March 29, 2010

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MONDAY, MARCH 29, 2010

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH YEAR, Issue 120

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by Sabreena Merchant THE CHRONICLE

HOUSTON — A Final Four for Duke, at last.

On the 18th anniversary of Christian Laettner’s epic jumper as time expired to send the Blue Devils into the final weekend, No. 1 Duke (33-5) reached that showcase again, defeating No. 3 Baylor 78-71 Sunday at Reliant Stadium in the South Regional final.

It will be the team’s 15th Final Four appearance in school history—and the 11th under head coach Mike Krzyzewski—ending a five-year absence from college basketball’s most hallowed stage.

The Blue Devils are the only No. 1 seed left in the NCAA Tournament.

“We’re ecstatic, proud, feel very honored and privileged to be going to the Final Four,” Krzyzewski said.

Duke got the victory behind a virtuoso performance from junior guard Nolan Smith, who led the way with a career-high 29 points and was named most outstanding player of the South Region. Senior Jon Scheyer, who earned all-Regional honors as well, added 20 of his own as the Blue Devils’ long-range shooting and advantage on the offensive boards was too much for the Bears (28-8) to handle.

In a contest in which the Blue Devils shot 10 percent worse from the field than See final four on page 11

ADMISSIONS IN DEPTH Part 1: getting in

App increase overwhelms review system Admission rate drops to 14.8% for Class of ’14

by Jessica Lichter THE CHRONICLE

Nearly two decades ago, before Duke had become an internationally renowned research institution, the University crafted a personalized admissions process to evaluate prospective students.

Designed to handle 12,000 applications, the model entails multiple readers, a preliminary rating system, a committee session to discuss applicants and a final review process.

Now, with 26,731 high school seniors applying to the Class of 2014, the system is beginning to show signs of strain. Although the decades-old admissions model served to select this year’s class, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag said the process was not made for today’s hyper-competitive college admissions environment. michael naclerio/The Chronicle

Members of the Duke squad, along with head coach Mike Krzyzewski, revel on the Reliant Stadium court after Duke’s win over Baylor Sunday evening. The victory brings the Blue Devils to their first Final Four since 2004.

Same opponent, same result?

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Multiple readings and ratings After a prospective freshman turns in an application, all submitted materials are read twice—first by individuals trained to read applications, and second by regional admissions officers responsible for reading all of the applications from a given geographic area.

Guttentag said it takes about 30 minutes to “first read” an application and 15 to 20 minutes to “second read” an application. Regional admissions officers in charge of the largest regions with 1,800 applicants spend about 45 to See admissions on page 3

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Forward Krystal Thomas, seen here driving to the hoop against San Diego State, will have her hands full on the block defending Baylor’s Brittney Griner.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — As senior Krystal Thomas left Sunday’s noontime press conference, she hummed a song while the rest of her teammates, and even her coach, laughed on the sidelines.

The team’s carefree mood held throughout the conference, an indication of how poised it was for tonight’s game against Baylor at FedEx Forum for a chance at the Final Four.

Despite projecting a casual demeanor, however, the players are prepared to employ stronger defense against No. 4 Baylor (26-9) and its 6-foot-8 star, freshman Brittney Griner.

“She’s a tall post, and she’s a great shot-blocker, so this will be our biggest challenge, but we’ve been there, we’ve succeeded and we just need to do that again,” senior Joy Cheek said. “Defense is a big part of our offense, and we’ll have to play like we did in the Tournament... and get those steals and points.”

And though the Lady Bears have a young team—two freshmen

ONTHERECORD

“No one ever in India or Bangladesh said that, but some guy in England thought I was the Mother Teresa of economics.”

­—Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in an exclusive interview. See Q&A page 3

LOOKING AHEAD This story is the first of a three-part series that will explore different facets of the admissions process.

• Part 2 will examine how different goals the University sets for itself influence the admissions process.

• Part 3 will examine how the University’s aim to achieve socioeconomic diversity manifests itself in the admissions process and in the composition of the student body.

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Head to dukechronicle.com for photo slideshows from both the men’s and women’s Elite 8 contests.

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Blast kills five in Iraq as electoral fallout continues BAGHDAD — A series of explosions in a border town in western Iraq killed five people Sunday, including a member of former prime minister Ayad Allawi’s political bloc, which won the most seats in Iraq’s parliamentary election, Iraqi officials said.

The attacks, which wounded 26 people, exacerbated fears that the outcome of Iraq’s March 7 parliamentary elections will continue to trigger unrest as Iraqi politicians begin to assemble a new government. Allawi and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki are

vying to get a majority of parliamentarians on their side in order to be appointed prime minister for the next four years.

Sunday’s attack was seen as the latest politically motivated assassination by Sunni insurgents who have threatened to derail the political process. Allawi, whose coalition won a slim plurality in Iraq’s next parliament, says his bloc is also under siege from the Maliki administration. He says the government has harassed and detained supporters, campaign workers and candidates.

Democrats in Congress ask Vatican may go to courts CEOs to back health costs WASHINGTON, D.C. — Since the Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandal exploded in the United States almost a decade ago, advocates have been trying to find a way to learn the role the Vatican played. Now they have gotten further than ever in their efforts to holding the Holy See accountable in a U.S. courtroom.

Two federal appeals courts in recent months have allowed sexual abuse lawsuits against the Vatican to proceed in Oregon and Kentucky. Vatican attorneys have asked the Supreme Court to hear an appeal of the Oregon case. Attorneys for both sides in the Oregon proceeding were in Washington two weeks ago making their arguments before a roomful of U.S. government officials.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressional Democrats are calling on the chief executive officers of AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Caterpillar Inc. and Deere & Co. to provide evidence to support costs the companies plan to book related to the new health-care law.

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and another senior Democrat on the committee, Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan, released letters they wrote to the executives, saying their plans to record expenses against earnings as a result of the law contradict other estimates. The lawmakers requested the executives appear at hearing of Stupak’s subcommittee April 21.

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Q&A with Amartya Sen Economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen was at Duke this weekend as part of a two-day series of events honoring the work of Craufurd Goodwin, James B. Duke professor of economics. Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University professor and professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University, gave the keynote address of the celebration, speaking on “The Uses and Abuses of Adam Smith” in the Goodson Chapel Friday afternoon. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his work in welfare economics. Born in present-day Bangladesh, Sen is known for his work on the economic principles of poverty, famine and gender inequality. Sen sat down with The Chronicle’s Naureen Khan before his lecture to talk about his economic theories.

The Chronicle: Do you know Craufurd Goodwin?

Amaryta Sen: I know him by reputation only, I didn’t know him personally, but he’s a famous guy and this is a famous place and a good center, and he plays a major part in constructing what it is now so it seemed a good thing to do.

TC: Talk a little bit about how your background—growing up in Dhaka and in Bangladesh—has influenced your views on development and how they piqued your interest in those kinds of issues.

AS: How does the ancestral background or the early background of your life affect your work? I wish I knew it and I could analyze it well. I see other people write on it—saying this clearly affected him. I am always interested and respectful of other people’s views about what happened, but I’m not sure I put great confidence in self-analyzing, saying that particular experience led to that particular kind of work. But obviously, I had a happy childhood…. It was a good way of growing up. It’s a problematic country. There’s poverty, there was a famine when I was young, there were riots that took place that came from nowhere and disappeared into nowhere. It

admissions from page 1 60 hours per week reading applications from January through the first week of March.

“Both of those are very careful, word-byword, and course-by-course, analyses of the details of the application,” Guttentag wrote in an e-mail. “These are close reads.”

But reading applications is not an entirely qualitative process. Both readers assigned to an application rate an applicant on a fivepoint scale in each of six categories: curriculum, achievement, letters of recommendation, extracurricular activities and personal qualities, essay and standardized testing.

This rating system helps admissions officers magnify what would ordinarily be considered minute differences among applicants, Guttentag said. A student who scores a 750 out of a possible 800 in all three sections of the SAT—critical reading, math and writing—would likely fall in the 99th percentile for testing. But the competitive nature of its applicant pool means Duke admissions officers make a distinction finer than the top percentile in the nation.

Indeed, the threshold for achieving a five in each of the six evaluation categories is high. Receiving the full five points in test scores, for example, would require SAT scores that fall in the high 700s across all three categories, Guttentag said.

In “Admissions Confidential,” a book that describes the admissions process in place at Duke 10 years ago, author and former Duke admissions officer Rachel Toor writes that receiving a five in the extracurricular activities category typically entails accomplishing something on the national level.

When asked what the average admitted student receives in each of the five categories, Guttentag did not provide a specific number.

“The typical Duke matriculant is a smart, very smart, talented, engaged person,” Guttentag said. “Not fives across the board.”

Scoring points only goes so far The rating system, however, is not the deciding factor in the admissions process.

Instead, it serves as a guide to help admissions officers make decisions.

After the second rating, the regional

affected a lot of people’s lives, a lot of people died and obviously these things did influence me, but I’m not going to pontificate on how each of them had an impact on my work.

TC: You won the Nobel Prize in 1998 and there’s been the criticism that that particular prize is given to people who are not in touch with the real world—with you being the exception. Do you have any thoughts on that?

AS: I don’t take the view that technical work is necessarily irrelevant to the world. I don’t think that’s quite the case.

Secondly, I don’t think I am an exception in the sense that if you look at the Nobel citation, most of the paper they refer to… is quite technical. Since the first paper is called “The Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Binary Consistency of Majority Decision,” I wouldn’t try to sell it as a humanistic work…. I wouldn’t sell it as non-technical work. And thirdly, it is very important to have the motivation to work on problems which are relevant. I don’t know whether I’ve succeeded in doing it, but I’ve certainly tried. I think the main problem arises from the technicality of it.

TC: How has the global economic downturn affected views on development and social welfare?

AS: It depends on what your views were before the crisis. I don’t think many people have been changed at all by the crisis. But I do welcome the fact that some people are re-examining issues and their deep confidence that the market is selfcorrecting and indeed, basically you can’t do any wrong....

My talk is on Adam Smith today because Adam Smith does discuss exactly that question, and I do in fact talk about Adam Smith and the economic effects of the present crisis with Adam Smith’s 18th century thoughts. It was never

admissions officer recommends that some applicants be automatically admitted or denied. These applications are then sent to either Guttentag or a senior associate director who usually follows the regional officer’s suggestion.

Guttentag added that such decisions are never made based on the ratings alone.

“What we find is that as a rule, the higher somebody’s ratings are, the greater their chances of being admitted,” he said.

“But the day we have a hard cutoff is the day we are doing something wrong. That is an anathema to me.”

The remaining applicants are then discussed in admissions committee rounds. Admissions committees are organized by region and last seven to 10 days, Guttentag said.

“The thing that always amazes me about it given the number of applications we get is how well we know each applicant,” said Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Donna Lisker, who sat in on the California committee this year. “The files are read and re-read, and since we read state by state, we go into it knowing the school, the guidance counselor and the principal.”

In committee, regional admissions officers advocate for their applicants in front of other admissions officers, including either Guttentag or a senior associate admissions officer.

Although Guttentag said most conversations in committee fall into a three-to five-minute range, some are as short as two minutes and others as long as 10 or 15.

“You get very territorial,” former Duke admissions officer Laura Sellers said. “Everyone talks about ‘my kids’ because you really identify with students whose applications you’ve read.”

Following committee rounds, there is a 10-day period during which Guttentag “sculpts” the incoming class, changing some of the decisions made in earlier steps of the process. Admissions officers re-evaluate certain applications and then send a subset to Guttentag for reconsideration.

Many of these alterations are made based on a complex mathematical analysis, accounting for expectations in class size and yield, Provost Peter Lange said.

For instance, Guttentag said Duke initially over-admitted applicants into Pratt School of Engineering this year but under-

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Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen spoke on the abuses of Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand theory in Goodson Chapel Friday afternoon.

admitted applicants into the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. Guttentag said he consequently changed the admissions decisions for 500 to 1,000 applicants.

A strain on the process Although this year’s record-low acceptance rate of 14.8 percent makes a Duke degree all the more enviable, it also underscores the stress a large number of applicants places on the University’s 20-year old admissions model.

With 6,000 more students applying since 2008, Guttentag said Duke has experienced a larger increase in applications in the last two years than it had in the previous 10.

“It’s an incredible workload,” he said. “Over two years we have had a 30 percent increase in applications with no additional staff.”

In previous years, the largest regions comprised 1300 applicants, Guttentag said.

This year, typical regions had between 1400 and 1800.

Because of the sheer volume of applicants that needed two readers this year, Guttentag said he delayed the start of committee rounds by a week.

Logistically, the high number of applicants also restricted the number of individuals who were discussed during committee.

In 2006, Guttentag estimated that the top

5 percent and the bottom third of the applicant pool were sent to him to be either automatically admitted or automatically denied, respectively.

This year, admissions officers collectively recommended that more than half of the applicants be denied without review in committee, Guttentag said. He added that admissions officers only recommended that 500 to 700 applicants be automatically accepted.

“I’m not happy with the pressure there was this year with the number of students we could talk about in admissions committee,” he said. “When I arrived 18 years ago, I think we talked about every applicant.”

This year’s larger pool also made the decisions at every point in the admissions process less certain, but also allowed admissions officers to revisit their decisions multiple times, Guttentag said.

“So is there something to fix? I think we’ve made excellent decisions this year,” he said. “But it was through a process that was designed for a much smaller number of applicants. It was a different model.”

This summer, in a meeting where deans of undergraduate admissions at selective universities convene, Guttentag said he hopes to discuss the decades-old admissions model in light of today’s highly competitive applicant pool.

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Perdue moves to privatize ABC system to close deficit

by Alejandro Bolívar THE CHRONICLE

The state of North Carolina is evaluating all options when it comes to confronting its budget deficit—even the way alcoholic beverages are sold has come under scrutiny.

The Joint Study Committee on Alcoholic Beverage Control met Wednesday to discuss the possible privatization of the state-run North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control system, which was proposed by Gov. Bev Perdue to help the state cope with the economic downturn. The committee decided early this month to hire a Chicago-based consultant to analyze the potential increase in revenue that could be generated by selling its wholesale and retail businesses to vendors for up to 10 years.

North Carolina is one of 18 “control” states in which the government regulates liquor sales, purchases, transportation, manufacture, consumption and possession, and the N.C. ABC Commission oversees the $5 billion market. It is the only state in which spirits are sold exclusively by local ABC boards.

The 28-member committee was formed Feb. 18 by Senate President Pro Tempore Marc Basnight, D-Beaufort and Rep. Joe Hackney, D-Chapel Hill, speaker of the N.C. House. Each founder appointed 14 members to the committee. The committee and consultant’s findings are slated to be released in April.

In a Feb. 26 letter to members of the North Carolina General Assembly, Perdue noted that the privatization of the industry is a “multi-faceted issue” and could involve the sale of all or only part of the system. Should the state pursue it as an option, it should do so through “the sale of a concession for a limited period of time,” so that North Carolina can remain a control state, she said. Perdue will decide whether to recommend privatization based on the study findings.

“We had a lot of proponents and opponents of the idea of privatizing, most of them opposed,” said Rep. Jim Crawford, D-Granville, a member of the committee.

Andy Ellen, general counsel for the North Carolina Retail Merchants Association, said there should be other ways for counties and cities to obtain the profits they gain from alcohol sales, like increasing the permit fees for selling alcohol.

“We’re allowed to sell firearms, lottery tickets, over-thecounter drugs, tobacco—all those products that have additional scrutiny we sell in a grocery. We can certainly do the same for spirits,” Ellen said.

He added that 32 states, including North Carolina’s neighbors like Georgia and South Carolina, already allow privatization.

Adapted from ABC Board 2008 Final Report to the Joint Legislative Program Evaluation Oversight Committee

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Investing in Children

The Center for Child and Family Policy’s Ten-year Anniversary Celebration

Monday, March 29

1:45-3:00 PM Sanford Building, Room 04

Forum: Economic Investments in Children Moderator:

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Discussants:

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J. Lawrence Aber, Professor of Applied Psychology and Public Policy Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, New York University

Ron Haskins, Co-Director Center on Children and Families, The Brookings Institution

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SEN from page 3 Adam Smith’s view to assume that the markets were selfregulating or that you don’t need any institution other than the markets. He thought the markets did a terrific amount of work and he was right. But it can also lead people astray and it leaves a lot of things undone, and I think if you look at the crisis, the causation of the crisis is connected with people being led astray. And the severity of the suffering from the crisis comes also from the fact that, quite often, the institutional structures to supplement the market were very underdeveloped and for ideological reasons which need correcting.

TC: In the course of your career, have you seen more people coming around to your point of view—that economic policies should benefit people and their communities?

AS: Most economists have taken that view throughout their lives. They did not need the crisis to point that out….

Even those that were hard-nosed, market fundamentalists— it was their belief that is the way to serve the people. It’s not

the case that they were heartless hyenas, not at all.... We’re talking about correctness and incorrectness, not humanity and inhumanity. I really get upset when people sometimes—and you haven’t done that—sort of refer to matters of heart. Nothing drives me up the pole as much.

No one ever in India or Bangladesh said that, but some guy in England thought I was the Mother Teresa of economics. My God, that absolutely raises my temperature to the boiling point because I think economists didn’t lack a heart—I don’t think that’s quite the case— and secondly, Mother Teresa didn’t do technical work at all and I don’t deny the importance of technical work, and thirdly, she sacrificed her life all the time, which I have not done. I’ve always lived in comfortable quarters with a reasonable salary... without feeling guilty. I’m no schizophrenic. It’s not the motivation thing. We’re talking about whether the market fundamentalists were right or wrong in their theory, that’s what we’re talking about and you cannot solve it by referring the matter to the heart, you have to refer the matter to your head.

Watch the interview online at www.dukechronicle.com.

Graduate Student Appreciation Week The National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS), based in Washington, DC, works as part of its mission to recognize the important contributions made by graduate students. Each April, NAGPS sponsors Graduate & Professional Student Appreciation Week in cooperation with sister organizations in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. As part of this effort to recognize the invaluable contributions made by graduate students to their institutions, Duke University Graduate School has organized a week of activities centered on graduate student research and professional development, along with opportunities to enjoy the camaraderie of social events. We know that Duke Graduate students are the intellectual glue of our community, pushing academic boundaries, offering fresh perspectives in research approaches, and giving voice to emerging fields. We have learned that investing heavily in services that really respond to students’ critical concerns results in greater success in their academic, professional, and personal lives. Our goal during Graduate Student Appreciation W eek is to appreciate and bring to light the value of our graduate students.

Monday, April 5, 2010 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Resilience & Flourishing in Graduate School—Dr. Kelly Crace, Psychologist, Counseling & Psychological Services Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library What are your values and how might they relate to flourishing and resilience? Participate in a self-assessment and discussion that will help you flourish and increase your resilience throughout the challenges of graduate school.

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Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library From flourishing to nourishing; join us for lunch to continue the discussion from the morning session.

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Follow-up with Dr. Kelly Crace Bryan Center, Meeting Room B, 1st Floor Come discuss your findings from the morning session in a small-group discussion setting.

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Geocache Event I The Graduate School, 2127 Campus Drive, Room 102 A Geocache Treasure Hunt is essentially a high-tech treasure hunt. Using a GPS unit, a map, and a list of clues and riddles, teams set out in search of pre-placed Geocaches (hidden treasure!).We will have five teams; with four students per team, so sign up with your friends or come alone and meet new friends.

Please register at http://tinyurl.com/yhroxox Tuesday, April 6, 2010 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Renter’s Insurance – Mr. Josh Stoler, Local Insurance Representative Bryan Center, Meeting Room B, 1st Floor At Duke you are building your intellectual property, but now let’s talk about your personal property protection. Come and get information about renter’s insurance and what it entails.Ask questions and get answers!

Please register at http://tinyurl.com/ylq65ke 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Roundtable Luncheon – Faith and Intellectual Growth Nasher Museum Classroom Join an interfaith discussion with Dean of the Chapel Dr. Sam Wells, Associate Director of Campus Ministries Father John McDonagh, and others to share your thoughts about the intersection between faith and the pursuit of higher education. All participants will receive a free museum tour followed by lunch at the Graduate School, 2127 Campus Drive, Room 102.

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Chair Massage Old Trinity Room – West Union Building Come work out those graduate school kinks! Students from the Miller Motte College will be providing chair massage to get you back on the road to research.

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“From Research to Business” Room 203,Teer Building Join in this GPWN- and WISE-sponsored dinner discussion featuring Melda Uzbil, Duke-Coulter Translational Partners Grant Program Director, who will explain technology, product development, marketing, finance, regulatory requirements, and reimbursement.

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abc from page 5 “There are so many potential variables,” Agnes Stevens, state ABC commission spokesperson, wrote in an e-mail.

“When you look at the way other states have implemented their versions of privatization that it is not possible to forecast how policymakers might choose to shape what privatization might mean in North Carolina.”

Even though the 410 local ABC stores in North Carolina, run by independent boards, account for just 2 percent of alcohol sales in the state, they represent a large portion of income for the cities and counties they operate in.

According to the Durham ABC commission’s 2009 fiscal report, the local ABC board provided Durham County with more than $1 million and contributed more than $112,000 to the city of Durham. “[The board] works in a very good environment in terms of how we do things, the manner in which we serve customers and try to support the community, so we are observers of what’s going on,” said Randy Mills, general manager of the Durham County ABC board. “I don’t think we’d get involved with one outcome versus another except that we feel that control is important. It’s up to the legislature to make these decisions.”

In her February letter, Perdue said that if local ABC boards continue selling liquor, she would like to enforce stricter ethical and operational standards. Any revenue collected by the state as a part of this system must fund long-term investment for the state, not short-term budget deficits, she wrote.

“If the ABC distribution and sales system remains unchanged, more needs to be done for local ABC boards and stores to regain the public’s trust,” Perdue said. “I will ask for tighter controls and stronger oversight and restrictions on operations.”

Wednesday, April 7, 2010 8:30 a.m. – 5:15 p.m.

Graduate and Professional Student Development Conference Day Bryan Center,West Campus (Complete schedule) Thursday, April 8, 2010 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Graduate School, 2127 Campus Drive, Room 102 Mentoring Award Recipients Panel: Jason Cross, Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Anthropology; Jayme Johnson, Ph.D. candidate in the University Program in Genetics and Genomics; and Laurie Stevison, Ph.D. candidate in Biology.

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Surprise! Running game shines in spring outing

by Jacob Levitt THE CHRONICLE

Spring football is a chance for teams to find their identity, and if this weekend’s spring scrimmage is any indication of what is to come, the Blue Devil faithful will see something very different from the Duke of years past.

Former quarterback Thaddeus Lewis, the face of last year’s team and Duke’s record holder for career touchdown passes and passing yards, is gone, though 18 other starters remain from last season’s 5-7 team. Head coach David Cutcliffe, however, harbors no illusions about his team’s lack of experience.

“When we return [for fall practice,] we’ll have 82, 83 scholarship players—54 of them are going to be freshmen and sophomores,” Cutcliffe said. “So if anybody sees a good deal on diapers out there, let me know—I’m going to need them come August.”

“If anybody sees a good deal on diapers out there, let me know— I’m going to need them come August.”

— David Cutcliffe Young faces played crucial roles in the spring game, as incoming freshman running back Josh Snead led the white team, composed of the first-string offense and defensive backups, with a game-high 99 yards on just nine carries. He was one yard away from being the first incoming freshman to go over

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“He’s a heck of an athlete. Once he hits the hole, he’s gone in there,” redshirt freshman Sean Schroeder said. “He’s got a second gear.... He’s really good.”

Snead wasn’t the only young runner to have success on the day. The blue team rushed for over 230 yards, led by sophomore running back Desmond Scott’s 13 carries for 97 yards and incoming freshman quarterback Brandon Connette’s 13 carries for 91. Connette was quick to credit his teammates for his success running the ball.

“The success running the ball today was a combination of Desmond Scott running the ball well, the offensive line blocking their butts off, the receivers blocking well, and whenever they were worried about Desmond running I was able to sneak a couple yards here and there,” Connette said. “Once they started keying on me we gave it back to Desmond and [redshirt sophomore Patrick Kurunwune] and they really did their thing, so it was a testament to the whole offense.”

“We’re trying to establish the run a bit more. That always helps an offense to be the best it can be through the run,” Schroeder added.

Duke’s team-oriented rushing attack masked both teams’ struggles passing the ball. The white team, which was without starting wide receiver Donovan Varner, saw Schroeder go 4-for-20 passing for 23 yards, while Connette had only slightly more success, finishing the day 8-for-19 for 67 yards and a touchdown. Schroeder and Connette started in place of the injured Sean Renfree, next season’s presumed starter, who is rehabbing a serious knee injury suffered late last season.

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Desmond Scott was one of three Duke rushers to pick up at least 90 yards on the ground in Saturday’s spring game.

Cutcliffe acknowledged the passing game’s struggles but emphasized the relative unimportance of spring game performances, particularly where speed is concerned.

“It’s hard sometimes to measure because you’re playing each other. Your hope is that on both sides of the ball, we’re faster,” Cutcliffe said. “There’s times I don’t see the receivers separating from coverage like I would and

I’m looking over there and hoping it’s the corner that’s creating that and vice versa.”

Whether it was the receivers not separating or the quarterbacks not makign their throws, the passing game looked a far cry from that led by Lewis last year. But a successful rush attack could make all the difference for a Duke team desperate for a taste of the postseason in 2010.

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baseball

Duncan, Duke Solid pitching not enough dominate field as Blue Devils drop 2 of 3 in tourney win

by Scott Rich THE CHRONICLE

by Nicholas Schwartz THE CHRONICLE

On a weekend when Duke’s eldest players couldn’t find their rhythm, it was the young guns who stole the show in Georgia.

Freshman Lindy Duncan captured her first collegiate victory with scores of 70-72-71 to finish at 3-under, and No. 4 Duke capped a wire-to-wire win over a tough field at the Liz Murphey Classic in Athens, Ga. Duncan led the tournament all weekend after posting a 2-under 70 on a windy Friday afternoon, and she used a sharp short game to maintain the lead all three days. Her competition among the 120-player field included some of the nation’s best—Auburn’s Cydney Clanton, the No. 1 player in the country, and Wake Forest star Cheyenne Woods, niece of Tiger Woods. Duncan, who already has two top-five finishes to her name, was able to tame a tricky University of Georgia course to earn her first tournament win.

“I had a plan going into each day,” Duncan said. “I just wanted to hit a lot of greens. The greens there are very undulating, but I just had confidence in my putting to know that I could two-putt, and I putted really well.”

Another Blue Devil freshman, Stacey Kim, didn’t finish far behind. After beginning the third round with four bogeys in the first five holes, Kim reeled off four birdies in the next five, including one on the 356-yard par-4 11th, a hole she had played at plus-three the previous two rounds.

Kim’s birdie haul vaulted her to second place overall, her first ever top-five finish, eight shots behind Duncan. Kim feasted on the back nine all weekend and was 5-under overall after the turn, compared to 10-over on the front nine.

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In a weekend defined by offense and late comebacks, it was ironically two vintage pitching performances that determined the victor in Sunday’s rubber game.

Despite Blue Devil starter Dennis O’Grady’s eight innings of two-run ball, Boston College’s Pat Dean did him one better, allowing only one run and six hits in a complete game to give the Eagles the DUKE 3 2-1 edge in both that game and 5 the weekend series.

BC “I thought Dennis matched Dean throughout,” Duke DUKE 5 head coach Sean McNally 4 said. “Both guys were topBC flight ACC starters today.”

Duke (14-9, 3-6 in the ACC) 1 DUKE failed in its attempt to secure a 2 second comeback victory of the BC weekend when Jake Lemmerman grounded out in the ninth inning after Jeremy Gould’s two-out single.

But that wasn’t the case Saturday in the middle game of the series, in which a two-run double by Gould in the top of the seventh inning gave Duke a 4-2 lead, which the Blue Devils were able to hold onto in a 5-4 win.

Gould finished the day 3-for-5 with three RBIs, with O’Grady (playing second base in the contest) accounting for Duke’s other two runs.

In the opener of the series, also played Saturday in a double-header, the roles were reversed. Despite claiming a 3-0 lead by the top of the sixth inning, the Blue Devil bullpen was unable to hold on, allowing Boston College ((10-13, 3-6) to come back and claim a 5-3 victory.

“We had a great opportunity to win the first game— I felt like we let it slip away. In game two, we were able

to get a lead and hang on,” McNally said.

In his first start of the season in the early game Saturday, Christopher Manno pitched 5.1 no-hit innings before his control failed him. After giving up two runs in the bottom of the sixth, Manno walked the only batter he faced in the eighth inning and was subsequently pulled for Michael Ness.

But as is often the case, the leadoff walk proved to be the impetus to a big inning for the Eagles. After Matt Hamlet tied the game, John Spatola drove in the decisive two runs with a two-out single of his own.

“Manno gave us a great start in game one, and Ness came in and did what we needed to do—he got ground balls, but unfortunately they were in the wrong spots,” McNally said.

Duke will try to get back on track in the ACC with another road series against Georgia Tech next weekend.

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Senior Jeremy Gould’s three RBIs were key in the Blue Devils’ lone win of the series against Boston College, a 5-4 victory Saturday afternoon.

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w. bball from page 1 are in the starting lineup—the No. 2 Blue Devils (30-5) say age is not a factor in the Tournament since players mature so quickly in just a couple of weeks.

“I always think about this as, ‘It’s Tournament time,’ and at this time, a lot of unexpected things happen,” Cheek said.

“Freshmen become seniors, seniors can become freshmen, and hopefully as upperclassmen, we’ll perform like upperclassmen, but you never know. And [today], one of their freshmen can become a senior.”

Tonight will be Duke’s eighth time advancing this far in the Tournament in the past 13 years and the first under head coach Joanne P. McCallie.

Though the Blue Devils have never faced the Lady Bears, McCallie, while coaching Michigan State, lost to Baylor 84-62 in 2005 in the NCAA National Championship game.

“That was obviously a national championship opportunity, and I’ll never forget that 3-point shooter,” McCallie said of former Baylor guard Emily Niemann, who hit five threes in that title game. “[Lady Bears head coach Kim Mulkey] does a great job and heads an excellent program. What I remember that year was that we were both kind of up-and-coming, and it was really great to see the parity in women’s basketball at that time.”

This time around, however, McCallie hopes to come away with a bid to the Final Four in San Antonio, and she expects the Blue Devils to earn it by playing their trademark tenacious defense.

“Team defense is what we have in mind, and there are some very good players on [their] team that you cannot let get active offensively,” she said. “You never know what you’re going to face and how things will go and how the ball will bounce and break. It’ll be a matter of figuring out which can be more effective in terms of pressure, and we saw a lot of kids taking wide-open shots last game, and that’s something we’re trying to prevent.”

Collecting 23 steals Saturday afternoon against San Diego State, Duke was led by senior Bridgette Mitchell and junior Jasmine Thomas, who became the eighth player in Blue Devil history to reach 1,000 points, 300 rebounds, 300 assists and 200 steals. Thomas’s teammates highlighted her ferocity and determination on the court as well as her friendliness off the court.

“When she’s playing well defensively as well as offensively, you want to be able to contribute, and it shows great leadership when she goes out and scores shots like she does,” Cheek said. “Off the court, she’s focused and intense academically, and she’s silly like the rest of us and outgoing, but you won’t see that same tenacity you see on the court.”

“When she’s in the zone, you can see it in her eyes, and she’s always... defending, always rebounding,” senior Keturah Jackson added. “She’s just tenacious offensively and defensively, and being on a team with her makes you want to up your game so much more and you just feed off that vibe.

She’s very affectionate, sweet and caring. I’ve never seen a player give out so many hugs in practice!”

Thomas might have a ton of hugs to give out Monday night—if the Blue Devils can reach their first Final Four since 2006.

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Junior Jasmine Thomas’s 29 points Saturday afternoon propelled Duke past San Diego State and into an Elite 8 matchup with No. 4 Baylor.

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Junior Nolan Smith was able to penetrate the Baylor zone over and over, and that incisiveness created space for him and his perimeter-oriented teammates to eith

by Taylor Doherty THE CHRONICLE

HOUSTON — Just moments before running out onto the court for their Elite 8 matchup, the Blue Devils surrounded Nolan Smith in a circle, arms interloped.

The junior screamed from the center with a grin on his face. On a team that Smith and seniors Lance Thomas and Jon Scheyer said has the best chemistry of any team they have ever played on, Smith is the vocal leader and has the most outgoing personality.

Before the season, he had told fans to look out for “the new Nolan Smith.” On Saturday night, that identity was fully exposed.

“He played great,” junior Game forward Kyle Singler said.

Analysis “Offensively, he was just great, and he came up with some big plays. He was creating a lot of problems for their defense and they weren’t able to stop him.”

In the most important game of his career— with a trip to the Final Four up for grabs— the junior shattered his former career high of 24 points en route to a 29-point outburst.

He hit 9-of-17 shots, including 4-for-6 from deep, and made 7-of-8 from the charity stripe en route to earning Most Outstanding Player honors for the South Regional.

Smith is having fun, and he’s not ready for it to end quite yet. Sitting in the locker room after the victory, Smith said he wouldn’t be taking his Final Four hat off until he got back to Durham.

“You can’t get tired of this,” Smith said.

“When you feel this great, you want to keep doing it…. We love playing with each other, we have so much fun on and off the court with one another and that really is what drives us.”

Smith was forced to lead the Blue Devils on the offensive end on a night when Singler struggled to score. Singler missed all 10 of his field goal attempts and had four turnovers in 34 minutes of play. All five of his points came from the free throw line.

“It would have been nice if I would have made some easy buckets, but I just wasn’t able to get anything going,” Singler said. “But luckily, Nolan was terrific and Jon as well.”

“We all pick up each other,” Smith said. “If one of us isn’t scoring the ball like we know they can, Jon and myself try to pick up what they’re not doing. Kyle really did a great job defensively on [LaceDarius] Dunn, you know, chasing him around, and that wore him out a little bit.”

With 4:20 left, Smith hit a crucial 3-pointer off Singler’s pass to give Duke a 60-59 lead. Less than a minute later, he headed to the line after getting fouled by Baylor’s Tweety Carter and made the first of two free throws to tie the game at 61. After missing the second shot, Thomas grabbed the board and directed the ball to Smith, who buried a shot from beyond the arc that gave the Blue Devils three points and a lead that they never gave up. “[Smith] was right in front of me, so as soon as he got it, I said, ‘Shoot it!’” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “You’ve got to take advantage of the moment instead of taking it back out and setting up. We just said, ‘Shoot it.’ He shot it, and that’s why he acknowledged me right after with a big smile, so that was a cool thing.”

Singler wasn’t the only player who struggled against the Bears. Senior center Brian Zoubek found himself in foul trouble throughout the game, which limited him to 19 minutes of play before fouling out. By the time the senior headed to the bench with 2:18 left, Zoubek had collected nine boards, but more tellingly, Smith already had 27 of his points and had secured the Blue Devils a five-point lead.

“He’s a unique player on our team,” Zoubek said of Smith. “He [did] an unbelievable job of penetrating that zone tonight. [He was] getting little floaters and little shots, just giving us huge buckets when we couldn’t buy one. He really kept us in the game at some points.”

A year ago, Smith wasn’t even in the starting lineup during the NCAA Tournament. A season later, the new Nolan Smith is one of the Blue Devils’ stars as the team moves on to Indianapolis.

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nd led all scorers with 29 points Sunday night.

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Baylor, Duke needed every one of its second-chance opportunities and points from beyond the arc to challenge the Bears’ aggressive zone defense.

Duke shot 11-of-23 on 3-pointers, several of them coming off of offensive rebounds. The timing of those these were critical to swing the game in the Blue Devils’ favor.

At the end of the first half, Baylor appeared to be taking control of the Elite 8 matchup with a 10-0 run behind stellar play from guards LaceDarius Dunn and Tweety Carter, running out to a six-point lead with the break approaching.

Andre Dawkins stopped the bleeding for Duke, nailing his second trey of the game to end Baylor’s run and keep the Blue Devils within one possession at halftime.

The freshman guard saw extended action in the first half due to junior Kyle Singler’s early foul trouble.

“For Andre, he’s not scared,” Smith said. “He feels comfortable whenever he comes in. He’s not afraid to shoot the ball.”

“He gave us a big lift,” Scheyer said. “We were a little out of rhythm.

So his two threes were huge, especially the second one when we were down six to cut [the lead] to three.

That was a huge shot especially.”

Smith and Scheyer hit big shots of their own, too, including a sequence of four consecutive threes that put the game away in the second half.

The two teams were within one possession of each other for the majority of the closing period. With just less than six minutes to play, Baylor nursed a three-point lead, 57-54, and Scheyer let the ball fly, hoping to tie the game in one stroke. He missed, but the ball found its way

right back to him, and the senior spotted up again to even the score.

Smith had his chance on the next possession, spotting up from the corner after Thomas kicked the ball out on an offensive rebound to put the Blue Devils up 60-59.

After Baylor responded once more, Smith found himself at the free throw line. The junior uncharacteristically missed the second free throw, but Thomas once again found the ball and passed it to the junior, who made up for his miss with a three from the wing to give Duke a three-point advantage.

Then, with two-and-a-half minutes remaining, Scheyer took over once more. The senior co-captain drained his final 3-pointer to earn a six-point lead and all but secure a trip to Indianapolis.

“When there is crunch time there in the end, we just said this is all we’ve been working for the whole year,” Scheyer said. “We want to be in situations like this.”

The scoring outbursts of Smith and Scheyer overshadowed an off night for the final member of Duke’s big three. Singler failed to a hit a field goal, missing on all 10 of his attempts, but scored five points on free throws. Nevertheless, the junior was all smiles after the game, relishing in the irony of having so much fun in a game in which he was unable to contribute the way he would have liked on the offensive end.

“The most important thing was getting the win,” Singler said. “We were able to do that and make some plays when it counted.”

In the end, Singler’s struggles didn’t hold Duke back. The team has plans in Indianapolis next weekend, its hopes for an NCAA Championship still alive.

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LaceDarius Dunn led Baylor with 22 points Sunday, including two on this forceful dunk.

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Lance Thomas defends Baylor’s Ekpe Udoh during the Blue Devils’ seven-point victory.

Duke sheds “soft” tag in Houston

by Sabreena Merchant THE CHRONICLE

HOUSTON — For the past few years, the knock on Duke has been that the Blue Devils were a finesse squad, incapable of winning a physical, gut-it-out contest against the best teams in the country.

A quick look at the bleeding cut on senior Lance Thomas’ forehead after Duke’s 78-71 victory over Baylor was all the proof necessary to Game disprove that Analysis claim Sunday.

“It was physical out here. This gash is the least of what I have—I got beat up the whole game,” Thomas said. “But we work really hard in practice…. We push ourselves, so I feel like at the end of the game I was at my best. I already had my second wind.”

The Blue Devils battled all game against the Bears, outrebounding a frontcourt that included three players 6-foot-10 and taller despite dealing with foul trouble. Thomas epitomized Duke’s toughness Sunday, scoring seven points and pulling down nine rebounds, eight of those coming on the offensive end.

Whenever the Blue Devils needed a bucket, Thomas was there to grab the board and earn an extra possession for Duke. In

the second half, he had five offensive rebounds, two of which led to open, second-chance 3-pointers for junior Nolan Smith.

“I think our offensive rebounding kept us in it and really was the key there to get some separation in the last four minutes,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

“It’s tough when you’re playing defense for 30 seconds and they get a kickout three,” Baylor guard Tweety Carter said. “They made big shots and credit to them.”

Thomas also had perhaps the biggest play of the game on the offensive end. After junior Kyle Singler missed a three from the corner, the senior slammed the ball home on a tip-in and earned a trip to the line in the process.

“It was my first tip-dunk of the year, so it was good,” Thomas said.

“It came at a perfect time.”

Thomas’s aggressive play influenced the rest of the team.

Senior center Brian Zoubek, despite being limited by foul trouble, pulled down nine rebounds as well and drew a game-changing charge on Baylor forward Quincy Acy with Duke up by two. The play could have been Zoubek’s fifth foul, but instead, the Blue Devils took the lead for good two possessions later.

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Late spurt gives Duke big win

by Danny Vinik THE CHRONICLE

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Justin Turri scored twice in Duke’s 15-10 win over Georgetown Saturday.

No. 7 Duke started the season as the second-ranked team in the nation and a favorite to make the national championship game. After three 15 losses in their first five games, inDUKE cluding a 13-7 defeat to rival North GTOWN 10 Carolina in Durham March 10, the Blue Devils no longer looked like a championship contender.

Ever since that loss, though, head coach John Danowski’s squad has raised its level of play, and the results show it. Duke (6-3) went into then-No. 9 Loyola’s home field March 13 and walked away with an 8-5 victory. In their next two games, the Blue Devils outscored Penn State and Dartmouth by a combined score of 35-14.

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in the nation’s capital, however, may have been the Blue Devils’ best win yet.

The Hoyas entered the game 4-2 on the season, with their two losses coming in the forms of a two-goal defeat at home against No. 4 Maryland and a three-goal loss at No. 2 Syracuse. Nevertheless, Duke dominated the fourth quarter to earn the win.

Senior Max Quinzani and junior Zach Howell each netted three goals and dished out one assist while senior Ned Crotty had three assists to go along with his fourthquarter goal.

The biggest goals, though, came from junior Tom Montelli, who notched his two tallies in the third period. His first came just 14 seconds after the Hoyas had scored to go up 8-6. The Blue Devils then tied the game up on a goal from redshirt sophomore Justin Turri.

With just one second remaining in the third quarter, Montelli struck again. Off a pass from Howell, Montelli slotted the ball past Georgetown goalie Jack Davis to give the Blue Devils a 10-9 lead entering the final period.

Just 17 seconds into the fourth quarter, senior Sam Payton scored his only goal of the game, and the Blue Devils never looked back. Duke outshot Georgetown 14-7 and outscored the Hoyas 5-1 in the last period as the Blue Devils earned their fourth consecutive victory.

Freshman goalie Dan Wigrizer had another impressive outing with 13 saves, including a couple of clutch stops during the first half when the Hoyas outshot Duke 24-11.

The freshman leads the ACC in saves with 94 and has given up just 24 goals in his past three games.

The Blue Devils faced high expectations entering the 2010 campaign, and after a weak start, they are looking more likely to live up to them.

toughness from page 11 particular, actively drove at the zone, earning eight attempts from the foul line. As a team, the Blue Devils shot 29 free throws, 27 of those coming in the second half.

“They’re real physical and made us work for everything,” Scheyer said. “They matched us with our size. They’re bigger than us, probably. So we had to work for every rebound. It was one of those games where it was a possessionby-possession game against a really tough team.”

It was the type of game that Duke would have been considered too soft to win in years past.

But this year, with blood still shining on Thomas’s forehead after the game, it was exactly the kind of contest the Blue Devils relished on the way to the Final Four.

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Women’s lax falls to Virginia After falling behind by two goals at intermission, No. 3 Duke (9-2) was unable to make up the deficit in a low-scoring second half as the Blue Devils dropped a critical ACC game to No. 5 Virginia, 8-7. The two teams combined for just five goals after halftime, and Duke’s late rally—the Blue Devils scored with 8:03 and 3:35 left to trim the Cavaliers’ lead to a single goal—came up just short.

Virginia (7-3) can thank its goalie, Lauren Benner, for preserving its ACC regular-season title hopes. Benner faced 20 total shots and made seven saves, while Duke’s netminder, Kaitlin Gaiss, recorded only three stops.

Duke dominated most other

statistical categories, except for one crucial area: the faceoff circle. The Cavaliers controlled 11 draws compared to the Blue Devils’ five, giving Virginia more possessions and opportunities to threaten the Duke goal.

The Blue Devils were led in scoring by Sarah Bullard, Kim Wenger and Lindsay Gilbride, who each scored twice against the Cavaliers.

Duke Tennis goes undefeated It was a good weekend for both the men’s and women’s tennis teams, as the men went 3-0 on a busy road trip while the ladies maintained control of the ACC standings with dominating wins over Mary-

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Sophomore Becca Ward was beaten in the final bout of the NCAA saber competition.

Sophomore Becca Ward couldn’t quite defend her 2009 national title in the saber competition, but the Olympic medalist did manage a second-place finish in the event this year.

Ward faced the same rival as she did in last year’s championship bout, Harvard’s Carolina Vloka. And despite defeating Vloka 15-4 in the 2009 final, the Crimson’s top fencer outlasted Ward in the rematch, 15-13, to earn the national crown.

Ward finished the saber tournament with a 23-3 record

and led all participants in total touches with 113 on her way to being named an All-American.

She is the first Blue Devil fencer to earn two top-three finishes in program history.

But Ward wasn’t the only Duke fencer to earn All-American honrs.

Freshman Emily D’Agostino, who competes in the epee event, finished ISO 12647-7 Digital Control Strip in 12th place in her first NCAA tournament. Her performance was Duke’s best in the epee since 2004.

All matches were held in Cambridge, Mass.

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Sarah Bullard’sT:10” two goals weren’t enough to lift Duke past Virginia Saturday in Durham.

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The Duke men (9-5, 2-0 in the ACC), playing without their injured star, Henrique Cunha, took on both Harvard and Boston College in New England Friday and hardly broke a sweat. The Blue Devils eased past the Crimson, 4-0, and used that momentum in a 6-1 demolition of the Eagles.

“It was a great day on the courts for us [Friday],” head coach Ramsey Smith said. “Our energy and focus was solid from start to finish, and we took care of business.”

Duke had a single day off before heading down the coast to College Park, Md., to face the Terrapins, and the Blue Devils struggled only slightly en route to a 5-2 win behind singles victories from Dylan Arnould, Luke Marchese and Jared Pinsky.

The women’s squad had even less trouble than its male counterpart over the weekend. In Saturday’s crushing defeat of Maryland at Ambler Tennis Stadium, Duke won all three doubles matches and did not drop even one set in singles play in the 7-0 victory.

And Sunday, the Blue Devils (15-2, 3-0) put together a similarly complete performance and again swept a conference rival with another 7-0 win over the Eagles. In that dual match, senior Amanda Granson recorded her 100th career singles victory, and Duke won every set played once again.

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1. The Black Student Alliance hosts its annual fashion show in Page Auditorium Friday night. Proceeds from the event will be donated to support earthquake relief efforts in Haiti and Chile. 2. A student shows off her moves in the annual Duke Dance Marathon Saturday.

Proceeds from the 12-hour fundraising event will go toward the hospital playroom in the Duke Children’s Hospital. 3. Despite the downpour, students welcome members of the men’s basketball team’s return outside Cameron Indoor Stadium early Monday morning.

Graduate Student Research and Professional Development Conference Wednesday, April 7, 2010 8:30 a.m. – 5:15 p.m.

Bryan Center, West Campus

The Graduate Student Research and Professional Development Conference is the centerpiece of Duke Graduate School’s activities during the nationally celebrated Graduate Student Appreciation Week, April 5–9. The conference offers both opportunities for students to showcase their research and a slate of useful professional development workshops and lectures. The day concludes with a celebration that recognizes all graduate students who have completed the milestone of passing their preliminary examinations after March 1, 2009. Come join us for any or all of this not-to-be-missed event!

Graduate Student Research and Professional Development Conference Schedule 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Joy Javitz-Communication “Making Your Research Connect” Von Canon B, Lower Level Joy Javits of In the Public Eye returns to share her communication- and presentation-building expertise in a session that promises to be both constructive and fun.

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Lunch Keynote: Mohamed Noor, Professor of Biology and a 2010 recipient of the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring “Graduate School 2020: How do we get there?”

Von Canon A, Lower Level A discussion about things we do well, things we could do better, and “blue sky” thinking of what the full graduate school experience could be like a decade from now. Whatever your discipline, you don’t want to miss this talk by Professor Noor.

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“Just having three freshmen who shine like this is really great,” head coach Dan Brooks said of Duncan, Kim and Courtney Ellenbogen, who finished in a tie for 28th. “There’s big things, and there’s little things, and I’m happy about all of them.”

While Duke’s upperclassmen were overshadowed by the newcomers’ successes, it took a total team effort to secure the win. No Blue Devil finished worse than 37th overall, and Duke torched the rest of the field, finishing 21 shots ahead of second-place Alabama, the sixth-best team in the country.

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Why the DSG election matters

Tomorrow, the undergradu- points at non-contracted venate student body will have the ues serviced by Bon Appétit, inopportunity to shape the future cluding the Great Hall, Marketof student life at this University place, Subway and Chik-fil-A. as they elect next year’s Duke This misguided plan met Student Government president stern opposition from DSG and executive vice president.

President Awa Nur and other DSG elections top DSG leadmatter, and if you ers, who ineditorial need proof of the stead argued difference effective DSG leader- for and achieved a modest, ship can make, look no further one-time increase to the dining than this past year. plan fee. Had it not been for The University’s living wage their persistent advocacy, the requirement and the switch series of events would have unto Bon Appétit Management folded differently, and students Company drove Duke Dining would have been saddled into a Services into an annual $2.2 mil- restricted dining contract. lion budget deficit. But instead All of this goes to show that of pursuing systemic change, strong DSG leadership can indining officials decided to pass deed have a tangible impact the losses on to students. on improving the daily lives of At first, administrators students. tried to implement a “directed Next year, as administrators choice” scheme in which stu- continue to grapple with the dents would be compelled to fallout of the global financial spend a certain amount of food crisis and try to close the Uni-

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versity’s $50 million budget shortfall, student leadership will continue to play a crucial role.

The DSG president—as the elected representative of the student body—will be in close conversation with administrators as they make cuts to areas that have a direct impact on student life. The president will be able to raise difficult questions, give voice to important issues and argue for a fair allocation of financial resources.

With the upcoming presidential election, students have the chance to select who they want to be in the room with Provost Peter Lange, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask and Dean and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki as they make decisions that matter to students.

This is an exciting opportunity, but also a great responsibility.

The DSG executive vice presi-

dent will play a similarly important role. In addition to building relationships with administrators and lobbying on behalf of students, the EVP sets the agenda for the DSG Senate. In selecting an EVP, students can lend their support to the candidate that best represents their views and prioritizes their concerns.

Historically, turnout for DSG executive elections has remained disappointingly low.

Just 38 percent of students cast a ballot in last year’s presidential race, and only 40.5 percent

of students voted in 2008.

At an individual level, choosing not to participate in the election nullifies your ability to make your mark on the University. At a collective level, low participation weakens the legitimacy of student government in the eyes of the administration and works against effective student advocacy.

Learn about the candidates, carefully consider the issues and vote. It may sound trite, but you can make a difference.

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mong monologues about babies, rape and selecting women to empower one another. battling bulimia, the search for self-confiMembers of the resource-laden Baldwin Scholars dence was a major underlying theme in this program should take it upon themselves to engage weekend’s “All of the Above,” a monologue show in much more active and creative roles on campus.

by Duke women about Duke life.

For example, they might consider folThe 2003 Women’s Initiative relowing their joint living year with a port first cited low self-confidence as a mandate to act as catalysts for positive result of intense unspoken social prescommunity-building in independent sures facing women on campus. Surresidential blocks. veys revealed declining levels of selfUltimately connections need not be esteem in Duke women during college devoted exclusively to “female” issues. that sometimes resulted in a pervasive We are, in some sense, all scrambling to sense of failure. courtney han carve out a space for ourselves at Duke.

Today, two major themes from feFinally, women need to stop conon the other hand tributing male clients who seek out Counseling to the problem by engaging and Psychological Services continue to in irresponsible feminism, or as I like include body image and coming to terms with sexual as- to call, the SATC syndrome. sault and/ or objectification, both of which impact selfThe big screen version of the popular HBO televiesteem, according to Gary Glass, assistant director for sion series, “Sex and the City,” was popularly received outreach and developmental programming at CAPS. by a predominantly female audience yet promotes conFor the amount of attention the ubiquitous phrase tradictory messages about what it means to be a strong, “effortless perfection” garnered, it is tragic then, that confident, respectable woman. Through the hyperseven years later, the problem of low self-confidence sexualization of its female leads, the film perpetuates in Duke women prevails. insecurities about body image and self-worth.

Although programs such as “All of the Above” do And by using one-dimensional male characters, attract a slice of much needed attention towards this SATC both objectifies men and creates unreal expectaproblem at Duke, transformative change must come tions of what they should be: bumbling, spineless accesfrom within and above, from both women and men. sories who hemorrhage affection, virility and Platinum First, we need to be aware that insecurity is not a credit cards at the feet of their paramours who tower gender-specific malady. It is often, in fact, low confi- above them in short skirts and five-inch spike heels. dence in Duke males that lead them to participate in SATC’s intended girl-power falls short and results group-think behavior that objectifies women. in a hypocrisy that only further confuses, misleads and Indeed, Glass points out that body image and entrenches pre-existing gender stereotypes. Fans of objectification are not concerns exclusive to women such shows need to be mindful that gender equality is who seek CAPS services. Male-directed programs on not created by retaliation, and recognize that women self-confidence remain practically non-existent except are not only victims, but active objectifiers of other in association with gender-neutral programs such as women and men. the Leadership Roundtable and Common Ground.

Various sources have called for an update to the Therefore, to address low self-esteem in women, we 2003 Women’s Initiative, but what this University—inmust also tackle its presence in men. deed, the students—need is not another gender task Second, men need to be brought into the dialogue force on women. Although politically correct, this is about women’s issues on campus. This means includ- not the most responsible or courageous decision. ing male leadership from fraternities, organizations that Instead, President Brodhead needs to mandate a were cited as a major cause of female insecurity at Duke. committee on gender relations with members of both Men can also take advantage of female-oriented sexes who agree to air their grievances, understand one programs. It was disappointing to see a very small another’s points of view and work together to address percentage of men at “All of the Above.” By missing the root causes of gender inequality on campus. the monologue performance, men lost a great opporBoth men and women are guilty of objectifying tunity to both understand and relate to women over themselves and each other. By including both sides of universal—and often amusing—personal challenges the gender divide in the dialogue, we as a campus can such as coping with alcoholic parents, stress and para- move further away from group-think and irresponnoia of using public restrooms. sible feminism to refocus on the abilities, talents and Third, raising self-confidence in women at Duke passions we brought as freshmen to Duke. We owe requires the creation of denser networks of support, that much to ourselves, and to each other. trust and connection. The new Women’s Housing Option is a major step in the right direction because Courtney Han is a Trinity senior. Her column runs it promises to ensure a safe residential space for self- every other Monday.

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It wasn’t broken, but Wake County ‘fixed’ it

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urham, North Carolina. It’s a real place, and we live here.

It is rather easy to forget, though, that Duke does not actually exist in a bubble—it’s part of a community, many communities in fact, and one of them is the Research Triangle that exists between Raleigh (Wake County), Chapel Hill (Orange County) and Durlaura keeley ham (Durham County). duke wonderland Alright, pop quiz time: How many of you are aware that a decision made by the Wake County school board last week is causing national uproar and has been blogged about by The Economist, written about in the Los Angeles Times, condemned by the NAACP and spotlighted on The Today Show? I’m going to go out on a limb and assume not many.

Here is the decision in a nutshell: Last Tuesday, the Wake County school board voted to end its socioeconomic diversity-based school assignment program that had existed since the 1970s. Now the board will move to neighborhood-based schools that will almost certainly leave lower-income students in the dust.

Wake’s diversity program has been hailed as a national model, and the American Association of School Administrators named then-superintendant Bill McNeal the National Superintendant of the Year in 2004. He has voiced his opposition to the new plan in the (Raleigh) News and Observer: “My fear… as I witness from the sidelines is that we’ll fall into the abyss with ‘have’ schools and ‘have-not schools,” he said in a March 21 article. “That breaks my heart that that could happen and would happen in Wake County schools.”

It is no secret that low-income schools struggle to perform at the same level as higher-income ones. The reasons are numerous, including the fact that low-income schools have trouble attracting high quality teachers, a higher teacher turnover and lower parental involvement at their schools and thus in their children’s education. In case the board members did

not realize this, Charlotte County schools can provide a concrete example. Charlotte abandoned busing for diversity in favor of neighborhood schools in 2002. And surprise! The number of extremely high poverty schools has blossomed under the new policy.

“You don’t have to guess what Wake County will look like in four years,” Amy Nelson, a principal intern at a high poverty elementary school in Charlotte said at a panel discussion full of educational researches the Saturday before the vote.

“You have a case study three hours down the road. It’s not pretty.”

Back in 1976, the Wake County school board realized what Charlotte knows now, and when Wake County and Raleigh City schools merged that year, the board sought to avoid creating these low-income schools.

The goal was to have no schools with more than 40 percent of its kids eligible for the federal free and reducedprice lunch program. Wake County has experienced an explosion in population recently and as the number of low-income students has risen from 20 to 31 percent, that target has been forced to slip. There are currently nine elementary schools where more than 60 percent of its students are free- and reduced-lunch eligible. However, the other 150 schools have fewer eligible students, and no school is overwhelmed with low-income kids. Furthermore, suburban kids have the option of attending one of inner city Raleigh’s award-winning magnet schools that offer advanced education in topics such as math and science.

This was the status quo since before we undergraduates were born. Like I said, the district’s superintendant was named the best superintendant in the entire county in 2004 (in case all you private schoolers out there are unfamiliar with this concept, just trust me, it’s a big deal). Now the district does not even have a superintendant because Del Burns abruptly announced his resignation in February. He was placed on administrative leave in March by the board because he gave media interviews—in other words, he was transparent and explained himself to the taxpayers who fund his schools—voicing his opposition to the board’s plan to end diversity schools. Oh, and get this—the decision to oust Burns for speaking publically was made in a closed meeting, the third secret meeting the board had held since February. Ironic, no?

And one more thing: The district is implementing this complete systematic overhaul at a time when there is a $20 million funding gap for next school year. The cash situation in Wake County is so severe that the district had to sell $125.8 million worth of federal fixed-rate bonds for building projects. But making this fundamental structural change to neighborhood-based schools will need to be researched and planning costs money, right?

Or maybe they won’t spend any money and just kind of shoot from the hip. That would seem about par for the course.

The catalyst for all of this (I’m assuming that you, like me, cannot see an obvious one) is the new right-wing school board majority that was elected in 2009. School board elections are held in off years, mainly to ensure that only people who care enough vote, so last year four new school board members, all Republicans, were voted in and changed the majority. They were voted in by 4.5 percent of the county’s electorate. Yep, four school board members, voted in by a whopping 4.5 percent of voters, combined with a fifth Republican board member to say “screw you diversity!” and destroyed a national model of public school success. In its place, Wake will set up a “have” versus “havenot” school system, right in the backyard of one of the most elite educational institutions in this country.

Laura Keeley is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Monday.

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DSG Endorsements BSA endorses Passo and Moore The Black Student Alliance is proud to endorse Will Passo and Jane Moore for president and executive vice president of Duke Student Government, respectively.

For president, Passo demonstrated a genuine and informed knowledge of issues not only pertaining to Duke’s undergraduate population as a whole, but specifically the black undergraduate community. We appreciated his passion for issues such as campus equality, the Black Student Alliance Invitational, the Multicultural Center-International House merger, increasing racial and socioeconomic diversity on West Campus and improving Central Campus conditions.

We were especially impressed by Passo’s commitment to the preservation of BSAI weekend and trust that as president, he would most effectively represent, communicate and advocate on behalf of black students with regard to these issues.

For executive vice president, we believe that Moore possesses the managerial and leadership skills necessary to properly navigate the legislative process. Additionally, we are confident that Moore’s past experience and personable but disciplined disposition will allow her to efficiently preside over the Senate. Lastly, Moore’s dedication to accountability within DSG has convinced us that she will be able to effectively follow through with her platform to the best of her ability.

We strongly believe that both Passo and Moore possess the most vital and promising skills and visions necessary to represent the best interests of Duke undergraduates, and we encourage students to vote for these candidates in the March 30 election.

Nana Asante President-elect, Black Student Alliance Trinity ’12

Duke Diya endorses Lefevre and Moore Duke Diya formally endorses Mike Lefevre for DSG president. We were impressed with Lefevre’s record as former vice president for athletics and campus services as well as current chief of staff. We feel that Lefevre has a consistent record of accomplishment at all levels in his career with student government. His abilities to make changes will certainly aid him as DSG president.

We believe that Lefevre will be an effective advocate for students of all backgrounds, and we believe he will help cultural groups reach new heights at Duke.

We were torn between Lefevre and Gregory Morrison, who we also felt was a strong choice for president.

We admire Morrison’s desire to change the culture at Duke and we were encouraged by his awareness of the power of the DSG presidency, and the positive effect it can have on our campus environment.

We were also pleased with Will Passo. Passo demonstrated a strong sense of cultural awareness, and he would be quite sensitive to all students’ needs as president.

For the position of executive vice president, we endorse Jane Moore. Moore demonstrates a charisma and an approachability that we feel she can best use to her advantage as president of the Senate. Although we were quite pleased with Pete Schork’s pragmatic approach to the office, we felt that Moore was a better fit for the job.

Finally, we would like to express our deep apprehension at the candidacy of Price Davidson. Price showed a lack of multicultural awareness that is not just concerning for a DSG candidate, but a Duke student in general.

We hope that Price reaches out to Duke’s multicultural communities before asserting himself as a representative for all Duke students.

Vivek Upadhyay President of external affairs, Duke Diya Trinity ’10

ESG endorses Lefevre and Schork Engineering Student Government formally endorses Mike Lefevre for DSG president. Although we believe that all three candidates are well qualified for the position, Lefevre stood out as the most dedicated contender with an extreme commitment to pursuing and meeting student needs.

None of the candidates are engineers, and as such, no one candidate had a full grasp of the unique challenges faced by Pratt students. However, Lefevre identified several common concerns raised by engineers, and he demonstrated a strong commitment to communicating with and addressing the needs of Pratt students. Because Pratt is consistently underrepresented in DSG, we appreciate Lefevre’s dedication to soliciting more input from engineering students in DSG affairs.

This year, Lefevre has brought tangible change to Duke, largely due to his recognition of student desires, his persistence and his ability to work with administrators. Lefevre will make an effective president and his leadership will positively benefit Pratt and Trinity students.

We endorse Pete Schork for the position of executive vice president. Schork has the necessary experience and knowledge to make the Senate a more productive and efficient organization. We were very pleased with his suggestion that senate members stay in contact with Engineering Student Government so that the opinions of engineers are heard in all DSG discussions.

We are confident that these candidates will consider the frequently overlooked engineering opinion and ultimately improve Duke for all students.

Maura Mulroy President, Engineering Student Government Pratt ’11

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