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by Tom Gieryn THE CHRONICLE

NASSAU, Bahamas—“A leader has to look strong before he is strong.”

Those were the words of Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski late Saturday night, as he discussed sophomore point guard Quinn Cook Saturday night.

Cook played as strong as he looked in the championship game of the Battle 4 Atlantis, scoring the final eight points against Louisville to claim a 76-71 victory and the Blue Devils’ sixth straight November tournament title.

Cook, named the tournament’s most outstanding player, finished with 15 points and six assists on the night, but none were more crucial than a high-arching floater in the lane with 29 seconds on the clock to give Duke a late two-possession lead against the Cardinals.

“Everyone talks about a kid getting confidence,” Krzyzewski said. “It’s when a team has confidence in its point guard that you can take off. This team has great confidence in Quinn, and he’s earned it. And they’ve been very vocal about it.”

The floater was one of several clutch shots down the stretch that the Blue Devils (6-0) made, in what became a hallmark of Duke’s championship weekend. Although the Blue Devils

by Maggie Spini THE CHRONICLE

Beer and wine will soon flow more freely in the basement of McClendon Tower.

The 24-hour restaurant Pitchfork Provisions will begin serving beer and wine within the next few days, said co-owner Sam Clowney, who is also co-owner of Bella Union and La Dolce Vita and a partner at the Faculty Commons. In doing so, it will become the sixth on-campus facility to serve alcohol.

Clowney said that even though he and co-owner Chris Holloway want food to be the focal point of their restaurant, they have planned to serve alcohol since Pitchfork Provisions’ Fall 2011 opening. The process was slowed by “hoops” they had to jump through in order to secure a license from the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission, but University administrators have always been supportive of the idea.

“If serving beer and wine can supplement the experience here on campus, we’re all for it,” Clowney added.

The owners will initially offer a selection of two or three brands of beer, in addition to one red and one white wine in what Clowney calls a “soft opening.” Selections will be based on a survey that has been distributed at the restaurant since before

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After scoring Duke’s final eight points in the win against Louisville, Quinn Cook was named the Battle 4 Atlantis Most Outstanding Player.

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Same person, different uniform Robertson bus Junior Ashley Brigham is both a cadet and a cheerleader

by Imani moise THE CHRONICLE

Junior Ashley Brigham wears two different uniforms—one with combat boots, the other with pompoms.

Brigham trains with Army ROTC in the mornings and heads to cheerleading practice at the end of the day. Brigham came to Duke on the ROTC scholarship, but did not know she would cheer for the Blue Devils until after she arrived.

“It’s extremely interesting to have two groups of friends who are so different and share a lot in common with them,” Brigham said.

Brigham said the most valuable aspect of both ROTC and SEE BRIGHAM ON PAGE 4

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Junior Ashley Brigham lives a split life—spending half her time as a Duke Cheerleader and the rest training with Army ROTC.

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The Robertson Scholars program will discontinue its free bus service between Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, effective next semester.

According to an email sent to the Robertson Scholars Wednesday, the Robertson Express Bus will begin charging $2.50 for a one-way ticket starting January 7, 2013. The change comes in response to a shift in operator from Duke Transit to Triangle Transit.

Students will still be able to ride for free if they present a GoPass.

Robertson Scholars will be

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given GoPasses by the scholarship program. All Duke students are eligible to apply for a free GoPass through the Duke Parking and Transportation offices. UNC students who are eligible registrants of the Commuter Alternatives Program can also receive a free GoPass.

The Robertson Scholars website describes the bus, which runs half-hourly, as a resource “for all university affiliates, encouraging them to take full advantage of the educational, cultural and social offerings of both campus communities.”

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Renovations to Central Black Friday sales to be completed in 2013 go up 13 percent Central Campus will undergo a makeover this summer that could make the apartments more attractive to students.

University administrators have begun planning the final stages of Central Campus renovations, which began four years ago. Although the proposal previously incorporated the additions of non-residential structures, such as Devil’s Bistro and Mill Village, the continuation of the final plan will focus on the apartments themselves, noted Joe Gonzalez, dean for residential life.

The plans include refurbishing the kitchens and bathrooms, as well as replacing the carpet flooring with wood laminate.

Currently, residential buildings are comprised mostly of doubles or singles, but Gonzalez said the University is also considering a design that would more evenly distribute both types of rooms across buildings.

He added that he hopes the improved living spaces will encourage upperclassmen to live with their selective living groups, fraternities and sororities until graduation.

“Sophomores would have the double rooms, juniors and seniors would get the [single rooms] and people would want to stay in their houses,” Gonzalez said. “[Students]

would have a nicer space to strive towards.”

But it remains uncertain whether these renovations will affect students’ perceptions of Central. Sophomore Catherine Henry noted that any freshmen who may have been discouraged from joining an SLG because of its Central Campus housing would likely not change their minds due to the renovations.

“I doubt that the improvements will alter people’s deci-

sions,” Henry wrote in an email Nov. 14.

She added, however, that it will be good to see some positive changes. Current residents have voiced concerns about problems they have faced in their apartments.

Hannah Colton, a senior in Ubuntu, an SLG on Central, noted that mold has been a significant issue within her SLG’s

by Chris Burritt BLOOMBERG NEWS

American shoppers spent 13 percent more during the four-day Thanksgiving weekend from last year, heading to stores and jumping online to push Black Friday beyond a one-day extravaganza.

Spending rose to $59.1 billion from $52.4 billion last year, the National Retail Federation said in a statement. The jump occurred even as Chicago-based researcher ShopperTrak observed a 1.8 percent decline in sales on Black Friday, the traditional start to the shopping season.

Retailers have turned Black Friday into a week’s worth of deals and discounts, with ever-earlier openings and online offers.

Thanksgiving Day, once reserved for family gatherings, saw more than 35 million shoppers buying in stores and online, up from 29 million last year, the NRF said.

Even so-called Cyber Monday is losing its distinction, with Best Buy and J.C. Penney starting some web-based deals on Sunday.

“Retailers have now integrated the entire shopping experience,” Matt Shay, president and chief executive officer of the NRF, said on a conference call Sunday. “Every day is Cyber Monday. Every day is Black Friday.”

Customers spent $423 on aver-

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Renovations to Central Campus, which started several years ago, are set to finish next summer. Plans are largely centered on the interior of the apartments.

age this weekend, up 6.3 percent from last year, the Washington, D.C.-based NRF said. The 13 percent jump in total spending suggests some sales may have been pulled from December and that retailers will have to keep up the promotions to avoid a lull.

“Retailers are going to have to get creative, such as price discounts or special events, to keep the customer engaged,” Patricia Edwards, chief investment officer for Bellevue, Washington-based Trutina Financial, said by telephone. Her firm owns Wal-Mart and Starbucks among more than $300 million in assets.

Online shopping on Black Friday rose 26 percent to exceed $1 billion for the first time, research firm ComScore said Sunday. Online sales rose 16 percent in the first 23 days of November to $13.7 billion, with sales on Thanksgiving Day itself increasing 32 percent to $633 million.

The NRF said Sunday it may revise its forecast for the season once more is known about whether the U.S. Congress will avert the so-called fiscal cliff of budget cuts and tax rate changes set to take place in 2013. It predicts holiday sales, including online, will rise 4.1 percent to about $586.1 billion this year, compared with a 5.6 percent gain in 2011.

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Hank the Cat’s senate campaign draws few votes

by Ben Pershing THE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — Hank the Cat appeared to have all the makings of a successful U.S. Senate candidate: a compelling biography (“born to a single mother living on the streets”), a snazzy website and plenty of free media coverage.

What he didn’t have, aside from opposable thumbs, was a place on the Virginia ballot. So on the advice of his owner, Springfield, Va. freelance photographer Matthew O’Leary, Hank ran as a write-in candidate.

It has never been easy for political hopefuls, feline or otherwise, to run a successful write-in campaign. But in Virginia’s Fairfax County at least, residents used to be able to get an exact tally of all the names voters penciled onto their ballots. Election officials painstakingly recorded all the names of those real and imagined, from Donald Duck to Darth Vader.

But the county no longer performs that time-consuming ritual. Virginia’s State Board of Elections does not add up how many writein votes any individual candidates get, nor do other county and city boards. Some don’t record votes for nonhuman or nonexistent candidates.

But a Washington Post review of records from Hank’s own Springfield District, which covers 29 precincts in Fairfax, found that the kitty got at least 13 votes—and possibly 20 more—out of 155 total write-in votes and 54,000 cast overall in the Senate race. Eight of the votes came from Hank’s home precinct— Pohick. (For the record, Democrat Timothy Kaine won the Senate seat and Republican George Allen came in second.)

If Hank got the same 0.0006 percent of the statewide vote that he did in his home district, which seems unlikely, then he received

roughly 2,000 votes overall. O’Leary originally estimated that Hank might have drawn thousands more.

“We’re still happy with it,” O’Leary said when told of the results in Springfield. “I think it’s great to see that he’s had such support. I also know that supporting Hank and actually writing him in are two different things.”

Although write-ins are considered by some a waste of time, they are also part of a broader, long-standing American tradition of expressing dissent at the ballot box.

In Georgia this year, Charles Darwin reportedly got 4,000 write-in votes against Rep. Paul C. Broun, a Republican, who made preelection news by saying that evolution and the big-bang theory were “lies straight from the pit of hell.” In Tennessee, David “None of the Above” Gatchell—his legal name—has run unsuccessfully for several offices.

And in Nevada, voters have the option of choosing a line that says “none of these candidates” on their ballots, despite legal efforts by the Republican Party to remove it.

That option drew more than 45,000 votes in this year’s Senate contest, in which Sen. Dean Heller, a Republican, defeated Rep. Shelley Berkley, a Democrat, by fewer than 10,000 votes.

Then there was the Maryland man who changed his name to Santa Claus and ran as a write-in for president. He got 625 votes this year.

Some write-in campaigns have been known to work. Anthony Williams won a write-in campaign for the District of Columbia’s Democratic mayoral nomination in 2002. Though he was the incumbent, his campaign had failed to file enough valid signatures to make the primary ballot.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, managed

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Hank the Cat fell far short of the votes he needed to take a Senate seat in Washington at the U.S. Capitol, seen in the background. to wage a successful one in the 2010 general election after losing in the Republican primary. Murkowski was helped by the fact that she was the incumbent senator and the daughter of a former governor and senator. Plus, she is an actual human being.

In Fairfax County, election workers are not required to record “invalid” votes (described on official forms as “None of the above, Mickey Mouse, etc.”) on older opticalscan machines. But some precincts record them anyway, and touch-screen machines do provide a record of whatever voters choose to type in as their choice.

Aside from Hank, retiring Rep. Ron Paul, R-Tex., got a handful of nods in Springfield.

Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, Bart Simpson, Scooby-Doo and Mr. Peanut also got votes, as

did rocker Henry Rollins and pop diva Lady Gaga. “Me” was the choice of one voter, while another suggested “Communist.”

Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III, who is not old enough to serve in the Senate, got two votes, and that was before his four-touchdown performance against the Philadelphia Eagles. Former Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann also got a Senate vote, while another ex-Redskin signal-caller, Sonny Jurgensen, got one nod for president.

A handful of Virginians cast congressional ballots for politicians from other states (Gary Johnson, Chris Christie) or eras (Theodore Roosevelt). Jesus Christ got at least one vote for president, perhaps in response to a “Vote for Jesus!” petition that circulated online and supposedly got more than 2 million signatures.

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Starting in January, the Robertson Express Bus between Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will charge riders.

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The author of the email, Beth Owen, associate director for finance and administration for the Robertson Scholars Program, could not be reached for comment.

The change has not yet been officially communicated to the Duke and UNC communities outside of the Robertson Scholars. Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, said on Sunday that he had not been informed of the adjustment. Sam Veraldi, director of Parking and Transportation Services, and Phail Wynn, vice president for Durham and regional affairs, could not be reached for comment in time for publication.

The bus route’s schedule and stops will remain unchanged.

Students have voiced disappointment in the added fees and how they might affect travel between the campuses.

“The entire point of the Robertson bus is to facilitate greater collaboration between two of the best schools in the United States. This doesn’t just hurt some abstract vision of collaboration, but it also hurts students, too,” said UNC freshman Joe Calder.

Freshman Hailey Diaz, a North Carolina native, agreed.

“It’s disappointing and prevents me from wanting to use the bus more,” she said. “I have tons of friends at Carolina, and the bus system made it really easy and convenient to visit them and explore Chapel Hill.”

Fedor Kossakovski, a freshman Robertson Scholar at UNC, said the change was understandable but worried that the fees would dampen student exploration.

“It’s so easy to just jump on the bus right now if suddenly you want or need to go to the other school, so without this consistent and free option many students will have trouble experiencing the other campus as easily as students before them used to,” he said.

cheerleading is the people she is surrounded by. She values the time spent on the road traveling with her cheer teammates and the bonding associated with hours of ROTC training.

Brigham’s friend and cheer teammate Cindy Choi, a junior, said Brigham has demonstrated her commitment to both squads.

“She is so giving and loyal to her friends,” Choi said. “She always puts her team’s needs first before her own.”

The army is not something new to the Brigham family. Ashley said her decision to apply for the ROTC scholarship was heavily influenced by her family. Many relatives on her mother’s side have joined the Army, but Brigham said she was inspired most by her cousin who currently serves as a nurse in the Army.

“I applied for the ROTC scholarship before I knew I was applying to Duke,” Brigham said. “I made sure Duke had an ROTC program.”

Brigham made the decision to cheer at Duke during her first semester of freshman year when she decided she wanted to do more than just ROTC. Although both organizations have large time commitments, Brigham said she is able to juggle both because they rarely overlap.

One important skill she has gained from being involved in both cheer and ROTC is time management, she said.

“I have to stay on top of things,” Brigham said. “I can’t let anything fall behind.”

If Brigham is ever stressed, her ROTC “battle buddy”—a partner assigned to every soldier in the U.S. Army—Alex Schade has not seen it.

“She’s achieved so much at Duke between cheer and ROTC,” said Schade, a junior. “She’s at the top of our ROTC class, and I admire her.”

After graduation, Brigham is obligated to complete four years each of active and inactive service in the army. She also said she hopes to find time in the future to coach a middle school cheerleading squad.

“She is a much quieter leader than most people think ROTC kids are,” Schade said. “She handles everything with grace and poise.”

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Parking priorities In the Duke Student Gov- be considered. ernment meeting on WednesThe benefits of freshman day, student leaders took a parking are real. East Campus strong stance opposing any parking spaces afford freshpossibility that administrators man immediate and convemight eliminate freshman nient transportation. Whether parking on this transportaEast Campus. tion is used to editorial Although Duke explore DurParking and Transportation ham, visit local family and Services has not made any offi- friends, pick up groceries or cial statements, the possibility make the long drive home for of such a change certainly wor- breaks, parking has significant ries many freshmen who value benefits for freshmen. It opens the convenience and freedom up social opportunities beyond that on-campus parking pro- campus, strengthening firstvides. Given that Duke has fi- year bonds. It also promotes nite parking space and a high engagement outside the Duke demand for it, the removal of bubble by facilitating access freshman parking has been to service opportunities, local discussed by administrators for events and performances. years. However, before DSG Although the benefits of and the larger student body go freshman parking are clear, up in arms, both sides of this they must be weighed against complicated policy issue must the real costs. With limited

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parking across all campuses, Duke faces pressure from graduate students, staff and faculty who commute to campus. This vehicle overflow incurs a financial burden when Duke is forced to rent satellite parking lots and run shuttles that bring these individuals to campus. In addition, the goals for carbon neutrality incentivize a reduction in single occupancy vehicles by making parking less accessible.

Furthermore, reduced or eliminated East Campus parking does not mean preclude freshmen parking on West or Central campuses.

Freshmen must realize that their current parking situation—often right outside their dorms—is incredibly convenient when compared to other schools. For example, at the

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In light of all these salient considerations, we must truly weigh the costs and benefits of removing freshman parking.

Data must be collected. How often do freshmen drive their cars and for what purposes?

Does the number of singleoccupancy vehicles accurately measure carbon footprint, especially if freshmen primarily use their cars to return home?

Could eliminating freshman parking even provide a permanent solution to Duke’s parking shortage? Perhaps other creative policy solutions could be more effective, from making cheap satellite parking

spots available to students or increasing the number of WeCars? Data will help to clarify the tradeoffs at stake. We can offer an informed solution only after collecting and analyzing it.

We must work to thoroughly understand the East Campus parking situation before we take a strong stance on it.

Parking is vitally important to the undergraduate student experience, employee transportation and sustainability goals, and there are important considerations on all sides Therefore, we should eschew panic and anger in favor of openness and creativity. DSG should be flexible in their talks with administrators as stubborn and one-sided lobbying may risk productive policymaking concerning this and future issues.

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t might be the nature of the field, or maybe just tain we could all tell you more about the day of the nature of the curriculum, but studying law the crime in question than we could about any feels completely impersonal. Names are fixed to single day in our own lives. Our client’s life is open the top of each case, but between the courtroom before us. Yet, when I turned something that felt and the casebook, the editors manpersonal over to him, something age to strip the case clean of every as simple as a hand-written letter, scrap of humanity, leaving nothing suddenly I felt the wall between the more than the bare bones of legally academic bones of the case and its significant facts. Our textbooks preshuman element fall apart. ent a condensation of what is imI would urge every student, no portant; unnecessary details are jetmatter whether in undergraduate tisoned in order to guide students to or graduate school, to seek out an what matters before the law. meredith jewitt experience where they see how The apparent implication of the their future choices are actually goex post facto dearth of human detail in our books ing to impact people. Especially at a is that those kinds of things are not school like Duke, where so many stuimportant in administering the law and therefore, dents will end up in fields like banking, consulting should not be important to us in studying it. In and law, where the distance between practice and the classroom context, this makes perfect sense. real people can become so great so easily. UnderI don’t think I could handle any more details in standing the human element of your profession the cases we read, and learning to distinguish the will make you a more conscientious practitioner relevant from the extra gloss helps me think like with a better understanding of the responsibility an objective problem solver. By the time law stu- that comes with an education and influence. dents get to exams, we’re supposed to be able to Don’t just participate in the big-ticket civic entake a complicated real-world problem, strip out gagement opportunities on campus like DukeEneverything that doesn’t matter and apply legal gage, take the time to seek out a position where principles to the facts that survive the initial gut- you are directly involved in the way most people ting to come up with an answer. are going to interact with your field. For those conAs I have gotten better at this skill, I began to sidering law, seek out a legal aid or immigrant’s build a mental wall to block out what isn’t legally rights project, a teen court program, the Duke Inimportant. You can take even the most personal nocence Project or any number of other programs details of a person’s life and try to push them that focus on the humanity behind the law. through the gate, but by the time the wall has done But don’t just do those kinds of programs as its work, each scenario will be edited down to the a check mark on a list. That isn’t enough for you barest of bones. I didn’t understand how strange to get the real benefit. To really break down the this mindset was until I hit a moment when the divide between academic thinking and human wall I had built began to fall apart. empathy, you have to take a big step outside your Last week I spent a day writing a letter to a man comfort zone. I made it through an entire internin prison, the client of my team for the Innocence ship in immigration law, where clients’ most perProject. And when I say writing, I don’t mean typ- sonal information and secrets were laid out before ing out on a computer. I mean writing out by hand. me everyday, without ever breaking through the It might have been that the act of writing out a let- barrier. I hid behind my status as an intern, comter felt so personal. It might have been the knowl- forted in the knowledge that those more knowledge that the same pages I had before me would be edgeable than I were responsible for the clients’ in our client’s hands, in his cell, that made it feel welfare. Brave might not be the right word, but real. But what I think really did it was that the letter, be bold enough to take the extra step to think in my handwriting, on paper from my notepad, felt about the things you are trying to solve as human like a tangible little piece of me that was going to problems, not just academic ones. To be at Duke go off in the mail to him that would break a little bit you are the beneficiary of incredible privilege, of the professional veil that I had expected to hide the least you can do with that privilege is to make behind. Thinking I would be a little more real to yourself the most responsible and compassionate him made him so much more real to me. practitioner of your skills.

My team has spent all semester working diligently on our client’s case, reading court docuMeredith Jewitt is a first-year law student and the forments and looking at exhibits, listening to inter- mer editorial page editor of The Chronicle. Her column views and thumbing through photos … looking runs every other Monday. You can follow Meredith on for a chink in the armor of a conviction. I’m cer- Twitter @mljewitt.

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A college girl’s guide to not getting raped abroad

t is the editor’s unfortunate duty to inform you that the Grumpy Trustee passed away last night at the age of 68103, depending on what is dramatically convenient. Reports indicate that he suffered a heart attack upon walking in on his grandson Theodore engaging in a fraternity drinking practice known as “boofing.” What follows are excerpts from his last will and testament.

Hello. If you’re reading this, it means that I, the Grumpy Trustee, have departed from this good earth, probably because of the socialist failure that is Obamacare and/or what my doctor described as a “disturbing, but perversely impressive, array of STIs for a man your age.”

I would beseech the readers of this will to not shed a tear, but I suspect that’s unnecesgrumpy trustee sary: My column has brought about as much humor to this monday, monday campus as, hypothetically speaking, a blackout-drunk 14-year-old in a port-o-potty. And oftentimes, I have been equally coherent.

But I have come not to insult myself, but to bury, um, myself. I leave this world much different than I entered it. I have witnessed the fall of European evils like Hitler’s Third Reich, Stalin’s Soviet Union and Satan’s worst creation, ABBA. I also am readily horrified by changes I see everyday, like the ability for women to get abortions readily on their iPhones (if I understand my weekly viewing of Hannity correctly) and socialist expansions of the medical coverage that simultaneously create death panels.

Personally, I have accomplished a tremendous amount.

I have received the sacrament of marriage nearly a dozen times, which should be a sure ticket into eternal salvation. I have been president of one of the most profitable consulting firms out there (I won’t say which one, but it’s not the one founded by that potato-eater Sean McKinsey), in addition to seeing my investments in **** Energy triple thanks to wonderful, environmental-friendly strategies like fracking.

I have very few regrets. Would I have fancied one more night with any of my prime-numbered wives? Absolutely.

Could I have done a better job raising my male children, Steven, Linddorf, Crumholdt and the other two? Possibly. Was my use of pygmies to scuba-dive for uranium off the coast of Nova Scotia unethical? Who’s to say? No man is perfect, and I make no such claim to such a state of grace.

But I suppose I should say something about the University that has been at the centre of my life. I’ve always been an ardent supporter of the school’s wiser policies, like the de-facto racial segregation of Central and West Campus the house model has provided. (And if you don’t believe me, check out the numbers. Do I actually have those numbers?

No. But coming up with a nuanced opinion is a liberal strategy anyhow.)

I’ve also aired my grievances with the school, many times, throughout this column. But I do want to stress one thing: I love this institution, warts and all. Through all the PR scandals over the last few years, and despite all the times Mr. Moneta and Dr. Brodhead gave public statements that had the nuance and tact of a brick to the head, I have supported this school. And even from beyond the grave, I will continue to support it.

But I encourage the school to be wary moving forward.

It’s easy to leap onto trendy things, like “Globalization” and “Interdiscplinarity” whilst simultaneously ignoring what actually gives the school character. It’s easy to destroy older institutions without considering the intangibles lost in doing so. But it is also easy to let old men like myself make decisions for the students of a school, when, I must now concede, it is their world to make, as they desire.

It’s difficult to let go of a life spent at this University. I have so many cherished memories. I hesitate to make sense of it all, because it’s a bit messy and sort of defies concise explanation. Still, I certainly enjoyed it. I think I should end my time here with a simple thought: I hope that all those who are just beginning their time at Duke are as fulfilled by their experience as I was.

Oooh my God, how amaaaaazing was abroad?!” “Was rape. For me, I was at the beach with an American friend it just sooo amazing?!” “Ah I bet you had such ad- and two local guys we’d known in the city. They were ventures!” “I’m soooo jealous!” “Oh my God, was it good guys, one the boyfriend of my American friend, and life-changing!?” the other his cousin. Because I was not interested in the If you’re anything like me or many current juniors and cousin, when the couple focused on one another, I would seniors, you’ve both experienced and overheard these wander around, talking to random guys, dancing and questions thousands of times. If you were abroad yourself, thinking, “You know what? YOLO!” Our second night at I’m guessing you uttered the following responses a simi- the beach a handsome, local man began pursuing me aglarly outrageous number of times: “Oh my God, it was SO gressively at a club. Coincidentally, the bartender gave me incredible. School was way easier, going out was SO differ- a free drink. I will never know what was in that drink, but ent and the food was amaaaazing! I miss it SO much!”

I felt I was in another world, with no concern for reality. I Don’t get me wrong, I’ve become great at compart- felt listless and disconnected from myself. I didn’t want to mentalizing my abroad experience. After all, I did have bother my friend and her man, so when he asked me to some truly amazing highlights, see many breathtaking take a walk on the beach I thought, “Oh why not make out sights and greatly improve my language-speaking abilities. with a local hottie? YOLO!” Needless to say, the aggresI am in no way discouraging girls from studying abroad, sion he demonstrated on the dance floor presented itself but the honest truth is my abroad experience was nothing elsewhere, and my YOLO spontaneity meant months of like I’d hoped it would be. For one, my host family was trauma and possible exposure to HIV. My sister warned wretched, my program was not stimulating and my clos- especially against the YOLO mentality. After a couple too est friendship came crumbling down around me. More many drinks at a party, she wanted to leave, and her host significantly, I got raped. And unfortunately, I’m not the mother insisted that a family friend drive her. The famonly one hiding this experience behind the “Oh my God, ily friend escorted her to her apartment, and she said, I miss it SO much” response.

“Goodnight,” and went to bed. Next thing she knew, the If you’re anything like my best friend Jenny your excla- family “friend,” a man twice her age, was forcing himself mation of “It was amazing!” is covering your memory of on her. that cool, local “friend” who pushed himself on you when Rule Two: Don’t drink like you’re at Duke. you were too drunk to stop him. If you are my sister, it is Obviously rape is a huge issue at Duke, where it is a front for the humiliation of being treated like a prosti- often associated with alcohol consumption. However, tute in the emergency room following the rape and the there’s something particularly dangerous about combinmonths you spent having to interact with your rapist—a ing intoxication with a total lack of familiarity with your close friend of your host mom. The response is a cover up environment. In the case of my sister, were she back at for, simmering just below the surface, anger over the fact college she’d never have allowed someone she did not that you are now living with the STD he gave you or over know personally to drive her home. She knows better. your host mom’s denial and insistence that you should be Unsure of her surroundings, she had no choice but to “flattered” by his affections. If you are like trust her host mother and her “friend.” me, you are hiding six, agonizing months In my case, I don’t typically take boys back anonymous waiting to learn if you’ve been infected to my room or go to theirs after drinking guest column with HIV after a very high-risk exposure. at Duke. But in an unfamiliar setting, Six months of having to hold your expresagreeing to go on a walk landed me in sion steady every time someone mentions “AIDS work in a secluded area. Being drunk almost always makes girls Africa,” or their class on “AIDS and Emerging Diseases.” more vulnerable to rape, and being drunk in an unfamilYou see, this was never supposed to happen to me. Af- iar setting increases that vulnerability enormously. ter all, I take women’s studies classes and am considered Rule Three: Hold yourself to the same logic you use “a huge ball buster” back at Duke. I’ve never had issues in the United States. articulating “NO” when hooking up. I have never had As highlighted in the two previous rules, it’s easy casual sex, and I’m known by most of my Duke friends as when abroad to adopt a different logic. This can lead confident and empowered. While I’ve had several close to tragic consequences. If you wouldn’t leave a club in calls at Duke after drinking more than planned or end- Durham with a random man, then don’t think that foling up with someone for whom consent is grossly one lowing a hot Spaniard, Italian, French or any other man sided, I’ve always been so clear about my “No! Stop!” that is any different. You don’t know his turf, and you can’t date rape or “accidental sex,” as some jokingly call it, is possibly trust someone you just met. If you wouldn’t something I’ve been fortunate enough to avoid. More trust a random acquaintance to take you home in the than all that, however, this wasn’t supposed to happen to U.S., then don’t trust him in a different country either. me because my older sister was raped studying abroad, Call your friends, find a safe place to ask for a taxi, talk sending her and my entire family into a dark, painful pe- to a policeman or go somewhere safe to collect your riod of trauma and grief. When my sister returned from thoughts. Finally, if you get a creepy feeling from a guy, abroad, she was not the same girl who left, having lost trust your instincts; don’t write it off as “cultural” just bethe sense of self-worth, personal security and powerful cause you’re in a different country. It’s always better to spirit that I had never before seen her without. At the potentially offend someone than to risk being sexually time, I was a freshman in college, and it killed me to see assaulted. Better safe than sorry. my fiery, sassy older sister breaking down and degraded Rule Four: Have a buddy system. to such an extent. I vowed to never let something like We all know it’s a huge pain to be the sober friend that happen to a friend, and of course, to never let some- taking care of everyone, especially in a foreign country. thing like that happen to me.

It’s an annoying job, but it’s also the safest way to protect I could go on about what happened to me, and why it yourself. Buddy systems are key. I suggest having one or wasn’t fair, but I think we all understand that rape sucks. two people in any group take on this duty each time you I’m certainly disturbed by the messed up gender dynam- go out. You should alternate to be fair, but make sure ics of our culture that enable so many of us to deal with there is clear and consistent communication between this total shit situation, and I do NOT mean to blame people in the group, so that no member gets left behind. victims, but I would like to offer some practical advice. I think having a partner may be the simplest approach.

The following are some very pragmatic reminders for This is not Durham, so chances of getting lost and begirls studying abroad that may save them from suffering coming vulnerable are much higher. If my sister had what I and so many other girls have suffered. I strongly been with a friend who was keeping tabs on her, someadvise anyone reading this list to take it personally. It’s one would have noticed her leaving with a stranger and easy to dissociate oneself from foreign scenarios like this, seen that she was in no state to be taken anywhere. In my but what I now know, and wish I’d realized before, is that case, though my friend couldn’t do anything once I wanno one is “supposed” to get raped. They just do. dered off, she spent hours looking for me afterward and Rule One: Beware of the YOLO mentality. was ready to take action if I didn’t show up soon. I know I know studying abroad is all about adventure and spon- going out is supposed to be carefree and adventurous taneity, and I don’t mean to discourage this approach, but but make SURE you have these adventures with friends sometimes being too carefree is a problem for girls. By all who have your back and will look out for you. Simply means, try that mysterious food, ride that camel and be put, if you don’t have friends like this, don’t drink. It’s open to all types of people. But when it comes to going just not worth it. home with him, getting separated from friends at night or drinking heavily, carefree can easily be what leads to The author of this piece has chosen to remain anonymous.

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PITCHFORK from page 1 Thanksgiving Break, asking respondents to name their favorite light, domestic, international and local or craft beer.

Pitchfork Provisions was deemed a good place to offer beer and wine due to its proximity to residential buildings off the main West Campus Quadrangle, Rick Johnson, assistant vice president of student affairs for housing, dining and residence life, wrote in an email Monday.

Johnson said he sees McClendon Tower as a “satellite� of the Bryan Center for students residing in Edens, Keohane and Wannamaker Quadrangles, and should

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therefore offer similar amenities. McClendon Tower already has study, meeting and lounge spaces, in addition to a coffee cafĂŠ and 24-hour restaurant. The availability of alcohol to students of age is simply another step in making McClendon Tower more comparable to the Bryan Center, he said. The Tower, the restaurant formerly in the space Pitchfork Provisions now occupies, served beer and wine.

Senior Alex Mariakakis, who said he currently eats at Pitchfork Provisions once or twice each week, said he is looking forward to the convenience that will come with the restaurant serving beer and wine, and consequently may go to the restaurant more frequently.

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Pitchfork Provisions’ beverage options will soon include beer and wine. The eatery recently received an ABC alcohol license and approval from Duke Dining.

“If I want my alcohol on food points, I go to Central now, to Food Factory,� he said. “Here it’s just more convenient, especially since I live in Edens.�

In order for an on-campus facility to serve alcohol, it must request approval from Duke Dining, which evaluates the request.

If Duke Dining approves the application, the restaurant must then apply to the ABC Board to obtain a liquor license, Johnson said. Currently, the Food Factory, Nasher CafÊ, Plate and Pitchfork and Twinnie’s have licenses to serve beer and wine, and Armadillo Grill has a full liquor license.

The bar at the Washington Duke Inn also serves alcohol that can be purchased with food points. “While we believe that students can have a good time and build community without alcohol, the fact that some facilities are allowed to serve alcohol is simply a recognition that in today’s society, students of age and others may want a glass of beer or wine with their meal,� Johnson said.

Although Clowney said Pitchfork Provisions is happy to offer beer and wine, he is also cognizant of the liability that comes with selling alcohol on a college campus. “Things can get kind of unruly down here, and we don’t want to see it get any worse,� he said. “We’ve anticipated this and put the right procedures in place—we don’t want this place to become a watering hole.�

Some precautions may in-

clude stopping the sale of alcohol at 1:30 a.m., although it is legal to sell liquor until 2 a.m. in North Carolina, Clowney said.

Additionally, the establishment will only advertise its new alcohol offerings by word of mouth, seeking to avoid a reputation for being a bar. Owners still want Pitchfork Provisions to be primarily known as a place to get good food, Clowney said.

But Mariakakis does not think alcohol will change the culture of Pitchfork Provisions. Because it is already a 24-hour establishment, it’s common for the facility to be filled with partygoers late at night on the weekends. “I think it will still be dinner time at dinner, but late-night a bunch of drunk people will come get more beer,� he said.

Sophomore Martine ObietaChichizola said that although she is not of legal age, she supports having alcohol more readily available on campus. “This is a very popular location as it is, especially on nights out like Friday and Saturday,� she said. “If anything, it will just bring more people and help keep that culture. I don’t think it’s going to change anything dramatically....

If anything, it will be a positive as opposed to a negative.�

Pitchfork Provisions does not have the proper licensure to operate a full bar, but depending on demand, it may increase its offerings Spring 2013, Clowney said. “If we see that the volume is enough, we may think about doing kegs at a later date,� he said.

CENTRAL from page 2 housing. “In Ubuntu SLG section alone, 10 people reported disruptive allergies and health problems related to the unclean condition of their apartments,� Colton, a columnist for The Chronicle, wrote in an email Nov. 14.

Gonzalez said the original apartment renovation project was divided into three construction phases, each to be completed in one summer. The first began four years ago, but the remaining two phases are now tentatively scheduled to begin this summer. He declined to comment on the exact financing of the project, noting that the plans had not yet been finalized and approved by the University, so they are still a work in progress.

Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said approximately $7 million was allocated for Central renovations at a meeting with leaders of campus organizations Oct. 29.

Some students are pleased with the idea of renovations. Sophomore Ben Hatt noted that, though he was accustomed to living in his current conditions, he welcomes the change. “Many people prefer to live on Central because it’s more convenient than going off campus, but it’s unfortunate that the apartments offer such low quality for the price,� Hatt wrote in an email Nov. 14. “I’m glad to hear the University is finally going to refurbish the rest of Central—students will love it.�

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FOOTBALL: LOSES TO MIAMI ON SENIOR DAY • WOMEN’S SOCCER: FALLS IN NCAA QUARTERFINALS

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FOOTBALL

Blue Devils lose 52-45 to Miami on Senior Day

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Duke had a number of promising moments, but Miami’s explosive offense was simply too much to handle in the team’s final game of the regular season.

The Hurricanes defeated the Blue Devils 52-45 Saturday on Senior Day at Wallace Wade Stadium, handing Duke its fourth-consecutive loss. There was no shortage of offense in a game where the teams combined for 1,229 yards, but ultimately it was too little, too late for the Blue Devils. They did not find their offensive spark until the third quarter and were unable to stop Miami’s explosive plays to have a shot at a comeback. Following the game, Duke head coach David Cutcliffe lauded his seniors for their efforts this season, leading the Blue Devils to their first bowl appearance since 1994, but said his team’s performance against Miami—particularly on the defensive side of the ball—left much to be desired.

“Obviously we had some players make some plays,” said Cutcliffe, who this week signed on to coach Duke through 2019. “That’s a sign of a lot of good things. It is—but not to be confused with playing as well as we needed to play.”

Trailing Miami (7-5, 5-3 in the ACC) by 18 points at halftime, Duke’s offense seemed to come to life in the third quarter, coming within one score of the Hurricanes after touchdowns by senior wide receiver Conner Vernon and sophomore wide receiver Jamison Crowder. The Hurricanes would respond when freshman tailback Duke Johnson scampered for a 65-yard score, eluding a number of would-be Blue Devil tacklers on the way.

After a crucial stop on fourth down in the shadow of its own goal line, Duke (6-6, 3-5) once again seized momentum in the final quarter when Crowder caught a 99-yard pass from redshirt senior quarterback Sean Renfree—the longest play in Duke football history.

But the Blue Devil defense simply could not record a stop when it needed it the most. On the first play of Miami’s next drive, freshman wide receiver Herb Waters turned a screen pass into a 65-yard touchdown when he evaded a Duke defender with speed to burn. Waters’ score

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In his final home game, Duke wide receiver Conner Vernon caught 11 passes for 109 yards, including two touchdowns. gave the Hurricanes a 52-38 lead and put the game out of reach for the Blue Devils. Despite a late score by Brandon Connette to draw within a touchdown, Duke was not left with enough time to complete the comeback.

Renfree, who was recently awarded the Pop Warner National College Football Award for his achievements on the field, in the classroom and in the community, noted that the team was not happy with the way it start-

ed game started, or with the final score, calling Miami’s offense “explosive.”

“We just couldn’t muster up enough in the end,” Renfree said. “I thought we were in the game the whole time…

We just couldn’t overcome some of our own mistakes to score enough points.”

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VOLLEYBALL

Duke misses postseason for first time since ‘05

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Duke’s season came to an end last Tuesday as the Blue Devils dropped their final regular season match to Wake Forest.

With no ACC postseason play to look forward to, Duke (15-17, 6-14 ACC) will not have a chance to play its way into the NCAA Tournament. The Blue Devils have not missed the tournament since 2005.

“It’s very disappointing that we weren’t selected,” Duke head coach Jolene Nagel said. “It’s a great honor when a team is selected. That’s something that our teams haven’t had to experience in a long time, that disappointment. I think it’s important that the team understands that it is really difficult to be one of those 64 teams selected.”

The Blue Devils closed the season losing five of their last six matches, including Tuesday’s defeat versus the Demon Deacons (34-32, 18-25, 25-20, 25-27, 11-15).

Duke jumped out to a 2-1 lead against Wake Forest (11-21, 5-15 ACC) thanks to strong offensive play from several of its younger members. Sophomore Jeme Obeime and freshman Emily Sklar combined for 14 kills on .542 hitting to give the Blue Devils the opening stanza, and freshman middle blocker Elizabeth Campbell knocked down five kills without an error to help Duke capture

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Senior Christiana Gray concluded her career against Wake Forest and earned an AllACC selection after leading the team with a .308 hitting percentage. the third set.

Recording eight errors and a hitting percentage of just .122, the Blue Devil attack faltered in the fourth set, which Wake Forest captured to even the score at 2-2.

After pulling ahead to take an 8-5 lead in the fifth frame, Duke allowed the Demon Deacons to go on a 6-1 run and eventually take the set and the match.

Five Blue Devils reached double digit kills on the night, led

by Sklar with 17. Campbell and Obeime each posted 15 kills, and junior middle blocker Chel-

sea Cook added 11 kills and six blocks. Sophomore setter Maggie Deichmeister, filling in for the injured Kelsey Williams, facilitated the offense and dished out 64 assists.

In her last match as a Blue Devil, senior middle blocker Christiana Gray tallied 13 kills and eight blocks. Gray finished the season just three kills behind the Duke leader, Obeime, and three blocks behind Cook, the Blue Devils’ blocks leader on the year.

“Christiana has had a tremendous year,” Nagel said. “She has

been very consistent out there offensively for us, and her blocking has been much improved. We’re going to miss her intensity and her drive. She has been intimidating to opponents because of what she can do offensively and defensively for us out there. She’s a big loss as we build up to our next season.”

Junior libero Ali McCurdy continued her fantastic play against the Demon Deacons, recording 18 kills and increasing her school single-season digs record to 672.

With a year of eligibility left, McCurdy sits at second on Duke’s alltime digs list with 1,945 digs during her first three years as a Blue Devil.

“She has continued to improve her game since freshman year,” Nagel said. “She has continued to get better each season with little touches to her game.”

For Duke, the 2012 campaign did not end quite how Nagel or her team might have expected— the Blue Devils have not had a losing record since 2004.

Several personal records and All-ACC selections highlight a season ending without a chance to play in the NCAA Tournament.

McCurdy broke her singleseason digs record, which she already set in 2011, and was named the ACC Defensive Player of the Year for the second straight season. McCurdy also received her third straight selection to the All-

ACC team.

Gray also received her third All-ACC selection after leading the Blue Devils with a .308 hitting percentage. Gray finished the season with 491 blocks, the fourth highest total in school history, and 1,112 kills, making her one of only 21 players in the history of Duke volleyball to reach four digits in kills.

Nagel also etched her name into the collegiate volleyball history books this season, recording her 500th career win in September against Northeastern. Only three active coaches in the ACC have reached the 500-win mark.

“Being at a place like Duke you attract the best and the brightest,” Nagel said. “I would trade all [the wins] for our team to be going to the NCAA Tournament right now and have the opportunity to compete for an NCAA championship.

The reality is that we’re a great institution that attracts great people, as well as great students and really accomplished athletes.”

Nagel will have a strong group of returning players next year to help add to her impressive win total.

Graduating only three seniors—Gray, outside hitter Megan Hendrickson, and libero Nailah Waterfield—Duke will have a strong returning cast for the 2013 season.

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Duke loses to PSU in the NCAA quarterfinals

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Once again the Blue Devils lost by one goal. This time the one score was a cruel one: a penalty kick.

Losing 1-0 to top-seeded Penn State (203-2) Friday night, third-seeded Duke (15-62) was eliminated from the NCAA Tournament in the quarterfinals.

“Congratulations to Penn State, Erica [Walsh] and DUKE 0 her staff,” Duke head coach Rob1 PSU bie Church said in a press release.

“They do a fantastic job. I don’t think we could have executed our game plan any better. We created a number of opportunities, but the name of the game is to be able to finish on your opportunities, and we didn’t do that.”

The Blue Devils outshot the Nittany Lions throughout the game, ending with 19 shots to Penn State’s seven. Duke junior Kaitlyn Kerr, who had a hat trick in the Tournament’s first round, fired the team’s first three shots. She could have put Duke up after a one-on-one opportunity against Nittany Lion goalkeeper Erin McNulty, but McNulty was able to record the save.

After the Blue Devils could not capitalize, Penn State capitalized from the penalty spot. Christina Nairn was fouled in the box and stepped up to convert against Duke’s Tara Campbell. It was the first time in the tournament that the Blue Devils trailed.

Both teams had chances to score as the first half progressed with Campbell denying the Nittany Lions’ Maya Hayes and Duke’s Ni-

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Seniors Nicole Lipp and Tara Campbell finished their Duke careers in the team’s 1-0 NCAA Tournament quarterfinal loss to Penn State. cole Lipp hitting the crossbar on the volley.

The second half started with Penn State in control, but with the season on the line Duke went on the offensive and put pressure on McNulty’s goal. The Blue Devils had 11 shots in the second half, but could not score the equalizer.

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“I don’t think we did a good job of finishing,” Church said. “The opportunities we had, we played them up high where [McNulty] could get to them. She’s a good player, she’s an experienced player.

She came out and covered angles really well, but we didn’t do a great job of fin-

ishing. But she caused that too.”

The Nittany Lions advance to the semifinals to face Florida State, with North Carolina and Stanford in the other matchup.

For Duke this meant a loss in the quarterfinals, falling one step short of a second consecutive trip to the College Cup.

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#YesYouu: Bahamian Rhapsody M. BASKETBALL from page 1 rarely dominated in any of their games, they came up with points at seemingly every crucial juncture to earn three wins in three days.

The first major shot against Louisville (51) came earlier in the contest from Cook, after an 18-6 Cardinal run had converted an 11-point Duke advantage into a onepoint deficit. Senior point guard Peyton Siva—the emotional leader of Louisville’s second-ranked squad—drained a 3-pointer from the top of the key to cap off the run, putting momentum squarely in the Cardinals’ corner.

But Cook answered 20 seconds later with a long-range jumper of his own to restore the Duke lead.

A frenetic stretch of play followed the Cook 3-pointer, with the only points in the next three minutes for either side coming on a put-back from Louisville forward Chane Behanan, tying the game at 61. Following three consecutive turnovers—two giveaways by Louisville bookending a Peyton Siva steal—Seth Curry came out of a minor shooting slump to nail a 3-pointer from the corner and put Duke ahead 6461 with 4:30 to play, a lead which the Blue Devils would hold the rest of the way.

Curry shot just 3-for-11 from the field on the night, but made 6-of-6 free throws to join the other four Duke starters in scoring 14 or more points apiece. The Blue Devil attack was balanced throughout the game, as Curry, Ryan Kelly and Rasheed Sulaimon finished with 14 points each, Cook had 15, and Mason Plumlee added 16.

The distributed scoring was encouraging for Duke in a game where Plumlee rarely got chances to dominate inside, as he often has during the team’s early games.

Louisville was expected to take a hit on the interior when it was announced in the early afternoon that 6-foot-10 starting center Gorgui Dieng would not play, but a trio of Cardinal bench players stepped up in Dieng’s absence.

Junior Stephan Van Treese and sophomore Zach Price—who entered the game collectively averaging 1.1 points and 3.9 rebounds per game—combined for 12 points and 11 boards, including five offensive rebounds for Van Treese. Freshman Montrezl Harrell also chipped in a 10-point, five-

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Scoring Duke’s last eight points against Louisville, Quinn Cook secured the Most Outstanding Player award. rebound effort.

“We had a very big injury to our basketball team, but it didn’t affect us at all,” head coach Rick Pitino said. “We may not have had as many blocked shots as we would have had if Gorgui was there, but these guys stepped up and did a tremendous job.”

Sulaimon was the leader for Duke in the first half, showing aggressiveness off the dribble—especially in transition—to register 11 points on 5-of-10 shooting before halftime. Then the early second half was the Ryan Kelly show. The senior scored eight of the Blue Devils’ first 16 points of the half, as his midrange game proved a perfect antidote to the 2-3 zone defense that Louisville employed at times.

“We just tried to mix it up as much as possible,” Pitino said of the shifting Cardinal defense.

But after that, Cook took control as the game entered its final stages. He got a late hand from the Cardinals as well, who made just 2-of-6 free throws in the game’s final three minutes, including three misses by guard Russ Smith, blemishing an otherwise

excellent 17-point, seven-rebound effort.

“I thought if we make our free throws there, we win the game,” Pitino said. “Russ is a very good free throw shooter, but he was working his ass off so much defensively, so much on pick-and-rolls—I don’t even know if I could have hit the rim.”

Smith’s backcourt counterpart Siva chipped in 19 points of his own, but needed 15 shots to reach that number, and committed six turnovers to his four assists. Still, it took quality performances from all five Duke starters, plus key contributions from the Blue Devil bench, to take down Siva and the Cardinals.

And even more than that, Duke needed every ounce of its chemistry and poise to emerge victorious from a taxing threegame tournament.

“I told them after that game that it was an honor to coach them,” Krzyzewski said. “They responded to everything, and the main thing they responded to was the pressure of the moment. And when kids respond to the pressure of the moment like they did, it’s a beautiful thing to watch.”

95% Seth Curry keyed Duke’s strong free throw shooting in the Battle 4 Atlantis, hitting 21-of-22 free throws.

10 blocks Although Ryan Kelly struggled from deep in the Battle 4 Atlantis, he stepped up on the defensive end with 10 blocks.

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In the three games in the Bahamas, Mason Plumlee averaged 17.7 points and 11.3 rebounds per game and was named to the All-Tournament team.

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Why a tournament in the Bahamas?

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This is part one of a two part series looking in-depth at the non-basketball aspects of Duke basketball’s trip to the Bahamas. Today’s examines the program’s decision to attend the earlyseason tournament in Nassau.

The density of the NCAA rulebook has become something of a punch line among athletic officials and sports fans alike in recent years, and one of the myriad regulations placed on college basketball teams limits them to 29-game regular-season schedules.

That limitation stands, except for so-called “exempt events,” which allow programs to participate in multi-team, multi-game early-season tournaments and count them as just one game. In the late 1990s, the NCAA tried to limit teams to two such events every four years, but a judge struck down the restriction in a lawsuit brought about by several organizers of such tournaments.

So, since December 2000, teams have been permitted to play in one exempt event each year, with the caveat that they can only play in a particular event once every four years. Duke has taken full advantage of these opportunities, participating in events like the Maui Invitational, the NIT Season Tip-Off and the CBE Classic. But this year, the Blue Devils opted to try a new event, the Battle 4 Atlantis at the Atlantis Paradise Island resort in the Bahamas.

“The exempt-event world is always twisting and turning, and [the scheduling] goes out many years,” said Mike Cragg, senior associate director of athletics. “We’ve got a pretty good cycle of ones we want to do every year, but things come up along the way.

Things shift, and it ended up we had an opening relatively soon, and so we jumped at the chance.”

Cragg has handled these sorts of scheduling issues, in tandem with head coach Mike Krzyzewski, for nearly 20 years. He said it was about three years ago that he was first approached by the Battle 4 Atlantis organizers.

The Bahamian tournament is the brainchild of George Markantonis, who currently serves as president and managing director of Kerzner International Bahamas,

the firm which operates Atlantis Paradise Island. The resort leadership was in search of a way to boost occupancy during the Thanksgiving period.

“People are off, kids are off from school,” said Paul Burke, chief operating officer of Kerzner International Bahamas. “It’s an opportunity for us to get people to come down and experience the resort. So what’s hot these days? What moves people?”

With the increasing popularity of competitive early-season tournaments and the long-standing success of the Maui Invitational, which has been held since 1984 in a resort setting similar to Atlantis, Markantonis’ answer to those questions was college basketball.

Burke said that Atlantis was particularly well-suited for such an event because of its “multi-generational” attraction, with activities such as a spa and golf for adults and a 141-acre water park for their children and grandchildren.

The Atlantis organizers then set about searching out programs aswith successful alumni bases with track records of traveling well.

Burke stated that Atlantis, located in the Bahamian capital of o-hour flight of Nassau, lies within a two-hour on people, and approximately 140 million programs close to direct ct flights from the U.S. were especially attractive to fill ent field. out a potential tournament As it turned out, the Atlantis leadership was not the first to conceive the idea of replicating the Maui setting closrd. er to the Eastern seaboard. ghts from Maui, “On one of the flights Coach [Krzyzewski] and d I were talking about how it’d be really good if there was an East Coast version of Maui,” Cragg said.

“So I talked to a couple off promoters… and ople do some legactually we had some people ory short, it didn’t work into that. Long story materialize.”

The long journey to Maui played a significant factor in Duke’ss season last year, ed a six-hour time as the Blue Devils battled m Hawaii and prochange coming back from ceeded to get blown out by Ohio State in their first game back.

The chance for an East Coast Maui-style tournament finally arose when Atlantis approached the Blue Devils about participating in a new tournament on Paradise Island. At that point, Atlantis had never hosted a basketball game, though they were used to putting on concerts and other spectator events.

In 2010, they invited four teams—Mississippi State, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech and Richmond—to play a mid-December doubleheader as a dry run for the Imperial Arena, a 3,900-seat venue that Atlantis constructed in its 60,000-square-foot conference center.

The inaugural eight-team, three-day tournament was held last year, with thenNo. 22 Florida State representing the ACC and then-No. 4 Connecticut as the other ranked team in the field. Both of those teams were upset in the semitho finals, though, and Central d Florida defeated Harvard to for the tournament title. o The organizers learned a lot from their first time hosting such an eve and Cragg visevent, ite ited the facility to vi view its potential ffor himself. The o organizers also offfered a reported $$2 million payout tto each team that pa participated in the to tournament.

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Quinn Cook averaged 6.3 assists per game in the Battle 4 Atlantis, leading him to the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player award.

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Elizabeth Williams continued to play well in limited time as she recovers from a leg stress fracture. double figures. “[We] got after some things we needed to get after, relative to being aggressive on the boards,” McCallie said. “We’re working on things. I thought there was great leadership out there.”

Guard Tricia Liston grabbed a careerhigh 12 rebounds and scored 17 points for her second career double-double. In addition to Liston’s contributions, forward Elizabeth Williams continued her recovery

from a stress fracture in her foot with 18 points and eight rebounds in 17 minutes off the bench.

Despite the improvement in rebounding, the intensity from Friday’s game did not translate directly to the Blue Devils’ first road game of the season against Xavier.

Foul trouble and a lack of strong rebounding hampered Duke’s ability to pull away from the Musketeers early.

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In two games, against Valparaiso at Cameron Indoor Stadium Friday and at Xavier Sunday, that trend continued. Duke defeated Valparasio 90-45 and Xavier 82-59.

Head coach Joanne P. McCallie has stressed to her team the importance of hustle and effort on the court above traditional metrics such as points and assists. Rebounding and physical defensive play helped to separate No. 4 Duke from its opponent in both contests.

“We have emphasized and we’ve talked about, you’ve got to do the dirty work. It’s kind of substance over style,” McCallie said. “We’ve got a lot of style points because we’ve got a lot of great players, but that’s not what’s going to take you to the promised land, substance is. Having that many offensive rebounds in the second half indicates what we can do. And once you start doing those things, it becomes a habit.”

Early in both games, the Crusaders and Musketeers matched Duke’s scoring until the physical disparity between the two teams shifted control of the contests to the Blue Devils (4-0), who went on a 29-4 run against Valparaiso and 19-2 against Xavier in the first half.

Against Valparaiso, Duke’s 24 offensive and 33 defensive rebounds created second chance opportunities that the Blue Devils capitalized on. Despite only shooting 40 percent from the floor during the second half, Duke maintained its lead through aggressive rebounding and defense, which included 15 steals and no Crusader scoring in

tiple positions proved overwhelming for Xavier, which had only one player, guard Ashley Wanninger, score in double figures.

“We didn’t do a great job of making contact and getting the ball rebounded,” forward Haley Peters said. “It was good to play against some post players that were bigger sized for us to start to work on boxing out.”

Guard Chelsea Gray led Duke in scoring with 22 points and and 10 assists, impressing both her coach and teammates. “[She was] very poised, very experienced, very veteran. Chelsea was in control of that game, and I think that was important for a point guard,” McCallie said.

Gray’s backcourt partner, freshman guard Alexis Jones, had a strong performance in the first road game of her career at Duke, scoring 14 points and pressuring Xavier’s guards. In the post, Williams was a stronger presence than against Valparaiso, notching 16 points in 26 minutes of play.

“I was happy how this team prepared overall. I thought we had some really good leadership, and the team was ready to go,” McCallie said.

The Blue Devils next contest against Michigan in the Big 10/ACC Showdown will be another early test for McCallie and her team. The games this weekend highlighted some areas that Duke plans to focus in on heading into Wednesday’s away game.

“I think we have stuff we can sharpen up, defensively and with rebounding, and those are the things we have talked about all season but are going to be really important as we start to get closer to conference play,” Peters said. “We just need to be sharp and be physical and be able to dictate in the paint and on the boards.”

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FOOTBALL from SW page 2 The Blue Devils were a little deflated after watching Miami’s numerous quick scores and one-play drives in the first half, Crowder revealed. However, the team was able to relax at the half and come out of the locker room with renewed determination, leading to a better performance on the field.

“I wasn’t nice, I wasn’t consoling,” Cutcliffe said of his halftime talk with the team.

Cutcliffe noted that the Blue Devils’ performance has gone south since its win over North Carolina not only because of the talent of their opposition, but also because they haven’t been playing well.

“I want a signal sent to everybody involved with Duke football—it isn’t about being close, it’s about winning,” Cutcliffe said. “Winning has got to become important.”

Duke’s all-time leader in both receptions and receiving yards had another opinion of what was plaguing his team.

Vernon pointed to a lack of execution and an excess of penalties as the reasons for the Blue Devils’ losses over the past four games.

Though penalties may be a problem, the team committed just five penalties in the game, which pales in comparison to the 11 the Hurricanes committed.

Though the team’s losing streak has left a sour taste in the mouths of fans and players alike, Cutcliffe wants to highlight the accomplishments his club, especially his seniors, has achieved this season, including winning the program’s most games since 1994.

“I want those young men to be proud of what they’ve done,” he said. “There’s a lot to celebrate. Not celebrating losses to Miami, but there’s a lot to celebrate.

With the regular season in the rearview mirror, the team’s seniors say they are looking forward to another three or four weeks of practice, and to ending the losing streak by winning their bowl game.

“It’s a legacy we want to leave and set the bar for the next class,” Vernon said.

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Ali McCurdy, a junior, broke the Duke single-season record for digs, which she previously set last year.

VOLLEYBALL from SW page 2 All-ACC freshmen team selections Sklar and Campbell proved vital to the Blue Devil offense this season, finishing the year second and fourth in kills, respectively, for the team. Sklar and Campbell also bolstered the Duke defensive effort. Sklar finished the year second only to McCurdy in digs, and Campbell posted .74 blocks per set, the third-highest total on the team.

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“I think there are some great things to come,” Nagel said. “We have a lot of work ahead of us, but I’m very optimistic about how we’re going to be able to make that happen.”

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>>Duke’s first contest at Atlantis Paradise Island was far from a laid-back affair. Especially in the first half, Duke met a physical and athletic Minnesota squad in a fast-paced, hectic firstround game at the Battle 4 Atlantis.

Though the Golden Gophers registered a number of highlight-reel plays attacking the rim and the boards, the Blue Devils answered almost every momentum play with a key basket of its own en route to an 89-71 win.

>> As expected, VCU didn’t let Duke have an easy time trying to get to the finals for the Battle 4 Atlantis. The Blue Devils needed a big shot from Quinn Cook to put them ahead at halftime before giving themselves a little bit of breathing room in the second half. VCU kept the game close the entire way, but Duke didn’t let down and hung on to win 67-58.

>>And the Duke game ball goes to … Seth Curry. As crucial as Mason Plumlee’s contributions were, both in scoring and on the glass, his points came in bunches inside against sometimes questionable defense. Curry’s 25 points lent energy to a noisy Duke crowd and to his teammates, since they were frequently contested shots and came at several key junctures in the game.

>> And the Duke game ball goes to … Quinn Cook. After another impressive game it’s time to declare Quinn-sanity in the Bahamas. Cook doesn’t have the scoring numbers that Plumlee and Curry have, but turns this Duke offense into a well-oiled machine whenever he’s on the floor. For the second time in the last three games Cook recorded nine assists and would have had more if not for the Blue Devils’ struggles from beyond the arc.

>>And the Minnesota game ball goes to … Maverick Ahanmisi. There were a couple of junctures early in the game where it appeared as though the Blue Devils were prepared to completely run away from the Golden Gophers and never look back. But point guard Ahanmisi came off the bench with energy and a 10-point performance without missing either of his field goals or any of his six free throws. It was Ahanmisi who drew the foul on Sulaimon that might have been huge were it not for Cook’s buzzer-beating 3-pointer.

>> And the VCU game ball goes to … Juvonte Reddic. The North Carolina native was tasked with the near impossible job of covering Mason Plumlee, and despite giving up some size to Plumlee, out-rebounded the Duke forward 12 to 10. Reddic also shot 8-for15 from the field for 16 points.

Perhaps most impressively, Reddic only committed one foul against the Blue Devil big man.

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