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Gautam Hathi Health and Science Editor The Office of Undergraduate Admissions has deleted certain sections from the admissions files of students who had not previously requested to review their records. The office has removed reader comments from admissions files that have not already been requested for review, said Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag. The deletions come in response to a large increase in requests for admissions records over the past several months after media coverage of successful attempts by students to obtain admissions records under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Students who requested to review See Admissions on Page 4

Sophie Turner | The Chronicle The Duke Environmental Alliance hosted “EarthFest,” an afternoon of activities, sustainable food and performances by various campus groups, on the Clocktower Quadrangle Saturday afternoon. (See photos from other weekend events on page 3.)

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After serving as dean for five years, Dean of the Divinity School Richard Hays will step down at the end of the 2015-16 academic year. In his announcement last week, Hays said that he has decided to take a research leave during the 2016-17 year to pursue long-deferred writing projects, and plans to return as a professor the following year. “I get the sense that the time is right for

me to pursue my scholarship,” Hays said. Before becoming the 12th dean of the Divinity School, Hays served Duke as a professor and scholar on the New Testament since 1991—specifically engaging with the literary and theological study of how the writers of the New Testament gospels used citations of Israel’s scriptures in their writings. He will continue this work during his research leave. He noted that he believes the Divinity School is at a good moment for a transition in leadership. “It seems like we’ve reached a point where a lot has been accomplished, and it’s appropriate to hand it over to someone else to lead us into the next phase,” Hays said. The Divinity School has reached a mile-

stone in the Duke Forward campaign, a university-wide capital fundraising effort, Hays said. Three years into the five-year campaign, the Divinity School has already raised $86 million, surpassing their goal of $80 million. Among his biggest accomplishments as dean, Hays cites his appointment of a strong group of younger faculty. He noted that he has chosen 20 new faculty members in the last five years—almost 40 percent of the total faculty in the Divinity School. During his time as dean, the Divinity School also launched three new degree programs—doctor of ministry, master of arts in Christian practice and master of arts in See Hays on Page 12

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Despite popularity, experts remain divided on MOOCs Neelesh Moorthy The Chronicle Duke’s popularity in Massive Open Online Courses is booming, but the University remains divided on whether or not to offer course credit. “In terms of the number of Coursera courses produced, Duke is one of the top 10 schools,” said Lynne O’Brien, associate vice provost for digital and online education initiatives. “Out of the top 20 Coursera courses of all time, Duke has three of those.” These large online offerings, more commonly known as MOOCs, are on the rise as more and more universities embrace their potential to provide quality learning for greater audiences, often free of charge. Coursera is an online interface for offering courses to an international audience. Beginning in Fall 2015, there will be a total of 42 MOOCs offered by Duke faculty through Coursera—up from the 33 offered in the 2014-15 academic year. This growth has been met with mixed feedback. Some Duke professors have found that teaching MOOCs has changed the way they structure their oncampus curriculums. As the medium has grown, however, there remain questions about these courses’ academic viability and eligibility for college credit. Amid this uncertainty, some educators see a space for innovation. O’Brien added that Duke continues to encourage faculty to experiment with this new educational forum. “Every year for the last three years, we’ve done a call for proposals where

faculty could say different types of online courses they’d like to try,” O’Brien said. “Faculty who are interested in doing something can get support and funding and help getting started.” For some, the advantages of MOOCs include being able to reach a larger audience that would not necessarily be able to pursue a traditional education. When Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, assistant professor of statistical science, created her Coursera course, “Data Analysis and Statistical Inference,” she kept in mind international and domestic audiences that might lack access to quality teaching material. “For someone who has a full-time job, they need something they can do on their own time. For a student from a developing nation, this might be the only opportunity to learn statistics, or at least statistics from an institution known for its high quality,” Cetinkaya-Rundel said. The primary reason Coursera courses will not translate to course credits for students is that MOOCs “are not equivalent to the full Duke course experience,” O’Brien wrote in an email Sunday, citing a shorter timespan and a lack of “assignments and activities.” But for some like Leonard White— associate professor at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and teacher of a “Medical Neuroscience” Coursera course—remaining among the world’s most innovative universities means being the first elite institution to consider giving students credit for MOOCs. “I don’t think it’s so much a matter of the course quality as much as administrative Brianna Siracuse | The Chronicle

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their admission file under FERPA before the decision was made to delete reader comments will still see their full file, Guttentag said. Other institutions, such as Stanford and Yale Universities, have deleted all of their admissions files in response to increased numbers of FERPA requests. “We’ll just be deleting the comments that we wrote down. The worksheet [which summarizes an application] will still exist,“ Guttentag said. “We’re not going to destroy the worksheet.” The comments in each application file are written by two readers who briefly summarize the entire application in a short paragraph. Guttentag emphasized that the admissions office has preserved the reader comments in files requested by students before the decisions was taken to delete the comments. FERPA requires the University to allow each student to review any records concerning them, but it does not require the University to maintain records unless they are requested by a student. “Students have the right to their educational records,” Guttentag said.

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continued from page 2 policy,” White said. “The decision to award transfer credit is made by looking at a syllabus, which might be just a list of topics, and the accepted quality of the institution, which isn’t much to go on. With an online course we have the ability to thoroughly assess its quality and content, yet we aren’t in the position of awarding credit.”

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“I think it’s appropriate to give them access to the records that they need.” He added in an email Sunday that “most if not all students who have requested their records to this point would see reader comments.” Currently, the admissions office has received roughly 100 requests from students to review admissions records. When a student requests a record, Guttentag noted that the admissions office spends one to two hours preparing the record for release and redacting portions that cannot be released under FERPA. The Office of Undergraduate Admissions decided to remove reader comments in order to ensure that readers feel free to write freely about each application during the admissions process, Guttentag explained. In addition, the comments often quote or reference teacher recommendation letters, which generally cannot be released to students since most students waived their right to view recommendation letters during the application process. “I want the process to be one where people feel free to make observations and judgements without worrying excessively about how somebody outside of the deliberation will think,” Guttentag said. The overall format of the records released to students will not change,

and reader comments will also not be deleted from records that have already been viewed by students. The admissions office is generally comfortable with students seeing most of their admissions records, he explained. “Among selective universities, our process and our explanations of the

process are at least as transparent as anyone else’s and more transparent than most,” Guttentag said. “We tend to be very candid about how we go about making decisions and what factors we take into account. In that sense, I don’t think there’s going to be much that surprises anybody.”

White noted that the money spent on a course might play into the decision of whether it deserves transfer credit or not. “It seems to me that if someone pays big bucks to take a course, it’s very likely to transfer into a place like Duke, whereas an online course that the student does not pay for has no chance of transferring into Duke,” he said. “That’s frustrating, because it deprives students an opportunity to benefit from a really great experience.”

White added that in his course, he combines traditional online teaching methods with interactive technology. “We have a very robust discussion forum that’s almost like having Facebook embedded in the course,” White said. “I also try to do a Google hangout once every two weeks as an opportunity to provide a live, face-to-face interaction for students who want to participate in that.” Even though MOOCs are currently not eligible for college transfer credit at Duke, O’Brien said that online courses

are extremely valuable resources for students and encouraged students to explore their options. “I don’t think these courses will replace the traditional on-campus college education,” O’Brien said. “However, if people need extra practice or extra help, or if students want to sample a course before they take it as a regular credit course, or if they don’t need a full-credit course but just need some background, an online course can provide all of those things.”

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MAGUIRE CROWNED ACC CHAMPION Ryan Hoerger Sports Managing Editor

By the time she stepped into the tee box for the fourth time Saturday, Leona Maguire knew the 18th hole as well as anyone. The freshman drained a birdie putt on the second playoff hole to claim the individual ACC championship at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., beating out Virginia’s Briana Mao. The Cavan, Ireland, native shot 10-under-par for the event, which was condensed into two 27-hole days due to the threat of inclement weather. “She’s played a lot of high-level golf, so even though she’s a freshman in college she’s played at a high level for a long time,” Duke head coach Dan Brooks said. “But I don’t think even that explains some of the wise decisions she makes, the awareness that she has out there. I’ve been impressed by how she sizes up a golf course.... She’s a really intelligent golfer.” No. 11 Virginia ran away with the team title, posting a tournament record 27-under par to win by 26 strokes, snapping the No. 5 Blue Devils’ streak of three consecutive ACC championships. Duke finished second with a one-under 863, the only other team in the field that finished the 54 holes in red numbers. Maguire is the second consecutive Blue Devil to hoist the individual conference championship hardware, after junior Celine Boutier won last year. The freshman posted consecutive rounds of

SPORTS Special to The Chronicle Freshman Leona Maguire followed in the footsteps of teammate Celine Boutier, becoming the second Blue Devil in as many years to win the individual title at the ACC championship in Greensboro, N.C.

four-under-par to start the tournament, including a second-round 68 that was split between Friday and Saturday. Maguire entered Saturday’s final 18 holes leading Mao by three strokes and turned in a bogey-free round, but the Cavalier senior made a charge early in the round with four birdies to tie Maguire at the turn. “[Mao] made a lot of birdies on the front

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nine and really came at me,” Maguire told GoDuke.com. “I was just trying to stick with her the whole day and knew that if I could keep giving myself chances, hopefully I could get a few birdies and catch up with her and I guess I did that in the end, so that was great.” Mao birdied the 10th to grab a one-shot lead, but Maguire answered with a birdie on

the next hole to join her at nine-under-par. Both players picked up a shot on the par-5 15th hole and played mistake-free golf on the final three holes to force the playoff. The golfers retraced their steps to the 18th tee box and Maguire drove her tee shot to the left, eliminating the chance of launching her approach shot onto the green. Nevertheless, both Maguire and Mao had opportunities to win with birdie putts, but neither could convert, and the duo returned to play the 18th hole yet again. This time, Maguire’s tee shot put her in a better position and set up an interesting decision—one that wound up putting her in position to win the tournament. “She could’ve knocked it onto the green, possibly, with a three-wood,” Brooks said. “But she opted to hit a five-wood, which landed her in a landing area right in front of the green, and it was a very smart shot, just really smart. It gave her an opportunity to chip and putt for a birdie, but it didn’t bring in the risk of going in the deep green side bunkers that would’ve come in if she had hit a three-wood. So I think it was a smart decision—I don’t think a lot of college golfers would’ve made that decision.” Maguire got up and down for a birdie to win the event after Mao was forced to two-putt for a par. With the victory, she became the 13th Duke golfer and eighth Blue Devil freshman to win the ACC tournament title. “That’s pretty much as dramatic as it gets,” Maguire said. “Just to join that list is a great See W. Golf on Page 9

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Tar Heels claim ACC title Duke downs Marquette Jake Herb Staff Writer Losing a rivalry game is never easy. Unable to keep pace with an explosive Tar Heel offense, the No. 3 Blue Devils fell to No. 2 North Carolina 12-6 Friday night at Koskinen 12 Stadium. Duke seized UNC a quick 1-0 lead in the DUKE 6 early going behind the offensive prowess of senior attack Kerrin Maurer, but careless turnovers and miscommunication on defense enabled the Tar Heels to storm back and take a decisive 5-1 lead with 14:36 remaining in the first half. Despite the Blue Devils’ best efforts at a comeback, North Carolina led the rest of the way, outscoring Duke 5-2 in the second half and cruising to its first ACC regular season title since 2012. With the win, the Tar Heels locked up the No. 1 seed in the upcoming ACC tournament. The Blue Devils will travel to Charlottesville, Va., as the second seed. “This game is always a huge rivalry game and the emotions that come with it are hard to downplay,” Maurer said. “At times we let that emotion get the best of us in this game. Moving forward we know what we need to fix.” Friday’s Tobacco Road showdown marked Duke’s lowest scoring output of the season. Maurer led the Blue Devils (13-2, 5-2 in the ACC) with two goals and teammate Katie Trees posted two points—one goal

and one assist—but Duke struggled to sneak anything past Tar Heel goalkeepers Caylee Waters and Megan Ward. This season, the Blue Devil offense has been one of the more potent scoring units in the nation, averaging 13.6 goals per game prior to Friday’s defeat. But North Carolina (13-2, 6-2) managed to disrupt Duke’s offensive scheme by pressuring ball carriers in transition, causing 13 turnovers and taking away offensive opportunities. In the second half, the effects of the Tar Heels’ defensive pressure began to show. Duke’s ball-carriers began to show signs of fatigue after being ruthlessly pursued by powder-blue jerseys for more than 30 minutes. Succumbing to the North Carolina pressure, the Blue Devils committed nine second-half turnovers, which sapped the home team of all its momentum down the stretch. “We didn’t play the game that we usually play,” Maurer said. “Whether that was because of the emotion of the game or just in general. There were times were we didn’t look like the top ACC team that we’ve been all year.” On defense, lapses in concentration led to easy scoring opportunities for the Tar Heels. Twice in the first half, North Carolina scorers were left unguarded only feet from the goal. Both occasions resulted in easy scores for the Tar Heels, allowing the visiting squad to build a three-goal lead heading into the break. See W. Lacrosse on Page 8

Seth Johnson Beat Writer Despite a late rally from the home squad, the Blue Devils dominated the Golden Eagles from start to finish for the third time in as many seasons. Competing in the first annual HEAD Coaches Classic, No. 6 Duke made it look easy with a 15-8 win against No. 15 Marquette at Hart Park in Wauwatosa, DUKE 15 Wis., Saturday afternoon. The Blue MARQ 8 Devils jumped out to a 7-2 lead after the first quarter to remain undefeated all-time in matchups against the Golden Eagles, sporting an average victory margin of 11.3 goals across the three contests. Duke dominated the field by spreading out its offensive attack to extend its winning streak to three games and make its three-game losing streak a thing of the past. The three victories all came in a grueling seven-day stretch against a trio of ranked opponents, including then-No. 6 Virginia and then-No. 20 Stony Brook. Three straight goals in as many minutes by Marquette in the fourth quarter seemed to briefly give the hosts life for a potential rally. Unfortunately for the Golden Eagles, Duke won the next faceoff

Nicole Savage | The Chronicle Senior Tanner Scott notched a hat trick in Saturday’s 15-8 win against No. 15 Marquette.

and a goal from freshman Justin Guterding—assisted by junior Myles Jones—stifled any momentum built in the quarter. Another Duke goal from Jones just two minutes later made the score 14-8, ending any hope Marquette had of capturing the victory. “We knew that they were never going See M. Lacrosse on Page 8

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With a weekend sweep under their belts to cap a three-match, five-day stretch, the Blue Devils earned the right to rest a few extra days as they gear up for this week’s ACC tournament. After a 4-1 defeat at the hands of top-ranked North Carolina Wednesday, No. 23 Duke got back on track this weekend in its final two matches of the reguWAKE 2 lar season, defeating DUKE 5 Wake Forest 5-2 Friday at Ambler TenDUKE 4 nis Stadium before 1 taking down Notre ND Dame 4-1 on the road Sunday in South Bend, Ind. The Blue Devils will be the third seed in the conference tournament, a position that provides the luxury of a double-bye into Friday’s quarterfinals. Duke was able to bounce back from its loss to the Tar Heels with a decisive victory against the Demon Deacons (15-8, 10-4 in the ACC) on Senior Day. Departing seniors Ester Goldfeld, Annie Mulholland and Rachel Kahan were honored for their four years in Durham and the Blue Devils made sure to send them out in style. Duke cruised to victory in the doubles point, headlined with an 8-2 victory by the 51st-ranked tandem of junior Beatrice Capra and freshman Samantha Harris against Wake Forest’s Samantha Asch and Andrea Retolaza. Mulholland and partner Chalena Scholl followed their teammates off the court with a

Chris Dieckhaus | The Chronicle Sophomore Chalena Scholl teamed with doubles partner Annie Mulholland to win a pair of doubles matches as Duke beat Wake Forest and Notre Dame in its final two regular season contests.

victory by the same score to secure the doubles point. The Blue Devils (16-8, 11-3) continued to bring intensity on the singles courts, jumping out to early leads on five out of six courts after the first set. No. 37 Goldfeld was first to finish at the No. 1 slot, giving the Blue Devils a 2-0 advantage after conquering Asch 6-2, 6-2. Harris and Capra followed suit, sealing the deal for the Blue Devils with 6-0, 6-4 and 6-4, 6-4 victories, respectively. Duke brought the same competitive spirit

and drive to South Bend Sunday, where they overpowered the Fighting Irish (14-9, 8-6). Mullholland and Scholl were first off the court Sunday, cruising to an 8-2 win against Notre Dame’s Mary Closs and Jane Fennelly and concluding an undefeated regular season. At the second doubles position, Capra and Harris claimed their second victory of their weekend—an 8-4 triumph against Allison Miller and Julie Vrabel—to give Duke the doubles point and a 1-0 advantage heading into singles play.

Sophomore Alyssa Smith raced out to a commanding 3-0 lead against Fennelly at the sixth singles position and did not relent, capturing a 6-1, 6-2 win. With a 2-0 advantage, a rain delay brought the action indoors. Capra was next off the courts, dispatching Quinn Gleason in straight set, 6-2, 6-4. On courts two and four, Goldfeld and Kahan got off to rough starts, each dropping the first set. But the two fought back hard to tie their matches with second-set victories to force decisive third sets. At the fifth singles position, Miller handed the Blue Devils their first and only loss of the day, defeating Scholl in three sets, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. After No. 84 Harris decisively captured the first set 6-2, Vrabel competed hard in the second set on court three. The two remained neck and neck, until Harris overpowered Vrabel in the tie-breaker to seize the needed win to give the Blue Devils their 11th ACC victory, 6-2, 7-6 (7-3). Harris is the sixth freshman in Duke history to record double-digit wins against conference opponents. With the match determined, Kahan and Goldfeld abandoned their matches, which were deadlocked at a set apiece. With a weekend sweep, the Blue Devils secured a third seed and a first-round bye heading into the ACC tournament, which begins Wednesday in Cary, N.C. Duke will play Friday at 3 p.m. against either sixth-seeded Georgia Tech, 11th-seeded Wake Forest or 14th-seeded N.C. State. The Demon Deacons and Wolfpack will meet Wednesday for the right to meet the Yellow Jackets Thursday afternoon.

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Clemson takes doubleheader in shortened series Brian Pollack Beat Writer Nine innings make up a baseball game, but sometimes just a single inning can make the difference between winning and losing. The Blue Devils dropped their fourth consecutive ACC series DUKE 2 this weekend, falling CLEM 6 to Clemson in an abbreviated two-game DUKE 1 set that was affected CLEM 8 by inclement weather throughout the weekend. Rain caused the postponement of Friday’s opener and Sunday’s finale, but the two teams did hit the field for a doubleheader Saturday at Doug Kingsmore Stadium in Clemson, S.C., with the Tigers taking the first contest 6-2 and the second 8-1. In both games, Duke was victimized by one big inning that allowed Clemson to build an insurmountable lead. A four-run fifth in game one aided by sloppy defense from the Blue Devils and a five-run fourth—which included four two-out runs for the Tigers—in the later game was enough for Clemson to secure the pair of weekend victories. “We didn’t do a good job in those two innings, and they’re an explosive type of offense,” Duke head coach Chris Pollard said.

“You look back over the course of the season, they kind of score their runs in bunches, and we knew that going in and we knew they swung the bats well at home. The reality is we needed to try to generate more offense to try and stay with them.” Facing a pair of standout southpaws in juniors Matthew Crownover and Zack Erwin— who entered the weekend with a combined ERA of 2.03—Duke (22-17, 5-15 in the ACC) was unable to get the offense it needed. The Blue Devils mustered three runs across the two games and smacked just two extra-base hits. The offense struck first to give Duke early 1-0 leads in both games but could not capitalize and match the big innings produced by the Tigers (22-18, 11-9). The Blue Devils fanned 18 times in Saturday’s doubleheader and had only two players—third baseman Max Miller and catcher Mike Rosenfeld—record hits in both games. The sluggish offensive output continued a season-long trend for a lineup that has had difficulty scoring consistently, but Pollard noted his club was on the right track early in both games—and was just unable to keep it going. “We had really good at-bats against Crownover in the first inning of game one and we had good at-bats against Erwin in game two in the first. We just didn’t sustain it,” Pollard said. “Erwin just kept getting better and better as

Nicole Savage | The Chronicle Freshman Max Miller was one of two Blue Devils to register a hit in both games of Saturday’s doubleheader as the Duke offense struggled to put runs on the board against a pair of talented Clemson southpaws.

the game went on, and we didn’t do enough to get him out of his rhythm and kind of grind out at-bats. That’s just an area where we have to improve a lot.” Although Clemson was able to sweep the doubleheader in large part due to the strong starts of Crownover and Erwin, Duke’s starters struggled to have any success getting deep into the game against the Tigers’ lineup. After turning in great performances against No.

5 Louisville last week, Dillon Haviland and Andrew Istler were unable to replicate those outings. The big inning tripped up both hurlers Saturday, with the left-hander Haviland exiting after 4 1/3 frames and Istler making it through 3 2/3 innnigs before departing. With the starters leaving a void to be filled, the bullpen stepped up and shut the door to See Baseball on Page 9

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Sanjeev Dasgupta | Chronicle File Photo Senior Kerrin Maurer was the only Blue Devil to find the back of the net more than once in Duke’s 12-6 loss to No. 2 North Carolina Friday night.

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Losing to the Tar Heels might mean Duke misses out on some serious bragging rights, but that should not be a problem for this year’s team—these Blue Devils already have plenty to brag about. Guided by Kimel to a 9-0 start that marked the program’s best opening stretch since 2006, Duke has knocked off four ranked teams—Northwestern, Syracuse, Ohio State and Notre Dame—and will still head to Charlottesville for the ACC tournament semifinals Friday. It owns the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament and has shown the potential to make a deep run in the NCAA tournament. “We play in the toughest conference in the country and I am really proud of how hard we have worked to develop over the course of the season,” Kimel said. “I have a lot of faith that we will take a good, hard look at ourselves and we will rebound in the ACC tournament.”

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Duke faired only slightly better in the second half, as North Carolina went to work on offense, using a mix of picks and cuts to open holes in the Blue Devil defense. Despite better one-oneone coverage by Duke, the Tar Heels were still able to pass the ball inside for turn-and-shoot opportunities. Although the Blue Devils’ offense struggled to take hold against a stout North Carolina defense, Duke’s defensive lapses ultimately cemented the losing outcome. “We’ve been a strong and super solid defensive group all year,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “We play solid, straight-up good, fundamental defense and we got away from it tonight…. You just can’t do that against a great team. UNC made us pay.”

to give up,” senior midfielder Tanner Scott told GoDuke.com after scoring three goals and adding an assist on the day. “Lacrosse is a momentum game, and they got some momentum there. [Head coach John Danowski] just said, ‘Play with some focus.’ Sometimes we lose focus and we just look to our leaders.” In the last three games, the Blue Devils (10-4) have had a plethora of players find the back of the net. Saturday was no different, with six players registering goals and each of those players finding the back of the net multiple times. Duke’s offense relies heavily on the starting attack—made up of Guterding, junior Case Matheis and sophomore Jack Bruckner—and the full unit continues to improve. Matheis now has 13 points in the last three games after registering just 12 in his first eight this season. “We are just sticking to what we know and not being selfish as individuals and just playing together,” Scott said. “If we just make the easy plays, it makes our teammates better, and it just makes us look way better.” Bruckner has 15 points in the same three-game span—including his seven-goal performance against Virginia— and Guterding now has a team-high 41 goals to round out the trio’s success. With his first goal of the game in the eighth minute of play, Jones became the all-time leading point scorer among fulltime Blue Devil midfielders, surpassing

The Chronicle Jim Gonnella’s 145 career points. The Huntington, N.Y., native now has 149 career points following Saturday’s performance of three goals and one assist. In the third year of their program, the Golden Eagles (10-4) could not stick with Duke throughout the course of the game. Despite 39 shots and 14 saves, Marquette hurt itself with costly turnovers and a lack of success at the faceoff X. The Golden Eagles won just 3-of-12 faceoffs in the second half and could not exploit the Blue Devil defense enough to claw their way back into the game. “The defense is making progress each and every game,” Scott said. “I think that’s all that we can ask for at this point.” Duke will ride the momentum of its three-game winning streak into the ACC tournament as the No. 4 seed and will meet top-seeded Notre Dame in the semifinals. The Fighting Irish topped Duke 15-10 April 4 in Durham, and the rematch will be the Blue Devils’ fourth chance this season to knock off the No. 1 team in the nation, having fallen short in their first three attempts. The ACC tournament opening faceoff is scheduled for Friday at 5:30 p.m. at PPL Park in Chester, Pa.

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a clip that would have finished sixth in this year’s field. Despite the rain-soaked course, Virginia ran away with the victory fueled by four of the tournament’s seven lowest scores. “[Virginia] didn’t falter, that’s the thing,” Brooks said. “Usually when you have a team that gets hot like they did, they’ll follow it up with at least a little bit of a hiccup.... They played just solid golf through the entire tournament—it was very impressive.” Duke will continue postseason play May 7 at the NCAA regionals, looking to take the first step toward defending its national championship.

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honor, and especially as a freshman. I didn’t really have that big of expectations coming in as a freshman and stuff, but it’s great to get another win under my belt.” Boutier, the reigning individual champion, finished at five-over-par. The junior suffered a rough stretch at the end of Saturday’s final round, bogeying three of her final four holes and tumbling down the leaderboard. Like Maguire, freshman Gurbani Singh turned in a stellar showing, finishing sixth at five-under-par. The New Delhi native finished Friday’s 27 holes with eight birdies and four bogeys. Singh finished out the second round Saturday with three more birdies and then continued from page 7 played a mistake-free back nine in her final round to shave two more strokes off her score. Recent rainfall led to softer conditions and keep Duke’s deficits from ballooning even lower scores at the 6,089-yard Sedgefield course. further. Freshman Luke Whitten came on in Duke won the event last year with a 10-over-par— relief of Haviland to throw 3 2/3 scoreless innings in the first game, and Blue Devil relievers combined for eight innings of one-run, two-hit ball in the doubleheader. Pollard pointed to the freshman trio of Whitten, Ryan Day and Jack Labosky as top performers from the bullpen during an otherwise down weekend for his team and noted how their maturation throughout the course of the season is a positive indication moving forward. “I thought all three of those guys flashed good stuff. Their stuff was live and they commanded the strike zone,” Pollard said. “The few times they did fall behind, they did a good job of challenging in the zone and forcing contact. That’s a good sign as we round here down the stretch.” The pair of losses kept Duke in last place in the ACC Coastal Division. The Blue Devils will return to the diamond Wednesday at Special to The Chronicle East Carolina before getting another chance Leona Maguire hit a birdie putt on the second to improve their conference record at home sudoku_475B playoff hole to win the individual title. against Virginia Tech this weekend.

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uke’s 1G Network is a community of first generation college students, administrators, faculty and staff committed to improving the experiences of first generation college students on campus. The programming provided by the Network ranges from academic support to skills like financial literacy. The Network also runs a pre-orientation program each year dedicated to ease the transition to the world of college and, later in the year, discussion groups give times and places to discuss, especially in earlier years, the unique position of first generation college students on campus, a niche that we turn our attention to today. First generation college students face a number of barriers before ever setting foot on campus. Although not all first generation students come from low-income backgrounds, statistically, most add low family income to the layers of identity and experience they bring to Duke. The financial burden on many first generation students leads to a resource gap that precludes academic tutors, educational trips or cultural experiences that other students may enjoy in their formative years.

And in terms of enrichments, the fine arts have a prominent place on Duke’s campus. Consequently, there is an expectation that students become some kind of cultured over time, per the needs of cocktail party conversation or later adult life. Although many cultural experiences on campus are free or low cost, the vocabulary and memories to engage and relish them come less easily to first generation students who may have had less exposure as children. This is not to say that first generation families are less cultured as a rule but that the high-brow, tweed suit appreciation for culture may not be a part of their enjoyment of cultural events. But outside barriers to these experiences, and certainly more inconspicuous, is the knowledge gap these students face. Whether they express it or not, first generation college students have much less support from home in many nuanced avenues of university success. Parents without experience at college— or even parents whose university experiences were simpler or had fewer opportunities than a Duke undergraduate career—have much less

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how-to guidance to pass on to their children. This knowledge could be as small as anecdotal sharing of what living in college is like or as big as providing children with serious major or post-graduation plan advice. Navigating university life in social and academic spheres alike is therefore all the more difficult for first generation students, especially during freshman year, when they might not reach out to campus resources as they look to be regular, capable college students. It is important to recognize the dissonance that first generation college students may feel and to normalize their experiences—not to adopt a paternalistic or concerned view of their experience but, rather, to ask and appreciate their fortitude in making this leap in their family history in spite of the hurdles. To that end, the 1G Network at Duke is on its way to becoming a space like student unions at Harvard and Yale, and the new Access and Outreach office indicates Duke’s progress in supporting our community. However, in order to continue making strides, normalizing the 1G experience is essential.

On driving behind a truck

here is nothing that terrifies me more than driving on the highway. Well actually there is one thing. Driving on the highway behind a truck. I question anyone who doesn’t become nervous when chugging ahead at eighty miles per hour with no ability to see what is in front of them apart from the back of an eighteen-wheeler. Now, of course, when driving behind a truck, I can see the world to the left and right of me, but what value is there in seeing the cars to the left speed pass me if I have no sense

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be moving towards, but no one can seem to pinpoint? Now, I am not speaking of graduation as that is the obvious and tangible end goal. I am talking of post-graduation, life after Duke, this thing that I have been told is the “real world.” I appreciate that some juniors have a much better visualization of their post-graduation plans than I have. There do seem to exist kids graced by the certainty gods who come out of the womb enlightened and born to be pre-med. Or perhaps their solidified ambitions are the re-

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GUEST COLUMN of where they are going or why? To push this example further, the ability to turn your head right and left does not have much utility if you are not capable of staring straight ahead. The ability to step side to side would not be that appealing without the potential to also walk forward. Without the center, the forwardness and the “in front,” the left and right, the periphery and the “on the side” lose their functionality. So why am I talking about the fear I associate with driving behind trucks? Because as a junior student at one of the top-ten universities in the country, this is quite often what life feels like. Similar to every other type A, over-involved and sleep-deprived Duke student, each of my days is less of a stroll through the gardens and more of a sprint in a highly competitive track race. Now, that is all fine and good. I love being busy, I thrive off of stress and I am a firm believer that competition is an important source of inspiration and motivation. Yet, I am finding that my everyday sprint is difficult to complete when I can’t see the finish line. I can watch the runners on either side of me, and I can move quickly forward myself, but I can’t see what we are all running towards. What is this end goal that everyone seems to

sult of high-pressure parents who believe there exists only one path to success and push their kid to walk down it. Or maybe these students were sucked into one of the conventional Duke paths like banking and consulting, wrapped up in the glamorous perks of making six figures the year they graduate and convinced that a job at these companies is the definition of a successful life. But, I would argue that the majority of us have no clue what the hell we should do postgraduation and that we all feel as though we are moving, much too fast, behind a tractor-trailer, incapable of seeing where the road we are driving on leads to. Each day at Duke, it seems as though a new, fabulous post-graduation option emerges. And while we are beyond fortunate that as Duke grads we will have an endless number of options post-graduation, we are also cursed with the stressful uncertainty that this vast pool of opportunities presents. So, I would like to encourage everyone who is feeling totally clueless to be more open about the fear you feel and uncertainty you experience because driving behind the truck won’t be as scary if you are all with me in the same car. Gayle Powell is a Trinity junior.

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Alchemy

hey say that humor is like alchemy. The humorist is charged with the responsibility of coalescing all that is life, disparate elements like woes, fears, tears and cheers which when initially combined in the cauldron appear lumpy and grey like drying magma, and bewitching this worldly gloop into humor. It’s certainly a tall order. I look at the world. It is cold today, and I have not properly prepared for rain. The rain chases a couple into the library. They are holding hands. The prospect of a looming exam hunches my back. I look at the world, and I do not laugh. I can’t muster a smile. Then, I look down at the Duke Chronicle, a world unto itself, and I find myself no less than giggling at a column entitled Monday Monday whose words and truths are milked out from the very teats of this unfunny reality. Tell me this is not alchemy! My name is Daniel Altman, and my name is Ishmael. This much isn’t alchemy; it is deception, almost subversion. Perhaps you know Ishmael isn’t real, but this is no grounds for the presupposition that he is fake, for there is room in between. Ishmael is more so a proxy without whose voice I would not be able to project mine. He is quite obviously an outsider peering in. His language is riddled with idiomatic gaffs,

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Soon after, the economy collapsed and we fell into the Great Recession. Many people lost their jobs, and I, still a lost soul in tenth grade, could not find a girlfriend. I learned to cope the only way I could. I fell in love with the pen, using a concoction of five parts sexual frustration and one part existential confusion as my black ink. Perhaps I exaggerated to you when I called myself an alchemist. That was not to say that my work of transforming despair into rhythmical contractions of the diaphragm—and vice versa—was perfectly successful. Online critics have politely suggested that I have faltered under the devastating weight of this weekly obligation. I too am certain that sometimes I have failed you. I think it was Wittgenstein who once said: “The world is my world: this is manifest in the fact that the limits of language (of that language which alone I understand) mean the limits of my world.” Indeed I have felt that in my attempts to understand the crushing simultaneity of the world or even this tiny neo-gothic bubble that purports to be itself some, perhaps, triple-filtered world within a world, language has not provided me the necessary ammunition to keep my guns blazing long enough. A moribund girl devoting her soul to an orgo

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and his tales of sexual exploits are debatably the fruits of pathological lies. One might say that he is tangled in the theatre curtains, never quite reaching the Zion of that idyllic Duke stage. Tell me you do not feel the same way. It is true that, having shed this proxy-voice, I feel naked, sprawled out. Imagine an avant-garde 1950s pornography magazine for the non-heteronormative and the anatomically curious that is printed in color for the first time. I feel like one half of the centerpiece. That is my burden to bear, not yours. But to help each of us cope, it might be fruitful to tell you a bit about myself before I catch you staring. I was birthed in the throes of the pelting mayhem of a particularly harsh Connecticut ice storm in March 1993. Childbirth was only the beginning of the pain. In 1998, while you may remember America basked in favorable macroeconomic conditions, I was bedridden by fever. Incorrectly diagnosed with an exotic disease, hallucinations of an incoming stampede of dinosaurs were realer to me than the visage of my caring mother. Only five years later, we invaded Iraq. I was a lonely boy then, picked fourth- or fifth-from-last in gym class and sentenced to right field on my baseball team.

exam, a consummate tennis player leaning into a serve, a teetering male peering longingly from the Shooters cage—how am I, equipped with words alone, to weld a linkage between these discrete phenomena? And, alas, the answer is null, for all opportunity now lies in the past. I divert your attention instead to the fact that if we accept humor as a function of the mind and the mind as an organ of the body, we then allow humor to join the ranks of our other bodily functions. Having said that, I am noticing these days a growing lactose intolerance in me, one for which I always suspected, from my ethnic heritage, I was doomed. I’ll eat a bowl of off-brand Frosted Mini-Wheats in the morning, and that is now enough to send me whizzing like an untied balloon to the restroom. Suffice it to say that humor can often feel the same way. Some days, I’ve found, it will come out in a rush, some days not at all and some days, I have to force it. It is neither always easy nor always expected, but it is at least a decent representation of what I am experiencing at a given moment. Dan Altman is a Trinity Senior and this semester’s Monday Monday.

I got lucky with Duke

emember your decision to come to Duke? When was the last time you had to make a decision of that magnitude? That decision decided not only where you were going to spend the next four years of your life but also a set of values and environment that will shape you during your most formative years. I didn’t come to Blue Devil Days. I actually never visited Duke nor did I experience a college tour. I didn’t ask multiple students and alumni about the school. I headed off to North Carolina not knowing what I was signing up for. It seemed like the perfect setup for a potentially huge mistake. Very luckily, it was the best decision I’ve ever made. But now, I’m trying to make another decision. This one is due on April 30th. I have to decide where I will be spending the next four years of my life which will include choosing my specialty, developing my bedside manner, learning professional values and so much more. This process seems nothing like choosing Duke for undergrad. Many others are still deciding on their graduate school, medical school, jobs or service trips, and I salute

James Tian ONISM you if you’ve already made that decision. As for me, I’ve made tables and lists of everything about anything. How is the political climate? How is the temperature climate? I’ve thought about the values of the school and the ideas talked about on campus. Should I choose a place with better athletics? How about the feel of the city? Does it have Uber? Do I like their airport? One place has more ambitious students, but not the right culture of the school. A third has better athletics but yet another has more relevant research. One place is nice and warm but doesn’t have as agreeable of a political climate. One place has a lot of A but is lacking in B. Another has those two reversed. Duke, however, has terrific athletics AND relevant research. It is filled with ambitious, high-achieving students, and it challenges them to apply their knowledge in the service of society. The triangle region has warm summers and cold winters. It is both liberal and conservative. Duke has organized house systems and independent housing. Religions coexist. Professors enjoy interacting with their students. Students build great relationships with professors. Flunches, FINvites and faculty talks occur left and right. There are both niches of self-selecting student groups and also diverse social bodies. Want to try something new? Join a dance group, write for the school newspaper or teach a house course! Duke has its occasional scandals and underlying inequalities, but the student body works so hard to challenge and correct them. As I read on Yik Yak, “everywhere has its problems, but at least Duke talks about them.” Durham is also so unique despite the belittlement of outsiders. It’s small, but that does not mean there is nothing going on. Where else are there Pauli Murray murals all over the city and a unique tobacco warehouse style for anything from apartments and office space to research laboratories? Where else does a substance abuse recovery program form the largest moving and storage company in the city? There’s so much wonderful work in the community and pride in the city. It also has Uber, and RDU airport isn’t bad either! And so in my final column ever as a columnist, I just wanted to thank Duke. Not just because it has given me a wonderful undergraduate experience but also because, back as a high school student, I didn’t know what was good for me. I selected Duke not knowing it had the perfect environment I would flourish in. I’ve never fully appreciated everything Duke has to offer until now. And now, I am choosing the life I have to lead after Duke. Maybe trying to replicate Duke is what makes my decision so hard. Back when I was less mature, I was so lucky that Duke wanted me; and back then, I wanted Duke back. I won’t be in another place so perfect ever again. James Tian is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Monday.

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continued from page 1 Christian studies— and firmly established its doctor of theology program. Hays has strengthened the Divinity School through fundraising, organizational change and recruitment of faculty and staff, said Ellen Davis, Amos Ragan Kearns distinguished professor of Bible and practical theology. Rachel Thompson, a senior Master of Divinity student, said that Hays’ most meaningful contribution to the school is his emphasis on forming students with scriptural imagination— his term for the process of thinking about one’s life and ministry through the lens of scripture. “It’s helped to shape the identity of the school,” she said. Throughout the last five years, Hays said that his biggest challenge has been to raise adequate endowed funds for student scholarships. He explained that many graduates of the Divinity School are not highly paid, which results in reduced donations to the school. He has been working with donors to provide resources for financial aid so that Divinity students will not have to go into debt, he said. Although Duke is regarded as research university, Hays said that the Divinity School

plays an important role in helping the University remember its historical roots and in thinking clearly about what makes life worth living. “I don’t just mean this in issues about ethics but in asking, ‘who are we as human beings and what enables us to live lives that are whole and significant?’” he said. “The Divinity School plays a role in keeping these questions live in public discourse.” The 13th dean of the Divinity School will be selected by a search committee appointed by Provost Sally Kornbluth and President Richard Brodhead. Randy Maddox, William Kellon Quick Professor of Wesleyan and Methodist Studies, will chair the committee. Hays said that he hopes that his successor will continue the Divinity School’s interdisciplinary engagement with the University and will carry forward the school’s combination of academic excellence with a commitment to training people for ministry in the church. Hays added that he has enjoyed interacting with faculty and students in the Divinity School during his time at Duke, both as a professor and as dean. He has been involved in the planning of several musical events and has even participated in a band of other faculty members. For a convocation with area pastors a few years ago, he rewrote the words of the Rolling Stones’s “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” to instead say “I can’t get no inspira-

Chronicle File Photo Dean Hays will step down at the end of the 2015-16 academic year in order to pursue longdeferred writing projects and plans to return as a professor the following year.

tion” in reference to sermon writing. “People are always surprised to see the dean stand up with an electric guitar,” he said. “It’s a way to inject fun into the serious business of running a school.” Hays said he also enjoys cheering on the Duke basketball team and has been a season ticket holder since he began working at Duke. Thompson noted that her best memory of Hays was when he came to class the day

after the National Championship this year, wearing a National Championship hat and t-shirt. Although being the dean was not something he sought or expected, Hays said that his time in the role has been a joyful challenge. “It’s been an adventure, but it’s time for me to move on to the next adventure,” he said.

Announcement of Award Recipients

Congratulations to the following students, organizations, faculty and staff, who have been recognized for their leadership and service at IN THE SPOTLIGHT!

Duke International Betsy Alden OutstAnding service- Relations Association International Association leArning AwArds Trish Ike Laxmi Rajak

BAldwin schOlArs unsung herOine AwArd

Le Bump Sigma Gamma Rho Students of the Caribbean Association

stAr AdvisOr AwArd

J’nai Adams Dr. Suzanne Shanahan Mehdi Emamian lArs lyOn vOlunteer Alec Greenwald Kearsley Stewart

service AwArd

Ileana Astorga

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Innovation Award Canyon Dell’Omo Raul Buelvas Award Andrea Lin Service Award Michaela Stith Spirit Award Jonathan Osei

Julie Anne levey williAm J. griffith memOriAl leAdership university service AwArd AwArd

Headliner Black Student Alliance Environmental Alliance Muslim Student Association

Luke Duchemin Aishu Ramamurthi Priya Sarkar Amir Williams

up & cOmers

clAss Of 2018 AwArds

Black Women’s Association Blue Devils United Camp Kesem of North Carolina

Taylor Jones Chandler Phillips

AlgernOn sydney sullivAn AwArd Rasheed Alhadi

Advocacy Award Tionne Barmer Olivia Bowles

Outstanding Contributions to the Duke Community Jonathan Hill-Rorie Jennifer Moreno Lauren Reuter Outstanding Contributions to the Durham and Local Community Catherine Blebea Cecelia Mercer

Outstanding Contributions to the Global Community Lucas Metropulos Titilayo Shodiya

student AffAirs distinguished leAdership And service AwArd Building Alliances through Collective Engagement Jaclyn Grace Commitment to Diversity Daniel Kort Karina Santellano Respect for Community Lizete Dos Santos Expanding the Boundaries of Learning James Tian

#gOtcAughtleAding Umer Ahmed Rasheed Alhadi Abena Ansah-Yeboah

Anika Ayyar Sebastian Baquerizo Elizabeth Barahona Evan Bell Zeena Bhakta Eeshan Bhatt Erin Butrico Nur Cardakli Leah Catotti Pim Chuaylua James de Giorgio Anita Desai Stephen DiMaria Rinzin Dorjee Leena El-Sadek Noura Elsayed Mina Ezikpe Nicolena Farias-Eisner Jeff Feng Riyanka Ganguly Gabriela Gomez Yossra Hamid Katie Hammond Jonathan Hill-Rorie Samantha Holmes Rebecca Holmes Kathy Hong Trish Ike Sydney Jeffs Teresa Ju

Safa Kaleem Anna Kaul Joe Kreitz Michael Laskowitz Anna Li Lin Liao Grace Lim Leo Lou Yvonne Lu Chloe McLain Jackson Moore Eliza Moreno Manish Nair Brittany Nanan Lauren Nathan Quang Nguyen Cam-Ha Nguyen Vinai Oddiraju Ogechi Onyeka Chandler Phillips Sania Rahim Martin Ramirez Shruti Rao Dana Raphael Zalika Sankara Karina Santellano Jordan Schermerhorn Mali Shimojo Sammi Siegel Elliott Smith

For more details, visit http://studentaffairs.duke.edu/ucae/leadership/leadership-service-awards/

Sri Sridharan Sean Sweat Carine Torres Amir Williams Jessica Witchger

wOmc cAmpus impAct AwArd Duke Support

wOmc cOmmunity impAct AwArd Imari Smith

wOmc stAte impAct AwArd WomenNC

wOmc nAtiOnAl impAct AwArd Alissa Anderegg

wOmc glOBAl impAct AwArd Korrine Cook