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by Lindsey Rupp THE CHRONICLE

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by Oct. 1, reporting crimes committed on campus and public property adjacent to it. As mandated by the Higher Education Opportunity Act, DUPD also released information regarding Duke’s fire safety procedures and statistics.

In 2009, 13 forcible sex offenses were reported—eight more than in 2008 or 2007, when five were reported.

Budget cuts and campus expansion were on the agenda at the first Board of Trustees meeting of the academic year this weekend.

The Board heard an update on Duke’s investments and plans for growth, a year after a $1.7 billion drop in the endowment forced the University to make wide-ranging cuts.

The endowment returned 13.2 percent in fiscal year 2010, which ended June 30, and was worth $4.8 billion at year’s end.

Duke still needs to close a Richard Brodhead $40 million budget deficit.

“We are still working to get [the endowment] back to the place that it was and that’s going to take a couple more years, and in the meantime we need to make sure our spending is tight,” said Trustees Chair and Democratic state Sen. Dan Blue, Law ’73.

President Richard Brodhead said the University is on track to eliminate its $40 million deficit in the next two years by

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Clery Report reflects increased crime

by Joanna Lichter THE CHRONICLE

The Duke University Police Department released updated crime statistics in its annual Clery Security Report, which shows an increase in a number of reported crimes for the 2009 calendar year.

The report, released Sept. 30, shows increases in reports of forcible sex offenses, robberies and aggravated assaults. There was also an upswing in liquor law and drug law violations re-

ferred for disciplinary action.

University officials attributed the rise in reported crimes to new reporting policies and greater student awareness.

“The bottom line is I don’t think the numbers in any way indicate an increase in crime,” Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said. “I do think that students feel a higher level of responsibility to report those aspects of the community that they feel are having a negative impact.”

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Dawkins urges students to consider evolution a fact

by Alejandro Bolívar THE CHRONICLE

Controversial evolutionary biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins spoke at Duke to promote his new book, “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution,” and discuss his ideas on the subject Sunday.

Dawkins went chapter by chapter explaining the book to a sold-out Page Auditorium and an additional crowd watching from Griffith Film Theater via a live feed.

He started his speech by saying that it is time for people to stop calling evolution a theory and instead refer to it as a fact. The word “theory,” which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as a hypothesis and a speculation, does not reflect the evidence currently available, he explained.

“The fact of our own existence is the most unbelievable fact you’ll ever be asked to believe,” Dawkins said.

Dawkins was invited to Duke by Todd Stiefel, Trinity ’97. Stiefel, a trustee at the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, told the audience that the foundation’s goals are to support science and reason through education and evidence and to combat religion-based discrimination and religious fundamentalism.

Dawkins said one of the challenges science and reason face today comes from the 40 percent of the U.S. popula-

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tion that does not accept evolution and instead believes that Earth is less than 10,000 years old. He said creationists pose a threat because they home-school their children, control school boards, have members in Congress and even have presidential candidates. Depriving children of the truth of how they came to be is comparable to child abuse, he added.

Even though humans are not eyewitnesses in the evolution process, he said there is still a large amount of evidence supporting it. To explain, Dawkins used the metaphor of detectives arriving at the scene of a crime after the crime had been committed, where clues such as fingerprints and footprints correspond to DNA and fossils.

“We can go through the laws of physics and say it’s no accident we see stars in our sky,” Dawkins said.

Though many opponents of evolution insist that fossils disprove the fact, Dawkins said humans are fortunate to have fossils in the first place, and added that no anachronistic fossil has ever been found.

Additionally, he said the geographic distribution of animals fits precisely with projections by people studying evolution.

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Author and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins spoke in Page Auditorium Sunday on the evidence for evolution.

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The advisory says Americans should be aware that terrorists often target popular tourist attractions and public transportation such as subways and rail systems. It does not warn Americans against travel to the region.

“Current information suggests that al Qaeda and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks,” the State Department advisory said. “Terrorists may elect to use a variety of means and weapons and target both official and private interests.”

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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded by appealing to Abbas to continue the negotiations.

“The way to achieve an historic peace agreement between our two nations is to sit around the negotiating table, seriously and continuously, and not to leave it, because that is the place to resolve our disagreements,’’ he said in a statement.

Abbas met at his headquarters in Ramallah with members of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the central committee of his Fatah movement.

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Jonathan Kuniholm joined the half-marathon team after Sports Illustrated columnist Peter King lost a bet.

King said he would run a marathon if the NFL’s Terrell Owens signed with the Cincinnati Bengals. When Owens did sign with the team in July, King put a team together for a 13.1 mile race and picked two charities to support by running, one of which was the Wounded Warrior Project, which aims to aid injured service members.

That’s when King invited Kuniholm, a fifth-year biomedical engineering graduate student at Duke and a retired captain in the U.S. Marine Corps, to join his team.

Having lost his own arm on patrol in Iraq on New Year’s Day 2005, Kuniholm is an advocate for the advancement of prosthetic technology and wants to make it available to more people. “[Kuniholm] was a tremendous part of this race and is one of those guys who is a great example, to me, of what perseverance is about,” King said. “He doesn’t give up [and] continues to go about his life.... He didn’t spend five minutes feeling sorry for himself.”

The team was among 107 other half-marathon participants in the 18th annual New Hampshire Marathon and raised between $23,000 and $30,000 for two charities.

“The race went very, very well,” King said. “It was a very charming day, a great event with a lot of people coming out to run for some good causes.”

Jonathan Kuniholm—who is also the son of Bruce Kuniholm, dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy—said he admires King’s philanthropic efforts as a sports columnist, adding that King uses his celebrity to promote causes he is passionate about.

The run is not Kuniholm’s only effort to raise awareness about the issues facing amputees. Several surgeries and prosthetic arms after being ambushed by a roadside improvised explosive device in Iraq, Kuniholm founded the Open Prosthetics Project, which aims to improve prosthetic technology and increase the technology’s availability. Making progress, though,

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Jonathan Kuniholm, left, a retired captain in the U.S. Marine Corps, ran a half-marathon five years after losing his arm while on patrol in Iraq. has proven difficult.

“I think we’ve been a lot more successful at getting attention to [the project] than actually raising money for it,” Kuniholm said. “But I think we can still call it a success.”

He noted that because the market for prosthetic limbs is so small, there is not a lot of money readily available for further research.

“Unfortunately, the reality of prosthetics has changed very little,” Kuniholm said. “There are a number of new devices that have been announced but haven’t actually yet hit the market.”

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The summer program, which provided funding for 375 students conducting civic engagement projects this past summer, will expand to 425 students next year. New projects include programs in Jodhpur, India; La Plata, Argentina and New York City.

Three of the nine new programs are based in North Carolina.

“This is an exciting time for us at DukeEngage,” said DukeEngage Executive Director Eric Mlyn in a news release Friday. “We are simultaneously building new programs while working with our returning DukeEngage students who share with us their stories of challenges, successes and transformations.”

Group programs next summer will account for approximately 355 undergraduates, and about 70 students will conduct independent DukeEngage projects.

The DukeEngage program, which will be in its fourth summer next year, was endowed with a $30 million gift from the Duke Endowment and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2007.

Applications for group international programs are due by 12 p.m. Nov. 8. The deadline for group domestic programs is 12 p.m. Jan. 12, 2011.

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More than 2,000 graduate and professional students spent the weekend camped out to enter the lottery for Duke Men’s Basketball season tickets. The event, organized by the Graduate and Professional Student Council, took place in the Blue Zone parking lot from Friday evening to Sunday morning. Campers who missed fewer than two attendance checks were entered into a lottery for a chance to purchase one of the 725 graduate and professional student season tickets for $200.

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kuniholm from page 3 Kuniholm also said the improvement of prosthetics has more to do with policy than with basic science.

“The real problem, in addition to the fact that the media leads us to believe that this problem has been solved, is what can we afford as a society to pay for this... and what’s the best thing that we can provide for that amount of money,” Kuniholm wrote in an e-mail Fri-

day. “That’s a real-life engineering problem.”

However, Kuniholm said he thinks his organization has been successful in raising awareness of prosthetic issues and in providing information on the Internet.

In addition to his nonprofit enterprise, Kuniholm has been working on several lowtechnology projects, which include a band for prosthetic arms that lasts much longer than the ones provided by medical offices and a harness that is sewn into an Under Armour shirt to increase comfort.

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‘An unjust call’ Controversial penalty call is game-changer

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Goalkeeper James Belshaw tallied seven saves in the game, but couldn’t stop two first half goals from Maryland.

After outplaying Maryland for much of the first half, Duke fell victim not to the No. 8 Terrapins, but the referee’s whistle.

In the game’s 34th minute, Andrew Wenger appeared to make a clean tackle on Maryland’s JaDUKE 0 son Herrick, but was whistled for a UMD 2 foul in the box. It was a questionable call, and one that Matt Kassel took advantage of, slotting home the penalty kick and giving Maryland a lead it would never relinquish. The Terrapins wound up winning 2-0 Friday night.

“It’s hard because for the first thirty minutes we were the better team,” head coach John Kerr said. “Then they get an unjust call and score the goal off that, which gave them a lot of confidence and put them back into the game.”

Despite going on the road and facing a record crowd of over 7,000 hostile Ter-

rapin supporters, No. 9 Duke (4-2-3, 1-2-1) had numerous scoring chances in the first half, yet failed to register a single shot on goal.

In the tenth minute, senior Cole Grossman’s cross found Ryan Finley wide open on the left, but the sophomore—who is tied for the nation’s lead in goals— couldn’t find the target from six yards out, sending the ball wide of the goal. Grossman continued to find holes early on in the Maryland defense. His through-ball down the left side found Finley behind the backline alone with the Terrapins’ keeper, Zac MacMath, but again Finley pushed the ball wide. The missed opportunities for an early lead would come back to haunt the Blue Devils.

Maryland (5-2-1, 2-1-1) gained possession in the 34th minute and played the ball to senior forward Herrick at the top of the Duke penalty box. Herrick attacked the right side and was met by defender Andrew Wenger. Even though See m. soccer on page 7

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Blue Devils split weekend with Beantown rivals

by Dawei Liu THE CHRONICLE

Heading into this weekend, Duke prepared for its version of a Boston showdown.

The Blue Devils faced not only Boston College Saturday, but Boston University Sunday. In the showdown’s first matchup, an incredibly hardfought defensive 0 B.U. struggle, No. 12 DUKE 1 Boston College (74, 1-2 in the ACC) left Katz Stadium 1 B.C. with the 1-0 win.

DUKE 0 The No. 13 Blue Devils (5-6, 0-3) were yet again without senior Susan Ferger in the game, and it was evident that her presence was sorely needed. In the first half, both sides had their moments, but ultimately neither team was able to maintain an offensive flow with both teams combining for only one shot on goal.

“We did not stick to our game plan in

the first half,” head coach Beth Bozman said.

However, as soon as the second half began, the halftime adjustments for both teams began to show up. Duke made a strong concerted effort at taking more shots and creating more penalty corners, but like the first half, it couldn’t capitalize.

The Blue Devils outshot Boston College 7-4 and had more penalty corners, too, but Boston College was able to take advantage of fewer opportunities.

In the 61st minute, Eagle Emily Kozniuk scored off a penalty corner when Marlotte van den Bergh fed her the ball from the top of the arc. Kozniuk’s goal would be the game’s only score.

“I think we’re all frustrated beyond words,” Bozman said. “We’ve had the opportunities… and outshot [Boston College]. We just need to find a way to dig the ball into the cage.”

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Duke benefits from Cameron’s friendly confines

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Back home after consecutive road ACC matches, the Blue Devils topped rivals Maryland and Boston College.

There’s no place like home.

Finally returning to Cameron Indoor Stadium for two consecutive ACC matches, Duke played solid defense and limited errors in consecutive victories this weekend against Maryland and Boston College.

In Friday night’s 3-2 victory against the Terrapins (12-5, 3-2 in the ACC), the Blue Devils won the first set 25-22 but 1 B.C. lost the second 25DUKE 3 21 before pulling away with a definiUMD 2 tive win in the third 25-12. The team DUKE 3 set failed to keep up the momentum, however, and dropped the fourth set 25-23 before finishing the last set 15-10.

“I felt we started off a little slow and weren’t responding to some things as quickly as we are capable of, and we weren’t necessarily controlling the ball like we are capable of,” head coach Jolene Nagel said.

“As the match went on, we had better communication and better services, and we played tough and really worked together as a team.”

All five sets brought out the similarities and defensive strengths of both teams, and the match had long rallies, a high number of digs—90 for Maryland and 107 for Duke—and a total of 34 tied scores and 13 lead changes.

Since both teams boast strong defensive play, Friday’s contest was decided by the number of errors committed by each team. The Blue Devils (13-2, 5-0) posted three errors in every set except the fourth.

Maryland had only three errors in both the second and the fourth set—which the Terrapins won—but six or more errors in each of the rest.

“It was definitely a battle, and Maryland brought a great team, and it’s very difficult when the other team gets so scrappy,” said senior middle blocker Becci Burling, who posted 14 kills and 10 digs in Friday’s match. “It definitely makes the game much

more intense, and it’s a show of character when we can pull it off. Those are always the best games to win.”

A two-point loss in the fourth set evened the match score at 2-2, and Duke knew it needed to garner momentum for the fifth set to seal its fifth consecutive conference victory. “[Game 4] was unnecessarily close, and we didn’t finish like we should have, and we didn’t have the energy that we needed to have,” said junior middle blocker Amanda Robertson, who contributed 16 digs in addition to her team-high 19 kills. “I knew we had to get it, and we played like we knew how to play and had fun, because when we’re relaxed and having fun, we play our best. It was a great way to finish.”

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She racked up 46 assists, 10 digs, five kills and a .500 hitting percentage, helping the Blue Devils to a solid four-set victory against the Eagles.

Duke held a .351 hitting percentage, with three players posting double-digit kills to combine as a team for 59 compared to the Eagles’ 40. The Blue Devils completed the first set with only one error, but slipped up in the second set with six errors before bouncing back with a 9-1 closing run in an errorless set three. Despite another six errors in the fourth set, the team managed to clinch the match with a 25-14 win.

With five straight ACC wins under its belt, Duke now sits in a tie for first place in the conference standings. The Blue Devils will host in-state rivals North Carolina and N.C. State at home this weekend.

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TURTLE POWER Blue Devils are now on a four-game losing streak

by Nicholas Schwartz THE CHRONICLE

COLLEGE PARK, MD — Still harboring the slim hopes of turning a lost season around, Duke came to College Park Saturday looking to make amends for early season slip-ups. Although the Blue Devils came out swinging and controlled the Terrapins for nearly the entirety of the first half, key fundamental mistakes spurred a Maryland comeback. At the end MORE of the day, Duke ONLINE simply dropped the ball.

Tony Logan’s Check out a photo 84-yard punt reslideshow of the game plus a podcast turn near the beginning of the wrapping up the third quarter game: dukechroniclesports.com gave the Terrapins (4-1, 1-0 in the ACC) a lead they would never relinquish, despite the best efforts of Duke (1-4, 0-2) quarterback Sean Renfree in the dying minutes of regulation. The Blue Devils marched down the field in the fourth quarter and had a shot to take a late lead, but Duke’s wide receivers couldn’t hang on to the football when it mattered most, and Maryland escaped the upset with a nerve-racking 21-16 victory.

“When you are a team like Maryland

that has no turnovers and scores points in the kicking game, you have a real good chance of winning the game,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “Even if [Maryland got] outplayed.”

After emphasizing the importance of getting off to a good start all week, Cutcliffe had to be pleased by the way his team took the field against the Terrapins. The Duke defense stalled Maryland’s first offensive drive to begin the game, and when the Blue Devils got the ball, Renfree’s first few passes were on the money.

During a drive that lasted almost five minutes, Duke drove from its own 12yard line to the Maryland six with little resistance. Renfree zipped a pass across the middle on third and seven to wideout Donovan Varner, who made a darting run across the field for a 28-yard gain. Six plays later, Renfree hurled an accurate ball down the middle to redshirt junior Josh Trezvant, who made a leaping catch to put the Blue Devils on the six-yard line.

Duke couldn’t pound the ball in, however, and was relegated to a 20-yard Will Snyderwine field goal after rushes up the middle by Juwan Thompson and Brandon Connette only brought the Blue Devils to the 2-yard line, and Renfree misfired on third down.

The Blue Devils would march down the field three more times in the first half, only

to uncharacteristically sputter in the red zone. Three times they made it past the Maryland 20-yard line, but each time they couldn’t muster a touchdown.

“It’s frustrating. We got down there four times, got three field goals and one interception,” Cutcliffe said. “This is one of those games that could’ve gone differently if we had improved our execution.”

Duke’s defense kept Maryland out of scoring position for almost the whole first half, but a late 44-yard strike to wide receiver Torrey Smith and a questionable roughing the passer penalty on Patrick Egboh enabled a late Maryland touchdown. Davin Meggett’s three-yard scamper with just over a minute remaining cut the lead to two.

Coming out of the locker room with their crowd re-energized, the Terrapins wasted no time in taking advantage of their momentum. After a solitary Duke first down on its opening drive, a 41-yard Alex King punt was returned by Logan, who made a quick move to evade the first tackler and streaked the remaining 84 yards for the touchdown.

On the opening drive of the fourth quarter, more missed tackling would cost the Blue Devils. After forcing third and long, Duke covered the deep ball well, making quarterback Danny O’Brien, who See maryland on page 8

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Sean Renfree threw for 351 yards and one touchdown, but also had two interceptions, the first of which resulted in a Maryland touchdown drive that made the game 9-7.

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Duke loses battle of fundamentals

by Jacob Levitt THE CHRONICLE

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st Maryland; BOTTOM: Donovan Varner tallied 128 yards receiving.

COLLEGE PARK, MD — Sometimes even a perfect game plan doesn’t guarantee success.

Saturday night in College Park, Duke’s defense had arguably its best game of the season. The Blue Devils allowed only 294 yards Game and 21 points—both Analysis season lows—while gaining over 100 more yards than the Terrapins.

Duke still lost to Maryland, though, by committing too many turnovers and failing to take advantage of chances to put the game away early.

“Tonight we did some of the same things we’ve done all season and we got the same results,” head coach David Cutcliffe said.

“We lost the turnover margin and gave up points in the kicking game.”

The final score obscured the fact that the Blue Devils did outplay the Terrapins in the game. Duke ran 79 plays to only 65 for Maryland and was generally successful at getting the Terrapins off the field, forcing eight punts while only punting four times.

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Devils’ many mistakes. Duke’s two turnovers, in contrast to the Terrapins’ turnover-free game, bring the Blue Devils to a minus-five turnover margin on the season and minusseven on their current four-game losing streak.

Like turnover margin, performance in the red zone makes and breaks teams.

On Saturday, the Blue Devils were broken.

While the defense’s performance in the red zone can be improved, it was the offense’s failure to convert opportunities that really undermined Duke’s chances.

This was especially apparent in the first half, when the Blue Devils came away with three field goals and an interception on four red zone opportunities. The final line was four-of-five red zone opportunities converted by Duke’s offense, a figure that is insufficient to the whole story.

By the midpoint of the second quarter, with the Blue Devils up 9-0, Maryland’s crowd was frustrated enough to turn on their beloved Terrapins, booing successively louder on a three-and-out. Duke took over at midfield— their best starting field position of the day— and quickly moved to the Maryland 19 on just three plays. But the drive stalled, and Sean Renfree forced a third-down pass to Conner

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Vernon which ended up in Terrapin Antwine Perez’s hands. A touchdown there—or in any of the Blue Devils’ previous opportunities— would have given Duke a double-digit lead.

Instead, O’Brien led the Terrapins on an eight-play, 80-yard touchdown drive, stirring the anxious crowd into a frenzy, chewing up most of the remaining time in the half and cutting the Blue Devil lead to a mere two points. After out-rushing Maryland and passing for more than twice as many yards as the Terrapins, Duke only had a shaky two-point lead at half time.

In the second half, the Blue Devils surrendered two touchdowns on plays of more than 70 yards with undisciplined mistakes.

First, Tony Logan scored on an 84-yard punt return to give Maryland a six-point lead. Then Da’Rel Scott caught a screen pass on third-and-seven and took it to the house. Sophomore safety Walt Canty and freshman cornerback Ross Cockrell both had opportunities to wrap up the ballcarrier near the line of scrimmage, but Scott was able to break both tackles.

“On that play we had him,” Canty said.

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MARYLAND 14, DUKE 9

MARYLAND 21, DUKE 9

MARYLAND 21, DUKE 16

A 41-yard punt from Alex King is caught by Tony Logan, who evades his first tackler and takes off. He jets 84 yards down the field, scoring the touchdown and giving Maryland its first lead.

The Blue Devils had done a good job of stopping the deep ball all day. But that didn’t matter to Da’ Rel Scott. He takes a short pass from Danny O’Brien, breaks two tackles and scores a 71-yard touchdown.

In Maryland’s territory with less than four minutes on the clock, Sean Renfree can’t capitalize on four opportunites to move the ball up field.

The Blue Devils turn over on downs.

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women’s soccer

Despite many chances, Duke can’t capitalize

by Danny Nolan THE CHRONICLE

Sunday afternoon’s game against Florida State was the first time all year that a Blue Devil failed to score a goal.

And it took them 18 shots to do it.

Failing to convert once on a myriad of scoring chancDUKE 1 es, Duke lost 3-1 to the Seminoles.

3 FSU According to head coach Robbie Church, the Blue Devils showed promise in the game, but could never find that extra spark.

“We were spotty to say the least,” he said. “We were really good, but never got anything out of it.”

Florida State (9-2, 3-0 in the ACC) scored an own goal in the game’s fifth minute, giving the No. 16 Blue Devils (6-3-3, 0-2-1) an early lead. The No. 10 Seminoles responded in the 17th minute after Tori Huster hit Janice Cayman, who found Rachel Lim for the score. 20 minutes of game time later, Amanda DaCosta scored her third goal of the year from a pass by Breezy Hupp, giving her team a 2-1 advantage.

Although Florida State went into the locker room with the lead, Duke held an 8-7 shot advantage in the first half. Freshman Laura Weinberg attempted four, while fellow freshman Mollie Pathman had two.

In the second half, the Blue Devils tallied three quick shots, but saw all of them stopped by Kelsey Wys. The Semi-

noles capitalized on the offensive inefficiency from Duke, and Hupp scored in the game’s 69th minute to give Florida State an insurmountable lead, as well as the most goals scored on the Blue Devils all season.

Although the Seminoles did take the victory, they had an uncharacteristic amount of fouls, collecting 15 total over the course of the game.

Duke’s offense had several opportunities to score, supplying 18 shots, but was shut down by Florida State’s Kelsey Wys, who had 15 saves total. This was the first game of the season where no Blue Devil player scored, as the only score came off an own goal. The Seminoles’ stout defense slowed down any kind of momentum the Blue Devils could muster throughout the game.

“We really controlled the second half, but we were still down a goal,” Church said. “The same thing happened at Maryland. Right now we’re just lacking that knock-out punch.”

Although Church had a positive outlook about the past few games, he also realizes that the team needs to start winning games. He said there was a sense of “urgency” in the locker room, but also said things are not as bad as they appear.

“We’re really playing well as a group and are creating opportunities,” he said. “We could be 3-0 in the ACC with a few goals here and few saves there.”

The Blue Devils will return to ACC action Thursday at Miami.

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Mollie Pathman did technically register a goal against Florida State after a Seminole defender scored an own goal.

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While five Blue Devils play this week in the high-profile Riviera/ITA All-American Championships in Pacific Palisades, Calif., two members of the team also spent this weekend in sunny California.

One of them even scored her first-ever collegiate win.

Freshman Hanna Mar beat San Diego’s Juliette Coupez, 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 to win the San Diego State Fall Classic Sunday. Mar dominated her opponents in the tournament, winning her first round match against San Diego’s Cara Brown, 6-1, 6-1 and beating San Diego State’s Julia Wais in the semifinals, 6-1, 6-1.

“We had a really good weekend but it gives us some things to work on, and there were times where they both played well and struggled,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “We played the tournament to get some work in and we did that. I was happy that Hanna won the championship. Hanna was down and came back to win and that shows her determination as a player.”

She and junior Monica Gorny also took third place honors in the doubles competition Sunday after taking down Cal State Northridge’s Brooke Doane and Maria Pistalu, 8-1.

Gorny participated in the singles tournament as well, and lost to San Diego’s Laura Claus 6-4, 6-4 in the semifinals before topping San Diego State’s Olivia Colman 6-7(5), 6-2, 6-0 to take third place.

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Junior Monica Gorny finished in third in the SDSU Fall Classic after beating Olivia Colman Sunday.

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Duke men win Great American Women take eight of top 10 spots in Hagan Stone Classic “He was kind of overcome by the heat coming up the home stretch,” Ogilvie said. “You have to be really careful Duke cross country runners shattered several person- about bringing a guy back who has suffered some form of al records this past weekend. The men dominated the heat distress.”

Great American Cross Country Festival, while the womThe women’s team also experienced a new level of sucen took eight of the top 10 spots at the Hagan Stone cess as junior Esther Vermeer lowered her personal best Cross Country Classic. by twenty seconds and took first as an individual at the “We were waiting for that race and it came today,” men’s Hagan Stone meet. head coach Norm Ogilvie said. “I thought that Dominick “She [Vermeer] ran unattached but had one of the Robinson ran a courageous race. He was in a real foot race fastest times for a Duke athlete on that course,” women’s with a legitimate runner... and he didn’t back down. And head coach Kevin Jermyn said. “There’s a good chance when it came time to win the race uphill, he found a way to she’ll be competing for us at a championship level.” get it done.”

Vermeer’s impressive perforRobinson, a sophomore who mance bodes well for Duke as “I had a race where I didn’t the Blue Devils head toward the took the individual title, was more than satisfied with both the team die the last mile. I stuck with increased level of competition and individual results. that accompanies the end of the it and was able to get the “I beat my time from last year season. and I won,” Robinson said. “Those “We had a girl run this course win.” were both my goals so I was happy who placed eighth at nationals with it. I had a race where I didn’t — Dominick Robinson and Esther’s time is better,” Jerdie the last mile. I stuck with it and myn said. “We’re excited about was able to get the win.” where she’s at.”

Other Blue Devil runners also had exceptional races at Vermeer was happy as well, but quick to emphasize that the Great American Cross Country Festival as they forged the top finish was by no means something that would make up the hill to the finish to earn their spots in the top ten. her complacent.

“I think we saw some career-type races for our sec“I still want to compete for Duke [at a higher level],” ond man Brendon Pierson, our third man Joey El- Vermeer said. “I want to be in the top seven.” sakr,” Ogilvie said. “So the top five guys [for Duke] Despite the continued desire for improvement by Verhere will be running at the Virginia Invitational in meer and the other Duke runners, the coaches of both two weeks and they’ve got a mathematical shot at teams are proud of their squads and their performance making the ACC squad.” this weekend.

The only downside for Duke at this weekend’s meet was “This is one of the more positive competitions we’ve that senior Jonathan Chu struggled with the heat near the had all season,” Jermyn said. “As for the men, it was end of the race. He was still able to complete, but Ogilvie just a continuation of the success they’ve experienced voiced some concerns. thus far.”

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Sophomore Dominick Robinson won his first collegiate race, the Great American Cross Country Festival, with a time of 24:43.

m. soccer from page 2 Wenger appeared to make contact with the ball, Herrick went down, and the referee awarded the Terrapins a penalty kick. In what would be the game’s momentum-changing moment, Kassel scored, and Maryland led 1-0.

The Terrapins continued to push forward in the final moments of the first half and were granted a free kick deep in Duke territory in the 41st minute. Herrick’s shot was blocked by a Duke defender, but freshman Patrick Mullins fired the rebound from seven yards out past a diving James Belshaw to give Maryland a two-goal lead going into halftime.

The second half was much tougher for the Blue Devils as the Terrapins’ lead gave new life to the sellout crowd. Duke was forced to send extra players forward, making the team vulnerable to a Maryland counterattack.

The Terrapins almost scored several times on quick counters during the second half. In the 77th minute, Mullins launched a rocket from the top of the box that struck the right post. The rebound bounced to an open Matt Oduaran on the left post but he failed to put it in the back of the net. Belshaw made several crucial stops and did not allow a goal in the second half, finishing with seven saves.

“I thought we hung in there, and when you’re chasing the game you expose yourself sometimes,” Kerr said. “They had a couple of opportunities on the counter-attack but that’s going to happen when you’re chasing the game. They are a very good team when playing with a lead.”

Kerr pushed Wenger up to center midfield midway through the second half to try and create more chances for Finley and the rest of the Duke offense.

“Wenger has a lot of range and he’s very good going forward,” Kerr said. “We made a few adjustments because we were down two-nothing, and he created some havoc for us around the box. We just couldn’t finish our chances.”

Duke had 10 shots in the game, with zero on goal, while Maryland had 19 total shots, with nine on goal. And at the end of the day, the Blue Devils’ inability to finish ultimately cost them the game.

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field hockey from page 2 In the weekend’s second game against No. 11 Boston University (7-4) Duke was able to reverse the scoreline, winning a tough matchup, 1-0. Freshman Caashia Karringten scored the game-winning goal off a penalty corner at the very beginning of the second half. Senior captain Samantha Nelson had another solid performance, stopping six shots and earning her fourth

shutout of the season.

After splitting their weekend matches, the Blue Devils now begin a tough road stretch for the month of October as they play four consecutive away games. However, Bozman believes the slate, against all unranked teams, will get Duke back on the right track.

“Our expectations are the same now as they’ve been all [season long],” Bozman said. “We should be playing better than we are… and winning these games.”

maryland from page 4 was only 9-for-26 in the game, check down to Da’ Rel Scott for what looked like a minimal gain. Scott broke through attempted tackles by safety Walt Canty and cornerback Ross Cockrell, however, and sprinted down the right sideline for a 71-yard touchdown that extended the Maryland lead to 21-9.

“He made a great move to get away and it was off to the races from there,” Canty said.

Facing a 12-point deficit and a raucous crowd, the Blue Devils didn’t back down. With 11 minutes remaining in the game, Renfree engineered an 84yard drive highlighted by a 35-yard pass to Varner, who appeared to come down with the ball in the endzone, but was ruled down at the one. On second and goal, Renfree rolled right and found tight end Brandon King at the goal line, who fought his way in to bring the score to 21-16.

After a key defensive stand during which Duke only allowed the Terrapins 14 yards, Renfree took the ball with his

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Duke picked up the win against Boston University Sunday after stopping five shots in the first nine minutes.

our open field tackles.”

Dropped passes, particularly in key spots, was the final area Duke made mistakes in. Against Wake Forest, two of Renfree’s passes hit his receivers in the hands before getting deflected up for interceptions. On Saturday, there weren’t any interceptions off of tipped passes, but drops still played a pivotal role. On second-andfifteen from the Maryland 38 with under two minutes remaining, Renfree dropped back to pass and threw over the middle to

team down five with only four minutes left on the clock. He completed five passes to put Duke on the Maryland 33yard line, but the Blue Devils missed on first down and committed a false start before the next snap. Facing secondand-15, the offensive line gave Renfree time to throw, and the quarterback found Varner in space over the middle, but the uncovered junior wideout let the ball slip through his hands to the turf. Tosses to Conner Vernon and Austin Kelly fell incomplete, giving the Terrapins the ball with the Blue Devils unable to stop the clock.

“I dropped the ball and I think I tried to get up field too fast before securing the catch. I definitely think that could have been a big play,” Varner said.

Although Duke failed to pull off the upset at Byrd Stadium, the Blue Devils could have walked away winners, and can only look to the upcoming bye week as a much-needed time to refocus.

“All we can do is take it one play at a time, and that’s truly the stage this team is in,” Cutcliffe said. “If this team will do that, we’re going to get better and turn losses into wins.” a wide-open Donovan Varner. Varner, who had enough room to run to the endzone untouched, dropped the ball. With another shot on fourth-and-15, Renfree again threw the ball into the middle of Maryland’s defense to Austin Kelly. But Kelly was covered tightly by Perez, who managed to jar the ball out of Kelly’s hands.

After the game, the team was left to wonder about what could have been.

“If we catch a few more balls it could’ve been a different game,” Cutcliffe added. “We’ve played two conference games. We should’ve won both of them. That’s frustrating.”

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Reserve judgment on sex crime policy In response to national of Student Conduct are notitrends in the legal commu- fied. The Women’s Center’s nity, the University revised role is to provide the victim its sexual misconduct policy with resources for medical during summer 2009 to pro- and psychological support. mote more accurate report- The OSC automatically being of “forcible gins an investisexual offensgation into the editorial es” at Duke. allegation.

Previously, University ofWith these revisions as a ficials were only required backdrop, the Duke Univerto report faculty or staff of- sity Police Department pubfenses against students. The lished the Clery Campus Sechanges, aimed at drawing a curity Report for 2010-2011, more accurate picture of sex its annual review of crime crimes at Duke, mandate that across campus. This report any faculty, staff or student details a rise in the number who formally represents the of forcible sex offenses reUniversity—such as RAs or ported from five incidents FACs—also report instances each in 2007 and 2008 to 13 of student-on-student mis- in 2009. conduct when that informaUniversity officials attrition is presented to them. bute this to an increase in Once reported, the Wom- the number of offenses reen’s Center and the Office ported, not as a rise in the

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overall occurrence of these cases. They are quick to cite the revised sexual misconduct policy as the impetus behind this surge. DUPD Chief John Dailey said the number increased as a direct result of more reporting from Student Affairs.

However, we are cautious to conclude that this relationship is necessarily causal.

Fluctuations in crime statistics such as these can—and frequently do—occur. While we certainly do not dismiss the rise in the number of reported sexual assaults, we also maintain that the results of the revised policy are still ambiguous, it being just one year after the new policy’s implementation.

It is unlikely that only 13 incidents of sexual miscon-

duct occurred at Duke this past year. In reality, the number is likely much higher.

We need to continue to be diligent in propagating this policy across campus and integrating it into the framework of various University institutions and into the collective psyche on campus. We need to reserve any judgment—both positive or negative—regarding the effects of the revisions until more consistent data can be obtained.

We commend the job that the Women’s Center and others have done in promoting these changes in policy to a variety of campus groups and institutions.

In the meantime, regardless of the specifics of the policy, we as students bear

the onus of changing campus culture to ensure that incidents and behaviors of this sort cannot and never will be tolerated. In this case, students need to look beyond the “letter of the law” and take its spirit to heart.

As Women’s Center Director Ada Gregory told The Chronicle last Fall soon after the new policy made its debut, “we’re creating an environment that says, ‘This is not tolerated in our community,’ and when you create that environment, victims are more likely to come forward and seek help.”

If this new policy is to be truly successful, we as students must work to establish the type of environment on campus that Gregory describes.

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s a senior, I think, or at least hope very much, 3. Join eRecruiters Anonymous that I know more than I did three years ago.

This may apply more for juniors and seniors, Depending on what you think I knew three but it is nonetheless a warning for all future juniors years ago, you may or may not find and seniors alike. If someone were the following advice helpful. But to log my Internet activity in the lately, while staying up at night worpast month, they’d probably notice, rying about the job search—among rather bizarrely, that my most viewed other anxiety-riddled subjects—I’ve website is not Gmail. Or Blackboard. had time to think about my years at Nope, not Facebook either.

Duke. Through trial and error (probIt’s actually a sterile-looking webably more of the latter), I’ve come up site called eRecruiting, otherwise with the following list of suggestions, known as the method through which doris jwo to be added to as needed. many Duke students will eventually two points for 1. Resist those freebies obtain jobs. honesty We’ve all been there before. StandIt is so easy to get caught up in the ing in a line of 500 students waiting whirlwind of the job search, to feel for the arrival of that last box of size small T-shirts your heart flutter each time you receive an invite to that you will probably only ever wear as pajamas but an interview or, alternatively, your soul crushed when absolutely must have anyway. Or, as freshman starved the inevitable decline appears. This is something I’m for food points, attending events just because “FREE struggling with now, along with probably half the sePIZZA!” was highlighted as a major selling point. nior class. The only thing I can suggest is to learn to I’ve experienced the infamous Homecoming T- laugh about it a little bit, with yourself and with your shirt Mob of 2007 where I came uncomfortably close friends. Think about the worst interview you’ve ever to ending my Duke career as The Girl Who Got had. In retrospect, what you said was probably pretty Pushed Off the Plaza Balcony Trying to Get a Free darn funny.

T-shirt. I’ve loaded up the extra plate of food at the Just don’t say it again next time.

Marketplace because I just had to get my money’s Now if you’ll excuse me, I just accidentally got worth. If I totaled up the number of hours spent in logged out of eRecruiting due to inactivity. line at Duke, even sans basketball season, I’d prob4. Sleep well ably still be looking at days upon days of unproducIn the strange, little bubble that is Duke, bragtive queuing for free stuff I didn’t really need. ging rights come in all types. Saying “man, I’ve only Believe me, sometimes it’s really just not worth it. gotten three hours of sleep a night this past week” 2. It’s OK (sometimes) to be a quitter earns you points, whether it’s because you were in At the activities fair my freshman year, I signed up the library all week or out clubbing every night. for 20 different listservs. In my eagerness to get inAs an insomniac and full-time student, I realize volved in extracurriculars, I somehow managed not sleep is hard to come by. But, do you really need to to sign up for any of the groups that I’m currently spend the extra half hour past 3 a.m. clicking through actively involved with. your friend’s recently posted Facebook album?

What happened in between? I joined several It’s been suggested that chronic lack of sleep leads groups and quickly realized they were not for me, to weight gain, heart disease, a shorter lifespan and but I didn’t know whether to devote time to finding a weakened immune system. According to a study something better or just stick with what I had already in SLEEP, pulling all-nighters leads to a 15 percent started. I ended up choosing the former. drop in working-memory performance.

Time at Duke is too short to waste. Not to say that If nothing else, sleep more to avoid ending up you should flit around from club to club, but it’s like the kid in one of my classes awhile back who worth spending the time to find something you love nodded off and fell off his chair in the middle enough to look forward to. And there are so many of lecture. possibilities here, the vast majority of which are open Again, I should reiterate this is my own perspecto every single student (I fully admit to being inca- tive. Were I to add a fifth habit, it’d be to disregard pable of joining most, if not all, club sports teams) people you disagree with. interested. No one likes a quitter, but an unhappy, unsatisfied member is much, much worse for the Doris Jwo is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every group as well. other Monday.

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Where have all the children gone?

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n Sept. 9, 15-year-old Billy Lucas hanged himself in his family’s barn after facing a long period of anti-gay bullying at school. On Sept. 19, 13-year-old Seth Walsh was found unconscious in his backyard after he tried to hang himself from a tree for similar reasons. He died of complications on Sept. 28. On Sept. 22, Tyler Clementi, 18, jumped off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate secretly filmed and posted a video online of him havthomas ing sexual relations with another gebremedhin man. Asher Brown, 13, shot and killed himself on Sept. 23 after word by word enduring constant harassment from his classmates for being gay. On Sept. 29, openly gay Johnson & Wales student Raymond Chase, 19, hung himself in his dorm room.

The Williams Institute at the UCLA Law School and the National Education Policy Center released troubling information in regards to the treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students: “Over 85 percent report being harassed because of their sexual or gender identity, and over 20 percent report being physically attacked. Far too often teachers and administrators do nothing in response. In part because of this, the suicide rate for LGBT students continues to be three to four times higher than that of their straight counterparts.”

Suicide bubbles, especially among young people, are nothing new—one of the earliest documented examples includes Werther Fever, which spread among teenagers in 18th century Europe after the publication of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s terribly depressing novel “The Sorrows of Young Werther.” However, as authorities realized at the time, suicide clusters should signal a pressing need for increased awareness and action in regards to a social defect that is most likely being swept under the rug.

As a gay kid growing up in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, life was pretty good. I had a lot of friends and enjoyed going to school. I’ve always wondered why I was so lucky. Of course, I wasn’t out until after high school, but my personality leaves few people guessing. Columbus, as many of you might not know, is the epicenter of the gay Midwest with one of the largest LGBT populations outside of New York. So the sort of liberal-minded energy that often exists in such settings probably just radiated all around. I left Ohio for Massachusetts to attend boarding school, where I was greeted by an even more liberal atmosphere.

But even so, it’s not hard for me to relate to this numbing fear—the fear of being exposed. Harassment comes in all forms and the recent string of suicides shows that younger kids are just as vulnerable to its effects. Undoubtedly, part of what is contributing to the harassment, and that did not exist in its totally consuming, ever-present form when many of us were younger, is the Internet. Winston Churchill once said, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on.”

Well,now, lies and truths are swimming through invisible wires at breakneck speed and destroying so many lives in the process.

The Internet also grants anonymity, a blanket under which cowards hide.

On our own campus, rumors breed like bed bugs. We spread lies online, or we paint hate speech on the bridge under the cover of night or we drunkenly heckle a student walking home from the library.

The individual act, we may be able to explain away as an isolated instance, an innocent slip-up. But there is no such thing as a single act.

Each of us, every one, is the total sum of all the good and bad things that have passed in our day, and our weeks. Any act that works to degrade or humiliate another human being, no matter how insignificant we believe our role to have been, is not harmless—it is indecent. An individual should not have to be strong to get through their day. Their life should not feel like a burden.

What does take strength is listening to the voices of goodness and decency that are sometimes muffled under the increasingly growing invitation for mass cruelty.

There is no wisdom here. Only an observation: I worry that the fight for decency is losing ground. In the preface to his book, “The Conquest of Happiness,” philosopher Bertrand Russell states, “This book is not addressed to highbrows, or to those who regard a practical problem merely as something to be talked about. No profound philosophy or deep erudition will be found in the following pages. I have aimed only at putting together some remarks which are inspired by what I hope is common sense.”

Thomas Gebremedhin is a Trinity senior. His column will run every other Friday.

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The bigger issue at stake Being from New Jersey (I am not the scum of the earth, ing into college from different backgrounds, people bring I promise), I grew up believing that Rutgers was sort of my a lot of different perspectives onto campus. While not makschool. It is the state university of New Jersey, and I would ing excuses for the actions of some individuals, it is imporalways watch their football games hoping tant to note that many people are naïve. that they would do my state proud. I even Here at Duke, we are lucky when it remember when Rutgers made Greg Schiacomes to acceptance and information. no one of the top-paid state employees in We have great organizations, includNew Jersey after an 11-2 season coaching ing a great LGBT Center and Common the team (for those of you who don’t watch Ground (which is becoming somewhat college football, it all went downhill from of a cult sensation). Even last week, the there). I mean, Rutgers was my team and LGBT Center sponsored a float in the evmost of the players were from my state. antonio segalini er-growing Pride Parade. The 26th annuEven the coach is from Jersey. It was a great al parade saw an estimated 10,000 people musings thing to cheer for. attend, including about 100 students.

Despite the stigma around the school, However, in a Chronicle article about the football team was connected to the state in a way that the parade, Janie Long, director of the Center for LGBT no other school could compete with. It was our state’s Life, said, “We continue to receive reports from students school, much like UNC is to (most of) North Carolina. across the campus of incidents that are bias and prejudice So even though I traded in the Red and White for the related to LGBTQ students. We think the visibility and Blue and White, a connection still exists. And that connec- community building that the Pride Parade event creates tion proved painfully strong when I heard about Rutgers for LGBTQ students on the Duke campus is just one of freshman Tyler Clementi committing suicide after discov- many ways to encourage students to feel a sense of pride ering his roommate hid a webcam in their dorm room and in who they are, to enhance their sense of community filmed a sexual encounter between Clementi and another and to counter bias and prejudice.” Her statements sugmale. Now the media, college administrators and others gest that, while we are a very accepting university, there are starting a new cry against an old issue—cyberbullying. still is room to grow and things to combat.

“It [cyberbullying] must be really getting out of hand And, unfortunately, there will always be things to if people in college, especially at Rutgers, are jumping combat. Despite the understanding and accepting naoff bridges,” University of Central Florida student Tonya ture of our University, there still exist those that will Christmas said in an interview with an Orlando news or- attack people they perceive as different. ganization. Well, yes, I guess cyberbullying is a big deal, It seems due time we sought to combat ignorance but the bigger issue here is invasion of privacy with the early and often. With the parade happening Sept. 27 and explicit intent to mock a fellow human being.

National Coming Out Day (and the awesome T-shirts) I’m sorry, but if someone comes out and tweets, Oct. 11, the dialogue on campus is not introduced to “Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went students in a big way until they are already a month onto into molly’s room and turned on my webcam. I saw campus. Considering the hate that happened to a Ruthim making out with a dude. Yay,” it is much more gers freshman, this appalling act should be a catalyst to than simply cyberbullying. It is completely destroying spark early communication and openness. the privacy of a fellow student, and outing someone Students come onto campus much more naïve then who was trying to be himself. This is disgusting from they think they are, and honestly this naivete can lead to anyone, but from the kid’s roommate? a situation similar to that at Rutgers. Without open comSeriously? Cyberbullying? Let’s not circumvent the munication from day one, it is really easy for students to actual issue. dissociate from what they do not know. If there is anyIt is like hearing about someone burned alive and thing we can take away from this horrible event, it is that exclaiming, “Wow, what unsafe fire techniques, let’s we must remember that we are all Duke students, and call Smokey the Bear.” Calling this tragedy “cyberbully- we should make sure that there is always an open and acing” continues a societal pattern of pleading ignorance cepting dialogue throughout campus. Ignorance should about people’s ability to destroy their peers’ lives: in remain the minority at Duke, in absolutely everything. this case, tiptoeing around the “hate” in a hate crime.

As LGBT groups rally, it is becoming increasingly obviAntonio Segalini is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs ous that this was not just an isolated incident. When com- every Monday.

Karen Owen shatters the glass ceiling

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hat a twist! Wasn’t it just a few years ago that “slut” and “whore,” why not celebrate this achievement as every credible news source and Nancy Grace the Seneca Falls Convention of the Internet age? had the whole nation thinking that the Duke Besides the fact that Owen asserted her female lacrosse team was full of rapists? Flash dominance and embraced her sexuality forward to 2010, and it turns out that and all that, the most remarkable part not only did they not rape anybody— for me was her talent in executing her they were raped! research. From what the Gossip Bro reFor those of you who haven’t heard search team was able to glean from the (viz., the Asians living in Perkins), 2010 Internet, Owen herself was roughly a 6.7 Duke grad Karen Owen made headlines on the Duke Scale, yet she was able to when her “senior thesis,” which details catch exclusively 9s and 10s with relaher sexcapades with 13 Duke athletes that monday, monday tive ease. Sure, little girls have plenty of she banged into submission during her historical role models to look up to— gossip bro four years at Duke, went viral last week.

Eleanor Roosevelt for her human rights The way in which her PowerPoint prework, Harriet Tubman for her delicious sentation (complete with pictures and sexual analyses maple syrup, etc.—but if you ask me, Karen Owen outof such things as her subjects’ stamina, performance does the lot of them for her ability to romp through an and, of course, “equipment size”) created such a dra- entire athletic roster with unmatched poise. matic volte-face of gender norms makes Owen, in my So what was that “special something” that allowed mind, the most average-looking sororstitute feminist Owen to catapult from that girl who gives you the eye since Lucretia Mott and Suzy B. on the Shooters dance floor to the level of an ElizaBut unlike the senescent suffragettes of collectible beth Cady Stanton-esque American hero? The simple coin fame, Karen Owen didn’t just achieve equality; she answer is: She owned it. Owen doesn’t come off as actually managed to demean the opposite sex to the point some low-rent harlot or like a jealous and bitter girl; where one must ask if the term “weaker sex” shouldn’t be she comes off as a funny, actually intelligent lady who replaced with “freakier sex.” Can anybody really argue likes to show people a good time. And she has nothing that gender inequality still exists when a seemingly inno- to be ashamed about. cent and fairly generic Duke girl can bring down the repuIn short, Gossip Bro admires her for being the best tations of more than a dozen varsity athletes with a simple sort of person imaginable: a chill bro who likes to get ef.pptx file, and the only comeuppance she receives is a ru- fed up. Thank you, Miss Owen, if only for proving to the mor of a book deal? I’m telling you, the glass ceiling is in Duke community that girls like you do, in fact, go here. a million little pieces, and Palin and Hilldog had nothing to do with it. So instead of throwing around words like Gossip Bro got his groove back.

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masse from Mount Ararat to Australia, not stopping along the way?” he asked, referring to the location where many believe Noah’s Ark made landfall. “Why did all the penguins undertake the mass migration south to the Antarctic and not the equally-hospitable Arctic?”

Despite its precision, he said evolution is not without its design flaws.

“Evolution cannot go back to the drawing board,” Dawkins said. “It has to improve step by step, generation by generation.”

Durham resident Brooke Heston called the speech inspiring, saying it was a “call to arms to stand up and express voice of reason.”

Sophomore Max Kagan said he was disappointed that there were no dissenting views in the audience.

“I was a little disappointed no one confronted him,” he said. “The questions were, ‘I agree with you, what can I do?’ I hoped theists on campus would have challenged him.”

DUPD Chief John Dailey said the increase in reported sexual assaults is a result of revisions made last year to the University’s sexual misconduct policy. The policy requires University officials—including resident advisors and first-year advisory counselors—to report student-onstudent sexual misconduct incidents.

“We can definitely say that the increased number is due to more reporting by Student Affairs and that policy that they changed last year,” Dailey said, adding that he reviewed the sources of the 2009 reports.

Of the 13 forcible sex offenses, Dailey said eight were reports of forcible fondling and seven of the forcible sex offenses involved acquaintances.

Another area that saw an increase is robbery, which jumped from two in 2008 to seven in 2009. Dailey said the increase is likely due to the economic downturn and normal data fluctuations.

“It’s a natural cycle,” Dailey said. “We have so few, it just sort of ebbs and flows.”

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Incidents of aggravated assault doubled from six in 2008 to 12 in 2009. Dailey said the University has started including reports of patient assaults on medical staff in this category, which accounted for 11 out of 12 incidents in 2009.

Referrals and arrests for alcohol and illegal substance use also increased. The Office of Student Conduct saw 43 more referrals for alcohol violations, which rose from 320 in 2008 to 363 in 2009. Alcohol violations also resulted in 13 arrests last year. Drug law violation referrals increased from 32 to 38, but arrests remained steady at 20.

Dailey said DUPD has received more reports from resident advisors about alcohol violations.

Joe Gonzalez, associate dean of residence life, attributed the increase of reporting to students, who he thinks have become more inclined to seek help for their fellow students. Gonzalez added that RLHS has not revised its resident assistant training program in the past six years.

Tom Szigethy, associate dean and director of the Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention Center, said the center has seen a slight increase in student use this semester, although it partly stemmed from outstanding violations from last year.

For this academic year, campus safety will be handled somewhat differently, as the Campus Safety department is being reorganized and considering changes to managing campus crime.

“We are looking at how we do business, period, in the police department,” Dailey said. “We’re looking at a change in scheduling so we can... tailor to when things might happen.”

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“It’s a matter of keeping up the discipline... reducing where it is appropriate to reduce and investing where it is appropriate to invest,” Brodhead said.

He noted that the University’s schools, departments and other units have some autonomy in how they choose to balance their budgets.

Arts and Sciences is looking to control its budget by reducing the number of faculty members—currently at a high of 645 regular-rank professors. Brodhead said the Arts and Sciences faculty has grown so large because fewer professors have chosen to leave the University as a result of the recession. He noted that “it was never our goal to have a faculty of 645.”

“The question is, do you have the faculty to teach the courses and do the research, not do you have the same number of faculty members as last year,” Brodhead said.

The Trustees approved construction of the School of Medicine’s new educational building, the Learning Center, scheduled for completion in 2013. The $53 million project is funded by a $35 million pledge from the Charlotte-based Duke Endowment, other donations, reserve funding and debt financing.

The six-floor, 84,000 sq.-ft. building will house clinical labs, classrooms, a ground-floor auditorium seating up to 400 and a student life center that will include dining and study space.

The Learning Center will be the first building dedicated to medical student education since the School of Medicine began holding classes in the Davison Building in 1930.

Dr. Nancy Andrews, dean of the School of Medicine, noted that there is “tremendous excitement” about the facility because it will be useful to faculty and students.

“I anticipate that it will have greater impact on recruiting students,” Andrews wrote in an e-mail. “It will be an advantage for us to have a learning center that is both state-of-the-art and beautiful.”

The Learning Center will be located near the center of the medical campus, on Bryan-Searle Drive on West Campus. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2011.

The Board also discussed the investigations into cancer researcher Dr. Anil Potti. Blue said it is important for the Board to be aware of the investigations because accusations of incorrect science could harm the University’s reputation and also affect patients in clinical studies.

“If the science is good we should definitely ensure that the treatments it brings are available,” Blue said. “The process for determining the reliability of the science is in place and I think at the end of the day it is something we will all be happy with the way it is resolved.”

In other business: The Trustees reviewed the Nicholas School of the Environment’s strategic plan and discussed progress on internationalization efforts.

Blue said Nicholas School Dean Bill Chameides described the ways in which the Nicholas School and Duke are leading the country in sustainability efforts and outlined steps necessary to achieve the Nicholas School’s strategic vision.

Greg Jones, vice president and vice provost for global strategy and programs, briefed the Trustees on Duke’s ongoing efforts to become an international presence, Brodhead said. He added that the completion date for the Kunshan, China campus has been pushed back to the summer of 2012, which Brodhead called “a more realistic timeline.”