April 11, 2016

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board, said after the students exited the building.

Roberts added that the students plan to join their supporters tenting outside the Allen Building.

“It is so good to be out,” Roberts said. “Duke’s administration has realized this movement cannot be contained, so we are moving outside.

We are just getting started.”

Barber and the protestors noted that one reason students left was because they

The Duke Chapel will reopen May 11 with a day-long celebration.

Restoration work on the Chapel, which began in May 2015, was prompted when a small piece of ceiling tile fell in 2012. Renovations— estimated to cost approximately $10 million—have included the inspection and refurbishment of the ceiling, the replacement of the building’s roof and improvements to the Chapel’s electrical system.

“The reopening of the Chapel building is about more than just the reopening,” said Luke Powery, dean of the Duke Chapel. “It’s a reopening, but it’s also a time of renewal, rejuvenation, a kind of restart. I’m excited about the future.”

Powery said the reopening will mark the beginning of a year of celebration events.

Baccalaureate services and other graduation ceremonies for the Class of 2016 will also be held in the Chapel May 13-15. The first Sunday morning worship service in the building since renovations began will be held Sunday, May 22 at 11 a.m.

“We would like to use the reopening of the building as a time to refocus the community on the Chapel’s vision, mission and strategic values,” Powery said. “It’s a new beginning, and that’s what excites me.”

Services were held in Baldwin

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Gautam Hathi | The Chronicle Students marched up and down Chapel Drive after the sit-in ended Friday and noted that their protest movement is just getting started.

Carolyn Yao and Lara Haft, sophomores Cindy Li, Ashlyn Nuckols, Jazmynne Williams and Dipro Bhowmik and freshman Sydney Roberts.

Wang left the sit-in Tuesday to go to a national poetry slam contest in Texas.

When announcing that the students were leaving the building, Barber noted that they were doing so because of their health and were leaving as winners who could rejoin the movement.

“This movement isn’t going anywhere until all Duke workers are treated with dignity and respect,” Roberts, a member of The Chronicle’s editorial

Gautam Hathi and Amrith Ramkumar The Chronicle After a week sitting inside the Allen Building to demand better treatment of workers at Duke, sit-in students exited the building Friday afternoon following a speech by the Rev. William Barber II, president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP. The students initiating the Allen Building sitin were senior Amy Wang, juniors Mina Ezikpe,

Point guard Derryck Thornton to transfer from Duke Ryan Hoerger The Chronicle Less than a year after committing to Duke, point guard Derryck Thornton will transfer elsewhere to continue his college career.

The Chatsworth, Calif., native reclassified from the Class of 2017 to join the Blue Devils a year early and contributed 7.1 points and 2.6 assists per game as a freshman. Tasked with stepping into the big roles vacated by Tyus Jones— who left early for the NBA—and Quinn Cook as the lone true floor general on the roster, Thornton shot 38.6 percent from the field and posted a 1.5 assist-

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to-turnover ratio, but his role shrunk in Duke’s last six games of the season, never playing more than 25 minutes in any of those contests.

“I have loved my time at Duke, but I want to pursue the opportunity to play college basketball closer to home,” Thornton said in a press release. “I want to thank my teammates and coaches for their support this year. The relationships I have with them will always be special to me.”

The news was first reported by Scout’s Josh Gershon and ESPN’s Jeff Borzello and Jeff Goodman.

Thornton started 20 of the Blue Devils’ 36 games last season. The floor general will have to sit out next season before taking the court again in 2017-18 under

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Thornton will leave Duke in good academic standing.

“We wish Derryck the best and appreciate his contributions to our team this season,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said in the release. “We support his decision and want only what is best for him in the future.”

Duke’s backcourt will be filled with talent next season, with Grayson Allen opting to return for his junior season to rejoin Matt Jones and Luke Kennard.

Incoming freshman guard Frank Jackson will also likely take on a significant role, as the combo guard now projects as one of the Blue Devils’ primary ball-handlers for the 2016-17 season.

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DSG’s challenges not Former music faculty start band in retirement community unusual among peers Likhitha Butchireddygari The Chronicle Although Duke Student Government has faced issues with its perception on campus, diversity and voter turnout, student government leaders at other universities said those problems are not unique.

During the recent DSG presidential elections, one of the main topics of discussion for candidates was the negative opinion many students have of the organization. Candidates emphasized enacting reforms to make the organization more responsive to students.

“Throughout my campaign, I [expressed that] I know that the dominant narrative is that ‘DSG doesn’t do anything’, but I don’t believe that to be true,” said DSG president-elect Tara Bansal, a junior. “I knew that because I have seen cool work happen through DSG.” At other institutions, students’ perception of the governing bodies at their universities varies.

Students from Yale, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said they believe that

their student government has substantial influence. “[Student government] has an impact on school policy issues,” wrote UNC freshman Rohun Shah, executive assistant to student body president Bradley Opere, in an email.

“We have the support of many student organizations, as well as a say with the Board of Governors.”

At UT-Austin, freshman Makenzie Stuard, a college of liberal arts representative, wrote in an email that many members of the student body there view the student government negatively. By contrast, Sam Bensinger, chief of staff of the Yale College Council, said that students at Yale are generally aware of what the student government does and are responsive to YCC communication.

Joe English, president of YCC, wrote in an email that YCC has been able to impact issues such as financial aid, sexual misconduct policy, counseling resources, diversity and resources for the LGBTQ community.

Another challenge faced by student governments is ensuring diversity of See STUDENT GOV. on Page 4

Jim Liu | Chronicle File Photo Perception on campus, diversity and voter turnout—three of DSG’s top issues—are also problems for student governments at Yale, UT-Austin and UNC.

Frances Beroset The Chronicle Kathy and Lex Silbiger have found that music has continued to be a part of their lives after they retired from their positions at Duke.

Kathy Silbiger, former director of Duke Performances and Lex Silbiger, former chair of the music department, now live in Croasdaile Village, a retirement community in Durham. The couple, who have lived in Croasdaile for four years, coordinate a band of fellow residents called “The Rusty Pipes,” which performs both in and outside the community.

The pair met at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where Kathy Silbiger was studying for her graduate degree in arts management and Lex Silbiger was teaching at his first fulltime regular faculty job in music. In addition to teaching, he directed a small ensemble group that she auditioned for, playing recorders and the cornetto, a wind instrument.

Kathy Silbiger said that in her role as an administrator at Duke, she had to give up playing music, but was eager to start playing again after retiring.

“I devoted all my energy and time to the job,” she said. “So I basically did not play music from 1985 until I retired in 2007.

But of course the whole time I was around music and artists because I was bringing them in, sitting in on their rehearsals, feeding them and raising money to bring them, so I was envious that they were getting to make music … When I retired, I said, ‘okay, my turn!’”

Lex Silbiger said he and his wife went to a music store together the day after she retired and bought a trumpet.

“I was worried she would be sitting at home,” he said. “Us academics, we keep going after we retire. I do research and things, but that’s not for someone who’s essentially administration.”

Since their retirement, Kathy Silbiger has become very active in local musical groups and plays in multiple ensembles See RUSTY PIPES on Page 4

Special to The Chronicle Kathy and Lex Silbiger used to bring music to the Duke community and now coordinate a band of retirement community residents.

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Anthony Alvernaz | The Chronicle Duke Chapel closed last May so the ceiling could be refurbished and the roof replaced.

CHAPEL from page 1 Auditorium last summer and have been held in Page Auditorium during the academic year.

“People longed to be back in the beautiful space of Duke Chapel,” Powery said. “I have a deeper appreciation now for what that space means for people.

For their own spiritual journeys, it is an advantage being in that sacred space.”

The opening May 11 will begin with a ceremony with Powery and President Richard Brodhead, followed by an all-day open house with tours, music and talks, Powery said. He added that during the evening, Frank Stasio from North Carolina Public Radio will host “State of Things,” his live radio show, in the renovated building about “the sights and sounds of the Chapel.”

“It will be a full day of celebration and we’re sending out thousands of invitations because we know it’s a beloved place,” Powery said.

He noted that the Chapel’s theme for the coming year is #findsanctuary.

“I want to say that the Duke Chapel is here to serve, and to serve the whole community—high church folks, low church folks and no church folks,” Powery said. “We want to be a place where people can find sanctuary, whatever that might might mean for them. We want to be that kind of refuge, that kind of loving community.”

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felt angry when administrators removed their amnesty on the second-floor balcony.

“When I used to be a prison chaplain, even prisoners get to go outside,” Barber said. “They told these students, ‘You can’t even come outside.’ This is a kind of psychological warfare or something.”

President Richard Brodhead noted that the University is continuing its commitments to inclusivity following the sit-in and announced that the building will reopen Monday.

“Though we have disagreed about the specifics of their demands and their choice of means, I respect their underlying passion for making Duke and the world a better place,” Brodhead said of the students in a statement to The Chronicle.

“The University renews our commitments toward advancing the causes of fairness and inclusion across this community, including our workers. I now look forward to our coming together in this important cause.”

The students’ exit came two days after they modified their original list of demands and issued two conditions for them to leave the building. The first was that Duke hire “competent, outside employment counsel” approved by Duke Students and Workers in Solidarity to annually investigate Parking and Transportation Services, the Duke University Police Department and the Office of Institutional Equity. They also demanded the University hire an independent consultant to conduct annual investigations of working conditions.

The second was that the University raise its minimum wage for workers to $12.53 per hour—Durham’s living wage according to the Durham Living Wage Campaign—by the end of this year and $15 per hour by July 4, 2019.

After the students issued their two preconditions to leaving the building, Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, noted that administrators would no longer negotiate with sit-in students. Earlier Wednesday, Brodhead sent an email to the Duke community announcing a committee that would be charged with reviewing Duke’s grievance and complaint procedures and initiating processes to raise the Duke minimum wage above $12 per hour.

“We offered to negotiate if they left the building,” Schoenfeld wrote in an email Wednesday. “That didn’t happen, so we’re not negotiating and we’re done with demands.”

Following the sit-in students’ exit, they joined their supporters outside—many of whom had been tenting outside Allen since Sunday—and marched up and down Chapel Drive.

Danielle Purifoy, a Ph.D. student in environmental policy and one of the protest organizers, noted that the tents outside of the Allen Building will remain.

Another organizer, sophomore Mohamad Chamas, noted that students exited the building so that negotiations with administrators could move forward.

“The ball is in their court now,” Chamas said. “We said we want to negotiate, and we’ll see what happens. Tomorrow, the Durham community is going to come out to show support for all the work we’ve done.”

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their representatives.

DSG conducted a demographics survey in February and found that the Senate is comprised of more white and male students as well as students with a higher average socioeconomic status than is representative of Duke’s student body.

Bensinger and Shah noted that diversity is also a problem for student representatives at Yale and UNC. Bensinger explained that the YCC is trying to make elections more accessible to a wide variety of students.

“We definitely struggle with [diversity],” he said. “We try to work with the cultural houses as much as we can.”

Stuard noted that although many UT-Austin students have a negative impression of student government, diversity is not a main reason why, adding that the student body elects a wide range of candidates.

DSG has also aimed to combat low voter turnout in recent years, but DSG and student governments at UT-Austin, Yale and UNC have relatively high turnouts.

W.H. “Butch” Oxendine—the executive director of the American Student Government Association, a national organization for collegiate student governments—wrote in an email that voter turnout among private institutions is about 15 to 20 percent and 2 to 4 percent when other colleges are included.

DSG had a higher voter turnout this year than UT-Austin’s student government, YCC and the national student government average with a turnout of 36 percent in February’s presidential and executive vice president elections. UNC’s turnout was slightly higher than turnout for DSG elections.

According to the Daily Texan, for UT-Austin’s executive alliance race, which elects the president and vice president, 9,942 students voted this year—approximately 25 percent of the student body.

“Most people I talk to refuse to vote in the student government elections because they believe it is a popularity contest with a baseless aim, and to be fair, a lot of the times it is,” Stuard wrote.

YCC officer elections turnout was approximately 30 percent, according to data from the Yale Daily News. UNC had almost 38 percent of its undergraduate population vote in a similar election, according to statistics from The Daily Tar Heel.

RUSTY PIPES from page 2 and bands. However, she said she noticed a void in their community.

“I thought there must be other folks who probably played at some point in their past, or would like to play,” she said. “So the first week we were here, I met with the activities director and said, ‘I think I want to start a band.’

And so that’s what we’ve done.”

The Rusty Pipes includes approximately 20 retirees and practices in the Silbigers’ music room almost every Monday.

The Silbigers said the band members try not to take themselves too seriously, and typically will play for church groups, other retirement communities and at farmer’s markets.

The band tries to add humor to its repertoire, Kathy Silbiger explained, adding that they had recently done a polka rendition of the chicken dance.

“You aren’t going to see us in Duke Performances,” Lex Silbiger joked.

Kathy Silbiger said some of the challenges of conducting an ensemble of senior citizens include making adjustments for hearing impairments, “attention problems” and dealing with the challenge of not being good right away. She added that many of the band’s members had not played since high school or were learning for the first time.

“I say everything like three times, really loud,” Kathy Silbiger said. “They are back being a student again, and they feel like they ought to be able to do this, really well, right away, because they’re a successful person.”

The Silbigers said that the residents of Croasdaile Village have benefited from their involvement in the band, and that most surviving members who joined the band have stuck with it.

“It’s kind of fun to learn a new instrument,” Lex Silbiger said. “I’m past 80, so to learn something new is very exciting.”

Kathy Silbiger added that she thinks playing music is a good way for older people to stay active.

“Staying active like this is really important. And getting out is really important,” she said. “When you come into a community like this, it could happen that your world would close in and this would be it. But when you’re a part of a group like this that goes out and does things, I think it helps keep you part of the real world.”

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Duke closed spring practice with a 70-play scrimmage that featured 4 touchdowns and 3 turnovers Sam Turken The Chronicle Duke’s Spring Showcase was closed to the public, but the Blue Devils’ youth still put plenty on display Saturday morning.

Duke concluded its slate of spring practices with a two-hour practice session and scrimmage at Wallace Wade Stadium, one final opportunity for head coach David Cutcliffe and his coaching staff to gauge the Blue Devils’ strengths and weaknesses before summer practices begin in August. In addition to a conventional 70-snap scrimmage, the showcase included several different drills, such as one-on-ones and sevenon-sevens between wide receivers and defensive backs.

Redshirt junior quarterback Parker Boehme completed seven of his 10 passes for 66 yards and redshirt freshmen signal-callers Quentin Harris and Daniel Jones each tossed touchdown passes to lead the offense, but the defense forced three turnovers, including a 36-yard interception return for a touchdown by linebacker Joe Giles-Harris.

“We’re going to see [on film] a lot of things we like. We’re going to see a lot of things we need to work on,” Cutcliffe said. “One of the things that showed today was that we have a lot of people that can run and a lot of skill on this team.”

During the scrimmage, Duke’s first, second and third-teams on offense and defense practiced plays designed for specific circumstances, including third-

Seth Johnson | The Chronicle The Blue Devils went through a 70-play scrimmage as part of a two-hour “showcase” to close spring practice Saturday at Wallace Wade Stadium.

and-short, third-and-long and red zone scenarios.

The first score of the day came when Harris connected with redshirt senior running back Zach Boden on an eightyard touchdown pass, one of Boden’s two scores on the day. The Harvard transfer—who Cutcliffe said Thursday would be on scholarship for the coming season after seeing limited action as a walk-on a year ago—also added a fiveyard scamper on the ground. Duke’s other touchdown occurred on another

eight-yard completion, this one from Jones to redshirt sophomore wide receiver Chris Taylor.

Harris and Jones split time under center with Boehme, who has taken the majority of snaps with the first team offense with Thomas Sirk—who started 12 of the Blue Devils’ 13 games under center in 2015—recovering from a torn Achilles tendon he suffered in February.

With the opportunity to get firstteam reps in practice, Boehme said he has improved at reading defensive

coverages and deciding when to check out of play-calls.

“I’m taking it one step at a time. I’m trying to learn from my mistakes, just growing with the guys,” Boehme said. “I was really looking forward to competing with Thomas, but I’m really pleased with Daniel and Quentin. They’ve been really competing, trying to take my spot obviously.”

Running back Jela Duncan led Duke’s rushing attack with 26 yards on six carries, and junior tailback Shaun Wilson also displayed his speed and shiftiness throughout the day. “[Wilson’s spring] has been really good. He and Jela didn’t get a bunch of snaps today,” Cutcliffe said. “I think Shaun has had the best run of practices since he’s been here.”

Defensively, the Blue Devils generated pressure on the trio of Duke quarterbacks, helping force the three turnovers. Giles-Harris took an errant Harris pass back to the house for a defensive score, and defensive end Danny Doyle and cornerback DeVon Edwards each recovered fumbles.

Redshirt freshman defensive end Twazanga Mugala recorded two tackles for loss—one of which was a sack—and safety Corbin McCarthy added another sack.

Cutcliffe said the defensive line has improved, and was especially impressed with the play of his redshirt freshmen.

Safeties Jordan Hayes and Brandon Feamster—who is 6-foot-3 and 210 pounds—have shown their play-making See FOOTBALL on Page 12

MEN’S LACROSSE

Fighting Irish defense stymies Duke in second half Mitchell Gladstone The Chronicle On a sloppy, cold and windy afternoon in South Bend, Ind., the level of play from two of the nation’s top-15 teams matched the weather in which their game took place.

But despite holding Notre Dame AllAmerican attackman Matt Kavanaugh scoreless and not allowing the hosts to lead at any point during the game’s first 55 minutes, Duke could not pull off the upset against the nation’s topranked team.

Junior midfielder Sergio Perkovic scored the tying and go-ahead goals in the fourth quarter as the No. 1 Fighting Irish escaped DUKE 6 the No. 13 Blue 8 Devils 8-6 Sunday ND afternoon at Arlotta Stadium to remain alone atop the ACC standings. Duke controlled play for much of the afternoon—using two goals from sophomore Justin Guterding to take a 5-3 lead early in the third quarter—but Notre Dame’s defense clamped down after halftime.

The Blue Devils scored just once

in the game’s final 26 minutes as the Fighting Irish wore Duke down and closed the game on a 5-1 run, sealing the victory with a goal from senior Kyle Trolley.

After a full week of six practices, the Blue Devils appeared poised to return to Durham with what would have been a crucial win in what has been a rollercoaster season, leading 5-3 early in the third quarter. Instead, they came home empty-handed.

“We became a tad selfish and fundamentally unsound against a very good defensive group,” Duke head coach John Danowski told GoDuke.com.

Early on, the practice—especially the focus on defensive fundamentals—paid off, as Duke forced the Fighting Irish (8-1, 3-0 in the ACC) into turnovers on each of Notre Dame’s first three possessions. Even with great ball movement—leading to the first of Guterding’s goals—the Blue Devils could not get much past Fighting Irish goalkeeper Shane Doss, who surrendered just two first-quarter goals.

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Kristen Shortley | The Chronicle Sophomore Justin Guterding scored two goals Sunday for the Blue Devils, but Duke was held to just one goal in the final 26 minutes against the top-ranked Fighting Irish.

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McAfee’s complete game helps Duke tame Tigers David Rieder The Chronicle

For fans of high-scoring baseball games, Jack Coombs Field was not the place to be Sunday afternoon.

Duke right-hander Brian McAfee threw a 108-pitch complete game to carry the Blue Devils to a 2-1 victory against No. 21 CLEM 3 Clemson, allowing just nine total DUKE 5 baserunners, striking six batters and CLEM 3 out surrendering a single DUKE 2 unearned run. The win gave Duke its first CLEM 1 series win against the DUKE 2 Tigers since 2010— and just its second since 1998—and continued the momentum from last weekend’s series win at then-No. 23 Georgia Tech.

Clemson’s lone run came in the fourth inning when catcher Chris Okey and right fielder Seth Beer hit back-to-back singles off McAfee to begin the frame. Reed Rohlman then grounded into what could have been a double play, but Duke first baseman Justin Bellinger dropped the relay throw from shortstop Zack Kone. The ball got away as Okey came around to score standing up.

But Bellinger got a chance to make up for that mistake.

“Anytime anybody feels like they missed a play, like they did something wrong, they definitely want to make it up,” Bellinger said. “It got by me, but I was definitely ready for the next chance I had to help the team out.”

Clemson starter Alex Eubanks cruised through the first five innings but ran into trouble in the sixth. Freshman center fielder Jimmy Herron singled to lead off the inning

Ryan Hoerger | The Chronicle Sophomore Justin Bellinger’s double plated two runs for the Blue Devils Sunday, all the offense Duke needed to win a series against No. 21 Clemson for the first time since 2010.

for Duke (17-15, 6-9 in the ACC) but looked like he might not get to run the bases after Chris Proctor and Cris Perez flew out. Herron moved to third base on Jack Labosky’s single, and both came around to score when Bellinger hammered a two-run double into Coombs’ spacious right-center field gap.

“For my first two at-bats, [I understood] that they were throwing me fastballs, that they were challenging me,” Bellinger said. “They weren’t going to try to pitch around me and throw offspeed pitches like they had the last two days. So I was really just sitting fastball, ready [for the] fastball, the kid threw it and [I] took advantage of it.”

Those two runs would be all the support McAfee needed. After allowing hits in four of six frames before his team finally got on the board, McAfee retired the game’s final nine batters after walking

Clemson second baseman Weston Wilson leading off the seventh.

McAfee had to mix up his pitches after the Tigers (22-9, 8-7) put solid swings on his offerings in the early innings. “[The] slider was working really well in the pen beforehand,” McAfee said. “I got out there, I was leaving it up in the zone a little bit and they let me know. Saw that the first couple innings there. They were crowding the plate, looking for the fastball away—the ump was giving them a couple inches off the plate there—and they started sitting on sliderfastball away early in the count, so I started using the changeup a little bit, started using the fastball in a little more, and I kept them off-balance the rest of the game.”

Despite having thrown 99 pitches headed into the ninth inning, McAfee had no intention of coming out of the

game. With Beer set to lead off the inning, McAfee was most concerned with keeping the freshman slugger—who entered the day batting .420 and slugging .890—off the basepaths.

Duke had been shifting on the lefty-hitting Beer all afternoon, but for his final at-bat, third baseman Jack Labosky played in his normal spot rather than moving over to the normal shortstop position. That paid off as Beer grounded the first pitch right to Labosky, who threw him out at first.

“It was a little bit of luck there,” McAfee said. “The guy’s probably the best hitter I’ve ever faced there—one of the best, if not the best hitters in the country and incredible for a freshman. I was trying to make a good pitch there. One-run game, don’t want to leave anything up in the zone for him. Even at Coombs, that guy has tremendous power, so I was really happy with the way Jack played at third base there.”

McAfee then took Rohlman’s comebacker off his ankle, but recovered in time to throw to first to get the out and then waved off the trainer. McAfee completed his afternoon by getting Wilson to ground out to third, improving his record on the season to 5-2.

Duke head coach Chris Pollard heaped praise on his Sunday starter for a gutty, dominant effort on a day when a couple more mistakes might have made the difference in the game.

“He was unreal. [He] had the two-seam fastball really working, ton of ground ball outs. He threw four pitches, kept them offbalance,” Pollard said. “Credit Brian for just being tough, being a leader and just giving us a chance every single Sunday.”

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Duke survives Eagles’ late surge on Senior Day Ben Feder The Chronicle Not even the blistering wind could stop the red-hot Blue Devil offense.

After scoring seven second-half goals in a losing effort against Syracuse April 3, Duke put up seven more in the first 30 minutes Saturday despite wind speeds that got up to 32 miles per hour, then sealed the victory with three insurance goals late in the contest.

The No. 13 Blue Devils lost a threegoal halftime lead, but recovered to beat No. 17 Boston College 12-8 at Koskinen Stadium on Senior 8 Day. Sophomore BC DUKE 12 Kyra Harney led the way with four goals and an assist, senior Maddy Acton added a hat trick and an assist and senior Kelsey Duryea came up with seven saves between the pipes.

The Eagles’ top playmaker—Sarah Mannelly—was ejected from the contest with about five minutes remaining in the first half after receiving her second

yellow card of the afternoon, and the two teams combined for five yellow cards on the afternoon in a physical contest.

Faced with a 7-4 halftime deficit without its best player, Boston College came out of the locker room on a mission. The Eagles had averaged 14.4 goals per game in their last five matchups, but it was their defense that keyed the comeback effort, stymying the Blue Devils and giving the offense chances to operate. Boston College scored three straight goals coming out of the locker room to tie the game up despite being a player down for two minutes after a yellow card. But after a Duke timeout, the Blue Devils stormed back with two straight goals to reclaim the lead for good. “[We had to] get everyone on the same page in terms of what we were trying to accomplish offensively and a couple of adjustments defensively kind of helped us gain back the momentum there,” Duke head coach Kerstin Kimel See W. LACROSSE on Page 9

Ryan Hoerger | The Chronicle Sophomore Grace Fallon’s two goals gave the Blue Devils some breathing room again after Boston College scored three straight to tie the game early in the second half.

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Blue Devils soar past Eagles with straight-set victories Brian Pollack The Chronicle Wednesday, the Blue Devils jumped out to a 3-0 lead and looked poised for an easy victory, only to see the match slip away from them.

Saturday, Duke found itself in the same position—but this time, it closed out the victory.

The No. 8 Blue Devils got back on track in conference play, cruising past a short-handed Boston College squad 6-1 at the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center.

The match was 1 moved indoors due BC DUKE 6 to windy conditions outside, and Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth chose to rest Beatrice Capra, his top singles player, after she endured a draining three-set loss against Michigan.

Without No. 19 Capra to lead the way in singles play, Duke showcased the depth of its roster and pulled out a big win with the ACC tournament just two weeks away.

“That’s what we talked about—we had to be more of a team in the true sense of the word. Tennis is an individual sport, but we couldn’t just go out there and play as individuals today,” Ashworth said.

“We had to put [Wednesday] behind us, learn from it, but be a true team when we walked on the court today, and I thought

Motin Yeung | The Chronicle Freshman Kaitlyn McCarthy was one of five Blue Devils to close out a singles match in straight sets, dispatching No. 89 Lexi Borr 6-0, 6-2 on court two.

we did a good job of that. I thought you could hear people supporting each other and cheering each other.”

The Blue Devils (16-4, 9-2 in the ACC) claimed the doubles point for the fourth consecutive match, sparked by winning the first 10 games across the three courts. Chalena Scholl and Alyssa Smith were the first duo to wrap up a match, defeating Boston College’s Heini Salonen and Asiya Dair 6-2 on court three. Then Duke’s top doubles team— the No. 19 pair of Capra and Ellyse Hamlin—sealed the doubles point by

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winning four games on the deuce point in a 6-2 victory against the No. 88 duo of Lexi Borr and Jackie Urbanati.

Playing in the third match on court two, Samantha Harris and Kaitlyn McCarthy were aiming for their 10th straight doubles victory against Katya Vasilyev and Emily Safron. They won the first three games but dropped the next three and found themselves in a tight battle at four apiece when Capra and Hamlin completed their match.

“We got off to a really good start, we were up 3-0, 3-0, 4-0, something like that,” Ashworth said. “I was really happy with the start of that because that kind of dictated the rest of the match. We could have been flat after that Michigan loss, but I thought the start gave us a little bit of confidence and kind of let us just go out and play, and play free.”

No. 43 McCarthy had no issues closing out her singles match and promptly took the first set against Borr—ranked No. 89 in singles play—at love. The freshman carried her momentum through to the second set, winning the first five games en route to a 6-0, 6-2 victory on court two—her teamleading 24th win of the season.

“Honestly, a lot of things were working well for me today. I played really well, which was awesome,” McCarthy said. “That’s the best I’ve played in a while, so that was really exciting since we’re getting to the end of the year and now we’re starting to get in ACCs. So that’s a good confidence boost. I feel like I was really able to take advantage of first opportunities, and that really helped me execute points quicker and just be efficient.”

Just moments later, Duke increased its lead to 3-0 thanks to Harris’ efforts on court three. The Melbourne, Australia, native extended her singles winning streak to seven with a comfortable 6-1, 6-2 victory against Vasilyev.

Hamlin clinched the match for the Blue Devils with a straight-set victory on court four against Safron. The freshman claimed both sets by identical 6-3 margins, breaking a three-match losing streak as she earned Duke’s fourth point of the afternoon.

Although the Eagles (8-11, 3-9) traveled with only six players and are scheduled to play No. 2 North Carolina Sunday, they chose to play out the remaining singles contests after the outcome of the match had been decided.

Christina Makarova—who entered into the singles lineup in Capra’s absence— made it four consecutive singles victories for the Blue Devils with her 6-1, 6-4 win against Salonen.

“Christina honestly plays the same every match. If people are willing to sit out there [they will] pay the price to beat Christina, because she’s not going to give away a lot of free points,” Ashworth said.

“She’s going to run down a lot of balls, she’s going to play a lot of long points.

You pretty much know what you’re going to get with Christina every time she walks onto the court. She did a good job of playing her game today.”

Freshman Jessica Ho continued the dominant afternoon for Duke on court five with a 6-4, 6-2 win against Jackie Urbinati.

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Pollard reinforced to his players before Sunday’s game that they should not be defined by that one mistake and let it take away from the Blue Devils’ previous four-game winning streak.

“I really like the way were able to bounce back today, stay in the moment,” Pollard said.

“I told our guys before the game, ‘Think about how you would have felt if you had won that ballgame yesterday. The confidence, the four straight ACC wins, the five straight wins overall. You’re that team. That one pitch didn’t change that. That’s who you are and who you’ve become, so go play like that today,’ and I think they answered the call.”

Pollard’s team will have several more chances to answer the call this week. The team travels to Davidson for a 6 p.m. game against the Wildcats Tuesday night and then takes on N.C. Central at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park a day later before welcoming No. 2 Miami for a series beginning Friday.

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W. LACROSSE from page 7 said. “In games like this—these tough and close ACC games—you need other people to step up outside and get things done.”

Coming off a career-high six goals in the loss to the Orange, Acton had the hot hand again for the Blue Devils (9-5, 4-1 in the ACC). With the Eagles opting to faceguard Harney and Kelci Smesko— Duke’s top two scorers—Acton teamed up with Maddie Crutchfield and Grace Fallon to keep pace with the highoctane Boston College offense.

Operating primarily just outside the 12-meter circle, Acton also served as a facilitator, making a key pass to Fallon to end a scoreless drought of more than 10 minutes in the second half following Kimel’s timeout to put Duke ahead 8-7.

“Offensively, [Crutchfield and I] have especially grown in our chemistry toward the end of this season, and it’s worked out great. We play off each other really well,” Acton said. “It gives me confidence that we have a great team offense…. No matter what the other team throws at us, we have an answer.”

The Blue Devils received contributions from several different players on the offensive end, highlighted by a tough goal converted by Hayley Shaffer to give Duke yet another twogoal lead late in the contest—just her fifth tally of the season.

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Tess Chandler ripped two quick goals to start the second-half scoring— finishing with four on the day—and Kenzie Kent nearly doubled her seasonal goal output, adding three tallies of her own. But both players went quiet following Kimel’s timeout, as the Blue Devils altered their defense, frustrating the two Boston College players.

In her last regular-season game in Durham, Duryea turned in another stalwart performance, saving 46.7 percent of the Eagles’ shots on goal. Late in the game, with Boston College attempting to mount another comeback, the Beverley, Mass., native stonewalled the Eagles’ offense on point-blank opportunities—with her most important save coming with less than 10 minutes left to preserve a onegoal lead. On the ensuing Blue Devil possession, Shaffer scored to give Duke an important insurance goal.

“For [Duke] to be 4-1 in the ACC right now I think is an awesome accomplishment for us,” Kimel said.

“For us to have won two really tough games against [Virginia and Boston College] is a testament to this team’s hard-work, character, willingness to continue to develop as the season has gone on and adapt.”

The Blue Devils have a week of rest before traveling to South Bend, Ind., to take on No. 7 Notre Dame Saturday at 1 p.m. in Duke’s penultimate regularseason contest.

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common theme has begun to emerge in our reactions to DSG: concern that elected officials have failed to convince the average Duke student that DSG is an organization working for their interests rather than for self-satisfaction. DSG works best when it serves as a conduit, relaying the ideas of the student body to the administration, rather than acting unilaterally. Likewise, DSG vice presidents are most effective when they listen to and inspire the senators that work in their committees rather than commanding them. In addition to heeding senators, though, a strong VP must ensure that external voices are recognized and that the ideas of those voices are implemented. To this end, we encourage voters to consider which candidates will encourage DSG to improve the interface between students, student government and administration so as to help DSG focus on issues the student body finds salient. Below are our VP endorsements.

Academic Affairs With major changes coming to the Duke curriculum and advising systems, the VP for academic affairs will have the opportunity to reshape the Duke intellectual experience for incoming students. We feel that Kushal Kadakia is the best candidate to guide DSG through this exciting time and enthusiastically endorse his candidacy. We appreciated Kadakia’s emphasis on strengthening mentorship communities on campus like

the peer adviser network and graduate-undergraduate mentoring partnerships. We also found his ideas for leveraging technology to increase DSG transparency to be compelling. While Kudakia’s competitor, Sean Bissell, demonstrated devotion to improving academic engagement, Kadakia presented a more nuanced understanding of what students need from DSG on academic affairs.

Equity and Outreach The VP of equity and outreach frames the way that

Editorial DSG interacts with the broader Duke community. We cautiously endorse Adam Bullock for this position on the basis of his strong platform which seeks to address previously ignored concerns, including the needs of low-income students. We were impressed by Bullock’s recognition and acknowledgement that DSG has often co-opted the ideas of other student organizations, stripping them of agency and his plans to counter this trend by connecting student groups directly to administrators. Our main concerns with Bullock lay in his nebulous plans for actually reaching those student groups. Bullock’s competitor, Riyanka Ganguly, made a strong case for her candidacy and has an exemplary

“Splintering apart humanity and causing everyone to identify only with their own ‘group’ is an old tactic aimed at causing societal breakdown ... And saying certain groups are forever tainted by the conditions of their birth and ethinicity (example: ‘white privilege’) is another such tactic. Churchill called socialism the ‘gospel of envy’, and he was right.”

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am responding to “fari nzinga’s” absolutely appalling April 7 editorial.

In particular, I was horrified by her comments regarding the Duke lacrosse allegations of 2006. What Nzinga wrote about the Duke lacrosse case was not only outrageous but also patently false.

I will not give nzinga any attention on her other points about the protests or recent events on campus. Frankly, she does not deserve it. To claim that the 2006 case “exposed the rape culture prevalent on campus” is a disservice and a travesty to the three innocent young men, Reade Seligmann, Colin Finnerty and David Evans, that were wrongly accused of rape by a rogue, evil district attorney, Mike Nifong, who sought to destroy their lives for the sake of gaining public office. Worse, statements like these do harm to the very real victims of rape not only on this campus—I encourage all to learn more about Duke’s “Breaking Out” campaign for more information—but around

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the world. These types of statements work to belittle and cast doubt upon very real victims and survivors who will forever be haunted by memories of their assault and to further the rape culture nzinga cites.

ESPN’s recent “30 for 30” documentary on the Duke lacrosse case not only exposed Nifong’s injustice but also vindicated the three young men whose lives were ruined by a false assumption of “guilty until proven innocent,” not only by people around the world, but also by some people on this very campus. I am disturbed that such a piece that is not only disgraceful but also borders on libel could possibly be written by a Duke graduate. While I would like to think that we have learned from our mistakes regarding this case, it is disturbing that some people like Nzinga try to further these “fantastic lies” that were disproven a decade ago solely to advance a political agenda.

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history of advancing issues important to her, highlighted by her creation of the Sexual Health Resource Center.

We were concerned, however, that Ganguly presented the kind of platform we have seen all too often from DSG candidates, with big ideas that had little buy-in from students at large. While rhetorically eloquent, Ganguly seemed too bureaucratically inclined to bridge the disconnect between DSG and the broader community.

Residential Life The VP for residential life oversees all HDRL-related matters. Overall, we felt that Jacob Lettie laid out the best plan to improve the way that Duke students live on campus. We appreciated the emphasis that another candidate, Basil Seif, placed on expanding living learning communities and the recognition that competitor Eddy Torgas gave to community displacements caused by construction. Ultimately, however, Lettie presented the best plan to improve housing, especially for independent students, through a plan of revisions to blocking rules and student dorm choice.

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I’m the woman who keeps your dorm clean. I’m the man who changes lightbulbs and keeps the hallway lighted. I’m the man who trims the bushes around the quad and cuts the grass in the heat of summer and pulls the weeds. I’m the gardener in the Duke Gardens and all over campus. I’m the security officer, the parking attendant, the bus driver. I cook your food and wash your dishes for the next meal. I clean your toilets and supply you with paper towels and toilet paper. (It sounds like I might be your mom or dad, but I am not.) I help keep the wheels turning at Duke. Do you know me?

I unlock and lock the doors. I insure a comfortable temperature in your classroom. I provide clerical support for your professors. I push paper, carry paper, recycle paper, dispose

of paper. I pick up your trash. I make sure you can hear the LDOC band and that the stage is safe. I paint the lines on the football field and hang the banners in Cameron. Sometimes, I even empty your bedpans and push your wheelchairs. Rich or poor, I don’t care. I meet your needs. I’m always here.

Don’t ignore me as if you don’t see me.

Smile. Say hello. Learn my name. Ask me about my family. Get to know me. Grow the idea. Then, one person at a time, we can develop trust, respect, appreciation, maybe even friendship, and eventually, hopefully we won’t need sit-ins, protests, inequality and anti-hate committees or safe spaces. We’ll be able, finally, to move on.

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Is there anyway you could whip up a short letter that we could hand out as they hit campus to welcome them? I’m a little busy over here licking stamps on waitlist and rejection envelopes.

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school—a good student who would tell the teacher when the cool kids went out back to smoke some dope, right? Well, we’re looking for defenders of righteousness like you to join President Brodhead’s newly established Inquisitorial Squad to seek out the hooligans amongst your class who might be plotting against the University.

Though we can’t compensate you for the program, we can offer you a signed letter of recommendation from Coach K after four years of service—what a resume builder!)

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The past week of protest and focus on the workers of Duke has laid bare the hypocrisy of the statement. Duke, as a community, believes in intellectual exploration and serving as a

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– Ya Boi Monday P.S. Ever considered changing your name to Christopher? Way easier to remember.

Dear Prospective Student, As part of Duke University’s ongoing effort to increase student yield, I am pleased to present you with “Dr. Monday’s Duke for Dummies: a P-frosh’s Guide to Campus.”

Please note that the administration requires me to remind you that attending Stanford may cause cancer, and that the last page of this guide can also be used to make your first donation to the University.

Spring has sprung here at Duke! You may have noticed our grounds crews working hard to scrub the last vestiges of a long winter off campus, and they better do a damn good job now that they’re making $15 an hour. Some students have even taking to decorating campus for your arrival themselves—you may notice the small “A-Ville” tenting area set up to give all you little p-frosh a small taste of Duke’s storied tradition of tenting and remind you that Duke University recently won an “A” for employee rights from the Qatari Ministry of Labor! Wow! Add that to Penn Pavilion’s recent sixth-place finish in the recent “Reverse Ranking of College Eateries” poll from U.S. News and World Report, and you’ll see that our desire for validation is limitless. Don’t bother actually trying the food, though—we have a sign right there to tell you how good it is. Yum! What really matters in today’s economy though are jobs, jobs, jobs—whether you want to work 100 hours a week doing investment banking or consulting, Duke professors are trained to make sure you know how to handle cranky, aging white men better than the competition! Feel like majoring in something outside economics or engineering? Our career center staff is more than qualified to help fill out your federal food stamps application!

Yearning to know more about the academic experience? What better way to learn more about Duke than to hear a little about the Applied Theoretical Mathematics Department from one of its students, Abhishek Manahandras! (Psst— are you still reading this? Good. Now that we can speak freely, I can tell you were one of the good kids at your high

of the Fibonacci Sequence, Abhi—just another example of the work going on in Duke classrooms every day! The Duke experience extends beyond the classroom, though, and into the city of Durham we call home. Whether dealing with neighbors after a fifth noise complaint or sharing a beer with a local Durhamite at 10 a.m. on the DATA bus, our students make an impact on their community. That’s why during your Orientation Week we’ll bus your whole class on over to the American Tobacco Campus, which is about as much a campus as American Tobacco is good for your health! Snap some pics to remember the place by, then hop back on the bus for a trip back to safety within the 3-foothigh walls of East—should you choose to walk, please remember that tuition is nonrefundable in the event of your death!

We know you’ve heard about our scandals, from Asia Prime parties to high schoolers in porta-potties, but let us be clear—Duke is NOT a party school.

Underage consumption of alcohol is illegal in North Carolina, and we truly enforce that.

Well, except on LDOC. And Old Duke. And a few other concerts. And in K-Ville, as long as we’re playing a good team. But outside of these limited occasions, we’re cracking down across campus on risky behaviors like “ripping shots,” “pregaming” or “buttchugging;” we’d rather you take it off campus, where we have some semblance of plausible deniability when the, well, vomit hits the fan. College students? Drink? Why, have you even read the Duke Community Standard, my friend?

With your bid acceptance to Duke comes great responsibility. We’re working every day to make Duke the best it can be, and your class is part of that commitment.

From a plan to renovate the eyesore that is Central Campus to the renovation of the dorms on East, we’re all-in on Duke’s success, regardless of how that impacts your time here. The question, Class of 2020, is if you’re all-in too.

Please-come-here-so-my-degree-rises-invalue-ly, Dr. M Dr. Monday is currently conducting research into whether sorority girls sitting alone in the Link study rooms and their notes literally transform to the gaseous phase of matter and expand to fill the space containing them.

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catalyst for positive change in society. Duke, as a business, opts for the expedient and the profit margin over the values of its academic ambition. The two, business and university community, are inextricably linked and feed off each other. They are the foundation of the hypocrisy that we find ourselves in.

That hypocrisy is deafening silence and selective application of mission. It is a conscious or subconscious decision to say our values are negotiable and that knowledge used in the service of society only applies when “society” is somewhere else or within the status quo.

It is a choice to do or say nothing because we have the ability to.

When the Duke Students and Workers in Solidarity sit-in began more than a week ago, few people paid attention to the issues they supported. A week later, our campus has at least partially recognized that the backs this university is built upon and supported by are underpaid, overworked and unappreciated.

This to me is what the movement for better labor practices is about. Whether we value our community and its people enough to say that working poverty, unjust labor practices and racist systems are unacceptable whether we allow a wealth of resources and information to corrupt our sense of what is normatively right and what is in our capacity to do when we have the power to begin to reverse it.

It’s about the heart and soul of this university and its role in the community and the world.

It’s about all of us individually recognizing the moral obligation of our education, this community and how we continue to fail the people we share this university with by staying silent. Too many students are more eager to criticize their peers, the protest and the methodology than to do something that benefits the lives of the members of our community who labor in our dining halls, clean our bathrooms, construct our buildings and plant the flowers when Blue Devil Days come around.

It begs the question for me, and it’s one I’m struggling to answer. If I can tutor children whose families can’t afford basic necessities because the university I attend fails to pay their parents adequate wages (and my education costs around $250,000) but refuse to stand up and tell the administrators I know that they should do something about it, why am I even here learning knowledge I’m supposed to one day use to serve society? How can I love with one hand and neglect with the other?

We need to get this right, right here and right now.

We forget what Martin Luther King, Jr. was doing in Memphis, TN, when he was assassinated. Increasingly a pariah of the establishment, King joined a sanitation worker strike in Memphis as part of the Poor People’s Campaign, as part of a pivot to economic and racial justice. Merely weeks before his death he stood in front of a gathering of strikers and their supporters and broadly declared that “all labor has dignity.” With the end of legal segregation in the rearview mirror, he

declared, “Now our struggle is for genuine equality, which means economic equality.”

This message was not popular in 1968.

King was vilified toward the end of his life as the imperfect, at times radical, social justice warrior prevailed over the sanitized figure we remember each January. He sounds like the people I have talked to over the past week in Abele-Ville, and I question how much has changed when those same messages fall on a silent majority who would rather criticize methods than support fair wages and fighting the economic injustice in our community.

Our university seems more interested in projecting an image of compassionate elitism, one that is fully aware yet fully complicit in economic and racial injustice, than it is to act when such injustice presents itself on our campus because it requires a shift in the status quo. We are an example for this city and this state as Durham’s largest employer. We should be setting an example, not dragging our feet to catch up with local restaurants and city government.

To my peers, consider this a call to take action in whatever form that may take for you.

Email or talk to an administrator, spend some time in A-Ville, talk to your housekeeper about their life and let them know you value them or do as the protestors have done and engage in civil disobedience. If your question is,“What can I do?”, there are myriad options.

If your question is “Why should I do that?”, I offer the following response. It does not matter what political party, candidate or economic philosophy you support. I think we can all get on board with supporting hard-working people in our community who struggle to survive because they are not paid enough to live above the poverty line. We can grasp how systems intersect with each other, how the amount of income a family has and the work environment of employees impacts specific health, education and future economic outcomes.

The question we are faced is one of consistency of word and deed. Our values cannot be negotiable or selectively applied.

Silence is a decision built on the ability to choose when our values apply and when they do not. The issues of workers at Duke and the injustices—economic, racial or political—of our community must not be the ones where we choose to remain silent.

Jay Sullivan is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Mondays.

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FOOTBALL from page 6 potential and athleticism throughout the spring, but still have room for growth, Cutcliffe noted.

“Our redshirt freshmen and true freshmen will make up 41 percent of our scholarships,” Cutcliffe said. “That’s a unique number for us, but I think that’s a good thing for us.”

Redshirt junior Austin Davis and redshirt freshman wide receiver Keyston Fuller shared most improved offensive player honors, and linebacker Tinashe Bere and safety Jordan Hayes were Cutcliffe’s most improved defensive players. The Blue Devil Heart Award for best team member on and off the field went to senior center Jake Brodner.

The Blue Devils will be off for the next three months before they continue preparing for their 2016 campaign in August. Duke opens the season at home against N.C. Central Sept. 3.

Seth Johnson | The Chronicle Parker Boehme completed seven of 10 passes for 66 yards Saturday.

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle Deemer Class was held to just one goal on the day as Duke struggled to solve Notre Dame’s defense in the second half.

M. LACROSSE from page 6 Dame’s goals allowed average to 6.6 per game. Doss bailed out his defense on several occasions and set the tone for a group that Danowski and the Blue Devils knew could give them fits.

Duke (7-6, 1-2) grabbed control of the contest in the second quarter, utilizing pinpoint passing to pick apart the Fighting Irish defense and snatch a 4-2 lead. Goals from seniors Case Matheis and Chad Cohan were each the result of tic-tac-toe ball movement—the Blue Devils finished with five assists from four different players—but a diving score from Notre Dame’s Mikey Wynne narrowed the lead to just one at the half.

Momentum stuck with Duke in the first few minutes of the second half as

Guterding notched the second of his pair of tallies to stake his side to its second twogoal lead. And although the Fighting Irish failed to register a shot for the first seven minutes of the third quarter, that pattern did not last long.

A feisty Notre Dame defensive corps cranked up the pressure on the Blue Devil midfield unit, limiting Duke to just a 77.8 clear percentage and forcing 23 turnovers.

Under head coach Kevin Corrigan, the Fighting Irish have been known for their effective ride defense—one that often challenges opponents as they attempt to carry the ball into the offensive zone. Led by the senior trio of Edwin Glazener, Jack Sheridan and Matt Landis, Notre Dame shut down a dangerous Blue Devil attack that had scored 33 goals in its first two ACC games.

With a pair of left-handed goals from freshman Ryder Garsney, the Fighting

Irish pulled even at five entering the final period. Senior Deemer Class got on the board for the first time to give Duke the lead back at 6-5, but Perkovic then caught fire. The 6-foot-4 midfielder completed his hat trick, putting the Fighting Irish ahead 7-6 with 4:45 left—their first lead of the game.

“Not good enough,” Danowski said.

“We would have liked to have held them to five, I guess, and then we win. [Today, we were] just not good enough.”

Time is running out for the Blue Devils as they sit just above .500 for the season and in fourth place among ACC teams. They have just three regularseason games remaining in addition to the ACC tournament in Kennesaw, Ga., beginning April 29—but even that is not a certainty.

If Danowski’s squad hopes to earn one of the four spots in the tournament and avoid having to play No. 2 Brown instead as the odd team out, it will need to pick up a critical win next weekend when Duke heads to Charlottesville, Va., Sunday to visit No. 20 Virginia.

W. TENNIS from page 8 That left No. 67 Scholl—who slid onto court one with Capra resting and had won all four of her matches this season on the top court—as the lone Blue Devil left competing.

But the junior had her hands full with No. 80 Dair, dropping the first set 2-6.

Scholl gave Dair all she could handle in the second set, but ultimately fell 2-6, 5-7 as Boston College secured its first and only point of the day.

The Blue Devils return to the court Tuesday for a midweek ACC matchup at home against N.C. State.

Look who’s graduating!

Only 33 more days, Class of 2016.

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