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TUESDAY, April 6, 2010

NCAA national CHAMPIONSHIP SPECIAL EDITION

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH YEAR, Issue 126

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by Gabe Starosta THE CHRONICLE

INDIANAPOLIS — Lance Thomas’s stomach dropped. Brian Zoubek said it was like watching a slow-motion movie. Nolan Smith was so afraid of what might happen that he turned his back and looked away from the most important shot of his career. And one thought went through the minds of Duke fans everywhere: That shot looks good.

But when Butler forward Gordon Hayward’s halfcourt heave bounced off the backboard, hung agonizingly DUKE 61 on the rim 59 for a moBUT ment and finally fell to the floor, the Blue Devils could exhale. Duke is back, if it was ever gone in the first place.

This championship—the fourth in Duke Basketball history—is different. There was no revenge factor in the Final Four, as there was in 1991. There was no miracle jumper that saved the season, à la Christian Laettner in 1992. And there is no surplus of NBA talent, like in 2001. This team had only grit and determination, consistency and toughness.

Head coach Mike Krzyzewski has called this team “special” over and over, but it isn’t special because of how good Duke always was.

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Championship Coverage INSIDE • See photos from local watch parties, the bonfire and other celebratory events, PAGE 8 • Read analyses on center Brian Zoubek’s performance and Butler’s defense, PAGE 8 • Look for a special keepsake of the champions, CENTERSPREAD

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Obama to use $15B to Jobless rate may increase ease lending for small biz WASHINGTON, D.C. — The increase in jobs highlighted in the nation’s most recent unemployment report carried the sound of economic promise, but Obama administration officials warned Sunday that the public shouldn’t expect any dramatic improvement in the jobless rate, largely because of the effect of thousands of “discouraged” unemployed people who have resumed their search for work.

Some economists assert that the unemployment rate, which held steady at 9.7 percent in March, is likely to be driven higher as many more such people are lured into looking for work by hopeful signs of recovery.

The number of people looking for jobs rose by more than 200,000 in March compared with February, according to the Economic Policy Institute—and that’s a good sign, economists say.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — In March 2009, President Barack Obama vowed to address the drought of bank lending to small companies and announced an initiative to use $15 billion from the federal bailout to unfreeze the markets that finance Small Business Administration loans.

More than a year later, the program was finally launched—as a $21 million effort.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Attackers wearing the uniforms of a government paramilitary group assaulted the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar Monday with a suicide car bomb, grenades and automatic weapons, killing at least three people and injuring a dozen, officials said.

The attack on the heavily fortified U.S. compound in the capital of the North-West Frontier Province came hours after a suicide bomber killed 41 people and wounded 80 others in an attack on a political party that strongly opposes the radical Islamist Taliban movement in Pakistan. The bomber targeted a gathering of the Awami National Party in the Lower Dir district about 50 miles northeast of Peshawar.

No American casualties were immediately reported in the attack on the consulate, and an embassy spokesperson said all U.S. personnel had been accounted for.

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A statement issued by the embassy condemned the attack, which it said killed at least two Pakistani security guards employed by the consulate and seriously wounded a number of others.

“The coordinated attack involved a vehicle suicide bomb and terrorists attempting to enter the building using grenades and weapons fire,” the statement said. “This attack, and the one earlier today in Lower Dir which killed and wounded many others, reflects the terrorists’ desperation as they are rejected by people throughout Pakistan.”

The Pakistani Taliban later asserted responsibility for the consulate attack.

The group has been battered in recent months by missile strikes from remotely piloted U.S. drones and by Pakistani military offensives in the semiautonomous tribal areas that line Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan.

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Campus erupts in victorious celebration

by Matthew Chase and Lindsey Rupp THE CHRONICLE

A one-point lead with 3.6 seconds left was good enough for thousands of Duke fans to storm Cameron’s court Monday night.

One successful free throw later, the 4,500 spectators in Cameron Indoor Stadium erupted in cheers and Coach K Court was filled with a mass of blue-clad students and flashing lights—all celebrating the Blue Devils’ 61-59 win over Butler University in the NCAA Tournament Championship to claim the 2010 national title.

For a teary-eyed, elderly Marion Morris, Woman’s College ’59, the feeling of victory was enough to make her hug students left and right.

“Complete and total joy that we won the game,” Morris said of her reaction to the win. “I almost had five heart attacks during the second half.”

Officials lowered the video scoreboard in Cameron to broadcast the game on its four-panel screens. The stadium was filled with fans chanting, “Let’s go Duke!” in unison throughout the game.

John Tortorella, a graduate student in the Nicholas School of the Environment, was among the many watching the game in Cameron and stormed the court after the victory.

“It’s one of the best experiences I’ve had at Duke,” he said. “I’ve been to all the games... couldn’t ask for a better season.”

After the victory, a bonfire blazed on Main West and students, faculty, alumni and administrators welcomed the win by burning benches carried from across East See celebrations on page 5

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celebrations from page 3 and West Campuses. Toilet paper and splintered wood filled the air over the crackling fire under Duke’s historic oaks.

“It was fantastic, I was so pleased with the seniors especially. I was so happy to watch it in Cameron,” Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said. “This is the way it’s supposed to be.”

Firefighters put out the fire around 2 a.m as the crowd of thousands dwindled to a few hundred.

Assistant Chief Gloria Graham of the Duke University Police Department said that as of 1:30 a.m., the celebration was under control, adding that there had been about two responses by emergency medical services because of “minor cuts.”

She added that none of the responses were alcohol-related.

“It’s been going really well,” Graham said of the celebration, attributing the low number of incidents to the successful shutdown of campus. “It went even better than we expected, all that planning paid off.”

Officials announced over the weekend that campus would be closed to anyone not affiliated with the University.

DUPD Chief John Dailey said there was one unconfirmed report of vandalism at Tommy’s Rubs & Grubs, but added that “unfortunately we would expect some vandalism tonight.”

For senior Eric Esch, two torn anterior cruciate ligaments that left him wheelchairbound were not enough to stop him from celebrating at the bonfire. But he said he was nervous about his team’s performance early in the game.

“I just started to have the feeling that things would fall to pieces,” Esch said. “I wasn’t completely sure about it, but I was anxious.... It’s good to see this.”

The crowd also consisted of admitted students attending Blue Devil Days.

“I want to come to Duke,” prospective freshman Paige Meiere said. “It’s great— where else are you going to find a type of university where people celebrate like this and the next day kids are going to class?”

Moneta sent an e-mail to the student body at 3:39 p.m. Monday announcing that classes would be held Tuesday.

“Duke excels as an academic and athletic institution and that we can celebrate

our achievements both on the courts (and fields) and in the classrooms simultaneously is something of which we are all very proud,” Moneta wrote.

Even athletes not in Indianapolis, Ind. were able to share in the excitement.

“It’s our senior year so it was pretty crazy and breathtaking,” said senior Brandon Harper, an offensive guard on the football team. “As an athlete also it was pretty incredible.”

Durham residents and Duke students watched the championship game in bars down Main Street, including at Devine’s Sports Bar and Grill and 1013 West Main.

Graham said DUPD had been collaborating with the Durham Police Department and festivities on Main Street were relatively quiet.

“This bar is ideal because it’s close to the campus,” 1013 West Main bar owner Zeke Loynab said before the game. “The players hang out here, so we’re big Duke fans.

Hopefully we get a great crowd, a lot of Duke fans and a win.”

Loynab did get a win and a strong turnout.

Freshman Justin Budlow watched the game at 1013 with several of his friends, noting that they chose the bar because it was one of the places that was not too crowded.

“They have TVs at every angle and it’s a great Duke environment to watch the game,” Budlow said.

As the crowd of elated students on the quad dwindled by around 2 a.m., Durham Fire Inspector Ron Rogers said the time had come to put out what was left of the bonfire.

Four Durham firefighters approached the smoldering fire with hoses and tools.

Firefighters and students doused the flames together, and there were scattered cheers as smoke rose, leaving burnt toilet paper and hundreds of crushed cans on the quad.

Rogers said students were well behaved, adding that the bonfire followed guidelines.

“The Durham fire marshal is very proud that Duke won a national championship,” he said.

Dailey said he was pleased the celebration was relatively safe and uniquely Duke.

“It’s a big night, we’re the only university in the country doing this tonight,” Dailey said.

Samantha Brooks, Joanna Lichter and Zachary Tracer contributed reporting.

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Crystal Gail Mangum was indicted Monday on charges of first-degree arson, three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile, injury to personal property and resisting a public officer, The (Raleigh) News & Observer reported Tuesday morning.

A Durham County grand jury issued the five indictments after Mangum, 31, was arrested Feb. 18 following a fight with her boyfriend. Mangum reportedly scratched, punched and threw objects at Milton Walker, 33, and set his clothes on fire in a bathtub. One of Mangum’s three children, who were all in the apartment at the time, made the 911 call about a domestic dispute. Their red brick duplix at 2220 Lincoln St. sustained heavy smoke damage.

Following her arrest, Mangum faced charges of attempted first degree murder, five counts of first degree arson, assault and battery, identity theft, communicating a threat, injury to personal property, resisting a public of-

ficer and three counts of misdemeanor child abuse.

Whether the additional charges will be dismissed or tried at a later date is unclear.

During her Feb. 22 court date, Mangum’s bond was reduced to $250,000 from an original $1 million. She did not appear in court.

In March 2006, Mangum claimed that three Duke men’s lacrosse players raped her at an off-campus party.

The players had hired Mangum, who was then an exotic dancer and a student at North Carolina Central University, to perform at the party.

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by Sanette Tanaka THE CHRONICLE

The Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee selected five new members to serve on next year’s board at its meeting Monday night.

The new members are freshmen Ari Ruffer, Beth Gordon and Amir Abdu, sophomore Helen Zhang and junior Tina Siadak.

“I was really impressed at the size of [the applicant pool] this year,” said DUSDAC co-Chair Jason Taylor, a senior. “We had 33 people apply, and that was the most we ever received.”

The 33 students applied for five slots, which is an increase from about 18 who applied last year, Taylor said.

He attributes the increase in applicants to a link to the application in the Duke Student Government blast email, regular coverage of meetings and more general awareness of DUSDAC. The applicants were subjected to two rounds of interviews, first by the co-chairs and then by the entire committee.

“All the dining issues were very pervasive this year, and so people wanted to stand up and take some action,” said junior Andrew Schreiber, one of the incoming co-chairs.

DUSDAC will select at least one more member in the Fall to join the other five in replacing its six graduating seniors. Taylor said the committee searched primarily for diverse students with special dietary considerations.

“Of the five kids, four have dietary needs,” he said. “Next semester, we’ll search for more normal kids. We don’t only want vegan or diabetic [members].”

Younger members will provide a fresh perspective to focus on different issues, Taylor said.

“They all seem like really energetic, passionate and fun kids who will bring some new excitement to an increasingly older committee,” Schreiber said. “This year was fun because we all know each other, and there is a lot of continuity. But next year will be a time to redefine DUSDAC.”

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by Andy Moore THE CHRONICLE

Midnight. Bonfire. National champions. 61-59.

It’s unbelievable, fantastic, incredible—whether or not anyone wants to admit it, this is a storybook ending. Five short months ago, when Mike Krzyzewski was washed up as a coach, and this team had no perimeter depth, and the big men were unathletic stiffs, and the question was Alex not whether Duke could win a championship this year but if the program would compete for a title again in the foreseeable future—five short months ago, no one saw this coming.

Duke Blue Devils, national champions.

That’s why I wrote most of this column a little after 9 a.m. Monday, 12 hours before Duke played for the national championship, rather than after the game.

It’s because I wanted to be fair. Win or lose tonight, I envisioned myself sitting down at the computer and writing in an impassioned fury. But that would not be fair. Win or lose, boiling a basketball season—a 40-game basketball season filled to overflowing with triumph, despair, effort, hustle, made jumpers, missed jumpers, foul trouble, hard screens, key rebounds, celebratory hugs, fist-pumps, chest-bumps and, above all, an us-againstthe-world, we-don’t-care-what-you-think, tough-as-nails attitude—into 1000 words written in 45 minutes while crying tears of joy or disappointment just isn’t fair.

Because this season mattered. It mattered too much to let one game, no matter how important, define how

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Lance Thomas left it all on the floor every night, which was more than enough for Alex Fanaroff.

INDIANAPOLIS — Brian Zoubek stood by himself, 15 feet from the hoop, holding in his hand both a Wilson regulation ball and the hopes and dreams of his entire team.

Up one on a Butler team that just wouldn’t quit, Zoubek pounded the ball once, twice to his right side. He raised it up. Good.

His next shot was a different story.

Under direction from head coach Mike Krzyzewski to miss on purpose, he shot long, but hit the perfect spot on the backGame iron.

“I’m a good free Analysis throw shooter, and I practice that [situation] all the time,” he said. “I just had to look at my teammates, and I knew I couldn’t mess up.”

Butler star Gordon Hayward snagged the rebound with three seconds left, sprinted to the right side of the court and heaved up that shot that almost made him a hero. In and out.

His miss solidified Zoubek’s position in Duke lore. His free throws, and perhaps more importantly, his defensive performance and rebounding prowess in the final minutes—while playing with four fouls—were some of the main reasons

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Brian Zoubek had a rough battle against Butler’s Matt Howard in the Blue Devil senior’s final collegiate game.

Duke won its fourth national title.

“I’m just glad Zoubek was a part of [the win]. I just think that’s such a great story,” Krzyzewski said. “I’ve tried to downplay it throughout because I didn’t want him to get satisfied, but Zoubek’s story is unbelievable.… He’s just elevated our team [and gave] us a chance to win this thing.”

Zoubek is the senior that was never supposed to be here, winning the game when earlier in his career, he couldn’t have imagined being in that type of crunchtime situation. After breaking his foot twice and having what Krzyzewski called See zoubek on page 8

Butler D nearly stops Blue Devils

by Gabe Starosta THE CHRONICLE

INDIANAPOLIS — Duke’s players and coaches knew going into Monday night’s national title game that they could expect nothing short of a boxing match against Butler. The Bulldogs have been known for defense and defense only. Butler had scored more than 63 points in the NCAA Tournament only once—in the first round of the Tournament, ages ago in college basketball time— but also hadn’t allowed more than 59 since February.

A defensive battle is exactly what Duke got in Lucas Oil Stadium. And as it turned out, all the Blue Devils needed to do to win was surpass that ceiling of 59 points.

Duke just did, scoring 61 total, and Butler scored exactly 59. That two-point margin was Game the difference in one of the most exciting Analysis championship games in recent memory.

But it wasn’t one of the prettiest or highestscoring, and that can be attributed to Butler’s intensity around its own basket. Facing a halfcourt defense that senior Lance Thomas called the most intense the Blue Devils had seen all season, Duke struggled to develop any kind of flow on offense. That was particularly evident in the backcourt—senior Jon Scheyer and junior Nolan Smith, two of the most dynamic scorers on the floor, needed 27 field goal attempts between them to muster 28 total points.

“I thought our guards, off the bench and that started, did as good a job as you can do on Smith and Scheyer,” Butler head coach Brad Stevens said. “What are they, 10-for-27 combined, 2-for-10 from three? That’s the recipe for beating them.”

The one shining light for Duke’s offense, at least until the final moments, was Kyle Singler. The junior, who will surely be drafted in the first round if he chooses to leave for the NBA, was See defense on page 15

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Junior Kyle Singler struggles to get by his defender, Butler’s Andrew Smith, as open looks at the basket were hard to come by for the Blue Devils Monday.

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zoubek from page 7 an “injury-marred career,” Zoubek could never have seen this day coming.

“It’s really hard to imagine being in this position when you spend two summers on crutches,” Zoubek said. “People around me just kept telling me, ‘Keep going at it, just keep fighting.’ It’s hard to believe them sometimes, that good things are actually going to happen.”

Zoubek broke his fifth metatarsal in his left foot in the summer of 2007, forcing him on crutches until the fall. He broke his left foot again in a practice in January 2008, and he underwent painful surgery and rehab to try to fix the shattered bones. While in the rotation for his junior year, he was often a nonfactor. That didn’t change for the most part at the beginning of this year.

He finally cracked the starting lineup for good against Maryland Feb. 16, scoring 16 points in a tremendous performance.

From that game on, Duke went 15-1.

A great deal of it was because of the job Zoubek did on the glass and on defense— with him, the Blue Devils’ possession was never over just because of a missed outside shot. With him, their post defense was never a problem when faced with a strong, disruptive big man.

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his post defense played such a large role in the win.

Although Hayward’s last shot will get all the attention, it was his miss with seven seconds left, when Zoubek guarded the sophomore to perfection, that was crucial to the victory.

On Butler’s grinding and nervewracking second-to-last trip, featuring two timeouts and a near-interception by Zoubek at the 14-second mark, it all came down to Hayward with the ball on the left baseline.

He had an open look, but Zoubek was able to contest the shot and put his 260-pound body on him, forcing a fadeaway jumper.

The ball went long, and Zoubek grabbed the rebound before being fouled and making that free throw.

“I think it was fitting that defense [on that shot] won us this,” Zoubek said. “We didn’t really have team defense the whole game, and they were pretty much getting whatever they wanted. We knew… we had to lock down there.”

At the end of the game, after cannons of confetti shot off and the bench rushed the court, Krzyzewski grabbed Zoubek by the shoulders, jumping up to pat him on the head. After the pain and the heartache and the trial of a tough career, Zoubek had found a storybook ending.

“My senior year, my last game, my birthday—what more can you ask for?”

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Senior Brian Zoubek finally figured out his role on the team during the latter half of the ACC season and put together an eight-point, 10-rebound performance against the Bulldogs in the championship game.

It is special because of how good this crop of Blue Devils became over the course of four long, often disappointing seasons.

The disappointment is gone, and for Zoubek, Thomas and Jon Scheyer, it is gone forever. Duke is a national champion again— barely. Thomas said that Duke “maxed out its season,” and the Blue Devils’ absolute max almost wasn’t enough.

Because while No. 1 Duke’s run through this wild NCAA Tournament will always be remembered, the Bulldogs’ own run will never be forgotten, either. Butler (33-5) proved Monday night that it merited its place in the national championship game. The No. 5 Bulldogs were no fluke, and several times, they were inches away from taking the lead the Blue Devils held onto for most of the night. In the end, Duke (35-5) hung on, 61-59, to send many of the 70,930 fans in Lucas Oil Stadium home in tears.

Nobody in the building could relate to that feeling better than Duke itself.

“What’s going on in the Butler locker room… this group of guys can understand,” Krzyzewski said. “As good as the Butler story is and was and will be, [Duke’s] story is pretty good, too.”

“What an ordeal,” said Duke University President Richard Brodhead, a man known more for his literary prowess than his love of basketball. “We got off to that early lead, but there was nothing easy. Not one easy basket in the whole game. In a way, before the game, people were saying this was going to be such a blowout. Well, that’s not true, because [Butler had] beaten a lot of really good teams. But they didn’t beat us, because we were tougher.”

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forward Matt Howard, Butler wing a stunning Singler airball a chance to give the Bulldogs

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Butler denied entry into the paint for much of the game, particularly in the first half, but junior Nolan Smith was able to find an open lane here for the easy two. Smith finished with 13 points on 5-of-15 shooting.

ian soileau/THE CHRONICLE the lead with seven ticks left. But his high-arcing fadeaway jumper clanged off the rim into Zoubek’s waiting arms. Seconds later, the Blue Devils were champions, even if they were made to sweat for it.

When asked if he thought the desperation heave at the buzzer was on line, Hayward said simply, “Not as much as the first one.

The first one… I thought it was in.”

But fortunately for Duke fans, both of Hayward’s near-makes were misses, and the Blue Devils proved the doubters wrong. It didn’t matter who Duke had to beat to get to Indianapolis, or what happened in the NCAA Tournament in the previous three seasons. In the end, a lot of the things Duke was criticized for all year didn’t matter.

What mattered was the attitude and the desire this team showed in regrouping after a thrashing at Georgetown Jan. 30 to lose just one more time all season. What mattered was the ability to overcome bad shooting nights by its best players— against Baylor it was Kyle Singler, and against Butler it was Nolan Smith. And what most mattered was the way the Blue Devils of 2009-2010—really, the Blue Devils of 2006-2010—peaked April 5 in Indianapolis.

After the final buzzer had sounded, as Duke’s players wandered from one basket to the other and to the stage where their national championship trophy was presented, freshmen Andre Dawkins and Mason Plumlee—both important role players, but minimal contributors Monday night— turned to a Duke official and asked a simple question.

“When do we get to go to the White House?”

That honor will come in a few months, but this team won’t have to wait until that photo op with the president for its crown. The Duke Blue Devils are national champions.

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Butler star forward Gordon Hayward saw his halfcourt prayer bounce off the rim at the buzzer, allowing the Blue Devils to preserve their two-point lead and capture the program’s fourth national championship.

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For Saturday’s Final Four game, the group of 660 was split into two. Three-hundred thirty of them were given seats on the floor behind one of the baskets—a location that sounds ideal, but in reality created difficult sight angles for students, especially shorter ones— while the other 330 were relegated to the stratosphere that is the upper deck at Lucas Oil Stadium. Each of the four schools that sent teams to Indianapolis had to abide by those rules.

Monday, though, any remaining West Virginia and Michigan State students had no choice but to sit up top, and the sections that used to belong to them were given to Duke and Butler students. In the end, the entire floor section nearest the Duke bench was fully occupied by 660 Duke students, and the same number of Butler fans were seated on the opposite side of the court.

The guarantee of a lower-level seat didn’t stop a few dozen of the hardiest students from taking the lining-up process to the extreme and sleeping outside Lucas Oil Stadium Sunday night for the right to be one of the first people in the stadium. The difference between the front row and the rows behind it sounds minimal, but because of the way the seats are set up–all student seats are located slightly below the elevated court and not raised or slanted in any way, like the bleachers in Cameron Indoor Stadium–fans did get a much clearer view of the court from the front than they could further back.

Trinity junior Greg Chatzinoff, who made the trip from Durham to Indianapolis, said he and his group of friends were seated in about the eighth row, near the middle of the student section on the south side of the stadium, for Duke’s national semifinal defeat of West Virginia. From that location, Chatzinoff said he was only able to see game action from the players’ waists and up, and he was unable to pick out much of what was going on by the far basket.

“[Sleeping outside] was very worth it. One-hundred percent worth it, as long as we win.”

— Trinity junior Greg Chatzinoff

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To avoid a similar fate, 42 students, including Chatzinoff, set up a mini-Krzyzewskiville that sprouted up around 9 p.m. Sunday evening. According to several students, those who spent the night sleeping in the Lucas Oil Stadium parking lot were harassed by an early-morning rain shower that forced them under the arena’s giant overhang.

“We got drenched by the rain,” Chatzinoff said. “It rained from 1:30 am to 2:30 am, drenched our sleeping bags, and we just ended up standing on the side of the stadium all night until our sleeping bag dried at 5 a.m., and then we went to bed.”

While only a handful of students chose to arrive at the stadium Sunday night, hundreds more came in waves Monday morning, and by the middle of the afternoon, the scene was a familiar one–beers being shotgunned, footballs and frisbees being tossed around, and there was even an Indianapolis Colts-themed game of the popular college-on-the-quad game cornhole. Yet another storm in the late afternoon disrupted those activities, but at that point, students were let inside the stadium.

Asked if sleeping outside had been worth it despite the challenges, Chatzinoff and others did not hesitate.

“It was very worth it,” Chatzinoff said. “One-hundred percent worth it, as long as we win.”

Duke didn’t let him—or the rest of the Blue Devil fans down—as the team beat Butler, 61-59, to secure Duke’s fourth national championship.

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Duke’s victory in the national championship Monday capped off an improbable season that allowed the Blue Devils to exorcise the demons of some painful NCAA Tournament losses in the past three seasons.

fanaroff from page 7 we feel about it.

It mattered to us, obviously, but that’s not what I’m talking about. It mattered to the players. Every time they stepped out onto the court, you could see how much it mattered.

For three players—Duke’s senior trio of Jon Scheyer, Lance Thomas and Brian Zoubek— it mattered in a way that a season could never matter to any other player at any other program in the country.

It mattered because they went 22-11 as freshmen and lost to Virginia Commonwealth in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. It mattered because of the beatdown that West Virginia handed to them in the second round of the Tournament their sophomore season and the way the Mountaineers laughed afterwards. It mattered because, at the start of the season, they hadn’t beaten North Carolina in Cameron Indoor Stadium in three years, hadn’t seen a celebratory bonfire. It mattered because four players transferred away during their four years, and they stuck around. It mattered because each one of them came to Durham as a superstar recruit, but bounced into and out of the starting lineup, and changed roles whenever the team needed it. It mattered because they showed up at Duke at a time when the basketball team handed freshmen a Final Four guarantee along with their East Campus dorm assignment, and because their first three teams didn’t even sniff the Final Four. It mattered because whenever anyone wrote or talked about the Duke mystique being gone, they were the guys who lost it.

But it wouldn’t be fair to say it mattered only to the three scholarship seniors. It wouldn’t be fair to ascribe prior suffering only to them. Each of the players on this team suffered, some of them very personally, but all of them as members of a basketball program that everyone said used to be great, but that no one believed in anymore. Even if they knew, like anyone should have known, that all that “loss of the Duke mystique” stuff wasn’t worth the paper it was written on, the criticism had to sting.

Until Saturday, they never said it mattered for any of those reasons. Before beating West Virginia in the national semifinal, Scheyer said, “It’s not about payback or anything like that.” That theme was representative of about a thousand quotes this season from head coach Mike Krzyzewski and his team: It’s not about payback, it’s not about the past. It’s about living in the moment. And it worked. They lived in the moment all the way to the national championship game.

But that’s too simple, too easy. As the

author William Faulkner said, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” And as Zoubek said, after beating the Mountaineers, of his chance to play for the title, “[This game] is everything…. To have a shot at the championship my senior year, after everything that we have been through, is a dream come true.”

Just look at their faces. Look at any photo of Duke’s players celebrating the win over West Virginia. They’re giddy. Irrepressibly, impossibly giddy. That’s not the type of happiness that comes from having everything always go your way. It’s happiness born of suffering, of questioning, of finally coming through in the end.

In Judaism, we have a concept called Dayenu, which translated from Hebrew to English means, “It would have been enough for us.” It’s a way of counting blessings, of recognizing how fortunate one is for all the things that one has. And as I write this column, the morning before the national title game, Dayenu is what comes to mind.

If these 14 basketball players had merely shown up on campus this year, given their all in practice and in the classroom, comported themselves with dignity and pride, and not appeared to enjoy playing with each other so much, it would have been enough for us.

If they had appeared to enjoy playing with each other so much, and had not won even a single game this season, it would have been enough for us.

If they had won a single game, but not won the ACC regular season title, it would have been enough for us.

If they had won the ACC regular season title, but had not beaten UNC twice in doing so, it would have been enough for us.

If they had beaten UNC twice, but had not won the ACC Tournament, it would have been enough for us.

If they had won the ACC Tournament, but not reached the Final Four, it would have been enough for us.

If they had reached the Final Four, but not beaten West Virginia thoroughly and decisively to avenge the loss from two years ago, it would have been enough for us.

But they did do all those things: They showed up on campus, gave their all in class and on the court, comported themselves with dignity and pride, enjoyed playing with each other, won the ACC regular season championship, beat UNC twice, won the ACC Tournament, reached the Final Four and then beat West Virginia thoroughly and decisively once they got there.

And tonight, win or lose against Butler, whether we’re hanging a National Championship banner or “just” a Final Four banner next season, it will have been enough for us.

Dayenu, and thanks for the memories.

able to score 19 points on 7-of-13 shooting. But he wasn’t able to get those baskets off of easy layups or in transition— many of his points came on challenging turnaround jumpers or catch-and-shoot moves off of double screens, such as the basket he scored to put Duke up three with 4:47 to play.

Singler did airball a makeable jumper in the final minute, perhaps a testament to how hard he and his teammates had been made to work for each shot against the Bulldogs.

“We were guarding him with a 6-foot2, very, very, very good defender in Willie Veasley,” Stevens said. “Singler had to earn everything he got.”

Butler’s defense very nearly gave the Bulldogs a stunning national championship in the program’s first appearance in the Final Four, and in its home city, no less. This game went right down to the wire, and if Gordon Hayward had made one of two challenging shots in the final 15 seconds, he surely would have credited his team’s defense for giving him a chance to win it.

“We wanted it to be a toughness battle, and a fight to the finish, and that’s what we got,” said Butler reserve guard Zach Hahn, who guarded Scheyer effectively for much of the game.

In truth, the Duke offense never solved the Butler defense. The Blue Devils were stripped on drives many times, got outrebounded in the first half and never got going from the outside, where they went 5-of-17 from beyond the arc. Oddly, inbound plays were one of the best sources of offense for Duke, and at least two resulted in easy layups, among the only straightforward baskets the Blue Devils

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Nevertheless, as the clock hit zero, 61 points were enough, and after the game, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski lent some historical perspective to the effort Butler put in on defense and to the poise his team showed in attacking the Bulldogs.

“I’ve been fortunate enough to be in eight national championship games, and this was a classic,” Krzyzewski said. “This was the toughest and the best one.”

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ne afternoon when I was eight years old it might seem that way the night before my Stat and safely ensconced in the suburban 101 exam this Thursday), but memory inarguably apartment of my childhood, I found my- plays a role in how we approach and analyze the self disenchanted with a rerun of world. In a Lockean sense, it could “Doug.” On my way to change the even be the key to self-identity: I channel on our television set, I am only what I recollect experistepped on a yellow-jacket that lay encing in the past, and my distinct dying on the living room floor. set of remembrances is what allows Yesterday afternoon, at age 20, me an exclusive self dissimilar to I was in the middle of an episode all other existing selves. of “Modern Family” when a honAnd in truth, sometimes it does eybee drifted through my open seem to me that memory is all shining li window and hovered nonchalantthere could ever be to hold on to all too human ly around my left shoulder. in a life of transience and uncerSeveral events followed: I stifled tainties. But I’m not sure that it is a scream, dropped my laptop, alalways adaptive, or that I necessarmost fell off my bed, actually screamed and locked ily benefit from holding on to every vivid recollecmyself in my closet until my roommate swatted the tion currently in my mental file cabinet of experiintruder out of our room. ences.

I’m constantly confronting my phobia around I admit to my fair share of wishing—à la “Eterthis time of year. Spring is the season of bees, nal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”—that I could wasps, yellow-jackets and other buzzing critters alter my memories to erase the painful periods of that come equipped with stingers designed, it my life. For my friends who have survived emoseems, to dig their way into human flesh—my hu- tional turmoil during this past year, I often suspect man flesh, to be more specific. While everyone that the removal of previously hopeful delusions else is frolicking in the newly glorious weather, I would ease the burden of disillusionment they inevitably find myself running from tennis courts now feel. mid-point, abandoning meals unfinished on patio If only we could choose not to be affected by tables and abruptly ending conversations to make disappointments, or maybe if we could forget the a mad dash for the nearest bee-free zone. injustices committed against us, would we emerge I’m not proud of my fear—it’s irrational at best as happier, more fulfilled versions of ourselves? and downright foolish when I consider the fact “Eternal Sunshine” ends on a note of fatalthat I haven’t been stung since that fateful after- ism, implying that despite our best intentions to noon in second grade. But show me a wasp, and erase our mistakes, we will commit them again a decade-old memory floods my consciousness: anyway, destined as we are to our own fatal flaws. the acute pinch in my heel, the yellow-jacket’s Older, wiser “grown-ups” will undoubtedly also writhing body on the floor in front of my televi- remind me that each difficulty is an opportunity sion, the dull throb in my foot that persisted into for growth, a bettering experience that cannot be evening. I can’t forget the trauma of my first bee wiped out lest we stagnate (and die). sting, and—haunted by that recollection—I am But I can’t help thinking that hardships might plagued with an incorrigible terror of all stinging not be worth remembering if they only breed apinsects. prehension. In neuroscience class, we are told According to the discussions we’ve had in that learning is important because it makes us my learning and memory neuroscience semi- more receptive to environmental pressures and nar this semester, my impression of this juvenile steels us against dangers. My friends will hopebee incident is adaptive. From a neuroscientist’s fully never be as devastated by their setbacks as perspective, the versatility of the brain and its they are now, young and inexperienced and in capacity to forge new connections is its greatest their early 20s. strength.

As for me, I will never again be stung if I can After all, an animal’s well-being lies in its ability help it. Perhaps this reassurance is worth the flood to react and adjust to its environment; a student’s, of animal panic I feel whenever I come in close in his talent for cramming textbook material dur- proximity to a bee. Although I wonder at times ing the 24-hour period before an exam. Remem- what it would be like not to run in fear from anybering is essential to continued existence: We thing that could potentially sting me. learn because if we don’t, we stagnate—and if we stagnate, we die.

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lease save my baby!” Jeudy Francia pled from amidst the rubble outside St. Espirit Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Leaping frantically over a handful of corpses, she shrieked, “There is no one, nothing, no medicines, no explanations for why my daughter is going to die.”

Hours later, a doctor would scribble her daughter’s cause of death in annotated medical jargon. Yet for Jeudy, this splotch of ink could never explain why her baby died in her arms, and more importantly, why no one seemed to care. patrick messac Sure, some contributed to the relief effort. But for every Duke student who guest column donated to the Haitian Relief Fund, there were seven who did not. With a death toll upwards of 200,000 people, the Haitian earthquake is the deadliest natural disaster ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere. This begs the question, why are people— good, conscientious people—numb to the cries of those in crisis?

This was the question addressed by a series of studies by psychologists trying to understand why we weep for the suffering of one, but become numbly indifferent to the plight of many. Their findings provide insight into the limitations of our compassion.

In one study, participants were asked to contribute $5 of their earnings to alleviate global hunger. Each participant was presented with one of three causes: a hungry, young, Ethiopian girl, 21 million starving Africans or the same young girl—but now framed as “one of many” in the global hunger crisis.

Predictably, participants were more willing to give money to the young girl than to the 21 million unnamed Africans. More tellingly, however, donations to the young girl dropped significantly when she was presented in the context of the global hunger crisis.

This study builds on the body of evidence that finds our compassion deteriorates rapidly when we look beyond individual circumstance.

Forgetting the present context of the disaster in Haiti, Jeudy Francie’s story had all the elements of a moving personal-interest story: a loving mother, the victim of tragic circumstances and absolutely no means to ameliorate the situation. The addition of an astray hot-air balloon would soon be “Breaking News” on CNN. Yet, unlike “balloon boy,” the plight of Jeudy’s daughter was lost among the masses.

The sheer magnitude of the disaster in Haiti prevents us from emotionally connecting to Jeudy’s story, precisely because there are so many other people in need. The suffering of an entire nation is too great for one conscience, so our natural response is to avert our gaze. As a result, Jeudy’s daughter becomes a victim of our collective numbness.

Some have accused the Haitian government of overestimating the death toll, allegedly to shock people into action. Even if such claims proved to be true, the terrible irony is that such an effort would be counterproductive: More victims lead to less compassion.

In another experiment that illustrates this point, participants could divide a donation of up to $300,000 between a fund for life-saving treatment for one child and another fund that would save eight children.

Participants donated more than twice as much money to the treatment that would save one child than they donated to the treatment that would save eight.

This “psychological deficiency,” as explained by Paul Slovic, the decision-research scientist at the University of Oregon who compiled the report that discusses these studies, is a “practical strategy” that allows us to function even through great hardship. As practical as such a coping mechanism may be, it comes at a tremendous cost: namely, the loss of empathy. Essentially, our empathy disappears when we allow ourselves to become overwhelmed by the magnitude of a tragedy befalling huge populations­—whether the Haitian or Chilean earthquakes, the genocide in Darfur or any other crisis of massive proportion.

If not for such a “psychological deficiency,” why aren’t people helping the victims of the deadliest natural disaster ever to hit the Americas? Maybe some are weary of donating to an inefficient, overwhelmed or fraudulent charity. Non-profit, non-partisan charity evaluations like those available on charitiynavigator.org should readily alleviate the concerns of donors who wish to be informed.

Perhaps, some find five bucks hard to part with. But, if a group of homeless men, women and children from Baltimore can muster together $14.64, can we still pretend to not have the means to save another’s life?

In the end, we are left with the sobering reality that until we can forget the unimaginable destruction of a massive disaster like the earthquake in Haiti, we will be too numb to respond to individual victims in need. To overcome our “psychological deficiency,” we must recognize our collective responsibility not in terms of mind-numbing crises, but in the cries of a mother and her dying child.

Patrick Messac is a member of Duke’s Haitian Student Alliance and a Trinity senior.

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ith basketball season successfully over, Duke’s second most exciting season is about to get underway: bookbagging

have a general sense of what does and doesn’t work for us. In my case, I had taken a few years of French and Latin in high school but had no prior season. background in Spanish. In SpanAs a senior, I no longer have ish 1 and 2, I understood how to the option to throw away hours use verb tenses better than a lot of my life on ACES looking at of my classmates, but my vocabupotential classes for next year. lary and spelling were and still are From here on out, my Long atrocious. I often felt like I was Range Plans are going to need forced into doing exercises to remore than just minimum credit inforce the material I already unbradford colbert derstood during the time I could requirements and a handful of ALPs. I look back on my bookhave spent focusing on the areas the other side bagging days mostly with fondwhere I really needed improveness, but there is one thing about my course- ment. I was never allowed to be completely in scheduling process that I will not miss: I don’t charge of guiding my learning through the course have to take any more Spanish classes. of the semester because a department-wide schedAs I stumbled through my three-semester foray ule of graded assignments was always holding my into el mundo hispanohablante, I was often jeal- hand and tugging me in another direction like an ous of the engineers who aren’t forced to learn impatient six-year-old on a leash at the zoo. any foreign language, with the possible exception And when I progressed into Intermediate of MATLAB. Duke wants its undergraduates to de- Spanish, I found myself in class with students who velop communication skills in another language had studied the language for several years in high and an appreciation and sensitivity for the culture school. My 28-week crash course in Spanish 1 and of its speakers, but engineers need the space in 2 could not compare with years of practice. Furtheir schedules for more relevant classes for their thermore, the complex grammatical structures complex and rigorous majors. covered, while important for higher level language But couldn’t every department benefit from courses, were increasingly irrelevant to me. its students taking more classes in the field? And I started taking Spanish hoping that I’d one aren’t engineers just as likely to encounter peo- day be able to hold a basic conversation and get ple who speak other languages? Will they never the gist of what the announcers were saying durhave foreign colleagues or work overseas? ing Mexican Primera soccer games on TV. Many Although I understand the merits of a lan- of my classmates who began their Duke careers guage requirement, I think our three-semester in Spanish 63 had already reached that level, but foreign language requirement is well-intentioned the language requirement forces three semesbut poorly executed. ters of sequential study from this starting point Like any other department on campus, the as well.

Spanish Language Program has a large number In these economic times, other universities of beginners with every incoming class who need are severely cutting back their language proto learn a common set of basics before taking up- grams. But the SLP and the foreign language per-level courses. Other departments can lump requirement as a whole ought to be reassessed these students together in huge introductory lec- to see if its goals are being met. The over-structures, but learning a language requires smaller tured curriculum currently meets the needs of classes in order to facilitate discussion for active Spanish majors, but they make up only a small and engaged learning. The SLP solution is to try percentage of students taking Spanish classes. and make every section of Introductory Spanish Separate pre-major and non-major tracks would identical to the next through a comprehensive make the three semester investment more system of standardization. meaningful and more balanced for both the In an effort towards standardization, nearly true beginners and the truly motivated. But unevery assignment in the course is graded and col- til then, I want to wish all those non-engineerlected, each counting for approximately 2 per- ing science majors the best of luck scheduling cent of your grade. In Spanish 63, my third and your labs around a five-day-a-week introductory final foray into el mundo hispanohablante, an language class. assignment is collected nearly every single class.

And as graduation day draws near, I bid you Doesn’t that sound like every class you took in adieu, Spanish Language Program. Or adios, if high school? Daily assignments help reinforce you must. I haven’t abandoned the language. I the lessons, which is especially important in still use it every week working with middle-schoollearning a new language. But most college pro- ers in Durham. I’ve just gone back to learning fessors don’t check up on you every day; they as- from WordReference.com, LearnSpanish.com sign readings and let you manage the material and that guy who yells “GOL!” on TeleFutura. on your own.

Different people learn best in different ways, Bradford Colbert is a Trinity senior. His column and at this stage in our academic careers, we all runs every other Tuesday.

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4/ 6 The Journey to Tunis AMES Presents: Nacer Khemir Retrospective Introduced by Prof. Miriam Cooke, Dept. of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies!

The Miser The Miser by Molière, presented by Duke’s Department of Theater Studies, is a fast-paced modern take on the classic comedy of greed versus love. With a flourish of a hat or a cloak, the ingénue women double as the character men, and the miser’s cook doubles as his coachman. Musicians stroll through the action with clarinets, banjos, horns, cellos and a tuba! This fresh translation and adaptation of timeless themes is by Elisabeth Lewis Corley and directed by Joseph Megel.

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Events Ongoing ART. The Power of Refined Beauty: Photographing Society Women for Pond’s, 1920s – 1950s. An exhibit of images of British and American society women that graced advertisements for Pond’s beauty products.

During library hours through August 22. Perkins Library Special Collections Gallery. Free.

Wednesday, April 7 MUSIC. Jazz @ the Mary Lou. With Professor John Brown and his house band. 9:30pm. Mary Lou Williams Center. Free.

Friday, April 9 MUSIC/TALK. A Lecture with David Harrington of Kronos Quartet & Maria Schneider. “An experimental conversation: Schneider’s quartet for Kronos, etc.” 4pm. Room 101, Biddle Music Building. Free.

MUSIC. Duke Collegium Musicum. Karen Cook, director. Desire, Drink and Death in Early France: works by Binchois, Dufay, Ockeghem, Brumel, Josquin and others. 8pm. Location TBA: 660-3333. Free.

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Post-film discussion led by director Brittany Huckabee and Abdullah Antepli, Muslim Chaplain at Duke University!

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Sunday, April 11 MUSIC. Duke Chorale. Rodney Wynkoop, director. Bach, Jesu, meine Freude (Motet #3) & Purcell, Te Deum & Jubilate (A Sacred Cantata). 4pm. Duke Chapel. Free.

Monday, April 12 TALK. Sam Stephenson and The Jazz Loft Project. The Jazz Archive hosts Sam Stephenson, who will discuss his work with The Jazz Loft Project. 12pm. Perkins Library Rare Book Room. Free.

Tuesday, April 13 ART. Illustrating the Hebrew Bible. An exhibit of diverse artistic interpretations of the Old Testament. During library hours through August 10. Perkins Library Gallery. Free.

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