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Duke annihilates W. Virginia in Indy

by Andy Moore THE CHRONICLE

INDIANAPOLIS — At 3 p.m. Saturday, a full six hours before Duke was set to tip off in the Final Four, its student DUKE 78 section began WVU 57 filling rapidly, occupying every available space and crevice in its assigned spot under the cavernous dome of Lucas Oil Stadium. Across the arena, West Virginia’s began to do the same.

A lone security guard, surveying the scene, remarked, “Looks like the battle’s already started.”

Instead of a war, though, the fans saw a rout. Buoyed by a combined 63 points from Jon Scheyer, Kyle Singler See WVU on page 10

FULLFINALFOURCOVERAGE Inside: Kyle Singler and the Blue Devil backcourt dominated their matchups against WVU, PAGE 10-11.

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Crazies, admins gear up for celebration

by Zachary Tracer THE CHRONICLE

topsy-turvy 2010 NCAA Tournament, one thing has become crystal clear: If you think you’re too good to lose, you’re going to get beat, and Butler will be more than happy to beat you.

As the men’s basketball team gets ready to take on Butler University in the NCAA Tournament Championship in Indianapolis, back on campus Duke students and administrators are making their own preparations.

For students, the questions are simple—where to watch, where to party. Staff members, on the other hand, are working to make sure celebrations—if Duke wins—stay under control.

Some students said they plan to watch the game at Armadillo Grill or local bars to be close to beer and nachos. Others said they will be watching in Cameron Indoor Stadium, where the game will be shown on the

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See preparation on page 5

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Seniors Jon Scheyer, Lance Thomas and Brian Zoubek celebrate Duke’s Final Four victory over West Virginia Saturday, sending the Blue Devils to their first title game since 2001.

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Duke looks for its 4th national championship against hometown Bulldogs

by Andy Moore and Gabe Starosta THE CHRONICLE

INDIANAPOLIS — Forget the obvious “Hoosiers” reference, the David-versus-Goliath cliché and the lovable-underdog-takes-onthe-big-bad-Blue-Devils storyline.

When No. 1 Duke meets host Butler at Lucas Oil Stadium Monday night in the NCAA national championship game, it won’t matter how many times each program has been to the Final Four (15 to zero), what league each team plays in (the ACC compared to the one-

No. 1 Cavaliers scrape by Blue Devils, Page 8

bid Horizon) or how experienced the two teams’ head coaches are (Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski is in his 30th season with the Blue Devils, while Bulldog head man Brad Stevens is in his third year as a college head coach.)

Because at this point in the

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“While we’ve come a long way, we’ve still got a ways to go.” ­—U.S. President Barack Obama. See story page 3

Duke breezes by hapless Dolphins, Page 9

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Baghdad car bombs target embasses, kill at least 30 BAGHDAD — Suicide attackers detonated three car bombs near diplomatic missions in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 30 people and wounding scores, security officials said.

The attacks, the deadliest in the capital since the March 7 parliamentary elections, come as Iraq’s political factions are locked in a dispute over the outcome of the vote.

Analysts say the violence could trigger a more intense round of fighting among the rivals that threatens to spill into the streets.

The strikes against the Iranian, German and Egyptian diplomatic missions appeared to be a continuation of attacks that began in August against government and high-profile buildings that killed hundreds. But accusations started soon after Sunday’s bombings, with former prime minister Ayad Allawi’s Iraqiya bloc calling on the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to “restore security” and blaming security forces for failing to prevent the attacks.

U.S. skirts conflict, delays Drugs may prevent AIDS currency report on China FOSTER CITY, CA — Gilead Sciences Inc. may learn this year whether its drugs for treating HIV can also stop people from catching the virus in the first place.

The approach may help curb the AIDS pandemic in poor countries and bring Gilead $1 billion a year in additional U.S. sales, said Josh Schimmer, an analyst at Leerink Swann & Co. in Boston. Most investors aren’t alert to the potential benefit, he said. Researchers are compiling the first data from 10 trials involving more than 20,000 people, and initial results may be available in July.

If the strategy works, the pills from Foster City, Calif.-based Gilead may promise the world a powerful tool for fighting AIDS, after scientists’ failure so far to develop an effective vaccine or virus-killing gel.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration postponed a decision Saturday on whether to brand China a currency manipulator, skirting a public confrontation by announcing plans to instead pursue broader discussions about how best to secure a global economic recovery.

With China’s leader due in Washington later this month and the heads of both countries trying to smooth over a series of disagreements, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he would delay a world currencies report to Congress due April 15, in deference to “a series of very important, high-level meetings over the next three months.”

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Obama remains wary of economy in Charlotte visit

by Samantha Brooks and Ciaran O’Connor THE CHRONICLE

“While we’ve come a long way, we’ve still got a ways to go.”

That was President Barack Obama’s message to factory workers in Charlotte Friday.

Addressing employees of Celgard, a supplier to the lithium battery industry that received $49 million in stimulus money, Obama hailed a positive jobs report and stressed that his policies are helping the economy recover.

“The tough measures that we took— measures that were necessary even though sometimes they were unpopular—have broken the slide,” the president said, citing Friday’s Department of Labor Employment Situation Summary, which found that the economy had absorbed 162,000 new jobs in March, the most in three years.

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Still, Obama struck a cautious note about the future.

“We have to be mindful that today’s job numbers—while welcome—leave us with a lot more work to do,” he said. “It will take time to achieve the strong and sustained job growth that we need.”

After briefly touring the plant, which manufactures the lithium battery separators used in electric vehicles, Obama spoke conversationally to the roughly 250 employees seated around him, praising their company for creating jobs in North Carolina that will bring clean energy to the nation. He also impressed upon the audience—which included a handful of politicians from the state— the crucial role of the federal government in economic recovery.

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“I don’t want to jinx it, but I think we have a pretty good shot,” senior Natalie Harrison said.

The doors to Cameron open at 8 p.m.—an hour and 21 minutes before tip-off—and Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said she’ll be there from the beginning to make sure everything runs smoothly. Only students with DukeCards will be allowed into the stadium, she said.

Wasiolek will be joined by Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, who said staff members from across the University are preparing for today’s game.

Officials from Student Affairs, Athletics, the Duke University Police Department and other departments of the University met for an hour Sunday afternoon to discuss their plans, Moneta said.

“We are extremely well organized.

Everything is in place,” he said.

“Everybody is in really good spirits about our plans, everybody was hoping that we win and looking forward to celebrating.”

The University has requested a bonfire permit and classes are still in session Tuesday even if Duke wins tonight, Moneta said.

No matter where Dukies plan to watch, many said they are looking forward to celebrating and burning benches on Main West Quadrangle if Duke wins.

Sophomore Bradley Jacobs said that if Duke wins, he wants to stay up all night and party—and he’ll skip class Tuesday.

“It’s probably a once in a lifetime thing,” he said. “We’ve got to enjoy it.”

Sean Lyngass, Trinity ’07, did not get to see Duke compete for the national title while he was a student— so he drove down from New York with friends to watch the game in Cameron.

“We never tasted this,” he said.

Wasiolek said she and other University officials have been reviewing

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how Duke handled celebrations after the 1991, 1992 and 2001 national championship wins. Wasiolek said she was on campus for the 2001 win—that celebration went more smoothly because officials learned from the raucous revelry of a decade earlier, she noted.

One thing administrators learned, Wasiolek said, is that the celebration can be kept in check by keeping people not affiliated with Duke off campus.

DUPD officers will work with other police agencies to close campus this evening to people without DukeCards, DUPD Chief John Dailey said. He said officers will be checking the DukeCards of people arriving on campus and that community members should carry their cards with them at all times.

He added that teams of DUPD officers, Durham Police officers and Durham County sheriffs will patrol campus.

Dailey said he hopes for a Duke win, and officers are prepared for contingencies such as medical emergencies and crowd control. They will make arrests if needed, he added.

“We expect that people will be happy and celebrate,” he said. “They just need to understand that there are limits to what that celebration can be. Our main goal is that this is a safe event.”

To help keep the celebration safe in the event of a win, blue-jacketed student volunteers and administrators on the “A-Team” will manage the bonfire, Wasiolek said.

Duke University Stores is getting ready for a win as well. The stores will have about 25,000 T-shirts on hand tomorrow if Duke beats Butler, Merchandise Manager Tom Craig said in a Duke News release Thursday.

Wasiolek said she is not worried that all the preparations across the University could jinx Duke’s chances of winning the title.

“As superstitious as I am, I think this team is so prepared that nothing is going to stop them, not even our extensive planning,” she said.

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In a visit to Charlotte, President Barack Obama said Friday that despite positive employment data for the month of March, America must remain vigilant and watchful to ensure a full recovery through sustained job growth .

obama from page 3 While acknowledging that the private sector has largely been the propeller behind job growth in America, Obama stressed the importance of government intervention in helping the country dig itself out of a protracted recession.

“What government can do is create the conditions for companies to succeed,” he declared. “[It] can create the incentives that will allow small businesses to add workers.”

After his speech, Obama opened the floor to employees’ questions, which ranged in content from the president’s recent decision to expand drilling off the East Coast to whether his limou-

sine is a hybrid—it is not.

Considering that the nation faces harsh economic times in which the unemployment rate has held relatively steady at about 9.7 percent, one woman asked why Obama was raising taxes as part of the health care bill that he signed March 23.

In response, the president said he was pleased to “clean up a lot of the misapprehensions that people have.”

Taking time with an issue he has addressed repeatedly during the last year, Obama touted the bill’s benefits to the currently uninsured and assured the woman that the bill will lower the deficit through the elimination of Medicare subsidies. He added that the bill will only raise capital gains taxes on individuals making

more than $200,000 a year and couples making more than $250,000.

Audience members said they appreciated Obama’s attentiveness to their concerns.

“He seemed to really care that people understood what he was talking about,” said Leon Butcher, a part-time employee.

Joe Montagnino, a chemist technician with the company, described the president as “very genuine.”

Rep. Mel Watt, D-N.C., was also in attendance, along with other members of Congress and N.C. Governor Bev Perdue. Watts described Obama as “excellent,” and added, “He’s able to break things down to a common understanding.”

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men’s tennis

Blue Devils drop heartbreaker to Cavaliers

by Dan Ahrens THE CHRONICLE

Reid Carleton had an iron grip on the point. Taking a short ball early, the Duke junior pounded a shot deep into the forehand corner of Virginia’s Sanam Singh. As Carleton stepped up to finish the point, however, Singh reached back and sliced a perfect cross-court winner.

Carleton was not alone.

The top-ranked 1 VT Cavaliers seemed to DUKE 6 be just one shot better than Duke (11-6, 4-1 in 4 the ACC) all day, scrapUVA DUKE 3 ing past the Blue Devils 4-3 Sunday at Ambler Tennis Stadium.

“They played well and they really won it there at the end,” head coach Ramsey Smith said. “I thought we competed well.

We put ourselves in position to win and just came up a little short.”

Duke began its upset bid on a great note, turning in one of its gutsiest doubles performances of the season. After conceding No. 3 doubles 8-0, the Blue Devils faced pivotal points in both of the other matches.

Carleton and freshman Henrique Cunha, the third-ranked duo in the nation, looked poised to cruise to victory with a 7-4 lead. Fifteen minutes later, Virginia (27-1, 7-0) had closed the gap to 7-6 and held a 30-15 lead on Duke’s serve.

The Blue Devils buckled down, however, and came back to cut the Cavaliers’ comeback short for an 8-6 win. Shortly thereafter Dylan Arnould and David Holland matched their teammates’ feat, earning a hard-fought 9-7 win over Singh

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Sophomore David Holland (above) and senior Dylan Arnould won a key doubles match to earn the Blue Devils the doubles point, but both dropped their singles matches as Duke fell to No. 1 Virginia 4-3. and Houston Barrick.

“Our doubles was fantastic at one and two,” Smith said. “I thought David Holland really stepped up at number two. Those guys have clinched a lot of matches for us. That set the tone and put us in a good position.”

Duke carried that momentum right into singles, racing out to leads in four of the six first sets. Sophomore Torsten Wietoska started hotter than any other,

gaining an early break en route to a 5-2 lead. The height and huge serve of opponent Drew Courtney began to take its toll, however, and Courtney fought back to force a tiebreak. Wietoska couldn’t get back on track, and ended up falling 7-4 to drop the first set.

As the day wore on, the Cavaliers gained on the Blue Devils, and eventually the tide of the whole match shifted

toward the favorites.

“There were a lot of momentum shifts, really on all the courts,” Smith said. “I think Singh winning that second set and Torsten losing that first set, since I know he had a lot of opportunities down there, really turned things around.”

Carleton played a fantastic first set against Singh, the ninth-ranked singles player in the country, but Virginia’s number two raised his game to a whole new level in the second set. He had an answer for every big shot Carleton hit, one-upping the Duke junior time after time on his way to a 6-3 victory to force a third set.

Cunha did not let his teammates’ results affect his play, as he finished off thirdranked Michael Shabaz 6-3, 6-3 in straight sets. Jarmere Jenkins of Virginia had taken care of Dylan Arnould in straight sets, and David Holland likewise fell quickly. Wietoska yielded to his foe in the second set as well, leaving Carleton and Luke Marchese in must-win situations.

Marchese held up his end of the deal, downing Lee Singer in an emotional second-set tiebreak to win 7-5, 7-6.

Carleton, on the other hand, could not match up to Singh’s skill and experience down the stretch, eventually bowing out 6-2 in the third to finish off the match.

“Singh played unbelievable tennis at the end there,” Smith said. “I’ve got a lot of respect for him. It wasn’t something Reid gave away. [Singh] went out and won that.”

The weekend wasn’t a complete loss, though, as Duke knocked off No. 18 Virginia Tech 6-1 Friday. The Blue Devils have a chance to get back on track Wednesday at Wake Forest.

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Duke splits weekend draw Blue Devils send Dolphins packing

by Patricia Lee THE CHRONICLE

Despite staying even with No. 1 Northwestern in the first 15 minutes of play, No. 5 Duke was unable to keep up with the Wildcats, falling 19-14 Saturday at Koskinen Stadium.

The Blue Devils (10-3) only trailed by 19 one goal, NW 10-9, at DUKE 14 h a l f t i m e after a 6-1 6 DAV Duke run, DUKE 19 and traded goals with Northwestern (9-0) to start the second session.

However, the Wildcats then took off on an 8-1 run and the Blue Devils were unable to narrow the lead. “[The] game obviously was tough, and I think there were a lot of really good things that came from it,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “Northwestern is an outstanding team, and I don’t know when the last time they put out 14 goals was, but it’s been a long time.”

The Wildcats entered the game boasting the nation’s eighthranked scoring defense, but conceded almost double their 7.57 goals per game average.

Nevertheless, Northwestern played to its ranking on the offensive end. Coming in with an

average of 17 goals per contest, the Wildcats exceeded that Saturday, even against a relatively stingy Duke defense.

The Blue Devils managed to keep the score relatively close on major contributions from junior Christie Kaestner and senior captain Lindsay Gilbride, who combined to score half of Duke’s final tally. Kaestner scored three goals and dished out four assists,

while Gilbride added four scores and two assists.

“I’m happy because our offense didn’t have a great performance against Virginia [last week], but I think overall there are distinct areas of our game that we can do better defensively, so that was kind of a disappointment,” Kimel said.

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Senior Lindsay Gilbride scored four goals and added two assists for Duke, but it wasn’t enough as No. 1 Northwestern’s offense overwhelmed the Blue Devils, 19-14.

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Duke’s streak of four games in nine days ended Sunday afternoon, but the Blue Devils’ sevengame winning streak continued as they won 16-7 over Jacksonville.

No. 7 Duke (9-3) jumped out to an 11-4 halftime lead against the Dolphins (4-6) and never looked back against the first-year program.

Head DUKE 14 c o a c h HARV 5 J o h n Danowski JVILLE 7 c r e d i t e d DUKE 16 J a c k s o n ville for its effort and intensity in making the game competitive. “[I was] extremely impressed.

For the number of freshmen... their guys were organized, they had a plan and they played hard,” Danowski said. “I thought their goalie was terrific. Their faceoff guy [sophomore Mike Wallenhorst] played well.”

Although Wallenhorst was able to win nine of 15 faceoffs and the Dolphins won 13 of 25 total, Duke still controlled the game and overwhelmed Jacksonville’s defense, particularly in the first half. The Blue Devils outshot the Dolphins 24-10 in

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Senior Mike Catalino scored three goals to lead a balanced attack for Duke Sunday. the first two periods and, despite being outshot by three in the second half, kept their lead with long possessions to close out the game.

Duke’s balanced offense was on full display Sunday, as nine players scored and six contributed multiple goals, led by senior midfielder Mike Catalino’s three scores. The diverse attack resulted in Duke’s sixth consecutive double-digit scoring output.

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Junior Kyle Singler’s defensive effort on West Virginia’s Da’Sean Butler was key in limiting the Mountaineer star to 10 points on 2-of-8 shooting before Butler was forced to leave the game due to a knee injury Saturday.

Singler wins perimeter duel with WVU’s Butler

by Gabe Starosta THE CHRONICLE

INDIANAPOLIS — So much for Kyle Singler being a one-trick pony.

After Duke’s 78-71 win over Baylor in the Elite 8 last weekend, much was made of the fact that the star junior had sacrificed Game his offense—Singler went 0-for-10 the Analysis field and scoredfrom just five points—in exchange for playing quality defense on Bears guard LaceDarius Dunn. Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski even admitted after the game that Singler had “something about anxiety” in Houston.

The opposite was the case Saturday night at the Final Four in Lucas Oil Stadium, where Singler was the best player on the court by miles on both ends of the floor.

On offense, Singler looked smooth on the perimeter and was also able to score around the basket in many different ways.

The junior finished the Blue Devils’ dominant 78-57 humiliation of West Virginia with 21 points on 8-of-16 shooting, and his baskets were especially important in the first half before Nolan Smith and Jon Scheyer got going in their own right.

Singler’s biggest contribution, though, came on the defensive end, where he was matched up for most of the night with Mountaineer star Da’Sean Butler, a versatile 6-foot-7 scorer not all that different from himself. While Singler found room to operate against West Virginia’s man-toman defense, Butler was consistently harried by Duke defenders as tall and physical as him, and he was almost an observer

to the Mountaineer offense for much of the first half. Butler was held to a mere two points on 1-of-5 shooting in the period, at the end of which the Blue Devils led by eight points.

Butler suffered a knee injury 11 minutes into the second period, and the senior AllAmerican did not return to the court. But in the 28 minutes he did play, Butler was only able to muster 10 points, going 2-of-8 from the field. Much of that can be attributed to Singler’s defense.

“We thought the matchup of Kyle and Butler was the key matchup for us,” Krzyzewski said after the game. “I hope [Butler’s] not hurt badly, but up until the time he was hurt, I thought we still played well against him. He can dominate a game, and Kyle not only played great defense, but he played great offense.

“Singler had a great game today because he had the toughest matchup.”

Singler’s defensive effort, which involved chasing Butler across the court, around screens, into the corners and to the top of the key, disrupted the rhythm the Mountaineers tried to develop on offense. West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins said Butler was not as assertive against Duke as he has been in past games, and Mountaineer forward Wellington Smith said his team struggled to score because the Blue Devils—and Singler in particular—effectively blanketed Butler and took him out of the game.

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Zoubek said. “It felt like a lot more. We were being really aggressive on the boards…. We and Nolan Smith, Duke (34-5) trounced really limited their second shots.”

West Virginia Saturday in the national semiFor the first time in the Tournament, each finals. It was a statement game, as Smith ad- one of the “Big Three” scored over 15 points. mitted later, and it erased the memories of “It’s like a plus, especially if all three of 2008’s loss against West Virginia (31-7) in a the guys are doing it,” head coach Mike definitive fashion.

Krzyzewski said. “Usually two of them give “We wanted to win. We didn’t care who you points… but today, with all three of we played,” senior forward Lance Thomas them, they worked so well together today. said. “It was good to beat them, because They really were good tonight.” they beat us two years ago. But I just feel Singler’s performance for Duke was espelike we were the hungrier team.” cially promising. Coming off the first game of Duke’s revenge over the Mountaineers his college career in which he didn’t hit a field was equally sweet when considering the full goal, the junior shot 8-for-16 from the floor for circle the Blue Devils 21 points while grabbing took between the two nine rebounds and dish“It was good to beat games. West Virginia ing out five assists. point guard Joe Maz- them, because they beat “Kyle had one bad zulla, who mockingly game,” Thomas said. us two years ago. But I slapped the floor dur“You’re not going to ing pregame warmups just feel like we were the hold that against him. in 2008 and finished He plays the hardest of hungrier team.” with 13 points, 11 reanyone. Seeing him hit bounds and eight as— Lance Thomas shots didn’t surprise me. sists, only scored four Now he has confidence points and had two in his game and has moturnovers Saturday. mentum going into the championship.”

He didn’t even get to finish the game West Virginia, which has become known while wearing his own jersey, tearing his this year for its swarming 1-3-1 zone, came original in the first half and playing out the out from the beginning in the man-to-man. contest with borrowed threads.

Its interior defense suffered as a re“It’s a completely different team [now] sult. Duke started the game by pounding with a different mentality,” said senior Brian the ball down low, finding Zoubek for two Zoubek, who finished with six points and quick, easy scores and Singler for several 10 rebounds. “We have confidence in what smooth baskets in the paint. we’re doing [and] we believe in it. We be“We just wanted to come out and play lieve we’re good enough to deserve to win.” with confidence,” Singler said. “I thought West Virginia’s performance on the offen- we did a great job of playing with confisive glass, the hallmark of its 2008 win, was not dence and just playing freely.” nearly as pronounced Saturday. The two teams The Mountaineers tried in vain to contied with 11 offensive rebounds, and Duke fuse the Blue Devils by switching to the edged the Mountaineers in total rebounds, 29 1-3-1 late in the first half. But Duke wasn’t to 27. The Blue Devils also outscored West Vir- fooled, and Singler and Smith hit back-toginia in second-chance points by 12. back 3-pointers, giving the team its first The players agreed afterwards, though, double-digit lead of the day. that their rebounding performance against The deluge continued from there, with the Mountaineers couldn’t be adequately the Blue Devils extending their lead as far explained by statistics alone. as 21 at the final buzzer.

“I was surprised when we saw the stats On this night, it would’ve taken an army Sophomore and it said we were only up two rebounds,” to stop Duke. seniors Lan

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INDIANAPOLIS — Joe Mazzulla didn’t hurt Duke Saturday night. Neither did Da’Sean Butler, and neither did John Flowers. In short, West Virginia’s trio of guards, a group the Mountaineers desperately needed to score and defend, did neither, and Duke’s equivalent trio took full advantage.

It’s almost unfair to compare the Blue Devils’ “Big Three”—senior Jon Scheyer and juniors Nolan Smith and Kyle Singler—to the West Virginia backcourt. The Mountaineers are not a perimeter team, although their shooting early in the first period Saturday made it seem that way, while Duke’s leading scorer in every game this season has been one of those three players.

Game But Saturday night at Lucas Oil StaAnalysis dium, the disparity in the backcourt could not have been more apparent.

Scheyer, Singler and Smith were great in their first appearance in the Final Four. The three scored 23, 21 and 19 points apiece, combining for 63 points on 22-of-45 shooting, right around 50 percent. All three stepped up to sink clutch 3-pointers when the Mountaineers seemed poised to make a run, and Scheyer especially helped bury West Virginia in the second half with intelligent passing, quality shooting and turnover-free basketball.

3-point shooting The Blue Devils made it rain from long range and hit 13-of-25 3-pointers, compared to only five for the Mountaineers.

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the big three Nolan Smith, Jon Scheyer and Kyle Singler finally clicked on the same night, outscoring West Virginia by themsleves, 63-57.

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e Miles Plumlee (above) emphatically puts back a Nolan Smith miss at the rim. Below, nce Thomas and Brian Zoubek relish in their first NCAA championship game berth.

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Senior Jon Scheyer’s 23 points led all scorers, and capped a dominant offensive effort by Duke’s “Big Three”, who combined for 63 points.

butler hurts knee West Virginia’s leader took a serious fall late in the second half, tearing his ACL and MCL in his final collegiate game.

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by Jeff Scholl THE CHRONICLE

Despite competing against 1,500 athletes from more than 50 schools, several Blue Devils found a way to distinguish themselves at the annual Duke Invitational Friday and Saturday at Wallace Wade Stadium.

“We probably had the most successful Duke Invitational in the program’s history,” head coach Norm Ogilvie said.

The individual performances of junior Devotia Moore in the women’s 800-meters and redshirt junior John Austin in the men’s javelin played a large role in Duke’s overall impressive showing at the meet.

Moore finished first in the 800 with a personal-best time of 2:06.34. She was one of six Blue Devils to finish in the top 15, and her time is currently the second-best mark in the NCAA East region.

Austin turned in an equally dominant effort in the javelin, breaking his own school record with a throw of 69.27 meters. The 2008 All-American picked up his third straight Duke Invitational victory and improved upon his old record by over half a meter.

Austin’s new personal best catapulted him into the top spot in the NCAA East region. He has launched the javelin one foot and three inches further than anyone else in the region this season, and he has a whopping 13-foot lead over the next-best ACC thrower.

Sophomore Austin Gamble also had a breakout performance in a throwing event this weekend—in his first time in a Duke track and field uniform. The linebacker who recorded eight tackles in the football team’s spring game March 27 proceeded to break the school record in the discus with a throw of 53.45 meters, good for a second-place finish. Thanks to his record-setting toss, Gamble now leads the ACC in discus after only a single meet.

Factoring in sophomore Michael Barbas’s fourth-place finish in the shotput and freshman Andrea Hopkins’s first-place finish in women’s javelin, Ogilvie said he feels good about his throwers’ chances at the conference championships.

But the field events were not the only ones where the Blue Devils made their presence felt this weekend.

The women took first, second and fourth place in the 1,500-meter run, and the men grabbed second, third and fourth in the 5,000-meter run behind Andrew Brodeur’s personal-best time.

The Blue Devil men also closed out the meet on a high note, winning Saturday’s last event, the 4x800-meter relay, by almost ten seconds.

If Duke can build on these strong performances across the board, it may have a chance to make history at the ACC Championships beginning April 15.

“Our goal is to a get a top-half finish in both the men and the women at ACCs,” Ogilvie said. “And that’s never been done before.”

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Coming off an individual tournament victory in Georgia last weekend, freshman Lindy Duncan led the Blue Devils to another top-five finish at the Bryan National Collegiate in Duke’s final tuneup before the ACC Championship.

Behind Duncan’s third-place finish, No. 5 Duke shot two sub-300 rounds as a team to finish in a tie for third at the Players Course at Bryan Park Golf and Enrichment Center in Greensboro, N.C this weekend.

Duncan, the ACC Women’s Golfer of the Month for both February and March, continued her stellar play and remained near the top of the leaderboard all weekend.

After ending her first round with two bogeys in the last three holes to finish at even par, Duncan torched the back nine in the second round and birdied four of her last seven holes to card a three-under par 69. A 1-over Sunday round of 73 on the 6,323-yard Players Course was good enough to secure a third-place finish, three strokes back of tournament winner Cheyenne Woods of Wake Forest.

Going into the weekend, it looked like Duncan would have company at the top of the leaderboard, as senior Alison Whitaker led the way on Friday with a 1-under par 71.

The back nine would prove to be her demise, however, as over the final two rounds, Whitaker came into the clubhouse at 9-over after the turn—a common theme for the Blue Devils. Excluding Duncan, who played the back at 2-under over the weekend, Duke’s remaining four players played the final nine at 29-over par.

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Junior Amy Fryt finished second in the women’s pole vault, part of a stellar effort by the Blue Devils at the annual Duke Invitational.

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As a team, however, the Blue Devils weren’t able to replicate the type of performance they had a week ago at the Liz Murphey Classic, a tournament Duke won by 21 strokes.

“Our standards are just really high,” head coach Dan Brooks said. “We know we can do the things we did [at the Liz Murphey Classic], and that’s what we expect of ourselves.”

The Blue Devils will return to Greensboro on April 16 to challenge for the ACC Championship at Sedgefield Country Club.

“We’re a great team at the hardest stuff,” Brooks said. “What we need to do is just sharpen up on the things that we know we can make better—through hard work.”

“We’re going to pay more attention to that in practice this week, and we’ll be in good shape heading into Boston College next week.”

Although the Blue Devils fell short Saturday, they compensated for the loss by defeating Davidson 19-6 Sunday at home.

The game had 12 different Duke players score goals, the highest number of players to score for the Blue Devils all season.

“I think, given that we played a really hard game in the heat, we did a lot of really good things today,” Kimel said. “We wanted to tighten up in some areas after yesterday, and we did, so I was really pleased with the outcome and the fact that we put ourselves in the position where we got to play everybody.”

Duke started off the contest with five straight goals before allowing one goal from Davidson (5-7), quickly offset by another 5-0 run by the Blue Devils.

Duke’s momentum early in the game allowed Kimel to play with a new rotation and continue developing the team and the younger players, something she has been hoping to do since the beginning of the season. While the freshmen made the most of their opportunity, the coach was quick to credit the growth of her upperclassmen this season.

“It’s really more about our sophomores and juniors who are getting on the field for the first time,” Kimel said. “They really have grown the most out of everyone.”

And with the team gradually becoming accustomed to playing together, the Blue Devils are poised to face their next foe, Boston College.

The contest against the Eagles will be the Blue Devils’ fourth ACC contest and second-to-last game.

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Senior Sam Payton struggled on faceoffs, but it didn’t matter as the Blue Devils cruised 16-7 Sunday.

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Freshman Lindy Duncan continued her recent strong play with a third-place finish to lead Duke.

struggled to come together as a team, but the early-season troubles now serve as motivation and valuable experience for the red-hot Blue Devils.

“Sometimes you’ve got to lose a little bit,” Danowski said. “I think it gets everybody to hunker down and recognize that we’ve got to do what we’ve got to do....

Just as the Jacksonville kids are all freshmen, every new experience you get better... [Freshman goalie Dan] Wigrizer had eight saves and let up five goals—that’s a great percentage. He was 75 percent the other night against Harvard in front of 13,000 people. And then two days, or 36 hours later, you’re playing another game.

So this is all great for his confidence.”

Wigrizer and the Blue Devils, who beat No. 15 Harvard 14-5 Friday night, are building momentum at the right time— there are only two more regular season games before the conference tournament and the NCAA tournament.

“We just get better each week,” Danowski said. “We have next week to prepare for Presbyterian on Friday night. Then the week after that we have a full week to prepare for Virginia....

Now we’re taking a deep breath. We’re going to give the guys two days off. It couldn’t have come at a better time in terms of the basketball program. You know, the guys Monday night can just be students, watch the game and hopefully go to the bonfire.”

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backcourt from page 11 The Mountaineers’ guards, meanwhile, won’t remember this loss as fondly as they do their previous meeting with the Blue Devils, the famous upset of No. 2 Duke in the NCAA Tournament in 2008. Mazzulla, Butler and Flowers combined for less points than Scheyer scored by himself, and on the defensive end, they failed to trouble any of Duke’s top scorers. Scheyer, Singler and Smith were able to score by getting to the basket and finishing contested layups, and they also found plenty of space on the perimeter, to the tune of 12 made 3-pointers between the three of them.

“They had a shot for every defense we had, and they were a better team than us tonight,” said Darryl “Truck” Bryant, West Virginia’s starting point guard who broke his foot in practice last week and was unable to play in the Final Four. Bryant, an athletic 6-foot-2 guard, would have presented a difficult challenge on defense for Smith or Scheyer, but in his absence, Duke’s offense flourished.

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But Smith, Singler and Scheyer would have been taking much more difficult outside shots if not for the grunt work done in the paint by Brian Zoubek. The big man collected 10 rebounds, including five on the offensive glass, and his kickouts created easy looks along the 3-point arc. In past outings, Zoubek’s passing had been noticed by his teammates but not by statisticians, as Duke’s perimeter players failed to convert on open looks. But not Saturday: Zoubek wound up with three assists.

“I told our guys… ‘My center is 6-foot-6 and theirs is 7-foot-1,”’ West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins said.

“And what happens is they get you so deep, and then he does a great job of putting a body on you. Then it becomes a reaching game, and my experience has been 7-foot-1 guys outreach 6-foot-6 guys every time. They don’t force things.

They throw it back out, [and] they get step-in threes.”

With Duke hitting from the outside—the Blue Devils went 13-for-25 from 3-point range—the Mountaineers were in a hole from the start. And without its own perimeter scoring or quality defense, West Virginia will be going home, while Duke plays for a national championship Monday.

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Senior Jon Scheyer and the Blue Devils dominated the Mountaineer backcourt and will need a similar effort against Butler’s staunch perimeter defense.

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singler from page 10 him the ball,” Smith said. “That’s usually what we’re supposed to do. We just didn’t do it tonight.”

“I tried to limit Butler’s touches and make him do things he’s uncomfortable with,” Singler said. “I don’t think he got in a flow.”

A slight change could be seen in the second half, especially in the early minutes, as Butler began to establish himself more. He was able to get to the basket for a layup and managed to draw two fouls down low. Before long, however, Duke adjusted to that aggressiveness by remaining physical on drives and forcing difficult shots around the basket. The result: West Virginia shot only 6-of-20 in the second half, and the eight points Da’Sean Butler scored in the period were not nearly enough to keep the Mountaineer fans from leaving in droves long before the final buzzer.

butler from page 1 The Bulldogs (33-4), a fifth seed despite winning 25 straight games since December, survived an upset bid in the Round of 32 from No. 13 Murray State to reach the Sweet 16. Since then, they’ve gone on a giant-killing expedition, taking out two trendy Final Four picks in topseeded Syracuse and No. 2 Kansas State. They’ve done so by playing tenacious defense, taking care of the ball and forcing tons of turnovers.

In Butler’s upset of the talented Orange last weekend, the Bulldogs forced 18 turnovers and gave the ball away only seven times; against Michigan State Saturday night in the Final Four, the storyline was the same, as Butler coughed it up eight times but caused 16 Spartan turnovers.

“They play great defensively [and] they get their hands on a lot of balls,” Michigan State forward Draymond Green said. “When you think you got a layup, [Ronald] Nored comes from behind, makes a steal.... [There weren’t] a lot of open layups [tonight]. They were great help-side defensively [and] they had very active hands.”

The Bulldogs’ offense, though, has sputtered at times, something the Blue Devils (34-5) will look to exploit Monday night. Duke has scored at least 68 points in every Tournament game—including 78 against defensive-minded West Virginia in the national semifinal—and Butler hasn’t topped 63 since the first round.

That offensive inefficiency was obvious against the Spartans in the second half, when the Bulldogs went an incredible 11-and-a-half minutes—during a critical stretch of the game—without a field goal. But, Butler’s defense was able to contain an injury-ravaged Michigan State squad for long enough to give itself a chance late.

Duke’s explosive offense—led by the peaking trio of Kyle Singler, Nolan Smith and Jon Scheyer—is clearly a cut above anything the Bulldogs faced Saturday night.

“I don’t know how we’re going to guard those guys,” Stevens said. “Those three guys all attempt roughly the same amount of shots, points.... They all three share the scoring load.”

In Duke’s Final Four win over the Mountaineers, it was Singler, Smith and Scheyer who carried the Blue Devils, as they have all season. The trio scored a combined 63 points, and a repeat performance could give Duke its fourth national title in seniors Brian Zoubek, Lance Thomas and Scheyer’s final game with the program.

The Blue Devils have been criticized all season for a number of things—a lack of athleticism, no depth in the backcourt, a missing scoring threat in the paint, and lately, an easy road to Indianapolis—but to the players, those things just don’t matter anymore. “[The game] is everything. This is the culmination of four years for me,” Zoubek said. “To have a shot at the championship my senior year, after everything that we have been through, is a dream come true.”

For Stevens, the architect of this magical run for the hometown Bulldogs, facing the Blue Devils in the NCAA title game is beyond his wildest dreams. It’s not that his team is short on talent, or hustle, or dedication—Gordon Hayward is a do-it-all forward with NBA potential, Shelvin Mack is an athletic swingman with hops and a jumpshot and Butler will have the support of most of the 70,000 fans at Lucas Oil Stadium, less than six miles from the Bulldogs’ Indianapolis campus. Stevens is just understandably nervous for the biggest day in his program’s history.

Late Saturday night, after watching Duke’s destruction of West Virginia, Stevens was chatting with his wife, who said glowingly, “You’re playing for a national championship tomorrow.”

Stevens’s response: “Yeah, but we’re playing Duke.”

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WSJ to add N.Y. section to compete with NYT

by Howard Kurtz The Washington Post

NEW YORK — It is an incursion onto their home turf, where they field the largest team, where they toppled the last governor and knocked the current one out of the race.

But publicly, at least, New York Times executives appear unworried about the Wall Street Journal’s plan to ramp up its Big Apple coverage.

“We never take competition lightly,” Executive Editor Bill Keller said. “We thrive on it.”

“We’re confident in who we are,” Times President Scott Heekin-Canedy said.

But the Journal’s decision to add a New York section to its edition here is more than just a local dust-up. Rupert Murdoch, who bought the Journal more than two years ago and loves to rattle his rival, is engaged in a form of psychological warfare.

“It’s an obsession,” said Michael Wolff, who interviewed Murdoch extensively for a 2008 biography. “It’s a whitewhale thing with him. I’d say he spends a decent part of every day plotting against the New York Times.”

The News Corp. chairman, whose properties include Fox News and the New York Post, delights in painting the Times as elitist and out of touch. “We believe that in its pursuit of journalism prizes and a national reputation,” he said recently, “a certain other New York daily has essentially stopped covering the city the way it once did.”

At a time of industry retrenchment, Murdoch is spending $15 million—and hiring 35 journalists—to launch what he calls a “feisty” daily section later this month. The eight- to 16-page section will cover local politics, business, culture, real estate, high society and sports—including beat writers assigned to the Yankees, Mets, Giants, Jets and Knicks. The paper is even hiring a congressional correspondent to follow the New York delegation.

“We’ve treated the Journal’s challenge as an occasion to fortify our news report with some new beats, including one on private schools,” said Keller, who has also lured a culture reporter from the Journal. “We’ll be adding some new weekend-oriented features to the Thursday and Friday papers. That said, when you count our Metro staff along

with reporters assigned to New York culture, sports, real estate, dining and business, we have overwhelming advantages in talent, experience and space devoted to the New York region.”

Whatever the Times’ journalistic throw-weight, the Journal’s effort could siphon off some local advertising dollars. But with 15 percent of the Journal’s circulation in this area, the impact is likely to be modest.

The Journal tried regional content with six weekly sections, in such states as Florida and Texas, before abandoning them in 2000. “Readers liked them—they always got great grades in focus groups—but they didn’t move the needle on circulation,” says former Journal managing editor Paul Steiger.

“Bill Keller’s got a big Metro staff and lots of strength in areas where the Journal is going to attack,” Steiger said.

“But as we’ve seen with Politico attacking The Washington Post, when you’re in a position of being able to do journalistic guerrilla warfare, you can’t say what the impact is going to be.”

The newspaper company run by Arthur Sulzberger has launched a marketing campaign boasting of its circulation advantages against the Journal, but has also faced its share of financial difficulties. The Times laid off 100 newsroom staffers last year, mortgaged its new Manhattan headquarters and borrowed $250 million from controversial Mexican financier Carlos Slim.

“The Times is highly vulnerable,” Wolff said. “It’s vulnerable from a cash perspective, and I think they’re journalistically vulnerable.”

Murdoch, for his part, had to take a $3 billion writedown last year on his newspaper division, which includes the Journal, suggesting that he seriously overpaid when he bought Dow Jones for $5 billion.

Journal Managing Editor Robert Thomson, a Murdoch confidant brought in from another News Corp. property, the Times of London, declined to be interviewed. He is, like his boss, a native of Australia and has criticized the Times as politically “skewed.”

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interest newspaper. By edging toward more political and cultural stories and away from its laserlike focus on corporate America, some Journal insiders said, the paper is relinquishing its core franchise. Other staffers, impressed by Murdoch’s investments in the paper, have come to believe that he isn’t just pursuing a vanity play. While the Journal was once content to be a second read, Steiger says, “in the current print environment, you have to think of becoming a first read for at least some of your audience.”

Nationally, the Journal has more than twice the circulation, just over 2 million, to 928,000 for the Times. In New York, according to Times figures, 16 percent of its readers also get the Journal during the week.

“We’re strong in New York and always have been,” HeekinCanedy says. “Our readers across the country come to us in part for the New York take on the world. We have a great audience that our advertisers recognize as superior in so many ways.”

The Times’ once-plodding Metro section has become more aggressive in the past decade, spearheading investigations of Democratic Gov. David Paterson, former governor Eliot Spitzer and Rep. Charlie Rangel. The Journal, for its part, is hiring several staffers from the New York Sun, a feisty, right-leaning daily that folded its print edition in 2008.

Those who know Murdoch said he is still steamed about the Times’ coverage of his bid to buy the Journal’s parent company. One 2007 Times editorial on the owners weighing the sale declared that if Murdoch continued his meddling ways, the Bancrofts “would not simply be cashing in the family business; they would be endangering one of the best newspapers in the world.”

But the still-energetic Murdoch, whose love of newspapers is such that he is willing to lose millions of dollars on them, as he does with the tabloid Post, is 79. His eventual successor, whether it is his son James or another family member, may not want to continue such subsidies.

For now, the Murdoch team can’t resist poking the Times family in the eye. Late last month, the Weekend Journal section ran a feature on women who prefer femininelooking men—and the photo collage included the bottom portion of Sulzberger’s face. Heekin-Canedy wouldn’t go near that one, saying: “We don’t engage in that.”

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New health care law brings medicaid surge

by Pat Wechsler and Chad Terhune Bloomberg news

NEW YORK — Of the five doctors in the New Albany Medical Group in rural northern Mississippi, only one can accept new patients. He specializes in geriatrics.

“Frankly, as people die off, he replaces them,” said Jason Dees, one of the physicians in the group in the Union County seat of New Albany, where William Faulkner was born. “We’re all pretty booked, and there’s still more demand.”

The new health care law will give 32 million more Americans the means to visit physicians who might not have the time—or financial incentive—to see them, according to Dees and 17 other doctors interviewed since President Barack Obama signed the law on March 23. While they applauded the ideal of greater access to medical care, they didn’t necessarily approve of how Congress decided to deliver it to people.

“They may have very easily given them a card that won’t buy them any more access to health care than they had before,” said Dees, 37, who graduated from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in 1999.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act put in motion the largest expansion of health care coverage since the creation in 1965 of Medicaid, for the poor, and Medicare, for people 65 and older and the disabled. Obama Tuesday signed a companion measure to fully enact the law.

The result will be more patients and less money for doctors already feeling shortchanged by Medicaid and Medicare, said Richard Chudacoff, who applied to the Paris-based humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders after Congress passed the bill.

“If I’m going to do charity work, I’d rather do the charity work of my choosing,” the 50-year-old Las Vegas obstetrician and gynecologist said.

As many as 15 million of those joining

the system will do so through Medicaid, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The act establishes a national floor for eligibility—to include anyone making below 133 percent of the federal poverty level—and extends coverage to childless adults, not just children, pregnant women, people over 65 and the disabled.

Medicaid, paid for jointly by the federal and state governments, is administered by states, most of which have reduced reimbursements to physicians and hospitals since the recession gutted tax receipts. New Mexico trimmed its payments by 3 percent in December and Kansas by 10 percent in January. Fourteen states filed suit the same day the president signed the law, disputing the constitutionality of burdens imposed on them by its rewriting of the rules.

Many doctors can’t afford to see government-insured patients as it is, according to Chudacoff, who said he accepts people with Medicare on principle, because his mother is covered by the program.

Private insurers generally pay more for services, with the average commercial reimbursement 28 percent higher than Medicare’s in 2008, data from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission show. Medicaid pays even less—with compensation at 66 percent of Medicare rates for primary-care services and at 72 percent for treatment by specialists, according to the Washington-based Urban Institute, a nonprofit group that analyzes social and economic policy.

The law mandates that primary-care doctors be compensated for Medicaid services at Medicare rates beginning in 2013.

Chudacoff, a primary-care physician, applied to Doctors Without Borders anyway.

With taxable income of about $100,000 last year, he boosts revenue by performing hysterectomies at a surgery center to cash-only patients, charging $8,000, about one-third

of what local hospitals demand, he said.

He doesn’t believe he can thrive in private practice under the law, he says.

“By passing the bill, the government basically said, ‘We don’t value you very much,’” Chudacoff said. “It was about giving people an insurance card.”

It’s unclear how the law will affect individual physicians’ compensation, which vary widely. A family practitioner earns on average $173,000 annually, according to a 2009 survey by AMN Healthcare Services Inc.’s Merritt Hawkins unit, compared with $391,000 for a radiologist, $481,000 for an orthopedic surgeon, $344,000 for an anesthesiologist and $297,000 for a dermatologist.

But salaries tell only part of the story, because many doctors are small businessmen who cover payrolls, said Tim Bartholow, a former family practitioner who is a senior vice president of the Wisconsin Medical Society in Madison.

In the 12-doctor clinic in rural Wisconsin where he worked until 2008, 48 cents of every dollar of revenue went to overhead such as rent and salaries, he said. One-quarter of the patients were on either Medicaid or Medicare, which in Wisconsin both reimburse physicians at less than 30 percent of the actual cost of a service, he said.

To cope with the discrepancy, Bartholow and his partners kept their office simple, he said, with painted rather than wallpapered walls and no décor elements like the fish tanks and waterfalls he’s seen in some waiting rooms.

“If you’re not mindful about what it takes to keep the door open, eventually you won’t be able to stay in business,” he said.

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And that can mean, ‘Do I have enough wealth for the latest toy?’ It can also mean, ‘Do I have enough money to pay for my nurse?”’

Bartholow and the majority of the doc-

tors interviewed supported the law for its goal of ensuring that more people can afford care when they’re sick and preventive screenings to keep them healthier and out of emergency rooms.

“It is a moderate, relatively incremental approach to fixing our health-care system,” said Kevin Pho, 37, an internist in Nashua, N.H., who has a blog called KevinMD.com. “The more you read about the bill the more you realize it’s not a government takeover.”

Congress was also right to force insurers to lift caps on customers’ lifetime coverage and limit bans on accepting people with pre-existing conditions, most of the physicians said. Their criticisms focused on what they view as the act’s failure to deal with the physician shortage in the U.S. and doctor compensation, which contributes to the deficit of primary care practitioners.

To make room for the newly insured, Congress allocated $11 billion over five years to the 1,250 federally funded community health centers, doubling what they now receive.

For Teche Action Clinic, a network of eight centers in southern Louisiana, that financial boost and broader insurance coverage “will have a tremendous impact and help us offset the cost of the care we provide,” said Gary Wiltz, 56, the nonprofit’s CEO and a practicing internist.

Teche Action is building 10 new exam rooms this year, a 50 percent increase, as part of $4 million in renovations at three facilities. It added Saturday hours recently to keep the wait- time under an hour. About half of the 20,000 patients served in the network are without insurance, Wiltz said.

The downside to the pro-clinic provisions in the act is that Teche Action will have to find doctors to hire, he said.

“We have our work cut out for us,” he said.

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A beloved professor and friend Last Thursday, the Uni- known for her acclaimed versity community lost a history of The New York dear professor, mentor and Times, “The Trust,” co-writfriend. ten with her husband Alex Susan E. Tifft, Trinity ’73 Jones. During her storied and former career, she also Eugene C. served as the editorial Patterson press secretary professor of the practice of for the Federal Election journalism at the Sanford Commission, a speechwriter School of Public Policy, for President Jimmy Carter’s passed away at her home 1976 re-election campaign in Cambridge, Mass after a and editor and writer at nearly three-year-long battle Time Magazine. with cancer. She was 59.

But more importantly, Tifft’s professional acco- Tifft will always be rememlades and accomplishments bered for her humanity, alone speak volumes about grace and dedication to her relentless pursuit of others. excellence, her passion for Since returning to her journalism and her indom- alma mater in 1998 as a itable spirit. journalism professor, Tifft A successful journalist became an institution unto and writer, Tifft was well herself. At a school with-

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out a formalized journalism major, Tifft mentored budding young journalists and served as an invaluable resource for students interested in learning about a rapidly changing media landscape.

Tifft cared greatly for each and every one of her students, and both inside the classroom and outside of it, she faithfully served a University she loved. After graduating with B.A. in English in 1973, she served as one of the first Young Trustees, and during her career as a professor, donated her time and expertise to the Board of Directors of the Duke Student Publishing Company.

During her final years

as cancer wore down her physical body, Tifft’s spirit remained strong and unrelenting. A testament to her strong will and commitment to her students, Tifft continued to make the weekly commute to Durham from Massachusetts to teach her beloved journalism classes in the Sanford School, even as she underwent painful cancer treatment.

In blog posts peppered with her hallmark wit, Tifft kept track of her fight against her cancer and constantly inspired others with her optimism and courage. In her final post, written a week before her death, Tifft left us with a final piece of advice: “Always do the right thing. It will

gratify your friends and enrage your enemies.”

If we can do that much, we can carry on her legacy.

Susan Tifft, you will be sorely missed and forever remembered.

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. Visit caringbridge.org/visit/susantifft/journal to read Tifft’s blog posts.

The Chronicle will continue to accept submissions of remembrance throughout the course of this week. Remembrances will be published on www.dukechronicle.com

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don’t mean to alarm anyone, but there’s an ance or addition. epidemic on campus. It affects nearly one out But now, I’m staring at three weeks of schoolof every four undergraduate students. Look work that I will be required to at least attempt in oraround—if the three people nearder to graduate: a 20-page research est you are buried in schoolwork paper, a capstone design project, and you’re reading this column, it’s two take-home tests that I should probably you. You have senioritis. probably get around to eventually For those of you who are count(one was due before spring break) ing, there’s only three and a half and literally an entire year’s worth weeks of school left. Think about of research that I’ve put off on the it: Three and a half weeks to do all assumption that I could do it later. carson moore of the things you’ve put off for the This workload probably doesn’t past three and a half months. For seem so bad, but look it at from my humor me the Class of 2010, that’s three and perspective. I have no plans to even a half weeks to do all of the things try to start these assignments. you’ve put off for the last three and a half years.

My pre-med friends have told me that senioritis Surprisingly, I’m not talking about fulfilling un- means “inflammation of the senior,” and let me official graduation requirements or enjoying Dur- tell you, this senior is inflamed. Wait. That came ham (although you should do those, too). You’ve out wrong. heard too much about seizing the day in this last But the point is, how can I be bothered to do month or so. I’m talking about fulfilling the actual any of my work? I only have a few more weeks in graduation requirements. Like, work and boring Durham, and I want to experience all the things stuff like that. that this city has to offer, like Main Street bars and, Sure, it’s too late to fulfill that pesky natural sci- um, bars in Brightleaf, and all those bars over by ence requirement (or whatever you Trinity squares the Bulls stadium. And then there’s the NCAA have to do), but what about that thesis you’ve pre- tournament, which has been the best distraction tended to be doing while secretly spending your yet. And when I get back, I’m declaring the rest of nights, weekends and even days in the Joyce? Or the year perpetual Friday, meaning I pretty much your final project that you’ve essentially been re- won’t do any work, ever. lying on others to do for you? Yeah, they’re due.

I’m way too busy goofing off to be bothered Soon. Hilarious. with work, and I’m completely running out of Here’s the problem: Right now work is the last solutions. I can no longer rely on my teammates thing the class of 2010 is going to do. Look at us. and partners to do my work for me, since they’re Half of us have jobs and don’t care anymore (how suffering just as badly as I am. Moreover, I’m comcan you expect us to do any work if we’re looking pletely on my own for about half of my work—my down a long future of doing nothing but work?), research paper and my independent study are on while the other half is frantically scrambling for me, meaning I’m left with only two options— I their futures, ironically too busy to do anything aca- can either cheat like crazy (not my preferred opdemic. In fact, for the entire last semester, it seems tion) or I can publish a plea, like so: like half the class has been missing on any given day To any professors who might be reading this, I for interviews. Or, it would seem that way if I had implore you: Recognize that the senior class has been to class instead of extending my spring break put in three and a half years of incredibly hard by three weeks to travel with the basketball team. work. Recognize that they have very limited time Senioritis is becoming a serious problem. I’m left on this campus. Recognize that they actually actually concerned right now that I won’t gradu- do have better things to do than work. Then, give ate, which is something I’ve literally never been them decent grades for the work they actually do worried about before. In high school, the people bother to turn in to you. who seemed truly relieved to have made it out alive And to the underclassmen, recognize that this always astounded me. In college, it always seemed will one day happen to you. And it will be great. like my trusty friend grade inflation would bail me out when I had no idea about even the most basic Carson Moore is a Pratt senior. His column runs evconcepts like partial derivatives or acoustic imped- ery other Monday.

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llow me to relate a series of experiences with socioeconomic diversity at Duke.

I came to Duke more than three years ago from a relatively affluent suburb in New Jersey; many of my friends from home have parents who commute to New York for work or are associated with Princeton University. I knew that I was fortunate to have been afforded the opportunities I enjoyed, particularly in possessing the financial wherewithal to take mike meers on a Duke education. It was an inmike check vestment that my father was willing and able to make on my behalf.

Having come from a place where I felt people were similarly well-off, I figured I was prepared for Duke’s reputation for affluence. I knew about the donationsfor-admissions phenomenon, I was vaguely familiar with the concept of a trust fund baby and I had recently learned what an investment banker was from a friend who was to attend business school at NYU. I even scoured the scathing class-ism of the Dukeobsrvr— an anonymous, self-proclaimed Duke student who kept an online diary on livejournal.com—as a sort of summer reading assignment. For all my seeming knowledge and savvy, though, I was still surprised by the true nature of affluence at Duke.

I learned of it gradually, from offhand remarks about the boat on the lake, the condo at the ski resort, the men’s basketball season tickets. I met or heard of the occasional individual whose Duke education was subsidized, but those were few and far between and, interestingly, often were full-tuition cases. It was clear that the student body was overwhelmingly made up of individuals from impressively privileged backgrounds, sprinkled with those few cases that Duke’s financial aid Web site touts as having achieved their dreams only with Duke’s benevolent and magnanimous aid.

There isn’t anything wrong with Duke being populated by a majority of wealthy students; statistically, individuals of the sort of academic caliber required to attend Duke come overwhelmingly from the upper-income brackets. The fact of that discrepancy, however, has a compounding effect when it comes to established social norms that are defined by students’ financial means. It is this phenomenon, a sort of economic self-selection generated from the overwhelming prevalence of well-off individuals, that I found particularly striking.

Having spent just a month shy of eight semesters here, Duke’s socioeconomic structure has largely become second nature, something that I’ve grown to accept without understanding its influence on my classmates and me. That influence is in part generated from a culture that largely engenders a “privileged” life, and the pressure it places upon those who don’t originate from a household where that lifestyle is the norm. If there is one thing I have learned from Duke, it is the perspective of a truly privileged individual, what it means to live in a way that produces a certain amount of entitlement. It is a lifestyle that took some adjustment on my part, and no doubt demands even more adjustment from individuals of lesser economic means.

In that sense, Duke’s commitment to socioeconomic diversity in the form of financial assistance is only skin deep. “Class” diversity is too often the taboo that leads to uncomfortable social rifts borne from the ways in which we use our economic means to define ourselves. Mix in someone who has developed behaviors that do not mesh with the largely upper-class social experience at Duke, and one of two things will happen: that individual will become isolated from the broader structure, or he/she will embrace it and reinforce it.

That isn’t to say that Duke’s upper class social scene, often embodied in greek life, is by any means overwhelming to the point of exclusionary dominance—far from it, in fact. It is rather a question of integration—the ability to entertain a variety of behavior sets defined by diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, whereas the social structure at Duke proves more polarizing in that regard. Only a truly integrative social structure will produce a place where applicants of lesser means are truly comfortable attending Duke.

This means that one of the more important factors in attracting individuals of lesser means to Duke is out of the admissions officers’ hands. At a University that makes a public point of encouraging socioeconomic diversity, it is important to understand exactly why Duke’s socioeconomic makeup plays out the way it does. Just taking a look at culture on the ground level, that which stretches beyond the actual dollars and cents of the process, it isn’t hard to see why the lifestyle of a typical Duke student may be uncomfortable for some. The lifestyle is the key.

Mike Meers is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Monday.

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remembrances A teacher to us all In thinking about the many dimensions of Susan Tifft’s legacy at Duke and beyond, I’m looking at the 25th anniversary edition of Duke Magazine (from just under a year ago). Susan, then with Time magazine, was one of the founding members of the magazine’s advisory board; that was back in 1983, before the magazine had even published its first issue. Over more than a quarter century on our board, Susan—always a strong presence—helped us keep our commitment to the standards of journalism and, at the same time, to the values of a great university.

For the anniversary issue, we had asked Susan—as one of 25 leading Duke thinkers—to speculate about life 25 years in the future. Even with the relentlessly bad news about the profession of news-gathering, there are hopeful developments, she wrote: “While the business of journalism is undergoing a painful transformation, journalism is at a thrilling juncture.” Leave it to Susan to offer an analysis far deeper, much more subtle, than the familiar gloom-and-doom scenario. In her essay she reflected on the potential for blogs, social media and data-mining technology to reinvigorate—or reinvent—the profession to which she was so dedicated.

Characteristically, Susan ended the essay by citing the insights of her students. Overall, she observed, those students expressed confidence that “reliable news would still be available, and the ethics and values of good journalism would endure.” It’s obvious where her students found that confidence: from the lessons Susan imparted, and from the life she lived.

No one stood more clearly and eloquently from the ethics and values of good journalism than Susan Tifft.

And no one cared more avidly for her students and colleagues than Susan Tifft—a teacher to us all.

The best professor Before I ever met Susan Tifft, I had an inkling that she would be a wonderful professor. It only took about one class for me to realize that she would be the best professor I’ll ever have.

Professor Tifft was as warm, kind and compassionate as she was brilliant, respected and admired. When the Susan Tifft Undergraduate Teaching Award was created in her honor last year, it was announced that students had given her completely perfect teaching evaluations three different times for three different seminars, yet that was far from surprising. In fact, I couldn’t imagine anyone evaluating Professor Tifft’s teaching as anything less than perfect.

But, of course, it was Prof. Tifft’s genuine interest in her students away from the seminar table that made her so beloved. Her mentorship was never limited to the classroom, and often I wondered how she found the time to make students feel as if she lived down the hall rather than hundreds of miles away. Indeed, I learned as much from Prof. Tifft in our long e-mail exchanges than I did every Monday evening for a year. Our dialogues, for me, were an education in themselves. Good professors— the best professors—have a way of invigorating their students, of convincing them they can achieve anything, of inspiring awe and gratitude without even knowing. Prof.

Tifft did just that and, as she always did, went beyond.

In her last journal entry, imbued with her typical charm and indomitable spirit, Prof. Tifft wrote: “I want my legacy to be all of you—my friends, loved ones, former students—a human chain of those who have guided and influenced me, and whom I touched and influenced.” I will cherish my small presence in her chain forever, and it’s a cord that will last just as long, stretching farther than she might have ever imagined.

Robert J. Bliwise Editor, Duke Magazine

Ben Cohen, Trinity ’10 Co-editor, Towerview

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’m just a tad uncomfortable. mann, and also being able to name every member of I think we’ve gotten too well acquainted with DSG in under three minutes. She knows as much about each other without you knowing much about me. I the birds and the bees as you know about your classes’ feel like that nameless guy who you met at a section party optional readings. and can’t find on Facebook. Every time I’m a contrarian by nature, which natyou pass each other on the quad, you urally means I am often contrary to conreally wanna say hey, but you just can’t trariness. I shower once a month (you’re muster up the courage. I think once you welcome, RLHS), and sometimes even get to know me a little more, you’ll betless (how else do you think I get this ter understand a lot of my ideas. beautiful hair?). I haven’t slept since Please allow me to introduce myRichard Nixon died, and I still feel bad self. I’m a man of simple taste. I enjoy about dropping the ball at Watergate. dynamite and gunpowder and gaso- monday, monday I refuse to get sick more than once line. And you know the thing that they a year, and bacteria and viruses gladly the joker have in common? They’re cheap. I oblige. To acquire antibodies, I purdon’t care too much for money, ’cause posely drop food on the ground bemoney can’t buy me hate. I believe Paul McCartney fore I eat it, especially if it’s sticky or watery. Surprissang something to that effect back in 1964. My, how ingly, it improves the palatability of the food from the the times they aren’t a-changin’.

Great Hall. I abide by the five-week rule. It’s like the It really does get hard being as attractive as I am. I at- five-second rule, but elongated. I would just lick the tract all kinds of amorous stares as I swagger down Tow- ground, but then I’d start attracting the bad kind of erview in my perfectly purple suit and gorgeous green stares. You know, the kind you give that creepy Durhair, just back from getting swoll’ at Wilson. When you hamite at Shooters’ foam party. glance my way, it’s astoundingly obvious that the ladies I’m sure my kill count is no higher than 10,000, are indeed attracted to confidence. I’m like a sensitive and I guarantee fewer than 10 percent have been musician, a Jon Scheyer-Nolan Smith super-athlete and Duke students. You look quite surprised…. Can you a frat-star all rolled into one: I’ve got something for ev- not say the same for yourself? Have you killed more eryone, no matter how elaborate or simple your taste. than 10,000 people? …Oh, I see… was it the way I I’ve got a wife and family, but you’d never know it phrased it? based on my words, thoughts or actions. I named my I’m not racist, sexist, ageist, bigoted or prejudiced daughter Anabel, which anagrams to “be…” annoying. in any way. I’m racist, sexist, ageist, bigoted and prejuI decided on this name because it is exclusively the way diced in every way. I hate everyone equally. I’m intolher mother was the nine months prior to her birth. erant of your tolerance. I get offended at you being As you may have guessed, I’m a pretty protective fa- offended. I enjoyed blowing up Gotham General Hosther. Anabel has only been injured once, and that was pital. I steal from the poor and give to the rich. I have back in 1980 while we were hiking up in Washington. my cake and eat yours too. I decide who wins the naAfter people saw how I took my revenge on Mount St. tional championship in basketball every year. I’m your Helens for hurting my daughter and made it look like most favorite nightmare. I am the Joker. a volcanic eruption, nobody dared hurt Anabel again.

(And if you guys are good, I might just give your Blue But I’m not just physically protective; I’m also a Devils a leg up tonight. After all, I know hardly any bullstrong father figure who knows how boys act. Anabel’s dogs, but my devil friends are in the thousands.) chances of dating or mating are about as high as you having been as clairvoyant in filling out the first two The Joker can’t help it if he’s just a fool, always having rounds of your bracket as autistic 17-year-old Alex Her- his heart set on you.

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