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Dice, a yellow packet of cigarettes and a visiting card with the corner turned up these were the ordinary items captured in a collage by Pablo Picasso in 1914 that inspired an entire exhibit on the Cubist master’s work and artistic influences. “Picasso and the Allure of Language,” which opened at the Nasher Museum of Art last Thursday, showcases both Picasso’s artwork and his writing in order to portray his intellectual development. It will be on display until Jan. 3, 2010. A Picasso panel discussion was held Thursday night at the Nasher with the exhibition’s curator Susan Fisher, who is the Horace W. Goldsmith associate curator of modern and contemporary art at the Yale University Art Gallery. “In a broader sense, [“Picasso and the Allure of Language”] is interested in how language helped reshape Picasso’s imagination,” Fisher said. The lecture, which featured Fisher and Patricia heighten, a professor of art, art history and visual studies at Duke, brought a full audience to the Nasher auditorium. “I thought [the panel] was a really interesting way to introduce myself both to the museum and Picasso,” Nari Ely, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said. “It talked a lot more about his life and the inspirations behind his paintings that I’m not necessarily going to know about from going to a museum.” CHRISTINA PENA/THE CHRONICLE The Yale University Art Gallery lent to the Nasher all of the works on display, Susan Fisher, an associate curator at the Yale University Art Gallery,and Patricia Leighten, a professor in the department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke, participated in a panel discussion at the Nasher Museum ofArt Thursday night."Picasso and theAllure ofLanguage" is currently on display at the musem. SEE PICASSO ON PAGE 5
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Five incidents of “forcible sexual offenses” were reported on campus in 2007, according to the most-recent Clery Campus Security Report. But Duke officials and the National Institute ofjustice suggest the real number of offenses may be much higher. “The higher IQ, the more manipulative they are, the more cunning they are... imagine the sex offenders we have here at Duke—cream of the crop,” said Women’s Center Director Ada Gregory. In order to draw a truer picture of sex crimes at Duke, University officials changed the sexual misconduct policy over the summer in efforts to encourage more student victims to come forward. The revised policy includes a clause requiring student-on-student sexual misconduct to be reported by University officials who learn of it. These people include faculty and staff, as well as students who represent an arm of the University, such as resident assistants and first-year advisory SEE RAPE POLICY ON PAGE 4
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Dining staff have been denying freshmen lunch credit if they miss breakfast at the Marketplace, students and dining officials said. Freshmen have been charged full price for Marketplace lunches, whether or not they have eaten breakfast, since arriving on campus earlier this month, dining officials said. The credit was restored Wednesday, but several freshmen said students only became aware of the change Thursday. “I have never gotten credit toward lunch, despite not eating breakfast,” freshman Bethany Bosley said, adding that she has used food points to pay for three lunches that should have been covered. “I was pretty annoyed. This is definitely not what it says in our
When freshmen descend on the annual Fall Student Activities Fair today, they will find a dizzying array of options to strike their extracurricular fancy. New to the Student Organization Finance Committee’s roster of funded groups this year: Amnesty International, Anime Club, Apiary Club, Archery Club, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Arabic Students Association. And that’s just the A’s. The list goes on: the Biological Anthropology Union, the Culinary Society, the Korean Undergraduate Student Association, the Public Speaking Club and so on and so forth. In all, more than 270 campus organizations will be represented at the fair this year—the highest total at the Activities Fair ever, according to an e-mail sent by the Office of Student Activities and Facilities to registered student groups. Ryan O’Connell, OSAF program coordinator and SOFC adviser, approximates that the real number of organizations lies closer to 400. Furthermore, the number ofchartered groups listed on SOFC’s annual budget grew from approximately 100 last year to about 130 this year, even as Duke Student Govern-
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Senior Democrats in Washington and Massachusetts have thrown their support behind a proposal to appoint a temporary replacement to fill the seat of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., whose death Tuesday has left the leading cause of his political life—national health insurance—with one less vote of support. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, DNev., on Thursday publicly endorsed the plan to change the state's law to allow an interim appointment before a special election is held in January, when the winner will serve out the remaining three years of Kennedy's term. Reid joined Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., the party's 2004 presidential nominee and close Kennedy ally, Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick and other top legislative leaders, who all want to assure that sometime this fall Massachusetts has two senators.
BEIJING —The Dalai Lama is expected Monday in Taiwan for his first visit in eight years, injecting a volatile element into the political fallout from a killer typhoon. Tibet's exiled spiritual leader—reviled as a separatist by Beijing—was invited to Taiwan by officials in southern communities hard hit by Typhoon Morakot. Despite having staked his presidency on closer ties with the mainland, Taiwanese leader Ma Ying-jeou had little choice but to agree to the visit because ofthe uproar against his government for its sluggish reaction to the storm. "The Dalai Lama's visit is to pray for the victims and bereaved," Ma told Taiwanese television reporters, explaining his decision to allow the visit. The Dalai Lama's office in Dharamsala, India, where the Tibetan government in exile is headquartered, has said he will accept the invitation.The visit is expected to last from Aug. 31 to Sept. 4.
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That stuff on the bathroom floor will linger a bit longer this weekend. Staff losses due to early retirement have caused Residence Life and Housing Services to eliminate Saturday cleanings in residence halls beginning tomorrow, said Gary Thompson, director of facilities, planning and operations for RLHS. Dorms will now be cleaned only Monday
through Friday. “We have less housekeepers now than we did in the past due to the University’s early retirement package and our need to reduce our force,” Thompson said. “We just don’t have the bodies to do [Saturday cleanings]
right now.” Nine housekeepers and eight housekeeping supervisors chose to retire early, Thompson said. Four housekeeping and six supervisory positions have since been filled, while the remaining seven positions have been eliminated. Overall, 295 bi-weekly paid employees have accepted Duke’s early retirement package, which was offered to workers this summer. Bernard Smith, assistant director of housekeeping operations forRLHS said residence halls will be cleaned twice on Friday —once in the morning and once in the afternoon—to help make up for the lack of weekend cleaning. “Our existing workforce will be the ones providing the service,” he said. “It is just probably going to be an increased workload.” Smith added that he does not know if the lack of a Saturday cleaning will create more work for the Monday rooming cleaning crew. Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residential life, said he hopes students will take more responsibility for keeping their living areas clean, noting that they are already expected to “pick up after themselves.” He also asked that students empty the trash cans in their rooms during the workweek so that excessive trash does not build up over the weekend. “Treat this place like we hope you would treat your home,”
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RAPE POLICY from page 1 counselors Previously, University officials were only required to report faculty or staffsexual offenses against students. Now, when an allegation is filed, the Women’s Center and the Office of Student Conduct are notified. The Women’s Center will reach out to the victim with medical and psychological support and the OSC will automatically begin an investigation into the allegation. Under the policy, students may still confidentially report sexual misconduct to counselors in the Women’s Center, staff members in Student Health, licensed therapists and counselors and clergy members. “I hope the way women and men see this is as a supportive process that seeks to find the truth,” said Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek, assistant vice president of student affairs. The five forcible sexual offenses in the 2007 Clery report represent the fewest number of incidents in the past three years—seven were reported in 2006 and 10 in 2005, according to the report. “We know there’s a presence [of sexual misconduct], we’ve had cases and situations in the past, so to think that it does not exist on this campus, I think, would be naive and foolish,” Wasiolek said. “That being said, I also don’t think that this is a campus or a campus culture where sexual assault is rampant or quickly and easily tolerated.”
Reporting and investigating offenses Although the University has many resources available for victims of sexual misconduct, there are many reasons that some victims choose not to report being attacked. Fear of social stigma and self-blame are among those reasons, said Sheila Broderick, sexual assault support services coordinator for the Women’s Center. In addition, when students are raped, more than half the victims do not define the incident as “rape,” especially if there was alcohol involved, according to the National Institute of Justice’s Web site. “Duke is not unlike colleges across the United States,” Gregory said. “And in fact, for me, this is an impetus for implementing mandatory reporting because this is not an environment where students feel comfortable coming forward.” Among administrators, there was initially some concern that the new policy might deter students from reporting sexual misconduct, or increase false reports, Gregory said. But she said she does not anticipate this will be the case. “We’re creating an environment that says, This is not tolerated in our community,’ and when you create that environment, victims are more likely to come forward and seek help,” she said, adding that vic-
tims who are supported shortly after their are more likely to cooperate with the investigation process. Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director of student conduct, said the University is prepared for more reports and more investigations, even if more alleged victims are not willing to cooperate with the process. If necessary, he said that the OSC could hire an outside person to assist in conducting investigations into sexual misconduct, although that would be an “ad hoc” decision. Other officials have been preparing for the change as well. Although the policy did not officially go into effect until students arrived on campus in August, Student Affairs officials, FACs and Residence Life and Housing Services stafflike RAs were trained in the changes during the summer. FACs signed their contracts before the policy change occurred, and nothing written appeared in this year’s FAC PAC about the policy due to the short notice, said FAC co-Chair Meg Foran, a senior. She said if any FACs had been uncomfortable with their new roles under the policy, she would have worked to reassign their freshmen and allowed them to leave the program, but no one asked to quit. Several RAs declined to comment on how the new policy might affect their roles. Associate Dean for Residential Life Joe Gonzalez said just as before the policy change, RAs are expected to report any incidents of sexual misconduct to their Resident Coordinator. trauma
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“Rape culture” Broderick said students passively approve a culture of behavior that leads to sexual misconduct, citing parties that have sexually suggestive or sexist advertisements—like a schoolgirl theme. Administrators discuss party themes that could be considered “inappropriate” during the approval process and ask student groups to reconsider them, Wasiolek said. But the University does not force groups to change the names or themes of their events. “I think people focus sometimes on the cleverness of the party theme, and they reflect on whether the event the prior year was successful... without people really considering what kind of impact those themes can have,” Wasiolek said. “I have sensed a change over the last year or two, I’ve sensed that people are, number one, thinking about it more and, number two, expressing their concern—l think there are people on campus who are willing to express their disapproval for those kinds of themes.” Broderick also cited “rape culture” in America and at Duke as evidence that sexual assault does occur and as a reason victims may be hesitant to report misconduct.
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PICASSO from page 1 except for a few sculptures. The collage entitled “Dice, packet of cigarettes and visiting card,” which is physically the smallest piece on display, originally hung in a Yale office until Fisher and heighten came across it. To Fisher, the piece embodies the spirit of the show in that it represents the sense of communication and connection Picasso had with writers. Not only were intellectuals Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas the two friends that had left Picasso the visiting card in the first place, but Stein and her brother heo were also among Picasso’s first patrons. Along with describing the backgrounds of several of Picasso’s works,
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the panel discussed the artist’s support for “revolutionary modernism” and anything innovative. “He wanted to shock people into seeing things freshly,” heighten said. Fisher also noted that despite Picasso and his intellectual peers wanting to break away from “primitive,” realist techniques, a part of the exhibit is called “revisions” in order to highlight the number of works Picasso did that incorporated the past by building upon previously existing pieces. “Cubism is very visually confusing. It’s purposefully confusing because he’s combining different viewpoints of objects,” heighten said. ‘You might think you’re looking at something that’s irrational. And you’re right.” Fisher added that regardless of how
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Duke professor Patricia Leighten (left) and Susan Fisher (right), an associate curator at theYale University Art Gallery,discussed Pablo Picasso's work "Dice, packet of cigarettes and visiting card" at the Nasher Museum of Art Thursday night. The panel is part of the exhibit"Picasso and the Allureof Language," which opened last Thursday at the Nasherand will be on display until Jan. 3,2010.
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MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan One week after Afghanistan’s presidential election, with the winner still undeclared, increasing accusations offraud and voter coercion threaten to undermine the validity of the results, deepen dangerous regional divisions and hamper Obama administration goals in this volatile country. With U.S. popular support for the war in Afghanistan wavering, an election viewed as illegitimate by many Afghans would be a major setback for President Obama, who has increased U.S. military and economic efforts in a conflict central to his foreign policy. Officials worry that a Kabul government tainted by allegations of election-stealing or destablized by potential violent backlash could derail U.S. efforts to beat back a resurgent Taliban and build Afghan security forces. In interviews here in the capital of Balkh province in northern Afghanistan, the governor, election officials and residents described incidents of ballot-box stuffing and voter intimidation, particularly by election monitoring employees. The many allegations offraud add to the chorus of doubts from candidates and observers elsewhere in the country about the fairness of the election process. In ajailhouse interview, election monitor Abdul Hakim Ghafurzai, bruised and bloodSEE ELECTION ON PAGE 6
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New U.S. tactic said to reduce Afghan civilian deaths short of the 210 deaths caused by militants. Military officials credit the marked decrease in Western troops have killed Western-inflicted civilian deaths to a tactical directive KABUL, Afghanistan issued July 2 by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who asfar fewer Afghan civilians since the top U.S. general imsumed overall command of NATO and U.S. forces in posed strict new rules of engagement aimed at addressconflict, of the most contentious issues of the in mid-June. one Afghanistan ing McChrystal said commanders could take measures according to newly declassified U.S. military figures. However, the data cover a relatively short period of needed for self-defense, but ordered them to break off engagements with Taliban fighters rather than pursueight weeks, and make clear that civilians are still dying in large numbers—a pattern blamed in part on the ing them if civilians would be endangered by calling in Taliban’s campaign of violence leading up to and after artillery or airstrikes. last week’s national elections. “We must fight the insurgents,” McChrystal wrote in Civilian casualties have angered Afghanistan’s top the directive. “But we will not win based on the number officials and poisoned public opinion against the presofTaliban we kill, but instead on our ability to separate insurgents from the center of gravity, the people. . . . ence of American and allied troops. The Obama administration has made reducing such deaths a top priThat means we must respect and protect the population.” ority for the U.S. military. In the past, large-scale civilian deaths were most ofThe period since the new rules took effect also have coincided with some of the heaviest losses of the war ten caused by airstrikes. But now, after the new directive, for Western forces. But military spokespersons deny airstrikes are used much less frequently, said Brig. Gen. any linkage, saying record fatalities were due to the Eric Tremblay, a Canadian who serves as chief spokessummer’s troop buildup and an accompanying push person for the International Security Assistance Force. into areas controlled by the Taliban, rather than any He said the use of “close air support”—fire from warplanes in support of ground troops—had fallen greater hazard to troops posed by the new rules. According to the latest NATO figures, coalition forces significantly. Previously, it was an element in about 30 were responsible for 19 civilian deaths from July until percent to 40 percent of major clashes, but that figure Thursday, as opposed to 249 blamed on insurgent attacks. has dropped to about 10 percent, he estimated. The message of the tactical directive was that “force During roughly the same period a year earlier, Western forces caused 151 civilian deaths, by their own count needs to be applied, but carefully,” Tremblay said. not far
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The tallying of civilian deaths in a conflict can be difficult and sometime controversial. Disagreements over a single major incident can skew the count. In early May, for instance, the Afghan government said about 140 civilians were killed in American airstrikes in the village of Garani, in western Afghanistan. U.S. forces put the dead at less than half that number and said most of those killed were insurgents. In addition, the period covered by the new NATO figures is relatively short in the context of an eight-year war.
Even before arriving in the country, McChrystal had told U.S. lawmakers and NATO allies that civilian deaths were seriously jeopardizing the war effort by inflaming Afghan anger against foreign forces. He promised to make safeguarding civilians his top priority. The U.N. mission in Afghanistan, which repeatedly has appealed to both sides to make efforts to stem civilian deaths and injuries, said it could not corroborate the latest military figures. But the world body had welcomed the new rules of engagement for Western troops. “The challenge that the military faces is ensuring that these rules filter down to troops on the ground, and we know that Gen. McChrystal is driving it down to that level,” Aleem Siddique, a U.N. spokesperson, said. A U.N. report on civilian casualties in the first half of SEE AFGHANISTAN ON PAGE
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merous complaints have been resolved Karzai and Abdullah have both denied allegations that their followers committed systematic fraud. In the past week, Abdullah has held two news conferences to allege “widespread rigging” by the Karzai administration, its campaign aides and election commission employees. He has shown reporters thick blocks ofballots with identical check marks next to Karzai’s name and photograph, and shown videos of people in closed polling stations, sitting on the floor and systematically marking ballot after ballot. Legislators and other leaders in a number of provinces, especially those threatened by insurgent violence such as Kandahar, Khost and Wardak, have complained that in polling stations where very few people were able to cast ballots because of insecurity, sealed ballot boxes inexplicably full ofhundreds of
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tion, intimidation and pressure on voters at polling stations, and ballots cast by phantom voters. One candidate, former anti-drug official Mirwais Yasini, personally delivered boxes full ofshreddedballots to the foreignled Election Complaints Commission. Yasini and five other candidates issued a joint statement this week saying the election was marred by “widespread fraud and intimidation” that threatened to “increase tension and violence in the country.” Because the complaint process is slow and cumbersome, officials at the complaints commission office in Kabul said they do not expect to finish their investigations until mid-September, at least two weeks after the official election results are announced. That could create public tension and possible unrest, especially ifKarzai is announced as the winner before the nu-
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WASHINGTON The U.S. economy shrank by one percent in the April-through-June quarter, as was originally estimated, and the job market remained weak last week, with continued large numbers of people seeking unemployment insurance benefits. The Commerce Department released a revision of second-quarter gross domestic product Thursday morning, The broadest measure of economic activity. It affirmed the original estimate that the economy contracted at a one percent annual rate in that quarter, though the components of that loss were different. Exports, investment and housing, consumption spending, and government spending were slightly higher than first estimated, but that was offset by downward revisions to inventories and investment in commercial real estate. The downward revision to inventories is particularly good news. The more companies cut the goods in their
SOFC from page 1 and SOFC leaders raised concerns regarding the strain the rapid growth of student organizations has placed on available funding. It’s a problem that has proved difficult for studentleaders to solve. “Duke is a school that encourages students to start things, so what we have is a culture positive for the 2008SOFC budget of creativity and 2009 academic year start-ups for student groups,” said DSG Executive Vice President Gregory Morrison, a junior. “What this SOFC budget for the 2009does lead to is 2010 academic year kind of a multitude of student groups that aren’t necessarily worthy of student groups.... The oversight process is not quite as stringent as it should be.” ment
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Smaller pieces of the pie SOFC Chair David Hu, a senior, estimates that one to two new groups are currently being recognized or chartered every week. Only chartered groups—those that have open membership and “could not otherwise exist without a specialized source
warehouses and on store shelves to the bone in the first half of the year, the more they will have to ramp up production to keep up with demand in the second half. Economists had expected the revision to indicate the economy was in fact shrinking at a 1.5 percent rate, so the affirmation of the original number supports the idea that the economy is improving. Economists generally believe that the economy is leveling off this summer, and many expect growth to be positive in the second half of the year. Also Thursday, the Labor Department released a report showing the number of people filing for unemployment last week fell last week by 10,000 to 570,000. The jobless claims report also had no surprises. Analysts had been expecting first-time jobless claims to fall slightly after increasing for two straight weeks. The report is likely to reassure Wall Street, policy makers and economists who were surprised by the recent increases. The pace of layoffs has slowed in recent months. And although weekly claims are volatile, they have been trend-
of funding” —are allocated money from SOFC’s annual budget every Spring. Any recognized or chartered group can apply for money through the Programming Fund, set aside specifically to finance campus events. Both the money in the annual budget and the Programming Fund come from the student activities fee. Although the total pool of money fluctuates based on enrollment numbers year to year, a DSG proposal to increase the student activities fee and thereby provide additional financing for student groups failed to pass a student referendum last Fall. “You see a proportionally smaller amount of money being allocated to each student group and that could mean fewer resources for each,” Morrison said. “It does restrict what student groups can program and what kind of services they can offer.” The amount of allocations given annual to student groups has noticeably increased in recent years. For the 2007-2008 school year, SOFC budgeted $622,169.95 for all student organizations. In 2008-2009, SOFC allocated $623,325.39. For this academic year, the
figure jumped
to $638,079.25. If the number of student groups keeps growing, funding may start to dry up. Hu said, however, that SOFC has made their available funds stretch and that most student groups were allocated the same amount this year as they were in previous years. He added that SOFC has not yet had to dip into the $lO,OOO surplus fund the committee keeps for emergencies. “I think if a bunch of students have a really innovative idea that adds something to campus, they should be able to have a stu-
ing downward from their peak in January. They remain, however, above 500,000, which indicates a weak labor market. Claims in the 300,000 range are considered normal in a healthy economy. Despite optimism about the recession leveling off, the labor market is expected to remain weak through next year. Businesses have little reason to hire because consumers have scaled back and started to save more in the face of rising unemployment and a record loss of wealth in the housing and stock markets. A weak labor market also slows wage growth, making it harder for those working to spend as well as save. More than six million jobs have been lost since the recession began in December 2007 and there are roughly 14 million unemployed, including five million who have been out of work 27 weeks or more. The unemployment rate dipped slightly in July, but largely because people dropped out of the workforce. The Labor Department will release its jobs report for August on Sept. 4.
dent group and have access to funds,” he said, adding that with University-wide budget cuts, SOFC, like all other organizations, was more cautious with its funds when allocating last March. The Campus Council Finance Committee also plays a hand in financing student
they put 0n.... There should be some sort of standardized model of evaluating
groups.”
Duke Democrats requested $23,950.30 and were allocated $1,550.00 for the year. Bergmann, however, said the final allocation was no surprise. “I went into it knowing that we weren’t organizations, commanding approximately $40,000 a year drawn from the residential going to get that much, but what I was more irritated by is that we got a similar amount programming fee. The CCFC has also become more cauof money as groups that aren’t doing the tious in allocating funding, said Campus same amount of work, who aren’t having as Council President Stephen Temple, a much of an impact,” he said. To streamline the funding process, junior, “We have tightened a little bit and we’re SOFC and Campus Council indepenmaking sure that we’re only funding events dently approved resolutions in the that really add something to the residential Spring to hear joint proposals from student organizations. SOFC and OSAF will experience, he said. The CCFC will allocate their funds for also partner this year to audit student this year at an upcoming Campus Council organizations at random. Furthermore, a new financial policy meeting. “We’re not getting to the point where enacted over the summer allows student we feel we’re having to turn away valuable groups to roll over the money in their acevents,” Temple added. “I don’t think it’s counts from year to year to increase the appresented a huge problem at this point. peal of being prudent. In the past, funds were taken back by SOFC each May. Not to say that it couldn’t.” Morrison also said plans are in the works to undertake a wide review of all student The call for reform Student leaders are still searching for groups and evaluate the annual budgeting process. ways to revamp the current system. Center for Race Relations co-president Each Spring, chartered groups submit line-itemized budgets lobbying for money. Casey Williams, a senior, also said he was After meeting with the committee, most aware of SOFC’s budgeting problems, but lauded the discussion underway to reform groups generally get only a small proporthe process. tion of their request. “It’s a broken system,” said Duke Dem“They just don’t have enough money to ocrats President Ben Bergmann, a junior. give out to all the organizations. I think the “The way SOFC allocates funds does not student organizations know that as well,” really take into account the scope of a he said. “With their resources available, group’s impact on campus, the number they’re doing the best that they can. They of members and the type of activities are trying to make the process better.” ”
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The e-mail, sent just before noon, did explain why freshmen had previously been denied the credit, nor did it say whether freshmen who have paid extra for lunches will be reimbursed. Josh Loyal may be among the freshmen asking about his missing food points. Eating lunch at the Marketplace Thursday, Loyal said he was certain he had been receiving the $6 credit each day he did not eat breakfast because he always informed the cashier that he had missed it. But when the freshman logged on to the DukeCard Web site on a reporter’s computer, he found he had been charged full price for three marketplace lunches on days when he said he had not eaten breakfast. “I’m surprised that it is getting charged—it shouldn’t be,” he said. “I’m going to ask them why.” Freshman Luke Shuffield said he was frustrated when he learned from a Marketplace cashier that the skipped-breakfast credit would not be offered. “If I don’t [eat breakfast], it’s good to get the $6 off,” he said. “Since I have the lowest amount offood points, they are kind of sacred.” Lindsey Rupp contributed reporting. not
Blue Book.” According to the Duke Dining Services Web site, freshmen who skip breakfast are given a $6 credit that day that can be used toward breakfast at the Great Hall or lunch at the Marketplace. But cashiers at the Marketplace said managers told them the credit was not being offered this year. Ted Canto, a Marketplace manager, said cashiers were instructed to begin giving freshmen the lunch credit Wednesday. He referred further questions to Assistant Director of Dining Services Barbara Stokes. Stokes declined to comment when contacted by a reporter. Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst is currently on medical leave and was unavailable for comment.
“There’s been some confusion about what’s included in the first-year dining board plan when it comes to breakfast,” Stokes wrote in an e-mail sent to freshmen Thursday. The message also restated the credit policy for freshmen who skip breakfast, offering them $6 at either the Great Hall for breakfast or the Marketplace for lunch.
Freshmen who missed breakfast at the Marketplace were deniedtheir $6 lunch creditsearlier this weekJhe credit was restored Wednesday, but some freshmen were concerned that they spent food points on lunch.
AFGHANISTAN from page 6 2009 says more than 1,000 civilians have been killed—an increase of about 25 percent over the first half of 2008. About 60 percent of those deaths were blamed on insurgents and about SO percent on coalition forces, with responsibility unclear in the remaining cases. A U.N. compilation that will cover the late-summer months is due in September. Over the last year, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has complained repeatedly about civilian deaths, and he made the subject a centerpiece of his just-concluded presidential campaign. The votes from the Aug. 20 balloting are still being tallied, with a partial count putting Karzai ahead of his main rival, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, but not more than the 50 percent threshold he would need to avoid a runoff. A senior Afghan government official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he had not yet seen the military figures, said he welcomed any decrease in civilian deaths, but noted that Western tallies do not always match those of Afghan authorities.
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Unlike in previous seasons, Duke’s freshman class will have its work cut out to even make the starting squad. The Blue Devils return their top ten runners from last year, including All-ACC and NCAA qualifier junior Bo Waggoner, All-Southeast Region senior James Osborne and junior Cory Nanni, who ran a 3:43 1500 meters on the track at the USA Track & Field National Championships in June, a time that roughly equates to a 4:01 mile. Head coach Norm Ogilvie said the strength of Duke’s veteran runners will spur the team to improve this season. “I think in a lot ofyears at Duke, we have to rely on freshmen to contribute,” Ogilvie said. “But I think on this year’s team it will be a bonus if they contribute. All the ingredients are here for a great season. We’ve had three tremendous recruiting classes back-to-back-to-back, and we’ve got a bunch of seniors who are going to provide some really great leadership for us.” The top returning runners share a single goal: place at the top of the ACC, qualify for team NCAA Nationals, finish near the front of the pack individually and help Duke to score among the top teams in the country. Andafter his individualtrip to the NCAA meet last year, Waggoner brings back an understanding of the importance of every place’s value to the score in a large race. “It’s very hard to stay focused, because you don’t really know where you are,” Waggoner said. ‘You don’t really know how you’re doing, there’s so many good runners. But if, as a team, each of us goes out there, stays hungry and picks up five seconds where they might normally drop back, that five seconds might be ten places or more, they’re packed so tight together. ‘You spread that out over five to seven guys, and all of a sudden that...tums into a whole bunch of team points. So yeah, I’m remembering my experience being in a big pack.... If you fight to move up, every place counts. That will make a big differencefor us.” Osborne, meanwhile, is determined to
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Junior Cory Nanni ran the 1500meters in 3:43 at the USATrack & Field NationalChampionships in June.
join Waggoner at the NCAA meet this year, and hopes it will be as a team rather than as individual qualifiers. “Since I came to Duke almost four years ago now, this is the season I’ve been waiting for,” Osborne said. “For whatever reason, we haven’t gotten it done in the past three years for me. This season is different.... I have similar goals to Bo’s: get All-ACC, be one of the major players in the ACC, and I know that my team’s counting on me to be up there for the NCAA meet. “I also want to be one of those top 50 guys, shoot for All-American, and I’m ready to go. I’m really excited, and I think
the rest of the team is, too.” And having proven himself on the track last year, Nanni hopes to catch up off the track and be equally competitive in cross country. His two IC4A titles are proof that Duke athletes can win championships, which Ogilvie hopes will inspire the rest of the team. “What we’re trying to do in the training this fall is come out of the gates at a little higher level,” Ogilvie said. “And we’re going to aim high. I talk about not settling for less than winning the conference, sending a bunch of guys to Nationals, and seeing them perform at the level they’re capable of.”
FOOTBALL I Q&A WITH DEAN SUE
Wasiolek sees Cutcliffe’s influence About a week before the Blue Devils kick off their season against Richmond, Dean ofStudents Sue Wasiolek, Trinity 76, sat down with The Chronicle’s TaylorDoherty to discuss her status as one ofDukeFootball’s longest-serving fans. At what point did you start following Duke Football and really enjoying it? My first semester at Duke. I just thought that going to college and particularly going to [an FBS] school in the ACC meant that you attended SueWasiolek football games in the fall, that’s what you did in college. I sort of had
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this view of the leaves turning and putting on a sweater and going to a fall football game. My freshmen year we were 2-8-1, if I recall. It was still what I thought was the thing to do and a lot of students attended. I thought it had a fairly festive feel. The student section back then was located where it now is, and I always thought that it was a better location than moving it on the other side of the field. I always liked being able to see my classmates. I felt like I was supporting them and backing them up by being on that side of the field. What do you remember most about Duke Football as a student? Football was the first sport that I was re-
ally exposed to as a new Duke student because basketball didn’tstart until later in the fa 11.... Even though I didn’t know many of the players, or any of the players, I did know that several of them were classmates, that some of them were freshmen. There was just something about going to the games and knowing that they were students just like me. They were students and then they were out there playing hard and representing the school. For whatever reason, I felt a part of that because I felt like they were a part ofmy experience, even though being a varsity athlete was and still is a very different experience. SEE DEAN SUE ON PAGE 10
After winning an individual and team title in her one and only season at Duke, Mallory Cecil has decided to take the next step in her career and enter the professional ranks. Cecil entertained the possibility of turning pro after winning the individual crown at the NCAA championships in May, but took the summer to think through the decision before ultimately choosing to forgo her final three years at Duke. “It was definitely a tough decision, it did take a while for me to make,” Cecil said. “I was just waiting for the right time. I didn’t want to make a hasty decision by any means.” Cecil left high school early to enter Duke in the 2009 spring semester as the No. 1 recruit in the nation. She immediately assumed the top singles spot for the Blue Devils, and compiled a 32-4 record, placing her 32nd on Duke’s all-time wins list after just one season. The Blue Devils went 29-3 in 2009 and won the first national title in the program’s history, defeating California in the championship match after losing to the Golden Bears in the Sweet 16 a year ago. Cecil won the individual crown later that week, winning each of her matches in straight sets, to become the 14th player to capture both the team and individual titles in the same season. She was the recipient of the Honda Award, honoring the nation’s best female collegiate athlete in each sport, in addition to being named both the ACC and ITA Southeast Region Rookie of the Year. “I feel like in January of last year, my heart was really telling me to go to college,” Cecil said. “I thought at the time that was really a stepping stone I needed to take, one that would take me where I wanted to be.... After the success that we had as a team, and I had as an individual, those wins and those accomplishments have propelled me and given me confidence to take the next step to playing the pros.” Cecil will begin her professional career at no less than the U.S. Open in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. next week. She was given a wild card entry into the grand slam. Cecil played in the Family Circle Cup in April and lost in the first round of that event, but she is excited about her future. “This is a great opportunity for me,” she said. “I’m really excited. It’s a great way to start out my career, but, again, it’s just the beginning. I don’t see this as my only showing at the U.S. Open. I’ve been privileged to have this opportunity, but this is just the beginning. “Ultimately that’s my dream to be a professional tennis player. Now is the time.”
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DEAN SUE from page 9 As a Duke fan for that long of a time, there certainly had to have been high points and low points. What was the program’s darkest moment as a fan that you can remember since you’ve been here? The low, for me, is a very vivid memory. It wasn’t when I was a student, it was during my administrative career just a few years ago: when were losing to Wake Forest at home, and I believe the score at halftime was 42-0. I usually don’t get up during halftime. I usually stay and talk to the people around me or watch the band or whatever the halftime show is. But on that particular day, I got up and left my seat and started walking around the concourse. I walked all the way to the other side, and I walked all the way back because I was so frustrated. Was it as much the lifelessness as it was theirbad play that frustrated you? They played miserably. It looked like they didn’t care and it looked like even when they did care they couldn’t execute at all. I began to question myself the role of Duke Football. Not only on this campus, but also as this major part of my life, like, what am I doing here? I think the sentiments ran the gamut of emotions. I think there were people that were angry, I think there was frustration, there was disappointment, people were embarrassed, there was this level ofhumiliation. The people that had been really die-hard Duke Football fans found themselves asking that question. Why are we here, why are we doing this? We’ve spoken before about your excitement for head coach David Cutcliffe. What is it that he does that gives you so much confidence in him, what draws people in him? He is an incredibly charismatic individual, and I say that in the most positive way. He is a bom motivator and he knows the game of
tion was, I’m really glad I’m here because I want to see this from the get-go. And he walked in and, I don’t know. He was with his family and the minute he started to describe his visit to the campus and what he hoped to do here, I had this incredible, overwhelming sense of optimism. And I thought, “This could be the real deal.” What are you expectations about how far the team can go this year? Cutcliffe has thrown out the possibility of making a bowl game. Is this a realistic expectation from this team in your mind? You know, I always start out as the eternal optimist, I always think that we can win every game, but I’m also a realist. I’d love to see us go to a bowl game, but I won’t be disappointed if we don’t go to a bowl game. I will be fine. We won four games last year, so being the step-wise, improvementtype person that I am, I would love to see us win five. I would consider that a good year. If we win seven, that would be a very good year. That would be exceeding my own expectations. I’m not choosing five because I don’t believe in this team. I try to do a little Cutdiffe. the has turnedaround under David bit of self-protection having been through program fans, Football used to cause for and but anguish players Duke many years of Duke Football now with very high expectations. I’m trying to readjust I got [the feeling of confidence in him] football, but he also knows people and he remember now to this new way of thinking. And believe he knows at his conference. being I I press knows young people. Any more thoughts on the upcoming home, it was a rainy Saturday evening and what it takes to put an entire program together. He knows how to recruit a young person I knew that they were going to have a press season? I just hope there’s someone out there, and their family, he knows how to teach them conference announcing the new football and mentor them once they get here, he coach. I questioned whether I should go. Is whether it’s a student or an administrator knows how to manage and oversee a staff of that something I should attend, do I belong or a professor or a community member, assistant coaches. He knows how to market a there, why am I doing this? And I thought, who is really studying David Cutcliffe right You really want to go, you want to see what now, last year, this year, and the next year. program, and his heart and soul are in it. So it’s to the point where you can just tell this is all about. So I hopped in my car—I [Someone needs] to watch how change takes place. There are all these books that he means what he says? only live a short distance from campus and the Yoh [Football Center] where they written about it and all these people who He exudes total genuineness and authenticity, that’s who he is. He lives it and he held it was packed with people, all kinds of talk about leadership and how difficult breathes it, but he does it in such away that people, the athletic department and the change is and how to make it happen. I Duke administration, but there were also think he is living it and showing us on a you want to live it and breathe it with him. What are your first memories of meeting people from'Yhe community and from the day-to-day basis how to make it happen, but we need to pay attention. Cutdiffe? What was your first impression? faculty. I walked in and my immediate reac—
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should Administrators also remember to couple improvements in amenities with improvements in safety. Central is probably not as dangerous as many students think it is. But neither is it as safe as West or East, and, regardless, in matters of campus safety perception is reality. To improve the situation, Central’s street lighting should be improved, Duke Police patrols should be increased if possible and there should be two buses running through Central at night as opposed to one. Central Unfortunately, Campus is here to stay. And although current students will have to shoulder the inconveniences of improvement, the University should continue to bring new solutions to this old problem.
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book I was sent to read before orientation my freshman year was called “My Sister’s Keeper,” and it sucked. “This all feels like some awkward combination of a sci-fi novel and a movie on the Lifetime Channel,” reads The New York Times X&vtarsssee*review of the bestselling novel byjodi Picoult. “In short order, the novel becomes a soap opera.” I happened to agree; I have always nate freeman books preferred good night, and with more depth good luck than daytime TV, books wivith more nuance than hot-button-issue beach reads. It’s hard for me to sum up the amount offrustration its selection brought me, and from speaking to friends, I am not alone in thinking this. Let me put it this way: I have seen students burning a copy of this book, and I did not stop them. The problem lies not in the feet that books like My Sister’s Keeper exist People are evidently buying it, and theCameron Diaz-starring tearjerker of a movie based on it must have touched at least some hearts. But when it comes to choosing a book that will be the primary intellectual bonding point for a new class of Duke students, it has to be something of serious merit There is no reason why the Summer Reading selection committee needs to condescend to students bright enough to get into Duke University by snatching a buzzed-about title off the best-seller lists, while skipping over the thousands of classics that would adequately mirror the caliber of education that Duke has to offer. One of the problems with My Sister’s Keeper and some of the other selections is that they tend to be books built on a charged issue, and less on character development or story craft. In Picoult’s 2004 novel, the controversial topic that overwhelms the text relates to stem-cell research, and whether parents should have power over how this technology affects their children. To give more plot summary wouldn’t be relevant-judging by the limited content of the pauseheavy “discussion” that my FAC group attended three years ago, the characters served as little more than mouthpieces for provocative viewpoints. Don’t get me wrong. The issue of stem-cell research is a serious and engaging moral dilemma, and one that could, under the correct circumstances, provide for excellent novel fodder.
But when planning an activity that could act as the blueprint for future epiphany-birthing, offthe-wall, 4 a.m. dorm room conversations about favorite novels, it is the duty of the University to give its students a multidimensional work that can spark fruitful arguments based on the text itself, not just the issue it invokes. In her article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Erin O’Connor, an associate professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, argues for quality control in freshman summer reading programs by mentioning the uproar that arose after the Univerity ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill chose Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed as its 2003 selection. Those opposed to the book’s liberal bend as it exposed the hardships of poverty cried foul, but O’Connor defended the selection—not because she agreed with it, but because of the book’s overall merit. “More disturbing... is that the debates over such assignments expose a creeping illiteracy at the core of our educational system,” she wrote. Admittedly, it is no easy task to find a high-lit reading assignment that will capture the interest of a thousand 18 year olds. And as universities try to find such a project, they come up with a diverse array of approaches. The College of the Holy Cross had its Class of 2013 read the newspaper everyday and post in an online forum about their findings. Incoming freshmen at UPenn studied the painting “The Gross Clinic” by Thomas Eakins and were asked to respond to it. Students at Brown University have taken time out of their summers to write letters to their academic advisors about their assigned book. And Duke can be innovative as well. It is possible to find great literature that can hold the attention of students across the academic landscape. There’s nothing wrong with making an in-house pick; perhaps Reynolds Price could be convinced to speak, serving the dual purpose of engaging minds and showing off the fact that Duke has some superstar professors. Or it can make a radical shift like UPenn did and have students analyze a painting over the summer, and then see the real thing when they get to Duke. The most recent orientation, however, might have been the best opportunity for an art-related assignment; The Nasher Museum ofArt has an exhibitwith paintings by this guy Picasso, and I hear he’s pretty good. Nathan Freeman is a Trinity senior. His column runs on Fridays.
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Since October 2008, the world has undergone economic crisis on a scale unknown in over half a century. With it, all the accepted wisdom of( textbooks, of professors and school administrators, of public figures great and small and of JSl official society more generally, has been thrown out the window. Never in our lifetimes has there been a crisis michael stauch so total Everything is up in spread the embers the air, and everyone is searching for answers. How will society be governed? According to what economic principles? Based on what social contracts, between whom and with whose consent? Most importantly and succinctly, who is gonna run this town tonight? All around us, forces both left and right are emerging and, in the wake of the collapse of official society’s legitimacy, providing answers to these ques1
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In the streets of Iran this summer, a democratic of students, workers, white-collar professionals and others brought Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the authoritarian Iranian regime to its knees. Recently in the rainforests of Peru, a militant movement of indigenous people forced Peru’s Congress to repeal its efforts to privatize the Peruvian Amazon. On the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique this spring, lengthy general strikes won significant concessions from the French government. More locally, laid-off Latino workers occupied the Republic Windows factory in Chicago, winning severance pay from Bank ofAmerica and JP Morgan Chase, and highlighting the hypocritical logic of a government bailout that saved huge banks from bankruptcy while threatening ordinary folks with destitution. Although these struggles seem random and unrelated, they are embers of a common fire, flung far and wide by years in which the flames of freedom have been trampled on. Together, they suggest one answer to the questions we face today—a society organized from the ground up, committed to justice and freedom and ready to fight back. movement
But victory is by no means certain. The forces of darkness are also on the march, and they have answers of their own. In recent elections to the European parliament, far right and anti-immigration parties made historic gains at the expense ofliberals and social democratic parties. Two members of the conservative British National Party in the U.K. were elected to the European Parliament. A right-wing nationalist party in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders’ “Party for Freedom,” took second place in national elections. In Hungary, the far rightjobbik party is organizing a right wing militia with insignia reminiscent of the uniforms World War II era fascists wore while sending hundreds of thousands of Jews to death camps. In the U.S., right wing violence is on the rise against immigrants, abortion rights advocates and Jewish people, or simply those that like to visit Holocaust museums. Just down Tobacco Road, the nationalist student group Youth for Western Civilization has also revived fascist-era symbolism—the Italian “fasces” on which the word “fascism” is based—in their logo, while also bringing anti-immigration speakers like Tom Tancredo to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s campus. Somewhat further afield, the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement is planning a national conference in Greensboro, N.C. this weekend, seeking to draw in fascist supporters from across the U.S. Although by no means a complete picture, these developments also suggest an answer to the problems facing our society today. That answer represents not a vision of a new society, a new social order, but the continuation of the status quo, a ratcheting up of the barbarism of the world we’ve known so long, a reversion, even, to the bloodiest and most violent era in human history—the 20th century, a century that knew genocide on a greater scale than any other, and a time when the greatest of human achievements were applied not to the advancement ofhuman freedom but to the greatest destruction of human life. And yet, we live in a time of great promise. People are questioning the old order on an unprecedented scale. In an era when the old visions of social order have come crashing down, the question before us is, “Who’s gonna run this town tonight?” The answer is up to us, and depends on our actions today. Michael Stanch is a second-year Ph.D. candidate in history. His column runs every otherFriday.
CORRECTION The cartoon published in this space Thursday failed to give credit to its author. The author is Gwen Getdiffe, a Pratt senior. The Chronicle regrets the error.
the end of every school year, I always marvel at how easy it is to leave Duke. For me, the hardest part is always trying to stuff my 52,890,455 belongings into a much smaller number of boxes—it’s pretty easy for me to shift my car into drive and leave with no heavy feelings in my heart. All this is especially surprising because I’m someone that hates endings. I started bawling before I even read lisa du the first word of the seventh moshi moshi Harry Potter book. I can’t tell you the ending to some of my favorite TV shows because I simply refused to watch the last episode. Endings are really not my kind of thing. But the Duke I leave at the end of the school year is easy to drive away from. The harshness of the finality is whittled away student by student until the campus is left empty and void of life. It’s actually easier leaving than staying. Contrast that with Duke at the beginning of the school year, which is probably the hardest place in the world to say goodbye to. The atmosphere is tense with excitement, students are fresh-faced from summer adventures and inebriated friends scream “don’t leave!” at you. But that is exactly what I must do. I am going to be spending this semester abroad in Japan —yes, the magical place that birthed Godzilla, Hello Kitty, Pikachu and the instant ramen sitting on your shelf. As even more of a tease, thanks to the close distance of my house to Durham (I grew up in Carrboro), I have been able to visit Duke almost daily for the last week, and enjoyed all the perks of orientation week (free drinks) and not having a DukeCard that works (free dinner). Yet, as sad as I am to leave Duke, I will confess that going to Japan is basically my 13-year-old selfs dream come true. I am a bit of a Japanophile. I have been infatuated with the country and its culture for the last eight years ofmy life—and it continues to this day. In high school, I did absurd things like driving across states just to see my favorite Japanese band perform, or spending hundreds on a plane ticket to California for a period of 48 hours in order to meet an adored Japanese personality (all the while lying to my family about it). When I came to college, I continued studying the language, although my erratic behavior due to love of all-thingsJapanese decreased significantly, perhaps because of an excess ofhomework arid fraternity parties. But recently, as my departure date edges closer and closer, I have found myself—in bursts of giddiness and excitement at having my childhood dreams fulfilled—doing illogical things to get ready for my trip. Earlier this month, I became couch-ridden with laptop in tow for a whole week, watching YouTube videos of Japanese variety shows. I figured it would be a better Japanese review than memorizing vocabulary, so I sat there and watched androgynous Japanese men play games with each other. In the most bizarre showthe guys stuffed balloons down their shirts in an effort to mimic breasts, and tried to pop them using methods that ranged from humping to sitting on each other. I don’t actually remember a word of Japanese they said. And instead of worrying about the fact that I might not have a place to stay once I get to Japan because I cannot get in touch with my host family, I have busied myself with buying “impressive” gifts for the lovely mother-son pair that awaits me (and who may or may not exist). So while my fellow classmates stocked up on laundry detergent and new notebooks at Target, I was buying Pokemon cards, miniature American flags (apparently the red, white and blue print is all the rage in Japan) and meandering in the little boys section looking for T-shirts for my 7-year-old host brother. I tell myself that I am doing all this in preparation. I’ve studied Japanese in a classroom for the last six years, but I’ve never been to the country, and I learned long ago that whatever you read in a textbook is nothing like reality. If there’s one thing I do know about Japan, it’s that it is a rather unpredictable place where TV personalities named “Hard Gay” can change lives and watermelons are square-shaped. So maybe watching a bizarre pop culture TV episode and giving the right gift is the right start after all. I can only hope. Lisa Du is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every otherFriday.
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Students dressed as kegs, overgrown babies, Old West bandits, ladybugs and Will Ferrell from “Semi-Pro”: have no fear. This year’s inevitable post-Tailgate bathroom runs will not be
quite as bad as in years past. The old bathrooms at Wallace Wade Stadium were widely derided and were known for overflowing toilets and interminable lines. Now, they will be used for spillover crowds only. Shiny new brick restrooms have been built on the east and west wings of the concourse to accommodate larger crowds. Duke built them this offseason as part of a $9 million upgrade after dealing with complaints from students, fans and even head coach David Cutcliffe. He once called the old bathrooms “roadside fruit stands.” “One of my big things early on was to do what we could to make [Wallace Wade] more fan-friendly,” Cutcliffe said. “We’ve got great, committed fans who have stood by Duke. Let’s treat them first class.” A new concession stand on the west side of the stadi-
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half-jokingly say that the Blue Devils were struggling in the red zone because they didn’t have one to practice on. “With the space last year, it was almost impossible to practice with the offense and defense together,” Cutcliffe said. “This gives you the facility and the depth perception of playing a real game. Our passing game and our defense against the pass will be better because of it. We’ve got an opportunity here to run ourselves like a first-class program.” The training facility also has been renovated. In the improved building, teams will wait out bad weather, the special teams unit will conduct meetings and injured players will be treated during games—a welcome alternative to treatment on the sidelines. Next on the list of renovations are grass and indoor practice fields. According to Senior Associate Director of Athletics Mike Cragg, the additions are in the design phase with Beck Architecture, which also designed the basketball team’s new practice center. They hope to bring the plans to the Board ofTrustees in October and plan to raise funds for the facilities independently rather than seek university funding.
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Head coach David Cutcliffe said it, and says he really means it: “I believe we will a bowl team.” To make a bowl game a possibility, Duke must go .500 in its 12-game season. However, this year, there’s a catch; Duke has two FCS opponents—Richmond and N.C. Central—but only one can count toward the six-win requirement. Winning five games against FBS opponents will be no easy feat, as Duke faces a tough nonconference and ACC schedule in 2009. “Look at our schedule, and they all could be challenging, but there’s nobody on there that we’re going to forfeit to,” Cutcliffe said. “We feel like we can play with anybody if we play well.” Duke may be able to play with all of its opponents, but some wins are clearly more attainable than others. With a bowl berth in mind, a breakdown of the Blue Devils’ key matchups (Duke home games in caps): The FCS Teams: RICHMOND (September 5) and N.C. CENTRAL (September 26) The Spiders and the Eagles are expected to be the easiest of the Blue Devils’ opponents. Only one of the two potential wins against these FCS teams would count toward bowl eligibility, but for a program looking to rebuild, it’s crucial to amass as many wins as possible. For now, Cutcliffe isn’t looking any further than his first opponent. “I don’t get deeply into a schedule, and the thing that is dead in front of us now—and
Duke was shut out at home by Richmond, 13-0, in the 2006 season opener, and hosts the Spiders Sept. 5. the only thing that stands out—is a Richmond
The Spiders won the FCS national title last season, downing reigning champion Appalacian State in the quarterfinals and Montana in the title game.
Last year, the Black Knights went just 3-9 and finished the season with 30-3 and 34-0 losses against Rutgers and Navy, respectively. Vast improvement seems unlikely under first-year coach Rich Ellerson.
The Key Out-of-Conference Opponent: Army (September 12)
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team that knows how to win,” Cutcliffe said.
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Chronicle columnists Scott Rich and Will Flaherty debate whether or not Duke will win more games than it did last year
Schedule and experience push Duke into bowl contention the ball, where Thaddeus Lewis should be one of the top quarterbacks ia the ACC and Re’quan Boyette’s return from injury should help shepherd a young backfield. Meanwhile, promising youngsters like running backsjay Hollingsworth and Desmond Scott and receivers Johnny Williams and Donovan Varner should be able fill the voids left by Clifford H Jackson and Eron Riley. Defensively, the loss of Allbacker Michael Tauiliili will be ficult to overcome, but senior Rey should step into the leadei position and improve on his tackles last season. An star on the defensix line should be able to do th rest, thanks to senior Vim Oghobaase’s decision to a fifth season of eligibility addition of 315-lb. recruit J the middle of the line. The schedule makers ha\ kind to Duke this season. H versus FCS teams Richmon Central should be easy victi the Blue Devils should be when they face Army in West Duke’s conference schedule ly fortuitous, as the Blue Devils contenders Wake Forest, Vlrgini Georgia Tech all in Wallace W where an improved atmosphei the Blue Devils to an upset Furthermore, Duke avoids rennial conference powers and Clemson this season, Maryland, one of the worst teams in the Adantic division, at home. So yes, the Blue Devils did lose arguably their two best players from last season’s team in Riley and Tauriiili. But Cutcliffe has his players, the fans and at least this writer believing that Duke Football is returning to competitiveness. In a sport where coaching, experience and home-field advantage* often topple superior talent, the Blue Devils appear to have finally found the intangibles necessary to continue on the long NFL prospect Vince Oghobaase, a fifth-year senior, anchors the Blue Devils'inexperienced defensiveline. road to respectability.
College football is a game that, for many, is defined more by pageantry, tradition and spirit than star power. You would never, for' instance, expect the NFL’s Lions to upset the Steelers in a playoff game, yet somehow a mediocre Ole Miss team took down eventual national champion Florida. Duke, similarly, is not the most talented team in the ACC this season, or even one of the top six or seven. But after head coach David Cutcliffe’s first year in Durham, it appears the Blue Devils are finally headed in the right direction. So call me an optimist, a homer or a lunatic, but in Cutcliffe’s second year at the helm there is no reason to believe the Blue Devils’ renaissance will not continue and their win total will not improve. Duke will get to five wins, and possibly more. With senior leaders at critical positions, an influx of young playmakers, a year of experience in Cutcliffe’s system, a rejuvenated fanbase and maybe a little luck, the Blue Devils should have the intangibles that make college football upsets possible to make a run aj; a bowl birth. That invaluable senior leadership will be most prevalent on the offensive side of
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cape the ACC cellar, the Blue Devils’ 4-8 record in 2008 under new head coach David Cutcliffe qualifies as a Usain Boltsized stride toward a bowl berth. With fourth-year starting quarterback Thaddeus Lewis guiding the offense and pof-day NFL Draft candidate Vince anchoring the defense, it ;asy to think that the Blue Devils m the brink of going bowling in her for the first time since 1994. \t as great as that would be, it’s oing to happen, ith two FCS teams on the rule, seven wins are needed for to become bowl-eligible. Inexmce on the offensive line and *ss the defense, coupled with loss of major contributors Mike luiliili at linebacker and wideout >n Riley to graduation, make repeat performance of 4-8 the it likely outcome this year. Lewis has solidified his position arguably the top passer in die ACC hree years worth of starts, but ely miss the security blanket of 2009. Riley was Lewis’ primary during each of his first three terms of receiving yardage, id in addition to losing his go-to >ut, Lewis will be only as good as >rotection he gets from his of;ive line. With guard Rob Schirmann and tackles Cameron GoldTg and Fred Roland gone due to graduation, Duke’s offensive line ranks 116th out of 120 FBS teams in terms of aggregate career starts with 25. Just as the offensive line will play a crucial role in Lewis’ success, it will have to excel to help Duke’s stable of running backs succeed. With fifth-year senior Re’quan Boyette healthy and freshman star Desmond Scott in the fold, the Blue Devil backfield has as much talent as it’s had in a long time. But the offensive line will need to play above what its lack of experience would suggest to open holes for Duke’s backs this year. On the defensive side of the ball, youth
is again the Blue Devils’ Achilles heel, with only five starters returning. Although standouts like linebacker Vincent Rey and Oghobaase have proven themselves before, young players will have to step up in the secondary, where expected starting safety Zack Asack was booted off the team over the summer. And at linebacker, Tauiliili must be replaced after an All-American season. As much as a schedule with not one, but two FCS schools sounds like a breeze, the opener against Richmond will bring last year’s FCS national champion to Wallace Wade Stadium. It only takes a quick highlight of Appalachian State knocking off Michigan in 2007 or a more nightmarish glimpse back at Richmond’s 13-0 whitewashing of Duke in the 2006 season opener to realize that even the Spiders can’t be chalked up as a win. Still, Duke should pull through its nonconference schedule with a 3-1 record with wins over Richmond, Army and N.C. Central. Sounds similar to last year’s quick start? It should, and with such an inexperienced group unlikely to pull out more than one win in the ACC, a 4-8 finish will leave Duke fans with a nasty feeling of deja vu when it’s all said and done in December.
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The armadillo in the room Sometimes, all you can do is bury your head in a heap of nachos from The Dillo. The more queso, the better. Let that stuff drip off the side of the plate. It tastes good. And until the chips run out, at least, The Dillo will make you feel better. It might even force you to forget you just took a suckerpunch to the gut. The Dillo, therefore, was my refuge Nov. 1 last year after the most wrenching Duke Football loss I’ve ever watched, and I’ve seen a lot of them. There was Miami in 2006, Navy in 2007 and Northwestern in 2008. There were blocked field goals and missed extra points, false starts and pass interferences, a heartbreaker to North Carolina one year and another the next. Duke wasn’t good at much, but it often did come this close to winning—which means, in short, that the Blue Devils were extraordinary at losing. They lost like Florida won: with style, with panache, with a flair for dramatic. IfTim Tebow is the mask with the smiley face, then Duke was the other one. You know. The one that looks sad. That was me—woe was me!—after Duke lost in w overtime at Wake Forest, a defeat that left me more g n shaken than usual. Nearly three years of watching 1 Duke Football and countless more enduring Rutgers Football should have armed me, and if not, at least numbed me. It still stung. Don’t remember? Go grab some Tostitos while I rewind the 33-30 loss, which, if flipped, would have given Duke a 5-3 record. Scoop some guac while you’re up. It will help. 30-30, 3:14 left in the fourth. Twelve-yard completion. Fourteenyard run. First down on 4th-and-2. Rush, rush, rush. Timeout. Two seconds left. Nick Maggie’s game-winning field goal: wide right. 30-30, first overtime. Riley Skinner is rushed on 3rd-and-10 and hurls the ball off his back foot. Complete for a first down. Four plays later, the Demon Deacons score a field goal. 33-30, first overtime. Second play from scrimmage. Eron Riley is open in the end zone. Thaddeus Lewis aims for him. Aaron Smith steals the ball. Two inches higher, and an interception becomes a touchdown. Instead, it’s another loss. “Welcome back, Duke Football,” a friend said as soon as Smith caught the pass intended for Riley, as soon as 5-3 became 4-4 and as soon as it became clear that David Cutcliffe wouldn’t be going to a bowl in his first season. I couldn’t fault him for making that connection. It was a classic Duke loss, shocking only because they had seemed so far in the past. After all, a win would have given the surging Blue Devils four chances to become bowl-eligible. Instead, they proceeded to lose to injuries first, and everyone else next. “I just hate it for our kids that we can’t find that next step to
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David CutclifFe finally did something this summer he’d wanted to do for nearly a year but couldn’t his first year at the helm. He pushed his team to its mental and physical limits with 110-yard sprints, 5,000 total yards of running and new wrinkles in the playbook —tasks that four-year quarterback Thaddeus Lewis said the team could not have accomplished last season. It wasn’t Just that they would be unable to do them. Cutcliffe was worried many players on the team would have quit had he pushed them as hard as he wanted to. But now, it’s not the coaches who are demanding more. The players ask Cutcliffe at practice if he can make the workouts harder and longer and if he can throw more wrinkles into the playbook. Without conditioning limitations or a fragile mentality, Cutcliffe unequivocally expects this year’s squad to play in a bowl game. “We are capable of that, and my job is to coach them to that level,” Cutcliffe said. “Will it be easy? No. Every hurdle gets higher on this race, but that’s exciting. The bigger the hill, the more fun you have in accomplishing those things. It’s harder, but a lot more rewarding.” As the players have learned, when Cutcliffe speaks, it is in their best interests to listen. He has consistently stuck to his word, whether he’s talking about developing new facilities or establishing and
players they would have better practice facilities and a renovated home stadium to play in. But to the veterans on the team, it just sounded like a broken record from the previous few years. “Coach Cutcliffe says, ‘When I say something, I mean it. We’re going to get us a new field,’ Lewis said. “Yeah, coach, we’ve heard that one a 10t.... But nobody has done anything for Duke Football like he has. It almost brings tears to your eyes.” With a $lO million donation from Bob Pascal, Trinity ’56, and Steve Brooks, Trinity ’7O, in April, Cutcliffe was able to get those renovations started. The school has completely remade the ”
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practice field has been lengthened to 120 yards. Additionally, Cutdiffe and Director of Athletics Kevin White have plans to create an indoor practice facility and possibly remove the track in the stadium. Cutdiffe said there will also be a new scoreboard in place for the new season. His most difficult task—rebuilding his players into a legitimate ACC team—is actually ahead of schedule, he said. Cutdiffe said he thought his team was a bowl team last year and has looked even more prepared in spring ball and summer camp. “If we had a head coach worth a darn, we’d be a bowl team and that’s the truth,” Cutdiffe said. “I still stay up at night thinking of a couple of games. We should’ve been 6-6 at worst last year.” Lewis said the biggest difference from last year to this year is Cutdiffe has only had to teach a point once before the team understands it. “He’s not saying, ‘We’re going to cut back on this running,’ and now [he says] it’s you’re doing this, you’re doing that, [and we say] yes sir, no sir,” Lewis said. “Everyone’s doing their business. No one’s trying to back out of their runs or anything.” Not every player has lived up to Cutcliffe’s ideals. In fact, he has had to dismiss safety and former quarterback Zack Asack, running back Tony Jackson and linebacker Trent Mackey. Asack and Jackson played significant roles last year and were expected to contribute again this upcoming season. But like any other situation, Cutcliffe doesn’t beat around the bush in addressing the issue. “Everyone will be better for it,” he said of their dismissals. “But I just believe as a parent or coach, continuing to say don’t do that isn’t going to work. I don’t like that and it’s my least favorite thing.” Cutcliffe said all three players were isolated cases and that the group he has now is the best he’s ever had, mostly because they want practice to be as hard as possible. Once he heard that from his team, he knew he could expect his players to compete in December. Because if they can handle the toughest practices without quitting, they can handle the pressure to play in the program’s first bowl game since 1994.
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last year—not finishing.” The line’s inability to finish was visWith 1:31 remaining in last year’s conible on a much smaller scale than entire test against Virginia Tech, Duke had the games. The players’ failure to hold their ball and a chance to do the unthinkable—- blocks and complete individual plays was shock the perennially powerful Hokies in largely responsible for the struggles of the hostile confines of Blacksburg, Va. Duke’s anemic rushing attack, which was On first down, former Duke quarterranked 103rd in the nation at year’s end. back Zack Asack took the snap in the This season Duke features a strong trio shotgun, looking to pass. The Hokies of ballcarriers in fifth-year senior Re’quan only rushed four linemen, dropping Boyette, sophomore Jay Hollingsworth and seven men back into coverage. Despite true freshman Desmond Scott. the underwhelming pass rush, Asack With such talent at tailback, Duke’s had barely finished taking a three-step offense will be looking to bolster its drop when a Virginia Tech defensive rushing attack, putting the pressure tackle broke free, drove his shoulders squarely on the offensive line. And since into Asack’s chest and planted him into only two starters, junior center Bryan the ground. Morgan and sophomore guard-turnedThe ball—and the Blue Devils’ hopes tackle Kyle Hill, return from last season, of an upset—floated into the hands of the weight of that burden will fall largely the Hokies’ Victor Harris, who ran it all on unproven shoulders. the way back for a touchdown, sealing New starters include Holt at tackle and the deal for Virginia Tech. Mitch Lederman and Brian Moore at guard. That play typified the inconsistent “Any time you have a great tailback, it performances by Duke’s offensive line a really helps you as an offensive lineman,” year ago, especially at the end of games. offensive line coach Matt Luke said. “With Senior Jarrod Holt and the rest of the everybody expecting us to be the weak link Duke linemen dedicated themselves to of the team, it has kind of pushed those guys through the summer.” reversing that trend over the summer. “We want to be strong and come through Even before throwing the first block in the fourth quarter,” Holt said. “We’ve of the season, the results of those workMorgan, easily the smalloff and trymg to get est starting lineman in the ACC last year, in the best shape has added over ten pounds to his frame, be able pushing him to 255. Hill has grown from possible to finish to strong, being a 270-pound, severely undersized That’s one of the guard into a bruising 285-pound tacklems I le. Despite the added bulk, the unit is p r o bthink noticeably faster and lighter on its feet we had than in recent years. While the Blue Devils fought through their grueling summer routine, however, something else developed—something just as important to an offensive line as footwork and fitness. Throughout all of the sprints, drills and lifting, a sense of family and unity has drawn the linemen together. Duke will be relying heavily on this chemistry to turn a jumble of guards and tackles into one cohesive force. “We’re working to be really good as a team, as a unit, instead of individuals,” Hill said. “I think we’ll be able to work enough as a team, as that one unit, to carry each other on and gain that experience together to really step forward and do a good job.” With inexperience being the prevailing theme of this year’s line, leadership will play an uncommonly important role as the group hopes to mature quickly. Adding to that challenge is the arrival offour new freshmen who could be called upon early to spell the starters. Holt, the most senior memby
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Last year, Duke fans grew accustomed
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corps will feature a different look this year, but is nonetheless confident in producing without him. “It’s obviously a big loss not having his presence, but we’ve got to move on,” junior receiver Austin Kelly said. “It’s about getting more consistent as a group, spending more time in the playbook and paying more attention to detail with our routes.” Replacing Riley’s 693 total receiving yards, eight touchdowns and deep-threat potential will be crucial considering that this year’s three projected starters at the position—Kelly and sophomores Donovan Varner and Johnny Williams—had fewer combined yards than Riley last season. Still, the emphasis on getting the ball into Riley’s hands had its downfalls as the increased focus of defenses on Riley
resulted in some drops and forced interceptions. “We’re working hard to help our quarterback build more trust in the receivers as a unit this year so that he will be able to spread the ball around,” Kelly said. “He can go to anybody on a big third down and know that they will keep the drive going.” Both Varner and Williams are short for wide receivers, standing at 5-foot-9 and 5-foot-10, respectively. However, both players compensate for their lack of height with their shifty, explosive athletic ability. To make use of this unique skill to gain yards after the catch, shorter, quicker passes will be a prominent part of the playbook this year. Especially with a reshuffled offensive line in front of quarterback Thaddeus Lewis, short passes should be a Duke staple in 2009. That strategy isn’t much of a departure from last year, as underneath routes were also a significant part of the aerial attack and allowed for running backs Clifford Harris andjay Hollingsworth to make a number of catches out of the backfield. Unfortunately, the receivers failed to excel in their playmaking after
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High expectations for oft-forgotten unit by
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David Cutcliffe’s reputation is that of a quarterback guru, but he gives as much attention to the often-overlooked third element of the game—special teams. “Coach Cutcliffe is in every special teams meeting,” special teams coordinator and tight ends coach Ron Middleton said. “Nobody on this team is immune to special teams. We are given specific practice time, meeting time and whatever else we need to be prepared.” After years of futility on special teams, Duke finally began to show consistency in Cutcliffe’s first season at the helm. Kicker Nick Maggio did not miss a single extra point and he and Joe Surgan combined to make 13-of-18 field goals. Redshirt junior Kevin Jones, the team’s starting punter, said the chemistry of the special teams has played a major role in helping the unit improve. “We have worked on chemistry amongst all the special teams players, making sure everyone is comfortable with each other,” Jones said. “[Special teams] is very focusoriented. There are not many opportunities, so it is important that you capitalize on the chances you have.” The starting kicker job, despite Maggie’s return, is still up for grabs between him and Will Snyderwine. The coaching staff is expected to make a decision this week on who will handle kickoff and field goal duties. Middleton also ’ stressed the importance of the field position battle this upcoming season. Before Cutcliffe arrived,
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Duke often tired in the fourth quarter, which meant the Blue Devils covered littie ground and allowed their opponents to have short drives for points. Thanks to Cutcliffe’s conditioining levels, however, the team did not fatigue down the stretch and was able to put itself in better position to win close games. Against Virginia Tech, for exampie, Duke’s field positition management meant the Hokies’ only offensive points came on the last drive of the first half.
With an even heavier emphasis on conditioning this offseason—the team ran 5,000 yards in sprints —Middleton expects the special teams to not only contribute, but also to make a difference. “Wefeelthatwe can positively affect [and] win three games just from special teams,” he said. “We preach it, we put the time in and put the emphasis on it, and hopefully that equates to a successful unit.” Wide receiver Johnny Williams will handle punt returns, while fifth-year se-
nior running back Re’quan Boyette will kickoffs this season. No one has yet been named as the off-return man, or the man who receives the ball on short kickoffs, Middleton said depth and filling in roster spots on the coverage squads will be the
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SCHEDULE from page 3 With a win, the Blue Devils could potentially begin the season 2-0. The game is on the road, but if the upset of Vanderbilt last year proved anything, it’s that road games are an obstacle the Blue Devils can overcome. Crucial ACC Games: 1. MARYLAND (October 24) Assuming that Duke enters the ACC season with two wins that can count toward the six-game total, the team will need four conference wins in order to make a bowl. In that sense, Maryland could turn out to be the makeor-break game of the season. A win would put Duke on track to make a bowl game and leave the Blue Devils with five games to win three. It would also be the start of a crucial stretch of challenging but beatable opponents in Virginia and North Carolina. Cutcliffe likes the game’s timing, too. Duke has its only off-week of the season right before facing the Terrapins, giving his team more time to prepare. “It lays out a little better for us,” he said. “If you’re going to have one open date, you like where it falls, right in the middle, six and six.”
2. Virginia (October 31) The Blue Devils make the trip up to Charlottesville for a Halloweeen match-up. Virginia is coming off a disappointing season last year in which it failed to make a bowl game. If the Cavaliers can finda consistent option at quarterback—they currently have three players in the mix for the starting spot—they may prove to be a diffcult team for Duke. The Blue Devils, though, dominated Virginia in a 31-3 win in Durham last year. 3. North Carolina (November 7) The Tar Heels are a top-25 team and may serve as a major roadblock for the Blue Devils. North Carolina made a bowl game for the first time in four years under head coach Butch Davis last season and shows no signs of taking a step back.
4. WAKE FOREST (November 28) Duke has just five wins over the past three seasons, with four of those wins coming last season under Cutcliffe. But if the Blue Devils could finish games against Wake Forest, that number could have been eight. Duke has lost its last three matchups with the Demon Deacons by a total of nine points. The Blue Devils have come up short before, but if the game means becoming bowl eligible, can they finally win a game when it counts?
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He led the 2008 Blue Devils in tackles, interceptions and heart. Nothing stopped three-year starter Mike Tauiliili from making that game-changing tackle, that last play of desperation. No one can deny that replacing the team leader in tackles—now trying to make the roster with the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts—is a difficult task. But head coach David Cutcliffe thinks he already has a man for the job: senior captain Vincent Key. “[Rey] has big shoes to fill taking the leadership role that Mike Tauiliili had on the field,” Cutcliffe said. “But he is capable of doing that.” Rey finished second on the team in tackles last year from the linebacker position, recording 109— 31 tackles short of his former teammate. Although he didn’t receive the same recognition that Tauiliili did last year, Rey’s coaches and teammates know they have a leader on the field in him. Linebacker coach Jim Collins echoed Cutcliffe’s' endorsement of Key’s leadership potential. Collins said Key served as a strong leader last year, and is expected to lead the linebacking corps in making tackles and breaking up passes. And Key not only garners the respect of the coaching staff, but the veteran players and newcomers as well. Senior defensive end Ayanga Okpokowuruk has high hopes for the linebacking corps as well as the defense as a whole. “We set the bar high,” Okpokowuruk said. “We’re looking to improve off of last year. We have Key anchoring the linebacking corps and helping the young guys out. They’re doing a really good job.” Accompanying Rey will be an experienced junior, Damian Thornton, and then a rotation of new talent behind them. Cutcliffe said he has no problem playing freshmen and noted a few standouts after his team’s Aug. 22 scrimmage. Cutcliffe mentioned freshmen Auggie Campbell, Austin Gamble, Tyree Glover, Zach Greena and Sydney Sarmiento as potential contributors. With all the young players on the depth chart, no matter how talented they are, they still need the leadership and positive example that Rey provides. But according to Cutcliffe, Rey is more than just a leader of the linebackers, and more than just a leader of the team. “There’s a difference between just being a leader and being the heart of a football team,” Cutcliffe said. “Vinny Rey is the heart of our entire football
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Head coach David Cutcliffe’s second season as Duke’s leader brings with it not only high expectations, but also a promising freshman class. After a strong recruiting effort on Cutcliffe’s part along with the help of the entire Duke staff, the Class of 2013 comes in with 31 new players hailing from far-away hometowns in the Bahamas and Texas to local products from North Carolina. The new additions to East Campus bring a lot of talent, energy and promise to the Blue Devils as preseason begins to wind down and they look forward to the year. “As far as the new season goes, we are obviously very excited to get another year under our belt,” redshirt freshman quarterback Sean Renfree said. “We have a great new class and Coach did a great job of recruiting athletes, and he is really building a program. [The freshman] are doing really well for us so far and a lot of them can make good plays.” Although Cutcliffe sees all of his new recruits adding positively to the team as a whole, there were two players that stuck out to the coaching staff, the players and fans at a preseason scrimmage last Friday. One player who had stood out at the scrimmage and looks to be a growing asset forDuke’s offense is four-star recruit Desmond Scott. Scott is native to Durhamand was charted as the top running back in North Carolina and the 23rdbest in the country by ESPN.com. As a senior, Scott rushed 256 times for 2,249 yards and 24 touchdowns while catching 30 passes for 532 yards and five touch-
COHEN from page 5 win a tough game like this,” Cutcliffe said in Winston-Salem. “We’ve let two... get away from us where we had a chance to win at the end. Now we’ve just got to grow to the next level.” There’s not much of a motto in there—nothing like “Play Like A Champion Today,” and thank goodness for it —but the statement will define Cutcliffe’s second year and, indeed, every season until Duke does make it to that next level. While no single campaign is like any other, every one—no matter the length, no matter the location, no matter the sport hinges on one particular occasion. Last year, it was the Wake Forest game,and it was the field goal, the blitz goneawry, the interception. Duke lost before and lost after, but it was the loss to the Demon Deacons that changed its tenor and momentum. It was, ahem, the queso on the tortilla. And somewhere on this year’s schedule lurks another game like Wake Forest, a contest that will, at some point, prove whether the Blue Devils have grown to that so-called next level, an aspiration every team still has the right to harbor.It might be the first game of the> year and it might be the last, but probably, it will be somewhere in the middle—sometime around November, when, as Cutcliffe liked to remind us last year, his team was defined. It was only cruel that Duke’s tipping point landed on the first day of the month, sucking out the sweet promise from the rest of it. I’m sure that taste of hope is scrumptious, though, even more so than oozing queso. I bet it lasts longer than 15 minutes, and I imagine it doesn’t leave you wondering what empty feeling made you indulge in The Dillo in the first place. —
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Backup quarterback Sean Renfree did not see action as a freshman, but could contribute this season. downs. The running back added four kickoff returns for touchdowns in the state semifinals in leading Hillside High to a 12-2-1 record for the season. On Friday, Scott rushed four times for 20 yards, but also caught six passes for 39 yards
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“Desmond was real busy today and that is good,” Cutcliffe said. “He was more consistent than he has been and he did well with his assignments and it was a good SEE FRESHMEN ON PAGE 11
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growth day for him.” The other player to catch the coaching staffs eye was Sean Schroeder, a quarterback from Laguna Niguel, Calif., was listed by ESPN.com as the*29th-best quarterback in the country prior to his decision to play for the Blue Devils. As a senior, Schroeder completed 175-of-267 passes for 2,826 yards with 31 touchdowns and eight interceptions for a season that caught Cutcliffe’s attention and made him a good fit for Duke. Schroeder’s slight build—he currently weighs in a 185 pounds—and the two quality quarterbacks in front of him on the depth chart will limithis time under center this season. In the long run, though, he promises to be a good pickup for Duke. The firstyear player was 7-of-9 for 61 yards last Friday, splitting time with Renfree and senior quarterback Thaddeus Lewis. “He’s done really well, especially for a freshman,” Renfree said. “My freshman year I was really dazed and he’s done really well and he fits in. Thad and I both love him. He’s fun to play with. Obviously, physically, he has to get a bit bigger, but he works really hard.” As the preseason nears its end, the best of the freshmen may still be yet to come. And, with Duke’s first matchup against Richmond just a week away, the freshman class will have an immediate opportunity to show its team, its coaches and its fans the strides it has made in preseason to be ready for NCAA play.
ber of the line, has stepped up and assumed some of this responsibility. “Definitely as a senior you’ve been here a while, you know the ropes a little bit. A lot of people look up to you,” he said. ‘You’ve got to support these kids. They came out of high school, this is theirfirst time away from home, this is their family up here....Not just me as a senior, but everybody lifting up everybody.” Duke’s hopes of building the momentum of the Cutcliffe Era depend on just how high this group can lift itself—whether Holt, Moore and Lederman can become effective starters, whether the freshmen develop into viable future options and whether the line can clear holes for Duke’s tailbacks to run through. Should they fail, the line will still be full of holes—the kind of holes that cause Duke quarterbacks to break ribs after tough tackles. If the line finds away to pull together, Duke’s upset fairy tales in 2009 could see a much happier ending than that disappointment in Blacksburg—or at least one where the Blue Devil quarterback is still standing.
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