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WINSTON-SALEM — For 30 minutes Saturday, Duke’s offense ran like a welloiled machine. Then, almost inexplicably, it broke down. After scoring 35 points and amassing 326 yards in the first half, the Blue Devil offense sputtered after halftime, allowing Wake Forest to claim a 54-48 victory in what was the second highest-scoring game in ACC history. “We didn’t come out at halftime like we should’ve and you could definitely see it out there,” senior Austin Kelly said. “I felt like our execution and our focus wasn’t there in the second half for the offense.” Duke’s second-half yardage was less than half of what it accounted for in the first. While quarterback Sean Renfree had only two incompletions in the first half—both of which were bobbled balls that led to interceptions—he had 14 in the second. Running back Desmond Scott rushed for 108 yards in the first half, including a 63-yard touchdown scamper, but averaged only 3.5 yards on his four carries in the last 30 minutes. However, the Blue Devils’ second-half struggles would have been inconsequential had it not been for the defense’s poor performance throughout the contest. It allowed the Demon Deacons 500 total yards and eight touchdowns and was consistently gutted both through the air and on the ground. Big plays were the major problem for the unit, as it allowed four touchowns of more than 20 yards, including an 81-yard touchdown on a trick play that had wide receiver Marshall Williams hitting a wideopen Chris Givens for the score. “Defensively you simply need to tackle better to begin with,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “And the consistency it takes to not give up huge plays, those are all correctable things, but they’re not being done. And that falls back in my lap.” Duke was able to remain within striking distance throughout the entire game thanks to its own proficiency making big plays. Indeed, the Blue Devils nearly pulled off a miracle when, down 13 with less than two minutes to go, Renfree hit Vernon for a 51-yard touchdown pass on a well executed hitch-and-go on the first play of the drive. See football on page 5
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Receiver Conner Vernon had eight receptions for 181 yards, but Duke still lost 54-48 to Wake Forest.
Duke Muslims celebrate Eid as national debate rages by Ciaran O’Connor THE CHRONICLE
Fueled by the fierce backlash against a proposed Muslim community center in Manhattan, anti-Islam sentiment is on the rise throughout the country. At Duke, though, Muslims feel they are able to practice and raise awareness of their faith in an environment they describe as generally tolerant and accepting. Muslims celebrated Eid al-Fitr, commemorating the end of Ramadan’s month-long fast, Friday amidst some anti-Muslim rhetoric linked in part to the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. “It definitely is troublesome,” Ahmad Jitan, a junior and president of the Muslim Students Association, said of the Islamophobia portrayed in the news. “But,” he added, “Duke’s student population is accepting.”
MSA Vice President Nabil Enayet, a junior, said Duke’s student body is generally curious about Islam and eager to understand what the religion is all about. Abdullah Antepli, Duke’s Muslim chaplain, dedicated an hour Friday to just that—conducting an online office hours session in which he spoke with Dean of the Chapel Sam Wells about Islam and took questions from audience members via Twitter and Facebook. In the segment, which is available online, Antepli explained Islam’s core values and combated some common misconceptions about the religion. “Many assumptions [about Islam] are not based on accurate information,” Antepli said during the session. “Nobody uses the Quran like See muslim on page 4
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After the Duke Student Government Senate’s decision to defund and move toward de-chartering the Duke College Republicans, DSG President Mike Lefevre vetoed both pieces of legislation this weekend. Lefevre, a senior, vetoed the group’s defunding Friday afternoon and extended his veto Sunday night to block the potential dechartering of the organization, which would have been determined by the Student Organization Finance Committee. Lefevre’s veto came after he received letters of resignation from DCR Chair Carter Boyle and Vice Chair Travis Rapp, both seniors. “It didn’t make sense to veto one and not the other,” Lefevre said. “Students involved in this mess will no longer be leading the organization.... It’s really unjust to the club if we punish them for something that happened last year, [when] the people who did that faced the repercussions.” DCR will hold an election in the next few weeks to select a new chair. No current members of the DCR executive board will be able to run for the position—a decision made by the College Republicans, Lefevre said. After meeting with SOFC Chair Max Tabachnik, Lefevre extended his veto to prevent the organization’s de-chartering. Tabachnik, a senior, proposed that SOFC govern the next College Republicans See veto on page 4
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DSG President Mike Lefevre vetoed this weekend the Senate’s decisions last week to defund and move toward de-chartering Duke College Republicans
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WASHINGTON — “Tea party” activists gathered outside the Capitol Sunday to demonstrate that they remain energized more than a year after their conservative movement was born and that they are committed to ousting Democratic leaders from Congress who they think have led the country astray with reckless spending. Thousands of protesters marched from the Washington Monument to the Capitol’s front lawn, where speakers lauded the movement’s impact on elections and public discourse. With the Nov. 2 midterms less than two months away, however, they emphasized that their work is not done. “You are America’s political first responders, and we thank you for coming out,” said Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. “Let’s not let this country be destroyed by the elitist politicians with bad policy ideas.”
TEHRAN — Iranian judicial authorities said Sunday they would free an American woman on $500,000 bail after earlier scuttling a governmentorganized release ceremony that had been set for Saturday. Sarah Shourd, 32, one of three Americans being held here on charges of illegal entry and spying, will be released and will be free to leave the country once the bail money is paid, Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi told Iranian media. He said Shourd is sick, which led to the decision to free her. “Based on reports and the approval of the relevant judge about the sickness of Ms. Shourd, her detention was converted to $500,000 bail, and if the bail is deposited, she can be released,” the official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Dolatabadi as saying.
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Students, faculty gather E.K. Powe unveils new to honor Sept. 11 victims library, courtesy of Target by Maggie Spini THE CHRONICLE
A group of about 30 students and faculty members gathered in the Duke Chapel Saturday morning in remembrance of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The ceremony opened with a color guard presentation by Duke’s Air Force ROTC and a prayer urging listeners to have the “strength to rise again” and to “believe that good will never be defeated.” Volunteers lit candles at 9:59 a.m. and 10:28 a.m.— the two times at which the World Trade Center’s two towers fell—and Durham Fire Department Battalion Chief Craig Hoxie gave a speech. “Anniversaries are significant,” Hoxie said. “[The attacks] impacted me as a firefighter in a way you can’t understand.” Less than a year after the attacks, Hoxie traveled to New York City with his family to visit ground zero. The stepson of a fellow firefighter from Durham led Hoxie through the city’s subway system and onto the site. “It was incredible how it impacted me,” Hoxie said, adding that his sense of awe reminded him of visiting the Grand Canyon because the site must be seen in person to be understood. “If it doesn’t bring tears to your eyes—just the magnitude of it— there’s something wrong with you.... The firefighters love New York. It’s
like they have a key to the city.” Junior Sam Baek, a member of the Air Force ROTC program, said he attended the ceremony to pay tribute even though he was not personally affected by the attacks. “I have a special connection with... how our nation responded to this event and the significance of what [happened] nine years ago,” Baek said. “[I came] to really pay tribute, you know, spiritually, emotionally.” Like Baek, Jesse Huddleston, Trinity ’10 and an administrative intern for Chapel Services, was not directly affected by the attacks but still came to the service to be with Duke students who might have been. “I wanted to be present with those, also, who may have been more notably impacted. I think it is a day of significance where it is important to... pause,” he said. “It helps you keep a better perspective, a better hold on yourself.” Near the end of the ceremony, junior Kyle Ulrich, commander of the Arnold Air Society, recalled the words of Elmer Davis, a former director of the United States Office of War Information, that said the U.S. will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. The ceremony ended with a bagpipe rendition of “Amazing Grace” and a moment of silence in remembrance of the victims of the attack.
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Last year, students at Durham’s E.K. Powe Elementary School were asked to draw what an ideal library would look like. With a renovation of the facilities now complete, some of their ideas became a reality Friday. E.K. Powe unveiled its remodeled library and media center Friday, the funding for which was provided by Target and The Heart of America Foundation as a part of the Target School Library Makeovers program.The makeover is part of a national campaign by the two
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Local elementary school E.K. Powe celebrated an improved library Friday, thanks to funding from Target.
organizations that seeks to overhaul libraries in order to promote literacy. E.K. Powe, one of 32 schools across the country selected for a makeover, received 2,000 books for its library as well as new computers, furniture, shelves, flooring, paint and an eco-friendly design. “I feel very fortunate to be part of this community, which includes Target and Heart of America,” said E.K. Powe Principal Jeanne Bishop. “The children are very excited [about the new facilities].” Duke has several partnerships with E.K. Powe through the Office of Durham and Regional Affairs, including sponsoring 30 incoming kindergartners in the Stepping Stones program, a free two-week, transitionto-school summer program for incoming kindergartners with little or no preschool experience. Duke also participates in several student tutoring programs at E.K. Powe. The Durham community also made the project possible through donations and discounted pricing on the renovations. For example, Paragon and Smith Systems provided green-certified furniture as one of several efforts to make the project eco-friendly. Since 2007, when the Target School Library Makeovers program was launched, Target has worked with more than 2,000 school libraries and donated more than 1 million books. Since 1946, Target has donated 5 percent of its income to charity, which currently amounts to $3 million a week, said Target representative Joshua Thomas, who called the company’s commitment to education a cornerstone of its charitable efforts.
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veto from page 1 election. Lefevre noted that the club must comply with SOFC’s ruling. The Senate’s Sept. 8 decision to defund the group was made on the basis that the club had demonstrated a “culture of discrimination.” The Senate came to a vote—securing exactly the necessary two-thirds majority—after reviewing discriminatory and homophobic e-mails, photographs and other forms of evidence allegedly connected to DCR members. The evidence was presented by former DCR Chair Justin Robinette and former DCR Vice Chair Cliff Satell, both seniors. Robinette claimed in April he was impeached from his position because he is gay. In response to the vetos, Satell said in a press release Sunday that a complaint against Duke will be filed with the Office of Civil
Rights in the Department of Education. The club, however, is still at risk of losing its charter. The Senate can overturn Lefevre’s veto with a two-thirds vote in its meeting Wednesday. The College Republicans could also be de-chartered pending a DSG Judiciary hearing regarding the DCR’s alleged selective membership. Satell filed a complaint with the Judiciary over the summer, arguing that the club violated an SOFC bylaw when he and Robinette claimed they were removed from the club’s roster and listserv. According to the bylaw, an Officially Chartered organization like the College Republicans is one that is “not selective in its membership.” If the Judiciary finds the club violated the bylaw, it can recommend that SOFC decharter the organization, Lefevre said. Boyle could not be reached for comment
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Sunday, but Rapp said he resigned to focus more on his academics and extracurricular activities. He added that he wants to keep his involvement with DCR at a “minimum.” “Honestly, I made my decision independent from that of any other officer resignations in the club,” Rapp said. “I won’t speculate as to the reasons that others had or the reasons that Mr. Lefevre had for his veto of our defunding.” Senior Stewart Day, current DCR executive vice chair, will serve as interim chair until the upcoming election. “Per Lefevre’s veto, we are hoping to get a new chairman from someone outside the club,” Day said. “We’d like to run elections in accordance with the College Republicans constitution and the DSG constitution, and as long as we do that I think everything will turn out fine.” To comply with an April DSG resolution,
the club modified its bylaws last week to make its elections “free, formal, and publicized” and include two weeks notice of the election. After the Senate’s decision Wednesday, Lefevre consulted DCR Chief of Staff Rachel Provost, a senior, to discuss the club’s future. “My only action was to not sign this thing,” Lefevre said. “The College Republicans had in accordance with their own bylaws a very thorough and fair process for changing leadership.... They have guaranteed a regime change.” Lefevre did not consult Robinette before releasing the veto. “I think some of the onus falls on the administration [at Duke],” Robinette said. “The administration asked us to take our issues to student government and the student government Senate passed in our favor and it was overruled. I think it’s very clear that the system didn’t do its job very well.”
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people in the dorms, in the common room, at the Great Hall,” he said. Still, sophomore Ruqayya Diwan, also a Muslim, said she thinks the contention over the proposed center is a misunderstanding and wishes the media would devote more time to the floods in Pakistan than arguments about the proposed “Ground Zero mosque.” “Both sides should negotiate and come to an understanding as opposed to arguing about it,” she said. Even with all the controversy, Muslims at Duke celebrated Eid al-Fitr by gathering Friday with fellow Muslims from the Triangle at the Exposition Center at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh. “This is pretty much like Muslim Christmas,” Antepli said of the holiday. “This reflects our joy and happiness at ending Ramadan successfully, working on our spiritual muscles for the last whole month and feeling good about ourselves and our relationship with God Almighty.”
a manual—I don’t wake up every morning and look to see what I’m going to do today... It is the book in which God says, ‘I created you because I want to enter into a relationship with you.’” Some politicians, though, have spoken negatively about some forms of this relationship. Former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich described the people behind the proposed mosque near ground zero in Manhattan as “radical Islamists” during an appearance on Fox News. Enayet said he was disappointed by the vitriol he has seen on television and somewhat surprised at how frequently Islam has been conflated with violent fundamentalism. But Muslim sophomore Omar Nazzal said that at Duke, the national discord has actually been productive in some ways. “It’s brought about good discussion with
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WAKE HEARTBREAK FIBA CHAMPIONSHIP: TEAM USA BEATS TURKEY • ONLINE: VOLLEYBALL FALLS, WOMEN’S GOLF TEES OFF faith robertson/The Chronicle
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Head coach Mike Krzyzewski won the FIBA World Championship Sunday behind another top performance from Kevin Durant, who had 28 points.
Mike Krzyzewski is a Gold Devil once again. Team USA’s head coach won his second straight international tournament Sunday, beating Turkey 81-64 in front of a home crowd in Instanbul. “This is the best. This is the best,” Krzyzewski said. “With this group, they really have represented our country, USA Basketball so well. Such a young group. They played with enthusiasm. “Not much was expected. I shouldn’t say that. They’re always expecting a lot. But most people didn’t think we could win. But [the team] kept getting better.... I’m just so happy, so fulfilled. This is as good as it gets right now.” Krzyzewski was helped by a certain member of the Oklahoma City Thunder, Kevin Durant, who won the tournament’s MVP honors after turning in another tremendous performance with 28 points. The standout forward averaged 22.8 points and 6.1 rebounds per game and shot 55.6 percent from the field while in Instanbul. Lamar Odom, one of the team’s few big men, also chipped in Sunday. He finished the game with a doubledouble after tallying 15 points and 11 rebounds. Durant and Odom were forced to deal with an intense Instanbul crowd, as well as a physical game that saw 23 fouls in just the first half. Team USA soon pulled ahead, though, in the final 20 minutes, en route to the win. While Krzyzewski may have appreciated the FIBA win, he didn’t lose sight after the game of his main job. Asked to name his most special win—his national championship, Olympic gold medal, or FIBA gold, Krzyzewski brought up Duke. “A national champion[ship] in college,” he said. “I am a very lucky guy to have great players. This championship meant a lot because we had a very young team. It just meant a lot to all of us. This was a very special thing.”
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Finley scores, Duke ties defending champion by Danny Vinik THE CHRONICLE
Sophomore Ryan Finley wanted revenge. He had been knocked down by the Cavaliers, kicked in the face with a cleat and now stood DUKE 2 watching the minutes tick away on a 2 UVa sure Virginia win. But with 2:24 left in the match, he and the rest of the Blue Devils weren’t prepared to roll over that easily. Finley took advantage of a loose ball in the box, tapped it past the Cavalier keeper and gave Duke a draw against the
defending national champions. “Luckily it just fell [to me] and I just tapped it in,” Finley said. “The goal is great, but people don’t really see how much work the defense and midfield put in that leads up to the goal.” Before Finley knotted the game up at 2-2, the No. 8 Blue Devils (1-0-2) entered the game knowing that a strong start was imperative if they wanted to stick with No. 2 Virginia (2-0-1). They did just that, taking a 1-0 lead in the 23rd minute when freshman Rob Dolot slotted home his first career goal off a rebound from a shot by fellow freshman Jonathan Aguirre.
“Rob Dolot’s goal was big for us,” head coach John Kerr said. “He’s such a composed player for such a young player.... Jonathan Aguirre was awesome tonight. He controlled the middle. He’s very poised for such a young player as well.” Kerr said that another freshman, Will Donovan, provided an important spark off the bench and showed confidence on the ball. But the star of the night was Finley, who carried the attack as the lone striker to the tune of eight shots. “He’s great,” Kerr said. “He’s a threat for us every time he gets the ball going for-
ward. Running at people, he is dangerous, and people have to defend him. He played great tonight.” Duke was unable to extend its strong start in the second half, and the defending champs took advantage. After a couple of close chances for the Cavaliers, Jimmy Simpson finally struck for his second goal of the season in the 71st minute, and Sean Hiller put Virginia ahead 15 minutes later. “They took the game to us in a big part of the second half,” Kerr said. “[When] they tied it up and got that late goal, I was looking See men’s soccer on page 7
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Mistakes, inexperience hurt D by Andy Margius THE CHRONICLE
WINSTON-SALEM — The newly renamed BB&T Field earned itself a nickname Saturday afternoon: The DefenseFree Zone. Between the two, Duke and Wake Forest surrendered an unprecedented 987 total yards of offense along Game with 96 points. The difAnalysis ference in the outcome, however, came down to defending the running game. The Demon Deacons’ four-pronged ground attack of Ted Stachitas, Tanner Price, Josh Harris and Devon Brown proved just too much to handle for the young starting front. “We’d have our heads down, and the guy would run right by us,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “8.6, 5.6, 4.2, 4.8 on the average, and you just can’t give up that.” The opening drive of the game exemplified the Blue Devils’ woes. Rushing the ball nine straight times for 82 yards, Wake Forest used the option to perfection and showed its quickness in the backfield. Four of the first five keep-
ers by the quarterback Stachitas went for over 10 yards. Compounding the rushing problem was the inability to protect in the secondary, partly because of the constant ground assault. Forced into a short zone or manon-man coverage in order to protect the line of scrimmage, the Duke cornerbacks quickly surrendered two long touchdown passes. Still, heading into the locker room at halftime, with the score tied at 35, the Blue Devils had succeeded in looking better on defense then their Wake Forest counterparts. After having given up only one third down conversion in the first half, Duke appeared to have the game’s momentum in hand. Yet while the Demon Deacon defense came out energized and improved, the Blue Devils lost any luster that they had remaining in the first half. “I thought we were gassed,” Cutcliffe said. “There was a lot of emotion spent in the first half.” In the fourth quarter, Wake Forest used small yardage plays as opposed to the long ball, keeping tighter possession while continuing to bully the Blue Devil front line. Utilizing 10 and 13-play drives to score,
the Demon Deacons wore down a Duke defense already reeling from a long first half. Furthermore, the Blue Devils failed to play well on third down—their lone first half strength—by giving up three of five conversions. Other issues came due to inexperience and mental lapses on the part of the defense. On Wake Forest’s sixth touchdown of the game, a 38-yard strike from Price, redshirt-freshman Ross Cockrell bit on a screen to leave his man unmarked for a score. Similarly, other members of the Duke secondary, among them Cockrell, failed to turn around and make plays when balls were thrown to their receivers. “Ross is a really good athlete, and he’s going to be a real good player,” Cutcliffe said. “But he’s a young corner, and he’s basically developed a habit of not looking for the ball…. He’s right there. He’s just got to make a play on the ball.” But Cockrell is just one of a group of players that Cutcliffe expects to improve as the season progresses. “We’re in the process of growing a program,” Cutcliffe said. “[And] we need to be focused on Duke.”
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For the second consecutive game, receiver Conner Vernon set a careerhigh for reception yards. This time, he gained 181 with two touchdowns.
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quarterback Brendan Connette stuffed the ball into the endzone. After one of the Blue Devils’ few deHowever, the ensuing onside kick was fensive stops, Duke (1-1, 0-1) went on recovered by Wake Forest (2-0, 1-0 in the another quick scoring drive, capped ACC), icing the game. by a touchdown pass from Renfree to A consistent rain that escalated into a tight end Cooper Helfet. But the Blue downpour during the second half likely in- Devils squandered the momentum that fluenced that onside kick, as well as many came from yet another defensive stop on other aspects of Duke’s offense. Drops Wake Forest’s subsequent drive by not were an issue for the Blue Devil receivers only stalling on their own possession, throughout, and they led to two of Ren- but allowing the Demon Deacons to tie free’s three interceptions. the game on that fumbled punt. Still, no one on Duke’s offense would Duke nearly wrested the momentum point the finger at anyone else for those back away from Wake Forest after tying mistakes. While Kelly stated that the rain the game at 21 thanks to a 70-yard touchwas “not an excuse,” Renfree tried to down pass from Renfree to Vernon, who, shoulder the blame himself, saying the despite tight coverage, was able to fight drops were due to inaccurate throws on off his defender and then scamper unhis part. Even abated to the endCutcliffe felt aczone. But the Blue countable, sayDevil defense let “I did everything in my ing, “We haven’t up its own big play thrown a wet power to come out of here on the game’s next ball and caught with a win. I put this game snap in the form of a wet ball quite Williams’ trick-play on my shoulders.” enough.” pass to Givens for Those drops touchdown. — Conner Vernon theVernon and intercepnearly sintions, along with gle-handedly earned a fumbled punt Duke a victory, acreturned by Givcounting for 181 yards ens for a touchdown, halted the nearly on his own, along with two touchdowns. overwhelming momentum of the Duke “I did everything in my power to come attack in the first half. After an 82-yard out of here with a win,” Vernon said. “I put Wake Forest drive, capped off by a 23- this game on my shoulders.” yard run from quarterback Tim StachiStill, despite the plethora of fine offentas, started the game, the Blue Devils sive efforts by the Blue Devils Saturday, it quickly answered with an electrifying wasn’t enough to overcome a slow second kickoff return by Patrick Kurunwune half and a porous defense. Duke learned that was nearly a touchdown. Eight plays that while scoring 48 points may win a team and less than four minutes later, Duke a lot of football games, allowing 54 will alhad its first touchdown after freshman most certainly cost it more.
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Defense-minded Duke ties FIU, tops Yale by Alex Krinsky THE CHRONICLE
After 139 minutes of scoreless play this weekend, the Blue Devils were finally able to breath a collective sigh of relief Sunday after sophomore defender Maddy Haller finally found the back of the net, giving Duke a 1-0 win over Yale. The goal capped DUKE 0 an unusually long stretch of offen0 FIU sive inefficiency DUKE 1 for Duke (5-1-1), which dominated YALE 0 Florida International in shots Friday night but came up empty-handed in a 0-0 draw. Sunday, it seemed like it would be more of the same, but Haller scored and the Blue Devils’ defense continued their strong play en route to their fourth straight shutout. Florida international (3-4-1) is a strong defensive team, and though No. 14 Duke controlled possession and had 31 shots on goal compared to the Panthers’ seven, the Blue Devils were unable to capitalize on their scoring opportunities. “They had a great opportunity coming in here,” head coach Robbie Church said. “They play a very defensive formation as they play a 4-5-1 and it is a tough formation to break down. We just weren’t that sharp and prepared... which starts with me.”
After their disappointing performance Friday night, the Blue Devils came out aggressively Sunday and continued to dominate the battle of possession, creating several excellent scoring opportunities in the first half. But Yale goalie Ayana Sumiyasu came up with several excellent saves, and it seemed like the game was heading to another defensive stand-off. Then, in the 30th minute, Duke took advantage of a corner kick. Forward Mollie Pathman floated a pass into the box, and Haller headed it directly into the back of the net for the first goal of her career. “We had a ton of shots in both games so it’s good to finally see one put in the net,” Duke goalkeeper Tara Campbell said. “When defenders get to go in on corners, it’s always exciting when they score.” While Haller was able to spark some offense for Duke, the Blue Devils continued their defensive domination. For most of the game, Yale had trouble even pressing their offense into Duke territory and accumulated only seven shots on goal. However, in the beginning of the second period, the Bulldogs (1-3-0) gained some offensive momentum after several wellstruck shots. Yale forward Becky Brown was able to take advantage of a defensive lapse and found herself one-on-one with Campbell, but she aggressively rushed out of the net and made a diving save. “Tara made a big save when we needed it,” Church said. “That was great to see. It’s
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Breaking a scoring tie, Maddy Haller scored in the 30th minute against Yale to give Duke a 1-0 lead. been awhile since she’s had to make a big save. We made a mistake in the back, she came up big and that’s what she did for us last year. It was great to see that.” Campbell and the Duke defense have dominated their opponents lately, and haven’t given up a goal since the game against Stanford August 29.
“I think my back four has been outstanding,” Campbell said. “I can’t say enough about how well our team’s defending has been.” After the draw against Florida International, the win over Yale was crucial as Duke gets closer to the Duke Nike Classic—and a nationally televised game against Florida— Friday.
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Weary of overtime, Ferger scores game-winner by Gracie Willert THE CHRONICLE
After a painful 3-2 loss to Wake Forest Saturday in quadruple overtime, Duke came out Sunday against No. 13 Drexel (2-2) energetic despite the long minutes played in the previous day’s contest. It paid off with a 2-1 overtime win. The No. 10 Blue Devils (4-2) beDUKE 2 gan the first quarter with tight defense and eight shots on goal. The DREX 1 Dragons met their advances and defense, however, with an equally determined performance. Only Duke’s freshman Emmie Le Marchand’s shot from four yards out could break the seven minute 0-0 stalemate. “I think the aggression we took out of it really set the
men’s soccer from page 3 for what kind of personality our team is going to have.” With just five minutes remaining and a devastating loss looming, the Blue Devils turned to Finley, who erupted in celebration after his ball crossed the line, Taking off down the sideline, he sprinted past the Duke and Virginia benches to the corner flag, so fast even his teammates couldn’t catch him. “I don’t know where he got the energy for that one,” Kerr said laughing. “Wish he’d used that energy in the game.” Duke pushed for a winner in the final two minutes, but when none came the game headed to overtime. The slight rain that had been falling throughout much of the match picked up as the game moved along, but the 1,200plus fans that showed up stuck around for the ending. The first extra time saw each team earn a couple of chances, but neither mustered a shot on target so the game continued on to a second overtime. Duke dominated the final 10-minute period, testing Virginia goalkeeper Diego Restrepo, but was unable to come up with a game-winner as the team exited the field satisfied, but disappointed with the draw. “I thought for sure we were the better team in the overtime and took the game to them and just weren’t able to finish it off,” Kerr said. “I thought our guys showed a lot of character and poise.” The Blue Devils’ early season schedule doesn’t get any easier this week as they host George Washington on Tuesday and North Carolina on Friday. But, saturday night’s game showed that this team has the skill and confidence to compete with the best in the country. “Our character tonight showed in many, many ways.” Kerr said. “I’m very proud of the team, and if we can get two good results this week, we’ll be in good shape as we keep moving forward.”
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Blue Devil offense made an attack at the goal. Benefiting from a Dragon penalty, Duke attempted a play off the penalty corner. But the Drexel goalie Jenna Phillips, who made nine saves in the second half, crushed the Blue Devils’ hopes of evading yet another overtime. With an abbreviated line-up, the Dragons and Blue Devils found themselves head to head in a sudden death duel. The initial six minutes were turnover-filled, but with eight minutes to go, Le Marchand made a leading pass to senior forward Susan Ferger, who dodged the defense, pulled the Drexel goalie out to the right and slammed the ball in the left-hand corner for the game-winning goal. “We were all really tired from our game yesterday,” Ferger said. “It felt good to score, but it felt even better to be done running.”
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Senate must disband College Republicans Last Spring the Duke Stu- packet of e-mails, comments dent Government Judiciary and other pieces of evidence ruled against senior Justin he supplied to the DSG Senate Robinette in a discrimina- in his most recent suit. tion suit, in which Robinette After reviewing this alleged he was impeached as packet, the editorial board club chair of the Duke College reached several concluRepublicans besions. cause he is gay. First, Robieditorial The DSG nette may nevJudiciary declined to hear a er prove conclusively that he second suit filed by Robinette was impeached on the basis Aug. 20. Justices deemed the of his sexual orientation, new evidence “student-on-stu- but the packet of evidence dent harassment,” which does he supplied should prompt not fall under the Judiciary’s swift action on the part of purview. the Senate. Although we are disapSecond, this packet of hatepointed that Robinette and ful materials proves that memsenior Cliff Satell have been bers of the College Republiunable to settle their dispute cans used their e-mail listserv with the club through a formal to engage in conversations mediation process sponsored that were not only offensive to by the Office of Student Con- homosexuals but also racially duct, we will focus our atten- insensitive and anti-Semitic. tion on the roughly 50-page As the body tasked with
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maintaining the charter status of student organizations, the DSG Senate must respond to this unacceptable behavior with punitive action. We commend senators for voting to defund the DCR last week. Now, the Senate should follow through on its vote by stripping the College Republicans of its charter and status as a recognized group. We believe this is the only appropriate punishment for a club that has fostered a “culture of discrimination” for too long—a culture that Robinette himself may well have perpetuated. The DSG Senate should take action by punishing the group and not its individual members. The College Republicans as the group currently exists should be disbanded. Third, we recognize that
the absence of a Republican student club would be a detriment to campus culture, and therefore we call on the DSG Senate to work with interested students toward the aim of chartering a similar group in Fall 2011. Fourth, DSG President Mike Lefevre, a senior, was not justified in his veto of the Senate’s decision to defund and move to de-charter the club. The resignation of two individual members of the DCR executive board does not remedy what the Senate has correctly identified as a broader issue of intolerance. Lefevre should step aside and allow the Senate to decide the fate of this student organization. Finally, it is unclear why the Student Organization Finance Committee should de-
termine the final status of the DCR charter. The DSG Senate is constitutionally bound “to charter or recognize all organizations established by and for undergraduates.” Both Lefevre and SOFC should recognize that this situation demands clear and coherent action, and that the power to take that action rests with the Senate. The packet of evidence Robinette produced does little to prove his specific claims that his former club discriminated against him, but the hateful content this document contains is no less damaging because of it. The DSG Senate should punish the Duke College Republicans by removing the group’s charter and stripping it of its status as a recognized group.
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en like challenges. Tell me I cannot do discounts and bulk-order rates the amount spent something and I will spend an exces- was probably less than $50), the fact remains that sive amount of time trying to prove you departments’ inability to think before spending wrong. For example, I was told that there is a mil- contradicts Duke’s commitment to post-recession lion dollar prize for the proof of the fiscal conservatism. Navier-Stokes Equation. I could do However much the recession that in my sleep, but I’m going to let hit our campus, it has become insomeone else get fired up and solve creasingly evident that our school that (in all honesty, it would take de(Trinity College in specific) is cades to solve that problem, somedepartmentally segmented. The thing a friend told me as I stared at admissions page even stresses the the problem for hours). idea that Duke has an “extensive With that in mind, I was given a list of undergraduate majors and challenge by a coworker. The eco- antonio segalini minors, more than 40 in all.” nomics department had an excessive Trinity College has 34 different musings amount of hanging file folders, and departments, and, if my small he thought it would take an exorpersonal sampling is an example, bitant amount of time for me to get rid of these it is extremely rare for any of them to communithings. I knew I could demolish this task with ease cate about anything (one of my coworkers even and consequently made a couple calls to depart- scoffed, “Departments work together? Why would ment main lines. they do that?”) I dialed up the neighbors at psychology, and Technology has made it so easy for departthey scoffed at me telling me they had boxes and ments to simply talk to one another. It takes four boxes of hanging file folders they needed to get numbers or a quick e-mail to contact another derid of. Crap, I was screwed. partment, whether it is about needing or having Then I called sociology, which is literally the something or simply interdepartmental research. floor above the psychology department. They acIt is sad to see that we can preach efficiency and cepted file folders. the concept of perseverance and use financial isIt took me six departments to get rid of them sues as an excuse for various cost-cutting methods. all. I called multiple departments, which are locat- Yet, after all of the huffs and puffs of change, we ed in the same building, and got the same results. do not acknowledge various inconsistencies that One secretary even laughed at the offer (“Hun, could easily be solved with basic communication. we got about 1,000 folders.”). Yet the department I can deal with chalkboards and somewhat below her just ordered four boxes. fuzzy cell phone service. What I cannot deal with Now, let me outline how easy it is to call an- is the inability to communicate in a technologiother department while using your department’s cally advanced world. It is about time we created switchboard phone. Step 1: Pick up phone. Step a system, whether it be a networking website or 2: Type in four numbers. Step 3: Let it ring until a departmental Craigslist, where departments can they answer. They pick up, you tell them you have communicate with one another. Breaking down file folders and they tell you whether or not they the boundaries will not only save money, but help want them. make Duke the unified university it claims to be. The tricky part comes when they answer. Either Higher education in recent years has put rethey’ll say yes and you take a five minute trip to newed emphasis on interdepartmental collaboradeliver said items, or they say no and you go on tion, highlighting research, majors (Trinity offers to the next department. Overall, though, a pretty an interdepartmental major, or IDM) and unique stress-free process. pairings of disciplines. If departments are going Yet, instead of communicating with one anoth- to work together at Duke, they might want to start er, departments let things like hanging file folders thinking outside the box—and sharing some of sit in storage rooms and spend money on unneces- their file folders. sary items. As low as the cost of these folders may be (StaAntonio Segalini is a Trinity sophomore. His column ples has them at about 55 cents each and with runs every Monday.
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Anchor mosques and Ground Zero babies
/11 was on all of our minds last abound on the fringes of every religion week (and yes, Gossip Bro is aware and every group of people, and we can’t of a few larger world issues beyond deal out judgment to many based on the Tailgate and who wore semi-retarded tweets of a whom with what this weekfew. We shouldn’t single end). In observance of the out Christians because a tragedy, some held vigils, few of them believe that some attended services and dinosaurs were born 200 some drank through eight years ago as the product of seasons of Fox’s “24” in an two dudes who had sex; we unprecedented concatenashouldn’t single out Jews tion of 192 consecutive Jack because some of them Bauer Power Hours. In ad- monday, monday massacre people while dition to all of these things yelling some justification xoxo, gossip bro (except the first two), I visabout “getting even;” and ited the Facebook page of we shouldn’t single out the one Muslim person I knew in high Muslims because a small group of them school to see if she would have any inter- get off on blowing up our stuff. esting insight from a point of view we may Instead of getting incensed every time not always get to hear. you listen to Ann Coulter or Keith OlThis individual, I should qualify, is not bermann, just realize that most people, a real Muslim, but rather one of those no matter what religion, are actually just people who had an identity crisis in high chill bros who like to get effed up. So let school and went all Nation of Islam or them debate about their anchor mosques whatever that thing is that people convert and Ground Zero babies and all the other to in prison. Anyway, what I found was asinine tomfoolery that might be teabagher Facebook status, which was not about ging its way onto the blogosphere. The 9/11 but about a recent Muslim holiday. only thing I’ve really gleaned from the It read, “I need a henna so I cn look dumb past eight years of cable news is that wafly 2mrw for the Eid!!!” The Eid, for those terboarding is a freakin’ awesome thing of you who don’t know, refers to the Eid to do to your friends when you’re high. al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan. And that’s precisely what makes AmerI’m quite sure Allah would have been ica so great. We can get attacked, take a very disappointed if one of his children breath and start having fun again. Who looked anything less than “dumb fly” for cares if there’s a mosque at Ground Zero? one of Islam’s holiest holidays. Build a Pokemon Stadium on Pearl HarAnd right there is the point. In the age bor for all I care—after all, as the old aphof the Internet and high-speed communi- orism goes, it’s a free country! And Jack cation, one prize idiot can undermine an Bauer will slit the throats of terrorists with entire sect of people with a few clicks of everything from a machete to a jaggedly a button. One status update, one “tweet,” broken credit card to keep it that way. one viral video and BOOM—the underedWe’re not in goose-stepping Korea or ucated canaille suddenly and unanimous- communist China—we’re in a free society ly believe that Mexican “anchor babies” where people can do what they want. So are about devour us like the eponymous what if capitalism breeds competition? I’d fish of “Piranha 3D,” or that 9/11 was re- prefer a dog-eat-dog country to a peopleally orchestrated by Barack “Where’s-the- eat-dog country any day of the week. Birth-Certificate” Obama and his Saudi oil sheik brethren to make room for their All bros are equal, but Gossip Bro is more Ground Zero Victory Mosque. equal than others. But the truth is that stupid people
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bove: the subject line of an e-mail I media backlash has already begun. sent 20 people in my address book We’ve all heard these grievances and dislast Thursday night at 9:25 p.m. I missed them. Socially, they isolate users and imagined my contacts in encourage rude behavior. various and sundry locales Mentally, they contribute to as my virtual message landour shrinking attention spans. ed in their respective inboxPhysiologically, the bright es and waited to be read by light of a smart phone has impatient eyes. even been accused of throwIn the e-mail body, I tried ing off circadian rhythms and to affect the air of the procausing sleep deprivation. fessional journalist, but it But these are small pricshining li didn’t quite work. “Respond es to pay for the benefits we all too human to this e-mail as soon as you draw from having a phone humanly can!” my message that can do nearly anything screamed. It then asked my victims to iden- we want! And all these criticisms are made tify whether they’d checked their e-mail begrudgingly while still acknowledging the on a smart phone. After hitting “Send,” I inherent helpfulness of what smart phones waited for replies and documented their offer: They make our lives easier, expedittime stamps. ing otherwise tedious tasks. The point of this admittedly unscientific Is that even true though? Or is the comexercise was this: Over the last couple of plete opposite case in fact the reality of our years, I’ve noticed the growing number of tech-crazed lives? smart phones in the hands of my peers. From Pretend you’re an English major, and BlackBerrys to Droids to the much-hyped suppose that in this text, “smart phones” are and then un-hyped iPhone 4 and beyond, symbolic of all the technologically astoundsmart phones have become an ever-increas- ing feats of the last half-decade designed ing presence in the lives of undergraduates. to make our day-to-day activities more conExactTarget, an e-mail marketing compa- venient. This includes still oft-discussed deny, estimates that almost 40 percent of college velopments (Facebook Places, iTunes Ping, students use smart phones. A study recently Google Instant) and other innovations no conducted at Ball State University puts the per- one considers novel anymore (Facebook, centage closer to 50 percent. At Duke, where iTunes, Google—the platforms on which the costliness of fads is directly proportional to these new services expanded). how quickly they catch on, the proportion is Think about how much time these advery possibly even greater than that. vances have freed up in your lives. ConsidOf course, the advent of these newfan- er just how stress-free the person compulgled gadgets does wonders for what you sively checking his e-mail next to you on can accomplish on the go. Where would we the C1 actually seems. Estimate how many have ended up on a doomed Harris Teeter minutes (hours?) per day you spend scrollrun if my friend hadn’t GPS-ed us to safety ing through e-mails and jumping at Facewith his Blackberry? How much mental an- book notifications when you should have guish was spared when someone answered been buckling down with a textbook. a much-contested question via his smart To me, it appears much more plausible phone? (Apparently, there are 446 bridges that, rather than simplifying our busy schedin Pittsburgh. A matter of great urgency, for ules and freeing up time, technology is acsure.) Wouldn’t it have been nice if I’d read tually “stealing our lives,” in the words of the e-mail about my canceled Wednesday Rebecca Traister of Salon.com. Instead of alafternoon class before I traipsed all the way lowing us new ways to handle our workload, to the Bridges House? our technology is just another time drain we Smart phones are incredible, right? must juggle along with coursework, extracurMaybe even a “must-have campus acces- riculars, jobs and other activities. sory,” as Ju’lia Samuels wrote for ABC News Expectations increase along with technoblog “Campus Chatter” in June 2009. But logical improvement; now, because so many of despite the marvel of the smart phone, the my classmates have smart phones, I find myself rushing to reply to e-mails to avoid the appearance of negligence. I find the thought of my e-mail oppressive, as all my messages shout “Read me now!” in unison from my inbox. A friend told me (via his Blackberry, of course) that before his smart phone upgrade, he was “really bad about reading and responding to e-mails, but now... I basically have to—the annoying notification icon won’t go away otherwise.” It’s a classic Red Queen’s race scenario (my, but wouldn’t Lewis Carroll have a field day with us?). We’re all rushing to save as much time as possible but with very little benefit to our lifestyles. It takes all the running and e-mailing we can do to stay in exactly the same busy, frenetic place. Sure, we might be able to send and receive information more quickly, but taking this as the sole standard of judgment implies that the e-mail is more important than the e-mailer, that our productivity has somehow superseded our independence in significance. As for my little experiment, I heard back from all but two of my subjects. Those who replied from smart phones took an average of 15 minutes to respond. Those on old-fashioned computers took a little over two hours—more than an eightfold difference. I meant to send out thank-you e-mails for their participation, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. Shining Li is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Monday.
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