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MONDAY, MARCH 14, 2011

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BLUE DEVILS SWEEP IN GREENSBORO

Jasmine Thomas fuels rout of UNC

by Nicholas Schwartz THE CHRONICLE

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Jasmine Thomas and the rest of the Blue Devils had witnessed their second half lead DUKE 81 disappear—and now trailed by a point to a surging North Carolina squad with 9:28 re66 maining. With the ACC Championship in the UNC balance, the trophy would go to the team that could play with poise in the final minutes.

insidesports PAGE 4: Duke’s defense keyed its win Sunday PAGE 6: Duke was named a No. 1 seed in the West Region PAGE 9: Kyrie Irving hinted that he may return for the NCAA Tournament

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Blue Devils avenge March 5 defeat

by Jeff Scholl THE CHRONICLE

GREENSBORO, N.C. — North Carolina made history Friday and Saturday by becoming the first team to DUKE 75 overcome halftime deficits of nine or more points twice in the same ACC tournament.

58 UNC In Sunday’s championship game, however, the Blue Devils jumped on the Tar Heels early. And in a 17-point rout, they made sure there was no more

See w. basketball on page 9

See m. basketball on page 4

Dukies in Japan Endowment pledges $80M gift safe after quake, Donation will fund Baldwin, Page and West Union renovations admins confirm

by Christina Peña THE CHRONICLE

by Michael Shammas THE CHRONICLE

The University has confirmed that all members of the Duke community known to be located in Japan are safe, administrators said.

Since Friday’s devastating 8.9 magnitude earthquake, the University has been engaged in an continuous effort to ensure all students and faculty in Japan are accounted for, said Vice President for See earthquake on page 8

Bellemare discusses food prices and political unrest, Page 5

After most students had long cleared campus to enjoy Spring Break, several notable Duke figures gathered in the Great Hall for a major announcement March 7.

Duke Endowment Chairman Neil Williams revealed that the Charlotte-based foundation will grant Duke a $80 million gift with the purpose of renovating Baldwin Auditorium, the West Union Building and Page Auditorium— all of which were part of the campus’ original construction. The contribution is the largest single philanthropic gift in the University’s history.

The Duke Endowment—which is separate from the University and was founded by James B. Duke—has given the University more than $1.2 billion since 1924. During Duke’s Financial Aid Initiative, which began in 2005 and

raised more than $300 million, the endowment awarded the University $75 million.

“We reached this conclusion with great happiness and deep conviction that our wonderful founder would be very pleased at what is going on at Duke today and would also be pleased that three historic buildings that date back literally to the original campus are going to be renovated in a way that we hope will add to the vitality and utility of those buildings on this wonderful campus,” Williams said at a press conference last Monday.

The gift became tangible when Williams went off script and handed President Richard Brodhead a check for $10 million to get the projects underway. The rest of the pledge will be paid over multiple years as construction progresses.

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“She made a lasting impression every moment along the way.”

­—Coach Kevin Jermyn on the late Sally Meyerhoff. See story page 3

See gift on page 11

Pizer to teach at Sanford this Fall, Page 4

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“Senior Nolan Smith was named MVP of the ACC Tournament after scoring 20 points and dishing out 10 assists to lead No. 2 Duke over No. 1 UNC in the championship game. Smith also scored 27 points in a semifinal win over Virginia Tech. Senior Kyle Singler joined his co-captain on the Tournament first team after putting up a stellar defensive effort against the Tar Heels’ Harrison Barnes in the title game.”

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Earlier this month, HIV-positive protesters marched in New Delhi to oppose a proposed India-European Union free trade agreement. Global pharmaceutical conglomerates’ recent acquisitions of Indian companies have alarmed health officials and patient advocacy groups who say that cheap generic drugs may no longer be available for millions of poor people in the coming years.

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Obama admin. addresses Political unrest stirs in the issue of rising gas prices Bahrain and Saudi Arabia WASHINGTON. D.C. — President Barack Obama acknowledged Friday that the fast-rising cost of gasoline could diminish the effect of policies designed to stimulate economic growth, but warned that he is not yet prepared to unleash the nation’s energy reserves to bring down the price of oil.

In a news conference, Obama said that a payroll tax cut signed into law in December as part of the tax package would now go to cushion the impact of a recent spike in oil prices and allow for continued economic growth.

An energy analysis released this week says that the average U.S. household will pay $700 more in fuel costs this year, cutting into the $1,000 per year savings per family that Obama cited as a result of the payroll tax cut. “[G]as prices are hurting individuals right now,” the president said.

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Witnesses in Bahrain said that more than 100 people were injured after police fired tear gas at protesters and attacked them with batons. The demonstrators were trying to shut down the financial center of Manama, Bahrain’s capital, on the first day of the country’s workweek.

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All-American Duke track legend Grad student remembered as ‘fun-loving’ robbed Friday at gunpoint

by Nicole Kyle THE CHRONICLE

With a taste for all things pink and leopard print, Sally Meyerhoff was a unique and infectious presence as an athlete, friend and mentor.

The former three-time Duke All-American and nationally ranked marathon runner and triathlete passed away March 8 in a bicycle accident. Meyerhoff, 27, was hit by a pickup truck after failing to yield at an intersection in Maricopa, Ariz. and died instantly, Bloomberg News reported. Meyerhoff’s friends and family celebrated her life at her family home in Tempe, Ariz. this weekend.

“I can’t express enough how the person she was totally eclipsed her athletic performances,” said coach Adam Zucco, who worked full-time with Meyerhoff since November 2010 and had known the athlete for two years. “[Running] was what she did, not who she was... she was

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Meyerhoff, center, was a three-time All-American runner at Duke, competing on both the outdoor track and cross country teams.

just Sally who happened to run. She never stopped being Sally, and I think to me, that’s what I’ll miss the most.”

Meyerhoff, who was also a substitute teacher to special needs students and volunteer coach for a women’s high school running team, won her first marathon, P.F. Chang’s Rock’n’Roll Arizona Marathon, in her hometown Jan. 16. Zucco called the marathon a “turning point’ in Meyerhoff’s career. The victory was followed by a 5K win over the top 5K runner in the country and two triathlon wins in Costa Rica, Zucco added.

“Going into P.F. Chang’s, I wanted her to just enjoy running... not care about time and think about running every mile,” he said. “It just so happened that was the marathon she won. She’d run faster marathons, but it was the first time she had a smile on her face the whole way.”

Starting this June, Meyerhoff, who considered retirement in November after a poor performance in the New York Marathon, was to begin focusing on training for the 2012 Olympic triathlon trials, Zucco said, noting the gratification he felt as a coach in helping Meyerhoff to finally be at peace with her future plans.

“In the last few weeks, Sally was the happiest I’d seen her in a while,” said her younger sister Samantha Meyerhoff, adding that one of her most remarkable traits was her ability to “turn situations around.”

A competitor and compassionate friend Samantha Meyerhoff credits her “compassionate” sister for helping her plan her own future. In 2008, Sally Meyerhoff advised her younger sister, who is also a runner, to attend community college before pursuing a running scholarship to a four-year university, and then suggested she continue on to a nursing or physicians assistant program.

“Even if she was having issues, she would always say, See meyerhoff on page 16

by Joanna Lichter THE CHRONICLE

A male graduate student was robbed on Circuit Drive as he walked to his car Friday night.

Four men approached the student at about 10:30 p.m. and demanded his cellphone and wallet. One of the robbers took out a small, black handgun, said Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek. The student said he was hit in the face by one of the perpetrators, who were last seen heading toward Erwin Road.

John Dailey, chief of the Duke University Police Department, said the University is taking precautions to avoid future robberies.

“Effective immediately, those working after hours in the Research Drive area may park in [parking garage nine],” Dailey wrote in an e-mail. “This will put those working nights closer to their cars. Police and security patrols have been increased in this area and will continue.... DUPD is aggressively investigating and working with the Durham Police to develop leads.”

After the incident, the student was examined by Emergency Medical Services, which then transported him to the emergency room, Wasiolek said. He was released shortly after.

One of the attackers is described as a 5-foot-8 black male in his late teens to early 20s with a medium complexion and slim build. At the time of the incident, he was wearing a green plaid shirt, brown jacket and tan cap.

Dailey said DUPD has not tracked down the assailants but is hopeful that they will catch the perpetrators in the next few days.

The Duke community was notified of the robbery via a DukeAlert text and e-mail at about 11:40 p.m.

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US Treasury official takes teaching post at Duke

by Michael Shammas THE CHRONICLE

William Pizer, a top U.S. Treasury Department official, will teach at Duke next Fall having decided in March to leave the Obama Administration.

Pizer will join the faculty at the Sanford School of Public Policy to carry out research on energy and environmental policy. In addition, he has been appointed as a faculty fellow in the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, a nonpartisan institute that develops solutions to environmental challenges.

William Pizer “Duke has a great group of people already working on environment and energy policy, a demonstrated commitment to be a leader in this area,

and top-ranked programs to train undergraduates, master’s students and Ph.Ds,” Pizer said in a Duke news release. “I am excited to be joining such an active and vibrant faculty.”

Because of Pizer’s dual appointments, Sanford Dean Bruce Kuniholm and Nicholas Institute Director Tim Profeta, said they believe he will connect different disciplines at Duke while balancing between his two positions.

“In terms of involvement, the way we envision it, he’s roughly 50-50,” Profeta said. “Our hope, however, is that he doesn’t feel he has to clock hours with either institution. Rather, we hope he serves both the Institute and the School by acting as a bridge between us.”

Pizer’s extensive experience in government convinced Kuniholm to hire him. Pizer has served as the senior economist for environment and natural resources on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in ad-

dition to working with the Treasury Department. Pizer has also worked on the Clear Sky initiative and the Global Climate Change initiative, and was heavily involved in United Nations negotiations in Copenhagen and Cancun, Kuniholm said.

As deputy assistant secretary for environment and energy during the last two years, Pizer created and led a new office responsible for shaping the United States’ energy agenda and for outlining the Treasury Department’s role in the environment at home and abroad.

“He’s an environmental economist, and focuses primarily on designing and evaluating alternative policies and programs to mitigate climate change, so he’s a really excellent researcher in the field of public economics,” Kuniholm said.

Before his work in government, Pizer served as a senior fellow and research director at Resources For the Future, a nonpartisan think tank. His research during 12 years at RFF mostly concerned climate change and examined how the design of environmental policy affects program costs and efficiency. He has published more than 24 peer-reviewed articles. Pizer studied physics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1990, and earned his Ph.D. and master’s degree in economics at Harvard University in 1996. In addition, Pizer previously taught at Stanford University and Johns Hopkins University.

Duke’s emphasis on interdisciplinary research and the school’s initiatives to solve environmental issues have been instrumental in drawing top researchers like Pizer to the University, Kuniholm said.

“Duke has a major initiative in energy and the environment that’s being undertaken by six schools here,” he said.

“This is going to be one of the major initiatives in the next few years that we are all working together in collaborating in across various schools. I think that was really attractive to a person like Pizer.”

Kuniholm added that Pizer’s personality made him attractive to the school as well.

“While he was involved in public policy, he did some teaching at Johns Hopkins, and we know there that people really prize the work that he did because he’s apparently a wonderful colleague, really generous with time, an excellent speaker, and so on,” Kuniholm said. “He’s just a really good colleague.”

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Q&A with Marc Bellemare

by Chinmayi Sharma THE CHRONICLE

Recently, the global economy has seen a significant increase in food prices during a time of political unrest and social volatility in the Middle East and North Africa. Marc Bellemare, assistant professor of economics, believes there is a correlation between the two—specifically, that rising food prices may be an indirect cause of social revolution.

The Chronicle’s Chinmayi Sharma spoke with Marc Bellemare Bellemare about extensive research in the fields of agricultural development, global food markets and microeconomics in developing countries.

The Chronicle: How high are the food prices relatively? How serious is the situation?

Marc Bellemare: Food prices have never been this high since the United Nations started recording them in 1990. In real terms, they are more than double what they used to be. This is calculated keeping a control on regular inflation so that is taken into account. It is difficult to make a statement about the natural trend of food prices over time because there are many factors that go into the final price of food.

TC: What is the food price index?

MB: The measure of the level of the food prices worldwide since 1990 is from data collected by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. It encompasses five broad categories of commodities, and they are meat, dairy, sugar, oils and cereal. It is a unique number that comes up every month that tells you how

the food prices worldwide as an average compare to the previous month. It is not a perfect measurement, but it accounts for a lot of factors like the Consumer Price Index does in the United States. And it helps world leaders see significant trends.

TC: Are the high food prices simply reflective of a generally bad economy?

MB: Well it is a simple question of supply and demand. There is too much demand currently for the supply out there.

As for why this is, there are many reasons.

I believe this is the result of mostly natural phenomenon such as climate change, droughts in Africa and the floods in Australia. These are uncontrollable factors that lead to a discrepancy between the quantity supplied and quantity demanded, which leads to the price hikes.

TC: What correlation do these prices have to gas prices?

MB: Well obviously gas prices will affect the final price of food because they are a necessary resource in the production and transportation of food, but in the United States this is true as well as in other developed countries. But for places still developing, the fact is that the people usually eat the food that is available to them locally, except for during the period right before harvest when communities may have to import some food.

TC: What sort of relationship exists between food prices and political turmoil?

MB: I think the causal relationship flows mostly from high food prices leading to political unrest. I can’t make a definite causal statement. We can’t observe a world in which nothing would have changed except for food prices, because there are so many factors that cannot be controlled. In the

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summer of 2008, it is uncanny that during that period of high food prices we had revolt in Indonesia and East Africa. Likewise, we are experiencing high food prices, and we have unrest in the Mediterranean.

TC: How do food prices lead to political unrest?

MB: Tunisians became very upset because of high food prices as well as a host of other problems. It is a dictatorship, and when I went there in 2001 it was painfully obvious that it was a police state, so I think the food prices acted as a catalyst in that instance, spurring the revolutionary movement. Then, like an informational cascade, the sentiments spread like wildfire, and people in Egypt see what is happening in Tunisia and they want a revolution too.

The Libyans see that this strategy worked for the Tunisians and Egyptians, and so they try their hand at it too. Among other similarities, all these states suffered from high food costs.

TC: Historically, have food prices led to political unrest or is that more of a new phenomenon?

MB: We do not have good data for anything prior to 1990, so it is very difficult to know with certainty the information to compare times of high food prices and political unrest. What I can say is that looking at the numbers it seems that quantitatively, there seems to be a correlation between food prices and political unrest.

TC: How can the correlation be quantified?

MB: The way we numerically measure this is by going to news publication archives such as LexisNexis and searching the words

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Former Duke QB dies at 95 Elmore “Honeyboy” Hackney, Trinity ’38 and former Duke All-America quarterback, died March 5. He was 95.

Born and raised in Durham, Hackney was one of the original Iron Dukes, wrote Daniel Drennon, Trinity ’89 and Hackney’s grand-nephew, in an e-mail last week.

In addition to his accolades as quarterback, Hackney also lettered two seasons as part of Duke’s track and field team, according to a Duke Sports Information news release.

In 1937, Hackney was named a second team All-America and team MVP pick and helped Duke to two league championships in 1935 and 1936, according the release. He was a 12th round pick of the New York Giants in the 1938 NFL draft and became a member of the Duke Sports Hall of Fame in 1981. With 11 punt returns against Colgate in 1936, Hackney still holds the single-game record for punt returns at Duke, the release states.

Following his football career, Hackney worked for the American Tobacco Company in Durham for 42 years and with Duke Athletics in game operations for more than 50 seasons, the release states. He ran the scoreboard for football games at Wallace Wade Stadium and operated concessions for more than 60 years, Drennon wrote.

A memorial service was held for Hackney in Durham March 12.

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Kan faces ‘Katrina moment’ Overheated power plants raise concern

by John Brinsley

THE Washington Post

Three days ago, Prime Minister Naoto Kan was fighting for his political life. Now, the success of his government may hinge on how he responds to what he calls Japan’s biggest crisis since the end of World War II. Friday’s record earthquake in northeastern Japan struck hours after Kan, 64, had begun attempting to defuse a scandal over a political donation he received. He mobilized 100,000 troops and pledged an emergency-spending package to cope with the quake, the ensuing tsunami and a potential meltdown at a nuclear power station.

A bungled response could draw the kind of criticism heaped on President George W. Bush for his fumbled reaction to Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005. An effective job might lift Kan’s prospects, as it did those of Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, who coped with the aftermath of Australian

floods and a cyclone last month.

“This is Kan’s Katrina moment,” said Jun Okumura, a consultant at the Eurasia Group risk consulting firm in Tokyo and a former Japanese trade official. The premier has weeks to show “he’s not such a poor leader after all. The thing going for him now is that the opposition can’t be in opposition.”

Kan pledged at least $2.4 billion to cope with the 8.9-magnitude quake and sought an extra spending package that won the support of the Liberal Democratic Party, the biggest opposition group. Sadakazu Tanigaki, leader of the LDP, said post-earthquake funding will be needed and his party “will cooperate with all our might.”

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TOKYO — Japanese authorities said Sunday that efforts to restart the cooling system at one of the reactors damaged by Friday’s earthquake had failed, even as officials struggled to bring several other damaged reactors under control.

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant haven’t found a way to stabilize overheated reactors and feared the possibility of partial nuclear meltdown, which could potentially cause a further release of radioactive material, Japan’s top government spokesman said Sunday. Engineers were having trouble, in particular, with two units at the nuclear facility—one of which lost its outer containment wall Saturday in an explosion.

Meanwhile, officials declared a state of emergency at a nuclear power plant in Onagawa, where excessive radiation levels were reported.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said that a similar explosion could soon occur at Fukushima Daiichi’s unit 3, the result of hydrogen levels that are increasing within the unit’s reactor vessel amid last-ditch efforts to keep fuel rods submerged in water. Already, trace amounts of radioactive material have leaked from the No. 3 reactor, Edano said.

“At the risk of raising further public concern, we cannot rule out the possibility of an explosion,” Edano said.

But Edano also insisted that an explosion would have no impact on human health. Based on initial findings from the government and from Japan’s nuclear agency, the Saturday explosion in unit 1 did not damage the reactor vessel, and the government said that the unit 3 reactor vessel would also withstand an explosion. The reactors of No. 3 and No. 1 vessel are now being flooded with seawater and boron, an emergency attempt to keep the units cool after the plant lost its main power supply and a back-up system failed.

Though the third unit is being filled with water, its gauge inside does not register the rising levels, Edano said. He did not have an explanation.

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“The most important task that the operators have— and have had for last 36 hours—is to keep the fuel in the reactor covered, submerged in water,” said Richard Lester, co-chair of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “If they succeed in doing that, keeping the fuel rods covered in water, the likelihood of significant damage to the fuel is low. If they cannot keep the fuel covered with water, then you have the possibility of melting.”

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Pentagon cancer research budget comes under scrutiny

by Walter Pincus

THE Washington Post

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the Pentagon seeks to trim spending, there are some programs Congress believes the military can't do without. Among them: cancer research.

For almost 20 years, the Defense Department has been the recipient of more than $3.6 billion for cancer research.

The programs have never been requested in any presidential budget, and are outside the Pentagon's traditional mission of battlefield medicine and research.

Nonetheless, lawmakers, prodded by grass-roots lobbyists, have annually added in the money as part of the appropriations process.

With Congress now debating a spending bill for the remainder of this fiscal year—and both parties calling for budgetary restraint—lawmakers have shown no inclination to curtail this spending. The Senate Appropriations Committee recently added $250 million to the fiscal 2011 Continuing Resolution for cancer research.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said that the Pentagon, faced with mounting fiscal pressures, plans to cut projected spending by $78 billion over the next five years.

He has also acknowledged that "not every defense dollar is sacred or well-spent."

But the inclusion of funds on programs that are outside of the Pentagon's core mission highlights the persistence of grass-roots organizations that have come to depend on the defense budget as a sacrosanct source of funding.

Spending on cancer research represents a tiny drop in the bucket of the Pentagon's budget. But at a hearing earlier this month, Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, chairman of the Armed Services Committee's subcommittee on emerging threats, questioned whether aspects of the Defense Department's medical research on cancer should remain a priority at a time of tightened budgets.

He noted that much of the research has a "tenuous connection to the warfighter or even our service people" and that funding had been "foisted upon the department by Congress."

Even though cancer research "may not have been entirely for the military, it has had a great benefit, as have many of those kinds of efforts," Marilyn Freeman, the Army's deputy assistant secretary for research and technology, told Thornberry, noting that breast cancer is a "huge issue" for women in the military.

Nevertheless, when it comes to priorities for the fiscal 2012 budget, "we're going to have to look at that hard," she said, referring to the cancer research.

The Pentagon's cancer research programs were initiated with a $25 million congressional earmark in 1992 for research on breast cancer. Since then, annual appropriations have increased, and the Pentagon's Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs have expanded to focus on prostate, lung and other kinds of cancers. Most of the spending has gone to individual grants managed through contractors.

The National Breast Cancer Coalition says the development of the breast cancer research program alone—the largest cancer research program funded through the Pentagon—has attracted more than 40,000 research proposals over the years. In 2009, the group noted, 214 members of the U.S. House and the 57 senators signed letters supporting $150 million for the breast cancer research program.

By contrast, the National Institute of Health's National Cancer Institute spent $600 million on breast cancer research in 2009.

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In a memo posted on the organization's Web site, the vice president, Kevin Johnson, described his experience with the group, saying that his "first couple of years with ZERO was spent fortifying our position on Capitol Hill through existing relationships that I built through the years of working there."

Last year, after Gates first said reductions would have to be made in Defense Department health programs, Johnson received an e-mail from an officer of one of his constituent organizations. The officer expressed concern that the funds could be at risk and cited a Washington Post article

focusing attention on the issue.

Johnson replied: "There are far too many votes for Members of Congress who DO control the funding of this program to not continue this funding—this is one of the reasons that Members who like to talk about waste, fraud and abuse who want to cut programs have such a hard time doing so—the political scaffold that supports these programs is often too complicated to bring them down."

In an e-mail this week, Johnson said his organization has not spent a great deal of time lobbying for cancer research funding through the Pentagon. Indeed, while ZERO reported spending $230,000 on lobbying Congress in 2009, that figure dropped to $50,000 in 2010.

"We are preparing for the fiscal year 2012 process, which I see as a larger threat to the program," Johnson said.

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The devastating earthquake March 11 ravaged Japanese infrastructure and the resuting mess has slowed international relief efforts. Fukushima, pictured, has been evacuated among fears of a nuclear power plant meltdown.

earthquake from page 1 Human Resources Kyle Cavanaugh, Duke’s emergency coordinator. The earthquake generated a tsunami that toppled buildings, devastating the country and damaging nuclear reactors.

In Japan there are 36 Fuqua School of Business students, seven Marine Lab program students on a trip to Japan, three students studying abroad and three members of the faculty, Cavanaugh said.

On campus, the International House has reached out to 60 students with Japanese citizenship or contacts in the country. Some members of the Duke community are also already discussing ways to help the nation, said Dean of

Students Sue Wasiolek.

“There has been a very coordinated effort across lots of different offices at Duke ranging from student affairs to the international office to our police department to the various programs such as Fuqua,” Cavanaugh said. “Each of those has played an immediate and an ongoing role in identifying [Duke people in Japan].”

Junior Mario Parks was in Tokyo when the earthquake’s first aftershocks hit. In an e-mail, he described the scene as chaotic yet strangely normal.

“Many people ran out into the streets, traffic stopped, and there was a strange sense in the air,” he said. “It wasn’t necessarily one of danger, but of confusion.”

Parks noted that he was unsure how to react since he had never experienced a similarly strong earthquake. He

added that the public’s anxiety faded and the situation soon returned to normal. Despite the chaotic scene, Parks said that he does not plan to cut his study abroad experience short.

“For now, I’ll be staying here,” he said. “I don’t see the need to leave Japan. I’ll just try to prepare as much as possible and wait it out like most people.”

Natsuki Sakata, a student at Tokyo University with a number of friends at Duke, said Friday’s earthquake affected her emotionally more than previous ones have. She was also in Tokyo when the disaster struck.

“Being in Japan, we are all used to earthquakes, so we were all like, ‘Oh there’s another earthquake,’” she wrote in an e-mail. “But [the tremors] went on for a long time, and we thought it was strange, and that was when [we realized] the big one came.”

Some faculty who have cultural ties to Japan are struggling to cope with the earthquake’s emotional aftershocks, as well. Japanese native Hitomi Endo, associate professor of the practice of Asian and Middle Eastern studies, said that even looking at the images of the disaster on television is difficult.

“The damage seems too extensive and beyond our imagination. It is heartbreaking to see the pictures and images of earthquake-hit areas,” she wrote in an e-mail.

“My thoughts and prayers are with those affected by the disaster, and I hope the situation in the Tohoku region improves soon.”

Simon Partner, associate professor of history, has relatives in Japan who endured the tragedy.

“My wife described experiencing the quake from the 14th floor of a high rise and then seeing the oil refineries in Tokyo Bay [explode] into flames,” he wrote in an e-mail.

This earthquake is one of the biggest in Japanese history, Partner said. The last major quake, which occurred in 1995 in the city of Kobe, killed more than 6,000 people. But estimates of the death toll from the most recent earthquake—which have continued to grow—are expected to exceed that of the Kobe earthquake.

“There are still many unknowns, most notably the possible nuclear meltdown which would have global consequences,” Partner said. “Other possible dire short-term consequences [include] a financial panic or another major earthquake. The potential for widespread chemical contamination from factory fires is high. The long-term cost to Japan will be huge—probably hundreds of billions of dollars.”

Partner said he believes that despite future risks, the country will return to a state of normalcy sooner rather than later, noting that Japan is a resilient nation.

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After dominating an overmatched Mercer squad Sunday afternoon, the Blue Devils almost seemed more concerned about the results of the Duke Men’s Basketball ACC Championship game than their own 18-5 victory.

DUKE 18 The team was satisfied with the win, but MERC 5 after a week which an overtime DUKE 14 featured triumph over then9 No. 3 Maryland and LOY an important win against No. 12 Loyola (3-1), the Blue Devils had to do no more than go through the motions. The Bears (0-9) never really had a chance against No. 15 Duke (4-2), and the Blue Devils’ backups played from the onset.

The starters, particularly on the defensive end, had more than earned their rest with their performance against the Greyhounds Friday.

Duke kept Loyola off the scoreboard until almost five minutes into the second half, by which point it had a nearly insurmountable nine-goal lead. The Blue Devils relied on their high-pressure defense, which generated 12 turnovers in the opening half, to disrupt the Loyola offense.

“This year, we’re very athletic, so we can get out and run and press out against the offense,” freshman defender Luke Duprey said.

Coming off a difficult win Wednesday over No. 13 Vanderbilt (4-3), No. 5 Duke carried its momentum into Saturday’s game against No. 10 Georgetown, defeating the Hoyas 13-5 in Washington, D.C. “They really DUKE 13 worked our debut our girls GEOR 5 fense, did a very good job earning goals,” DUKE 14 of head coach KerVAND 12 stin Kimel said.

“Georgetown is typically a very strong team, and the win was very great for us.”

This marks the Blue Devils’ third consecutive victory against a ranked opponent—the first came March 5 against then-No. 18 Princeton. Duke is 3-1 this season against top-20 opponents, with its only loss against No. 1 Maryland.

“The majority of our schedule is nonconference games, and we’re just really trying to grow each game and challenge every team,” Kimel said. “So far our season has been great.”

In the team’s most recent victory against the Hoyas, however, Duke (6-1) didn’t start off dominating its opponent.

Georgetown (0-3) won the opening draw, converting the possession into an

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early 1-0 lead. The Blue Devils quickly retaliated, going on a 7-0 run over the next seven draws. Goalie Mollie Mackler made a huge impact on the game, posting a career-high 15 saves and holding the Hoyas to a season-low five goals.

Duke’s leading scorers for the season also proved instrumental for the Blue Devil offense with junior Kat Thomas amassing four goals on four shots. Redshirt junior Emma Hamm contributed three goals, senior Christie Kaestner added one goal and three assists and Virginia Crotty put up one goal and two assists.

“We were pretty much in command for most of the game,” Kimel said. “We did a good job of winning draws and generating fast break looks.”

Kimel also highlighted the team’s performance without two of its seniors, Sarah Bullard and Caroline Spearman, both of whom have been out for the past couple of games because of injuries.

“They’re still battling, but we’re making good strides right now, and our younger players have played big parts,” Kimel said. “I’m really pleased to see how we’ve developed.”

Even with its recent successes, however, Kimel said there are specific parts of the team’s game that need to be improved as the Blue Devils head into the second half of the season.

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Meyerhoff on minds of Duke takes ACC series team at NCAA indoors Stroman turns in solid one-run performance

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When the Blue Devils closed out the season at the NCAA Indoor Championships this past weekend, they were competing for more than just their own results. Their former teammate, Sally Meyerhoff, passed away shortly before the meet began, and though not all the athletes knew her, they banded together to compete in her memory.

“That’s the good thing about team sports,” senior Kate Van Buskirk said. “Everyone came together and was very supportive. Racing in [Meyerhoff’s] honor was definitely a big source of motivation and inspiration.”

According to Van Buskirk, the NCAA meet was an opportunity for the Duke athletes to honor their fallen teammate.

Van Buskirk’s goal throughout the indoor season had been to achieve a topeight finish in the finals and make first team All-American in the mile. With the added inspiration, however, she was able to exceed expectations and finish in second behind Oregon sophomore Jordan Hasay, capping off a successful indoor season.

The senior stated that, in addition to the motivation of representing Meyerhoff, her ability to remain injury-free throughout the last year played a major role in her success at the meet and her steady improvement this season.

“I’ve had a history of injury in the past,”

Van Buskirk said, “So being able to have that consistency contributed.”

Her training clearly paid off this weekend, where in addition to making first team All-American, she broke the school record in the mile.

Van Buskirk was not the only athlete who had a successful experience at the meet. Senior Devotia Moore, junior Cydney Ross, sophomore Juliet Bottorff and freshman Rebecca Craigie competed in the women’s distance medley relay and combined for an 11th place finish, earning second team All-American. Senior Amy Fryt and freshman Tanner Anderson, who represented Duke in the pole vault and high jump, respectively, made second team All-American as well. Sophomore Curtis Beach earned the same honor with his 13th place finish in the men’s heptathlon.

The NCAA meet marked the end of an impressive indoor season for the Blue Devils, during which several school records fell, and athletes set personal records at each meet. Van Buskirk contributed to this success, setting a collegiate record in the 1000-meter and personal bests in all of her events.

“I’m always really honored to put on a Blue Devil singlet,” Van Buskirk said.

“I try to represent my school with pride, and I think I did that this [past] weekend. It was a great meet for the Blue Devils and I look forward to the start of the outdoor season.”

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Marcus Stroman pitched seven innings, allowing only one run, to lead Duke to a 7-1 win Sunday.

Behind a lights-out pitching performance from Marcus Stroman in which he allowed just one run over seven innings, Duke (13-4, 2-1 in the ACC) defeated N.C. State 7-1 Sunday afternoon to clinch their opening ACC series DUKE 7 of the season.

Stroman was NCST 1 dominant, surrendering only five DUKE 8 hits while striking NCST 3 out seven batters and walking none.

“He’s as good DUKE 3 as any pitcher in NCST 4 the league,” head coach Sean McNally said. “To have him throw on Sunday with a chance to win the series, that’s where we’re hoping to be.”

While Stroman kept the Wolfpack (8-7, 1-2) off the scoreboard, the Blue Devils continued to take advantage of scattered offensive bursts to establish their lead. After two innings of scoreless baseball, the Duke bats came alive in the bottom of the third.

David Perkins started the inning with a single to left, followed by a base knock to center from Chris Marconcini. After Jeff Kremer walked, Dennis O’Grady stepped up with two outs and hit a single through the left side, scoring Perkins and Marconcini to make the score 2-0.

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hind a blistering 62 percent shooting percentage from the field. But the Blue from page 1 Devils could not afford to relax, as North Carolina had little trouble coming back from the brink of defeat in its previous magic to be found for North Carolina.

Second-seeded Duke led from start to fin- two tournament games.

“We just wanted to keep our foot on the ish and knocked off top-seeded North Carolina 75-58 in the teams’ first title-game meet- gas—we did that,” Smith said of the team’s ing since 2001. The dominant victory gave thinking at halftime. “We were just very the Blue Devils their third straight conference tough the whole game.”

The Tar Heels couldn’t match Duke’s agtournament championship—the 10th crown in the last 13 years—and helped them capture gression, said forward Tyler Zeller. Every time North Carolina seemed poised to mount a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

“We beat an outstanding team—a team a run, the Blue Devils would answer with a that we have ultimate respect for,” head basket on the other end, doing their best to coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I thought it keep the partisan crowd out of the game.

Tournament MVP Smith led the way in was our best game of the season, and we that effort with 20 points, but only shot 6-forgot better this week.”

Sunday’s performance was a far cry from 18 from the field. Nevertheless, he took full Duke’s showing the last time the teams met advantage of his ability to penetrate the in the regular season finale Mar. 5. The Tar paint at will.

“He can create a lot of stuff,” Tar Heels’ Heels scored 51 first-half points en route to an 81-67 victory and held the Blue Devils to head coach Roy Williams said. “As he’s driving to the basket you have to come over and 36 percent shooting.

But Duke turned the tables on North help, and he can kick it out to the shooters.”

And Smith’s distribution to Duke’s peCarolina Sunday afternoon, controlling play from the opening tip in front of an rimeter weapons was crucial in turning back audience comprised largely of Tar Heel North Carolina’s best opportunity to close supporters. The Blue Devils went on an 8-0 the double-digit deficit.

Barnes went on a personal 5-0 run for run to start the game, scoring all of their points in the paint. The lead only grew the Tar Heels, and his turnaround jumper from there, as Duke received contributions cut the Duke lead to 63-54 with six minutes from multiple players on offense, relieving remaining. Smith then found Seth Curry the pressure on primary scoring options for a 3-pointer, and two possessions later he drove and kicked Nolan Smith and to Kelly for another Kyle Singler. three that pushed In the first half, the Blue Devils’ Andre Dawkins lead back to 13. knocked down Ball game. three of his four Even though all attempts from of the Blue Devils beyond the arc, stepped up their while the Plumlee play to win the brothers and Ryan championship, it Kelly were perfect was only fitting that from the field, Krzyzewski removed combining for 16 his senior captains points. Dawkins hit with 52 seconds left a deep three with so the pair could 1:47 left in the enjoy their own ovaperiod that gave tion. Even North the Blue Devils an Carolina’s Williams 18-point lead, and took a moment to he bounced back acknowledge two down the court in of the ACC’s finest delight with three players. fingers extended “At the end on each hand. when Mike took Miles Plumlee proout Kyle and Novided another eleclan I stood up and tric play on Duke’s clapped myself,” next possession, Williams said. grabbing the ball “[Smith] in my out of the air after opinion had the Smith’s floater hit best year in college the back rim and basketball.” slamming it home.

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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Harrison Barnes knew that the Blue Devils would be gunning for him Sunday after the freshman dropped 40 points in a record-breaking performance in the ACC semifinals.

Barnes was right on the money, and Duke’s defensive effort in the championship game was the deciding factor as the team captured its third consecutive ACC tournament title.

“The biggest difference has been our defensive intensity this entire weekend,” sophomore Ryan Kelly said.

That effort started with containing Barnes, North Game Carolina’s leading scorer. Kyle Analysis Singler drew the assignment “I just love how tough [Nobut help was never far behind, allowing the senior forward to lan Smith] is.... He really aggressively pressure Barnes on the perimeter. The made life tough today for frontcourt of Miles and Mason Plumlee, along with Kelly, did an effective job of blocking off the Tar Kendall [Marshall].”

Heels’ penetration into the lane, forcing them into — Roy Williams contested shots or making him give the ball up.

As a result, Barnes couldn’t get into a rhythm on offense. He didn’t score until hitting a free throw over 11 minutes into the game and didn’t make a jumper until early in the second portunities, pulling dow half. The freshman finished with 16 points on 15 shot attempts with no assists, The post defense w despite commanding much of the defense’s attention. earned second-team a “We played team defense on [Barnes] and everybody was ready to switch up on points and seven rebo screens,” sophomore Seth Curry said. “We brought the fight to him.... Kyle came Tyler Zeller and John out ready to play with something to prove. He sent the message to him early.” offensive and defensi While Singler played lockdown defense on Barnes, his fellow senior Plumlee’s resurgenc Nolan Smith was instrumental in shutting down North Carolina’s other from a disappointing en freshman phenom.

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Fighting a shooting slump, Kyle Singler went into the Maryland game hoping for a breakout performance. He emerged as the contest’s star, scoring 29 points and leading Duke to a 16-point win

Not another toe injury, thought every Duke fan that watched Smith go down late in the Maryland contest. Could the Blue Devils now have two star guards sidelined with toe problems?

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all Marshall had his way with the Blue Devils in Chapel st matchup Mar. 5, drawing defenders with effortless and finding open teammates to the tune of 11 assists.

Marshall from the outset Sunday, disrupting his ballhanwing the freshman to get comfortable. Marshall missed game and turned the ball over on the ensuing possesess extended to the defensive end. oach Roy Williams noticed his point guard’s difficulties lace him with the more experienced Leslie McDonald media timeout. never let up throughout the game, and Marshall—the ACC’s assist leader—ended the contest with only four assists to five turnovers.

“I just love how tough [Smith] is,” Williams said.

“You saw him yesterday, he made life tough for [Virginia Tech guard] Malcolm Delaney, and he really made life tough today for Kendall.”

Even when Barnes and Marshall got past their initial defenders, Duke’s interior defense protected the post s more effectively than in the two regular-season matchups. The Blue Devils’ big men prevented the nation’s leading rebounding team from getting second shot opwn 14 defensive rebounds in the decisive first period. was aided by the reemergence of Miles Plumlee, who all-tournament honors after averaging just under nine ounds per game. His size was instrumental in forcing n Henson to work harder on the boards, both on the ive glass. ce was representative of the entire team’s ability to rebound nd to the regular season. After being embarrassed by North l, Duke used defense to flip the script in Greensboro.

Kyrie Irving warmed up on the Greensboro Coliseum court before the Maryland and North Carolina contests this weekend.

But after each workout, he soon returned to wearing street clothes.

After Duke won its third straight ACC championship, though, the freshman suggested that he might just be seen with a Duke jersey on again this year.

First, Irving told several members of the media in the postgame celebration that there was “a good chance” he would return at some point during the NCAA Tournament. Then, in the locker room, he said he felt no lingering effects from the toe injury, suffered Dec. 4 against Butler.

“The medical staff just wants to take it slow right now,” the freshman said. “I started running in the water treadmill about a month ago so my conditioning isn’t where it should be, but it’s at a good point where I can get out there and play. I’m not saying I’m going to get out there and play—but I can.”

Irving went on to say that Nike had constructed a special shoe for him, designed to help prevent his toe from bending back again, as it did when he originally injured it. He also said that he is awaiting word on whether he can participate in full-speed scrimmages, but he said he has been approved for 5-on-0 drills.

When asked about the injury, head coach Mike Krzyzewski took a more cautious route than Irving, saying that while his recovery has gone well, no decision has been made.

“That’s the emotion of him missing out on being in this championship,” Krzyzewski said. “He’s progressing really well, but we’re far away from that decision.”

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nswer: No. Smith played 39 minutes and d 27 against Virginia Tech, then dropped North Carolina to lead Duke to its third straight ACC championship

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Kyrie Irving participated in warmups twice before ACC tournament games, exciting Duke fans in Greensboro.

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Karima Christmas suffered an injury in the first half, but returned to the game to grab nine rebounds.

w. basketball from page 1 Duke was that team.

Senior Krystal Thomas scored four quick points to retake the lead, and the Blue Devils ran away from the Tar Heels, ending the game on a 28-12 run to snatch Duke’s second straight ACC Tournament Championship—and seventh overall— besting North Carolina 81-66.

“I’m very, very proud of our team, our seniors and the leadership exhibited out there throughout this tournament,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said.

Each team came out firing in the first half, and hot shooting negated the defensive efforts of both the squads. Forward Jessica Breland, who finished the game with 27 points, made a number of contested jump shots over tight coverage by Allison Vernerey, and was nearly unstoppable the entire game.

The Blue Devils suffered an injury scare midway through the first half, when Karima Christmas was undercut while fighting for an offensive rebound and crashed to the floor, landing hard on her right side.

Christmas remained motionless on the court for a few moments before retreating to the bench, where she received treatment from team doctors. She would return just minutes later, however, wearing a protective sleeve on her right arm for support.

“Karima was really courageous to come back like she did. She got hit really hard and didn’t feel very good. She made the most of her time out there and was attacking always,” McCallie said.

Despite the obvious pain, Christmas persevered and had a huge effect on the game. Her four offensive rebounds extended Duke’s possessions, and often resulted in second-chance baskets.

Jasmine Thomas drilled a long 3-pointer in the waning seconds of the first half, and Vernerey finished from close range to close the period on a 5-0 run and give Duke a 37-32 lead heading into the second period.

With both offenses trumping the opposing defense, the game remained close until Duke’s decisive run in the second half.

While Jasmine Thomas was the closer, it was the playmaking abilities of freshmen Chel-

sea Gray and Chloe Wells that jumpstarted the Blue Devil offense. Wells’s dish to Krystal Thomas, just a play after Gray found Thomas in the post, gave the senior another easy finish in the paint to give Duke a 57-54 lead.

The Blue Devils shot the lights out from there.

After Wells penetrated and fished at the rim, a timely Haley Peters 3-pointer stretched the Duke lead to eight, leaving the Tar Heels struggling to keep up. Quickly falling behind, North Carolina began to force the ball offensively, but only managed to turn the ball over against a ravenous Blue Devil defense. In all, the Tar Heels coughed the ball up four times in the final 10 minutes, and 20 times for the game.

After a stunning tournament, it was only fitting for Jasmine Thomas to put the exclamation point on the final. With the shot clock winding down and Thomas looking for a shot on the perimeter, the senior launched a three from just in front of the Blue Devil bench.

At the same time, North Carolina’s Chay Shegog fouled Haley Peters away from the ball, as Peters was setting a screen to open up space for Thomas.

Shegog was whistled for the offense, and Thomas’s fadeaway shot dropped. Peters sank both from the line to give Duke a five-point play and widen the lead to 17.

“I thought that was the greatest screen ever set at that play along the baseline where Jazz hit the three and she got the call,” McCallie said. “Sometimes when you focus on the right things, a lot of really good things happen.”

After the game, Thomas, who scored 21 against the Tar Heels, was named the MVP of the tournament for the second straight year. Christmas was also named to the All-Tournament first team, while Gray was named to the second team.

The Blue Devils will now turn their attention to the NCAA Tournament and await the decisions of the selection committee, which announces Duke’s fate today at 7 p.m.

McCallie is confident that Duke is at its peak and is ready to take on all challengers.

“We definitely are making great progress,” she said. “As long as we stay focused and in the moment, anything’s possible for us.”

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weekendwrapup Duncan wins LSU Golf Classic in playoff Reigning ACC Player of the Year Lindy Duncan recorded her first victory of the year, winning the LSU Golf Classic in a playoff over Anna-Karin Ljungstrom of Louisville on the third extra hole.

A third-round 71 put Duncan in a tie for the lead after 54 holes, but her three pars over the first three playoff holes were enough to hold off Ljungstrom, who bogeyed the last to hand Duncan the title.

The sophomore staged a final day comeback after being tied for sixth after the second round, starting the day three shots off the lead. Duncan came out of the gates Sunday with seven consecutive pars, and her birdies on No. 14 and 15 put her in prime position late.

As a team, Duke finished in a tie for third, shooting a collective 36-over on the par-72 University Club course.

Becca Ward took the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regionals for the third consecutive year Sunday. She now begins the journey to capture the second national championship of her career.

Nine Duke athletes total posted top-10 finishes at the regionals, which allowed them to qualify for NCAA fencing championships.

On the men’s side, senior Dorian Cohen placed third and freshman Matthew Budofsky finished ninth in the men’s foil.

In the epee, Dylan Nollner placed third and Jonathan Parker finished 10th. Anthony Lin placed sixth in the saber, rounding out the men who will compete in the Championships.

For the women, Sean Cadley joined Ward in the saber top 10. Emily D’Agostino and Mary Tung placed fourth and eighth in the epee, respectively.

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opponent Friday, overcoming No. 7 California (10-4) 5-2 in Tempe, Ariz.

The fifth-ranked Blue Devils found early momentum by winning their fourth straight doubles point, aided by victories at No. 2 and 3.

That momentum carried over into singles, where Duke quickly picked up two more points to lead the match 3-0.

At the sixth spot, Mary Clayton overwhelmed Alice Duranteau 6-1, 6-1, while Reka Zsilinszka took down Annie Goransson 6-0, 6-3 at No. 3.

Jana Juricova, ranked fourth nationally, then took a straight-set match against Nadine Fahoum at the top spot, but the Blue Devils clinched the winning point when freshman Rachel Kahan scored a comeback win at No. 5 over Anett Schutting, 5-7, 6-2, 6-3. Kahan currently boasts a 14-match singles winning streak, while Clayton extended her streak to four.

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“That way we can force them to make mistakes so we can come up with the ball.”

Successful defensive performances have allowed starting goalie Dan Wigrizer to build confidence going forward from the game against Maryland. Despite starting for last year’s championship squad, Wigrizer struggled for long stretches of the season, yielding more than 9.4 goals per game and posting a save-percentage just under 51 percent.

Over his past two games, though, the goalkeeper posted a .638 save-percentage. Like most of the other Duke starters, Wigrizer did not play against Mercer.

“We are extremely pleased [with Wigrizer’s performance],” head coach John Danowski said. “We think he’s improved from his first two weeks of the season. I’m extremely pleased with his effort against Maryland and against Loyola.”

Wigrizer’s recent performance also catalyzed success for the rest of the team. When the team’s goalie is feeling confident, that carries over to the defense as well as the offense, Duprey said.

For a young team like the Blue Devils, the experience of putting together a winning streak is as important as the wins themselves. “[The freshmen] don’t know anything about Duke Lacrosse except what they see on TV... so they have to experience it for the first time,” Danowski said. “They have to experience losing... and then experience beating Maryland and beating Loyola. All these things create a memory bank for them, and now they... have a little better frame of reference.”

Although the Blue Devils have a ways to go to reach last year’s heights, their newfound confidence is a good sign.

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Anthony D’Alessandro continued the scoring by blasting a home run over the wall in right to make it a five-run Blue Devil lead.

“Hitting is contagious,” D’Alessandro said. “Once we start going I guess we just feel more confident, and we start stringing together a few hits.”

The Blue Devils struggled to find that offensive prowess Friday night, as they were overpowered by N.C. State’s Cory Mazzoni. The Wolfpack pitcher limited Duke to only one earned run off six hits in his seven innings of work.

“He’s very good, and our guys were anxious,” McNally said. “We have a lot of young guys, and he’s a different caliber pitcher…. We gave away some at-bats but we hung in there, and that’s what this group has done. We made it a game in the end.”

Although Duke rallied to load the bases with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, the hot-hitting Perkins, who was 3-for-4 at that point, grounded out to end the game.

Duke starter Chase Bebout held the Wolfpack to two runs over the first five innings until he was nailed on the arm with a line-drive in the sixth. Bebout had to leave the game, but X-rays were negative, and McNally said that he expects the sophomore to play this coming weekend.

After the loss Friday, the young Blue Devils showed their resilience by bouncing back with an 8-3 win Saturday. Marconcini smashed two triples and Kremer added the team’s first home run of the season to lead the offensive effort.

“We bounced back,” McNally said. “It’s kind of emblematic of what we’ve done this year. We bounce back.”

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Prime Minister from page 6 About 190 aircraft and 45 vessels have been deployed to transport injured people and supplies and more than 50 countries were sending rescue teams. The death toll may top 10,000, media reports said.

“Our country faces its worst crisis since the end of the war 65 years ago,” an emotional Kan said Saturday in a nationally televised briefing. “I am convinced that working together with all our might the Japanese people can overcome this.”

The reaction so far is “light-years better” than the response to the 1995 Kobe earthquake that killed 6,400 people, when Japan initially turned down offers of aid from countries including the United States and Great Britain, said Jeff Kingston, director of Asian Studies at Temple University’s Tokyo campus.

“Kan has shown the public a resolute and compassionate leader,” Kingston said. “But the nuclear fallout could turn political if all assurances turn out to be wishful thinking.”

Officials issued inconsistent messages about rising radiation levels at three nuclear power plants operated

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to lead to a meltdown, minutes after a Tepco official said one was possible.

Kan, who faces dissent within his Democratic Party of Japan, has repeatedly rejected calls to resign and become the fifth straight premier to last no more than a year. Failure to set a path for reining in a public debt close to 200 percent of gross domestic product has spurred credit-rating firms to lower, or put on notice for a cut, Japan’s sovereign grade.

Before the quake struck, Kan was fielding questions in parliament over a donation that may have been made by a non-Japanese resident, the same alleged violation that prompted the resignation of his foreign minister. A March 7 poll showed the premier’s support at less than one voter in four.

Bush’s approval rating fell in the wake of his response to Hurricane Katrina. Bligh’s popularity, by contrast, has soared. Her direct speech and command of detail as the crisis unfolded—she held press conferences every two hours until about 10 p.m. in the first few days of the Queensland floods—reversed her low popularity.

The disaster will “take the heat off Kan,” Aurelia George Mulgan, a Japanese politics professor at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia, said by phone. “But if he fluffs it, then he’s gone. He was gone anyway, but this provides him with an opportunity to rescue his administration.”

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TC: Are there any structural reasons relating to the market that might push up the cost of food?

MB: [According to] basic microeconomics, consumers are hurt when the price of a commodity goes up where the producers benefit. In most countries, you hear more about the producers than you do the consumers. It is difficult to strike a balance between producers and consumers. Governments sometimes try to intervene to maintain this balance. In the 1960s and 1970s, African governments adopted a price support policy [to] prevent prices from falling below a certain point. Their intentions are understandable, but this doesn’t let the market do its job. Producers form a more cohesive group because they can form lobbies for their causes and organize themselves whereas consumers are diffused across the economy and can’t come

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together to speak on the behalf of that population as a whole. This is why we end up with a lot of policy that favors producers, leading to higher food prices.

TC: Are there any trends among the type of political government instituted and the likelihood of social revolt due to high food prices?

MB: If there is a relationship, it is too small to detect. I don’t think that you can say that because one country was a bit more socialistic, or another was a bit more capitalistic, they are more susceptible to high food prices and revolution.

TC: Do you believe the governments of Tunisia and Egypt are aware of the effect food prices have on the stability of the state and what should be done?

MB: I think the best thing we can do is encourage agricultural research to support technological innovation to do more with the land that we have. Every once in a while someone comes along and says that in 60 years there will be ten billion people and not enough food. The truth of the matter is that you never have a situation when everything stays constant and one factor changes and historically, humankind has been very resilient to population growth and been able to distribute food efficiently. We need to be optimistic, innovate technology and adapt. Necessity is the mother of invention. We have the tools, we just need to overcome the political bumps of bureaucracy and corruption to implement them.

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Gift from page 1 “Today’s gift speaks to a fundamental or foundational commitment of... ensuring the highest quality of experience to the students who come to Duke,” Brodhead said. “Duke’s great shared spaces, our great common spaces, our common rooms... these spaces are going to be touched by the magic wand in a way that will take these beautiful exteriors of these historic buildings and perpetuate them for many more generations.”

Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, noted in an e-mail that work on Baldwin is set to start before the end of 2011, though renovations of West Union and Page will not begin until the summer of 2012 at the earliest.

Schoenfeld added that the administration intends to make the renovation process open and inclusive, as this is a “once-in-ageneration” opportunity to transform some of the most important spaces on campus.

The conversations between the University and the endowment about these projects began several years ago but were halted because of the recession.

“It was put on hold when the economic turmoil affected both the Duke Endowment and Duke University, but the recent recovery has now made it possible to continue,” Schoenfeld said.

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oped regarding the closing and relocation of the many services and offices provided by these three buildings. Schoenfeld said the University community will be notified in advance of any disruptions.

“A project of this magnitude will inevitably create some disruption and inconvenience, but we will be working hard to minimize the impact on students, employees and visitors,” he said.

The construction will take priority over projects including New Campus, an effort intended to replace Central Campus that was delayed by the recession.

The Board of Trustees discussed a logical first step to New Campus at its February meeting, but no plans for construction have been announced.

Brodhead said the University continues to see New Campus as an important priority, but the most pressing matter is taking care of what the University already has.

“We continue to have a vision for New Campus, but [West Union, Page and Baldwin] have not had any loving attention in a long time,” Brodhead said.

Brodhead noted that West Union currently consists of “long wings that are all chopped up” and this renovation will be a complete transformation to a “modern open space.” ISO 12647-7 Digital Control Strip “The historic parts will be as beautiful as always, but we want to transform the inside, open it up so that it can be a place of connectivity,” Brodhead said.

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West Union overhaul offers promise Thanks to James B. Duke, jor investment. some of the University’s flagThe Duke Endowment’s ship structures will be getting donation will go a long way a facelift. toward bringing the Gothic Last Monday, the Char- Wonderland closer to James lotte-based Duke Endowment B. Duke’s vision of a great pledged $80 university. million to renoC e r t a i n l y, editorial vate Baldwin this gift raises Auditorium, Page Auditorium some questions. It is not part and the West Union Building. of a major capital campaign.

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in Duke’s history—provides the University a chance to reimagine student living. These structures are the public face of the University, just as they were during Mr. Duke’s day.

Today they are functionally and symbolically past their prime.

Baldwin and Page call up visions of high school auditoriums, they do not do justice to hosting renowned speakers and artists, let alone Duke’s own student performers.

West Union is a hodgepodge of hallways and eateries that fails to create the ministerial central eatery that the University deserves.

The endowment’s donation will breathe new life into these spaces. Bleeding-edge performance arts spaces could send a powerful message to

performers and prospective students that Duke cares about the arts. A new student union could unify the student dining and living experience in a way that was previously impossible.

Embarking on a project of this scale demands thoughtfulness—Duke has a chance to re-envision student life and should take it seriously. Care should be taken to ensure that the new West Union brings students together in a new way.

Today’s West Union is a pastiche of fried chicken and Subway sandwiches, leather loungers and cafeteria tables, scattered throughout diverging hallways. Regardless of how the University decides to handle the building’s food offerings, this renovation offers a clean slate. The new venue should be open and impres-

sive. West Union should house a dynamic dining space that fosters rather than fractures student interaction.

Administrators should also recognize that a construction project of this scale could drastically disrupt daily life at the University. West Union houses some of the highest traffic eateries and sits at the geographical heart of the University. Students, faculty and staff should accept that construction is a burden worth bearing. But the planners should keep disruption to a minimum by arranging alternative dining options before shovels hit dirt.

The Duke Endowment’s donation has the potential to recreate the core of University living. Now it must be spent wisely.

A love-hate relationship

n January 5, 2011, a 17-year-old student legislation need to be in order to keep crime low walked into Millard South High School in and citizens safe? Gun rights supporters claim that Omaha, Nebraska and opened fire. After when guns are more accessible, citizens are in a firing seven shots, fatally wounding Assistant Prin- better position to defend themselves and others cipal Vicki Kaspar and injuring the from crime. This is the basis of the principal, Curtis Case, the student was self-defense argument of gun confound dead in an apparent suicide. trol, and it’s definitely a credible After a brief grieving period of two line of reasoning. weeks, the Nebraska legislature deBut I wonder how inclusive this cided in the truly American fashion to umbrella argument of self-defense fight fire with fire. State Senator Mark should really be. It is necessary to Christensen introduced bill LB516 on analyze the ramifications of gun January 18, which would allow school policies outside polarized arena of maggie lafalce politics. For example, the consestaff in Nebraska to carry guns.

For me this begs the question: southern highlander quences of laws that allow for the What does it say about our country sale of guns at a gun show without that when a school shooting occurs, maintaining records of sale require those in positions of power believe the solution is appraisal beyond a black and white partisan assessMORE GUNS? I think it says a lot about how we ment. In the end, we are influencing fundamental view guns. American culture is characterized by a rights, such as public safety and personal freedom, deeply imbedded love of the gun. The historian and we cannot hope to find a desirable balance Richard Hofstadter described our country’s adora- through the use of trivial political pandering. tion of gun ownership and celebration of the gun In the tragic instances of school shootings, guns in our national heritage as a “gun culture.” At least are unfortunately the primary focus of subsequent when I think of guns and America, I think back to discussions. Focusing on the gun as the root of the the drafting of the Constitution, of Mel Gibson and problem serves only to further drive apart the opthe rugged colonial militia in “The Patriot” and of posing sides of gun rights issues and neglects the Theodore Roosevelt—an ideal of masculinity and real problem. American teens who are at risk for life member of the NRA. (You can now order a violence are not receiving the attention they need. look-alike of his Winchester rifle online!)

A 2009 survey by the Center for Disease Control Even today, buying and using one’s first gun and Prevention found that 5.6 percent of teens is a rite of passage in many parts of the country. reported carrying a weapon on school property in For segments of the population, the freedom to the previous 30 days and 7.7 percent reported beuse one’s gun symbolizes the ideals of American ing threatened or injured with a weapon on school freedom. This is where America’s relationship property in the past year. Statistics such as these with the gun gets complicated. As the two sides should alarm us all. School shootings are clearly of the gun debate are increasingly associated with about more than who had what gun and where; specific political parties, the uninformed support they are indicative that our country’s violence prefor increased gun rights can be seen as a sign of vention for youth programs are not up to par. allied support for one’s political party or region The most important thing to take away from the of the country. tragedy in Omaha is that we need to redirect our It’s clear that the discussion surrounding gun reaction to such events, should one unfortunately rights in America is an extremely politicized one. occur in the future. A school shooting shouldn’t We have seen the politicization of important issues be used as a political device to loosen or tighten in American politics before—from junk food in gun control legislation. It should instead serve as schools to environmental conservation initiatives. the springboard to redouble our efforts to combat It’s an unfortunate trend because the politiciza- the cultural, developmental and educational varition of an issue rarely contributes to productive ables that influence youth violence in America. policy making. The balance that is constantly negotiated between gun rights advocates and gun Maggie LaFalce is a Trinity Sophomore. Her column control advocates is this: How restrictive does gun runs every other Monday.

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few days ago, I heard one person tell her male friend, “Those jeans are real tight.” He paused for a noticeable amount of time. How was he supposed to respond? “Are you calling me fat?” or “It’s lucky my girlfriend and I wear just about the same size!” He seemed surprised by this negativity. He apparently hadn’t previously received any criticisms about his legwear, leaving him unaware of his bad situation.

Society thrives on both solicited and unsolicited feedback. monday, monday Monsieur 26x34 might think gothic squirrel twice before he puts on those pants and wears them in public again, most likely due to the negative reaction he received. To affirm his status in society as winning, he will probably go to the jeans store and buy a new pair, but only after the saleswoman gives some obligatory positive comments. In the morning, he’ll put on those jeans and feel like he’s radically winning before his first cup of coffee.

In academics, students have wondered aloud why they often turn in two weekly assignments, such as lab reports, before the first one is graded. If, in one week, a student incorrectly measures his yield as a seven-gram rock, he will probably do it improperly again the next week. Thus, he will be deducted points twice for the same mistake. Most students don’t care because lab grades are not very important: Your face will not melt off, and your children will not weep over your exploded body. After receiving graded assignments, students will see their mistakes and complain to the TA because their only goal is to get an A. Perhaps there might be a disconnect between students and professors because professors’ expertise in a subject is not always compatible with students’ introductory knowledge. Students fail to realize teachers are abnormal in that they have tiger’s blood and Adonis DNA running through their veins.

Ratemyprofessor.com is the great feedback-based equalizer that helps students overcome this biological inferiority. Recently, I was digging through a trash heap behind the French Family Science Center and found an old story that indirectly criticized students for using this website. They ostensibly used it to decide which teacher had the boogers of a 7-year-old. The results were that 300 students were registered in one section of organic chemistry and 50 in the other section. Clearly, opinions are powerful tools to students and professors alike.

Feedback can be well applied to romantic relationships as well. Males, however, usually need more advice than females.

My mother said to my squirrelfriend, “It doesn’t matter if you love him, or capital H-I-M, just put your paws up and tell him when he does anything stupid.” I told her, “Males are oblivious to their surroundings 83.2 percent of the time, but baby, we are born this way.” Even my friends who are dating multiple floozies say that the key to a successful relationship is always being mindful of everybody’s wishes. Open conversation is the key to figuring out these desires.

For more public activities, like campus events, criticism from the public is even more vital. The LDOC committee didn’t sit idly by while Jay Sean didn’t win and think, “According to our survey, less than 0 percent of students enjoyed him.

We should get another British collaborator who only ‘sings’ two to three well known songs...TAIO CRUZ FOR LDOC!” They have learned that marriages between crappy artists and LDOC are failures. In the past two years, they are zero for two with that marriage; they’re not going zero for three. The members of the LDOC committee are not going to wear golden sombreros because they actually used the feedback they requested to compile a winning lineup.

I see thousands of those business reply mail envelopes in the trash and cringe because those enclosures have a single purpose: returning important information about service back to companies so they can address shortcomings. Businesses want to know what they’re doing wrong, so not replying is like talking about them behind their back; thus breaking down the comment-response system.

So next time something really grinds your gears, go ahead and give some feedback about it. Aside from perhaps the common static on microphones, feedback is helpful to at least one party involved. It helps people and businesses improve themselves. It is rare that people are actually the best at what they do. Sorry, Middle America.

The Gothic Squirrel petitions that you must throw your hands up around Carlos Irwin Estevez because all he does is win.

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To fix schools, treat teaching as a profession

s the debate rages over public unions and, in baseball, the rookie of the year is almost never the particular, over their role in school reform, most valuable player. But the rookie of the year an unfortunate dichotomy about America’s is better than a whole lot of 10-year veterans, and teachers has emerged. On one side, unions and many every baseball team takes this into account when teachers say that teachers are unfairly vilified, that deciding its roster. they work incredibly hard under difFrom the day I became chancelficult circumstances and that they are lor of New York City’s schools, the joel klein underpaid. Critics, meanwhile, say that thing that shocked me most was that our education system is broken and that the washington post the entire system eschewed distincto fix it we need better teachers. They tions based on merit. The unions, in say that teachers today have protections and benefits particular, well understood that once we began to not seen in the private sector—such as life tenure, differentiate based on merit, the public would be lifetime pension and health benefits, and short work- forced to deal with these clearly spelled out difdays and workyears. ferences and would demand that consequences Both sides are right. result from these differences. No one wants a lowTeaching is incredibly hard, especially when performing teacher teaching her child. dealing with children in high-poverty communities Critics argue that we cannot fairly evaluate who come to school with enormous challenges. teacher performance, so the current lock-step Many teachers work long hours, staying at school system is the best we can do. That’s ridiculous. Is past 6 p.m., and then working at home grading there anyone who doesn’t think that some of his papers and preparing lessons. Some teachers get own teachers were great and some terrible? outstanding results, even with our most challenged A reasonable, merit-based system is entirely students. These are America’s heroes, and they achievable. First, we should look at how much should be recognized as such. Sadly, they aren’t. student progress each teacher gets by comparing On the other hand, there are also many teach- teachers with similar challenges—e.g., those who ers who work by the clock—they show up a min- start mainly with low-performing kids would be ute before 8:30 and leave a minute after 3; when compared only to one another. Many researchers in school, they do the barest minimum. They get have done precisely this and found huge differencdreadful results with students and, if you spend es in results. Stanford economist Eric Hanushek, time in their classrooms, as I have over the past for example, has shown that some teachers get eight years, it’s painfully obvious that they belong 1.5 years’ worth of progress with their students in another line of work. in a single year, while others get only a half-year’s But our discussion too often fails to distinguish worth, even when the students start at the same between these very different types of teachers, treat- levels. Think what those differences amount to ing them all the same. This group-think not only over 13 years of schooling. pollutes the current public debate—either you’re Other, more traditional methods of evaluation for or against teachers—it is also killing our oppor- could also be applied, such as adopting a set of tunity to fix our schools. Any reform worth its name criteria that can be evaluated by principals and/ must start by recognizing that teachers are our most or master teachers. We could take into account important educational asset. That’s why we need to things such as a teacher’s contributions to the treat teaching as a profession, by supporting excel- school community, by, say, staying late to coach a lence, striving for constant improvement and rid- math team. ding the system of poor performers.

Whatever the criteria, the key point is that Alas, we do none of this. Whether you are good we must evaluate and differentiate—with conseor bad, work hard or don’t, teach in a shortage quences. We do teachers an enormous disservice area (such as math) or work in a highly challenged by perpetuating the myth that we can’t evaluate school, you get treated precisely the same: You their performance and that, consequently, neither have life tenure and generous lifetime health and excellence nor poor performance matters. Teachpension benefits, and you get paid more money ers are far too important to our students and the next year simply because of seniority. future of our country to treat them as interchangeConsider the fight over teacher layoffs. In many able cogs or widgets. states, you must lay teachers off solely based on reverse seniority - last in, first out. That’s nuts. Do Joel Klein, a former chancellor of New York public you know anyone who would say “I want the most schools, is chief executive of News Corp.’s educational disenior surgeon” rather than “I want the best sur- vision. This column was originally published on March geon”? Sure, experience matters. That’s why, in 13 in The Washington Post.

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meyerhoff from page 3 ‘Be relentlessly positive. With life, no matter the situation you were in make it a good one,’” Samantha Meyerhoff said.

Family members, teammates and coaches also emphasized Meyerhoff’s less serious side. They called her a “ball of life” and “prankster” who loved to speed around in her white Mini Cooper or her pink Beachcomber bike.

“When we would go running together she would say things that made me laugh so hard, I had to stop,” Samantha Meyerhoff said. “She liked to tease people, make people laugh and loved having a good time. You could call her to go out, shopping, groceries—anything in the world, she would try to have the most fun no matter what.”

Meyerhoff’s time at Duke was marked by a similar balance between an outstanding athlete and “fun-loving” friend and teammate.

“She made a lasting impression every moment along the way,” said current associate track and field coach, Kev-

in Jermyn, who worked with Meyerhoff during her time at Duke and is also the current head women’s cross country coach. “She definitely challenged me how to understand how to coach better. It was a lot of fun coaching her, and she really left a mark in my ability to reach more people and strengthened my ability to develop young women.”

Jermyn added that Meyerhoff is the toughest competitor he has ever seen, noting that her love for extreme challenges brought out her best.

“She was definitely an energy and kind of the heart of the team, a bit of a free spirit,” he said. “Athletically, she became a better athlete in a direct correlation with our team, which grew into one of the best ever. Her growth between sophomore and junior year translated into our team getting to No. 2 in cross country and an ACC Championship.”

Jermyn also recalled his most defining memory of Meyerhoff, which displayed her “mental toughness.” In 2007, Meyerhoff qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships, but two days before the race she fell ill with food poisoning. Meyerhoff stayed behind as the team

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went to the championships and was admitted to Duke Hospital. Meyerhoff—who was receiving intravenous fluids until 24 hours prior to the race—later joined the team and placed ninth in the 5,000-meter race, earning herself All-American status.

In preparation for this weekend’s NCAA Indoor Championships, Jermyn mentioned one of Meyerhoff’s more memorable and defining pranks in an e-mail to the women’s track and field team.

“She showed up to pre-season [cross-country] camp as a freshman with a feather boa around her neck on a 95-degree day when everyone else was in running clothes,” he wrote. “That was Sally—she left that boa around my office door when she graduated from Duke in 2007.”

Leaving a legacy Current senior Kate Van Buskirk ran the same race this weekend, placing second. As a freshman when Meyerhoff was a fifth-year senior, Van Buskirk said Meyerhoff was a significant mentor, adding that she dedicated Saturday’s race to remember and honor her.

“Sally didn’t settle for second best—she waited to be the best she could be and push others around her. She was a fierce competitor, loved Duke running and loved competing,” she said. “She had a really good balance of being her own person and really caring for her teammates and being a good friend.”

Current women’s cross country and track and field assistant coach Liz Wort, a close friend and former teammate of the athlete, said Meyerhoff’s love for Duke and her friends matched her passion for running. Wort added that their recruiting class was remarkably close from freshman year until recent weeks, attending each other’s weddings and going on vacations together. Wort said Meyerhoff was a huge part of keeping the group close, calling her the “ringleader.”

“She was always creating really fun adventures for us,” Wort said. “One summer, she decided the New Jersey River to Sea Relay sounded awesome. She found these leopard print tank tops online and made us wear them—everyone in the race knew exactly who we were and we won.”

Meyerhoff’s mother, Cindi Meyerhoff, said her daughter’s passion and motivation for running came from a desire to excel and prove that the sport deserved notice. Her mother said Meyerhoff began running in third grade when she joined track club and described how she “couldn’t hardly breathe” after running her first mile in sixth grade.

Meyerhoff was also high spirited, her mother said, whether it was starting food fights, dancing on the bar with her friends in Cancun or hiding things throughout her brother’s house.

“We loved that Sally touched so many people,” Cindi Meyerhoff said. “Sally and I had a special bond—people will say to me, ‘I have never seen anything like that in my life.’ She was a very strong willed and a very, very independent girl—I never knew anyone like her.”

The Meyerhoff family has established The Sally Meyerhoff Foundation which will allow racers to donate their prize money to fund running shoes and clothing for the less fortunate, and will sponsor races in her name.

Nuclear Plants from page 6 12-mile radius of the plant. They join more than 450,000 other evacuees from other quake- and tsunami-affected regions. A spokesman for Japan’s nuclear agency said that up to 160 people may have been exposed to radiation and were being tested at a hospital to determine if levels were dangerous.

“Only the gravest danger would justify an evacuation at such a moment,” said Peter Bradford, a former commissioner at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said officials were acting on the assumption that a meltdown could be underway at that reactor, Fukushima Daiichi’s unit 3, and that it was “highly possible” that a meltdown was underway at Fukushima Daiichi’s unit 1 reactor, where an explosion destroyed a building a day earlier.

Authorities made preparations to distribute potassium iodide pills, and warned people in the vicinity to stay inside and cover their mouths if they ventured outdoors.

Tokyo Electric Power Co., owner of the two heavily damaged complexes, took the unprecedented step of pumping seawater mixed with boric acid into Fukushima Daiichi’s unit 1 reactor to tame ultra-high temperatures from fuel rods that had been partially exposed.

In keeping with the natural as well as mechanical challenges of the week, the company had to delay the plan briefly after another, more mild, earthquake rocked the area and led to another tsunami warning.