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Blue Devil defense nets NIT success

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Incident allegedly occurred Nov. 16

by Lindsey Rupp The Chronicle

A student reported last week that she was robbed and sexually assaulted on West Campus Nov. 16.

The incident occurred between Wannamaker Dr. and Chapel Dr. Nov. 16 at about 10 p.m., said Assistant Chief Gloria Graham of the Duke University Police Department.

She said the student reported that she was the victim of a strong-arm robbery and a second degree sexual offense.

The alleged attacker took an undisclosed amount of cash and the student’s DukeCard, Graham said. She described the suspect as a 5-foot-11-inch black male between 28 and 30 years old.

“We’re definitely going to investigate it because it’s not something that’s commonplace in our environment” she said, adding that the case is “high on [DUPD’s] priorities list.”

The victim initially reported the incident to a different campus office, which brought the report to DUPD, and Graham said the student reported the incident anonymously Nov. 23.

A DUPD incident report was not available for release Sunday.

Although Graham said the report is See assault on page 4

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Senior captains Lance Thomas (left) and Jon Scheyer (right) receive the NIT Season Tip-Off championship trophy after the Blue Devils built a big lead against No. 13 Connecticut and held on for the win.

Overhaul adds rigor to Duke Conversations

by Christina Peña The chronicle

The students who chose to stay on campus or could not go home for over break were not denied traditional Thanksgiving fare.

Most campus eateries closed Tuesday night, so for students staying on campus over Thanksgiving break, food options were limited to reduced hours at McDonald’s or Grace’s Café.

“It was frustrating because sometimes I did not feel hungry early in the day, which was when

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James Citrin, an author who studies leadership, has interviewed more than 3,000 top business executives in addition to athletes, politicians and musicians—including Lance Armstrong and Bono.

And Nov. 19, he sat down to have dinner with Duke students.

Citrin is one of many well known people who have come to Duke as part of Duke Conversations. The program, which has been in place for four years, pays student-nominated guests to come to the University to speak with students over dinner and in other venues.

Following a review by members of the Duke community,

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Giving thanks, away from home

by Matthew Chase

See conversations on page 4

NEW YORK — Kyle Singler did not perform up to his lofty standards on the offensive end Friday night against No. 13 Connecticut, but in the end, it didn’t matter.

Despite getting only six points from their best player and shooting below 30 percent from the field, the No. 7 Blue Devils (6-0) built a nine-point halftime lead and maintained it for a confidenceboosting 68-59 win over the Huskies (4-1) in the NIT Season Tip-Off finals at Madison Square Garden.

Singler finished 2-for-12 and picked up his third foul late in the first half, limiting his aggressiveness for most of the evening.

With Duke’s star not as involved in the offense as he usually is, senior Jon Scheyer picked up the slack, finishing with 19 points, four rebounds and five assists.

Scheyer earned tournament MVP honors for his performance, yet neither he nor fellow guard Nolan Smith shot well either, going a combined 11-of-40 from the field.

Smith scored 17 points but missed 17 shots, and many of those misses came from the elbow and the lane, a space clogged by big men on both ends.

“The lane today was not a good place to shoot the ball,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “There were a lot of distractions defensively being made by both teams for those shooters.”

With all three of the Blue Devils’ leading

most of the places were open,” sophomore Rodrigo Madrigal said. “By the time I got hungry all the places were closed. To make matters worse, all the delivery restaurants were closed because of break, so it was even more frustrating. I bought some snacks just in case I could not get any food at all.”

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ONTHERECORD

“To join that sorority, that’s pretty special right there.... Nine defensive rebounds is possible because she works so hard.”

­—Joanne P. McCallie on Jasmine Thomas’s triple-double Friday. See story page 7

Business owners respond to smoking ban, Page 3

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U.S. troops to prepare for final deploy to Afghanistan

KABUL — Days after President Barack Obama outlines his new war strategy in a speech Tuesday, as many as 9,000 Marines will begin begin final preparations to deploy to southern Afghanistan and renew an assault on a Taliban stronghold that stalled earlier this year amid a troop shortage and political pressure from the Afghan government, senior U.S. officials said.

The extra Marines—the first to move into the country as part of Obama’s escalation of the eight-year-old war—will double

the size of the U.S. force in the southern province of Helmand and provide a critical test for Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s struggling government and Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s counterinsurgency strategy.

“The first troops out of the door are going to be Marines,” Gen. James Conway, the Corps’ top officer, told fellow Marines in Afghanistan on Saturday. “We’ve been leaning forward in anticipation of a decision. And we’ve got some pretty stiff fighting coming.”

Public corruption law may Sportswriter Penner dies be limited or struck down LOS ANGELES — Mike Penner, a longtime Los Angeles Times sportswriter who made headlines himself in 2007 when he announced he was transsexual, has died.

He was 52.

Penner was pronounced dead Friday evening at Brotman Medical Center in Culver City, a Los Angeles County coroner’s official said. The cause of death has not been determined but was believed to be suicide.

“Mike was a first-rate journalist, a valued member of our staff for 25 years and we will miss him,” Times Editor Russ Stanton said. “He respected our readers a great deal, enough to share with them his very personal journey. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States’ most potent law against public corruption is in danger of being scaled back or struck down by the Supreme Court.

At issue is a ban on“honest services fraud,” often used to prosecute public officials who accept money, free tickets or jobs for relatives when bribery cannot be proved.

Patrick Collins, formerly a top anticorruption prosecutor for U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald in Chicago, said that in his region, “Every major public corruption case in the last 10 years relied heavily on an `honest services’ charge.”

Anti-corruption activists fear the court ruling could take away one of the best tools to combat the culture of favors and gift giving lobbyists, Congressmen and their staffs.

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Afghan farmers recieve a shipment of wheat and fertilizer. The shipment is part of a plan by the U.S. and Afghan governments to encourage farmers to stop planting poppy seeds and thus discourage the growth of the heroin market.

Th i s we e k a t D u ke . . . .

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Evening Meditation & Dharma Discussion Multicultural Center, 7 - 8:30 p.m.

Practice meditation and learn how Buddhist teachings can benefit your life.

Duke Chorale Christmas Concert Duke Chapel, 7 - 9 p.m.

This Durham holiday tradition begins with seasonal music on the carillon and organ at 6:30 p.m. The entry fee is one non-perishable food item.

Mandatory Panhel Meeting for Potential New Members Reynolds Theater, 8 - 10 p.m.

This meeting is mandatory for all women who have enrolled in Panhellenic Recruitment.

Duke Jazz Ensemble with Ray Codrington, trumpet Baldwin Auditorium, 8 - 10 p.m.

The Duke Jazz Ensemble welcomes Ray Codrington. Tickets are $5 for students and senior citizens, $10 for others.

Inside Joke Presents: Too Funny to Fail Reynolds Theater, 8 - 9 p.m.

Inside Joke presents its biggest show of the semester. Tickets will be available for $3 on the Plaza and $5 at the door.

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In recession, smoking ban likely to hurt businesses

by Samantha Brooks The chronicle

The scent of chocolate-mint smoke hovers over the booth in the far right corner of International Delights as Gehad Lobbad, the owner of the restaurant, casually lights up his hookah apparatus and inserts his favorite flavor of tobacco.

His eyes progressively droop each time he inhales, and despite the fact that food is cooking and customers are waiting in his Middle Eastern restaurant, a relaxed grin remains plastered on his face. What may not be evident based on Lobbad’s nonchalant attitude is that next month, the laws allowing Lobbad’s impromptu pastime will undergo a major change.

North Carolina will enforce a law Jan. 2 that prohibits smoking in certain public areas, including restaurants and bars that serve alcohol or food. For places like International Delights, the ban means businesses will have

to decide between serving food and alcohol or providing hookah to their customers.

For some hookah bars, the implementation of this law will have a negative effect on business, owners said.

Adam Bliss, owner of Hookah Bliss, a hookah bar on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, said the new law might put him out of business.

“If we stop selling beer, there goes a good part of my income,” Bliss said. “If we fail at [selling only hookah], there is no way we can stay open. I’ll probably lose everything.”

Bliss added that he thinks the law was the result of numerous social injustices, noting the law’s exemptions for businesses such as cigar bars, country clubs, non-profit private clubs and tobacco retailers.

“Places that rich, older, affluent people go to are exempt,” he said. “[The state] protected all the places our legislators like

thanksgiving from page 1 thanks to the Faculty Commons and some professors.

The Faculty Commons was open Thanksgiving day to serve a buffet-style traditional meal for about $14 from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

“Students actually thanked me personally for staying open today and doing this,” said Faculty Commons Manager Thad Farrow.

Sophomore Vivek Subramanian was one of those thankful students. Subramanian was unable to go home because his parents had recently moved from Dallas, Texas to Singapore.

“I couldn’t really go back home and I figured it’d just be a good idea to stay here and hang out with my buddies,” Subramanian said. “I’m glad I did. This is the best food I’ve ever had at Duke. It was definitely a bang for the buck.”

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Enjoying a hookah inside his restaurant, International Delights owner Gehad Lobbad said the new statewide smoking ban in restaurants and bars will have a negative impact on local businesses.

Many students like junior Corinne Horn elected to stay on campus to finish up schoolwork before finals. Others felt the break was too short to go home.

“The break isn’t too long anyway and I don’t really have a traditional Thanksgiving back home, so I figured I might as well stay here, catch up on some work, and eat some good food,” sophomore Arun Sharma said. “This meal was definitely a step up from the Marketplace.”

By 30 minutes before closing time at the Faculty Commons, 130 people had their fill of turkey and mashed potatoes.

“Overall, I think it’s been a great success—I didn’t know what to expect,” Farrow said. “The owner thought it was going to be slow today, but we were very busy and we’re very happy with the outcome.”

The Faculty Commons was not the only option for students over Thanksgiving break. Michael Malone, visiting professor of theater studies, and his wife Maureen Quilligan, R. Florence Brinkley professor of English, opened

ATTENTION SOPHOMORES: THE MELLON MAYS UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM AT DUKE IS CURRENTLY RECRUITING SOPHOMORES FOR ITS TWO-YEAR FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

the doors of their historic Hillsborough home to seven students who signed up through the Sophomore Year Experience listserv.

“The assortment of guests was very eclectic and it just made Thanksgiving really interesting,” sophomore Katrina Wisdom said. “It was really sweet of them to invite us into their lovely home.”

Wisdom added that after dinner, the group went to James B. Duke professor of economics Craufurd Goodwin’s worldrenowned garden, and had the chance to go into his home to see some of his Bloomsbury Group art collection.

“It was really fun, it was a neat way to spend Thanksgiving with people from different backgrounds and talk about what we’re thankful for and what we’d hope to have accomplished this time next year,” Wisdom said. “For some of us, it was to have a screenplay performed on Broadway, for some it was to have taken the MCAT or the LSAT, for other it was to be abroad or to have cleaned the pantry.”

DUKE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC

DUKE CHORALE Rodney Wynkoop, director

We are hosting an information meeting on Tuesday, December 1 at 7:00 p.m.

The Multicultural Center, in the Bryan Center If you are seriously considering attending a Ph.D. program after graduation in one of the following disciplines, please plan to attend to learn more!

• Anthropology • Area Studies • Art History • Classics • Computer Science • Demography • Earth Science • Ecology • Ethnomusicology • English • Foreign Languages • Geology • History • Literature • Linguistics • Mathematics • Musicology • Philosophy • Physics • Political Theory • Religion • Sociology The goal of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is to increase the number of underrepresented minority students and others with a demonstrated commitment to eradicating racial disparities, who will pursue PhDs in core fields in the arts and sciences. Fellowships are for two years. Mellon Fellows receive an annual stipend of $5,100 ($3,300 for the summer and $900 per semester), a $750 summer housing allowance, and up to $400 a year for travel pertaining to the Fellow’s research. Each Fellow also receives a $350 project supplies budget, and each faculty mentor receives a yearly award of $750.

For further information and application materials, check our web site: http://trinity.duke.edu/mellon-mays Questions? Contact: Ms. Deborah Wahl, 684-6066 (deborah.wahl@duke.edu) Dr. Kerry Haynie, 660-4366 (klhaynie@duke.edu)

CHRISTMAS CONCERT for the entire family

Tuesday, December 1 7:00 pm Duke University Chapel

ADMISSION:

One non-perishable food item for needy families in Durham

Come early!

6:30 pm: Seasonal Carillon Music & Christmas Music for the Organ

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to smoke in while telling the average citizens that we’re not allowed to smoke where we like to smoke. It borders ridiculous over to racist, when you think of who owns hookah bars, they are generally Middle Easterners.”

For hookah bar owners closer to campus, the laws will have a less serious affect. Lobbad said most of his revenue does not come from hookah sales and because he is the only one who prepares hookah, it will not affect employee income.

“Only once or twice a day do people come into smoke,” Lobbad said. “We don’t depend on hookah.”

Tommy, the owner of 1013 West Main who declined to disclose his last name, said he would come up with alternative ways to sell the product.

“We only do maybe about two or three every day,” he said. “We’ll just do it outside on the patio.”

Junior Robby Kelley said that for most students, the law would have little effect on their own hookah experiences, noting that students rarely go off campus to smoke.

“I don’t think it will be that bad,” Kelley said. “I hadn’t even heard about [the ban] until now. Most people who smoke hookah usually have their own.”

the guest selection process was overhauled at the beginning of the semester, expanding the committee that reviews guests and making the application process more difficult.

Now, a committee of students and staff reviews the guest nominations and selects who will be invited.

Deborah Hackney, assistant director for student organizations and leadership in the Office of Student Activities and Facilities, said there were 71 guest nominations this Fall and 59 for the Spring—a slight decrease from previous years. But she said the decrease is not a problem. She would rather have fewer nominations of higher quality than have more nominations of lower quality, she said.

“The bar was raised,” Hackney said. “One of the reasons we went into review was because there were some folks coming that weren’t of the caliber that the program wanted to fund. And so once you raise that bar, I think the nominations that you don’t see are the ones that were inappropriate in the first place.”

The number of conversations has decreased this year in part because of the increased selectivity and in part because the program is working to cut spending. Last year, 85 conversations were held, but Hackney estimated that only 40 will take place this year. Instead of receiving $150,000 as in past years, the program received about $100,000—the amount of money it actually used last year, Hackney said.

She said the program is avoiding paying for extravagances such as dinner at the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club, adding that guests have dinner on campus instead.

A typical conversation costs between $1,000 and $2,000, and bringing an international guest may cost more, Hackney wrote in an e-mail. Between 5 and 10 percent of the Duke Conversations budget goes to advertising and administrative costs, she added.

“In these financial times, good financial stewardship is important, and so if we are going to be spending this money then it should be spent wisely,” Hackney said.

Michael Gustafson, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering who serves on the selection committee, said students have responded to the program’s selectivity by doing a good job filling out the nomination applications. He added that he enjoys reading the applications, even if they are long.

assault from page 1 under “very active investigation,” she said she does not think it has a high likelihood of being solved.

She said the delayed report, the lack of available information and the victim’s reluctance for DUPD “to do much with it,” will make it difficult for investigators to make an arrest. Graham added that the description is also not very helpful to investigators because it describes a large portion of the local population.

Still, DUPD has an obligation to investigate the report, Graham said.

“We’re trying to determine exactly what happened so if there’s something else that we need to be doing or be concerned about we can take those precautions and ideally find out who did it, but we’re at the mercy of the individual who reported it, and we’re trying to get as much information as possible,” she said.

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The Duke Conversations program, which saw its funding drop from $150,000 to $100,000, has seen fewer applications after the program overhauled its selection process in August.

“The fact that there is a more rigorous process has made it so that the applications have had to go up a notch,” Gustafson said. “If you give a Duke person a harder thing to do, they will do the harder thing and do it better.”

Of 59 Spring conversation nominees, committee members approved 10 guests and wait-listed five guests at their meeting Nov. 18, Hackney said.

Sophomore Chelsea Ursaner, a member of the selection committee, said the student perception of Duke Conversations has changed over this semester partially because of the new selection process. Students now view the program as an opportunity to interact with interesting people, she said.

“In the past, I think that a lot of people saw it as an easy way to get funding to get someone to come, and now... people look to Duke Conversations... as a program that is bringing really good people,” Ursaner said. “I think a lot more students are looking at it not to be hosts but to attend conversations.”

THINK DOMESTIC DukeEngage 2010 A series of DukeEngage information sessions focused on Summer 2010 domestic group programs will be held December 1–3.

Our domestic programs include helping youth prepare for college on the Navajo Nation in Crownpoint, NM; working with non-profits throughout Durham, NC; addressing persistent public health challenges in New Orleans, LA; tackling environmental management and sustainability in Portland, OR; volunteering with NGOs under the mentorship of Duke alumni in Seattle, WA; exploring immigration issues in and near Tucson, AZ; and inspiring voter registration among youth in Washington, DC. Past participants in DukeEngage domestic programs have cited distinct advantages of volunteer service within the U.S., such as the option to continue service post-program, greater professional networking opportunities (with Duke alumni and others), and excitement about participating in the national service movement.

DUKEENGAGE–DURHAM (“Think Globally; Act Locally”) Tuesday, Dec. 1, 4 pm, Bryan Center, Meeting Room A

DUKEENGAGE: DOMESTIC SITES OVERVIEW (identical session, repeated) Wednesday, Dec. 2, 6 pm, Sociology–Psychology Bldg. 130 Thursday, Dec. 3, 4:30 pm, Sociology–Psychology Bldg. 130 Applications for domestic group programs, as well as Study Abroad hybrid programs and independent projects, are due by January 14, 2010. Apply online at dukeengage.duke.edu.

Jacob Wood ’10 took part in the DukeEngage in Seattle program in 2009 to volunteer with community partner OneAmerica, which enabled him to explore legal issues facing new Americans in Seattle.

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FOOTBALL: DUKE CAN’T MATCH DEMON DEACON PASSING ATTACK WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: BLUE DEVILS WIN 2 IN MEXICO • MEN’S SOCCER: SEASON ENDS AT WAKE

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Demon Deacons have Duke’s number again Wake Forest’s three goals in 15 minutes stop Blue Devils in NCAA tournament Round of 16

by Dan Ahrens The chronicle

From the way things started Sunday against Wake Forest, Duke seemed poised to score another upset in the NCAA tournament. The Blue DevDUKE 2 ils came out firing in the first 20 minutes, and the Demon Deacons WAKE 4 relied on missed opportunities and great goalkeeping to keep the game scoreless. Wake Forest (16-2-2) managed to regroup and reverse the tide, however, and by the end of the first half Duke (14-7) was staring at a 3-0 hole en route to a 4-2 loss in the Round of 16 in Winston-Salem.

“I thought in the first 20 minutes of the game we had some good opportunities and unfortunately we didn’t take them,”

head coach John Kerr said. “But it started off really well for us. Unfortunately, Wake Forest is very talented and they converted three good opportunities they had in the first half.”

Aside from the scoreboard, the first-half statistics were even or in Duke’s favor. The teams each had seven shots and the Blue Devils earned four corner kicks to the Demon Deacons’ one. Goals are all that count, though, and Wake Forest converted its opportunities at an impressive clip.

The game remained tied at zero until the 30th minute when Zach Schilawski, Wake Forest’s leading scorer, made his first mark on the game. Following a counterattack, Schilawski received a pass from about 20 yards out and fired a shot over the head of Duke goalie James Belshaw.

Duke nearly leveled the game on a corner kick mo-

ments later, but then the Demon Deacons were back on the attack. Schilawski showed why he is considered one of the top offensive players in the ACC by beating Belshaw again, this time on a rocket into the bottom corner.

Not satisfied with their two-goal lead, the Demon Deacons struck again just before the halftime whistle. This time, Austin da Luz flighted a ball into the box, where Sam Redmond was able to find the back of the net with a spectacular headed effort.

“I thought...we could go in [down] 2-0 at halftime and come back out and get one early and put them under pressure,” Kerr said. “But that third goal really hurt. In fairness to us, we did great to hang in there and not pack it in and we kept attacking and kept our formation.”

With their backs against the wall, the Blue Devils came out after the intermission determined to climb back into the game. They were finally rewarded for their efforts in the 56th minute, when a hand ball by Wake Forest gave Duke a penalty kick. Junior Cole Grossman stepped up and knocked it in, getting Duke on the board.

Five minutes later, the Demon Deacons earned a penalty of their own, which Belshaw stopped, keeping his team in the match. The Blue Devils couldn’t keep it going, however, and da Luz provided the final blow in the 66th minute to make it 4-1.

“Anytime you get a big swing like that, a goal or a saved penalty kick, it helps give you momentum,” senior Ryan McDaniel said. “Credit to [James Belshaw] because it was a heck of a save.

It’s hard to sustain that, though... and I think that if we had the ball directly after that more in their half we might have been able to put them under more pressure. But unfortunately it was kind of a midfield game after the penalty kick, which kind of slowed the momentum down.”

Ryan Finley tacked on a goal only minutes later, but Duke simply couldn’t mount enough pressure to make the game close in the end.

“Their movement is tremendous,” Kerr said of the Demon Deacons. “They move in sync with each other. They know where each other are and the ball keeps moving and it makes it very difficult for defenders to track them.”

The loss ended the season for the Blue Devils, who had made an impressive postseason run with wins over Winthrop and No. 14 Michigan State in the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament.

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Goalkeeper James Belshaw did well and even saved a penalty against Wake Forest Sunday, but his play was not enough to keep Duke in the game.

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Duke was beaten by Wake Forest Sunday, 4-2, despite the efforts of Cole Grossman, who scored the Blue Devils’ first goal in Winston-Salem.

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Women’s Basketball

Thomas’s triple-double paces Duke in Cancun

by Rachel Apostoles The chronicle

An unyielding defense plus a fiery offense sparked by junior Jasmine Thomas proved to be a winning combination for the No. 10 Blue Devils this week at the Caribbean Challenge in Cancun, Mexico. Duke (5-1) gave previously unbeaten Western Kentucky its first loss of the season, rolling past the Lady Top47 pers 70-47 Thursday.

WKU was more of the DUKE 70 Itsame Friday, as the Blue Devils thumped MAR 43 Marquette 74-43.

DUKE 74 In last year’s contest against Western Kentucky, Duke—hindered by sloppy play— squeaked by the Hilltoppers 59-56. But the Blue Devils made it clear from the start of Thursday’s game that they were hungry for a wider margin of victory this time around.

The Lady Toppers (3-2) jumped out to an early lead, but Duke responded with an 11-0 run, spurred by seven points from Thomas. From there, the Blue Devils found their offensive stride and led by as many as 12 in the first half. Thomas propelled the attack, hitting 3-of-4 shots from behind the arc and 5-of-6 field goals in the first period.

“I just waited for the shots that I wanted to take,” Thomas said. “I think I was just focused.”

Thomas’s offensive effort was matched by a stellar Duke defense. The Blue Devils forced 13 turnovers in the first half and held Western Kentucky to 32 percent shooting from the field to give Duke a 28-19 lead going into the break.

The Blue Devils started the second half in dramatic fashion, pulling away with a 12-3 run. And though the Hilltoppers cut down the lead to 42-27 with a 3-pointer from Kenzie Rich, Duke quickly expanded its lead back to 20 points.

Freshman Allison Vernerey added 10 points from inside, and Joy Cheek posted nine points and grabbed eight rebounds to round out the Duke offense. On the defensive end, the Blue Devils stumped Western Kentucky’s starters, holding the starting lineup to only 18 points. Duke registered 13 steals and outrebounded the Hilltoppers 37-30.

It was the same story against the Golden Eagles (4-2) Friday, as a historic performance from Thomas propelled the Blue Devils to victory. The junior posted a triple-double against Marquette, with 11 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists, becoming only the third Blue Devil to do so.

Thomas joined the distinguished ranks of Monique Currie and Katie Meier as the only players to achieve the feat.

“To join that sorority, that’s pretty special right there,” McCallie said. “[Thomas] is so athletic and quick, but she is also so determined, she has such a work ethic and she never relents. Nine defensive rebounds is possible because she works so hard.”

It was an evenly matched battle early, with neither team taking more than a three-point lead. However, Duke gathered offensive momentum and posted 10 straight points to make it 19-9 with 7:04 remaining in the first half. With 38 seconds to go before the half-time buzzer, Thomas sunk a 3-pointer and Bridgette Mitchell hit two free throws for the Blue Devils to close the period with a bang.

In the second half, Duke’s staunch defense frustrated Marquette’s attempts to find offensive rhythm. Duke utilized many different defensive sets to hold the Golden

Eagles to just 25 percent shooting. McCallie said the team quickly adjusted to the unique formations and showed great flexibility, a characteristic that will benefit it later this season.

“Everybody was hustling and really playing very, very hard,” McCallie said. “We have really had a great defensive tournament. Everyone played their part defensively. It wasn’t any one person.”

The same balance was shown on offense, as the Blue Devils had five players score in double figures. Mitchell led the team with 13 points, while Vernerey and Krystal Thomas both chipped in 12 points.

Joy Cheek and Jasmine Thomas balanced the attack, adding 11 points apiece.

“I loved our fight, [and] I love how we found shots,” McCallie said.

Coming off the two wins, Thomas said she hopes that the team progresses from its success this week.

“We just played well down here. This is something we have to keep in mind and build off of,” she said. “We don’t want to go backwards. We want to stay consistent.”

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Jasmine Thomas became the third player in Duke history to record a triple-double Friday against Marquette.

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Big men Brian Zoubek (left) and Lance Thomas (right), playing near their hometowns in New Jersey, both collected double-digit rebounds against an athletic Connecticut front line in Duke’s 68-59 victory Friday.

Jersey boys do Duke’s dirty work at MSG

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NEW YORK — As New Jersey natives, Lance Thomas and Brian Zoubek are two of the only Duke players to return to neutral sites near their homes every year. They bring packs of family and friends to these affairs in the Tri-State area, host to some of the Blue Devils’ biggest wins in the last four years.

And Friday—in perhaps Duke’s best win in the region in the last four years, a 68-59 victory over No. 13 ConnectiGame cut—Thomas and Zoubek were more Analysis than just glorified spectators, watching on the bench as Duke’s superstars carried the day. This time, in the seniors’ penultimate game in Madison Square Garden, the two players contributed as much as any others, combining for 13 points and 21 rebounds against one of the biggest frontcourts in the country on a night when the Blue Devils needed some help down low.

The performance was especially superlative for Thomas, who attended high school about 30 minutes from New York City. The power forward collected 11 points and 10 rebounds—good for the first double-double in his career—notched a career-high three blocks and converted a career-best 7-of-8 free throws.

Zoubek wasn’t far behind. The center from Haddonfield, N.J., about two hours from the Garden, posted 11 rebounds, two shy of his career high, and played as well as he has all year against the best competition he’s faced.

Maybe it was the familiar faces in the crowd, but whatever the case, the duo managed to not only impress head coach Mike Krzyzewski, but also to help secure Duke’s

third straight preseason tournament title.

“Thomas and Zoubek were the difference-makers for us,” Krzyzewski said.

It wasn’t just the numbers that distinguished this particular game from so many others for Duke’s most veteran big men. It was the magnitude of the plays that they made—and the mistakes that Thomas and Zoubek didn’t make in the post.

Krzyzewski pointed out one pivotal sequence in the first half—the biggest play in the first half, he said— when Zoubek brought down an offensive rebound and found Kyle Singler at the top of the key for an open three, his only long ball of the night. The offensive rebound, one of a game-high eight for the 7-footer, gave Duke a 32-26 lead, which, at that point, was its largest lead of the evening. Zoubek kept another possession alive in the second half, grabbing an offensive board and

“If [Kyle Sinlger and Miles Plumlee] aren’t out there doing it, then somebody else has to do it.”

— Forward Lance Thomas looping a pass around a defender to the corner, where Jon Scheyer drained a three in front of the Blue Devils’ bench to give Duke a 48-34 lead—again, at that point, its biggest of the night. It would only grow from there.

In the box score, Zoubek registers eight offensive re-

bounds and three assists. In the course of the game, though, those two assists led to six points in a game in which momentum-swinging buckets were hard to come by.

Pretty, it wasn’t. But Zoubek’s effort got the job done.

Duke would have needed that type of performance from its backup anyway—Duke is tall this year, but the Huskies’ frontcourt was viewed as better—and with sophomore Miles Plumlee in foul trouble throughout, Zoubek became even more critical.

“It’s definitely one of our best wins [in the Northeast] and a pretty decent performance personally,” Zoubek said.

“It feels great, especially because UConn is a big team, and a lot of people were questioning how the bigs were going to do. We did pretty well tonight.”

“If they’re not out there doing it, then somebody else has to do it,” Thomas said, referring to Singler and Plumlee’s time on the bench, saddled with fouls. “We were just happy we were able to make those plays.”

And so were the troupes of family and friends that greeted the two players in the front rows of the Garden, long after the arena had cleared out and Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” had accompanied the trophy presentation. The two players had time to meet with their fans in the interlude between the final buzzer and the takeoff of what the players call Duke Airlines, and Zoubek’s immediate family had joined him for a Thanksgiving meal Thursday in New York, where the players celebrated the holiday in their Times Square hotel.

Zoubek and Thomas might not have made the All-Tournament team—that honor was reserved for Scheyer and Nolan Smith—but the two players received perhaps the largest ovations from the crowd. The cheers of appreciation were far louder than any group of family or friends could have been.

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34 DUKE WAKE 45 Blue Devils demonized by dominant Skinner

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Running back Desmond Scott (33, left) and the Duke rushing attack managed 68 rushing yards, an efficient total for the unit, but the Blue Devil offense’s 34 points were not enough to earn a long-awaited victory over Wake Forest.

Defensive lapses, late interception send Duke’s seniors out on a losing streak

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Duke’s rivalry clash with Wake Forest quickly turned into a fast-paced shootout.

But when the Blue Devils needed to get stops, the defense couldn’t come through.

Riley Skinner and the Demon Deacons (5-7, 3-5 in the ACC) had their way against Duke Saturday at Wallace Wade Stadium, beating the Blue Devils for the 10th consecutive time, 45-34. Skinner led scoring drives early and often for Wake Forest, completing 28-of-38 passes for 372 yards and a careerhigh five touchdowns. Duke had difficulty pressuring the quarterback, giving the fouryear starter plenty of time to pick apart the Blue Devil secondary.

“We really didn’t have an answer to stop their offense,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “Their execution was excellent, particularly in the second half.”

The Blue Devils (5-7, 3-5) had their opportunities to get back into the game late, but could never come up with a key stop.

After pulling within one possession at 2820 in the third quarter, kicker Nick Maggio knocked the ensuing kickoff out of bounds, giving the Demon Deacons prime field position. Skinner took full advantage, connecting with Marshall Williams for 49 yards. Duke cornerback Leon Wright stripped Williams right in front of the goal line, but the Wake Forest receiver recovered the ball in the end zone for a touchdown and a two-score lead.

After once again moving to within eight points with 10 minutes remaining, Duke was unable to stop the Demon Deacons’ rushing game, and a stable of running backs repeatedly found openings on the left side to keep the clock moving and the Blue Devil offense off the field. On its final offensive scoring drive, Wake For-

est chewed up over five minutes of game time on 11 plays, tacking on a field goal to put the game seemingly out of reach.

“Every time we would kind of surge, they answered,” Cutcliffe said. “I didn’t think they could run the ball on us, and they really shouldn’t have. We had a stretch in there when our defense didn’t really play well at all.”

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Wake Forest quarterback Riley Skinner threw for five touchdowns in his team’s 11-point victory.

Future looks bright for young Blue Devils

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Entering Saturday’s contest with Wake Forest, it was clear that the final result would be meaningless to the rest of the college football world, with both teams already eliminated from bowl contention.

But for the Blue Devil coaching staff, it would be one last opportunity to evaluate its team and determine Game where the points of Analysis emphasis for offseason improvement should lie. And, for the players, the game represented a chance to go .500 for the first time since 1994 and one last opportunity to build momentum going into the third season of the Cutcliffe Era. After 60 minutes of football, a 45-34 loss left Duke supporters with just as many uncertainties going into next season as there were early this year, although some players have emerged as standouts at certain positions.

Many of the major question marks lie on the defensive side following Wake Forest quarterback Riley Skinner’s shredding of the Blue Devil secondary on his way to 372 passing yards and a career-high five touchdown tosses. As has been a problem for most of the year, the defensive backs continued to struggle making plays on the ball once it was in the air.

“After those first few minutes, to their credit, [Wake Forest was] able to back off and keep things in front of them,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “And we just gave up too many deep balls to have a chance to be successful.”

The Duke corners were at a height disadvantage, but adjustments need to be made so that the defense isn’t so vul-

nerable to the big passing play. Going forward, players will have to emerge and replace departing seniors Leon Wright and Catron Gainey. Sophomore safety Matt Daniels made significant progress this year and has become a player that the secondary can be molded around.

Although there is no excuse for repeatedly getting beaten over the top in the vertical passing game, some of the blame needs to fall on the front seven’s inability to hurry the opposing quarterback.

“We just couldn’t pressure Riley Skinner,” Cutcliffe said. “If you are going to let him sit back there, you can only cover [the wide receivers] so long. Remember how in the backyard you wouldn’t let them have all day to throw the ball or you couldn’t cover anybody? They had too long to throw the ball.”

Cutcliffe noted that improving the pass rush isn’t necessarily about blitzing, but starts with generating a consistent fourman rush. With Vince Oghobaase and Ayanga Okpokowuruk, mainstays on the defensive front, having played their last games as Blue Devils, putting the quarterback under duress will prove to be a challenge next season.

On the other side of the ball, the explosion for 34 points and 455 yards of total offense is encouraging for a unit returning all of its skill position players with the exception of its signal caller. Although graduating quarterback Thaddeus Lewis, who topped 10,000 passing yards for his career in the game, will be missed, he issued a strong vote of confidence for his replacement.

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m. bball from page 1 scorers off target for most of the night, Duke relied even more heavily than usual on its frontcourt to provide it with extra opportunities, and Brian Zoubek, Lance Thomas and the rest of the Blue Devils’ big men were able to control the offensive glass.

Thomas recorded his first career double-double, and Zoubek added 11 boards as Duke picked up 21 total offensive rebounds. Scheyer praised Zoubek in particular for keeping possessions alive and finding perimeter shooters open for 3-pointers that helped the Blue Devils keep UConn from cutting into their lead.

“The big guys came through real big today,” said freshman Andre Dawkins, who contributed 11 points against the Huskies.

“They were taking charges, blocking shots,

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Kyle Singler struggled against Connecticut, scoring just six points on 2-of-12 shooting Friday night.

getting rebounds… They played great.”

Early in the game, though, the story wasn’t rebounding, but the incredibly fast pace being set by UConn’s Jerome Dyson and Kemba Walker, whom Krzyzewski called “a jet.” Both teams played at breakneck speed in the first several minutes and found easy layup after easy layup. The Huskies’ mistakes, though, soon caught up with them—what had been a three- or four-point Duke lead stretched to nine at the intermission thanks to a technical foul on UConn head coach Jim Calhoun and sloppy passing from his team. Duke turned the ball over just four times in the first period while forcing 12 UConn turnovers.

After halftime, the Blue Devils were able to dictate the pace, even without Singler driving the offense. Over six minutes, Duke pushed its lead from nine to 16, and a late run from the Big East squad trimmed that lead to seven before solid foul shooting ensured the victory for Duke.

“Knowing Kyle was out [with foul trouble and not shooting well] made us play that much harder and that much more intense, because we knew the other team probably would feel it was their time,” Scheyer said. “We just gathered up real quick when Kyle went out and said, ‘Look, we’ve got to keep this lead.

We can’t let it slip.’ And fortunately we didn’t keep it—we built it.”

Dyson, who scored 15 points, led the Huskies in scoring. But Stanley Robinson, UConn’s second-leading scorer, was held to 10 while being matched up with Singler on both ends. In effect, Krzyzewski said the two cancelled each other out.

Robinson threw down one highlightreel dunk on the break in the first half, but the many UConn fans in Madison Square Garden didn’t have much else to cheer about Friday. The Huskies missed

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Senior Jon Scheyer was named tournament MVP after scoring 19 points to lead Duke to a win over No. 13 UConn.

13 free throws and did not sink even one 3-pointer, and that inability to hit open looks allowed Duke to survive an atrocious, 29.2 percent shooting night of its own. The Blue Devils had not won a game while shooting below 30 percent since 1950 prior to Friday’s victory.

The win gives Duke its second straight tournament title in New York, as well as a quality win against perhaps the best team it will face before ACC play begins in January. This is Duke’s fourth Preseason NIT championship in six appearances in the event.

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football from page 9 Deacons’ defensive unit came through with the biggest play of the game. With the Blue Devils down 11 with five minutes left, Thaddeus Lewis was forced to air it out on 4th-and-2 from the Duke 33-yard line. Lewis’s ball was just a little late to freshman wideout Conner Vernon, and Wake Forest’s Alex Frye stepped in for the interception, bringing it back for a 37-yard touchdown. That play gave the Demon Deacons a 45-27 lead with 3:26 to play, ending all hope of a Blue Devil comeback.

Barring that one misstep, Lewis had yet another fantastic outing in his final game in blue and white. The Blue Devils’ signal caller, despite being hobbled by injury, notched his seventh 300-yard outing of the season—a school record— as he kept pace with Skinner in the first half.

Duke struck first as Lewis found sophomore Donovan Varner out of the slot for a 56-yard touchdown pass on the third play of the game. Varner finished with 11 catches for 174 yards and two touchdowns and became only the the third receiver in school history with 1,000 receiving yards in a season.

Skinner fired right back, completing two passes for 50 yards to tie the score after four plays. The two teams traded touchdown passes once more, and the score was tied at 14 apiece just seven minutes into the game. The Blue Devils’ quick-strike offense eventually slowed as Wake Forest switched from pressuring the quarterback to dropping back into a zone, making it harder for Lewis to find open receivers.

“They bracketed the middle a lot,” Varner said. “We have a great corps of receivers that were able to get open, but sometimes we just couldn’t execute. That hurt us a bit.”

Despite the loss, Lewis still finished off his career in style, completing 28-of-47 passes for 387 yards and three touchdowns, resembling his form from early in the conference season. The Duke quarterback threw for 10,065 yards in four years and joined N.C. State alum Philip Rivers as the second quarterback in ACC history to top the 10,000-yard mark.

But in the end, it was a familiar story for the Blue Devils, who gave the Demon Deacons a tough fight but couldn’t come through at the end of the game. In Duke’s seven losses, the team was within one possession in the final quarter five times, but ended up on the wrong side of the result each time.

“It all boils down to who can execute,” Wright said.

“They made some plays and we didn’t. We didn’t make enough plays to win the game.”

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Duke’s secondary was torched by the Wake Forest offense through the air and on the ground, giving up 38 points to the potent Demon Deacon attack.

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Blue Devils given tough NCAA draw A second-place finish in the ACC earned Duke a spot in the 64-team NCAA tournament field for the fifth straight season, but the Blue Devils were not seeded among the event’s top teams and face a difficult path to the Round of 16.

Duke (27-5), which defeated Wake ForWAKE 1 est Tuesday in its DUKE 3 s e a s o n finale, was paired with Tennessee (23-7) in the first round Friday at 7 p.m.

The Volunteers also were not seeded—only the top 16 teams were—but the first-round matchup will be held in Knoxville, Tenn., giving the SEC squad home-court advantage.

The other two teams facing off in Knoxville are No. 11

Minnesota and Louisville, and the winners of the two firstround matchups will meet Saturday afternoon.

The Blue Devils have reached at least the second round of the NCAA tournament in each of the last four years and can consider themselves unlucky to have been placed in such a difficult bracket. Duke, Tennessee, Minnesota and Louisville are all among the top 40 teams in the RPIw. Of the 16 subregionals in this year’s tournament, only one other includes such evenly matched squads.

Penn State and Florida State, both teams the Blue Devils played tough this year, were named among the top four seeds, with the Nittany Lions receiving the No. 1 overall seed.

—from staff reports

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Donovan Varner had another huge day, this time reeling in 11 catches for 174 yards, and went over the 1,000-yard mark on the year.

analysis from page 9 to allow this offense to be successful,” Lewis said.

The next Duke quarterback will have the luxury of having returning starters at all three receiver positions. Sophomore Donovan Varner, who reached the 1,000-yard receiving plateau in the season finale, and freshman Conner Vernon gave the Demon Deacon secondary fits just as they have all season. The duo gives the Blue Devils the playmaking ability in the open field that has been absent from the receiving corps in years past.

While the rushing attack didn’t produce any eye-popping numbers and finished the day with a modest 68 yards on 19 carries, the ground game was more consistent than it has been all season. Freshman Desmond Scott continued to show promise and oft-injured sophomore Jay Hollingsworth performed well enough in limited duty to create hope for improved production out of the tandem next season if the offensive line can keep improving.

“It lets you know that the guys up front never quit and continue to get better,” Lewis said. “We identified some things in the defense

that would allow us to run the ball effectively, but you have to tip your hat off to the backs.”

While Cutcliffe knows that there are parts of all three units of the team that need to be addressed, Saturday’s defeat left him very encouraged about the team’s future, one that he hopes will include a bowl appearance next year as he adds more of his own recruits to the mix.

“Looking where we are at in two years and looking at where we can be in three or five years, I’m extremely encouraged in that regard,” Cutcliffe said. “I’m more confident than ever after playing this 2009 season.”

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The coach we’ve been waiting for Just 24 months ago, contention in the Atlantic Duke’s football program was Coast Conference. With in shambles. A string of un- Coach Cutcliffe, we’ve gotderperforming coaches left ten just that. players and fans consistently This past season, the footdisappointed and without any ball team earned five victohope for success in sight. ries—including three ACC But after wins—and back to back played competeditorial seasons withitively against out a single victory on the most of its opponents. The home gridiron, the dark days team put on a good show at Wallace Wade Stadium are for the home crowd, taking finally a thing of the past. In enthusiasm and attendance his first two seasons as head levels to new heights. football coach, David CutcThe new attitude Culcliffe liffe has amassed an impres- has brought to the football sive record and brought program is as impressive as enthusiasm and excitement his on-the-field accomplishback to Duke football. ments. Consistent with the After the University fired University’s values, he has former head coach Ted emphasized the academic Roof in 2007, Duke needed achievement and personal a visionary leader to bring development of his players, the football program out of and he has heightened their the doldrums and back into respect within the Duke

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Cutcliffe has also spent the time and effort to make himself known to faculty, staff and employees. His “Cokes with Coach Cut” series and other campus engagements increase his visibility and set a high bar that other athletic coaches should seek to emulate.

This success, however, doesn’t come without a price tag. Since Cutcliffe’s arrival in December 2007, the Department of Athletics has pumped millions of dollars into physical improvements for Wallace Wade, renovated practice fields and increased football coaches’ salaries.

The University’s investment in the football program seems to be worth it so far. A competitive team brings a number of benefits, includ-

ing increased alumni involvement and a higher chance at profitability for the football program.

That said, current football spending appears to be at a reasonable level and should not be further increased.

Our past investments can continue to yield a quality team in the future, and it is likely that our record and chances at a bowl berth will only improve as Cutcliffe’s own recruits mature.

For an elite university like Duke, it is unreasonable to expect the football program to become a national powerhouse. Creating a top-tier team would involve diverting central University funds to the football program and possibly lowering admissions standards for football players. Both of these outcomes

pose a potential negative impact to the University’s core educational and research mission.

While we should be content with what we now have, Duke athletics should pursue several small changes to enhance campus enthusiasm for the football team. In future seasons, athletics should work with the ACC to avoid scheduling home games when students are on break.

In addition, the department should ensure that all away games are televised on campus so that students can root for their Blue Devils even when the team isn’t playing at Wallace Wade.

On the whole, Cutcliffe’s formula for success has added up quite nicely, and we anxiously await football seasons to come.

Against immoral literature

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here, where but here have Pride and Truth, That long to give themselves for wage, To shake their wicked sides at youth, Restraining reckless middle age?”

What you see above is all four lines of William Butler Yeats’ wicked little poem, “On Hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Ag- connor southard itation Against Imdead poet moral Literature.”

There’s some history here, and it’s predictable: Catholic university students in turn-of-the-century Dublin were riled up at the work of Yeats and some of his literary compatriots, especially his fellow playwrights at the groundbreaking Abbey Theatre. The most memorable episode of “agitation against immoral literature” involved a series of protests (even riots) brought on by the January 1907 premiere of John Millington Synge’s play, “The Playboy of the Western World.” Despite the racy name, the most risqué line in the play used the word “shifts,” thus generating a controversy over whether that word referred to dresses or underwear—gasp!

For a number of reasons, you may be excused for not being able to get inside the heads of Irish students who lived over a century ago—to his credit, a young and ribald James Joyce refused to take part in the petition-signing and fist-shaking.

Still, the self-inflating practice of casting moral aspersions on art is alive and well. Anyone who’s had that delightful debate on the point “is Huck Finn racist propaganda because its characters use a bad word in a way that’s true to their time and place?” knows that much.

Yeats wrote more than one poem in which he gets a little witty revenge on those who would have seen his work and that of others censored— check out “On Those that hated ‘The Playboy of the Western World,’ 1907” for one of poetry’s great “face!” moments. What sets “On Hearing” apart is that Yeats doesn’t make a general distinction between those who approach art in a measured manner and those looking for something to snarl about. Instead, he focuses on the age differences between himself and the riled students.

Granted, this poem can be confusing. It’s a four-line question, and it’s never quite clear who’s doing the restraining. One might read that “Pride and Truth,” as figurative forces of both artistic evocation and political agitation,

are mockingly shaking their “wicked sides at youth.”

No matter who’s doing the fist-shaking, though, it’s hard to get away from the poem’s central irony: “reckless middle age.” Yeats implies that students at University College Dublin—and perhaps more broadly Dublin, Ireland, even the whole Western world—are the ossified, boring ones. Whatever middle age may be, in “On Hearing,” it’s at least bold enough to dare to create innovative art, something this phalanx of angry youths couldn’t begin to pull off—too busy agitating.

To cast the “immoral literature” agitators as a bunch of self-righteous gawkers whose hooliganism is fused with a wish to be more, well, boring is to expose their true wrong-headedness. Being boring and anti-artistic is not in and of itself a cardinal sin. But being persnickety, unimaginative, fearful of change and risk and boring (intellectually speaking) is to fail at being young.

Yeats has been dead for a while, but he’s still more or less right about at least this one thing: It is a particular shame to see those of us who are supposedly young enough to be especially open-minded aspiring to be close-minded and ham-handedly “moral” (here meaning “stodgy, censorious, boring”).

So, especially since we’re young and cool and all that, we shouldn’t be boring. We superbadass university students of today have a special mandate to build our assaults on art or ideas around revelation, not mindless declaiming. If something is indeed banal, reveal that it is selfcontradictory and trite. If it’s offensive, expose it as being founded on false premises. Don’t wave a banner that says “It hurts my feelings that someone would depict or discuss this!” Leave that to agitators so kooky that not even James Joyce would join them.

Seem like an abstract point with no real relevance to Duke’s intellectual life? Really? Awesome! If we’re prepared to prevent ostensibly “moral” thought-policing from getting in the way of our art and our intellects, then we’re doing damn well. We can finally read “Heart of Darkness” without fear that Chinua Achebe will come along to frown at us.

But let me give some advice to anyone who still wants to agitate about art on moral grounds, on this campus or anywhere else: Stay away from Yeats. The fellow is really good with comebacks.

Connor Southard is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every Monday.

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Forever young for four years

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y the time I graduate, I will be 22. To an 8-yearold version of me dreaming of the future or even me as a 17-year-old eagerly waiting to escape home, it was impossible for me to imagine what it would be like to be 22.

Recently, however, I found out exactly who and where I will be. I will be teaching a classroom of students sue li only a few years youngouter spaces er than me. It boggles my mind. How am I going to shape the lives of 30 something kids when I’m just a kid myself?

Three years ago, college was a magical place that I had waited for my entire high school career, and behind those heavenly gates that I had heard so much about were cool college people, surely more intellectual and mature than my previous cohorts who were most amused by flicking tiny paper balls at the substitute when he was not looking.

However, overhearing phrases on the bus like: “I’m going to go home, take a nap, masturbate and watch ‘Lost,’” and reading posts on the “Overheard at Duke” Facebook group like “Girl: I come to college to learn and get a degree. Guy: I come to college to drink,” I couldn’t decide if I felt extremely fortunate that this was probably the only time in our lives that we could live these statements to the fullest, or, if I had entered some perverse nightmare of a childhood dream. As I eavesdropped on visiting prospective high school students chatting over AP exams and graduation, topics that have long faded into remnants of an adolescent past, I couldn’t help but think how much younger they would become in the next four years.

A friend of mine from home on the other hand just started seeing a broker in his mid-40s. She is 22. When I accused her of how inappropriate her relationship was, she became very defensive. “Look, I graduated high school and have been living on my own since I was 16. I’ve been working for the past six years. College delays maturity, okay? If most people graduate from college and start living on their own when they’re 21 or 22, I should be almost 28 in real people years. I’m waiting for the rest of the boys in my generation to play catch up,” she said.

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Her perspective, although a little extreme, made me think about the possibility of measuring age in “real people years.” Do employment, relationships and travelling add years, while daddy’s credit card and greek life subtract them? The expression of age in English is a strange concept. The phrase “I am 22” means nothing. How can one be a number? In Spanish, one says “I have 22 years,” a phrase which transforms age from an arbitrary number into a possession of the time that one has lived. It says, “I have accumulated this many experiences” or “I have made this many years mine.”

While students at many other public schools are must find apartments off campus and pay for bills, utilities and groceries on their own, we have the luxury of living on campus for at least three years.

Yet, Edens is still too far away. While some people our age worry about where their next meal is coming from or who will look after their child tonight because they have to pull another shift, we always can swipe our cards at the Loop and add more “funny money” when we run out. We can ride in a hot air balloon and protest that it did not float high enough, attend a school-sponsored keg party and complain that it ran out of free T-shirts and get free massages because we are ironically, too stressed out. At some point, we must realize that our greatest problems are not going to range between getting the grade and getting laid.

On the bridge between youth and adulthood, as a soon to be second semester senior, this reality looms all too close. When are we young, we feel invincible.

Nothing can harm us. Marriage, families, bills, retirement, social security, balding, menopause and death are stories we have heard about, that someday we will deal with, but not anytime soon. During Thanksgiving break, I was surrounded by people in their fifties, a demographic that I have not interacted with in years, and learned from their experiences.

In contrast, while at Duke, I have had the fortune of feeling for four years that I have been forever young. As a teacher, I am going to be giving back to the community and helping students with those years of knowledge I have been so privileged to have. It is this realization, this responsibility to help others with my Duke education that makes me tuck in my shirt, stand up straight and grow up.

Sue Li is a Trinity senior. This is her last column of the semester.

Division one

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on’t worry, you get to find out who I am next week, you lucky skunks! Last year Brett Aresco took this space in his penultimate column to announce he was a Baldwin Scholar to throw us off the trail. Would it confuse you if I dropped the hint that I’m a dude?

Alright, on to the business at hand. I’ve been fielding complaints varying from “Monday Monday is divisive” to “Monday Monday is not funny” to “Monday Monday is divisive and not funny,” and I thought I’d address those concerns by singi am charlotte ing a tune we can all sing along to: Carolina basketball and football simmons both lost in the past couple weeks. monday, monday What a glorious thing.

Nothing makes me happier than watching the Orange and the Wolfpack for knocking UNC below Duke in the rankings and (presumably) off the rankings, respectively. Teach those ugly baby-blue fans and athletes a lesson.

Now, the more I think about it, the more I realize what a strange pull this rivalry has on you and me. In the name of bleeding Duke blue, I find myself watching a lot of Carolina athletics, obsessing over Carolina’s rankings and privately lamenting the little things, like UNC’s 2-0 Rhodes Scholarship edge over Duke this year. I’ve actually spent time caring about the Tar Heels, and I’m supposed to hate them. Isn’t that weird?

You and I first learned the art of rivalry when our parents thrust our good guys and bad guys upon us. Our daddies dressed us up in the Raiders blanket after mommy’s job landed us in Oakland, and the job has been ours to suffer through a lifetime of awful management and coaching, and just all-around terrible football. We had no say in the matter.

Like the predestined selection of our pro teams, all of us, save those Exeter and Andover and The Waspy McWasperton Academy For Going To An Ivy League School alumni, went to geographically determined high schools. “Go East, beat West!” we cheered, in full knowledge that had we lived a mile down the road, it’d be the exact opposite cheer. Rivalry was arbitrary.

Everything changed when we came to Duke: Rivalry became a conscious choice. Demanding that Tar Heels go to hell has been part and parcel of a well-rounded Duke education since the beginning of time (the beginning of time, of course, being the year Mike Krzyzewski became Duke’s head coach).

When we matriculated, we agreed to despise UNC until the day we die. Even our native North Cackalackians and Robertson Scholars are tasked with taking our side in the rivalry. If you weren’t a basketball fan before, you are now. If you were indifferent toward UNC before, you’ve made up your mind now.

In most cases, Blue Devils come to loathe Tarheel athletics based on deference to decades of tradition. Truthfully, we like a lot of UNC people on an individual level and haven’t thought a lot about how aggregating those individually likeable qualities to a larger scale jives with hating the school as a whole.

Not thinking about exactly why we hate them is okay. Many psychological studies show that most cognition is done based on gut reaction, and you’d be correct to feel some inchoate disgust for UNC without rationalizing that decision.

But we still lack a comprehensive list of reasons to hate UNC independent of the fact that our athletes compete against each other a lot (otherwise, that might be true for Maryland) and the campuses are nearby (same thing, N.C. State).

I hope you find the list below a logical supplement to your intuitive dislike for UNC as an institution.

1) They’re smelly.

2) Baby blue is used in only three capacities: infant nurseries, gangs and UNC. In short, to be a Tarheel is to conjure images of gang babies. This is how Duke students arrived at the “Sean May eats babies” cheer of yesteryear (Note: No undergraduate here was at Duke when Sean May was at UNC, so I’m really playing to a small audience with that one).

3) They consistently brand themselves as more folksy and down-to-earth than Duke, when in reality they rank among the most elitist universities in the country (according to the scientific poll I just conducted in my head, based on the fact that their chancellors have names like Herbert Holden Thorp and Joseph Carlyle Sitterson).

4) There’s not actually a chapel on the hill anymore. A Carolina Inn now rests where the original chapel once lay. How disingenuous is that?

5) Mike Nifong went there. So did James K. Polk, who shared an equally infamous political career.

Be sure to consult this exhaustive list next time you task yourself with rooting against Carolina. While I may have been accused of fostering division, I assure you I know where my priorities lie: DukeUNC is division one.

Charlotte Simmons really spoon-fed you that pun. Can’t wait to “out” myself next week!

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