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ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH YEAR, Issue 56

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PRIN 60 DEVILS TAME TIGERS

by Matthew Chase and Julia Love THE CHRONICLE

Tailgate ended not with a bang, but a whimper.

The Main West Quadrangle was quiet and tranquil Saturday morning—a far cry from the “Main Quad Throwdown” that more than 1,000 students pledged to attend within three hours of the event’s creation on Facebook.

Following an e-mail announcing the cancellation of Saturday’s Tailgate last Monday, students voiced their anger and grief by updating their statuses on the social networking site.

“Larry, I want my $50,000 back.” “Candlelight vigil?” “NO NO NO. PLEASE, LARRY! WE’LL BE GOOD, WE PROMISE!!!”

“TAILGATE IS MY EVERYTHING.” Sophomore Renata Dinamarco said she was disappointed that students did not act on the passion they professed online.

“Everyone, when they got the e-mail, was furious. I am ashamed to say that the passion has kind of fizzled out,” she said.

“I really wish that there had been a demonstration.... I really wanted to see it, but I didn’t see anyone taking leadership on that—that’s what was missing.”

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by Vignesh Nathan THE CHRONICLE

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After getting off to a sloppy start, Duke easily pulled away from Princeton Sunday night in Cameron Indoor Stadium, winning its opening game of the season, 97-60.

And they’re off. No. 1 Duke began its 2010-2011 season with a bang on Sunday against Princeton.

The Blue Devils blew out the Tigers, 97-60, to the satisfaction of the 1,600 or so Cameron Crazies-turned-Vikings in attendance. The fans wore Viking helmets to honor senior, and former line monitor, Drew Everson, who tragically passed away earlier this semester.

While the final result was dominant, the game did not start as well as expected for Duke. Though they never trailed, the Blue Devils looked unsure of themselves early on in the first half. Princeton’s zone defense wore down on Duke’s big men, and the Blue Devils were unable to score as explosively inside the paint as they might have hoped.

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Four teams take prize at Start-Up Challenge event

by Sanette Tanaka THE CHRONICLE

Using only a PowerPoint presentation and a few props, dozens of Duke student teams had exactly one minute to woo the judges with their business proposals in the 5th annual Elevator Pitch Competition.

Of the 66 initial teams, 18 groups delivered their pitches in the final round Friday, and four undergraduate teams emerged as winners of the four awards. The competition was the first main event in the Duke Start-Up Challenge, the student-led entrepreneurship contest that runs from November to April. “[The competition] must have tripled in student involvement,” said Jon Fjeld, a judge in the preliminary contests and executive director of Duke’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. “There is huge enthusiasm, a lot of energy and it’s a wonderful outlet for students to express not just business ideas but their creativity as well.”

Senior Cliff Satell won the judges’ choice prize, the $5,000 top honor, with his business project “Nooch,” a peer-to-peer version of PayPal that aims to facilitate monetary exchange on a consumer level. Satell declined to comment for this article.

Pitched by senior Cheney Tsai, the updated course recommendation system Advisync won the audience choice prize,

which was determined by audience members and online viewers via text message. CarBone, which utilizes bones as source material for batteries, earned the judges’ choice runner up, and ShelfRelief.com, a website designed to cut textbook costs, won its creators the best pitch delivery award.

The final 18 teams were the winners of eight different qualifying track competitions held throughout the week, including energy and environment; information technology and media; women-led startups; and undergraduate-led startups.

“For the most part, there were some really stellar ideas and teams,” said Meghan Gallagher, co-president of the organizing committee for the Duke Start-Up Challenge and a second-year student at the Fuqua School of Business.

“The common feedback from the judges was that they had a hard time picking just one theme, and that’s the best feedback we could get.”

The teams were evaluated on their presentation, organization and communication of their business ideas, Gallagher said.

“An elevator pitch is your classic run-in,” she said. “You want to get the investor to schedule a full meeting with you by hitting them with the impressive points.”

More than 400 people filled Fuqua’s Geneen Auditorium

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“Ironically, the real threat to Duke’s image is the one no one is talking about: faculty budget cuts.”

­—Sophomore Antonio Segalini. See column page 6

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Fuqua earns sixth in business school rankings, Page 3

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The final 18 groups participating in the fifth Annual Elevator Pitch Competition had just two minutes to deliver their business proposals.

Duke wins thriller on penalty kicks, SPORTSWRAP page 2

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“Head coach David Cutcliffe on Boston College linebacker Luke Kuechly, who finished the day with 21 tackles, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery: ‘He’s big, he’s fast, he doesn’t make any mistakes. I want him to retire early. If he weren’t such a great kid, I’d say he was on steroids.’Cutcliffe also said that Kuechly is “without question” the best defensive football player in college football.”

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Soldiers in the Kenyan Army participate in a public demonstration at the Mombasa International Agricultural Show in Nyali, Kenya. The exposition hosted 172 international and local organizations and companies to showcase, advertise and share their products and knowledge. Participants disseminated information on various agricultural techniques and new technologies.

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Obama’s Afghan strategy to Ireland denies rumors be reviewed next month of a financial bailout WASHINGTON, D.C. — A White House review of President Obama’s Afghanistan strategy next month will judge “how this current approach is working” but will not suggest alternatives if aspects of the policy are found to be failing, a senior administration official said Tuesday.

The review, one year after the strategy was announced last December, will provide policymakers with an assessment of whether it is “delivering the sorts of effects that we want based on the resources committed” and is “performing at the right pace,” the official said.

Assessment data began to flow in from civilian and military forces in Afghanistan two weeks ago, said the official, who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity. Input from U.S. allies will also be gathered at a NATO summit in Lisbon that Obama is set to attend at the end of next week.

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DUBLIN — Ireland rejected speculation that it was seeking a rescue before a Nov. 16 meeting of European finance ministers as Germany pushed for aid to calm volatility that sent borrowing costs of debt-laden countries to records.

A bailout hasn’t been discussed by Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen’s Cabinet, Enterprise Minister Batt O’Keeffe said Sunday on Dublin-based broadcaster RTE, rejecting talk that there is a “crisis.”

He said Ireland has no immediate need for cash.

Allaying investor concerns about Irish finances would help advance Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plan to require investors to help pay for future rescues, a German government official said.

“As long as European governments go back and forth, the markets won’t settle down,” said Marco Annunziata, chief economist at UniCredit Group in London.

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Q&A with Dr. Erin McNamara

by Maggie LaFalce THE CHRONICLE

Exercise today can improve your sex life in old age, a recent study by Duke researchers found.

According to work by Dr. Erin McNamara, a urologic resident at the Duke University Medical Center and Trinity ’00, there is a positive association between exercise and “sexual function” in men. McNamara surveyed 178 male patients of median age 62 and found that patients who regularly engaged in even very moderate exercise—like brisk walking several times a week— were at a lower risk of sexual dysfunction. The Chronicle’s Maggie LaFalce spoke with McNamara to ask about her findings.

The Chronicle: What do you think accounts for this relationship between exercise and sexual dysfunction?

Erin McNamara: We now know that erectile dysfunction can be a kind of marker of heart disease, because it’s all the same concept—small blood vessels that are supplying the penis [with blood], just like in heart disease. So if you have sexual dysfunction, you have the same kind of risk factors for heart disease. With exercise you have increased blood flow, and increased blood flow to the penis is going to increase some of those things like nitrous oxide, which helps with erections. So I think there’s that physiologic part of it, and then there’s a psychological part of it as well. I think people who exercise more feel better about themselves [and] have a better outlook, and that transfers into better sex. We controlled for age, race, [Body Mass Index], heart disease, diabetes and depression— and even with controlling for all of those things, we still saw that people who exercise more have better sexual function.

TC: Can you tell us a little bit about the conditions of the study?

EM: Patients were recruited at both the urology clinic and the internal medicine clinic and were asked to fill out two surveys. One was a sexual-function score survey, and the other was an exercise survey. The sexual function survey asked them six questions about things like ability to have an erection, ability to reach orgasm, frequency of erection and a score of how good the erections are. The exercise ques-

“We now know that erectile dysfunction can be a kind of marker of heart disease, because it’s all the same concept...”

— Dr. Erin McNamara, DUMC urologic resident tionnaires asked about duration of exercise, frequency of exercise and level of activity. There’s mild, moderate or strenuous activity. Those scores are put into net hours per week, which is a pretty standard form of measuring exercise. The American Heart Association and the American College of Sports Medicine use “net hours per week” to describe exercise. You multiply the type of activity by the frequency by the duration. For example, brisk walking is given a weighted score of five, so if you were to do brisk walking 30 minutes a day, four days a week, you have ten net hours a week.

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Then we did linear regression and looked at sexual function scores and net hours per week, and we saw a significant association.

We saw that patients who exercised nine net hours per week had a 65 percent risk reduction for sexual dysfunction.

TC: How did you become interested in this topic?

EM: I’m a urology resident at Duke, and I think it was mostly just working with my mentor, [Professor of Urology] Dr. Craig Donatucci. We see a lot of erectile dysfunction from surgery for prostate cancer. I really like the idea of treating a patient for quality of life. Obviously oncologists, their focus is quantity of life, and that’s really important too, but for me personally, I feel fulfilled in helping people with quality of life, really making sure that they’re still enjoying the life that they still have, even after cancer surgery.

TC: What impact do you think these findings have on the younger student population here at Duke?

EM: We all know that living a healthier lifestyle will be better for health in the long term. It’s hard to say, “I’m going to preserve my blood vessels in my heart,” or, “I’m doing this to prevent a heart attack in the future.” Very few people see the benefit from that right away. But we’ve shown that exercise is protective for sexual function.

TC: How much would you advise young men to exercise?

EM: In our study, it was greater than nine net hours per week. If you break it down, that’s brisk walking, four times a week, 30 minutes a day. It’s really not even

The Fuqua School of Business was ranked sixth in BusinessWeek’s biannual “Best U.S. B-Schools of 2010,” marking a two-spot improvement since it was last evaluated in 2008.

The school has steadily climbed from its lowest ranking in 2004, when it came in 11th place. Fuqua was once rated as high as No. 5 in 2000.

Fuqua received A+s in the analytical skills and general management categories, which are based on MBA recruiter surveys. The school received Bs in career services and teaching, which are based on student surveys from the past three graduating classes.

The student and recruiter “grades” each account for 45 percent of a school’s total ranking. A review of faculty research published in prestigious academic journals accounts for the remaining 10 percent.

Fuqua had the highest intellectual capital ranking of all 57 business schools, which evaluates the quality of students and staff at the school. The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business— the top-rated institution this year—had the eighth intellectual capital ranking.

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that much. The American Heart Association and the American College of Sports Medicine recommend 7.5 to 12.5 net hours per week just for a healthy lifestyle. So it falls into those recommendations. We’re just saying that there are other benefits. You don’t just exercise to protect your heart, but also to protect sexual function.

TC: Do you plan to conduct further research on this topic?

EM: Definitely. I did a rat study looking at exercise. I ran little rats on treadmills, and we saw a benefit to erections in the rats. We would like to translate it into helping patients after cancer surgery to have improved sexual function.

What we have right now is pharmacotherapy [like] Viagra or injection therapies. It would be nice to do something that’s not necessarily pharmacologic but more holistic.

to watch the final round—a substantial increase from the approximately 120 people who attended two years ago, said Howie Rhee, managing director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Rhee noted that undergraduates made up 29 of the 66 initial teams—the most undergraduate participation in the history of the Elevator Pitch Competition. He said more undergraduates participated in the event’s planning and also mentioned the fact that the winners of last year’s Duke Start-Up Challenge and its $25,000 prize were all undergraduates for the first time.

Although later competitions in the Duke Start-Up Challenge focus more on the actual engineering details of the proposals, this Fall’s contest is based primarily on ideas, said Tsai, who also serves as the director of online design for The Chronicle.

“What the judges are looking for is a need and a solution, and who best gets those points across,” he said.

The next stage of the challenge is the executive summary competition, in which students will be asked to write a two-page summary of a business idea for a $25,000 prize. Participation in the elevator pitch competition is not a prerequisite for entry, but many students decide to elaborate on their initial proposals, Rhee said. Submissions are due Feb. 9, 2011.

Fjeld said he expects an even greater turnout for later events in the Duke StartUp Challenge.

“There’s a wave of interesting things entrepreneurial, as students are less assured of a great job in investing and banking,” he said. “[The challenge] is not just the latest beer pong social networking event— they’re trying to do serious things while still having fun doing it.”

fuqua from page 3 Eighty-one percent of all Fuqua graduates received job offers, with an average salary of $100,000 post-MBA. “The BuisnessWeek ranking of business schools is probably the most important of rankings for business schools, and going from number eight to number six is a pretty big deal,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. “The business school world is hugely competitive so even small changes can make a big difference in the perception that prospective students have.”

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Duke outlasts Gators to head to Sweet 16 Blue Devils win on penalty kicks, 4-2 didn’t purely strike the ball, and it went sailing over the crossbar.

With the season on the line, Florida strikShe would make up for her miss just beer Lindsay Thompson took the long walk fore the half ended, however. With the Gators to the penalty spot, her Gators in a 4-2 hole pressuring the Duke penalty box late in the after Duke was per- half, Kerr blocked a thunderous shot by cenfect on its first four ter back Kathryn Williamson that was heading DUKE 0 chances. After en- toward the goal. Florida would test Campbell during 110 minutes with three corner kicks in succession just be0 FLA of scoreless soccer, fore the whistle, but the Blue Devils’ defense the Blue Devils’ kept the game scoreless into halftime.

2 DUKE goalkeeper Tara Duke came out of the locker room strong 1 CAL Campbell paced her to start the second half, and behind tireless goal line, awaiting team defending from all 11 players, held the the referee’s signal. Gators without a shot for the first 26 minutes The whistle sounded amidst a hushed crowd of the period. According to Church, the sucand Thompson approached the dead ball, cess defensively came from the Blue Devils’ but the junior blew her shot high and wide familiarity with their opponent. of the right corner, sealing Duke a trip to the “With the short turnaround from Friday third round of the NCAA Tournament. night to Sunday, it helped that we had seen After a come-from-behind victory Friday Florida the past two years,” Church said. against California, in which freshmen KaitAs the defense kept the ball away from the lyn Kerr and Laura Weinberg both scored Gators’ strikers, Duke had plenty of opportuover a 32-second span in the 72nd minute nities to break through. After wasting two free to propel Duke into the second round with kicks in very dangerous areas, the Blue Devils a 2-1 win, the Blue Devils (12-7-3) earned a had a golden opportunity in the 70th minute. matchup with regional hosts No. 2 Florida Gilda Doria’s shot from range was fumbled by (19-3-2). The game was a rematch of the Florida goalkeeper Katie Fraine, and a chargSep. 17 contest at Koskinen Stadium in ing Weinberg was able to gain possession. which Weinberg equalized in the 89th min- The striker passed to Kerr who had her shot ute to give Duke a 1-1 tie. With a trip to blocked, but the ball fell kindly to Marybeth the Sweet Sixteen on the line, however, the Kreger, who blasted a ball from outside the stakes were significantly higher Sunday. box towards goal. Fraine had recovered in The Blue Devils were at an unexpected dis- time, however, to make the save. With neither advantage personnel-wise as Mollie Pathman team coming close to end the second half, the was forced out of the starting lineup with the game moved into sudden-death overtime. flu. To accommodate for her absence and to Duke missed another chance to seal better match up with the Gators’ formidable the win just over five minutes into the first attack, Church reverted to a 4-4-2 formation extra period, when Chelsea Canepa snuck after fielding a 4-3-3 Friday against the Gold- behind the defense and received a pass just en Bears. The extra midfielder would play inside the penalty area. Canepa had plenty a crucial role—Duke effectively stifled the of time to pick a target, but with Fraine Florida attack throughout the game. charging she snatched at the shot and the Kerr had the first chance of the game in ball flew over the crossbar. the 14th minute when miscommunication The game shifted to penalty kicks, and in the Florida penalty area allowed Kerr to midfielder Nicole Lipp gave the Blue Devsettle the ball just six yards from the goal. ils an early 1-0 advantage, beating Fraine She shuffled to her right before firing, but to her right. With Tahnai Annis on the spot, Campbell was in an unfamiliar position.

“I haven’t seen a PK at the college level yet until [Sunday], not even in the flow of the game, so it was a first for NeuroCog Trials, a rapidly growing company me,” Campbell said. with close ties to Duke University Medical Center, has been The sophomore perinvolved in design and implementation of multi-site clinical formed well under pressure, trials, including rater training and data quality assurance, and however, and saved Annis’s neurocognitive test development, for 10 years. shot to the right side of the We are looking to fill a full-time PhD-level position. This goal. Meaghan FitzGerald individual will assist in novel test development and quickly capitalized on the validation, trial design, data analysis and interpretation, and miss, placing her shot in business development, and will oversee neurocognitive nearly the same spot as Lipp. rater certification and data quality control for multi-site After McKenzie Barney pharmaceutical company trials. These clinical trials usually and Kreger both convertinvolve a large meeting of investigators and testers who ed, Fraine made it 3-2 with require certification. Travel to US or international meetings is a blast from the spot that expected. The person filling the position should be proficient Campbell couldn’t catch in Excel, SPSS and/or SAS. Expertise in visual design, presentation, and software development is a plus. up with. Lynnea Pappas, who, along with FitzGerald The starting salary will be competitive with pharmaceutical did not step onto the field industry standards with medical benefits. until penalty kicks began, coolly slotted the ball into Management skills are essential. Additional requirements: the right side of the net, PhD in psychology, neurosciences or related field; experience with neuropsychological or cognitive data collection and putting the Gators in a doanalysis; ability to travel on limited basis (average of 3-5 or-die situation. Thompson days per month); large-group presentation skills. Experience tried to find the upper-right with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and dementia is a plus. corner, but her miss sent the Duke bench running to embrace their goalkeeper Contact: Dr. Richard Keefe and the Blue Devils into email: caren@neurocogtrials.com the third round.

“We got by,” Church said, phone: 919-401-4642 “by the slimmest of margins.”

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Meaghan FitzGerald was one of three seniors to successfully convert a penalty kick against Florida yesterday.

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Blue Devils blow past BYU with second-half run Duke uses unyielding press to roll in opener

Jasmine Thomas gets offensive help—finally

by Patricia Lee

by Tom Gieryn

Following a trying first half plagued by missed shots and an excessive amount of turnovers, No. 6 Duke managed to overcome a stingy Brigham Young defense and win its season opener 69-54 at Cameron Indoor Stadium Saturday.

Shooting at a 25.7-percent clip and trailing the Cougars (0-1) for most of the first half, the Blue DevDUKE 69 ils (1-0) knew they needed to change 54 something to counBYU ter the scrappy BYU team and its full-court press.

“BYU is an excellent, excellent team, and they’re very, very good,” said head coach Joanne P. McCallie. “To defend with a level of intensity that our team had to defend, with broken play situations, that’s what our schedule affords us.”

Duke started countering its opponent about halfway through the first with its own full-court press and strong defense around the perimeter, making it nearly impossible for the Cougars to shoot from inside the paint. As a result, BYU only had two points from the inside.

The Blue Devils, on the other hand, had 43 points from their frontcourt— mostly from senior forward Karima Christmas, who led the team with 20 points. The team also had eight fastbreak points, aided by the quickness of senior All-American Jasmine Thomas and freshman Chloé Wells.

“It’s been a while since we played a team that presses the way we do, and that’s just something that was a bit of a shock at first, but not something we didn’t prepare for.

As the game went on, we got better adjusted,” said Thomas, who contributed 14 points and led the team with 11 rebounds. “[Communication] definitely got better throughout the game.... When we’re working so hard and going through so many screens… it’s hard to talk and move at the same time, so something we’re working on is being vocal.”

The increased level of communication among players boosted the Blue Devils into a dominating second half, reducing the

Make no mistake: This is still Jasmine Thomas’s team. She still strikes fear in her opponents—Brigham Young head coach Jeff Judkins said after the game that the Duke press defense was “scary, knowing Thomas and what kind of player she is.” She still provides excellent leadership for a young team.

And in spite of shooting 0-for-7 from the floor in the first half and going Game into the locker room with Analysis just two free throws in the scoring column, Thomas still contributed on the court. She finished with 14 points, five assists, two blocks, two steals and matched a career high with 11 rebounds. She is still the star of head coach Joanne P. McCallie’s show.

But if Friday’s game against BYU is any evidence, the Blue Devils won’t need to lean on Thomas as much as they did last season. Last year, Thomas averaged 16 points per game.

No other player averaged in double figures.

Against the Cougars, however, not only was Thomas not the leading scorer, she was just one of three players in double figures.

And the extra scoring around Thomas wasn’t just an illusion created by a bad defensive opponent; the Blue Devils actually scored just 69 points against BYU after averaging 70.5 points per game last season.

This was a case of Thomas not having to be the center of attention all game.

In the first half, all eyes were on Karima Christmas instead of Thomas. She led the Blue Devils in scoring with 20 points, including 16 before halftime. She said she was in “attack mode” as she had 12 free throw attempts and pulled down eight rebounds on the night. McCallie referred to Christmas as a “pitbull,” and her attacking style helped key the Blue Devil offense.

Kathleen Scheer was the other doubledigit scorer, and continued production from Scheer would go a long way toward lifting the scoring burden from Thomas. Scheer has struggled with shoulder injuries and a position switch from her natural spot at power forward to more of a perimeter role. After averaging just 6.6 minutes and 2.3 points per game last season and never starting, Scheer

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Karima Christmas and Kathleen Scheer each scored in double digits to help Duke top Brigham Young Saturday.

Head coach Beth Bozman resigns

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Beth Bozman stepped down from her head coaching position, Kevin White announced Friday.

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Beth Bozman, the eight-year head coach of Duke’s field hockey team, resigned Friday, Vice President and Director of Athletics Kevin White announced in a statement.

The Blue Devils failed to win a single ACC game this year and went 8-11 overall.

Bozman began her tenure at Duke in 2003, and her teams made six straight NCAA Tournament berths, including the NCAA championship game in 2003, 2004 and 2005.

Over the last two years, though, the Blue Devils struggled—in 2009, they lost to Virginia in the quarterfinals of the ACC Championships, falling below .500 and failing to make the NCAA Tournament. They lost to Virginia in the ACC quarterfinals again this year, and again failed to reach the NCAAs.

“I think it’s time for a change here at Duke and for myself,” Bozman said in a statement.

“I’ve had eight great years here and to be able to compete in the ACC with the nation’s best has been a genuine thrill. I will miss the competition and the great players and people that I’ve had the opportunity to work with here.”

Bozman is one of only a handful of field hockey coaches at the collegiate level to earn 300 wins—a mark she reached with a victory over Longwood in 2008. She will leave the school with an overall record at Duke of 115-56.

According to Duke Sports Information, associate head coach Jarred Martin and assistant coach Caitlin Williams will remain on the Duke staff until a new head coach is found. The search for Bozman’s successor will begin immediately.

alookback >>Hot start: Bozman’s teams made six straight NCAA Tournaments from 2003-2008, including the championship game in 2003, 2004 and 2005. >>300-win club: Bozman won her 300th game in 2008, becoming just the ninth field hockey coach ever to reach that mark. >>Poor finish: Duke sported two sub.500 records the last two seasons, missing the NCAA Tournament both years.

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New-look defense shines in debut

by Tim Visutipol THE CHRONICLE

With the graduation of defensive stoppers Lance Thomas and Brian Zoubek, there were plenty of questions about Duke’s defense starting the new season.

Although it now takes a different form— with more emphasis this season on on-theball pressure from guards—the Blue Devils showed that, so far, their defense is more than sufficient. The team Game dictated the tempo of Analysis the game and forced 27 turnovers in its 97-60 win over Princeton.

Alternating between half-court and fullcourt pressure, Duke’s smothering defense was what turned the game, according to Princeton head coach Sydney Johnson.

“We threw the ball away a little bit too much,” Johnson said. “You can’t do that, especially against a team like Duke.”

The Blue Devils turned those 27 turnovers into 36 points, almost equal to the margin of victory.

The pressure defense is a result of Duke’s increased depth at the guard position, which allows the Blue Devils to keep the pressure high without worrying about depleting their energy level. Six players recorded steals in the game, a clear indication of the balance on the team. “[Princeton] likes to play two guards forty minutes if possible,” guard Seth Curry, who had one of those steals off the bench, said. “We just have to put the pressure on, make them work on the offensive and defensive end. Our four guards would come in and out, wear their legs down.”

Princeton, a team which sets its offense up in the half court, was put off its game by this defense. The pressure forced the Tigers out of their half-court game and allowed Duke to play to its strength—namely, its skill on the fastbreak. The Blue Devils had 12 fastbreak points compared to Princeton’s two.

“That’s what Coach [Mike Krzyzewski] wants,” Curry said. “He wants to put pressure on them to speed up the tempo, because they’re a team that likes to slow it down....

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TOP: Kyrie Irving had 17 in his Duke debut; BOTTOM: Nolan Smith led all scorers Sunday with 22 points.

Fast-paced game, that’s what we like.”

The highlight reel showed the accomplishments of the new defense. Midway through the second half, freshman Josh Hairston stole the ball at midcourt and ran down the open floor for a two-handed slam that lifted the roof off of Cameron Indoor Stadium. Hairston’s big smile following the play was clear for all to see.

Fellow freshman Tyler Thornton also reaped the rewards of this pressure, stealing the ball near the end of the game and coolly finishing on the break. Those two scores were the pair’s only baskets in their college debuts.

The pressure defense also forced different Princeton players to advance the ball, including those less comfortable running the offense. As a result, the Ti-

gers made frequent bad decisions, and the Blue Devils took full advantage.

“When we had different guys advancing the ball, they weren’t as comfortable as they should be,” Johnson said. “Then we made some questionable decisions... and played faster than we wanted at times.”

Duke’s ability to dictate the tempo of play will be essential in its defense of the national championship, especially when facing teams that do not match up well against the Blue Devils.

“It would be easier to play against a team that also likes to run, and we’ll get to do our thing,” senior Nolan Smith said.

“It was a good first game for us to learn about ourselves and know that we have to be able to execute in a slow game and in a half-court game.”

lineup, pulling both of the Plumlee brothers in favor of the smaller, quicker Seth Curry and Andre Dawkins. Curry and Dawkins, Duke’s sharpshooters, provided the Blue Devils with an instant spark off the bench, especially against a zone defense that often left the perimeter open.

Unfortunately, Duke (1-0) did not seem comfortable with its shooting for the majority of the first period. Particularly concerning was the long-range performance— the Blue Devils simply could not find any momentum from beyond the arc. With 1:44 remaining, they were shooting 4-of-13 from 3-point range.

“We didn’t attack the zone right because, we, I don’t know,” Krzyzewski said, unable to explain his team’s early troubles.

“We were a little bit whacked-out with all the energy.”

These struggles allowed the Tigers (1-1) to be competitive in a game in which they were heavy underdogs, much to the surprise of the 9,314 fans in attendance.

With 2:38 left in the half, Princeton found itself in an 11-point deficit, 34-23.

However, the Tigers were unwilling to let the game get out of their hands so quickly.

Taking advantage of Duke’s defensive weaknesses, forward Kareem Maddox found himself open under the glass to dunk, cutting the lead to nine. Then, after forcing a turnover, Princeton found an open T.J. Bray, who sunk a 3-pointer to force their deficit to six.

Then the Blue Devils responded, appropriately at the heels of their two veteran stars, Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith.

On the next possession, freshman Kyrie Irving found an open Smith, who hit a 3-pointer. Merely 23 seconds later, Singler hit a 3-pointer of his own, and suddenly, Princeton’s six-point gap turned into twelve. Irving then hit two free throws to close the half and further inflate Duke’s lead to 14.

It seemed that the momentum was suddenly back on the Blue Devils’ side, and it was there to stay. Duke returned from the locker room with a renewed confidence in itself.

“For the first half, everybody had some jitters,” Curry said. “In the second half, we kind of settled down and focused on the offense.”

It barely took seven minutes for Duke to build its lead to 24, the largest of the game at that point, and it did so in spectacular fashion. Forward Josh Hairston, after stealing the ball, ran down the length of the court and finished with a resounding dunk, scoring his first two points as a Blue Devil.

“I knew those were my first points as a Duke player. To have it be a big dunk like that was pretty exciting,” Hairston said. “I was glad to have that opportunity.”

And though Krzyzewski allowed his bench players more minutes during the second half, the Blue Devils saw their statistics improve in every category. One stands out above all others—3-point shooting. The Blue Devils went 8-of-11 from beyond the arc in the second period, including a trio of 3-pointers for both Dawkins and Curry.

“I was definitely comfortable with myself today. The teammates did a good job of setting screens for me to get me open,” Curry said. “That’s my job—to go out there and knock down shots.”

That statement extends beyond just Curry. The Blue Devils seemed like a well-oiled machine in the second half, setting screens perfectly, finding the open man and hitting an impressive fraction of open shots.

They had left few doubts in the minds of even the most pessimistic fans—and they were satisfied with a solid start to their season.

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16 DUKE BC 21 Late defensive stop kills Duke comeback

by Matt Levenberg THE CHRONICLE

On a fourth-and-goal from the 4-yard line with 49 seconds left, quarterback Sean Renfree lined up in the shotgun with a running back to his right and two wide receivers split out to each side. After going down 21-6 in the third quarter, the Blue Devils had mounted an improbable comeback thanks to a game-changing 95-yard fumble recovery by redshirt freshman linebacker August Campbell that closed the deficit to five points.

Running was not an option. The Boston College defense—led by linebacker Luke Kuechly, who tallied 21 tackles and a forced fumble against Duke—had stifled the Blue Devils’ rushing attack all day, limiting it to just four net rushing yards. This late in the MORE game, Duke would have to pass.

ONLINE Renfree took the snap and looked to his left. He quickly Like the photos on threw to sophomore Conner these pages? Check Vernon, Duke’s leading receiver out our photo slideshow from the game. on the day.

Unfortunately for the Blue dukechroniclesports.com Devils (3-7, 1-5 in the ACC), Boston College defensive end Max Holloway deflected Renfree’s pass at the line of scrimmage before Vernon had a chance to make a play on the ball. And with that 21-16 loss to Boston College (5-5, 3-4), Duke’s bowl hopes are officially put to rest.

“We really felt good from a coverage standpoint that we had the opportunity to get Conner Vernon one-on-one with the ball,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “We did try to cut [Holloway], but we missed him obviously and he was there to knock it down.”

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Despite mounting a fourth-quarter comeback, sparked by an August Campbell fumble return for a touchdown, Duke couldn’t top Boston College.

Red zone offense sputters after Eagles shut down Connette

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Freshman quarterback Brandon Connette struggled against Boston College Saturday, rushing five times for negative-eight yards.

Coming into the game against Boston College, Duke had the top-ranked red zone offense in the ACC. The twoquarterback system featuring Sean Renfree as the primary passer and Brandon Connette as the rushing threat had combined for 19 touchdowns on 36 trips within their opponent’s 20-yard line.

With Connette completely shut down by the Eagles’ league-leading run defense, all Duke could muster in the red zone was two Game field goals on three drives that netted a Analysis total of minus-5 yards.

“They did the fundamental things right there to win a ballgame,” Cutcliffe said of Boston College’s red zone defense. “When they took away the run, it was hard because you just don’t have much space down there. They stopped Connette, basically, is what they did.”

The Blue Devils’ first opportunity in the red zone on their second drive of the game was a preview of how their other trips would pan out as well. Renfree had just hit Conner Vernon for a 48-yard pass completion to set up Duke (3-7, 1-4 in the ACC) at the visitors’ 4-yard line. Connette came in and replaced Renfree, as he has on many drives this season, for first-and-goal. He was promptly smothered in the backfield for a loss of five yards.

Left tackle Kyle Hill was flagged for a false start on the next snap, moving the Blue Devils back to the Boston College 13-yard line. Wide receiver Brandon Braxton was open on the ensuing play, waving his arms above his head in the right corner of the end zone. Connette didn’t see him, though, as he kept it himself after faking a hand off for a one yard gain.

Renfree was back in for the long third-and-goal attempt, but this time the Eagles had all of Duke’s receivers

covered, and Renfree’s pass attempt to Donovan Varner fell incomplete.

“Getting stopped in the red zone is tough, you’d like to come away with touchdowns,” Renfree said. “Things just get tight down there, especially in the passing game. Windows become much smaller, and we don’t want to turn it over down there. They did a phenomenal job in the red zone.”

Renfree repeated several times that Boston College (55, 3-4) deserved credit for stopping what had been an effective two-quarterback rotation in the red zone. The Eagles drove the Blue Devils backwards again in the third quarter, sacking Renfree for a loss of 10 yards on third-and-goal from the 5-yard line. Renfree had completed a three-yard pass to Vernon on first-and-goal before Connette came in for a two-yard rush on second down.

Renfree, who completed 71 percent of his passes on the day, said coming in and out of the game doesn’t affect his rhythm, and he didn’t lobby to stay in on any of the red zone plays that Connette handled in his place.

“No, I’ll never question my coach for a call he makes,” Renfree said. “The calls he had on were great calls. I’ll come in for whatever situation they need me in there.”

When the game was on the line with about one minute remaining, Connette handled third-and-goal from the 4-yard line. Rolling to his right, Connette didn’t see a wideopen Vernon on the left side of the end zone. Instead, he threw to Cooper Helfet, who got a hand on the ball but couldn’t bring it down amongst a swarm of Boston College defenders. The switching continued as Renfree was back under center for fourth down, but his intended slant pass for Vernon was batted down at the line of scrimmage.

That drive was only the third time this season Duke has come away empty-handed in the red zone. Not even a fourth Will Snyderwine field goal, though, would have been enough to overcome the Blue Devils’ red zone woes.

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Duke winning streak ends with Maryland loss Usually the strongest part of Duke’s game, the Blue Devil defense was lacking Despite coming off of a five-game win on Sunday, allowing the Terrapins to hit streak including a sweep Friday against .388, the highest hitting percentage any Boston College, Duke was unable to keep team has had against Duke this season. up the momentum, falling to Maryland 3-1 Maryland ended the evening with 66 kills on the road Sunday in Comcast Pavilion. and only 16 errors, while the Blue Devils The Blue Devils had 55 kills and 18 errors.

“Everything starts with communication, DUKE 1 (22-5, 14-3 in the ACC) got off to a and I think it wasn’t as sharp today as it UMD 3 relatively strong was say when we played [North Carolina],” start, hitting .455 Nagel said. “Having people communicate DUKE 3 and having only early enough so that we can get in good poone error in the sitions and get in positions to make plays 0 B.C. first set to close out we need to make is important, and that’s the Terrapins (19- part of the reason why the hitting percent10, 10-7) 25-21. The next set, which Duke age wasn’t as high. We needed to dig more lost 16-25, was the worst one for the Blue balls or control those balls better so that we Devils, as they comcould get betmitted five errors ter opportuand only hit .132 to nities.”

“Maryland played very well, Maryland’s .516. The Despite and I guess they just wanted this weeknext two sets had costly errors by both end’s loss, it more than us.” teams, but the home Duke still team prevailed 27-25 — Jolene Nagel holds the and 25-20.

No. 1 spot in “Maryland played the confervery well, and I guess ence, owning they just wanted it more than us and put a two-match lead over the Tar Heels, and is in more effort,” head coach Jolene Nagel preparing to gear up and finish strong in said. “I feel like we certainly need to be its last three ACC matches. more aggressive and execute better than “It’s too bad we couldn’t get the win we did in order to be successful. I just felt because we really needed this today,” Nalike we didn’t play strong enough defense gel said. “Our team knows we didn’t give in order to be successful today, and I think our best effort today, and they care deeply if we could’ve touched a little more on about the team, and I think that’s what’s the block, we could possibly have set some going to help the team going into the ACC more balls and given ourselves a chance.”

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Despite spending important downs on the sidelines, Sean Renfree still throws for 285 yards on 35-of-49 passing.

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After safety Walt Canty forced a fumble from Boston College’s Montel Harris, August Campbell picked the ball up and ran for 95 yards, Duke’s longest ever fumble recovery.

football from page 5 in hand for the Eagles. The visitors led 21-9 and were poised to extend their lead. On first down from their own 48-yard line, freshman quarterback Chase Rettig dropped back and threw down the left sideline. With 5-foot-11 cornerback Chris Rwabukamba in position, 6-foot-6 wide receiver Ifeanyi Momah adjusted in midair to make an excellent leaping catch for a gain of 37 yards.

The Boston College aerial attack took a more prominent role than expected.

Retting attempted 24 passes including several shots down the field into man coverage. He set a new career high with 230 yards and two passing touchdowns.

With the ball in the red zone, the visitors handed off to the ACC’s leading rusher, junior running back Montel Harris, three times in a row in the fourth quarter. On third-and-4 from the Blue Devils’ 9-yard line, Harris tried the right side.

He would finish with 109 yards and a touchdown, but not before he lost two fumbles, including a crucial giveaway on

that fourth-quarter drive. He was met at the 5-yard line by safety Walt Canty, who knocked the ball free, and Duke was alive again. Campbell scooped the ball up and took off downfield. He made a cut to the left sideline and was off to the races for the longest fumble recovery touchdown in Duke history, thanks in part to a great hustle by cornerback Ross Cockrell, who threw a block around the Eagles’ 20-yard line. “It was definitely a game changer,� Campbell said. “The sideline got alive again, the crowd got back into it, and you started to see some of the fans start to walk back in. It was definitely a booster for the team.�

Following this defensive touchdown, the Blue Devils’ defense stepped up and made crucial plays for the rest of the fourth quarter, not allowing Boston College to record a first down in the last 12 minutes of the contest.

When Duke got the ball back at its own 37 with 4:52 left in the game, Renfree did not hesitate to take a chance downfield.

On first down, he ran a play action and looked for Vernon down the field in oneon-one coverage. Vernon was hit, and the

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wide receiver came up livid, calling for a pass interference call. If he had gotten his wish, Duke would have gained the game’s momentum, as well as great position for a touchdown.

Instead, the call never materialized.

And after the loss, the Blue Devils said the defeat falls squarely on their shoulders. “You have to respect and take care of the football, and you have to absolutely have great penalty discipline,� Cutcliffe said. “If we do those things that I know we are capable of doing, then we win a tough ACC game in the fourth quarter, which is what I thought we might do.�

Cutcliffe’s comment about protecting the football pulls the most weight in the defeat. Duke faced an uphill battle in the fourth quarter after back-to-back drives in the third culminated in lost fumbles by wide receivers Austin Kelly and Vernon.

Duke, though, is not dwelling on this defeat or the loss of its bowl hopes. “Back to work again tomorrow—we are going to try to win these next two games,�

Vernon said. “We are going to take it one game at a time.�

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Walt Canty hits Montel Harris, who fumbles. August Campbell scoops up the ball, and he jets off, running for a 95-yard touchdown—the longest fumble recovery ever for Duke.

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After an entire season of preparation, the Duke men’s cross country team will officially be attending the NCAA Championships next Monday, after placing second in the NCAA Southeast Regional Saturday.

It was a historic race for the men, as they became the first cross country team in Duke history to automatically qualify for the NCAA Championships. Junior James Kostelnik finished first for the Blue Devils in 19th place, followed by seniors Cory Nanni and Bo Waggoner who placed 21st and 23rd, respectively.

Men’s head coach Norm Ogilvie was proud of how the team performed in its last meet before the NCAAs. He stated that the race was “sweet revenge for the ACCs,” as the men Saturday were able to bounce back from their disappointing fifth-place finish two weeks ago.

“We placed six guys in before UNC’s first,” Ogilvie said. “Our guys produced

big-time when the pressure was on.”

But after voicing confidence in their ability to achieve the top-two finish at regionals needed to automatically qualify for the NCAA Championships, the women’s team was slightly less successful than the men’s.

Duke placed third, coming in behind Virginia and North Carolina. Despite the setback, the women are still expected to have accumulated enough points throughout the season to earn their shot at the NCAAs. Sophomore Juliet Bottorff, who placed first for Duke and fifth overall, ran an exceptional race on Saturday as she finished with a time of 20:19. Her teammate, junior Carly Seymour, also placed high as she took 12th to be the second of the two Duke runners who placed in the top 25.

The women will discover if they will be headed to the NCAA Championships today when the list of qualifiers is released.

wbb gamer from page 3 number of turnovers—from 12 to 10—and amassing 52 rebounds for the game, never losing the lead they had gained with just over four minutes left in the first.

“I like our team’s fight, and Jasmine getting 11 rebounds—nine defensive— speaks to a certain alertness on the floor, and that was outstanding, defensively and otherwise,” McCallie said. “I know we can play a lot better, and hopefully we can be motivated by that next game.”

Saturday’s matchup proved to be a very physical game, with the Cougars ending

the night with 27 team fouls and the Blue Devils with 16. BYU had five players with four fouls while Duke had three players with three apiece.

All five freshmen saw playing time, including Chelsea Gray—who missed the two exhibition games because of lingering foot injuries. Sophomore center Allison Vernerey, who is slowly easing back into the game following preseason injuries, also saw action. Also of note was junior Kathleen Scheer’s presence in the starting lineup. Scheer saw very few minutes her first two years playing at small forward but has begun to define herself as a four this season.

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I’m off the ball, it’s harder to find me.”

It took some time for Wells to get accligot the start against the Cougars and played mated to breaking BYU’s press, but once 24 minutes, chipping in eight rebounds and the Blue Devils found some rhythm against two blocks in addition to her 13 points. the tough defense, opportunities presentIf the strong offensive play of Scheer and ed themselves. Thomas found her stroke Christmas keeps up, the Blue Devil offense in the second half and shot 4-for-5. Scheer won’t go stagnant when Thomas goes cold. made four of her five shots as well, includChristmas, Scheer, and freshman Chloé Wells ing both of her 3-point attempts. Wells tocombined to shoot 7-for-17 while Thomas taled five more points and created some was still searching for her first make. The impressive breakaways with her quickness.

Duke offense was Having the freeoff-kilter in the first dom to play off half, but that had the ball enabled “I think when I’m always more to do with Thomas to construggles bringing bringing the ball up, I’m right tribute in other the ball up against there and the front target…. ways.

BYU’s press and “There’s just But when I’m off the ball, it’s so much stuff to missed opportunities in the paint do on the court harder to find me.” than with Thomas’ besides score,” poor shooting.

— Jasmine Thomas Thomas said.

But even more And with important than players like an the shared scorimproved Christing load is that Thomas also wasn’t asked to mas, a more-comfortable Scheer, and a run the point nearly as much in this game productive rookie Wells taking on some as she was last season. Christmas and Wells of the responsibilities previously allotted largely shared the point-guard duties, allow- to Thomas, she’ll be able to focus on that ing Thomas to play off the ball most of the “other stuff.” The team won’t be as reliant game. on her scoring contributions, and they’ll “It makes the defense have to find me be able to just enjoy her star-level producin different places,” Thomas said. “I think tion rather than depend on it. This is still when I’m always bringing the ball up, I’m Thomas’s team, but Duke will be better for right there and the front target…. But when not relying on her all the time.

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schools. But Duke sits in the middle of a public relations perfect storm, which means that any stories about Duke will be especially juicy. The public has an interest in Duke for three major reasons.

First, Duke’s basketball team is perennially among the best in the nation. Our athletic programs are generally successful, and a broad swathe of the public knows and identifies with our teams, often because we beat one of their teams. Not surprisingly, the same public likes to read about the University’s shortfalls.

Second, Duke is seen as an elite private university. Duke is a place where wealthy highachievers gather on a pristine campus to become the best and brightest of the future,

or so the narrative goes. Stories that show cracks in this narrative spark public interest. Furthermore, today’s obsession with admission to competitive colleges has created an interest in seeing just what kinds of students they produce.

Third, the public still remembers the Duke lacrosse case. The case itself aside, media coverage of the lacrosse affair laid the foundation for a perception of an elitist, privileged and poorly behaved Duke. Any stories coming out of Duke that tie into this narrative—be they about sex theses or fraternity misogyny—are gobbled up like the next installment of a raunchy serial novel.

All of this may seem unfair

from the perspective of most Duke students. Why should we receive greater scrutiny than other college students?

But at the end of the day, campus culture is forged person by person and Duke does have real problems to address. Positive public relations efforts can only go so far when the media are fixated on only covering scandals.

Duke should welcome the microscope that it attracts because it makes the challenge of solving our cultural problems even more urgent.

Duke’s triumphs and failings will always be on the national stage. Instead of bemoaning this fact, we should use it as a positive impetus to fix the campus culture problems that do exist.

The real threat to Duke’s image

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etting in line for a Duke basketball game is honestly may never come. a science. There are those who go as early as Proposed cuts to travel expenses and start-up costs possible, assuring themselves a decent seat. will not erase the budget deficit. Some departments Then there are those who play a waitwill suffer, and again we are faced with ing game and attempt to get in line the question of where they will come at the perfect time, assuring good from. seats while still allowing themselves The fact of the matter is that all enough time for important things. departments in some way contribute When doing the latter, it is imto the Duke image, and choosing any portant you time it correctly. The one over another is sure to have real line grows exponentially rather than consequences. Tell Chronicle columlinearly, and waiting too long can antonio segalini nist Carol Apollonio that Slavic and be devastating (standing next to a Eurasian Studies is a lesser part of musings smelly math major who spent the last Duke than another department and three days in Perkins is not ideal). she will have multiple things to cite Duke Basketball’s popularity and support are to prove otherwise: for instance, the DukeEngage/ tied into its success. We win, and no one can ques- Study Abroad dual program in Russia and a relationtion the money we spend because of what it brings ship with the University of St. Petersburg that brings back to the school. Well, I guess you can, but you some of their faculty here to teach Russian courses. I will end up looking like an idiot (see: Krayeske, would say that’s a pretty cool part of the Duke image.

Ken).

Duke is a research university, and that does not beThe basketball team contributes to the Duke brand gin and end with the sciences. In fact, economics and like no other. In a time of sexually charged PowerPoints other social sciences are pumping out working papers and misogynistic e-mails, we have to be concerned with all the time, and professors from all disciplines are conhow our school is perceived worldwide. stantly giving speeches at other universities. If that isn’t Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public af- helping the Duke brand, I don’t know what is. fairs and government relations, discussed the Duke The Duke administration’s argument boils brand at an Arts and Sciences Council meeting down to the idea that departments and profesThursday and specifically addressed rather unfor- sors whose research provide tangible benefit (aka tunate instances of Duke in the national spotlight, money) for the University will not suffer. There is like Karen Owen’s PowerPoint. Schoenfeld made a no way they are going to take away from a profespoint to state, “In a world in which an honors thesis sor who has received grants and scholarships from can travel to places we never would have expected, outside sources. Instead, the rich will get richer. we have to learn how to address these issues. We’re And that would be fine if we were running a more concerned with the long-term implications.” business. If Duke were a business, Michael SchoeConsidering Schoenfeld’s role within the University, nfeld could stand and say that Duke needs sustainwe should assume he knows what does and does not able bottom line results, and that these results will impact Duke’s image. enhance the Duke brand.

Talking about Duke’s image is somewhat awkTightening spending and instituting cuts will ward. Chances are your extracurricular activity does undoubtedly have benefits to our school’s finannot have influence over it, but our football team cial status. But what is beautiful about this Univerdoes. And our professors, well, who knows I guess? sity is that research is done to improve different Ironically, the real threat to Duke’s image is the situations, societies and places. one no one is talking about: faculty budget cuts. AcDuke is not a business in its core sense, but rathcording to a Chronicle article Friday, a poll revealed er a university. Its goal should coincide with that that University faculty overwhelmingly opposed re- of a university and seek to provide people with the cent cuts in research budgets. Comments collected means to help create benefits. The rich need not by the poll asserted that adequate funding of fac- get richer, but our school needs to provide benefits ulty research is “fundamental to the quality of the for improving the world. We are a university, and institution” and “crucial to faculty productivity and need to be proud of that. That is the Duke brand. competitiveness.” The Arts and Sciences Council reDuke Basketball and PowerPoint scandals will sponded by appealing for increased funding, after get people talking about Duke for a few weeks, but the University slashed the Committee on Faculty Re- having the best professors and research will keep search budget by 75 percent. them talking for years.

The University promised to restore funding once the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences’ Antonio Segalini is a Trinity sophomore. His column financial situation improves sufficiently, but that runs every Monday.

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Duke Football program canceled after team resembles ‘intoxicated middle schoolers’

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or immediate release said Loneta. “Tailgate is relatively new, and it takes some DURHAM, N.C. (Associated Press)­— The Duke time to grow a great Tailgate team. Many of the incomFootball program, as students currently know it, has ing freshmen are pretty fratty and can rage pretty hard, been canceled, Vice President for Student Affairs Mary but it’s gonna be a few years before they just go freaking Loneta confirmed Sunday. nuts at Tailgate. I mean, they’re not even The “predominating factor” in the Unigreek yet.” versity’s decision to cancel the football proThe decision to cancel the wildly popugram was the incident that occurred at the lar athletic program was not Loneta’s alone, Nov. 13 game against Boston College. and he gained support from other top-level “Out there on the field, the team just administrators such as President Rick Brodlooked like a bunch of effing 14-year-olds face and Executive Vice President Thallman passed out in a Porta Potty after having Flask III. Loneta said that these administratoo much to drink,” Loneta said in an monday, monday tors were “totally, 100 percent in favor of interview Sunday, referring to the team’s eliminating that dumbass sport.” gossip bro loss against “those weird Jesuits” Saturday Flask added that if Duke is really trying afternoon. to copy the Ivy League, it shouldn’t even All future football games have, as of now, been sus- try to have a good football team in the first place. pended, Loneta said, and football games in upcoming “I mean, it’s sort of a ‘pubby’ thing to have a good years will “likely be very different.” football team anyway,” said Flask, referring to the fact “The football team has become an embarrassment— that public state schools generally have good football proit has no connection to Tailgate anymore,” Loneta said. grams while elite private universities do not. “Just look at “Now it has to end. I think the notion that a group of my name... Thallman Flask III. With a name like that you Division-1 athletes could so closely resemble unconscious just know I went to like freaking Harvard or some s—. I’m and intoxicated tween boys lying face down in a toilet just not tryna make Duke look like some public school.” crosses the line.”

According to other administrators, Dean of Students There was a strong reaction from the students follow- Sue Wuzahick has been keen on canceling the football ing the e-mail announcement that was sent out at around program for years now.

10 p.m. Sunday night, and some students have planned “That pathetic performance on Saturday really gave an “impromptu football game” on the Main Quad. With- us the perfect excuse,” said Wuzahick. “I mean they just in hours of the creation of a Facebook event titled “Main looked like complete jabronies out there. I would have Quad Football,” more than six people had RSVPd that rather watched a preteen vomit into a Porta Potty. But on they were “maybe” attending, with one Baldwin scholar the bright side, Mary and Rick and I can just go freakin’ saying that she was “sort of excited to play flag football, crazy at Tailgate from now on—shotgunning beers and or whatever it is.” all that.”

Despite the overwhelming reaction from students, “Yeah, Brodface will go nuts when ‘Sweet Caroline’ Duke administrators are holding their ground. One comes on in the Blue Zone,” said Loneta. “You know we part-time security guard has been moved from Per- call him ‘Bro-face’ ever since he took the title of Pledge kins to watch out for any unregistered gatherings in Master from Nan Bro-hane.”

Crowell Quad. Loneta says the administration will do There is no word yet on what Duke Football will look everything in its power to “protect the integrity of the like next year, but administrators say it will mostly likely quad.” be in the style of the more traditional club teams, which Although those six or so students seemed outraged generally do not pay their coaches $2 million salaries. at the cancellation of the football program, many stu- The most important thing to note, however, is that no dents seemed relieved, attributing the poor turnout at one really cares. the most recent Tailgate to some people having “to go meet their parents at the game or match or whatever.”

Gossip Bro assures that all characters appearing in this work “We hope that the removal of football from the equa- are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is tion will encourage more students to go to Tailgate,” purely coincidental.

Up in the air

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ome of the most interesting conversations I’ve had in the past months have been with complete strangers, often people whom I find myself sitting next to on the plane or in a taxi. They’ve mostly occurred in confined situations where you either talk to the person you’re stuck next to or you sit in uncomfortable silence. Though I used to opt for the latdoris jwo ter, it’s obvious to me now that passiveness in two points for these situations can dehonesty rail potential meaningful experiences.

This past week, for example, a middle-aged driver who was especially talkative took me back and forth from an airport. Since the ride each way was 45 minutes long, we had plenty of time to get to know each other. The first ride, I was overly anxious because I couldn’t stop thinking about an interview I had the next day. I just didn’t feel up to small talk. Eventually though, I let my guard down and we started talking about my upcoming interview. Looking back on it, we talked about me for the entire trip, with him offering encouraging advice and telling me how great he thought I would do.

The ride back was the next day. He had taken special care to arrange it so that he would take me back to the airport so I could let him know how I thought the interview went, which we discussed for a few minutes. Then, the conversation shifted over to him and he began telling me about a recent separation from his wife and long marriage, how hard it was on his kids and how he was hoping to start over, maybe even with a new job at the company where I had just interviewed.

I immediately felt terrible about talking about myself for so long and not bothering to ask him about his life. I was taken aback even to hear that he had kids. So, I started to ask him more and was surprised to realize that he was truly interested in hearing my thoughts on what he was going through. From me, a college kid!

With my oh-so-worldly perspective, I tried to give him some helpful thoughts. But I think the conversation may have ended up being more valuable for me. Worrying about GPAs, midterms, homework—it was obviously trivial compared to what he was going through, and yet he respected me enough to ask my opinion.

I only hope I deserved that respect.

On the flip side, a few weeks ago I was coming back to Durham from a visit home and ended up sitting next to a charming, 8-year-old girl fresh off a visit to her grandparents’ house. I was all wrapped up in thinking about my upcoming midterms, projects, job applications and everything else we Duke kids worry about all the time. But there she was, telling me all about her third-grade class, their adventures on a recent field trip and how annoying her boy counterparts were, all the while snacking on an enormous swirly lollipop. She got excited every time we saw something interesting outside of the window, whether it was the glowing colors of the sunset or the exhaust trail of a passing plane.

Her mom, sitting on the other side of us, saw my Duke shirt and told her daughter that I was a Duke student, implying that I was someone she should look up to. All I could think was, when did I get old enough to be someone’s role model? At that moment, I envied her for her carefree life and vowed to sit back and admire the sunset more often.

It would be an exaggeration to say that these conversations forever changed my life. But, talking with someone so far removed from the ups and downs of Duke and the normal, stress-filled rollercoaster college life was truly therapeutic, no matter the depth of topics discussed. There is something candid in such conversations that are genuine glimpses into another person’s life as they take a glimpse at yours.

Next time you have the opportunity, try talking to your seatmate! It’s always a gamble, but one that pays off often enough to be worthwhile.

Doris Jwo is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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tailgate from page 1 Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said she and a number of administrators stood on guard on the Main Quad Saturday, but she is pleased that their intervention was unnecessary.

“It sounds to me that students decided they were going to take a reasonable approach,” she said. “It was not worth their time or effort in a protest.”

Shooters II opened its arms Saturday morning to an estimated 400 students who danced to “Shout” and doused each other with beer almost as if they were in the Blue Zone. Offering free admission, free beer to those over 21 and free transportation to and from the event on the Shooters bus, owner and manager Kim Cates said profit was an afterthought for the club that morning.

“I knew they were probably going to go somewhere, and I wanted to make sure that they were safe and secure and somebody was watching over them,” she said. “They were actually more behaved in the morning than in the nighttime, though they wasted the beer by pouring it on each other more than they drank it.”

Cates said she would be happy to host Tailgate festivities in the future, but she noted she found it hard to accommodate the students’ routine of beginning and ending the day with alcohol. The staff struggled to clean the saloon Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon and then again Sunday morning following three packed bashes featuring many of the same partygoers, she said.

“It was a short night for us—we didn’t get much sleep. I don’t know how they do it, going from the evening and then to the morning,” she said.

The cancellation of Tailgate—which has long been blamed for low student attendance at home football games—may have triggered a larger student presence at the

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Saturday game. Three times as many students were in attendance at this weekend’s game against Boston College than at the previous weekend’s matchup against the University of Virginia, according to Sports Information Director Art Chase.

“I am really pleased that the students approached [Saturday] the way they did,” Wasiolek said.

But some students questioned whether the lack of a pre-game boosted attendance.

“It was hard for me to tell whether Tailgate made attendance higher or lower,” said senior Jimmy Shedlick, who said he attends most home football games. “I think it might be more to the team winning two [previous] games.”

Despite the boost in students, the game was the lowest-attended contest of the season, with 21,420 present. To date, the season high was the Sept. 18 game against the University of Alabama, which drew 39,042 spectators.

As administrators and students move forward with plans for a reimagined Tailgate, many have called for an event that would serve as both a pre-game and a show of support for players.

“I think [high attendance] just makes for a lot more energy toward the team,” said sophomore Julie Fox. “I don’t have anything against Tailgate, but if people could go to both Tailgate and the game, that would make it a lot better.”

Senior Greg Rivers said he was confident that future generations of Duke students would gather to toast the football team, though he added that he might not recognize the celebration.

“I think something will rise from the ashes of Tailgate,” he said. “Will it be memorialized?... It will carry on in the spirit of a memory. I don’t think anyone who went to a Tailgate will ever really forget it, but like all things they might find that it’s changed quite a bit when they get back.”

Business with Brahme

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Senior vice president for HSBC India Unmesh Brahme spoke Friday in the Fuqua School of Business, discussing corporate sustainability, social entrepreneurship and strategic social impact.