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Duke received $478.3 million in private donations during the 2014-15 fiscal year—setting a new record for highest total contributions for the third year in a row. Some of the largest philanthropic gifts included a $20 million grant given to the Duke Global Health Institute from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to address diseases like HIV/AIDS and cancer, along with a $13 million contribution to the athletics department from Steve Brooks, Trinity ‘70 and president and CEO of the Phoenix American Insurance Group. As a result of Brooks’ donation, the See DONATIONS on Page 4

New-look Heatwave lineup to perform in Blue Zone Sarah Kerman The Chronicle Duke University Union announced the lineup for its annual Heatwave Concert Tuesday—Danish rock band New Politics will headline the Friday performance, with New York alternative rock band X Ambassadors opening. New Politics has been featured recently on several music festival lineups including Summerfest and the Billboard Hot 100 Music Festival and just released its new album, “Vikings.” X Ambassadors is known for their single “Renegades” and will be

touring this fall to promote their debut album, “VHS.” Senior Tyler Lawrence, chair of Duke University Union Campus Concerts, wrote in an email that this lineup will differ from previous years’ lineups, which have featured electronic dance music acts such as Kygo in 2014 and Krewella in 2013. “I’m looking forward to bringing something new to Duke that we haven’t seen much of, if any at all in my time here,” Lawrence wrote. “This show promises a solid lineup of alternative rock and rock See HEATWAVE on Page 16

Chronicle File Photo Past Heatwave concerts have featured more electronic dance music, but students will see a shift this year.

Chronicle File Photo This year’s Heatwave concert will take place in the Blue Zone parking lot instead of the Keohane Amphitheater.

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Renovated Page Faster Internet coming to receives mixed reviews Durham, Triangle region Adam Beyer The Chronicle After more than a year of renovations, Page Auditorium has re-opened to play host to speakers, performers and for now, Duke Chapel’s services. The construction updated West Campus’ original auditorium and preserved its historical integrity with reworked views, better acoustics and enhanced access for people with disabilities. Students, however, have had mixed reactions to the space. Senior Jose Sandoval, who saw the completed auditorium because of his role in True Blue during orientation week, said he thought the finished product looked “rather dull and disappointing.” “I expected it to look more extravagant like Baldwin [Auditorium],” he wrote in an email.

Other upperclassmen had their first glimpse of the renovated auditorium during the a cappella showcase Sunday. “It’s more or less the same. It’s a needed facelift more than anything,” senior Ethan Dunn said. Dunn joined a fellow member of the Pitchforks a cappella group, senior Kyle Alderdice, in expressing concern that the backstage area had not been made more functional, especially for large groups. Alderdice, however, praised the new sound system and feel of the space. “I kind of got a dusty vibe from the old Page, and this is newer,” Alderdice said. “From a design perspective, the overall look is more cohesive.” In total, the work on the auditorium cost $8 million—$3 million more than originally planned, Executive Vice See PAGE on Page 4

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle The new sound system in Page Auditorium was featured during Sunday’s a cappella concert as part of orientation week.

Neelesh Moorthy The Chronicle Three major broadband providers— Google Fiber, Frontier Communications and AT&T—are bringing ultra-fast internet to Durham and North Carolina. In the past two years, each of these providers announced their intentions of bringing to Durham 1-gigabit broadband speed—about 100 times faster than the average broadband speed in the U.S. As part of the publicprivate partnership North Carolina Next Generation Networks, or NCNGN, Duke has played an important TRACEY FUTHEY role in bringing faster speeds to Durham to help enable innovation in the Triangle region. “Research universities are a hub of innovation in part because of the access they have to ultra high-speed networks,” said Tracy Futhey, Duke’s vice president for information technology and chief informational officer. “If we can extend that into residential communities, we will extend the type of entrepreneurial activities happening on campus into these regions.” In January, Google announced that its ultra-fast gigabit internet service Google Fiber would be coming to the Raleigh-Durham area. Currently, Google is building infrastructure to support gigabit broadband speeds, primarily by laying miles of fiber optic cable across the Triangle. Once the construction is complete, Google will begin to roll out its service to “fiberhoods”, communities that express interest in the service. Google Fiber does not yet offer gigabit access to the city of Durham, and the

spokesperson could not provide a definitive timeline. Frontier Communications launched its gigabit broadband packages in Durham starting last October, said Dennis Bloss, vice president and general manager in North Carolina. Frontier was able to bring gigabit broadband to Durham more easily than other companies because of its preexisting footprint in the city, allowing Frontier to replace its copper telephone wires with fiber cables rather than building entirely new infrastructure. Last April, AT&T became the first to announce its intent to bring its gigabit service—U-verse with AT&T GigaPower—to the area. Its service officially launched in Durham last month and will continue to grow in the coming months, said Venessa Harrison, president of AT&T North Carolina. NCNGN and the community AT&T’s announcement last April came after negotiations with NCNGN, Harrison said. NCNGN consists of Duke and three other research universities—North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Wake Forest University—as well as six municipalities—Durham, Carrboro, Cary, Chapel Hill, Raleigh and WinstonSalem. In 2013, the consortium invited potential high-speed broadband carriers to North Carolina before NCNGN completed a “master agreement” with AT&T in April of last year to provide gigabit broadband services to the six municipalities. Although an agreement was only See INTERNET on Page 16

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Watch out Uber: Seniors bring free rides to Duke Sarah Kerman The Chronicle Starting Wednesday, students will be able to get free rides around Duke’s campus and into Durham using electricpowered vehicles, thanks to a start-up by two Duke students. Seniors Cameron Winders and JD Herrman are launching the initiative, called Buzz Rides. The service will operate at Duke by offering a smartphone app for students to request rides in a windowless electric vehicle Wednesday through Saturday from 9:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. Winders’ friend Parker Draughon, a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, founded Buzz Rides two years ago at UNC and is now helping Winders and Herrman bring the service to Duke. Instead of charging users for rides, Buzz Rides will place advertisements on its cars in order to generate revenue. Winders noted that in addition to improving safety and sustainability, one of Buzz Rides’ major goals is to increase the interaction between the University and the Durham community by giving students a less expensive way to travel off-campus. “I think it’s just a lot of fun,” Winders said. “The taxi experience right now is just a means of getting somewhere, but when you actually see the [Buzz Rides] vehicles, they look exciting. The cars are wrapped well, it’s more of an interaction and it’s a lot of fun to ride in these six-seater electric vehicles versus a normal car.” Duke Buzz Rides has already contracted with the Durham County Department

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of Public Health on an anti-smoking ad campaign—a partnership that will help cover the operational cost, Winders noted. Herrman and Winders said they are hoping to collaborate with Duke Student Government and Greek organizations to help increase awareness of the brand among students. Winders added that he hopes Buzz Rides will receive funding from the University at some point in the future. Buzz Rides differs from other taxi and car share services primarily in that it is free of charge for riders, Herrman explained. Because the students will not operate Buzz Rides as a car for hire, employees do not

require a commercial driving license, making it easier to recruit new drivers. However, drivers must be over 21 for insurance purposes, he noted. Prior to rolling out the service, Herrman and Winders said they are working through several challenges— including optimizing the driving route, gaining student awareness of the brand and ensuring that there will be demand during operating hours. They have already communicated with the Durham Police Department and other transportation authorities to let them know that the service

provided by Buzz Rides is legal, Herrman said. The two seniors acknowledged that Uber is a major competitor to Buzz Rides, though Winders said he thinks Buzz Rides will maintain a competitive advantage because it is free to students. Currently, Buzz Rides at Duke owns two vehicles with seatbelts and doors but no windows. Initially, only one vehicle will serve students at a time. Winders explained that because the vehicles are fully electric, their charge will not last the entire evening, a limitation that Winders said is one reason the company will not significantly impact taxi businesses at its initial launch. “We don’t really envision it being that much of a takeaway from taxis at this point,” Winders said. “Once we get our name out there and start advertising more and maybe get some money from the administration, then we can scale up and get more vehicles.” Herrman said he and Winders plan to keep the organization student-run like it is at UNC. They plan to hire two additional people to deal with operations, special events, marketing and app improvement. Herrman noted that because both he and Winders are seniors, it is important to keep longevity in mind as they move forward with Buzz Rides’ operations. “We want to change the way Duke does transportation, so it’s not like we want to have this for one year and then say ‘Alright, that was great,’” Herrman said. “We want this to continually be something that is run by students and will always be there for students.”

DONATIONS from page 1 football field at Wallace Wade Stadium was renamed Brooks Field. “We’re very grateful for another extraordinary year,” President Richard Brodhead said in a Duke News release Tuesday. “The generosity of our alumni and friends across a wide variety of areas will yield even more rich and innovative opportunities for our students and faculty to make an impact in communities around the world.” Other significant pledges of the 2014-15 fiscal year included $6 million from the Lilly Endowment to fund leadership education at the Divinity School and $9.75 million— mostly from an anonymous donor—for the Information Initiative at Duke, which leads efforts in “big data” computational research to solve global problems. The total amount of gifts represented an eight percent increase from last year’s total of $441.8 million.

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As a result of the donations in the last fiscal year, the running total of DukeForward, the University’s most ambitious fundraising campaign, grew to $2.7 billion, leaving it well on-track to reaching its goal of raising $3.25 billion by June 30, 2017. DukeForward has set specific monetary goals to advance each of its 10 schools through interdisciplinary initiatives and updated facilities, among other projects. The approximately $36.5 million in gifts received by the Duke Annual Fund also set a new record thanks to the donations of more than 60,000 parents, students, alumni and friends. The Annual Fund contributes to educational programs and faculty support across Duke’s campus, in addition to supporting financial aid. “Donors are essential to our success in education, research and health care,” Robert S. Shepard, vice president for alumni affairs and development, said in the release. “Without their support, Duke would be unable to achieve its strategic priorities of helping to solve real-world issues.” Graphic by Stephanie Wu | The Chronicle

PAGE from page 2 President Tallman Trask confirmed in an email. Work on Page, Baldwin and the West Union Building was funded by $80 million set aside by the Charlottebased Duke Endowment. However, because of the increased expense of the West Union construction—which is estimated to total $95 million when the ground floor opens in Spring 2016 and the building becomes fully operational next Fall—additional funding for the work on Page had to be secured from other philanthropists and University funds. Trask wrote that many problems were uncovered during the renovation of the 1920s structure, including issues with the roof and that sections of the floor had partially collapsed. Duke Performances Director Aaron Greenwald noted that he thought that the modifications will have a positive impact on future events. “The space will be altogether more enjoyable for an audience,” he wrote in an email. Greenwald explained that updates to the space include new seats, reraked seating in the orchestra, more effectively staggered rows and acoustical treatments to allow for more amplified sound and a more enjoyable listening experience. Additional work included adding fresh carpet, repainting the walls and ceiling, as well as fitting the building with a new sprinkler system. The completed renovations also reduced the seat count from 1,234 to 1,150, Greenwald wrote, emphasizing that the effects of the loss will be minimal since the seats that were

removed were some of the worst in the auditorium. Now that the renovations are finished, Page—which is Duke’s largest venue for performances— will continue to host many of Duke Performances’ most popular shows throughout the year. During the renovations, several shows took place at off-campus venues. “[The renovation] was a challenge, but it provided us the opportunity to collaborate on a half-dozen shows which we co-presented with the Carolina Theatre of Durham at their venue downtown,” Greenwald wrote. He noted that shows at the Carolina Theatre each attracted approximately 200 students and many residents of the surrounding area. Also glad to see Page reopen was the The Congregation at Duke Chapel, which saw its services moved there Aug. 9 after taking place in Baldwin on East Campus during the summer. Luke Powery, dean of Duke Chapel, explained that Page is preferable for the Congregation and that the move has been handled well. “Parking is familiar and the same when we are in the Chapel,” he wrote in an email. “The congregation has seen this as an opportunity to come closer together as a people with the recognition that Duke Chapel is more than a building but is a living, breathing community of Christ’s love and hope.” Students will soon have more opportunities to visit Page. In September, Duke Performances will host two Grammy-award winners—Jazzsinger Gregory Porter will perform Sept. 24 and North Carolina native folksinger Rhiannon Giddens will perform the following day.

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Without Buttinger, Duke prepared to attack Jake Herb The Chronicle Jessica Buttinger will not be in the Blue Devils’ lineup Friday. She’s not sick, nor is she injured—she graduated. When Duke opens its season Friday against California, it will be without last season’s leading scorer and stand-alone leader of the front line. The unique combination of speed and tenacity Buttinger brought to the Blue Devils’ offense will be sorely missed, but the impact she left on her teammates will ensure her legacy with the team lives on for many years to come. “[Buttinger] was a great teammate,” junior forward Heather Morris said. “She was a really great motivator. She was really intense and you knew at all times that she was going to give you her 100 percent. She was just a great player to work with.” When she arrived at Duke in 2011, Buttinger quickly made a name for herself as a player who would hunt down the ball until it was where she needed it to be. During her freshman year, she earned the nickname “track star” after running laps around her teammates in practice. In her senior season, the Waterloo, Ontario, native was tasked with teach-

ing a novice group of forwards what it meant to play Duke field hockey. In the time since Buttinger’s departure, Duke head coach Pam Bustin has noticed the underclassmen seem to have picked up on a few of Buttinger’s old habits. “Now, instead of having one or two people who want to hunt down the ball and find a way to finish, we’ve got six or seven kids who want to do that,” Bustin said. “That’s something [Buttinger] has left as a legacy.” Seeing a new group of players step into the role vacated by Buttinger is a positive sign for the burgeoning, young team, as replacing Buttinger’s impact on the scoreboard will take a group effort. Last season, Buttinger registered eight goals and six assists, making her the most potent offensive weapon on the team. Equally important to how often she scored, though, was when she scored. Buttinger provided the final touch for three game-winning goals in 2014—including one against the eventual ACC champions, Wake Forest. However, Morris believes Duke will have no trouble replacing Buttinger’s firepower this season with their depth up front. “It’s more of a team effort this year,” Morris said. “We have a lot of good young talent. Ashley [Kristen] and I and all the forwards, we work really well together. Point scoring will be pretty distributed. Who knows, somebody might

Chronicle File Photo Two-time All American Lauren Blazing returns in goal for the Blue Devils, who also return eight other starters from last year’s squad.

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The Scoop: Returning nine starters from last year’s squad—including two All-America selections in goalkeeper Lauren Blazing and midfielder Aileen Johnson—the Blue Devils have the experience to go toe-to-toe with any team in the ACC. Head coach Pam Bustin will look to her veterans to lead the team to a third straight NCAA tournament appearance. Duke has not won the ACC tournament once in Bustin’s five years at the helm, but this year might be the Blue Devils’ best chance yet.

chief offensive weapon.

Key Players: Midfielder Aileen Johnson: Duke’s leading returning scorer, Johnson will be tasked with replacing Jessica Buttinger as the Blue Devils’

Prediction: Third in ACC, National Quarterfinalist

take off during the year. We don’t know that yet, but right now everybody is doing a really good job.” Although the Blue Devils appear to have a solution for replacing Buttinger’s impact in the box score, it is not clear yet who will replace her as the leader of the front line. Buttinger was well known for her aggressive style of play and ability to rally her teammates at their lowest times. It may be that a player emerges as a vocal team leader after a few games, but currently there is no clear-cut candidate to replace Buttinger’s off-the-field role— and that may not be a problem. For a team that strives for equality be-

Goalkeeper Lauren Blazing: In her fifth and final season with Duke, Blazing will anchor a defense that posted six shutout performances last fall. Defender Amanda Kim: After garnering second team All-Region honors in 2014, Kim returns to Duke a battle-tested leader in the backfield.. Games to Watch: Sept. 11 vs. Wake Forest; Oct. 2 vs. Louisville; Oct 16 at North Carolina

—Jake Herb tween players on the field, the concept of having many leaders represents an ideal solution. “A lot of people look to Aileen [Johnson] for leadership,” Morris said. “But everyone has their moments on our team, which is the best thing. Even some of the freshmen, Erin [Scherrer] coming in and Caroline [Andretta], you can look to them for energy. It’s not just one person leading us—it’s everybody.” With nine starters returning from last year’s squad, Duke appears primed to consistently challenge opponents in the See FIELD HOCKEY on Page 11

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Jessica Buttinger paced Duke with 22 points last season, but head coach Pam Bustin and her squad are moving into the fall season after the graduation of their top offensive threat.

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Depth has Blue Devils looking to climb to top of ACC Taseen Haque The Chronicle With experience comes wisdom. For the Blue Devils, experience will also mean higher expectations. Duke enters the season with 13 returning players looking to regain the form that helped it rise to the top of the ACC in 2013. The Blue Devils fell short during their 2014 season in their bid to repeat as conference champions, but with talent up and down the roster, they have their sights set on returning to the top. “I think we do have really high expectations of ourselves, but I think that it’s a good thing. It’ll really push us,” senior Emily Sklar said. “With a younger team you don’t really know what to expect…. But with so many people returning, you think they will be better than last year because they are just the same people, but improving on what they had last year.” For head coach Jolene Nagel, this is the first time in a few seasons that she has the chance to mold a more veteran team, which has shown her more consistency in preseason practice. “I didn’t realize we were a little bit young the past couple of years but I guess we were,” Nagel said. “We are more mature, which is what you really want to see. I’m seeing us go through our drills and play a little bit and I’m not seeing necessarily the same mistakes. It’s better.” A season ago, the Blue Devils finished 22-8—good for third in the ACC—but were sent home in the first round of the NCAA tournament at the hands of Hawaii. Juniors Sasha Karelov, Jordan Tucker and Alyse Whitaker saw plenty of playing time as sophomores last year, giving the team a strong nucleus to place around Sklar, whose 436 kills earned her honorable mention All-America honors and a first team All-ACC selection in 2014. Although there were learning moments at times, the minutes the trio logged on the court will prove valuable as leaders on this year’s team. “I just feel so much more like relaxed, confident. The ball is almost coming slower, I feel, because I’m used to focusing for so long,” Karelov said. “I feel like I’ve just seen all these balls before, and I can do it again.” A more experienced team also has a better grasp of the system and how to operate in order to be as successful as possible. Nagel said she spotted changes in the way the team has prepared for the season, in particular the team’s fitness when the Blue Devils returned to Durham for the second summer session which let the coaching staff get ahead in the training timetable. In addition to on-court performance, another benefit of veteran presence is better communication. Players are speaking up, calling for balls, and working together within the system, Nagel said.

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Senior outside hitter Emily Sklar leads a deep and talented Blue Devil front line that hopes to carry the club back to the top of the ACC after a disappointing 2014 season.

“People are comfortable talking out there and really stepping up,” Sklar said. “If one person’s having a rough game, we have so many people comfortable [saying] ‘Hey, let’s step it up,’ and really take charge.” While having so many returners does offer many benefits, it does not mean Duke will not miss the players that graduated last year, in particular Jeme Obeime. Without the former first team All-ACC outside hitter opJOLENE NAGEL posite Sklar, the DUKE HEAD COACH Blue Devils are looking for ways to replace her production from a standout senior year in which the Carmel, Ind., native recorded career-bests in kills, digs and blocks. “It’s just weird that [Jeme is] not here,” junior middle blocker Jordan Tucker said. “I’m always like, ‘Wait, where’s Jeme?’ Just because I’m used to it—her and Kelsey [Williams] were a huge part of me being comfortable here, me loving it here.” Although Nagel will miss the prolific play of Obeime—who ranks sixth all-time in program history with 1,308 kills—she did not seem too worried about how to fill the gap with the regular season just around the corner. “It’s tough to replace a Jeme Obeime because she was so explosive,” Nagel said. “But I think with the people we have playing our outside hitting positions we’re going to be able to fill that in. We have Emily,

“We are more mature, which is what you really want to see.”

Breanna [Atkinson], Cadie [Bates], and a new freshman named Jessi [Bartholomew]. I think we’re going to be okay.” Team chemistry has quickly developed with the 13 returners, and the Blue Devils have also woven their three newcomers into the fold. The early reviews on the freshmen—Bartholomew, Kelli Kalinoski and Leah Meyer—have been encouraging from both players and coaches alike, not just for their on-court skills but their approach to adjusting to the college game. “[The freshmen] are really talented, which is always great,” Sklar said. “But it’s really exciting to see that they are not the typical nervous freshmen that you see when they come in, who are afraid to talk and are timid.” If the Blue Devils can find a consistent offensive threat to replace the hole left by Obeime and take some of the pressure off of Sklar, Duke could be poised to make another run at a conference crown.

Beat’sTake The Scoop: With nine upperclassmen returning, the No. 25 Blue Devils are primed for success and another run at an ACC crown. Duke must replace the explosive production of outside hitter Jeme Obeime, but senior Breanna Atkinson and sophomore Cadie Bates should fill into her shoes. Redshirt senior setter Maggie Deichmeister is back and healthy, senior Emily Sklar returns to anchor the offense on the outside and junior libero Sasha Karelov is set for her second year as a starter. The Blue Devils play their first six games away from home before returning to the friendly confines of Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Outside hitter Breanna Atkinson—Sklar’s classmate made 21 starts a year ago and will be looked to for increased production in Obeime’s absence. The senior put down 151 kills as a junior.

Key Players: Outside hitter Emily Sklar—The San Jose, Calif., native put down 436 kills in 2014 to lead the team en route to honorable mention All-America honors and a spot on the first team All-ACC. Without Obeime to attract attention, Sklar will be the focal point for opposing defenses.

Prediction: Second in ACC, NCAA second round

Libero Sasha Karelov—A 2014 second team All-ACC selection, the junior led the conference in digs per set as a sophomore last year, more than doubling her freshman year production. As an upperclassmen this year, Karelov should make a big impact for Duke on the defensive end of the floor. Games to Watch: Sept. 11 vs. No. 2 Stanford; Nov. 22 at No. 9 Florida St; Nov. 28 vs. No. 7 North Carolina

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it showed there was another hole in the cartilage. So then I had to get a microfracture surgery.” Pecht went through another six months of rehabilitation and entered preseason camp in 2014 hoping to get back on the field. Instead, two days into practice, Pecht was dealt another setback when doctors discovered another hole in her cartilage. “That was really tough because I was super excited for preseason and I was just really let down,” Pecht said. “The coaches, the physical therapists always believed in me and helped me through it. There were days where I wanted to quit, but knowing that they were supporting me was awesome.” The midfielder underwent her third major surgery and has once again rehabbed to return to playing form. Still dealing with the hole in her cartilage underneath her kneecap, Pecht has chosen not to utilize a brace during games because increased pressure on her knee irritates the weak spot. The road back has been long—but she is finally back in action and could contribute to the Blue Devil offense through

Last year, solving a World Master-level Sudoku may have been easier than finding a starting lineup for head coach Robbie Church. Due to a rash of injuries, Church had to come up with a formation full of talented but inexperienced underclassmen and players in positions they were relatively unfamiliar with. This year, thanks to the recovery of a few Blue Devils and the addition of six freshmen, putting together a group of 11 starters will be like solving a Sudoku again. This time, however, it will hopefully be a fun one to solve. “When we had some of our best seasons, we were able to play 17, 18 players,” Church said. “College soccer is a different animal than any other soccer leagues that are out there. Nobody else in the world will play Fridays-Sundays. You play in less than 48 hours, which is crazy in recovering. You’ve got to have lots of people typically on the bench on Fridays and playing on Sundays because of the lack of recovery time.” There is no doubt about who the starting goalie will be for No. 21 Duke this season. Redshirt senior Ali Kershner graduated in the spring, so sophomore EJ Proctor—who played in 12 games last year—will be in charge of turning away shots from opponents. Although redshirt freshman Abby Pyne made her first appearance in a Duke uniform in the 1-0 preseason victory against then-No. 22 Clemson Aug. 15—where she saw nearly 20 minutes and delivered one save—the Dixmont, Maine, native has no ACC experience and is still dealing with the knee injuries that kept her sidelined last season. “[Competitiveness] is good for both of us because we’re very different, so we push each other in categories in which one is stronger than the other and vice versa,” Proctor said. “[Payne] is definitely my biggest supporter and I’m the same way for her. It’s a good relationship.” Defensively, Church prefers a traditional four-player block. All the Duke defenders saw minutes last fall—but only one of them returns to the position she occupied in 2014. In her first year as a Blue Devil, sophomore

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Jesus Hidalgo | The Chronicle 2012 National Rookie of the Year Cassie Pecht finally returned to the field for the Blue Devils after three knee surgeries kept her sidelined for the 2013 and 2014 seasons.

Cassie Calvert The Chronicle Forty-nine minutes into Sunday’s UNC Nike Classic game against Weber State, Cassie Pecht found the back of the net to extend Duke’s lead to 3-0. As the National Rookie of the Year in 2012, her goal would presumably be commonplace for the Blue Devils. But Pecht had not scored since that decorated 2012 campaign. Stricken with repeating knee injuries that rendered her unable to play for the past two seasons, the redshirt sophomore has quickly re-emerged, once again providing an offensive spark for Duke. “There’s so much I can say in regards to her work ethic and her perseverance and everything that she’s done to come back. It’s heartbreaking to watch a teammate go through so much,” junior captain Christina Gibbons said. “More than anything, all the credit goes to her for continuing to work hard and continuing to stay positive and get back out there.” Pecht—a Mechanicsburg, Pa., native—came to Durham from Cumberland Valley High School, where she was ranked No. 10 in her recruiting class by

TopDrawerSoccer.com. She was named the 2010 Pennsylvania State Gatorade Player of the Year as a sophomore, and in her junior year, Pecht led her team to the Pennsylvania state championship despite being plagued by an injury. In her debut season as a Blue Devil, the 5-foot-4 midfielder started all 23 games and scored six goals. Her nation-best 15 assists was a record for Duke freshmen, setting the table for a high-scoring offense that reached the national quarterfinals against Penn State in the NCAA tournament. Pecht’s performance earned her ACC Rookie of the Year honors, as well as spots on Soccer America’s All-Freshmen First Team and the All-ACC second team. Despite her on-field success, Pecht’s career was about to take a turn for the worse. During her breakout freshman season, the cartilage in her knee gradually wore down and the midfielder opted to have surgery the following spring, a procedure with a projected recovery time of eight to 12 months. But as her rehabilitation process neared the eight-month mark, Pecht knew something was wrong. “I was running, kind of getting back into it, but it wasn’t really feeling too well,” she said. “I got another MRI and

Beat’sTake The Scoop: In his 15th season as the head coach in Durham, Robbie Church will try to bring Duke back to the national stage that it reached in 2011, when the Blue Devils fell 1-0 to Stanford in the NCAA title game. With a potent offense featuring a combination of experienced returners and talented freshmen—including the second- and thirdranked recruits in the Class of 2015, Duke has a wide variety of attacking weapons and a stalwart defense. The team’s style is based on ball possession and quick ball movement. Key Players: Midfielder Taylor Racioppi: The highly-touted freshman has already made an impact this year, scoring three goals in her first two games as a Blue Devil at the UNC Nike Classic.

Defender Christina Gibbons—Tabbed by Church as a captain, the junior played midfield last year but has shifted onto the back line, where she is one of the team’s most vocal players. Midfielder Toni Payne—The junior led the Blue Devils in scoring as a sophomore, and her speed will keep defenders on their toes as she teams with Racioppi and others to set up scoring chances. Games to Watch: Sept. 20 vs. No. 1 Florida State; Sept. 27 at No. 2 Virginia; Oct. 16 at No. 7 North Carolina Prediction: Third in ACC, NCAA Final Four —Jesús Hidalgo

Jesus Hidalgo | The Chronicle Injuries forced head coach Robbie Church to move players like Christina Gibbons away from their natural positions last year, but the junior captain is set to return to the defense this fall.

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The cliché is that defense wins championships. Last year, Duke struggled mightily in that department, allowing 34 goals as it missed the NCAA tournament for the third consecutive year. Luckily, the 2015 Blue Devils are more than secure in the business of protecting the net. Head coach John Kerr’s roster has not one, not two, but three goalkeepers—all of whom are qualified to fill the starting role. “They’re training really, really well and they’re a great commodity amongst the group,” Kerr said. “We hope it lasts the rest of the season because it’s good to have goalkeepers on their toes ready to go in there. We don’t even know if our decision for this weekend will be a lasting one, so we’ll have to take it day-by-day moving forward.” The first option is graduate transfer Mitch Kupstas, who played four seasons at Brown while completing his undergraduate degree. In his senior season with the Bears, the Suwanee, Ga., native started a career-high 16 games and his .763 save percentage and 1.04 goals against average both ranked third among Ivy League keepers. He also ranked fourth in the league with 58 saves on the season and recorded six shutouts for Brown. Kupstas spent his summer playing for the Georgia Revolution in the National Premier Soccer League with Duke teammate Cameron Moseley. The Revolution went 4-4-2 on the season, finishing 13th in the South Region and third in the Southeast Conference. After straying from the collegiate game for a few months, Kupstas came to Durham ready to compete in his last year of eligibility, and said he has adjusted well to his new team. “[Playing at Duke] has definitely been a new experience,” Kupstas said. “It’s been really easy because the guys have been so nice. It’s definitely a tough level playing in the ACC, so it’s been a bit of an adjustment for me there, but I’m here ready to work hard and put in a fight, and I’ve been enjoying it so far.” Another viable choice to start in goal is Wilson Fisher, who played with the Blue Devils for four years before graduating in the spring. He decided to stay on for his final year of eligibili-

Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Graduate student Wilson Fisher is one of three options head coach John Kerr is considering to start at keeper to improve upon a defense that allowed a league-worst 34 goals last year.

ty as a graduate student after posting a respectable senior year in goal. The Birmingham, Ala., native played in nine games in the 2014 season, filling in down the stretch when starter Joe Ohaus was sidelined due to injury. He started each of the final six contests of the year and made 27 saves to earn a 4-2 record. Fisher ended the season with a 1.25 goals against average and a .771 save percentage. Like Kupstas, Fisher also spent his summer fine-tuning his skills by playing professionally. He joined fellow Blue Devils Cody Brinkman, Macario Hing-Glover, Tyler Hilliard, Zach Mathers and Luis Rendon in suiting up for the Carolina Railhawks U23 squad. The Railhawks went 3-6-3 on the season. “Preseason for me went pretty well because I was lucky enough to spend some time with the U23 Railhawks team over the summer, which gave me some preparation going into the preseason,” Fisher said. “I also stayed and worked out with our strength coach so I felt pretty good physically. When it comes to the other guys, competition amongst goalkeepers is always good because it pushes you to the next level. Mitch and Wade have both been doing really well and pushing me.” The wildcard in the race is the youngest player of the three—senior Wade Clement, who has been on the team since his freshman year, but has yet to see game action. Clement has made noticeable strides in his time as a Blue Devil— evidenced by the fact that he is contending for time in goal despite one of the deepest goaltending rosters in Kerr’s tenure. One choice Kerr will not have at his dis-

posal is Ohaus—who played in 12 games as a freshman last year. Kerr said Ohaus has decided to leave the team to pursue other interests, but remains enrolled as a Duke student. The Westfield, N.J., native finished the 2014 season averaging 2.00 goals against. He also boasted a .634 save percentage and a 5-7-1 record. “Joe Ohaus decided to leave the team for personal reasons,” Kerr said. “He’s sort of changing his focus on what he wants to do. According to him, it had nothing to do with the team, it was just his own desire to explore other opportunities.” Both of the Blue Devils’ exhibition games featured the normal two 45-minute periods followed by a third 30-minute period. In their first exhibition game against College of Charleston, Kupstas and Wilson each played one half of regulation with Wade and Ohaus splitting the final 30-minute period. In Duke’s second exhibition game against No. 17 UNC Charlotte, Kupstas and Wilson once again played an entire 45-minute period and Wade took the extra 30-minute period for himself. With a trio of legitimate goalkeepers in his back pocket, Kerr is still struggling to pen one in as the starter and is keeping his options open heading into the season opener Friday. “We have great goalkeeping options, and right now Mitch and Wilson are challenging for the number one spot, with Wade as a close third,” Kerr said. “We’re working on it day-byday to figure out what direction we’re going to go in and we haven’t made a decision yet....It’s a good problem for a coach to have.”

Beat’sTake The Scoop: After struggling through the past two seasons, the Blue Devils will look to use their experience to return to the top of the ACC. Returning 16 players—including seven starters— from last year’s squad, Duke should have familiarity on its side to help guide it through a difficult ACC schedule. While improving on a defense that finished last in the ACC in goals conceded will be key for the Blue Devils, how the offense clicks without ACC Midfielder of the Year Sean Davis will be a major question mark early on this season. Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Brody Huitema lead the Blue Devils in scoring last year, and his production will be even more crucial this season as Duke adapts to life without two-time captain Sean Davis.

Key Players: Brody Huitema—Last year’s leading scorer with five goals and 15 points, Huitema will spearhead Duke’s attack and

As Duke gets set to start its new season, there will be one key absentee from last year when the team takes the field. Although the Blue Devils lost six players from last year’s squad, no one will leave bigger shoes to fill than ACC Midfielder of the Year and team captain Sean Davis. Davis— who now plies his trade for the New York Red Bulls—was the anchor of Duke’s midfield and leader on the field. His lengthy list of accomplishments in Durham—33 career points, three-time All-ACC selection, two-time team captain and two-time team Most Valuable Offensive Player—leaves behind a gaping hole in his absence. Replacing Davis’ on-field production will be a major question mark facing the Blue Devils in the beginning of the season and will be key in order for the squad to enter the postseason. “He was the focal point for our team last year,” head coach John Kerr said. “But we have three great central midfielders with Cody Brinkman, [Zach] Chachi Mathers, and Ciaran McKenna, who’s come in and done a great job. We have a great rotation with those three right now, and depending on injuries and availability, we’ll probably rotate them throughout the season in those positions because all three of them are deserving of time and all three of them are doing great jobs.” To fill in Davis’ role in the heart of the midfield, Duke will have a committee of players step up. Losing Davis, along with his defensive midfield partner Nat Eggleston, means that players who have not seen the field much will be charged with shielding the defense and keeping the offense ticking from the midfield. Those tasks will fall largely on the shoulders of Brinkman and McKenna, who have zero college goals combined. Brinkman started eight games as a freshman last year, and McKenna—who hails from Glasgow, Scotland—has yet to play American soccer at any level. “On the field, it’s a big hole to fill in the midfield, one of the main positions we See M. SOCCER on Page 12

him consistently finding the back of the net will be key for the team’s chances this year. Zach Mathers—With Davis gone, Mathers, a two-time All-ACC selection, will have to step into the role of team leader in addition to fortifying the defensive half. Markus Fjørtoft—Duke will need the towering 6-foot-3 Norwegian to assert himself in the center of defense to solidify a defense that was weak last year. Games to Watch: Sept. 11 vs. No. 2 Virginia; Sept. 25 at No. 5 North Carolina; Oct. 2 vs. No. 15 Syracuse Prediction: Sixth in the ACC —Alex Serebransky

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Voluntary redshirt could pay off for Thompson Ryan Hoerger The Chronicle Shaun Thompson had a tough choice to make last summer. One of the fastest Blue Devil harriers, he could run out the clock on his college career—or he could take himself out of commission for the 2014 campaign and enable himself to pursue loftier goals in 2016. He chose the latter, deciding to redshirt during his senior cross-country season, giving him a fifth year of eligibility to train for the U.S. Olympic Trials next July and allowing him to pick up an advanced degree in the process. “[Voluntarily redshirting] is a difficult situation because you’re trying to do what you think will best for the team in the future,” Thompson said. “It stunk to do it because I knew it was going to affect how the team did last year. I felt almost as if you’re not necessarily betraying the people who came in and the people in my class who were still running—but it’s not the best. It’s a hard thing to balance. We love to race, we do this because we love to race, but we’re deciding not to race even though we’re healthy.” By sitting out the 2014 season—with the exception of a first-place finish as an individual at the Three Stripe Invitational in November—Thompson got a jump-start on training for the indoor track season, which paid off in a big way. The Baldwinsville, N.Y., native set a new school record in February in the 5,000 meters, clocking in at

13:47.22—a sub-4:30 mile pace that earned him All-American honors. Thompson also did not participate in the outdoor track season, giving him one more year of eligibility in the spring as well. After the cross-country season wraps up later this fall, Thompson will again have a long window to focus on heavy training. With no more indoor track eligibility remaining, he will spend the winter months readying himself for the outdoor season— which will then catapult him into his last stretch of training before the Olympic Trials in July. “It would be probably pretty difficult to make his Olympic bid as a first-year employee for some company that’s going to be demanding and make him work full-time and put everything into it,” Duke head coach Norm Ogilvie said. “He also didn’t want to necessarily change coaches in the middle of it, so by staying at Duke for a fifth year, he has a very smooth transition into the Olympic year. “ Thompson runs about 95 to 100 miles per week—the most of any Blue Devil runner—to build up for the cross-country season. Last year’s roster had more middle-distance runners, he said, anticipating that this year’s group could push toward the front of the pack on the 8,000-meter courses, which also played into his decision to redshirt. With Thompson, junior Aaron Liberatore and seniors William Hague and Blake Udland in the mix at the front of the pack, See CROSS COUNTRY on Page 12

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son returns for his final year of eligibility after sitting out the 2014 season. A consistent top performer for the Blue Devils in 2013, Thompson hopes to lead Duke across the line again after an extra year of training. Zachary Alhamra leads a trio of freshmen to the line to bolster the Blue Devils’ roster. Alhamra was named 2013 Colorado Gatorade Runner of the Year and broke the 15-minute barrier in the 5,000 meters at the 2014 Liberty Bell Cross Country Invitational—at altitude. Prediction: 9th in the ACC; Thompson individual qualifier for NCAA Championships —Ali Wells

Beat’sTake Women’s Cross Country The Scoop: The Blue Devils are left with a small roster of 12 after the transfer of last years’ standouts Wesley Frazier and Hannah and Haley Meier, as well as Jesse Rubin’s graduation. Duke wrapped up a tough 2014 season in the bottom third of the ACC and did not appear at the NCAA regional championships. Five freshmen look to lead the rebuilding effort this season, starting with two home races to ease into fall competition. Key Runners: Seniors Anima Banks and Madison Granger will look to lead the Blue

Devils’ many new faces on the trails. Banks finished her 2014 cross country campaign by clocking 21:54.8 in the 6,000-meters at the ACC Championships, earning 73rd overall. Granger’s highlight performance was her win at the Three Stripe Invitational, covering the five-kilometer course in 17:33.07. Rookie Gabrielle Richichi comes to Duke with three Class MM State Championships and All-American honors, and could be a top contender right away. Prediction: 12th in the ACC —Ali Wells

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PECHT from page 8 2017 if she chooses to do so. “She’s never wavered, she’s never blamed anybody, she’s just kind of gone back to work,” head coach Robbie Church said. “[The credit] goes to Cassie—to her mental toughness too—to fight through injury and now she’s back and she’s playing at a very high level.” The return of such a star player is a huge addition to the Duke roster. Pecht’s dynamic style of play gives her the ability to change the pace of a game. Gibbons praised the midfielder for her ability to create spacing on the field for her teammates as well as her passing. With Pecht back in the lineup, the Blue Devils scored nine goals in two games at the UNC Nike Classic, a year after being shut out twice in the same tournament. Alongside standout freshmen Taylor Racioppi and Kayla McCoy—who combined for six goals during the weekend—Pecht’s presence creates a challenge for opposing defenses looking to slow down the Duke attack. “She’s so good on the dribble—you just don’t want to be a defender and see her running at you,” Church said. “She can see past them, she can slip players in, she can strike from distance, she can score goals. And those things will continue to come.” After spending the summer preparing for the season by training with the Carolina Railhawks program, Pecht got herself back in soccer shape with the college season on the horizon. With

two regular season games under her belt, Pecht has played 104 minutes, and Church is anxious to see the midfielder continue to develop. “She’s excited, the coaching staff’s excited, especially [assistant coach Carla Overbeck] and myself that have been here through the whole time, and have seen how hard she’s worked to come back,” Church said. “I almost had tears during the lineup [against Clemson] when she was announced and ran out there.”

FIELD HOCKEY from page 6 scoring circle and put some of Buttinger’s lessons to good use. “[Last year] we had a lot of players playing with [Buttinger] who hadn’t had a whole lot of experience playing forward line for Duke,” Bustin said. “Now those players have a fall and a spring under their belts…and you still have people like Sarah [Urdahl] and Heather [Morris] who have the experience to push it.” With depth and strong team chemistry as their foundation, the Blue Devils will look to start off their season with a pair of wins this weekend and make another run in the NCAA tournament come November. And even though she’s gone, Buttinger will be there every step of the way. “[Buttinger] is still with us in a way,” Bustin said. “She’s dispersed amongst the kids who played with her.”

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Morgan Reid averaged 77.0 minutes in 18 games occupying the right flank, where she will look to continue imposing her toughness when facing rival attackers this season. Another sophomore, Schuyler DeBree, returns to the defending third of the field, but the Fair Haven, N.J., native will be a center back instead of a left defender—a position where she delivered solid performances last year. 5-foot-9 center back Rebecca Quinn—who captured the bronze medal with the Canadian women’s national team in the Pan American Games this summer—will accompany DeBree in the back zone and should bring international experience to the defense. Junior captain Christina Gibbons played in the midfield last season—substituting for injured midfielder Cassie Pecht. But this year, “Gibby”—as her teammates call the Raleigh, N.C. native—will return to her natural position of left defender, where she can offer all her leadership and fighting spirit. “[Gibbons] is one of the leaders of the back line,” Proctor said. “She’ll call when to drop or how far to drop, or when to step and when to hold. And she’s really good at getting forward wide so she brings a lot to the defense.” Junior Lizzy Raben, redshirt junior Sammie Thomas and freshman Mary Love Taylor are three defenders that will see important minutes, providing valuable depth for Church. The midfield is where the Sudoku gets complicated, as the team has an abundance of players for just three or four positions. Church counts senior Kara Wilson, redshirt junior Danielle Duhl and redshirt sophomore Malinda Allen as defensive figures.

Four Blue Devils then can play in the No. 5 position—the anchor that connects the defense with the midfield and controls rival counter-attacks. If he decides to play a 4-3-3 formation, the two other starting midfielders will be Pecht— who earned National Rookie of the Year honors in 2012 thanks to her 15 assists and six goals—and sophomore Ashton Miller, who averaged 61.7 minutes in 18 games last year. Although it seems clear who the starting forwards will be, Church has plenty of options. Junior Toni Payne, a midfielder from Birmingham, Ala., who has poured in 10 goals and fed her teammates 10 times in her two years at Duke, and sophomore Imani Dorsey can exchange their positions as wingers. Last season, Payne started every attacking play for the Blue Devils. But if the opponents blocked her connection with the attackers, Duke was not able to create different looks. This inability reduced the team’s scoring ability—especiallydown the stretch when the squad scored only five goals in seven games. As a center forward, freshman Taylor Racioppi has all the skills to be a part of the starting lineup this campaign and will look to boost Duke’s firepower. The talented newcomer—rated as the No. 2 midfielder in her class—scored three goals in her first two games last weekend, joining her teammate Kayla McCoy and former Blue Devils Kelly Cobb, Casey McCluskey, Andi Melde, Caitlin Connolly and Dena Paris as the only Duke players to accomplish that. McCoy—ranked No. 3 in the freshmen class—can be the secret weapon for Church, as the freshman from Lincolnwood, Ill, can fire potent shots from outside the box but See FORMATION on Page 12

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Ogilvie said he thinks the Blue Devils have a good chance to qualify for the NCAA championship for the fourth time in seven years after missing out last season. Duke will use its season-opening meet Sept. 4 at Virginia Tech’s Hokie Invitational to get its initial lineup straightened out before hosting N.C. Central in the Bull City Classic Sept. 12. “Our team suffered a bit last year without Shaun being on the team, but now this year that all comes back to us and he’ll be a great leader,” Ogilvie said. “We’ll have a front-runner, which really helps your team

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spot if you have a low stick—that means your top runners finish first, second or third at these big meets. I think that’s going to be a big help.” And if Thompson comes up short in his bid to run the 10,000 meters in Rio de Janeiro next summer, the extra year on campus will have produced his teaching certification and license, which the former biophysics major plans to use to start teaching high school physics. “It’s all part of a master plan that was concocted that we had for Shaun,” Ogilvie said. “So far, so good.”

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need to be able to control the ball,” junior forward Brody Huitema said.”We had Ciaran come in this year as a central midfielder and we have a lot of depth in the position, so I think we’ll be fine without him. Obviously, it’s a big loss, but I think we’ll be able to cope.” Although all three of those players will be key to helping replace Davis and controlling games from the midfield, Mathers will be the player most expected to fill Davis’ shoes. The Keller, Texas, native was a captain last season and an All-ACC third team choice. Mathers, who has spent time in both defense and midfield during his Blue Devil career, brings both the technical and defensive ability that should help ease the loss of Davis. Mathers—referred to as “Chachi” by his teammates and coaches—will not only look to help make up for some of Davis’ on-field production, but will also serve as a mentor for the underclassmen, something that Kerr says should not be a problem for him. “[Mathers] has been a leader since he’s gotten here,” Kerr said. “He’s stepped on the field since minute one of his freshman year and hasn’t missed a beat…he’s a real leader by example.” Davis may have been a defensive midfielder, but he was also the team’s main creative offensive asset, leading the conference in assists with 10 last season. Finding that production this season will go beyond just Mathers, Brinkman and McKenna in the midfield, but will take players in other positions stepping up as well. “I think it’s going to be by committee,” Kerr said. “I don’t think we’re just going to have one guy. I mean Chachi can find that

through ball, he’s very good at that. And we’re counting on Cameron [Moseley] and Macario [Hing-Glover] to give us a lot of assists from wide positions because they’re dangerous going forward and they can get in behind defenses and we’re good in the middle. So I think if we get good crosses in early, they’ll probably lead the team in assists.” Finding a replacement for the team’s midfield anchor, chief creator and on-and-off-thefield leader is obviously a difficult task for just one player to be able to accomplish. However, this Blue Devil squad has enough talent and depth at several positions to make Davis’ absence less noticeable when the season kicks off this Friday against St. Mary’s.

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also has a great crossing technique. Junior Krysia Sikora and sophomore Casey Martinez will probably come off the bench frequently, but their quickness and excellent ball control can provide punch from the reserves when the starters are not having a good day. Another variation Church is considering is a 4-2-2 formation. If the team needs more defensive balance, Church can go with four instead of three in the back line—either adding another defensive player or asking Racioppi to join the attacking midfielders. “[Abundance of players] is a good problem to have,” Church said. “I rather abundance of players than a lack of players. People will get to play in time. Some people might have to sacrifice some things for the team but we’ll figure that out.”

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ven as all freshmen spend Orientation Week getting to know East and West Campus together, some arrive already acquainted with a circle of classmates and with some of the culture of Duke thanks to our pre-orientation programs. This year the five programs of Project WILD, Waves, BUILD, Change and Search were joined by Project Arts, a new program that engages incoming first-years with Durham’s art community and themes of social justice. The program divides students into the media of visual arts, dance, music and theater, but all students explored this year’s theme of classism together in their art projects. Joining Project Change as a pre-orientation program with a focus on social activism, Project Arts gives us a chance to ask to what end pre-orientation programs are meant to serve incoming first-years. In the past, we have recommended pre-orientation programs as a valuable opportunity for firstyear students to find friendship, achieve a sense of community and gain experiences that can inform them about some of their interests at Duke. We continue to believe that greater participation in these programs would benefit students and that whatever can be done to increase the number of spaces in these programs should be considered. More specifi-

cally, we appreciate that Project Arts works to introduce students to specific thematic issues. Discussion of controversial issues is important in the interests of a diverse community of thought at Duke, and pre-orientation programs provide excellent forums for discourse due to their tendency to foster smallgroup interactions. One concern we harbor, however, is that program staff may present the issue as

Editorial more of an afterthought to the program’s concrete projects if they are not properly trained in how to fully incorporate it into the curriculum. Pacifying the need for discussion with mishandled facilitating is not the point, after all, however given the newness of Project Arts, there is time yet for change and its potential in what it has and will provide students as a pre-orientation experience is unquestioned. Going further, Project Arts does remind us that not all programs engage in work for social change or other service work. Some disparage programs like Project WILD and Project Waves for this, but if all pre-orientation programs were focused on completing intense projects, some of the commu-

might be, say, anti-abortion? Or how about intellectual content that scientifically distinguishes racial differences? Or how about scientific research debunking human-induced climate change? Or discussing female responsibility for alcohol & sex issues on campus? As you say, just because you don’t agree with it doesn’t mean it should be rejected.”

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nity-building might be lost. This is because incoming first-years often worry about first-semester programs like FOCUS and pre-orientation programs, feeling that not applying or being accepted somehow leaves them behind their peers. These other programs choose to focus on fun and making the students feel comfortable with one another and with Duke through the upperclassmen who staff the programs. That said, because those programs focus so much on forming close friendships in their small groups, we urge those first-years to pay attention to who they are with during Orientation Week and to branch out. With the addition of Project Arts, the range of pre-orientation programs Duke offers, we believe, is more what incoming first-years need than a slate of academically or intellectually driven programs. Concerns still remain for some other programs about dirty rushing by the upperclassmen who staff them, and some investigation ought to be done by their planning committees and administration to determine if staffers are ever contributing to social stratification at Duke in any way. But even still, with proper training and screening for the staff applications, we maintain pre-orientation programs are good for our incoming classes.

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s Democrats debate the prospect of nominating another Clinton, recent history provides incredible perspective on what I believe is the worst decision made by President Bill Clinton: the disarming of uniformed U.S. military personnel on U.S. military facilities. Implemented early in Clinton’s first term in 1993, the president, through the Department of the Army, disarmed all soldiers

For now though, the pathetic politics of this gun-free policy were further highlighted by the July 16, 2015, assaults on a military property in Chattanooga, TN. That day, another radical Islamic terrorist, Muhammad Abdulazeez, fired dozens of rounds into a strip mall Navy recruitment office and then drove across town and unleashing a firestorm on a Navy Support Operational Center. In total, the jihadist

Max Schreiber PLACE BETS OFF! and designated military police officers as the sole providers of armed protection on base. Our uniformed men and women, of course, rank as some of the best users of firearms in the American citizenry. They are trained rigorously and are trusted by the nation to use arms in defending our people and values. Why then, according to President Clinton (and Bush and Obama since), should soldiers not be allowed to defend themselves on base? Tragic events have exposed the susceptibility of our troops to attackers when executing non-combat operations on base. On November 5, 2009, a radical Islamic terrorist and turncoat soldier, Maj. Nidal Hissan, killed thirteen people and injured thirty-two others when he opened fire on U.S. army base Fort Hood. As Hassan fired round after round, U.S. soldiers were reduced to target practice and had no means of returning fire to protect themselves. All told, the domestic terrorist was able to fire off 200 rounds of ammo before military police on base apprehended him. If the same troops were in an Iraqi battlefield, they’d be armed to the teeth and able to shoot back when fired upon. Why is it that, upon returning to U.S. soil, our soldiers suddenly become trapped ducks caged by the walls of their fort? Regardless of your opinion on guns, the people who are entrusted to protect the country shouldn’t have to entrust someone else to defend them. Many Americans have written to politicians urging them to change regulations and let the professional military do its job —eliminate dangerous threats. Hopefully our gutless and incompetent politicians will eventually get this right.

took the lives of five uniformed Navy and Marine servicemen. As was the case with Fort Hood and all other military bases, the soldiers couldn’t legally arm themselves in either location of the assaults. From this policy, we derive the political treason that is the Chattanooga shootings: A subsequent investigation into the massacre revealed that at least one Navy officer was, against DOD policy, carrying a personal firearm and able to return fire during the attack. As a thank-you for his brave and selfless acts to fight off the assailant, the Navy is investigating the heroic officer for discharging his weapon during the assault. While the department insists they won’t be pressing charges against the heroww, they continue to overtly scrutinize the obvious valiant actions of an American soldier. In a world with ISIS and lone wolf terrorists, battlefields don’t exist in the stale manner our nation has previously become comforted to. The country can no longer simply send soldiers off to a faraway place to meet the enemy, fight wars and defend the country. Military men and women are, unfortunately, targets 24 hours a day and everywhere they go. Today’s battlefields are abstract, omnipresent and spontaneous. Reality now tragically means that a quiet and peaceful piece of American life can quickly become a battlefield. You are of course entitled to your opinion on whether the citizenry should be armed to the greatest extent possible; but soldiers, for their safety and ours, must be armed and vigilant everywhere now. Max Schreiber is a Pratt senior. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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he August 21 story in the Duke Chronicle entitled “Freshmen skipping ‘Fun Home’ for moral reasons” begins by stating that “several” incoming Freshmen have chosen to forgo the recommended common reading for the incoming class of 2019 because they objected to the “pornographic” nature of Alison Bechdel’s award winning memoir Fun Home. The Duke Chronicle article has by now circulated well beyond the Duke community, and responses range from people outraged that students would reject a book without reading it first to people lamenting the loss of traditional conservative values at Duke. With around seventeen hundred students in the incoming class, there were bound to be some people who reacted

chance to talk with Bechdel about the Charleston issue, and told Bechdel “how gratified” she was that despite the outcry in South Carolina, Duke had chosen the Fun Home as the summer reading, a move that showed the university’s willingness to take on the debate. It is unfortunate that the Duke Chronicle did not reach out to some of these students, LGBTQ or not, who have engaged so thoughtfully with Bechdel’s work. For example, Duke student Jasmine Lu told us that she was glad that Fun Home was selected as recommended reading because she had “never familiarized [herself] with the very common identity crisis that lesbian women go through.” She points out that while she appreciates the book for how it opened her mind to thinking about the difficul-

Another failure is no surprise

arlier this month, a column arguing for the merits of the Iran deal was published in The Chronicle, titled “If it sounds too bad to be true, it probably isn’t.” Although I believe that this administration’s deal with Iran will go down in history as one of the most detrimental foreign policy failures, I think that it is a topic that has already been well covered here on The Chronicle by both sides. Instead, I will address the skepticism and hesitancy from supporters of the deal to believe that the President of the United States could be so naïve. Could the Obama administration truly have failed as miserably as crit-

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as these abstainers did. But it might be helpful for the Duke community and the larger world to place those “several” abstainers in the context of the otherwise enthusiastic reception of the student body to both Fun Home and Alison Bechdel. Thursday night, Bechdel spoke to a packed house of students at the Durham Performing Arts Center and received a standing ovation. Earlier that day, Bechdel gave a question and answer session with equally excited students at the Duke Coffeehouse. Hosted by the Program in Women’s Studies, approximately 150 LGBTQ students and allies convened to listen to Bechdel talk about her work, including the difficulties in writing a story that illustrates for the world both her own family’s particular tragedy and her own intellectual development, a topic to which all students should be able to relate. For many LGBTQ students, the Bechdel events this fall may be the only time in their four years on campus that the topic of queer identity will be widely discussed. At the event, over a dozen students, including many first years, lined up to ask Bechdel a series of great questions ranging from technical queries about how she works to questions about her family’s reaction to the release and popularity of Fun Home. For many first year students, the experience of being asked to read Fun Home was both exciting and unexpected. Zephyr Farah, a first year student who attended the Bechdel lunch on August 20, described to us the “surreal” feeling she experienced when finding out “a book that talked so frequently and so deeply about being a lesbian was assigned [as] summer reading for school.” Farah grew up in places as far apart as Qatar, Angola and Texas, and was shocked at the openness she found when she got to campus, based on discussions of Fun Home. Marveling over the moment when she had the chance to shake Bechdel’s hand, Farah remarks, “It wasn’t the basketball, the school spirit, or the enormous Brodie Gym that excited me about Duke; it was the acceptance, the advocacy and the willingness here to treat people as people. Fun Home is a symbol of that for me.” Zoe Abedon, a first year student who came to Duke from her hometown of Charleston, South Carolina, noted that, before arriving, she was happy to see that Fun Home had been chosen as the first year reading despite the controversy over the same choice at the College of Charleston last year. Abedon had the

ties that face LGBTQ people in coming to terms with their identities, what she got most out of the book was a meditation on how Bechdel’s relationship with her father had shaped her life. Lu wrote to us, “It was [Bechdel’s] revelation to us on how much of a mystery her father was even after all the facts of his life came out that really resonated with me as I’m sure it could with almost anyone. It was the fact that we can know a person our whole life and still not understand who they were/are completely, and that’s perfectly fine. In terms of that aspect, the book was very comforting [to] me so while I respect the others’ choices to not read the book, I’m also sad that it wasn’t able to touch them as it had touched me.” There is, of course, room for dissent in the discussion of any cultural object. But the object must actually be examined before it can be dismissed, discarded or, perhaps, silenced. The legacy of longstanding silence about “the love that dare not speak its name” is precisely something Fun Home takes on with nuance, humanity and wit, to the benefit and edification of its readers. As first year student Zoe Abedon remarks, it’s important that “the media doesn’t try to depict the opposition to Fun Home as being widespread,” noting that she had not personally met anyone at Duke who was opposed to the book. During her conversation with students at the Duke Coffeehouse, Bechdel reflected on how much easier it was to be openly gay now than it had been for people in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Despite the truth of this statement, it is also important to remember how hard it is for many, even on Duke’s campus, to be open and comfortable with their sexuality, especially when we promote a culture of keeping quiet to avoid upsetting people with moral objections. In the spirit of openness and acceptance, and to overcome the deafening silence that often follows the objections of the few, we urge all Duke community members to have a conversation about Fun Home or other taboo subjects with your colleagues, classmates, co-workers, students or professors. You might be surprised by what you learn. Jessica Namakkal is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in International Comparative Studies and Women’s Studies. Gabriel Rosenberg is an Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies

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ics claim? Fortunately for those still skeptical, the president has provided us with plenty of proof that he is truly capable of a failure of this magnitude. Under this administration, if it sounds too bad to be true, then we have made another deal with a tyrant, terrorist or oppressor. As we enter the final years of this weak presidency, the enemies of the free world – from Putin to Assad to even ISIS and the Taliban – jump on the opportunity to take advantage. If you’re baffled by the situation with Iran, just take a look at Cuba. Thanks to President Obama, Raul Castro scored the biggest victory of his career, securing everything from much needed finances to unprecedented global legitimacy. What did we receive in return? Not a single one of our goals have been met. As the US embassy in Cuba opened this month for the first time in 54 years, Secretary of State John Kerry proclaimed this a victory, saying, “having normal relations makes it easier for us to talk – and talk can deepen understanding.” While the president and his administration continue to live in their fantasy of a worldview, the Castro regime laughs at the notion of any talks or change in their own oppressive policies. Within just the first 48 hours of the opening of the US embassy in Cuba, more than 200 political dissidents were arrested. Just in Havana, 60 members of a pro-democracy group composed of wives, mothers and daughters of Cuban political prisoners were arrested. Some were brutally beaten. And if you are still as optimistic as the president is that more “talk” is the solution to tyranny, here is what Josefina Vidal, Cuba’s lead negotiator and director of US affairs for the Cuban Foreign Ministry, tells Reuters: “Decisions on internal matters are not negotiable and will never be put on the negotiating agenda in conversations with the United States… Cuba will never do absolutely anything, not move one millimeter, to try to respond.” Although Secretary Kerry may convince himself that “Cuba’s future is for Cuban’s to shape” following these new relations, a very different reality persists. The future of Cuba is shaped completely and will remain to be shaped by the Castros and their military dictatorship. Even though they have pocketed all of our concessions, they have made it clear to the Cuban people and the entire world that they will not change their ways.

Additionally, the notion that more trade or tourism will liberate the Cuban people is yet another fantasy. As long as 90 percent of the Cuban economy continues to be state owned, almost every dollar flowing into Cuba will continue to go towards fueling one of the most repressive and militaristic regimes in the world. Today, every single other market economy and 99 percent of the world allows trade and travel with Cuba. When every Canadian dollar, euro, peso, ruble or franc flowing into Cuba goes to the government, it is no surprise that the very trade and travel President Obama advocates for has proven to be useless.

The Cuban economy is not one of the poorest in the world because they cannot have an Apple store in Havana; it is because every foreign business in Cuba has to turn over their employee’s wages to the regime. The Cuban people do not live in poverty because of our policies; they do so because of Castro’s repressive economic policies, ideologies and corruption – all of which President Obama is clearly willing to further fund with American dollars. Even as the oppression of the Cuban people continues to grow, the administration seems fully content with lining the pockets of the oppressors themselves. Although Cuba released 53 political prisoners as part of the deal, this is less than a drop in the bucket. In 2014, Human Rights Watch reports that even as Cuba was negotiating with the administration, the regime more than doubled its number of “short-term arbitrary arrests of human rights defenders, independent journalists, and other critics.” Furthermore, as USAtoday writes, “according to the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, the number of political prisoners detained in Cuba has risen from 2,074 in 2010 to 6,424 in 2013. Through the first 11 months of 2014, that number is at 8,410.” Granted not all political dissenters are detained; “other repressive tactics employed by the government include beatings, public acts of shaming, and the termination of employment.” Despite his tyranny, Raul Castro secured concessions he could have only dreamed of – the release of the remaining Cuban spies, an increase in remittances and investments, a flow of American tourists and their dollars – all of this as we mistakenly remove his regime from the state-sponsored terrorist list. As the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama truly holds the best cards at any negotiation table. As the leader of the free world with the greatest economy and military behind him, he is the only person who could have stood up to the most evil regimes in our world. Instead, he folded. While our hope in Cuba should be democracy and the end of oppression, no part of this deal moves that aspiration forward; it does the opposite. As in both Cuba and Iran, while we lose our best leverages, military dictatorships stand to gain in every way. Barak Biblin is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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performances that I hope is a unique experience that students here have not yet had on campus.” Another change to this year’s concert is its location. Although last year’s concert took place at the Keohane Amphitheater, in the past, the Heatwave concert has taken place on the main quadrangle on West Campus. Due to various construction projects taking place near the main quadrangle, this year’s concert will also be held in a new venue—the Blue Zone parking lot. Lawrence noted that the Blue Zone seemed like the best alternative in terms of its location and its size, though the proximity to West Campus will be missed by some. “It was awesome to have it on main quad because I could see what was going on from my window,” senior Madhu Ganesh said. “I could easily attend the event, and come to my [dormitory] whenever I wanted. Being in the Blue Zone makes it

harder to access.” Many students were unfamiliar with the performers. Freshman Francia Fang said she had not heard of either band but is looking forward to the concert. “I’m just glad there will be music. I’m definitely going,” she said. Lawrence explained that the committee saw the concert as an opportunity to introduce students to new music and get the names of the artists into conversations. “These bands are going to bring really high-energy performances, and I hope people get into it and have an awesome time with their friends. I want this concert to get students excited about the rest of the year on a really fun and positive note,” Lawrence wrote.

Chronicle File Photo Student reception to this year’s Heatwave concert could shift because of numerous changes.

Chronicle File Photo New Politics and X Ambassadors will look to fill the shoes of last year’s performers—Kygo and Magic Man.

Neelesh Moorthy contributed reporting.

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