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Sanford to offer Duke in D.C. program

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when I can play to some people, even if it is a couple [of] people.”

Merrigan set an initial fundraising goal in late July of $1,800 in 60 days and reached his goal in three days. He has now raised more than $2,500 and plans to use the extra funds for promotional purposes, like buying bumper stickers.

Merrigan left New York City in 2008 and said Durham’s calmer culture inspired his project. After playing in a two-man pop band while in New York, Merrigan switched over to more acoustical music with older roots and noted artists such as Jimmy Yancey, Fats Domino and Boogie Woogie as his musical muses.

“Imagine walking through the

Despite a slight dip in the number of clusters this year, student interest in the Focus program remains steady, partly due to a revised admissions procedure, slight financial upticks and the addition of prominent faculty.

Three hundred freshmen applied—and were accepted—into the Focus program this year, roughly the same number of applicants as last year, said Edna Andrews, faculty director of the Focus program and a professor of linguistics and cultural anthropology.

“Focus accepts almost everyone who applies,” Andrews said. “Why would we want to accept people to Duke and not let them take Duke programs?”

Most of Focus’ students took advantage of the program’s new rolling admission policy, Andrews said. Rolling admissions enabled incoming students to apply as early as February—if they were admitted under Early Decision—and until May. To ensure that all students had an equal chance of acceptance, at least 50 percent of spots were left for the students admitted during the regular decision cycle, she noted.

“It just allowed people more time,” Andrews said. “You knew about it sooner, so you could apply sooner…. In the old days you’d have a month to apply, and now you have multiple months. I think it’s less stressful for everyone this way, especially the office.”

Three to 4 percent of the students accepted into Focus, however, have already declined the offer, Andrews added, noting that this figure is expected to increase by approximately 10 percent during the drop/add period.

Those who drop during the drop/add period usually do so, Andrews said, due to scheduling conflicts or because they did not get accepted into their first-choice cluster.

And though the overall Focus program saw a similar number of applicants in 2011 as it did last year, the number of applicants to each cluster varied significantly.

The Modeling in Economic and Social Sciences cluster received the most applications this year, but Exploring the Mind is usually the most popular option, Andrews said.

Both of these clusters admit 36 people, making them the two largest groups.

“You don’t know what’s going to make someone a success in advance of meeting them,” said David Banks, leader of the MESS cluster and professor of the practice of statistics. “We can’t accept everyone—we want to keep the class size small enough that people are close enough to talk.”

The addition of Dan Ariely, James B. Duke professor of behavioral economics, to

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Duke’s public policy students will soon have the chance to hit Capitol Hill for a semester-long learning experience.

A new program through the Sanford School of Public Policy will give students the opportunity to spend a semester studying and working in Washington, D.C. The program will combine a public policy internship with related coursework for a collaborative experience based on pressing national issues, Dean of Sanford Bruce Kuniholm said. It is expected to begin Spring 2013.

Senior Lauren Hendricks, president of the public policy majors union, has been part of the program’s planning process for the past year. Hendricks said she began to think about a potential Duke in D.C. program after attending a Duke in New York Arts & Media program that also combined coursework and an internship.

“As policy students, we spend most of our time discussing what goes on in D.C.,” she said. “Sanford is sort of like a think tank.... We are always looking at what you can do to change policy. The best place to see that in a practical way is Washington.”

Duke in D.C.’s theme would change every year, depending on the political climate, Kuniholm said. If the program were to take place this semester, for example, students might work in a congressional office while taking courses about debt crisis management.

Hendricks said the program will likely provide classes taught by Sanford professors, which will meet three days a week and an internship experience two days a week.

“Combine getting grades with guidance from an internship—it makes a lot of sense,” she said.

The semester would also involve a residential experience so that students could discuss public policy issues and share experiences when they return from their classes and internships in the evening, Kuniholm said.

The Duke in D.C. program is building off of Sanford’s existing relationships with D.C. agencies as well as its current faculty strengths, Kuniholm said. Sanford has always had internship opportunities in D.C., though this is the first time they will be paired with coursework.

He added that Kristin Goss, assistant SEE DUKE IN DC ON PAGE 12

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Freshmen at the Forever Duke Block Party received a free class directory, as well as free food and a chance to speak with alumni at the Forlines House. The annual event was staged by the Duke Alumni Association.

Piano man opens up shop in Durham

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Durham’s own piano man will soon play for residents in the mood for a melody.

Calling his venture the “Durham Street Piano Project,” Durham resident Tom Merrigan is raising funds through September to purchase an old upright piano on wheels that he can play in the streets of Durham.

Merrigan plans to play for residents in locations such as the American Tobacco Campus, the Durham Farmers’ Market and Five Points.

“I wanted to skip all the band stuff and just park myself where people can hear my music,” Merrigan said. “I have a lot of fun playing in my dining room, but I want to play to other people. I don’t want to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. I just like it

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“Income inequality creates a class society that is hard to reverse because the bottom will be uneducated and uninformed.”

—Professor Dan Ariely on national income inequality. See story page 4

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Conservancy angry at wind turbine bird deaths

Six birds found dead recently in Southern California’s Tehachapi Mountains were majestic golden eagles. But some bird watchers say that in an area where dozens of wind turbines slice the air they were also sitting ducks.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating to determine what killed the big raptors, and declined to divulge the conditions of the remains.

But the likely cause of death is no mystery to wildlife biologists who say they were probably clipped by the blades of some of the 80 wind turbines at the three-year-old Pine Tree Wind Farm Project, operated by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

As the Obama administration pushes to develop enough wind power to provide 20 percent of America’s energy by 2030, some bird advocates worry that the grim discovery of the eagles this month will be a far more common occurrence.

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AMMAN, Jordan — Syrian security forces laid siege to a central city Monday as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that the government of President Bashar al-Assad risks the fate of others toppled in the region this year if it doesn’t stop its deadly crackdown.

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DukeCard office to change hours of operation

by Austin Powers THE CHRONICLE

One of the few 24-hour outposts on campus will soon limit its hours, but the planned changes won’t inconvenience students—unless they happen to be resident assistants.

The DukeCard office in the West Union building will soon close its 24hour service window and limit operations to between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays, Kevin Davis, director of service management and operational integration for the Office of Information Technology, wrote in an email Monday. The office will not be open on weekends.

This change partly results from a relatively low late-night demand for replacement DukeCards, Davis said. The

new hours are expected to take effect later in the Fall, though no date has been set.

OIT staff at the Link in Perkins Library will replace cards for students on weekdays from 5 p.m. to midnight, Davis said.

“The demand for card replacement after midnight is extremely low—fewer than one per night—so students who need assistance outside Link hours will go to the RAs for temporary residencehall access cards,” he added. “Then they’ll go to the DukeCard office or the Link the next day for a new card.”

On-call RAs will check out the latenight access cards to students who are locked out of their residence halls, said SEE DUKECARD ON PAGE 6

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Instead of its daily 24-hour operating schedule, the DukeCard office will begin shifting late-night card requests to the OIT staff at the Link in Perkins Library, and begin a reduced-hour weekday schedule.

Women find more value in education than men, study finds

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When it comes to appreciating college, don’t mess with the ladies.

A recent study conducted by a group from the Pew Research Center led by director Paul Taylor found that women see greater value and benefits in their college experiences than men.

Women college graduates are more likely to say their education helped them grow and mature both personally and intellectually, according to the study. The researchers also found that approximately half of

female college students rate the value for money spent on higher education as excellent or good as opposed to only 37 percent of men.

“Everything is tilting significantly towards women,” said Jacob L. Vigdor, professor of public policy and economics.

Vigdor noted that in the last few decades the economy has shifted from primarily manufacturing to service industries.

“It’s changed from a male skill set to a female skill set,” Vigdor said. “You have to be able to talk to people and interact and provide good service to people, which is

First Year Students!

Music 49S.03 (ALP) Orchestral Music TuThu 2:50-4:05 pm Biddle 086 Join two of the Music Department’s senior professors, Larry Todd (Arts & Sciences Professor of Music) and Bryan Gilliam (Francis Fox Hill Professor in Humanities), for a study of orchestral works with special emphasis on those of Beethoven and Brahms, which will be featured in performances by the Duke Symphony Orchestra this semester. Students will also study music by J. S. Bach, Mozart, and Stravinsky while exploring the evolution of the modern orchestra, art of orchestration, and role of the conductor.

Music 121S (ALP, W) Writing about Music: Music in Renaissance England TuThu 10:05-11:20 am Biddle 086 Associate Professor Kerry McCarthy, author of William Byrd, will lead students in an exploration of music in the time of Shakespeare: song, dance, church music, street music, and the people who performed it all. Focuses on listening and small-group discussion. Open to all students, requires no previous musical experience. Will satisfy small group/seminar learning experience and writing class requirements.

not something that’s normally associated with males.”

Donna Lisker, associate dean of undergraduate education, said the pay gap between men and women has a role in the study’s findings because it leads female students to be more invested in their education.

Lisker said that this study clarifies that women need more education than men to make the same amount of money.

“There are more industries open to men and men don’t necessarily need college degrees for vocational industries,” said

senior Rewa Choudhary, chair of Baldwin Scholars and a member of The Chronicle’s independent editorial board. “Women need that Bachelor’s [degree] to be taken seriously, and that aspiration leads women to really value their education.”

Choudhary noted the academic environment provides a place for women to excel.

“I think part of [the reason for women’s satisfaction] is because women are treated as equals in the classroom,” she said. “It’s SEE EDUCATION ON PAGE 12

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This seminar provides theoretical and historical grounding for students wishing to undertake study of transnational phenomena such as empires, diasporas, globalization. We will begin with a reconsideration of classical social theories, which have mostly been framed within a single, European nation-state, and re-read them in light of phenomena such as inter-imperial warfare, cross-cultural trade, piracy and colonization, to understand the transnational conditions of production of European social theory.

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Explore current issues and debates relating to the relationship between gender, sexuality and global flows of people, labor, capital and ideas. Examine scholarship on gendered vulnerability and the welfare state; the politics of ‘terror’, security, and stereotyped masculinities; domestic labor and contemporary slavery; and the controversial debates about the connections between sex tourism, human trafficking and commercial sex work.

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Ethnography has long been the method and signature of anthropology as a discipline. As Bronislaw Malinowski put it in the 1920s, ethnography entails capturing the “imponderabilia” of everyday life by “being there”-- getting inside the skin, as it were, of a culture, a people, a place. We will engage, first, a close reading of a number of ethnographies. Secondly, consider the meta-issue of Ethnography by looking at the “writing culture” and “anthropology as cultural critique” debates of the 1980s as well as recent attempts to theorize a practice and ethics of ethnography.

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Ariely study shows bulk of firstdayofclassessoundoff national wealth held by few

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All men are created equal—but their incomes are anything but.

A recent study by Dan Ariely, James B. Duke professor of behavioral economics, found that 20 percent of Americans rake in 84 percent of the nation’s wealth, while the bottom 40 percent only owns a low 0.1 percent. The study surveyed 7,000 Americans with various levels of income and education about the optimal levels of wealth inequality in the U.S. It aimed to discern the average American’s opinion on income inequality in order to give them a voice in the national debates on tax rates and welfare reform.

According to Ariely’s article, “Building a Better America—One Wealth Quintile at a Time,” which he co-wrote with Harvard

Business school professor Michael I. Norton, most Americans do not understand how much wealth the top 20 percent possesses.

Ariely’s conclusions with regard to income variance were striking. It found that the US has one of the worst levels of income inequality—not just in the West, but in the world.

“The Gini coefficient of the United States, which is used to measure income disparity, is very high,” Ariely said. “It’s higher than that of any Western country, comparable to that of China, and close to those found in South America.”

John Aldrich, Pfizer-Pratt university professor of political science, also noted the SEE ARIELY ON PAGE 6

Although the First Day of Classes may not be met with the style of celebration that marks its counterpart, the Last Day of Classes, students on campus Monday were eager to begin the 20112012 academic year. And despite Hurricane Irene’s wind and rain this weekend, Duke welcomed back its students in perfect weather. The Chronicle’s Nguyen Tran spoke with students, faculty and staff about their expectations for the upcoming year.

“I’m very excited about all the sporting events at Duke, especially volleyball.... It’s one of the reasons why I chose Duke in the first place,”—freshman Aïssa Huysmans of Swaziland.

“The people here are very connected and the campus is gorgeous. [New York University] doesn’t have a campus, and people don’t really know each other,”–junior Zhen Gou, a transfer student from NYU, on what he sees as the most distinct difference between the two schools.

“It’s going to be a very busy year with my research and my trip to Madagascar. But it’s

also going to be a lot of fun since I’m now in Arts Theme House with all my friends,” —junior Anne Johnson, a biology major.

“I’m excited about everything actually, but if I were to pick one, I would say it would be the renovation that Duke has just finished—the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, and especially the K-4. The new 24-hour dining center there will pull everyone back to West Campus and create a much more centralized campus, which I look forward to,”—junior Anthony Lin, a neuroscience and computer science double major.

“Getting to know the Class of 2015 better.... From what I’ve seen so far, they seem to be more serious and focused than previous classes,”—Yoko Hisano, a program coordinator for the International House.

“This year I will do my rotation in a hospital, so I will be seeing people a lot less. I also cannot get too involved in other activities, so that’s a bit of a downer.

But becoming a doctor is what I want to do, and I’m also very excited to be getting closer to my goal,”—Asishana Osho, a third-year medical student.

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PIANO MAN from page 1 American Tobacco Campus and hearing gritty blues piano,” Merrigan wrote on his fundraising website Kickstarter. “Or, dancing to ragtime at Five Points. Or, nodding your head to boogie-woogie at the Farmer’s Market.”

Merrigan, an architect for the downtown firm Center Studio Architecture, said his company is committed to downtown revitalization.

Merrigan sees his piano project as an extension of that work.

“Something like this can really make space within space,” he said. “You don’t have to have a venue like a stage. The idea is to take a very general space and then modify it how you would like. People may not realize that Durham is full of space to modify and turn into spaces for dance and music and for people to gather.”

Members of Downtown Durham Inc. have invested more than $1,000 collectively into the project, President of DDI William Kalkhof said, who decided to back Merrigan financially after hearing about the project from a co-worker. Kalkhof said he knew immediately that it had the potential to add something positive to the city.

“It is one thing to have someone to play guitar on the street,” Kalkhof said. “It’s a whole new level of coolness to get a piano out there.”

Downtown Durham has changed significantly since Kalkhof became president of DDI in 1993, he said. He added that the key to revitalizing the area is to combine big projects, such as the Durham Farmers’ Market and the Durham Performing Arts Center, with smaller projects such as the Durham Street Piano Project.

“Now we have a downtown with memora-

ble experiences like the theater, the ballpark.

And with the addition of Tom’s street theater to the mix, it’s a whole lot more likely that Duke students and staff will have reason to come downtown,” he said.

Merrigan said he has been “embraced” by the community in a show of support.

“In a bigger sense, I think it really speaks to Durham and Durham’s very proactive love of public art and local projects,” he said.

Junior Alex Swain, Duke Student Government vice president for Durham and regional affairs, grew up in Durham and said the project is at the heart of what the city represents.

“Street performance is not something that I see a lot in Durham and I think we could use some more,” she said. “Live music can change the mood of a normal space, and it brings a lot more business downtown and makes people more excited about going.”

Michael Goodman, vice president of real estate for Capitol Broadcasting Company, which owns the 16-acre American Tobacco Campus, is another major contributor to Mer-

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Durham resident Tom Merrigan is hoping his fundraising ventures will allow him to play piano around the city.

the faculty for the MESS cluster may have, for example, encouraged more freshman applicants to MESS. Five fewer clusters are being offered this year as compared to last year’s 15, Andrews said. Nine are continuations of former clusters, with a new cluster called the Knowledge in the Service of Society.

This fluctuation is a direct and natural result of changes in faculty members’ interest in the program and their research.

“Not everyone gets asked to teach in a Focus program, and when you’re asked it’s a bit of an honor,” Banks said. “You have to teach anyway, so you may as well teach for

rigan’s project. Goodman wrote in an email that he is excited to see Merrigan’s piano hit the streets.

“Projects like this really make you appreciate how special Durham really is,” he said.

“Both individuals and companies came together to help someone fulfill their dream with the only payoff being something the entire community can enjoy.”

Due to fundraising guidelines outlined on the Kickstarter website, Merrigan will not be able to tap into his funds until late September or early October. Merrigan said he is planning to celebrate the success of the fundraiser by hosting a happy hour at the local bar sometime in late September.

In the end, Merrigan hopes the Durham community enjoys the free-spirited nature of his project as much as he does.

“You can dance if you want, you can just walk by or you can ignore it,” he said. “You can really do whatever you want. This project is more free, spontaneous and family-oriented—and that’s what I like.” the Focus Program.”

The recession has prevented clusters from taking international field trips, as some did in the past. In a sign of an improving economy, however, this year’s budget for domestic trips will be a little bit higher than last year’s, said Dean of Academic Affairs Lee Baker.

And the program is taking measures to cut costs but improve the student experience as well, Baker added. There is now, for example, only one vendor—Bon Appetit— for the program’s weekly dinners. Classes and dinners are going to be supplemented, however, by a new mentorship program this year.

“We really expect [the Focus students] to lead and be our intellectual leaders over the course of the four years,” Baker said.

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ARIELY from page 4 problem’s severity. “[Wealth inequality] is a very large problem and not just an economic one, but one that is eroding the social fabric of the nation,” he wrote in an email.

It will not only take substantial effort to motivate the public to advocate for change, but also significant amounts of time for the government to agree on policy changes, Aldrich said. For example, ending the Bush tax cuts— a step that would help reduce the wealth divide—would likely take a long time in Congress due to the issue’s polarizing nature.

Moreover, income inequality is detrimental to a democratic society because it prevents the poorest citizens from making educated decisions, Ariely said.

“Income inequality creates a class society that is hard to reverse because the bottom will be uneducated and uninformed,” he said.

While Ariely believes that a short-term fix would be higher taxes on the wealthy, a long-term solution would include providing better education to the poor. He predicted that the next presidential election will largely revolve around this issue.

“How much tax we collect and how much

benefit for the people with lower income we are going to provide will set up the economic environment for the future,” he said.

A degree of income inequality can even be observed on campus at Duke.

“If you look around, you can obviously see that some students come from families that earn much more than others,” Sophomore Jason Ni said. “[However], all students are offered the same Duke experience and opportunities to engage in the Duke community.”

Ariely also believes that it is up to the public—especially people of low income—to be less complacent.

“The interesting thing about Americans,” Ariely said,” is that they believe in social mobility. [Whatever social class] you are born [into], you can get out of it.”

While some cases do occur, however, Ariely added that the belief in social mobility also allows people to accept higher levels of social inequality. He is optimistic due to a general consensus among both Republicans and Democrats that a fairer society is desirable.

“Democratic and Republican differences are incredibly small when regarding this issue, which leads me to suspect that deep down, people believe that our society should be more equal,” Ariely said.

DUKECARD from page 3 Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for Housing, Dining and Residence Life.

“We’re programming the cards so they will work until 3:00 p.m. the following day,” Gonzalez said. “All this card does is allow access to your hall.

It doesn’t work for dining, it doesn’t work for ePrint—all it does is unlock your own front door.”

Some students said the limitations on the access cards could potentially pose problems.

“What if you need to print something that night? I don’t like that,” sophomore Amy Lin said. “I guess the upside is it will encourage people to not lose their card. I’ve lost my card six times—I just got a new one today.”

Gonzalez noted that the access cards will not be available until the DukeCard office’s hours change.

“We have it set up, we have the cards, and we’ve talked throughout the process with our team, but we’re not going to implement this until OIT goes through with their plans,” he said.

Davis said the reasons for changing the DukeCard office’s hours are part of

an effort to better meet customer needs and integrate DukeCard operations with OIT. He added that no DukeCard employees will lose their jobs.

OIT expects to incur minimal costs from expanding the production of DukeCards to the Link, Davis said, noting that the convenience of consolidating operations, however, will offset such costs.

Although word of the plans has not been widespread, student reaction is muted.

“People will adapt. As long as they can get into their dorm, I think they’ll be fine,” freshman Joe Provenzano said.

For RAs, this upcoming change is just another shift in duties this year.

HDRL now requires RAs to be oncall for 24 hours during weekends, and weekday on-call shifts have been extended, said junior Elyn Stenzel, an RA in Blackwell residence hall.

“RAs are already on an on-call system, so [the access card policy] would just be an added responsibility,” said senior Ming Jiu Li. a second-year RA. “[HDRL] just needs to make sure the RAs know the details of this new policy, so they can inform their residents.”

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CREOLE Elementary Creole 1FL Jacques Pierre MTTHF 8:45-9:45 Languages 312 Elementary Haitian Creole, or Kreyòl, provides practice in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing the language, culturally contextualized through units on health care, Haitian women’s rights issues, and unpaid child servants (restavèk). Taught in Haitian Creole.

No pre-requisite.

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Allen 304I

Elementary Haitian Creole 2 helps students develop speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills in Haitian Creole. Exposure to different aspects of Haitian culture through films, storytelling, games, music, and proverbs.

Pre-requisite: Creole I, or French 199. Taught in Haitian Creole.

Intermediate Creole 63 CZ FL Jacques Pierre MWF 3:05-4:05 Helps students move beyond “survival skills” in Creole to more complex social interactions and expressions of analysis and opinion in understanding, speaking, writing, reading, contextualized within a broad range of issues such as rural life in Haiti, religion, frenchified Creole vs popular Creole. Taught in Haitian Creole.

FRENCH French 106S.01

Approaches to French Literature and Theory Professor Anne-Gaëlle Saliot MW 1:15-2:30 Perkins 2-071 ALP, CCI, FL, W An initiation to French literature and thought that aims at building an awareness of the historical and cultural contexts of thinking and writing in France and French-speaking countries from the 16th to the 21st century, and of the interrelations between literature and other forms of discourse (philosophy, visual culture, sciences, politics). Authors may include Montaigne, Montesquieu, Racine, Diderot, Balzac, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Sartre, Césaire, Duras, Perec and Glissant.

LIT 132S.03, VMS 132S.01

Les Misérables; the Invention of Paris Visiting Professor Pascale Casanova WF 11:40-12:55 Perkins 2-065 Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables (1862) is a world in itself: adventure novel, suspense novel, melodrama, historical novel, political novel, novel on revolution, social novel, pedagogical novel, novel engagé. The seminar centers on the way Hugo invented and developed the Paris myth, inseparably political and literary. If, as Walter Benjamin claims, Paris became the capital city of the 19th century, the hypothesis of this seminar will be that Victor Hugo in Les Misérables invented it, and made it a literaturecity.

French 171D

Flaubert’s Brain; Neurohumanities ALP CCI Professor Deborah Jenson M: 2:50-4:05 Old Chem 116 Wed: Discussions in French & English 2:504:05 Lang 109 & Soc Sci 105 The fiction of 19th century French writer Gustave Flaubert includes the masterpieces Madame Bovary, A Simple Heart, and The Sentimental Education. Using a “realist” representational technique, Flaubert conveyed the cognitive, affective, and somatic experience of individual characters in their social, material, and historical contexts with extraordinary detail and clarity. Flaubert’s fiction will be our portal to areas in which both literature and social and cognitive neuroscience have strong stakes, including consciousness, memory, empathy, and imitation. LIT 154CD.001

French 210.01

Citizen Godard Professor Anne-Gaëlle Saliot M 4:25-6:55 Languages 305 Explores the complex interactions of poetics and politics in the provocative films of Jean-Luc Godard, his filmography, from the French New Wave through the experimental phase of the Dziga Vertov group, to the recent Histoire(s) du cinéma and Film socialisme. Drawing on literary and philosophical texts (Merleau-Ponty, Althusser, Deleuze, Rancière), the course situates Godard’s work within its intellectual and political contexts, investigating how developments in French culture and thought since 1950 have been reflected in – and sometimes anticipated by – Godard’s films.

Taught in English with French preceptorial available.3AMI 203.01, VMS 205.01 ALP

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French 240.01

Italian 132.01

Premodern Times: A User’s Manual

Mafia in the Movies!

ALP CCI FL Professor Helen Solterer T: 4:25-6:55 Languages 305 How has the premodern informed critical thought? The seminar examines major, early works in romance traditions as perennial objects of thought that have shaped the history of theory.

Texts drawn from the rich spectrum of French, Provençal, Italian, Spanish, and Latin.

Introduces participants to premodern writing: narrative, lyric, allegory, theatrical and didactic, across a range of criticism. MED-REN 240.01,

LIT 240.01 French 256.01

Pierre Bourdieu’s Regles de l’Art ALP CZ CCI FL Visiting Professor Pascale Casanova W: 4:25-6:55 Perkins 2-088 In Pierre Bourdieu’s Règles de l’Art. Genèse et structure du champ littéraire (1992), he uses a reading of Gustave Flaubert’s Education sentimentale to attempt to fully explain and clarify one of the key concepts of his own work, that of “field.” Taking the example of the literary microcosm of Flaubert’s 19th-century France, Bourdieu develops his central hypothesis that literary theory all too often forgets about history.

HIST 256.01, ICS 280B.01

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Intro to Italian Literature Martin Repinecz TTH 10:05-11:20 West Duke 08A It’s 2011; that means Italy is currently celebrating its 150th anniversary as a unified state. This unique moment is a compelling opportunity to study the history of modern Italian literature, by examining Italy’s gradual movement toward Unification—Risorgimento in the 18th and 19th centuries. Explores how Italy’s fledgling sense of national identity continued to evolve in the context of late (and uneven) industrialization, Fascism, the World Wars, and the economic miracle. Movements and periods include Enlightenment, Romanticism, Verismo, Decadentismo, Avant-Garde, Neorealism, Postmodernism. ALP CCI FL

Professor Roberto Dainotto TTH 2:50-4:05 Languages 305 ALP CCI A study of the mafia and, by extension, of Italy’s “dark heart,” in its historical, social, economic, cultural, and political dimensions. Uses a wide range of films on the mafia, from documentary to comedy, to consider what are the possibilities and the limits, inherent to cinema, to represent cultural and social realities, but also to act upon them. In English with preceptorial in Italian available.

Lit112K.01 Theatre 172A.01 Vis Stds 126A.01 AMI 111E.01 Italian 144.01

Sex, Death, and a Little Love ALP, CCI, CZ, R Prof Martin Eisner TTH 11:40-12:55 Lang 305 Ten Florentines, in the Plague’s shadow, telling a hundred stories about human relationships, wit, religion, tragedy, happiness, and the power of language. In English with preceptorial in Italian available. MEDREN 149.01, ICS

182H.01 Italian 202S CZ CCI

SPANISH Spanish 142S.01

Great Galician & Spanish Novels: A Tale of Two Nations ALP CCI FL Professor José Rodríguez-García TTH 10:05-11:20 Old Chemistry 123 In the Spanish state’s northwestern corner lies a vibrant small nation, Galicia, the most geographically and culturally eccentric among the so-called “Seven Celtic Nations.”

In the 19th century, a consciousness of regional/ national self-differentiation was partially awakened. Since then, Galicianborn authors have contributed some of the most innovative and sophisticated narrative works produced within Spain’s territory, whether they were written in Castilian/ Spanish or in the indigenous romance language. Examines works set in the city of Madrid, by Galicians and non-Galicians, and the tensions between center and periphery; urban and rural life; modernization and tradition; and conformity and dissent.

Dante and the Afterlife of the Book: From the Digits of Scribes to the Digital

Spanish 181S.01

Professor Martin Eisner T: 4:25-6:55 Perkins 2-070

ALP CCI Professor Claudia Milian MW 2:50-4:05 Languages 208

Uses Dante to intervene in current debates about the history of the book and media by investigating both the representations of books in Dante’s works and the afterlives of Dante’s own works in various media: how Dante’s Comedy and Vita nuova have been transformed by medieval scribes and illuminators, early modern printers and woodcutters, modern philologists and engravers, translators, composers, filmmakers, cartoonists and web designers, painters and poets. By observing the changes these works undergo in different media environments, we aim not only to reflect on the current anxieties about the death of the book that has accompanied the birth of the Kindle and iPad, but also to reconsider the many possible meanings of Dante’s own works. In English with preceptorial available in Italian.

MEDREN 200S.01

Reading Latina/Latino History Through Literature

Examines the imaginative act of writing— fiction, poetry, and playwriting—a study of the literary portrayals of historical subjects, facts, events, and the social knowledge of the past, and how these means question the positioning of Latinas and Latinos within the American cultural terrain. How is nonfiction fictionally processed in contemporary works by U.S. Latinas and Latinos? If facts speak for themselves, how do “Latino” facts—molded by struggles for civil and human rights and U.S. acts of foreign intervention—speak, and under which geopolitical contexts? How does the novelist (not the historian) orient readers toward an understanding of social reality? ICS 131GS LIT 162ZS.01

LSGS 181S.01

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PUBPOL 264S.02 National Security Decision Making for Leaders TH 2:00-4:50, Nichols Course explores the delicate art of national security decision-making through deeper understanding of national security apparatus, analysis of elements of national power (examination of historical examples of application), and application of analysis to assess merits of various approaches to national security decision-making. Taught at UNC. PUBPOL 264S.03 Comparative Health Systems WF 1:15-2:30, Taylor The interaction of historical, political, economic, cultural, legal/ethical, and sociological factors in the organization and operation of health care systems. Emphasis on how cultural values penetrate the social institutions (politics, economics) that determine health care policies and their reception by societal members. Effects of social and technological change on health care systems, comparing their effects across societies with differing histories, cultural values, and economic systems. Major focus on United States, England, Sweden, and other Western societies.

PUBPOL 264S.30 Health Care in Developing Countries W 6:00-8:30, Martin-Staple This course examines current health sector and development policies and reform in lower income countries. The World Bank is leading a global effort to reform health sector infrastructures. We explore the forces driving these policies, reform strategies and the role of donors and governments in setting health policy. Students will gain an understanding of international health policy theory and how health systems are structured. Applying inter-disciplinary theory and tools, we examine the economic, epidemiological and political forces currently driving international reform and analyze their impact on the health sector. We examine the relative influence of key donor organizations such as the World Bank, World Health Organization, USAID and UNICEF as well as the role of non-government organizations and governments.

PUBPOL 270.01/ETHICS 211.01/HST 211.01 History of Poverty This course investigates poverty and poverty policy in the United States from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. A particular focus this semester is on the ways universities have been involved in documenting the existence and persistence of poverty and how research has been used to find solutions to poverty. We will also explore the ways student activism, advocacy, and service has addressed the needs of the poor. Among the questions we will be asking are: what should and can universities do about poverty? What do they do? How is what they do aligned with the needs of people and communities? How could they be better aligned?

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‘Football Gameday’ an incomplete pass This Saturday marks the be- character. As long as Tailgate ginning of a new era in Duke remained under the adminisfootball. After canceling the de- tration’s purview, student reckcades-old Tailgate tradition last lessness and irresponsibility November, the administration had sanction. is introducing Football GameBy ushering in Football day, a new event Gameday, the editorial aimed at spiritadministration building rather is signaling than uninhibited intoxication. that Duke does not condone The new model will entail such behavior. This is a crustudent group-sponsored bar- cial move as the University becues around West Campus attempts not only to reinstate residential quads and a more Duke’s good name but also restrained alcohol policy. to address the fundamental The administration has causes of the Tailgate fiasco done well in aggressively spear- within campus culture. heading this change. Tailgate Moving the event to a comwas a dangerous and frivolous munal area like Main West practice—a blight on Duke’s will promote a more balanced reputation when a minor was mindset. Limiting alcohol to found unconscious in a Porta one six-pack per person, with Potty after a Tailgate celebra- no glass or common distribution last Fall. But more im- tion, will ensure that drinkportant than reputation is ing is a smaller component

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of Football Gameday—not its main appeal. Again, as stressed repeatedly by Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek and Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, Football Gameday will shift the focus to football itself.

We prefer Football Gameday to Tailgate, but the new model still disadvantages the same students consistently marginalized by the social scene.

Football Gameday suffers from one of the same defects as Tailgate—a hostility toward independents. Only registered student groups, like fraternities and selective living groups, will be able to reserve a tent and grill. Even if independents are welcome to socialize with these groups, they are barred from having a space of their own.

The exclusivity of Tailgate will live on in Football Gameday.

The administration could have avoided these pitfalls by vigorously seeking student input. The administration has clearly taken a top-down approach, not only in shutting down Tailgate but also in designing its replacement. Many of the decisions regarding Football Gameday occurred over the summer, necessitating that only select student leaders be consulted. Of the small group of students that Moneta and Wasiolek worked with, three prominent voices belonged to Duke Student Government President Pete Schork, DSG External Chief of Staff Chris Brown and Interfraternity Council President Zach Prager.

Despite their good intentions, these students themselves belong to a narrow subsection of the Duke population: white

fraternity members. Between top administrators and a few participating students, the core student voice remained mostly silent in this process.

We commend the administration and DSG officials in devising a pre-football event that is more safe, wholesome and proper than its predecessor. And we have confidence that it will ultimately be more enjoyable. But a more difficult challenge awaits: to make Football Gameday the most inclusive and egalitarian celebration of Duke football yet, one that harmoniously blends the Duke values of spirit, community and fun. Next Saturday and many Saturdays to come, we encourage both students and administrators to meet this challenge.

The tradition is still young.

Let’s make it a great one.

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hen you read these lines, 1.4 billion As we honor the memory of the innocent victims Muslims around the world, including of these despicable attacks through panels, conthe ones on Duke’s campus, will be cel- ferences, prayer services and more, I hope we will ebrating one of the two most imnot waste too much time dwelling portant religious festivals in the on asking each other “What hapIslamic calendar: Eid Al-Fitr. This pened?” or “Who did it?” or “Why festival marks the end of the holy did it happen?” We have been there month of Ramadan and is always a and done that. Maybe we did it way very big deal in all Muslim societies more than we needed to. regardless of their ethnic, racial or I hope we will spend a lot more sectarian backgrounds. Hundreds time asking and reflecting on how of millions of people start their Eid abdullah antepli we, as an American society and day by rushing to big squares or gigovernment, have changed in reant mosques to perform their Eid the land of delights sponse to 9/11 and post-9/11 realiand wonders prayers, followed by exchanging ties. It is time to look in the mirror, peace greetings and a lot of hugindividually and collectively, and ging in a joyful manner. The greetask: Who have we become? How ing of the day is “Eid Mubarak!” It literally means did we perform in these last 10 years? What kind “Happy/Blessed Eid!” This is a very helpful Mus- of a generation did we raise in the post 9/11 relim icebreaker to know today. Please feel free to alities? And more, try to identify our pluses (of try it with your Muslim friends and colleagues on which there are certainly many) and minuses (of campus. which there are undeniably many more) as we The individual and collective joy of Eid is worth plan to move ahead. What did we reveal about witnessing, especially in Muslim-majority societies. ourselves when anger and frustration took over?

Every Muslim society developed its own unique It is time to stop pointing fingers at others and and beautiful way of celebrating Eid Al-Fitr, but prepare our own report cards through honest checking every member of the extended family’s and candid self-evaluations and self-auditing of well-being, visiting elders and honoring them and the last 10 years as we go approach this 10th anspoiling the children to the fullest extent possible niversary. with tons of gifts, candies and allowances are very More importantly, I hope the events around common Eid rituals across the board. the 10th anniversary of 9/11 will not be another Muslims celebrate their spiritual, mental, push for chauvinism and exclusive patriotism in emotional and social achievements of the month American society, both of which are already on of Ramadan during this festival. Practicing Mus- the rise. The blessed memories of the victims of lims take on various physical and spiritual disci- 9/11 should not be abused to score cheap politiplines to force themselves to slow down and re- cal points or misused to distract Americans from flect on their lives in this month-long devotion discussing the real issues that we face 10 years afeffort. Through these deep intentional reflec- ter these barbaric acts took place. Reveling in this tions, self-evaluations and self-auditing, Muslims kind of dialogue would only make the evil forces are expected to achieve reconciliation in three behind 9/11 happier and confirm their success. main areas: reconciling their relationship with We are better than that and we certainly can do God, with themselves and finally with every one better than that. else in their lives. As they reflect on their past, Our ability to harvest as much common sense, they identify their pluses and minuses in all these wisdom and compassion as possible through relationships. They are invited to offer heartfelt these honest reflections will determine where we thanks for the pluses and seek forgiveness and will be, as a nation, in the next decade or so. Our guidance for the minuses. They are asked to de- increased self-awareness through the candid selfvelop strategies and become more determined auditing of the last 10 years will make us more denot to repeat past mistakes as they move forward termined to take the required steps in the right in their lives. direction.

This is a providential and timely internal prepaEid Mubarak, my Blue Devil friends. May the ration for all of us here in the U.S., as we are about spirit of Eid enable us to prepare ourselves to this to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11 in promisingly difficult fall semester. Eid Mubarak! less than two weeks. We are much in need of the spirit of self-evaluation and reconciliation as we Abdullah Antepli is the Muslim Chaplain and an remember this heinous and tragic terrorist attack, adjunct faculty of Islamic Studies. His column runs evwhich changed our nation in many different ways. ery other Tuesday.

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t the start of such an impor- sonable expense. Smaller cities—like tant year—across the globe and Durham—however, lack the populahere in the US—it might seem tion density to provide the same quality strange to inaugurate of service at an affordour first column with a able cost. In an area of local issue. But as the over 260,000 residents, old proverb says, “Even DATA boasts only 15,000 the simplest things are daily users of its bus systhe most startling.” This tem. Even though DurNovember, Durham ham County spends over residents will have the $15 million to operate opportunity to vote yes 52 buses and 46 vans william reach its or no on a simple quesalong a limited number tion: Should local taxes of routes, less than onehead-to-head be raised to support fifteenth of its residents republican public transportation? utilize it regularly. Even Originally proposed by with cash infusions from Durham County Commissioners, the outside institutions, such as Duke’s half-percent hike in the sales tax that $375,000 contribution to the upstart aims to increase funding for the Dur- costs associated with the Bull City Conham Area Transportation Authority nector, outside funding sources have (DATA) will be placed on the ballot. done little to boost ridership. There It is hoped that an increase in fund- simply aren’t enough people using the ing will expand the size, and conse- service to justify the taxpayer expense quently citizen utilization of the Dur- constituted by the tax increase. ham transit system.

Raising taxes in an attempt to exAnd come Nov. 8, I will walk to my pand ridership is no way to solve Durlocal voting precinct and pull the lever ham’s public transportation issues and against the tax increase for an impor- only masks the underlying reasons for tant reasons: Increasing spending fails DATA’s lackluster success. Rather than to address fundamental problems in- increasing the size of DATA, Durham herent in Durham’s transit system and city officials should look at ways to will do more harm than good in the make it a leaner, more productive inDurham community. stitution. Trimming service on underPlease don’t misunderstand me— utilized bus routes, boosting fares, and public transportation can be a great as- reducing the amount of newly hired set to the community and provide qual- employees to reduce extraneous perity, inexpensive mobility for its citizens. sonnel would provide the same finanThe concept is a laudable one which cial effect on DATA as a tax increase, deserves public attention and respect. and still allow money to remain in In practice, however, public transpor- the local economy and the taxpayer’s tation systems often fail to live up to pocket. their expectations or justify their costs.

As stakeholders in the Duke and A great deal of public money and re- Durham communities, it is our responsources are often pumped into an inef- sibility as Duke students to make sure fective or underutilized system, damp- our local government acts in the best ening the local economy and depriving interest of all its citizens. I believe our the local government and its citizens of local government can be both efficient much-needed cash. and effective in delivering services to The effectiveness of public trans- those dependent on public transporportation depends on the population tation. Raising the sales tax is simply a density of the city which it serves. In temporary fix to a long-term problem. areas with high population densities, like Washington D.C. or New York City, William Reach is a Trinity junior and local governments are able to serve res- the president of Duke College Republicans. idents with relative efficiency at a rea- His column runs every other Tuesday.

lettertotheeditor Duke Dining mirrors Obama Administration I was disappointed to discover today that Duke Dining has forbidden Jimmy John’s from accepting food points before 7 p.m. in an attempt to provide a school-aided crutch for on-campus dining. Nonetheless, I still ordered a Vito sandwich on my own dime and paid with another failing currency.

This marks the continuation of a disturbing policy wherein Duke Dining systematically destroys the concept of free-market capitalism in order to support their failing on-campus institutions. By raising fees on dining and hitting off-campus competitors with regulations that (to quote Steve Wynn) are a “wet blanket to business,”

Duke Dining seems to be taking a page from our similarly anti-capitalism, probailout commander-in-chief.

Duke Dining is hardly different from the failing car companies and toxic-asset-plagued financial institutions that Barack Obama threw a rescue line to in 2008. From the unionized employees to the overvalued “assets,” on-campus dining is the mirror image of the poorly managed “too big to fail” corporations that were rehabilitated with taxpayer dollars.

I look forward to the day when freemarket enterprise can reign at Duke and Obama has finished his imitation of Soviet Russia.

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ver the course of the semester, too high or too low?” and instead ask “Is Will Reach, president of Duke this particular expenditure a good use of College Republicans, and I, taxpayer money?” In the case of this pubco-president of Duke lic transportation tax, that Democrats, will use this question can be answered space to remind Duke with a resounding yes! students and commuDurham’s system is already nity members why votgood, but because of neting and politics matter, work effects, the more that and to present current routes are connected and contentious issues from that service is expanded, a bi-partisan perspective. the more the existing elena botella Where better to start routes become used—the than a 2011 Durham benefits keep compoundhead-to-head County ballot initiative ing until you reach a point democrat that directly impacts evwhere people find it so ery Duke student: a refconvenient that they free erendum to raise sales tax in Durham themselves from their car entirely. by half of a percentage point for use in It is worth mentioning that the benpublic transportation? Not only is this efits of public transportation are shared initiative good for Durham as a whole, throughout the populace, from low-inyou—as a Duke community member— come Durham residents who rely on pubparticularly stand to benefit. lic transportation as their primary means The strengths of this transportation tax of transit, to corporations who can betare clear—Durham and Orange County ter lure talented employees concerned are both trying to pass these ballot initia- about the commute, but especially to tives, to provide the capital to finance Duke students with an eye on exploring construction of two different types of rail the community. services between Chapel Hill, Durham, Believe or not, there is a world beyond Cary, Raleigh and parts of Wake County, 9th and Main Streets. I would particularly to expand bus service hours and to add be excited about a simplified route to Raroutes. These improvements to the Tri- leigh, home of a world-class art museum, angle’s public transportation network will tons of concerts and great food. Even if help the region push forward as one of you have a car on campus, it is neverthethe fastest growing regions in the United less worthwhile to consider never having States, and will allow it to jump some of to pick a designated driver and avoiding the biggest hurdles that might impact or the hassles of parking. Since it’s the beslow growth, like sprawl and congestion. ginning of a school year, I’ll speak directly An intuitive and useful public trans- to freshmen for a moment: Duke can be portation system is a boon to the eco- an insular place, and if you never venture nomic growth, livability and environmen- beyond walking distance of campus, you tal sustainability of cities. A report by the may never get a break from some pecuEconomic Development Research Group liarly Duke mindsets. found that for every $1 invested in pubPublic transit is an incredibly valulic transportation, the short term value able shared resource. You don’t have to added to gross domestic product is $1.80; be community-minded to endorse the this doesn’t even account for the ways in public transit tax, but in doing so, you’ll which the existence of public transporta- not only end up with a great way to get tion networks shape the ways cities are around the region, but also add value to growing over the long-term, improving the community at large. We save money property values and drawing in employ- and oil (and ideally time) when we travel ers. The same report found that over the collectively. Will you hop on board? long term, each $1 billion investment in public transportation added a whopping Elena Botella is a Trinity junior and the $3.5 billion to GDP. It’s time that we stop co-president of Duke Democrats. Her column asking blanket questions like “Are taxes runs every other Tuesday.

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The Sanford School of Public Policy’s new program will allow students to study and work in Washington, D.C., for one semester.

professor of public policy and political science, will serve as director of the initiative. Kuniholm praised Goss for her creative research and teaching skills as well as her extensive work experience in D.C. Goss said she has been away from Duke for the summer and has not been present for most of the recent planning meetings. She therefore declined to comment further.

Hendricks said that while working on a proposal for the D.C. program, she reached out to Goss to gauge her interest.

Goss will be involved in future development meetings, Kuniholm said. These meetings will work on solidifying partnerships with D.C. agencies, defining the curriculum and finalizing student housing.

The program will most likely be conducted through both Sanford and the Global Education Office for Undergraduates. This will mark the first U.S. based program developed since 2009, when the office officially expanded its mission to include domestic initiatives and changed its name from the Office of Study Abroad to its current name, wrote Director Margaret Riley in an email Monday.

“It will enhance our domestic offerings with a program that will be of great interest to public policy students and others,” Riley said.

Although Sanford will not be the sole overseer of the program, it is possible that Duke in D.C. might only be open to students pursuing the public policy studies major, Kuniholm said, noting that the final decision on who can participate has yet to be made. One factor administrators will consider is student demand.

University administrators have conducted surveys, which have demonstrated a wide interest among Duke students for a program in D.C., Kuniholm said. Public policy student who do participate will likely have the ability to fulfill some core major requirements while in D.C. Hendricks added that even though the planning and fundraising for the program is not yet complete, she believes Duke in D.C. will be a positive asset to students’ education.

“I know that if students take advantage of this, it’s going to be a really collaborative experience unlike anything else you’re going to get at Sanford right now,” she said. “I would have done it if it was in place when I was a junior.”

EDUCATION from page 3 become very commonplace for women to answer questions and be on top of their work. I’m in [the Pratt School of Engineering] and I’ve always felt treated equally.”

Vigdor also noted the rise in female university faculty may contribute to greater female satisfaction with college.

“There are female role models, which would make a difference,” he said. “I think that gives [female students] a different kind of mentality when looking at what others have pursued for themselves.”

The study also found that women across all racial and ethnic groups are more likely to be college educated.

“These universities 50 years ago were almost entirely white male dominated and it’s almost like they haven’t clued themselves in to the fact that there was competition and these people are setting themselves up for failure,” said Vigdor.

Lisker pointed out that although some of the findings resonate with Duke students, not all the conclusions about college in general may apply to Duke in particular.

“Highly selective colleges like Duke have such a low rate of admittance that all of our students, male and female, are very invested in their experience at Duke,” Lisker said.

Regardless of the dynamic at Duke, Vigdor noted the trends indicated by this study will continue to shape the state of education and the workplace.

“It’s going to be very interesting to see how this all plays out, because the differences among college students today are going to make a huge difference in the next 20 years,” he said.

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Why you should give field hockey a chance I recently discovered something that shook the roots of my sporting beliefs.

At first I was mildly embarrassed, dismayed and misled by my Rocky Mountain upbringing.

I grew up without knowledge of a game that had taken hold on the Ryan distant East Coast, and had struggled to spread west of the Mississippi. When I got to Duke, I used words like “boring” and “lame” to

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hide my ignorance of this fine sport.

But an invitation from a friend and a free Sunday afternoon combined to twist my fate and open my eyes to something I never saw coming.

My discovery? Field hockey is awesome.

Seriously, on a scale of one-to-spectacular, field hockey falls at about an eight. And unlike lacrosse—another sport unknown to the majority of us Westerners—it’s easy to understand. Don’t get me wrong, lacrosse is great to watch and has all the elements of a top-tier spectator sport, but there’s too much going on. After watching

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Ryan Claxton may not have grown up a field hockey fan but he has become a convert after watching the Blue Devils play.

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lacrosse for three years now, I still don’t understand some of the major concepts, let alone the more intricate workings of the game.

Field hockey is more straightforward. The game is low-scoring, but there’s a noticeable rhythm and flow to the action. There’s no excess of fouls or extraneous rules that need to be enforced every ten seconds.

It looks like soccer with sticks. Less whistle-blowing means more play.

That’s not to say there isn’t still the appropriate level of physicality that a sport requires to be spectator-friendly. Not necessarily all-out bodily harm as you might see in football, but it’s undoubtedly a contact sport. Players routinely put themselves in harm’s way, and the spectator can appreciate the occasional collision or penalty corner.

Ah yes, that brings us to the real gift of field hockey. The penalty corner is quite possibly the most exciting play in all of sports. I’d rank it right next to a penalty shot in ice hockey and a kickoff in football.

Basically, the attacking team gets a free centering pass from the corner, which it can then turn into a shot on goal with two major stipulations. The first is a restriction on the attacking team that the ball must travel outside the scoring circle and then be brought back into the circle before a shot may be taken. This is generally done in a matter of seconds.

The second obstacle is actually a physical obstacle—the opposing team. Five defenders, including the goalkeeper, must line up behind the end line at least five meters away from the ball. The spectator value comes from the fact that most teams choose to start their defenders inside the goal itself. Then, when the ball is played by the attackers, they essentially charge the shot with the reckless abandon of Clay Matthews.

The first time I saw such an event, I thought those defenders were clinically insane. After watching a few more, I still do. Can you say exhilarating?

The penalty corner is so dangerous that field hockey’s international governing body has instituted a rule that the first shot resulting from a penalty corner may not exceed the height of the backboard, about 18 inches high, when it crosses the goal line.

To my knowledge, no other sport is so dangerous that restrictions have to be made on the height at which a ball can travel.

At this point you’re probably asking yourself where you too can expose yourself to such a fantastic event! The answer can be found among the lovely red brick buildings on East Campus. Nestled between Whole Foods and Bell Tower is the best-kept secret of Duke athletics.

These girls are good, really good. And they’re motivated.

Over the past 12 months the Duke field hockey program has experienced a near-total face lift. Many of the core players remain, and assistant coach Jarred Martin returns for his fifth season. Aside from that, the word of the day around Williams Field is “new.”

New playing surface, new locker rooms, new head coach, new system, new attitude.

Much like when David Cutcliffe took over the football program three and a half years ago, head coach Pam Bustin has injected new energy into a program that seemed down on itself in recent years. “Giddy” would most appropriately describe the attitude of the seniors at Media Day last week, as if they had just been released from field hockey jail.

“It’s been surprisingly so easy,” senior Tara Jennings said of the transition to a new coaching staff. “And when you have such enthusiastic coaches and an enthusiastic team ready for the change... then it makes it a really easy transition. I think that everyone can say that we were really ready for this change and this transition, so we couldn’t really ask for anything more.”

These Blue Devils put all that enthusiasm on display last Sunday, when I was introduced to the wonderful world of field hockey. With a 6-1 trouncing of Wake Forest in an exhibition game, they certainly caught my attention. In my humble opinion, if you dominate another ACC team from start to finish you must be doing something right.

I was recently asked to name a team to watch on campus this fall. Luckily I made this discovery in time to give my answer, so jump on the bandwagon— I’m driving.

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Duke topples Paladins for first season win

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After giving up three goals in its opening regular season game, the Duke defense was on a mission last night against Furman. By posting a shutout on road, the revamped back line Duke 1 the got its first win as a unit.

Furman 0 Lifted by a 16th-minute goal by sophomore defender Sebastian Ibeagha, the Blue Devils defeated the Paladins 1-0 last night at Stone Soccer Stadium in Greenville, S.C. “We had been working on set pieces with Sebastian because he’s so talented and can really jump,� Duke head coach John Kerr said. “Andrew Morales sent a great corner in and Sebastian met it to slam it home.�

Delivering the key corner, the freshman Morales rewarded the coaches for giving him his second consecutive start in the midfield. Fellow freshmen Nick Palodichuk and Riley Wolfe also started for the second consecutive game and were joined by freshman Nat Eggleston, who came off the bench in the Blue Devils’ opener against UNC-Greensboro on Friday.

Eggleston’s infusion of energy into the defense and Morales’ key cross were instrumental in pulling out the victory. “Morales had another spectacular game in the center midfield,� Kerr said. “With everyone contributing and everyone playing their part, we’re getting better each day.�

As solid as the defense was, it was the expert play of goalkeeper James Belshaw that kept Duke in the game. He grabbed eight saves, including a few in the earlygoing when the Paladins had much of the offensive momentum. Furman goalie Alec Kann had three saves on the night.

Although the Paladins gained a few more chances toward the end of the half, the Blue Devil defense remained tight-knit and refused to let their opponents put in a goal. “They put on the pressure from the get-go, but we expected that,� Belshaw said. “Friday night definitely wasn’t our best performance and we came together well after working on a few things this weekend.�

In the second half, Duke had to deal with some defensive adversity in order to maintain its lead. After receiving a yellow card in the first half, Ibeagha received his second in the 70th minute, and with a red card was forced to leave the game. According to NCAA soccer rules, Ibeagha will have to sit out in the team’s next game, Friday against No. 14 UC Santa Barbara.

Leading by only a one goal margin and playing a man down, reigning ACC Defensive Player of the Year Andrew Wenger moved away from striker and into the backfield where he played the last two seasons. “It’s very comforting because Andrew is so adaptable,� Kerr said. “Right away he knew he had to go and

organize things in the back.�

The Blue Devils now head back to Durham to kick off their home schedule this Friday in the Duke/Nike Classic, where they hope their defense can continue to produce the way it did last night. And with the early-season adjustments to the defensive alignment adjustments, more time is only a good thing. “We’ve got two guys playing left back and right back who are out of their natural positions,� Belshaw said. “We’ve been working on it the past few days, especially since Friday, and now we feel they can achieve what we want them to.�

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Sophomore Sebastien Ibeagha scored last night’s lone goal and anchored a defensive line adjusting to play without junior Andrew Wenger.

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Position changes in store for Blue Devils

by Andrew Beaton THE CHRONICLE

If the Blue Devils have one belief heading into this season, it’s their potential.

The team may look different from last season—albeit with many familiar faces—but there is a firm belief within its ranks that once it gels, the ACC elite will have an extra bit of company. They don’t seem to notice that the team was voted to finish fifth in the conference this year in a vote of the league’s nine head coaches.

This season, North Carolina and Maryland highlight the characteristically-strong ACC, ranking among the top-5 in the nation.

“I think we’re a talented team that is pretty young and has a lot of room to develop and improve,” junior co-captain Andrew Wenger said. “There’s going to be some times during the year where there will be big chances and big games, and if we can pull out some of those opportunities, we can easily finish in the top two or three.”

Much of the pressure for finishing those chances will rest with Wenger, who is undergoing a positional switch this season. The reigning ACC Defensive Player of the Year starred at center back for his first two collegiate seasons but will spend the majority of his time playing forward this year. Wenger said he has played every position on the field except

goalkeeper throughout his soccer career, so moving up to forward will not be as disruptive a move as it may appear.

The junior already has shown a knack for finding the back of the goal, netting two scores in Duke’s regular season opener, a 3-2 loss against UNC-Greensboro. Still, the defense allowed three goals, showing that the backfield clearly missed its defensive stalwart and leader, whose move to the front was the coaches’ decision.

“We wrestled with him playing in the midfield initially last spring, and we noticed that his strength and desire to get forward into dangerous spots would be very interesting to try in the forward line,” head coach John Kerr said. “We thought with his pace and size and strength, he might be a great target player.”

His talents on the offensive end will be needed to replace those of Ryan Finley, who, after two seasons of leading the Blue Devils in scoring, transferred to Notre Dame during the offseason. The reigning ACC Offensive Player of the Year was suspended indefinitely prior to the NCAA tournament last year by the team and hasn’t appeared with them since.

Duke will miss his prodigious offensive efficiency. Finley scored a remarkable 0.94 goals per game during his sophomore season, tops in the nation last year. Still, the team seemed to indicate that it is looking forward to the po-

tential for improved team chemistry in the wake of his absence.

“We’ve got a great bunch of guys together, and the mentality around camp is fantastic—everybody is getting along so well, and there’s a lot of positive energy,” junior goalkeeper and co-captain James Belshaw said. “We’re excited to go forward.”

Belshaw and Wenger were both named to the Preseason All-America first teams by SoccerAmerica and College Soccer News.

Beyond the returning talent, however, Kerr brings with him one of his best recruiting classes, which has been ranked among the elite in the nation. The prize of the group is midfielder Nick Palodichuk, whom TopDrawerSoccer.com ranked as the No. 2 overall recruit in the country. Palodichuk, the 2010 Parade Magazine National Player of the Year and a member of the United States U-17 national team, was one of three freshmen who started for Duke in its opening regular season game.

The other two were Riley Wolfe, a 5-foot-4 midfielder rated as the No. 17 recruit nationally, and Andrew Morales, a two-time all-state selection in North Carolina. In addition, Nat Eggleston received time off the bench and could become a crucial part of the Blue Devils’ new defense without Wenger.

“They’re all good, they’re all really good,” Kerr said. “[Associate head]

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coach [Michael] Brady and [associate head] coach [Bryan] Amos and I thought a couple years ago going forward, these are the type of kids we know will take us to the next level.”

The staff expects to receive a significant amount of production from those freshmen, and even more from this recruiting class down the road when it becomes entirely healthy—three of them are presently injured. Chase Keesling is recovering from ACL surgery and is potentially out for the season while Matt Slotnick and Sean Davis each had surgeries on their fifth metatarsal bones in the foot and remain sidelined for the indefinite future.

And even though this team thinks it has the potential to win now, the team is treating the injuries cautiously to maximize success down the road, especially in regards to Keesling, who underwent a particularly sensitive procedure.

“These are tricky injuries,” Kerr said.

“We’re on the conservative side to make sure the longevity of the players’ best interests at heart are taken care of.”

There’s nothing conservative, though, about the team’s expectations this season, and if the defense can regroup without last season’s star, they just might surprise the rest of the conference.

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Gaucho fans got to show off their favorite pastime against Duke last season: Launching thousands of tortillas onto the field in UC-Santa Barbara’s 2-0 win. Might be time for Duke fans to step up their game.

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An obvious choice, but important nonetheless.

The Tar Heels are the ACC favorites and ranked third in the country. The Blue Devils head to Chapel Hill at a crucial juncture in the middle of conference play.

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Duke returns 11 starters from last season

by Tim Visutipol THE CHRONICLE

After a surprisingly deep run in the NCAA tournament ended at the hands of Oklahoma State in the Sweet Sixteen, Duke looks to build on the success and push towards new heights this season. The Blue Devils’ job will be easier with all 11 starters returning for the first time in head coach Robbie Church’s career.

“No question about that… I’ve been coaching 37 years and I’ve never had a situation where you have all 11 starters back,” Church said. “And not only are the starters back but the starters are better. And that’s why I say this team can really reach great things.”

The team was boosted by the return of redshirt senior Molly Lester, who had 20 starts last season and made the decision to return for a fifth year and is now studying at the Fuqua School of Business.

Her return also means that Duke’s defense will have a lot of experience playing together, as many were thrown in the deep end in previous seasons due to injury and graduations.

“A lot of this team had to play as freshmen… and they learnt a lot from that,” Church said. “This is the first time in a long time we haven’t started a freshman because of experience.”

It is this defense that the Blue Devils’ hope will be the backbone leading to their success. Anchored by junior goalkeeper

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Tara Campbell and with a consistent back four the defenders are confident they are destined for great things.

“I think that the inexperience that we had freshman year has proven to be one of our strongest points now,” Campbell said.

Redshirt junior defender Ashley Rape went further and declared that this defense can be one of the best in the nation.

“We’ve all agreed as a back four that we want to go for the shutout record,” Rape said. “We all know that’s something that is really in reach.”

With this experienced lineup it will also mean the freshmen will be allowed to slowly integrate into the team. The depth and talent of both the returning players and freshmen will also allow for different tactics and lineups to be used by the Blue Devils, and Duke will take advantage of its early season games prior to its conference schedule to experiment with its players, in preparation for what Church believes will be a very challenging ACC season.

“I have been around this league for a long time, and there is no question that it is the best it has ever been from top to bottom,” Church said. “Looking at some of the results, you’re like ‘Is there anybody that you can take a breath, can relax?’ and the answer is definitely no.”

Duke however has a difficult out of conference schedule and have already notched an impressive win against defending national champion No. 1 Notre Dame.

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The Blue Devils have already come away with an early-season tournament stunner, taking down No. 1 Notre Dame last weekend. They’ll look to prove that wasn’t a fluke next weekend against a lowerranked, but still dangerous Aggies squad, who rank 18th in this week’s NSCAA Coaches Poll.

10/30 MARYLAND The Terrapins proved to be one of Duke’s nemeses last year, fighting the Blue Devils to a 1-1 doubleovertime tie in College Park before eliminating Duke in the quarterfinals of the ACC tournament. Maryland will be the fourth opponent in a row for the Blue Devils with a preseason ranking.

ence, it appears that the team also has the determination to succeed.

“With this team you can just see it in their eyes, in their training, and when you have conversations with them,” Church

said. “That this team is a very hungry team and wants to be successful.”

“The newness has worn off and the hunger has set in,” Rape said. “And it’s now about proving what the Duke program is all about.”

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Molly Lester became the 11th returning Duke starter when she decided to return for her redshirt senior season.

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FIELD HOCKEY

Blue Devils move on under new coach Bustin

by Maureen Dolan THE CHRONICLE

When looking ahead to the upcoming field hockey season, players and coaches alike have reiterated the same three words: energy, positivity and enthusiasm. Despite a shaky start this past weekend in which it defeated Ohio State but lost to Indiana, the team has an entirely optimistic outlook for the future of the season as well as the program.

New head coach Pam Bustin is one of the reasons for that optimism, but she does have her work cut out for her. Despite the talent within the program, the team has not lived up to expectations of late. Last year, under former head coach Beth Bozman, the Blue Devils finished at 8-11 and failed to win any of their five conference matches. Bustin, however, believes she has the remedy.

“It’s a matter of infusing the energy and reviving their love and passion for the game and having some fun playing,” Bustin said.

“This group finds fun in competition....

They’re Duke University students, and I think their level of excellence...is already instilled in them. It’s just a matter of the coaching staff tapping into it on a daily basis.”

Bustin has already seen flashes of that excellence this season. The experts agree: The Blue Devils are projected to finish in a tie for fourth in the ACC with Wake Forest. Yet they have already demolished the Demon Deacons in a preseason match 6-1. Nationally, Duke is forecast to finish 15th, but the team has already knocked off one higherranked opponent in No. 6 Ohio State. Two members of the squad, seniors Stephanie

Fee and Samantha Nielson, have also been selected to the preseason All-ACC team.

“You never know what’s going to happen,” Fee said. “But [the honor] definitely... gives me a little bit more confidence to continue and keep pushing hard, and keep leading my team.”

The key to success for the Blue Devils lies not only with the coaching staff, but also with the team leaders like Fee. The seniors, who haven’t seen the NCAA tournament since freshman year, appreciate the changes that Bustin has made and are eager to follow suit and see the results.

“In the past, one of the reasons that we didn’t have as much success as we wanted is because we would show up and not know which Duke team was going to show up,” Fee said. “Sometimes we would match the skill of the opponent. [Now] we are focusing on us—the 22 girls, the staff, the coaches—to get on the same page and really make a statement, knowing right when we show up to the field what team is going to be there.”

The Blue Devils will need their best version to show up for every game this season.

Not only does the team face fierce ACC rivals like NCAA champion Maryland and runner-up North Carolina, but Duke is also scheduled to take on other top-15 schools like Penn State and Boston College.

“In a sense, we’re all freshmen coming in, and we’re all trying to figure out a new structure, a new system, new team dynamic,” Fee said. “We have a no-judgment policy for the first couple games, whether all wins or all losses. We aren’t going to de-

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But even with so many changing variables, Fee’s obvious respect for her new coach is just one of the reasons she feels confident about the season to come.

“I definitely think that we are a championship team,” Fee said. “Sometimes you have to go through those losses and taste that defeat to know that you never want that again.”

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MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY

Duke aims for top-15 finish at nationals

by Sarah Elsakr THE CHRONICLE

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Sophomore Brian Atkinson will try to help the Blue Devils improve on last season’s national finish.

The men’s cross country team is back and, according to head coach Norm Ogilvie, “better than ever.”

That is a powerful statement considering the Blue Devils are coming off an undefeated regular season, including their first-ever win at the Roy Griak Invitational and their third-consecutive IC4A title. Even though the team graduated several outstanding runners in May, such as Bo Waggoner, four-time team Most Valuable Player, as well as schoolrecord holder Josh Lund, both Ogilvie and his runners insist that this year, the program will rise to a new level.

“I don’t think you could really say we can replace [the seniors] because we did lose some people that were incredible,” senior Stephen Clark said. “But we all bring something to the table.”

As the team gets ready to start off another season, its mood is definitely optimistic. With a stellar freshman class including Alex Klassen, Nate McClafferty, Morgan Pearson, Brain Schoepfer and Shaun Thompson, the returning juniors and seniors will be pushed harder than ever to maintain their top spots.

“Our big goal this year is to have a better showing at the NCAA Championships,” Ogilvie said. “We think we’re capable of a top-15 national finish and to do that we’re going to have to run very well and stay healthy.... But we think we have all the ingredients in place in terms of personnel and experience. We have a very good freshman class that’s arrived.”

The fact that the team’s overall goal is

higher placement at the NCAA Championships says a lot about how far it has come. As recently as two years ago, the goal had simply been to make it to the national championship meet. And that isn’t the only goal the Blue Devils are eyeing this season. After gaining confidence and proving themselves last year by achieving their first-ever automatic bid to the national meet, this year, the Duke men are looking to place a runner in the top ten at regionals.

Part of the Blue Devils’ confidence that they can make these goals a reality comes from the leadership of the returning seniors, four of whom have experience running in the NCAA meet, as well as strength among returning juniors. But as both Ogilvie and the athletes stressed, the new freshmen class is eager to play a large role this year, and provides plenty of talent.

“They’re fitting in very well,” Ogilvie said. “I think that’s a big part of our success, getting great young men who have basically got two passions in life. One is academics and one is running, fast and far.

And they seem to do a good job of that.”

With the first meet of the season, the N.C. Central Dual, coming up in just two days, as well as tough competition later on from ACC schools like Florida State and N.C. State, the Blue Devils will have a chance this season to show that their hard work and talent are paying off.

“I think we can do great things,” Ogilvie said.

With heightened expectations, though, “great things” are harder to come by than ever before.

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VOLLEYBALL

Duke looks to take back ACC title from FSU

by Patricia Lee THE CHRONICLE

Last season, head coach Jolene Nagel and her team made the deepest NCAA tournament run in program history, but they didn’t come away with a conference championship. This year—at least if the other ACC coaches are to be believed— they’re poised to change that.

They’ve gotten a strong start to their effort to live up to heightened expectations, opening the season with a 3-0 record.

The Blue Devils, who came away with a comeback 3-2 win at home Saturday against Wisconsin to secure their third win, were chosen as the favorites to win the conference in the ACC coaches’ poll. The team boasts a strong set of veterans and depth in the lineup, as well as NCAA tournament experience.

“I think the big thing with this group is they often see the glass half-full, thank goodness, instead of half-empty,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “They learn from some of their mistakes but start thinking about the next play because it’s all about the next play. In this game, one rotation can make a big difference.”

Duke has spread the wealth on offense early in the season, with several players racking up double-digits in kills throughout the season’s first three games, and Nagel said she attributes these to good decisions from the team’s star players, especially senior setter Kellie Catanach. The team hopes to continue to utilize its depth as the season progresses.

“It’s great to hear that we had a lot of

different people in double figures,” Nagel said. “We know we’re going to have our challenges, but I think with our leadership and maturity in a lot of our upperclassmen, we’re going to continue to grow as a team and get better as a team.”

Catanach, who is the reigning ACC Player of the Year, led the Blue Devils to an NCAA round of eight appearance last year, as well as their third ACC championship appearance in the last five years.

“We have set a standard for ourselves, and it’s going to be a new challenge to live up to those standards every match,” Catanach said.

“Every match is just as important as the next one in order to stay up there at the top.”

With the graduation of two star seniors this past spring, middle blocker Becci Burling and defensive specialist Claire Smalzer, the squad welcomed four freshmen this year – two setters, one outside hitter and one middle blocker/outside hitter. In addition, junior Megan Hendrickson has stepped up off the bench to claim a crucial starting role.

Joining the lineup from the rookie group is explosive outside hitter Jeme Obeime, whose impressive performance in the team’s first three games earned her an honor as ACC Volleyball Freshmen of the Week Tuesday.

The 5-foot-11 Obeime, from Carmel, Ind., was key to the Blue Devils’ undefeated start, as she has notched a total 35 kills, five aces and 77 attacks in her three games with the team so far.

Duke passed an early-season test with its comeback win over Wisconsin, but it faces more significant contests before the start of its conference schedule, including a West Coast swing that will pit the Blue Devils against Pacific, St. Mary’s and eighthranked Stanford.

“As far as our schedule goes, I think it’s a good schedule to prepare us going into the ACC, but also for the competition that we want for an NCAA opportunity,” Nagel said. “We’re going to have to prove ourselves every time we go out there on the court.”

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Setter Kellie Catanach, the reigning ACC Player of the Year, leads an experienced Blue Devil squad.

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SAN DIEGO

Coming off a long trip to the West Coast in which they’ll face eighth-ranked Stanford in Palo Alto, the Blue Devils will return to Durham to take on another California foe. The Toreros are currently ranked 20th, and provide a must-win game for head coach Jolene Nagel and her team.

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FSU

The defending ACC champion Seminoles were also one of just four conference teams to beat Duke last season, and they snuck into the 25th slot on the AVCA Coaches Poll. If someone is going to upset Duke for the ACC title, the Seminoles are the best bet.