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Duke’s victory over St. John’s gained Coach K his 1,000th win Sunday

“It will be a good thing for the Duke housing system. It’s just a vocal minority who are extremely unhappy about it” Claire Ballentine The Chronicle Three years after the policy was announced, Housing, Dining and Residential Life will be enforcing the mandate that 40 percent of residents in selective living groups and greek housing be upperclassmen. In January 2012, HDRL announced that SLGs— which officially encompasses greek and selective housing groups—must consist of at least 30 percent junior and 10 percent senior residents. Fall 2015 will be the first semester that this composition will be enforced. After giving the groups a period to adjust to the policy, HDRL will begin to implement consequences for non-adherence—including the possibility that housing sections will be revoked. A number of students and SLGs have expressed concerns with the new policy enforcement, arguing that upperclassmen should be able to decide where they live. “We feel it’s important to have an upperclassmen presence on Central Campus,” Dean for Residential Life Joe Gonzalez said. “This provides opportunities that will have both a direct and indirect value for sophomores.” The delay between the announcement of the policy and its enforcement was intentional, Gonzalez said. HDRL wanted to give SLGs adequate time to adjust to the policy. In 2012, some groups were already meeting the 40 percent requirement, but some groups had no senior residents and needed longer to adjust their housing patterns, he said. “We told groups to start working towards it and now we can say we have expectations with consequences,” Gonzalez said. “Groups that don’t meet the quota will be placed on probation, and if they are on probation for two of three consecutive years, they will lose their house.” Junior Zach Gorwitz, Duke Student Government vice president for residential life, said he was concerned that some SLGs would not be able to meet this requirement. “Some of the SLGs with large numbers of sophomores will definitely struggle to get 30 percent [juniors] in section,” Gorwitz said. “The majority of SLGs are already in compliance though.” See Housing on Page 12

Elysia Su | The Chronicle No. 5 Duke came back from a double-digit deficit to claim a 77-68 victory against St. John’s Sunday at Madison Square Garden. The victory earned Coach Krzyzewski his 1,000th victory, making him the first Division I men’s basketball coach to reach the marker.

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Duke raises minimum wage for employees to $12 per hour The University’s minimum wage was last adjusted to its current rate of $10.91 per hour in 2012, following controversies over low-paid workers at Duke and a student-led campaign to increase the wage, Robert Healy, professor emeritus of environmental sciences and public Jenna Zhang policy, wrote in an email Friday. Local & National Editor Although the wage increase does not Duke will increase its minimum wage apply to Duke’s contacted employees— from $10.91 per hour to $12 per hour including those who work at campus beginning in July, affecting approxi- eateries and those who work as housemately 400 employees of the University keepers—the University has a history and Duke University Health System. of requesting that contractors abide by The minimum pay rate increase will the same minimum wage, sometimes enonly apply to regular employees—most forcing the standard through contracof whom are currently employed as tual provisions, Cavanaugh explained. clerks, lab assistants and clinical techni- He noted that he anticipates that such cians. Student employees and contracted conversations about a wage raise for contracted employees will employees—who constitute the majority of take place within the hat I’m currently coming months. workers employed at various food vendors Paris Enoch, an emmaking right now, across campus, for exployee of Au Bon Pain ample—will not be af- $8 per hour, isn’t really livin the Bryan Center, fected. The new rate able. But $12—that’s really said he hopes that the will further exceed good. Even part time, you’re new $12 per hour miniboth the state and fedmum wage will soon be eral minimum wage of sure to make a living off that. applied to contracted $7.25. — Paris Enoch employees on campus “Duke has a long as well. “What I’m currently making right and proud history of being above minimum wage,” said Vice President of Ad- now, $8 per hour, isn’t really livable,” ministration Kyle Cavanaugh. Enoch said. “But $12—that’s fairly good. Cavanaugh said the decision to in- Even part time, you’re sure to make a livcrease minimum wage came after con- ing off that.” sistent monitoring of the market showed Andrea Carrazco, an employee at the Loop Pizza Grill, added that $10 per that the cost of living had increased. “Taking a look at the market in the hour was a reasonable wage—for those past six months, it was clear that a couple without children. Carrazco, who works of things have changed since we moved 40 hours per week on the current minithe minimum wage in 2012,” he said. mum wage, noted that the wage could be

The wage increase will only apply to regular employees rather than student and contracted employees

Izzi Clark | Chronicle File Photo Employees at Duke’s eateries are hired through contractors, meaning the minimum wage increase will not affect them, though Duke will enter into conversations with contractors about increasing wages.

difficult to live on for those with larger households. Healy noted that the city and county of Durham had, for almost a decade,

a living wage policy—now $12.53 per hour—that applied to both their own See Wage on Page 12

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Duke stands by binding ED policies Will Walker The Chronicle Although some peer schools have moved away from binding early decision programs in recent years, Duke stands by its policies. Critics of early decision have pointed out that binding early decision policies—which require students to commit to the school once they are admitted—have a number of important drawbacks in comparison to non-binding policies. As the University admits an increasing proportion of its incoming classes early, with a record high 48 percent this year, these conversations have taken on a new relevance. Early decision prevents applicants of lower socioeconomic backgrounds from comparing the financial aid packages they receive from their early school with those of other colleges, some critics say. But Alison Rabil, assistant vice provost and director of financial aid, said this issue is not a problem at Duke. “Our policies are designed to make it possible for every student who’s accepted to Duke to come to Duke,” Rabil wrote in an email Jan. 16. Early decision applicants do tend to come from slightly more affluent socioeconomic backgrounds, but the overall class of admitted students remains relatively diverse in terms of socioeconomic status, Rabil said. About 50 percent of undergraduates receive some sort of financial aid. “Our early decision pool has about the same percentage of financial applicants as our regular decision pool,” Rabil wrote. “They tend to be a less ‘needy’ pool in general by a little bit…. But we have students in our early decision pool who receive full scholarships next to those who only qualify for loans and work study.” Some applicants from lower-income families, however, have cited financial strain as a reason for not applying early. “I didn’t apply early even though I was planning on doing early apps in the first months of the school year,”

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Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Following Duke’s victory over St. John’s Sunday, students met up with members of the men’s basketball team in K-ville, where Coach Krzyzewski addressed students. (See video online.)

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle The Duke University Union visual arts committee hosted an opening reception for deaf artist Danielle Burch’s audio-visual exhibit at the Louise Jones Brown Gallery Friday evening.

Elysia Su | The Chronicle Laverne Cox, a prominent transgender actress. addressed students at Reynolds Theater as part of a speakers series sponsored by the Duke University Union Friday. (See story online.)

Olivia Anderson | The Chronicle The Nasher Museum of Art sponsored an opening reception for its “Area 919: Artists in the Triangle” exhibition, a survey of artwork created by artists who live in Durham and surrounding areas.

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Duke stages second-half comeback led by Tyus Jones to capture Mike Krzyzewski’s 1,000th win Ryan Hoerger Beat Writer NEW YORK—First, there was No. 903. Sunday afternoon, one of basketball’s iconic figures reached another milestone at the sport’s most iconic venue. One thousand. A 13-1 second-half run for the Blue Devils brought No. 5 Duke back from a double-digit hole to claim a 77-68 victory against St. John’s Sunday at Madison Square Garden, earning legendary head coach Mike Krzyzewski the 1,000th victory of his 40-year career in comeback fashion. Quinn Cook, Tyus Jones and Jahlil Okafor led the way for the Duke comeback, combining to score 55 points—31 of them coming after halftime. Each player had a 3-point play to help erase what was once a 61-51 deficit, and Cook splashed home his fourth triple of the afternoon to put Duke back ahead by one, a lead they would never relinquish. In a game that saw both teams squander double-digit leads, the Blue Devils buckled down in the closing seven minutes to seize control after the Red Storm dominated the middle third of the game. Krzyzewski has coached 1,308 games in his career, but the one that got him his milestone victory had even him shaking his head. “I’m not sure I’ve ever been part of a game like that, that’s kind of nuts,” said Krzyzewski, the first Division I men’s

The story of win No. 17 Bobby Colton Beat Writer

And get the break they did. In a crucial change of events, Mengel and Pura turned the tables on court 3, taking a 5-4 lead with the serve. After they finished the set 6-4, all eyes turned to court 2, where Jason Tahir and Josh Levine were riding the success of an

NEW YORK—Even after the final buzzer sounded on No. 5 Duke’s 7768 win against St. John’s, even after the congratulations message shined up on GardenVision at the World’s Most Famous Arena; even after the entire team donned “1K” shirts and hats, Sunday afternoon’s game was still not about Mike Krzyzewski. “There will be others who will win more,” Krzyzewski quipped to an overflowing room of reporters during his press conference. All week the players and the coach himself said all the right things about Krzyzewski’s 1,000th win. Everyone said that it was about win 17 for this season’s Blue Devils, not about win 1,000 for their Hall of Fame head coach. And after the game, when 1,000 was etched into the history books once and for all, it was still just about win 17. “I wasn’t thinking about 1,000,” captain Quinn Cook said. “I was just thinking about 17. Coach was great about the whole 1K. He knew he was going to get it sooner or later this season. We just wanted to come here and beat a great team on their home floor and get win 17.” That doesn’t mean that the anticipation for the historic event wasn’t present around the team. As Cook pointed out, the players do watch television and do participate in social media, so it’s not like it was some big secret that their head coach was about to do something no man had ever done before. Tyus Jones and Jahlil Okafor both admitted that the impending history played a role in their decision to come to Duke this season. And Matt Jones tweeted after the game, “The reason I came to Duke.. For reasons like these.. Thanking God for this surreal moment.” But when the players were on the court, with millions watching, and their record on the line, 1,000 was far from any of the players’ minds. “We were just trying to beat St. John’s,” Cook said. “Really, that’s all we were thinking about. That’s all Coach was thinking about. All this stuff happens, and we were just focused on our one win.” Krzyzewski was as enthusiastic and energetic as he’s ever been on the sideline, but according to him the inspiration for win 1,000 didn’t come from the head coach. After all, if his team were feeding off of him, “we would have turned it around in the middle of the first half.” No, Sunday afternoon was about brotherhood and about family. Just like

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Elysia Su | The Chronicle Freshman Tyus Jones scored 13 second-half points and eight in the final three minutes to lead the Blue Devils past St. John’s.

basketball coach to reach the marker. “To have one that’s different, that’s what makes the game so good. To do it here [at Madison Square Garden]—just to win here, but to do it here for 1,000, you’ve got to be a lucky guy.... This is a magical place.” Returning to the arena where he earned his 903rd victory to pass mentor Bob Knight for most in Division I men’s basketball history, Krzyzewski expected a battle from the Red Storm (13-6). But in the early going, it looked as though Duke (17-2) might coast to the historic milestone, as a monstrous Okafor dunk in transition gave

the Blue Devils a 21-10 edge with 12:25 remaining. It wouldn’t be quite so easy. Trailing by 11, head coach Steve Lavin called a timeout to stop the bleeding, and the Red Storm emerged from the bench a new team. Sir’Dominic Pointer and Rysheed Jordan led the charge for St. John’s, combining for 29 first-half points as the Red Storm cut the lead to 23-19, eventually charging ahead 33-32 on a 3-point play by Jordan. During the run, Duke scored seven points in seven See Coach 1K on Page 8

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Duke sweeps Tigers in ITA Kick-Off Jackson Steger Staff Writer After cruising to a 4-1 victory against Wake Forest on Friday, the Blue Devils made sure they didn’t drop a match Saturday. Hosting No. 23 Memphis in the final round of ITA Kick-Off Weekend, No. 12 Duke dominated the Tigers Saturday with a Memphis 0 4-0 victory at the DUKE 4 Sheffield Tennis Center to qualify for the ITA Men’s Team Indoor Championship for the fifth year in a row. Seniors Chris Mengel and Jason Tahir, junior Josh Levine, sophomore TJ Pura and freshman Nicholas Alvarez all contributed points to the Blue Devil’s eventual triumph. “I thought our depth was the key today,” head coach Ramsey Smith said. “I told the guys in the locker room that I was really proud of them for not missing a beat.” Duke (4-0) did not begin the night the way it wanted. At center attention on court 1, the usually reliable duo of Alvarez and Raphael Hemmeler faltered in doubles competition against Connor Glennon and Kai Lemke 6-3. The loss

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was only the second of the year for the pair, who now drop to 11-2 on the season. This also increased the pressure for Duke players on courts 2 and 3. “It was less pressure, and more of a sense of urgency that Chris [Mengel] and I felt,” Pura said. “We really felt like at 4- all we needed to get the first few points of the game to get the break.”

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Duke knocks off Tar Heels on the road in overtime Sameer Pandhare Beat Writer CHAPEL HILL—Having lost five consecutive road games, the Blue Devils knew they were in for yet another tough test on the road against in-state rival North Carolina. But they also knew they had Elizabeth Williams. No. 15 Duke defeated No. 12 North Carolina 74-67 in overtime Sunday at Carmichael Arena. Williams had DUKE 74 the performance of her career, as the senior center put up 33 67 points—the most any player has UNC ever scored for head coach Joanne P. McCallie. “I’m very very proud of Elizabeth and the way she was in attack mode and really getting after it,” McCallie said. “The game was really physical, but I thought she handled herself really well.” After Williams heroically blocked the Tar Heels’ game-winning layup attempt in regulation, the Blue Devils used an 8-0 run in overtime to pull out the hardfought victory. The senior turned in one of the best performances of her career, finishing with 33 points and 10 rebounds and helping steady Duke whenever the game seemed out of reach. Down by as many as 10 in the first half, the Blue Devils (14-6, 5-2 in the ACC) used an early run coming out of halftime to get back into the game, one Duke needed to win after a tough loss to Boston College Thursday. “We’re aware that we hadn’t been playing well on the road, but for us as a team it’s important to get better each game,” Williams said. “Today was a day for us to come together and fight and we fought through overtime.” The Blue Devils began the game looking to get the ball into Azura Stevens and Williams in the paint against the smaller Tar Heel frontcourt. But despite 15 points on 7-of-13 shooting for Williams in the first half, it was Duke’s perimeter play that allowed it to build an early lead. After both teams struggled to shoot the ball in the first ten minutes, back-to-back 3-pointers by Ka’lia Johnson and Amber Henson allowed the Blue Devils to build an early 17-9 lead. But with key players in foul trouble—five players had at least two fouls by halftime—and Duke starting to turn the ball over, North Carolina (17-4, 4-3) was able to get back into the game quickly. Blue Devil guard Rebecca Greenwell and forwards Stevens, Kendall Cooper, Oderah Chidom and Erin Mathias each picked up two fouls in the first 20 minutes, forcing Duke to play unfamiliar lineups that hurt them on both ends of the floor. On defense, the Blue Devils struggled to get to open Tar Heel shooters beyond the arc. After missing open looks early, North Carolina—led by senior Latifah Coleman who had 14 points and hit two of her three attempts from beyond the arc—was able to tie the game at 23 with 5:53 remaining to go in the half. Benefitting from being in the bonus early, the Tar Heels hit 12-of16 free throws and used their advantage to take a 38-28 lead into halftime. “We really had a tough go of it,” McCallie said. “We had four people in foul trouble in the first half and we only shot three free throws to their 16 and that was a problem.” Reenergized by the play of Greenwell and Williams, Duke went on an 11-3 run in the first three minutes of the second half that cut the North Carolina lead to 41-39—the closest the game had been since midway through the first half. “We wanted more energy, more aggression,” McCallie said. “It’s very important to be better in the second half than you are in the first.… The real players come alive in the second half to make things happen.” With the Blue Devils surging, the Tar Heels went to their leading scorer Allisha Gray to retake control of

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Emma Loewe | The Chronicle Senior Elizabeth Williams poured in a career-high 33 points as the Blue Devils defeated North Carolina 74-67 in overtime Sunday.

the game. Gray was able to find open spots in Duke’s zone defense, connecting on three shots from beyond the arc in the first ten minutes of the half. The Blue Devils once again responded by continuously punishing North Carolina in the post. Down six with 12:21 remaining in the game, Duke connected on four of five shots to recapture the lead at 56-54 with 8:34 to go and with the game tied at 56, with 5:12 remaining the stage was set for yet another nail-biter in conference play. Down the stretch, the Blue Devils went back to their driving force Williams down low. The All-American center dominated in the low block scoring five consecutive points for Duke—which quieted a hostile Tar Heel crowd. Williams’ run gave the Blue Devils a 62-58 lead with just 1:40 remaining in the contest. “I have to give credit to my teammates who were getting the ball inside and executing really well,” Williams said. After capitalizing on a Duke turnover to cut the lead to two, North Carolina’s N’Dea Bryant made a block on Oderah Chidom that gave the Tar Heels possession with 55 seconds to go. On offense, North Carolina fed the ball down low to Stephanie Mavunga who was fouled in the paint. After the sophomore hit both shots from the line, the Blue Devils had possession of the

ball with 37 seconds remaining. With the ball in its hands, Duke was forced to settle for a perimeter jumpshot from Ka’lia Johnson that fell short and after a scramble for the loose ball, the Tar Heels came up with possession with just 8.3 seconds remaining. On the final possession of regulation, Williams once again came up big for the Blue Devils as she swatted away the potential game-winning layup as North Carolina’s Latifah Coleman came charging into the paint. “We knew they were going to try to get to the basket because there wasn’t much time remaining,” the AllAmerican center said. “I was standing in pretty good position and I was just trying to make a play.” In overtime, Duke would take control behind key plays from Williams and Johnson and come away with the big victory. “High IQ and intelligence is really really important and we have to improve on that,” McCallie said. “Our team is beginning to understand that you must be ready to play… records don’t mean anything and anybody can be successful on any day.” The Blue Devils will look to sustain a win streak in ACC play as they take on Pittsburgh Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

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continued from page 6 every single one of Krzyzewski’s 1,000 wins. There was not a single player in the locker room after the momentous win who didn’t credit the former Duke teams that Krzyzewski coached, and also his West Point clubs, for bringing them to the point of history. The team dedicated the win to those former players, who put in the hard work just as they did, and were just unlucky enough to have played for Krzyzewski too early. “It’s a huge testimony to Coach K and all the teams he coached—to us, to teams before us, and all the way back to West Point,” Marshall Plumlee said. “So that’s a brotherhood, and I’m proud to be a part of that brotherhood.” There also wasn’t a single individual who didn’t credit family. Krzyzewski was surrounded by much of his family—his wife, two daughters and seven

grandchildren all in attendance to witness history. But joining the Krzyzewski clan were the parents of the rest of the players. And according to Krzyzewski, it was those parents who motivated and propelled his players. In the end, this is what 1,000 wins boil down to—to family, to predecessors and to the brothers that shed their blood, sweat and tears together on the floor when history was achieved. Krzyzewski can joke all he wants about how he deserves none of the credit. How the reporters are writing too many stories about him and that “enough is enough.” That after making history with wins No. 903 and 1,000 at the Mecca of Basketball, his picture may go up on the walls, but only in the restroom, which he was okay with so long as “it’s not in a bad part of the restroom.” But the real truth is there is a reason Mike Krzyzewski has 1,000 wins and no other coach in Division I Basketball history does.

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“We were all attacking it as our 17th win,” Plumlee said. “That’s all that it was about. The reason Coach K probably has 1,000 wins is because he attacks each one like that— just one win at a time. He talked about number 17 tonight, not number 1,000.” And now, with 1,000 wins in his rearview mirror, there is no doubt that Krzyzewski has his team talking about one thing, and one thing only. Win No. 18.

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continued from page 6 minutes. A 3-pointer at the buzzer by D’Angelo Harrison gave the home team a 43-39 lead heading into the locker room. The ball appeared to leave Harrison’s hands after the shot clock expired, but the play was not reviewed despite Krzyzewski’s animated conversation with the officials. At 67 years old, Krzyzewski has spent more than half his life manning the Duke sideline, and was in peak form Sunday, imploring his team to defend and at one point asking for one of his team’s trademark floor slaps. “Energy is not a matter of age. It’s a matter of commitment to your position, to what you do. As long as I’m doing it, I’m going to bring energy,” Krzyzewski said. “It was beautiful to see them fight today.” The Red Storm didn’t let up out of the locker room. Senior Phil Greene IV scored four straight points for St. John’s early in the second half, as the Red Storm guard parted a sea of Blue Devil defenders to hit back-to-back floaters in the lane to push the lead to 51-43. The run coincided with the departure of Amile Jefferson, who was forced to the sideline with three personal fouls. With Jefferson and sixth man Rasheed Sulaimon on the bench in foul trouble, the Blue Devils made their push. Cook cut the lead to seven before Jones drove baseline to draw the hoop and the harm. The freshman floor general converted the ensuing free throw to trim the deficit to 6157 with 6:51 to play. Jones finished with a game-high 22 points, tying a career-high. “We were losing and we knew we had to come together and slowly start to chip away,” Jones said. “We just wanted to do it for Coach. We hadn’t been playing as well as we would’ve liked to. It was just the time of the game where we had to get it going.” Fifteen seconds later, Okafor corralled an errant Jones 3-pointer and finished a 3-point play of his own, putting the momentum back in Duke’s corner. When Cook knocked down his fourth triple to put his team ahead 6362—the Blue Devils’ first lead since 4:37 mark of the first half—the sizable Duke contingent threatened to tear the roof off The World’s Most Famous Arena. On the other end, the Blue Devils got a big boost from reserves Marshall Plumlee and Matt Jones. The big front line of Okafor and Plumlee gave up some quickness to Pointer and the other St. John’s forwards, but held its own down low, grabbing rebounds and forcing the Red Storm guards to pull up for jumpers rather than finish drives at the rim. St. John’s missed 11 of its last 14 shots in the game’s final 9:52. “[Plumlee] was amazing. He came off the bench and provided something that we needed,” Jefferson said. “He rebounded excellently, he was talking. He and Matt came off the bench and helped us win this game.” Throughout the week, players and coaches had stressed Sunday’s game as an opportunity to win Duke’s 17th game of the season. Having achieved that goal, the Blue Devils allowed themselves to soak in the true meaning of the victory. “It’s for all the [former] players. We were doing it for the program, doing it for Coach, and doing it for all the guys before us,” Cook said. “We happened to be here, and we’re all humbled and blessed to be a part of history.” “It’s almost like you can’t believe that it all happened like this, that he would get his 1,000th win here in The Garden. It’s amazing how the world works,” added Jefferson. “It’s a historic moment—for us to just be in it is great.” With the ticker recalibrated to accommodate four digits, Krzyzewski will take aim at career win 1,001 Wednesday at No. 8 Notre Dame at 7:30 p.m.

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continued from page 6 earlier break. Leading 5-3, they gave up one game before finishing off Andrew Watson and Louis Asser 6-4. “The guys did such a good job in doubles,” Alvarez said. “It definitely changed the momentum going into singles, because the confidence you have going in up 1-0 is completely different from the confidence going in down 0-1.” Duke undoubtedly was riding the momentum, because when singles began, four Blue Devils immediately broke their opponents’ serves, and then capitalized to go up 2-0. For some, the momentum

wouldn’t end there. On court 5, Levine broke Kai Lemke twice in route to a quick 4-0 start. He then allowed his opponent to win a handful of games before finishing the set 6-3. Meanwhile on court 6, Pura actually won 10 games in a row before dropping two games in his second set. His 6-2 second set victory made court 6 the first singles match to finish and gave Duke its second point of the evening. “It was exciting,” Pura said. “I was pretty lucky to win 10 games in a row, but I was really just trying to play every point.” When Levine won his second set, also 6-3, all of a sudden the Blue Devils had a 3 – 0 lead, and only needed to win one of the remaining four matches to clinch the victory.

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“I had full 100% belief in [the players still in their matches],” Pura said. “Raphael, Jason and Chris are veterans. They’ve been here and I bestowed full trust in them. And Nico, he’s proved himself as Mr. Clutch so far this year, so when it came down to the nail-biters, there’s nobody else I’d rather have on the court than them.” Courts 1 and 3 hosted the most exciting first sets, with both duels going to a crucial tiebreaker. No. 36 Jason Tahir was unable to trump No. 79, succumbing 7-5 in the tie breaker. However, No. 103 Raphael Hemmeler was able to overcome unranked Patrick Mayer 7-2. Ultimately though, neither court would be where the triumphant final match occurred. Facing 23rd-ranked Andrew

Watson, 18th-ranked Alvarez knew that it was up to him to finish the night. In the first set after his initial break, the Lima, Peru, native did not let up, winning every game on his serve to take the set 6-4. In the second set, Alvarez played from behind until all eyes were on him in tied at four games apiece. He proceeded to break Watson and win every point of the last game, clinching the set 6-4. “Nico’s killer instinct is awfully good right now,” Smith said. “If this is any indication for the future, it’s pretty exciting. In pressure situations, he’s playing like a senior out there against nationally ranked players.” Alvarez and the Blue Devils will hit the road next weekend, traveling to compete in standard dual matches against both Illinois and Northwestern.

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s the George Bernard Shaw quip goes, all the economists in the world lined up end-to-end still would not reach a conclusion. A recent New York Times article posits a more concrete conclusion: economics has dominated the national conversation. The study, based on the frequency with which economists are cited in the news and in Congress, found that spikes in references to economists’ expertise correlates with periods of recession or economic downturn. The Great Depression marked the beginning of the shift from the historical viewpoint—which was previously dominant—to an economic one. The shift is a revealing sign of the times, one in which the economy lingers at the forefront of American minds and in which economics, the discipline, both defines and is adapted to popular appeal. As economics becomes more popular in national discourse, it has given rise to new branches of study. Popular economics for example, like Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitts’s Freakonomics, seek to explore the “hidden side of everything,” laying claim to problems usually tackled by sociologists and historians. This new approach of using economic principles—like rational choice theory—to

superimpose upon paradigms traditionally apportioned to other fields has given rise to increased and productive interdisciplinarity. Duke’s economics department—ranked one of the best in the country—has adopted this interdisciplinary approach, expanding to include fields like decision neuroscience and behavioral economics to broaden its horizons and expand its appeal. Behavioral economics, for example, introduces psychology into mix, and the philosophy, politics and economics certificate seeks to expose the philosophical and political roots of economic science. The growing popularity of economics as a major—it is the third most popular major behind biology and public policy—reflects both the success of the program and the increasing dominance of the economic discipline in the post-graduate world. The rise of economics also reflects a growing paradigm shift away from qualitative analyses and toward quantitative argumentation. In today’s world, numbers lend credibility. Statistics—percentages and data packaged in striking graphs showing the correlation between sleep and happiness, for example— seem to be both prerequisite and guarantor of legitimacy. This obsession with number-based

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ello and how are you? Please call me Ishmael. I hail from the magnificent and rolling countryside of Zembla of the former great Soviet Union, and I am so excited to be international student here at University of Duke. I come from such humble roots, you see. After crash of Soviet Union, my stoic father worked very, very hard to purchase every state-owned canned sardine factory in Zemblia. Soon he climbed ranks into prestigious Zemblian oligarchy and he purchased humble castle with seventeen humble servants for my beautiful mother. My mother, she is so happy

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me jerk. I guess the columnists are right about the hook up culture! I do make my mistakes and my friends laugh at me still. This one time, I trap Duke squirrel and prepare rotisserie squirrel for freshman-dorm-potluckThanksgiving-party. I feed it to the cute girl that I love and she spends night everywhere blowing chunks. I am sad that I made hot girl sick, but I am also sad that I wasted a half-sack of Zemblian paprika on girl who would not sleep with me. To impress other girl, I take UNC rivalry too far. After I find out the UNC footballers trash Duke

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TIS A SECRET to finally live in unpretentious fortress with three kitchens and charmeuse silk bed sheets to protect her from bitter cold. Nine months later, I burst from mother onto scene and my father he tells me to study very, very hard at humble Zemblian international school. Well I do, I study even harder than my parents make the love. So hard that I never have time to find girls for myself! It is for this reason—and many, many seasons of revered American sitcom, “Co-ed Confidential”—that I dream of attending a lustful American university! One day, with help of my small and humble team of college application assistants, all my hard works paid off! I am promised flight to American farmland and spot at magnificent castle-school of Duke University! My mother and father, they cry and we celebrate with luxurious feast of salted fish and performance by exotic Zemblian dancers. Together, we pin brochures from Duke on wall. I was so excited to walk through medieval land and meet the jolly African man, the ponderous Chinese boy, and innocent Arab girl that worship the Devil at Duke! But I was most excited about the hordes of wanton university females who I am told find great charm in men with sexy Northwest Caucasus accents! Well, now that a semester has passed, I can say now that I too have truly become quite the Blue Devil-worshipper! While I am still fervent patriot to the People’s Republic of Zembla, I love now the Duke patriarchy also! Speaking of which, I have even my first American hook-up. I take drunk girl from Shooters the Second and we French kiss for forty minutes. But I do not know what I did wrong because during the act of what we Zemblians adoringly call myśl długo czyś prśdko or, in English, act of catching fly with frog tongue, I tell her she reminds me of beautiful scent of my father’s factory and I tell her also that I will never love her— because of the hook-up culture. She cries and calls

equipment, I become very angry on behalf of my team. So, while I am strolling in Gardens with Potential Wife number three, I see UNC man in UNC sweatshirt and I poke him in the eyes and tell him not to come back unless he wants to see Zemblian gulag! My love, she runs away and never comes back. But now that I learned all my lessons, I feel truly one with the Dukie culture. I shall begin my second semester as new Ishmael. New Ishmael will work very hard in the engineering lab and then he will play very hard at the frat party. For the plane trip back to Durham I purchased many Greek books. One is about the construction of the Pantheon, another is about Zeus and another is about the crisis of the banking in Greece. I have read each novel five times and memorized the facts. It is my hope that during the recruitment season of Inter-Fraternity Council of Duke that I will know everything there is to know about being a financially irresponsible Mediterranean boy. With this knowledge, I will don toga and reign over rock hard fraternity men who will chant “TOGA TOGA TOGA TOGA TOGA” and grace me with aristocratic libations and many offerings of mixers of Coca-Cola and beautiful sorority girls! When I think about how far I have come from my humble, sardine-castle in Zembla, I begin to weep. My father, he always tell me that it is not the quality of sardine in tin that matters, but the persistence of oligarch who sells tin! My fellow readers, I am so happy to be telling you about all of my experiences as a Blue Deviler! Ciao and I promise I will write again! This is Ishmael first time writing as Monday Monday. He has grand intentions to use his newfound journalistic fame and notoriety to find a beautiful Chronicle babe that will read him feminist op-eds each night until he falls asleep.

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Oh, I don’t need to go to CAPS.” As a Resident Assistant, I’ve heard this phrase from so many people. In fact, I’m nearly certain you’ve heard it as well. Very few people have had a perfect college experience. There are just too many things that must align for life to be perfect. Perhaps you are a freshman and feel alone and homesick. Perhaps you are an upperclassman coming back from abroad who doesn’t fit into the new dorm you were assigned to. Perhaps there is trouble with your family, or perhaps there is trouble with your relationship. Perhaps you’ve been struggling with something for a while, or perhaps you are troubled by something recent. But despite everything, it is just so easy to say— “Oh, I don’t need to go to CAPS.” Sometimes, you really don’t need to go to Counseling and Psychological Services. Feeling down after a bad test probably doesn’t require counseling. But that statement often carries much more meaning than a simple statement of lack of need. There’s a certain stigma associated with CAPS that deter even the people who do want to see CAPS. But there should be no shame in being associated with counseling. Life isn’t perfect.

James Tian ONISM College definitely isn’t. Someone must be extraordinarily lucky to have never been in a place of mental weakness. There should be no shame in owning our troubles and seeing a counselor to get counseling. The people we admire most are not great because they lived perfect lives, but because they overcame adversity. Perhaps we say it because it’s difficult to reach a level of vulnerability to admit that we do need help. Is it a therapeutic phrase to say to pretend that things are actually alright? It is one way to deny what we are going through by asserting on the surface that we are fine. In cases where I’ve suggested CAPS as subtly and helpfully as I could, the retort is still— “Oh, I don’t need to go to CAPS.” What then exactly is CAPS? Maybe if I share my understanding of counseling, both through my experiences and speaking with Dr. Gary Glass, Associate Director for Outreach and Developmental Programming for CAPS, we may feel a little less alienated by it. We all have our mirrors. We look at ourselves physically in them every day. We also look at ourselves emotionally and irrationally. What values do we have? What goals have we set? What is the image of ourselves that we present to our friends, family, and community? If you’re lucky, you have an image that you are comfortable with, and it needs no further adjustments. But when something bad happens, our image becomes distorted. In cases of depression, perhaps we feel that we are worth a lot less. In cases of anxiety, we feel overwhelmed and stretched thin. In other cases of insecurity, we feel like we don’t belong.

A counselor isn’t just a cheerleader trying to make you feel better about yourself. He or she isn’t just going to ask you “and how do you feel about that” over and over. Rather, a counselor will take that mirror you are using to look at yourself, and hold it more honestly, more completely, and most important of all, more compassionately than you’ve been holding it. This doesn’t mean that you can’t adjust your mirror yourself, as CAPS has an entire section dedicated to self-help. But when the mirror being held by your friends hasn’t found the best angle, perhaps a counselor who is professionally trained to hold the mirror can. Sometimes people say, “Oh, I don’t need to go to CAPS. I have good friends who will listen to me,” and this is indeed true. Sometimes talking to your friends is enough because isolation is the primary pillar of a student’s struggle. Other times, the friend is one source of support while a counselor can attend to other things that training, experience and objectivity can offer. In fact, while most college counseling centers across the country use the model of “recognize and refer” students to counseling, Duke prefers to “recognize and relate.” Because of the stigma

edit pages associated with counseling, many students don’t complete the “refer” step. As a result, people fall through the cracks due to their distrust and disassociation from counseling. Having good friends is an important aspect of support, but that does not mask the discomfort people still have of going to CAPS. You may still think this isn’t a big deal. There’s no need to overreact to the inevitable and trivial bumps in life. True, the more we broaden the definition of an issue like mental health, the more that issue shows up. True, significant personal growth can result from handling a situation on your own. However, it’s hard to know the severity of what our friends are going through. Mental health is a spectrum, and on the worst case scenario end of that spectrum, six percent of undergraduate students have seriously considered attempting suicide in their lifetimes, and there are more than 1,000 college suicides each year. So it’s important for us to change the culture of what counseling is. We may not “need” to go to CAPS, but the world isn’t divided between those who need to go and those who don’t. With the prevalence of the depression, anxiety, insecurity, loneliness, alcohol abuse, relationship troubles, eating disorders and feelings of hopelessness— just to name a few— college students face, it’s good to create a culture where people face no barrier to receive counseling. I had one of those problems my sophomore year. When I finally saw CAPS several months later, my only regret is that I didn’t go sooner. James Tian is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Monday.

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efore Friday night, I’d read and watched reviews on Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper”—some ripping apart its glorification of what they believe is portrayed as an oversimplified war, others supporting its exposure of the psychological, emotional and physical trauma faced by service men and women. The movie, now nominated for six Oscars, is based on the memoir of the late Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, considered the deadliest sniper in American history. As most things American, it has become a political controversy. A couple of my friends, for example, have deemed it a form of right-wing propaganda that directly links Iraq with the 9/11 attacks. One friend in particular complained that it encourages Anti-Muslim sentiment and justifies America’s invasion of Iraq. He also mentioned that the Chris Kyle he’d seen in video interviews was not as compassionate and “humane” as he was made out to be in the film. Well, fine. We all have the right, as humans and as Americans, to our own opinion. I’ve heard yours, I understand yours. Now, here’s mine. I walked in and out of that movie theater knowing that President Bush had invaded Iraq on, what later proved to be, questionable grounds. I knew the September 11 attacks were not America’s only reason for declaring war. I would hope that, by now, citizens are aware that the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq was based on flawed intelligence regarding weapons of mass destruction. Real life is, and always will be, more layered and difficult to understand than anything we see on a movie screen. We shouldn’t need or expect Hollywood to educate us on a wartime matter. It is an industry that thrives on drama and entertainment value. Expect embellishments. Expect bias. It is the society we live in.

Francis Curiel 18 OR OVER Movies, unfortunately, wouldn’t enjoy record-breaking box office success if they depicted factually accurate historical accounts. In the film, we see a sniper return home after four tours overseas. The adjustment is nearly impossible. Can you imagine? Spending nearly 1000 days in military combat, surrounded by death—day in and day out. It’s a poisonous environment that often leads to a poisonous mental state. According to the PTSD Foundation of America, one in three returning troops are diagnosed with serious post-traumatic stress symptoms. These symptoms can involve traumatic flashbacks triggered by visual reminders. Loud noises especially can often cause off-duty troops to relive moments of military combat. The foundation also found that from 2006 to 2009, a recorded 1,100 troops had taken their own lives. In 2009 alone, 245 soldiers in the service had killed themselves. On the other side of the spectrum lie the service men and women who isolate themselves from society. Some troops who struggle with the disorder can also feel numb, pushing away the people or places that remind them of the trauma. They can suffer from nightmares, flashbacks, depression, drug addiction, or alcohol abuse once relieved of duty. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a very real consequence suffered by soldiers—one that takes a toll on their physical and mental health. The hardship to assimilate back into society, to become a full-time husband and father again, is sometimes too difficult to bear. It’s a sad thing to think that many troops who survive their tour end up dying by their own hand back home. It’s easy to believe that once our troops are back, a couple of parades and handshakes will help them settle in again. And you know, maybe it helps. But it could never be enough. If you end up going to watch American Sniper in theater, I hope you pay closer attention to the bigger picture than you do the fake baby that many magazines have felt the need to point out. Though the actors are Hollywood hotshots, remember that they are portraying very real people who face very real trauma. Remember that the decisions made during modern counterinsurgency warfare can affect soldiers for the rest of their lives. Consider the struggle they face to become the person they once were. Francis Curiel is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Monday.

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HOUSING

continued from page 1 Current Duke housing policies require students to live on campus for three years, meaning generally only seniors have the opportunity to experience living in apartments in Durham. “Although the new housing requirements are clear and HDRL’s goals are understandable, I believe they are unrealistic for many organizations on campus,” said Junior Katie Chaplin, who has been involved in her Panhellenic sorority since she was a freshman. “HDRL administration needs to take into account the fact that not all selected living groups are structured the same and their housing models cannot be treated the same. Rather, each campus organi-

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zation has individually unique processes for demonstrating and implementing topdown leadership that goes far beyond living in a unified section on Central Campus.” She added that upperclassmen should not be forced to live on Central Campus as a result of joining an SLG. “I understand and agree with the need for each organization to demonstrate upperclassmen leadership, but HDRL must understand that this leadership and mentorship does not come from living in section,” Chaplin said. “The leadership that they are looking for already exists and is rooted much deeper in the values that each campus organization is founded upon.” Gonzalez agreed that this policy may be inconvenient for some groups but felt the benefits of having juniors and seniors on Central Campus outweighed the concerns.

“The upperclassmen bring a level of maturity to the houses, and their presence is important,” he said. Although an upperclassman presence in section is important, Gorwitz said that he felt the groups would benefit from having autonomy over how they filled their house. “We’re not thrilled with this but we understand the value. In the end, it will be a good thing for the Duke housing system,” he said. “It’s just a vocal minority who are extremely unhappy about it.” Despite the complaints, Gonzalez said that he hoped the housing system will be attractive to seniors and that they will see the value of an increased upperclassmen presence on campus. “We think this policy is reasonable and fair,” he said. “It gives groups a level they can realistically reach.”

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students—a university knows that a part of its class is filled, and prospective students can stop stressing about the college search. “The beauty of early decision is that these colleges know that if the student is applying, they’re coming,” Taylor said. Taylor noted that applicants may also benefit from higher early decision acceptance rates. At 25 percent, the early decision acceptance rate for the Duke Class of 2018 is higher than its regular decision acceptance rate of 9 percent in the same year. A similar trend is visible at peer universities, both those with early decision and those with early action.

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employees and all contracted employees who worked with the local government. The North Carolina legislature, however, voided their power to apply the policy to contractors in 2013, and the program has since ended. Minimum wage is not the only issue that concerns the quality of life Duke offers to its employees, Cavanaugh pointed out. Beyond the minimum wage, Duke offers a highly comprehensive benefit package as well as a time-off program, he said. “[Duke offers] a very robust retirement plan, access to healthcare [and] dental care,” he said. “All of those things taken together represent an incredibly competitive position for the University.” Emma Baccellieri contributed reporting.