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Comeback win over Ohio State propels Duke to national quarterfinals

by Tim Visutipol THE CHRONICLE

Despite conceding a rare early goal Sunday in the third round of the NCAA tournament, the Blue Devils refused to let an NCAA quarterfinal appearance slip 1 from their grasp.

OSU With the score DUKE 2 level at 1-1 against Ohio State and less than ten minutes to go, junior Nicole Lipp sent a free kick across the face of the goal, and sophomore Kaitlyn Kerr directed the ball back toward the goal with her head. The ball, seemingly in the air for minutes, eventually looped over goalkeeper Katie Baumgardner and into the opposite corner, giving No. 1 seed Duke the 2-1 victory over Ohio State and a place in the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals for the first time since 2008.

“I looked at it and was like, ‘Is it going in?’” Kerr said. “It took a while but I’m glad it went in.”

Although the Blue Devils had 20 shots to the Buckeyes’ two, Duke was forced to play from behind after a 17th-minute goal by forward Paige Maxwell on Ohio State’s only clear chance of the game. A mistake at the back allowed the Buckeyes’ Tiffany Cameron to play the ball in to a charging Maxwell, who beat Duke goalkeeper Tara Campbell one-on-one.

The Blue Devils, however, controlled possession and created chance after chance while limiting shots from the opposition. Prior to the Ohio State goal,

Student robbed at gunpoint

by Jack Mercola THE CHRONICLE

A male undergraduate student was robbed at gunpoint and assaulted near East Campus around 1 a.m. Friday.

The student was walking back to his offcampus house from the Brightleaf Square area and talking on the phone when he was approached by two individuals near Watts Street and Gloria Avenue, according to a news release Friday.

The suspects pointed a gun at the student’s head and ordered him to get on the ground, the student said. They proceeded to seize his wallet and phone, hit him over the head with a glass bottle several times and kicked him.

The release Friday differed from the student’s account, as the release said no one was injured as of Sunday night.

“I was about one block down Watts Street,” the student said. “I noticed two individuals following me. I crossed the street. Then one of them ran up to me and pointed a silver revolver at my head and said, ‘get down on the ground now.’”

The Durham Police Department responded to the scene first and was joined soon after by the Duke University Police Department, Duke Police Chief John Dailey said. Durham Police will be the lead investigators going forward.

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Nicole Lipp and Kaitlyn Kerr embrace after Kerr scored the go-ahead goal with just over nine minutes left.

Full homeless shelters turn families away

by Caroline Fairchild THE CHRONICLE

Junior Ruede Holmes lived on East Campus her freshman year. But unlike her peers, Holmes lived in a homeless shelter that year as well.

In April of 2010, an abusive relationship between Holmes’ parents forced her mother and six siblings into homelessness. Going to class and sleeping in Basset residence hall during the week, Holmes spent the weekends living with her family about three miles away at Urban Ministries, a local homeless shelter that serves about 6,000 people annually.

“They had us in really small room, and that wasn’t their fault, it was all that was available,” Holmes said. “We were in a small, cramped space with my entire family. There is only so much that they can do with the space they have, but it was really hard.”

Individuals in families like the Holmeses make up 20 percent of the total homeless population in Durham, according to the 2011 North

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Carolina Point-in-Time Count. There are 46 family members seeking shelter from the city’s streets that local agencies currently cannot support, said Peter Donlon, director of programs at Urban Ministries Inc. Family members each have a variety of needs, but they want to remain together, making it more challenging for service providers to get them housed.

Holmes’ family is out of Urban Ministries now, but she said more personal space for her family could have made the experience less traumatizing for her and her siblings.

“Each family has to share an area, so that is kind of hard, and it has created a lot of tension,” she said. “That was the worst part about it, and it affected me and my brothers and sisters a lot. More resources for families would have helped a lot.”

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Three children sit on the grass in front of the Genesis Home.

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“The issue was that they were not able to wake the sleeping giant.”

—Professor Carrie Wickham on the Arab Spring. See story page 3

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Reputation of Penn State tarnished after scandal

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State has been gut-punched by the Jerry Sandusky child-rape accusations. The day of the tree-lighting ceremony, the NCAA sent a searing letter to the university’s interim president saying that it had opened an investigation of the school’s handling of the case.

The NCAA said that if the allegations against the former assistant football coach are true, “individuals who were in a position to monitor and act upon learning of potential abuses appear to have been acting starkly contrary to the values of higher education.”

Few people could have imagined that Penn State, of all places, could face such an inquiry. The university has prided itself on doing things the right way, of adhering to old-fashioned values, of having a football program that doesn’t cheat. Players went to class, they earned diplomas. “Success with Honor” was the Penn State mantra.

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Iran may have sent Libya Conservatives win big in shells for chemical weapons Spain, promise austerity WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration is investigating whether Iran supplied the Libyan government of Moammar Gadhafi with hundreds of special artillery shells for chemical weapons that Libya kept secret for decades, U.S. officials said.

The shells were uncovered in recent weeks.

MADRID, Spain — Spanish conservatives won a historically large mandate at the polls Sunday, freeing them to make deep austerity cuts as they struggle to pull the country’s economy out of a tailspin. The election was marked by bitter desperation and disappointment.

University IT Security Office, 12-1p.m.

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Personal Finance Seminar: Eating Healthy on a Budget French Family Science 2231, 3:30-4:30p.m.

Come learn inexpensive ways to balance your diet and eat wisely over the holidays.

Seminar by Gaku Mitsumata Nicholas Institute, 4:15-5:45p.m.

Mitsumata’s talk is titled ”Communities Fight Back: Institutional Innovation to Preserve the Commons in Contemporary Japan.”

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Upcoming Farm Bill, Arab Spring uprisings budget cuts pose concerns shift political landscape

by Katya Prosvirkina THE CHRONICLE

As Congressional leaders prepare spending cuts for the 2012 Farm Bill, large companies, farmers and the general public wonder where those cuts will hit.

Many expect large cuts in programs and subsidies because the Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction— also known as the supercommittee—is currently in the process of trimming more than one trillion dollars from the federal budget, said Norman Wirzba, professor of theology, ecology and rural life. The two chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees, forming a so-called “gang of four,” submitted recommended cuts to the Joint Select Committee Nov. 18.

The Farm Bill is renewed every five years—the last bill went into effect in 2008—but Congress started work on the next bill to finish it before next year’s presidential election. The finalized Farm Bill is expected to be included in the supercommittee’s budget cut recommendations, due to Congress Dec. 2.

Both the process by which the cuts are decided and the nature of the cuts themselves have drawn criticism from agricultural experts.

Lee Miller, a consultant for the Union of Concerned Scientists and a Master of Environmental Management candidate at the Nicholas School of the Environment, said he has concerns about the legitimacy of the Farm Bill’s legislative process.

“The truth is that this Farm Bill is being

written behind closed doors by lobbyists for commodity agriculture,” Miller wrote in an email Nov. 15. “It will pass because the people with the most money—and therefore loudest voices—in Washington have a very vested interest in maintaining the status quo, and the legislators from urban districts—and states—are literally bought off using the massive money put into nutrition programs.”

Under the current system, the federal government pays a certain amount to farmers based on the volume of crops they produce, Wirzba said. Without subsidies, most farmers would go bankrupt because the cost of raising crops is currently higher than the selling price of the crops.

Subsidies also keep food prices from rising for goods that consumers have become used to buying cheaply, Wirzba said.

“Government subsidies for the commodities that make these products, like corn, allow poor people to buy cheap food,” he noted.

Wirzba said from a cost-cutting perspective, decreasing subsidies would be logical and beneficial. Congress, however, is unlikely to do so because of heavy lobbying from large food producers and distributing companies and because not everyone will benefit from the cut of subsidies.

“Over the last few cycles, there has been a farm bill that rewards over-production,” Wirzba said. “[For instance,] corn is a nutrient-hungry plant. It’s very hard on the land.... It negatively affects both the soil and the water.”

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by Andrew Karim THE CHRONICLE

Although the Arab Spring uprisings witnessed the toppling of numerous regimes in the Arab world, the region’s future remains uncertain in a fragile political landscape, a panel of scholars said.

The Curriculum in Global Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosted a panel discussion Friday that focused on the Arab Spring and the future of the Middle East and North Africa. Some of the leading experts on the politics of the Arab world participated in the conference, which took place in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium of the Fedex Global Education Center.

Despite their in-depth research of the region, all of the panelists said they were surprised that the Arab Spring occurred.

In a region where authoritarian regimes tend to stay in power despite considerable voices of dissent, such widespread uprisings came as a shock to the experts.

“We expected that the conditions that had contributed to the perpetuation of authoritarian regimes in the past would continue in the future,” said Carrie Wickham, associate professor of political science at Emory University.

Wickham noted that a pervasive culture of fear made people who were unhappy with the status quo unwilling to partake in revolutionary movements.

“The issue was that they were not able to wake the sleeping giant,” she said. “The issue with the events that took place this year was not the demands or grievances

but the involvement of the masses.”

The majority of the event consisted of the panelists answering questions from the audience.

Looking toward the future of the Middle East and North Africa, panelists noted the volatile state of the region at this time, emphasizing that although drastic change has taken place with the downfall of various former leaders—as seen in Egypt and Libya—only time will tell if the future of region can remain stable.

“It is important that we do not look at these situations as isolated where one country wins and another loses,” said Jillian Schwedler, associate professor of government and politics at the University of Massachusetts and chair of the Board of Directors of the Middle East Research and Information Project. “Things are changing—there’s no going back now. What goes forward may not be an ideal democracy, but they will definitely not revert back to what they once were.”

Though the majority of the event addressed the results of the Arab Spring from a governmental perspective, the discussion also shed light on the experiences of the youth who originally spearheaded the movement.

“There’s a sense of dignity among the people, that they are owners and citizens of their countries,” said Alfred Stepan, the Wallace S. Sayre professor of government at Columbia University and founding director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion. “This sense of ownership and participation can never be lost.”

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HOMELESS from page 1 that can collectively support 36 homeless families—Urban Ministries, Durham Interfaith Hospitality Network and Genesis Home—said Mary McGuigan, director of development for Genesis Home. The executive directors of service providers for Durham’s homeless meet regularly to discuss how to more effectively combat homelessness and how to serve more families despite decreases in funding.

“We are trying to make sense of all of this and how to make it work with growing demand and shrinking resources,” Donlon of Urban Ministries said. “The need is much greater than what Durham has to offer.”

By the time a family room opens in one of the local agencies, the parents have often already lost their children to federal agencies or cannot reach them because they do not have minutes on their cell phones, he added.

When Kenya Jacobs and her sons Michael and Malik became homeless last year, they turned to the Durham Interfaith Hospitality Network. Jacobs and her family had to wait a little more than a week before IHN had room for them, but to Jacobs, the wait felt more like a month. And once she started living at IHN, Jacobs watched many families get turned away.

“There were families that would come in that would bring four children that they would have to turn away because they didn’t have enough room,” she said. “I felt really bad because I thought to myself, ‘Where are they going to go to?’.... I personally do not know what I would of done if IHN turned us away for good. I don’t know where me and my children would be today.”

McGuigan of Genesis Home said every time a room opens, families vying for the space form a line out the door by 7:30 a.m. the next morning. Based on her experience, McGuigan said she thinks the approximate 44 homeless families the Point-in-Time survey accounts for in Durham does not reflect the true need in the community.

“It doesn’t count the people right now who are at risk and will be homeless tomorrow, and it doesn’t count the number of families who are living together,” she said “If you don’t know how you are going to sustain where you are staying right now, that is an issue.”

IHN Executive Director Catherine Pleil said the organization built another family room under its current office and wants to double its occupancy by next year to meet the dem-

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onstrated need.

Before these organizations can make more room for families, however, the system must first address the largest population of homeless people—single black males. Lanea Foster, a consultant for the city and the coordinator for homeless services in Durham, said black males are consistently about half of Durham’s total homeless population. These men are “clogging up the system” making it difficult to devote more resources to homeless families, she added.

“If we don’t address that problem, than the system will always be full, and no one will be able to get services,” Foster said.

Shrinking resources As the federal government begins to decrease the amount of discretionary funding it gives to state programs, Pliel said IHN is expecting close to a $15,000 decrease in federal, state and local funds in the upcoming fiscal year. Similarly, Urban Ministries experienced a $22,847 decrease in federal, state and local funds in the last two fiscal years.

Reduced government support has forced IHN and other agencies to come up with new strategies to collect funds for services.

“A major part of discretionary spending is assistance to people in need and that is getting smaller,” Pliel said. “We need to find more donors because your budget is not going to be able to go down while you are trying to serve more people.”

McGuigan of Genesis Home said homeless shelters in Durham cannot count on government funding every year. Expecting another decrease in federal, state and local dollars next year, leaders at Genesis Home have started to build up other parts of their total annual income.

“We decided to shift that pyramid around so we are not relying as much on government resources,” she said. “We are building up other resources such as income from special events, congregations and civic groups by 5 to 15 percent each year.”

Given the decrease in funds, Foster said now—more than ever—it is essential that service providers are held accountable to use funds as effectively as possible to get people out of homelessness.

“People think that if we just give money that we are doing the right thing,” Foster said. “But throwing money at the problem is not the solution. We need to be a good steward of the money and the work and actually seeing people as people and making sure they are getting out of homelessness.”

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Fraternities and sororities compete in the “Blaze the Stage Stroll Show,” with proceeds from the event going to charity.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER: ADVANCES TO NCAA QUARTERS • FOOTBALL: FALLS TO YELLOW JACKETS

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Late penalties, red Freshmen spur pair card doom Blue Devils of lopsided victories Freshman Carson Baldinger scored the game-winning goal in the 98th minute Often a team will look to its veterans for postseason success. Sunday night, it was the playoff rookies that stole the show.

After finishing regulation knotted at 1-1, New Mexico’s Devon Sandoval headed the ball toward goal and freshman Carson Baldinger Duke 1 finished the job in UNM 2 the 99th minute to give the undefeated Lobos a 2-1 victory.

Duke attacked the New Mexico defense from the start. A mere 40 seconds into the game, Nick Palodichuk attempted a shot that went just wide. The strike was the first of many for the Blue Devils, who outshot New Mexico 7-2 in the first 23 minutes of the game. The initial surge included two more shots from Palodichuk, as well as attempts from Andrew Wenger, Sebastien Ibeagha, Nat Eggleston and Andrew Morales.

The offensive firepower died down for the remainder of the half, which consisted of less shots and a great number of fouls.

In the first half alone, 11 fouls were called, including seven on the Blue Devils.

Palodichuk started the second half similar to the first, missing a shot over the goal in the 52nd minute. 50 seconds

later, however, the freshman found the back of the net for his eighth goal of the season and gave the Blue Devils a 1-0 advantage.

Following the goal, Duke dropped back into a defensive formation to prevent an equalizer. Penalties, however, again became the story for Duke.

Jonathan Aguirre kicked the ball away after he was called for a foul in the 56th minute, drawing a yellow card.

The penalty changed the complexion of the game, as all the momentum shifted towards the Lobos.

New Mexico dominated possession for the next 20 minutes and received an extra boost when Chris Tweed-Kent received a red card on a reckless challenge in the air in the 76th minute.

Seven minutes later, Blake Smith tied the game on a strike into the left side of the netting past Duke goalkeeper James Belshaw, who had five saves on the night.

The Lobos dominated the overtime period against the undermanned Blue Devils, finally scoring just under nine minutes into extra time.

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Williams’ 13 boards Liston emerges against lead Blue Devils Western Kentucky After a lackluster performance on the glass against Brigham Young in its season opener, Duke responded strongly Friday against Auburn in its first home game.

The No. 8 Blue Devils outrebounded the Tigers 52-35 to give Tigers 50 Duke a 73-50 win Duke 73 over Auburn (2-1) and a school-record 26th straight home victory.

“I love that we outrebounded [Auburn] by that margin,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “We understood that this would be the first team we played that really would be physical on the boards.”

Elizabeth Williams was the key to Duke’s dominance on the boards. The highly touted freshman made the most of her home debut, registering her first career double-double and leading the Blue Devils with 18 points, 13 rebounds and four blocked shots.

“Elizabeth Williams is something else,” Auburn head coach Nell Fortner said. “[Williams] pretty much had her way with us.”

Even though Duke led almost the entire first half, the Blue Devils fell back to within

After struggling with her shooting early this season, Blue Devil freshman Tricia Liston appears to have found her touch.

Liston scored 22 points after being held scoreless in her first two collegiate games, powering No. 8 Duke (3-0) over Western Kentucky 80-54. After going 0-for-12 and missing all six of her 3-point Duke 80 attempts in the Blue WKU 54 Devils’ games against BYU and Auburn, the freshman came off the bench to go 7-for10—and 3-for-4 from long range—Sunday.

The Hilltoppers (0-3) were initially competitive, and trailed Duke by only five points with 8:09 to play in the first half. But a 3-pointer by Liston 30 seconds later sparked a 14-0 Blue Devil run over the game’s next three minutes.

Duke, suddenly leading 36-22, would never look back, stretching their halftime lead to 4021 and, after scoring first out of the break, led by at least 20 points for the entire second half.

Liston’s red-hot shooting overshadowed Duke’s finest early season defensive effort.

The Blue Devils forced 35 Western Kentucky turnovers and collected 18 steals. Sophomore Chloe Wells spearheaded the impressive defensive performance, grabbing five steals

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Fourth-quarter comeback falters on last drive Potent Duke passing game emerges in late-game rally

Triple-option offense too much for young defense

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Early in the game Saturday afternoon, it appeared that Duke was poised to pull off an upset over a quality opponent. The mighty Georgia Tech offense put a damper on those hopes through the middle of the contest, but the Blue Devils showed late resilience and nearly upended the Yellow Jackets (8-3, 5-3 in the ACC) before falling 38-31.

Duke (3-8, 1-6) impressed out of the gate on both sides of the ball. Georgia Tech’s potent 38 rushing attack failed to pick up a GT Duke 31 first down on each of its first two possessions, and the Blue Devils’ first play from scrimmage was an end-around to Donovan Varner that gained 39 yards. That put Duke in striking distance, and quarterback Sean Renfree found Conner Vernon to give the Blue Devils a 7-0 lead.

But the Yellow Jackets’ triple-option offense then took control, scoring touchdowns on three consecutive possessions, including two by running back David Sims.

Duke responded with a 13-play scoring drive of its own, and an illegal block on the ensuing kick return backed Georgia Tech up in its own end. But quarterback Tevin Washington engineered an 11-play, 94-yard touchdown drive, which ended on a close play that featured safety Matt Daniels and running back Embry Peeples. Daniels wrapped Peeples up at the 1-yard line, but Peeples was able to extend the ball to the pylon, giving his team a 14-point lead at halftime.

“It’s tough—plays like that happen,” cornerback Ross Cockrell said. “Matt was there, but unfortunately [Peeples] had a little more push.”

Saturday’s 38-31 loss to Georgia Tech on Senior Day ended up fitting right into a theme that has been common to many of Duke’s losses this season—close, but not quite.

The Blue Devils have lost six games at Wallace Wade Stadium in 2011. Two of those were blowouts against Stanford and Florida State, but the other four have come by a total of just 14 points.

“If you can come to games here, you will find something far different than you read in the paper or that you even see on television,” Game Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. have to be here in person to realize Analysis “You how close we are.”

With an injury-riddled defense, the Blue Devils were forced to play several reserves who had never faced Georgia Tech’s unconventional triple-option attack.

The Yellow Jackets were able to exploit Duke’s inexperience, particularly at defensive end, where Duke redshirt freshmen Nick Sink and Jamal Wallace both saw significant minutes.

“We just hadn’t seen [Georgia Tech’s offense],” Cutcliffe said. “It was the youngest defensive team we’ve had available to play.”

Consequently, the Yellow Jackets’ potent offense caused problems for the Duke defense early and often. On the ground, the Yellow Jackets ran for 364 yards, led by quarterback Tevin Washington with 136 yards, and Georgia Tech running backs David Sims and Embry Peeples combined for 130 rushing yards.

The secondary was equally vulnerable throughout. Despite

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Redshirt junior quarterback Sean Renfree tied his career high with four touchdown passes Saturday against the Yellow Jackets.

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Stifling defense anchors Duke in wins

by Nicholas Schwartz THE CHRONICLE

The Blue Devils passed two formidable tests this weekend as Duke continues on the road to the Women’s College Cup final in Georgia. The two wins over talented and disciplined squads— Georgia and Ohio Game State—should give the Devils an ample Analysis Blue dose of confidence going forward.

The weekend’s matches emphasized two of Duke’s strongest qualities, which should make it difficult for any team in the nation to eliminate the No. 1 seeded Blue Devils. First, for all of Duke’s firepower up front, its suffocating defense will be the deciding factor in whether or not head coach Robbie Church wins his first national championship. Second-

ly, the Blue Devils can rely on players other than their strikers to score.

In Ohio State, the Blue Devils faced a side that returned seven starters from a 2010 team that made it to the national semifinals. The Buckeyes’ experience and composure were evident on the field Sunday, but Duke’s stellar defense of what was a potent Ohio State offense stalled any chance of an upset at Koskinen Stadium.

The Blue Devils outshot the Buckeyes 202, and simply did not allow Ohio State to establish its preferred offense.

The Buckeyes’ 4-4-2 formation is spearheaded by senior Paige Maxwell, a creative forward who, at 5-foot-9, is very strong on the ball and difficult to defend in the air. Maxwell, who can usually be found stalking around the border of the 18-yard box, is adept at picking a pass to the flank before making a supportive run toward the goal, where Ohio State’s

wing players can feed it back inside.

On Friday, Maxwell combined brilliantly with attacking midfielder Kristen Niederhaus and fellow striker Tiffany Cameron and repeatedly broke down their second round opponent Milwaukee’s defense, eventually scoring twice on the No. 15 team in the nation and pulling the upset.

But those passes that the Buckeyes completed with ease against the Panthers were not available against a stout Duke defense that manipulated Ohio State from the opening whistle. The Buckeyes’ attack was relegated from a fluid ground-oriented offense to one that relied almost solely upon long balls from the back to Cameron, as Maxwell was carefully marked for nearly the entirety of the match.

Maxwell’s involvement in the game lasted only a few seconds, yet resulted in a goal that put Ohio State in front 1-0. Just sec-

onds after Duke defender Alex Straton was substituted into the game for the first time, she sprayed a loose pass upfield which was intercepted and gave away possession in a very dangerous area. Cameron fed the ball to a streaking Maxwell, who buried her shot past a helpless Tara Campbell to give the Buckeyes a shocking lead.

“Both of their [forwards] were very good,” Church said. “I thought that we had to keep them off the board. Even when they scored I wasn’t worried because there weren’t so many shots coming in.”

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With Sunday’s win, Duke advances to its first NCAA Tournament quarterfinal since 2005.

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Laura Weinberg scored two of the Blue Devils’ five weekend goals, both Friday night against Georgia.

Duke’s Laura Weinberg had already hit the crossbar with a shot of her own.

“I think we knew we were dominating the game,” defender Natasha Anasi said.

“We knew that we were in a good spot and knew that a goal was going to come.”

In the last ten minutes of the first half the Blue Devils peppered Baumgardner.

Before the end of the half, Kim DeCesare put a ball in the back of the net, but the play was called back for a foul. Later, Chelsea Canepa hit the crossbar after beating the goalkeeper. Duke could not breach the Buckeye defense, however, and it went into the half down 1-0.

The Blue Devils came out firing again in the second half and it took less than ten minutes for the equalizer to come.

Lipp took a free kick from near the corner and found freshman Kelly Cobb, who mistimed a volley with her right foot but made amends with her left, directing the ball towards goal. Baumgardner let the ball slip out of her hands and through her legs, giving Cobb her 11th goal of the season.

“I was just faking them out,” Cobb joked.

The Blue Devils continued to pile on the pressure, though they could not connect on crosses despite well-run plays. Weinberg had another sterling chance in the second half to score, but could not beat Baumgardner, who had eight saves throughout the

game. A goal-line clearance was needed to deny Duke its go-ahead goal before Ohio State finally tested Campbell again, but the Blue Devil goalkeeper denied a chance with a sliding tackle.

With the game nearing overtime, Duke was awarded a free kick near the center circle. Lipp played the ball toward Kerr for the sophomore’s 10th goal of the season, and fourth of the tournament. She has scored in all three tournament rounds.

“I just try to do anything I can to help the team win,” Kerr said. “I really want to win… [and] get this team to where it belongs.”

The game was not over, as Weinberg had yet another opportunity to get on the stat sheet, forcing Baumgardner to make a sharp save low to her left. Ohio State also had a chance to tie the game up when Campbell chased a lofted ball at the edge of her 18-yard box, but the striker beat her to the ball and headed it toward goal. Anasi, who recovered from an injury earlier in the half, was quick in chasing back and clearing it before it crossed the line for a goal.

In the end, the Blue Devils hung on to win and progress, countering Ohio State’s physical and defensive play.

“You’ve got to win a lot of different ways,” Church said. “It’s like the old Jimmy Valvano quote—you just have to ‘survive and advance’.... Besides the goal we conceded, I’m really happy with how we played.”

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Backcourt chemistry enhances offense

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Mason Plumlee had 16 points and 13 rebounds against the Wildcats, his second double-double of the season.

Improved pressure D sparks second-half run

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One week after Belmont nearly upset Duke on its home floor, the Blue Devils received a scare from another well-coached mid-major program.

Displaying the same type of methodical, pass-heavy offensive sets that the Bruins used to break down Duke’s defense, Davidson picked apart the Blue Devils in the first half with easy layups and a barrage of 3-pointers.

“I thought we were on our heels defensiveGame ly,” head coach Mike said of his Analysis Krzyzewski team’s first-half effort. “I just thought [Davidson] got it down faster, they cut harder…. They were a very determined team the entire game, and I thought it knocked us back.

We had no talk on defense.”

Duke’s interior defense looked suspect at times in the first half. On two occasions, Davidson guards JP Kuhlman and Chris Czerapowicz encountered little resistance from the Blue Devils’ big men as they sliced through the paint for uncontested layups.

The Wildcats’ Jake Cohen also put on an impressive display during the first 20 minutes, as his baskets highlighted weaknesses Duke will need to address as it enters the most challenging stretch of its nonconference schedule.

The versatile 6-foot-10 forward, who converted all four of his shot attempts in the first half, scored both inside and out.

He knocked down a wide-open 3-pointer a minute into the game, as Mason Plumlee was caught watching inside the paint and

As he addressed the crowd in a postgame ceremony recognizing his achievement as the winningest basketball coach in history Friday night, head coach Mike Krzyzewski quipped that at halftime of his team’s 82-69 victory over Davidson, he wasn’t sure that there was going to be a celebration.

After a mental lapse from Miles Plumlee in the final seconds of the first half resulted in two made free throws for the Wildcats’ guard Tom Droney, Davidson (2-1) took a one-point lead into the locker room. Even with No. 6 Duke (4-0) shooting almost 57 percent from the field in the first half against the mid-major opponent, there were eight lead changes. The Blue Devils’ strong performance from the floor was offset by a 7-for-14 performance at the free throw line and seven turnovers. And the Wildcats’ timely 3-point shooting allowed them to answer each time Duke threatened to stretch the lead.

Davidson showed no signs of intimidation as it was aggressive from the opening tip, jumping out to a 9-5 lead at the first media timeout, paced by forward Jake Cohen’s five points. Cohen demonstrated an impressive inside-outside game, giving the Plumlee brothers fits as they were forced to step out and defend the perimeter, on his way to 10 points before intermission.

The backcourt duo of Seth Curry and Austin Rivers carried Duke for much of the first half. The guards each had nine points as Rivers showed his electric first-step, getting all the way to the rim almost at will.

Perhaps more importantly, though, the pair played better together and did a good

DAV 69 job of finding each other on offense.

“We make this team go,” Curry said.

“Every game, we’re getting more comfortable playing together. I’m starting to know where he likes the ball and vice-versa.”

In the locker room, Krzyzewski challenged his players to step up and defend their home floor by picking up the intensity on the defensive end of the court. And he got the response he was looking for, as Duke would hold the Wildcats to just 35-percent shooting in the second half. The defensive improvements translated into points as the Blue Devils emerged from the break with an offensive explosion, scoring 30 points in the first 10 minutes of the second period.

“In the second half, people stepped up and started playing defense,” Rivers said.

“We started pushing the ball and getting a lot of transition buckets as a result.”

Four minutes into the second half, Mason Plumlee fired a long outlet pass to his brother Miles, who was streaking down the court. The elder Plumlee finished the play with an emphatic reverse dunk that would not only ignite the Cameron crowd but also start a 12-0 run that would stake Duke to a double-digit lead it would not give up. During this run, the Blue Devils forced three turnovers and several bad shots, allowing them to get out in the open court and utilize their superior athleticism.

Even in the half court, Duke displayed a newly discovered emphasis on getting the ball into the post. Both the Plumlee brothers receieved entry passes on numerous occasions and made the most of these opportunities, SEE DAVIDSON ON PAGE 7

couldn’t close down the space in time. Cohen followed up that jumper with a nifty up-and-under move a minute later, using a shot fake to get Plumlee off his feet.

Cohen’s fearless play emboldened the rest of his teammates. They successfully exploited the Blue Devils’ soft perimeter defense, knocking down five 3-pointers in the first half to take a 35-34 lead at the intermission.

Krzyzewski and his coaching staff gave Duke a much-needed wake-up call at halftime. But when Kuhlman scored on another easy drive to the hoop three minutes into the second period, it seemed as if the message had fallen on deaf ears.

After Mason Plumlee answered to tie the game at 41, Ryan Kelly decided to take matters into his own hands, blocking Nik Cochran’s shot on Davidson’s next possession even though he had two fouls. The block represented a turning point in the team’s defensive intensity, and the Blue Devils proceeded to blow the game open with a 12-0 run.

“Our defense wasn’t giving us anything [in the first half],” Mason Plumlee said. “In the second half, it gave us some turnovers.

We forced some bad shots. Bad shots turn into fast breaks just as turnovers do, so both those things really helped us get going in the second half.”

Plumlee was responsible for starting one of those fast breaks during the decisive run, displaying excellent court vision after he corralled a rebound on a missed 3-pointer

by De’Mon Brooks. The younger Plumlee launched an outlet pass to his older brother DAN SCHEIRER II/THE CHRONICLE

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Seth Curry had nine of his 17 points in the first half, in which the Blue Devils shot 56.5 percent from the floor.

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With the NCAA tournament approaching, each victory becomes increasingly important for head coach Jolene Nagel and her team. Luckily for them, the team’s last regular-season ACC weekend came against two of the conference’s bottom-feeders, Maryland and Boston College.

Duke (20-8, 14-5 Duke 3 in the ACC) defeatTerps 1 ed the Terrapins (922, 3-16) Friday in College Park, Md. 3 Duke in four sets, 25-13, 1 BC 25-17, 25-27, 25-19.

In Chestnut Hill, Mass. Sunday, the Blue Devils overcame an early deficit to rally past the Eagles (7-23, 3-16), 30-32, 25-14, 25-21, 25-18.

“I wouldn’t have called it a ‘must-win,’ but the matches were very important,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “If we do not perform well, we put ourselves in jeopardy [for the NCAA tournament] during selection time because they look at how teams play in their last 10 games.”

Duke took down Maryland behind the dominant play of setter Kellie Catanach.

The 6-foot-2 senior recorded 43 assists, most of which went to Sophia Dunworth and Christiana Gray, who recorded 16 and 15 kills respectively. The Blue Devils cruised to victory despite dropping a tight third set.

Two days later, Boston College edged Duke in the opening set of the match before the Blue Devils responded to sweep the next three sets.

“We were not passing well, not controlling our first touch as well as we would have liked and we gave [Boston College] too many easy chances to win points off us,” Nagel said. “We still thought we could get a win in that set, but our play was just not at the level it should have been at if we wanted to win that game.”

After digging themselves a small hole, Duke was able to turn its struggles around in game two. The team handled the Eagle serves much better, played solid defense and was able to transition well from defense to offense. With an increased level of play, the Blue Devils were able to run Boston College off the court in game two, winning by a convincing 11 points, 25-14. “[Libero Ali McCurdy] played great for us [Sunday],” Nagel said. “She was able to save us by keeping plays alive when balls were tipped or deflected.”

McCurdy had 24 digs against the Eagles, extending her ACC lead in the category.

On the offensive end, Catanach contributed 53 more assists while four Duke players reached double digits in kills.

After losing game two, the Eagles made adjustments to compete with the Blue Devils in the next two games, but in the end, Duke won 25-21, 25-18 in games three and four, respectively.

No. 6 Duke (4-0) will take on Tennessee in the first round of the Maui Invitational Monday. The Volunteers (2-0) lost four of five starters from last season—point guard Melvin Goins and center Brian Williams to graduation, and forwards Scotty Hopson and Tobias Harris as early entries to the NBA Draft. Former head coach Bruce Pearl also departed after Tenn being slapped with vs.

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The lone returner on the court is 6-foot-7 guard Cameron Tatum, who contributed little beyond his 8.8 points per game last season but has scored 20 points through the team’s first two games this year. Sophomores Trae Golden and Jordan McRae have played well in new starting roles, averaging 23 and 11.5 points per game, respectively.

The Volunteers’ primary weapon has been the 3-point shot—Tennessee has drained 26 of its 53 attempts from long range, good for a 49-percent clip. They have also been effective from elsewhere on the floor, with a 53-percent shooting performance from the floor overall.

But their competition so far has been less than stellar—their two wins have been over UNC Greensboro and Louisiana-Monroe, neither of which projects to be a threat on the national stage.

—from staff reports

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offensive threat, Duke doesn’t have to score three or four goals to advance as in years past.

Perhaps more importantly, the Blue Devils proved they can beat talented teams even when freshman phenom Kelly Cobb doesn’t find the back of the net— though Church will be relieved that Cobb regained her scoring touch Sunday.

“Kelly’s done a lot of things for us,” Church said. “She hasn’t scored in a while, but her presence on the field dictates so many [defenders].”

Midfielder Kaitlyn Kerr capitalized on the openings Cobb created, scoring against both the Panthers and the Buckeyes this weekend to bring her NCAA Tournament total to four goals.

Kerr’s ability to produce from midfield takes pressure off of Duke’s three strikers, who each had a resurgent weekend.

Though Cobb had not scored since Oct. 30th against Virginia Tech, the freshman equalized the game Sunday and was instrumental in setting up Duke’s other chances.

Laura Weinberg—who had not scored since her sensational performance on the road against Wake Forest a month ago—was perhaps the Blue Devils’ most impressive player in the second and third rounds of the tournament. Weinberg headed a goal past Georgia and easily could have scored three or four times against Ohio State if not for some outstanding saves from Katie Baumgardner.

If both the offense and defense continue to operate at the efficiency they showed Sunday, Duke has a very good chance to advance to the Final Four, with yet another home game to play Friday.

streaking down the floor, and Miles ignited the crowd with a thunderous reverse slam.

On Davidson’s subsequent trip down the floor, Austin Rivers stole the ball from Kuhlman and went end-to-end for an easy layup, giving Duke a double-digit lead it would never relinquish.

“In the second half I thought our pressure on the ball was better, and it gave us time to talk,” Krzyzewski said. “It slowed them down just a little. We kept people in front of us. And that’s where Seth [Curry] and Quinn [Cook] did a much better job for us in the second half.”

The second-half statistics reflected the increased pressure, as the Wildcats attempted six 3-pointers in the period after taking 14 in the first half—and they made just two of those six. Moreover, the Blue Devils shut down Cohen, as the only points he scored after halftime came on a pair of free throws.

Although Kelly set the tone for the defensive turnaround, the sustained lockdown was a true team effort. Freshman Quinn Cook delivered an especially poised performance at the point guard spot, playing 10 minutes in the second half while Curry sat on the bench with three fouls.

Cook sealed the victory with 39 seconds remaining with a 3-point play. He came from behind to poke the ball away from Kuhlman and fought off contact from Czerapowicz to score a tough bucket in transition.

“Right now we have different guys stepping up at different times, and you hope that at some point, everybody’s playing great, and everybody’s stepped up to that level,” Kelly said.

“That’s when you’re the best team you can be.”

showing well-honed back-to-the-basket moves that had not been on display in previous seasons. Mason posted a doubledouble, finishing with 16 points and 13 rebounds, while Miles chipped in 10 points to go along with his four rebounds.

“We’re just being aggressive, really wanting the ball on the block,” Miles Plumlee said. “It’s a new season, a new role for the big guys. We’re starting to assume that position down low.”

To go along with the improved scoring output from the post, Curry and Rivers both continued their strong play, finishing tied as the game’s high scorers at 17 points a piece. With freshman point guard Quinn Cook logging significant minutes, Curry was able to play off the ball some and thrived in this role, knocking down two wing 3-pointers to help put the game out of reach.

Rivers, Curry, and the Plumlee brothers carried the Blue Devils on Friday as Andre Dawkins was quiet, just a game after his long-range shooting barrage against Michigan State. This uncertainty as to who is going to lead the team on any given night is something that Krzyzewski said he expects.

“We’re going to have fluctuation like that,” Krzyzewski said. “If we get to a point where all of them are playing well consistently....the only way to get there is to compete and gain experience.”

On this particular night, the defense was able to give the team a big enough lift to ensure that university president Richard Brodhead, athletic director Kevin White, former athletic director Tom Butters and ACC commissioner John Swofford were all able to honor Krzyzewski in the touching postgame cerermony.

one point at halftime. Auburn’s full-court pressure forced nine first-half Duke turnovers, which allowed the Tigers to stay within striking distance. A 17-5 Auburn run late in the first half, led by Hasina Muhammad and Camille Glymph, cut the Duke lead to just one point at halftime.

Auburn’s hopes of an upset were quickly laid to rest as Duke went on an 8-0 run to start the second half and never looked back. The Blue Devils’ length and relentless defensive pressure forced eleven Tiger second-half turnovers, allowing Duke to extend its lead.

“If it was a twenty-minute ball game, I’d probably feel pretty good about it,” Fortner said. “[Duke was] sharper in the second half and their defensive intensity created panic on our part.”

After a quiet first half, sophomore forward Haley Peters helped spark Duke’s run offensively. Peters scored all ten of her points in the second half after missing all three of her first-half attempts.

“Coming out of halftime, I just wanted to be aggressive, attack the basket and look to make plays,” Peters said.

Fellow sophomore Chloe Wells registered her second straight double-figure scoring output, finishing with a career-high 14 points. Defensively, Wells also slowed down Auburn’s best shooter, Glymph, in the second half.

Duke’s bench was also crucial, as Allison Vernerey and Richa Jackson each chipped in eight points to help secure the Blue Devils’ 13th straight victory in its home openers.

“We were very pleased with our second half,” McCallie said. “To hold any team to 19 second-half points I think is a remarkable accomplishment, especially Auburn, a very physical team with a lot of talent and a lot of shooters.”

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consistently being in ideal positions to make plays, the Duke defensive backs were unable to win critical one-on-one matchups. Washington threw for 185 passing yards on just six completions for the Yellow Jackets. “[We gave] up some long bombs against a running team,” Duke cornerback Ross Cockrell said. “We can’t allow a team like Georgia Tech to throw on us like they did today.”

Duke’s offense, however, kept the Blue Devils in the game.

After struggling with accuracy early in the game, quarterback Sean Renfree found his groove and finished with one of his best games of the season. The redshirt junior signal caller finished with four touchdown passes—including two in the fourth quarter to Cooper Helfet—to tie his career high while racking up 250 total yards through the air. The aerial attack allowed the Blue Devils to match their second-highest scoring output on the year with 31 points.

Renfree was helped to his impressive line by his receiving corps, which came up big yet again. Conner Vernon had nine catches for 92 yards and one touchdown. Donovan Varner’s five receptions and one touchdown gave him the Duke record for 36 consecutive games with at least one reception.

The Blue Devils had a few prime opportunities to potentially tie the game, but like so many other times this season, they could not capitalize.

After Helfet’s second touchdown reception in the fourth quarter, Duke badly botched an onside kick attempt. Then, Charlie Hatcher’s fumble recovery gave Duke one last possession. The Blue Devils, however, could not deliver late in the fourth quarter. Several costly penalties and an interception by Renfree—his ninth on the season—ended Duke’s final hope of tying the game and extended the Blue Devil’s losing streak to six games.

“I thought we could have pulled off the victory,” Donovan Varner said. “It has been that type of season for us where we shoot ourselves in the foot, a play here and a play there that we don’t quite make.”

Despite the frustrating loss, the resiliency of a Duke team with no bowl hopes illustrates the progress made in the Duke football culture, which is also a testament to the senior class— the winningest Duke football class since 1995.

“We don’t have moral victories,” Cutcliffe said. “That was totally a team effort of focus and a valiant effort. It’s a great statement and a legacy that our seniors have left us here.”

In the third quarter, both defenses stepped up and limited the offenses to just a field goal apiece, as each team saw one of its drives stall in the red zone.

On his first red zone appearance of the fourth quarter, Cutcliffe called a timeout to ensure the drive would not end prematurely once again. Renfree came out in a goal-line formation with three tight ends. Cooper Helfet, the biggest receiving threat of the group, motioned from the right side of the formation, but cut sharply back to his right when he approached Renfree. Renfree timed the snap perfectly as Helfet beat his man to the edge, and Renfree delivered a strike to a wide-open Helfet in the end zone.

That score cut the Yellow Jacket lead to seven, giving the Blue Devils momentum and awakening the Wallace Wade crowd. Duke’s defense, however, was unable to come up with a stop on the ensuing possession as Washington was able to beat the Blue Devil defense with a fake pitch before cutting up the field and breaking tackles on a 39-yard touchdown run.

Renfree responded with an impressive drive of its own, completing all five of his pass attempts. The fifth completion was a 10-yard touchdown strike to Helfet with 6:37 left in the contest which again reduced the deficit to seven.

On the next possession, Duke’s defense came up with a crucial takeaway, as senior nose guard Charlie Hatcher emerged from a pile with the football after running back Charles Perkins coughed it up with just under four minutes remaining at the Blue Devils’ 34-yard line.

After an incomplete pass intended for Vernon on first down, a holding penalty forced Duke into a second-and-20. Renfree completed consecutive passes to Varner and Cooper Helfet to convert the first down, but another offensive penalty backed the Blue Devils up again, this time into a second-and-26 situation.

“We kind of shot ourselves in the foot,” Varner said.

“Penalties like that…are something we have to eliminate.”

Renfree, in desperate need of a first down, took a chance, lofting a deep ball to Helfet, but cornerback Jemea Thomas wrestled it away from him. “[Helfet] is a big guy down the sideline,” Cutcliffe said. “[Thomas] is not very big…. I teach that, know your matchups. [Renfree] gave [Helfet] a shot at it and just came up short.”

The interception was one of the few blemishes on an otherwise stellar day by Renfree. After completing just one of his first seven throws, Renfree finished 26-for-42 with four touchdowns, tying a career high.

“Sean played really well today,” Vernon said. “We put a lot of new stuff in for him this week and the line held up really well.”

Despite Renfree’s prolific stats, Duke needed its defense to force a three-and-out in order to give the offense a chance to drive downfield to tie the game late.

On 3rd-and-6, Washington kept the ball on an option to his left and was able to beat linebacker Austin Gamble to the edge and easily pick up the first down, sealing the game for Georgia Tech. The loss marked the Blue Devils’ fifth defeat by 10 points or less.

“It’s really frustrating,” Vernon said. “We’re always there…. We have to close them out. It’s that simple. We have to find a way.”

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After averaging just 3.5 points per game last season, Wells has emerged as the Blue Devils leading scorer over the first three games, averaging a team high 12.3 points on almost 45-percent shooting.

Guard Chelsea Gray added 11 points and four assists.

Freshman center Elizabeth Williams was held mostly in check, scoring just seven points on 3-of-9 shooting and committing five turnovers. But she also made strong contributions on the defensive end, blocking three Hilltopper shots. Forward Richa Jackson totaled eight points and seven rebounds in a strong effort off the bench.

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Duke Performances and Carolina Performing Arts, along with the Nasher Museum of Art and the Ackland Art Mueseum, should agree to actively publicize each other’s upcoming events. Something as simple as including information about the other university’s event on a website or listserv email would reach a new swath of potential attendees. Another possibility is utilizing the advertising space on the Robertson Bus to increase awareness of cross-campus opportunities. To encourage attendance, Duke and UNC student discounts should be extended, at least

partially, to students from the other campus.

Even more ambitious than increased attendance at outside events are joint or collaborative events. The Nasher has already attempted such programming with its Double Exposure event earlier this month, shuttling students between the Nasher and the North Carolina Central University Art Museum for related photo exhibits and performances.

The Kenan-Biddle Partnership grants, which are available for student-initiated projects that bridge both universities, could fund these collaborations. It is not difficult to imagine joint events between Duke and UNC a cappella groups or improv comedy troupes. The Kenan-Biddle money would be perfect to initiate larger artistic

projects or performances that take advantage of the resources two major universities have to offer.

Earlier this year, incoming students at Duke and UNC read the same summer reading book, ostensibly to strengthen the intellectual ties between them. If Duke and UNC truly care about strengthening those ties, they will encourage programs and events that require students to physically travel to the other campus and share an intellectual experience together. Arts provide the perfect opportunity to do just that. With some coordination, Duke and UNC could put on arts events that reach double the audience, benefiting double the students.

With just a bus ride away, there is not much to lose and an incredible amount to gain.

Why I’m going to be a consultant instead

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eah, I know. I have an interview with the Boston an NGO. A lot of my friends who have way worse judgConsulting Group next week. I didn’t think it ment than me are choosing careers that will make was going to work out, but Daddy pulled some them good salaries, but I know they’re going to spend strings so I could get the preferential it on things like oil-guzzling private treatment I deserve. I used to believe jets and bankrupting the 99 percent in systematic oppression, but my even more. I need to make money, newfound success in the consulting too, to make up for their selfishness. field has shown me that in America, You see, I’m totally not doing this for you can be whatever you want to be, myself. I’ll still be saving the world; as long as you work hard. Now that’s I’ll just be way more effective at it something to be thankful for. because I’ll have more resources. I’ll I’m sorry about my change in make sure to use my expense account career path, Loyal Citizens. I know concerned global to only buy local, organic food and you’re disappointed; after all, I was MY charter jet will offset its carbon. I’ll citizen the last one of my friends who didn’t even buy some city parks and make monday, monday have a job next year. We all walked them official corporate-sponsored into Duke with a Global education protest spaces. Don’t worry, Occupiand a Concerned mindset, but I was the only one left ers; my personal fortune will save you! who still took my resume to the Nonprofit and GovThere are a lot of ways consulting will help me ernment Career Fair, even though the government in my mission to save the world and feed poor peodoesn’t help people either, so it was pretty pointless of ple everywhere. First of all, consulting will help me me. But clearly, I’ve been doing something moral. So hone important survival skills, like PowerPoint prewhy the change now? Before you judge me too much, sentations. How am I going to get big businesses to I want you to know that I’ve been thinking about this change their evildoing ways if I can’t make a convincfor at least a week, so I’ve put a lot of thought into it. ing PowerPoint? I’ll also get access to people who It started with Turkeys for Turkey. As it turns out, only want to make money for themselves, and I just Thanksgiving is an American-only holiday (which know I’ll be able to convince them to think Globally has got to be racist; I just can’t figure out how), so instead. After all, Duke culture has already changed I had to switch to providing general aid to earth- so much since I’ve been here; now everyone thinks quake victims—which doesn’t have the same ring twice before saying something, just in case it might to it. I guess if I were handing out oatmeal, it could be offensive, and even the most hardened consumbe Quaker for Quakees? Those would be such cute erists are willing to buy charity T-shirts for a good T-shirts! Anyway, I realized for the first time that it cause. They’re even distributing their wealth to the was my family’s vast personal wealth that allowed me lower classes by going into Durham more, allowing to bring so much good to the world. Who needs a them to be relieved of their money at gunpoint by nongovernmental organization when your dad has people who really need it. If we can convince Duke his own charter jet? students, who are the worst of the worst, to be better This was a huge epiphany. I’ve always thought of citizens, it should be easy to take on big business! money as a representation of everything evil in the I may be entering into the same field as fratstars world. I’ve noticed that supporters of the status quo, and sorostunpaidsexworkers, but my reasons are of every hegemony imaginable, tend to have a lot of way more enlightened than everybody else’s, as usumoney. So I equated money and general evildoing. al. And my experience in Africa and interning for But that was super simplistic. Having money doesn’t NGOs won’t go to waste; it looks great on resumes, make you a bad person! It’s when you do bad things especially when I head them with my African name. with your money that you become bad. I mean, look I’ll definitely keep supporting developing countries at my family. Daddy hasn’t been indicted for anything the way I always have; I’ll use all my vacation time yet, so I know his business is all on the up-and-up. And for ecotourism. See? I couldn’t save Africa with ecowe give to lots of charities, so even though Daddy had friendly safaris if I was poor, could I? to lay off a couple hundred workers to preserve his salary, at least they have good reading material.

Concerned Global Citizen bought a $1,500 suit, but it It’s almost as if having more money helps you do was hand-sewn by two Princeton grads in New York and even more good. That’s how I know I can’t work for they send half the proceeds to charity, so it’s all good.

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outh Africa—like Duke—prides itself on being a flecting the racial or ethnic makeup of the school are diverse place. created and given problem-solving tasks or case studAnd on our first day there, it was hard not to ies to prepare. I don’t harbor the expectation that a think of home sweet Durham when we mandatory first-year course along these were told about the inherent problem lines would solve all our problems, but I jeremy ruch with the “Rainbow Nation.” Rainbows, bet it’d contribute more to our intellecrun and tell that we were told, have distinct and separate tual development than Writing 20. lines of color that don’t interact. SimiAnother proposal, made in The larly, South African society—despite the end of apart- Chronicle of Higher Education, suggests cultural exheid—is still characterized by self-segregation. Whites, changes, in which students from particular parts of for the most part, live near whites, blacks near blacks, the world or cultures are enrolled in educational exand coloureds near coloureds. One professor told us changes in which they teach areas of local expertise. that the country should instead be striving for a para- A student from China helps an American counterpart digm more along the lines of a fruit salad, since all the with Mandarin in exchange for help in an American colors are jumbled up and mixed together. history course, or a black student gives assistance to a When we talk about these issues in class, the lib- Jewish student enrolled in an African American studertarian in me makes me throw my hands up in frus- ies course in exchange for help with Hebrew. It’s nothtration. No government official with a head on his ing too revolutionary, but it would certainly foster inshoulders will ever tell people they need to leave their teraction in a new and innovative way. tight-knit communities in the interest of societal deMuch of the research I came across challengsegregation. And it’s tough, at a national level, to see es some very reasonable assumptions. I’d always so much tractability when it comes to something as thought, for instance, that the new “cultural houses” ingrained as self-segregation. planned under the new House Model were a terrible Not so for a college administration, which has far idea because they fostered self-segregation (in fact, more leeway to redraw a community social scene. I almost said so in this column). Turns out a 1991 Duke’s administration has the power to dictate just empirical study of student life at UC-Berkeley looked about every aspect of our lives in our four years spent at the effect of precisely these kinds of houses and in the Gothic Wonderland. So though it may be un- found that they in fact facilitate diverse interactions reasonable to expect a national government to do by making minority students feel more comfortable anything about self-segregation, there’s no reason to on campus. It isn’t all so obvious, in other words— absolve the gurus in the Allen Building from their re- this research needs to be dissected in order to unsponsibility to foster diverse social interactions. derstand which administrative-level decisions make The problem is that they’ve been spending a dis- the most sense. proportionate amount of time trying to add to Duke’s There are clearly solutions to be discussed and reRainbow Campus, if you will, rather than focusing search to be reviewed. Read through the archives of on mixing up the pretty diverse rainbow we already this paper and you’ll find any number of open houses, have. Read the 2006 “Making a Difference” strategic forums, conferences and discussions on race relations plan and you’ll see a school promising to “renew our and self-segregation at Duke. But all of them, so far commitment to being a University composed of dif- as I can tell, privileged discussions of the problem ferent people from different parts of the country and over potential solutions. Enough—there are too many the world.” ideas out there to keep regurgitating what is essenThis misses the point. The defining problem of di- tially a natural problem. versity at Duke isn’t that there are 10 percent too many I once promised myself I’d never propose the crewhite students or 3 percent too few Native American ation of another committee or club at Duke, but promstudents. The problem is that there is precious little ises are made to be broken. A student-led committee discussion of how to foster interaction amongst the with administrative support should be tasked with diverse student body we already have. The Journal of looking at the various research-based methods used Blacks in Higher Education correctly points out that to promote diverse interactions on college campuses. “the experience at Duke proves that simply enrolling There may be no easy solutions, but that doesn’t mean large numbers of black students will not necessarily we should ignore the problem. lead to a racially integrated campus.”

And just because self-segregation is natural doesn’t Fortunately, there has been a wealth of research mean we can’t fight it. published on the subject of how to fight self-segregation on college campuses. The same article in The Jeremy Ruch is a Trinity junior and is currently studying Journal, for instance, argues that universities should abroad in Brazil, South Africa and Vietnam. His column create “jigsaw classrooms” in which small groups re- runs every other Monday.

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hanksgiving is a wonderful time of year that prompts us to take a break from our busy lives and reflect on all the things we cherish and are thankful for. It is very easy to get caught up in the little annoyances day in laura mistretta and day out and lose sight of guest column everything that is going well in our lives, but pausing to put everything in perspective can be incredibly therapeutic and humbling. I am thankful for many things, but this Thanksgiving I would like to take a moment and thank the men, women and children who work hard to pick our food all year long.

Farmworkers perform some of the most important and underappreciated work in the country. Our society has become increasingly removed from the agricultural process, so much so that I associate fresh fruits and vegetables with the produce section of the supermarket more so than the farm they came from. But then, if you take the time to think about the fact that 85 percent of our fresh produce has to be handpicked and that there is a human face attached to every single one of those sweet potatoes you’re buying, it all becomes a little bit more real. However, if you are picturing the Hollywood idyllic farm scene then think again. For how essential the work that farmworkers do is, the conditions they must work and live in and the protections they are afforded certainly do not match up.

One of the main causes of this incongruence is due to farmworker exceptionalism, which refers to the fact that many of the laws passed to protect workers’ rights exclude farmworkers. Therefore, the laws that address child labor, overtime and worker’s compensation, among others, do not apply to farmworkers. This leaves them very vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. Furthermore, the laws that do apply to farmw orkers, such as laws that set living standards, are inadequate and rarely enforced.

Many workers live in labor camps, which can take the form of old farmhouses, trailers or even just basic wood cabins that are generally situated just at the end of the field they work on. The current state legislation requires that farmers provide one toilet for every 15 men and one washing tub for every 30 men. Although farmworkers can file complaints, this rarely happens because the majority of farmworkers are undocumented (somewhere between 50 and 75 percent, depending on who you ask) and afraid of being fired—or worse, deported. Even if a farmworker does complain, the farmer often times does not address the problem promptly, which can make life extremely difficult if 100 men are sharing seven toilets and one breaks down. Prolonged refusal to deal with complaints raised by farmworkers can result in the farmer being fined, but the amount is pretty inconsequential and can generally be reduced or waived if the farmer accepts a warning.

Many people are not aware about the issues that affect farmworkers, but there are groups working to improve the conditions farmworkers face. Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) is a nonprofit—based right off of East Campus in the Center for Documentary Studies. It works to raise awareness of farmworker issues and encourage farmworkers to be leaders and demand better conditions for themselves. SAF is part of the Farmworker Advocacy Network (FAN), which is a coalition based in North Carolina that primarily deals with working to improve living and working conditions for farmworkers throughout the state by pressuring state government officials to not only enforce current laws but also update them.

So as you get ready to dig into your sweet potato casserole this coming Thursday, take the time to think about the person who harvested those potatoes and made this great celebration of family and food possible.

Laura Mistretta, Trinity ’14 and an intern for Student Action With Farm Workers.

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Miranda Qin makes a mask with her mother, LuFeng Wang, at the Nasher Museum Free Family Day Sunday afternoon.

Sophomore Laura Mistretta, an intern for Student Action With Farm Workers, noted the human effects of the subsidies.

“The corn subsidies are way too high—they have given our farmers advantages for years,” Mistretta said. “Subsidies have a huge impact on the global economy, especially on Mexico—the ability of American farmers to sell their corn for less than it costs to make it is a huge factor for undocumented immigration.”

Because it is supported by Duke, the Duke Farm will not be affected by the bill, Miller said. He added that he hopes the new bill will encourage sustainable farming operations similar to the Duke Farm and will adopt measures like the “Beginning Farmer and Rancher Opportunity Act of 2011,” to reduce barriers to first-time farmers.

“The average age of a farmer is 58-years-old in the U.S., an increase of eight years from just a generation ago, so it would be vital for the bill to incentivize and aid younger farmers, who would be educated about and committed to sustainable food system principles,” Miller said.

Ginny Crothers works in sales and marketing for Eastern Carolina Organics, one of the local organic farms that supplies produce to Bon Appetit dining services at Duke. The Farm Bill is not expected to directly affect the ECO farm, she said. She worried, however, that the bill will serve as a “crutch for monoculture agribusinesses and big food corporations.”

“Our growers don’t receive much, if anything, in terms of government funding, but that is something that could and should change,” Crothers wrote in an email Friday.

Americans are largely uninformed about the economic structures that produce their food, but the 2012 Farm Bill has the potential to change that, Wirzba said.

ROBBERY from page 1 The suspects were both wearing black hooded sweatshirts and bandannas over their faces, the student said, adding that they were both black males who appeared to be around the age of 18. One suspect was about 5 feet, 8 inches tall and the other was about 5 feet, 11 inches tall.

The student said the armed suspect held the weapon in his left hand and wore a black and white polka-dotted bandanna.

He also noted that after the robbery, the suspects ran toward Main Street. The student, bleeding profusely from his head, proceeded to run back to his house where a friend notified police of the crime.

Faculty members have reached out to the student after the crime occurred, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said.

Moneta said that precautions are being taken in order to prevent further crimes.

“There is much more visible and targeted patrol both on East Campus and the Trinity Park area by the Duke Police Department,” Dailey added. “We certainly have had some comments that people have noticed that. That’s the visible measure. We are also doing some things that we really can’t talk about.”

A similar robbery involving a student walking on East Campus took place Nov. 13.

Dailey notified the student body of Friday’s robbery in an email at approximately 3:30 a.m. Friday, and those who are subscribed to DukeALERT received a text as well. Moneta advised students to use automotive transportation at night, to travel with others and to stay alert and aware of their surroundings.

“I will not be walking at night anymore,” the student said.

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More than 200 artists gathered to display their work for the Durham Art Walk, an art exhibition spread across downtown Durham.