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South Beach revenge

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CORAL GABLES, Fla.—Duke’s loss last season to Miami at the BankUnited Center was the nadir of the team’s season.

The Hurricanes whirled past the Blue Devils 90-63 last season in a game that was never really competitive. After Duke went on a 14-2 run late in the first half of this year’s game, this one wasn’t close the rest of the way either.

This year’s Miami team returns no starters from the one last season that slapped the floor and embarrassed the Blue Devils. Tuesday’s 67-46 victory was an important step: Duke’s first ACC road win of the year.

“We were just focused on getting our first road win,” junior point guard Quinn Cook said. “It’s big.”

Miami’s 46-point output was the lowest Duke (15-4, 3-2 in the ACC) held an opponent to all season. The Hurricanes (10-8, 2-4) entered the game averaging just 62.4 points per game, 335th in the nation, a product of the team’s slow pace of play— they entered the game dead last in Division I in adjusted tempo according to basketball statistician Ken Pomeroy.

The Hurricane defense initially frustrated the Blue Devils, who at one point in the first half missed eight consecutive 3-pointers. But Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said that Miami’s zone defense and reluctance to push the ball down the court allowed his players to crash the offensive glass.

That showed, and the Blue Devils were able to compensate for their shooting woes

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The total number of students choosing to graduate a semester early has increased by 30 percent since 2010.

Students who choose to graduate ahead of schedule have the option of getting their degree in September or December. The number of students graduating in September has nearly doubled in the past several years, from approximately 260 in 2010 to 443 last year. The total number of early graduates increased by 30 percent since 2010, meaning that more students are graduating early to save tuition money, start a job or simply take advantage of resources that are harder to access with classes going on.

“A growing trend is possible, especially given the economic downturn and the fact that the middle class in particular hasn’t fully recovered from that,” said Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education. “It’s possible that the changing nature of careers is also leading some students to graduate a semester early.”

Among the 4,958 students graduating from Duke in the 2013-2014 academic year, 443 graduated September 2013 and 765 graduated December 2013. Early graduates in 2013 make up 24 percent KeViN ShAmieh/The chronicle

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Jabari Parker led the way with 17 points and a career-high 15 rebounds as Duke topped Miami.

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WHO Speaks campaign spotlights rape culture

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The WHO Speaks campaign aims to shed light on the impact of media on gender violence.

The WHO Speaks campaign has returned to campus with a new mission.

A poster campaign launched Wednesday by the Women’s Housing Option aims to spread awareness about the impact of media and language on gender violence. By placing text over images, the posters draw attention to advertisements, books, movies and other media that objectify and exploit women. This is the second WHO Speaks campaign, following last year’s which focused on body image problems among women.

Junior Nandita Singh, an organizer of WHO Speaks, said she joined the campaign not because she’s a “raging feminist,” but because she wanted to bring attention to how language and the media desensitize people to rape.

“Our aim with this campaign is to show students that there are a lot of parts of our society that make rape okay without explicitly saying so,” Singh said, “That is the definition of rape culture.”

The Women’s Center provided services to 163 student victims of gender violence in 2013, said Sheila Broderick, gender violence intervention services coordinator at the center.

“One in six college-aged women are the victims of rape or attempted rape during their college career,” Broderick noted. “Sexual assault on college campuses is pretty consistent from one university to the next, so there is no reason to believe that Duke’s numbers of sexual misconduct differ from other universities.”

Broderick expressed concern that most media depictions of sexual en-

counters are unrealistic and never mention STI and pregnancy prevention.

“I encourage all of us to be wise consumers of the media—to know that what we see on screens is pretend,” Broderick said.

Broderick commented that she hopes a campaign like WHO Speaks will spark dialogue on campus and encourage students to go to the Women’s Center for help.

Senior Hanna Metaferia, a media activism intern at the Women’s Center and editor of feminist blog Develle Dish, worried that the campaign will not encourage students to think about sexual objectification of women the way they should.

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Benning to campaign as DSG approves resolution write-in Young Trustee to rename Aycock dorm ing towards a common goal. Instead of each small group desperately working Senior Marcus Benning, president of behind closed doors, we can convene as Black Student Alliance and semi-finalist a community and combine our efforts. for undergraduate Young Trustee, un- This isn’t a rat’s race for scarce resourcveiled a three-point course of action for es—Duke has plenty.” running as a write-in candidate after not As part of his campaign over the next being selected as a finalist. two weeks, Benning proposed the creBenning announced his plan at a pri- ation of an advocacy workshop for the vate meeting held Wednesday evening students present at the meeting and in the BSA office of the Bryan Center. leaders of other small student groups Approximately 25 students represent- whose voices he hopes to unify. The ing a variety of student organizations workshop is intended to foster discusincluding Black Student Alliance, Asian sion and action by allowing different stuStudents Association, Mi Gente and Na- dent groups to work together in gaining tive American Student Alliance attend- attention from the Board of Trustees. ed. The students received a vague email Benning also plans to host a forum invitation Wednesday evening and were open to all undergraduates on the Main not aware of the announcement prior to West Quadrangle in the next few weeks convening. to get feedback from a broader group of Benning began by emphasizing the students. Discussions at the forum would diversity of backgrounds gathered in the be made public and an avenue would be BSA office. He elaborated on a few of created for further input from students. the causes such as Mi Gente’s efforts to “My support and dedication to Duke GeoRGiA PARKe/The chronicle keep one of the few Latino professors at does not stop with a lost election,” he Senior Jacob Tobia and junior Adrienne Harreveld present a proposal to change the name of Aycock the University and NASA’s efforts to be- said. “I am confident that as long as I am dorm to the DSG senate Wednesday night. come a larger presence on campus. present, our voices will be heard, and “Each of you here today is involved that’s really all that matters to me right

by Hayley Trainer litical cartoons that Aycock supported THE CHRONICLE and passionate about a particular cause,” now. I have nothing to lose.” during his term as governor, including The Duke Student Government sen- one that stated, “The vampire that hovBenning said. “Ultimately, we are workate adopted a resolution to support the ers over North Carolina/Negro rule.” renaming of Aycock residence hall.

Kamalakanthan noted that Duke is THE Senior Jacob Tobia, vice president not the only university to consider refor equity and outreach, junior Adri- naming a campus building in light of enne Harreveld and senior Prashanth new information. He added that The Kamalakanthan presented the proposal University of Texas at Austin faced a to the senate Wednesday night. The stu- similar issue after discovering that sevdents argued that the University should eral university founders and leaders had Keep up with the Blue Devils not celebrate a connection with former been members of the Ku Klux Klan.

N.C. Governor Charles Aycock, who was The resolution also includes a recomFind all the latest Duke sports a leader of the North Carolina white mendation to rename Aycock Dormitory supremacy movements during the late to honor Julien Abele, the prominent news on our sports blog 1800s. black architect responsible for West “He has no institutional connection Campus, including the Duke Chapel, [sports.chronicleblogs.com] to the University,” Kamalakanthan said. Cameron Indoor Stadium and the Allen “We don’t think this is something that Building.

Duke should be connected to, considerKamalakanthan said that they are ing our history and the current racial in- looking to gather greater student support clusiveness of Duke’s policies.”

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“You Don’t Say” organizers explain campaign motivations A student campaign to raise awareness about the misuse of language related to the LGBTQ community and gender issues—titled “You Don’t Say”—launched earlier this week. A collaboration between LGBTQ student group Blue Devils United and studentled speech awareness campaign Think Before You Talk, the “You Don’t Say” posters feature words and phrases that are sexist or homophobic along with justification for choosing alternatives. Led by sophomores Daniel Kort, Christie Lawrence and Anuj Chhabra, the campaign includes both physical flyers and a social media presence. The Chronicle’s Emma Baccellieri spoke to Kort and Chhabra about the campaign.

The Chronicle: What was the inspiration for the project?

Daniel Kort: Traditionally, languageuse campaigns about LGBTQ identity have focused on rather simplistic issues, such as, “We don’t say fag” or “We don’t say dyke,” things like that. But our approach to this campaign was to take these language-use campaigns to the next level, so that they would focus on more sophisticated language usage and to highlight things that we might not normally expect to alienate LGBTQ individuals but in reality can do a lot of damage.

TC: Can you describe the process of getting the campaign off the ground?

DK: We collaborated with Think Before You Talk on this project after Anuj Chhabra reached out to Blue Devils United at the end of last Spring in hopes of

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initiating some sort of photo campaign related to language use towards LGTBQ individuals. In the Fall, we made it a priority.... We began brainstorming ideas of words and phrases that are alienating to LGBTQ individuals, specifically relating to sexual orientation and gender identity.

We wanted to have this idea where we listed a word, and following that word, we’d have some sort of explanation as to why people might be interested in refraining from using that word.... We wanted to not just say that it’s not okay to use these words, but also to provide some form of justification. We also didn’t want it to come off as, “People shouldn’t say this,” but instead to profile people saying, “In my personal endeavors, I don’t say this.”

There’s a lot of power in “I” statements or “we” statements. We don’t want to put words in people’s mouths, and we certainly didn’t want our actions to be taken as indicative of the entire LBGTQ community or feminist community.

TC: How has the response been so far?

DK: We’ve received overwhelming support since the launch of the Facebook page on Monday.... We’ve heard from students and alumni both in person and on Facebook. One of the most exciting things that we’ve heard was from Howard Menaker, a 1974 alumnus—he wrote on the Facebook page saying, “Thank you for this campaign, it makes this alum very proud.” It was really nice to hear that the older generation

that keeps in touch with what’s been going on at Duke has been impressed with our work and we’re really happy that we were able to extend our impact.

TC: What made you decide to approach Blue Devils United with this idea?

Anuj Chhabra: We started Think Before You Talk last Fall in my FOCUS class and it started as just a class project. One of the first things we actually did was collaborate with Blue Devils United for a dialogue...so our collaboration with BDU really started back in October 2012. And then after that, we really thought a good dialogue had been started.

TC: How have you felt about the response so far?

AC: We just put it up Monday morning—the Facebook page and the pictures and everything—and now we have over 500 likes.... I’m just really happy at what’s happened in the past two and a half days. We have all these flyers that we’ve put up this week. We were really lucky to have a lot of money from SOFC to put up bus ads, flyers on the temporary walls by West Union. We were lucky to have so much printed coverage....

We’re happy to hear what people are saying about it. I’ve only heard positive feedback. People are challenging why they say things—but I’d also be interested in hearing some negative feedback, because what we want to do here is create discussion.

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Lee fields questions on personal history

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The Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture hosted a question-and-answer session with Nicole Lee, executive director of foreign policy advocacy organization TransAfrica, Wednesday night.

Lee is a human rights lawyer who has been called to advise national foreign policy decisions regarding Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. She has also served as the official liaison between the Mandela family and international media, and has appeared on programs including ABC’s “20/20” and CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360”.

“We work to make the invisible visible and make sure our policies are fair and just,” Lee said.

The event consisted of opening remarks from Lee, followed by questions from audience members and previous submissions mediated by Mary Lou Williams Center director Chandra Guinn. Topics ranged from Lee’s family and career to current events and foreign policy. Lee also spoke at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently as part of her ongoing national speaking tour.

Senior Orane Douglas, an organizer of the event, said bringing Lee was intended to promote dialogue about foreign policy, particularly in relation to the international African community. He added that the event was also geared toward helping individuals see how they can have an impact.

“We’re just excited because it’s a chance for someone who’s actually in the

legal field to be speaking to other AfricanAmericans and minorities,” said senior Jillian Williams, co-president of the Black Pre-Law Association. “Usually that gets overshadowed, and there are a lot of prelaw interests, but this is a nice marriage of both foreign policy and international aid work.”

TransAfrica has operated as a foreign policy advocacy organization since 1976.

The group is best known for its work against the apartheid regime in South Africa and its involvement in the Haitian coup of the early ‘90’s. Lee joined TransAfrica as chief financial officer in 2005 and is currently working as the organization’s first female director.

Attendees were curious about Lee’s personal history as well as her organization’s stance on a slew of current issues.

Along with recollections of her time working on a sulfur dioxide suit in South Africa and as a field researcher in Haiti during the coup of the early 90’s, Lee spoke of her family’s roots and her lifelong vision of becoming a human rights lawyer.

“People in Buffalo would think I had a crazy idea,” she said of her early dreams for her career. “But sometimes the craziest ideas are the best ideas.”

Throughout her talk, Lee urged students to get involved in movements at their institutions to divest from companies as stances on human rights and foreign policy matters.

“It’s going to be people like you that are really going to make the difference,” she said.

Foundation donates Calder mobile to Children’s Hospital

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A mobile by famous sculptor Alexander Calder has been donated to Duke Medicine, according to a Duke Health press release.

The Robert and Nettie Benenson Foundation gave the mobile with the intention that it be displayed in Duke Children’s Hospital & Health Center, but it is temporarily being housed in the Duke Medicine Pavilion Concourse.

“We are thrilled that Duke has received such a significant Calder mobile, which will surely lift the spirits of patients and visitors to Duke Hospital,” said Sarah Schroth, Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans Director of the Nasher Museum of Art, in the press release. “We know and love Calder as the famous inventor of the mobile. Duke is fortunate to share this THE

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The mobile, finished in 1968, is constructed of wire and painted sheet metal.

It was previously owned by Edward Benenson—the father of Lisa Benenson Quattrochi, vice president and secretary of the Robert and Nettie Benenson Foundation—and was given to the Foundation upon his death in 2005. In the years since, the Foundation has searched for the proper place to display it, the press release said.

“Then one night I literally woke up and said, ‘Aha!’” said Quattrocchi, who is on the Duke Children’s National Board of Advisors, in the press release. “I thought, ‘Let’s donate it to Duke Children’s Hospital.’ And the more I thought about it, the more sense it made. It’s a colorful, happy, joyful piece, and I like to think that seeing it will brighten the day for a lot of children and families.”

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In other business: Representatives from Gamma Phi Beta Sorority presented their plans for recruitment this Spring and introduced their official philanthropies—Camp Fire, Girl Guides of Canada and Girls on the Run. They will begin their five-day recruitment period in two weeks and are recruiting women from every class.

Jamie Wu, Trinity ’13, presented information to the senate about the United States Public Interest Research Group’s two-year fellowship program. Wu noted that the U.S. PIRG’s main campaigns are strengthening participation in elections, closing corporate tax loopholes and promoting higher education. Wu will be representing the U.S. PIRG at Thursday’s career fair.

The founders of Dormserv, a combination breakfast delivery and wakeup call service, presented their plans to the senate for launching during the first week in February. They will operate out of the Divinity Café and will accept both food points and FLEX. The service will initially serve only West Campus but plans to expand later in the semester.

SOFC granted $5050 to the Asian Students Association for their annual Lunar New Year showcase, $4000 to the Duke East Asian Nexus for the Duke-UNC China Leadership Summit and $2400 to the Engineering Student Government for Pratt E-Talks.

The senate approved the Student Organizations and Finance By-Law proposed by Vice President Nikolai Doytchinov, a junior. Senator Patrick Oathout proposed an amendment to the by-law, which altered the requirement of a two-thirds senate majority to grant new status to student groups to a simple majority vote.

The amendment was approved by the senate.

Senator Mousa Alshanteer, a sophomore and editorial pages managing editor for The Chronicle, proposed a resolution to honor the late Benjamin Ward, Jr. The resolution passed unanimously.

Ward was an adjunct associate professor and associate dean of faculty programs for the philosophy department and taught courses in Arabic, comparative literature, German studies and philosophy. Prior to joining the University, Ward—a classically trained pianist— played the organ at Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1968 memorial service. While at the University, he served as the director of the The Pitchforks. Ward died Decem-

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before formally approaching administrators though they are already aware of the proposal.

“We have not officially sat down administrators about this, because we have been trying to drum up support with students so that we could have a much more serious conversation with administrators,” Kamalakanthan said.

Tobia said he is also interested in developing a onecredit academic course on the history of racism at the University. He noted that he has already approached William Darity, chair of the African and African American studies department, with the course proposal.

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She added that, though she objects to the “seminude, sex-filled advertisements” put out by American Apparel—one of the brands featured in the campaign—she is no longer surprised by them.

“Most people born in the digital media age are already immune to sexually objectifying imaging because we see it everyday, multiple times a day,” Metaferia said.

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graduation from page 1 of the total graduates, compared to 20 percent in 2010.

The top reasons behind early graduation are financial restraints, job offers, job hunting and just wanting to be on their own, said Lee Baker, dean of academic affairs and associate vice provost for undergraduate education.

Nowicki noted that the financial aid policies at different schools are likely to impact students’ college graduation plan.

The number of December graduates from Johns Hopkins University has doubled since 2010, according to an Inside Higher Ed article. Hopkins’ early graduation rate is an outlier that does not reflect the national trend of graduation rates at research universities.

Johns Hopkins does not have financial aid policies as generous as universities like Duke and Columbia, Nowicki said, adding that this could explain why more students there are saving tuition money by graduating a semester early.

The nature of careers is also another influencing factor because a lot of jobs are decoupled from the academic year cycle, Nowicki added. If the choice is between starting the first job and paying tuition for another half year, the costbenefit analysis is obvious that more students might choose to end their college education early.

Nowicki said students’ decisions of whether to graduate early or not are closely tied to the types of universities they attend. A change in tendency to graduate early is more likely to be seen in state schools where credentials are more plugged into specific careers such as journalism or sports manage-

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ment, than in highly-selective liberal arts schools such as Duke.

He added that having students graduate early would not necessarily impact the University in a bad way, but it would be unfortunate if early graduation hinders the student’s development as a “broadly educated citizen of the world” into which they are graduating.

“I don’t think finishing in three and a half years would matter. Simply shortening that arch of the education by a semester would not be a problem,” Nowicki said. “But the impact would be negative if there are forces that lead students to be less of a part of the Duke community.”

Although some people in academia argue for a three-year college plan, Nowicki said graduating early disallows students from fully exploring the resources of a liberal arts education.

Baker added that the University has loosened its policy on granting seniors part-time statuses that allow them to pay half tuition for two courses or less in their last semester. Students were required to declare that they are going part time in April the previous academic year. Now, seniors are allowed to declare part-time up until the beginning of classes, which has led more students to take that option, he said.

“Liberal arts schools that are residential and private tend to develop a sense of cohort among classes. Students want to graduate with their class,” Nowicki said. “This might go away someday, but it will change most slowly in a place like Duke. I would imagine that for some of our students that last basketball season Khloe Kim/The chronicle would be a little part of the calculation Quilla, a vocalist, keyboardist and composer from Montreal, Canada, performed at the Duke Cofbecause if they graduate early, they can’t feehouse on Wednesday night. She played alongside Mykki Blanco, a New York-based performance go to the games anymore.” artist, poet and hip-hop musician.

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Duke turns tide, crushes Hurricanes

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CORAL GABLES, Fla.—There were countless stars in attendance at the BankUnited Center to watch Duke beat Miami 67-46.

LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, Kobe Bryant, Kendall Marshall, Shane Battier, James Jones—even former Blue Devil Ryan Kelly was in the building. Kelly may not be of star caliber yet, having started only 20 games for the Los Angeles Lakers, but he’s played an enormous role in the Duke-Miami rivalry. His performance against the Hurricanes last season—featuring the re-emergence of the White Raven—was, as head coach Mike Krzyzewski said at the time, “one for the ages.”

After sitting out with a foot injury for two months, Kelly shined in his return against then-No. 5 Miami, scoring 36 points and seven rebounds in 32 minutes.

It also served as revenge for the Blue Devils’ meeting against the Hurricanes earlier in the season, when Miami gave Duke a 9063 drubbing.

“We got killed, so yeah,” Krzyzewski said when asked if he was thinking about last season’s loss. “But they don’t have the same team.”

And neither does Duke. The Blue Devils did not have the benefit of Kelly’s 36 points this time around—the team cruised to victory despite having just two scorers in double figures.

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Duke controlled the glass against Miami, outrebounding the Hurricanes 42-28 in a 21-point victory at the BankUnited Center.

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After dropping back-to-back home matches to start the season, Duke hosts Oregon in the ITA Kick-Off Weekend.

The Blue Devils enter their second weekend of team competition after a disappointing start to the season.

No. 17 Duke will compete in the ITA KickOff Weekend with a Oregon match against Oregon Saturday at 10 a.m. at vs. the Scheffield Indoor No. 17 Tennis Center. The Duke Blue Devils hope to recover from two tough SATURDAY, 10 a.m. losses last weekend, Sheffield Tennis Center one of which made program history as the first-ever loss to Elon.

“It was not the start we were looking for, but it is what it is, and I think we learned from it,” head coach Ramsey Smith said. “We’re certainly looking forward to this weekend and playing better and trying to get all eight guys clicking at the same time.”

Duke’s back-to-back 4-3 losses to Elon and

No. 9 Kentucky did not come easily—there were a total of 12 set tiebreakers during the course of the two matches. The team was able to bounce back and defeat N.C. Central 7-0 just hours after falling to the Wildcats, giving Duke (1-2) a win to carry into the match against Oregon (3-0).

“We played tentative and a little bit tight last weekend, and I want our guys to swing away and go after it instead of hoping for the results we want to get,” Smith said. “Each match we’ve improved, and we’re looking for some big improvements this weekend as well.”

Duke and Oregon have never met in a dual match. The Ducks—though undefeated— have not played a ranked team yet this season and failed to advance to last year’s NCAA tournament. However, Smith noted Oregon’s win over Stanford last season, a team Duke has lost to in seven out of eight matchups.

“They have some good new players and some solid returning players, and they’re a good team,” Smith said. “We’re making sure

not to look ahead, we’re treating it as one match, and if we’re able to advance, then we’ll focus on the next match.”

With a win against Oregon, the Blue Devils will play again Sunday, facing either San Diego State or North Carolina in the championship match at 4 p.m. The two losing teams from Saturday will play in a consolation match, and the champion will advance to the ITA National Team Indoor Championship beginning Feb. 14 in Houston.

Duke has both hosted the ITA Kick-Off Weekend and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Indoor Championship for the past two years. This year, the matches are following a different scoring format, including no-ad scoring and tiebreakers played at 5-5. The changes intend to shorten the duration of the matches.

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“It was a game where you look at the box score and you don’t know what each person had, but you know everyone contributed,” sophomore forward Amile Jefferson said.

After struggling in No. 18 Duke’s first two ACC road games, freshman Jabari Parker tallied a team-high 17 points in 32

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minutes on the court. Parker is the best candidate on the current Duke squad to join the superstars in attendance one day as the cream of the crop of the NBA. “When Jabari takes off full court, I want LeBron to show him that you don’t lose the ball,” Krzyzewski joked. “Those guys [in attendance], they’ve really set a great example of how you should play the game and how you should love the game. I think it’s filtered

through all aspects of U.S. basketball now… and it starts with those guys.”

Parker’s double-double was only the beginning for the Duke team as a whole. The Blue Devils’ biggest advantage over the Hurricanes came on the glass, led by Parker’s career-high 15 boards. Jefferson added seven of his own, continuing his hot rebounding streak that can be traced all the way back to Dec. 16 against Gardner-Webb.

“When you see a guy like Amile, who’s playing really well, sometimes you feed off of that,” Krzyzewski said. “Maybe [opponents] are trying to block Amile off, so that opens it up for Jabari. But whatever’s happening, I hope it continues to happen.”

Rodney Hood followed Jefferson with six boards of his own and was the only Duke player besides Parker to score in double figures, with 12 points. Hood started off the game quietly, with only three points in the first 18:44 of play. With only 1:16 remaining in the first half, Hood dunked twice in 21 seconds to send the Blue Devils into the locker room with a commanding 12-point lead.

The rest of Duke’s scoring was fairly balanced—starters Jefferson, Quinn Cook and Matt Jones combined to tally 21 points. Off the bench, Rasheed Sulaimon, Andre Dawkins and Josh Hairston combined for another 17.

Instead of relying on his superstar tandem of Parker and Hood, Krzyzewski needed his entire team to counter Miami’s slow pace. The Hurricanes are known for their long possessions, with their opponents averaging only 58.5 points per game as a result. Syracuse, the first-place team in the ACC, only managed 49 against a 12th-

place Hurricane squad.

Duke is first in scoring offense in the ACC, averaging 82.6 points per game coming into Wednesday’s showdown. Its 67 points scored against Miami are the most the Hurricanes have given up so far in conference play.

“The zone defense Miami puts up is hard to play against,” Krzyzewski said. “Their possessions are long, and because they play their slow tempo… our depth helped keep up a good level of intensity on defense. Otherwise they’d wear you out.”

As a response to the Hurricanes’ defensive intensity, Krzyzewski continued to employ his five-for-five substitution patterns at the beginning of each half. A tactic that for some teams could prevent players from finding their rhythm early in games has proven beneficial for the Blue Devils, allowing the team to tap into its depth early.

“We played really well as a unit,” Jefferson said. “When guys come in the game they’re ready. We don’t lose anything when we do that hockey stuff, and it’s great for us to stay fresh and stay focused.”

Duke’s schedule will only increase in difficulty as January comes to a close, highlighted by showdowns at No. 20 Pittsburgh Monday and No. 2 Syracuse the following weekend. After its first road ACC win—a team victory for the Blue Devils—Duke will take its three-game win streak back to Durham before traveling to the Northeast.

“Offensively and defensively, it was a great team win for us,” Jefferson said. “It’s our first road win, and now we just have to keep building up on it.”

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all of last year in order to be able to host,” Smith said. “We have great fans, so it’s nice to be home this weekend.”

At 1-2, Duke enters the weekend with its worst record since the 2001-02 season. Despite the setback, the team will look to improve upon the past two years’ success at the ITA Indoor Championships if they can manage a successful weekend at home.

“We were pretty disappointed with the team performance this past weekend, and we probably took the worst loss in program history [against Elon], so I think we’re all just looking to bounce back from that,” Tahir said. “We’re just trying to work on some of the mistakes we made.… [We] hope we can implement our improvements in the match, regardless of who we play.”

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important that we come out with a lot of energy in this scoring format because the matches will max probably take around three hours.”

Despite an unfamiliar scoring system, Duke has played in a familiar setting for all three if its first matches, and will continue to do so for the next three bouts of competition. Two of the four teams competing in the Kick-Off Weekend will travel across the country to compete. But the Blue Devils—along with crosstown rival North Carolina—will remain comfortably local throughout the competition.

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support The 40 Percent Plan Senior Daniel Strunk, chief justice of Duke Student Government, has launched The 40% Plan to alter the way money is collected from students through the Undergraduate Student Activity Fee, which is then allocated to student groups.

Currently, the Student Organization Funding Committee controls the entirety of the $667,000 collected. The 40% Plan would allow students to directly apportion 40 percent of their activity fee to a group or groups of their choosing.

Although we recognize potential difficulties, we endorse The 40% Plan in principle and as a ballot measure.

The current funding allocation system for student groups lacks accountability, efficiency and a well-aligned incentive structure. SOFC is a group of 14 students that decides how to respond to all funding requests from groups.

We believe that this represents a problematic concentration of power and has allowed for the inefficient expenditure of student monies, such as the Chanticleer, which has received an average of $102,983 each year for the last seven years.

The 40% Plan would cut red tape and positively incentivize groups and students while retaining robust auditing standards. The

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Editorial the discretion to veto or alter budgets for these events; it would be able to recommend, but not mandate, a budget for each group. In other words, groups would be able to decide for themselves how much of their money to spend and on what.

The proposed changes would eliminate needless regulatory hoops and give groups an incentive to accurately inform students of their planned activities. If the plan passes, individual students will be more incentivized to partake in or attend events by extracurricular groups since they will have a financial stake in the groups they contribute to.

However, the a transfer of spending power away from SOFC and into the hands of

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above and the fear that perhaps you don’t belong here at all, that you aren’t quite as good as everyone else. And of course, there is still laundry to be done.

I have felt crushed from all these aspects of college life, and I know many of my colleagues have too. In fact, much of my time at Duke, I feel like I’m clinging on for dear life, managing

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I first found out about Madison Holleran on Facebook when a friend mourned her in a tribute. And my heart tightened in sorrow, because young death always brings the reality closer, but also because Madison—well, Madison was beautiful. As I scrolled through the photos—each one depicting her smiling face, her laugh, her joy—I was haunted. This was the girl, it seems, who had it all—the beauty, the athletic ambitions and the Ivy League education. There was nothing to hint that she was hurting, nothing that suggested her life was less than perfect or that one night she would decide that death was the only way out.

But, most of all, I was haunted because I was reminded of a night at Duke in which I was huddled on the floor of my room, shaking, wondering too if there was no way out. I don’t presume to know Madison or the state of mind that caused the tragic events last Friday. But I do know about the building pressure of a thousand different expectations during finals week. I know about fear that comes with failing to achieve your own goals. I know the dark despair that comes from comparing myself to the sea of accomplished Duke students and finding myself wanting. I know about pretending, about filling my Facebook with moments of captured joy so no one will know my shortcomings—my shame, my sadness.

Here is a truth: Duke is hard.

It doesn’t matter who you are, there are a thousand different ways that college can challenge you. Perhaps it’s the struggle to maintain the GPA that got you here in the first place or the anxiety of a future still unwritten.

Perhaps it is loneliness of a social scene that is, by nature, exclusive and can define people’s worth through their affiliations over accomplishments. Perhaps it’s the panic of extracurricular involvements that either seem inadequate or pile up alarmingly. Indeed, it might be overwhelming to balance all of the

deadlines and decisions.

Yet, even as I’m writing this now, a half of me wants to prevent myself from confessing my weaknesses. This is the kind of mindset that perpetuates insecurities and the misguided belief in students that weakness is unacceptable. This is the kind of mindset that shuts these anxieties behind smiles so genuine, you never know the demons people may carry until it is too late.

For the record, I have had some great, irreplaceable experiences at Duke. It’s not like there aren’t services that support Duke students either. There are. (For example, student-founded www.peerforyou.com provides an outlet for students to communicate anonymous concerns.) But it all leads to another truth that needs to be outed more than it is: It is OK to struggle. It is OK to fail.

It is OK to feel inadequate. It is OK, because it is human and there is nothing wrong with admitting human weakness.

We all struggle, because college life is not meant to be easy. There is no shame in feeling challenged. There is no shame in struggling together.

I never knew Madison Holleran, the girl with the long curling hair and sparkling eyes, who was a philosophy, politics and economics major and loved to run. I cannot comprehend the depth of her family’s loss. But I will grieve for her, and for every other young life that has succumbed to the despair of failure, believing that they were alone—that there was no other way. I grieve because it should not have happened, because there were infinite days of happiness and new experiences ahead, and because, ultimately, they were not alone.

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f you watched the NFC Championship game on Sunday night between the Seattle Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers, I hope you kept it on long enough to hear the most talked about sports interview of 2014 thus far.

In less than 25 seconds, Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman certainly didn’t mince words in an interview with Fox Sports’ Erin Andrews about his heated relationship with 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree—and the firestorm that

accessibility to players’ thoughts and commentaries allows vision into the actual humanity of these athletes, removing them from their perfectly chiseled and nimbly keen bodies and putting them at eye-level with everyone else. What we’ve learned from this is that athletes are human, and humans have emotions— and the things that sport endures from these emotions are incredible.

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has endured since that fateful Sunday halfof-a-moment has been incredible.

Sports, in many ways, are a certain form of science. Shooting foul shots or netting three-pointers are matters of balanced power and strength. A pitcher’s throws are instances of exactitude or exploitation, the difference between a strike and an RBI down the left field line. Athletes endure a process of harsh elimination on the road to professionalism, and, on that road, their qualifications and prerequisites of specific and often un-teachable knowledge, power, strength and aptitude are tested as matters of survival in the game.

That being said, it’s evident and irrefutable that in today’s media-centric world, sports demand more than physicality out of athletes. Sports do not live in a vacuum. Athletes don’t either. It is of heavy importance that an athlete remain compliant with certain arbitrated standards—no unnecessary roughness, monetary fines incurred for bad behavior or dangerous hits.

They are all pieces to the PR puzzle.

It’s no secret that athletes are consistently under the heated glare of the spotlight.

Sometimes they glow and sometimes the light hits them the wrong way. But, more often than not, it is an active, calculated choice by which athletes concretely determine the aura they exude. They create their personal brands—some literally with branded commodities—but always with their decisions and degrees of character and banter in sports media being visible and audible to the public eye and ear.

The national sports conversation of the last few days has focused on Sherman’s loud and resonating interview. The thing is—this is sports. Sports are a spectacle. We pack tens of thousands of people into coliseums with soaring stands after numerous hours of tailgating on concrete wastelands on the beds of pick-up trucks. We encourage rowdy fans at games, filled with hot wings and beer and city pride—Seattle’s 12th man being arguably the best in the business. We love to talk trash and heckle. And so do the athletes.

Professional sports and sports media, in the last decade, have been indubitably altered by the use of social media. Never have diehard fans, heated rival cohorts or hawk-eyed news organizations been able to live in a world so connected to pedestaled professional athletes. They are no longer untouchable, and the

should let the athletes talk. Like any good interviewer hopes for, sometimes these few post-game lines are worth a thousand more. Let them make their own decisions.

Let them decide how they want the light to shine on them and how they want their shadow to cast. Let them make their own name off the field. They’re big boys and girls. Let them say what they want. Let them make their own mistakes. Chances are, they don’t think these are mistakes at all.

If Richard Sherman didn’t want to be perceived as someone who thinks he is the best cornerback in the league, he wouldn’t have said he was the best cornerback in the league. This interview with Andrews is not an isolated incident. Sherman’s trash talking is his own choice. It’s his thing, actually. In a 2013 interview on ESPN’s “First Take,” Sherman literally made co-host Skip Bayless admit that Sherman is better at life than Bayless is. We should know this about his style and his attitude, and, as sports fans, we should love this. This makes the next game even better.

It is a choice—an active choice—for Sherman, and other athletes, to make bold, brash, ludicrous statements like he did on Sunday night. He did it because, in that moment, he wanted to. He felt it was right and necessary. I’m sure he would do it again, and maybe he will.

Other athletes have—athletes with far less credibility and outright physicality and skill than Sherman has.

Sherman’s current presence and stronghold in the spotlight of American bigtime sports makes his case that much more salient. He’s literally in the eyes of all of America, aware that the next time he takes the field will be the most-watched television event of the year. And he still said it and still should have—because it’s his thing. It’s how he wants to be perceived. It’s his athletic ego. It’s not everyone’s idea of a good thing, but it’s his, and if you don’t like it, I’m sure Sherman wouldn’t want you donning a Seahawks jersey on February 2.

Sherman sent a message that he wanted America to hear. He asked us to love it or hate it. And we will pick a side.

And that’s the beauty of sports.

reported) Duke athletic teams are ranked first academically in the NCAA with a 98 percent graduation success rate. Winning both on and off the field is what being a studentathlete is about, and we can say with a great deal of faith that we see this at Duke.

This is in no small part because of how seriously we take scholarship at Duke. As tenting begins before the Duke/UNC home game, I find myself recalling Titus and thinking that perhaps there are aspects of his behavior worth emulating. Titus was the son of the Roman emperor Vespasian and the first son to succeed his father as emperor. Prior to becoming emperor, he was a revered military leader much like his father was. One of his significant accomplishments—for which he was awarded a great triumph in Rome, commemorated by the Arch of Titus—is effectively ending the first Jewish-Roman war in 70 A.D. with the sack of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple. So I get how it may seem a little odd for a rabbi to be writing about someone who destroyed the spiritual center for the Jewish people and suggesting that there might be something worth emulating in his behavior. But you’re already two paragraphs in, so you may as well stick with me for a little longer.

After decades of Roman domination (partially our fault really, they were initially invited in) of Judea, there was a revolt that began in 66 A.D. and escalated very quickly.

As a result of Roman setbacks, the Roman military governor of Syria brought down a significant force of professional soldiers with the intention of decisively putting down the Jewish rebellion. While it was a decisive battle, it did not go in the Roman’s favor. The Roman troops were defeated and the 12th Legion’s Aquila standard was lost—a massive and embarrassing setback for Rome. After four more years of conflict, first under Vespasian and then under Titus, the more than 60,000 professional Roman soldiers steadily conquered the remainder of the province until only Jerusalem remained. Just as it is now, Jerusalem was then the capital of Israel and the spiritual center of the Jewish faith.

Placing the city under siege, the Roman forces under Titus sought to break the morale of Jerusalem’s defenders in a variety of ways, including crucifying people who attempted to flee the city, but the city walls held against the Roman legions. Unfortunately, the leaders inside of Jerusalem were not united, and,

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as a result of their infighting, there was very little food left in the city. After a siege of seven months, the Romans succeeded in breaching the walls and proceeded to sack, pillage and burn the city. Accounts differ as to whether or not Titus ordered the Temple protected or burned, but, in the end, by either accident or design, it was destroyed along with the city.

According to the historian Josephus, over one million Jews died defending Jerusalem, and close to one hundred thousand were taken as slaves by the Romans. By the standards of the Romans, it was a tremendous victory. The land route to Africa was once again secure, a major rebellion was crushed, and the empire would profit from the slaves taken and the

treasures of the Temple. Yet, Titus refused the traditional victor’s wreath. For the Romans and many other people in the ancient world, war wasn’t just about the armed conflict but was seen as a manifestation of the divine on earth. According to the author Philostratus, Titus refused the wreath since he saw no glory in defeating a people he viewed as having been abandoned by their God, and Titus merely served as the means by which the God of Israel manifested his wrath against the nation.

Such a degree of humility in a victorious general and the son of the emperor is astonishing, to say the least. By any reasonable Roman standard, he was deserving of the wreath and far more, yet he refused. As much as Titus did horrific things to my ancestors in the land of Israel, I can’t help but believe that his example matters to us. There is a method of Jewish exegesis called a Kal v’homer, from “an easy case to a hard case,” that I think is useful here. If Titus was able in a case of life and death to recognize that there were larger things in play, how much more should we recognize that there is more to our rivalry with UNC than simply beating down the other school?

But we want to beat UNC. We want to defeat them utterly in sports and see them return home to Chapel Hill in defeat. And we want it to be clean—since there is no glory in defeating a demoralized foe. Our victory has to matter because our rival is not only worthy of rivalry but simply worthy.

UNC is not a bad school—in fact, it is a rather good school. To allow the rivalry to extend beyond the arena and to attack them for things that don’t matter on the court is not worthy of us. They deserve to be treated better than that—to be treated the way we would wish them to treat us. The rivalry can be heated, but is also needs to be respectful.

While the academic issues plaguing UNC athletics are making headlines, they should be viewed as disappointing to us rather than a means of scoring points off of our rival. We’ll score those points on the court, and leave it to the investigators to deal with the rest. At the end of the day, we need UNC to be not only a great rival, but also recognized as a great school.

Jeremy Yoskowitz is the campus rabbi and assistant director for Jewish life. His column runs every other Thursday. Send Rabbi Jeremy a message on Twitter @TheDukeRav.

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Miami Heat star LeBron James was one of many NBA players in attendance at Duke’s blowout victory Wednesday night.

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with nine offensive rebounds in the first period, giving them nine more shots than the Hurricanes. Duke finished with a 42-28 rebounding advantage after struggling on the glass in their two ACC road games, losses to Notre Dame and Clemson. The Blue Devils were outrebounded by 13.5 per game in those contests.

Freshman Jabari Parker finished with 17 points and a career-high 15 rebounds, six of which came on the offensive glass.

“Everything wasn’t going my way offensively, so I tried to do other things like rebound,” Parker said. “That creates possessions.”

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A potential top pick in this year’s NBA draft, Parker made 5-of-12 field goals and turned it over four times in front of a star-studded crowd. The Miami Heat’s LeBron James and Dwyane Wade were in attendance, as was Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers. Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski has coached all three for Team USA in the Olympics. Additionally, former Blue Devils Shane Battier, who plays for the Heat, and Ryan Kelly, who plays for the Lakers, were in attendance.

Parker said Duke is fortunate to have the support of those stars such as James, who wrote on Instagram during the game he was there to “see Coach K and the young boy Jabari Parker.”

Krzyzewski joked after the game that Parker could learn from James’ ability to hold on to the ball in transition. He also said he witnessed James and Wade “go nuts” after a “big-time play” by Parker in the second half, throwing down a dunk after a Miami made jump shot.

Parker and Rodney Hood—who finished with 12 points, including a thunderous alley-oop from Cook—were the only two Blue Devils to finish in double figures. More impressive was the team’s defensive performance, led by Parker and Amile Jefferson’s three blocks apiece.

The Hurricanes made 17-of-48 field goals, their lowest clip in ACC play. Guard Rion Brown—who entered the game as the only Miami player averaging double-figure points—was held to a season-low two points on 1-of-6 shooting.

Seven-foot center Marshall Plumlee recorded one block in his seven minutes on the floor and also grabbed a key defensive rebound less than two minutes later.

“We needed some stops, and Marshall gave us two stops,” Krzyzewski said.

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