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Duke shakes slow start, downs Mich. State Ryan Hoerger Beat Writer

INDIANAPOLIS—After Jahlil Okafor touched the ball just once in the first four minutes of the game, the Blue Devils made sure that their first Final Four trip in five years would not end without the ACC Player of the Year leaving his mark.

Okafor’s dominance was on display as top-seeded Duke shook off an early Michigan State surge, control61 ling the MSU DUKE 81 game for the final 35 minutes and cruising to a 8161 victory against the seventhseeded Spartans at Lucas Oil Stadium. Playing in the first Final Four of their careers, Okafor, Quinn Cook and Justise Winslow combined for 54 points to power

the offense and ensure that their season extends two more days. ”I felt I wanted the game.

Hopefully I could have that look every game,” Okafor said. “I should always want to dominate.

[My teammates] saw that and we have one more to get.”

After dispatching the Spartans in Indianapolis for the second time this season, the Blue Devils will face either Kentucky or Wisconsin Monday night for a chance to bring home their fifth national title and first since 2010.

Michigan State dealt the first blow, draining its first four shots from behind the arc to create an early eight-point cushion and leading 14-6 at the first media timeout. But from there, Duke’s defense put the clamps on Travis Trice, Denzel Valentine and the rest of the Spartans.

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With a decisive 81-61 victory against Michigan State Saturday in the national semifinal, the Blue Devils will square off with Wisconsin Monday with a national title on the line.

Bo Ryan thinks the Blue Devils remind him of a 35-year-old hockey team. Mike Krzyzewski likens the Badgers to an older version of Duke: PAGE 11

Monday’s national championship game pits Duke against Wisconsin, the team that has produced the tournament’s funniest off-court moments: PAGE 10

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NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME • MONDAY • 9:18 P.M. • CBS Blue Devils to battle red-hot Badgers seeking fifth national championship Nick Martin Sports Editor INDIANAPOLIS—With one game remaining in the college basketball season and four Blue Devils likely on their way out of Durham regardless of the outcome, a night on college basketball’s biggest stage

represents much more than a battle for the national title.

Rather, it is an opportunity to become permanently etched into the history of one of the game’s most storied programs. Top-seeded Duke will take on top-seeded Wisconsin in the NCAA tournament championship game at Lucas Oil Stadium Monday at 9:18 p.m., and with one

game remaining in his Duke career, the moment is not lost on the Blue Devils’ lone senior.

“We want to be one of those teams that coach is bragging about five or seven years later,” senior captain Quinn Cook said. “It’s motivation for us to be special. Our chemistry has been great all year.

It’s just been better. So to be up

here with these guys right now is a true blessing.”

Both squads are currently playing their best basketball of the season—in Saturday’s national semifinals, the Badgers (36-3) knocked off previously-undefeated Kentucky 71-64 and the Blue Devils (34-4) trounced Michigan State by 20 to secure their spot in the title bout.

The national title game, like Duke’s Final Four victory against Michigan State, will be a rematch from the 2014-15 regular season.

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Campus prepares for national Calendar shifts for 2015championship game 2016 academic year Amrith Ramkumar The Chronicle Is it better to be on campus or on site when Duke basketball wins the national championship? That has been the question circulating throughout the student body as the Blue Devils prepare to battle for their fifth title Monday night in Indianapolis.

For Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek, a dedicated Duke fan, the choice is clear.

“I prefer to be on campus for the championship game—it’s actually more fun,” she said Sunday morning.

Wasiolek—who was in Indianapolis for Duke’s Saturday win against Michigan State in the Final Four—said she was planning to travel back to Durham for Monday’s on-campus festivities for the national championship game.

Wasiolek sent an email Sunday evening invit-

Chronicle File Photo Duke students welcomed the men’s basketball team back to Cameron Indoor Stadium after the 2010 national championship game.

ing students to join her at Cameron Indoor Stadium to watch the Blue Devils take on Wisconsin at 9:18 p.m. As was the case in 2010—the last time Duke played in a national championship game—Cameron’s doors will open at 8 p.m.

Wasiolek will be joined by Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta and several hundred Cameron Crazies to take in the contest on the lowered center scoreboard.

Increasing the appeal for students to watch in Cameron is that the game will be televised by DirectTV, which is widely preferred to the Roku boxes that occupy other viewing areas on campus. But for many students, being on campus for the celebration following a potential championship victory is even more important than the specific location in which they view it.

“This is my one and only shot to be a student and experience a final on campus, and to really be a part of that energy and that community,” said Arden Kreeger, a senior who also traveled back Sunday from Indianapolis to experience the title game on campus. “For me, it’s [all] about watching with my friends.”

In addition to watching in traditional venues like Cameron Indoor Stadium and The Loop on campus, off-campus venues like Shooters II Saloon will also provide viewing options for students. The club’s owner, Kim Cates, said that the saloon’s watch party will start at 9:15 p.m.— adding that she hopes Duke’s players will return victorious in time to celebrate a win with a huge crowd early Tuesday morning.

As Cates prepares to welcome an enormous group of students if the Blue Devils prevail, the University is also readying itself for the heightened security and bonfire organization that

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help students attending Winter Forum avoid traveling conflicts with New Year’s.

Winter Forum—an annual event in which undergraduate students spend three days exploring a major global issue—is scheduled for the Sunday through Tuesday of Jan. 10 to 12.

Claire Ballentine Spring break and final examinations The Chronicle will also be pushed back five days next Duke’s calendar for academic year year, with the last exam in 2016 falling 2015-16 has shifted—with students set on May 7. to receive five additional days of winter “What appears to be a change for next break, and graduation scheduled for five year is really just the result of the ways days later than this year. the days fall at the start of the Spring seUniversity Registrar Bruce Cunning- mester,” Cunningham said. “It’s just part ham emphasized that the structure of of the routine cycle of the calendar.” the academic calendar itself has not See Preparations on Page 3 changed, but that the shift was made to See Calendar on Page 3

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He said that the University sets aside the Sunday to Tuesday prior to the beginning of the spring semester for the Undergraduate Winter Forum, and the first day of Spring classes is scheduled in relation to the Forum. In 2016, the Forum will begin on January 10, rather than January 3, so that students can avoid conflict connected with New Year’s travel.

Students expressed a range of opinions about the schedule’s shift.

“It could cut into internships and other opportunities,” said freshman Delaney Thompson. “Right now, we have a leg up on other schools because we get out sooner.”

Caroline Ginty, a junior, said that she enjoyed benefits from Duke’s Spring final exam schedule last year, which was earlier than it will be in 2016.

“I was at my internship two weeks earlier than the other students, which was really nice,” she said.

Cunningham said he did not believe summer internships would be affected by the calendar shift—noting that even with the later exam schedule, Duke students will still be let out “earlier than several other schools.”

He added that he did not think the later Spring break date—scheduled from March 11 to March 21—would interfere with March Madness, which is set to begin March 15.

Some students said they favored the 2016 calendar over past academic schedules.

“The longer winter break will enable students to partake in better activities over break, whether these are social or

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Matthew Rock | The Chronicle The Duke International Association hosted its annual Springternational, featuring food trucks and dance performances, on the Main Quadrangle Friday afternoon.

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But Moneta said that the experience he and his colleagues have from the Blue Devils’ 2010 national championship run and preparing to host annual Duke-UNC games on campus has made coordinating this year’s efforts much easier.

“We’ve done this before, we’re very proud of our students and the way they will celebrate, and we haven’t felt the need to do any extraordinary precautions beyond what we normally know to do and what we’ve done in the past,” he said.

Among the typical precautions taken is that the Duke University Police Department will treat Monday evening like the Blue Devils are playing a home game in Cameron, managing traffic flow and security around the famous arena. DUPD Chief of Police John Dailey wrote in an email Sunday that there will be more than 100 additional security personnel on campus and that roads to West Campus and East Campus will be blocked and will require a Duke card for entry.

Access to residence halls on West Campus will be limited to students in their respective quadrangles from 5 p.m. Monday until 9 a.m.

Tuesday, and Wasiolek said that starting at about 9:30 p.m. Monday, general access to campus will be limited to those with a DukeCard.

Volunteers on the “A-Team,” which organizes bonfires and bench burning for the men’s and women’s Duke-UNC games, will also be prepared if the Blue Devils knock off the Badgers Monday night. Wasiolek said that the University applies for a permit to have bonfires throughout the season months in advance, but added that the fire marshal will have to officially approve the request based on Monday’s weather.

The fire department and DUPD train and

Chronicle File Photo Benches were burned in the aftermath of Duke’s victory in the 2010 men’s national championship game.

coordinate with the “A-Team” so that the group can successfully manage the bench burning, sophomore member Sophia Khan said. Khan added that the work that goes in to obtaining volunteers to sacrifice benches and in preparing for the bonfire during the last few minutes of the most important games of the season is well worth it.

“We can’t watch the game, so we get all of the updates via radio—it really is a different experience,” she said. “[The Duke-UNC game] was incredible…. They really do put everything in the students’ hands—they want to make sure it’s all student run.”

After Duke won the national championship game in 2010, firefighters put out the fire at approximately 2 a.m. and Assistant Chief Gloria Graham of DUPD said the celebration “went even better than expected.”

Moneta said he hopes Monday turns out the same way 2010 did, noting that this year there is also a zero percent chance that classes Tuesday will be canceled.

“I would like tomorrow to be exactly like 2010. I would be thrilled with a repeat performance, including the winning of the game, although I’d rather win by 30 than by two,” he said.

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academic,” freshman John Lu said. “The cost of that might be a loss of a week of summer break, but quite frankly, the summer is so long that we probably won’t notice.”

Senior Akhil Sharma said the calendar shift will make it easier for students to connect with friends at other universities during breaks, noting that when he first gets home, many other schools are still in session.

Cunningham emphasized that the shift, though it may seem large, is part of the normal rotation of the calendar.

“Basically, [each year] the first day of spring classes, and commencement day, both move up one day, except where leap years impact those dates, and then flip back a week when the next cycle begins,” he said. “This is not, in any way, a new or different calendar.”

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Krzyzewski uses 2010 ring for motivation Ryan Hoerger Beat Writer

INDIANAPOLIS—Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski has plenty of choices when it comes to accessories. He broke a watch slapping the floor during a game earlier this season, and is the proud owner of four national championship rings.

The one he wore to Friday’s press conference carries special significance for the Blue Devils this weekend.

Krzyzewski has worn his most recent national championship ring—earned in Indianapolis in 2010—this postseason to help motivate himself and his players.

“I’ve worn it throughout the tournaments just as a reminder to me and to our team of our ultimate goal, to win a national championship,” Krzyzewski said. “Usually I don’t wear a ring on my right fingers, but I did for the tournament. Not for luck or anything, just as a constant reminder of what it is.”

In addition to his symbolic championship ring, the Blue Devils have a living reminder of their 2010 nation-

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al championship team. Duke assistant coach Jon Scheyer was a senior the last time the Blue Devils cut down the nets, scoring 15 points in the national championship game, a 61-59 thriller against upset-minded Butler.

The winningest coach in Division I men’s basketball history went on to praise the city of Indianapolis, calling it the best host city for the Final Four because of the knowledgeable basketball fans in the state of Indiana and the easily accessible city.

Krzyzewski might be slightly biased.

Two of his four national titles were won in Indianapolis in 1991 and 2010. The Blue Devils have earned two wins against East Regional champ Michigan State in the Crossroads of America—the Champions Classic in November at BankersLife Fieldhouse and Saturday’s 81-61 victory in the national semifinal at Lucas Oil Stadium.

After Bo Ryan’s Wisconsin team knocked off previously-undefeated Kentucky 71-64 in Saturday’s second national semifinal, the Badgers are likely fans of Indianapolis as well.

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In hopes of motivating his team, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski has donned his 2010 national championship ring throughout the Blue Devils’ postseason run.

Duke football’s Williams Blue Devils return floor sings anthem at Final Four slap, and then some Daniel Carp and Ryan Hoerger Beat Writers INDIANAPOLIS—Most groups who get to perform the national anthem or sing at halftime shows get weeks, sometimes months, to prepare.

Senior linebacker Deion Williams and the other members of the quartet of student-athletes from each of the Final Four’s competing schools had no such luxury Saturday.

Williams was Duke’s representative in the quartet that sang the national anthem prior to the Blue Devils’ 81-61 victory against Michigan State. A backup middle linebacker on the gridiron, Williams put his vocal prowess on display in front of a national television audience.

He was joined by Kentucky women’s soccer player Kennedy Collier, Michigan State women’s soccer player Michelle Dear and Wisconsin basketball player

Vitto Brown, who later played one minute in the Badgers’ upset of the previously-undefeated Wildcats in Saturday’s second semifinal.

Brown’s Badgers will take on the Blue Devils in Monday’s national championship game.

Brown and Williams were far and away the quartet’s two standout vocalists. The Wisconsin forward, playing the role of bass in the quartet, provided the group with stability and demonstrated impressive vocal control. Williams, a tenor, added smooth, soulful runs and an impressive falsetto note during the last line.

Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski and Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan are big on tradition, so after the Blue Devils’ 20-point win and the Badgers’ upset victory, neither would be too upset if Williams and Brown came back for an encore before Monday’s title game.

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Duke football player Deion Williams (second from left) represented the Blue Devils, performing the national anthem in a quartet comprised of athletes from all four schools.

Nick Martin Sports Editor INDIANAPOLIS—When it comes to things sacred to Duke basketball, the floor slap is about as high up on the list as one can get. The Spartans learned that the hard way Saturday.

Multiple teams throughout the course of the season have thrown the floor slap back at the Blue Devils, but an opponent had yet to do so in the NCAA tournament. So when a pair of Michigan State players abused the hardwood after the Spartans’ first score in the Final Four, the Blue Devils took notice.

“Yeah, we saw it,” freshman Grayson Allen said. “They were doing it to pump their guys up and that being more of a Duke tradition, that definitely pumped us up more.”

Guard Denzel Valentine came around a screen from center Gavin Schilling to hit a 3-pointer from the top of the arc—his first of three triples in the opening four minutes—to draw first blood, when he and point guard Lourawls “Tum Tum” Nairn Jr. dropped down and slapped the floor with 19:04 remaining.

But the Spartans were not done there.

Valentine would lead Michigan State down in transition and nail his third triple with 16:09 left in the half. The boost from the first slap was in full effect, as the Spartans had now jumped out to a 14-6 lead. But then Brendan Dawson got in on the action.

With 16:01 left, Dawson, guarding Justise Winslow, slapped the floor.

That is when things turned sour for the Spartans. From that point on, Duke went on a 30-11 run and Michigan State never brought the lead back down to single digits.

And the Blue Devils made sure to have their revenge in the second half.

Tyus Jones found Winslow on the baseline for an easy two-hand slam with 15:56 remaining to push the Duke lead to 17 just

moments after the Spartans had chipped it down to 13. With 15:48 left before the Blue Devils’ date with Wisconsin was officially wrapped up, Winslow and Jones pulled out a revenge floor slap—behind only the Steve Wojciechowski slap and team slap as the third-most sacred floor slap in Duke’s arsenal.

“We noticed it, bringing the ball down the floor and we see them slap the floor,” Jones said. “But you can’t get caught up in that stuff or focus on that kind of stuff. We’ve seen that before this year from some different teams.

It’s all right. We keep it in the back of our minds but we don’t retaliate.”

Wojciechowski helped make the floor slap a permanent part of Duke lore and perfected the art during his career in Durham from 1994-98. Arguably the most iconic rendition of the floor slap came during Wojciechowski’s last Duke-North Carolina game at Cameron Indoor Stadium in 1998. The National Defensive Player of the Year during that season slapped the floor with less than three minutes left in a thrilling Blue Devil comeback victory. Earlier this season, Wojciechowski—now a head coach—slapped the floor to inspire his Marquette players during a Thanksgiving tournament.

Ever since Wojciechowski set the trend, Duke’s players have been slapping the floor to get up for key defensive stops in games. But one of the most famous slaps in recent memory came Jan. 23, 2013, when then-No. 25 Miami dominated the then-No. 1 Blue Devils 90-63 in Coral Gables, Fla. Since then, many other Duke opponents have taken to slapping the court against the Blue Devils when they have momentum, but it didn’t work out as well for Michigan State as it did for the Hurricanes more than two years ago.

The Badgers might want to take note for Monday’s national title game—one floor slap is fine, but two could get you blown out.

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Crazies assemble from Lucas Oil to Cameron Indoor Final Four watch party at Cameron draws hundreds Jake Herb The Chronicle Deafening noise. Crazy costumes. Electricity in the air. Saturday felt like a typical Duke gameday in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

The only thing that was missing? The game.

Following what has become a tradition of late, Cameron Indoor Stadium opened its doors Saturday to a flood of nearly 1,000 students for a Final Four watch party. Much to the delight of the undergraduate and graduate students dressed head to toe in blue and white, the Blue Devils made the most of their first national semifinal appearance since 2010, topping seventh-seeded Michigan State 81-61 to earn a spot in Monday’s national championship game.

Duke’s Final Four victory was shown on the historic arena’s massive, four-sided jumbotron.

Students packed both sides of the stadium’s bleacher seats and upper-level chairbacks, giving everyone a clear view of the action.

With just a few minutes left before tipoff, the building was brimming with energy. A bellowing voice emanating from the jumbotron announced the Duke lineup and students rose to their feet, hooting and hollering with all the gusto one would expect from the Cameron Crazies. As usual, the loudest applause was saved for head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s introduction.

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“The experience of watching the Final Four in Cameron with hundreds of other people is just completely unique from anything else,” sophomore line monitor Allen Zhou said. “There is so much excitement in the air. Everyone remembers what it’s like to be a Cameron Crazie and keys into that energy.”

The first four minutes of play were met with anxious groans from the crowd, as the Spartans jumped out to an early 14-6 lead. However, it would not take the Blue Devils long to turn the corner, as freshman forward Justise Winslow found his rhythm.

With 12:29 left in the first half, Winslow brought emotions in Cameron to a boil, finishing a drive to the basket through contact. Minutes later, freshman center Jahlil Okafor sparked an eruption of cheers and applause, giving Duke the lead with an emphatic putback dunk.

The Blue Devils never looked back—and Cameron celebrated all the way to the final buzzer.

Early in the second half, the atmosphere reached a fever pitch when high-flyer Grayson Allen scooped up his own missed 3-point attempt and slammed it home. The sound of the broadcast faded to nothingness as the building erupted in noise.

Saturday’s victory held extra significance for the seniors in attendance. Before the team’s current tournament run, Duke’s Class of 2015 had yet to see the Blue Devils raise a single banner to the rafters of Cameron Indoor Stadium—without a single ACC regular-season title, ACC tournament title, Final Four berth or national championship in the

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Hordes of Duke students made the trek to Indianapolis for the Final Four, but those who stayed home enjoyed the Blue Devils’ win against Michigan State from Cameron Indoor Stadium. past four years.

“I can’t remember when, but Coach K promised [the senior class] that there would be a banner,” senior Anne Drescher said. “It’s really awesome to see [the team] fulfilling that promise.”

With one banner already in tow, Duke will have a chance to earn a slightly bigger banner—one that reads “national champions”— Monday when the Blue Devils take on

top-seeded Wisconsin on college basketball’s biggest stage. Doors to the stadium will open at 8 p.m. for the game’s expected 9:18 p.m. tipoff.

“I can’t believe it,” junior Mathew Crain said. “For the team to reach the National Championship game when I’m an undergrad is just a dream come true. Hopefully, we can win again on Monday. That would be incredible.”

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“Our guys knew how difficult of a game it was going to be, and after the first four minutes we knew it was going to be more difficult than we had thought,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “The last 36 minutes we played great basketball. That’s the best we’ve played in the tournament, and we’ve played really well in the tournament.”

Okafor got one touch before the first media timeout and drew a foul, but the the Blue Devils (34-4) gave the big man a steady diet of entry passes the rest of the half. The 6-foot-11 center got 1-on-1 coverage from Gavin Schilling, then Matt Costello, then former walk-on Colby Wollenman.

Nobody could slow him down.

The ACC Player of the Year dropped in 10 points in the first half on 4-of-6 shooting, helping Duke erase the early deficit. Feasting on the single coverage, Okafor used dunks, spin moves and face-up jumpers to help the Blue Devils claim their first lead of the game.

“I’m ready for either—I’m ready to be double-teamed or play with one man,” Okafor said. “With me being surrounded by so many great players, it doesn’t matter about me being double-teamed because they’re going to make shots and make them pay. I don’t know how to stop me.”

Led by Okafor’s 10 points and seven from Winslow, Duke outscored the Spartans 30-11 in the final 15:44 of the period to claim a 3625 halftime lead. The Chicago native finished with 18 points and six rebounds.

Michigan State (27-12) went to the locker room trailing in both of its games last weekend, but Duke scored the first six points after intermission and built a 48-31 lead by the first media timeout of the half. Several baskets were finished at or above the rim, as Cook found success penetrating the lane and leaked out in transition for an easy deuce. The senior

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After the Spartans got off to a hot start, Duke’s defensive pressure propelled the Blue Devils to a date with Wisconsin in the national championship game.

Blue Devils stymie Sparty Duke defense continues meteoric rise Nick Martin Sports Editor INDIANAPOLIS—With 15:44 remaining the first half, Monday seemed weeks away and Duke’s chances against the Spartans—let alone Kentucky or Wisconsin—were in question.

The Blue Devils had just allowed Michigan State guard Denzel Valentine to stroke his third 3-pointer of the game and trailed 14-6. The Spartans had scored 14 points in the first four minutes just twice this season—once in a December rout of Arkansas Pine-Bluff and the other in a 20-point win against Rutgers.

In that opening four-minute stretch, Michigan State knocked down four triples—Travis Trice being Valentine’s partner in crime from downtown—and three of the long balls came without a Blue Devil defender’s hand up. Duke looked lost on the guards, as it was not communicating on screens and in transition.

This was not the Blue Devil squad everyone had become so accustomed to seeing. But that all changed after the first media timeout.

“We were giving them good looks,” Tyus Jones said. “Giving Trice and Valentine open looks—they’re going to make you pay every time for that. No matter if you’re thinking eventually they’re going to miss, you can’t keep giving them look after look. They made us pay for it and we had to make some changes.”

After allowing Michigan State to open the game 5-of-7 from the field, the Blue Devils locked down from that point on, holding the Spartans to 3-of-20 shooting for the rest of the half. And it all started with some of the most unlikely names on the court for Duke.

With 14:45 remaining, Grayson Allen subbed in for Matt Jones, then with 13:15 left in the half Amile Jefferson and Marshall Plumlee relieved Cook and Okafor, respectively. With the three starters on the bench and the Blue Devils trailing by six, it would be the unheralded Duke bench that stepped up when it needed it most.

Prior to Saturday’s game, Plumlee talked about how his role on the team was to provide energy off the bench, whether he scored or not. Once again, he came through for the Blue Devils. The Spartans took advantage of high pick-and-rolls against Okafor in the opening minutes, so when Plumlee came into the game, he was able to hang with the rounding Michigan State guards long enough to dissuade them from pulling up.

During the 2:25 stretch in which all three reserves were on the floor, Michigan State was 0-of-3 from the field and Duke went on a 5-0 run to climb back within one. Once the defense had been established and the Spartans had been stymied, Okafor and Cook came back on the floor. And that’s when the onslaught began.

“We had to get them off the 3-point line—they were 4-for-4 from three. So that time we figured we had commit,” Allen said. “If we get a stop, that’s even more exciting than getting a dunk on the offensive end.”

After opening the game by falling behind 14-6, the Blue Devils closed the half on a 30-11 run, using a combined 17 points from Winslow and Okafor to take a 36-25 lead into halftime.

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Trice attempted to slice into the Blue Devil lead with a personal 5-0 run and a Valentine drive cut it to 54-41, but each time the Spartans threatened, Duke had an answer. Krzyzewski’s trio of freshman starters combined to score the Blue Devils’ next eight points to push the lead back above 20 points.

“We knew how we started the last second half against Gonzaga, and that’s something Coach really hit on at halftime,” Winslow said. “We came out with a lot of energy—we had the ball to start the half and just wanted to execute and get some buckets.”

Okafor and Winslow put the pressure on the Michigan State posts, getting Costello and 6-foot-6 swingman Branden Dawson into foul trouble midway through the second half. Duke got to the free throw line at will Saturday, converting 27-of-37 attempts at the charity stripe to help build the big lead.

Valentine scored 22 to lead the Spartans, but it was not enough against a Duke team that shot 52.0 percent from the floor and earned 21 more free-throw attempts, a product of the Blue Devils’ ability to drive hard through the lane.

Behind disruptive defense, a dominant Okafor and consistent free-throw shooting, Duke shined in every facet of the game to punch its ticket to the national title game. ”This team, though, has deserved to be in [the title game], so it makes it feel even better,” Krzyzewski said. “The lights and the stage have not been too big for them. They’ve felt like they can sing their song and do their dance, and they’ve done it—they’ve done it really well.”

The Blue Devils will get another rematch with a chance to win it all Monday at 9:18 p.m. when they take on No. 1 seed Wisconsin. The Badgers ended Kentucky’s perfect season with a 71-64 win Saturday night after Duke’s win.

The Blue Devils beat Wisconsin 80-70 in Madison, Wisc., Dec. 3.

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INDIANAPOLIS—Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo’s strategy against Jahlil Okafor didn’t change much since the Spartans and Blue Devils met up Nov. 18 in the Champions Classic.

Once again, he gave post players Gavin Schilling and Matt Costello the chance to body up the Duke freshman one-on-one, allowing the remaining Spartans to keep tabs on the Blue Devils around the perimeter. And once again, Okafor had a big night, scoring 18 points on 7-of-11 shooting to end Michigan State’s Cinderella run and put his team into Monday’s national championship game.

Izzo said after the game that his goals heading into the contest were to hold Okafor to fewer than 20 points and slow down the Blue Devils’ three-point shooting. His team achieved both—Duke shot just 2-of-10 from downtown—but two other factors spelled the end of the road for the Spartans.

“This whole game came down to two things in that first half. We took a couple bad shots—those were like turnovers,” Izzo said. “We didn’t do a good job in our transition D and we got in foul trouble and we had different lineups in there.”

Duke recognized quickly that Michigan State was trying to run them off the three-point line, opting to attack the rim off the bounce rather than force the issue from downtown.

“They weren’t leaving shooters at all.

We only had two threes tonight,” senior guard Quinn Cook said. “That got us in attack mode, which led to great offense for us.”

Four Spartans—including starters Branden Dawson and Schilling—picked up four fouls, most of them coming trying to stop swingman Justise Winslow and Okafor in the paint. Travis Trice and Lourawls “Tum Tum” Nairn Jr. were whistled for three apiece trying to cut off driving lanes for Cook and Tyus Jones.

“Once we started driving, we put them in some foul trouble because we’re trying to drive every time,” Krzyzewski said.

“We got a few steals where they fouled us in transition which got us into the bonus earlier. We came into the game not thinking we would drive that much, but we came into the game thinking we could drive. It just worked out that way.”

The result: 37 free-throw attempts, tying a season-high for the Blue Devils.

Duke also got to the stripe 37 times Nov. 30 against Army.

Getting to the line was one thing, but once there, the Blue Devils made the Spartans pay. Led by Winslow’s 9-for-11 performance, Duke knocked down 27 freebies. Michigan State only attempted 16. Winslow’s nine makes at the foul line were a season-best and made up a good chunk of his team-high 19 points.

“I give Winslow credit. But he’s 5-for7 [from the field]. It’s the free throws that killed us,” said Izzo, who said the

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Duke attacked the rim relentlessly against Michigan State, which contributed to the team’s 37 trips to the foul line. college game has gone from “smash mouth basketball” to no contact allowed during his 20 years in East Lansing.

“They didn’t turn the ball over, the officials or the rules. They didn’t take bad shots. That was us. We did.”

Even Okafor had a solid outing at the line—the freshman made four of seven—drawing cheers from the Blue Devil faithful on hand and eliciting an excited reaction from his head coach after knocking down a pair with 3:35 lead to push the Duke lead back to 15.

“He’s worked so hard. I thought they were going to start doing hack-a-Okafor during that time, and I wanted to give him as much love and support as I could during that time,” Krzyzewski said. “And then he hit them. He’s been working so hard at them, and it’s big. Those are two big free throws.”

Cook and Jones each have shot close to 90 percent from the charity stripe this season, but another solid showing from the line from Winslow and Okafor will be critical to Duke’s bid at a fifth national title Monday. Wisconsin is the 11th-best free-throw shooting team in the country and went 18-of-22 Saturday against Kentucky.

“Who knows, on Monday night he might be in a position where he goes 10for-12,” Krzyzewski said of Okafor. “We believe he can do that, and that’s how we’ll play him, like he can do that.”

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Badgers responsible for NCAA tournament’s funniest moments Ryan Hoerger Beat Writer INDIANAPOLIS—Some teams preparing to play for a national title might tighten up. Lots of teams staring down the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament—and an undefeated juggernaut at that—might keep to straightforward answers and stay focused on game preparation.

Apparently, someone forgot to communicate any of this information to the Wisconsin Badgers, who appeared loose and relaxed during the gymnastics of Final Four media availability.

To prove that none of the above describes Wisconsin, here is sophomore forward Nigel Hayes’ response to a reporter who asked what jokes make head coach Bo Ryan laugh during practice: “See, I’m sitting here right now and I’m already thinking of one I haven’t used yet,” Hayes said during his individual press conference Friday before his Badgers took down previously-undefeated Kentucky.

“Here it goes: Why can you not hear a pterodactyl go to the bathroom? Because the ‘p’ is silent. It’s okay, you guys can laugh. We’re all just having a good time here.”

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of the Year Frank Kaminsky and West Region hero Sam Dekker as the stars of what was easily Friday’s most entertaining team presser. The Badgers did their due diligence, answering multiple questions about how the length of the Wildcats would affect their offensive game plan and rhythm.

But then the real details started to emerge.

Dekker, Kaminsky and point guard

Traevon Jackson were asked about Wisconsin’s use of an app called MetroFit to track their sleep and eating habits. Dekker’s most recent meal: a burger—and guacamole.

“He’s big on guac,” Ryan added helpfully.

Kaminsky went to great lengths to describe the omelette he ate Friday morning, which incorporated ham, salt, pepper and syrup.

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“I know I get a lot flack for putting syrup on top, but Nigel does it too and it’s actually really good,” Kaminsky said.

“He drowns it,” chimed in Hayes.

Ryan doesn’t see this data—he typically leaves it to Wisconsin’s strength and conditioning coach to encourage players to make healthy choices—but swears by its results. ”I certainly know that in the last five minutes of games, I think our guys have looked pretty fresh,” Ryan said.

Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski preached to his players before leaving Durham to not change anything up before leaving for the Final Four. This isn’t anything new for the Badgers—it’s exactly who they’ve been all year.

Ryan admitted that he thought about using tennis rackets in practice to mimic the Wildcats’ length, but decided against it because he feared his players would start hitting each other for fun. From that point on, it was difficult not to notice Dekker occasionally slapping himself in the face while listening to his teammates answer questions.

Don’t think Wisconsin isn’t taking this seriously. The Badgers returned nearly every player from last year’s Final Four squad, which watched its season end in heartbreak on a late Aaron Harrison 3-pointer. The opportunity to face Harrison and Kentucky again one year later—and ruin the Wildcats’ bid for perfection—carried plenty of weight.

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Bo Ryan’s ‘Finland,’ Coach K’s mirror to the past Ryan Hoerger Beat Writer INDIANAPOLIS—As a four-time national champion powered by one of the game’s timeless leaders and a factory that turns McDonalds All-Americans into NBA players, Duke is a national power on the college basketball map.

So it was only logical that heading into Monday’s national championship game, Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan compared the Blue Devils to... Finland?

“I was reminded I can’t tell you by how many people, ‘Hey, Bo, in 1980, you know after we beat Russia, we had to beat Finland,’” Ryan said, referencing the 1980 United States hockey team that upset the juggernaut Soviet Union and later won the gold medal at the Winter Olympics. “Most people think that Russia was the gold medal game. I think it was Finland, wasn’t it? I’ve been reminded on a few text messages that Finland is Duke, both really good teams. Duke is a really good team.

I think Finland was a good team because they got to the finals.”

Wisconsin slayed its version of the Soviet Union Saturday night, beating previously-undefeated Kentucky 71-64 to earn the right to play Duke Monday for the national title. Despite doing something no team had done this season in vanquishing the Wildcats, the Badgers are aware they have not yet reached the end destination.

A showdown between Kentucky and Duke for the national title was the most popular selection in ESPN’s bracket challenge, with 22.2

percent of the 11.6 million entered brackets predicting that matchup. Although that game would have featured 16 McDonald’s All-Americans and likely would have obliterated record TV ratings for a national championship game, the Wisconsin-Duke matchup provides an even more compelling storyline, one more recent than the 35-year-old Miracle on Ice. The Badgers have a chance to accomplish exactly what the Blue Devils did in 1991 to capture head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s first national title.

Duke’s 1989-90 season ended in heartbreak, a 103-73 blowout at the hands of UNLV in the national championship game. But bolstered by the play of Christian Laettner and Bobby Hurley and the addition of standout freshman Grant Hill, the 1990-91 Blue Devils found their way back to the Final Four—in Indianapolis—where they got a second shot at the Runnin’ Rebels, who entered the rematch undefeated on the year at a perfect 34-0.

Late free throws by Laettner ensured that there would be no perfect season, and Duke went on to beat Kansas two nights later, the first of back-to-back titles. But first, the Blue Devils had to regroup from what was at the time the biggest win in Krzyzewski’s tenure in Durham.

“It wasn’t just the emotion in the locker room. I thought we handled that well. It was the emotion in the hotel, where our fans were literally delirious,” Krzyzewski said Sunday.

“They didn’t think we would beat Vegas. We were the ones who thought we could beat Vegas. We had to make sure we didn’t go into their environment, into their place.”

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been eerily similar.

The Badgers looked poised to reach this stage last year at AT&T Stadium in Dallas, but a 3-pointer by Kentucky’s Aaron Harrison in the final seconds propelled the Wildcats into the title game instead. The loss helped convince star Frank Kaminsky to return for his senior season and served as a motivating factor all year, until Saturday night, when Wisconsin exacted its revenge—though they didn’t label it a revenge game—by ruining Kentucky’s bid at perfection.

Ryan guided Division III Wisconsin-Platteville to four national titles, the first coming in 1991—the same year Krzyzewski cut down the nets for the first time—and now gets his

first chance at a Division I championship in the same city where Krzyzewski reached the pinnacle.

After the upset against Kentucky—the national champion in 48 percent of ESPN brackets—Wisconsin was mobbed at the team hotel, just like the Blue Devils were after knocking off UNLV. “As soon as we walked in we weren’t really expecting that many people,” sophomore Nigel Hayes said. “When we got to the top balcony, you looked down and it looked like a rock concert. They were just waiting for one of us to See Comparisons on Page 12

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Duke’s first encounter with the Badgers went a long way in shaping the toughness that has carried the team through the postseason.

The game, played in front of a hostile Wisconsin crowd that went as far to call out freshman Tyus Jones’ girlfriend, was the first true road environment for the four Duke rookies.

But the freshmen’s play would not reflect their age. Led by Jones’ 22 points, the Blue Devil youngsters—minus Grayson Allen, who did not play—combined for 40 points and led Duke to an upset victory at the Kohl Center.

“It did a lot for our confidence, especially for our young guys, it being their first true road game,” Cook said. “The way they responded and played against a veteran team, a confident team just coming off the Final Four.

It was shocking to me how we performed.”

Since the December win, Duke has dropped just four games and secured a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament after closing the regular season with 12 straight wins and advancing to the semifinals in the ACC tournament.

With a short-handed roster of eight scholarship players finally healthy, the Blue Devils’ journey to Monday’s title contest has been one of dominance, with the latest onslaught coming in the semifinals.

After falling behind 14-6 in the opening four minutes, the Blue Devils cruised to an 8161 victory against No. 7 seed Michigan State Saturday. Duke outmatched the Spartans on both ends of the floor, as freshman forward Justise Winslow dropped a team-high 19 points—nine coming from the free throw line—and center Jahlil Okafor poured in 18 points on 7-of-11 shooting and added six rebounds.

Wisconsin’s path to the championship game has been widely considered the toughest in the Big Dance. After an opening-round win against Coastal Carolina, the Badgers had to defeat Oregon, North Carolina, Arizona and a previously-undefeated Kentucky squad to reach Monday’s title game. Wisconsin’s last four games were each played against the highest possible seed—No. 8, 4, 2 and 1, respectively—and each decided by exactly seven points. “[‘Holy crap’] was all of our reactions,” said, Wisconsin guard Bronson Koenig as he recalled the team first learning its tournament path. “We finally worked hard enough, got the No. 1 seed and then we’re put in the toughest region with the toughest path to get to the Final Four, national championship.... To be the best, you’ve got to beat the best, and that’s what we’ve done.”

Although the Blue Devils have been in plenty of close games this season—their Sweet Sixteen win against Utah was a six-point victory— Duke has largely cruised in this tournament.

The Blue Devils have won their five games by an average margin of victory of 17.6 points.

Part of the reason the Blue Devils have been able to dominate the way they have stems from their defense, which reached another level when the calendar flipped to March.

The improvement of the Duke defense has been well-documented throughout its run—the Blue Devils entered the NCAA tournament with the 57th-ranked defense in statistician Ken Pomeroy’s adjusted defensive efficiency rankings and now sit at No. 12. They have made the jump by holding their tournament opponents to 55.0 points per game and 37.6 percent from the field.

But if the Blue Devils want to leave Indianapolis with a fifth national championship,

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The Badgers boast a bevy of scorers, with five players averaging at least 8.5 points per game. Against the Wildcats, four of Wisconsin’s starters scored in double digits, with AP Player of the Year Frank Kaminsky leading the way with 20 points on 7-of-11 shooting.

“They can score from every position,” Krzyzewski said. “Usually an efficient offense means that you can’t help off of everybody. It gives room for each of the really good players to have more room to operate. They don’t turn it over, and they hit free throws at a high percentage.... They’re just a very difficult team to defend.”

The Wisconsin offense runs through Kaminsky, and, as was the case leading up to the December clash in Madison, much has been made of the matchup between the Badger big man and Okafor, who are two of the nation’s top frontcourt players.

Okafor enters the game averaging 17.7 points and 9.0 rebounds per contest and Kaminsky comes in at 18.2 points and 8.0 rebounds, and both are coming off 7-of-11 shooting performances in the Final Four. Although both teams are quick to point out that it will be a team effort that will take the title, the battle of the bigs will have the focus of the nation in tomorrow’s game.

“He’s a very good player. We knew that going into [the first] game,” Kaminsky said. “We knew he wasn’t going to be easy to stop. I don’t even know if you can stop him, but hope you can contain him a little bit.”

If the Blue Devils can complete the season sweep of the Badgers, they will take home the program’s fifth national championship and second in five years.

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But that doesn’t prohibit them from enjoying the moment.

In addition to averaging 12.4 points and 6.3 rebounds per game, Hayes has become the unquestioned champion of NCAA tournament sound bytes. The 6-foot-7 forward took it upon himself to make life as difficult as possible for the stenographer—whose job is to transcribe quotes at lightning speed for official releases—at Wisconsin’s first round site, beginning his answer to a question with “cattywampus, onomatopoeia and antidisestablishmentarianism” for no other reason than to test the

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jump off and crowd surf.”

Krzyzewski credited the leaders of his 1991 team—Laettner, Hurley and Brian Davis— with controlling the team’s emotions and refocusing them for the task of preparing for the Jayhawks. Ryan’s bevy of veterans—Kaminsky, senior Josh Gasser and junior Sam Dekker among them—have already done the same, noting Sunday that talk in the locker room after Saturday’s win had already shifted toward Duke.

“For us as a group, the players and coaches, it was never a surprise [to beat Kentucky], it was never an ‘Uh-oh, we’ve got to somehow regroup for this Duke game,’ the hangover effect,” Gasser said. “We’re prepared for it.”

Krzyzewski noted during his press conference Sunday that moving on from his team’s 20-point victory against Michigan State will not be easy, either, though that win did not carry the magnitude of what Wisconsin did two hours later.

The ability to put the past in the past could be a deciding factor Monday night.

“When you win a Final Four game, no matter who you beat, it’s huge. And we’re all human beings,” Krzyzewski said. “You have to fight human nature of wanting to stay in that moment for a little bit longer before moving on to the next moment. I think for both teams, the team that moves on the best and the quickest will have a little bit of an advantage.”

Asked about the similarities between the 1991 Blue Devils and 2015 Badgers, Gasser said he is focusing on winning the national title, no matter who it comes against. But the precedent set by Duke doesn’t hurt.

“I’m not necessarily a believer [in fate], but I hope it happens,” he said. stenographer’s spelling prowess.

Friday, no reporter asked Hayes a question during the group press conference, so Ryan took it upon himself to set his player up for another vocabulary exercise, asking him to talk about a dribbling drill he has been doing.

“I was just trying to be like Frank and Josh [Gasser] and Trae. They’re great ball-handlers and I aspire to be like those guys,” Hayes said, noticeably omitting Dekker, seated directly to his left. “I appreciate you letting me speak—I don’t know why I show up to these things.”

“Nigel, they’re afraid to ask you a question,” Ryan explained.

Hayes then closed the press conference with a bang.

“To continue tradition, prestidigitation— and hello, Mr. Stenographer.”

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“They did a good job of taking me away,” Valentine said. “I got hot and they started denying a little bit, forcing us to take bad shots. The next thing you know, they had gotten a lead.”

Although the Blue Devils were adamant after the game that they have been confident in their defense all year, even they recognize that they have taken things to

another level in the tournament.

After Duke’s national semifinal performance, it has risen to No. 12 in basketball statistician Ken Pomeroy’s adjusted defensive efficiency rankings. The Blue Devils entered the Big Dance at No. 57.

As much as Winslow’s aggressiveness and Okafor’s dominance in one-on-one matchups played a part in the rout, it was the Duke defense that the Blue Devils rode to victory. And that same Duke defense will face the ultimate test of how much it has truly improved Monday—Wisconsin boasts Pomeroy’s No. 1 adjusted offensive efficiency ranking.

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“We think we’ve been a good defensive team all year long,” Okafor said. “We’ve only got four losses, that doesn’t come without playing good defense. We’ve definitely taken it to another level since the tournament started.”

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On Wednesday, April 1st, 2015, I woke up to several text messages, missed calls, and emails in response to the noose that was hung from a tree on my college campus. As I read the texts and emails, I felt numb. The noose was not a foreign symbol but it was a representation of the racial discrimination that my grandparents, who were adolescents during Jim Crow, often reflected about.

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The power of our words grew with every utterance of our declaration.

At 5:00 pm, the university held a forum. Administrators denounced the act. Concerned students gathered. Everyone agreed that this was “not the Duke we [were] here to create.” Post-forum, my peers told me they were “ready to start the conversation.” Yet, all I heard was, “we haven’t listened to you all year.” Many shared my posts on social media as selfproclaimed allies. “#DukeYouAreGuilty” was trending.

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GUEST COLUMN pression for black americans. The most unsettling part of the situation was the responses from my peers: “I’m sure he or she didn’t mean it. The nature of this was probably just a joke,” and “Does that really count as a noose?”

If you share any of these sentiments, you are part of the problem. Institutionalized racism has conditioned many to rationalize the microaggressive and discriminatory tendencies that persist in predominantly white spaces. And intentionality does not change the magnitude or historical implications of the act regardless of what was meant by the noose, regardless of whether or not it was a joke, it does not change what I see.

I came together with my black peers and shed tears. Our spirits were wounded. Our hearts were heavy. At 1:00 pm, we gathered. We grieved. We listened.

Together we, along with allies, protested the act of hatred.

We chanted, “We are not afraid. We stand together.”

On April 4th, 2015, my world was rocked again when Duke won the final four game against Michigan State. Duke was trending, but not for the reasons addressed at the forum just three days before. Duke trended as: “#DDMF” “#GoDuke” “#DukeNation” According to my news feed, the student body had moved on. Duke was no longer guilty now that we were on the court, but as a black student, nothing had changed. Pride for Duke basketball is not enough to mask the damage of seeing a noose on my campus. On April 4th, 2015, I felt more isolated than ever.

We can celebrate a championship that may be in the near future, but let us never forget that Duke has not yet championed a racially inclusive environment for its students. Yes, Duke Basketball Never Stops but neither does Duke’s institutionalized racism.

Jamal Edwards is a Trinity junior and the President of the Black Student Alliance.

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Can we only be activists for causes we can directly relate to?

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an a Christian doing interfaith work really understand the hate faced by Muslims?

Can a well-meaning white person truly understand the struggles faced by minorities?

Can an upper class philanthropist give to those in less fortunate situations truly with dignity?

I volunteer in the cancer center, usually alone. But one day, I went about my work with a fellow volunteer who had been personally affected by cancer. He was able to connect with patients on a deeper level through his own experience with cancer. And as I listened to his conversation, I wondered to myself, can a volunteer not affected by cancer really empathize with cancer patients? My grandma died of cancer, but I was too young to have established an emotional connection.

I then thought about the broader implications of this question. My desire to support cancer patients is just one of the many causes I care about. Mental health, service, relationships, etc. are some others, as one can see from my columns. But why haven’t I written anything on racial issues? Gender? LGBTQ? Accessibility?

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activism should be thought of from the perspective of the disadvantaged population and how to best further their cause. But while the interests of the disadvantaged populations are much more important than that of a well-meaning other, aren’t initiatives most effective when interests of all groups involved align? Allow me to draw an analogy from an energy expenditure campaign: In an effort to make a host of households more energy efficient, feedback was given on each household’s energy expenditures letting them know daily where they stood relative to the mean. Fortunately, the households just above the average showed a reduction in energy use in an effort to normalize with the average. However, the households already with low expenditures actually increased their consumption.

Meanwhile, the households using far above the average showed no change.

Consider an adjustment of creating a special designation “Energy Efficient” and providing a general statement that it was important to save energy. The households already with low expenditures then kept their expenditures

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In the example of gender issues, I’m not as actively involved as I once was—though I still consider myself a feminist. One of the organizations I’m involved in was planning a brunch for women in science. I had casually asked if I could attend, and I was surprised to find that the answer was no.

Now, there’s a lot of good reasons why guys should be excluded. After all, women can benefit from a discussion without men in which they can have strength to vocalize their vulnerabilities or concerns. My presence may detract from the goals of the event.

Since I am not a woman there was an upper ceiling I could reach with that kind of activism. I could always be an ally and empathize and try to understand the struggles, but always as a well-meaning outsider.

Make no mistake, empathy is extremely useful. It helps validate a struggle, convince people they are not facing something alone, and builds a valuable support network. But for a selfish person like me, I want to feel like I’m effecting some change, doing more than just empathize. What if I’m working on something and there’s a disagreement as to how to proceed? Hopefully both sides can work together, but if emotions get involved, I hear: “What do you know of my struggle? How can you tell us what to do if you don’t understand? You will always be on the outside looking in.”

I can then apologize and try to empathize, and again, that personal interaction is extremely useful.

However, productive conversation stops there.

I know that looking at activism from the perspective of what I can contribute is quite selfish of me. After all,

low. The most wasteful households were then challenged to move past a point of “irresponsibly inefficient” or at least just do better than they did the day before. This helped them to also improve their energy efficiency.

What if we could create this incentive structure for activism? For those who are already heavily invested, help them refine the nuances of their actions. For the general public, encourage them to reach a certain attainable threshold. And for those who are farthest removed, challenge them to at least not to be offensive or just understand more than they did before. We could create an atmosphere of positive reinforcement for a larger audience, ranging from those who are personally invested to those who may not care at all.

Yes, I know this article is from a perspective full of privilege. But I believe the changes to activism this article proposes will improve overall effectiveness, though they will demand more patience and sacrifice out of the disadvantaged. And just because I addressed some counterarguments, it doesn’t mean they don’t apply.

While I could definitely contribute to other causes that have captured my attention, it is definitely easier to work within the causes I can personally relate to.

There seems to be a ceiling that allies can reach, which tends to makes me less invested. Perhaps I can just continue with only columns on mental health, service and relationships.

But I hope that’s not how it has to be.

James Tian is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Monday.

Letter to the Editor As a proud Duke graduate and beginning professor, my impulse is to celebrate any victory Duke achieves over UNC, but alas, I found nothing but a bitter taste when I heard of NC State Senator Tom McInnis’ proposal to force eight course teaching loads on all UNC system professors.

Unless given reason to do otherwise, I will take McInnis’ statement of motive at face value that his goal is to improve teaching quality by putting more students in contact with professors instead of teaching assistants. However, his proposal to micromanage the university by imposing higher teaching requirements will only serve to drain UNC of its research-active faculty and, ultimately, quality instruction in the classroom.

With ever increasing tuition and student debt, it is understandable for parents and policy makers to have their sights focused on reforming higher education. However, this stress over finances has served to cloud many people’s view of the broader mission of higher education. Research universities are not primarily job training centers, nor are they simply places of undergraduate instruction. Such places exist in the form of

community colleges, teaching colleges and liberal arts colleges. However, the mission of places like UNC and Duke is multipronged. At the foundation lies the pursuit of knowledge. Successfully pushing forward the frontier of knowledge requires scholars dedicated to their field, resources, and critically, time.

From this foundation, universities disseminate knowledge at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The end product is both to provide a private good in the form of employable skills to graduating seniors but also a public good in the form of research breakthroughs and a well-educated citizenry.

Finding a remedy to the financial stress of college will not be easy. Ironically, McInnis’ approach runs up against the freemarket philosophy he and many conservative Republicans espouse. Micromanagement, regulation and price controls— e.g. tuition caps—will only serve to widen the divide between struggling public universities and resource-rich private universities like Duke.

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n “Duke Blue” Friday, I walked into my closet and grabbed my basketball jersey off the hanger. I wanted to celebrate the Blue Devils, but struggled to endorse a university that, days before, had witnessed yet another blatant act of racism. My mind stirred with circulating pictures of a noose on the Bryan Center plaza. It stirred with the sad cries of outrage from my close friends and peers. By now, main quad was loud with Springternational. I watched the stands, silent.

How? I wondered. How can campus appear so resilient?

Could its care and understanding last only as long as a 24-hour news cycle? Was the forum enough to clear its conscience? How? If you are reading this and rolling your eyes at “yet another story about the BC noose” then you are part of the problem. If you are uncomfortable with my calling you the problem, good. Racism is an uncomfortable truth. One that causes many people to walk on eggshells when discussing it. If we continue to address the issue with such caution, however, surface-level discussions will provide no substantial solutions. Too many of us consider the act of talking about institutionalized racism to be a form of anti-white prejudice. White comfort—or lack thereof—however, should in no way govern how and when we talk about race, because nothing can be changed until addressed head on.

Francis Curiel 18 OR OVER Though, in light of the incident last week, my family urged me to keep my opinion to myself, I cannot pretend that silence does the world any good. Silence, in cases like this, is problematic. It is through our complacency that white supremacy is upheld. Even if we react differently, whether leading protests or writing in private, student voices make a difference. With this in mind, I say to my university: If you are proud to accept an increasing number of black students into your incoming class, you should be proud to do everything in your power to prevent the manifestation of microaggressions on campus. It should not take a noose to bring together a student body and discuss racism. The forum on Wednesday should not have focused on appeasing public perception of Duke. It should not acknowledge that black lives matter to later claim that “all lives matter.” In doing so, it took away any legitimate concern towards the specifically black lives affected by this noose. The forum should not have been to promote a colorblind campus, because inclusivity does not require color negation. It requires the acknowledgement of a basic human right to privilege. Human equity does not require the erasure of differences. It requires a reconstruction of white standard. The forum, unfortunately, fell short in its attempt to comfort those affected by racial oppression.

For any who claim, “this isn’t Duke,” I’m here to tell you that it is. This is not an isolated incident. This is the culmination of social ills prevalent in society today. Universities consider themselves strongholds of rational thought. Intellect should prove enough to overcome racism because we are the “post-racial generation.” Sadly, however, by perpetuating this myth, we are ignoring the big elephant in the room. The assumption that racism is something that happens elsewhere is stunting any hopes of progression.

The sooner we acknowledge the reality of racism here, the sooner we can establish long-lasting solutions.

Duke: do more than save face in the public eye. Address the needs of your black students, and comfort them with more than empty words, because talk is cheap for students who pay such high tuition. Students can only benefit from cross-cultural interactions if they accept the beautiful differences that come with these cultures. And they can only accept these differences if they are taught to.

It is now five days later and the media frenzy has completely died down. The spotlight: now on the 2015 men’s NCAA basketball championship. Though the news cycle has moved past the incident, you, Duke, should not.

Your students remain disheveled, waiting for action from the institution they call home. You proudly represent a diverse student population. Allow this population to proudly represent you. Allow this population the comfort of knowing they matter.

Francis Curiel is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Monday.

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