blair Ganson said. “This led me to think Bruce Springsteen was going to show up at the end.” Reilly wrote in an email Friday that the LDOC committee chose the “Best for Last” theme to promote the day as a celebration of the final day of class and everyone’s hard work throughout the year. “We wanted to reinforce this message,” Reilly said. “It was not intended to deceive anyone about the lineup or surprise performers.” Once the clock struck 11 p.m., and noise regulations prevented Dillon Francis from finishing his set, “we want Bruce” chants filled the quad. Security was forced to step in and let the crowd know that the concert was over. A few ardent students refused to leave and after 20 minutes of waiting in silence finally decided to give up. Some students saw the positive outcome of bringing fairly unknown artists to LDOC, however, and some noted that they were introduced to groups they had not previously known. “Overall, this year’s LDOC was not as good as years past. Although, I thought Youngblood Hawke put on a great show,” wrote senior Bryn Hilton in an email Sunday. LDOC, however encompasses more than just the concerts, and some students took note of the many activities throughout the day. Freshman Matthew Plaut said he did not know what to expect from the day, other than the presence of drunk people on the Main Quadrangle, but was pleasantly surprised. “LDOC met my expectations and turned out to be an incredibly fun day that I spent with my friends,” Plaut wrote in an email Saturday. “The concert was a bit of a letdown, but I still had a great time.” Daytime LDOC activities included bouncy castles, silent discos and massages in front of the chapel, making the concert only one part of a day-long celebration. “LDOC this year for me was more about the atmosphere and spending time with my friends than the music,” Ganson said.
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Blue Devils fight back but can’t secure victory against Virginia in ACC finals by Matt Pun The ChroniCle
it almost happened again. For the second straight day hanna Mar found a way to claw back from trailing 5-3 in the third set into a tieDUKE 2 breaker. And with teammate Beatrice 4 Capra serving for UVA the win in the no. 1 singles match and the Blue Devils trailing Virginia 3-2, Mar ‘s comeback effort had the potential to help seal the win. But, this time the magic ran out on the Duke senior. Although Mar had even earned two match points prior to the tiebreaker, Cavalier Stephanie nauta proved too much the Blue Devil as she defeated Mar 7-3 in the tie breaker and gave her squad a 4-2 victory in Virginia’s first-ever ACC championship appearance. “i said it yesterday too. She’s the one we want to have out there,” Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “She’s been great for us for four years coming through in those types of situations. Stephanie played a little more aggressive tiebreaker than hanna did, and hanna
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Senior Hanna Mar could not pull off another heroic comeback as the Blue Devils fell to Virginia in the ACC Championship finals. will learn from it.” As she did in her match Saturday against north Carolina’s Caroline Price, Mar dropped the first set to nauta 6-3 and found a way to come back after giving up a break in the third set. This time, however, Mar almost avoided having to go to the tiebreaker at all. leading 6-5, Mar fell behind 40-0 on nauta’s serve but won four consecutive
points to earn a match-point opportunity off-service. Mar failed to clinch the match there but won the next point to earn another shot at clinching the win. Mar and nauta rallied, and nauta hit a deep shot down the right side. Mar, as she struck a return, called the ball out but was then overruled by the umpire. “hanna’s not the one that you question her line calls,” Ashworth said. “She
firmly believed that the ball was out, so she calls it out.” Mar did not get back to match point after that, leaving both her comeback and her team’s just short. The Blue Devils (24-4) started the day behind 1-0 after dropping both the no. 2 and no. 3 doubles matches. in Duke’s first matchup with Virginia (21-5) Feb. 21, the Blue Devils had won the doubles point but dropped five of six singles matches—making it the team’s only loss on the year after winning the doubles point. And the singles portion did not start out promising for Duke. Mar, ester Goldfeld and Chalena Scholl all dropped their first set, and Capra—the nation’s seventh-ranked singles player— trailed 5-0 in the first set against no. 4 Julia elbaba. Goldfeld, who was limited due to illness last week, fell in straight sets, but Scholl and Capra came back. Scholl went on to shut rachel Pierson out of the second set then win the third 6-2 to tie the match at two points apiece. “We’re down a couple sets, we’re down 5-0 on one and we did a good job battling back and making it a match, and i think that says a lot about the resolve of our girls and their determination,” Ashworth said. Capra, in her sixth game, fell behind 0-30 and then 30-40 but battled back and See W. Tennis, page 9
Finding amazing in the ordinary like most Duke students, i still have vivid memories from my first game at Cameron indoor Stadium. i sprinted into the stadium 90 minutes before gametime to grab a spot in the second row at the foul line across from the visitor’s bench. i donned the jersey that i still identify not with Quinn Cook or nolan Smith, but with Josh Mcroberts—the Blue Devils’ no. 2 when i bought it nearly a decade ago. in the game’s opening minutes i almost passed out from the heat because in my unbridled excitement to experience K-ville, i forgot that even Cameron Crazies need to eat and drink in the nine hours leading up to a game. As fate would have it, the kid i nearly fell into—standing directly to my right—went on to serve alongside me as sports managing editor for this volume. Although i can still tell you the date (nov. 11, 2010), the score (Duke won 7776) and the key play (Austin rivers drained an ill-advised go-ahead three) from that game, my most vivid memory is how awe-
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struck i was as i watched the ball float into the air for the opening tip. After 18 years of watching Duke games, i finally got to be a part of the amorphous blob of royal blue that used to reside in my television screen. i spent the remainder of my freshman year as a mainstay in Section 17, but by the end of the season Cameron started to feel different to me. it hadn’t lost its significance, but it began to feel smaller and more comfortable. Cameron started to feel the way my old high school gym used to feel—i felt at home there, but i had lost the sense of awe when i took in a game. As i rose through the ranks to the role of sports editor for Volume 109, daily trips to Cameron made it feel more like an office and less like hallowed ground. During that time, i have crossed paths with national champions, All-Americans and olympic medalists. Being at Duke affords you the opportunity to rub elbows with countless current and future hall of Fame athletes and coaches— whether it is working with the likes of Mike Krzyzewski and David Cutcliffe on campus or getting to see Peyton Manning, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett on
brief visits. People ask me all the time whether i feel starstruck around these giants, and the answer is always no. Just as college basketball’s most historic venue grew to feel small, so did the larger-than-life figures with whom i worked. That isn’t to say that i fail recognize the accomplishments of the great men and women i’ve covered. Just as sports is the business of building idols, sports writing teaches you to take a step back from your biases and affiliations. But there were times when this job forced me to become numb to the many once-in-a-lifetime opportunities i’ve received during the past three years. This came full circle for me as i took my usual seat on press row for the Duke-north Carolina game at Cameron. As the teams warmed up, i began to think about how many 21-year-old kids had the opportunity to sit in that seat—smack dab in the middle of a century-old rivalry that could be the greatest in sports. Watching two shades of blue that couldn’t have been more similar and different at the same time float around the court brought back the memories of watching them through my television screen. Slowly but surely, the feeling of awe
crept back up my spine. luckily, i wasn’t going to pass out this time—i had learned any good day in Cameron starts with a good pregame meal. Closing the book on Volume 109 has forced me to face my own mortality as a college student—i only have one year left at Duke before the best four years of my life are behind me. like Cameron, Duke can become a comfortable place pretty quickly. And whether or not you’ve realized it, Duke, too, can start to feel a bit small after a while. Passing off something as ordinary doesn’t mean you’re taking it for granted—but you might be missing an opportunity to acknowledge something truly special. it’s ok to let yourself be awestruck by the things you do and the people you meet at Duke. Don’t forget how incredible this place is and that every experience you have here is probably once-in-a-lifetime. Daniel Carp is a Trinity junior. He served as sports editor for The Chronicle’s 109th volume. He would like to thank his family and friends for their undying support and the Chronicle’s entire staff—past and present— for taking this journey with him.
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Blue Devils sweep wake Forest to win ninth straight by Brian Pollack The ChroniCle
After almost blowing a six-run lead Saturday due to some late homers by the Demon Deacons, Duke used a few timely long balls of its own a day later to keep its winning streak alive. The Blue Devils won a thrilling 8-6 ball game against Wake DUKE 8 Forest Sunday after6 noon at Gene hooks WFU Field at Wake Forest Baseball Park, completing their fourth ACC series sweep of the season and extending their current winning streak to nine. Duke trailed 6-3 after six innings but hit home runs in each of the final three frames to overtake the Deamon Deacons. The two teams combined to blast six homers throughout the game—a season-high five by the Blue Devils—just one day after combining for four. “When the ball is jumping like that guys would be lying if they didn’t say it affects their approach a little bit,” Blue Devil head coach Chris Pollard said. “it affects pitchers and it affects hitters both. You start to feel like anything that gets up in the air has a chance to leave the yard.” Duke (28-17, 15-9 in the ACC) tied the game at six in the seventh inning thanks to a three-run blast from right fielder Chris Marconcini. Wake Forest (26-21, 12-12) made a pitching change prior to the at-bat—bringing in freshman John McCarren to face the left-handed slugger—but the maneuver didn’t
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Duke used the long ball to its advantage Sunday as its secured its ninth straight victory and completed its sweep of Wake Forest. work out for the Deamon Deacons. Marconcini took the first pitch he saw from McCarren and sent it over the wall in right center for his eighth homer of the season, which put him in a tie for the conference lead. “i thought we stayed very relaxed [after being down 6-3],” Pollard said. “We didn’t press, we certainly didn’t panic. Guys recognized that we just needed to get a couple guys on base, and the park was playing very small all weekend. You feel like you get a couple guys on, you’re one swing away.” After the bullpen held Wake Forest scoreless in the bottom of the seventh,
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the Blue Devils took the lead for good in the top of the eighth. left fielder ryan Deitrich hit a solo home run over the left field wall to give Duke a 7-6 lead it would not relinquish. Second baseman Andy Perez also added a solo shot for good measure in the ninth to provide the final 8-6 margin of victory—his only hit of the day. once they took the lead in the eighth, the Blue Devil bullpen took care of the rest. Junior Andrew istler—who entered in the seventh to preserve the tie and left a runner stranded on third—and senior closer robert huber were dominant in closing out the victory. The duo
retired all six batters they faced in the final two innings, slamming the door on any hopes Wake Forest had at mounting a comeback. “it was a great finish,” Pollard said. “You could tell that those two guys just started to smell it, they could smell the victory. They went in there, they were very aggressive, they really pounded the strike zone and got a lot of soft-contact outs. [Wake Forest] didn’t square up a ball in the eighth or ninth innings.” Starter Michael Matuella—who entered the game second among team starters with a 1.59 erA—struggled a bit on the mound for Duke, requiring 94 pitches to make it through five innings in which he allowed five earned runs on six hits. The sophomore right-hander allowed just one run in his first four innings, but ran into some trouble in the bottom of the fifth. Trailing 2-1, the Deamon Deacons used two consecutive bunt singles to load the bases with nobody out. Matuella then walked in a run and gave up a two-rBi single to senior Charlie Morgan, all before he had even recorded an out in the frame. he was able to limit the damage from there, inducing a run-scoring double play and a fly out to escape the inning with his team trailing only 5-2. “[Matuella] had a little bit of bad luck there in the fifth,” Pollard said. “They had a leadoff single and then the back-to-back bunt hits. it wasn’t really like they were banging the ball all around the ballpark, but we got the big double-play groundball to minimize the damage.”
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earned a deuce point. A double fault from elbaba gave Capra a chance to get back in the match and the Duke sophomore capitalized—reeling off eight straight wins to take the set and the first game of the second set. “My opponent was playing really well to start out for me to go down 5-0, and i just kept telling myself i just really wanted to do well for this team,” Capra said. “i eventually got it together and just fought my way back” Duke’s comebacks, however, did not prove enough to keep its hopes of a second championship in three years alive. Virginia, which had a bye in the first round of the tournament and only lost one match heading into the final, outlasted the Blue Devils as Maci epstein beat Duke’s Alyssa Smith 6-7, 6-1, 6-1 and nauta finished off Mar. But Mar sees the team’s tournament performance as an important part of Duke’s preparation for the nCAA tournament. “We played a lot of matches in a row, and we fought through well,” she said. “That’s the same with the tournament… to play your best for a lot of days in a row [is key].” Although their come-from-behind bid for a championship fell short, the Blue Devils still believe they showed what they can do in the postseason. “every girl on this team just has so much fight,” Capra said. “everybody knows that when we step on the court it’s going to be really tough to beat us.”
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Fifteen seconds are too many. That is what Duke learned on Friday night. Although the Blue Devils clung to a 15-14 lead with less than 30 seconds left, back-toDUKE 15 back goals by third Syracuse 16 seed Syracuse in the waning seconds of the game sent second-seeded Duke back to Durham without an ACC championship game appearance. The pair of last-second goals gave the no. 4 orange a 16-15 win against the no. 2 Blue Devils at PPl Park in Chester, Penn. The win was Syracuse’s first against Duke in the last five matchups between the two teams and avenged the 21-7 lashing the orange suffered at the hands of the Blue Devils March 23. “Statistically, we took more shots, we out ground-balled them by 15,” Duke head coach John Danowski said. “We won 10 more faceoffs, 3-for-3 on extra man, 0-for-4 for them on man down. But their players, it’s kind of strange, they played better than our players. They won the individual battles. When there were opportunities to make plays around the goal...they made plays.” With the game tied at 14 with 3:15 to play, Duke’s top offensive threat, senior attack Jordan Wolf, came through with his first goal of the game to give the Blue Devils a onepoint advantage. For the next two minutes, it
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seemed as if the lead would hold. But with just 15 seconds left, Syracuse’s randy Staats tossed a pass from behind the net to midfielder Billy Ward, who managed to sneak the ball past Duke goalie luke Aaron. in the ensuing faceoff, the orange’s Chris Daddio bested last year’s nCAA Tournament MVP Brendan Fowler to give his team one last shot to win the game. in the final seconds, amidst confusion on both sides, junior attack Kevin rice lofted the ball over the middle of the field to Dylan Donahue, who scored just as the final horn sounded. “We’ve been playing together for a while, and when Daddio got that faceoff, it was a huge win,” Donahue said. “he gave it to randy [Staats] and i was looking to cut. i think Kevin [rice] was looking to cut too. he passed it to Kevin, which was probably an easier pass, and i just backdoored the shot.” Syracuse will now face the winner of the game between top-seeded Maryland and fourth-seeded notre Dame Sunday at 5 p.m. The Blue Devils will have one final non-conference game against Boston University May 4 and then will await a seed in the nCAA tournament. Duke got off to a hot start early in the match, outscoring the orange 5-2 in the first quarter behind two goals from Deemer Class and one from Case Matheis. The two sophomores lifted the team early as the Syracuse defense locked down on the Blue Devils’ most prolific scorers, seniors Josh Dionne and Wolf. But just like later in the game, as soon as Duke built a comfortable lead, it lost it. The orange scored four quick goals in less than five minutes and took a 6-5 lead in the second quarter. “The biggest thing that slowed us down was ourselves,” Dionne said. “i know i did not run
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down a ground ball there in the fourth quarter. That’s a possession that we lost. it was little things – i was not catching the ball the greatest at times. The little things like that, we were not putting it on people’s sticks enough.” The Blue Devils still trailed with two minutes to play in the first half, but Matheis scored a pair of goals and Dionne added another to give Duke a 10-8 halftime lead. Matheis, a sophomore from Darien, CT., picked up the offensive slack on a night when Wolf, the team’s leading scorer, was limited to just one goal. Matheis finished with three goals. Again, the Blue Devils built a 14-10 lead in the early minutes of the fourth quarter, but the orange stormed back, scoring four straight goals to tie the game. The neck-andneck tempo of the game sharply contrasted Duke’s 14-point blowout earlier in the season. “There is a sense you have when prepare for games like this, as coaches, we knew it was not going to be 21-7 again,” Danowski said. “We have been doing this a long time and we have seen this before, it happens all the time.” But instead of being up by 14, the Blue Devils found themselves tied at 14. Donahue—who finished the game with four goals and two assists—foreshadowed a bitter ending for Duke when he shot the ball between the pipes with 4:29 left in the game to knot the game at 14. The loss ends the Blue Devils’ tough ACC campaign in which they went 4-2 against ranked teams. With an nCAA Tournament berth in his team’s future and a tough month ahead in May, it is a simple message that Danowski will be preaching to his team for the rest of the season. “You have to earn everything you get,” he said. “every day. That is as old as the hills.”
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foot office copyediting a story, that a squirrel peeked its head out from behind my laptop. After coming to terms with the fact that I was not hallucinating the appearance of a squirrel, I screamed for help. I proceeded to spend the next three hours attempting to assist the Sports Editor and Towerview Editor with trapping the squirrel in a plastic box. I missed all of my deadlines that day. If there’s one thing The Chronicle has taught me, it is to always prepare for the unexpected. Whether it was a squirrel wreaking havoc on the photo department’s desks, two staff members quitting the very first night of production or scrambling to replace a new camera lens stolen from a football game, I quickly became affiliated as The Chronicle’s damage control. In some ways, I like to think of myself as akin to Scandal’s Olivia Pope fixing problems in Washington D.C., except without the impeccable white paint suits and expensive red wine collection. Serving as editor came with a slew of predictable responsibilities. There was copyediting, writing, fact-checking and keeping each department on track with their goals. There was also the higher aim of trying to produce the highest quality of journalism we possibly could in the digital age. In some respects I succeeded in meeting these responsibilities and in other respects I failed. At the end of the day, though, I often found my greatest responsibility was simply being there—and I like to believe I always succeeded in that regard. As editor, the organization and its staff always came first in my book. Sleep or proper eating habits be damned. I truly saw just how far I could be pushed in February, when one of The Chronicle’s most talented reporters called begging me to help her get a story out before another publication beat us to the punch. Put under a time crunch neither of us could have predicted, I called two of the most dedicated editors I knew asking for assistance. Let me say that, just like Olivia Pope, I
That night, an editor would drive in the snow to pick up a source, I would learn of my grandfather’s death and we would all pull an all-nighter to publish our most controversial story of the year. The weeks following publication of that story are best characterized as a blur of trying to tame a fire we had started. I suppose the obvious question to come from all of this is: why? Why sacrifice a year traditionally reserved to go abroad and explore the world to sit in a stuffy office faced with more responsibility and stress than most 20-year olds ever experience? To me the answer is obvious: I love The Chronicle. Since I joined The Chronicle freshman year, the individuals in that unpredictable and highly unstable office have been the best friends I could ask for. They’ve given me a shoulder to cry on during truly difficult times and bin candy to munch on after a long day. They’re the ones who listen to old-school hip-hop with me until 4 a.m. and watch Scandal with after a long week. They’re my second family. Staying up into the wee hours of the night or copyediting stories for hours seems like such a minor way to pay back the group of people who made me into the fearless and capable woman I am today. This year was hard. But it prepared me for the real world in more ways than I could have imagined and it allowed me to help a staff of amazing individuals get closer to their undergraduate journalism goals. I cannot regret that. With that, I bid farewell to all the crises and thank all the wonderful people who helped me (sometimes) elegantly and (often) inelegantly handle them. To Sophia Durand, Raisa Chowdhury, Daniel Carp and Elysia Su—a million thank you’s. And a big thanks to Volume 109 for rocking my world. Danielle Muoio is a Trinity junior and editor-in-chief of The Chronicle. Like her predecessors, she aches with the knowledge that she will never be either again.
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ive years ago, I was sitting in my high school Spanish class as my teacher, one of my best, began his usual controversial monologue intended to get a rise out of students and spark a discussion. It was a good strategy for shy Spanish speakers, and on that day, the topic, as Dr. Sanchez put it, was when we expected to be born. He explained that, as teenagers, we were essentially either molds of our parents or sometimes rebels. In either case, they came to define us. He wanted to know when each of us would begin to process our own experiences, develop our own ideas and become our person. After getting
Yeshwanth Kandimalla SENIOR COLUMN some hemming and hawing from the students, he went around the room, one by one, and the answer was always “Universidad.” Five years later, as my college career hurtles toward graduation, I think about Dr. Sanchez’s question and our class’ unanimous response. Have I been born? How was I supposed to know? Was my diploma my new birth certificate, even though that economics degree represented a fraction of what I had learned? In many ways, yes. High school me lived a fairly sheltered life, so college came in roaring. The harsh realities of social determinants and social inequity, often swept under the rug in grade school and largely ignored by adolescent me, stared me square in the face. More personally, I had to confront attitudes and misgivings within myself and come through, learning and knowing better, at least until the next internal confrontation came along. In the process, I had to be vulnerable and grow to rely on others around me. For my introverted persona, this is my greatest accomplishment—building a family when I was physically apart from the one that had carried me through the first 18 years. I took my time. Infancy, in keeping with this reborn metaphor, is a tricky thing. I came to Duke, made some friends, joined the first organization I heard of, hit some bumps, became a mentee, stuck around at said organization, made more friends, became better friends with my best friends, took the helm at said organization, hit bigger bumps,
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became a mentor. Finally, as a senior, I wrote an original research paper and tried to convince more people to join said organization while deepening the relationships that made college worthwhile all along. Through this personal journey of ups-anddowns and mistakes and lessons, I’ve come to love and appreciate the convoluted layers and contradictions of this University. Not only as a place where we make headlines with a Nobel Prize winner one year and then a pornstar the very next, but more personally, my professors and peers, from 2010 to 2014, who have opened my eyes and challenged me. Duke, to me, has a very positive but still very nascent identity, one that it is trying to forge, complications and all. This identity deeply resonates with me and how I see myself. All the while, the relationships and connections have defined my Duke experience. I certainly made my fair share of mistakes along the way (some may say more than my fair share). There are those who shared in my moments of triumph and happiness, and then are those who were with me in times of pain and crippling self-doubt. You know who you are. I see some of you every day, and some of you I’ve lost touch with over the years. No matter who you are, know that I am indebted to you for being a friend in my time of need. My Duke family only builds on my first family. To paraphrase Robert Frost, home is where, no matter what, they have to let you in the door. I feel very grateful to know that applies to me when so many others can’t say the same. While college accelerated my growth and formation of my identity, the foundation that my first family helped build continues to inform me today. So, to a large extent, I was born in college, Dr. Sanchez. I came into my own. Ultimately, Duke has taught me that there are few certainties for me in life. One is that life will be a perpetual learning curve. I may be born now, but I could be born again, and again, and another time for good measure. Along the way, there will be moments of beauty, moments of struggle and moments of sorrow, but they are better shared with a family that only keeps growing.
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oodbye, Duke. Goodbye doing homework past when it was due. And goodbye thinking of all of those excuses, too. Goodbye taking classes. Goodbye modes of inquiry, course requirements and wondering if I’ll pass this. Goodbye Perkins and trying to find a table in the Link. Goodbye working all night, past when I could think. Goodbye professors I loved and professors I hated. And goodbye TAs, who I sometimes appreciated. Goodbye dorm rooms and late-night antics. Goodbye decorating walls with scantily-clad chicks. Goodbye tenting. Goodbye cold nights in the mud ‘till a line-check
Andrew Beaton SENIOR COLUMN marked the end. Goodbye knowing it was worth it, staying up late with a friend. Goodbye Section 17 and getting packed in like sardines. Goodbye, Tailgate. Goodbye Chik-fil-A from campus, except for the bowl game. Goodbye ineptitude being the source of the football team’s fame. Goodbye, Dillo. Goodbye, Cosmic. Goodbye to late-night burritos finished the next day. Goodbye Dragon Gate lady, who gets angrier every day. Goodbye Shooters, the bull, the Hells Angels bouncers and more. Goodbye sweating on that grimy dance floor. Goodbye Alivia’s, Satis and Devine’s. Goodbye paying cover and waiting on lines. Goodbye fraternities. Goodbye sororities. Goodbye mixers, date functions and formals. Goodbye pretending like ‘80s-themed parties are normal. Goodbye Durham, Monuts and Nana’s. Goodbye Cookout milkshakes, preferably strawberry-banana. Goodbye visiting friends sleeping on couches. Goodbye playing video games, then sleeping on couches. Goodbye Instagrams of the chapel at night. Goodbye Instagrams of the chapel in the light. Goodbye Instagrams of the gardens in the sun. Goodbye finishing childhood and becoming an adult, almost yet. Goodbye to innocence, our last safety net. Goodbye getting smarter but acting all stupid. Goodbye, Duke.
edit pages Yeshwanth Kandimalla is a Trinity senior. He is a recruitment chair and former editor-in-chief of The Chronicle. He would like to thank his family and anyone who made it through this rambling.
Andrew Beaton is a Trinity senior. He has worked for The Chronicle for four years, serving as the paper’s sports editor during his junior year. He would like to blame his two older brothers, Eric and Greg, and his father for raising him to be a Mets, Jets and Knicks fan. And more importantly, he would like to thank his mother for surviving a household with four guys and doing everything in the world possible to foster his love for sports.
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didn’t always want to be a journalist. Looking back, I’m surprised. I have always been nosy to a fault; I crave political intrigue; and I’m a decent writer. For goodness’ sake, my favorite book-turned-movie is All the President’s Men (essentially a reporter’s sacred manifesto), and it has been since about 9th grade.
basketball games. What I get hung up on is that I experienced Duke as a journalist, not as a student. For most of my four years, I was always in reporter mode. Dinner conversation among friends sometimes turned into story pitches, as did things I learned in professors’ office hours and from email listservs I joined at the activities fair
Lauren Carroll SENIOR COLUMN I tried out The Chronicle O-week just as something to do, but I soon discovered that through journalism, I could realize my childhood dream of becoming Nancy Drew, with some politics and writing tossed in. I can’t believe it took me so long to figure it out. However, I sometimes think I came to that realization too fast. If you know me or anyone else who has had leadership roles at The Chronicle, you know this organization sucks us in. Like, 60-hours-a-week sucks you in. I wouldn’t trade the hours I spent in this office for anything, but I know there are certain parts of college that I missed out on. It’s okay that I didn’t study abroad or do a thesis or go to nearly enough
and never unsubscribed from. I got an education that has prepared me well for my future, but often at the expense of my schoolwork because I always put The Chronicle first. And some of the best lessons I learned came at others’ misfortune because our (and their) mistakes were published in print and online for all the world to see, unlike a bad grade or a run-in with student conduct. At the onset of college, I saw myself as a royal blue-bleeding Blue Devil who wanted nothing more than for Duke to ascend both the March Madness bracket and the U.S. News and World Report rankings. But for much of my time here, I was pitching, writing and editing
stories that could make Duke look bad. With all the juicy gossip I know about Duke, Dean Guttentag should get a little nervous if he sees me talking to a P-frosh. (In fact, I once represented The Chronicle at a Blue Devil Days event, standing in front of a poster version of a Chronicle front page from our lacrosse scandal coverage. He wasn’t too happy.) Despite all that, The Chronicle taught me to love Duke. Even if it seems like I was out to get the University or some of the people here, my Chronicle work was a manifestation of my love. By exposing its problems, we can make Duke better. For every negative story idea, I had a million positive ones—about research, philanthropy, administrators’ promotions or students standing up for what they believe in. And if Duke supports good journalism, that means it also supports free thought and free speech. Duke welcomes criticism, which is a luxury student journalists at many other schools don’t have. I’m no Duke poster child, but I accomplished plenty of the things they tell you about in the brochures. I found my passion, and I got to be a leader. I learned from both success and failure. I immersed myself in Duke in my own, unique way. And eventually, I did make it to a Carolina game, on top of nearly
every home football game this year. (Hell yes, Duke Football!) My relationship with this paper, though rocky and painful at times, was the most important part of my Duke experience, and it’s how I will forever remember college. Like a break-up, it will be hard to cut off our ties cold turkey. I’ll take with me my blankets that will forever remind me of the countless late nights I spent with you, and I’ll give up my DukeCard access to the office. I’ll stalk you on social media, and I will send check-in emails even though I know you’ve moved on to other managing editors. I’ll see you at reunions, where we will make awkward small talk over crudités and punch. I will hopefully move on to bigger and better news organizations, but always know that in terms of journalism, you were my first love. Lauren Carroll is a Trinity senior and former managing editor of The Chronicle. Thanks to Lindsey, Nicole and Sanette for their mentorship, to volumes 106-110 for putting up with her (especially when she was a sore loser and control freak), to Jonathan for his never-ending love and patience and to everyone on the group text who still wanted her around even after she basically spent a year abroad in 301.
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