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YOUNG TRUSTEE

Web of relationships complicates nomination process The finalists

DSG ties

YT semifinalists

Minor conflict of interest Ashley Alman Gurdane Bhutani

Chris Brown

Alikiah Barclay

Nicole Kyle

Brandon Putnam

James Stevenson

Charles West

Major conflict of interest

YT Nominating Comittee

Jay Kennedy

Ba’Carri Johnson

Neil Kondamuri

Hannah McCracken

Chair, Dan Pellegrino

Stefani Jones George Carotenuto

Derek Rhodes

Precious Lockhart

Hong Zhu

Laurel Koch

Cameron Tripp

Jacob Zionce Mary D’Amico CHRONICLE GRAPHIC BY LAUREN CARROLL

This chart depicts the network of both close and business-like relationships between Young Trustee Nominating Committee members and the YT semifinalists, as disclosed by the committee.

by Carleigh Stiehm THE CHRONICLE

The members of the Young Trustee Nominating Committee declared eight major and 13 minor conflicts of interest in relation to the Young Trustee semifinalists.

Major conflicts of interest led members

of the committee—which narrowed the eight Young Trustee applicants down to three finalists Jan. 21—to remove themselves from voting on the candidate in question, but not from voting on the others. The connections between the YTNC members and the Young Trustee semifinal-

ists posed a challenge to the ability of the committee to select finalists in an unbiased manner.

Since the committee selected the three finalists who are currently campaigning for election by the student body, several members have begun publicly supporting

one or more of the candidates that the committee selected.

The YTNC sought to avoid bias during its selection process by allowing members with conflicts of interest to excuse themselves SEE YT ON PAGE 6

McClendon steps Amtrak kills pedestrian down following close to East Campus business scandal

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from Staff Reports THE CHRONICLE

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Duke alum Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp., was involved in questionable business practices.

Concourse platform is a student’s Facebook, Page 2

Aubrey McClendon, co-founder and CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp., will step down as the company’s leader effective April 1, according to a company release Tuesday.

McClendon, Trinity ’81, announced his decision to retire months after the unraveling of his unethical business practices. A report from Reuters in April 2012 outlined the CEO’s hand in taking out approximately $1.1 billion in loans against his personal stakes in the enterprises’s oil and gas wells through the use of a corporate incentive program, the Founder Well Participation Program.

SEE MCCLENDON ON PAGE 5

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Emergency vehicles line Main Street just off of East Campus following a train accident that killed an unidentified individual Tuesday night.

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“When it comes to...meaningful participation, then, just ask yourself where you cast more ballots: the voting booth, or the supermarket....”

—Chris Bassil in ‘Society, state and market: part II.’ See column page 11

An unidentified individual was killed in a train accident just off of East Campus Tuesday evening.

An eastbound Amtrak train struck the pedestrian who was trespassing the tracks at approximately 7:43 p.m. near the intersection of Buchanan Boulevard and West Main Street, about one mile west of the Durham Amtrak Station. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene. Onscene Durham police officers described the individual as an older man—likely not a Duke student and possibly homeless.

The train and its passengers remained at the site of the accident until 9:55 p.m. while authorities investigated the scene, SEE TRAIN ON PAGE 4

SAP CEO talks business, Page 3

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Duke Concourse merges social media and academics

by Emma Baccellieri THE CHRONICLE

A new Duke platform likened to an academic Facebook aims to increase information sharing and collaboration, but many students and administrators do not know about it.

Concourse, an enterprise collaboration program that allows for online communication and data sharing, has had a positive introductory period since opening to faculty, staff and students last week, said Julian

learntoConcourse Today at noon, OIT will host a session titled “Tips & Tricks for Using Concourse” as part of the “Learn IT @ Lunch” series.

The program will be held in the RENCI Center at the OIT Telecommunications Building on Science Drive and will last an hour.

“My hope is that we will help those who attend to personalize Concourse in a way that makes it work best for them—whether by adding information to your profile that lets others know you have shared interests, personalizing your home page to add links to sites you need frequently at work or by exploring how to set up a community to help members get the most out of it,” Laurie Harris, senior project manager, wrote in an email Tuesday.

Lombardi, assistant vice president of academic and research services for the Office of Information Technology. The program is based on WebEx conferencing and sharing technology developed by Cisco Systems.

“What we didn’t have at Duke—and what there really aren’t options for in higher education—is a collaboration suite, which is exactly what Concourse is,” Lombardi said.

The University worked for several years to offer the program, identifying several technology companies as possibilities to develop the software before choosing Cisco, Lombardi said. He described the system as somewhat akin to an academically minded Facebook, citing the ability for users to create and join groups and thus personalize their intake of content.

“Your activity stream shows posts made to your communities,” Lombardi said. “You get customized collections of content.”

Users sign in using their netID, which allows Concourse to link to other netID services, such as ACES and Sakai. Among the program’s other notable features are several opportunities for real-time communication.

“The ability to instantly reach out to other Duke Concourse users through “click to chat” and “click to call”… [is] a game changer,” Laurie Harris, senior project manager at OIT, wrote in an email.

Users in Concourse can also engage in live screen sharing and document sharing.

“Making it possible for everyone to run remote screen share sessions means it is much easier to work together even if you are

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The Galuppi Ensemble performs Seven Words, a music and philosophy concert based on a piece by Joseph Haydn, in the Duke Memorial Chapel Tuesday evening.

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Software co CEO talks business leadership For true innovation to thrive, business leaders should primarily value the interests of their company’s customers, said Bill McDermott, co-CEO of German software corporation SAP AG, in a talk at the Fuqua School of Business Tuesday afternoon.

McDermott, who became co-CEO of SAP alongside Danish businessman Jim Hagemann Snabe in 2010, came to Duke as a part of Fuqua’s Distinguished Speakers Series. He spoke about his experiences with global business leadership in a question-and-answer style discussion hosted by Fuqua Dean Bill Boulding.

McDermott is known for his high energy, altruistic and ambitious leadership style—he was awarded the “Idealist of the Year” award in 2008 by City Year Greater Philadelphia for his civic service and leadership in the city of Philadelphia, and he has lead many corporations including Xerox and Under Armour and Ansys.

“The real measure of a person and a company is not what they take from the world, but what they give back,” he said in his talk, noting that empathy and teamwork are keys to success in the world of business.

After 40 minutes of questions from Boulding and McDermott’s responses, McDermott fielded a handful of questions from the audience, which was comprised of about 200 Fuqua students and other community members.

The Chronicle’s Jack Mercola sat down with McDermott after the talk and discussed what it takes to be an effective business leader on the modern global stage.

Q&A

The Chronicle: What exactly is SAP? Bill McDermott: We make the soft-

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SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott spoke about consumer interests at the Fuqua School of Business Tuesday afternoon. ware that helps companies run better.

Our mission is to make every customer a best-run business. Our vision is to make the world run better and improve people’s lives. We do that with business software so that you can connect everything, from the way you manage your supply chain, to the way you build your products, to the way you run your financials, to the way you connect with your customers. And, on an end-to-end basis, all of these processes are fully integrated in 25 distinctly different industries for small, medium and large companies alike. That’s what we do.

TC: In your talk, you said “Innovation begins with the empathy you have for the user of that product.” This strikes me as a unique mindset when tackling the business world. Will you elaborate on this idea?

BM: It’s having that complete singleminded passion for the customers and what they want. You want to create an experience for them that is unmatched, as opposed to creating products to make money. If you satisfy the fantasies of the user, you’ll make money. But you’ll make money for the right reason, and it will scale a lot better. What we think is that every good innovation began with the customer in mind.

Imagination begets the event. If you can truly put yourself in the mind of the consumer and listen to the consumer on what it is they really want and then you give it to them in a form that is breathtaking, fun to use and easy to use, you’ll sell a lot of units.

TC: How do you best collect and then work with user feedback?

BM: There are a few dimensions of the customer that should matter to a large organization. One is the geography—you have to be in touch with language, the currency and the culture.

Another is the industry—you really have to have the breadth and depth in domain expertise to discuss their industry as a thought leader. Users know their business and they’ll only be responsive to those who know their business as well as they do and can provide ideas they don’t already have. When it comes down to it, they’re buying your fresh ideas.

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Finally, you need to know the role each person has in a company. Rolebased user experience is even better. For example, if I’m a CFO, the user experience I will expect will be very different from the head of sales, the head of marketing or the CEO. Personalizing your product to the industry-specific needs of your user and being thoughtful about the domain and geography play into the value chain that we see drive user acceptance and user satisfaction.

TC: Many people perceive a need to be ambitious and competitive to succeed as a business leader. But you’ve said you employ a “user-first” or “empathy-first” leadership style. Where and how did you develop this attitude?

BM: It all comes back to what I said on stage today—this idea of “the team” and the joy of having your team win the game.

My biggest lesson for any upcoming leader is that you can get more by giving more. The big thing is that you can really get anything you want in this life so long as you help enough other people get what they want. To lead, you need to be a person who wants to help others. In return, you’ll end up helping yourself, because you’ll be identified as a leader.

To be the student with the A+ because you outflanked all of your other classmates with your better study habits is not nearly as fun as getting an A- while helping another classmate jump from a C to a B+. Those are the things your classmates will remember about you SEE MCDERMOTT ON PAGE 4

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MCDERMOTT from page 3

said Amtrak spokesperson Vernae Graham. Several police cars lined Main Street near the entrance to East Campus. Police and emergency medical services also filled the parking lot behind Dominos on the southwest corner of Main and Buchanan.

Piedmont Train 76 was traveling from Charlotte to Raleigh and was expected to arrive at the Durham station at 7:50 p.m. The train was traveling at approximately 55 mph as it was pulling into the station when it hit the pedestrian. There were 35 passengers on the train, and no passengers or crew members sustained any injuries, Graham added.

She noted that the maximum speed of a Piedmont train is 79 m.p.h., and there is not much a train conductor can do if they see something or someone on the tracks. “All they can do is brake and wait for the impact,� she said.

After the train left, police officers cleaned the victim’s remains off of the tracks. Officers noted that the man had been walking along the track before the train hit him, despite a nearby sidewalk.

for a long time—long after you forgot about your A+, by the way.

TC: In your talk, you told a story about how you went into a major job interview at age 24—eight or 10 years younger than the rest of the job candidates—and got the job. You said the way you convinced the interviewers to give you the job was by guaranteeing to them that you would excel at leading in the position and that you wanted the job more than the other applicants. How can a young interviewee prove that he or she is the best person for the job?

BM: Passion is something that doesn’t need to come through in words. I believe that passion comes through in body language. When you have it in your eyes that you want something, smart people are good at detecting that. The other piece is probably—During that interview, I was also leaning far enough forward in my chair that I almost tipped over. [Laughter] It’s just raw passion. But at the same time, there should be a humanity about the passion. You’ve got to be very humble and recognize that you cannot be mad if you don’t get what you want.

There might have been another candidate with eight or 10 years of experience who would have been the logical bet.

But to change people’s minds is what leadership is all about. Changing people’s minds is the most basic thing that a leader can do.

People ask me all the time: “What’s the common trait among leaders?� But that’s the fascinating thing about leaders—they don’t have to have common traits. Leaders come in all shapes and

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sizes, genders, socioeconomic backgrounds. But they have one thing perfectly in common—all leaders have followers. It’s that simple.

TC: In your talk, you mentioned the importance of both decisiveness and collaboration and communication. You said that mostly everything that needs to be communicated is undercommunicated.

Where do you think an effective leader should draw the line between allowing many voices into a collective decision and decisively making a choice as an executive?

BM: That’s a really good question. I think the big decisions have to be “jobprofile� appropriate. So, if you’re buying a company or you’re delivering the strategy of a company or delivering to the market a breakthrough innovation, that’s a CEO message—you don’t delegate it.

At the same time, you must be aware of the decisions to delegate. Your people in your leadership chain have a very important role to play in the company. They are also willing to take responsibility as they are leaders. I’ll give you an example.

Some companies buy other companies so they can get the best price. They go through all the financial models, and they say, “Hey, based on price and return this is a smart call.� To which I say, “B.S.� The smart call is the one that isn’t the cheapest one necessarily, but is the best one. Again, it’s having the strength of the convictions to make a big call even though on paper it may cost a billion too much.

The other thing is, as it relates to big acquisition versus a small acquisition, a small acquisition is called a small acquisition for a reason—because it’s small. And when you have a big company, often, unless you’re buying a small company for

the technology itself, it can be a bit of a distraction. Big companies tend to react to big things. What I’ve tried to do is to focus on deals that are big enough to get everybody’s attention as a game changer.

When you do little ones, you should tuck them in for the technology alone and not pretend that a little one will organically grow within a big company into a giant— because it isn’t without your size and scale taking ownership of it.

TC: What is the best way to motivate or inspire leaders within a company or organization?

BM: The first thing is to listen. You need to find out what it is they really want. How do leaders want to be treated?

What is the protocol around communications? You dream big dreams, where are you and what are you doing?

Then it becomes an exercise in coaching. How can I help you fulfill your dreams and how can we do the best job so you that we both feel good about the work. Money is not unimportant. It’s not the ultimate thing, but it is also important that you fare with people financially. You don’t want to be the guy that is not looking out for others’ interests, because they have families to take care of and college educations to pay for. It matters that you take care of them and they can trust you. I’ve seen leadership relationships that, in the last mile, the trust is broken because the relationship is lacking the generosity gene and the relationship lacks the trust.

In the end, most good leaders have the generosity gene. They should be able to argue on the side of the people as opposed to the balance sheet. In the long run, it’s the people who will be around after there have been a lot of different fluctuations in the balance sheet.

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McClendon and his wife, Katie, Trinity ’80, have donated more than $16 million to Duke to date, with gifts funding the Bryan Center Plaza and the namesake tower.

The culmination of such actions raised concerns regarding the blurred line between McClendon’s personal dealings and the company’s. “As the company moves towards more fully developing the value of its outstanding assets, Chesapeake is at an important transition in its history —Aubrey and the board of directors have agreed that the time has come for the company to select a new leader,� said Chesapeake Board Chair Archie Dunham in the company’s release.“The Board will be working collaboratively with Aubrey to make a smooth transition to Chesapeake’s next chief executive officer.�

The board further noted that its review

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not in the same place,� OIT system architect Mark McCahill, wrote in an email Tuesday.

He noted that such technology has the capability to be very effective in the academic sphere, mentioning his use of it in a course he taught last semester.

Members of the Duke community were emailed invitations to sign up on Concourse two weeks ago, and several communities have already been established on the network. John Nicholson, adjunct assistant professor in the Master of Engineering Management program, chose to use Concourse for several of his consulting practicums this semester, and the Innovation CoLab, a group supporting innovative media engagement, is using the network as well, McCahill noted. “All indications are the roll-out period

of the allegations surrounding McClendon has not to date revealed any improper conduct, adding that such probes had no influence in his decision to retire as CEO. McClendon, who has been with the company since its inception in 1989, will continue to serve as CEO until a successor has been appointed. He will also receive his full compensation and other benefits to which he is entitled, as laid out in his employment agreement, the press release noted.

In the statement, McClendon noted that despite “certain philosophical differences� with the new board, he hopes to ensure that the company will adjust to these changes. “I look forward to working collaboratively with the company and the board to provide a smooth transition to new leadership for the company,� he added.

Chesapeake is currently the second largest producer of natural gas in the nation, accounting for 5 percent of the United States’ natural gas production. is going well,� Lombardi said, noting that more than 200 accounts were set up in the first few days after the 35,000 invitations were sent.

Many members of the University community, however are not aware of the new program. Provost Peter Lange said he is unsure what exactly Concourse is, and many students share the uncertainty. “I have no idea what it is,� said junior Jen Skarritt.

Junior Ishi Singh noted that she does not recall receiving the email invitation, which included a brief description of the program and a link to create a profile. “It will be interesting to see what the response is once more people have had a chance to see it—we are still in the very early days right now, and it takes a while for social software systems to get traction,� McCahill said.

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YT from page 1 from the deliberations on candidates, said YTNC Chair Daniel Pellegrino, a junior.

“As far as conflicts of interest are concerned, any YTNC member that knows an applicant must make this known to the committee, and we told all of the applicants about the potential conflicts of interest prior to the interviews,” Pellegrino wrote in an email Tuesday. “If a member has a major conflict of interest—such as a close friendship with an applicant—they are able to remove themselves from deliberations on that applicant, meaning they cannot comment on that person or vote on them.”

If an applicant felt that a member should have declared a major conflict with any applicant, they were given the opportunity to protest, Pellegrino said.

Pellegrino defined a major conflict of interest as “significant personal relationship that irrevocably impairs the YTNC member’s ability to pass impartial judgment.”

He defined a minor conflict of interest as “a business relationship where the YTNC member’s ability to pass impartial judgment is not affected by the relationship and where

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the relationship may in fact help the member better assess the qualifications of the candidate.”

Although members of the YTNC have the ability to excuse themselves from deliberations on a candidate that they have a relationship with, they do not need to recuse themselves from voting on the other candidates.

“A few YTNC members know they will endorse a person should they become a finalist (because of a previous friendship), but this wouldn’t help that person in becoming a finalist because the committee member would remove themselves from deliberations and voting on that person (and essentially vote on the remaining applicants as if the conflict applicant didn’t exist),” Pellegrino wrote.

The procedure, however, might not be able to remove the effect of personal relationships from Young Trustee selection, said Young Trustee finalist Gurdane Bhutani, a senior.

“It is only natural that some people on the committee are going to be friends with some of the applicants, and this may have an effect on their judgment,” Bhutani said.

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DSG presence The committee members evidently did not consider shared participation in Duke Student Government as a major or minor conflict of interest.

Nine of the 14 YTNC members hold positions with Duke Student Government. The committee includes five vice presidents and three senators. Pellegrino previously served as a senator and is the DSG representative on the Arts and Sciences Council curriculum committee.

The finalists selected by the committee have DSG ties of their own. Chris Brown, a senior, previously served as external chief of staff and vice president for athletics and campus services. Senior Gurdane Bhutani served as executive vice president in the previous administration.

The DSG-affiliated YTNC members, however, did not all indicate this as a “business relationship” by declaring a minor conflict of interest for either candidate, according to the conflict of interest document obtained by The Chronicle.

Jacob Zionce, sophomore and vice president for residential life, and Neil Kondamuri, junior and vice president for social change, declared a minor conflict for Bhutani.

Three DSG members on the committee declared a major conflict with Brown: senior George Carotenuto, vice president for facilities and environment; junior Stefani Jones, vice president for equity and outreach; and Kondamuri.

The remaining DSG affiliated YTNC members did not disclose any relationship with the former DSG leaders campaigning for Young Trustee in the conflict of interest document.

YTNC members endorse Following the announcement of the Young Trustee finalists, at least four of the members of YTNC publicly announced support for one or more Young Trustee candidates on Facebook. Two members endorsed candidates for whom they had previously declared a major conflict of interest: Carotenuto for Brown, Jones for Alman.

All members of the committee were contacted by The Chronicle for comment, but each member other than the chair, Pellegrino, either did not respond or declined to comment, citing YTNC policy.

Pellegrino said that after the Young Trustee finalists are announced, endorsements have no effect on the YTNC process.

Brown said he did not have any problems with the way the YTNC operates.

“Before the process, you want to remove any conflicts of interest, but after the process, there is no reason why they cannot actively support candidates,” Brown said. “They have spent a lot of time looking over the applications and qualifications of the candidates, so in a way, they know the candidates best.”

Young Trustee finalist Ashley Alman, a senior, said she thinks it is “perfectly fair” that members of the YTNC can endorse candidates. She noted that she thinks the YTNC “can speak very confidently to our ability to perform as a Young Trustee” because they have formally interviewed the candidates and read their applications.

“I’m thrilled to have the support of the YTNC members that are backing me, as I know they are [backing me] for reasons beyond hopping on the bandwagon,” Alman said.

Pellegrino added that members of the YTNC have a “good understanding of all of the applicants.” He added that YTNC members endorse candidates based on who they were most impressed with during the screening process.

“Some may be inclined to endorse certain people before the process, but this normally means they had a preexisting conflict of interest with that person that results in them removing themselves from deliberations and voting on that person,” Pellegrino said.

Ultimately, the results of the YTNC deliberations determine who the student body will see on the ballot, which Bhutani said he finds “kind of silly.”

“We have an election to decide who will be the next Young Trustee, so why is it necessary to have some of the choice taken out of the student voters’ hands?” Bhutani said. “Duke students are generally very smart and can figure out who of the candidates is qualified for themselves.”

He added that he does not “endorse the existence of the YTNC,” and he said anyone that wants to run for Young Trustee should have the opportunity to be on the ballot.

“A more open election would be a better choice,” Bhutani said. “The current system makes the statement that students do not care enough to take the time to learn about every candidate running, which I think is just not true.”

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A salute Curry carries on through the pain to “not our rivals”

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Conference play is often described as a grind, but the entire season has been that and more for shooting guard Seth Curry, who has played through a lingering leg injury during his senior campaign.

Curry—who has not been able to exactly identify his injury all season—has battled through persistent pain in his right shin even before the team’s season officially began in October.

“I can’t really jump off my right leg,” Curry said. “It hasn’t really affected my quickness. It’s just constant pain.”

More than anything, the injury has affected his preparation regimen. The Blue Devil coaching staff held him out for Countdown to Craziness and the first exhibition game of the season. But having missed just one game all season because of the injury, Curry has been meticulously managed on a week-to-week basis to ensure he’s ready to go for games. This requires the Duke co-captain to sit out of practices each week in order to give his leg ample time to recover following a game. To further aid the maintenance and healing, he wears a boot on his right foot for much of the day.

“Probably a day off or two days off,” Curry said in regards to the right dosage of rest after a game. “Let it calm down. Let the activation of it calm down a little bit. It’s not really an exact science. We’re trying to figure it out as we go.”

After Saturday’s 84-64 win against Maryland, head coach Mike Krzyzewski estimated

As the final seconds ticked down in Duke’s 20-point victory against Maryland last weekend, chants of “not our rivals” cascaded through the confines of Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Although the win meant a solid recovery from a disastrous 27-point loss in Miami, it also held the added significance of being potentially the last time the Terrapins Daniel play at Cameron Indoor Stadium before they depart for the Big Ten in the 2014-15 season.

It is true—the Terps are not our rivals.

They never have been, and once they depart the ACC they certainly never will be. But Maryland’s move to the Big Ten will signify the somber end of an era of ACC basketball.

Conference realignment has proven to be a messy game throughout the academic year—haggling over buyout prices and television contracts has ultimately left the leagues of college basketball’s traditional powers with deeper scars than can ever heal.

And ultimately, when Duke’s non-rival is finally a non-presence on its conference schedule, it will be the Blue Devils who

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Head coach Mike Krzyzewski said Saturday Seth Curry has missed about 40 of Duke’s 65 practices this season.

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Although Duke beat Wake Forest 80-62 to kick off ACC play, that was at Cameron Indoor Stadium. As the Blue Devils look to match the 10th-best start in program history, they will have to travel to WinstonSalem, N.C. to take on a Demon Deacon squad at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Colliseum that has some notable home wins under its belt.

The No. 5 Blue Devils (17-2, 4-2 in the ACC) have yet to win a true road game yet this season, and Wake Forest (10-9, 3-4 ACC) has yet to lose at home in conference play, including a win last week against thenNo. 18 N.C. State.

When the two teams first met, Duke point guard Quinn Cook struggled from the floor, shooting 0-for-11 from the field.

Seth Curry and Ryan Kelly lit it up, though, scoring 22 points apiece. The Blue Devils will need serious contributions from freshman Amile Jefferson and junior Josh Hairston this time around because Kelly is still out indefinitely with a foot injury.

But when asked, Demon Deacons head coach Jeff Bzdelik said that playing Duke without Ryan Kelly would not be much

different.

“Obviously Ryan Kelly’s presence allows them to space the court better, but they’re going to do what they do,” Bzdelik said in his Monday teleconference. “They’re going to defend and they’re going to move the ball, and they’re going to be aggressive with their mentality.”

In the much-needed Blue Devil victory Saturday against Maryland, Jefferson collected 11 points, nine rebounds and three blocks. Jefferson’s classmate Rasheed Sulaimon had a stellar performance against the Terrapins, scoring a career-high 25 points in the Blue Devil win. Despite an ugly loss to Miami a few days prior to that game, Duke was able to turn what looked like frazzled play against the Hurricanes around and come out on top Saturday.

Wake Forest will likely rely significantly on freshman Devin Thomas Wednesday to battle Jefferson, Hairston and National Player of the Year candidate Mason Plumlee in the paint. Surprisingly enough, Thomas was held scoreless and turned the ball over six times in his 25 minutes on the floor when the teams last met. However, when asked SEE M. BASKETBALL ON PAGE 12

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MASON PLUMLEE 17.4 PPG, 11.2 RPG AMILE JEFFERSON 4.6 PPG, 3.1 RPG RASHEED SULAIMON 12.0 PPG, 1.7 3PG SETH CURRY 15.7 PPG, 42.9% 3-pointers QUINN COOK 11.1 PPG, 6.2 APG

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APG: 15.5 11.3 Rasheed Sulaimon may face 4.6 BPG: 4.4 a tough matchup on the peSPG: 7.3 7.2 rimeter against Travis McKie, 10.8 14.2 TO/G: but coming off a top-notch The breakdown performance against the TerThe Blue Devils bounced back from their rapins his confidence level 27-point drubbing against Miami in a big way should be high. with their 20-point win against Maryland. This The Demon Deacons regugame will be much tougher than the Jan. 5 larly go nine deep, but the home win against the Demon Deacons, but this bench is comprised of mostly is a good opportunity for Duke to earn its first freshman and isn’t developed conference road win of the season and do so enough yet to truly challenge with some breathing room. the Blue Devils duo of Josh OUR CALL: Duke wins, 78-63 Hairston and Tyler Thornton.

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The last few years in college athletics have been one giant numbers game: Dollar signs seem to have been all that mattered to programs willing to sacrifice more than 50 years of history to be the geographically-displaced black sheep in a growing power conference.

But the biggest cost of Maryland’s departure from the ACC is something you cannot put a price tag on: Losing some of the most notable memories in Duke basketball history.

No single opponent will ever mean as much to the Blue Devils as North Carolina does. Steeped in history and tradition as basketball powers and just miles apart, the two schools combine to form the most notable rivalry in college athletics and arguably all of sports. Throughout this period when college basketball’s landscape is changing daily, there is nothing better for the ACC than N.C. State’s rise back into national relevance, creating a formidable conglomerate in the Triangle for which the conference is known.

Although Duke-Maryland contests will never have the allure of the Tobacco Road rivalry or the mutual disdain the Blue Devils share with N.C. State—even if the Terrapins hate Duke more than Duke hates them—some of the most memorable moments in Blue Devil history have come against Maryland.

Growing up a Duke fan, I quickly understood the significance of the Blue Devils’ rivalries and non-rivalries alike. Although some people point to Chris Duhon’s reverse layup in overtime to beat the Tar Heels in 2004 or the 82-50 drubbing of North Carolina at Cameron in 2010 as some of their finest Duke basketball memories, they pale in comparison to the games that helped me develop a passion for the sport of basketball.

I vividly remember watching Jason Wil-

liams lead Duke to a 10-point comeback in the final minute against the Terrapins in 2001 to send the game to overtime, a game that Duke eventually won and enshrined as the “Miracle Minute.”

The Blue Devils’ fate could not have looked bleaker later that year in the 2001 Final Four when they trailed Maryland by 22 points in the first half, only to storm back and play a near-perfect second half en route to their third national championship in program history.

And when Duke won its most recent national championship, the defining game that season was a win against the Terrapins on Feb. 13, 2010, when senior center Brian Zoubek had his coming-out party with a monstrous 16-point, 17-rebound performance.

Before Roy Williams joined the ranks of the ACC’s elite coaches, the conference’s second great coaching mind was Maryland’s Gary Williams. Before Duke fans had learned to hate the names Tyler Hansbrough, Sean May and Harrison Barnes, the Blue Devils’ arch nemeses were the Terrapins’ Juan Dixon, Lonny Baxter, Steve Blake and Chris Wilcox. And for many years in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when Duke had assembled some its greatest teams in program history, Maryland kept up stride for stride.

In an era when North Carolina was wildly inconsistent, the Terrapins were often the biggest game on Duke’s schedule.

So is Maryland the Blue Devils’ rival? Of course not. But the ACC’s loss of the Terrapins won’t prove to be inconsequential after the conference adds Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Notre Dame and Louisville in the coming years.

Losing Maryland and adding four strong basketball programs may help the ACC regain national prominence, but there are some things you just can’t replace—the Terrapins’ departure is definitely a loss worth mourning.

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to see how a confused high school student struggling to distinguish between academically comparable schools would subconsciously rely on tangible factors to decide. A school’s amenities may seem like a meaningful heuristic: One might suspect that the more money a school spends on flat-screen TVs and undulating chairs, the more it spends on academic resources. The seemingly minor amenities might have an aggregate effect: If our peers have rock walls and we do not, perhaps we will suffer the consequences in the quality of our incoming freshman class.

Yet we can imagine the ways in which amenities spending detracts from Duke’s academic health. First, we live in an imperfect world of budgetary

constraints, where a dollar spent on a motion-detecting media wall may mean a dollar not spent attracting top professors, new programs or undergraduate research grants.

Schools like Harvard and Yale, whose endowments are three to five times the size of Duke’s, may be able to spend liberally on both—we, however, cannot afford to do so.

Secondly, swanky amenities say something about a school’s priorities and where academics rank among them. Though the Office of Undergraduate Admissions’s website and tours do emphasize our unique academic offerings—interdisciplinarity, undergraduate focus, approachable professors—concluding an information session with an image of a Duke-stamped waffle does not

exactly signal academic quality and rigor. The admissions office should be as careful when determining how to emphasize amenities.

As much as we cringe at the notion of commercialized “country club” colleges, Duke is not entirely immune to the phenomenon. Amenity accumulation is not inherently bad—one could argue many amenities, like exercise machines or well-appointed dorms, ultimately further Duke’s educational goals. But a proper balance is necessary to ensure that academics remain the primary reason students apply to and choose Duke. The University should make a concerted effort to show applicants not only why we came to Duke, but the reasons why we stayed here.

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t’s changing, now, but most geologists are in the open air without having or developing still in it for the rocks. There are hand an appreciation for nature and for the envisamples, chunks of granite or tonalite you ronment and what it means. And I’ve been can carry in a backpack and exan environmentalist since I was amine with a magnifying glass. a little kid. Anyone remember There are the shelves of fossils, Hexxus from “Fern Gully”? That minerals, ooids and microstrucwas my bogeyman. Now there’s tures we all have somewhere in some part of me that wonders if our houses, or boxed up waiting I’m working for him. for a permanent residence. And So here I am, facing down then there are the Big Rocks. what my friends did last year, The ones Out West: the sandwhen they were applying for Life mia lehrer stones of Utah, the granodiorites After Duke, and what I thought dino bino of the Sierra Nevada Batholith, I’d avoided when I chose to go the gabbronorites of Montana’s into science: How many of my 2.7-billion-year-old Stillwater Complex. They principles am I willing to betray for a stable caare the rocks you go to see. reer in something I enjoy doing? I guess the Why do we go to the rocks? Because they’re answer to that is obvious. I’m moving to Housthere and they’re beautiful and they bear on ton this summer. their faces a narrative meant to be translated.

A lot of us make this choice. Is it entitleBecause they invite long, arm-waving treatises ment? Is it the underlying idea that we have that begin with the phrase, “Let me tell you spent so much time, money, work, on our colwhat happened here.” There is the violence lege degree (or degrees), that we deserve to of a thrust fault, of rocks ground so hot and continue to live in the manner to which we so fine they glaze into thick, wavy mylonite lay- have become accustomed? For every Duke stuers, unrecognizable. Hold a piece of pyroclas- dent who takes a job on Wall Street, does some tic breccia; that is the roar of a flood of ash firm dedicated to the improvement of the huand heat, spitting molten glass, scouring the man condition lose another mind? For every surface of a mountain, immolating anything geologist who takes an oil job, does some envithat lived there. Brush the lithified mud from ronmental group lose an ally? the skeleton of some organism so old we can’t Can we do both? Can I work in petroleum call it an “animal” or a “plant.” Trace the wind for a summer, for two summers, for two years, patterns on a sand dune so long-buried it has for a decade, and still also work for the presturned to stone. ervation of the open spaces and the climate of We are geologists so we can go to the rocks. the planet I hold so dear? I have this picture We are geologists so we can tell their stories. in my head of Big Bad Oil. What if it’s wrong?

We are geologists so we can drink good beer Maybe I’m not betraying as much as I think. and terrible cocktails and go to sleep in tents I don’t have any answers here. Only sympaand wake up smelling like campfire smoke with thy for my friends who made this choice last a layer of rock dust on our skin so fine and year, and for the current seniors who are doing brown it looks like a tan. so this year. The people I’ve met from the comWhy am I telling you this? It is an apology. pany I’ll be working for have all been the kind It is a reminder that we are geologists for the of people I would like to get to know, would like rocks. For their stories. For the open land and to be. “Working for Industry,” as they say, has sky. We are not geologists for the oil. But that the potential for so many personally fulfilling is, almost inevitably, the other half of our nar- things: for travel and for future education, for rative. the application of what I’ve learned and what This summer, I will move to Houston for an I know. So, employers who have Googled me internship with a multinational oil company and are concerned with what they read, fear that also happens to be paying my tuition and not; I will do my best work and I will do so with stipend this year. I am grateful. And I’m not alacrity. I am truly thankful for the opportunity just saying that in case they Google me. Geol- to take a job doing what I love. I only hope that ogy grad school is even better than I thought it what I love can forgive me. would be, and the chance to apply what I love in a career that also pays well is not a chance Mia Lehrer, Trinity ‘12, is currently a graduate most people get. And yet. It is oil. student in geology at the University of Wisconsin, It’s hard to spend that much time outside Madison. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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olitical debates of late have exhibited a tendency to meaningful participation in society should be more deteriorate into accusations of socialism from the content to leave decision-making to a marketplace full right and free-market fundamentalism from the left. of free and independent individuals. A vote, after all, is (Of course, given the remarkable similarity nothing more than a mere expression of of the Democratic and Republican parties, preference cast in order to influence situI think it’s safe to say that it’s socialists and ations toward certain desired ends. In a free-market fundamentalists who are probstate election, though, each voter gets one ably most upset by this). measly vote every fixed number of years Last week, I illustrated this point by borto express a variety of positions on a wide rowing an argument from Trevor Burrus, a range of disparate issues. In the interim, a legal associate at the Cato Institute. Burrus voter cannot effectively express a change observes that, on any given issue, we very of heart or take back a previous position; chris bassil generally tend to segregate into pro-state he is simply stuck with something that he human action and pro-market camps. When we do so, used to want until the next election. we make our decision by selecting the side In the marketplace, however, a voter that we feel will offer us the greatest chance for meaning- can vote many more times and in far more meaningful ful participation in society. A total statist, then, might see ways every single day. If I purchase some product, for the state as a democratic institution with equal represen- instance, then it must certainly be the case that I am attation for all while scorning the market as a “Darwinian” tempting to influence the outcome of certain events tofree-for-all in which the rich, evil and powerful few pillage ward an end I desire (or otherwise I just wouldn’t have the poor, noble and powerless many. A total market anar- acted at all). I am, thus, essentially voting for that product. chist, on the other hand, could see the market as a vast, I am also voting for all of the processes of production, alintricate, cooperative network in which individuals act location of raw materials, systems of advertising and enon a voluntary basis, but loath the state as a clandestine trepreneurial decision-making that went into rendering organization that uses the threat of violence to siphon re- that product as attractive as it is to me. On top of that, I’m sources toward itself and away from the desired ends of even indirectly voting for all of the things that made those a generally non-violent productive class. It just depends things themselves possible. on where you’re standing. In both of these cases, though, In all honesty, social democrats might actually appreciproponents usually see themselves as freer to act, mean- ate this point to a greater extent—though not necessaringfully participate and influence events under their pre- ily in quite this fashion—than many run-of-the-mill free ferred method of societal organization than they perceive marketeers. If a supplier behaves in ways that they do not they would be under the alternative. condone, they are generally ready to boycott their prodIn last week’s column, I argued that the state is only ucts and to attempt to induce others to do the same. Their able to offer us meaningful participation when it comes appeals to state power notwithstanding, campaigns like at somebody else’s expense. I used the example of Friday those launched against Wal-Mart and Chick-fil-A demonnight’s frat party to illustrate an admittedly simplified ver- strate market behavior as a more immediate and meansion of this point: If I want Busch Light but you prefer Nat- ingful voting mechanism than lobbying or electioneering. ty, then each of us votes for candidates who are willing to (In fact, our very own Coalition for a Conflict-Free Duke impose our preferences on one another. (The expense is quite laudably explains on its website that “without a conliteralized when we realize that this is often accomplished sumer demand for conflict-free products,” its aims have by directing subsidies toward a preferred outcome and/ “little hope” of coming to fruition.) or erecting barriers against its alternative).

In the end, it’s a little ironic that conventional wisdom At a free market frat party, however, there is no need holds the state as a voter’s paradise and the market as some for us to come to a universal decision on the subject of winner-take-all, zero-sum game when, in both cases, it’s aclight beer. I can indulge in a nice, cold BL Smoothie while tually exactly the other way around. The state is a virtual you blissfully sip a Natty and chat up a pretentious fresh- desert of voting, with votes taking place so sparingly that a man toting his first six-pack of some local craft microbrew. host of nations actually mark the occasion with a holiday, If the taste of Busch Light for some reason begins to get and can only give us what we want by taking it away from old to me, I can immediately switch things up and pick out somebody else. The market, on the other hand, is really my own Natty, or Coors Light, or Bud Light, or Bud Light just the name we give to the infinite series of interrelated Platinum. I don’t need to wait two, four or six years to try votes that make up our society, and allows us to coexist at to change my beer by wasting a bunch of my time trying least a little more peacefully by respecting and even proto get people who have different preferences and scales moting differences in personal preference. of value than I do to agree with me, and then hoping that When it comes to choosing sides in terms of the opwe can all manage to install some representative who will portunity for meaningful participation, then, just ask actually do what we want them to do, which in and of itself yourself where you cast more ballots: the voting booth, means keeping others from doing what they want to do. or the supermarket.

In a frat that leaves freedom of decision-making to partygoers, there is little need for elected representatives at all, Chris Bassil, Trinity ‘12, is currently working in Boston, since each bro can act as his own.

Mass. His column runs every other Wednesday. This column is If this is the case, then it seems to me that those who the second in a two-part series on society, the state and the marketadvocate voting as an efficient and legitimate means of place. You can follow Chris on Twitter @HamsterdamEcon.

Mariah Hukins is a Trinity senior. You can follow Mariah on Twitter @thehukes.

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There aren’t too many things more frightening in the present-day United States than an angry Arab. I’ve enjoyed being The Chronicle’s resident angry Arab for quite some time now, even if it gets exhausting at times.

But anger, more so than other emotions, has a lot to tell us about our attitudes toward dissent and our political lives.

I sound angry in my columns because I am angry and unapologetically so. Not to be angry in the face of the injustices in the world would be a moral failure. Some of my friends encourage equanimity in the face of suffering, but until I’ve reached ahmad jitan that level of spiritual maturity, the best I can do is move indecent family man through my anger in productive ways. Trying to hide or ignore the anger doesn’t make it go away; it just finds ways to express itself in irritability, anxiety and hopelessness. So instead I express it. I share it for those who share my indignation so they know they aren’t alone, and I share it to wake up those who otherwise may have not seen anything to be angry about.

Anger from racial minorities is often seen as a threat.

It’s one of the ways in which oppressive structures protect themselves. The anger of people of color is no longer a legitimate expression of grievances; instead it becomes a reflection of an inferior nature, an inability to reason, psychological instability, a propensity for violence. On top of all this, emotions become essentialized, so that my anger is no longer mine but is a specific kind of Arab or Muslim anger.

But I’m not here to say that my anger isn’t a threat. I want it to be terrifying. I want it to shake up your world, to frighten you out of your place of ease and comfort, to expose your blind spots to oppression. Most of all, however, I want my anger to move you toward love. So that we mourn as much for the children of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen who are killed by our country’s drones as we mourn the children of Newtown.

I’d rather be an angry Arab man than an agreeable one. Especially at a place like Duke, I could very easily gain many advantages by being less up in arms. Existing power structures benefit from the presence of token minorities; it gives the appearance that there is no oppression going on. As long as that token stays uncritical enough of the structure, he or she will find it relatively easy to move up the ranks. I’m not saying that minorities shouldn’t engage power structures, but if they can’t do so critically, they are only solidifying it. Someone else’s sense of comfort with the status quo should never take precedence over ethical concerns.

Part of our discomfort with anger is a discomfort with sincere emotions in general. We are more comfortable with sarcasm and humor as a means to express dissent, as we are increasingly clueless to how satire actually works.

We confuse sincerity with weakness. We need confidence to be able to sell ourselves in our public lives. This encourages arrogance, superficiality and derision, rather than sincerity, questioning and uncertainty. We’re motivated by fear of our emotions rather than an acceptance of the complexity of life. Ultimately, however, this leaves us disconnected from ourselves and from others.

Though there’s a definite need for rational discourse in facing our collective challenges, we need to relearn that our lives also include a full range of emotional and spiritual possibilities, and that these different possibilities can never be decoupled from one another. Our emotional lives aren’t just something that’s kept private. In our public, political lives, we should share anger, frustration and disappointment as much as we share hope, dreams and ideas. Not sharing these seemingly negative reactions to states of affairs doesn’t make them go away; it only allows them to be expressed in unhealthy and harmful ways.

It might be hard to quantify or generalize emotions, but that doesn’t make them any less valuable to pay attention to when engaging with one another.

On more than one occasion I’ve been told, “You’re much more pleasant in person than you are in your columns.” I’m glad to hear that I’m not always a surly individual. This space is ideal to express discontent publicly, but I also find ways to love, laugh, cry and celebrate. Though anger shouldn’t consume a soul, it also shouldn’t be allowed to fester. So yes, bro, at times I am mad.

Ahmad Jitan is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday. You can follow Ahmad on Twitter @AhmadJitan.

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M. BASKETBALL from page 7 CURRY from page 7 who most brings together the Demon Deacons, Bzdelik pointed to Thomas despite his imperfections on the offensive end.

“He’s someone who continues to, obviously needs to, improve his offense, finishing around the rim, and he’s gotten to the free-throw line a lot,” Bzdelik said. “Not shooting a very good percentage right now, but the fact that he isn’t scoring as much as maybe some of these other highly regarded freshmen has put him under the radar....

From a defensive rebounding and offensive rebounding standpoint, I think you’re going to be hard-pressed to find a better younger player. In fact, he’s very good for no matter what age he is. But he’s someone obviously with defense and rebounding that is a glue guy.”

Duke’s struggles on the road are in stark contrast to last season when it finished 8-0 away from home in ACC play. A good record on the road is not something that can be passed down season to season, Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

“You have to be able to be tough enough to win on the road,” Krzyzewski said in his Monday teleconference. “With us, we usually play in a very upbeat atmosphere.

Teams are even more ready to play us. As good as the team we would normally face would be, they are better when we face them on their home court. That just goes with the territory.”

And even though the Blue Devils will head into another tough road environment, Krzyzewski thinks his team will fair just fine, despite Kelly’s continue absence.

“We’re just trying to keep getting better with the group we have right now,” Krzyzewski said. “So we got better on Saturday, and hopefully we can continue moving in that direction when we go to Wake Forest on Wednesday.”

Curry has missed 40 of the team’s 65 practices this season.

“I know that it’s tough for people to understand this but Seth hardly practices,” Krzyzewski said after Duke’s 84-64 win against Maryland Saturday. “When you are trying to put something new in—if he’s not practicing— you don’t get the continuity that you would.

He’s a key, one of our best players.”

While Curry is inactive during practice, junior reserve utility guard Tyler Thornton fills in as Curry in the team’s starting lineup.

When doing so, Thornton will often emulate Curry’s style of play and role in order to help the first unit maintain its chemistry and implement new offensive sets during the week. “[Thornton has] done a great job of filling in and playing a different role than he does in games,” Curry said.

As a seasoned veteran, however, Curry’s experience playing with the team over the years has helped the offense continue to click for much of the year.

“It hasn’t [affected chemistry] as much as I thought it could,” Curry said. “Coach has to put in plays [in practice], and sometimes I have to walk through it rather than go full speed. It’s definitely different than going full speed. For the most part, the team has done a good job of knowing who I am and just trying to fit me in, and I think that comes from being an older guy. The guys know what I bring to the table.”

There have been some alarming ups and downs in Curry’s somewhat roller-coaster of a season. He battled through his most difficult stint of pain in the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas, in which he had to play three games in as many days. In those contests against VCU, Minnesota and Louisville, he scored 25, 15 and 14 points, respectively.

But it was the following game that the agony took its toll on him. After the taxing tourna-

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Curry scored 22 points against N.C. State but was playing through injuries as he has been all season. ment, it was apparent that Curry’s bad wheel resulted in him being a non-factor in Duke’s next game versus Ohio State—scoring just four points, his second-lowest output of the season. The next game against Delaware is the only he has missed all season.

The sharpshooter was also invisible against Miami last week—going 0-for-10 from the field and finishing with no points. But the game was another example of how his pain has been managed—with the Blue Devils already losing by 27, he rested for the final 8:13 of the game.

On the whole, however, the Charlotte product is still registering some of his best stats in a Duke uniform: 15.7 points per outing, while shooting 44.8 percent from the field and 42.9 percent from 3-point range. And aside from the Ohio State and Miami games, he has risen to the occasion when needed. “[Curry] played well,” said sophomore point guard Quinn Cook after the team’s first loss against N.C. State, in which Curry scored a team-high 22 points and kept the team in

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the game. “He’s the best shooter in the country. He made it rough for their defense to guard him.”

Fortunately for Curry, the worst may be behind him, but time will tell if he can successfully endure the rigors of the team’s home stretch in conference play followed by the always arduous ACC tournament.

“It has been healing, slowly, over the course of the season,” Curry said. “It has been getting a little bit better.”

Following the conclusion of the season, Curry plans to take a month to nurse his leg back to 100 percent. Until then, Curry is not going to let an injury damper his senior season, and he’ll continue to do what he has been doing all year—playing through the pain with his eye on the prize.

“It’s my last year, and I want to be out there for it,” Curry said. “I want our team to win championships, and for our team to win championships I have to be out on the floor and I have to play well. That’s my main motivation.”

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