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Ware’s gruesome injury inspires Louisville

by Bobby Colton THE CHRONICLE

INDIANAPOLIS—The Blue Devils gave it all they had Sunday night, but they could not best a Louisville team that watched one of its own be carried off the court in pain.

The NCAA Tournament’s No. 1 overall seed overcame the trauma of witnessing a horrific injury to go on a huge second-half run and advance past Duke to the Final Four.

“It was a gruesome sight,” Louisville head coach Rick Pitino said. “Nothing like I’ve ever witnessed before in my life or a basketball game.”

Led by the trio of Russ Smith, Peyton Siva and Gorgui Dieng, the Cardinals (335) blew out Duke (30-6) 85-63 at Lucas Oil Stadium to punch their ticket to Atlanta.

Louisville went into halftime up 35-32, and the game was tied at 42 with 16:20 left. But the Blue Devils went the next 8:15 without a field goal, a span during which the Cardinals opened up a 16-point lead.

But the story of the game was not about the Cardinals’ three stars, nor a rematch of the Battle 4 Atlantis championship game— which Duke won 76-71—nor was it even about two of the game’s best coaches meeting in the NCAA Tournament for the first

time since Christian Laettner’s “The Shot” in 1992. Instead, it was the injury to Louisville’s sophomore guard Kevin Ware and the way his teammates rallied around him en route to victory.

Ware, who went to high school in Georgia, was a regular in the Cardinals’ rotation during the team’s march to the Final Four in Atlanta prior to suffering his injury.

“We had to do this for Kevin,” said Siva, who had his best game of the Tournament Sunday night, scoring 16 points to go along with four assists and a steal. “That’s our whole thing. Coach told us that we need to get him back home.”

With the Cardinals leading Duke 21-17 and 6:33 on the clock, Ware lept to defend a Tyler Thornton 3-point attempt near the Louisville bench and landed awkwardly on his right leg.

“I went over and I was going to help him up, and then all of a sudden I saw what it was,” Pitino said.

What Pitino, his players and everyone else watching the game saw was Ware’s lower leg visibly fractured in two places.

“When he landed, I heard it,” said Smith, SEE M.BASKETBALL ON SW PAGE 2

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Louisville star Russ Smith, who scored a game-high 23 points, cries after witnessing Kevin Ware’s leg fracture in the first half.

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Duke’s undergrads have an edge at the Uni’s grad schools

by Amy Cheng THE CHRONICLE

Duke undergraduates may have certain advantages in admissions to the University’s professional schools compared to applicants from other institutions.

Many Duke undergraduates apply to Duke graduate and professional schools each year.

Although there is some debate as to whether attending Duke as an undergraduate poses a benefit or a hindrance to their acceptance, admissions deans from the graduate and professional schools note that there are factors of a Duke undergraduate’s application that appeal to admissions officers in ways that other applicants cannot replicate.

The familiarity that Duke admissions officers have with the school allows for an “instant credibility” in Duke undergraduates’ letters of recommendations—a “really important” element of each application—said William Hoye associate dean for admissions and student affairs at the School of Law. “When we have a Duke undergraduate, it just occurs to us immediately that this is someone who has been through a high-quality, rigorous curriculum, and the committee members know the faculty who are writing on behalf of the applicants,” Hoye said. “We put equal weight to all letters of recommendation, but these letters have potentially more power and more influence because we trust what is being said.”

Hoye said there is “no merit” to the claim that the Law School prefers non-Duke applicants. In fact, out of this year’s 206-student first-year class, 21 of them were Duke undergraduates, which is “more than any other undergraduate school by far.”

“It seems to the students that we don’t like our undergraduates,” he said. “But it could be that you just have a larger number of students applying who all know one another, and they talk about it [more often].”

Hoye noted that similar concerns are common and often resurface every few years at many universities with a law school. Contrary to speculation, Duke’s Law School admits a high percentage of Duke undergraduate applicants. Because the admission committee is more certain of the quality of the Duke undergraduate experience, Hoye said there is “a plus in the application processes” for Duke undergraduates.

“Every year, the admit rate of students who studied at Duke and are admitted is higher than the overall admit rate in the pool—by a SEE GRAD ON PAGE 4

Student robbed on Central Saturday, Page 3

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This year’s Black Student Alliance Invitational aimed for a more elevated tone in honor of the 50th anniversary of Duke’s integration.

The annual weekend-long event, designed to welcome and recruit recently admitted black students to Duke, had a somewhat altered schedule from recent years. A special party was held to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Duke’s integration, while the yearly fashion show was omitted.

Black Student Alliance President Marcus Benning, a junior, wrote in an email Sunday that organizers sought to “elevate” the planning and execution of the weekend for the anniversary.

“Hosting BSAI during the 50th anniversary commemoration made for a particularly special weekend,” Benning said. “Essentially, we wanted to take everything to another level.”

The event, which is completely student organized, offers admitted students the opportunity to become acquainted with Duke’s academic, social and cultural possibilities. Admitted students stay overnight with current students and are invited to attend classes, go on campus tours and participate in events unique to the weekend, such as midnight bowling, a step show and student panels.

Members of DukeAFRICA perform at their annual cultural showcase, Jabulani, Saturday. This show, which featured African fashion, song and dance took place in Page Auditorium.

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Web offers broader dating pool

by Raisa Chowdhury THE CHRONICLE

Although largely stigmatized by younger people in the past, some Duke students are increasingly turning to online dating to expand their opportunities for romance.

For those tired or frustrated by the Duke dating scene, online sites offer the ability to conveniently peruse profiles of an expanded pool of singles interested in dating or relationships. Several students said they have created profiles and have been in contact with others on the websites.

Online dating websites vary in format.

Some such as OkCupid match people specifically to each other based on an extensive survey, while others place greater emphasis on broad search results.

Freshman Will,* a gay 18-year-old, said others have questioned the use of online dating at his age. But online dating is more conducive to finding other gay men, he noted.

“The playing field is so small, especially at a tiny school like Duke,” Will wrote in a Facebook message Saturday. “That’s why people here primarily turn to the Internet—they’ve SEE DATING ON PAGE 3

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Some students at Duke who are frustrated with the on-campus dating scene might use online dating services, like Grindr.

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Relive the weekend in photos,

“The solution to [same-sex marriage] however, lies in less governmental interference, not more.”

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—Colin Scott in “The problem with state-sanctioned love.” See column page 7

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Culture, culture, everywhere .................................................................................................................................................................... a photo essay by Eliza Bray, Seliat Dairo and Emma Loewe

1. A student displays feminist pride at a Feminist Barbecue hosted by the Women’s Collective Friday afternoon. 2.

Students perform at the National Pan-Hellenic Council’s Step Show Friday as part of Black Student Alliance Invitational weekend. 3. Members of the Duke community enjoy the Duke University Union Spring Art Festival Friday afternoon. 4. The Students of the Caribbean Association host an afternoon of Caribbean food and music Friday as part of the BSAI weekend.

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Campus experiences 2 crimes this weekend

by Elizabeth Djinis THE CHRONICLE

Two incidents of crime occurred on campus this past weekend.

A cell phone robbery on Central Campus Saturday night is prompting an increase in Duke University Police Department patrols in the area. In a seemingly unrelated chase, Durham Police chased a suspect and caught him on the golf course of the Washington Duke Inn. The first took place on Saturday night, when a student was robbed at gunpoint on Central Campus. The victim of the robbery was a male Duke student who went unnamed in a DukeALERT message sent out to students at around 1:40 p.m. Sunday. The student was attending a party on Anderson Street when he was approached by two men who asked to use his cell phone. After the student gave the men his cell phone, they then threatened him with a silver handgun and left in the direction of Lewis Street. The robbery occurred between 2:30 and 3:00 a.m.

Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta wrote in an email Sunday that the investigation for Saturday night’s robbery was “still in progress” and declined to comment further on the nature of the crime. He noted that his initial reaction was to ensure the Duke Police had responded to the robbery and removed the student from a dangerous situation. He also said that it was “too soon to know what prevention opportunities there may be.”

DUPD Chief John Dailey noted that the student did not report the crime directly to the police department but instead told Student Affairs. Dailey was not notified of the

crime until the next morning. He said that it is common in traumatic situations to have difficulty notifying law enforcement.

Due to this incident, Dailey plans to increase police officers on campus in the coming weekends.

Two security officers currently patrol Central Campus each night, Dailey added. One moves around the Anderson and Mill Village area while another is concentrated primarily around Alexander Street. He noted that students should travel in groups and use safety measures such as the blue light system to notify police if they find themselves in a threatening situation. Dailey said that students had used those systems successfully in the past to avoid crime.

In the student’s report to the police, he described both robbers as college-aged black males. The first was around 5 feet, 10 inches tall and was wearing a blue plaid shirt and jeans.

The second, who was described as wearing a black and white baseball cap and grey pants, was about 6 feet tall and had longer hair.

The second incident occurred when a suspect in a robbery that occurred off campus ran onto the golf course at the Washington Duke Inn. The Durham Police Department had been chasing this suspect and his partner after they were identified at the scene of a strong-armed robbery—a theft not involving weapons. Although his conspirator was caught before reaching University grounds, the chase for the remaining suspect ended at the Duke golf course. Both suspects were eventually apprehended.

Dailey and the Durham Police Department declined to give the suspects’ names.

DATING from page 1 just run out of options in the real world.”

Will first used online dating through Craigslist to experiment with his sexuality.

He stopped using the website after being sexually assaulted. He has since used Tinder, Grindr and OkCupid, but is not wholly satisfied with his online dating experiences.

“I kept trying to have something good... but it was mediocre and I’ve noticed that guys from the Internet have no desire for anything substantial,” Will said. “They may claim to want to date on the surface, but really they’re just a bunch of flaky bastards who are in it for the sex.”

But junior Natalie Robles said online dating can expand one’s non-sexual, romantic horizons.

After several experiences with men not being clear about whether they were interested in having a relationship and a history of unfulfilling “hookups,” Robles said she created an account on OkCupid two weeks ago. She was initially nervous about advertising herself and that people would be interested in primarily sexual relationships.

“What I’ve found recently is it’s kind of an ego massage,” Robles said. “The guy is going to say things that you don’t hear much on campus and it feels great.”

On her profile, she specified that she was looking for someone older because she wants to date an individual who is mature and past the undergraduate stage. She is currently dating a student at Virginia Institute of Technology. He visited her last weekend and she drove up to see him Saturday, she said.

With students’ busy academic schedules, online dating can be a convenient alternative for working romance into one’s life, Robles added. Others can use online dating websites to find people completely

removed from the university experience.

Senior Samantha Lachman, a Chronicle columnist, created a profile on JDate. com, a dating site for Jewish singles, and is currently dating a paratrooper from Vermont stationed at Fort Bragg. She intended to find someone unaffiliated with Duke as preparation for “the real world” next year.

“From my experience at Duke, people are either in very serious relationships or just randomly hooking up with each other,” she said. “Before graduating, I wanted to have one normal dating experience.”

Although she thinks dating is possible at Duke, she said she had exhausted her options.

“You get to a point as a senior where you feel like you kind of already know everyone and you’ve already dated them or they’re not interested or they’re already taken or they’re not the same sexuality,” she said.

But some students do not take online dating seriously.

Sophomore Zohair Zaidi opened a profile on Shaadi.com, an South Asian matrimonial website, as a joke with a friend, attempting to see who could get more hits on their profiles. The experience caused him to be more accepting of online dating.

Even so, he said that he would not seriously use a dating site because it feels like admitting a social incapability.

“At a younger age, in college, you have many resources to meet people through student organizations and other universities,” he said. “Once you’ve gone past undergraduate, graduate school, you’re in the real world, there isn’t anywhere to meet people besides maybe the club, the church, the masjid—you don’t have the same connections and there’s less of a chance of meeting someone.” *Name has been changed for the source’s protection.

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GRAD from page 1 little bit,” Hoye said, though he did not provide exact acceptance data.

“It reflects the fact that we have great confidence in Duke undergraduates.”

The size of Duke’s Law School may be a limiting factor, however, on admission of Duke undergraduates, Hoye added.

“Among the top law schools, only two—Stanford and Cornell— are smaller than Duke,” he said. “We have to turn away and not admit quite a large amount of applicants who might be admitted to other schools just because we don’t have the capacity.”

Although admissions deans dispel the notion that Duke undergraduates have a harder time being accepted to Duke Law, Gerald Wilson, senior associate dean of Trinity College and pre-law adviser, said this has been a prevailing sentiment among Duke pre-law undergraduates for a long time.

“I have been here for 41 years, and it has been a rumor for 41 years—it is very untrue,” Wilson said.

Senior Zornitsa Petkova, who was recently accepted to the Law School, said it is a bit misleading to conclude that Duke’s Law School disfavors Duke undergraduate applicants. She said Duke undergraduates probably apply to Duke’s Law School in a larger volume because of their loyalty to the institution.

“I would apply to Duke even though Duke may not be my top school,” Petkova said. “If that’s the

rationale behind people’s application to their own alma mater, then it would make sense for the acceptance rate to be lower because [the Law School] can’t just accept everyone who applies to their own alma mater.”

Petkova said she did not feel any particular advantage or disadvantage applying to Duke’s law school.

She added, however, that there are resources available to Duke undergraduate applicants that are not available to other applicants because of proximity and accessibility to the Law School’s campus. Such resources may include on-campus tours, office hours with admissions officers and knowledge of how classrooms and courtrooms are set up. All of these factors may lead to a better understanding of the Law School for Duke undergraduates.

About a third of the total Duke students who apply to the Law School are outright accepted—but, within this third, many are likely to have applied to and potentially committed to other schools that are in Duke’s league, Wilson added. He said he encourages another third to take a “long-shot,” though this third is more likely to be outright rejected.

“However, for the middle [third of the applicants], many of them would have been outright rejected, but because they went to Duke, they were waitlisted,” he said. “And when Duke goes to its waitlist, they will take many students from other schools, but it does take a goodly number of Duke people off the waitlist.”

Similarly, the School of Medicine also admits a substantial number of

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Duke students, approximately 40 out of less than 200 total offers this year, Dr. Brenda Armstrong, director of admissions, wrote in an email Sunday. Applicants from Duke are accepted at higher rates compared to those from other peer institutions, include Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The average GPA and MCAT score—a 3.8 and 36, respectively—for accepted Duke students are comparable to those of admitted students from other top universities.

“The entering first-year medical class at Duke Med usually comprises from 20 to 25 percent Duke alums,” Daniel Scheirer, director of health professions advising, wrote in an

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Senior Kyle Davidson, who was accepted to the School of Medicine, said he thinks Duke’s medical school accepts more Duke undergraduates because its admissions team knows the caliber of Duke applicants.

“As a Duke student, I feel like they are better acquainted with me,” Davidson said. “It’s kind of like someone who goes to the same grocery store all the time because they know the people there, and they know exactly what kind of service they are going to get, as opposed to someone trying out random places—you

know what you’re getting yourself into when you go with Duke.”

Senior Jordan Jacquez, despite being rejected by the School of Medicine, said he does not think it is harder for Duke undergraduates to gain acceptance to Duke’s medical school. He said he thought his rejection was contingent on his lack of research experience, not his status as a Duke undergraduate.

During his visit to the School of Medicine, Jacquez noticed that the undergraduate university most represented was Duke.

“I feel that almost every single Duke pre-med would apply to Duke, even though more of us end up going there, more of us applied for each cycle,” he said.

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Professionalism among stu- associated good interpersonal dents is apparently declining skills, focus and attention, deon college campuses. A recent pendability and timeliness and survey showed that 38.3 per- a strong work ethic with profescent of 400 professors polled sionalism. believed less than half of their Why do professors believe upper-level stuthese qualities dents exhibited to be on the deeditorial professionalism. cline? We look Almost as many reported a de- more closely at two of the surcrease in student professional- vey’s cited reasons here. ism over the last five years.

First, almost 30 percent of While it is difficult to mea- disappointed professors cited sure whether professional- a heightened sense of entitleism—whatever that term actu- ment, which was defined as ally means, especially in this “expecting rewards without era of the rapidly changing putting in the work or effort to workplace—has actually deteri- merit the awards,” as a cause orated among college students, of declining professionalism. this survey indicates that, at the Students may bristle at acvery least, professors are fairly cusations of entitlement, but dissatisfied with student behav- there are important forces at ior when it comes to character- work. Professors’ perception istics undeniably linked with of students as entitled can be classroom success. Professors linked to the increasing com-

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modification of a college education. In an age of skyrocketing tuition costs, dimming job prospects and rampant pre-professionalism, a college diploma has become a crucial but, some might argue, inflated credential. It does not require a stretch of the imagination to see why students paying $250,000 for their education might feel entitled to higher grades. Perhaps education is becoming increasingly contractual—what does tuition really buy you anyway?

Indeed, justifying the “value” of higher education, a comparison of costs and commodities, is a theme for this year’s Academic Council meetings.

Second, more than 75 percent of professors blamed technology for interrupting student focus, a crucial component of

professionalism. Professors noticed increased technology-related problems and abuses, including texting in class, poorly written emails and substituting face-to-face conversation with digital communication.

This can again be explained by broader trends. Just as entitlement is connected to the increasing commodification of higher education, inappropriate technology use is connected to changing social norms in a digital age. Technology etiquette is still being defined as technology companies and startups generally are changing opinions about what is acceptable. As before, students are responding to these outside signals, apparently to the dismay of their professors.

We do not have easy solutions to the entitlement or

technology issue. We simply note that student and professor expectations, according to this study, are dramatically misaligned. Students believe they are earning their educations fair and square. Professors feel that their students are entitled. Students are adapting to new social norms in a technological age; professors see them as rude and unfocused.

In this study, “professionalism” is a code for more complicated disagreements between students and professors. In the long term, it calls for a closer examination of these disagreements. In the short term, it warrants at least increased communication, such as more explicit statements about grading standards and in-class technology use, from exasperated professors.

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ear Dookie, The second step to satire is rejecting underlying I’ve just started reading your column messages and exposing them for what they are: danand I’m a little confused. Do you mean what gerous. Although we know it’s SUPPOSED to be a you’re saying? I don’t really get satire, shocking, sometimes humorous and so I’m having trouble understanding relatable way to provoke discussion the point of your articles. Help! on difficult, divisive issues, the truth —Stumped by Satire is that satirists usually believe the Dear Stumpy, things they write and use this front I’m sorry if I’ve misled you. Nothof “satire” to trick you into reading ing about what I write adheres to the them. Satirists know that the averrules of satire. I’ve meant 100 percent age person reading their material of everything that I’ve said. Satire monday monday will see their wit and verbosity and is for cowards who aren’t willing to blindly accept whatever they write dear dookie be forthright about what they mean without a second thought. I mean, and instead want to communicate thank God Jonathan Swift illustrated through riddles and tricky mind games. I read to new meal options, much to the relief of the nervous, be entertained, not to THINK. Anything beyond fat-jiggling aristocrats. They knew their babies would first grade-level intellectual functioning and I’m not have been the most tender. When he wrote about even going to try to understand. his diet of welfare queens and street children in “A So honestly, I don’t know if I’m the best person Modest Proposal,” the people of Ireland began fatto answer your question. I don’t really get what satire tening their lowlier neighbors in order to preempis. I see comments on my articles and don’t really tively bake them into poor-people pepperoni to put understand if the commenter was reading the same on their deep-poverty pizzas. And thus, social equalarticle that I wrote. They think my message is twisted. ity was achieved.

I think they have a bad sense of humor, no sense of But really, the best way to go about handling satire irony and a low threshold for personal offense. How- is to ignore it entirely, and instead focus on whether ever, I have learned something from the reactions to or not the satire should have been written. If you my advice column, and that is that satire, much like proclaim that your ideas are right, people will listen the rest of humor, is something that deals strictly in to you no matter how boring your spiel or restrictive absolutes. How can something be considered true your rules on diction or jokes. As I’ve always said, free if it isn’t universally agreed upon by all humanity? speech for everyone who has the same ideas I do, othSomething is funny, or it isn’t. Something is good erwise they shouldn’t be allowed airspace (or even air, satire, or it’s dookie. really). When the founding fathers envisioned free But even we humorless philistines can get some speech, they didn’t want to protect a free market of enjoyment out of this barren, dystopian world of sat- ideas and beliefs. They wanted to protect a free marire. The best way I’ve found to understand satire is to ket of THEIR ideas and beliefs, without letting any take it piecemeal. Eight-hundred words of a college new ones in ever. That’s why, to this day, the United student’s writing is a lot to take in at one time, so I States doesn’t let women vote or own land and counts prefer to skip around and find the important parts. black people as three-fifths of white people.

Taking a context-free quote here or there and conMoreover, satire isn’t the best way to go about adstructing your own interpretation of the author’s mes- dressing issues that people don’t want to talk about. sage is how satire is meant to be read. It’s such an ef- Nothing can be gained from provoking someone to ficient method that I’ve adopted it for reading most feel strong emotions about a clearly unjust or misanything. It enables me to command intellectual handled issue, so let us avoid feeling those feelings conversations about a variety of literary topics—such entirely. Hard-to-comprehend, divisive ideas should as the implication in “To Kill a Mockingbird” that rac- not be muddled with humor, incitement to action ism and murder are okay sometimes, or (SPOILER and understandable dialect. Truly, the best way we ALERT!) how anticlimactic it was that the entire can create change in this world is by completely ig“Harry Potter” series was just the dream of a dead, gay noring the difficult issues brought out in satire, and dude. After you’ve assembled your sound-bite opin- instead focusing our energy on shutting up these ion, go forth and tell it to the world! If there’s some- sarcastic trouble makers altogether. thing we’ve learned from online comment boards, openly accepted letters to the editor and Sarah Palin, The Dookie always takes to heart the criticisms of Chronit’s that you need absolutely no qualifications or even icle readers, and thinks each and every one of you beautiful, real intellectual capabilities to purport yourself as an selfless sweethearts are probably qualified to designate what expert on something. Everyone’s opinion is equally is and is not satire. Is this statement itself satire? You tell me, important. Thanks, Obama. sillies! Follow the Dookie on Twitter @DearDookie.

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ast week was one for the history ing independent enough to legally own books, or at least constitutional law property or bring suit. case books, at the Supreme Court.

Furthermore, a state-sanctioned verThe Court heard oral arsion of marriage does not gument on two cases ingo as far back as beginvolving gay marriage. The ning of organized society. first, Hollingsworth v. PerRather, marriage was not ry, challenges whether the required to be recognized Equal Protection Clause

by European states until of the 14th Amendment the 16th century. Marprohibits California from riage licenses originally defining marriage solely to prevent marjoline doedens emerged as the union between a riages between couples wait a minute man and a woman. The whose parents did not prosecond, United States v. vide consent, such as in Windsor, asks whether section three of instances of interracial marriage. By the the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) mid-20th century, interracial marriage violates the Fifth Amendment’s guaran- was no longer prohibited, and marriage tee of equal protection of the laws as ap- licenses were used primarily to distribute plied to persons legally married under resources to dependents. However, even the laws of their state to a member of this motivation has dissipated today with the same sex. the increasing number of unmarried and The fact that these two cases made it single individuals with children. all the way to the Supreme Court exemSame-sex couples such as the plainplifies the sea change in public opinion tiffs in this case are not clamoring over the past several years. In fact, the for the right to marry in the Catholic Pew Research Center has found that this Church. The Church is free to continue sea change is one of the largest changes to define marriage as strictly between in public opinion on policy issues over a man and a woman. But the United the past decade. Just 10 years ago, only States ostensibly subscribes to the prin47 percent of Americans believed ho- ciple of separation of church and state. mosexuality should be accepted by so- As such, the Church’s (or any other reciety. Today, 57 percent of Americans ligious institution’s) millennia-old conbelieve this. Among those born between ception of marriage should not prevent 1980 and 1995, 74 percent accept same- the Supreme Court from allowing samesex marriage; among 33 to 48 year olds, sex couples to exercise their fundamenthat figure is 62 percent. tal right to marry.

Granted, simply because public As for the equal protection arguopinion supports the expansion of the ment, the plaintiffs argue that denying institution of marriage to include same- same-sex couples the right to marry besex couples does not mean that the Su- cause of their sexual orientation and the preme Court should be swept up in the sex of their chosen spouse makes samemovement. If the Supreme Court were sex couples unequal to everyone else. at the mercy of public opinion, Brown Proposition 8 has the opposite effect of v. Board of Education would have reaf- the Colorado housing law at issue in the firmed Plessy v. Ferguson, upholding 1996 case of Romer v. Evans. The Court the separate but equal doctrine. Rather, there held that a state law that neither the Court has an obligation to uphold burdens a fundamental right nor targets both the Constitution and the unenu- a suspect class of persons will be upheld merated rights of individuals. This ends under the Equal Protection Clause if it up becoming a battle of states’ rights bears a rational relation to a legitimate against individual rights to equal pro- state purpose. The defendants in Holtection under the laws. lingsworth argue that the legitimate In the case of Hollingsworth v. Perry, state purpose is the promotion of an the plaintiffs argue that California’s in- “optimal social structure for educating, famous Prop 8, by denying same-sex cou- socializing and preparing its future citiples the right to marry, violates due pro- zens to become productive participants cess and equal protection. With respect in civil society.” But if the purpose of to the due process argument, the right marriage is solely to promote procreto marry constitutes an unenumerated, ation, then infertile couples would not fundamental right. In the 1978 case of be able to marry, and California’s own Zablocki v. Redhail, the Court recog- policy of allowing same-sex couples to nized marriage as “the most important adopt would seem counterintuitive. relation in life,” and that “the right to The defendants in Hollingsworth v. marry is of fundamental importance for Perry and the opponents of the Defense all individuals.” The defendants, on the of Marriage Act argue vehemently for other hand, argue that the exclusion of the right of a state to decide for itself same-sex couples from marriage is war- whether or not to allow same-sex marranted by a state interest in preserving riage. However, if the right to marry truthe age-old institution of marriage. ly is a fundamental one, then it seems But if the Court could never alter ar- that the social and technological evochaic institutions, then schools would lution of our society warrants finding still be segregated today and women both Proposition 8 and DOMA unconwould not be allowed to serve on juries. stitutional.

If it was impossible to alter the basic principles of marriage, then women Joline Doedens is a first-year law student. would still move from their father’s con- Her column runs every other Monday. You trol to their husband’s, never becom- can follow Joline on Twitter @jydoedens.

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y home state of California is Libertarians argue along a similar responsible for the hearings line, and we should take note. Neither last week in the Supreme Court the Democrats nor the Republicans surrounding Proposition are advocating a platform 8, which prohibits homothat would truly recogsexual couples from marnize what should be in rying. This violation of the most basic sense an human rights has sparked inalienable right. This outcries in all corners of is the problem with enuthis country and has conmerating rights—it is intributed to an ongoing herently self-restricting. and important dialogue Arguing that marriage colin scott on the rights we human should be a constituthe view from carr tionally protected right beings innately possess.

The rising tide of progresimplies that the governsivism has seen important advances in ment should have a role in authorizthe ability of homosexual couples to ing it. The way out of this quagmire, adopt and enjoy equal privileges within like within most private affairs, is to our society. These advances are neces- invite less governmental interference. sary if we are to fully live out the prom- This is a solution that could satisfy all ise of our Constitution and the vision of parties. Religious conservatives are freedom our country represents. There concerned with the sanctity of maris, however, a deeper issue at play within riage. Let them have it! Their churchthe Supreme Court case that needs to es and religious bodies could give or be addressed: We need to decide what deny marriage licenses as they please, role the government should have in le- but by removing the government’s gitimating marriages at all. role their objections can be assuaged.

The bond between two people, re- Conversely, the opposing side would gardless of race or sexual orientation, be given the rights and privileges that is an affair that should be separate they justly deserve. Legal contracts from the workings of government. and associations could take the place What role should a bureaucratic body of what has previously been a governplay in evaluating the love or level mental affair. I fear, however, that the of commitment between two people? issue is more intractable than this and Marriage is not a right that needs to that such a solution is not only idealbe protected by the Supreme Court istic but also impossible. For better or or by any constitution, state or feder- worse, this country possesses a large al. It is an innately given ability that number of people who hold strongly stems from one’s desire to commit to to their religious beliefs. There are another person. I realize that certain religious beliefs that unfortunately legal privileges are linked with a mar- sometimes have been interpreted to riage certificate, but my argument is advocate bigotry and discrimination. that this construct is inherently limit- There is a strong current in American ing. The government should have no society that approves of government role in legitimating or regulating what having a role in legislating morality. should be as undeniable as the right to Some individuals believe that governlive. To invite the state into such inti- ment should play a role in legitimatmate affairs is to court controversy and ing marriage. This is a democracy and open the door for the abuse of person- they have a right to be heard—but if al dignity. As recently as 2009, a jus- we are to cling to this outdated notion tice of the peace in Louisiana refused of state-sanctioned love, then it is imthe ability of an interracial couple to perative that gay and lesbian couples marry. This is more than 80 years af- are afforded the same rights as all cititer most laws banning interracial mar- zens. The fight for equality in other riage were overturned. By agreeing to spheres must continually be pursued. let the state regulate marriage we have This column is in no way suggesting in effect ceded our ability to make that that there isn’t important work to do decision on our own. Marriage is not a in the field of LGBT rights. There privilege, it’s a right. The most basic clearly is, and as long as discriminarights don’t need to be written down. tion exists the law will be important If marriage was not administered by in eliminating it. The solution to this the state, then nobody could be de- problem, however, lies in less governnied the ability to marry because of mental interference, not more. the homophobic or racist views of others. It is not something for which you Colin Scott is a Trinity junior. His colshould have to ask permission. umn runs every other Monday.

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“It really helped me see how I felt about Duke,” said Taylor Brown, an admitted student from South Florida.

She added that Duke is now in her top two choices for college.

“It showed me that a lot of things I had heard coming in weren’t true,” Brown said. “I heard this myth that people of different races don’t interact, but that’s really not true.”

Even with the weekend’s enriching events, however, some students noted that the absence of the fashion show was a detriment to the experience.

“I had heard that they were trying to make it more refined—less rachet, I guess,” said freshman Amari Stokes, who attended BSAI as an admitted student last year and served as a host this year. “I understood why, but I felt that in their attempt to make it more sophisticated, they took away what had been for [previous classes] a defining moment.”

Benning said that the decision was not so much one of omitting the fashion show, but instead of deciding to provide alternative late-night social programming. In place of the fashion show, a party titled “Infinity Party: An Evening of Black Excellence” was held to celebrate the 50th anniversary of integration.

In the past, BSAI has been the object of criticism on the grounds that it promotes self-segregation and a racially exclusive environment. President Richard Brodhead previously expressed a preference for racially unified welcome weekends for admitted students. During his time as dean of Yale College from 1993 to 2004, he was active in working to eliminate minority-specific recruitment events.

“We went from having separate recruitment events to unified recruitment events where people could see the different types of support available,” Brodhead said in a 2011 interview. “Those who said it would hurt minority recruitment were not correct. The unified events worked just as well as the previous events, and I think it would be the same at Duke.”

This view is far from universal, however.

“As an individual, BSAI was really important for me to see that the black cultural experience is supported at Duke,” reflected Duke Student Government president Alex Swain, a senior.

Last year, BSA secured additional funding from the Office of the Provost, which in combination with funds from the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture and the admissions office, totals $20,000 annually.

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Louisville knocks of Duke 85-63 in the Elite Eight

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L’ville rallies after Ware’s injury M. BASKETBALL from page 1 who scored a game-high 23 points and was named the Midwest regional’s Most Outstanding Player. “I heard it, and then I saw what happened—[the bone had] come out, and I immediately just—just like fell.”

Siva and sophomores Wayne Blackshear and Chane Behanan dropped immediately to the floor even before play was stopped.

Smith broke down as Pitino wiped away tears of his own.

“I literally almost threw up,” Pitino said.

Thornton, who was probably closest to the injury when it occurred, ran to the other side of the court covering his face.

“My heart just dropped when I saw it,” Thornton said. “I was freaked out. I looked over and thought he rolled his foot. He lifted his leg in the air and I saw where his leg was broken. It was bent in a weird way that it shouldn’t have been.”

The game was delayed for about nine minutes as a stretcher was brought onto the court for Ware, who was rushed to Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. Before being whisked away to the hospital, Ware had a very clear message for his teammates.

“I don’t think any of us, with what we had to witness, could have overcome it, if it wasn’t for Kevin Ware… saying to the guys, ‘I’ll be fine. Win the game,’” Pitino said.

While the lead was just three points when the teams went to the locker room, the Cardinals put it all together shortly after the start of the second half. After a Mason Plumlee dunk with 16:20 remaining in the game that knotted the score at 42, Louisville rattled off a 24-6 run lasting longer than 10 minutes. The Cardinal guards’

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Louisville’s defense smothered Duke, which gave up 10 steals to the Cardinals. ability to break down the defense and get into the paint—as well as their pesky defense—was Duke’s undoing.

“They just come at you for the whole game,” senior guard Seth Curry said. “I mean, they’re attacking you and putting pressure on you.”

Duke did not play its best basketball in the first half, but managed to stay within

striking distance thanks to inspired play from juniors Thornton and Josh Hairston, who combined for 10 points in the half.

Ryan Kelly played just eight first-half minutes because of foul trouble, though he managed seven points. Rasheed Sulaimon missed all five of his first-half shots. Curry only attempted three field goals in the half and did not record a single point in the period. And by committing 10 first-half turnovers, Duke played right into the hands of Louisville’s up-tempo offense.

Curry got hot at the start of the second half, hitting a pair of threes, and finished the game with 12 points. Plumlee was the most consistent threat for the Blue Devils, posting impressive totals of 17 points and 12 rebounds against a very good defender in Dieng. The rest of the team did little to help the two leading scorers, however. Kelly and Cook, who started the game a combined 5-for-7, made just 1-of-13 second-half attempts. Sulaimon ended the night 1-for10 from the floor.

After cruising down the stretch with a double-digit lead the whole way, the Cardinals made sure Ware was a part of the postgame celebration.

“Chane held up his jersey, and we wanted to start up that [KE-VIN] chant,” junior Stephan Van Treese said.

Siva then donned Ware’s No. 5 jersey when he took the stage for the postgame press conference.

Ware underwent surgery on his broken leg. Even though he will not play again this season, he is expected to be with the team for the remainder of its journey toward a national championship.

“He was saying, ‘Win this for me.... Don’t forget about the game, let’s win this. Let’s go to Atlanta,’” Van Treese said.

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Point guard Peyton Siva was one of many Louisville players in tears after seeing Ware’s injury.

10 steals Louisville’s defense nabbed 10 steals and prevented the Blue Devils from developing an offensive rhythm all night.

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The Blue Devils didn’t have an ansewr for Russ Smith scored a game-high 23 points on 7-of-14 shooting. He added two steals and turned it over once.

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Nobody wanted this season to end

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INDIANAPOLIS—I wanted there to be silence. I wanted it for the players who sat scattered around the locker room, downcast and for the most part still dressed. I wanted it for the moment, barely 10 minutes after the final buzzer had sounded on Louisville’s 85-63 victory against Duke in the Midwest regional final, when there hadn’t been time for the result to really set in— just the palpable sense that something valuable had just been lost.

Tom And I wanted it for the obvious absentees— Seth Curry, Ryan Kelly and Mason Plumlee—whose voices had, on 35 nights before this one, spoken most confidently for the team they led.

But slowly the room filled with sound.

Cameras clicked, documenting the scene of Rasheed Sulaimon hunched over in a chair, head in his hands, with Quinn Cook leaning over to whisper in his ear. Alex Murphy sat, without focus in his eyes even as the room began to bustle with reporters and cameramen, jersey still on and shoes still tied tight.

Perhaps it was appropriate in that moment that the team’s three seniors were absent, having been hauled red-eyed and quiet to a separate postgame press conference.

The game itself had been a whirlwind, moving at seemingly furious pace from an early Duke lead through a horrifying injury to Louisville sophomore Kevin Ware to a blitzkrieg Cardinal run in the second half that turned a 42-42 tie into a rout.

“It was kind of like it was tied at one point,” Sulaimon said, “and the next time I looked up at the scoreboard, we were down by 18.”

As his freshman season came to an end, Sulaimon did an admirable job remaining poised with a microphone and shoulder camera pointed in his face. He gave thoughtful answers and managed to keep his voice mostly steady, keeping a steadfast dam on an obvious reservoir of tears. Only when the topic of the seniors came up did he begin to falter.

“It’s really hard,” he said, pausing to gather himself. “I’ve only been with these guys for a year, but they—they made a big impact on my life. They’ve done so much for me, for us as a team and for this program. With the time investment we all put, and how close our team was this year, it was just a shame that we didn’t walk out as champions.”

But the resolute Sulaimon, with a busi-

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Ware’s leg fracture.

25% 3s Duke made just 4-of-16 3-pointers against the Cardinals. Seth Curry, who went 2-of-4 from distance, was the only Blue Devil to hit multiple treys.

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Mike Krzyzewski and Mason Plumlee embrace in the final college game for the team’s seniors. nesslike sense of composure that has defined this year’s team—one that battled through one of the nation’s toughest schedules and most disruptive sets of injuries—refused to end his comment on a sour note.

“We have nothing to be ashamed of,” he finished, crediting Louisville and acknowledging his own team’s 30-win season.

It’s not hard to agree with the freshman’s assessment after attending the regional weekend in Indianapolis. As much of a juggernaut as Louisville has been between the lines—with the nation’s most efficient defense and most dangerous transition attack—the Cardinals were a match for Duke not just on the basketball court, but in the locker room as well.

It doesn’t take much interaction with Louisville to understand how close they too have become since losing to Kentucky in last year’s Final Four and returning the bulk of their key personnel. While the Blue Devils are—like their coach—a study in quiet, stoic professionalism, Louisville is a

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Quinn Cook puts his hands over his head after the Blue Devils lost to Louisville Sunday.

much more effusive bunch, both in energy and emotion.

With junior star Russ Smith sitting three chairs down shaking his head, head coach Rick Pitino joked publicly before the game about having “thought about shipping [Smith] to a different planet” during his freshman year. Peyton Siva—the team’s fiery floor general and lone scholarship senior—admitted wanting to overrule Pitino’s strategy adjustments during halftime against Duke. In many locker rooms, these sorts of gestures would be insubordination, but for the Cardinals, it’s clear that they’re expressions of mutual respect.

“He’s a master at what he does,” Siva said of his coach.

In one of the defining moments of Louisville’s season, the unbridled outbursts of sorrow from Smith and forward Chane Behanan when Ware went down became a source of strength rather than one of despondency.

As the anxious horde of reporters began to thin out, Marshall Plumlee was taking anger out on his shoelaces. Josh Hairston took solace in incoming text messages.

Transfer Rodney Hood, who practiced with the team all season but is prevented by NCAA rules from even traveling on the team plane, had huddled his entire 6-foot8 frame inside one of the lockers. Murphy had barely moved except to remove his jersey. His shoes were still tied.

In another room, Krzyzewski was putting an exclamation point on his strong feelings for the 2012-13 Duke team with a pointedly candid discussion of a coach’s typical feelings at the end of each season, last year’s in particular.

“I didn’t like our season last year,” he said, giving voice to a contrast that many had sensed, “not just the way it ended. I just didn’t like it, even though we were 27-7. I loved this season. I love my three seniors.”

This season, he made it clear that there was something deeper to be mourned as the season passed into history.

“At the end of the year,” he said, “there can be a little bit of you that wants it to be over, and you fight it. And some years— every once in a while, not too often—you just want the damn thing to be over. And there’s not one part of me that wants this season to be over.”

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NORFOLK, Va.—When a high-scoring team like Duke lays an egg offensively, it usually spells trouble for its tournament chances. But the second-seeded Blue Devils outlasted sixth-seeded Nebraska 53-45 Sunday, relying on stout defense and their stronger interior presence—including seven blocks from Elizabeth Williams—to advance.

Both teams took the court firing jumpers with reckless abandon. Elizabeth Williams drew first blood in front of a hometown crowd with a strong drop step and finish inside, but the Cornhuskers (26-8) pushed back, securing a sevenpoint advantage with six minutes remaining in the first period. The Blue Devils (33-2), however, seemed determined to take a lead into the locker room. With two minutes left to play in the half, Alexis Jones capped off several hard drives with a 3-point jumper from the top of the key, pounding her chest exuberantly and giving Duke a one-point lead that it would never relinquish. Jones finished with 14 points and despite being the smallest player on the floor for most of her 35 minutes, grabbed nine rebounds.

“Lex is a great player,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “She’s one of the best point guards in the country of any age… Her nine rebounds were incredible.”

Jones’ contributions were augmented by the scoring efforts of Tricia Liston and Elizabeth Williams, who tallied 17 points and 10 points, respectively. But aside from this trio, the rest of the Blue Devils’ offense could not find its rhythm. Starters Haley Peters and Richa Jackson struggled from the field Sunday, shooting a combined 5-for-16, and Duke’s bench was also held scoreless.

But the Blue Devils clamped down on the defensive end.

Nebraska—the Big Ten conference leader in 3-point shooting—was flummoxed against the revolving medley of man-toman, zone, and trap defenses thrown at them by McCallie. Lieberman Award Finalist Lindsey Moore was held to a team-high 11 points—four below her average—on 18 shot attempts.

“Obviously we struggled,” Moore said. “They kept mixing up what they were in defensively. I think it took us a little bit [of time] to realize whether they were in a 3-2 or 2-3 zone.

We didn’t handle their changing defenses very well.”

After losing the lead, Nebraska was able to face Duke’s versatile defense in front of its own bench. Unfortunately for the Cornhuskers, the improved understanding and communication that came along with proximity to their coach did not translate to a higher shooting percentage—the team was held to 34.4 percent from the field in the second half.

Nebraska head coach Connie Yori said her team saw its fair

NORFOLK, Va.—Fans who stuck around for both games Sunday afternoon at the Ted Constant Convocation Center saw two drastically different contests. The first game ended with Notre Dame nearly hitting the century mark, cruising past Kansas for a 93-63 victory.

The second game was not quite as one-sided or offensively-focused, with Duke and Nebraska combining to outscore Notre Dame by merely five points as the Blue Devils defeated the Cornhuskers 53-45 to advance to the Elite Eight and face the Irish Tuesday evening.

“We set a defensive goal at the beginning of each game and for our game today it was 50, so based on that I’d say we were going to win if we got our defensive stop,” junior guard Tricia Liston said. “Either way it was going to come down to the other side of the floor.”

In a game in which defense was everything, sophomore center Elizabeth Williams and freshman guard Alexis Jones were the catalysts of the Blue Devils’ defensive intensity. Playing in front of a large gathering of friends and family, Williams—a Virginia Beach native—blocked seven shots, forcing the Cornhuskers to settle for outside jumpers the entire game.

“Seven blocks is a pretty amazing stat,” McCallie said.

Duke’s defense only sent Nebraska to the line once, limiting their players to outside jump shots and fade-away layups lest they had their shot blocked by an imposing Williams. The Blue Devils also managed to keep the Cornhuskers guessing, as they transitioned from man-to-man to zone defense constantly.

“They kept mixing up what they were in defensively,” Nebraska senior point guard Lindsey Moore said. “It took us a little bit to realize whether they were in a 3-2 or 2-3 zone.

We didn’t handle their changing defenses very well.”

Jones and company managed to force 12 Cornhusker

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A few weeks ago Duke’s outlook was bleak. Now it appears the Blue Devils are back on track. Since adding senior soccer star Nicole Lipp to the squad to round out their injury-ridden rotation, Duke has now won four consecutive matches.

The No. 7 Blue Devils posted a 4-3 victory against Virginia Friday and defeated Virginia Tech 4-1 Saturday at Ambler Tennis Stadium.

Hanna Mar won the decisive match for the Blue Devils (13-3, 4-0 in the ACC), winning a three-set thriller against the Cavaliers’ Stephanie Nauta. Mar won the third-set tiebreaker 8-6, taking her match by a score of 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 and giving Duke the victory against Virginia (10-7, 4-1).

The Blue Devils had less than 24 hours before their next test against Virginia Tech, and maintaining focus was crucial after a hard-fought victory. “We had a really emotional match yesterday,� Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth said about his team’s 4-3 win against Virginia Friday. “We had to come out and not give Virginia Tech any kind of confidence.�

The Blue Devils got off to a strong start against the Hokies (13-5, 2-3). Hanna Mar and Mary Clayton defeated Virginia Tech’s Raluca Mita and Carol Kahoun 8-1 in just 32 minutes in the second doubles slot. Duke’s top doubles team of Annie Mulholland and Ester Goldfeld clinched

Henrique Cunha, Duke’s usually stoic No. 1 singles player, did something out of the ordinary Saturday: he yelled.

The No. 9 Blue Devils (16-1, 4-1 in the ACC) had already dropped the doubles point to No. 18 Florida State (14-6, 2-3), and Cunha had his serve broken in the first singles game to Benjamin Lock, who subsequently went “ballistic� in the words of Duke head coach Ramsey Smith. Cunha, though, broke back and let out a scream of his own as the Blue Devils swept the six singles matches to down the Seminoles 6-1 at Ambler Tennis Stadium. “I got fired up after the first game,�

Cunha said. “It was good for my match and good for the other guys too, just to change the momentum.�

Cunha won eight consecutive games after having his initial serve broken, beating Lock 6-1, 6-4.

Tensions between the duo ran high throughout the entire match as the umpire addressed both players at points to settle them down. But Lock’s emotion was not enough to help him deal with Cunha’s punishing groundstrokes that kept his opponent pinned beyond the baseline. “[Florida State is] a pretty fiery team so I feel like our guys felt like they had to match that a little bit,� Smith said.

Cunha and partner Raphael Hemmeler, the No. 1 duo in the nation, beat No. 45-ranked Lock and Andres Bucaro, for Duke’s lone dou-

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Hannah Mar had a big weekend as the Blue Devils beat Virginia and Virginia Tech. the doubles point by defeating Illinca Stoica and Kelly Williford, breaking serve in the fifth game and dominating the rest of the set 8-3.

In singles play, the Blue Devils controlled their matches from the start, with Mar, Goldfeld, Annie Mulholland and Marianne Jodoin decisively winning their first sets 6-0.

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bles victory. After Duke’s Chris Mengel and Fred Saba went down to tie the doubles score at one, Florida State clinched the match’s first point when Dominic Cotrone and Blake Davis upset the nation’s No. 14 pair of Michael Redlicki and Jason Tahir 8-6.

The set had been tied at 5-5 and the Blue Devils had a pair of game points to send it to a tiebreaker. But they ultimately could not convert as a Seminole volley gave them the early lead. “It’s good to face adversity like this,�

Smith said. “I don’t like losing double points, but looking back it’s nice to have been in that situation—lose the doubles point at home to a top-20 team that’s very dangerous. I was really happy with how the guys responded.�

No Blue Devil embodied the Duke response more than Redlicki, who rebounded from his doubles loss to beat Anderson Reed 6-4, 6-3. Redlicki said that earlier in the year he would allow a doubles defeat to affect his singles play. But Saturday he was able to brush it off and control the tempo of his match against Reed with strong forehands and savvy net play.

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W. TENNIS from page 5 set 6-1 to give Duke its first singles point. Taking 10 consecutive games, Mulholland celebrated her 20th birthday with an easy win against Williford to gave Duke a 3-0 lead.

On court one, Virginia Tech’s Stoica was able to slow down Mar in the second set 4-3, frustrating Mar by keeping points in play from the baseline and forcing errors. Mar had faced a long match the day before, battling back in a third-set tiebreaker to seal the win for the Blue Devils. Clayton was off to a slow start on court three, recovering from a 7-5 loss in the first set to Raluca Mita.

Nicole Lipp fell to Hokie Tea Ivanovic 6-2, 6-2. Key moments for Lipp included breaking Ivanovic’s serve in a grueling game in the first set and winning the first game of the second set with four straight points on her serve. She was nearly able to hold off the win before the match was clinched. The soccer star’s performance improves with each match she plays, which is promising for Duke as the Blue Devils near the end of the regular season.

The match was clinched by Jodoin, who claimed her 20th straight singles victory with a 6-0, 6-4 win against Carol Kahoun and improved Duke’s record to a perfect 18-0 all-time against the Hokies. With the win, Jodoin improved to a perfect 14-0 record in dual matches.

Jodoin will lead Duke into two more conference tilts this weekend, when the Blue Devils face Georgia Tech Saturday and No. 15 Clemson Sunday April 7. As the team continues with ACC play, Ashworth emphasized the need to get off to a quick start as they did on Saturday.

“We just have to keep doing the little things that we do well better,” Ashworth said. “We just talked about the serve, the return and the first ball—the three things that start off a point.”

Given the team’s recent injuries and tough losses to Michigan and Indiana earlier in the month, this win over Virginia Tech could be an important source of momentum for next weekend.

“It’s all a matter of our mindset, and I think that coming off of this weekend, we will be in a good frame of mind and playing with a little bit of confidence,” Ashworth said. “Playing with belief in each other which is key.”

Make sure to read these stories online for more coverage of this busy weekend in Duke sports. >> Duke lacrosse ekes past Harvard 12-11

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A typically stoic Henrique Cunha was pumped up during Duke’s 6-1 victory against Florida State Saturday.

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Down 12-11 with eight seconds left on the clock, Harvard had a prime opportunity to send the game into overtime. But the Crimson blew it. In a back-andforth battle, the No. 12 Blue Devils edged Harvard 12-11 Saturday night at Harvard Stadium in Cambridge, Mass, marking their sixth consecutive win.

With eight seconds left, a flag went up as a penalty was called against the Blue Devils (8-4). The Crimson (4-5) had scored on its first three man-up opportunities, but this time they fell short. Freshman Devin Dwyer threw a pass from behind the net, only to have it intercepted by Duke sophomore goaltender Kyle Turri.

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warfare that goes into tennis,” Redlicki said. “If your opponent sees that you don’t give up on balls where he thought he won, then I come up with some crazy shot back, that kind of takes a toll on him.”

After Cunha, Hemmeler and Redlicki won their singles matches, Tahir won the fourth to clinch the Duke victory.

Even with the victory in tow, though, Mengel and Saba grinded out the final wins for a singles sweep.

Saba fought back from a match point to defeat Cotrone in the final match to conclude with players from both squads watching and loudly cheering on their teammates.

“Those are tricky matches because the intensity is relaxed,” Smith said. “But individually and for the team those matches are really important…. It sends a message: 6-1 could have easily been 4-3.”

Blue Devil junior Laetitia Beck continued to move up the leaderboard throughout the duration of the three-day tournament, ultimately landing tied for seventh place as she paced Duke for a ninth-place finish overall at the Bryan National Collegiate tournament in Greensboro.

“I’m not very excited about that [ninth place finish],” Duke head coach Dan Brooks said.

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“We have two players who have never been in this situation before: Chloe Wells and Richa Jackson,” McCallie said. “If you take that out, everybody else is pretty much fine.”

Jackson took more shots than usual, going 2-for-11 from the field, including a pair of missed 3-pointers. McCallie pointed to the Cornhusker defense and Jackson’s inexperience in the tournament as the two main reasons she settled for so many outside shots, which are not her forte.

W. BASKETBALL from page 4 share of chances.

“I thought we were off balance,” Yori said.

“It was easier in the second half to get the shots we wanted than it was in the first half because it was in front of our bench, and the first half we got a little out of flow and probably didn’t get as many good looks as we would like. You have got to give Duke a lot a credit—they run 3-2, 2-3, trap out of it, don’t trap out of it….

They really do keep you off balance, so I think a lot of the credit goes to them.”

Cornhusker junior Jordan Hooper, who came in averaging 18.2 points per game, also faltered against the dogged intensity of Blue Devil defenders. The All-American was held to 3-of-14 from the field, accumulating only six points before leaving the game with an ankle injury late in the second half. With time winding down, Hooper’s departure appeared to be a demoralizing blow for Moore and her teammates.

“As far as Hooper going down… if you are a fan of Nebraska basketball you know don’t want to see that,” Moore said. “If you are on the team you don’t want to see that, but I definitely think that people that came in and stepped in for [Hooper] and did a really good job.”

Nebraska forwards Meghin Williams and Katie Simon fought to bring energy to the floor, but in the end their efforts were not enough to fill the void left by Hooper’s injury. Free throws by Liston and Jones iced the game, securing Duke an eight-point victory. Although it was not the smoothest performance put on by the Blue Devils this season, McCallie made it clear that she wasn’t worried about aesthetics.

“We don’t want to be pretty,” McCallie said. “We want to advance.”

Duke will face off against top-seeded Notre Dame Tuesday evening in the Norfolk regional final to battle for a trip to New Orleans and the Final Four.

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Alexis Jones scored 14 points, dished out six assists and grabbed eight rebounds in Duke’s victory.

DEFENSE from page 4 turnovers while only committing nine of their own.

The bench comes up short When it comes to offense, if a players’ name was not Tricia Liston or Alexis Jones, chances are they walked away from the contest disappointed by their performance.

Duke and Nebraska shot a subpar 32.8 percent and 30.3 percent from the field, respectively. Between stifling defense and what appeared to be a lid on the rim, neither team could ever get into a groove.

“Our shot selection wasn’t the greatest,” Williams said. “We definitely could have penetrated a lot more in the first half and

gotten a lot more paint shots. We weren’t really drawing contact until the second half and we were really grinding and just really trying to get in there.”

Head coach Joanne P. McCallie did not rely on her bench heavily, only bringing three players on to rest her starters throughout the contest. Duke’s bench was outscored 17-0 by Nebraska, as Blue Devil reserves went a combined 0-for-8 from the field.

Junior guard Chloe Wells and junior forward Richa Jackson were two of the more notable Duke players to struggle Sunday. Although Jackson started, she has spent the majority of the season coming off the bench and was the only starter to not play at least 30 minutes on Sunday, playing only 21. Jackson and Wells combined to go 2-for-17 from the field, including 0-for-5

Survive and advance Although Sunday’s win had plenty of flays—no bench scoring, no fast break points and 25.0-percent 3-point shooting— Duke has been able to do the most important thing there is to do in March: win.

“We’ve just got to be tough enough, strong enough to push through anything,” McCallie said. “That’s the sign of a championship team.”

For now, the Blue Devils have been able to look to Jones to take over games now that Chelsea Gray is done for the season with a knee injury. With the first half winding down, Jones took over and scored seven points in the final three minutes. Although the offense behind Jones is not putting up the numbers the Gray-led team did, Duke is still managing to win games behind the superb play of its point guard.

“It’s the whole story—we lost Chelsea Gray,” McCallie said. “That’s an All-American point guard. I’m sure she had something to do with our fluidity on offense. We have injured players who have never been here before. You can’t expect things to be as good-looking, 9080 point game in the NCAA tournament.”

McCallie was adamant after the game that the flash and glam of the regular season is no longer needed. The Blue Devils simply need to keep grinding out victories.

“We don’t want to be pretty, we want to advance,” McCallie said. “We want to find a way to keep going.”