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Catching up with Duke’s Reggie Love

Jewelry firm sues Lance Thomas

Former “body man” speaks candidly about President Barack Obama

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Former Duke basketball player Lance Thomas, a starter on the Blue Devils 2010 national championship team, is being sued by a New York jewelery firm over merchandise he purchased Dec. 21, 2009, according to the lawsuit obtained by the Associated Press.

That date is in the middle of his senior season, two days after Duke defeated Gonzaga at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Thomas bought five pieces of jewelry worth $97,800—$30,000 of which he paid up front. The balance of $67,800 remains unpaid.

“We have been made aware of a lawsuit filed by a jeweler against former men’s basketball player Lance Lance Thomas Thomas, and we are currently looking into the matter,” said Jon Jackson, an associate athletic director for Duke who works with men’s basketball.

Duke basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski has no further comment at this time, Jackson told The Chronicle.

The jewelry company in question, Rafaello and Co., is located in midtown Manhattan.

“You guys are blowing the whole thing out of proportion,” said Gabriel Jacobs, a co-owner of the jewelry store. He deferred

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Nine months after Reggie Love left the White House for business school, the former Duke basketball player and President Barack Obama still make time for the occasional game of pickup.

Love, a former Duke football player and member of the 2001 men’s basketball championship team, joined the Obama campaign in 2007.

He served as the president’s personal aide—commonly referred to as “body man”— until December 2011, when he left to pursue an MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Love, who graduated from Reggie Love Duke in 2005, is on track to complete his MBA this spring.

Although his time at the White House has ended, Love said he still keeps in touch with the president. Staffers periodically call or email Love with a question about something he might remember.

“I still have a place in [Washington,] D.C., so we see each other,” Love said of the president.

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Study finds cheaper ways to purchase a textbook

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Despite the growth of textbook rentals, a book shopping website found that students save more money by the traditional method of buying and selling back textbooks.

Buying and selling back textbooks online on average saved stu-

Blue Devils Some say DNC ‘wasn’t anything new’ gain highly rated recruit

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Last season, Duke basketball’s lack of size, athleticism and defensive versatility on the perimeter proved to be costly.

Going forward, that problem should not plague the Blue Devils again. Sunday night Duke added Semi Ojeleye, the No. 9 small forward and No. 38 overall recruit in the class of 2013 according to ESPN.com, to a set of wings that already includes Alex Murphy SEE RECRUIT ON SW PAGE 8

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Delegates hold signs at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte last week.

Voters rally as the Democratic National Convention concludes and the presidential race surges forward.

Despite setbacks due to weather, the DNC presented a unified party news front with events and speeches analysis geared toward rallying voters, said Walton Robinson, communications director for the North Carolina Democratic Party. said. Hosted in Charlotte Sept. 4-6, the convention provided a venue for Democratic nominee President Barack Obama to outline his vision for the country. It also brought the state into the national scene, highlighting its importance as a battleground state.

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“This city put on a great convention,” Robinson said. “We wanted to make sure that North Carolina and Charlotte were up to the challenge of being in the international spotlight.”

Some, however, criticized Obama’s speech for being more of the same.

Senior Taylor Imperiale, president of Duke College Republicans, said he was disappointed that the convention and Obama’s speech were not more exciting.

“It was the same thing that we’ve heard,” he said. “It wasn’t anything new, and nothing overly exciting occurred.”

Despite such criticism, Gunther Peck, associate professor of public policy and history, said there was an element of honesty in the speech that reflected

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Students bring internet access to rural Togo

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Thanks to the efforts of two Duke students, a village in rural Togo can now use the Internet.

This past summer, senior Kathleen Ridgeway and junior Connor Cotton constructed an internet-equipped computer center in the rural village of Farendé, Togo. They designed the center to be powered sustainably with solar panels and to generate ongoing revenue for local development. Ridgeway and Cotton spent months fundraising and planning their project before arriving in Togo.

“Providing students with affordable access to the Internet in Farendé will give them the opportunity to learn and succeed in a way that the underresourced schools do not currently allow,” Ridgeway said.

“Academic success will increase their chances of pursuing higher education and ultimately of finding long-term employment that will help to improve their village’s economic situation over the long term.”

Ridgeway and Cotton operated with funding from DukeEngage, which supports independent projects as well as its existing programs around the world.

Professor of cultural anthropology Charles Piot served as mentor for the project. Piot has worked as an anthropologist in northern Togolese villages for more than 25 years. “[The computers are] stunning to see in this context,” Piot said. “This project has the potential to be transformative in this area, connecting youth to the Internet and the world beyond—and helping to stem

the drain of youth away from the villages.”

Ridgeway spent time in Togo the previous summer after she received an Aalok S. Modi Global Health Fieldwork Fund award which allowed her to live in Farendé and research Togo’s traditional healing system.

Working with village’s healers and living with a host family, Ridgeway learned about the community’s education system and recognized the many challenges it faces, such as lack of resources and low teacher salaries. Ridgeway said her positive experience and observations of the failing education system fueled her desire to return.

“I felt a powerful connection to the area and wanted to demonstrate my gratitude for my host community’s openness through making some sort of direct contribution to Farendé,” she said.

She and Cotton—who has spent time working in an alternative energy research laboratory and leading renovation and repair projects on rural Virginia homes—decided to join forces to build the computer center.

Recently, the Togolese government withdrew nearly all the social services it provided rural communities. This governmental neglect has exacerbated the poor economic circumstances the villages face, Cotton noted. In response, Farendé has implemented a Committee for Community Development to help address these issues.

Given the current economic dilemma, Ridgeway and Cotton saw a greater opportunity for their project. By charging a small fee for computer usage, the computer center they built

can now be a business. Its profits will go directly to Farendé’s Committee for Community Development in order to back community initiatives.

For five months, the students raised money for their project and accumulated and shipped supplies, including solar panels, laptop computers and power invertors. Once in Togo, they designed and carried out renovations to the building’s roof, installed the solar panels and assembled and tested the whole system.

Without any electricity, local technicians or infrastructure for support, the students worked almost entirely on their own.

“We relied entirely on Connor’s previous experience in engineering and construction to design the more technical aspects of the project,” Ridgeway said. “Because of my previous experience in the village and my personal connections with its inhabitants, I was responsible for handling the communication aspects of the project.”

Ridgeway and Cotton noted that although the project was challenging, they both had very positive experiences.

“This was the hardest thing I have ever been able to accomplish,” Cotton said. “As the only engineering student to go to Togo through Dr. Piot’s program, I saw the village in very different terms from the global health and cultural anthropology students who had gone before me. When working on the engineering aspects of the project in the field, I had no guidance and had to rely only on myself, which was definitely a learning experience.”

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Senior Kathleen Ridgeway and junior Connor Cotton constructed an internetequipped computer center in Togo. They spent months fundraising and planning before arriving in the country.

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The computer center is located in the rural village of Farendé, Togo. It is powered by solar panels and has the potential to generate revenue for the town.

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DNC from page 1 the president’s refusal to make promises he could not deliver with absolute certainty. “What I appreciated was the level of humility in it,� Peck, who attended the DNC, said. “It’s much easier to be a candidate if you haven’t been the president.�

Officials from the Obama campaign said voter reaction to the president’s speech was better than four years ago, adding that the speech highlighted a clear choice on issues such as jobs, the economy, taxes, deficits, education and energy. “He gave a home run speech and made a case for why he deserves another four years in office,â€? said Alejandra Salinas, former national president of College Democrats of America, who also gave remarks at the DNC. “It wasn’t a partisan speech‌. It was a speech to everyone in this country.â€?

Duke Democrats President David Winegar, a sophomore, noted that the Google searches for “register to vote� doubled shortly following the convention, signifying the motivation inspired by the DNC. “We are all looking forward to taking the energy from this convention and using it to keep Duke and North Carolina blue this November,� Winegar said.

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targeting undecided voters and invigorating the Democratic base, Peck said.

Yet the efficacy of conventions in garnering new voters remains in question, especially given that only a small portion of the electorate remains undecided, Peck added. With the partisn national media landscape—with Republicans generally gravitating toward Fox News and Democrats toward MSNBC—converting Republican voters depends heavily on whether they were exposed to the DNC at all.

Still, the convention successfully rallied the Democratic base, invigorating voters to actively campaign and get to the voting booth come Nov. 6, Peck noted.

An Obama campaign spokesman said the convention helped frame the election as a choice between two visions for the country’s future, which could ultimately help voter turnout. Moving forward in the elections, Obama must win Ohio and Florida. “The biggest challenge is to get the Democratic base out to vote,� Peck said. “The convention tried to combat a sense of apathy about voting.�

Before the DNC, Obama and Romney were tied with 46.8 percent support, according to the Real Clear Politics average of polls. Following the DNC, Obama has surged in the polls, leading 49 percent to 45 percent, according to Gallup poll released Sunday. Although it is too soon to see if the surge can maintain momentum, or if it will drop

like Romney’s post-RNC surge, according to a Rasmussen poll.

Following the RNC, polls showed Romney ahead of Obama 48 percent to 44 percent.

Young voters rise Although the effects on independent voters remain uncertain, the convention energized young voters because Obama has a positive vision for the future, Salinas said.

She added that throughout the convention, Obama demonstrated his commitment to young people by highlighting specific policies that he has already accomplished—such as Pell Grants and credit card reform—and that he intends to pursue if re-elected.

The economy—which poses major concerns for many young Americans looking to enter the job market—was one issue Obama successfully addressed, Salinas said.

Salinas, who graduated from the University of Texas-Austin in 2012, noted that there was a significant increase in the flow of interviewers and recruiters on campus from her freshman to her senior year. This increase attests to the economic improvements under the Obama administration, and will convince young Americans to re-elect him for another four years, she added.

Young Americans were also motiviated by Obama’s focus on a broad scope of issues, including marriage equality, women’s healthcare, reproductive rights

and student loans, she added.

Peck reaffirmed the importance of the young American vote, noting that voters aged 1824 carried Obama to victory in North Carolina in 2008—a state he won by only 0.3 percent.

He encouraged Duke students to take advantage of the on-campus voting site, adding

that N.C.’s position as a battleground state provides a unique opportunity for playing a decisive role in the election. “[Voting is] a part of... Duke engagement that sometimes is forgotten,� Peck said. “It’s not just about what’s happening globally but also right here at home.�

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LOVE from page 1 “I help out with different events, and we still play basketball every now and then.”

When Love left the White House last winter, Obama invited him, as well as a group of friends and colleagues over to play cards. The group sat and watched Duke men’s basketball lose 85-63 to Ohio State. The loss did not help Love convert Obama into a Duke fan, as much as Love wishes he could have.

“With college basketball—you know with Harvard, Occidental—he doesn’t really know what college basketball is, didn’t really grow up and go to school in that kind of environment,” Love said. “He

“I was in the Oval Office going over the program with my current boss and former coach with the rest of the Duke world sitting in front of me.”

—Reggie Love

currently just likes watching the games, whether cheering for Georgetown, Duke or [North] Carolina. We’ve all seen in the NCAA tournament, though, that he has very much picked against Duke, which is unfortunate.”

One of Love’s best memories of the White House is when his past and present intersected in 2010, when the men’s basketball team visited to celebrate the NCAA championship.

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program with my current boss and former coach with the rest of the Duke world sitting in front of me,” Love recalled. “It was one of the better moments for me.”

Basketball has always been common ground for Love and the president. While Love was at the White House, the two played together several times a week. Love’s bottom-line characterization of Obama’s playing style is that it is “good team basketball.”

“He’s never the kind of guy whose only purpose is to score, though he can score,” Love said. “He’d prefer to win and have zero points than to score all the points and lose. I think his sense on court is: What do we have to do to win?”

Of all Duke basketball players, Love said Obama’s skill set most closely resembles that of Shane Battier, a fellow member of the 2001 championship team, in that he can do everything and play from all sides of the court while never easing up on his effort.

The president is highly competitive in all areas, whether it is basketball, tennis, pool or cards, Love added.

“The guy does not like losing, but granted I don’t know many that do,” he said. “I will say that [losing] particularly gets him pretty fired up.”

Love noted that fundamentally, Obama’s team-oriented approach to basketball translates to his leadership style as president, only on a much larger scale.

Love also gained unique insight into the president off the court while serving as his personal aide. Obama, he said, inspires him to keep learning.

“Magazines, newspapers, blogs—the guy consumes more information than any other person I know,” he said. “I have gotten to witness how much he enjoys learning and how well-versed he is across so many different specialties, from policy to music

to movies to history—it’s really amazing.”

As the height of the 2012 election approaches, Love, who was in Charlotte for the Democratic National Convention last week, highlighted the expansion of health care and favorable student loan policies as successes of the Obama administration.

“When I turned 20, I came off my parents health insurance,” Love said. “That was something really hard for me as I transitioned between the NFL and politics. If I had been in a car accident in between jobs, I would have been in serious trouble.”

Love’s ties to Duke remain equally as strong as those to the president. He reflects on his time at Duke fondly as if it were yesterday, noting freshman orientation week, Pauly Dogs and the 2001 basketball cham-

pionship in Minneapolis as a few of his favorite memories.

He credits not only political science and public policy classes as best preparing him for his work in the White House but also the exposure to different cultures and perspectives that Duke provides to its students.

“Being able to empathize and have perspective is one of the greatest things you can ever learn,” he said.

Love plans to visit campus for multiple Duke football and basketball games this year, including the football game versus North Carolina Oct. 20.

As for his outlook on Duke basketball, Love said he of course expects the Blue Devils to go all the way.

“If they don’t, I’m going to be heartbroken,” he said.

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Our educational values Student loans are a big there are other goals we must deal this election season, as also consider. How the govevidenced by the roaring ernment structures federal applause whenever Obama aid packages to colleges is a mentioned college affordabil- reflection of the educational ity during his speech Thurs- values it holds dear. We see day night at three main valthe Democratic ues, low costs editorial National Conamong them, vention. Obama promised that must be considered in to “work with colleges and how federal aid is spent on universities to cut in half the higher education. growth of tuition costs over First, Obama is of course the next 10 years,” partly by right to value low costs. Tying withholding federal aid from federal aid to tuition rates will colleges that fail to keep tu- force colleges to prioritize and ition down and produce good optimize. Especially at large educational outcomes. state schools that have highly How government resourc- decentralized bureaucracies, es are spent on higher edu- there is plenty of room to cation is a tricky matter, one cut costs, which can lead dithat’s hotly debated by both rectly to student savings. For political parties. While we example, the Ohio State Uniagree that it’s good to incen- versity once saved $20 million tivize colleges to reduce costs, merely by switching to com-

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mon vendors for pens, copiers and shipping. Previously the university’s individual 14 colleges had chosen vendors on their own. Obama’s plan will hopefully lead to a serious and rigorous examination of operational costs at all universities.

However, costs cannot be cut to the point of sacrificing quality. Second, we propose that federal aid be tied to student performance metrics.

A troubling trend in the last few years has been the failure of debt-saddled students to find work with their expensive degrees. Nowhere is this phenomenon more alarming than among the graduates of for-profit colleges, which usually produce abysmal student outcomes and waste taxpayer dollars. Therefore, federal

aid must also correspond with performance, ensuring that schools that help its students graduate and find jobs are rewarded. This measure will also make colleges spend its limited resources in the most effective ways.

Third, federal aid must also be used to better access from the student level. We commend Obama wholeheartedly for advancing a number of other higher education initiatives, such as doubling the amount of money spent on Pell Grants, grants for students from low-income families. He was also wise to keep interest rates low for federal Stafford Loans. Even if American universities significantly cut costs, there will always be discrepancies between the tuitions of community col-

leges, state universities and private institutions. This third access-based piece of federal policy should work to cover that discrepancy, guaranteeing that a student’s financial background does not limit his educational opportunity.

Costs, quality and access should be the three main considerations when crafting a federal policy toward college affordability. The ultimate goal is to foster universities that efficiently meet the educational needs of its students—from vocational to liberal arts studies—while ensuring that any child can aspire to any degree, regardless of finances. After all, education should be the great enabler of social mobility, not a mechanism by which current classes are reproduced.

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must start off this column by admitting that programs. Of course, an educated man knows I am not feeling my normal, jovial self. Not what that means: more transfers of wealth from physically, mind you (my Asian assistant, Feng job creators to the idle underclass.

Guan, engages me in physical combat daily in orThat’s not the real tragedy: I think I’ve made der to keep me on my toes), but my views clear on those issues. emotionally. My son, John, forced What’s truly sad is that these polime to visit the Democratic Nacies are causing a rift between tional Convention. John and I have John, my tragically leftist son, and always had a difficult relationship, myself. When I remarked that Medbut this convention seems to be the icaid was merely designed to “combreaking point. pensate for the wildly unhealthy It should not surprise you that I life decisions made by those ethnic am a life-long Republican. A man minorities,” he seemed to get mad must have his friends everywhere, at me. however, even if it requires a “gen“Dad,” he replied, looking out erous donation” to a certain, shall on Time Warner Arena. “You know I say, queer and potentially corrupt I love you, even if we disagree poMassachusetts fellow? Business relitically. But I have to say, your quires making appearances, and grumpy trustee views aren’t merely wrong, they’re since John was attending of his own immoral. You couch your hatred monday, monday volition, I came along too. in an old-timey form of speech, The convention started on an so most people aren’t as viscerally already sour note, with the first major speech giv- turned off by it, but that doesn’t make it any less en by Barack Obama’s wife. I understand times problematic. have changed, but I miss the days when a first “You say these things, these wildly offensive lady was expected to do little except smile and things that, coming from a younger person, ignore the extramarital conduct her husband en- would inspire a huge outcry. But instead, because gaged in. The Democrats of old knew this. Jackie no one wants to read closely into what lies behind Kennedy was the consummate lady, and Eleanor an anachronistic vocabulary, nothing is said. It’s Roosevelt was even known to lift women up onto just viewed as the weird, bizarre ramblings of an FDR’s wheelchair herself. old man.

Now, I am not intending any offense against “It’s ridiculous, Dad, because you actually Mrs. Obama. I come from a long line of pro- have a tremendous amount of power. You, and gressives: My father Washington was one of the elderly people like you, are in charge of most first to oppose miscegenation laws, an advocacy of this nation’s institutions. You make decisions he undertook on behalf of our dear servant Lu- that affect the lives of the ‘underclass,’ which cinda, his lifelong handmaid, and her bastard, really means minorities, you rant about all the mixed-race child Jackson. time: They can’t get jobs if businessmen like Jackson never knew his father, but Washing- you aren’t hiring anyone. Are you hearing me, ton felt for his plight as a technically illegal child Dad?” and had always looked rather kindly on Lucinda.

Suffice it to say, I was angry and hurt. I love my All I mean to say through that lengthy history les- son like a son, but I knew not what to say to him. I son is this: I support the dark race, and I hold feel as though I chose my words unfortunately. no sexist grudges. But allowing a woman to speak “Well, son, at least I’m not the one who electabout politics in public is something I simply can- ed a black president. How’s that for direct?” not abide by.

He hasn’t said another word to me since.

The worst part, of course, came later. All the democrats—Clinton, Obama, even that lovable The Grumpy Trustee apologizes for defaming Eleascamp Biden—spoke of increased government nor Roosevelt, his first true love, in this column.

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f you’ve paid attention at all to the presidential tus older than 20 weeks would constitute an illegal elections, you should be terrified. Not because abortion—legally the killing of a child. There is no of the very serious threat of voter fraud (an mention of an exception to this rule in cases where earth-shattering total of 2068 cases since 2000, less the mother’s life is in danger; in fact, the platform than .001 of a percent of the votes asserts that the prohibition of aborcast), and not because of the formition actually affirms the dignity of dable force of Hurricane Isaac (which women by protecting the sanctity of ended up doing more damage to post human life. Last time I checked, your traumatic stress disorder-stricken dignity isn’t upheld when the governNew Orleans than the elephant-hat ment comes in and mandates that you wearing delegates in Tampa). The place your own life in danger because real reason you should be stockpiling you’re pregnant. If having dignity canned foods, watching “The Hunger joline doedens means that you’re worthy of respect, Games” to learn some essential arit certainly seems like the government wait a minute chery skills and filling your sinks and respects the life of the unviable fetus bathtubs with water is the imminent more than the life of the mother. threat of an apocalypse. Both parties imagine that According to the GOP, the assault on tradithe country is on the brink of destruction, one piv- tional marriage, along with the rampant killing otal Election Day away from either a socialist take- of unborn children, is the biggest obstacle to the over or a return to the glory days of the Industrial realization of the American dream. The platform Revolution. The former will straightjacket job cre- condemns “the hate campaigns, threats of violence ators, provide illegal immigrants with a path to citi- and vandalism by proponents of same-sex marzenship and guarantee a woman’s right to choose riage against advocates of traditional marriage” and gay marriage. The latter will turn back the and urges the federal government to investigate clock to give job creators the free reign to provide “attempts to deny religious believers their civil for their employees and to pollute as much or as rights.” Though there may have been some threats little as they wish, devise a system to encourage il- made by “homosexual activists” against Bristol Palegal immigrants to self-deport, define marriage as lin and churches that make clear their opposition union between a man and a woman and identify a to same-sex marriage—and these acts are certainwoman’s uterus as the only part of her body that is ly unacceptable violations of the right to be free not free to pursue all the opportunities available from harm—there is no consideration of the right to her. of LGBT individuals to enjoy these same rights. If The GOP identifies itself at the Great Oppor- the institution of marriage were the foundation of tunity Party and argues that a government that civil society, then one would think that the roughly refrains from constraining its citizens through 50 percent divorce rate would have thrown Ameritaxes, entitlements and public programs can get can civilization into chaos. Thus far, it seems that the United States “back on track, expanding its we have evaded that apocalyptic end. Why would bounty, renewing its faith and fulfilling its prom- the legalization of gay marriage, the extension of ise of a better life.” That certainly sounds appeal- the right to enter a legal partnership in the eyes ing.… Very few voters would say no to a candidate of the government, fundamentally upset the social who offers them lower taxes and an opportunity order? Religions could still individually refuse to to live the American Dream. But wait a second… recognize any marriage that is not between a man part of the plan to cut taxes includes an extension and a woman, without imposing their own limit on of the 2001 and 2003 tax relief packages, the very opportunity to the country as a whole. same Bush tax cuts in place when our national debt Obviously, I’ve only looked at one side of the started to increase exponentially. coin in this column. The identification of the GOP And how does this freedom of opportunity as the party of opportunity certainly needs to be thing work with the constraints the government qualified, but that doesn’t mean that the Demowould place on gay marriage and a woman’s right cratic Party’s apocalyptic visions for a Romney win to choose? Sure, the GOP may not go so far as to are justified. Even for a crazy feminist such as mymake birth control illegal, which seemed a terrify- self, the Democratic platform isn’t perfect, and ing and almost real prospect this spring when San- the depiction of the Republican Party as a monster dra Fluke was disparaged by Rush Limbaugh for isn’t entirely justified. Stay tuned. her testimony to congressional Democrats. But it is true that the Republican platform calls for proJoline Doedens is a first-year law student. Her column hibiting the abortion of “pain-capable unborn chil- runs every other Monday. You can follow Joline on Twitdren,” which would mean that any abortion of a fe- ter @jydoedens

n the early years of the United States, the only people who were allowed to vote were white, male property owners. Today, this notion seems absurd for obvious reasons.

“White” because people of any race or ethnicity ought to have the right to vote. “Male” because women do just as much for this nation as men do and also ought to be allowed to vote. The criterion I will choose to focus on is the last: property owners. On its face, the idea seems classist and generally absurd. What michael cook about employed people who atlas chugged live in apartments but are nonetheless productive members of society? What about college students? Or seniors who live in retirement homes?

Getting rid of this requirement was clearly a good idea, but I can’t help but think it may have had at least some merit.

In the journal “Colonial Williamsburg,” a history magazine about its namesake community, contributor Ed Crews writes that the property requirements varied by state and that the requirements “reflected the belief that freeholders, as property owners were called, had a legitimate interest in a community’s success and well-being, paid taxes and deserved a voice in public affairs.” Though the notion of “freeholders” as the only federal tax payers was not entirely true (due to federal excise taxes on many goods), it spoke to the legitimate fear that America’s fledgling republic might devolve into mob rule by people with little or no financial stake in government policy. It points to something that we as a nation really need to start thinking about.

In the United States, about 47 percent of the population pays no federal income tax. Factoring in people who don’t really have income or who receive substantial tax credits, the percentage is smaller but still significant. These people pay federal payroll taxes, but since those “taxes” actually go to programs like Medicare and Social Security (the latter of which is like a retirement account or union pension, but with crappy returns), it would be more accurate to think of federal payroll taxes as a forced and inefficient investment for low-income individuals. For middle and high-income earners, it’s more akin to just throwing your money out the window, taking “spread the wealth around” to a whole new level.

Payroll taxes were 40 percent of federal tax revenue in 2010 and disproportionately (if not only) benefitted those who also don’t pay into the 51 percent of revenue that is combined individual and corporate income taxes. Excise made for 3 percent and “other” (duties, estate, etc.) accounted for 6 percent, according to Tax Policy Center.

Author James Bovard once wrote, “Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.” Say a U.S. presidential candidate either promises new entitlement programs for significant portions of the electorate or promises to ramp up funding for current unsustainable ones through taxation. If I were a voter who pays almost nothing to the federal government save for payroll investments and the occasional bottle of beer, I would be strongly tempted by this offer. At face value, I have nothing to lose. If the programs turn out to be a good use of taxpayer dollars, then I get benefits put predominantly on the shoulders of corporations and those who actually pay income taxes. If the programs turn out to be country-indebting and woefully inefficient compared to private counterparts, then I lose virtually nothing. I wait another four years and hope the next one will lead to change I can believe in or something equally trite.

The scenario I have described is the natural and predictable result of allowing our government to assume roles far beyond its intended purpose of protecting the rights and liberties of its citizens. When the concept of rational selfinterest is held secondary to the short-sighted desires of a mob, the results are bad enough. Add in the fact that said mob takes on almost no financial risk, and you have yourself a fiscal disaster. The solution, then, is to leave healthcare and retirement to the only system of economics that ensures everyone has a fair financial stake: the free market. If you truly want healthcare, pay for it with your own money. If you want to invest in your own retirement, invest your hard-earned cash. Just remember one thing: You are not entitled to the property (including money earned in a free market) of another human being. You never were, and never will be.

If this sounds harsh to you, feel free to donate your money to those who have healthcare or retirement needs. After all, our beliefs mean nothing if we don’t have skin in the game.

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lettertotheeditor Stop the blame game I would like to respond to the Sept. 6 column titled “Honoring Rachel Corrie.” Many of the claims about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are inaccurate.

Rachel Corrie was a member of a radical group called the International Solidarity Movement.

One of its founders, George Rishmawi, admitted in 2004 to using human lives as means to an end.

“When Palestinians get shot by Israeli soldiers, no one is interested anymore,” he said. “But if some of these foreign volunteers get shot or even killed, then the international media will sit up and take notice.”

The author of the column writes, “Since 1967, Israel has demolished 25,000 Palestinian homes and internally displaced over 160,000 souls.”

Those houses belong to terrorists. The State of Israel destroys those homes to save the lives of Israelis, Jewish and Arab alike. When an insurgent ponders the effects that his/her violent actions will have on his/her family, he/she will reconsider.

Arab Israelis are not, as claimed, “second-class citizens.” They can vote in Israel. There are Arab

Israelis serving on the Supreme Court and the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. Also, Arabic is an official language in the State of Israel.

Terrorism and playing the blame game are directly responsible for the Palestinians’ condition.

In Gaza, Hamas actively advocates for the annihilation of Israel. Even though there have not been any Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip since the Jewish State dismantled them in 2005 and entirely withdrew its military presence from the zone, Hamas continues to fire rockets constantly. Over on the West Bank, meanwhile, Fatah’s leadership continues to blame Israel for its problems while refusing to negotiate with the Israeli government.

Those factors have contributed to the status quo. In multiple instances (most recently in the previous decade), the State of Israel offered Palestinian leadership their own state. They refused.

To solely blame Israel when Palestinian leadership has stubbornly steered against a path for peace is irresponsible.

Natalie Alberman Trinity ’13

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TEXTBOOKS from page 1 semester, researchers at the online company found that students saved an average of $1,000 per year by buying and selling back books, said Jeff Sherwood, founder of bigwords.com.

“It is really a wash when you are renting versus purchasing a new book, assuming the book is adopted for another term,” said Brian Burtram, the associate director of Duke University Stores. “There’s an idea that renting saves you money, but it doesn’t save you much.”

He noted that even though the average price for a rental book is 50 percent of the price of purchasing, there are late penalty fees associated with the rental option, and buying back may be a more cost-effective option. If the Textbook Store is selling the book for the next semester, the buyback price for that book is half of the sale price. He added that if the book is not being

used the next semester, the store buys the book back at about 30 percent of the new price.

Burtram noted that few students at the University rent textbooks, adding that in the past few semesters, the University Store averaged approximately 75 rentals.

If professors are not planning to use a textbook for more than one semester, renting would be the better option for students as their cost of usage is less, he said.

“We try to select books for rental that are new editions, have higher prices and have high estimated enrollments,” he said. “We average approximately 10 titles per term.”

But Sherwood found that students spend an average of $30 a year on textbooks buying and selling online.

He added that by renting students only save approximately 60 percent of annual textbook expenses.

There is a national effort to increase textbook rental programs on university campuses, Butram noted—an attempt to provide cost-saving measures that could

help reduce the financial burden on students. “[The University] hopes to expand rental options in the near future by partnering with an external company that essentially underwrites the rental cost,” he said. “Once we expand beyond the 10 or so titles we generally can offer, we expect demand for this option to increase.”

Butram noted that despite the tendency to view rentals as the cheaper method, that notion is merely a customer expectation. In reality, the rental method will still be a savings wash for students renting books which are used in subsequent semesters, Burtram said.

But some students noted that price is not always the main factor in selecting a method for purchasing textbooks.

“I buy my books from the Textbook Store because I like knowing that they’ll be at Duke when the semester starts and not before,” junior Diane Shen said. “I like being able to pick them up on my schedule.”

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Duke’s 4-0 lead suddenly looked to be in jeopardy after two quick Marquette goals in the span of three minutes cut the Golden Eagle deficit in half, but Gilda Doria strode into the box and volleyed a cross home three minutes later to quell any 1 hope of a Marquette SD comeback.

DUKE 4 In the No. 4 Blue Devils’ (6-1-0) second MARQ 2 game of the Duke DUKE 5 Nike Classic, they defeated the No. 8 Golden Eagles 5-2 behind two goals from Laura Weinberg. On Friday Duke beat San Diego 4-1 with Weinberg and Doria again amongst the scorers.

Doria had two goals against the Toreros.

“We’re playing really well offensively,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said.

“We’re sharing the ball well. We’re passing and moving. We’re running at players, and we’re being very efficient around the goals.

It’s a great little streak we’re in from an offensive standpoint.”

These two wins were played without injured duo Nicole Lipp and Kim DeCesare, who was injured in the sixth minute of the game against San Diego (3-5-0). The team remained without forwards Mollie Pathman and Kelly Cobb, who won the gold medal at the U-20 Women’s World Cup in Japan.

“Obviously [Kim]’s been really huge for us this season being our leading scorer,” Weinberg said. “So we had that offensive mentality that we had to compensate for her being out. We really took it upon ourselves…to get our shots off and finish our

chances.”

Early in the game it seemed that Duke was struggling to break down Marquette’s (3-2-1) defense and Church yelled instructions to his players on the sidelines.

“We felt like we could press them from the back and that they would turn the ball over at key parts of the field,” Church said.

“I thought we did a pretty good job of pressuring them and not letting them get into a rhythm of play, but they sort of did in the middle part of the second half.”

After 17 minutes, that pressure paid off as defender Libby Jandl won a contested header near the center of the field. She strode after the ball and up the right flank, before lofting in a cross into the box for Weinberg to head into the opposite corner of the goal.

At that point the Blue Devils started to assert their dominance and had the Golden Eagles entrenched in their own half. With eight minutes remaining in the period Weinberg doubled the lead. The defense again ignited the offense with outside back Erin Koballa playing a pass for Weinberg on the flank, who cut onto her left foot before curling an exquisite effort into the top corner beyond the goalkeeper’s reach.

“I was talking to Kim about it at halftime, actually, and she said ‘You have 45 minutes to get a hat trick,’” Weinberg said. “But it was a great team effort. I’m really glad we got those other three goals in the second half.”

Although the shot count was 10-1 in favor of Duke in the first half, and they walked into the locker room with a 2-0 lead, the Blue Devils were nearly down a goal in the early going when Marquette’s lone shot bounced off the post with the game still scoreless.

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Laura Weinberg paced the Blue Devils in their win against Marquette, notching two goals.

After Marquette cut the Duke lead to two, Gilda Doria sealed the game with a volley.

In a hectic 10-minute period in the second half a total of five goals were scored.

After 69 minutes, Duke’s Katie Trees was bundled over in the box and the referee whistled for a penalty. The sophomore striker stepped up to convert the penalty.

Immediately after the ensuing kickoff Trees played a through ball for freshman Cassie Pecht to latch onto and chip over the keeper, creating what seemed like an insurmountable 4-0 lead. At this point many of the starters such as Weinberg, Natasha Anasi and Pecht were taken off.

But three minutes later, Marquette’s Kate Reigle took advantage of failed clearances to pass the ball into the far corner of the net. Three minutes after that Marquette capitalized on another defensive error and Taylor Madigan was able to cut the

lead further with 14 minutes remaining.

Anasi, Weinberg and Pecht were reintroduced to stem the momentum and with more than 10 minutes remaining, Weinberg recorded an assist to go with her two goals.

Her pass found Kara Wilson who crossed the ball to the center of the box for an onrushing Doria to volley into the bottom corner, cementing a Blue Devil victory.

“I’ve just been trying to take shots and put them on target,” Doria said. They’ve been going in and that’s very unusual for me, but all my coaches have said I could do it all along so I’m glad they’re going in....

I think I’m getting a lot more confidence now. My coaches have been very supportive and so has my team. But at the end of the day it’s about the team not my individual play.”

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Two Blue Devils earn Duke falls to a pair of golds in U-20 World Cup ranked opponents In a battle of two-time world champions, the U.S. U-20 women’s national team— with Blue Devils Mollie Pathman and Kelly Cobb—shut out Germany to bring home the gold from the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup. Recording the first goal and the first shutout of the tournament against the defending-champion German squad, the Americans won 1-0 at National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan Sep. 8 to earn their third World Cup crown at this age division.

Pathman, who was one of two U.S. field players to play every minute of the threeweek long tournament, helped the American back line stymie the German offense, which had averaged 2.5 goals per game entering the match.

“We took care of business here, and I couldn’t be more happy now to come home, rejoin my Duke team, go back to classes—really start the year,” Pathman said.

The U.S. entered the he match with an average of just 1.8 goalss per game and had already fallen to Germany rmany earlier in the World Cup. In their eir final game of the group stage, ge, the Americans allowed three goals, losing 3-0 to thee German squad Aug. 27 at Miyagi Stadium in Rifu.

Making it out of the group stage on a tiebreaker, the U.S. then n pulled off an overtime win n against previously-unbeaten North Korea 2-1, at Komaba Stadium tadium in Saitama and a 2-0 semifinal mifinal victory against Nigeria Sep. ep. 4 in Tokyo. Having started one ne game in the group stage, Cobb started rted both the quarterfinal and semifinal emifinal match, though she did not play in the final.

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stage run set up another shot at the defending champions in the title match.

“It was nice having played them,” Pathman said. “We played them earlier in the year also. We both know each other really well. We kind of have similar styles, but we were confident going into this game.”

The confidence paid off for the underdogs.

In the 44th minute, U.S. right back Crystal Dunn found space down the right side of the field and played a low cross to the middle, going past forward Katie Stengel.

A second American—midfielder Kealia Ohai—reached the ball near the penalty mark and fired the ball into the top left corner, breaking the scoreless tie.

“That’s what our goal was…to score the first goal and kind of put them on their heels,” Pathman said. “Germany played a great game, but we came out ready.”

The U.S. opened the second period with a one-goal advantage, but Germany and eventual Golden Ball winner Dzsenifer poised to even the tally.

Marozsan, seemed po During the final 30 minutes of the match, the German squad accumulated a 9-1 corner kick advantage, rattled the a crossbar in the 772nd minute, and put two dangerous attempts at goal on stoppage time. target during st turning up its offensive Despite tur and Marozintensity, Germany Ge notched six assists and san—who no one goal in the tournament— could not penetrate the U.S. to the efforts defense, thanks t back line in the 18-yard of the ba well as a game-high five box as we from U.S. goalkeeper saves fro Heaberlin.

Bryane H definitely came out strong “They defin [in the second half] but I knew we weren’t losing that game,” Pathman said. “I knew they weren’t scoring.

I could just feel it, and had total confidence in our whole team goalie.” and our go

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Two days, two ranked opponents, two losses.

No. 9 Duke (2-3) fell 3-2 to No. 13 Wake Forest (2-2) in double overtime on the road Saturday and lost 4-2 DUKE 2 to No. 11 NorthwestWAKE 3 ern (6-1) at home Sunday.

The Blue Devils 4 NW headed into halfDUKE 2 time with a 2-0 lead against the Demon Deacons, but gave it up in the second period when Jess McFayden registered backto-back goals to tie the game.

After both teams went scoreless in the opening 30 minutes, Duke struck first in the 31st minute when senior Mary Nielson found the back of the net off of a dish from

junior Emmie Le Marchand, who chased a loose ball and maneuvered through several Wake Forest defenders in a hustle play. With less than a minute remaining in the half, sophomore Jessica Buttinger scored off of a cross from classmate Abby Beltrani.

In overtime, the Blue Devils failed to convert on four corner opportunities.

These missed chances proved costly when Wake Forest junior Kari Walkley scored the decisive goal with 3:50 left in double overtime.

“They executed two great corners that we were aware of, so maybe it was just us not executing our defense against what we knew was coming,” Duke head coach Pam Bustin said.

The following day, the Blue Devils returned home to face the Wildcats. This SEE FIELD HOCKEY ON PAGE 7

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If there was ever a game for Duke to employ a little trickery on offense, Saturday’s matchup against heavily favored No. 25 Stanford was it. Instead, unimaginative play calling doomed the Blue Devils in Game their 50-13 loss Cardinal.

Analysis to the S t a n f o r d ’s domination of Duke in all phases of the game was apparent from the outset. After a quick three-and-out on the Blue Devils’ opening possession, they fell behind before the Cardinal offense even took the field, allowing Stanford to return the punt 76 yards for the game’s first score.

Duke proved to be unable to respond to the early 7-0 deficit, with questionable offensive play calling from head coach David Cutcliffe and offensive coordinator Kurt Roper center stage. The Blue Devils spent much of the first half running plays that called for quick, short passes from quarterback Sean Renfree. Rarely taking more than a three-step drop or throwing over the middle, Renfree threw mostly bubble screen and swing passes until the last drive of the half.

“We had some success with [the screen passes], because we didn’t have success doing anything else,” Cutcliffe said. “We couldn’t run the football. They packed it in pretty good, so you’re throwing the screens. We didn’t run them very well early.”

Duke attempted just seven rushes in the first half, and with little to no vertical passing game, Stanford linebackers Jarek Lancaster and Chase Thomas had a field day blowing up the screen plays for minimal gains, racking up 10 tackles between them in the first half.

The Blue Devils gained just 66 yards and two first downs until their final possession of the half, when they drove down the field for a 29-yard field goal that narrowed Stanford’s halftime lead to 23-3.

Until that scoring drive, Renfree’s longest completion was for just nine yards. Despite completing 20-of-27 passes in the half, he went into the locker room with just 94 yards through the air—an average of just 4.5 yards per catch.

“A big part of the issue is that we didn’t protect the passer very well,” Cutcliffe said. “I don’t know how many times he hit the ground…but it was the pressures and the constant people in your face [that was the problem]. We had a lot of errant balls thrown because of their pressure.”

Despite having little luck passing the ball and none running it, the Blue Devils never mixed up their play calling with a trick play or anything stranger than a quarterback keeper when all-purpose offensive player and former quarterback Brandon Conette lined up in the shotgun.

While Renfree’s passing game was suffocated, Cardinal quarterback Josh Nunes took advantage of several blown assignments in the Blue Devil secondary to hit wide-open receivers for big gains.

Although he completed fewer than half as many passes as Renfree in the first half, Nunes racked up 162 passing yards. Four of his nine completions went for 15 or more yards, highlighting what has been a thorn in the side of Duke’s defense.

“We just have to limit the explosive plays, and I think we’ll be okay,” senior safety Walt Canty said. “We depend on our offense to score points, but when they’re not going, we need to step up.”

Following Stanford’s punt return for a touchdown, Duke’s defense was able to halt Stanford in the red zone twice, leading to a pair of field goals, but slippery running back Stepfan Taylor scampered 13 yards up the middle early in the second quarter for the Cardinal’s second touchdown.

Nunes’ first touchdown pass of the game came on the his team’s first drive of the second half, putting Stanford up 30-3, and a Renfree miscue deep in Duke territory resulted in an interception by safe-

ty Jordan Richards that set up the Cardinal just seven yards from the end zone.

Trailing 37-3, Renfree finally began to find some rhythm throwing the ball as he opened it up down the field. Late in the third quarter on a pair of drives that bookended a Stanford three-and-out, Renfree completed 7-of-11 passes for 103 yards. He was stopped in the red zone on the first drive, but Ross Martin drilled his second field goal of the day to make the score 37-6.

On the final pass of the second possession, though, Renfree missed his target and instead hit Stanford safety Ed Reynolds in stride, and Reynolds coasted 71 yards to the end zone. The interception return ended Renfree’s day, as redshirt sophomore Anthony Boone led the Blue Devil offense for the rest of the game.

Two Boone turnovers in the fourth quarter—an interception and a fumble—ended Duke drives deep in Stanford territory and prevented any late Blue Devil scoring.

But facing a Stanford defense that had subbed out many of its starters, Boone was able to stretch the field more efficiently than Renfree, looking deep and over the middle more often than the starter. He finished the night with 13-of-21 for 147 yards, but did not attribute his longer completions to a change in play calling.

“I didn’t run anything [Renfree] didn’t run,” Boone said. “It’s just they kind of got after him more than they got after me, so that’s kind of how it went. They kind of backed off a little bit.”

After the game, both players and coach stressed that the team had stuck to the game plan, and Cutcliffe gave credit to Stanford for exploiting Duke’s weaknesses.

“We’ve got to run the ball better, number one, and then we’ve got to protect well enough to get the ball down the field, and neither one of those things happened tonight,” he said. “When you do that against a good defense and an experienced defense… you’re asking for trouble, and we got it.”

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Although successful vs. FIU, Brandon Connette was ineffective against Stanford.

Stanford asserted itself early when Drew Terrell returned a punt for 76 yards and a touchdown.

Running back Stepfan Taylor put the Cardinal up 20-0 with his 13-yard run in the second period.

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cluding once for a 76-yard touchdown return.

PALO ALTO, Calif.—Duke football head coach David Cutcliffe and his team have played just two games, but the young campaign has already been a tale of two seasons. The Blue Devils were just a 3.5-point favorite against Florida International in the season opener last week, but efficient performances on both sides of the football led to a 20-point win and hope that they could upset No. 25 Stanford.

Of course, the Cardinal had other plans, never allowing Duke to find a rhythm in any facet of the game en route to a 50-13 trouncing at Stanford Stadium. The lopsided defeat was a reminder of the need to maintain momentum and focus throughout a long season, especially for a program that has been consistently disappointing in recent years.

In the season’s first week, Duke’s strong performance combined with a shaky showing from the Cardinal gave the Blue Devils some optimism entering Saturday’s matchup, but Cutcliffe and his players alike admitted after the loss that optimism had perhaps morphed into overconfidence.

“We figured things looked pretty good,” quarterback Anthony Boone said.

Momentum can be a crucial part of college football, which requires so many players to be playing their best at any given time and which gives teams a week between games to stew over defeats or gain confidence from victories.

“Stanford did a good job of reacting to their first game,” Cutcliffe said. “They weren’t pleased with how they played, and I think we probably reacted to our first game, thought we were a little better than what we were.”

The loss to Stanford, which took much of the air out of the win over Florida International, is not the first time in recent years that Duke has seen its momentum halted in its tracks. In two of the previous three seasons, for example, the Blue Devils have allowed the excitement of a new season to

escape immediately with week one losses at home to FCS opponent Richmond. Even a merely competitive performance from Duke in Palo Alto might have allowed the Blue Devils to maintain some good vibes heading into a pair of must-win games against N.C. Central and Memphis in the next two weeks.

But hopes of sticking with the Cardinal dimmed from the very start, reminiscent of a similarly poor start against Florida International a week earlier.

Facing the Golden Panthers, Duke gave up a 67-yard touchdown pass on the second play from scrimmage, and proceeded to answer with a touchdown of its own only after punting and recovering a fumble on the punt return. This week, the Blue Devils won the toss and took the ball but committed a false start on the first play and surrendered a 76-yard punt return three plays later.

“When you take the ball like I did—and told our offense I was going to—the first thing you’d like to do is score on the first possession,” Cutcliffe said. “We haven’t done very well on first possessions in either one of the games.”

If Duke hopes to be able to carry positive energy forward from game to game, it will need to get off to better starts in future contests.

“The bottom line is execute out of the gate,” Cutcliffe said. “We’ve given our offense a chance to do that and we’re 0-for-2.”

So the Blue Devils must go back to work, hoping to get back on track despite a performance that offered few positives and highlighted many weaknesses on offense, defense, special teams and coaching.

“We’ve got a lot to study,” Cutcliffe said.

“I told our players we’re not going to put this behind us. That’s what people say. You can’t put playing poorly behind you. You address it…. And I expect to see the kind of work that we need to have to get better, and to get better quickly. We can’t waste time.”

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one saw action late in the game at quarterback, replacing Renfree.

AROUND THE ACC FSU 55 - Savannah St. 0 No. 5 Florida State led 48-0 at halftime against Savannah State, ultimately finishing up 55-0 before the game was suspended due to bad weather.

The game was called with 8:59 remaining in the third quarter due to thunderstorms, but not before the Seminoles could throw for 246 yards and run for 167. The Tigers combined for just 28 yards of total offense.

Clemson 52 - Ball St. 27 No. 11 Clemson had no problem dispatching Ball State, scoring 45 points in the first half, including 32 in the second period. Tiger quarterback Tajh Boyd completed 19 of 23 passes for three touchdowns, while Andre Ellington led the team on the ground, finding the end zone twice.

VTech 42 - Austin Peay 7 No. 13 Virginia Tech cruised to a victory against Austin Peay, recording two interceptions and regularly receiving strong punt returns to generate good field position. Quarterback Logan Thomas completed 15-of-23 passes for 213 yards, finding the end zone on two passes.

N.C. State 10 - Connecticut 7 N.C. State’s 46-yard touchdown pass from Mike Glennon to Bryan Underwood gave the Wolfpack a 10-0 that proved to be the difference against Connecticut. The Huskies added a late score but could not convert on 4th down on their final possession.

Maryland 36 - Temple 27 Maryland quarterback Perry Hills tossed two touchdowns and ran for another, accounting for three of the Terrapins four touchdown in their victory against Temple. Maryland went into halftime with a 26-3 lead and went on cruise control from there, with running back Justus Pickett adding a late touchdown in the fourth.

Miami 13 - Kansas St. 52 The Cavaliers eked by Penn State with a sixyard touchdown pass from Michael Rocco to Jake McGee with 1:28 left in the game. Nittany Lion kicker Sam Ficken missed four field goals, including a 42-yard attempt to win the game.

Boston College 34 - Maine 3 Maine quarterback Marcus Wasilewski completed fewer than half of his passes and was picked off twice as Boston College scored 17 points in each of the second and third quarters en route to a rout of the Black Bears. Maine scored its only three points in the first quarter but did not find the scoreboard again.

Wake Forest 28 - UNC 27 Wake Forest quarterback Tanner Price threw for 327 yards and ran for just five, but scored twice on the ground, including with 2:09 remining in the game, to give the Demon Deacons an ACC win against the Tar Heels. Michael Campanaro led Wake Forest with 13 catches for 164 yards.

Georgia Tech 59 - Presb. 3 r Ross Martin finally put on the scoreboard with ard field goal at the end e second quarter.

Stanford quarterback Josh Nunes threw two touchdowns to begin the second half, sealing the win.

Sean Renfree was picked twice, including a 71- yard interception for a touchdown in the third period.

Georgia Tech ran for 469 yards, including carries of 78, 58, 56 and 39 yards against Presbyterian. Zach Laskey led the way with 12 carries for 116 yards while Vad Lee added eight carries for 101, including the longest run of the day.

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Weekend sweep takes Nagel to 500 career wins

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Blue Devil head coach Jolene Nagel woke up Friday morning with 497 career wins. After the Blue Devils’ three victories this weekend, Nagel became just the third active volleyball coach in the ACC with 500 career wins.

Duke (8-1) easily defeated Elon (5-6) Friday night and folELON 0 lowed up with a domDUKE 3 inating victory over East Carolina (1-8) 0 Saturday morning.

ECU A showdown with DUKE 3 talented Northeastern (8-3) later that 1 evening gave Nagel NE landmark vicDUKE 3 her tory. The only problem—no one told Nagel about her momentous achievement beforehand.

“To be honest with you, I had no idea,” she said. “This was a complete surprise. I think we just get used to trying to get the next one.”

Nagel’s career 500-262 record includes stints at both Cornell and Georgetown, as well as 14 seasons at Duke. After defeating the Huskies for her 500th win, Nagel shared an emotional moment with her players and thanked an unusually large crowd for their support and enthusiasm for Blue Devil volleyball.

“It was a great feeling,” sophomore setter Kelsey Williams said. “It was awesome. She deserves it. She works so hard. It felt good to be able to help her out with that.”

Led by sophomore outside hitter Jeme Obeime’s 11 kills on a .526 hitting percentage, Duke effortlessly handled the Phoenix Friday evening, 25-14, 25-21, 25-23. The Blue Devil defense held Elon to a meager .096 hitting percentage. Senior middle blocker Christiana Gray led the defense with six blocks, and sophomore libero Ali McCurdy totaled 20 digs. Freshmen Elizabeth Campbell and Emily Sklar continued their impres-

sive beginning to the season, combining for 15 kills.

Duke breezed through a Saturday morning matchup with the Pirates in similar fashion to Friday’s contest, sweeping East Carolina 25-21, 25-15, 25-10. Gray led the offense with 13 kills, posting just one error on 18 attacks. Campbell recorded 10 kills as well—it was her first game in double digits as a Blue Devil. Williams teamed up with fellow sophomore Maggie Deichmeister to post 35 of Duke’s 41 assists. But once again, the Blue Devil defense proved to be the overwhelming force in the match—the team improved from Friday’s strong effort, limiting East Carolina to an anemic .029 hitting percentage.

After sweeping the Pirates, the Blue Devils squared off against the Huskies in Saturday night’s tournament finale. Duke dropped the opening set 25-21, committing eight errors and recording a .162 hitting percentage.

The Blue Devils regrouped and took the second set 25-17, led by Sklar’s seven kills and McCurdy’s nine digs. But it was Williams’ 12 assists that put her teammates in good attacking positions and helped limit Duke to just three errors.

After jumping out to a 9-5 lead to begin the third set, the Blue Devils recorded three errors and allowed Northeastern to move on top 12-9. The Huskies capitalized on several Duke errors and maintained their led up to 20-17.

Then the 2,700 plus crowd in Cameron came alive, and the Blue Devils made their move. A service error by Northeastern’s Megan Kehoe brought Duke to within two.

Another Huskies’ attack error, followed by a Sklar kill leveled the score at 20 and forced a Northeastern timeout. Both teams traded points back and forth all the way to 24-24, when Campbell took advantage of a set from Williams to put the Blue Devils up by one. An attack error by the Huskies gave Duke the set 26-24, and all the momentum swung in the Blue Devils’ favor.

“We just stayed really calm and played it

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Sophomore Jeme Obeime had 11 kills on a .526 hitting percentage against Elon, leading Duke to the win. like we were winning,” Williams said. “We played relaxed even though the points were going back and forth, and it was a tight moment. But that momentum swing was huge for us going into the fourth set.”

Obeime opened the fourth set with a powerful kill, and Duke jumped out to a 4-0 lead.

The Blue Devils took advantage of a demoralized Northeastern side and quickly ended the final set, 25-14. Sklar and Campbell combined for 25 digs, but it was the combination of Williams and Obeime that proved too much for the Huskies in the match’s critical moments. Williams finished the match with 44 assists, and Obeime posted 14 kills and only three errors. “[Obeime] is having a fantastic year,” Nagel said. “She’s been really consistent and coming out here and being able to perform like that every night. It’s really exciting to see that. She is only a sophomore, and she really

stepped it up a notch from freshman year to this year.”

Duke ramped up its defensive effort after the first set and held Northeastern to hitting percentages of .085, .038 and .000 in the final three sets. Four Blue Devils posted doubledigit digs, led by McCurdy with 25—in her fourth straight game with 20 or more.

“That is important to me as a coach,” Nagel said. “I want them to be as excited about that as I am. Great defensive effort tonight, especially [after] losing the first set and working together and fighting hard.”

After the game, former Duke volleyball standout Kellie Catanach asked Nagel about her time at Duke and what it has meant to her.

“I’m not as young as I used to be,” Nagel said. “We’ve had really great student athletes here at Duke. I am really very lucky to be here.”

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In a scary moment, Lewis McLeod was carted off the field and taken to the hospital with a leg injury during the game vs. UVA.

In its first ACC match of the season the Blue Devils fell to Virginia 1-0.

Duke (1-3-0, 0-1-0 in ACC) traveled to Klockner Stadium in Charlottesville, Va. Friday where the team lost its second road game of the year.

After less then a minute on the clock play was suspended after the Blue Devil’s Lewis McLeod was carted off the field with a leg injury and taken to the hospital.

The Cavaliers (2-2-0, 1-0-0) controlled the pace in the opening 15 minutes, putting strong pressure on Duke’s defense. The Blue Devils found their footing and managed to possess well for the remainder of the half, but struggled to find offensive opportunities. Duke finished the half with only two shots compared to Virginia’s six.

The second half started with even play between the two squads until a cross from the Cavaliers’ left wing found the foot of Marcus Salandy-Defour.

The freshman then played the ball to the penalty area where

forward Will Bates finished it for a 1-0 lead.

Belshaw later managed a difficult save on a free kick and the defense continued to fend off opportunities. Duke continued to press forward, adding four shots to its scorecard, but was unable to find the back of the net. Although Virginia outshot Duke 11-2, the teams both registered two shots on goal. The Cavaliers totalled three corner kicks in the match to the Blue Devils’ two.

Struggling to finish on the offensive end has been a recurring issue for Duke, which remained scoreless after preseason play and have put only three balls in the back of the net in their four regular-season games. Their leading scorer from last season, Andrew Wenger, was selected No. 1 in the 2012 MLS SuperDraft.

The Blue Devils return home to Koskinen Stadium Tuesday when they take on Georgia State at 7 p.m.

—staff reports

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Junior Tara Puffenberger and senior Chelsea Armstrong led the Northwestern attack with a goal and an assist each.

The Wildcats appeared poised for a shutout until the last 13 minutes, when Duke found its spark on both ends of the field. The two squads took seven shots and earned five penalty corners each.

“If you look at the statistics, it really was an even match,” Bustin said. “It was just a matter of the strength and the belief to finish on both ends of the field. I think we made some judgments early in the game, and I’m not sure what those judgments were but they got in the way of us just playing. In the last 13 minutes, we let go of those judgments and played, and we scored two goals.”

Neither team got on the scoreboard for the majority of the first half. In the 29th minute, Puffenberger scored off of an assist from Armstrong. With three seconds remaining in the half, senior Kaylee Pohlmeyer extended Northwestern’s lead to 2-0 off of a feed from Puffenberger.

It did not take long for the Wildcats to strike in the second half, with Armstrong scoring just 4:16 in.

“Chelsea Armstrong is an exceptional player, and she’s a leader on the field,” Bustin said. “I could hear her talking and demanding the ball, and she created the goal-scoring opportunities that they had. She’s definitely a differencemaker and a top-notch player.”

In the 54th minute, Northwestern freshman Lisa McCarthy notched an unassisted tally to put the Wildcats up 4-0.

Duke finally answered in the 64th minute when Nielson scored on a rebound off of a penalty corner. Junior Devon Gagliardi followed that up with a goal 4:24 later to bring the Blue Devils within two goals, a difference that prove insurmountable.

“It was a matter of reminding them that we are good, that we are playing great field hockey, and that we need to stop making judgments—we just need to play, and that’s what we did in the last 13 minutes,” Bustin said.

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Emmie Le Marchand has led Duke on offense all year, but the Blue Devils scored just two goals in each of their games this weekend.

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Lance Thomas was a senior on Duke’s 2010 national championship squad, but is now being sued.

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Bowers could not be reached for comment.

The purchase brings up concerns that Thomas received improper benefits, which could retroactively make him ineligible for part of that senior season. According to NCAA bylaw article 16, “Receipt of a benefit by student-athletes or their relatives or friends is not a violation of NCAA legislation if it is demonstrated that the same benefit is generally available to the institution’s students or their relatives or friends or to a particular segment of the student body... determined on a basis unrelated to athletics ability.”

Thomas’ agent, John Spencer, said he first became aware of the situation this week and directed further inquiries to Thomas’

lawyer on the case, Joe Crews, who could not be reached for comment. Both lawyers are based out of Texas because Thomas was playing for the Austin Toros of the NBA Development League at the time the lawsuit was filed in January.

“I think we were all caught off guard,” Spencer said.

During this summer, Thomas played on the USA Select Team, which the USA Olympic men’s basketball team, coached by Krzyzewski, played against in practice. Former Blue Devil Kyrie Irving was also on the USA Select Team.

Thomas most recently played for the New Orleans Hornets last season, starting 10 games and playing in 42 overall. In his senior year at Duke, he averaged 25.3 minutes per game, notching 4.8 points and 4.9 rebounds.

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Ojeleye committed to Duke following his in-home visit with head coach Mike Krzyzewski Sunday evening.

“All along his recruitment, he has talked about finding the fit for himself, and when that time came he would make a commitment,” said Jon McKowen, Ojeleye’s high school coach. “He felt like [Duke] was the right fit.”

Krzyzewski beat out Indiana, Oregon and Stanford to land Ojeleye.

After unofficially visiting Duke earlier this summer, the Blue Devils were considered the frontrunner to land the 6-foot-7, 220-pound swingman from Ottawa, Kan., who averaged 32.5 points per game last season as a junior.

Ojeleye’s athleticism, ability to shoot the ball proficiently from deep and defend multiple positions should be assets for Duke in the coming years.

“He is a matchup problem,” McKowen said. “He has guard skills shooting the ball and with his ball-handling skills. He gets to the [free throw] line a bunch. He’s very athletic, a quick jumper and he is very strong around the hoop.”

Ojeleye already has a college-ready body and an advanced offensive skillset, but his

work ethic and character may be his best attributes as evidenced by what he proceeded to do following his commitment to the Blue Devils.

“He is in the gym as we speak right now,” McKowen said Sunday night. “So it’s not like he is sitting home being excited that he committed to Duke. He knows there is a lot of work to be done, and he is in the gym working on it.”

Academically, Ojeleye is equally stellar, ranked atop of his high school class and with aspirations to study finance. Finding a school that could benefit him equally on the hardwood and in the classroom was an important component in Ojeleye’s recruitment.

The addition of Ojeleye gives Krzyzewski his second commit in the class of 2013 to go along with Matt Jones, a 6-foot-4 shooting guard from DeSoto, Texas.

Hoping to put together a blockbuster recruiting class in 2013, Krzyzewski is still in the mix to land arguably the best two players in the class— Jabari Parker and Julius Randle.

Securing one of the two could instantly make Duke one of the preseason favorites to win the national title in 2014.

Krzyzewski’s recruiting trip continues today as he conducts an in-home visit with Austin Nichols—the No. 5 power forward in the class of 2013—and with Randle, the No. 1 power forward in the class, Tuesday.

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