Apr. 18, 2011 issue

Assessment group releases housing scores

Southern states hit by tornadoes

Blue Devils top ACC with victory

by Maggie SpiniTHE CHRONICLE

Following the Friday release of RGAC scores, frater-nities and selective living groups are waiting to find out how they will be affected by their grades.

The Residential Group Assessment Committee completed a year-long evaluation of living groups under the current housing model. Soon after releasing numerical scores based on evaluations of each section, RGAC will recommend that certain groups with the lowest scores go before the Approval and Removal Committee, which can reward groups, put them on probation or remove their housing privileges. This procedure, called

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by Anna KoelschTHE CHRONICLE

This weekend, Duke narrowly escaped damage from a pummeling of storms.

Other areas of North Carolina and the South were hit hard by storms and tornadoes — at least 43 have died through-out the South and at least 23 were killed in North Carolina.

More than eight tornadoes were report-ed throughout the state over the weekend, and Gov. Bev perdue declared a state of emergency on Saturday night.

The storm extensively damaged Raleigh, only 25 miles from Durham. The city of Ra-leigh reported three deaths.

According to a press release, Shaw Uni-versity in Raleigh experienced significant structural damages to dormitories and the University’s student union. Shaw University has suspended classes for the remainder of the semester as a result.

There are no confirmed fatalities in the city of Durham said Jill Lucas, a spokes-person for the North Carolina Division of Emergency Management. Deaths have been reported in Bertie, Bladen, Cumber-land, Harnett, Johnston, Lee and Wake counties.

Although no one was injured at Duke, the University was hit with strong rain and

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Campus Council goes out ‘with a bang’

by Andrew BeatonTHE CHRONICLE

After losing its last two matches against ranked oppo-nents, the regular season finale versus Virginia loomed large on Duke’s schedule.

Fortunately for the No. 9 Blue Devils, they rose to the challenge Saturday. Duke defeated No. 6 Virginia 13-11 at Koskinen Stadium, earning its fifth confer-ence title in the last seven seasons

and ninth overall.“From the first day you walk onto campus here, when

you first get the job, you feel the power of the conference,” head coach John Danowski said. “To be a part of it, we’re very proud… and to be fortunate enough to have some success means a lot.”

The Cavaliers (8-4, 1-2 in the ACC) broke the ice in the game, with midfielder Colin Briggs notching the contest’s first goal. Briggs, who led his team in goals scored Saturday with four, faced additional offensive pressure because star attacker Steele Stanwick did not play due to a calf injury.

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No. 9 Duke cut down No. 6 Virginia Saturday in Koskinen Stadium. With the win, the Blue Devils clinched the No. 1 seed in the ACC Tournament. SEE m. Lacrosse ON SW 2

by Nicole KyleTHE CHRONICLE

It may be called Old Duke, but the celebrations in Keohane Amphitheater Friday also marked a new era in student government.

The annual outdoor concert, which featured a performance by rock band Sugar Ray along with free food, beer and T-shirts, was Campus Council’s last major event following its merger with Duke Stu-dent Government and Duke University

Union in February. DUU will take over the programming aspects of Campus Council, with the rest of the council’s former re-sponsibilities falling under DSG.

Approximately 2,500 students at-tended the event, said junior Betsy Klein, programming chair for Campus Council, noting that the audience extended into standing room only sections.

“I think that the turnout in both the number of students and the diversity re-ally reflects a lot of the work that Campus

Council has done,” said Campus Council president Stephen Temple, a senior. “It achieved both breadth and depth in the amount that it was able to accomplish as well as the amount of students it was able to touch.”

This year’s event was a success, with $500 worth of beer kegs empty within an hour and all 400 T-shirts distributed, Klein said.

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Rock band Sugar Ray headlined the 2011 Old Duke concert. Duke student Edie Wellman and band Cloud 9 also performed on a stage set in the Keohane Amphitheater.

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BeiruT — Protests in syria turned vio-lent sunday night when security forces shot at demonstrators in two towns, killing at least 13 people and detaining many more, activists said.

The shootings came at the end of a day in which thousands of people took to the streets in towns and cities across syria, calling for an end to President Bashar al-assad’s regime, a day after he vowed to lift emergency laws that have been in place for almost 50 years.

nine people were killed in and around the central city of homs, where security forces opened fire without warning in two areas, said razan Zeitouneh, a hu-man rights activist and lawyer who talk-ed to witnesses there.

“The army suddenly started to shoot the people,” she said, adding that the vic-tims included mourners at a funeral for a demonstrator killed the day before.

WashinGTon, d.C. — President Ba-rack obama will hit the road this week and forcibly deliver his message that a combination of spending cuts and tax hikes on the rich are necessary to rein in the nation’s rocketing debt—a high-stakes effort to rally public support ahead of a series of contentious bud-get battles in Congress.

From northern Virginia Community College in annandale to Facebook’s head-quarters in silicon Valley, obama will make a series of campaign-style stops in an ef-fort to block a republican plan that would reduce the deficit by dramatically chang-ing medicare and reducing spending on education and other social programs.

obama faces a political necessity—claiming the debt issue as his own—and a political opportunity. recent polls show that americans disapprove of his record on the deficit.

Obama rallies support for debt reduction plan

FAA extends min. time off for controllers

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.— John Lennon

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The Duke Farmers Market celebrated its 11th season of operation, opening for business on April 15. The Farmers Market promotes farm-to-fork food, selling seasonal fruits and vegetables every Friday from 11 a.m to 2 p.m. from April 15 to July 15, on a lawn off of Research Drive.

“While i have heard some complaints from individuals who claim that defmo isn’t that impressive.... First of all, respect for being able to move like defmo... and second of all, it’s not just about the dance. Going back to the founding pillars of the group, dance is only a means towards an end of cultural awareness, appreciation and dialogue. Thus, while renowned for their killer moves, defmo truly, well, transcends dance.”

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Lecture with Andrew Walls divinity school, 12-1p.m.

Mission historian and professor emeritus at Edinburgh University, Andrew Walls will speak in “The Sec-ond Coming of World Christianity.”

Master Class w/ Gaspard LouisThe ark, 4:25-5:55p.m.

Gaspard Louis is a former member of Pilobolus Dance Theater and is cur-rently directing ADF’s year-round cre-ative movement outreach program.

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West duke 101, 11:30p.m. John Marting Fischer speaks on free will, moral responsibility and issues pertaining to life and death.

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Critically acclaimed author Barbara King-solver came to Duke last week to accept the Nicholas School of the Environment’s award for Lifetime Environmental Achievement in the Fine Arts. Kingsolver studied evolutionary biol-ogy and ecology at the collegiate and graduate level before pursuing a career in writing. After her acceptance speech, Kingsolver sat down with The Chronicle’s Julian Spector to talk about her approach to writing, the intersection of sci-ence and art and how farming contributes to her writer’s lifestyle.

the chronicle: Do you see yourself more as a scientist who became writer or as writer who studied science on the way to litera-ture?

Barbara kingsolver: I think I’m a scien-tist who loves to write.... But, I think that I’ve always seen the world as a scientist. I’m very interested in natural order and cause and effect and figuring things out. And I write novels in a fairly scientific way

I would say, because I work out structure; I work out the sort of bone structure of a story. I think about characters the way a psychologist would. In fact, sometimes I think of myself as an anti-therapist, be-cause I invest characters with these motives and these things they have to do and then I work backwards to give them the right kind of damage so that they’ll behave the way they need to behave.

tc: When did you make the switch from focusing on biology to writing?

Bk: I make my living as a novelist as a lit-erary writer, and I have for 20 years. I really can’t say I ever made a switch because I’ve al-ways written since I could hold a pencil. I’ve kept diaries kind of obsessively... going back to when I was eight years old. So I always thought writing was a very good way to cap-ture and organize experience and then later

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Endangered turtle population reboundsby Lucy Hicks

THE CHRONICLE

Currently on the endangered species list, leatherback sea turtles have slowly been increasing in number along the Florida shoreline, according to a recent Duke study.

The study—published in the current issue of Ecological Applications—found that turtle nestings have increased steadi-ly by 10.2 percent each year since 1979.

“We did not know a lot about the leatherback population in Florida and they are critically endangered world-wide,” said Kelly Stewart, who received her ph.D. from Duke in 2007 and is the lead author of the study. “One of the government’s functions is to make sure [Florida has] a recovery plan in place for endangered species so the topic I picked to study tried to answer some of the questions in that recovery plan....

The answers could contribute to future management of turtles.”

Stewart said data was collected every day of the nesting season, the period when turtles lay their eggs, from about 100 different sites on Florida beaches, adding that she drew her conclusions from a compilation of all the nest counts.

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Author Barbara Kingsolver spoke to The Chronicle on her experiences merging science with literature.

Brodhead joins leaders in China

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Duke University president Richard Brodhead joined corporate CEOs, uni-versity leaders and presidents of some of the world’s most influential nations April

15 and 16 in China for a conference focusing on the development of Asia.

Brodhead participat-ed in a discussion titled “Rethinking Education: University presidents vs. Corporate CEOs”—one of the many panels held at the annual Boao Fo-

rum for Asia conference.He was also scheduled to attend a re-

ception with president Hu Jintao of Chi-na, according to a Duke news release. Hu was scheduled to attend the confer-ence’s opening and deliver its keynote speech.

“The Boao Forum offers an important opportunity to be part of a global con-versation,” Brodhead said in the release before the trip. “When universities have a place at the table, we can demonstrate how our interdisciplinary research and

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PRESIDENT RICHARD BRODHEAD INVITES MEMBERS OF THE DUKE COMMUNITY TO THE HERTHA SPONER PRESIDENTIAL LECTURESHIP

Hertha Sponer was the first woman full professor in the natural sciences at Duke University, invited to join the faculty in 1936. Seventy years later, a group of women faculty in the sciences recommended this lectureship to President Brodhead to highlight the research of prominent women in science, engineering, mathematics, and medicine. phy.duke.edu/history/DistinguishedFaculty/HerthaSponer

Jeanne Altmann, PhDEugene Higgins Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Emeritus and Senior Scholar Princeton University

Monday, April 18, 2011 at 4:30 pm

Fitzpatrick Center, Schiciano Auditorium, Side B Reception will follow outside of the Schiciano Auditorium

LIVINg ON THE EDgE SUCCESSFULLY: From womb to grave with friends, family, and physiological flexibility

Groups of prospective freshman toured the Gothic Won-derland this weekend as a part of Blue Devil Days, which allows admitted students considering Duke to tour the cam-pus and meet students and faculty. The Chronicle’s Chin-mayi Sharma spoke with prospective students and their hosts about visiting Duke.

“I think it is really important for pfrosh to see what freshman life on campus is like. On the tour, they see West Campus, but they never see East Campus until Blue Devil Days. This is the first experience they will have at Duke, so they should get a taste of it now.”

—freshman Victoria Li, who hosted a student

“I have visited almost all the Ivy League schools and thought this place would feel like them. I thought it

would be a tense atmosphere, suffocating and [that] the people would all be nerds. I am pleased to say I was wrong.”

—Connor Fay, prospective freshman from Los Angeles, Calif.

“I am still deciding whether or not I want to come here, so I want to check out the classes, especially the lectures. I came from a graduating class of 34 people, so the lectures are really intimidating.”

—Norah Karlovich, prospective freshman from Pittsburgh, Pa.

“They tell you everything about the school except for what the people are like because I guess that’s something that changes every year. I’m glad they have

this before we commit to four years.”—Corrine Santoro, prospective freshman from

Columbia, Md.

“This has assuaged my fears of sending my daughter to a school across the ocean. Every parent fears the worst when their kids are that far away, but I see this beautiful campus and the people, and it seems like something out of a brochure. If I cannot trust her here, then I feel I can-not trust her anywhere.”

—Angie Cho, mother of an admitted student from England

“All I really wanted to do is scope out the best dorms and climb buildings. I hear that’s a thing here.”

—Caitie Cristante, prospective freshman from Charlotte, N.C.

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About 60 admitted high school seniors at-tended Latino Student Recruitment Weekend, an annual event hosted by Mi Gente that helps to recruit students to Duke. The prospective stu-dents, many of whom are still considering mul-tiple college offers, participated in events that ranged from a game night to Noche Dorada, an evening event at the Washington Duke Inn. The Chronicle’s Taylor Doherty and Sanette Tanaka asked Duke students and visitors about their LSRW experiences.

“At first, I was a little disappoint-ed that so few p-frosh accepted and

came.... But at the end of the day, I thought it was very successful. The group, as a whole, was very cohesive. I think they had a really good time at the game night.... They had free cookout, a lot of games and they all really got to know each other.”

—freshman Sebastian Cifuentes, a host and freshman representative for Mi Gente

“I thought it was incredible. Specifi-cally, I liked being able to meet a lot of really intelligent people—bright stu-dents that had a lot of lofty ambitions

and a lot of great ideas.”—Isaac Reyes, prospective student from

Houston, Texas

“Although we had a smaller num-ber of students than we usually do for LSRW, it created a closer knit between the hosts and the p-frosh. I think my fa-vorite part of it all was Saturday night, the game night, and seeing the students interact with each other and with their hosts.”

—sophomore Birdie Rodriguez, a host and incoming LSRW chair for Mi Gente

“Noche Dorada was a really cool event....

The food, obviously, was amazing—I’m not going to lie. I liked how there were people who were already from the school who joined with us there.”

—Eduardo Hernandez-Nieves, prospective student from Louisville, Kentucky

“It’s good for them to know that they’re not the only Latino students at this univer-sity.”

—junior Lizzeth Alarcon, a host and LSRW chair

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The SOFC is the funding arm of the Duke Student Government. The main activities fund of the SOFC is the programming fund, and it is open to all recognized and chartered student groups. We accept applications for all types and sizes of student sponsored events, as long as they are open and free of charge to all Duke Undergraduates. Funding for events can range from less than $100 to more than $10,000 per event and we fund things such as food, honoraiums, set-up fees, etc. for events. Applications can be found at http://dsg.dukegroups.duke.edu/sofc/event-funding/ and must be received 10 days prior to the event. All student groups are encouraged to apply.

SOFC SPONSORED UPCOMING EVENTS ON CAMPUSMonday 4/18/2011Event: Go Global! Global Education & The Black CommunityLocation: Old Trinity RoomTime: 7:00 P.M

Wednesday 4/20/2011Event: Unzipped Launch PartyLocation: Von CanonTime: 6:00P.M. – 8:00P.M.

Thursday 4/21/2011Event: DGMB Easter Egg AwarenessLocation: BC Plaza and Marketplace

Event: DIYA Senior NightLocation: McClendonTime: 7:00 P.M.

Event: Holy Week, Easter Mass, BrunchLocation: Duke Chapel/Duke Gardens/Falcone-Arena House

Event: SOFC ForumLocation: Von CanonTime: 3:00P.M. – 4:00P.M.

Friday 4/22/2011Event: DGMB Easter Egg AwarenessLocation: BC Plaza and Marketplace

Event: DUMU Game Night/Election NightLocation: Math Department Lounge in Physics BuildingTime: 6:30P.M.

Event: SmartHome Earth Day PartyLocation: Duke Smart HomeTime: 12:00P.M. – 4:00P.M.


Saturday 4/23/2011Event: NASA Powwow 2011Location: Main QuadTime: 12:00P.M. – 4:00P.M.

Event: Corporate Valuation conference Investment Management and ResearchLocation: French Science 2213Time: 9:00A.M. – 5:00P.M.

Event: HackathonLocation: Duke Chronicle Offi ceTime: 7:00P.M. – 7:00A.M.


Sunday 4/24/2011Event: Holy Week, Easter Mass, BrunchLocation: Duke Chapel/Duke Gardens/Falcone-Arena House

A showcase weekendA photo essay by Audrey Adu-Appiah, Ted Knudsen,

Indu Ramesh and Tyler Seuc

1. duke Chinese dance Troupe performed its 2011 showcase, mosaic, in Page auditorium saturday. 2. mi Gente held meZ-Cla 2011: The latin Grammys—the annual multicultural showcase—as part of latino student recruitment Weekend saturday. 3. students packed the keohane amphitheater Fri-day afternoon for the old duke concert. edie Wellman, Cloud 9 and sugar ray performed. 4. hina shamsi, director of the national security project for the american Civil liberties union, speaks Friday as part of “national security since 9/11,” a series of discussions at the Fuqua school of Business.

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“It was a really lively atmosphere,” she said. “I’m so proud of my committee. There was a really great turnout, and it was an amazing show.”

Klein, also a member of the 2009-2010 Last Day of Classes committee, was instru-mental in bringing Sugar Ray to campus. She said after students were disappointed when the group canceled its Spring perfor-mance last year, she wanted to bring them for Old Duke this year.

“When [Sugar Ray] got here they were so easy to work with,” Klein said. “[Lead singer of Sugar Ray] Mark McGrath is the nicest person.... [They were] so interested in learning about tenting, what do we do for fun and what we enjoy—they were just very interested in what we had to say and thrilled to be in a college.”

Klein noted that the band also “loved” that students in the audience knew all of the words to their songs.

Students agreed that the concert sparked some nostalgia.

“I really enjoyed Sugar Ray,” said fresh-

man Minshu Deng. “There were a lot of songs from your childhood you used to lis-ten to but forgot existed.”

Other students expressed concerns that the event would not return, such as sophomore Emmanuel Lim, who wrote in an email that he has enjoyed Old Duke for two years and hopes to see it continue.

Although Campus Council’s executive board ended its term April 1, Old Duke’s future is secure, as incoming DUU presi-dent Rachel Sussman, a junior, confirmed DUU will sponsor the event next year.

“We decided at our last meeting to continue Old Duke,” Sussman wrote in an email Sunday, noting that the group’s Joe College Day committee will plan the event to compliment the committee’s Fall programming.

Klein said she is excited to see DUU’s plans for the event, and she is glad Campus Council went out “with a bang.”

“It was my first Old Duke, and it was very entertaining, very fun and the performanc-es were really high energy,” said freshman Collins Mbonu. “It was a really enjoyable experience, a nice event for relaxing and relieving stress.”

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the Collaborative Housing process, is an extended and more comprehensive form of the Residential Group Assessment process that existed prior to this year.

“[Living] groups will probably know what groups are going to be referred to ARC sometime early this week,” said ju-nior John Nelson, ARC student co-chair.

After receiving its recommendation from RGAC, the ARC will likely meet at the end of this week or early next week, Nelson said. The group aims to determine whether or not any groups will go on probation before classes end April 27.

RGAC scored groups on a scale rang-ing from zero to 200. According to the score report released Friday, Kappa Al-pha Order received the lowest score at 60.5, and Chi psi received the highest at 190. The report excluded scores for Del-ta Sigma phi and the Language House, or Langdorm, because those groups have not received their scores, RGAC co-chair Ashley Jordan, a junior, wrote in an email Sunday. Jordan noted that the scores are subject to change due to data being re-ceived after the original report.

Sixty percent of the total RGAC score is based on “section steward-ship,” which measures how well a group conducts itself in its residential section. The score includes an analysis of damages, cleaning charges and the group’s ability to fill all beds in the sec-tion, among other factors. The other 40 percent of the total score is based on “community interaction.” For this component, groups were asked to sub-mit written reports and photos, show-ing that the group hosted at least three

publicized, public events or ongoing programs each semester, among other criteria.

In a joint email Sunday, Jordan and sophomore Allison LeCavalier, RGAC vice chair, said they thought this year’s as-sessment was a success.

“It is our hope that the groups will take their raw scores as a reflection of what the administration, their peers and their neighbors feel that their contribution to campus is,” they wrote. “We want groups to use these scores as a starting point for improvement in the coming years.”

Although the ARC can make decisions independently of the RGAC’s recommen-dation, Nelson said he thinks the group will adhere to RGAC’s suggestions of who should be considered for probation.

“I’m sure there’s some give and take if there’s a group that needs to be in-cluded [in the probation discussion],” he added.

Junior Will Brody, president of Alpha Epsilon pi, said he thinks his fraternity’s score—143—represents the group well, but he is interested in how scores may af-fect living groups under the new house model.

“I think there were certain criteria that were fair,” he said. “I think there is also room for improvement.”

How RGAC scores may be used under the new house model, however, remains unclear, said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residence life.

“[The] house model group hasn’t decided or really even talked about the specifics of how a group will get placed. It may or may not decide to use the RGAC scores,” Gonzalez said. “When RGAC was designed, it wasn’t designed with that use in mind. [It was] designed before that whole process... started.”

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scholarship can provide new perspec-tives on transnational problems.”

The discussion Brodhead participated in addressed the changes needed to foster entrepreneurial and innovative-minded talents in the education system, according to the forum’s website. Although employment is not the only indicator of university success, it is a top priority for many university leaders, especially as millions of college graduates cannot find

jobs each year, the site noted.International government leaders

scheduled to attend the conference in-cluded president Dmitry Medvedev of Russia, president Dilma Rousseff of Bra-zil and South Korean prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik.

Henry paulson, former U.S. secretary of the treasury, John Negroponte, former U.S. director of national intelligence and deputy secretary of state, and Carlos Gutierrez, former U.S. secretary of com-merce, were also scheduled to attend, ac-cording to the Duke news release.

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HOO DAT?Duke tops Virginia to clinch ACC

regular season title

WOMEN’S GOLF: DUKE TAKES SECOND IN ACC CHAMPIONSHIP. PAGE 3 • WOMEN’S LACROSSE: WENGER SCORES FOUR GOALS IN WIN. PAGE 3 • MEN’S TENNIS: CARLETON SHINES ON SENIOR DAY. PAGE 4

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men’s lacrosse

Duke makes key changes to top Cavs

Game Analysis


Goalie Dan Wigrizer has been hot and cold this season, but he found his groove in the second half against Virginia saturday. The sophomore tallied eight saves in the half.

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start, however, and responded with three unan-swered goals, two of which were put in by senior Zach Howell. Duke finished the first period with a strong 6-3 lead.

“It was important for us to set the tempo today back at home and get back on the right track,” junior mid-fielder Robert Rotanz said.

Despite the quick start, the next period was not quite as easy for the Blue Devils (10-4, 3-0). The Cava-liers slowly worked them-selves back into the con-test and went into halftime down by only one goal. They netted the equalizer to start off the third period, evening up the match for the first time since it was 1-1.

Yet, they would never take the lead, in large part due to an offensive explosion from Rotanz.

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It wasn’t always pretty, but the Blue Dev-ils made key adjustments to guide them-selves to victory in their 13-11 triumph over ACC foe Virginia.

They were quick out of the gate, scor-ing six of their goals in the first period despite the Cavaliers notching the first of the contest. Although they finished the quarter with a com-

fortable three-goal lead, the game was far from over at that point.

Virginia adapted to Duke’s early offen-sive barrage by switching into a zone for the second quarter. The changed defensive scheme initially baffled the Blue Devils, who failed to generate any sort of offensive mojo for the period.

An ill-conceived turnover with fewer than two minutes remaining in the pe-

riod didn’t help matters—when Duke should have held out for the quarter’s fi-nal shot, Virginia was able to convert the mistake into a counter-attack goal.

“We rushed a few things in the second quarter and they capitalized and scored in transition,” junior midfielder Robert Ro-tanz said. “They had the ball a lot, and we had to play a lot of defense.”

Coming out of halftime, the Blue Devils adjusted to Virginia’s change in tactics. Rotanz led a run of goals in the third period, giving Duke a comfortable lead that it would never forfeit.

Another key improvement through-out the game was between the pipes with goalkeeper Dan Wigrizer. The sopho-more only had three saves in the first half but came out and blocked eight in the third and fourth periods. He did it in style, too, snatching several shots by using acrobatic moves which stymied strong Cavalier opportunities.

“I don’t think that Danny made a save for probably about the first three goals, so you’re a little concerned,” head coach John Danowski said. “But I thought he got better as the game went on. I thought he was really good inside—when the ball was inside—and really made some plays.”

In the fourth quarter, the Cavaliers scored three unanswered goals in a five minute span to narrow Duke’s lead to two with under two minutes to play. They then had another excellent opportunity with 1:15 to play to turn it into a one-goal game, but Wigrizer made an impressive save to put the game in the books.

With the victory, the Blue Devils clinched the regular-season conference title and face Virginia again Friday. To come out victorious in the rematch, con-tinuing to adjust and improve through-out games will be critical. Duke showed Saturday that it does have that ability to change on the fly.


robert rotanz had one of the best games of his career against Virginia, scoring four goals and notching one assist against a top-ten team.

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THE GAME

DUKE 6, VIRGINIA 30.01 LEFT IN FIRST QUARTER

To end an offense-heavy period that saw nine total goals scored, sophomore attacker Josh

Offit gives Duke a three-goal cushion with this last-second strike

VIRGINIA 7, DUKE 713:41 LEFT IN THIRD QUARTER

Rhamel Bratton, one half of Virginia’s dynamic brother duo, scores this goal early in the third

quarter to tie the game and cap a 4-1 Cavaliers run

DUKE 11, VIRGINIA 71:20 LEFT IN THIRD QUARTER

While Duke allowed Virginia to get back in the game, this Robert Rotanz score effectively crushes any hopes the Cavs have of a come-

back. Rotanz had four goals Saturday

“From the first day you walk onto campus here, when you first get the job, you feel the

power of the [ACC].” — John Danowski

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Duke fails to take ACC tourney

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Wenger scores four in victory

Duncan finishes fourth in individual play

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Kim Wenger scored four goals in Duke’s win, including a score in the second half that stopped a Unc run.

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lindy Duncan shot a 70 on the final day to move up to fourth place in the individual standings.

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Only 12 shots down heading into the pivotal second round of the ACC Cham-pionship—on a day when North Caro-lina was pummeled by severe storms and wind—the Blue Devils knew they faced an uphill battle.

Unable to cope with the intermittent rain and gusting winds during the sec-ond round, No. 5 Duke struggled to navi-gate Greensboro N.C.’s Sedgefield Coun-try Club and the Saturday swoon placed the Blue Devils 24 strokes behind leader North Carolina.

Duke played better Sunday, but still limped down the second nine and held onto second place with a final score of 47-over par, 24 strokes behind the Tar Heels, who won their first ACC Championship since 1992 with a three day total of 875.

“My hat is off to [North] Carolina. They played great this entire tourna-ment,” head coach Dan Brooks said. “They’re a young team and I think they were solid beyond their years.”

Wake Forest junior Cheyenne Woods, niece of Tiger Woods, won the individual title with a cumulative score of five-under par, 11 strokes ahead of junior Lindy Duncan, who finished fourth for the sec-ond consecutive year.

The Blue Devils held on to an early lead during the first round, before a collective midround collapse allowed the Tar Heels to

move to the top of the leaderboard—a posi-tion they would hold for the rest of the tour-nament. Making the turn on day one, Duke dropped 19 strokes over holes No. 9, 10 and 11, recording two triple bogeys on the par-4 9th, the fourth toughest hole in the first round. North Carolina, meanwhile, played the same stretch at just 5-over par.

The Blue Devils made up some ground on the remaining par fives on the back nine, picking up eight birdies over the two holes, but the Tar Heels would close the day up 12.

“Especially on a really good golf course, it can go that way,” Brooks said. “You can have a string of holes like we did on Friday where we went way down, and then you have a string of holes where you come back.”

The field faced inclement weather throughout the round on Saturday, and even had to endure a three hour delay as lightning and rain in the area forced players back to the clubhouse. Play re-sumed at 4 p.m., but the Tar Heels were the only team able to keep scores low around a soggy Sedgefield.

Brooks expected his team to make up ground in the weather, but the Blue Dev-ils simply couldn’t muster enough bird-ies to close the gap, finishing the day with an 18-over par round of 302.

With a near insurmountable deficit to overcome, Duke struggled on the final

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After two games last weekend, Duke only had only one full day of practice to prepare for a huge rivalry game against North Carolina.

“We did not have the kind of week practice- or preparation-wise that we

would normally have with such a big game,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said.

In spite of the tough schedule, though, the No. 4 Blue Devils (13-2, 4-1 in the ACC) defeated their Tobacco Road rivals 11-10 in Koskinen Stadium Friday to clinch the No. 2 seed in next weekend’s ACC tournament. On Sunday,

they unloaded on St. Mary’s (2-11) with a 23-2 outburst.

The second game of the weekend was a confidence builder before the confer-ence tournament, as 14 different players scored and Duke won by its largest mar-gin of victory since 2006.

Friday’s game nearly tripped them up, though. Kimel’s team got off to a slow start against the Tar Heels, as No. 6 North Carolina (10-4, 3-2) scored two early goals

within a minute of each other.The Blue Devils wasted little time an-

swering, as junior Kat Thomas made an excellent spin move in the crease less than 25 seconds later to net the first of her two goals on the day. At the 20-minute mark, Duke took a 3-2 lead when Christie Kaest-ner passed from behind the goal to a cut-ting Emma Hamm, who redirected it past Tar Heel goalie Lauren Maksym.

Although North Carolina did its best to apply pressure to the stout Duke defense, the Blue Devils outlasted Tar Heel scoring flurries to extend their lead to 6-3 and then 9-6. Duke’s ninth goal was another great individual effort from Thomas that broke a sustained period of attack by North Carolina, giving Duke back a three-goal margin with 19:22 to play.

That lead was far from safe, though. The Blue Devils moved into a stall offense to protect their lead, something they haven’t had the opportunity to do much

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Virginia, Duke tossed in four consecutive scores to jump back out front. Rotanz notched three of those and added a fourth at the start of the fourth quarter, finishing the regular season with 18 goals, placing him third highest on the team.

“One of the things we always tell our guys is that at any time, it could be your day,” Danowski said. “We feel like we have a tremen-dous amount of balance on the team, and a tremendous number of people who can make plays. Today happened to be Rob’s day, and we’re delighted with his progress.”

The victory and regular season title means that the Blue Devils will have the No.

1 seed at next weekend’s conference tournament at Ko-skinen Stadium. In the first round, they will play none other than Virginia, a rematch of last year’s semifinal matchup when the Cavaliers came out victorious.

“We love playing Virginia, playing back at home and playing well at home,” Rotanz said.


robert rotanz had one of the best games of his career against Virginia, scoring four goals and notching one assist against a top-ten team.

DUKE 11, VIRGINIA 71:20 LEFT IN THIRD QUARTER

While Duke allowed Virginia to get back in the game, this Robert Rotanz score effectively crushes any hopes the Cavs have of a come-

back. Rotanz had four goals Saturday

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Duke traveled to Charlottesville hit-ting the best they had all season, but Virginia showed why it is the top-ranked team in the country. The No. 1 Cavaliers

(36-3, 16-2 in the ACC) exploded for 31 runs in three games and swept the Blue Devils (20-19, 4-14) to strength-en their lead atop the ACC.

D e s p i t e notching dou-ble-digit hits in seven of their past eight games,

Duke’s bats went cold against a very tal-ented Virginia pitching rotation, which ranks among the top 10 in the country in ERA and strikeouts per game.

Game one was the Danny Hultzen show. The Cavalier southpaw struck out nine over seven scoreless innings with very little trouble, retiring 13 of the last 14 Blue Devil batters he faced. Duke starting pitcher Dillon Haviland looked ready for the test early, retir-ing the first seven batters with only 20 pitches, but the wheels started to come off in the third inning, as seven differ-ent Virginia batters tabbed at least one

RBI in a 10-0 win.“Danny Hultzen has done that to a lot

of ball clubs this year,” head coach Sean McNally said. “We faced a pitcher that is a [potential] top five pick in the draft.”

While the pitching struggled in the opening game of the series, senior start-ing pitcher Dennis O’Grady showed in Sunday’s first game that Duke does have some talent on the mound. O’Grady, who struggled the last time he pitched at Davenport Field, paced the Blue Dev-ils, giving up only two runs over seven innings of work.

The Cavaliers held a 2-0 lead until pinch-hitter Mark Tatera hit a two-run double in the top of the eighth to tie the game at 2-2 and eventually send it to extra innings. That was the end of the offensive rally, however, as Virginia relief pitcher Branden Kline gave up only one more hit in the final three innings of the game.

Marcus Stroman pitched well in re-lief for O’Grady, escaping the ninth and 10th innings unscathed. John Hicks fi-nally got to the hard-throwing Stroman in the 11th inning, though, with a walk-off single, securing a 3-2 victory.

Although the team was unable to grab the win, McNally couldn’t have been hap-pier with O’Grady.

“That was a special game for Dennis O’Grady,” McNally said. “He pitched

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At the close of their regular season Sun-day, seniors Reid Carelton, Alain Michel and Jared Pinsky achieved the only outcome ac-ceptable for their se-nior match: victory. Not only did the win over 5-2 No. 25 Mi-

ami (14-7, 8-3 in the ACC) leave a memora-ble legacy for the seniors, but it also ensured

that No. 10 Duke will have a first-round bye in the upcoming ACC tournament.

“I’m really happy for Reid, Al and Jared,” head coach Ramsey Smith said. “They’ve given so much to the program and it’s nice to see them finish up with a win at home.”

It wasn’t entirely smooth sailing, however. An early defeat in the doubles point put the Blue Devils (18-8, 9-2) behind on the score-board, with only the team of Carleton and Henrique Cunha defeating their counter-parts, 8-1. David Holland and Chris Mengel

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poorly here as a sophomore and it meant a lot for him to come back and pitch well. He threw better than I have ever seen him throw.”

The Blue Devils finally appeared to find some offensive rhythm in game three, notch-ing 12 total hits. Unfortunately, the pitching

staff was unable to follow suit, allowing 18 earned runs. Virginia held a double-digit lead in the fourth inning thanks to a bal-anced offensive attack, led by John Barr, who had five RBIs.

Jeff Kremer matched a career-high with four hits, which made him the first Blue Devil to reach 50 hits this season. Jordan Betts also had two RBIs and Joe Pedevilla-no scored three runs, but it wasn’t enough,

as the Cavaliers completed the sweep with an 18-4 win.

“To win the series we needed to play at our best, and we [only] did that in one of the three games,” McNally said. “We ex-pected to play better, but we have to play consistently to win.”

Duke will be back in action Tuesday at Jack Coombs Field with a game against UNC-Greensboro.

this season. It wasn’t long before their inexperience began to show.

“You have to spread out, you have to keep the ball moving, you have to be able to move the ball before a double team comes to you,” Kimel said. “Carolina did a good job of shutting off adjacent passes.”

On the ensuing possession, Duke won the draw but attempted a backward pass to the defense. The ball bounced before reaching its target, and got past the Blue Devil defender. Tar Heel attacker Kara Cannizzaro streaked out of the midfield to scoop up the loose ball, and made an open run on the Duke goal.

North Carolina came within one when Cannizzaro scored the third of her four goals off a pass from Corey Donohue, and a free-position shot two minutes later gave the Tar Heels a 9-9 tie.

With her team clearly on the defensive, Kimel called timeout to rally her troops.

“That was a clutch timeout,” junior Kim Wenger said. “Great call on her part. We needed that.”

Wenger answered the need for a goal, nailing a shot that put Duke back on top.

“I don’t usually do that dodge but I did it a few times in practice yesterday, and it worked for me today,” Wenger said.

Virginia Crotty gave the Blue Devils a two-goal cushion five minutes later, but just a minute after that, Cannizzaro bur-ied a free-position shot to bring the Tar Heels back within one.

The game remained a stalemate for the next several minutes. Mollie Mackler made a critical save—one of eight on the day—on a free-position shot with 2:34 left, and with just over one minute remaining, the Tar Heel midfielders intercepted a pass in transition and made a nearly un-contested run on the Duke goal.

The Blue Devils recovered, though, and made a strong defensive stand to keep North Carolina off the scoreboard and secure the victory.

The keys for Duke were strong defen-sive face-guarding against North Caro-lina’s Corey Donohoe and strong per-formance on draws. Donohoe, whose 36 goals rank fourth in the ACC, was held to just one goal and one assist in the contest. The Blue Devils secured possession often by winning 15 of 22 draws.

“Maybe we didn’t always finish on our possessions, but we had the ball quite a bit, which was huge for our offense,” Kimel said. “I think you play this game ten times, there’s probably going to be ten one-goal outcomes one way or the other.”

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It was a bittersweet ending of the regular season for No. 3 Duke, as the Blue Devils clinched the ACC title but were defeated in

a road contest Sun-day by Florida State 4-2. The loss ended the team’s quest for an undefeated record in confer-ence play.

Saturday, Duke (20-3, 10-1 in the

ACC) handily beat No. 5 Miami 5-2 in Cor-al Gables to finish the conference with the best ACC record and clinch the No. 1 spot in this weekend’s ACC tournament. The Blue Devils were unable to continue riding the tide, however, and fell to the Seminoles (12-7, 7-4), who came off a 4-2 victory over No. 4 North Carolina Friday.

The Blue Devils took an early lead, win-ning the doubles point, as the Ellah Nze-Ra-

chel Kahan duo won 8-6 and Monica Gorny and Mary Clayton won 8-5. Kahan added an-other point at the No. 5 singles spot, as she finished with a decisive 6-0, 6-2 win.

From there, however, Florida State took over, evening the score with two quick wins over Duke’s No. 1 and No. 4, Nadine Fa-houm and Elizabeth Plotkin, respectively. The Seminoles then pulled through with a three-set victory over No. 2 Nze 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 before finishing the match with yet another three-setter over No. 6 Clayton, 7-6, 6-7, 6-3.

Despite the team’s loss Sunday, Duke saw more solid performances from its younger players, particularly Kahan, who remained undefeated in singles matches for the sea-son and ended with a 23-match win streak.

The Blue Devils are still in a great posi-tion going into this weekend’s tournament after garnering several victories over top-10 teams this season, including Friday’s win against Miami, a 4-3 win over No. 4 North Carolina April 6 and a 5-2 win against then-No. 7 California March 11.

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“We have four doubles teams and two through four at moments have all played really, really well,” Smith said. “It just hasn’t been as consistent as I would have liked. So we’ve just got to keep tweaking things and we’ll certainly be doing a lot of doubles over the next couple of days.”

Despite this early deficit, Duke players across the board stepped up in singles play. They were nearly perfect, with four of the five singles points won in straight sets.

“I was really pleased with the singles to-day,” Smith said. “I thought all six guys did a really great job…. If we had lost this match, it would have been four matches in four days to have to win the [ACC] tournament.”

Mengel and Luke Marchese put the Blue Devils on top early. Fighting back from a 3-0 deficit in the first set, Marchese won four straight games to ultimately take the match in straight sets of 6-4, 6-2. Mengel, with his victory over Waylon Chin 6-2, 6-3, tied the school re-cord for most ACC wins as a freshman.

Carleton’s senior day didn’t end with his doubles victory. After achieving his first 30-win season on Friday against Florida State, Carleton improved it to 31 as he finished Crowley in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4.

“Winning this match means that I get to play another match at home for the NCAA tournament,” Carleton said. “It’s awesome to finish the regular season with a singles, doubles and a team win... and it puts us on the other side of Virginia [in the bracket].”

With their victory over the Hurricanes, the Blue Devils clinched the No. 3 seed in the ACC tournament and a bye in the first round. This win could give Duke the mo-mentum it needs for postseason success.

“We’re confident,” Cunha said. “We’re one of the better teams in this conference, and I think we have a good chance to win this tournament.”

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day but managed to stay above Virginia for second place. Sophomore Lindy Duncan began the day brightly with a front-nine 31, but sputtered after the turn, bogeying four of the final seven holes.

For the rest of the Blue Devils, the opening nine holes were a grind. Sopho-more Stacey Kim, who began the day tied for sixth, bogeyed the first four holes of

the round and suffered a double-bogey on the par-3 7th en route to a final day 80. Kim finished in a tie for 13th along with teammate Kim Donovan. Freshman Laetitia Beck was a stroke behind at 16-over, while Aleja Cangrejo finished in a tie for 19th at 18-over.

Despite failing to capture the ACC Championship for the third straight year, Brooks is confident that his team can still top the leaderboard at some point this year.

“It’s just [one] tournament. We didn’t play well, but we’re going to continue to work hard,” Brooks said. “Carolina had a great tournament and we didn’t. The next time, we’re going to have a great tournament. That’s just the way it goes.”

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Amid the sound and fury of Saturday’s storms, one voice was conspicuously silent. De-spite sheets of rain, hail and a family of destructive torna-does, the DukeALERT sys-tem neglected both to inform students of the weather system’s status and to prepare them for its arrival.

This was not for lack of gravity—this storm was seri-ous business. An estimated eight tornadoes tore through North Carolina Saturday, killing at least 23 people, de-stroying homes and depriving broad swathes of the region of power. The storm killed at least three people in Wake County, which shares a border with Durham County.

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suddenness of the storm ei-ther. The storm system that spawned the tornadoes start-ed in Oklahoma Thursday night before predictably ca-reening into North Carolina

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on the status of the weather and, more importantly, by let-ting students know what to do if the worst does happen.

Updating students on safety protocol is especially important. Many Duke stu-dents come from the east and west coasts of the United States, areas with historically low tornado frequency. Let-ting these students know what to do does more than ensure that they are safe if a tornado occurs—it sets at ease student anxieties about not knowing what to do in case of severe weather.

Saturday had all the right ingredients for high anxiety. The normally footsure Duke wireless network faltered Sat-urday morning and worked sporadically until around 2 p.m. This substantially lim-

ited students’ ability to stay up to date on the weather. Communication through DukeALERT’s text messaging network could have filled this information gap.

Many students stayed abreast of the weather by checking local news chan-nels. But these news channels will become much harder to access next year, when cable service in dorm rooms is dis-continued. If cable is going to be eliminated, the criteria for sending DukeALERT mes-sages will need to expand to make up for lost information.

This expansion is well with-in DukeALERT’s reach. The program currently controls an elaborate communications infrastructure that includes email and text-message notifi-cations, along with a deafen-

ingly loud outdoor warning system. DukeALERT, along with the occasional email from Vice President for Student Af-fairs Larry Moneta, generally keeps students well informed about crime on or near cam-pus and severe weather.

But severe weather must encompass more than impending snow and ice storms. When tornadoes run amok in neighboring coun-ties, students need to be up-dated, even when tornadoes are not touching down on Duke’s campus.

The University should reach out to students affected by the disaster. In the mean-time, DukeALERT needs to update its alert criteria for severe weather. Student safety is at stake, but so is student peace of mind.

This just in: Squirrels lack opposable thumbs for typing and they don’t have enough brain capacity to get into a top

university. That being said, I’m sure that squir-rels can make enough question-ably funny jokes in 12 weeks to last a lifetime. Let me introduce my-self—I am The Gothic Squirrel.

So I’m sure a few are wonder-ing, why choose a squirrel? Well, thanks to some bright-minded sophomore, a Facebook group en-titled “Duke Squirrels” kept pop-ping up in my newsfeed over win-ter break; a minor tweak and my persona was born. Additionally, I’ve always felt it necessary to view situations from a third party’s perspective in or-der to fully understand situations—what better campus figure than a squirrel can serve as my vehicle for discourse?

Before I perpetuate the super sappy senior column tour that will be gracing the backpages, I would like to relegate a bit more of this closure to thank yous. For starters, I’d like to thank my edi-tor for taking away 90 percent of the parentheti-cal statements that were originally in the column (like this one). I’d like to thank all of the people who openly hated on “The Gothic Squirrel” in front of me as their special way of telling me they read my column. I’d like to thank the brothers of the amazing Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity for unknowingly giving me ideas for over half of my columns. I’d like to thank Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia for providing limitless access to squir-rel knowledge. Lastly, I’d like to thank the one online commenter who read the column and dis-liked it every single week; let’s just say insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over (like reading this column) and expecting differ-ent results. If you agree with him and felt this column didn’t meet your humor standards, you can either lower your standards or read Kanye’s tweets. Now, onto the senior retrospection!

Sitting in the Duke University Union office last year, right after I was elected Freewater Pre-sentations chair, I was told by one of the gradu-ating DUU members how much he appreciated his last two years of college. He had finally found his niche, but he lamented the lateness of this realization. Unsurprisingly, I have similar sen-timents now. This is why many of my columns constituted a homeless man’s self-help guide to finding your niche early in your Duke career.

A friend who is a cardiothoracic surgeon once said, “If I knew what it took to get here before I got here, there’s no [procreating] way

that I would done this.” Be it running a DUU committee, being in a frat or writing a senior thesis, this year has presented me with more challenges and time suckers than ever expected.

Sure, I thought I’d sit in the lab, pipette some liquids, call a few peeps up and order some flicks, but I quickly found that was about as easy as writing a pun-free col-umn. This situation prevented me from drinking every night from Thursday to Monday (my hepa-tocytes thank me), but I am 100 percent sure that every idiotic decision I made that added to my stress will be well worth it. Didn’t I say myself that college is about

doing it the wrong way so you’re not a doofus in the real world? Or is it about asking rhetorical questions to my readers?

Which leads me to a not-so-well-known fact—almost every behavior or viewpoint I satirized this year, I did agree with at some point in my Duke career. Yes, at one point I thought BSAI was racist. I used to hate Valentine’s Day. (For the record, now I actually like it.) I used to think service learning was stupid until I actually took the first of my five S.L. courses. I used to hate greek rush... but my viewpoint on that hasn’t changed. We Monday, Monday columnists al-ways uphold our beliefs in spite of public opin-ion (at varying levels of humor).

My one final piece of advice, which will be applying force to a non-living equine: If a senior says something, you might want to listen. We are special because we’ve probably gone through everything you will, except for not having cable, but we’re not so far removed that we can’t still relate. Experience always rules—I’ll guarantee you’ll never enjoy a Scorsese deleted scene; it got cut for a reason.

So through Gothic Squirrel, Einsteinman’s Theories, or simply having a conversation with me, I hope that I have made every one of your Duke careers a little more... interesting. Love my writing or hate my writing, we all love Duke. We’re here to learn a little bit more from those around us—professors, blacks, females, greeks or squirrels. Hopefully I’ve fulfilled the “nerdy Jew” Area of Knowledge and “sarcasm” Mode of Inquiry graduation requirements for each and every one of you.

Eruditio et sciurus.

Gothic Squirrels.... Best in the world. Like “Duke Squirrels” on Facebook for your chance to win prizes (like unpublished columns that aren’t really funny).

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In an email to alumni a year ago, President Richard Brodhead proclaimed that, despite budget cuts that came as a result of the recession, “care was taken to

preserve our core commitment to financial aid, to sus-tain the quality of the student experience and to con-tinue the hiring of outstanding faculty.” In the year since that message, Duke has seen its economic situation improve sub-stantially, leading to the University resum-ing “merit-based pay increases this year,” according to a March 28 email sent to employees. Sizeable deductions and reviv-ing financial markets “put the University’s budget back on a sustainable footing.”

Yet, recent events have shown that Brodhead himself has led Duke away from its “core commitment” to this cam-pus. A year after celebrating the ground-breaking for Duke Kunshan University, an event he equated to the vision and creation of the Sanford School of Public Policy, Brodhead has seen the project in Chi-na suffer multiple setbacks. Professor of German and Eads Family Professor of English Thomas Pfau spoke up about the issue in a letter to the editor April 8, claiming that Duke administrators had once again circumvented faculty counsel. Pfau argues that “much of the growing resistance to the Kunshan adventure... stems from the faculty’s pervasive alienation from, and distrust of, a Uni-versity administration that consistently fails to consult its faculty’s collective expertise.”

An entire week has passed, and no faculty member has openly refuted his statement.

Brodhead’s lack of communication is not just a prod-uct of this initiative. It has become the standard for his presidency at Duke. On April 4, Judge James Beaty al-lowed a claim by 38 members of the 2006 men’s lacrosse team against President Brodhead and members of the administration to proceed. As The Chronicle reported, the claim states that Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek, “who holds a law degree, told them not to hire a lawyer or discuss the case with their families,” creating a “‘rela-tionship of trust’” with the players by promising confi-dentiality and then sharing the information about the incident with Durham police.

This incident was followed by Justin Robinette, for-mer chair of the Duke College Republicans, filing three new complaints “alleging that Duke failed to adequately prevent harassment and discrimination.” Robinette had already filed a complaint with the Department of Educa-tion’s Office of Civil Rights, claiming that Duke discrimi-nated based on sex and race.

In these three instances, Duke’s community needed

answers. Students have the right to be updated, which can be done without jeopardizing current litigation.

In a year during which multiple things have gone wrong, from Tailgate reaching a new level of debauchery to Karen Owen’s PowerPoint, Duke’s campus needs sta-

bility and a strong hand to guide it. Presi-dent Brodhead has disciplined relatively well, responding to students’ wrongdoing by sending an email to us, saying if “fea-tures of student culture... strike you as less than ideal, I urge you to face up to them, speak openly about them, and have the courage to visualize a change.” However, when the administration is being unclear or there is uncertainty among students, the strong hand seems to weaken.

Brodhead’s inability to start a discus-sion about a controversial topic was evi-

dent in his January email to “Duke alumni, parents, and friends” (seriously, Brodhead? My dad had to forward it to me), in which he talked about the surging financial status of the University, increases in applications for the Class of 2015, all of the personal awards Duke students have won this year, Winter Forum and the passing of Pro-fessor Reynolds Price.

Although we need to celebrate student and Universi-ty accomplishments, not once in these communications did Brodhead mention that Duke is building another campus in China. He also neglected to say that admin-istrators estimate $37 million over the next six years will be spent on this campus’s initial operating costs. Passing on this information would seem crucial, given that the lease is only for 10 years (can they kick us out if it’s going well?), and administrators can’t guarantee Web freedom for the campus.

In asking for Richard Brodhead’s resignation, I con-sider what he does say to be so much more important than everything he leaves out. He shouldn’t portray Uni-versity problems, like the potential for limited Internet access at DKU, as opportunities that will “help our stu-dents to learn.” Nor should he be only “fairly certain” that the DKU campus will have unrestricted Internet. The president of a university should never be “fairly cer-tain” about anything that big.

Hopefully it won’t take Brodhead 171 days to apol-ogize and admit his mistakes this time. And maybe he will be kind enough to submit his letter of resignation as well. Duke needs a leader, not simply someone who exhibits all the bad qualities of one.

Antonio Segalini is a Trinity sophomore. This is his final column of the semester.

I’m kind of awesome. I’m a genius. I’m a Duke student. I once dueled Kyle Singler in a theater studies class—and won. I got out of pre-med before it became uncool.

I ate at the Jamaican food stand before it was replaced by The Greek Devil. I found a way to use the “obvious troll is obvious” meme in one of my columns. Samuel L. Jack-son took acting lessons from me. I shot the sheriff, and, for that matter, I also remem-bered to shoot the deputy. I started with nothing, and now I have everything. I am a self-made man.

Joking aside, I have to remember that it’s not just my work alone that’s earning this success. Yes, I work hard (and play hard). Yes, I have good genes (and better jeans). Yes, the sweat of my brow is fragrant. (It smells like victory.) But I’ve also been the beneficiary of many blessings.

I am, in many ways, an exceptional case, as described by Malcolm Gladwell in his book “Outliers.” While I would like to believe that I am an innately talented ge-nius, the combination of circumstances that propelled me to where I am is truly extraordinary. Let me share just two examples of the special circumstances from which I benefited.

The first such circumstance was my father’s interna-tional business trips in Asia. As a young child, I would eagerly await his return because he would always bring new games for our family PC. Now, my father never knew much about these little discs (especially when they were labeled in Mandarin), but he knew they were all edu-cational, child-friendly products: “Magic School Bus,” “Red Alert,” “Math Blaster,” “Fallout,”“Mechwarrior 2,” “Reader Rabbit”, “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six” and many, many more. He trusted me enough at the tender age of six to let me figure out how to install and run them on our family computer. Over the years, I spent hundreds of hours getting them to all work, tweaking settings, reading manuals and learning the ins and outs of how computers work. This served me well when I grew older: I have both the confidence and the experience to embrace and un-derstand new or unknown technology.

The second example was my mother’s insistence that I attend the local high school that was farthest from our house and, consequently, farthest outside my comfort zone. Instead of going to the local public school where I had at least some connections and neighbors as class-mates, I went to an all-boys school. (And trust me, as an incoming freshman there’s nothing more intimidating.) The school, run by Catholics (specifically, their psychic, government-toppling secret agents, the Jesuits), was lo-cated on the opposite side of town, literally on the other side of the railroad tracks, which I crossed over each day on my morning commute. However, over the four years that I attended the school, I rubbed shoulders with a sig-nificant number of people who were extremely different than I was, and I learned to reach common ground with people who didn’t think or act like me, something that helped me to build stronger and more diverse relation-ships when I got to college.

My greatest gifts are not material (though I am in the top 1 percent of the world in that regard) but rather, per-sonal. I could write a book full of examples similar to the two above about how people have put me in a position to succeed: the Focus professor who took me under his wing, the improv group at UNC that took a chance on a lost Robertson scholar, the summer job boss who stayed up until 2:00 a.m. to help me finish a project... the list goes on and on.

In America and at Duke, the idea of the self-made man or woman is a dangerous myth that leads us to over-cele-brate individuals who accomplish great things and also to demonize those who don’t as “lazy” or “untalented” with-out regard for individual circumstances or the contribu-tions of others. As I prepare to exit Duke with a boatload of great memories and achievements, I hope that I can remember not just that I reached for the stars but that I stood on the shoulders of others to do so. And maybe someday, I can lend a shoulder for someone else to reach even higher.

Harrison Lee is a Trinity senior. This is his final column.

On the shoulders of giants

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I found that it was a very good way to com-municate experience.... So I always wrote fiction and it was just a wonderful discovery along the way that I could actually let other people read it and make a living at it.

TC: In your speech you discussed five ecological principles that you deal with in your novel “Prodigal Summer.” So would you say you were writing with a moral?

BK: It’s not a moral. Science, as a matter of fact, is completely amoral if you think about it. I just wanted to write about these things that are. Natural selection isn’t a moral choice; it’s a fact, it’s an organizing principle and same with those other prin-ciples I talked about. And it just amazes me that so few people understand them. So I wanted to use them as setting and ma-terial the way other novelists might want to write about Hungary during World War II or something like that... that’s what I do with scientific material.

TC: The environment plays a fairly cen-tral role in many of your stories and in the development of your characters. Do you look at the environment as a character in its own right?

BK: I guess I would say I look at environ-ment as a setting. Which it is [laughing]. It’s funny, it doesn’t seem difficult to me to use the environment as a setting. I simply don’t ignore it the way many writers do.

TC: How do you think art most effectively communicates scientific ideas?

BK: By being extremely readable.... When I studied these things in graduate school, my professor spoke mostly in math-ematics.... So I thought it would be an in-teresting challenge to try to express these ideas that are always discussed in mathemat-ics, to translate into the English language.... In order to translate from one language to

another, you have to understand both lan-guages extremely well. So that’s the chal-lenge, and that’s the work and that’s the fun.

TC: And your new book deals with cli-mate change, but trying to understand the human feelings behind that?

BK: It’s about why people presented with the same evidence believe many different things.

TC: And do you hope that this book will offer some new evidence that might change people’s minds?

BK: Oh, no, it’s really a book about why people make the decisions they do. And it’s still not half-finished, so there’s a lot about this book I don’t know.

TC: You and your family live on a farm, how does your farming lifestyle influence your writing process?

BK: It keeps me healthy. At the end of the day of being a desk potato, I get outside and I pull weeds and move sheep in the pasture. Instead of going to the gym, I get a workout right there at home.

TC: Many of your characters are farmers as well.

BK: They often are. I think it’s good ma-terial that’s often overlooked. Our fiction is increasingly urban, but a lot of people don’t live in cities. You know, Thomas Hardy wrote about farmers. It’s time someone else did.

TC: Do you have any advice for young artists who want to take on scientific themes?

BK: Well I try to avoid giving ad-vice, because no one ever will follow it, [laughing] but I do think there is an enormous need for writers who under-stand science well: journalists, artists, poets, fiction writers. I think if a person wanted to do that, it would make sense to study science while reading a lot of poetry and fiction of the type that you wish you had written yourself.

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One of the primary challenges for the study was the variability of historical data for all the different survey areas.

“Some beaches had been surveyed for ten or fifteen years, some had been sur-veyed for only five, and some had been sur-veyed for 30 years,” Stewart said. “We had to figure out a way to incorporate beaches that had only been surveyed for a few years as well as those beaches that had been sur-veyed for a long time.”

Over the last several years, there had been an influx of unofficial reports say-ing that the leatherback turtles were re-turning to the Sunshine State.

“People were seeing [leatherback tur-tles] more and more, but nobody had done the analysis to say, ‘are they are coming back?’” said Larry Crowder, director of the Duke Center for Marine Conservation.

These results also show that conservation efforts over the years, especially those initi-ated by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conser-vation Commission, have been effective. The commission strictly monitored direct contact and habitats for the marine turtles.

Conservation efforts have also had pos-itive effects on other species of turtles be-sides the leatherback. Stewart said green turtles, another endangered sea turtle known to nest on Florida’s beaches, are also growing in number.

The increase in leatherback turtles serves as encouraging news for marine conservationists, considering there are already a large number of animals on the endangered species list.

“It is good news [to hear that] not all of the endangered species [and] not all of the endangered turtles are plummet-ing to extinction,” Crowder said. “Some of them are actually coming back.”

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storms throughout the weekend with the majority of severe weather occur-ring on Saturday.

Students experienced wavering In-ternet access and some dormitories flooded, said Dean of Students Sue Wa-siolek.

Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for resi-dential life, said damage reports from flooded dormitories, including Craven Quadrangle, have been submitted to Residence Life and Housing Services.

Some students noticed the lack of In-ternet available after the storm. Stephen O’Donnell, senior communications strategist for the Office of Information Technology, wrote in an email that OIT is trying to make sure Duke’s networks are prepared for future weather events.

“We continue to investigate the root cause of the severely degraded network performance on Saturday,” O’Donnell wrote. “Because of the severity of the degradation and the fact that it oc-curred simultaneously with the severe weather event, we are taking time to in-vestigate before announcing a final root cause.”

Freshman Ashley Lewis said she was frustrated by the lack of Internet access. She added that once she got connected to the Internet, her connection was still much slower than usual.

“I lost Internet access for a while and it threw me off for a little bit,” Lewis said. “I had research to do for a presen-tation but I ultimately just connected to the Duke visitor network and was able to access the Internet. That worked, and it was all good after that. Now I’m just hoping that others affected by the storms will be OK.”

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