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THE FINAL FRONTIER

by Vignesh Nathan The Blue Devils have made a habit of cutting down nets this season.

Their first opportunity was after embarrassing rival North Carolina at home in March, the Cameron Crazies screaming the entire time. They had an encore performance soon after, when Jon Scheyer’s late 3-pointer helped them secure the ACC tournament championship. But it was the last net the Blue Devils cut down that was most unexpected—the one they earned after booking a trip to the Final Four for the first time since 2004.

But they aren’t satisfied yet. There’s one net they have left to cut down, and it is located in Indianapolis. For this Duke squad, the season will not be a success unless the Blue Devils can don shiny championship rings and watch as the school’s fourth championship banner ascends into Cameron’s rafters.

“It’s definitely exciting, making it [to the Final Four],” senior guard Jon Scheyer said. “But, for us, the goal’s not complete.”

That determination is befitting of a team that has overcome disappointment over the past few years. The oldest scholarship players See FINAL FOUR on page 11 Ian Soileau/Chronicle file photo

Tifft remembered for passion, grit THE CHRONICLE

Journalist and former professor Susan Tifft passed away Thursday morning at her home in Cambridge, Mass. after a two-and-ahalf-year battle with uterine cancer. She was 59 years old.

Tifft, Trinity ’73, returned to her alma mater in 1998 as the Eugene C. Patterson professor of the practice of journalism at the Sanford School of Public Policy, where she was a beloved teacher and a cherished colleague for a decade.

“Susan was a great writer and journalist, but the thing that she came to believe that was most important in her life was teaching at Duke,” said Alex Jones, her husband of more than 20 years, in an interview Thursday night. “The thing that was most rewarding, the thing that really mattered more to her than anything else was teaching the students she had at Duke and Susan Tifft maintaining those genuine friendships.... She spent untold hours in working and doing right by them.”

Tifft died at 8:30 a.m. Thursday with her family by her side, a week after she entered hospice care.

“Her brother Doug was holding her hand,” Jones wrote Thursday in the online journal where Tifft chronicled her battle with cancer. “He said she left like a candle going out, and her great spirit was released.”

The Chronicle looks at Duke’s title chances, FINAL FOUR SUPPLEMENT

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by Naureen Khan

Pharell, Cudi rock Cameron

Susan Elizabeth Tifft was born Feb. 14, 1951 and grew up in St. Louis, Mo. She graduated from Duke in 1973 with a bachelor’s degree in English and was selected the University’s second-ever Young Trustee.

Ann Pelham, Trinity ’74 and Tifft’s classmate at Duke, said all who knew her were thankful for the privilege.

“Unlike many of us, she didn’t have to grow up. She was very together already,” Pelham said. “She was really, as a student, the same smart, together, warm person that she was later as a professor.”

Tifft had an illustrious career as a writer and a journalist after her time at Duke. In the 1980s, she served as the press secretary for the Federal Election Commission and as a speechwriter for the campaign of Jimmy Carter. After receiving her master’s degree in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University—where she met her future husband—she took a job with Time magazine.

She also co-authored with Jones two critically-acclaimed accounts of newspaper dynasties—the Binghams of Louisville and the Ochs-Sulzbergers of New York City—uncovering their storied histories with painstaking detail.

Friends and colleagues said Tifft left a piece of herself at Duke— a place she believed changed her life. When offered a teaching position with the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy See tifft on page 5

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“This initiative was all about faculty renewal, not budget cuts.”

­—Provost Peter Lange on the faculty retirement incentive program.

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With the men’s basketball team already in Indianapolis gearing up for the Final Four, Kid Cudi and N.E.R.D. brought a different kind of crazy to Cameron Indoor Stadium.

The two artists performed Thursday night as a part of Cameron Rocks, an event sponsored by the Duke University Union.

The performance reinvigorated a concert series that had been dormant since 2007, when rapper T.I. played with support from indie-rockers Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

Cleveland rapper Kid Cudi, who was nominated for three Grammy awards this year, opened the concert around 8:15 p.m., and his performance lasted for about an hour. He played a set that included hit singles “Day ‘N’ Nite,” “Memories” and “Soundtrack 2 My Life.”

After Kid Cudi, the hip-hop group N.E.R.D.—composed of Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo and vocalist Shae—took the stage along with a handful of instrumentalists. The group ran through tracks from its three prior albums, interspersed with stage banter that frequently encouraged audience members to get louder and more raucous.

The performance even saw some crowd participation when the group called up about 20 women from the audience up as dancers for their 2002 single “Lapdance.”

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Pharell Williams, of the hip-hop group N.E.R.D. performs in Cameron Indoor Stadium Thursday night.

Kid Cudi also performed as part of Cameron Rocks.

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U.S. government finalizes Jobless claims decrease nat’l rules for fuel efficiency WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fewer Americans filed claims for jobless benefits last week, bringing the average over the past month to the lowest level since 2008, as the economic recovery prompted companies to retain staff.

Initial jobless applications declined by 6,000 to 439,000 in the week ended March 27, in line with the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News, Labor Department figures showed Thursday in Washington. The number of people receiving unemployment insurance was little changed, while those getting extended benefits rose.

Employers are slowing job cuts, a sign of confidence, as the United States emerges from the worst recession since the 1930s.

Sustained employment gains are needed to boost spending, which accounts for about 70 percent of the economy.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration finalized the first national rules curbing greenhouse gas emissions Thursday, mandating that the U.S. car and light-truck fleet reach an average fuel efficiency of 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016.

The new fuel efficiency standards, issued by the Transportation Department and the EPA as the result of a May 2009 deal with the auto industry, represent a peaceful end to a contentious legal battle over how to regulate tailpipe emissions.

At a time when it remains unclear whether Congress can pass climate legislation this year, the new rules also mark the White House’s most significant achievement yet in addressing global warming.

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“The cost of producing steel is going to go up and will be passed on to customers,” Mittal said in an interview in London Wednesday. Benchmark European hotrolled coil prices will rise by $150 a metric ton in the second quarter, he said.

Steelmakers are passing on costs after Vale, the largest iron-ore producer, scrapped a four-decade system of setting annual prices and boosted prices for Japanese steelmakers as much as 90 percent. Carmakers, the biggest users of steel, are crying foul. The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, which represents companies including

Volkswagen, PSA Peugeot Citroen and Fiat, said Wednesday members want European Union regulators to “tackle distortive developments” caused by the changes from mining companies.

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Lange to discuss University deficit in closed sessions

Eating your own words

by Lindsey Rupp THE CHRONICLE

Provost Peter Lange will discuss the University’s financial situation with Arts and Sciences faculty in a closed special meeting today.

Lange delivered a presentation to the Academic Council March 18 and said he will deliver similar budget presentations to faculty at all schools in the coming weeks.

The presentations will detail what cuts have been made, how much more needs to be cut, how cuts relate to the University’s priorities and how Duke’s decisions compare to peer institutions. Lange said he plans to address questions from faculty, particularly as they relate to pay increases.

In a March e-mail, President Richard Brodhead announced that benefits-eligible employees making $80,000 or less a year will receive a one-time $1,000 bonus. The pay freeze implemented last year is still in effect for all employees, he wrote.

“There’s always this suspicion that people get off better [than others],” Lange said. “It’s very hard not to increase the salary for faculty two years in a row.”

About 80 percent of monthly salaried employees, but only about 36 to 38 percent of faculty members, will receive the $1,000 bonus, Lange noted.

Lange emphasized that his presentations are meant to be an opportunity for frank dialogue and questions.

“They are closed because the fundamental point is to allow for very thorough discussion,” he said. “If the press is there, it constrains me and it constrains them.”

Lange said he plans to use a standard presentation with some school-specific slides at each meeting, adding that the information he provides will be “substantially more elaborate” than other communications about the budget.

He said schools are “in good shape” for the 2011 fiscal year, which begins in June.

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14 profs to retire in incentive program

by Zachary Tracer THE CHRONICLE

Fourteen professors have accepted the faculty retirement incentive, Provost Peter Lange said Tuesday.

Lange said the incentive was not crafted to help trim Duke’s budget, but to encourage older professors to retire and allow the University to hire younger academics.

“This initiative was all about faculty renewal, not budget cuts,” Lange said.

Under the incentive program, professors agreed to retire by June 30, 2011 in exchange for additional payment from Duke. To be eligible, a professor had to meet the Rule of 75, meaning that his or her age and years of work at Duke sum to at least 75.

Lange said he does not know how much the incentive packages will cost, adding that “it won’t be huge.”

Professors from the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing were not eligible for the incentive, and no professors from the Pratt School of Engineering or the Sanford School of Public Policy chose to retire.

Deans discussed the incentive, first announced in October, with individual faculty members in their schools.

The deadline for professors to retire was originally Dec. 14, 2009, but was later extended to Jan. 30 of this year.

Additionally, 44 professors have entered other individual agreements with the University to retire in the future, which help the University plan to replace these professors, Lange said.

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Pipe work nears completion on East Juniors win nat’l science scholarship

by Nicole Kyle THE CHRONICLE

Bulldozers, displaced dirt, jack hammering and orange mesh fencing have attracted attention on East Campus this semester.

This construction is part of the installation of a chilled water piping system— which provides air conditioning—that will run through the Biddle Music Building on East Campus, John Noonan, associate vice president for facilities management, wrote in an e-mail.

Noonan said the construction began Jan. 11 and was delayed periodically due to snow and rain. To date, the project is 95 percent complete, he said. The remaining work includes the restoration of disturbed areas and isolation valve installation for Bell Tower, Blackwell and Randolph Residence Halls, Noonan added. These valves can be closed to isolate problems that occur in the piping system.

The construction is spread across East, most notably behind Pegram, Biddle and along the walkway between Brodie Recreation Center and the East Campus Quadrangle. When contacted, administrators for Residence Life and Housing Services said they did not know details regarding the construction and referred requests for comment to Noonan.

Still, the noise generated by the construction has stirred discontent among students.

“When you’re trying to do work or trying to go to bed, [noise from

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by Maggie Love THE CHRONICLE

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Installation of a chilled water piping system for the Biddle Music Building is 95 percent complete, officials said. The construction began Jan 11. and was delayed repeatedly due to inclement weather.

Two Duke students are among the 278 students nationwide to receive the 2010 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship in science, mathematics and engineering.

Juniors Nicholas Altemose and Jared Dunnmon will receive the $7,500 scholarship to pay for undergraduate tuition and fees.

The University nominated four students for Nicholas Altemose the scholarship after an internal review process earlier this academic year.

Altemose, a biology major, has conducted research in genomics for the past three years and has worked in the lab of Huntington Willard, diJared Dunnmon rector of the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy. He added that he hopes to uncover the function of 7 percent of the human genome that is yet to be sequenced.

“I’m incredibly grateful to Dr. Willard, who took me into his lab as a freshman See scholarships on page 16

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Susan Tifft

February 14, 1951 – April 1, 2010

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tifft from page 1 alongside her husband, Tifft jumped at the chance to return to Durham.

The most visible symbol of her Duke pride during her years as a professor: A royal blue Volvo that she cherished—her “Duke baby blue,” she called it.

“She was so flattered and honored to be able to come back after having been an undergraduate,” said Ken Rogerson, director of undergraduate studies at Sanford.

“She understood Duke students— she had the perfect balance of commanding respect, of fun, of interesting, of intriguing, of pushing people to the limit. She loved students but she wanted to be fair, and she was.”

Tifft rediscovered herself as a teacher and quickly became a favorite among both students and colleagues, who took to her wit, warmth, sharp intellect and zest for the subject matter.

“I had heard about her for 20 years.... I was sort of jealous of her, I have to admit,” said Karen Blumenthal, Trinity ’81 and cochair of the Duke Student Publishing Company Board of Directors, which Tifft served on. “Everybody was always so wowed by her. I finally got the opportunity to meet

her... and of course, then I realized why everybody was so impressed.

She was so smart, so thoughtful, so wise, so lovely.”

Many of her former students identified her classes as the best they took. They said she had the ability to foster honest discussion while still keeping everyone in the room on their toes.

“Her classes felt like cocktail parties without the cocktails. She was great fun to be around,” said Mary Carmichael, Trinity ’01.

But more importantly, it was Tifft’s generosity and genuine compassion for others that touched those she encountered. After Carmichael graduated from Duke and moved to New York City, Tifft let Carmichael and another recent Duke graduate stay in Tifft’s apartment for six weeks while she and her husband traveled to Rome.

“It was like the Susan Tifft dorm in New York,” Carmichael said. “She was someone who cared about the intellectual development of her students but also about them personally.”

In August 2007, Tifft was diagnosed with stage IV uterine cancer that had metastasized. Doctors told her she had less than a year to live—she lived for nearly three.

Tifft dealt with the news with her characteristic grace and humor.

“Since I last posted in December,

I have acquired a CANE,” she wrote Feb. 4 in her online journal as she was undergoing painful brain radiation. “My own cane is not a little old lady version, however. Far from it!

It’s psychedelic green and collapses so I can put it in my purse.”

She continued to teach until last year, even as she underwent intrusive radiation and chemotherapy treatments, commuting between Cambridge and Durham every week.

Last year, Sanford established the Susan Tifft Undergraduate Teaching/Mentoring Award in her honor, to be presented every year at commencement to a public policy professor who has exhibited excellence in teaching. In addition, The Chronicle has named its annual editor training session The Susan Tifft Training Conference.

Bob Bliwise, editor of Duke Magazine, remembers seeing Tifft, his friend of more than 25 years, at a conference in November.

“She was characteristically Susan Tifft,” he said. “She could’ve been focusing on so many other things so close to her well-being, but she showed this commitment.

She gave it her all.”

Donations in Tifft’s memory can be made to the Susan Tifft Undergraduate Teaching/Mentoring Award or to CaringBridge, which hosts Tifft’s online journal.

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by Paul Horak THE CHRONICLE

Campus Council will soon throw parties to celebrate the end of one campus construction project and the beginning of another.

A celebration for the completion of Mill Village and the opening of The Devil’s Bistro restaurant on Central Campus will be held the night of April 9. The annual Old Duke concert will take up much of the afternoon of April 16, and will serve as a groundbreaking ceremony for the fourth wing of Keohane Quadrangle, codenamed K4.

“We have an incredible group of acoustic artists who will hopefully provide for a very relaxing atmosphere,” said Programming Chair Ben Goldenberg, a sophomore. “Hopefully the weather will be nice and people can just chill. I can’t think of a better way to spend a Friday afternoon.”

Musical artist Brendan James will open the show and will be followed by Howie Day and Mat Kearney. Edie Wellman, a junior who is taking the semester off to pursue music, will also perform at the event, which will be held in Keohane Quadrangle.

In addition to live music, there will be grilling and contests with prizes and giveaways. Steve Nowicki, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education, and Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, will be present for the groundbreaking.

At its meeting Thursday, Campus Council endorsed a resolution to establish seven neighborhoods on Central Campus to improve its navigability and foster a sense of community on Central.

“It is very hard to navigate Central Campus right now,” said Vice President John Pryor, a junior. “The building addresses don’t correspond to an intuitive map system— even some Central Campus residents can’t find their friends there.”

concert from page 1 As of 12 a.m. Friday morning, 90 percent of the concert’s tickets were sold, DUU Major Attractions Director Liz Turner, a senior, said. Of those sales, 3,000 went to students and 1,200 to the general public.

Turner said she was pleased with the show.

“There were maybe a few speed bumps, but I think the students really enjoyed it, I think the artists really interacted with the crowd,” she said. “We showed that this could be a great tradition and we were able to bring it back and

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At their meeting Wednesday, members of Campus Council discussed plans to celebrate the opening of The Devil’s Bistro and the groundbreaking for the fourth wing of Keohane Quadrangle. The Old Duke concert will be held April 16, the same day as the K4 groundbreaking.

Of the seven neighborhoods, six would be residential areas that comprise the living quarters on Central Campus and one would be reserved for Mill Village, according to the resolution.

“This is something I’m very excited about,” said President Stephen Temple, a junior. “It is a simple, low cost [and] low effort change with a huge impact.”

In other business: The council also unanimously embraced a host of recommendations directed at improving the sense of com-

munity on East and West Campuses by reworking the role graduate residents play in residence halls.

The recommendations look to improve the visibility and efficacy of graduate residents on campus by giving them greater access to programming funds and placing more emphasis on their training before the start of the school year.

Following the recommendations, graduate residents would be able to apply for funding from the Campus Council Finance Committee to host dorm activities in $50 increments.

really pull it off.”

The audience was energetic and responsive to the artists, but an issue arose during Kid Cudi’s set when audience members with general admissions tickets began to crowd the floor. Security returned attendees to their appropriate seats.

During N.E.R.D.’s performance, Williams encouraged the crowd to come closer to the stage and onto the floor, appealing to concert officials, as well. By that point, however, the crowd generally stayed in its seats.

Cameron is not often tasked with accommodating events of this nature, but Turner said she thought the mu-

sic sounded decent during sound checks and even better with thousands of bodies filling the stadium.

But not all students were impressed by the quality of the sound, and several raised issues with the acoustics of the show.

Despite some questions about sound quality, most students interviewed generally said they enjoyed the concert.

Junior Richard Bracken said the event even overshadowed a more high-profile campus event that occurs annually on the last day of classes.

“It was a great concert,” he said. “Acoustics were great, man. Could we trade LDOC for Cameron Rocks, please?”

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Kid Cudi (above left) opened the Cameron Rocks concert Thursday night. His performance was followed by hip-hop group N.E.R.D. (bottom right). Officials estimate that about 3,000 students attended the concert (above right).

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Taking a walk down memory lane

by Danny Vinik THE CHRONICLE

Turn the clock back 19 years.

It’s March 30, 1991, the day Duke Basketball and the city of Indianapolis began a relationship that will be renewed Saturday night.

Duke is on the precipice of becoming a college basketball powerhouse except for one thing—it has never won a national championship. 1991 marks the Blue Devils’ fourth consecutive trip to the Final Four, but in the first three attempts they have come away empty-handed.

In the previous season, Duke reached the final game, but was destroyed by a dominant UNLV team, 103-73, in one of the most lopsided Tournament finals in college basketball history. A year later, the Rebels stood in the Blue Devils’ way again at the semifinal stage.

The rematch was tight throughout, with the lead changing hands 25 times.

As the clock ticked down, the Rebels led 76-71 with 2:32 left before the Blue Devils mounted a rally. Point guard Bobby Hurley hit a 3-pointer, and Brian Davis converted an and-one to give Duke a onepoint lead before UNLV forward Larry Johnson made one of two free throws to tie the game.

Duke then brought the ball down the court with a chance to erase the previous year’s embarrassment and give itself

another chance to take home college basketball’s most coveted prize. Thomas Hill hoisted up a shot, but it clanged off the rim. Luckily for head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s squad, Christian Laettner grabbed the rebound and was fouled with 12.7 seconds left.

The Duke star stepped to the line with a chance to make history. Calmly, the junior sank both free throws, two of his team-high 28 points. After UNLV missed a desperation 3-pointer, the Blue Devils rushed onto the court in celebration. It was the Rebels’ first loss of the season.

Duke had knocked off college basketball’s elite, but the team wasn’t satisfied.

Facing Kansas in the national championship game, Duke finally secured its first title. Laettner had a double-double, scoring 18 points and grabbing 10 rebounds, and the Blue Devils made 23 of 41 shots on their way to a 72-65 victory.

So what does this have to do with 2010 and this Blue Devil team? On the surface, nothing.

This year’s Duke team faces an entirely different situation than the 1991 version.

It isn’t facing a dominant, heavily-favored opponent, but instead is the only No. 1 seed remaining in the Final Four. The 1991 team had five players average more than 10 points a game. This year’s team Chronicle file photo

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The Blue Devils officially entered college basketball’s elite by winning it all in 1991 in Indianapolis.

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Junior Dennis O’Grady will take the mound Sunday against a potent Yellow Jacket offense as the Blue Devils look for a marquee ACC win.

Duke faces another elite ACC opponent this weekend as it travels to Atlanta to take on No. 3 Georgia Tech. After being swept by fellow ACC power Miami two weekends ago, the Blue Devils (16-9, 3-6 in the ACC) will need a solid performance to avoid a similar fate.

The Yellow Jackets (22-3, 8-1) feature one of the most prodigious offenses in the land. Senior Tony Plagman heads a lineup heavy on left-handed hitters that has No. 3 Ga. Tech mashed the second-most home runs in the nation. While a short vs. right-field fence helps Georgia Tech’s home statistics, six players Duke have hit five or more home runs already, and the team boasts a Fri. - Sun. .333 batting average.

Atlanta, GA “[Georgia Tech]’s a complete club,” Duke head coach Sean McNally said. “Offensively they’re designed to suit their ballpark. They’ve got a lot of quality left-handed hitters and there’s a short porch in right field.”

In contrast, Duke’s offense has experienced its share of struggles. The Blue Devils rank no higher than tenth in the ACC in all major offensive categories, including batting average, runs, hits and slugging percentage. In fact, the lineup has produced fewer doubles than the Yellow Jackets have home runs.

See Ga. TECH on page 11

No. 7 Duke goes on the road tonight for its third road game of the year to face the team’s fourth and final Ivy League opponent, No. 15 Harvard. The Blue Devils (7-3) have already defeated Pennsylvania, Dartmouth and No. 15 Harvard Brown this season.

The Crimson (5-2) came into Kovs. skinen Stadium last season unranked No. 7 and upset then-No. 5 Duke, 9-5. The Duke loss was the Blue Devils’ first home defeat in two seasons, and sparked a FRIDAY, 7 p.m. two-game losing streak.

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Duke comes back home Sunday to take on Jacksonville. The Dolphins are a new program—earning their first win in school history Feb. 21 over Denver—and will be the first of two opponents Duke faces with a losing record before ending the J’ville season against ACC rival Virginia. vs.

The Blue Devils will rely on No. 7 their improving offense to carry Duke them to victory over Harvard and Jacksonville. After managing 10 SUNDAY, 3 p.m. goals per contest in the team’s first Koskinen Stadium six games, Duke has averaged over 15 goals in its last four games.

—from staff reports

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FINAL FOUR from page 1 on the team were merely juniors in high school when Duke made their last trip to the “promised land.”

Five years passed, including four losses in the Sweet Sixteen, and one surprising upset in the first round.

This seemed odd for a team that boasted 10 Final Four appearances between 1986 and 2004. A program once thought to be the epitome of college basketball success was crumbling in the public’s perception.

“It’s difficult and tough, and it puts a lot of pressure on all of the kids to advance,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

Thus, when the Blue Devils tip off tomorrow night at 8:47 p.m., they will be playing for more than a great end to a good season.

Rather, the Blue Devils will be fighting for the pride of a program that many basketball analysts have criticized in recent years.

But success won’t come easy for Duke.

The Blue Devils’ first test will be against a West Virginia team that effectively shut down No. 1 Kentucky, a team ripe with NBA lottery picks. And while Duke doesn’t have the one-and-done superstar talent of Kentucky, Duke’s strength is diversification of talent.

On the most basic level, Duke has three prolific scorers, commonly refereed to as the “Big Three” of Nolan Smith, Kyle Singler and Scheyer. These three will be tested against West Virginia’s 1-3-1 zone defense that forces its opponents to take long-range, low-percentage shots. However, Smith, Scheyer and Singler are all adept perimeter shooters, averaging 39.6, 38.1 and 39.1 percent shooting from beyond the arc, respectively.

In addition to these scorers, it’s the presence down low that has transformed the Blue Devils. Seven-foot-one Brian Zoubek has been nothing short of dominant on the glass, pulling down 10 rebounds per game throughout the NCAA Tournament. And the Plumlee brothers, Miles and Mason, have provided more than enough support off the bench. While Zoubek & Co. may not be putting up double-digit points, the group’s rebounding advantage could be pivotal to Duke’s success.

“Brian knows that, even if he scores four points, it could be because of him that we win the game,” Krzyzewski said.

And that’s precisely Duke’s biggest advantage going into the Final Four—every player can be the difference-maker. Unlike other teams, the Blue Devils lack a superstar. They do not rely on any one player.

Rather, they have something better—a complete team.

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Duke faces its toughest test of the season to date this weekend when five-time defending national champion Northwestern comes to town.

INDY from page 10 has the “Big Three” all averaging more than 17 points a game and no one else averaging more than six. This season, Duke starts three seniors and two juniors, a rarity in the one-and-done era.

In 1991, a freshman, three sophomores and a junior started for the Blue Devils. The 1991 team was built on offense.

Defense and rebounding are the trademarks of this year’s team.

Yet, while these teams have so many differences, they share one thing in common: Indianapolis.

Just like the 1991 team, Duke will head to Indy, albeit to a different stadium. Laettner and his teammates played the 1991 Final Four in the RCA Dome in Indianapolis, while Krzyzewski brings this year’s squad into Lucas Oil Stadium, his 11th trip to the national semifinals.

After a 8-7 loss to No. 5 Virginia last week, No. 6 Duke is looking to bounce back against No. 1 Northwestern and Davidson Saturday and Sunday at Koskinen Stadium.

The Blue Devils (9-2, 1-2 in the ACC) hold a 2-5 all-time record against Northwestern and have lost four straight since a 16-10 win against the top-ranked team alNo. 1 most four years ago.

NU Northwestern (8-0) currently boasts a 37vs. game winning streak and is the five-time defendNo. 6 ing national champion. The team boasts the naDuke tion’s top offense, averaging 17 goals per game.

The trio of Shannon Smith, Danielle Spencer SATURDAY, 12 p.m. and Katrina Dowd each has more than 30 points Koskinen Stadium on the year.

Despite Northwestern’s longstanding tradition of success, however, Duke remains unfazed, and is looking to make up for its close loss against the Cavaliers.

The Blue Devils trailed 4-6 at halftime to VirDavidson ginia and scored one more to narrow the lead to one point, but a turnover with under two minutes vs. to play ended Duke’s run for a six-game winning No. 6 streak and dropped it to fourth in the ACC. Duke Following the Blue Devils contest against Northwestern will be a contest against Davidson SUNDAY, 12 p.m.

(5-6) Sunday. Duke is 9-0 against the Wildcats Koskinen Stadium and defeated them 17-5 last season on the road.

Duke has been adjusting to a new offensive scheme and a new a goalie all season after graduating the team’s top players last season. After this weekend, the Blue Devils will only have two more games to work out those kinks, facing No. 19 Boston College and No. 2 North Carolina—both conference foes—to finish the season.

—from staff reports

“Great, great memories [of Indianapolis],” Krzyzewski said Monday. “We won our first national championship there. But I’ve always felt over the years that Indianapolis is as good a Final Four setting as any.”

And while Krzyzewski may have a special place in his heart for Indianapolis and that 1991 team, he isn’t reflecting on it right now.

“I haven’t really thought about [1991],” he said, one day later. “I haven’t thought about Indianapolis—I’ve just thought about West Virginia.”

Whether the success of his 1991 team in Indianapolis has crossed his mind or not, Krzyzewski is determined to have his team ready for the Mountaineers. And when the Blue Devils walk into Lucas Oil Stadium Saturday night, they hope they can conjure up some Hoosier magic, like their teammates did 19 years ago.

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Juniors Kyle Singler (left) and Nolan Smith (right) hope that a return to the site of the program’s first national title brings good fortune for the Blue Devils this weekend.

GA. TECH from page 10 “If our pitching and defense can be consistent, we’ll be in every game,” McNally said. “Offense will come and go, and lately we haven’t been as productive with the bats. We’re capable of better and our guys know that.”

Friday’s starter Deck McGuire, complemented by weekend hurlers Brandon Cumpton and Jed Bradley, will provide an enormous obstacle for the reeling Duke offense. An ace that McNally considers to be the best starter in the conference and a sure top-five pick in the draft, McGuire mixes a mid-90s fastball with a slider, curveball and changeup. It has even been reported that he will be considered by the Washington Nationals as the No. 1 pick in June’s First-Year Player Draft.

“It’s an opportunity for us to face some of the best arms that we’ll see,” McNally said. “We’ll have to be ready to hit. They’re not going to walk a lot of guys so we’ll have to be aggressive at the plate. That’s our key for the weekend.”

Christopher Manno will take the hill Friday afternoon against McGuire. He sports an earned run average of 1.74 and records almost one strikeout per inning pitched. Eric Pfisterer and Dennis O’Grady round out the weekend staff, and the two will have to be on their game to keep the Blue Devils close.

“We’ll start with two lefties out of the box, hopefully counteract some of their left-handed hitting,” McNally said. “Dennis [O’Grady] has been a terrific stabilizer for us on Sunday.”

This series is the third three-game set against a top-25 opponent for Duke this season. And though the first half of the season has been tough, this series against Georgia Tech will provide a good indicator for how the rest of the season will go for the Blue Devils—considering they have nine more games against top-15 teams.

“What attracts people to this program and to this league is, to develop your ability and talent, you want to play against the best,” McNally said. “There’s a gauntlet of excellent teams in our league and that excites our guys.”

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Greek access not DSG’s domain Last week, the Duke Stu- themselves—not the student dent Government Senate government. approved a committee to creFirst, any effort driven by ate a financial aid fund that DSG to provide financial aid would help will not address students who the fundameneditorial receive Univertal problem sity financial aid pay greek of greek organizations’ exmembership dues. clusivity, and socioeconomic The idea behind the factors—like appearance committee is a good one. and family wealth—implicitly Greek life is expensive and contribute to the selection of oftentimes inaccessible for new members. Without assisstudents from modest so- tance to financial-aid students cioeconomic backgrounds. and intentional change to seProviding financial support lection criteria, these groups for students to join on- will largely remain the docampus fraternities and so- main of the privileged. rorities would make greek Second, helping students life at the University more pay their membership dues inclusive. in the hope of increasing But the financial aid ef- the accessibility of fraternifort should be the responsi- ties and sororities ignores bility of greek organizations the fact that the costs of be-

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ing greek extend well beyond these fees alone. The typical greek lifestyle involves paying for semi-formals, dinners and other social events not covered by dues. DSG cannot possibly address these costs.

Finally, it is not in the purview of DSG to adjudicate or address the inclusivity of any particular organization. Focusing so much attention on the greek community sets a bad precedent, and financial aid for prospective greeks will only create the dangerous expectation that DSG will assist students with membership fees for all student organizations.

The formation of this committee also focuses DSG’s attention on a problem that affects a small number of students. Instead, the

Senate should be concerned about the many pressing issues currently facing the entire Duke undergraduate community. Moreover, if DSG’s goal is to address socioeconomic inequality in undergraduate life, there are more important places to focus on than access to Greek organizations.

It would be better if DSG challenged the greek umbrella groups to take charge of opening their organizations to students from all walks of life. The Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Association, Inter-Greek Council and National Pan-Hellenic Council should consciously consider what steps they can take to increase socioeconomic inclusivity.

These groups, as well as individual fraternities and sororities, should publish information about their membership dues during rush. This would give prospective new members a better picture of the financial requirements of being greek. Doing so would also provide an incentive for individual chapters to publicize and augment existing financial aid opportunities in order to recruit a wider range of students.

Greater inclusivity in greek life at Duke is a good priority, but it is one that’s best left to the greek community itself. Those who know greek life well and can identify the barriers to entry are best positioned to enact substantive change.

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sat down to lunch last Friday with two of the Affairs, including CAPS and Residential Life, have people who comprise the entity better known collaborated with the Asher Lab on the study since to the Duke student-body as asherlab@duke. its inception. Asher characterized Vice President edu. If the e-mail address doesn’t for Student Affairs Larry Moneta immediately register, check your as a “big supporter” of the study. inbox for the latest invitation to He stressed that the Asher Lab participate in the Duke Social Rehad ultimate responsibility for the lationships Project. At the bottom content of the study, but credited you’ll find the people behind the administrators for suggesting surproject—Steven Asher, professor of vey content that would measure all psychology and neuroscience; Molareas of student life. Asher said the ly Weeks, a third-year Ph.D. student supporting administrators simply eliza french in psychology and neuroscience; “know more than we do” about stuje ne sais quoi and Kristina McDonald, a postdocdents, and he seemed grateful for toral scholar at the University of their input.

Maryland, who earned her Ph.D. in psychology Asher doesn’t have direct administrative apfrom Duke in 2008. plications in mind for the final survey results. He Asher embodies everything you would hope and Weeks are “excited to share the results with the for in a psychologist. His eyes shine behind round campus” but envision the data they will have comglasses and his face settles readily into an earnest piled as “descriptive” of our community rather than smile. explicitly instructive for policy change. Throughout Weeks’ appearance, on the other hand, at first his career, Asher has studied friendships and peer belies her designated job description of “research relationships of college students and their feelings assistant.” An attractive blond, she epitomizes cool of well-being. He and Weeks hope to use the data in the original sense of the word—calm, collected as a starting point for smaller-scale, in-depth studies and even-keeled. that delve into more specific areas of research.

Researchers in the Asher lab first conceptualized The researchers have a clear plan once the data the study around late Spring 2006. They then submit- is in, but our course of action remains undefined. ted the study for review by the Institutional Review The allure of a free Alpine coffee coupon probBoard, a federally mandated measure for all research ably wasn’t the real motivation for those of you who conducted with human subjects that is intended to chose to fill out the survey. Enough people have parminimize risks to the participants. After the IRB’s ap- ticipated so far to produce significant results, and proval, they began collecting data in 2007. their participation shows a curiosity and willingness In the first year of the study, the researchers to closely consider our community and ourselves. elicited responses from freshmen and sophoIt is heartening that Student Affairs has shown mores only. Each subsequent year, they sent the such a keen interest and assumed a collaborative survey out to the same students and also the in- role in a study with direct implications for stucoming class. The study’s fourth and final year, dents’ quality of life.

2010, marks the second year that it surveys all four The study may be an aggregate of personal reundergraduate classes. The lab hopes to release sponses, but it will likely produce a powerful collecthe results sometime during the summer or fall. tive portrait. The administration should welcome As developmental psychologists, Asher, Weeks the chance for scientific self-scrutiny. Whether the and McDonald study age and transition and are study reveals striking disparities in student satisinterested in a “lifespan perspective” that con- faction or a general sense of self-fulfillment on siders how people continue to change and grow campus, we will need to evaluate the ways in which throughout their lives. Their hope was to elicit as Duke as an institution can foster a sense of indimany repeat participants as possible, but still value vidual well-being among its students. More imporone-time respondents as part of a “snapshot” of the tantly, we must also realize Duke’s limitations in its University’s social landscape at a specific moment. ability to serve undergraduates with increasingly The study monitors two measures of change diverse backgrounds, attitudes and beliefs. over time. The first measure is “cohort” change, The Duke Social Relationships Project measures or how each class of students differs from other all aspects of student life while keeping social relaclasses throughout the course of the study. The tionships and at its core. We should preserve the second is developmental change, or how the so- same spirit in analyzing its results. cial behaviors of all the participants change over that same period.

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journalist, author, professor, friend remembrances A gift to all who know her To see the potential of others and guide them to greatness is a gift.

To inspire in hearts and minds an insatiable passion for knowledge is to be a teacher.

To garner the respect of all simply by being yourself is to be noble.

Susan Tifft is a gift to all who know her. Each of us who had the pleasure of spending time in her company will carry her legacy, her lessons, her joie de vivre onward in life. I met Professor Tifft as a freshman, as her student.

Through college, she became a mentor—the embodiment of what journalism should always be. In her classroom the lessons expanded beyond a syllabus. I learned what it meant to be an elegant, professional woman… with just the right combination of smarts and moxy to go toe-to-toe with the boys.

In the years since Duke, “Professor Tifft” became Susan, the world traveler with a love for dancing and good wine. A beloved friend, sister and wife, she celebrated each of our life’s accomplishments and allowed us to be part of hers. My friend was a woman who laughed, and found eternal optimism and happiness no matter the circumstances.

It is my wish that each of you has such a force of good in your life. It is a rare and wonderful thing to have someone believe in you, to have someone support you, to have someone mean to you what Susan Tifft did to all of us.

So tonight, as I sit here and watch the day end, I think of Alex, Sara and Doug, of all the colleagues, students and others who are celebrating the life of one phenomenal person.

And I think of Susan, raise a glass of good wine and say: thank you my teacher, my friend.

Jennifer Wlach Trinity ’04 From a raving fan In memory of Susan Tifft—one of the most spectacular human beings I have ever known. You gently challenged me at a young age to think more deeply than any educator ever had. I will always cherish our nearly 10-year friendship, and I will always be a raving fan.

Sara Beth Zivitz Trinity ’02 Cheer up, onward!

Susan Tifft is a wonder even as her physical presence is elsewhere. Her light, her humor, her extreme intelligence, her love for Duke, for her students, for her writing and for her beloved Alex and her extreme generosity of spirit live on in all of us who are fortunate to call her friend. So as I was reminded by a close friend of Susan’s, she might say to us all: Cheer up, possums! Onward!

Sally Kleberg Woman’s College ’66 A gift to the world Susan Tifft was a gift to the world. She was one of the first students I taught at Duke in 1972. Sharp, deeply inquisitive and immediately engaged by the issues of civil rights and feminism that we discussed in my course, she became a lifelong friend. I read her books, shared her enthusiasm for good food and fine wine, and was blessed to be part of the celebration of her teaching career at Duke just a few years ago. With her amazing husband Alex Jones, Susan has created a beloved community that has shared her courage, her endurance and her grace during the course of her illness. She was a dear friend who taught us all that we can triumph over adversity by the love we offer to each other. Her body may no longer be with us, but her spirit, zest and passion remain.

Bill Chafe Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History

The end of a 10-year conversation Susan Tifft represents everything that a mentor and friend should be. No student who took her class was unimpressed by her wit and passion for teaching, and no former student who continued on in friendship with her was unimpressed by her grace and wisdom. At a university with so many great professors, she was the best.

Just days into meeting her, we began a decade of correspondence. Her email address would pop-up in my Duke inbox sometimes three or four times a day. The conversations started about class, but very quickly turned into pageslong discussions about all of life (and all of wine). Her friendship was special to me, to say the least, but I soon learned I was not the only one.

When I attended her retirement dinner at the Sanford School last Spring, I finally appreciated the breadth of Susan’s devotion to her former students and friends—every person there had been carrying on his or her own form of that same conversation. This skill that makes a great journalist—maintaining relationships—made Susan such a beloved professor, mentor and friend.

I am sad today for all of those who loved her and my heart goes out to her family and her loving, cherished husband, Alex. For myself, I am sad that the only ten-year conversation I ever had, had to end so soon.

Martin Barna Trinity ’02 Editorial Page Editor, The Chronicle, 2000-2001 An indomitable spirit We all think that we plan our lives. Thinking about it, however, we realize that it is the unplanned things that make all the difference and truly change our lives.

In 1972, I entered the lottery in Wilson House to pick a roommate, and found myself rooming with Susan. It was an amazing friendship that outdid even my wildest expectations of friendship—due to Susan’s indomitable spirit and loyalty. Rest well, dearest friend. You will never leave my heart and mind.

Diane Britz Lotti Trinity ’74 Compared to that, I’m living in clover Susan told us in her final post on Caringbridge (which you must visit) that she wants her legacy “to be all of you,” “a human chain of those who have guided and influenced me, and whom I touched and influenced.”

I am among the fortunate many on this human chain, in my case through 10 years with Susan on The Chronicle’s board of directors. For all those years, Susan served as The Chronicle’s moral compass, full stop. She guided us through once-new territory like how to apply our journalism values to the online edition; she helped each year’s editorial team navigate all order of difficult ethical and journalistic questions; and, most recently, she helped us grapple with this time in which the contributions of skilled journalists have never been more needed, yet the business model that enables them is disintegrating all around us.

Susan shaped my thinking on many topics, and I know she had this impact on lots of us. How? Susan has always been uncommonly gifted at making herself heard. To every interaction, she brought not just clear thinking but evidence, experience, analogies, passion, empathy and most of all, humor.

And so she was—is—the consummate influencer, commentator, professor, reporter, and always, friend.

Not long after the Haiti earthquake, Susan posted, “Compared to that, I’m living in clover.” That statement really struck me at the time, and now I keep coming back to it and imagine I will for a long, long time. Thank you, Susan.

Jessica Moulton Member, Duke Student Publishing Board of Directors Trinity ’99

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Construction workers are nearly finished installing a piping system that will run through the Biddle Music Building.

construction work] becomes a little bit of an issue,” said freshman Aditya Palepu, who lives in Pegram Residence Hall.

Freshman Gabriela Arredondo-Santisteban added that the construction is affecting students’ ability to get around campus.

“I have class in Biddle and they block off that one sidewalk that’s right between Alspaugh [Residence Hall] and Pegram,” she said. “So it’s really tedious to walk around the other side, especially when I’m late for class.”

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