August 19, 2014

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Admissions yield hits highest point since 1979 Nearly 48 percent of students admitted to the Class of 2018 chose to attend Duke Emma Baccellieri News Editor The Class of 2018 comes with the highest admissions yield for Duke since 1979.

Approximately 47.7 percent of admitted students accepted the offer to come to Duke, said Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag. This represents an increase of more than 2 percent from last year’s yield of 45.6 percent—and more than 5 percent from two years ago.

The uptick is due to more students admitted via early decision—a record 47 percent of the class—as well as a slight increase in regular decision yield, Guttentag said.

The incoming freshmen are also responsible for another milestone—more than half of them are students of color, a first for Duke.

“It goes without saying that we’re pleased,” Guttentag said. “I think it’s a reflection of how the institution presents itself to prospective students and their families, I think it’s a reflection of the quality of the education, I think it’s a reflection of the commitment to diversity.”

The class includes record numbers of Asian students, See YIELD on Page 6

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After several years of fluctuation, Duke’s admissions yield has steadily increased for the past two classes.

DSG uses summer to prepare for upcoming projects Rachel Chason University Editor Between the last day of classes and the first, many on-campus obligations fall to the bottom of most students’ priority list. For the leaders of Duke Student Government, however, the summer is a time to get a head start on projects for the Fall.

President Lavanya Sunder, a junior, said she has focused this summer on building a sustainable model for student cookouts before games, creating a campus-wide female mentorship program and communicating information about the on-campus construction.

“My main goals for the coming year are to make the construction on campus as well explained and manageable as possible, to try to expand Duke’s Prevent. Act. Challenge.

Teach. training program and to, at least for the first semester, really working on making sure voter registration is an easy process for students,” Sunder said.

She said she will also work to ensure that DSG is an efficient and accountable organization. She hopes to roll out a new DSG website in coming weeks that will contain a weekly blog by senators.

“We’re hoping that, in addition to making Senators more accountable, the new website will also make students feel more connected to DSG,” Sunder said.

The vice presidents lead seven respective Senate committees—academic affairs, Durham and regional affairs, equity and outreach, facilities and the environment, residential life, services and social culture.

Academic affairs The academic affairs committee, led by vice president Ray Li, focused this summer on developing an idea for “Bookbag Sunday”—a proposed event on the Sunday when bookbagging begins where students and professors could interact in a social environment.

Li, a senior, said the event—which would include food and entertainment—is part of the committee’s larger effort to develop

academic traditions on campus.

“We want to develop the kind of strong traditions that we see at our peer institutions,” Li said. “And we think this would be a fun way to get students excited about academics outside of the classroom.”

Li also said the committee is working on creating a Durham education Focus program, which he explained could incorporate everything from North Carolina’s history to current information about Durham.

“All students benefit when they learn not just about Duke, but also about Durham and North Carolina,” Li said.

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FAC Board chair shares advice with incoming freshmen Few freshmen will ever forget the first faces they see as they arrive on move-in day. Teams of First-Year Advisory Counselors form to provide guidance and support to the newest residents of the Duke campus.

Seniors Lizete Dos Santos and Sarah Haas, FAC Board Co-Chairs, were tasked with overseeing the group of nearly 250 counselors. The Chronicle’s Kali Shulklapper spoke with Dos Santos to discuss the wisdom she hopes to pass down to the Blue Devil Class of 2018.

The Chronicle: What is the most important thing for freshman to keep in mind during Orientation Week in order to keep cool, calm and collected? If you’re feeling overwhelmed, what would you recommend doing?

Lizete Dos Santos: It’s really important to remember that this is their new home. Duke’s Welcome Week is one of the best in the nation, take full advantage of it. Enjoy all the events because you only get to enjoy them once.

However, if you feel overwhelmed it’s okay to take some time to yourself to just regroup. Do what you feel is manageable for you.

TC: What is the best way to meet new people during Orientation Week? Which events do you absolutely recommend attending?

LDS: Just be open and curious. Whether you’re introverted or extroverted, be brave and start a conversation, ask questions, listen and tell your story. Taste of Duke, Night on the Town and Night at the Nasher are my personal favorites.

TC: What is your best advice for freshman about getting involved on campus? What are some of the best outlets and places to look?

LDS: Take your time and choose quality over quantity. It’s okay to not have it all figured out in the first week, take some time to feel out certain groups and see whether it’s manageable with your schedule. Choose a few things you’re really passionate about or explore and try something new. Definitely ask your FAC about opportunities at Duke and attend the Activities Fair.

TC: Do you have any suggestions for making the add/drop period seem a little bit less overwhelming?

LDS: The classes you selected this summer aren’t set in stone. You have time to choose a new class if one is overwhelming or wasn’t what you expected. Be patient with the process. It will take time to adjust but be honest with yourself about what you can handle. You have four years to complete your academic requirements so first semester of your first-year should be filled with classes you really enjoy.

TC: In terms of living with a college budget, what is the best piece of advice you could give?

LDS: The Financial Aid Office runs several workshops on budgeting and how to allocate your money—take advantage of them. I would say until you’re feeling settled, only spend money on what you really need. Reach out to your FAC or any upperclassmen who can give you tips like buying your books from other students or off Amazon for cheaper prices. Duke offers so much fun and exciting programming for free, you don’t have to go off campus to have fun.

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First-Year Advisory Counselors, pictured above, help incoming freshmen move into their dorms.

TC: When it comes to your roommate, what is the best way to handle a not-so-great living situation?

LDS: First, have a conversation with your roommate. Explain to each other what your expectations are of each other when it comes to your shared living space. Don’t feel like you have to be best friends to enjoy living with each other. However, if you feel like you’re not getting anywhere—reach out to your RA and they can intervene and hopefully resolve the situation.

TC: What are the best or most underrated study spots on campus?

LDS: The Duke Gardens are perfect on a sunny day when you need to just get some See FAC on Page 6

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Alumnus evacuated from Guinea due to Ebola outbreak University has placed travel restrictions on West Africa as a result of outbreak Emma Baccellieri News Editor The Ebola virus outbreak’s effect on the Duke community has been minimal—University travel restrictions have enacted as a precaution, though no students, faculty or staff are said to be present in the afflicted countries. For one young alumnus, however, the outbreak hit close to home.

Shreyan Sen, Trinity ‘12, spent the past two years in Guinea as a member of the Peace Corps. He returned home to Raleigh a few weeks ago, just days before all Peace Corps volunteers in the region were evacuated and Guinea closed its borders as a result of the outbreak.

The outbreak was concerning, but it did not have a great effect on everyday life in Guinea, Sen said.

“Very early on, it was sort of a little scary and unknown,” Sen said. “Once we were informed and knew what it was and where it was and what we could do to avoid it, people just went on with their normal lives.”

The outbreak began Guinea in March and has been reported to have claimed more than 1,000 lives so far—a number that the World Health Organization has said could be “vastly underestimated.” The disease is spread humanto-human—typically through direct contact with bodily fluids of an infected person, or with the body of a deceased victim of the disease.

Because the disease can only be spread through such direct contact, chances of getting sick as a Peace Corps volunteer were low, Sen said.

Sen compared the attitude toward the outbreak to the United States’ reaction to the swine flu virus in 2009.

There was an increased emphasis on basic sanitation, such as hand washing, and some people chose to wear surgical masks, Sen said. Apart from that, however, there were no dramatic changes to everyday life.

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Billy Fischer, a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill physician, at the Ebola treatment center in Gueckedou, Guinea. “You lose about three to five liters of sweat, then you spend the next two hours hydrating before you go back in,” said Fischer. said.

Duke’s International Travel Oversight Committee has placed full country restrictions on travel to Liberia and Guinea. Travel restrictions already in place for Sierra Leone for security reasons will continue. Duke has not placed restrictions on Nigeria, which has confirmed between 10 and 20 cases of the disease.

There are no University faculty, staff or students currently visiting Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone, according to a Duke News release, and no incoming students from these countries will be attending Duke this Fall. The University does not maintain any regular programming—such as DukeEngage or study-abroad programs—in any of the

infected countries.

“This is being done in light of the Ebola outbreak heavily affecting these countries and is in line with [Center of Disease Control] recommendations to avoid nonessential travel to these countries,” said Dr. Eric Ossmann, director of the Duke Preparedness and Response Center, in the release.

University administrators have announced that any member of the Duke community who has traveled to Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia or Nigeria in the past three weeks should consult with Student Health or Employee Occupational Health and Wellness before returning to campus.

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“Everyone has different concerns, and one of our main goals is to really follow through on everything that’s brought to us,” Li said.

Durham and regional affairs Senior David Robertson, vice president of Durham and regional affairs, noted his committee has developed several core goals for the coming year. The first is forming a coalition to increase student political involvement in the coming elections.

“We hope to bring together majors’ unions, partisan and non-partisan groups to find creative strategies for increasing voter registration and actual voting,” Robertson said.

He said that his committee has been working with Duke’s Office for Civic Engagement to give students’ perspective on how to revamp the idea of civic engagement.

Robertson says he will also focus on continuing to revise the “Knock and Talks”— when Duke police go door-to-door checking in with off campus students—as part of a larger effort to have better outreach to off campus students.

Another focus will be increasing marketing for Durham among Duke students.

“This includes solidifying the Duke-Durham discount program, providing students with a central location to access Durham resources and working with local programs like the Bull City BUCKS program,” Robertson explained.

Lastly, he plans to outline what a student internship program in Durham would look like—addressing potential problems like transportation and funding.

Equity and outreach

The Chronicle Junior Keizra Mecklai, vice president of equity and outreach, has been working with the office of student conduct and women’s center over the summer to create a sexual misconduct fact sheet.

Mecklai said the sheet will include charts from both offices explaining what their processes are in working with victims of sexual misconduct. She said she also hopes to include misconduct statistics from the last three years.

“As far as this year goes, I want to try to get Duke Vans to take students to local pharmacies on the weekends when the Duke pharmacy is closed,” Mecklai said.

She also hopes to run the “What I Be” project—where students are photographed saying they are not their insecurities—again this year with the help of Blue Devils United.

She said she also would like to put together a mental health awareness week to coincide with the project.

“Blue Devils United and the equity and outreach committee also intend to work together to put on Greek ally week two and have a huge showing at the NC pride parade,” Mecklai said. “Finally, I hope to put together diversity awareness training for the recruitment chairs of all selective living organizations.”

Facilities and the environment Senior Ellie Schaack, who leads the facilities and the environment committee, says she has worked this summer to ensure that channels of communication are kept open throughout the community about ongoing construction projects.

“We’re in the process of ensuring that the people in charge of the projects are communicating with students, sharing both annoying updates on the inconveniences caused by the projects and exciting updates about the projects themselves,” Schaack said.

She emphasized that the committee would like students to have a voice in the projects.

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sure that opportunity is there,” Schaack said. “To that end, we’re developing a centralized construction web platform where students can see info about the project goals, stay current on day-to-day changes to campus, and submit their thoughts to the people behind the projects.”

Schaack said her committee will continue to make sure campus is as sustainable and accessible as possible. She said she will focus on creating closer partnerships with the many student-run sustainability-focused organizations and hopes to make the campus farm more accessible and ensure that changes to the recycling system are seamlessly implemented and communicated.

“As far as accessibility goes, we’ll obviously continue to ensure that the buildings we’re constructing are not only accessible but optimized for those with disabilities,” Schaack said. “And we’ll make sure that those who are walkingimpaired are not disproportionately inconvenienced by the temporary changes to campus that construction mandates.”

Residential life Sophomore Zachary Gorowitz, who leads the residential life committee, said the summer has been a productive one.

In June, he met with Joe Gonzalez, dean of residential life, to discuss goals for the year.

“We have some lofty goals this year in residential life,” Gorowitz said. “First and foremost, we are always trying to increase the sense of community among independent students and my long term goal is for students to choose their house based on personality and community rather than location.”

Gorowitz said he will focus on getting Residential Group Assessment Committee reform done this year and settling on numbers that are acceptable for both the administration and the students.

“I would also like to continue a project I worked on last semester—the free assignment of dorm rooms,” Gorowitz said. “Currently, it is very rare for a female and male room to be next door to each other, or even in the same wing of a building, which creates problems in equity of room type between genders as well as a lack of community—something that definitely needs fixing.”

Services Over the summer, junior Billy Silk, who leads the services committee, has worked with Duke Dining administration and DUSDAC co-chairs on vendor selection for the Law School Café, applications from food trucks and updates to existing venues.

He said plans for the year include increasing student choice over the vendors, making Student Health services more accessible and implementing small and large-scale physical changes to campus so it better serves students.

Silk said the committee will work with President Sunder to implement a “food fair” at the end of the year where students can sample prospective food trucks and Merchants on Points vendors.

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He emphasized the importance of making healthy options accessible, saying the committee hopes to create a database to show students where they can purchase what foods and then work with Duke Dining to add foods students say are lacking.

The services committee will also work with Mecklai, who leads the equity and outreach comittee, to create and implement a model for increased access to over the counter medications and contraceptives.

Silk said another goal is to use mobile technology to communicate parking updates, such as when lots are closed or students must move cars on game days.

Social Culture Junior Tucker Albert, who leads the social culture committee, has worked this summer to improve the event registration process and improve the model for student cookouts before football games.

Albert explained that the current event registration process—which requires student to register an event 14 days in advance—frustrates many students.

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DUPD, and Dean [of Residence Life and Housing Services Debbie] LoBiondo to discuss possible changes to the process, including cutting down the registration period to five business days prior rather than two weeks,” Albert said. “While I’ve made some progress over the summer, it’s something I plan to see through this upcoming year.”

He also worked with the athletics department and President Sunder to create an effective model for tailgate for the future—which he hopes will improve students’ experiences and respect the administration’s guidelines.

Albert said tailgate will now feature “game day buses” to cut down on student wait times as they move between campuses.

There will also be student moniters and tents that student groups can apply for.

“By keeping the tents in close proximity, we expect groups of all different kinds to interact to create the sense of community our tailgates have lacked for quite some time,” Albert said.

He said he has a number of goals for the coming year, including implementing pArts, a new pre-orientation program that would cater to artistic members of the incoming class, See DSG CONT’D on Page 6

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the University of Chicago and the eight Ivy League schools, all of which consistently post yields of 50 continued from page 1 percent or greater.

“That’s a reasonable goal, and I think that we’ll Latino/a students and international students—with continue to work in that direction,” Guttentag said of 495, 159 and 183 students, respectively. a 50 percent yield. “We’re in a very think parents are see- competitive situation—the schools There are also 75 students admitted from a waitlist of more than 1,000. The that also admit the students we admit ing Duke as it is now, University aims to admit a few students are among the very best in the world, from the waitlist each year, Guttentag more than the Duke they and we relish the competition.” recall from when they were noted.

In terms of recent years’ yield There was a slight shift in the class’s thinking about colleges. increase, Guttentag noted the geographic make-up. North Carolina, importance of a strong Blue Devil California, New York and Florida — Christoph Guttentag Days program. Another recent trend retained their spots as the four most is growing communication between popular states, and Texas took fifth parents of current students and place for the first time, replacing New parents of prospective students, he Jersey. said.

Despite the increase in yield that Duke has seen in “I think parents are seeing Duke as it is now, more recent years, the University’s rate sits behind a number than the Duke they recall from when they were thinking of its peer institutions—including Stanford University, about colleges,” Guttentag said.

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TC: Where should freshmen go for the best food venues both on and off campus?

LDS: On Campus: the Divinity School Refectory, Law School Refectory and The Loop. Off Campus: Dame’s Chicken and Waffles, Bull City Burger and Palace International.

TC: What is one thing you regret about freshman year or something you would definitely tell freshman to take advantage of?

LDS: Take time to build community with your dorm, but also don’t be afraid to get to know people outside your dorm too.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Talented Duke freshmen look to adjust to college game

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Orientation week is spent meeting new people, figuring out the campus bus routes and exploring Durham. But when you’re going to play a pair of soccer games before you ever take your first college class, you have to do all those things well before O-week kicks off.

Billed as the No. 3 recruiting class in the nation, six new Blue Devils have been on campus since early August, giving them a chance to adjust to both their new surroundings and their new teammates.

“We have six girls on East Campus right now, and [Aug. 16] was the first day that we’ve seen other people in our dorm, so it was just the six of us in the whole building,” freshman defender Morgan Reid said. “We haven’t really met anyone outside the soccer community because people haven’t moved in yet, but we’ve had time to explore and get our bearings and find a lot of good restaurants that we like.”

The adjustment to college soccer and the time commitment required has also taken some time to get used to. Two-anda-half hour training sessions—held twice a day during preseason—are followed by ice baths, film sessions, team meetings and sessions working on the mental aspect of the game. Freshmen are also responsible for the set-up and tear-down of practice, Reid said, meaning each ses-

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Duke freshmen Imani Dorsey and Morgan Reid were named to TopDrawerSoccer.com’s Best XI Freshman preseason team and are a vital part of the Blue Devils’ No. 3-ranked recruiting class. sion may consume three to four hours after bringing water, balls, pennies and cones to and from the field.

“The competitive atmosphere is like 10 times greater [in college]. You have to be your best and the most competitive person you can be to help your teammates get better and yourself get better,” freshman midfielder Imani Dorsey said. “Having the extra bit of focus to get

that final touch or that perfect pass to your teammate, everything just has to be sharper.”

Reid and Dorsey were both named to the TopDrawerSoccer.com preseason Best XI Freshman team. The pair, along with Ashton Miller and Schuyler DeBree, got the starting nod in Duke’s exhibition opener, a 2-0 triumph Thursday against South Carolina. Producing immediate

results, the second tally of the game came courtesy of a freshman-to-freshman connection, as Miller found Casey Martinez on a free kick that Martinez finished past South Carolina’s Sabrina D’Angelo. Duke’s lone goal in its second exhibition match against UNC-Wilmington came from Dorsey less than a minute See FRESHMEN, page 12

WOMEN’S GOLF

Boutier spent summer improving in international play

by Amrith Ramkumar THE CHRONICLE

Last year, Celine Boutier recorded three victories, six top-five finishes and seven top-ten placements en route to National Player of the Year honors.

She’s coming back for more.

After qualifying for the U.S. Women’s Open earlier this summer, the rising junior continued gaining international experience, leading France to victory in the European Ladies Amateur Team Championship, and most recently competing in the European Ladies Amateur Championship and U.S. Women’s Amateur.

Combined with her experience last summer making the cut at the RICOH Women’s British Open, the past few months have given the Frenchwoman a wide variety of lessons to draw upon in the coming season. That’s a scary thought for her opponents.

“I improve from every tournament I play because I do my best and learn from

the good or bad that happens on and off the course,” Boutier said in an email.

“The experiences I got helped me figure out what to work on and will definitely be helpful in the future. I think the best way to prepare yourself and be at your best for the team season is to compete as much as possible, without getting you too tired, which I did.”

Boutier advanced to the second round of the U.S. Women’s Amateur match play portion Aug. 7, falling on the second extra hole to Kristen Gillman.

The reigning ACC Player of the Year was unable to win a second straight dramatic match after defeating Ashley Holder following an extra hole in the first round.

Players were forced to qualify for match play after 36 holes of stroke play at Nassau Country Club in Glen Cove, N.Y; the format is similar to the one the NCAA Championship recently adopted, another reason Boutier was able to take away so much from the week.

“The US Women’s Amateur was a great experience,” she said. “Playing in such events is always great because you get the chance to play against the best players in the U.S. but also worldwide in a format that is not very common, and on amazing golf courses. It is the same format as the British Amateur so I am a little used to it, but match play is always interesting because anyone can win really.”

Boutier will look to share her experience this summer with the rest of her teammates when she returns to Duke, She will now be the unquestioned leader of the team after the reigning national champions lost seniors Laetitia Beck and Alejandra Cangrejo, as well as freshman Yu Liu, who turned professional.

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With the regular season opener just around the corner, the Blue Devils got their season started on the right foot.

No. 18 Duke notched a pair of shutouts in its two exhibition matches, blank0 ing No. 14 South USC 2-0 in its DUKE 2 Carolina exhibition opener 1 Thursday at KoskiDuke nen Stadium beUNC-W 0 fore hanging on for a 1-0 victory at UNC-Wilmington Saturday.

“I was very happy with the overall performance,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said after the South Carolina game. “I saw some areas where we can continue to build on, especially on the offensive side because we’ve really done much more work on the defensive side up to this point.”

The Duke offense managed just three shots on the evening, but it was enough to send the Blue Devils past the Gamecocks. The first goal came on an own goal in the 18th minute, and the teams played a scoreless second period before freshman Casey Martinez put the game

away with a strike in the 84th minute.

Against UNC-Wilmington, Duke wasted no time getting on the board, as Imani Dorsey scored less than a minute into the match to give the Blue Devils all the offense they would need.

Playing shorthanded due to injuries and a pair of players participating in the U20 World Cup, the Blue Devils were able to hold both of their opponents scoreless in each of the three 30-minute periods. Defense has been the focus of Duke’s preseason training, making the shutouts an encouraging sign.

“I was really proud of our team’s ef-

fort and I think the coaching staff was as well,” freshman Imani Dorsey said. “We expected to get a win out of it and we did—that’s our goal, to keep moving forward and connecting. We’ve been focus on defensive presence, so having a shutout was really important as well.”

The short turnaround between exhibition games was no accident. The Blue Devils play games Friday and Sunday for the first four weekends of the regular season, and Church wanted to get his team prepared for the physical toll reSee EXHIBITIONS, page 12

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The Blue Devils have thrived off of strong play from freshman like Imani Dorsey and early scoring in their first two exhibition victories.

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final lineup, Boutier still expects her teammates to also help the team dynamic and does not want any special treatment because of her age.

“I don’t think that being a part of the upper class players should change anything about your role on the team,” she said. “I think that everyone no matter the class brings something to the team that is personal, which is great, but I don’t see any roles really that upper class or lower class players should have.”

Touted freshmen Leona and Lisa Maguire—Irish twins who like Boutier competed at the European Ladies Amateur Championship—and Gurbani Singh will look to follow Boutier’s lead and define their own roles when they step on campus.

The trio will battle senior Irene Jung and junior Yi Xiao for the three spots in the lineup that will accompany Boutier and sophomore Sandy Choi, who is coming off an outstanding spring season.

With four fall tournaments scheduled in the coming months, the freshmen will have a chance to make an immediate impact, just as Boutier and Choi did in their first year.

Boutier knows the challenge that awaits her new teammates, and has some tips for them their new classmates.

“My main challenge was to keep up with the crazy schedule of a student-athlete, but also maintain my golf game and my academics on high levels,” she said.

“Socially, as English is not my first language, I had trouble to open up and go to others, but the Maguire sisters won’t have that problem! My main advice would just be to enjoy and live every minute of their first year in college as you only get the chance to be a freshman once!”

And although the junior who seems poised beyond her years emphasizes the importance of fine-tuning her game in the summer, she remains focused on consistency from shot-to-shot and round-to-round rather than specific aspects of her game.

A team-wide focus on consistency led to no finishes outside the top five and a national title last year. Who knows what could happen if this year’s team emulates Boutier’s even-keeled attitude.

“I don’t think that my game really evolved or changed since last year’s season,” Boutier said. “My game has always been very consistent as a whole, but I just get the chance to practice and compete a little more during the summer.”

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into the contest.

The anticipation of finally taking the field at Koskinen Stadium against a real opponent was a long time in the making.

“I remember just walking out onto the field for the first time for warmups was just the most amazing feeling, because I’ve been committed to Duke for two years now and I’ve watched them play on the field,” Dorsey said. “I wanted to be in the same experience, so having that chance was incredible.”

“It was kind of a crazy, surreal feeling, because I’ve come to Duke games since I was really little since I only live about 20 minutes away,” Reid said. “To be out there on the field and be in that intense atmosphere and to have my little siblings watching me was really cool.”

The six freshmen join a talented but very young Blue Devil roster, which lost key cogs in its offensive machine in forwards Laura Weinberg and Kim DeCe-

sare and chinks in its defensive armor in Natasha Anasi and the versatile Mollie Pathman to graduation.

Church said he hasn’t decided how many freshmen will crack the starting lineup once the Blue Devils get back to full strength—sophomores Christina Gibbons and Rebecca Quinn have missed preseason training as they compete in the FIFA U20 World Cup for Team USA and Team Canada, respectively, and redshirt senior Gilda Doria continues to work back toward game shape after missing the entire 2013 campaign with a knee injury. Regardless of whether they start or come off the bench, Church said he was confident that his freshmen would make an impact.

“They’re going to be a big part of our program this year,” Church said. “I don’t want them to just sit back and say ‘Hey I’m a freshman, I’m going to give way to the sophomores, juniors and seniors.’ We have some people gone, we have some people who are hurt right now, so we can’t afford to be timid.”

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quired to play two games within 48 hours.

“The first four weekends of the regular season are Friday-Sunday, so when we decided to play two preseason games we planned it out to where we could get practice playing two games within 48 hours,” Church said. “It’s hard to play two college soccer games so close together, especially with the young team that we have.”

Goalkeeper continues to be a fierce position battle as the regular season opener nears. Last season, senior Ali Kershner and redshirt junior Meghan Thomas split time throughout the year, with Kershner making a number of consecutive starts while Thomas worked her way back from a leg injury. Heading into the 2014 season, freshman E.J. Proctor has been added to the mix as well. Each goalkeeper played a 30-minute period against the Gamecocks, but none of them were severely tested, as South Carolina mustered six shots all night, none of which required saves.

Church said the situation remains fluid, with a decision on Friday’s opening day starter in net against Ohio State at the Carolina Classic likely to come after training sessions Monday and Tuesday. He added that he feels comfortable with any of the three between the pipes.

“We’re very fortunate to have three very good goalkeepers,” Church said. “They’re all different, they all have their own strengths and they all have their own weaknesses. Goalkeeper is a really important position for us, and I think they’ve all done a really good job to this point. It’s pretty even right now. We’re going to have to make a decision next week, and it’s not going to be an easy decision.”

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Aycock renaming presents lingering questions Many college freshmen from all over the country will greet this upcoming week with fear and excitement as they enter their new homes for the next few years in a ceremony that is aptly titled, “Orientation Week.” Duke students are no stranger to this phenomenon, and the tradition is so cherished here that it has even garnered its own nickname: “O-Week.”

For current students, the week is whispered about in hushed tones and thrown out as an excuse for any questionable behavior. “After all, it was O-Week,” you might hear around campus as a justification for almost anything. The term “O-Week friend” is one you will use for years to come, describing a girl you might pass in the hallway and vaguely recognize or a boy you spent hours talking with that whole week only to never see again. Whether good or bad, these are the sad facts of college orientation week.

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Editorial Duke will never give you this much free stuff again, and the T-shirts you get from O-Week may become your staple wardrobe for the rest of freshman year. Or at least your “I-didn’thave-time-to-do-laundry this month” clothing.

(This will become more common than you think.)

Don’t sleep. Or, more importantly, don’t forego socialization to sleep. You can sleep when you’re in college, by which we mean, if you intended to get sleep at Duke, you came to the wrong university. You will not sleep for the next four years, and O-Week is a great indoctrination to this fascinatingly frustrating way of life.

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ere’s a sad truth—most of you will come to college armed with passion, excitement and a thirst for learning, but many of you will not leave that way.

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rousing speeches about what it means to be a freshman at the greatest University on Earth and have no idea who they are or what they look like. Later you will learn this is the closest you could ever get to President Brodhead.

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arts education. It is not so we can divide ourselves into groups marked “Science” person versus “Humanities” person, and then slowly devolve into these little sub-groups until the only thing we can discuss is our one academic specialty that no one else has ever heard of.

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after one too many drinks during O-Week, don’t sell that class thing short. You didn’t come to Duke University just for an education in blood-alcohol level. And, if you did, chances are you’re in the wrong place.

But let’s go back to my infamous freshman year. I was excited for the first day of classes!

During my initial hour in the white walls of the classroom, I endlessly traced the outline of “Duke University” written on my notebook, awed with the realization that I was finally in COLLEGE. So awed by this realization was I that I forgot to actually listen in class— something I didn’t seem to remember until the semester was over and I checked my grade on ACES. Whoops.

Slowly, I began to understand that class was actually intended as a place to learn, not to a) plan my weekend, b) pretend to type notes while actually checking Buzzfeed or c) stare at a clock for exactly an hour and twenty-five minutes. Once I tuned in to the words of my professors, I realized that these were quite possibly the most brilliant people I had ever met.

Yes, on paper, they might have showed me a new tense in Ancient Greek or a unique interpretation of a painting, but, in reality, I was learning so much more. They were teaching me how to think.

Critical and analytical thinking—it’s a hard thing to measure in tangible results, and an even harder thing to discuss. What does it mean? I’ve thought about this for a while, and I’ve determined it’s all about the connections you can make. It’s about understanding how the whole world relates to itself. It’s about reading a sentence in a book and connecting it to the time it was written and the technological innovations that era had and seeing how it relates to our own society.

After all, that is why we are getting a liberal-

for that matter—is about. At a university like this, it’s not just the professors that care. It’s the students. While the late night Perkins hours and the endless deadlines sometimes make it seem like we’re just in it for the A, I know that’s not true. I have to believe that what most of us want is to learn something new. At least, I really want to believe that.

So prove me right. Go to your classes, first of all, and enjoy them! Do the assignments because they’re actually fun, not just because you have to. Do some self-guided research.

Maybe you’ll make an unexpected discovery— my new mission is to disprove the authenticity of a Vermeer I saw in a stately home outside of London. (Don’t worry, I do realize I’m the epitome of cool.)

But, most importantly, when your friends ask you how you’re doing or what you’re working on or what classes you’re taking, don’t just shrug them off. One of the most puzzling things about Duke students is our unwillingness to discuss with our friend what we actually do with all our time. Maybe I don’t know anything about Organic Chemistry other than when someone says they have an Orgo final I should respond with “OH MY GOD, how will you survive?” but if someone actually decided to talk about what they were learning, maybe I could respond with a more educated answer.

I think we assume that we only care about the things, but, as students of the world, that’s not true.

We care about knowledge and we crave learning. So don’t close yourself off to it, but embrace it.

And, back to that adage, you might actually learn something new…outside of your classes.

Elizabeth Dijinis is the Editorial Pages Editor of The Chronicle V. 110.

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isten up, peasants. I am your Guardian Devil for the semester. Because Duke is currently undergoing what I can only call “campus botox” Joan Rivers style, the higher-ups have asked me to guide you through these trying times while they figure out how to best shut down East Campus without anyone noticing. For the next semester, I will be providing you with unsolicited guidance for your totally cool and awesome (read: sad and pathetic) lives.

wonderland,” you’ll take this advice to heart.

Also, side note, if any of you francophiles, aka freaks, actually say “Au Bon Pain” instead of “ABP,” I swear I’m going to take the Chapel crane and destroy whatever building you live in—unless it’s Pegram, because basketball players live there and they’re like relevant.

2.

The attire.

Gentlemen: If you don’t look like J-Crew

“B****es get stuff done”

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alfway through my summer in Miami for DukeEngage, a fellow volunteer and I began working at Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami, meaning Haitian Women of Miami, whose acronym, FANM, translates to “woman” in Creole. Clever, huh?

The founder of the organization, Marleine, is an unwavering advocate for the Haitian community in Miami. During our initial meeting, I was struck by her similarity to Margarita, the leader of UNIDAD, the nonprofit we worked for during the first four weeks of our DukeEngage program. They share many characteristics; both are passionate and selfmotivated, dedicated, confident, independent, immigrant females. Most notably, they radiate an infectious charisma. People stop and listen to their accented yet eloquently commanded speech. Basically, they’re total badasses.

Two minority women in top leadership positions? Shocking, right? Two minority women in top leadership positions who more or less single-handedly spearhead grassroots efforts to support their own communities? Amazing, huh?

Wrong. This shouldn’t be amazing, shocking or out of the ordinary.

There are two strong female leaders here. Period.

So why is service work still considered feminine? There are many more women involved in humanitarian issues than men. Our own program, DukeEngage, has more female applicants and participants. To

Monday Monday

Ritika Patil

YOUR DISDAIN, YOUR GUARDIAN DEVIL

GUEST COLUMN

I’m here to be your best friend—a relationship I can only hope will be stronger than mine with Papa John’s. I’m actually going to be useful, without being passive aggressive, like your first academic advisor or your sorority big. And, unlike A from “Pretty Little Liars” or your Duke Alerts, I’m not cryptic. Think of me as that relentless d-bag who won’t shut up about their totally bougie, affluenza-inducing, fancy—and I mean actually fancy, not like fake Iggy Azalea “fancy”—summer job with JP Morgan or Google (a job that probably pays a little too well for being on Buzzfeed half the day and being someone else’s b***h for the other half) or some poverty porn bimbo who shuts you up by talking about how they were in some third-world country all summer mentoring/hugging children for two months and still loved every minute of it—even though they got malaria, jaundice and/or missed the Game of Thrones finale.

Speaking of being an annoying little s**t, I am going to dedicate this first column to the first-years. Dear freshmen, let me be the first (but more likely the 937th) person to welcome you, the Class of 2018! You guys (and girls, too!

Your guardian devil is learning how to avoid gendered language almost like how you’ll soon learn to avoid the Marketplace and any party that has flyers) are so effing fantastic. Let me just tell you how mind-blowing you are, in case the neon-wearing fascists who are going to help move you in won’t. Some of you precious angels can read while others of you can speak a language. A lot of you played a sport. And, impressively, none of you died from that Mayan apocalypse. Finally, many of you will be the first in your families to go to college and lose their dignities by vomiting all over your new classmates after a wonderfully Aristocratic evening of bacchanalia (or again, the Marketplace).

But I still worry because I think your naiveté makes you, simply put, “basic.” And without embarrassing all the lame nerds who do gross things like wear glasses, read books for fun or pour buckets of ice on themselves for charity, being basic is just another fun way of saying you suck. And if I’m going to be an honest guardian devil, I must say I’m a little worried you all suck a lot, like more than Belle Knox but less than Central Campus.

So, unlike class attendance policies and alcohol laws, here are some rules you should actually follow.

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Learn some Duke vocab to fit right in.

Remember that you “literally can’t even” with someone/something/the BC plaza/your roommate/class every time you just want to “work hard and play hard.” If you really are into “effortless perfection” at our “Gothic

vomited on you after you stole all of Monet’s pastel colors, don’t even try. Nothing is sexier than looking like you were just cast as a member of “Barney and Friends.” The more pink (read: Nantucket) shorts you own, the more you pull. That’s science. Someone premed is doing an independent study on it, I think.

Ladies: Whatever you do, look like you’re trying but not trying too much. Having others know you’re trying to look nice is unsettling because you’re a Duke student now and you should focus on something other than looking good #malegaze. Dressing comfortably is equally disturbing because you’re a Duke student now, so maybe you should dress for success? God, no one is going to take you seriously unless you demonstrate some “effortless perfection” (see rule 1). Also, if you choose to wear leggings to class, know that you lose any right to complain about how sloppily dressed someone else is. Dressing like an individual is overrated at a school like Duke. Maybe none of you can actually read because I’m pretty sure you also signed away your originality when you decided to attend this university.

this day, it is customary that the First Lady of the United States chooses a cause to champion. Michelle Obama’s is childhood obesity, Laura Bush’s was education and literacy and current potential presidential candidate Hillary Clinton raised awareness for health care issues while her husband was in charge of the White House.

But there are two troubling issues here—the notion that service work is not as important or as serious as business and the idea that women cannot or should not be involved in “serious business.”

Let’s take a step back. Business, corporations, lobbies, they all deal with the big bucks—money that men are typically in charge of. Service, on the other hand, is delicate: it requires donations. Historically, wealthy women have been great philanthropists, and less affluent women have been nurses, volunteers and those that donate their time. Of course, there is nothing inherently wrong with that, except for the common perception of these acts as “soft.”

Hold on. Soft? Didn’t I just describe two straight up bosses? They’re innovative and visionary and aren’t the only females making real change happen—creating and carrying out programs, scrounging for grant money to find people jobs, teaching adults civic responsibility, teaching senior citizens the alphabet and even keeping kids off the streets. Their results are visible, unlike the liquid money constantly pouring down the male-dominated congressional drain.

Still, since being here, I’ve caught on to something bigger—lack of resources pushes one to be resourceful and lack of progress pushes one to progress. And that is endlessly inspiring. That’s why I’m happy with leaving the view of “delicate donors” alone. I have no interest in expending energy solely to change people’s minds. These women do what needs to be done and command respect because of their hard work, and no one questions it. It’s how I plan on living my life from here on out…

Tina Fey said it best, “b*tches get stuff done.”

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Shooters.

What better way to show your parents, your future classmates and Alcohol Law Enforcement what a Duke education can offer while you frequent the finest establishment Durham has to offer? Watch some white girls try to twerk. Make friends, make enemies.

Get drunk, make mistakes, get mono and then cry about how you wish you had more food points. After all, the X’s will stay on your hands for a day but your memories won’t.

Also, if you think you’re too good to dance in the cage or ride the bull, you’re probably going to end up majoring in chemistry or some other major that won’t let you party six nights a week (shout out to Canadian Studies). As a side note, there’s nothing else to do in Durham besides Shooters, so don’t venture off campus. I hear the townies have cooties and didn’t get a 2500 on the SAT. If you happen to be some weirdo who is not satisfied with the wonderful diversity of grasses, trees and squirrels that constitute Duke’s campus, go to Southpoint. I think Southpoint has a J-Crew so it’s like a home away from home.

That’s all the advice I have for now. Until next time, deal with your problems by Facebook stalking people you hate or compulsively checking your email.

Your guardian devil loves pole dancing on the C1, compiling ugly Snapchats in a burn book and judging how attractive people are from their dirty laundry.

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Ritika Patil is a Trinity junior.

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