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Senior Eugene Wojciechowski named Marquette head coach Rabinovich wins Goldwater by Andrew Beaton The Chronicle
by Emma Baccellieri The chronicle
Duke junior Eugene Rabinovich was announced as a recipient of the Goldwater Scholarship Tuesday. Rabinovich is one of 283 students to be awarded the scholarship this year from a pool of more than 1,100 applicants. An Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholar from Solon, Ohio, he is double majoring in physics and mathematics and minoring in music. “The things that I’ve accomplished have already been done, so it’s just an extra, nice thing that someone else recognizes it,” Rabinovich said. Rabinovich was a 2013 PRUV Fellow through Duke’s department of mathematics. In high school, he was a member of the U.S. Physics Team and took second place in the World Piano Competition, performing twice at Carnegie Hall. The scholarship provides up to $7,500 for undergraduate tuition, books, fees and room and board for students pursuing the natural sciences, engineering and math. See award, page 6
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After 19 years at Duke as a player and coach, Steve Wojciechowski announced Tuesday that he will be taking over the head coach position at Marquette, replacing Buzz Williams.
In Steve Wojciechowski’s 19 years at Duke as a player and coach—the majority of his life—he embodied the program’s image. If somebody owned a trademark on floor-slapping, it would Wojciechowski. Now Wojciechowski has finally found his opportunity to shape his own program at Marquette, where he was introduced Tuesday as the program’s 17th head basketball coach. The former Duke assistant replaces Buzz Williams who left for the same position at Virginia Tech. No, “Wojo” may no longer slap the floor— “I don’t know if I can get down low enough,” he said at his introductory press conference— but his overwhelming competitiveness has defined him as both a player and assistant coach, a trait he will bring to his new home in Milwaukee. “I’m as competitive as they come,” he said. “I want to win every day. I want them to win every day as basketball players, I want them to win every day as students, I want them to win everyday most importantly as people.” That competitive pedigree separated Wojciechowski from the other finalists, all of whom had previously held head coaching positions, Marquette president-elect Michael Lovell said. See Wojo, page 12
Castro highlights importance of public service work By Georgia Parke The Chronicle
San Antonio mayor Julian Castro turned the conversation about public service from politics to leadership in his address to a crowd at the Sanford School of Public Policy Tuesday. Castro, first elected in 2009 for a two-year term, has since been re-elected twice. Prior to his election, he served on the San Antonio City Council for four years. Castro said he did not expect to go into public service, but found a pas-
sion for it nonetheless. He urged the audience—many of whom were undergraduate and graduate students in public policy—to consider taking a similar path. “We don’t have enough young people who choose public service these days,” he said. In addition to being, at age 39, the youngest mayor among those of the 50 most populous American cities, Castro is also widely known for delivering the keynote speech at the 2012 Democrat-
ic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.—the first Latino to do so. He said the event Tuesday was his first time at Duke ever and first time in North Carolina since the convention. “I’m a little bit less nervous this time,” he said to the audience in Fleishman Commons. Castro was introduced by Erin Sweeney, an associate in research at the Hart Leadership Program and Trinity ‘13. The Hart Leadership Program presented Castro as part of the Connect2Po-
litics series, which brought four young political leaders to campus this Spring. Castro was the last of the four speakers to present. Sweeney summarized some of Castro’s personal history and upbringing, such as his run for a city council seat that his mother had lost 30 years prior. She also mentioned some of Castro’s priorities, such as revitalizing the city and finding creative solutions to educational See mayor, page 6