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Uni preps for Legislation could hinder NC voting house model’s second year Possible new legislation would prevent as many as 613,000 people from voting in North Carolina— including out-of-state Duke students who want to vote in state but do not have a valid, North Carolina-issued photo ID. If the law passes, the state might phase in the new rules by 2016.

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As students finish filling out next year’s housing applications, the University is looking back on the first year of the house model to make changes for the future.

Housing applications for the 20132014 academic year will close this week. The University is beginning to evaluate the success and failures of year one of the new housing model, which aims to create equitable housing options for independent students and foster community through houses comprised of sophomores, juniors and seniors. Although houses will stay in the same location, there are some changes next year to the application process. Additionally, groups will not be able to apply for new locations, and new houses cannot join the model.

“We’re off to a good start…. It’s begun about how we expected, and our hope is that we see more of the houses start to establish more of a sense of identity,” said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for Housing, Dining and Residence Life. “Our responsibility is to make sure that they have the support and resources that they need.”

Among the several changes to the housing application, students can now rank houses in order of preference and can choose to live in a gender-neutral house. Three houses on West Campus and two houses on Central Campus have been designated as gender-neutral, and any co-ed selective living group with a house in Few Quadrangle, Kilgo Quadrangle or on Central Campus can choose to become gender-neutral, as well, noted sophomore Jacob Zionce, Duke Student Government vice president of residential life.

Students can now block with anywhere between three and eight people, Zionce added. Last year, students could only block with a total of two, four or six people, causing issues when one person dropped out of a six-person block, forcing that block to drop or add one more student to maintain an even number.

Now students can block with an even or odd number of members—up to eight total.

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If new legislation passes, North Carolina citizens without a valid, state-issued photo ID would not be able to vote.

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As many as 613,000 North Carolina voters may be unable to cast ballots if a voter ID law moves through the state legislature.

Republican lawmakers in the North Carolina legislature are discussing changes to the state’s voting laws, namely a new requirement for voters to show valid state-issued identifica-

tion at the election polls. Although no specific bill has been proposed yet, experts say that Duke students, many of whom are from out of state, may experience significant changes to their voting rights.

“A photo ID requirement might not seem like that big of a deal to most of us, but the fact of the matter is that democracy and our voter rights is not about most of us, it’s about every-

body,” said Bryan Warner, director of communications for the North Carolina Center for Voter Education. “We need to… ensure that we’re not disenfranchising anyone.”

Although the precise provisions of the anticipated bill remain uncertain, Bob Hall, executive director of Democracy North SEE VOTER ON PAGE 7

Protesters work with KSig and admin

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Student leaders met with administrators Monday in a continued effort to improve race relations at Duke following the controversial “Asia Prime” party sponsored by Duke’s chapter of Kappa Sigma fraternity Feb. 1.

At the meeting, members of the Asian American Alliance delivered a set of demands calling on the administration to address the issue. Late Monday night the Coalition for an inclusive Duke and the brothers of Kappa Sigma jointly released a statement pledging to work together to overcome a “problematic environment” existing at Duke.

The alliance’s final demands, modified from those presented last Wednesday at a student protest, are collectively entitled “Demands for an Inclusive Duke.” The demands are threefold and include the establishment of a Group Bias Incident Task

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Junior Stefani Jones, DSG vice president of equity and outreach; senior Luke Keohane, president of Kappa Sigma fraternity; and Senior Ting-Ting Zhou, president of the Asian Students Association, speak Wednesday night at an open discussion about Kappa Sigma’s “Asia Prime” party.

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“Doing research for the sake of having research is not what you should be aiming for....”

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Norovirus spreads throughout the state

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Norovirus, a highly communicable stomach virus responsible for millions of cases of gastroenteritis annually, has been found in several outbreak locations throughout North Carolina.

Each year, the winter months throughout the country are marked by an increase in gastrointestinal distress. The culprit is often thought to be norovirus—a highly contagious type of stomach virus that can set off bouts of severe nausea, vomiting and

diarrhea. According to CDC estimates, norovirus causes about 20 million cases of gastroenteritis— swelling of the linings of the stomach and/or intestines—each year in the United States alone, and there have been seven confirmed cases in North Carolina since this year’s virus season began.

This year, a particularly infectious strain of the virus, known as GII.4 Sydney, named after Sydney, Australia, where it was first discovered, has been the leading cause of norovirus outbreaks, said Dr. Cameron Wolfe, infectious disease

specialist at Duke Medicine. “The Sydney strain is a slight variation on a pre-existing norovirus strain,� Wolfe said. “In the same way that influenza can change from year to year, different versions of norovirus can change their makeup over time.�

Wolfe noted that the Sydney straom has greater infectivity than other norovirus strains. It is capable of infecting individuals quickly and easily, and it can take as few as 100 norovirus particles from a typical strain to infect a person, according to the North Carolina Department of Public Health.

The Sydney strain typically manifests with acute severe nausea, stomach cramps and diarrhea. These symptoms are typically mistaken for stomach flu, which makes identification of the

BSA turns efforts toward internal development

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The Black Student Alliance, one of the oldest student groups on campus, is refocusing its goals this year to concentrate on internal improvement, development and growth—breaking away from the past years focus on-campus visibility.

For several years, BSA has aimed to improve its visibility, said junior Marcus Benning, the group’s president. This year, however, the organization is turning the focus inward to provide more resources for BSA students and make the organization an integral part of their Duke experience. “BSA exists to serve the undergraduate population and to assist and encourage success academically, socially and culturally,� Benning noted. “We want to focus inward on students’ lives and make BSA relevant in their lives.�

In order to accomplish internal growth and development, BSA has implemented four major additions to the

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organization this year, he added. The Princeton Review has partnered with BSA to administer strategy sessions and mock tests for the MCAT, GMAT, GRE and LSAT. The alliance has also turned its office into a student lounge space to foster interaction and camaraderie.

A new peer-to-peer mentoring system has been implemented in which upperclassmen lead “BSA families� of underclassmen to provide guidance in both academic and personal pursuits. Finally, BSA has established an alumni mentoring program in conjunction with the Duke University Black Alumni Connection. “Over the past six months or so, we’ve worked closely with the Office of Student Affairs, the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture and the Alumni Association to create a platform for black alumni to give to causes that impact primarily black students. We’ve gotten rave reviews from students about what we’ve done for development,� Benning said,

illness difficult for medical professionals, Wolfe noted.

Although the illness’ symptoms can be debilitating, they are typically short-lived among healthy individuals, said Dr. David Mellinger, associate professor of pediatrics who also works in Student Health. “[Norovirus] is a common cause of vomiting and diarrheal illness, so people come in feeling very sick, but it usually only lasts a day or two,� he said.

As such, Wolfe said few primary care doctors test specifically for norovirus. Instead, they simply treat the symptoms with fluid intake and rest.

To prevent norovirus infection, Mellinger said he advises students to wash their hands frequently and well. Because norovi-

noting that both alumni-student and upperclassmen-underclassmen interactions have increased, alongside volume in and utilization of the BSA office.

Junior Floyd Wilks, director of finances on the BSA executive board, said there are noticeable changes in the organization and its role in students’ lives this year. BSA has traditionally struggled to retain upperclassmen members in the past, Wilks noted.

Usually, BSA—both the executive board and the organization as a whole—has been comprised of mostly sophomores. Despite that trend, upperclassmen make up the majority of the organization this year, he said. “We wanted black students from all four classes to be a part of [BSA], not just freshman and sophomores,� he added. “That’s why we wanted to focus on the growth of the organization. I can definitely tell that more upperclassmen are paying attention to BSA... than in years past.�

Much of this increased upperclassmen involvement can be attributed to the new programs BSA established this year, Wilks noted. The peer-to-peer mentoring program and the Princeton Review sessions have worked to cater to upperclassmen needs and make BSA rel-

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rus is one of a small percentage of viruses unaffected by alcoholbased hand sanitizers—commonly used brands such as Purell do not protect against .01 percent of viruses—Mellinger recommends the use of either dilute household bleach or hot water and soap to fully eliminate the virus.

Wolfe added that although Duke has yet to see any significant uptick in gastrointestinal disease, college dormitories are “a classic example� of a place with high transmissibility of norovirus. “The courteous thing to do is, if you know you’re sick yourself, especially in a situation like in a dormitory, you should self-isolate, make sure you’re not sharing utensils or food with anyone around you, and wash your hands often,� he said.

evant in their lives.

Freshman Jamal Edwards said BSA has been integral part of his Duke experience so far, noting that he has had a great experience with his upperclassman mentor via the newly established peer-to-peer mentoring program. “[BSA wants] to make this a smooth transition year for freshman,â€? Edwards said. “[My mentor] is much more than my upperclassmen pal—there’s a huge level of respect, and he definitely takes it seriously‌. I know that if I need something my mentor is there‌. [BSA] is a resource, a home, a network.â€?

Benning noted that BSA changed its focus this year because he thought there were “voids in the organization that needed to be filled.� “A lot of BSA’s efforts have been towards the campus knowing we’re here, but I think it is important that we focus on improving the academic performance and social well-being of our students,� he said. “I view visibility as a secondary concern.�

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Pratt students build robot Pope Benedict XVI to resign, to give real birds ‘the bird’ citing age and failing health

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A swamp sparrow attacks the robotic bird made for a Nowicki Lab study. The robotic bird’s gestures anger the live bird, causing it to attack.

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A team of Duke undergraduates working with the Nowicki Lab created a lifelike robotic sparrow to test a theory of angry bird behavior.

The resulting study showed that male swamp sparrows flap their wings aggressively at rivals, as if “flipping the bird.”

Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education, oversaw the project in his lab. In the course of research, a team of Duke engineering students, led by David Piech, Pratt ’12, while he was an undergraduate, built a robot bird to mimic the aggressive wing flaps they had observed in the wild.

In homage to the 1987 cult classic movie “RoboCop,” the lab dubbed the bird RoboSparrow, Nowicki said.

Piech said that the main goal of the project was to make a machine that could create the offensive wing actions while still being able to fit into the body cavity of the swamp sparrow. The birds appear larger than their actual size because most of their mass is feathers. This made it difficult to create machinery that can fit into the sparrow.

“In reality their body cavities are tiny—not much bigger than that of a hummingbird,” Piech said.

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LONDON — Citing failing strength of “mind and body,” Pope Benedict XVI stunned his closest aides and more than 1 billion Catholics by resigning on Monday, becoming the first pope to do so in nearly 600 years and ending the tenure of a formidable theologian who preached a gospel of conservative faith to a fast-changing world.

Keeping with his reputation as a traditionalist, Pope Benedict delivered his resignation— effective Feb. 28—in Latin, to a private church body in Vatican City. “I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me,” he said. “For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of bishop of Rome, successor of Saint Peter.”

The decision by the 85-year-old German pontiff sets up a pivotal leadership contest in the marbled halls of the Vatican that is coming sooner than observers expected. Although questions about the pope’s health have long swirled— he was occasionally filmed nodding off during mass—he seemed committed to continuing a papacy that has divided Catholics and non-Catholics alike.

But the pope’s brother, Georg Ratzinger, also a priest, said the pontiff had informed him of his decision “months ago.”

“He has gotten tired faster and faster

and walking has become hard for him,” Ratzinger said, adding that his brother—who was born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger and ordained a priest in the aftermath of World War II—did “the best he possibly could have done” in his role.

The conclave to choose the next pope was expected to convene in midMarch, with a new pope in place in time to preside over Easter Mass at St. Peter Cathedral.

The pontiff departs amid a sense of crisis in the Vatican. The institution’s most recent problems involve a bevy of documents leaked by the pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, to Italian journalists alleging corruption and heated disputes within the Vatican walls. The church also has faced criticism for its internal bank’s failures to comply with international rules governing money-laundering. The Vatican’s financial troubles escalated this year to the point where international banks temporarily suspended credit-card links at the Sistine Chapel, forcing tourists to use cash.

Perhaps the greatest challenge of his papacy has emerged in the spread of clerical sex abuse scandals from the United States into other places including Ireland and Germany, where the pope was born and served as archbishop. Critics have urged that more bishops be held accountable, and some raised questions about Benedict’s management of a case involving a German SEE RESIGNATION ON PAGE 8

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KSIG from page 1 Force, an addition to the Duke Community Standard and the hiring of three full-time faculty members who specialize in AsianAmerican studies.

“We talked at length about freedom of expression, freedom of speech and accountability and the challenge of finding a middle ground,” said Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs.

The third demand, said senior Ting-Ting Zhou, president of the Asian Students Association, stems from the fact that Duke has a larger Asian population than any Ivy League school, but unlike the Ivies, does not have an AsianAmerican studies program.

As outlined during the protest last week, the Group Bias Task Force would give the students involved the power to “collaboratively decide and implement accountability or reparative measures,” according to the document. It would be composed of leaders from student organizations representing historically marginalized groups. The task force, developed in addition to the faculty-run Bias Analysis Task Force that already exists, would also include leaders from the greek community and would meet on an as-needed basis.

Finally, the alliance demanded in the document presented at the meeting that the statement “I will value others regardless of race, gender, class, sexual orientation or other identity” be added to the

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Duke Community Standard.

Moneta noted that challenges exist in attempting to enact any of the changes proposed by the alliance.

“The Academic Integrity Council would need to convene for that to happen, and they haven’t convened in several years,” Moneta said.

He added that Provost Peter Lange would need to join the discussion about whether the changes to the Duke Community Standard would represent the interests of the Academic Integrity Council.

In the joint statement signed by the coalition and senior Luke Keohane, president of the Eta Prime chapter of Kappa Sigma, both parties acknowledged past divisions and a determination to move forward as allies.

“We have acknowledged past actions as being indefensibly racially degrading; we believe it is time to move forward,” the statement reads. “We are currently working together to set a new precedent of reparative measures in response to this incident...”

The Coalition for an Inclusive Duke formed last week in the debate following the Kappa Sigma party and includes Zhou, senior Ashley Tsai, alliance co-President Tong Xiang, a senior, and junior Katherine Zhang—co-president of the alliance and a chair of the independent editorial board of The Chronicle.

“The coalition is not an official group,” Zhang said. “It sprung up spontaneously with the rally, protest and flyering.”

Moneta, Zhang and Zhou all said they have plans to hold meetings similar to the one that took place Monday several times over the next month, including more this week.

Zhang and Zhou will meet with Laurie Patton, dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Tuesday. Moneta said Patton would be influential in the third demand regarding the hiring of additional professors.

Zhang said three members of the coalition and one freshman who has only recently become involved in the cause attended the meeting with Moneta about their demands.

Moneta said that he has not been in contact with Kappa Sigma leaders since his meeting with them last week—after which the Eta Prime chapter was suspended by the University for undisclosed issues other than the Asianthemed party. The fraternity is now being investigated under the purview of the Office of Student Conduct.

“I am no longer the point of direct contact [with Kappa Sigma],” Moneta said.

He also said that though the demands would likely cause positive change, he does not believe that student relations at Duke in general need significant remodeling.

“The culture at Duke is actually quite wonderful,” Moneta said. “[This incident] shouldn’t be misconstrued as the overall culture.

In fact, the community’s quick reaction to the incident is actually the sign of a healthy culture.”

BIRDS from page 3 The robot bird needed to have a wing flaps at 10 beats per second in order to mimic the signal. The engineers considered several solutions, such as using pneumatic actuation or electronic motors, but they finally decided that a linear motor would be the best option.

Linear motors are electric motors that flip back and forth in a linear trajectory. Since the lab did not have the budget to purchase a commercially-made linear motor, they designed and built one from scratch.

“It ended up that the man hours to build a motor were more expensive than the actual cost [of a motor], but I was one of the head researchers, so man hours were free in the lab,” Piech said.

The team started off with a simple concept design and then created a computer-generated plan. They worked with the Duke Motorsports team’s computer-controlled milling machine and with the mechanical engineering department’s 3D printer.

They then worked with Jason Dudley’s Whistling Wings Taxidermy to fit the tiny motor into the carcass of a swamp sparrow that the researchers had brought from the wild.

“We cut it open, pulled out all the stuff, and the taxidermist very carefully stretched the skin over the mechanical skeleton we designed,” Piech said.

The lab did most of its work during songbird mating season in May or June, and the researchers took the signaling bird to the field to test their hypothesis. The lab’s videos from the experiment show wild songbirds aggressively attacking the RoboSparrow.

“We were basically simulating an intrusion on a rival bird,” said Rindy Anderson, a research associate at the Nowicki Lab. Piech said he was excited to finally see the bird out in the field, especially since other wild birds thought the RoboSparrow was a real sparrow—so they physically attacked it.

“It’s really encouraging because it means we did our jobs,” he said. “We were actually able to convince the other biological birds that this was an intruder.

We fooled them into thinking that one of their own brethren was actually very angry at them.”

After research was completed, the RoboSparrow, scarred from battle, stopped working.

Nowicki said that the discoveries really open up the field of bird communication, but further funding would be needed if they were to continue such experiments.

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HOUSE MODEL from page 1 He noted that much of the house model has worked well, particularly creating sorority sections on Central, but there are still improvements to be made for independent houses.

“It’s hard to judge a whole model based on one year,” Zionce said.

Student response Overall, independent houses are on their way to providing a more equitable housing experience, said sophomore Cameron Tripp, president of independent Kilgo house Marquis. The Independent House Council meets once a week to discuss how each house is improving their community and to collaborate on how to continue encouraging unity.

“There are still things that need to happen, and we’re trying to make those changes occur,” Tripp said. “Administration has been great about trying to find out what we

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still need and how to support us as best as they can.”

Tripp said he has encouraged community among the house through programming events like study breaks and a Super Bowl party. The house recently installed Marquis signs throughout the halls to designate their community.

“In years to come, they’ll appreciate having those [signs] that set us apart from other houses,” he said.

“The administration has been really involved in consulting with independent house leaders in what needs to be changed and what can help close any gaps between independent housing and SLGs.” One issue he noted was Duke’s alcohol policy, which requires that houses hire University-approved bartenders for social events involving alcohol—dipping into their limited funds. A requirement that is not necessarily a problem for SLGs that collect dues.

“That’s how it works if any SLG wants to have a Duke catered event, but [SLGs] have dues in a separate account that they can buy whatever they want with,” Tripp said.

Junior Gabby Hodgins lives on Central Campus in the Alpha Phi sorority section. With the implementation of the house model, this is the first year in which sororities have living sections. She plans to live in the same house as a senior because she has so far enjoyed the experience, and the house model guarantees her a returning spot in the Alpha Phi house.

“I have absolutely loved Central,” she said. “It’s an awesome balance of having the perks of being on campus while at the same time having the freedom of apartment style living. As a member of a group, I knew I had a spot in the section to live in if I wanted, which made it much easier than trying to find a lease for an apartment off campus.”

Sophomore Courtney Murray also lives with her affiliated group as a member of Cooper House, located on West Campus in Crowell Quad. Cooper House had an on-campus section before the new housing model, so Murray said she understands the community that the model aims to create.

“My friendships really grew because I lived across the hall from my best friends,” she said. “I think that in about five years the housing model is going to work very well. People are going to see the importance of living together, and they’ll realize that this community aspect is very important and integral to their Duke experience.”

The years ahead Moving forward, the DSG Committee for Residential Life aims to evaluate data from housing applications on the number of seniors applying for on-campus housing, Zionce said. Zionce also chairs the Year Two Committee, an administrative group with student representation that seeks to evaluate and adjust the current model. The committee is currently developing a process for groups to create new houses.

Administrators are discussing future renovations to East and West Campuses to accommodate more houses and the growing student body.

“There are no hard plans on what happens next or when, but it would allow us to create spaces that are more appealing to upperclassmen, especially seniors,” Gonzalez said.

He said that administrators have considered adding a new residence hall on East Campus, renovating Craven and Crowell houses on West Campus and even building new residences on West Campus. There is no current discussion about significant renovation or new residences on Central Campus. But 60 percent of apartments on Central Campus will undergo enhancements this summer, Gonzalez said.

Student housing at Duke will continue to develop and evolve as the model begins its second year, Zionce said.

“We want to make sure that the houses grow in a holistic, organic manner, and we want to let the students decide how they want to get involved,” he added.

BSA from page 2 development must continue to be a priority, alongside internal focus.

“Internal improvement, development and growth will always be the core and foundation of any well-established and well-functioning entity,” she wrote in an email Tuesday. “Without this foundation, BSA would be a discombobulated organization. At the same time, I believe that these are goals that will always be a work in process and must be just as strongly accompanied by goals that strive for progress and excellence externally as well.”

Benning noted that the internal improvements are in addition to activism—not in lieu of it—and that the students should be BSA’s main focus.

“Once the voids are filled, then we’re in the best position to focus on visibility,” he said. “It’s best that we showcase our successes when they’ve reached their pinnacle, which is where I think we’re headed.”

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VOTER from page 1 Carolina—a nonpartisan democracy advocacy group that works to increase voter participation—said that the legislation will likely be similar to the “Restore Confidence in Government” bill. That bill, which passed the House and Senate before it was vetoed by then-Gov. Bev Perdue last June, would have required all voters to provide either a North Carolina driver’s license or state photo identification in order to vote.

Since his election to office, Republican Gov. Pat McCrory has supported the movement toward establishing voter ID laws. McCrory has since indicated, however, that he would be receptive to considering a bill that calls for other forms of identification, such as voter registration cards.

“I still would like [a] photo on it but I’d also be willing to accept other options,” McCrory told reporters during a visit to the General Assembly.

Republican Rep. Frank Iler, a co-sponsor of the vetoed bill last year, emphasized the GA’s focus on voter ID laws in the current session, adding that the bill would tighten voting procedures and eliminate double voting.

“The new session will focus on the economy, regulatory reform and the ‘Voter ID’ bill, which will be item number one on the table,” he told The State Port Pilot.

The new proposal, though, may be more flexible than the last regarding the types of photo identification accepted at the polls, Hall said.

For example, students may be able to use public university IDs, said Anita Earls, executive director of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice. She noted, though, that IDs from private institutions like Duke may remain invalid, as they are not issued by the state. Such could hurt many Duke students who are not residents of North Carolina—90 percent of the Class of 2016 is from

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out of state.

A new report from the State Board of Elections published last month revealed that 613,000 registered North Carolina voters may not have the necessary identification card or state-issued driver’s license required by the discussed legislation. The study compared state voter registration records with state DMV records.

With 9 percent of the North Carolina voting base implicated, voter ID laws could disproportionately affect certain segments of the voter population. Women who have changed their names, senior citizens and black voters would be most affected, Hall said.

Fifty-three percent of the implicated voters are Democrats, 25 percent are over the age of 65 and 30 percent are black, according to the report.

Given the Republican control of both the legislature and the governor’s mansion, whatever bill is introduced will likely be passed, Hall said. The new proposal is expected to be submitted by the end of this month.

“They have the numbers to pass anything they want—that’s not the question anymore,” Hall said. “Whether it stands up to legal challenge, that is more difficult.”

Hall added that Republican lawmakers are discussing the possibility of phasing in the new voter ID laws before implementing full restrictions in 2016. Under this model, voters would be asked for photo ID in 2014, but would not be turned away. After the 2016 cutoff, all polls would be closed to voters without valid identification.

“We encourage lawmakers to make sure that any legislation takes steps to not disenfranchise voters in the state,” he said.

Republican lawmakers responsible for both the old bill and the anticipated one cite eliminating voter fraud as a major motivation.

But the prevalence of voter fraud in the state is in question, said Earls, who added that the illegal activity was not a problem in the state.

“There is no voter fraud to begin with….

It’s a huge waste of state money during a time when we should be focusing on education and the economy,” Earls said of a possible voter ID law.

The state currently requires voters to provide their social security numbers or driver’s license numbers to confirm their identity.

Such security measures have proven to be effective, Warner said, adding that the new laws would do little more than “obstruct lawabiding citizens from participating in the democratic process.”

Earls also questioned the efficacy of any voter ID legislation in curbing potential voter fraud. If an individual is determined to commit perjury, that individual could easily pro-

cure a fabricated state photo ID, she said.

Hall pointed to partisan motivations behind the push for voter ID legislation, rejecting Republican lawmakers’ claims that the legislation would secure the voting system.

“It won’t make voting more secure—that’s a myth,” Hall said.

He noted that the last Republican proposed bill failed to address security measures for mail-in ballots, which evidence suggests fosters more voter fraud than in-person voting.

“That’s a tip-off to what this is really about,” Hall said. “If they were actually concerned, they would’ve made sure that their legislation addressed more documentation for people using mail to send in their ballot.”

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RESIGNATION from page 3 priest and sex offender while he was bishop of Munich in 1980.

Speaking in Rome on Monday, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said that the pope took his decision to resign “aware of the great problems the church faces today,� adding that the decision showed “great courage and determination.� He insisted, however, that the pope’s decision was personal, and that he had not resigned because of “difficulties in the papacy.� Benedict, Lombardi said, will not take part in the conclave to elect a new pope, adding that he is expected to retire to a monastery of cloistered nuns on the Vatican grounds.

Benedict had emerged as a crusader and a lighting rod since the moment white smoke over the Sistine Chapel heralded his arrival in 2005. He encouraged a revival of the Latin Mass and promoted traditionalists in the Vatican hierarchy, determined to amplify the church’s message of morality and the role of Roman Catholicism as the one true faith. He sought to win back conservative Catholics opposed to the Second Vatican Council of 1962, and attempted to recruit new members, including Anglicans disenchanted with liberal views on female as well as openly gay clergy in their denomination. In 2006, he ignited street protests in the Islamic world after repeating a negative quote about the prophet Muhammad.

But his defenders have always said Benedict was unfairly savaged by the media for actions that predated his tenure, and hailed his management of scandals, including issuing a rare official apology in 2010 to Catholics in Ireland for the widespread sexual abuse of children by clergy there in earlier decades. His decision to step aside to make way for a new and almost surely younger pope was hailed by many as another manifestation of his fierce generosity and goodwill.

The sudden end to his papacy presents the Vatican with a delicate choice: to elect a new pope that will represent continuity or one who will represent change.

With the church declining in its former stronghold of Europe, but finding its future in Latin America, Africa and Asia, pressure already was growing on the college of cardinals—the global princes of the church—to break

tradition by elevating a non-European pope.

Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington, who last saw Benedict in Rome in October, said the announcement came as an “enormous surprise,’’ a statement that echoed sentiments worldwide. “He presided at meeting after meeting after meeting,� Wuerl said. “There was no doubt that he was in full possession of his faculties.�

Benedict’s decision “says to me he is a very humble and honest person,� Wuerl added. “His love for the church is such that he has concluded it would be better not to try to lead this huge flock without the full strength of all of his energies.�

Some observers contend that the influence of the Vatican had receded under Benedict, in part because of his age but also because he operated in the shadow of his beloved and charismatic predecessor, John Paul II. “He had a hard act to follow in John Paul, who was bigger than life,� said the Rev. Thomas Reese, a Cath-

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olic writer and former editor of America, a Catholic magazine. “Benedict suffered by comparison because he was much more shy, he wasn’t an actor, he preferred to write books and issue encyclicals rather than travel.�

Liberal Catholics have bemoaned his promotion of a generation of conservative bishops who believe the church will hold together best if its teachings are communicated as black and white. A symbol to them has been the crackdown on the largest group of U.S. nuns who the Vatican said were straying too far in their writings and lectures about homosexuality and contraception.

Traditional Catholics, however, celebrated his focus on orthodoxy. “If you don’t sell full-throttle Catholicism, people are not going to buy it,� said George Weigel, who has written multiple books about the church and the pope. “Everyone knows the whole package is more compelling and interesting than some sort of Catholic hors d’oeuvres that leave you hungry.�

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Montgomery Duke takes down the Terrapins returns to coaching

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When former Duke football standout Scottie Montgomery left the coaching staff to take an assistant coaching position with the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers, he didn’t envision himself returning to his alma mater again.

But he started the Blue Devils’ offseason with a bang when he accepted a position as the team’s associate head coach Monday. Montgomery will serve as Duke’s wide receivers coach, a position he held for four seasons from 2006-09.

He will work alongside Kurt Roper as a second offensive coordinator, focusing on the passing game.

“I can’t put it into words,” Montgomery said. “I look forward to getting back on the recruiting trail, spring ball [and] being around my guys year-round.... I’m overjoyed about where we are as a football family, and we’re going up.”

Before he graduated from Duke in 1999, Montgomery led the program in receptions for three straight years and was named the team’s Most Valuable Player in his junior and senior campaigns. During his four-year tenure with the Blue Devil coaching staff, he recruited some of the SEE MONTGOMERY ON PAGE 12

Every team needs a player to step up during crucial games late in the season.

Junior guard Chelsea Gray fulfilled that role for Duke Monday, as she has done the entire season.

In the Blue Devils’ matchup with conference rival No. 7 Maryland at Cameron Indoor Stadium, Gray led the way as No. 5 Duke (22-1, 12-0 in the ACC) pulled away late in the second half to earn a 7156 victory.

Gray had a career day for the Blue Devils in the fast-paced competition, scoring a career-high 28 points, dishing three assists and grabbing four steals.

Junior forward Tricia Liston and sophomore center Elizabeth Williams added 17 and 16 points, respectively, to round out the majority of Duke’s offense.

Duke jumped out to an early lead, outplaying the Terrapins on both ends of the court, but Maryland (19-4, 10-2) stormed back into the game in the second half, and eventually took the lead with 10 minutes remaining in the game.

The night, however, belonged to Gray, who scored seven straight points in response to the Terrapins short run and put Duke up 49-44, a lead the Blue Devils would not relinquish.

“She gave us a little psychological boost.... It wasn’t surprising, though,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said.

“We’ve all seen this of Chelsea. She’s a great player and it’s great to see her have those moments and take advantage of them.”

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Junior Chelsea Gray scored a career-high 28 points against Maryland Monday night.

Gray notched 20 of her 28 points in the second half, sinking all 10 of her free throw attempts including four successive attempts that resulted from the ejection of Maryland head coach Brenda Frese with 3:51 left in the game.

“She’s an extremely difficult matchup. She’s strong. She’s physical,” Frese said. “She definitely had her way with us.

She was able to attack off the bounce, did a great job reading screens coming off of it and making plays—that’s what

great players do. I thought she was terrific tonight.”

Maryland’s core players, Alyssa Thomas and Tianna Hawkins, combined to score merely 20 points—16 points below their average production on the offensive end.

Hawkins was largely kept in check by junior forward Haley Peters, who, despite not scoring in the game, was a presence on the defensive end for the Blue Devils.

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WRESTLING

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Duke loses to UNC in Blue Devils face off ITA National Indoors against North Carolina

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As Duke students crowded the lawn of Krzyzewskiville preparing for the most anticipated basketball game of the year, another Duke-North Carolina rivalry match took place in Charlottesville, Va. last weekend as the two teams faced off in the semifinals of the ITA National Team Indoor Tournament.

The No. 3 Blue Devils (6-1) cruised to victory Friday, topping No. 15 Baylor (34) in the first round of the tournament 4-1. Doubles pair Marianne Jodoin, a junior, and sophomore Annie Mulholland put the first doubles win on the board for Duke with an 8-4 victory against Baylor’s Alex Leatu and Victoria Kisialeva.

Senior captain Mary Clayton and sophomore Ester Goldfeld followed with another 8-4 victory against Emma Burgic and Kiah Generette, clinching the doubles point for the Blue Devils.

Although head coach Jamie Ashworth noted that Clayton and Goldfeld got off to a slow start, they did a tremendous job fighting their way back into the match.

On Saturday, in a rematch of Duke’s victory the previous weekend, the Blue Devils took on No. 14 Northwestern (4-3) for a spot in the semifinals of the tournament. The team played uphill for the majority of the match, but hard work on all courts led to a 4-1 victory against the Wildcats.

“We played with a lot of heart,” Ashworth told GoDuke.com. “We didn’t play as well as we can play, but we competed really well, we fought really well. We’ve got to keep playing with kind of fight.”

It was a hard-fought match for Duke, eking out close 8-7 victories to earn the first point of the tie in doubles. Clayton and Goldfeld, despite being down 7-4 early in the match, came back with a vengeance against Northwestern’s Linda Abu Mushrefova and Nida Hamilton.

“It’s really hard to play a team at that level twice in one week,” Ashworth said. “I think we handled ourselves really well.”

Duke’s real challenge came Sunday against rival No. 8 North Carolina. The Tar SEE W. TENNIS ON PAGE 12

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When Duke head coach Glen Lanham left his assistant coaching position at North Carolina in 2007, little did he or Tar Heel head coach C.D. Mock know what was coming years down the road. In his first year with the Blue Devils, Lanham will view Mock as a rival for the first time, when Duke (7-6, 0-3 in the ACC) faces North Carolina (6-6, 1-3) Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. in Card Gymnasium.

“It’s going to be a tight match,” Duke head coach Lanham said. “They have a few toss-ups—we do too. They have a few favorites—so do we. It’s going to be tough.”

The Tar Heels’ roster is young, with just one junior—who doesn’t start—and no seniors. Redshirt sophomore Antonio Giorgio will be sidelined due to injury.

Because of the shortage of upperclassmen, the roster features a high number of true freshmen, Mock said.

“We couldn’t afford to redshirt our freshmen, because we wouldn’t have a team if we did,” he said. “It puts a lot of pressure on the younger guys, but I think we have the right guys in the right

positions now, and we seem to be heading in the right direction.”

The Blue Devils and Tar Heels share four opponents in common—No. 11 Virginia, No. 7 Virginia Tech, Maryland and Virginia Military Institute. Both Duke and North Carolina defeated VMI and fell to the other three opponents. The Blue Devils’ 38-3 loss to Maryland Saturday snapped their five-match winning streak.

The Tar Heels will focus on getting their first takedowns and winning matches on their feet. The Blue Devils, who also prefer to wrestle on their feet, share similar goals, with the additional focus of not getting ridden out on bottom.

Duke and North Carolina both look forward to kicking off rivalry week, but Lanham acknowledged that the wrestling rivalry is one-sided. The Blue Devils haven’t knocked off the Tar Heels since 2004.

“It’s a rivalry more on our side than theirs,” Lanham said. “They pretty much own the series right now. Our guys want to prove that they can beat UNC.” SEE WRESTLING ON PAGE 11

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Long journey for Liston Bringing Mom to Cameron Indoor

by Nick Martin THE CHRONICLE

In high school, success came easily came easily for Tricia Liston.

A top-50 recruit and two-time Illinois Gatorade Player of the Year, Liston was a natural, averaging 28.8 points as a senior at Fenwick High School, and she seemed ready to continue this success at the next level for Duke.

“Ever since I was a little kid, I dreamed of going to a big basketball school, like Duke and Tennessee,” Liston said. “When it actually became a reality, I was thinking it was the best of both worlds. It had the best academics, and it had the best athletics.”

Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie knew she was getting a good player when she recruited her, but the transition from high school to college hit Liston harder than she anticipated. Suddenly, every player was faster and had the same skill set as Liston, forcing her to adjust to the competition that lies within the rigorous ACC. The initial issue did not take place on the basketball court, but rather in Liston’s personal life where she, along with the majority of college freshman, felt the pressure of moving away to somewhere completely new.

“There were ups and downs being away from home for the first time with no family around me,” Liston said. “It was a big adjustment just having to meet new people and meet that new group of people to have a comfort zone.”

Liston is not the first freshman to experience homesickness, but for her failure had never been an issue. Entering college, Liston was accustomed to success both on and off the hardwood. She had never struggled, averaging

double-digits in scoring every year of her high school career.

This made her first year at Duke all the more challenging, as she took the unfamiliar role of coming off the bench for the Blue Devils. Liston played in 34 games that season, but only started two and averaged a 5.5 points and 2.1 rebounds per game.

“On the court it was a challenge. It was a big difference from high school. The game’s a lot quicker, and a lot more intense and physical, so that was a big adjustment that I had to make,” Liston said.

The 2010-2011 campaign ended at the hands of a Maya Moore-led Connecticut team that would go on to win the NCAA Tournament. Liston only managed two points in the contest on a pair of free throws.

But the struggles did not last long, as Liston spent the off-season working hard to improve multiple facets of her game in order to catch up to the fast-paced play of Duke’s opposition.

“It was just a little bit of getting the experience from my freshman year that really got me confident for my sophomore year and came in ready to play bigger minutes,” Liston said.

After an off-season of working on her ball handling and mid-range game, Liston entered the 2011-12 season with a year under her belt and a season to avenge. She increased her output in points and rebounds by almost twofold, averaging 12.0 and 3.9, respectively. Her playing time increased along with her success, as she started 17 out of 33 games and doubled her minutes per game, going from 12.0 to 26.4.

SEE LISTON ON PAGE 11

I made my college decision on the floor of Cameron Indoor Stadium, much to my mom’s chagrin.

The story is far from unique: After the campus tour, my dad and I snuck into Cameron Indoor Stadium behind a maintenance worker who was pulling a cart through the student entrance. My dad took a picture of me standing on the edge of the court with the video screen in the background and sent it to my mom.

Chris It was that experience, being inside that stadium for the first time, that swayed me more than any other facet of the college admissions process—as it has for many others.

Until then, Duke had barely been on my list of potential schools. It was a throwaway addition, a filler that I was only considering applying to because one of my baseball coaches had gone here in the ’90s. As corny as it sounds, that all changed on Coach K Court.

My mom was skeptical, in part because our extensive family network covered virtually the entire country save the Carolinas and other bits of the South, and in part because she (quite accurately) thought I was letting basketball fandom get in the way of an otherwise rational college selection process.

My coach eventually told me the best way to sell my mom on Duke was to take her through the gardens, but I wanted to go for broke and try to sell her on Cameron, too.

She was a multi-sport athlete growing

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up in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and had started the girl’s ice hockey program at her high school.

But she was never a sports fan with the same kind of enthusiasm. Still, Mom has humored my near-psychologically unstable interest in sports since before I was ambulatory, when she would take me to Candlestick Park to see the Giants play. I had all the players’ jersey numbers memorized by the time I reached preschool, and little has changed in the years since.

In retrospect, I still should have known that my mission to “explain” the meaning of Cameron was doomed from the start.

The two of us had barely been inside for 30 seconds before she stopped and turned to me with a mostly-forced smile and raising eyebrows, saying something along the lines of, “Wow, this is why you want to come to school here?”

I was disappointed, but not surprised. I knew she didn’t love sports the way I did, despite how much she had put up with watching them in order to spend time with my brother and me growing up.

Despite the inauspicious introduction, I’ve managed to convince her to come back for two games since—a 2009 Parent’s Weekend scrimmage against Pfeiffer and this season’s home win over Ohio State. Although I think she has enjoyed the spectacle of both—the atmosphere in Cameron is unmatched whether or not you’re interested in the sport being played—she still doesn’t SEE CUSACK ON PAGE 11

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“They probably neutralized each other, two great players, in terms of how they were defending one another,” Frese said. “[Hawkins] had an untypical night in terms of how she played. It was a game where our bigs didn’t get a lot of touches... in terms of the pressure that they faced all night.”

In addition to Peters’ defensive presence, Williams and Liston were major contributors for Duke both in points and rebounding. Williams grabbed 10 rebounds in her fourth double-double of the season.

Gray contributed to the intense play by taking charges and grabbing steals throughout the game. She added a major individual accomplishment in the game notching her 1,000th career point on a free throw in the first half, despite a less than stellar performance passing the ball.

“It felt good,” Gray said. “I still had only three assists and three rebounds so there is definitely plenty of space to improve.”

For McCallie and the Blue Devils, Maryland was a major test and provided an opportunity to experience a tournament-style atmosphere in the middle of regular season play. The frenetic pace of the contest forced Duke to play a complete game to earn the win.

“It was a great team and game overall obviously we didn’t shoot as well as we normally do,” McCallie said.

“You have to give credit to the game, it was a little bit funny back and forth. We didn’t get as many assists, it wasn’t all pretty, but it was a 40 minute battle, and that’s exactly what we needed.”

Keying her development was the growth she experienced alongside her fellow classmates on the team.

“I think our class especially has grown up a lot, especially grown up together a lot,” Liston said. “We’ve been through a lot of things that most other teams haven’t from our freshman year. A big part of it is the experience and the maturity that we’ve shown since our freshman year.”

Liston maintains that although the past is key to her growth, she is focused on the task at hand. The Blue Devils are currently 21-1 overall, including an 11-0 record in the ACC, with Liston stepping into a leadership role, along with teammates and fellow juniors Haley Peters and Chelsea Gray. “[I’ve gotten better at] dealing with different situations and being able to be more confrontational—being able to speak up when I know something is wrong,” Liston said. “I think I’ve grown into my leadership role in this team.”

This season has been particularly successful for Liston, whose 12.5 points, 3.9 rebounds and 90.6 free-throw percentage are all career highs. She has already started 17 out of Duke’s 22 games, but has thrived in the games off the bench as a dangerous sixth-man.

These career highs combined with the Blue Devils’ success have made for a plethora of special moments for Liston and her teammates. It was obvious that the favorite, so far, was this past week’s game against North Carolina, which Duke won 84-63.

“We also shut them down completely on defense. They couldn’t score against us. That was really fun to see, the potential that we had in that game,” Liston said.

As Liston has improved on defense, she has done the same on offense. In their contest against Miami, the teams entered halftime tied at 29. Duke went on to outscore the Hurricanes 53-14 in the second half to win 82-43, with Liston pouring in 17 points in only 22 minutes of play.

“If I could put 40 minutes together, I’d say the second half of the Miami game and the first half of the Carolina game,” Liston said.

Although the past has been the majority of the focus, Liston’s future certainly seems bright as she feels her ceiling has not been reached yet, in both basketball and her professional life.

“I’ve thought about it, but I’m still confused about what I want to do. Maybe basketball for a little bit after that, but I know basketball isn’t going to be my whole life after college,” Liston said. “I think maybe something in the marketing area, I definitely want to stay involved with sports because that’s been a passion of mine since I was a kid.”

The obvious option for someone who wants to stay involved with sports and has played collegiately is coaching. But Liston insists that as far as the collegiate-level goes, playing is good enough for her.

“I don’t know, I could see [coaching] maybe with little kids.

I don’t think at the college level, though,” Liston said.

WRESTLING from page 9 Looming large on the schedules for both teams is the ACC tournament, which takes place in early March.

As the date draws near, both coaches are more concerned about preparing their wrestlers for the conference tournament than anything else.

“We’re excited to wrestle Duke, but more than anything we view [the upcoming matchup] as more preparation for the ACCs,” Mock said.

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Junior Tricia Liston has career highs with 12.5 points, 3.9 rebounds and a 90.6 free-throw percentage this season.

CUSACK from page 10 totally understand why Duke embraces basketball in the way it does. I’m not sure my four years here have made me an expert on the subject by any means.

I get one last chance to convert her this week, when she and my dad come out to see Wednesday night’s game against North Carolina, but I don’t think I’ll try. Instead, I’ll just enjoy the time for what it is: the last time I’ll have with my parents in Durham before I graduate (knock on wood).

I’ll still get to explain again why sleeping in a tent for six weeks left me with some of my best memories of this school, why it doesn’t matter that Duke won that game by more than 30 points, and why is doesn’t matter that the Tar Heels don’t look much better three years later.

I’ll still get to take her into Durham, to see the competing bumper stickers and store windows, to some of my favorite restaurants and not to Shooters II, but definitely to the tent called Shooters III. I’ll still get to enjoy her face as we walk down the line of students wrapped around the Card Lot and K-Ville, as the temperature rises in Cameron and our seats begin to shake, and best of all, I’ll get to thank her once again for planning a trip across the country to see me on my terms and do something I love.

Next year, she gets to pick where we meet.

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MONTGOMERY from page 9 most successful wide receivers in the history of the program. Among these wide receivers is senior Conner Vernon, who tops the ACC’s all-time record book in catches and receiving yardage. Montgomery coached Vernon during his freshman season before departing for his coaching stint with the Steelers.

“He got me ready to play college football,” Vernon said of Montgomery. “From route running to catching the football, he showed me what it meant to play this game and what it took to succeed at the college level.

To have someone like Scottie who is such a great coach, recruiter and person come back to Duke is just what this program needed.”

Blue Devil head coach David Cutcliffe said that Montgomery’s return would be the perfect way to fill the void left by the departure of wide receivers coach Matt Lubick, who left the program two weeks ago to join the Oregon coaching staff. Duke suffered another

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loss last week when Cutcliffe announced that tight ends coach and special teams coordinator Ron Middleton would be taking a job with the Jacksonville Jaguars.

“We wanted to hire the best football coach that we could hire and who we thought was the best football coach in America,” Cutcliffe said. “That came to Scottie Montgomery—it started there, nowhere else.”

Montgomery’s return to Durham will also help bolster Duke’s recruiting efforts. The recently departed Lubick, who left the team shortly before National Signing Day and took one of the Blue Devils’ offensive line targets with him to Oregon, previously served as the team’s recruiting coordinator.

Vernon touted the new Blue Devil coach’s abilities on the recruiting trail, noting that it was Montgomery’s recruiting style that made Duke stand out to him next to a slew of potential college suitors.

“Yeah, we talked sports and stuff, but we also talked about life,” Vernon said. “When he was recruiting me it was more about how my day was going and less about how my last week of practice went. He was very easy to

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In a press conference Monday, Montgomery said he was excited to get back out on the recruiting trail with his fellow Blue Devil coaches.

He also indicated that his top priority in recruiting will be the state of North Carolina. Duke has been more successful in its recruiting efforts within North Carolina during Cutcliffe’s tenure as head coach, but only four of the 20 recruits that the Blue Devils signed on National Signing Day last week came from in-state.

“We’ve been in an upward trend not only in performance, but also in what we’ve been able to do in the state,” Montgomery said. “We have better relationships than we’ve ever had, and now we have ammo that we’ve never had since I’ve been here. It’s going to be wonderful to get back out on the road not only as the best program in the country, but the best team in the state.”

W. TENNIS from page 9 Heels, with eight of their nine players ranked by the ITA, started strong, acquiring early leads in both doubles and singles.

After a strong weekend of doubles with two wins, Jodoin and Mulholland could not hold off North Carolina’s Gina Suarez-Malaguti and Zoe De Bruycker, handing the Tar Heels the doubles point and the momentum going into singles.

Although the Blue Devils fought hard in singles, they would not win a single set. Ashworth noted that getting off to a slow start makes a significant impact on the outcome of the match.

“We learned a lot, in losing yesterday, about things we need to work on and about things we do and don’t do well,” he said. “We really got a feel for the level of UNC’s play compared to ours in those big points.”

After what Ashworth considered a successful weekend, the Blue Devils are back in Durham ready to take on No. 1 Florida on Sunday. In this upcoming rematch of last year’s NCAA tournament semifinal, Ashworth hopes that the team can put the loss to the Tar Heels behind them and prepare for the journey ahead.

“We’re hoping to get a good crowd,” Ashworth said.

“A lot of the singles players are back for both teams, so hopefully it’ll make Sheffield [Indoor Tennis Stadium] a good atmosphere on Sunday.”

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A fresh perspective This year we have seen re- about Duke issues. In fact, it markable instances of fresh- brings a fresh and needed permen boldly and publicly mak- spective to the table. ing their opinions known as Writing off freshmen commentators for The Chron- too quickly has three major icle, precocious candidates drawbacks. for elected First, blunt positions and arguments that editorial creators of new youth equals campus initiatives. Certain ignorance might backfire. Upfreshmen have made contro- perclassmen embroiled in deversial claims, garnering tre- bates with administrators claim mendous criticism from their that their perspective—the perfellow students. Some criticism spective that emerges from this was warranted; respectful cri- special period in one’s young tique of public ideas has always adult life—is uniquely valuable. furthered Duke discourse. We trust that administrators do However, some criticism de- not write off the student opinvolved to personal attacks, es- ions, published in these pages pecially based on the opiner’s and elsewhere, because of our age. This type of criticism is age. We should afford the same inappropriate and, moreover, respect to the youngest stuhurts dialogue. Being a fresh- dents among us. man does not preclude one Second, freshmen are newfrom participating in debates er to the University and are

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How much would it cost to just pull out of this debacle now? Based on the mismanagement so far on the Chinese and Duke side, the future risk seems to be substantially larger than the possible benefits.

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he first semester of my freshman year, a girl on should be wary of is to not participate in activities my floor walked into our common room and “just for med school.” The lack of sincere interest started talking about this new research posi- from some of my peers when participating in action that she was recently offered. All tivities such as volunteering and reof us congratulated her and “ooo’d search is one aspect of being pre-med and ahh’d” over her shiny new lab that has bothered me for some time. keys and listened to her talk about The unfortunate reality seems to be her project. Afterward, I left thinkthat more and more students are aping, “Well crap. Maybe I should start proaching their applications to medilooking for a research position too.” cal school as a check list. Did I volunLooking back on that now, I questeer? Check. Did I have a research tion the thought processes that led experience? Check. Did I shadow at me to that conclusion. In my mind, some point? Check. Medical schools research seemed to be a prerequiaren’t looking for a shopping list of site for medical school, a sojourn activities—they’re looking to see what outside of classes that you took in you learned from those experiences the hopes of discovering your pasand how that learning has contributsion for a particular field. I didn’t ed to the betterment of your person pre-med series really know what topic I was interin a meaningful way. premeditations ested in—how could I? Armed with Now you might ask, “Why do medionly the meager introductory classes cal schools care if students volunteer? that I took in high school, I was suddenly expected If we did research?” The vast majority of undergraduto try to understand complex ideas in specialties ate research doesn’t produce life-changing results, so that I’d never heard of—and from the midst of all why do medical schools look for these experiences the different opportunities, choose one that would at all? It’s because they want to see how we learn to lead me to this magical “passion.” adapt to situations that aren’t always easy, that don’t Three years later, I can firmly say that I did even- always go the way we expect. For example, as much as tually find my passion—but it certainly wasn’t where I like my research, I will get as frustrated as anybody I thought it would be. In fact, I would say I took a few when the section of brain that I’m cutting decides to wrong turns and then stumbled across it accidental- furl up and fall off the sectioning platform. Repeated ly. For three semesters now, I’ve had the most won- instances of this could mean two extra hours of work derful opportunity of working in Dr. Steve Nowicki’s in addition to the original three hours required. Conlab, researching the evolutionary and behavioral ducting an experiment and getting good results isn’t implications of complex bird song, in addition to easy and will often requires a painfully diligent person the neurobiology of song learning and production. who has the patience to work on the nicks and knots I hadn’t originally thought that this would be my until they find the right answer. interest. However, after repeatedly watching birds Research experiences, if done right, can be some flip over little caps to find the hole with food in it, of the most intellectually and socially fulfilling experiI found myself fascinated by the ability of an animal ences of your undergraduate career. Building meanto learn and adapt in changed conditions, to think ingful relationships with your mentors can help you creatively and solve problems, and to communicate expand the depth of your thinking, and may even be their knowledge to others in an understandable way. handy for future job recommendations. Spending After months of cleaning bird trays and conducting long hours in the lab working through each step of behavioral tests, I had the opportunity to create my your experiment teaches you to be patient and meticown independent project. Through this process, I ulous about your work, to systematically analyze posrealized that I didn’t just find my passion—I formed sible reasons for why things go wrong and to identify it out of hard work and a little curiosity. solutions to unexpected snags. But doing research for I decided to share my story with you because I the sake of having research is not what you should be feel that the concept of “being wrong” isn’t talked aiming for, and it won’t be an accomplishment you about much at Duke. Personally, I got lucky and be- will enjoy looking back on from your college years. So came interested in the first lab that I contacted, but if you do it, do it for the right reasons.

I know many of my peers have switched labs two or three times. Sometimes you don’t find what interests Georgia McLendon, Trinity ’14, is a Duke pre-med. you right away—and sometimes you get particularly This column is the fifth installment in a semester-long seunlucky and find something you can’t stand. In ei- ries of weekly columns written on the pre-med experience at ther case, what matters is that you keep trying.

Duke, as well as the diverse ways students can pursue and However, one caveat that pre-medical students engage with the field of medicine.

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opened the door and confronted a tempting box of Time seemed to stretch. The only noise came from the Milky Way bars, perched upon a platform engraved courtyard floors below. with the word “Nein” (No) on a brass plaque.

I had the power to influence the performance beNo one would know if I were to eat cause I was there, too. I could have asked the chocolate. I was at the KW Institute them anything. “Do you believe in God?” for Contemporary Art in Berlin in Januor “How do you feel about sitting at this ary. In the exhibit, entitled “One on piano all day?” But any of those questions, One,” visitors received a do-not-disturb at the time, felt contrived, so I requested style sign to hang on the door to each of that the music continue. Alas, the two the museum’s 17 chambers. These chammen just chortled. One asked, “What are bers were filled with art specifically creyou doing in Berlin?” and gradually we ated for a single viewer at a time. eased into that conversation. samantha My program guide directly referAfter a few minutes I felt guilty oclachman enced this set-up: “Alone in the space cupying their time with my non-existenwith the art, one-on-one with a work that what’s our age again? tialist banter, so I emerged, in the know. was made for the single individual, in a My successor, an older German woman, direct and inescapable interaction—intimate and con- asked nervously “Is it live?” to which I answered, cryptifrontational.” cally, “Sort of.”

As an art philistine, I was nervous about navigatIn the third room, a refrigerator was positioned at ing this exhibit. How would I know what to think the far end. I walked slowly up to it, with trepidation, at about each piece, without being able to gauge the re- this point expecting a human head or some other sort actions of other visitors surrounding me? There was of gruesome object inside. However, upon opening the no signage to indicate what each room contained: refrigerator door, I was confronted with nothing. each of the five floors had enormous enclosures, all This exhibit transformed my understanding of what painted white, so going in was the only way to know it means to appreciate art. With no written descriptions what was inside. of the pieces, or art-history major friends to guide me, I Many of the rooms demanded waiting in long lines; was able to create my own conception of what the artist naturally, I jumped at the opportunity to enter a room “meant” with each piece (maybe they didn’t intend for with no other patrons outside. My first room contained any meaning to be derived). In many crowded museums the Milky Way bars referenced above—it was amusing in destination cities, viewing art feels like an exercise in and frustrating to realize that I was being dared to con- productivity and accomplishment. But in this exhibit sume the first piece of art I encountered. I exited and there were no interruptions or distractions or guidance. chose to take on the longest line in the whole museum.

The closest sensation I’ve had to that experience at I passed the time in line watching others go into the Duke was my independent study last Fall with the best Milky Way room. Some emerged looking irritated while professor I’ve ever had (and will ever have). Absent class others looked bemused. Some concealed their reaction peers, it was just he and I, talking about books. There with impassive faces. Off in the distance, I could hear was immense pressure to come prepared and ready to muted piano music that began and ceased intermittent- ask questions, but there were no notes to be passed and ly. Finally, after 45 minutes, I was the first in line for a no comments to take as bait. I didn’t know when I proroom that seemed to generate tangible energy around posed the independent course of study what I was getit. My predecessor materialized in front of me, after ting myself into, and after he approved it, only he was what seemed like an eternity. He gave me a nod, with a able to influence how I interpreted the material. slight smirk on his face.

Both of these types of knowledge were refreshing, I put my sign on the door, which opened into an and continue to challenge my perception of artists and atrium with another door. of texts. Since I worry that we take too many cues from Through the second, and suddenly the piano music others, and too few from ourselves, my one prescripstopped, abruptly. tion would be this: Set-up an independent study with Two men were sitting before a piano, hands hover- someone you admire so much it terrifies you, and libering over the keys from their interrupted duet. I stood ate yourself from all other influences. only a few paces away, unaware of what was expected of me or how I should respond. They looked at me, Samantha Lachman is a Trinity senior. Her column runs expectantly. One player took a sip from a glass of water. every other Tuesday. Follow her on Twitter @SamLachman.

lettertotheeditor Know if you have a case: a letter from the DSG Judiciary In the midst of an impending election season and the recent passage of the Duke Student Government bill of rights, the DSG Judiciary wanted to take the opportunity to remind everyone of our unique role on campus. The Judiciary is the branch of DSG that deals with any and all disputes arising under the DSG constitution and bylaws. If you have an internal conflict within your student group, or an external conflict involving funding or group recognition, we are available as an outlet to voice your concerns. We also have jurisdiction over K-ville tenting policies and elections.

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ne in every five people in the world is Chinese. As you read these lines, almost a billion and a half Chinese people all around the world have been celebrating the beginning of the Chinese New Year.

These New Year celebrations are among the most important traditional Chinese festivals. To me, seeing Chinese New Year celebrations in a Chinese majority society is one of the “must dos” in life. abdullah antepli It is one of the most colorful blue devil imam and culturally rich celebrations I have ever seen in my life, and I have seen a lot. I wish all my Chinese friends around the world a blessed new year. May this new snake year be a peaceful and prosperous time for all.

Modern celebrations of Chinese New Year provide many rich and helpful insights in terms of how Chinese culture is on the rise and becoming increasingly globally known and recognized. Everybody knows by now that China is becoming a global powerhouse, economically and technologically. However, I think very few of us are reflecting on how this future superpower will look in the manifestations of her soft power. How will its mind-blowing economic and technological achievements manifest themselves in art, music, humanities, media, film and more? I believe in front of our eyes we will not only see the People’s Republic of China’s rise to the world stage as one of the potential super powers, but we will also see the emergence of a new global cultural paradigm that goes beyond the borders of PRC. I welcome this emergence with excitement and delight as I have so many high expectations of this new world player. For many centuries Muslims were the global dealmakers. For the last couple of centuries, European nations have been the global powerhouses. This is the first time that a Far Eastern civilization is potentially rising to be a global mover and shaker. This is in many ways exciting and promising, as this new global giant is ethnically, culturally, linguistically, religiously and in many other ways significantly different than the former ones.

Many of the future predictions of what the potential Chinese global hegemony will look like focus on worst-case scenarios. I find most of those fearful predictions very biased, unwise and unfair. Many of those predictions are also embedded in a patronizing tone in relation to Chinese culture. They take the nature of Chinese government and its certain policies as their main focus and frame of reference.

They often ignore the millennia-old accumulated wisdom and knowledge of the Chinese people and reveal very low expectations of them.

I think more best-case scenarios of these future predictions are needed. As someone who lived and traveled extensively in that part of the world for eight long years, I am more hopeful than many. I hope and pray that this new and very different global dealmaker will do a better job of achieving global peace and harmony than her predecessors. She will learn from the many mistakes and failures of the past and will strive to raise the bar in terms of ethical and moral standards of super powers. This new and different global boss will humble and inspire the rest of the world through the enlightening teachings of her cultures and religions.

We, people living in the West, do not know much about the cultural milieu of the Far East in general and Chinese culture in particular. More importantly, what we know of it is highly problematic. A Duke fraternity’s deeply troubling and distasteful early New Year’s present to the Asian/Chinese community provides a painful but helpful window of what we make of the culture of the people of the Far East. How often we mystify and reduce this rich and meaningful cultural world into a few silly things! I do not know what is more troubling in this sense—what the fraternity folks did or how many people reacted: “Whats the big deal!” I am so proud of those members of the Duke family who turned this scandal into a learning moment for many through their inspiring protests and civil demands of apology and correction.

However, I hope this will not remain a one time reaction to what a few people did. This crisis shed light on a larger issue that we have to deal with. I hope we will keep the momentum and healthy tension of this recent issue and use this spark of energy to open up many more helpful doors for future conversations.

But for now, a heartfelt happy and blessed New Year to all.

Abdullah Antepli is the Muslim Chaplain and an adjunct faculty of Islamic Studies. His column runs every other Tuesday. You can follow Abdullah on Twitter @aantepli.

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Exhibitions Campaign for Braddock Hospital (Save Our Community Hospital).

Photographs by LaToya Ruby Frazier. Thru February 23. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

The Restraints: Open and Hidden. Photographer Gordon Parks’s 1956 Life magazine series on segregation. Thru March 2. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

The Road to Desegregation at Duke. A look at the contributions of African Americans at Duke 50 years after desegregation. Thru March 3. Rare Book Room Cases, Rubenstein Library. Free.

A Mockery of Justice: Caricature and the Dreyfus Affair. How the popular press satirized one of the most notorious legal cases in French history. Thru March 9. Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery. Free.

Mapping the City: A Stranger’s Guide. How maps project ideas of urban space. Curated by students in the Franklin Humanities Institute Borderwork(s) Lab. Thru March 17. Perkins Library Gallery. Free.

Alphabetic Excursions. Prints by Merrill Shatzman, associate professor of the practice of visual arts. Thru March 31. East Duke Corridor Gallery. Free.

Events February 12 Ciompi Quartet Lunchtime Classics. Beethoven: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3, “Rasumovsky. ” 12pm, Gothic Reading Rm., Perkins Library.

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Exhibition Reception and Artist’s Talk. Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier discusses her series Campaign for Braddock Hospital (Save Our Community Hospital), on view at CDS. 6–9pm, Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

February 13 Exhibition and Opening Event. Light Sensitive: Photographic Works from North Carolina Collections. Reception with cash bar. Nasher Museum of Art. Book Talk: The Selected Letters of William Styron. Rose Styron on editing the correspondence of her late husband, one of the great American novelists of the 20th century. 5pm, Gothic Reading Rm., Perkins Library. Free.

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February 14 The Miles. Written by and featuring Steven Li (T’13) (Senior Distinction Project) 8pm, Brody Theater, East Campus. Free.

Take A Stand is the national El Sistema initiative of the LA Phil and the Longy School of Music of Bard College in leadership and teaching in the El Sistema movement in the United States. KidZNotes and Duke University are teaming up with Take A Stand to host the Southern conference of their regional professional development series.

February 15 Take a Stand: Supporting Social Change Through Music. See ad on this page.

Duke Jazz Ensemble. John Brown, director with guest artist Tia Fuller, saxophone. 8pm, Page Aud. $10 Gen.; $5 Students & Sr. Citizens.

The Miles. (See Feb. 14) 8 pm.

February 16 Duke Wind Symphony: Viennese Ball. Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, conductor. 7-11pm, Great Hall, West Union Bldg. $12 single, $20 couple.

Choral Society of Durham Winter Concert. This accomplished community choir will perform Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom with full professional orchestra. 8pm, Duke Chapel. $15 Gen., Students free.

The Miles. (See Feb. 14) 8pm.

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The Georges. Members of Obie-Award winning visiting artists Hoi Polloi put on a wildly theatrical musical performance. 10 pm, Sheafer Theater. $5 Gen.

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February 17 9th Annual Valentine’s Day Jazz Concert, featuring the Duke Jazz Ensemble, NCCU Jazz Ensemble, and UNC Jazz Ensemble. 4pm, Kenan Music Building, UNC-Chapel Hill. $10 Gen., 919-843-3333 or at the door.

February 18 Immersed in Every Sense 2 Visiting Artist Series. Artist Chris Coleman.

Thru Feb 22. Location and date TBA. Free.

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