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Duke may require background checks for all new faculty

by Elizabeth Djinis THE CHRONICLE

Prospective Duke faculty members may soon have to consent to background checks before being hired.

Currently, all University staff and all faculty involved in clinical work must undergo criminal background checks before being employed by Duke. The Academic Council, however, will discuss expanding this policy to require background checks for all faculty in their meeting Thursday.

The policy change being discussed mirrors a transformation happening at institutions across the country and will not be unique to Duke, said Vice President for Administration Kyle Cavanaugh, who oversees staffing and human resources for the University.

“It’s become what is referred to as the best practice in virtually all employment in other types of industries,” Cavanaugh said. “This is a natural evolution of the issue of conducting due diligence in terms of new hires.”

Cavanaugh stressed that it is crucial to keep the faculty informed of how the background checks will work.

“The process that we use is very objective, very thorough and the confidentiality that is maintained throughout the process is critical,” Cavanaugh said. “We want to ensure that it’s being conducted in a uniform and objective fashion.”

Academic Council chair Susan Lozier, Ronie-Richele Garcia-Johnson professor of physical oceanography, wrote in an email Monday that the decision has not been made yet and said that the issue will be further discussed at the Thursday meeting of the Academic Council. She declined to comment any further before then.

Cavanaugh said that most of the faculty views the change positively and, ultimately, the verdict hinges on their opinion. He hopes to have the decision made as soon as possible and is “optimistic,” but notes that there is SEE BACKGROUND ON PAGE 16

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The Duke University Health System is experiencing a decrease in revenue and in patient volume, as a result of shifts in the national economy and trends in health care. The decreases have hit almost every area of the system, including the Duke Cancer Center, pictured.

by Danielle Muoio THE CHRONICLE

Overall patient volume and revenue at Duke University Health System have fallen in the past fiscal year, reflecting the current economic climate and national changes to health care.

The decrease in patients has occurred in several major areas, including emergency room visits, surgical cases and endoscopy cases. DUHS leaders attribute

the decline to increased competition in the region, driven by the economy and the Affordable Care Act. Health professionals in private practice are looking to align themselves with bigger health systems with more financial security, taking their patients with them. Additionally, the slow economy has driven more people to avoid medical visits because of the cost.

The decrease in patient volume re-

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West Union to offer better accessibility

by Lucy Hicks THE CHRONICLE

The West Union Building renovation is slated to enhance the structure with unprecedented access for students with disabilities.

The student-run Duke Disability Alliance has partnered with the administration as well as the West Union architects to make sure the new building will be completely accessible for all of Duke’s students. This is part of a broader campaign to expand accessibility in the house model and elsewhere on campus.

The West Union plans feature fully integrated ramps and easily accessible elevators. Although the current building is partially accessible for those with disabilities, the new renovations will create a space that is fully accessible. “[The West Union architects] were

thinking about absolutely everyone being able to experience the space in the same way,” said senior Megan Barron, president of DDA. The construction plans for the new building meet and surpass the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act, said Barron, who identifies as a disabled student. The original West Union Building was completed decades before the 1990 passage of the ADA, which bans discrimination based on disability.

There is more to making a welcoming structure, however, than just fulfilling the ADA requirements, said senior Tyler Bray, vice president of DDA. “You can bring a building up to code, but still give a student the feeling that they are being isolated,” Bray said.

In addition to the accessibility plans for West Union renovations, Barron said

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sulted in a drop in revenue. Compared to the same point in the previous fiscal year, total surgical cases have decreased by 2,732, total endoscopy cases decreased by 640 and emergency department visits have decreased by 2,820, according to data from Kenneth Morris, senior vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer of DUHS. Additionally, DUHS

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the administration is working to make the residential house model more accommodating for students with disabilities.

In the past, only certain living areas were accessible to handicapped students, making greek houses or selective living groups more difficult to join, Barron said. The administration, however, has made new commitments to providing accessible housing in every building regardless of the building’s original accessibility level. There are specific funds set aside each year in order to provide these accommodations.

“It’s not about just making my room accommodated,” Barron said. “It was the bigger picture of how are we going to accommodate any student that has a

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Students craft March Committee addresses Madness charity for SIDS Duke gender inequity

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Menbers of selective living group InCube worked with freshman Michael McConville to develop Bracket 4 Life—a bracket competition raising money for SIDS research.

by Jeffrey Cicurel THE CHRONICLE

Freshman Michael McConville is using March Madness to benefit a charity that hits close to home.

Two weeks ago, McConville decided to create a bracket competition that would benefit research on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, which took his brother Christopher’s life in 1997, he said. McConville turned to InCube, Duke’s entrepreneurship selective living group, to help him create an online NCAA men’s basketball championship bracket competition called Brackets 4 Life to raise money for SIDS research.

McConville worked with his roommate, freshman Devin Solanki, an InCube member, to come up with a plan to develop a charity. Although the event was fast approaching, the pair decided to center the charity around March Madness.

“After we thought of the idea, it kind of just took off,” McConville said.

When McConville and Solanki pitched the idea to InCube, more than a dozen kids were immediately interested in helping out, said sophomore Ashley Qian, another

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The marketers, programmers and designers at InCube worked for more than eight hours straight to create Brackets 4 Life, in a website-creating event called a “Hackathon for a cause.”

“It has been a great way for us to see what programming can do to really make an impact,” Qian said. “It also allows us to apply a lot of the things we learn in our own companies to a charity cause.”

McConville was inspired to raise the money by his parents, who have raised more than a million dollars for SIDS through an annual golf fundraiser. Brackets 4 Life is McConville’s way of following his parents’ example by turning a horrible situation into something positive, he said.

Close to 200 people have already signed up on the website, and the charity has raised more than $500, McConville said. Participants must donate a minimum of $2 in order to enter the bracket. Fifty percent of the money will be divided between five charities chosen by the pool’s top five scorers.

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Next year’s DSG president, junior Stefani Jones, is already taking steps to address gender issues at Duke.

Jones, currently Duke Student Government vice president for equity and outreach, hopes to prioritize women’s issues at Duke in her term as president. Her goals are based on findings outlined in the 2012 Report on Gender and the Undergraduate Experience published last Spring. In collaboration with other students on a committee dedicated to gender equity, Jones is currently compiling a long-range plan of how students can work with the University to address gender-based inequity.

“What we’ve been doing at the University so far has been kind of a patchwork approach—tackling different issues one at a time,” Jones said. “In order to tackle the problem, you have to tackle the problem as a whole.”

The report—which utilized data from focus groups and existing surveys—analyzed how male and female undergraduates experience Duke differently. For example, they found that women outper-

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form men academically, but they have less confidence in the classroom. The report also suggests ways to support female leadership, prevent and address eating disorders and adopt a comprehensive plan to approach gender-based violence and sexual assault. The Gender Task Force, which created the report, is composed of 16 faculty, staff and students dedicated to collecting and analyzing data to benchmark Duke’s progress regarding gender since 2003.

Jones, who learned of the report last Fall, said she has made gender a focus of her work and is committed to expanding the University’s focus on gender-based violence and sexual assault.

Specific strategies in the plan include requiring all members of Greek organizations and eventually all students in selective living groups to participate in the Prevent Act Challenge Teach bystander intervention training program, as well as examining student conduct consequences for committing sexual assault. Jones’ committee is composed of approximately 15 students, including both DSG members and non-members.

Jones added that PACT and mandatory reporting of sexual assault are two particularly effective steps that feed into a larger goal of greater gender equality.

Senior Ian Harwood, a Women’s Center gender violence prevention intern, is one of the main collaborators on the University-wide plan. He has contributed research on public health models for addressing gender-based violence. He said he hopes that more administrators commit to addressing sexual violence.

“We aren’t clueless in the world about what to do—there are promising programs and certain things that work better than others,” Harwood said. “That’s the reason for wanting this comprehensive, public health-based approach.”

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by Aaron Blake and Philip Rucker THE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — The Republican Party ended months of self-criticism Monday with a wide-ranging plan to transform itself into a modern, welcoming home for a rapidly diversifying American electorate.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus presented a 100-page blueprint aimed at rebuilding his struggling GOP after a four-month analysis, and delivered a particularly blistering assessment of the party’s problems appealing to women and minorities at the polls.

Priebus called for Republicans to embrace comprehensive immigration reform, overhaul the party’s digital and research operations, and hold a shorter, more controlled presidential primary season. Priebus also announced a $10 million plan to dispatch GOP operatives to black, Latino and Asian American communities, which voted overwhelmingly to reelect President Barack Obama.

“There’s no one reason we lost,” Priebus said of November’s election, in which Democrats held the White House, kept control of the Senate and gained in the House. “Our message was weak, our ground game was insufficient, we weren’t inclusive, we were behind in both data and digital, and our primary and debate process needed improvement.”

Priebus added: “When Republicans lost in November, it was a wake-up call.

We know that we have problems. We’ve identified them, and we’re implementing the solutions to fix them.”

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Va., declared the plan a “fantastic job by all involved,” while former House speaker Newt Gingrich, Ga., hailed it as “historic” and the “first big step toward [a] GOP majority.”

But even many Republicans who praised the proposal said it was only a partial response to the party’s problems, which include policy positions that alienate growing minority groups.

Strategists said the party still needs to recast conservatism to appeal to Latino and Asian voters as well as college-educated women.

“We ran out of white voters” in the 2012 election, said Alex Castellanos, a longtime GOP strategist. Republicans still need to establish a policy agenda that goes beyond being “the party of ‘no’ and an alternative to big, old, slow, top-down industrial-age government,” he said.

Championing immigration reform is a productive start, said Mike Murphy, another longtime strategist. But he said Republicans should also adopt a softer stance on other social issues, such as same-sex marriage.

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Vanshika Sachdeva,center,is a high-school student and the first in her family to speak fluent English.She says she will become an engineer because that is the wish of her father,Jagdish Sachdeva,left,a farmer,and her mother,Anita Sachdeva,right,.

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RAJHEDI, India — As India’s economy grows, cities expand and new industries arise, officials and policy analysts are grappling with a key question: Will Indians have the skills to build the new India?

By 2022, India will be short of more than 103 million skilled workers in the infrastructure sector, about 35 million in the automobile industry and 33 million in construction. By contrast, there is expected to be a shortage of only 5 million in the technology sector.

But as higher education has rapidly extended into towns and villages across this massive nation — college enrollment tripled between 1991 and 2011 — so have student aspirations to pursue the white-col-

lar professions widely viewed as the most respectable: medicine, teaching, business management, and software and electronics engineering.

The result, researchers say, is that the professional goals of a fast-growing body of educated youth are running ahead of the skills that India will desperately need during the next decade of its economic transition. The mismatch only adds to concerns that India’s swelling young population will yield less of an advantageous “demographic dividend” and more of a demographic disaster.

“Indian families tend to put a lot of emphasis on college degrees as a tool of aspiration and growth,” said Dilip Chenoy, who SEE INDIA ON PAGE 7

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Support for same-sex marriage reaches all-time high, poll finds

by David A. Farenthold and Jon Cohen THE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — Support for same-sex marriage among Americans has jumped significantly in the past year to an all-time high of 58 percent, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

That number reflects a remarkable — and remarkably fast — turnabout in American public opinion on one of the most emotionally raw and politically divisive issues of the past decade.

As recently as 2010, opponents of same-sex marriage outnumbered supporters. As recently as 2006, they outnumbered them by a double-digit margin, 58 percent to 36 percent.

Seven years later, that picture has turned upside down.

The change is apparent across the board, with Americans of all political stripes and age groups becoming increasingly supportive of gay marriage. Fully 81 percent of adults between the ages of 18 and 29 support same-sex marriage, and while support dips to 44 percent among those 65 and older, both of those figures are highs.

Most Republicans continue to oppose gay marriage, but among Americans younger than 50, a slim majority of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents now support it.

On Monday, there were signs that both parties’ establish-

ments were trying to catch up to this shift in beliefs. Republican leaders, performing an “autopsy� of last fall’s election defeats, said they fear that the GOP’s position on same-sex marriage is driving some young voters away.

And among Democrats, former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared in a Web video to endorse legalizing same-sex marriage. “I support marriage for lesbian and gay couples,� Clinton says in the video, released by the Human Rights Campaign, an advocacy group. “I support it personally and as a matter of policy and law.�

During her presidential run in 2008, Clinton endorsed samesex “civil unions� but not marriage. But her shift does not make her the first major Democratic contender for 2016’s presidential nomination to signal support for gay marriage.

In fact, it makes her the last. She follows Vice President Joe Biden, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council, one of the most prominent of the groups that oppose same-sex marriage, said: “I don’t believe we’re losing the battle. We’ve certainly lost some SEE MARRIAGE ON PAGE 7

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TASK FORCE from page 2 University commitment to retaining female and minority faculty members—especially in science, technology, engineering and math fields, Jones noted.

Jones learned about the gender report last semester when her work to change the policy on the statute of limitations on sexual assault reporting brought her into contact with Ada Gregory, director of the Women’s Center and the report’s author. This is when Jones’ committee first started meeting, and it has since gained momentum.

Jones noted that the task force did not publicize the report’s findings.

Gregory said the recommendations and results laid out in the report have been shared informally with several student and alumni groups, as well as the Board of Trustees, but these groups are “still digesting� information. But students have held several events on campus, bringing to light issues affecting women—including Women’s Housing Option’s WHO Speaks campaign, Eating Disorder Awareness Week and One Sexy Week.

There have been improvements concerning women’s issues at Duke, but there is still room for growth, Gregory wrote in an email Monday. “All of these efforts bring more discussion and visibility to a range of concerns and provide platforms for taking action and making positive change for the community,� she said.

Although Jones’ DSG committee is an important voice, it is also vital to seek out those who are usually left out of discussions on gender, said Donna Lisker, associate vice provost of undergraduate education and member of the task force. “What I would most like to see is students taking the lead and demanding a more inclusive, more equitable environment in which to learn and thrive,� added Lisker, also co-director of the Baldwin Scholars program.

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“I understand that I’m not the only person that has had something bad happen to them,� he said. “Why should I be making my problem out to be the most important when I know everyone else has something to fight for as well?�

Sophomore Tre’ Scott, Duke Student Government vice president for services, said in an email Feb. 26 that Brackets 4 Life shows the positive impact students are making. “It’s good to see Duke students doing amazing work for other people,� he said.

McConville said he wants to continue raising money for SIDS research, and hopes to make Brackets 4 Life an annual event.

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REPUBLICANS from page 3 the campaign was that the electorate is changing and we have to be in front of that, not behind it,” Murphy said. “Modernizing the mechanics is a great way to communicate to the new electorate, but the most important thing is how do we appeal to them with the policy agenda of a modernized conservatism.”

The RNC’s “Growth and Opportunity Project” report is the product of a listening tour by Priebus and several leading GOP strategists. “Focus groups described our party as ‘narrow-minded,’ ‘out of touch’ and ‘stuffy old men,’ “ Priebus said. “The perception that we’re the party of the rich continues to grow.”

Some conservative activists quickly found fault with the plan — specifically the RNC’s calls to champion immigration reform and shorten the presidential nominating process.

“Americans and those in the tea party movement don’t need an ‘autopsy’ report from RNC to know they failed to promote our principles, and lost because of it,” said Jenny Beth Martin, head of the Tea Party Patriots.

Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, said the RNC report draws the wrong lessons from 2012 and said Republicans should focus more on abortion and other divisive social issues.

“Social issues are keys to reaching certain minorities the GOP yearns to attract, as well as to motivate millions of voters who first gravitated to the party as Reagan Democrats,” she said in a statement.

The RNC wants to compress the primary calendar, stage fewer candidate debates and hold more primaries — which

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usually attract more mainstream voters — rather than caucuses, which tend to draw devoted partisans.

The proposals amount to an attempted course correction from 2012, when candidates with little funding or mainstream support used their debate performances and strong showings in caucuses to mount extended challenges to Mitt Romney, the eventual GOP nominee.

Many party strategists think the process weakened Romney in his general-election fight against Obama.

But to many grass-roots conservatives, the rule changes would give establishment candidates further advantages and limit the opportunities for insurgent candidates such as Rep. Ron Paul, Texas, who struggled to win mainstream support but performed well in caucuses last year.

“I think the drive to move away from caucuses and conventions will be highly controversial for the Paul world, tea partyers and social conservatives,” said one adviser to Sen. Rand Paul, Ky., the congressman’s son and a potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid.

The RNC’s road map comes on the heels of last weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference, the biggest annual gathering of conservative activists, which brought new attention to the divergent ideas now coursing through the Republican Party.

The plan also laid bare simmering divisions over the party’s performance.

Priebus’s remarks included references to financial problems under Michael Steele, his predecessor as RNC chairman.

Steele responded tersely on MSNBC, referring to the GOP’s 2010 takeover of the House: “I won. And he didn’t.”

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DUHS from page 1 expected to bring in $1.467 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2013 by the end of January, but fell $31 million short at $1.436 billion.

The reduction is indicative of a trend that has hurt hospitals nationwide, said Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of DUHS. “It’s a country-wide phenomenon,” Dzau said. “We seem to be better insulated here—the effects are not that bad... For Duke, overall, we are doing very well.”

The Affordable Care Act, in combination with the current economic climate, has placed “enormous pressure” on private health care providers to align with bigger health systems like DUHS to gain competitive advantage in attracting patients, Morris said.

Whereas there used to be a “free market” for specialty referrals, in which patients often visited different providers for various treatments, patients now stay primarily within the larger health system with which their providers have aligned themselves. As a result, DUHS has seen a decline in patients who follow their doctors elsewhere.

“People tend to stay within their own systems,” said Dr. Robert Califf, vice chancellor for clinical and translational research and director of the Duke Translational Medicine Institute. “If you have a lot of private care practices that are now owned by Duke or [the University of North

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Carolina at Chapel Hill], those practices tend to refer in their own system.”

As competing institutions lure physicians to practice at their facility as opposed to a competitor’s, DUHS must constantly compete to gain and retain physicians and keep their patients along with them.

“Community doctors come and go based on where they can have the best meal for themselves,” Executive Vice President of DUHS Dr. William Fulkerson said. “They are being asked to choose sides—where do they want to align to ensure their practices are competitive?”

Additionally, a high unemployment rate has also decreased patient volume as people forego getting elective medical procedures that they cannot afford.

“North Carolina is running over a 9 percent unemployment rate, and majority of those folks don’t have health insurance, so they will likely delay elective procedures or discretionary procedures until they are employed and have insurance,” Fulkerson said. “That’s something we’ve seen across the country.”

Challenge areas This competitive nature has hurt Duke Regional Hospital more than other hospitals within DUHS, pushing Duke Regional to “build back up,” Fulkerson said. He did not comment on the exact decrease in patients.

Kerry Watson, president of Duke Regional Hospital, could not be reached in time for publication.

Additionally, the Duke Cancer Center,

which has been open for a little more than a year, did not reach its target patient volume, Dzau said, though he did not specify by how much. Despite falling short of this goal, the center has grown by 1-2 percent this year, he added.

“The Cancer Center continues to be in a ramp-up phase, responding to the increasing volumes of new cancer cases in our community,” Duke University Hospital President Kevin Sowers wrote in an email Monday.

Inpatient to outpatient Using more outpatient care than inpatient care has caused a decline in patient volume at Duke and other hospitals, Fulkerson said. For example, several years ago a patient getting his or her gall bladder taken out would be hospitalized for a couple of weeks. Nowadays, patients undergoing that surgery will go home the next day.

As such, inpatient care is decreasing as outpatient care increases.

“It’s less expensive to do outpatient care,” Fulkerson said. “We reserve inpatient care for patients who really have a very significant level of illness now. We can accomplish more on the outpatient side than ever before, but that means inpatients are sicker than 10 to 20 years ago.”

Physicians are also driven to provide better outpatient care because a component of the Affordable Care Act penalizes hospitals that readmit a patient within four weeks for reasons that should have been treated on the previ-

ous visit.

The focus on increased outpatient care could explain a decrease of patients visiting the emergency room, Califf added.

“If you provide much better outpatient care you are going to reduce your number of emergency room visits from complications like strokes and other factors,” he said.

‘We will be paid less’ DUHS initiated an effort to reduce costs in 2008 in order to increase financial sustainability. Since its initial launch, however, DUHS leaders have begun looking into other areas to cut costs.

“We have to anticipate that in the future we will paid less for what we do, so there is a tremendous imperative for us to decrease our costs and continue to grow in terms of patient volumes by presenting clinical services that are highly desirable and produce terrific results,” Fulkerson said.

To reduce costs going forward, DUHS leaders have looked at the partners they have bought drugs from and whether better prices can be negotiated, he said, adding that they have also looked at ways to deliver care at lower costs.

Another way to decrease costs is to identify barriers that have hindered patient discharge and resolve them.

“We are going to have to deliver the same kind of quality with less financial support in the future, so getting smarter about what we do and making sure we are not wasting money will be very important,” Fulkerson said.

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MARRIAGE from page 3 ground in public opinion.” His group believes that traditional marriage — between one man and one woman — is dictated not just by civil and religious laws but by nature as the institution best suited to raising children.

“Obviously, we’ve lost some ground in terms of the states that have” legalized same-sex marriage, Sprigg said. But he said he is optimistic: “I think we’ll continue to have a lively and vigorous debate, state by state.”

Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in two closely watched cases that are challenging legal limits on same-sex marriage.

One case involves California’s Proposition 8, a voter-approved measure that bars such marriages in the state. The other is a challenge to the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. That law withholds federal recognition of same-sex marriages performed in the nine states, and the District of Columbia, where they are legal.

Supporters of same-sex marriage said poll results like the ones released Monday show that, in time, their side will have the support to prevail.

“Young people have grown up in the middle of a conversation about who gay people are and why gay marriage matters to loving and committed gay couples,” said Evan Wolfson, president of the advocacy group Freedom to Marry. “They therefore are not impeded by stereotypes and discomfort, but rather got to think about real people and real values.”

The poll also showed a broader shift in American attitudes about homosexuality. Two decades ago, most Americans saw being gay as a choice, not an identity that people are born with. Today, a majority, 62 percent, believes the opposite.

Often, that belief engenders another. Nearly three-quarters of those who believe that homosexuality is something innate also support

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gay marriage.

“We all feel like you were born that way. Being gay is not a choice,” said Gino Tomasetti, 35, of Southborough, Mass. Tomasetti said he’d never been to a same-sex wedding, although they have been taking place in Massachusetts since 2004. He didn’t know anybody who had been to one. But he said he supports the idea strongly.

“As long as you know that it’s not a choice,” said Tomasetti, who works in network administration, “I don’t see why we should punish people for that.”

Among those who do not believe that homosexuality is a choice, about two-thirds hold the opposite view: that same-sex marriage should be illegal.

“People ain’t born that way, like they say they are. People choose to be that way,” said Jason Smith, 37, a machinist in Jasper, Ga. He opposes same-sex marriage but worries that it is becoming more accepted in mainstream culture.

“You see a lot more of it that you used to,” Smith said. “It makes kids think it’s OK.” The Republican Party’s 2012 platform called for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. But Monday, in their report examining last fall’s election, party leaders described a “generational difference within the conservative movement about issues involving the treatment and the rights of gays.”

The document calls for Republicans to embrace different points of view, “instead of driving around in circles on an ideological cul-desac.”

One of the report’s authors is Glenn McCall, a national committeeman from South Carolina. He told reporters that gay rights was an issue that “turned off” younger voters.

“For many younger voters, this issue is a gateway into whether the party is a place they want to be,” McCall said. “If our party isn’t welcoming and inclusive, young people and increasingly others will continue to tune us out.”

INDIA from page 3 heads the National Skill Development Corporation, which was set up by the government four years ago. “So what we have is a whole lot of people with degrees in hand but with no relevant skills.”

In Rajhedi, a large farming village in the northern state of Haryana, families today speak of skipping the incremental farm-to-factory journey and instead express hope that their children will secure office jobs that bring respect and social status.

Vanshika Sachdeva, a 12th grade high school student, is the first in her family to speak fluent English. She rides a motorcycle, carries a smartphone and plays volleyball. Her parents — her father is a wheat farmer and her mother the village council chief — did not study beyond 10th grade in school.

But when it comes to choice of career, Sachdeva defers to them.

“My parents want me to be an electronics engineer, and that is what I will study in college,” Sachdeva said.

Rajhedi is in a district that boasts smalland medium-scale industries comprising of sugar mills, plywood and machine parts manufacturing. But Sachdeva’s parents’ choice for their daughter’s course work was not based on research about the kinds of jobs that are available locally or elsewhere.

“We want an engineer in the family.

There is a higher status attached to the engineering degree,” said Anita Sachdeva, her 38-year-old mother.

But she does not want her daughter to be a civil construction or machine engineer. She wants her to work with electronic products, because she hopes it will be a “respectable office job fit for

women,” even though the salaries may be similar.

In a recent survey of more then 2,800 Indian students, the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania concluded that “aspirations of students are largely misaligned with the needs of the Indian economy.” It said the construction and automotive sectors are expected to need the most skilled workers over the next decade, but “only a very small proportion” of students want careers in those fields.

“There is an acute awareness gap about where the job opportunities are,” said Megha Aggarwal, the lead author of the survey, to which 84 percent of students responded that family elders guided them on education and career choices. “The local industry is not doing enough to train and communicate with the students or make their jobs attractive.”

One million Indians will enter the workforce every year for the next two decades. More than half of India’s 1.2 billion people are under the age of 25.

“If we don’t get our act together in time and employ them gainfully, there will be a huge social and political problem in our hands,” Chenoy said.

Facing that tide, the government has set itself the ambitious target of giving employable skills to about half a billion Indians by 2022. The government has begun upgrading hundreds of languishing vocational training institutes with new industry-specific skills courses and setting up skills development centers in partnership with businesses.

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No. 2 seeds in the NCAA tournament have not been too friendly to Duke recently.

The Blue Devils, who secured a No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament bracket for the fourth consecutive year, have yet to reach the NCAA semifinals with head coach Joanne P. McCallie at the helm, but the atmosphere at Scharf Hall, where the Blue Devils watched the selection show, suggests the team believes it can break that streak.

The Blue Devils cheered as their seeding was announced, despite getting put in the Norfolk region, the same one as the tournament’s No. 2 overall seed, Notre Dame.

However, Duke’s focus remains set on its first-round matchup Sunday against 15th-seeded Hampton at Cameron Indoor Stadium. McCallie has stressed to the Blue Devils the importance of focusing on one game at a time.

“It’s a great privilege and honor to host because we’ve done that before and we hope to do it again, but the reality of this time here is the urgency,” McCallie said.

“We just can’t wait to play.”

After a week off following an ACC tournament championship victory against North Carolina, Duke has prepared to SEE NO. 2 SEED ON PAGE 12

Duke’s region of the bracket, pictured, finishes in Norfolk. Notre Dame is the region’s top seed with the Blue Devils seeded second.

PREVIEWING THE NO. 1 SEEDS

Breaking down Baylor: Will the Fighting Irish Can Griner do it again? finally break through?

Region: Oklahoma City Head coach: Kim Mulkey Record: 32-1 Potential matchup with Duke: National championship Baylor has the biggest and best asset in the country: Brittney Griner.

At 6-foot-8, the reigningg National Player of the Year is the most dominant force in women’s omen’s basketball. Griner led the Bears to the 2011 national championship, mpionship, and her 3,203 career points nts trail only Jackie Stiles on the all-timee NCAA women’s basketball scoring list. t. This season, she has averaged 23.6 points ints per game on over 60-percent shooting—11.1 ng—11.1 points mmates— as she more than any of her teammates— carried No. 1 Baylor to a 32-1 record and Big 12 Championship.

Although her scoring ability is prodigious, her defensive presence sence might be even more noticeable. With 736 career an any other blocked shots—more than men’s or women’s playerr in NCAA Div. I history—few guards ds still dare enter the lane.

Griner’s lengthy frame not only allows her to intimidate opponents, onents, but it also helps her dominatee the boards, where she collects 9.0 rebounds ounds per game.

And though Griner runs uns the show for

the Bears, she is not the only standout on the roster.

Baylor feature two other double-digit scorers in junior Ody Odyssey Sims and graduate student Brooklyn Br Pope. Sims is one of the best point guards in the country, cou with an assistto-turn to-turnover ratio of 2.66— good for second in the nat nation.

The only blemish on Baylor’s record is a two-point twoloss to No. 4 Stanford early in the season.

Since th then, the Bears have rattled of 30 consecutive wins, including marquee victories victo against other top seeds Notre Dame and Connecticut, both on the th road.

Baylor Ba faces a potential showdown show with Tennessee in its regional final.

Ho How Duke beats Baylor: Elizabeth Williams, the Elizab two-time reigning ACC two-ti Defens Defensive Player of the Year, contains Griner.

How Duke Du loses to Baylor: Griner shuts down Williams and dribble-penetration game.

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Region: Norfolk Head coach: Muffet McGraw Record: 31-1 Potential matchup with Duke: Regional final With her senior year nearing aring an end, Skylar Diggins has accomplished mplished just about everything she possibly bly could in ept win a her collegiate career—except national championship.

She was named Big East Player of the Year for the second d consecutive season and just capped pped off a 31-1 campaign by leading the Fighting Irish to the school’s first-ever conference ence title. Diggins has even repeatpeatedly found a way to best archrichrival Connecticut, knockingg off uring the Huskies six times during the past two seasons.

But still, no title, despite some close calls. The senior guard led Notre Dame to the NCAA championship mpionship game the last two years, only nly to fall short to Texas A&M in 2011 and Baylor in 2012. But this year, Diggins ns may be surrounded by her best supporting ing cast yet. ed scoring atDiggins leads a balanced tack that has four players averaging double-digit points, helping thee Fighting Irish boast the nation’s third highest ghest scoring offense with 80.8 points perr game. Joining Diggins on the perimeter is junior guard

Kayla McBride, who was named the Big East Tournament’s Mo Most Outstanding Player after averagin averaging 17 points while playing stifling d defense. Rounding out the backcourt backcou is the Big East Freshman of the Year, Y Jewell Loyd, who is deadly behind b the arc, shooting nearly 40 percent.

Notre N Dame also boasts one on of the premier post players pl in junior Natalie Achonwa, who will likely A be b the key to a sustained Fighting F Irish tournament run. She has a tenm dency to get into foul d trouble, t but when on the court she is dominant on the boards and has a knack for coming up big b in clutch situations, as evidenced e by her lastseco second basket to beat Connecticut in the Big East Tournament fin final.

How Duke beats Notre Dame: Alexis Jones breaks down Notre Dame’s punishing backcou backcourt.

How Duke loses to Notre Dame: Fighting Irish’s well-balanced The Figh runs on all cylinders. attack ru — —Steven Slywka

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A deep Huskies squad Ogwumike leads the readies to make a run Cardinal on both ends Region: Bridgeport Head coach: Geno Auriemma Record: 29-4 Potential matchup with Duke: NCAA semifinals No team has dominated the women’s college basketball landscapee in recent years the way Connecticut has, making king it to the past five NCAA Tournament semifinals ifinals and capturing back-to-back national championships ampionships in 2009 and 2010. The difference ce this season has been that Connecticut, despite depth throughout its lineup, has as not won the few close games the Huskies have found themselves in. d past Connecticut zipped Duke in the second half of rlier the team’s matchup earlier this season for a 30-point oint victory, but against the other three top teams, the Huskies have had mixed results..

An early season gamee at Stanford proved to be one of the Huskies best outings, holding the he then-No. 1 Cardinal to 35 points.. But Connecticut’s greatest challenges lenges going into the tournament nt will be whether the team can overcome the size and experience of Baylor and Notre Dame, both of which beat Connecticut duringg regular season play. The Huskies ies narrowly dropped three matchups atchups with the Fighting Irish h this season, most recently a two-point defeat in thee

Big East Tournament championship. Connecticut closed the regular season against Notre Dame in a triple-overtime defeat, and lost to the Fighting Irish by one point in January. When matched up with Brittney Griner and Baylor, the Huskies were unable to contain Griner in both hal halves of play and fell at home by six points.

The m main scoring threat for Connecticut is forwar ward Kaleena Mosqueda da-Lewis, who leads the team with 18.3 po points per game.

H However, the key to the Huskies’ success this season has been consistent play from al all positions on the cou court. With two talented ce centers in Stephanie Dolson and Breanna Stewart, as we well as a bevy of skilled guards in including Kelly Faris, Carolina Do Doty and Bria Hartley, Connecticut has the talent to make a deep run in the tournament.

How Duk Duke beats Connecticut: Keeping the game close and maintaining defensive intensity How Duke loses to Connecticut: Allowing the H Huskies to go on another big run —Jay SSullivan

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Region: Spokane Head coach: Tara VanDerveer Record: 31-2 Potential matchup with Duke: National championship The Cardinal continued its domination n of the Pac-12 this season, sharing its 13th consecutivee regularseason conference title with No. 5 California.

Stanford is led by the Pac-12 Player of the Year and conference ence Defensive Player of the Year, junior fororuward Chiney Ogwumike, who averages es 22.4 points and d 13.1 rebounds per er game, good for sixth xth and fourth in the nation, respectively, tively, while shooting 57.4 percent from rom the floor (fifth in the nation).

Senior forward Joslyn Tinkle, junior guard Toni Kokenis nis and sophomore guard Amber Orrange ange help pace Stanford offensively, but ut the Cardinal will go only as far as Ogwumike wumike can take them.

A stingy defensive team, Stanford limits its opponents to a nation-best ation-best 31.5 percent shooting.

The team survived ved a brutal schedule, defeating then-No.1 .1 Baylor in a tournament in Hawaii, and d also notching victories against ranked, tournament-bound urnament-bound teams

in Tennessee, South Carolina, California, UCLA and Colorado. Stanford’s two losses were to top-10 teams, Connecticut and the Golden Bears.

Stanford enters M March Madness with an impressive streak on the line—the Cardinal have reached five fi consecutive NCAA tournament semifinals, semifina dating to the 200708 season. seas Before this run, Stanfo Stanford reached three region gional finals in a span of four years, very similar to rece recent Duke teams, which hav have made three consec secutive regional final app appearances.

Desp Despite its overall history of NCA NCAA Tournament success, the Cardinal and head coach T Tara VanDerveer remain the th sole No. 1 seed in history to lose in its opening game, losi losing to No. 16 Harvard 71-67 in 19 1998.

How Duke beats Stanford: Shooting Sho lights out from bey beyond the arc.

How Duke loses to Stanford: S If the Blue D Devils—specifically H Haley Peters and Elizabeth E Williams— can’t can keep up with Ogwumike’s wu athleticism down dow low.

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Richa Jackson knows what it’s like to have a season cut short by injury.

Last February, the guard tore the ACL in her left knee against Virginia Tech at home Feb. 15 and was forced to watch from the sidelines as her teammates finished the season and moved on to postseason play.

With 1000-point scorer and teammate Chelsea Gray out for the remainder of the year with a right kneecap dislocation, Jackson is on the other side of things now and will have to step up to help make up for the gap left by her teammate.

“Knowing that Chelsea’s been out, everybody has to grow and do more things,” Jackson said. “I just wanted to make sure that I was ready to help try to fill that void.”

Since Gray’s injury against Wake Forest Feb. 17 this season, Jackson has already taken on a larger role.

The junior has started her first five games of the year in Duke’s seven contests since Gray went down, averaging 27.0 minutes in those seven games—13.0 more than before.

With more time on the court, Jackson has also improved her level of play. After SEE JACKSON ON PAGE 12

After a disappointing start to the year, it appears Duke has finally found its midseason form.

Marist was no match for the No. 13 Blue Devils, who came away with a 19-11 win Monday at Koskinen Stadium. With the victory, Duke (6-4) has now won its last four games and in the process handed the Red Foxes (5-1) their first loss of the season. All four of Duke’s victories came MAR 11 in a span of 10 days.

“I don’t know that DUKE 19 any other Division I program has taken on that type of challenge in their schedule.

But it’s something that our guys have to learn to do if they want to play in meaningful games down the line,” Duke head coach John Danowski said. “We were delighted with our progress individually and collectively, and we look forward to a day off.”

Despite its dominant performance for most of the game, Duke conceded the game’s first goal just 2:50 into the contest when midfielder Drew Nesmith found the back of the net for Marist.

But the Blue Devils did not trail for long. Junior attack Jordan Wolf responded for Duke less than two minutes later. Blue Devil freshman Deemer Class had his pass deflected down, but Wolf was able to scoop up the loose ball despite two converging Marist defenders and shimmy his way down the center of the defense for the equalizer.

Wolf’s goal began a 7-1 run for the Blue Devils to take control. The junior finished with a game-high seven points on the evening, netting four goals to go along with

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Jordan Wolf scored four goals and tallied three assists in Duke’s 19-11 win against Marist. three assists. Nine different Duke players found the back of the net in the contest.

“It’s just a testament to our offense— I was fortunate enough to be in the right spots,” Wolf said. “We’re moving the ball really well, we’re sharing it and spacing really well.”

Midfielder Jake Tripucka was one of Duke’s key distributors during the run, threading the needle to open teammates for

two easy scores and adding a goal of his own.

But the true catalyst of the run was midfielder Brendan Fowler, who appeared unstoppable at the faceoff X. Fowler won 20-of-26 draws for the Blue Devils on the evening and provided his team with a distinct advantage in possession throughout.

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NO. 2 SEED from page 9 play without knowing its opponent by focusing on fixing the problems that have plagued the Blue Devils all season. Junior guard Tricia Liston specifically mentioned defense and rebounding as areas that will be key in the tournament.

“We’ve had a lot of hard practices, going up and down, playing five-on-five against each other, really getting back into shape and conditioning and going over some things we need to work on for ourselves,” Liston said.

With the loss of point guard Chelsea Gray, who underwent knee surgery and is out for the season, Duke has increasingly relied on freshman point guard Alexis Jones to integrate a new playing style into the offensive system, something both her teammates and coach believe has progressed rapidly during the past few weeks of the season.

“She’s one of the best listeners I’ve ever coached, and I think probably in her days with her dad coaching her, she must have developed that skill and it has allowed her to be beyond her years in maturity and skill level,” McCallie said.

The Norfolk region includes one other ACC opponent, eighth-seeded Miami. The Hurricanes, though, have a difficult road ahead with a potential matchup against Notre Dame in the second round. The Fighting Irish defeated conference-rival Connecticut—which also received a No. 1 seed—in all three of the team’s meetings this season. In Duke’s sole competition with the Huskies, the Blue Devils were defeated by 30 points.

Should Duke reach the regional semifinals, third-seeded Texas A&M could be its potential matchup. The Aggies captured the national championship two years ago and could give the Blue Devils a difficult test in Norfolk.

Notre Dame remains Duke’s major obstacle from breaking through the regional final to reach the championship rounds in New Orleans. Liston and her teammates realize that the Blue Devils must continue to improve in order to make that leap to the final rounds.

“Our defense is going to be huge for us and our rebounding especially when you play teams with someone like [Baylor’s] Brittney Griner, you’re going to have to limit them to one shot and be able to get the rebound,” Liston said.

Baylor holds the top seed in the tournament with

M. LACROSSE from page 11 also be attributed to its wing play, which Danowski said was the strongest he had seen all year.

The Red Foxes were able to string together four consecutive goals in the second quarter to cut the deficit to 7-6. Fatigue may have set in for Duke during this stretch, as the team was held scoreless for 10:30.

David Lawson broke the Blue Devils’ scoreless drought when he juked by the goalie for an easy score with 1:18 remaining in the first half. Lawson then helped Duke beat the first half buzzer when he caused a turnover, sprinted the length of the field and found Wolf for a laser in the upper-right corner with two seconds remaining.

“We talk about how important it is to make your teammates look good,” Danowski said. “Dave Lawson gets all the credit for a 60-yard sprint and putting the ball right on

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The Blue Devils watch the NCAA selection show at Scharf Hall. Second-seeded Duke plays 15th-seeded Hampton in Durham Sunday.

Connecticut, Notre Dame and Stanford rounding out the regional No. 1 seeds for the second consecutive season. Although Duke’s goal continues to be a deep run in the tournament, sophomore center Elizabeth Williams and the Blue Devils are stressing a focus on the task at

hand—Hampton.

“Coach is always emphasizing, now that the season’s done and it’s the tournament, it’s one and done,” Williams said. “Everyone’s coming in to play hard and play their best. Everyone’s good.”

his teammate’s stick.”

The Blue Devils added two early second half goals, which spelled the end for Marist. Duke never held an advantage smaller than four goals for the rest of the contest.

The Blue Devils’ fourth consecutive victory gives the team momentum heading into its weekend showdown with Georgetown. It also marks the fourth straight victory in goal for sophomore Kyle Turri, who made his first start in the Blue Devils’ win against defending national champion Loyola 10 days ago.

Turri had not started a game this season before taking over for struggling senior Dan Wigrizer, who went down with an injury after Duke dropped to 2-4 with a loss to No. 1 Maryland. Turri recorded eight saves for the Blue Devils on the evening and continues to provide his team with energy on the defensive end.

“He’s ready. He was ready,” Danowski said. “Kyle over the last several weeks has matured before our eyes.”

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shooting just .333 from the floor through the Wake Forest game, she has made 38.5 percent in her increased role.

“She’s a great shooter,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “She’s finding her place right now.”

As a sophomore, Jackson started 17 consecutive contests before tearing her ACL. For the season, she averaged 9.4 points, 4.6 rebounds and 1.8 steals per game.

Coming back from the injury, however, has been a long process, and after only logging 20 minutes in a game once prior to Gray’s injury, Jackson seems to be nearing full recovery just in time for the postseason.

“It’s just taken her a while to get back to speed and want to be as aggressive as she can be, but I feel like she’s moving in that direction,” McCallie said. “This will be good for her, this new setting, new season thing.”

Against then-No. 8 Maryland Feb. 24, Jackson showed just how aggressive she could be, scoring six points in the first six minutes and eight in the first half to help Duke build an early 13-point advantage.

But her value to the Blue Devils goes beyond her scoring.

“Richa’s … a great rebounding guard,” sophomore guard Ka’lia Johnson said. “She’s a great penetrating guard, and I think she just lets the game come to her, and that’s where she gets most of her points and definitely getting in there and doing that spin move.”

Jackson’s continued improvement could be vital to Duke’s postseason success, but for the junior, playing in the postseason will be a bit of a novel experience.

As a freshman, Jackson saw limited action beyond the first round of both the ACC and NCAA tournaments. Having missed out on postseason play as a sophomore, the Duke guard is excited to get a full taste of tournament time.

“It’s a great opportunity for me to experience something I have yet to experience, and I think it’s going to be fun and exciting,” she said.

Although the Blue Devils will be shorthanded again heading into March, Jackson is confident in the ability of herself and others to step up.

“I don’t have to be perfect, but as long as I’m providing energy and being effective out there on the court, I feel like we can be in a good place,” she said.

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“response to major changes in the priorities of biomedical science and health care.”

These fields have certainly undergone rapid transformation in recent decades, including a shift towards more personal doctor-patient relationships and the introduction of complex ethical issues as technology evolves.

The FlexMed Program has significant potential benefits for individual students and society.

First, it de-emphasizes credit for on traditionally required pre-health classes, like calculus and physics. It gives students more time to take advantage of the rest of their undergraduate liberal arts education, ideally with no cost to their preparedness for medical school.

Second, it alleviates some stress of pre-med students.

By guaranteeing students a place in medical school in sophomore year, FlexMed students can explore in a way that traditional admits often feel they cannot due to rigorous medical school subject and grade requirements. If this application methodology were applied by more medical schools, it would reduce behaviors like pre-med students picking a class, not because they have an interest in the material, but because it is a requirement to fulfill and they ‘need’ an easy A. Third, it seems to be a reasonable assumption that doctors who have been exposed to areas like ethics, health policy and the humanities would be better able to communicate

and relate with their patients.

Society would benefit from having doctors with a wide understanding of the public policy relevant to their profession and awareness of the ethical and technological evolution of medicine. However, an obvious consideration is whether students in the FlexMed program are missing out on essential science material with the relaxed course requirements.

We applaud Mount Sinai for its willingness to try something new. But more research is necessary before widespread change across the country or at Duke is considered. At this stage, the key point to take from FlexMed is that we must critically analyze the relevance of pre-health requirements to ensure that we keep up with a continually changing field.

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have been seeing a therapist since my sophomore fense and defense already defined, can we seriously year of high school. Not because I have any par- expect constructive conversation? ticular mental problem, just to have someone obMy most constructive therapy sessions have ocjective to speak with (it’s unfortunate curred when I did not arrive seeking I have to qualify that). Years of therasolutions. Therapy has never providpeutic dialogue have made me very ed me a solution; it’s only provided inself-aware. I value therapy because it sight that gave me the ability to fix my provides objective commentary, feedown life. In discussing my thoughts, back that is often missing from even concerns and successes, I see my momy most well intentioned family and tivations and actions in a new light. I friends. My penchant for dialogue verbalize my thoughts and come to correlates with many of my on-campus patrick oathout accept my failures. activities: Common Ground, the Duke Some of my most enlightening realpolitik with Colloquium and even Duke Student conversations have happened outside patrick Government. I have seen the value in of my therapist’s office. I usually recogdialogue, not just in myself, but also in nize my shortcomings by conversing others. So it would be an understatement to say that I with others, by getting feedback from a different perrecognize the utility in constructive conversation. spective. Often, in my own unrecognized frustration, Unfortunately, I have a hard time seeing the util- I have said something pithy or done something petty ity in our habitual turn to dialogue to resolve campus that has insulted someone. In the moment, I find my social issues. It is an omnipresent solution—we host comment or action perfectly legitimate, not worthy of dialogues to discuss offensive party themes, flipped note or simply forgettable. I realize my mistake when plaza tables, soured campus traditions and national someone takes the time to explain how that action social issues with current relevancy on campus. I have hurt him or her or how it might have hurt someone attended many of these post-conflict mediations, and else. The conversation never works if it is adversarial I find them overwrought, forced and awkward. Per- or righteous, for those motivations just push me way. haps my perspective is unique, but I have not seen It works when there is a commitment to explanation many results from these dialogues. In some cases, I and mutual understanding. think dialogue is counter-productive.

I think few people intend to hurt, insult or disIgniting passion is an important ingredient for so- respect others. Alain de Botton, a writer I follow in cial change, and on a campus of myriad issues, focused Twitter, aptly writes, “Forgiveness requires a sense that passion is a rare commodity. When a large swath of bad behavior is a sign of suffering rather than malstudents rally around a particular issue, it is important ice.” I would add ignorance as an additional cause of that that passion be directed toward change before the bad behavior. All too often we don’t understand that anger dissipates. Rather than push change, dialogues we have treaded on the unexpressed expectations of temper passion because participants and observers walk others. Through dialogue, we come to learn these away feeling like something has been accomplished. expectations, whether it is a shade of respect or a This veneer of results rarely solves the institutionalized more nuanced attitude. I have realized in therapy my problems that wrought controversy in the first place. own previously subconscious expectations for myself.

Dialogues can also augment campus polarization when In conversation with others, I have realized how my fingers are pointed. We black-and-white the issue and actions might have disappointed individuals in ways soon find it all too easy to scapegoat. We become a I did not expect. That is, and should be the role of campus composed of the ignorantly privileged and the dialogue—as an avenue for mutual understanding. forever dissatisfied, and this us versus them mentality If dialogue is initiated with victims and perpetramakes us more resolute in our erred beliefs. tors predefined, with participants who are unwillingly This is by no means an attack on those who seek forced into the conversation, it is unlikely any mutual to raise awareness. Instead, it’s a critique of the sub- understanding will emerge. If dialogue is pursued, it sequent process once awareness has been raised. It’s should be sought without pointing fingers. If the conunfortunate that such a high burden is placed upon versation isn’t inviting, there is no reason to actively those who work to bring light to an issue. Regard- join. It’s impossible to force someone to go to therapy, less of the solution, dialogues seem to be the wrong because the resolution rarely comes from the shrink. way to move forward. The emphasis on exposing the It comes from the individual, who comes to realize malfeasance of the ignorant makes subsequent con- her or his own errors and seeks a path forward. versation disingenuous. What is a dialogue supposed to accomplish? Reconciliation? Enlightenment?

Patrick Oathout, DSG executive vice president, is a TrinGood PR? If we enter dialogues with the roles of the ity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday. You can good and the bad already established, with the of- follow Patrick on Twitter @patrickoathout.

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To tell or not to tell: A case of informed consent

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n medicine, there is a perennial con- unlikely and reversible, but because she flict between the physician’s over- may cause him to be so worried about arching goal of preserving the per- the drug that he refuses to take it at all. sonal well-being of his or her patients, Dr. Kramer is concerned that if she foland the patient’s right to lows the senior physician’s make independent deciadvice, Mr. Williams, a shy sions. Just a few decades man, may not bring up ago, it was standard policy the topic of his sexual imthat physicians did not obpotence to his female phytain the informed consent sician, which in the long of their patients. This parun might affect the hapternalistic policy stemmed piness of his marriage. largely from the belief I found Mr. Williams’ that physicians, with their case interesting because it years of training and exillustrates a realistic exampertise, knew what was ple of the conflict between “best” for the patient. the physician’s goal of preIn the 1990s, these views serving the well-being of began to change when or her patients and prepre-med series his people began to realize venting the occurrence of premeditations that sometimes the physifurther complications, and cian may not know which the patient’s right to be inoption is best for a patient. Moreover, formed of consequential side effects. In even if he or she is confident in the out- this case, I believe Dr. Kramer should sit come, the patient may not necessarily down with Mr. Williams and discuss the choose this option. In some cases, pa- possibility of using the hydrochlorothiaztients may refuse certain procedures out ide as a second line of defense against of principle (e.g., Jehovah’s Witnesses his hypertension, in light of past failures refusing blood transfusions); in other with dieting and exercise. Dr. Kramer cases, patients may decide that they should explain why she thinks it would don’t want to live anymore and refuse be best for Mr. Williams to address his hylife-sustaining treatments. In his article pertension sooner rather than later and “What Makes Someone’s Life Go Best?” fully explain the likelihood and types of Derek Parfit suggests that the best deci- side effects the drug may cause, as well sions (i.e., medical decisions) must al- as the reversibility of these effects. I fully low the person to fulfill goals and values support efforts to persuade patients— to the extent that the person is capable however, the decision to take the drug at the time and that this decision must should ultimately be up to Mr. Williams. outweigh the benefits of other alterna- I do not support the paternalistic decitives. In terms of patient well-being, I sion of not informing Mr. Williams about think happiness can be defined as the the risks for two reasons: First, not tellfulfillment that individuals experience ing Mr. Williams the potential risks may from achieving their life goals and val- seriously affect his personal relationship ues, and personal good as the degree to and mental well-being, and second, I bewhich they succeed in this endeavor. To lieve that forgoing consent is a great disbetter illustrate these ideas, I will intro- respect to the patient’s decision-making duce the case of Mr. Williams in an ar- abilities and violates a person’s rightful ticle written by author John D. Arras. control of his body.

Mr. Williams was a 40-year-old black Mr. Williams’ case demonstrates the man who had recently been married intrinsic values of both personal good and had two young stepdaughters. On and personal choice, and exemplifies his first visit, Mr. Williams had been di- the complexities of medical decisionagnosed with mild hypertension. Dr. Syl- making. As long as the patient is compevia Kramer, his primary care physician, tent, patient rights to informed consent prescribed regular exercise and healthy must be respected as much as possible, diet in order to avoid burdening her because ultimately, it is his or her body. patient with costly anti-hypertensive No matter how confident a physician drugs. However, despite his best effort, feels about a particular procedure, the Mr. Williams’ blood pressure remained patient must be fully informed of any consistently elevated during subsequent potential risks and give his or her concheck-ups. The concern was that if his sent. Though others may come to differblood pressure wasn’t lowered, Mr. Wil- ent conclusions, I believe that having a liams could be at risk for more serious defined view on topics in medical ethics health problems such as a stroke. To is essential to becoming a good physiavoid this, Dr. Kramer had to decide if cian, because these principles will alshe should prescribe hydrochlorothi- most inevitably be challenged throughazide, a relatively cheap, diuretic drug out later years of medical practice. with one minor risk—about 3 to 5 percent of males who take the pill are likely Georgia McLendon, Trinity ’14, is a Duke to experience sexual impotence. A fel- pre-med. This column is the ninth installment low colleague and senior physician in in a semester-long series of weekly columns her program advised her not to tell Mr. written on the pre-med experience at Duke, as Williams about the potential risks, not well as the diverse ways students can pursue only because the side effects are highly and engage with the field of medicine.

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uke’s alcohol policy concerning moves drinking games into private undergraduates, both on and rooms rather than preventing them aloff campus, bans “participating together? in or facilitating drinking games” as Tables laden with slightly filled cups “unsafe/irresponsible bein various geometric forhavior.” After my friends’ mations accompanied recent fight, and subseby white balls are an exquent defeat, with their tremely visible violation.

RA over a beer pong Thus, “skill [drinking] tournament, I decided to games” are sometimes look into the assumption substituted for “team that drinking games are [drinking] games,” such unsafe and irresponsible. as flip cup. Flip cup is easy travis smith I found research that I’d to join, includes large with a space generously call “limited.” numbers of people and helmet on I realize generalizations, concentrates attention especially about alcohol, on the students currently are dangerous. However, three studies drinking, flipping or re-flipping. Fast I found might point toward allowing and aggressive drinking by anyone who beer pong as a safer alternative to our can find a partner is the result. Now current umbrella ban on all drinking consider “power hours,” which focus games. solely on drinking, and “kings,” which I examined a dissertation submit- allows for targeting certain players. ted to Auburn University in 2010 that (One 2004 study concluded that males reviewed three of the more rigorous may play games to get others drunk and explorations into drinking games and increase the chances of having a sexual their associated risks. The first study encounter with another player, among concluded that the majority of college other motivations.) When you look at students have played drinking games it this way, beer pong actually starts to and the most popular were team and look like the safest option, aside from skill games (think flip cup and beer abstinence obviously. pong, respectively). The study also Or maybe not so obviously. These found that “frequency of drinking game studies contained no recent observaparticipation was no longer predictive tions of a “normal” party situation, of alcohol-related problems when typi- nor compared “drinking game BAC” cal weekly consumption and frequency to “normal party BAC.” In light of this, of binge drinking was entered into the we probably need further research into model.” In other words, the study’s why drinking games are popular to efregression showed no immediate link fectively treat the root cause of this between playing drinking games and “dangerous” behavior. Drinking games alcohol-related problems. in large parties among strangers can be The second study stated, “Partici- a crutch. As an outsider, I might throw pation in beer pong leads to rapid, my card down on a Beer Pong table in elevated alcohol consumption and an order to integrate myself with others. associated spike in BAC.” And the data By getting in line, I have the right to certainly support this position, show- occupy the designated space at the end ing a BAC of 0.08 for males and 0.14 of the table and force others to interfor females after just 20 minutes of play act with me, if only superficially. Faced of certain games. However, the simu- with a room full of strangers and no lated games cited for these data used drinking games, I might find myself ap40 ounces of beer per side (over three plying more of the good ole “social lubeers) and either one or two players bricant,” and becoming much drunker per side. For me, this invalidates the as a result. study. I play (and I don’t necessarily Maybe beer pong is “unsafe/irrespeak for everyone), with 10 cups on sponsible,” but maybe it isn’t. Current each side, two beers per side and two research is inconclusive. An ineffecpeople per team on a “regulation” tive across-the-board ban on drinking (ping pong length) table. Under these games may not be the most effective conditions, depending on my oppo- way to curb unsafe drinking practices, nent’s skill, I’m lucky to drink one beer especially considering the differences in 20 minutes. Oftentimes I get thirsty between various drinking games. An enough to crack open a side beer. But alcohol policy allowing—or dare I maybe I’m an exception, I am after all, say, promoting—beer pong over other getting bigger (read: fatter), as I move drinking games may be more effectoward graduation. tive. Besides increasing student freeThe third study was the most in- dom (like we need more privilege) teresting, as it provided a side-by-side and promoting safe drinking practices consumption comparison of three dif- through mutual respect, encouraging ferent drinking games: “Three Man,” the use of ping pong balls and regua dice game; “Memory,” a memory lation length tables may actually probased card game; and “Beer Pong,” mote safer, more moderate drinking the stereotypical drinking game. Re- practices. After all, “losing” and being searchers found that, of the three “forced” to drink all the cups on your games, beer pong and memory had side only gets you one beer drunker the lowest consumption rates and and sent to the back of the line. It may measures of BAC. even encourage leaving the table and, To me, these studies demonstrate ya know, socializing. the following: First, drinking games I encourage you to search Auburn are popular (and thus hard to effec- University’s theses and dissertations tively ban); second, participants in for Jennifer Cameron’s paper to review the second study were extremely good it for yourself. at beer pong; and third, beer pong is the “safest” of the three games studied.

Travis Smith is a Trinity senior. His colHow can these studies inform Duke’s umn runs every other Tuesday. You can folalcohol policy, a policy that I’d argue low Travis on Twitter @jtsmith317.

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March 19 - March 25 EXHIBITIONS Alphabetic Excursions. Prints by Merrill Shatzman, associate professor of the practice of visual arts.

Thru March 31. East Duke Corridor Gallery. Free.

Assemblages. Video installation. An audio-visual research project on Felix Guattari by Angela Melitopoulos and Maurizio Lazzarato. Thru March 31. East Duke Corridor Gallery. Free.

Light Sensitive. Photographic Works from North Carolina Collections. Thru May 12. Nasher Museum of Art. Street Exposure: The Photographs of Ronald Reis. Scenes of daily life in the city by American street photographer Ronald Reis. March 18-May 17. Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery. Free.

One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia. Paul Kwilecki’s black-and-white images of his birthplace. March 18–July 27. Center for Documentary Studies.

Free.

Botanical Treasures from Duke’s Hidden Library. An exhibition on the history and work of the Duke University Herbarium. March 20-July 31. Perkins Library Gallery. Free.

Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey. The artist’s first major solo museum exhibition was organized by the Nasher Museum. March 21-July 21. Nasher Museum of Art. MFAEDA Thesis Exhibition. Featuring work by the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts Class of 2014. March 22-April 14. Various locations. Visit http://mfaeda.duke.edu for schedule and information. Free.

EVENTS March 19 Duke Chorale Spring Tour Concert. Rodney Wynkoop, director. 8pm, Duke Chapel. Free.

March 20 Exhibition Preview and Artist Talk. Meet Wangechi Mutu, whose first survey was organized by the Nasher Museum. 7pm, Nasher Museum of Art. March 21 Harpsichord for Pianists. Master Class with Vivian Montgomery. 5pm, Bone Hall, Biddle Music Bldg. Free.

Baroque Violin for Modern Violinists. Master Class with Jennifer Roig-Francoli. 5pm, Nelson Music Rm. Waltz, a puppet show. Written and directed by Don Tucker (T’13) (Sr. Distinction Project) 8pm & 9pm. East Duke 209, East Campus. Free.

March 22 Rare Music Concert with Adastra Duo. Music for Baroque violin and harpsichord by Jennifer Roig-Francoli and Vivian Montgomery. 4:30pm, Biddle Music Bldg Lobby. Free.

Waltz, a puppet show. (See March 21) 8pm & 9pm.

March 23 Waltz, a puppet show. (See March 21) 8pm & 9pm.

March 24 Organ Recital Series Concert. Duke organist and professor Robert Parkins will present “The Art of Variation,” including music by early Spanish, Italian, and German composers on the Brombaugh organ plus works by Bach and Reger on the Flentrop. 5pm, Duke Chapel. Free admission.

March 25 Full Frame 2013 Tickets On Sale Now. $2 discount on Sunday tickets (April 7 only) with a valid Duke ID. The festival takes place April 4-7. Online (March 25-April 7). Duke University Box Office (March 25-29). At the festival (April 3-7). $15 Films; $10 Sunday Encores; $25 Opening Night Party/ Awards Barbecue; Free Outdoor screenings/Speakeasy Conversations.

housing need without making them feel isolated.”

The Disabilities Management System organizes the accommodations for residential and classroom requests to accommodate disabled students. “[Our goal is] to try to help students be able to participate in the Duke community as much as they absolutely want to,” said Director of DMS Leigh Fickling.

Contact with the office is completely voluntary, meaning that a student or employee must ask for accommodations.

Fickling noted that these accommodations vary on a case-by-case basis, and no two students, even with similar disabilities, necessarily require the same accommodations.

“We have had students in wheelchairs in the past who have not asked for anything,” she said. “You would think that a student in a wheel chair would need lots of accommodations, but there are some that do not need any at all.”

DDA, formed in Spring 2010, began to draw attention to the needs of disabled students with their “Accessibility Matters” campaign in 2011. The campaign highlighted the disparities on campus, including inaccessible buildings and insufficient labeling of accessible entrances.

“There are a lot of accessible routes on this campus, but they are not very well labeled, so it makes the campus seem a lot worse than it actually is,” Barron said.

This year, the group has continued to advocate for universal accessibility on campus with their “See something, say something” campaign, which encourag-

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“Anything that we have that impacts our faculty, we want to walk the faculty leadership through,” Cavanaugh said.

“We want to make sure their voice is front and center and any issues that they have are taken into full consideration.”

Tripp Young, a Ph.D. student in the classical studies department who may have to undergo this very same process himself, said that he is not surprised by this change and, instead, welcomes it.

“I’ve had background checks for every other job I’ve had, so why not at a university?” Young said.

Young, who has a background in military and intelligence operations, said that he believes a criminal background check

Immersed in Every Sense 2 Visiting Artist Series. Media artist James Benning. Thru March 27.

Location and date TBA. Free.

SCREEN/SOCIETY All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. (W) = Richard White Auditorium.

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Surrealist short films (8pm) AMI Showcase

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OUR SCHOOL (W) Transnational North Korea Cine-East: East Asian Cinema

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THE NOISE OF CAIRO (W) Egypt’s Revolution Middle East Film Series

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Lecture by Prof. Barbara Klinger (4pm, W) “Beyond Cheap Thrills: Space & Style in Contemporary 3D Cinema.”

Thinking Cinematics

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MICROPHONE (W) Egypt’s Revolution Middle East Film Series

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es students to report broken automatic doors, blocked ramps or anything else that would impede a disabled student from maneuvering around campus.

“The campus is so big that you can’t expect everyone to know that every ramp is broken or every button is blocked, so [the administration] really counts on students to report this stuff,” Barron said.

The Disabilities Management System also provides services such as sign language interpreters and doorbell light systems for the deaf and orientations and guides for the visually impaired.

These are offered to students as well as employees.

For instance, when Rodney Dinkins, a deaf online application developer, was hired by the technical staff at the Duke School of Nursing, the DMS stepped in.

Before he began working on-site, the DMS set up appropriate safety measures for deaf staff, such as fire alarms with flashing lights to visually alert the staff in case of an alarm.

When Dinkins began working, the DMS provided sign language interpreters, but he found text-based communication more efficient for conveying specific technical terms.

Dinkins noted in an email Monday that although he has found Duke to be accessible for his needs, people with other disabilities, such as the blind, would probably have difficulty. He also added that recent Duke construction projects have made maneuvering throughout campus more difficult.

“Now that we have construction on buildings going on, it is difficult for me to be aware if construction vehicles are behind me,” Dinkins wrote. “I cannot hear their ‘honks’ at all and wish I could tell them, ‘Forgive me, I am deaf! I don’t mean to be in your way.” is less important for a career in higher education compared to one dealing with classified information. Still, he noted the benefits background checks can have for both professors and students.

“You are dealing with student populations and there could be some risk of abuse or exposing undergrads to criminal activity,” Young said.

Cavanaugh said that he does not expect any employees to be eliminated from this screening process and hopes to use it not so much as a tool to weed out prospective faculty but rather to create a more protected atmosphere for those involved with the University.

“We want to make sure that we’re applying our best due diligence to provide a safe and secure environment for all of our students and for our coworkers and visitors,” Cavanaugh said.

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Jones’ journey to stardom begins with her dad

by Nick Martin THE CHRONICLE

Alexis Jones grew up in Midland, Texas for the first 13 years of her life. Although Texas is generally thought of as a footballfirst state, Jones’ father, David, saw early on that his daughter was exceptional at the sport he loved—basketball.

David was Alexis’ coach for the majority of her youth, and although Alexis loved the sport and the fact that she was succeeding, she still faced the common problem of any player who has ever been the coach’s kid.

“Growing up I probably didn’t like it as much when my dad coached me, which is pretty normal for a kid when their dad is coaching them,” Jones said.

But this problem is one Alexis would soon miss.

On Easter weekend in 2007, David was driving Alexis and several teammates to basketball practice when the Jones’ car hit a spot of black ice. With all the passengers, including Alexis, asleep, the car flipped three times and came to a stop on the side of the road.

All passengers walked away from the crash uninjured. But David, the driver and father of two of the passengers—Alexis and her little brother Andrew—did not. Following the wreck, doctors gave the family news that Jones’ injuries had resulted in him being paralyzed from the chest down, confining him to a wheelchair for the remainder of his life.

The injury complicated things for the family, which was in the middle of moving from Midland to Irving, Texas. David was supposed to move on to better coaching opportunities and jobs, neither of which he would be able to do while recovering

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Alexis Jones was named the ACC tournament MVP after leading the Blue Devils to the conference crown. from his injury. The move was also being made to provide Alexis, Andrew and David with exposure to a better high school system and college scouts, which David was key in facilitating.

“The move really was for Alexis and for the family. It was for both Alexis and me too because I knew I could finally do better job-wise and I knew Alexis could do better basketball-wise,” David said.

Because of the injury, David was no lon-

ger able to coach Alexis from the sideline as he had for so many years. The comfort level Alexis had established with her father’s instruction had to be completely reworked with a new coach.

Entering high school, Alexis had never been coached by anybody other than her father. Whereas she once did not fully appreciate his presence on the sidelines, she quickly understood how much she valued him as both a coach and father.

“When it first happened it was really tough to finally realize that I wasn’t going to have my dad to coach me any more,” Alexis said. “He’s the only person who has really been coaching me. Everything I did with basketball has been through him, with AAU and everything.”

Alexis had the talent, and everyone around her knew it. The issues were the move to a new city and the adjustment to a new high school, transitions that were uncomfortable but necessary for her in order to compete at the Division I level.

The process did not get easier for Alexis as she continued to play for MacArthur High School. Odyssey Sims, the current point guard for No. 1 Baylor, was a junior at MacArthur when Alexis was a freshman and was ranked by many as the top point guard in her recruiting class. In the 2010 state playoffs, Sims went down with a knee injury, forcing Jones to step up and be the focal point of the team, a role she was not quite used to playing.

This would not be the last time Alexis saw a star teammate go down and be forced to step up. In Duke’s Feb. 17 contest against Wake Forest, junior point guard Chelsea Gray’s season ended when she dislocated her kneecap. The injury forced Alexis to step into the high-pressure role of being the team’s main ball-handler.

“I’ve been through this with Odyssey, because she tore her ACL in the last game [of the 2010 season],” Jones said. “So it’s more like from my experience. I have, obviously, a lot of experience with certain things.”

MacArthur dropped the contest, but not before Jones put up 26 points, which SEE JONES ON PAGE 7

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Williams: the Blue Devils’ centerpiece

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Elizabeth Williams may think accolades are “cool� and she has picked up plenty of them in less than two years at Duke, but what she really wants is a chance to play in the NCAA tournament semifinals.

Williams, a sophomore center for the Blue Devils, has proven her elite caliber both among her teammates and on the national stage. She was recently named ACC Defensive Player of the Year for the second straight season and accompanied injured guard Chelsea Gray on the All-ACC defensive team.

Williams has also been Duke’s most consistent offensive presence, leading the team in scoring with 15.4 points per game, despite starting the season on the bench because of a stress fracture in her leg she suffered last season. Adding an average of 7.1 rebounds per game and recording at least one block in every collegiate contest of her career, she has become a force in the paint on both ends of the floor.

Although the stress fracture limited her mobility early in the season, Williams has hit her stride in time to make a statement against the top collegiate programs in the NCAA tournament. Head coach Joanne P. McCallie is confident in her center’s preparedness for the pressures of the tournament. “I’m just really excited for Elizabeth because she’s fought through so much,� McCallie said. “She ran [last week] in practice maybe like she hasn’t run before in terms of feeling good and feeling better about everything—her timing and her chance to play out there.�

While Williams has certainly improved

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Elizabeth Williams’ importance has increased since Chelsea Gray’s season-ending injury. individually this season, she has benefited from Duke’s talent at the guard position, including the passing of Gray, the ACC Co-Player of the Year. Without Gray in the

lineup due to a season-ending knee injury, Williams and the Blue Devils have had to adjust to the loss of their top distributor and emotional leader.

“It’s always difficult to lose your starting point guard. It’s hard but I think we’ve been doing a really good job of coping with it,� Williams said.

The focal point of Duke’s offense and defense has progressively shifted to Williams during the seven-game stretch after losing Gray. Williams, however, does not feel more pressure to lead the Blue Devils, who dropped their first ACC game of the season to Miami with Gray on the sidelines. “I wouldn’t say it’s pressure. I think we’ve gotten a couple of game without her, and it’s just been an adjustment really,� Williams said. “I think [Alexis Jones] has been doing a really good job and all the guards filling in their roles.�

Williams seems comfortable with the situation Duke now finds itself in and feels that she is prepared to face any of the top centers in the collegiate ranks. “I think ACC play in general has helped with that. There’s a lot of really good post players especially in the top teams in the ACC,� Williams said. “Kind of having that in the back of my mind and trying to go hard in practice against all the guys. I think that helps.�

Much of Williams’ development as a strong post player and defensive presence on the court is a result not only of the onus she puts on herself, but the high bar McCallie sets for her star center. “I think she’s an All-American in her own right. I think she has very high standards, and I feel like she’s been trying to meet those standards all season long. I think that’s been frustrating for her at SEE WILLIAMS ON PAGE 6

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Jones will lead the Blue Devils to New Orleans

by Nick Martin THE CHRONICLE

Even without Chelsea Gray, the second-seeded Blue Devils have what it takes to make it to the ever-elusive Final Four thanks to dominant post play and the rise of freshman Alexis Jones, who may turn out to be the next Gray sooner than most thought.

The rookie’s play in Gray’s absence has been nothing short of spectacular. The freshman closed out the season with an impressive four-game stretch in which she averaged 14.0 points, 5.8 assists, 4.8 rebounds and 1.3 steals per contest. Her success did not go unnoticed, as she ended the season by garnering ACC Rookie of the Week honors two weeks in a row, as well as being named to the All-ACC Freshman Team.

Although some doubt Duke’s chances of making the Final Four, let alone winning the NCAA Championship, without Gray on the floor, the team’s recent track record indicates otherwise. The Blue Devils have been on fire lately, aside from an off-game against Miami, defeating three top-20 teams in their final four matchups—including two by double digits. Plus, Duke has proven itself able to perform in the spotlight against top-caliber teams all season long, winning six of seven meetings, losing only to thenNo. 3 Connecticut.

And, Jones is just one of a number of mismatches the Blue Devils’ create when they take the floor.

Throughout the season, sophomore Elizabeth Williams and junior Haley Peters have been one of the scariest duos to face in basketball.

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Gritty players such as Haley Peters are why Duke can make a deep run, women’s basketball beat writer Nick Martin writes.

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Peters is the team’s scrappiest and most aggressive rebounder, which h when combined with a consistent spot-up 3-pointer and solid olid mid-range jumper, makes her a nightmare for opposing sing coaches. She has the talent and size to play either forward position, with the skills to ender from either spot. exploit any defender eters is the more aggressive Although Peters ms poses an even larger player, Williams ent killer down on the threat as a silent block. Were it not for Brittney Griner’s dominance ce at Baylor, Williams would likely bee considered the best ountry thanks to her center in the country skill set and athleticism. She has date for ACC Player been a candidate of the Year everr since she recovered from a stress fracture in her right n last year’s NCAA leg suffered in tournament.

With quickk feet and a soft oot-4 center uses a touch, the 6-foot-4 st moves to frusplethora of post ts, allowing her trate opponents, .4 points per to average 15.4 he only undergame. She is the classman in thee top-15 scorers in the ACC.. lliams’ 2.9 blocked Led by Williams’ me—which garnered shots per game—which nsive Player of the her ACC Defensive Duke’s defense as a Year honors—Duke’s n among the best in whole has been king fourth in scorthe nation, ranking d ninth in field-goal ing margin and ense. percentage defense.

Gray or no Gray, Williams and ong enough to at Peters are strong least carry the team to the Elite Eight. Luckily for the Blue Devils mpionship hopes, and their championship es to take them they have Jones the rest of the way.

Still, Jones isn’t the only player to have stepped up to fill the void in Gray’s absence.

Duke boasts thee two leaders in 3-point shooting ng percentage in the ACC, juniors ors Chloe Wells on. and Tricia Liston.

The Blue Devils also have igree on their coaching pedigree side. Duke is led ed by head coach Callie, who was Joanne P. McCallie, 12-13 ACC Coach named the 2012-13 er leading Duke to of the Year after n conference play. a 17-1 record in onal Coach of the The 2005 National Year will look to o guide the Blue Devils to the national ational semifinals me after making for the first time consecutive trips to the regional semifinals the past few seasons.

With such a talented and deep roster, and a top coach, Duke has all the pieces to knock off a top-seeded team like Connecticut, Notre Dame and Baylor—even with Gray sidelined.

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Gray’s injury too much for Duke to overcome

by Jay Sullivan THE C CHRONICLE

When Chelsea Gray fel fell to the court on February 17 against Wake Forest at Cameron C Indoor Stadium, the crowd quickly fell silent as the talented guard writhed in pain. The crowd was not simply sim silent out of respect but because they realized that without wit Gray, the rest of the season would be far more difficult for the Blue Devils.

Although this squad has proven since losing Gray that it has the talent and experience experien to win the big games against ACC competition, Duke still has yet to show that it can be concou sidered one of the country’s elite programs even with a h healthy Gray. For this reason the Blue Devils will not break into the Final Four this March.

In Duke’s lone game against a ffellow top-five nationally ranked team, it fell to Conn Connecticut by 30 points. The Blue up with the Huskies intensity on Devils were able to keep u both ends of the floor du during the first half, but they fell apart against the fiery Conn Connecticut squad in the second period. Duke cannot expect to make the Final Four without facing Notre Dame, the N No. 1 seed in its region—a team that beat Connecticut thre three times this year.

Duke failed to compete with the Huskies for a full 40 minutes, and now they’ll llikely have to beat an even better team while playing wi without their vocal leader, Gray.

Although the guard strug struggled in her 31 minutes against Connecticut, racking up jjust two points and four assists, her recent replacement, freshman fr Alexis Jones, struggled in the second half as well.

Gray, one of 15 finalists for the John R. Wooden Award, given to the nation’s best p player, has an on-court presence that Jones may struggle to replicate. One of the best passers in the nation, Gray le led the team with 5.4 assists per game and was named to th the All-ACC Defensive Team after leading the conference wi with 3.6 steals per game. Before injuring her knee, Gray aalso proved her ability to carry Duke to victory in close ggames in a home victory against Maryland. She netted 28 points, po hitting 13 of 14 free throw attempts and carried the sstagnant Blue Devil offense past a Terrapin squad eager fo for an upset. And even if Jones can match Gray’s stat line, the latter’s strongest attributes are her leadership on the ccourt and her ability to be head coach Joanne P. McCallie’s voice on the court.

Thus far, Jones has show shown flashes of being able to match Blue Devils, but, as for any freshwhat Gray brought to the B man, she has yet to prove it consistently. She lacks the experience of playing in an NCA NCAA Tournament setting in which every game counts. Against Miami shortly after Gray’s injury, the Blue Devils were defeat defeated in a contest that they should that would send Duke home early have won, the type of loss th in March. Without Gray as the focal point on the court and in the locker room for her teammates, it is hard to imagine that the Blue Devils will be aable to sustain a high level of play over the four games it need needs to win to reach the Final Four.

One of the strongest concerns for both the players been the fact that they have had and coaching staff has be lineup by incorporating players like to change the usual lineu Richa Jackson and Chloe Wells increasingly in the game plan. Duke has become a team experimenting with its players, one stuck back in December trying to figure out its identity. With Gray, the Blue Devils were both an efficient shooting team and a strong set of post players as she mediated the conflict between each playing style.

Without Gray to facilitate the offensive flow and set the

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Duke’s title chances were weakened when star point guard Chelsea Gray went down with a season-ending injury, beat writer Jay Sullivan writes. tone defensively, however, it seems that Duke’s prospects for reaching the Final Four are bleak at best. Perhaps the most pertinent question remaining is whether the Blue

Devils have the ability to play their way into an Elite Eight matchup. And, without Gray leading the charge, a Final Four run is certainly not in the cards.

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WILLIAMS from page 3 times feeling like she hadn’t done that,�

McCallie said. “To me, as I say, it’s not about perfection, it’s about going for it and being excited about the opportunity. And I think she’s just in a great place finishing up the regular season and getting excited for a new season.�

Against then-No. 3 Connecticut, Duke’s lone matchup this season against a top-five squad, Williams scored 11 points and grabbed six rebounds in the 30-point loss for Duke. Although it was not her best offensive game, she held Husky center Stefanie Dolson to just six points and six boards.

That experience has given Williams a better sense of where she and her teammates need to improve headed into the postseason. “For me being a force inside both offensively and defensively demanding the ball and scoring,� Williams said. “As a team, [we have to be] able to play our game and play the defense like we’re capable of doing. I think it’s important when you play teams like that to really disrupt what they do on offense because they’re usually high-scoring teams, so if we’re able to do that and take care of the ball and not have careless turnovers, we’ll be fine.�

Although her demeanor on the court is often soft-spoken, Williams remains one the most capable leaders for this experienced Blue Devil squad. Without Gray’s vocal presence especially during close games, Williams’ skill in the paint can contribute to a deep tournament run. “I’m feeling good—really excited for the tournament. I think we all are. It’s a new season now that the regular season is done,� she said. “Now it’s win or go home.�

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game and coaches trust her, and she’s not playing uptight.�

Her contributions have not gone unnoticed. Jones was named ACC Rookie of the Week two weeks in a row at the end of the regular season, as well as being named to the All-ACC Freshman Team. Moving forward, Jones will have to continue this run of success if she and the Blue Devils wish to attain their goal of a national championship.

But before the Big Dance, the Jones fam-

ily got to share a special moment, as David flew up to Greensboro to watch Alexis play in the ACC tournament. Alexis won the tournament’s MVP award as the Blue Devils brought home the conference crown. “It means a lot to me because it’s my freshman year, so to have my parents up in the stands watching me play, it means the world,� Alexis said. “They support me a lot in basketball and it tells me that they’re never going to stop supporting me.�

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Jones’ father, who used to be her coach, is paralyzed from the neck down after a car crash.

JONES from page 2 would only be a sign of things to come. She averaged 22.3 points and 7.2 assists as a junior and 22.8 points and 7.0 assists in her senior season.

This process of learning to step up when someone she leans on can no longer be there has been a challenging one, but one that has benefited Jones, both on and off the court. “One thing about her is that she’s that kind of person that she doesn’t let adversity get to her. She tries to make sure that she’s going to do the best for her team as possible,�

David said. “If she has to step up, she’s going to make sure to fill that void. That’s just the

way she’s been since she was 12 years old.�

The spotlight is not something new for Alexis, and she has proven to her teammates and opponents that she has the skill set to pick up what Gray’s injury left void.

During the last four regular season games, Jones averaged 14.0 points, 5.8 assists and 4.8 rebounds. This type of production as a freshman is a testament to Jones’ ability to adapt to change. “I think she put a lot of pressure on herself earlier in the year because she wanted to do so well. I think she wasn’t relaxed enough to play the game like she is right now,� David said. “I think by watching Chelsea, listening to Chelsea, now she’s able to be a little more free with her

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