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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2012
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Trojan: Duke needs to up its game Fodil is on When it comes to sexual health, Duke is not on top. See ‘health,’ page 7
students’ speed dial by Linda Yu THE CHRONICLE
To a certain set of Duke students, there is a number programmed in their phones they call as regularly as their own mothers. The number belongs to Fodil Mahjoubi, a cab driver who is as famous among late night revelers as the Crazy Towel Guy is among Duke sports fans. “I know that. Everybody told me that—thank you God,” he said with a bright Fodil Mahjoubi smile when The Chronicle joined him for a ride on Saturday night. Born in Algeria, Fodil has been a cabbie for almost six years. He speaks French, Arabic and Norwegian fluently, but when he first came to the States he spoke little English, though he has since improved. Fodil has the smile of a former heartbreaker, though he is currently single. “I’m looking,” he said. “I told you I’m picky, girl.” He said that when he was younger he was a little bit wilder. “I drink, sex, lotta things. This not good. I want to do some stuff good, so that God he can forgive me. It’s a like a scale, a balance,” PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY JISOO YOON
In condom manufacturer Trojan’s sexual health rankings, Duke ranks 41st among colleges nationally, a jump up from its previous spot at 50th.
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End-of-life care varies Gender pay gap persists for grads BYTHENUMBERS among med schools by Tiffany Lieu THE CHRONICLE
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Medical students should consider hospitals’ end-of-life care when applying to residency programs, according to a recent study. A recent report issued by the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care shows teaching hospitals throughout the country have major differences in their end-of-life care policies, which is the treatment given to patients suffering from terminal or incurable diseases. The differences may stem from the variation in institutional policies at different hospitals. Using data collected from Medicare, researchers compared the care statistics for 23 highly ranked teaching hospitals,
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including the Duke University Medical Center. The study suggests that such data on the effectiveness of hospital care ought to be more widely available to students deciding between residency programs. To compare the overall treatment of chronically ill patients, the report calculated a hospital care intensity index that combined the average number of days these patients spent in the hospital in the last two years of their life and the average number of physician visits in the same period. Duke performed below the national average on this index: Patients near the end of life at Cedars-Sinai Medical SEE HOSPITALS ON PAGE 6
7,600 dollars
the amount that men are paid more than women in their first year out of college
82 percent how much of a dollar a female earns compared to her male counterpart
35k, 43k dollars
how much women and men earn on average, respectively, in their first year out of college
College-educated women with similar degrees, jobs and hours worked may bring home thousands of dollars less than their male colleagues. A year after graduating from college, women are paid only 82 percent of what their male counterparts earn, according to a report published by the American Association of University Women. Even when controlling for differences in college major, amount of hours worked and types of jobs held, women, based on 2009 data, still made on average $7,600 less than their male colleagues, particularly in sales occupations, education and business and management. The pay gap suggests that, though gender equity in the workforce has improved, there remains
much work to be done, said Catherine Hill, co-author of the report and the director of research at AAUW. The pay gap could have significant effects on Duke students preparing to enter the workforce. “It reminds us that this is not just a question of people’s choices—you can’t choose to not experience the pay gap,” she said. The report noted that the pay gap can be partly tied to differences in occupational choices between men and women after graduating The report, which measured how much men and women earn in their first year after graduation, marks a slight reduction in the gender pay gap since 2001, when women made 80 percent of what their male peers earned, according to a similar study from the SEE GAP ON PAGE 6
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“Today, as our nation reflects on the service and sacrifices of our veterans, I am reminded of how nurses are part of... a community with a strong connection to the military.....” —Nursing School Dean Catherine GIllis in ‘Nurses and veteran care,’ online only.
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Humanities ‘go viral’ in new class by Michelle Menchaca THE CHRONICLE
A new course this Spring will use student input to drive the curriculum. Humanities on Demand: Narratives go Viral is a new class that aims to use student input to form the syllabus. The first of its kind, the pilot course is set to open for the Spring 2013 term. Michael Ryan, visiting assistant professor of German studies and the program in literature, and Jakob Norberg, assistant professor of German studies, are co-directors of the program. The program is sponsored by Humanities Writ Large, a five-year initiative aimed at transforming the role of the humanities in the undergraduate experience. “The goal of Humanities on Demand is to reconfigure traditional curriculum design as an open network of critical inquiry that includes students,� Ryan said. Unlike most classes where the material is determined entirely by the instructor, the program aims to give students a voice by allowing them to choose what is included in the syllabus. Students submit narratives onto the course website, which, if chosen, then drive class discussion. The professor will then
introduce a mode of analysis for the content, such as a theory of media or historical analysis, with which to explore the content. The website posts must fit with the theme of “going viral� and can come in both multimedia and traditional forms, such as YouTube videos, blogs, books and songs, among others. Students use their narratives to define in their own words what going viral means in order to explore different topics, such as why certain forms of media are distributed more in some cultures over others. One post asks, “How did Harry Potter become such a global sensation? What about it made it so appealing to readers of all ages?� Another poster asked, “How does negative feedback for Rebecca Black’s Friday video illustrate cyber bullying? What does it say about teenagers today? Is it easier to share our true feelings about a person or song behind a computer screen?� Over 200 narrative submissions have been posted so far. Benedikt Bscher, a sophomore on the Humanities on Demand Advisory committee, commended the positive reception students have had to the class structure.
“People are actually enthusiastic about it‌. It has been spreading throughout the Duke Community,â€? Bscher said. Sophomore Caroline Herrmann was one of the first students to post a narrative on the course website. She focused on memes and the emergence of meme culture. Herrmann said she was motivated to submit the narrative because she views Humanities on Demand as an innovative way to meet students’ needs. She noted that the structure and material of traditional Duke courses have sometimes left her disappointed, and that the student input promoted by Humanities on Demand can help keep students engaged in a class. The course Narratives go Viral is currently available on ACES for the Spring semester, cross-listed in the cultural anthropology, German, literature and religion departments. The submissions received so far indicate that the pilot class will respond to student’s interests by using targeted theoretical models, Ryan said. “I hope [students] will emerge from the class with a new appreciation for the dynamic nature of humanistic inquiry,â€? Ryan said.
Viral Humanities posts — When Charlie Sheen was filmed during a hypomanic episode, his rantings not only went viral, it became part of colloquial speech. It bring up the interesting question, why are we so attracted to others sufferings and why do we enjoy watching erratic behavior? — How has Facebook changed our culture and the way people socialize? How? Is the rise of Facebook a good thing or a bad thing? — Why is it that the rise as well as the fall of sporting greats such as Tiger Woods or more recently Lance Armstrong is always sure to get people talking i.e. result in a viral narrative?
GOP America rethinks its image of the country by Eli Saslow THE WASHINGTON POST
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The town square of Gallatin, Tenn. Gallatin is the county seat of an area that votes dependably Republican.
HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. — She arrived early to take apart the campaign office piece by piece, just as she felt so many other things about her life were being dismantled. Beth Cox wore a Mitt Romney T-shirt, a cross around her neck and fresh eyeliner, even though she had been crying on and off and knew her makeup was likely to run. Her calendar read “Victory Day!!� and she had planned to celebrate in the office by hosting a dance party and selling Romney souvenirs. But instead she was packing those souvenirs into boxes, which would be donated to a charity that sent clothes to South America. Instead, a moving company was en route to close down the office in the next 48 hours, and her friends were calling every few minutes to see how she was doing. “I will be OK,� she told one caller. “I just don’t think we will be OK.� Here in the heart of Red America, Cox and many others spent last week grieving not only for themselves and their candidate but also for a country they now believe has gone wildly off track. The days after Barack Obama’s reelection gave birth to a saying in central Tennessee: Once was a slip, but twice is a sign.
If, as Obama likes to say, the country has decided to “move forward,� it has also decided to move further away from the values and beliefs of a state where Romney won 60 percent of the vote, a county where he won 70 percent and a town where he won nearly 80. Among so many Romney voters, perhaps none had been as devoted to the cause — as indefatigable, as confident, as prayerful — as 44-year-old Beth Cox, a member of the school board and a volunteer who had committed to Romney early in the Republican primaries. She had run the small GOP campaign headquarters in Sumner County by herself for six days a week during the past four months. She had been the first in line to vote on the first day of early voting. Now it was left to her to clean up the aftermath. She stood next to a space heater in a small building in the exurbs of Nashville, taking inventory of what supplies they had left and packing up boxes of red-white-and-blue streamers. She put away the pink Romney shirts, the white RomneyRyan hats and the GOP bumper stickers with the Tennessee logo. Down came the sign reading “We Built It!� Down came the elephant flag and the George W. Bush commemorative emblem. Down came the signed picture of Romney with a SEE GOP ON PAGE 5
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Hundreds of students came together this weekend to put on Duke Diya’s annual South Asian spectacular—Awaaz. As the largest student-run production each year,, the show features many of Duke’s most popular performers. 1. Dhoom performs their Bollywood rendition of the Mario video games. 2. Daal Bhaat Shaak Raas presents a traditional Indian dance. 3. Dhamaka combines bhangra dance and acrobatics in its act-ending number. 4. Duke Chinese Dance puts a South Asian twist on their East Asian performance. 5. Irish dance group Rhince Diabhal crosses continents in its show. 6. Hundreds of members of the Class of 2013 take the stage for the annual senior bhangra number.
LEARNING to LISTEN:
EMPATHY in LITERATURE and MEDICINE What is empathy? A precious human quality? A necessary component of healing? A teachable skill? Can reading great stories or poems help medical and pre-med students develop it? These workshops will explore how empathy is valued, measured and employed by literature and medicine and what these two disciplines might learn from each other.
Next Workshop Tuesday November 13th, 5-7 PM, Soc Sci 107 Open to all: undergraduate and medical or other grad students, and interested faculty. Please join us November 13th, 2012 Final workshop on December 4. Light Dinner, drinks and dessert will be provided. For more information, see http://sites.duke.edu/learningtolisten/ or email learningtolisten@duke.edu.
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COULD C O U L D YOU YO U B BE E A STUDENT S T U D E N T DIR D I R ECTOR? E C TO R ? The Duke Colloquium is looking for students to help organize and lead two public forums with visiting scholar Jessica Jackley. This series will take place on Thursday, February 7, 2013.
Desirable personal qualities include: s enjoyment and ease in a public setting s ABILITY AND WILLINGNESS TO devote time to thoughtful advance preparation s INTERESTS THAT RELATE TO social entrepreneurship. For more information on The Duke Colloquium, the application requirements and process, and prior Student Directors, please visit our website at: http://colloquium.duke.edu/ Or contact the Program Director, Karen Lindia at: karen.lindia@duke.edu
Jessica Jackley is a founder and former Chief Marketing Officer of KIVA, the world’s first peerto-peer microlending website. The mission of the Duke Colloquium (TDC) is to inspire professionals of the future for enduring leadership and service through the integration of human values into their chosen professions, with a broad and deep understanding of the choices before them in becoming truly productive members of a global society.
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FODIL from page 1 he said. His religious beliefs ultimately convinced him to settle down, thus starting his down the path to becoming the cab driver Duke students revere. His clients, almost exclusively Duke students, love him. They make him CDs, and the front window of his van is filled with decorations that students have given him. Currently, a layer of decorative pink cotton lines his dashboard, Valentine’s Day-themed stickers pepper his window and two skulls in top hats hang from his rearview mirror. Come the weekend—and even some weekdays—the calls start rolling in. “At the nighttime, I’m so busy, especially on the weekend,” he said. Fodil, who owns the van he drives, usually works with Durham shuttle service Charlene’s Safe Ride during the day when he waits from 11:30 a.m. for calls from the dispatcher. On a Friday or Saturday night, though, Fodil gets calls directly from students looking for a lift. That night, he gave six or seven rides in an hour, while having to pass up several others. “When I get call, I go,” he said. At around 10:50 p.m. he picked up two girls from a house off campus. The girls sing along to the Taylor Swift song blasting from the stereo, while Fodil bobbed along. “Call me, don’t lose my number,” he said to the girls after he
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dropped them off at an apartment complex. Fodil, who has almost 100 numbers in his phone, programs in the names of repeat customers. One of them calls him now, the name “Justine” flashing on the screen of his android mobile and he turns down the music to answer. “Hello, Justine,” he answered. “Fodil, can you get me from K4?” said Justine Hong, a senior, on the other end of the call. “Yes, baby, only for you,” he replied. Hong asked him to wait 15 or 20 minutes before coming to get her. He complained goodnaturedly, “Sometimes they call me and I say 10 or 15 and they say, ‘10 or 15? Oh no, no way.’ But when I say, ‘I’m here.’ They say, ‘Can you come in 10 or 20 minutes?’ He does not wait for everyone, but he is willing to wait for Hong. “This one, she’s my favorite too, I love her. I can’t believe, I thought she junior, and she told me senior,” he said. “I hate that, when they told me they’re senior. I like when they say sophomore or freshman—I feel like I’m sitting with them for years.” And he has driven many of these students—some for two to three years. Some are devoutly loyal to him, like the lacrosse player who refuses to ride with any other cabbie. “I can’t believe it,” he said. “Very cold outside, she wait for me. I love her. I took her and she give me twenty, and other cab took her only ten and she don’t want to go.” In the meantime, he gets a call from Natasha Kirtchuk, a junior who has ridden with Fodil all three
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Durham cab driver Fodil Mahjoubi, originally from Algeria, is many students’ favorite weekend chauffeur. of her years at Duke, and four of her friends. “He’s the most trustworthy cab driver, he’s a very good person, and very welcoming. He’s definitely who you want to be riding with,” Kirtchuk said. “He’s the only one I call.” She added that Fodil has good taste in music, noting that he plays the Spice Girls. At this, Fodil changed the CD and a minute later “Wannabe” blasted from the stereo and all the girls stopped their conversations to belt out the lyrics. After he dropped Kirtchuk off, he swung to K4 to pick up Hong and her friends, whom he drops off at the Blue Corn Cafe. “Um, Fodil loves me,” Hong said. “He’s the type of person you rely on. Whenever you call him, he actually comes.” Most of Fodil’s regular custom-
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ers are girls, which he prefers. They may not tip as well as boys, but they are reliable, he said, unlike boys, who often get in fights and run away without paying the fare. “They open the door and they run away,” he said. “What do I do?” That is also why at night he only works with clients who call him directly instead of with Charlene’s. Since Fodil drives a shuttle, his minimum charge is $8 for a short ride and $2 a person for groups exceeding four people. “Somewhere far away 25, airport 30, it depends,” he said. “I know the price.” He also often gives regular customers discounts and students usually ride in large groups, though his general maximum is eight. “It’s good to put more [people in the car] because [they pay] $2 each, but then it’s not good for the
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car. When you put more, it’s not good for transmission,” he said. Despite often being friends with the students he drives, they are ultimately paying clients, which sometimes complicates Fodil’s relationships with them. There was always that one person who did not pay up, and multiple times on the trip the wad of bills came up short. But he let it go. “Sometimes I’m too shy to tell them,” Fodil said. Usually, this only causes him to lose $2 or $4 a ride, but his generosity caught up to him in a big way later that night when he received a call from a young man who asked him to come to a house in Durham. He debated whether to answer the call. “He’s far away, I don’t want to go there. I lose, if I get too many calls,” he said. “I want to make everybody happy, but some of them they call and I’m busy and they no like it. Come on! You think I’m your neighbor?” In the end, he drove down after the student promised him $3 a person for fare. Fodil arrived expecting six passengers, and instead ten piled in. “Are you jammin’?” one of the boys asked Fodil, who was bobbing to the music. When they arrived at Shooters II, the group ran for the club’s entrance without paying Fodil, and the student who originally called Fodil was unwilling to front for all his friends. What was supposed to be a $30 fare evaporated into $10. “Stop, stop. That’s so rude. Stop being cheap and just give him the money. It’s his f—ing job,” a young
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woman waiting outside the cab berated the student. “It’s fine, fine,” Fodil said as the younger man left. “What a piece of sh—,” said the newcomer, a brunette who was also one of Fodil’s regulars. “This one, he looked like such a nice guy. He play football,” Fodil replied. “You shouldn’t say OK,” she said vehemently. “If he plays football, who cares.” “I went to almost Southpoint to pick him up, and he won’t pay me,” Fodil said. “You say, ‘No, it’s not fine.’ Fodil, you need to know that,” she said. “That guy was an a—hole, he had plenty of money in his wallet. I saw it.” But when Fodil dropped her off at an apartment, she only gave him $5, though his minimum is $8. Usually Fodil drives until 4 a.m. He picks up people from dorms, apartment complexes and fraternity houses. The end destination is often Shooters, as it was for Katie Weidman and her friends. When the car rolled up to Shooters, the girls cheered, “No line! No line!” “But that could be a bad sign,” one of them deadpanned. Fodil himself is no Shooters virgin. “You know every time when school starts, they invite me to Shooters,” Fodil said. “One time, they push me to cage.” Just then, another customer called him. “Don’t worry sweetie,” he said. “I’ll be there in a few minutes.”
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GOP from page 2 typed inscription that read “This is a great time to be a Republican.” But now Cox was wondering: Was it? Now, in a single election night, parts of her country had legalized marijuana, approved gay marriage and resoundingly reelected a president who she worried would “accelerate our decline.”
While she took apart the office, a dozen friends and neighbors stopped by to share the same concerns. “I just don’t get it,” the county sheriff said. “I’m worried we won’t see another Republican president in our lifetime the way it’s going,” a GOP volunteer said. “What country would want more years of this?” asked the newly elected alderman. Cox turned on her computer
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Members of the Duke community take a beginners swing dance lesson at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens Saturday night.
and pulled up an electoral map that she had filled out a few days before the election. She had predicted the outcome twice — once coming up with a narrow Romney win and once more with a blowout. Florida: red. Colorado: red. Virginia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin: all red. Everything in her version of America had confirmed her predictions: the confident anchors on Fox News; the Republican pollsters so sure of their data; the two-hour line outside her voting precinct, where Romney supporters hugged and honked for her handmade signs during a celebration that lasted until the results started coming in after sundown. Romney’s thorough defeat had come more as a shock than as a disappointment, and now Cox stared at the actual results on her computer and tried to imagine what the majority of her country believed. “Virginia went blue? Really?” she said. “Southern-values Virginia?” “And Colorado? Who the heck is living in Colorado? Do they want drugs, dependency, indulgence? Don’t they remember what this country is about?” It was a country she had thought she knew. “I am not naive. I’m not ignorant,” Cox said. She had graduated from the University of Kentucky and lived for a few years in California before moving to raise her family in Tennessee. But suddenly the map on her computer depicted a divided country she
could barely recognize. She blamed some of the divisiveness on Republicans. The party had gotten “way too white,” she said, and she hoped it would never again run a presidential ticket without including a woman or a minority. The tea party was an extremist movement that needed to be “neutralized,” she said, and Romney’s campaign had suffered irreparable damage when highprofile Republicans spoke about “crazy immigration talk and legitimate rape.” But many other aspects of the division seemed fundamental and harder to solve. There was the America of increased secularism that legalized marijuana. And there was her America, where her two teenage daughters are not allowed to read “Harry Potter” or “Twilight,” and where one of them wrote in a school paper: “God is the center and the main foundation of my family.” There was the America of gay marriage and the America of her Southern Baptist church, where 7,000 came to listen on Sundays, and where church literature described marriage as “the uniting of one man and one woman.” She could sense liberalism creeping closer, and she worried about what Red America would look like after four more years. Some of her friends had begun to wonder if the country was lost and if only God could save it. She closed her computer. “God put us in the desert,” she said. “We are in the desert right now.”
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GAP from page 1 AAUW in 2007. Still, women working full time on average earned $35,296 in the first year while men earned $42,918. “We have made a lot of gains, and that’s something people don’t talk enough about. But we have further to go,” she said. The researchers were surprised that the pay gap begins the first year after graduation, especially since many people believe that society has outgrown such discrepancies, Hill said. The pay difference is particularly revealing in a young demographic, where the graduates have the same four-year education qualifications, have not yet started families and are otherwise unencumbered by extra obligations. Sophomore Jackie Dobbies, an intern at the Women’s Center, said both men and women have become complacent with the pay discrepancy. According to the report, women in sales occupations are paid 77 percent of what their male counterparts are paid, 86 percent in business and management and 87 percent in other white-collar occupations.
The pay gap is particularly telling in pre-K-12 education. Although 79 percent of teachers are women, female teachers are paid on average $33,434 whereas their male colleagues earn $37,579—an 11 percent discrepancy. Such a pay gap is difficult to explain, especially when most teachers work under contracts that are standardized, Hill said. In North Carolina, for example, teacher salary is determined by a general pay scale that is gender-neutral, noted Alex Lemay, an eighth grade science teacher at the Durham School of the Arts. The discussion among North Carolina teachers, she added, focuses more on low pay across the board rather than gender inequities. The lower wages reflect a larger pattern in which occupational fields dominated by women, like education and nursing, generally tend to have lower salaries, Hill said. Lemay offered several factors that may contribute to gender-based pay differences despite the standardized pay scale. For example, teachers can supplement their annual salary by taking on extra positions, such as coaching a sports team or advising the yearbook committee. There are generally more male teachers in high school
than in elementary school, but this does not reflect gender discrimination, Lemay said. “It is a gender bias simply by choice,” she said. “If you go to any teacher education colleges, women are signing up to teach in the lower elementary years where there is traditionally more nurturing.” Donna Lisker, associate dean of undergraduate education and co-director of the Baldwin Scholars program, also pointed to differences in occupational choices in explaining the pay gap—that is, women are over-represented in “caring” professions that tend to pay less, such as nursing or early childhood education. Lisker also noted in an email Sunday that in professions where employers determine salaries, men are more likely than women to negotiate their initial offer. “Women are somewhat more reticent, more hesitant to negotiate than men,” Hill added. “Negotiation is something that if women don’t do it carefully, it can backfire.” She added that women who negotiate their salaries could actually be penalized if their behavior is perceived to be too masculine. But such explanations fail to address the root of the problem, Dobbies said. Attributing the gender pay gap to disproportionate negotiation sidesteps the larger issue of gender biases. “It’s a Band-Aid to the real problem, which is gender discrimination in the workforce and society,” she said. Moving forward, discrimination will pose a significant challenge to combatting the pay gap, Hill said, especially since many do not realize they have prejudices. She added that eliminating the pay gap will require legal remedies, increased awareness on the part of individuals and federal action, like the Equal Pay Act, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary this June. “It takes a lot of education—to employers about pay equity, to women about negotiation and to society at large about not devaluing the caring professions,” Lisker said.
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Center in Los Angeles saw physicians more than twice as frequently as those receiving care at Duke’s medical center. “Choosing where you go to do your residency after medical school is a major decision in your life, and the more information that you can have to make that decision the better,” said Alicia True, a second-year student at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and co-author of the study. “Being aware of practice patterns in places that you’re applying is pretty important.” But such information is not always easily accessible, or given the weight that some believe it deserves, said Dr. David Goodman, professor of pediatrics at the Geisel School. “Intensity of care is not a marker of reputation or the breadth of research being done or the array of tertiary services that are available at a hospital,” Goodman said. “The problem is that medical students have very little information, generally, about the quality of the program or the type of care provided by the hospital. There’s not much out there, and there’s not a lot of incentive for teaching hospitals to pull back the veil that hides the important differences between them.” Of course, not all such statistics can be purely quantitative. Patient satisfaction rates only generally correlate with empirically determined quality of care statistics, and different rationales may exist for different kinds of treatment and care, said Dr. Anthony Galanos, director of palliative care at Duke University Hospital. “We generally want to do stuff for you, not to you,” Gallanos said in regards to end-of-life care. According to the study, this offers one possible explanation for such variance in percent of deaths occurring in hospitals, which ranges from a national high of 44.8 percent at Cedars-Sinai to lower values such as Duke’s 30.7 percent for terminal patients. “People generally prefer to spend their last days at home or in a comfortable setting that is not like a hospital bed,” Gallanos said, adding that Duke is fortunate to have its own hospice for end-of-life care. The report provides more information than was already available to recent medical school graduates, but there are many variables and rationales behind the statistics that are currently unaccounted for. Goodman noted that there is still much to be done in the field. “This is an effort in the direction of improving the kind of information that [prospective residents] have. What we need in the future is a fuller set of metrics that are developed to more completely characterize training programs at teaching hospitals so that decision-making of medical students can improve further,” he said.
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When it comes to sexual health, Duke is not on top. Duke ranked 41st in condom manufacturer Trojan’s 2012 Sexual Health Report Card—an annual study that has ranked campuses for seven years running based on their access to sexual health resources and information. Although this is an improvement from last year’s rank of 50th, the University’s current placement shows a steep decline from previous years, when Duke ranked 29th in 2010 and 10th in 2009. The study, conducted by independent research firm Sperling’s BestPlaces, aims to use the rankings as a way to point out the state of sexual health on each college campus. The study looked at 141 universities’ student health centers and ranked each school based on their services, such as hours of operation, contraceptive availability and sexual assault programs, among others. “One thing we’ve found that [Duke] is lacking is the amount of programs, initiatives and types of outreach programs that are being put on by the student health sector and peer groups to bring awareness to the student population,” said Bert Sperling, lead researcher of the study. Sperling said each student health center is asked to fill out a two-page questionnaire and are then evaluated on how well they
do in each category. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign took first place, Brown University took second and Columbia University came in third this year. Duke is doing well across the board in providing basic sexual health services, but a lack of programming for campus-wide dialogue placed Duke lower in the overall ranking, Sperling noted. He added that as schools become better at providing sexual health information and resources, the researchers are forced to look at the tiny differences that set apart each university. “There are lots of other schools doing a great job and the difficulty is that Duke is doing a great job, as well,” he said. “As the schools get better, the differences become smaller, and it comes down to the fine parts.” One program that sets some colleges apart from others in the study is a sex column in the student newspaper, which Duke currently lacks. Sperling noted that there are a lot of misconceptions about sex and relationships, and a weekly column allows students to figure out “what it all means.” Oregon State University, which was ranked 10th this year, has a sex column written by a faculty member under the name Dr. Sex. Sperling said it is a facet of the school that students find very useful. Duke should also put on more outreach programs, like the “Let’s Talk About Sex” program that Duke currently offers, in order to improve the availability of information and resources on campus,
Sperling said. “There weren’t many of these programs compared to what we’ve seen at other schools,” he said. Maralis Mercado, program coordinator at the Duke Student Wellness Center, noted that although the center has not changed a lot of what they have done to administer sexual health information and resources over the years, wellness center members are trying to increase their presence on campus. She added that Duke rising from 50th to 41st in the past year indicates the center’s efforts are “headed in the right direction.” “We need to get more information on what students want and need regarding sexual health,” Mercado wrote in an email Wednesday. “The more information we have, the better able we are to serve the entire Duke community.” Freshman Rebecca Ponce de Leon said she feels information and resources are available, but they are not “in your face” all the time. “If it were more in the public eye, it wouldn’t matter because if you needed it, you would know where to get it,” she said. Junior Natasha Anasi said the University should post more visual reminders, like posters, with information about sex on campus. DUWELL does offer events on sexual health issues, but these outreach programs are not usually focused on a set topic, Mercado said. “We offer information, events and training on sexual and reproductive health that can be tailored and are based on student request,” she noted. “Many of our programs
have been broad so all are able to attend and acquire the resources they are looking for.” Mercado added that she would like to see Duke’s ranking improve, which is part of the strategic plan of the Sexual Health Advisory Committee, which was created this year. SHAC will consist of representatives from the DUWELL, the Women’s Center, Counseling and Psychological Services, the Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender life, Student Health and Housing, Dining and Residence Life. Representatives of SHAC will come together to assess and address
issues relating to sexual and reproductive health, which includes discussion about sexual and non-sexual relationships, sexual assault and consent, among other topics. Regardless of the rankings, the study’s main intent is to start a dialogue on campus about making healthy sexual choices, said Esther Walsh, a representative from Trojan. “Our goal is to spark dialogue and inspire change,” she said. “It’s about keeping action, encouraging conversation and not shying away from the topic and sweeping it under the rug.”
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s you might imagine, the events that have immigration reform, which is splendid to learn. I transpired in government this week have left think I understand Hispanics well enough to reach me a nearly broken man. Not only did my old out to them. pal Davey Boy Petraeus take his job title as head of I know, some naysayers must be thinking, the CIA a tad too literally (in case you “Grumpy Trustee, you’re probably missed my attempt at levity there, the about to go on a rant about how sentence is humorous because “head” your Puerto Rican gardener Juan has multiple meanings. … I find mytaught you something about his ethself rather amusing), but there was nicity, or something like that.” That the whole bit of socialist nastiness that is, of course, ridiculous: I have no occurred on Tuesday. I must admit idea what type of Mexican Jose is, that I was so upset that my Asian Assisnor have I ever had a conversation tant Feng Guan had to sedate me, uswith him. ing an old oriental remedy that oddly I do, however, have tremendous resembled cannabis. experience with those of Spanish Yet since I spent all of last week origin: Two of my greatest business rambling about the lack of goings-on partners were Sr. Franco and Sr. Piat this University, I figured I should nochet, national leaders with truly awake from my stupor and take this grumpy trustee excellent visions for capitalism. They opportunity to discuss politics in the even taught me a little bit of the monday, monday nuanced yet entertaining manner Spanish language. And so, taking for which I am so well regarded. And a page out of Miguel Bloomberg’s obviously, our continued descent into Kenyan so- playbook, I would like to close this column with a cialism is a story worth carrying. Spanish section, which aims to describe why they For one, I fear President Obama will make good should all become Republicans. on his intention to raise taxes tremendously on job Hola. Me llamo es El Grumpy Trustee. Yo soy un creators. My grandson Reindorf, who is currently republicano. En los Estados Unidos, Republicanos in his fourth year at McKinsey and Co., (unlike his son el partido most bueno. We believo en libertad, brother Reginald, the family failure who has dis- taxes muy pequeno, y jobs. Es fantastico! El job-cregraced our name by working with the poors over adors, como yo, son willing to pagar para labor. En at Accenture) makes $300,000 per annum. Do you construction, en el garden, y en los industrios de know how much Obama’s tax increases will force cleaning. We amor los laborers hispanicos! him to pay? Almost $2,500. Meanwhile, the welfare Tambien, we no prefiero los homosexuales. Y queens in the inner cities, the urban, athletic types muchos hispanicos, como tu, son Catholics. Y all who have low basketball IQ’s, sit around on their bueno Catolicos believe los homosexuales son muy couches with their free basic health care. malo. Ellos quieren destroy el familia Americano But I’ve been down this path before. And I am y Mexicano, con los colores bright y la musica de not one to dwell in the past. I understand that there Lady Gaga. is a need for change in the Republican Party. The En conclusion, lo siento por our treatmento de same narrative will not work, the election results Sonia Sotomayor. Ella no es racist. We were incorproved that. And though I may curse the Hebrew recto. Y el DREAM Act. Es un bueno idea. Y we tendeity of The New York Times, Mr. Silver’s numbers emos Marco Rubio, y el es Hispanic! Rubio para have shown that the Republican coalition cannot presidente! Arriba! survive with its current composition. That’s why we must make increased efforts to The Grumpy Trustee was once told by his portfolio adreach out to a new group: the Latino community. visers, “Go ahead and switch your style up, and if they At least, that is what every single Republican talk- hate then let them hate, and watch the money pile up.” ing head has told me. I am, apparently, now pro- They work at Wu-Tang Financial.
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eople have told me that being a feminist just because you’re a woman or being against racism just because you’re a person of color is selfish and that you should really care about EVERYONE. Hey, plot twist: People ARE selfish. People DO act out of self-interest. If the way people live their lives is the sum of all the decisions they ever make, and you make decisions based on what outcome is better for danica liu you, then of course we winter is coming live generally selfish lives. This is not to say that altruism doesn’t exist—I’m saying that pure, benevolent altruism doesn’t exist. If I’m nice to you, it’s because I anticipate some sort of relationship with you in the future, or, if you are a stranger in public, I am nice because I am abiding by a code of conduct that I want upheld, by others as well as myself. Alternately, if I donate to charities that will benefit people I will never meet, it is because these acts of generosity make me feel better about myself and help me maintain a self-image of the person I want to be. If other people benefit from my actions, then that is a side effect, albeit a nice one. From a purely philosophical point of view, this is a result of the problem of mind, in which you can’t really be sure that anyone else exists but yourself. We shouldn’t go crazy, but rather assume that everyone else is operating under the same problems and assumptions, and act accordingly. You cannot be guaranteed of anyone else’s experience or happiness other than your own, and the way you live your life should really reflect that. And so, I will never claim that being a feminist is a selfless act. Of course I want to be paid fairly, and to have the right to choose what happens to my body, and to have as much sex as I want with as many people I want without being judged for it. Of course I want accusations of sexual harassment and assault to be taken seriously, and for more people like me to be represented in the government. I also know that I do not have much power as an individual, and so it benefits me to join a collective movement in which we feminists invest in gaining these rights together. I don’t begrudge anyone else their rights because it’s a waste of my energy to go about trying to make things worse for other people. I support other people in similar positions, but if you want me to invest heavily in your movement, you need to convince me how your movement will make things better for me. Of course, I have a broad definition of what will make things “better for me.” As a straight Asian woman, I care about racism against black people and homophobia because the patterns of oppression that they suffer can potentially be used to harm me also. In addition, I have friends who are black and gay and it makes me happy when they are happy. I begrudgingly accept things like “patriarchy hurts men too,” but it irks me because I think opposing the patriarchy only to the extent that it hurts men is limiting, and underestimates how empathetic men can be. A movement that focuses on women’s rights is hugely valid, even if we didn’t make the lives of men easier, which we do. To be interested in feminism because patriarchy sometimes portrays men as overweight, lazy slobs is to ignore and trivialize the oppression that women go through every day. This idea draws attention away from how much women suffer under the patriarchy. But if that’s the only reason you’re into feminism, whatever. People will ask me things like, “Do you know any third-world-country charities I can donate to?” And I will always redirect them to things within their own country, like Planned Parenthood or Teach for America. To overlook all of the problems in your own “first world” and skip right to helping people across the ocean is incredibly arrogant and presumptuous, and also really irresponsible. We need to solve our own problems first before we can pretend to know what’s best for anyone else. Danica Liu is a Trinity sophomore. This is her last column of the semester.
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uring a meeting about the West Union remodel, Larry community and allowed for individual members to voice Moneta told the assembled crowd that Duke is a “cam- their thoughts in a broad public forum. At these times, I repus of niches,” and small meeting spaces. I remember member picking up a copy of the paper and turning to the this as something of an epiphany. Somehow, I spent four years two pages nestled in the back and reading the thoughts and on this campus without realizing that between orientation opinions of faculty, administrators, alumni and students and and graduation, apart from the frenzied ritual of Cameron, I feeling more connected with the people around me. The never physically came together with my classmates. I suppose opinion pages of this paper were the place I turned to when part of this was of my own doing. I allowed myself to fall so I sought connection with my peers or wanted to understand quickly into a handful of niches that I was nevcampus debate on Duke’s issues. Sometimes er even aware of the group experience I was I was moved or validated and other times anmissing out on. I found my own places: the gered and frustrated by the opinions that aplocker room for my sports team and the twists peared here, but every time I felt more a part and turns of The Chronicle office. I never noof the Duke community. ticed that the physical outlay of this campus For me, and I think many of you as well, was limiting until eight months ago when Dr. this section of this newspaper is the common Moneta pointed it out. ground for the University. Any member of The two largest (non-athletic) spaces on meredith jewitt the Duke community can take a few words, campus, West Union and the Bryan Center, a few square inches of space and bring their ex post facto are themselves warren-like in construction with thoughts, concerns and experiences to the no single large space for gathering. Not even rest of the community. This is where we come Baldwin and Page are large enough to hold the collected stu- together to discuss the issues that impact Duke. More discusdent body. Gatherings happen in small, tucked away spaces. sions about race and inequality, the mission of this school Our gathering spaces are small and spread to the furthest cor- abroad, the success of courses and teams and students and ners of campus. These limitations (and perhaps a heavy dash faculty occur here and on the message boards of The Chronof pragmatism) mean that the administration doesn’t bring icle’s website than any other place on campus. us together when important issues face the school. A letter in Because of the unique role these pages serve, we have to this newspaper or an email to the student body is their means protect them. In tough times for journalism worldwide, instituof reaching all of campus. tions like The Chronicle are not immune and smaller sections, I think back to the moments when the world shook be- like opinion, are always the first lost to budget cuts. In order to neath me in the last four years: when we lost Drew and Matt, preserve this section for this community, you as a reader have when the economy crashed, when we mourned the 10th an- to commit to maintaining them. Elevate what appears in these niversary of Sept. 11. My classmates and I felt the shockwaves pages. Take advantage of the opportunity they present. Take of these events together but we lived them apart, separated the hour that it requires to write and submit something that by stone walls and locked doors … the physical limitations you believe is worth attention and discussion by the commuof campus. I think back to the issues that dominated campus nity. And most importantly, keep reading them. dialogue: a handful of scandals, the occupy movement, the I guess in the end what I am asking is for you to take a few two presidential elections. Again, though we felt the ripples of minutes to reflect on how you substantively engage with the these issues as one, we never physically came together to talk other people on campus. If you see the same limitations that I about them as a community. The administration emailed us do, then think of the value that this paper holds. I understand about each of these things, but somehow that never felt very that this paper is not the same as a physical space where we significant. When the same method of communication used can all come together, but it is the next best thing and the to remind students to register for class or to clean up after only one available to us at Duke. As a community we need to tenting is used for truly important events, the important com- protect this paper and protect these pages; we need to protect munications never seem that important. our ability to come together to discuss life at Duke. The substantive discussion of these events and issues didn’t happen in the emails from Dr. Moneta or President Meredith Jewitt is a first-year law student and the former editorial Brodhead, but in the pages of The Chronicle. The paper was page editor of The Chronicle. 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Despite not playing a competitive game in 13 days, Duke showed no signs of rust. Behind Kaitlyn Kerr’s first career hat trick, the Blue Devils overpowered Loyola Maryland to advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Third-seeded Duke was never threatened, defeating the Greyhounds 6-0 with five first-half goals. “Great start, un0 LOY believable first half,” DUKE 6 Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “You could see that coming in training. We had 13 days to sit on a tough loss to Wake Forest so I’m just really proud of how we moved the ball and how we attacked.” Both Kerr and freshman Cassie Pecht spoke of the intensity of training. This preparation showed as it took Duke (13-5-2) fewer than 10 minutes to get on the scoreboard. Pecht, who was moved to a central midfield position, had a shot blocked, but the ball fell to Kerr who put it home from in the six-yard box. That was just one of many early Blue Devil chances—Duke had seven shots in the first 15 minutes of the game. “We talked a lot about this week playing together, playing as a team, working on defense and executing in the offense. I think we did that outstandingly today,” Kerr said. Mollie Pathman, who has spent time playing as a defender, was deployed in an attacking position, and she was able to exploit the spaces on the left flank. With Laura Weinberg on the other wing, the two
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Freshman Cassie Pecht recorded two assists and a goal in her first NCAA Tournament game. tormented Loyola Maryland’s defenders with their pace and combination play. The second goal showed just this. In the 21st minute Kim DeCesare won the ball in the center of the field and released Weinberg, who raced down the right wing. With nifty footwork, she beat her defender to get to the goal line where a low cross found Pathman in the center. Pathman turned and laid the ball off to Pecht, who stabbed it home. Pecht, playing in her first NCAA Tournament game, recorded two assists and a goal.
“It’s awesome. My team is awesome,” Pecht said. “I love everyone. They gave me the confidence in a game I was very nervous coming into.” Fewer than 10 minutes later Duke had its third goal, with Pathman and Pecht again instrumental in the buildup. Pathman played an incisive pass into Pecht at the edge of the 18-yard box. The freshman turned and played the ball to Kerr, and with a cool swagger she evaded multiple challenges before placing the ball into the
bottom corner. With a comfortable lead, the Blue Devils were able to give its reserves minutes and the next two goals were scored by substitutes. Five minutes from the end of the half, sophomore Katie Trees took a shot in the box that was saved, but Kelly Cobb was waiting to convert the rebound and record her second goal of the season. Halftime could not come fast enough for the Greyhounds (12-6-4) and Duke made it 5-0 less than a minute later with Trees again the provider. She played the ball across the face of goal to an onrushing Callie Simpkins, who swept it home with her left foot. The Blue Devils finished the half with 19 shots, while Loyola Maryland had a single effort on goal. “I thought we had variety in our attacks. I thought our midfielders moved really hard off the ball and got tight so we could play quick combinations with it. It was just really pretty soccer,” Church said. “It was great to see us finish those goals too and really be composed in the final third. We couldn’t ask for a better start.” The second half resumed with Duke continuing its dominance. Kerr had two chances to complete her hat trick—missing a volley soon after the restart and shooting straight at the goalkeeper a few minutes later. At the 68-minute mark, however, she got the elusive goal. Kerr collected a cross from Pathman, turned and put the ball into the net for her eighth goal of the season and the Blue Devils’ only goal in the second half. SEE W. SOCCER ON PAGE 7
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Blue Devils make the NCAA Championships Duke women dominate, automatically qualify Duke men chase down an at-large bid by Sarah Elsakr
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In a dominating performance this past Friday, the Blue Devil women earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Championship meet in Louisville, Ky. when they pulled together for a first-place finish at the Southeast Regional meet. The Blue Devils finished far ahead of their closest competitor, William & Mary, which was not within striking distance in the final points tally. As the top-two squads at the meet, both were granted automatic bids. “We’re certainly pleased with that effort,” head coach Kevin Jermyn said. “We came into the race pretty confident—we knew we could be in a position to contend for the regional title, so I was definitely pleased to see that materialize for the girls.... We had a really strong top four.” The Blue Devils were once-again led by senior Juliet Bottorff, who finished second in the 6km race with a time of 20:14.48, barely losing the first-place spot to Kentucky’s Cally Macumber. Bottorff’s finish, her highest yet at a regional meet, earned her All-Southeast Region honors. Shortly after Bottorff, both Kelsey Lakowske and Carolyn Baskir crossed the line, taking ninth and 12th with times of 20:43.85 and 20:52.21, respectively, and earning the honors for themselves as well. “Carolyn hasn’t run that many races this season and this was a big improvement over ACC’s,” Jermyn said. “She really worked her way up.... Kelsey—for her first season
After the Duke men stated earlier in the week that they would be sure to get either an at-large or automatic bid to the national championship if they finished in a top-four spot, the Blue Devils crossed the line in fifth overall at the NCAA Southeast Regional meet in Charlotte this past weekend. And after spending several agonizing hours waiting, the team received the news news that they had qualified for the national meet. Duke got off to a strong start at the meet, but soon ran into trouble when it became obvious that a few of the runners were slightly off their personal best performances. Although the team received typically solid performances from senior Mike Moverman and junior Shaun Thompson, much of the credit for the NCAA qualification can be assigned to the two runners who were able to exceed expectations and stepped up when their teammates were unable to do so. When Duke finished ahead of George Mason to take the fifth-place spot, it did so by only one point—a point that can be attributed to senior Dominick Robinson. When the runners came out of the woods onto the open stretch just before the finish line, Robinson was a step behind George Mason’s John Holt. In the short distance to the finish, Robinson managed to muster a final burst of strength and pass Holt, finishing just a second and a half ahead of him
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Juliet Bottorff paced the Blue Devils as they earned a berth to the NCAA Championships. with us—is being very consistent.” Graduate student Suejin Ahn was another standout performer at the Regional meet as she clocked her best regional time ever—21:04.51—with her 19th-place finish, which was also good for her second consecutive All-Southeast Region honors. SEE W. XC ON PAGE 8
with a time of 31:00.44, just 10 seconds after Moverman crossed the line in first for the Blue Devils. That difference pushed Duke past George Mason and into the NCAA Championship meet. “That was the difference. If that George Mason guy had beaten Dominick... We wouldn’t have gone. Dominick saved the day,” head coach Norm Ogilvie said. This is not the first time Robinson has stepped up for the team. In an almost identical situation, Robinson pulled ahead of a Virginia Tech runner at the Pre-National meet in Louisville, Ky. and in doing so ensured that Duke finished ahead of Virginia Tech by just one point. Both moments helped ensure Duke’s berth into the national meet and, in the words of Ogilvie made him a “hero” for the team. Another runner who was able to step up and help shoulder the burden for the team when a few of the top-five runners were not at their peaks was junior Christian Britto. For the second race in a row, Britto was able to step up and run as the fourth man for the Blue Devils. “I’m really happy with how my season’s going especially considering how I started. I’m definitely happy being top-seven,” Britto said. “[Before the race] I was excited because I thought we had a pretty good chance of going to nationals. I decided to just run my own race and make sure... that I could help out if I needed to.” When Britto noticed teammates James SEE M. XC ON PAGE 7
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Unconvential opponent unable to deter Duke in season opener
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Duke got off to a conventional start despite an unconventional opponent Friday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium, defeating Georgia State 74-55 in the season opener for both teams. The victory continued the No. 8 Blue Devils’ streak of starting 1-0, which they have done in 13 straight seasons, but to earn a win Friday, they had to overcome Panther head coach Ron Hunter’s unusual zone defensive schemes. “Most people don’t play [like Georgia State],” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said after the game. “They’re changing zone defenses and changing three-quarter court presses, and they’re good at it…. They could control the tempo because they put four ball-handlers out there.” Krzyzewski also was unafraid to put extra ball-handlers on the floor, giving Tyler Thornton a mildlyy unexpected start p at point guard but ut often inserting Quinn Cook alongside Thornton. “They played me off the ball a little bit this week in practice,”” Thornton said. “We tried a few different ent lineups. We’re both able to o play on and off the ball. Coach is going ng to be able to use us in a lot of different nt ways this year.” Krzyzewski praised aised Thornton for his defensive play, y, and the 6-foot-1 junior also drained ned 3-of-6 threepoint attempts and scored 13 points while dishing hing out three assists. Seven different erent Duke players tallied at least one assist on the night, as the Blue Devils’ excellent passing led to 17 of 24 field goals being assisted. Thornton was not the only Blue Devil to perform well on the defensive end, as Georgia State managed anaged just four assists to 16 turnovers. The dual pointt guard look with Thornton and Cook was as just one of several different lineups that at Krzyzewski put on the floor during the course of the evening. He opened with Thornton rnton in a three-guard set
alongside Seth Curry and Rasheed Sulaimon, but often utilized three players over 6-foot-8 with freshman Amile Jefferson playing the small forward position. “We’ll look at those different things,” Krzyzewski said. “At times, you’re just going to have different lineups in there.” Conspicuously, Alex Murphy did not appear in the game despite Duke’s liberal substitution patterns. Murphy was dressed to play, and Krzyzewski said that Murphy’s absence was merely a coach’s decision. “We just didn’t get to where Alex would play,” Krzyzewski said. “But Alex has got to be able to play.” Even without Murphy, seven different Blue Devils scored at least five points and played double-digit minutes. Mason Plumlee and Seth Curry joined Tyler Thornton in double digits, with Plumlee adding 14 rebounds to his 19 tallies. Despite p a strongg overall performance, Plumlee’s Ac Achilles heel from last season d did re-appear in the form of poo poor free-throw shooting. He made just 3-of-7 from the charity stripe again the Panthers (0against 1) after a subpar 52.8 pe percent performance la last season. In a contest in fr front of both old friends—Lefty fr Drie esell, a Duke graduate a who coached at Maryland from 1969 to 1986—and 19 ne new—Semi Ojeleye, h a high-school senior who recently commit mitted to the Blue De Devils, Duke’s pair n of freshmen in particular par soaked d up the environ-me of playing att ment Ca Cameron Indoorr Sta Stadium. The pairr co combined for 111 poi epoints and six re-
bounds, but they were two of the most vocal presences on the court. Jefferson gave enthusiastic encouragement to his teammates and egged on a noisy crowd, while
“We’re both able to play on and off the ball” — Tyler Thornton on playing with Quinn Cook Sulaimon showed he belonged in a Duke jersey by bringing out the Blue Devil trademark floor slap on defense in the second half. “We got a roll going, so I wanted to get the fans going as well,” Sulaimon said. “I just tried to give energy to the crowd and give energy to the team.” Sulaimon—who scored the first points of Duke’s season with a 3-pointer to make the score 3-2—was pleased to get the start but candid about his desire to continue improving. “Wednesday they let me know I was going to be in the lineup to go in there and try to slow their point guard down,” Sulaimon said. “I didn’t think I did too good of a job. I think I did earlier on, but late in the game I let him get some easy buckets.” Krzyzewski likewise praised Jefferson for his enthusiasm, but noted that the Philadelphia native and all of his teammates still have plenty to learn despite the good start to the season. “Your exuberance was good, but let’s be exuberant after we get the ball,” Krzyzewski said. “They’re all doing a really good job for us, but we’ve just got to grow as a basketball team. That’s the main thing.”
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Georgia State came to Cameron Indoor Stadium Friday with the hopes of learning from one of the best teams in Division I, but Duke learned some lessons as well. The Panthers presented Duke with an unconventional playing style, and the Blue Devils responded with their own variations in play. Although Duke came out victorious 74-55 in its 13th consecutive season-opening victory, Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski said after the game that many of the lineups are still a work in progress.
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“We’re still looking at what our team can do,” Krzyzewski said. “At times we’re just going to have different lineups in there.” Georgia State head coach Ron Hunter’s atypical strategy included varying his team’s normal zone defenses and three quarter court presses, as well as playing four ball handlers at once. “Most people don’t play like [Georgia State],” Krzyzewski said. “They played unconventionally. Unconventional doesn’t mean that it’s weird, it’s just something most people don’t play.” Krzyzewski began the night with a somewhat different lineup, starting three guards—senior Seth Curry, freshman Rasheed Sulaimon and junior Tyler Thornton—alongside senior forwards Ryan Kelly and Mason Plumlee. Although Krzyzewski announced in the preseason that Cook would start at point guard, the sophomore said he was informed Monday that Thornton would get the nod. The two spent a lot of time on the court together in an attempt to increase the number of ball handlers on the floor.
“They played me off the ball a little bit this week in practice,” Thornton said. “We tried a few different lineups. We’re both able to play on and off the ball. Coach is going to be able to use us in a lot of different ways this year.” Although redshirt freshman Alex Murphy started in both of Duke’s preseason games and was dressed to play Friday, he did not step foot on the court. Krzyzewski noted that Murphy is not injured, and explained his absence as a coach’s decision. “We just didn’t get to where Alex would play,” Krzyzewski said. “But Alex has got to be able to play.” To counter the Panthers, Krzyzewski frequently substituted players based on offensive and defensive matchups. He often played three guards and, at times, two point guards. He also utilized the size of his team, using Plumlee, Kelly and freshman Amile Jefferson simultaneously at the end of the first half. In this instance, Jefferson played small forward, giving the team more length on the perimeter. Plumlee led the team with 12 shots, a
feat that did not happen often last season. Krzyzewski noted that Plumlee is an “outstanding player” who is a strong passer, but added that it also takes responsible shooters who can create open passing lanes to score successfully. “We want to touch the ball,” Krzyzewski said. “[Plumlee] touching the ball has got to be one of the things we do.” The Blue Devils may once again utilize varying zone defenses and big men on the court Tuesday in Atlanta, where they will face Kentucky, the reigning national champions. “I don’t know about their talent level. I haven’t watched them,” Krzyzewski said. “As much as I really admire what [the media] does, I never really take its opinions on player personnel. It’s a big time game because its Duke and Kentucky…. I know they’ll be really good and very well coached.” With Kentucky sporting a lineup with elite length and speed, the Blue Devils must continue to vary their lineups.
Despite nursing a leg injury, Seth Curry was able to play 30 miutes.
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Duke can’t finish comeback Hartmann’s thirdplace paces team by Rooshil Shah THE CHRONICLE
Despite rallying after being down two sets to none to bring the match to 2-2, Duke was not able to carry that momentum into the fifth set and lost in a five-set battle to ACC foe Miami Saturday. The Blue Devils rounded off their home schedule for the season with a 12-25, 21-25, 25-23, 25-19, 14-16 loss to the Hurricanes. In what was the last home game for the three graduating seniors Christiana Gray, Nailah Waterfield and Megan Hendrickson, Duke (14-15, 5-12 in ACC) almost scripted a fairytale comeback against its higherranked opponent. “We have been a work in progress along the way and I think tonight our team showed some of that progress,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “We were down 2-0 against a really good team, so to find that something inside of us to keep fighting – that’s a huge statement about our team.” The Blue Devils were outmatched on the offensive by an extremely lethal Miami (23-4, 15-2) attack that outkilled Duke 32-20 on the match. But the Blue Devils, who notched big numbers from freshman Elizabeth Campbell, fought back in the third and fourth sets
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Christiana Gray was one of three seniors to finish her Cameron career Saturday. to instigate an improbable rally. It took a tight third set before Campbell’s run of 11 straight kills midway through the fourth set sealed a 25-19 set win. Duke, however, lost the fifth set after leading 14-12 and needing just one point to clinch the victory. Instead, Miami rattled off four unanswered points to steal the win. Campbell ended the game with a career high 25 kills while also contributing 10 digs, four blocks and three aces in a super-
lative performance against the ACC’s top defensive unit. “Wow, quite a night,” Nagel said. “Elizabeth was really solid for us tonight and she has been for most of the season. That is exciting to see her have those kinds of numbers because she has worked very hard. She’s a smart player and that all came together tonight. She is very competitive. You can see it in her face. You can see it in her SEE VOLLEYBALL ON PAGE 8
Last weekend, Duke freshman Conner Hartmann won the 197-pound title at the Hokie Open. The ACC Co-Wrestler of the Week continued his success Sunday at the Michigan State Open with a third-place finish in his weight class. Three of the other eight Blue Devils in the tournament won at least one bout in their respective weight classes. Prior to Sunday, Duke had never participated in the Michigan State Open, a long-standing tournament known for the high caliber of its participants. The tournament field featured five teams ranked in the Top 25. “The Hokie Open was tough, but the depth wasn’t there,” Blue Devil head coach Glen Lanham said. “[The Michigan State Open] was a deep tournament.” After Sunday’s action, Hartmann boasts an 8-1 record on the season. In his first two matches of the day, Hartmann beat Michigan State sophomore Nick McDiarmid in a 9-5 decision and Central Michigan freshman Jackson Lewis in a 4-1 decision. The Blue Devil fell short in his semifinal bout, though, losing to Ohio State sophomore Andrew Campalot-
tano, who qualified for the 2012 NCAA Championships. Hartmann bounced back with a 10-3 win against Olivet junior Logan Renas, advancing to the consolation bracket championship. The Washington native took third place in the 197-pound division after outlasting Michigan State sophomore Luke Jones 5-4. “He wrestled really well,” Lanham said. “His offensive structure improved, and he started to attack a lot better. I’m really pleased with his performance.” Duke senior Diego Bencomo and junior Brian Self also won their first matches of the day. In the 184-pound weight class, Bencomo defeated Columbia junior Drew Rebling 9-5. Self, who competed in the 197-pound division, downed Findlay junior Ashton Brown 3-1 before falling to Kent State’s Dustin Kilgore, the topranked wrestler in the country. After losing to Michigan freshman Connor Brancheau in the 165-pound weight class, Blue Devil sophomore Randy Roden rebounded with a 6-4 decision in overtime against Central Michigan junior Zack Cline. Lanham set three primary goals for the Blue Devils going SEE WRESTLING ON PAGE 7
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M. XC from page 6 Kostelnik and Brian Atkinson falling back, he knew that the team’s chances of making the national meet were dwindling. Instead of getting discouraged though, the sight only motivated him to run faster, which ended up paying off for Duke. Now that the team has accomplished its goal of making it into the Championships, the only thing left to do is make sure that its runners are able to bring their best to the starting line in Louisville. Despite any hiccups along the way, the runners are sure that this is something they will be able to do. “I think everyone is entitled to a ‘flat’ race and the people that had a bad race at ACC’s stepped up today and did well, and the people that had good races at ACC’s didn’t do that great at Regionals so everyone kind of got it out of their system,” Britto said. “Now that it’s the last race of the year, there’s nothing to hold back. Everyone’s going to... go for broke.”
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Callie Simpkins scored one of Duke’s six goals as the Blue Devils outshot Loyola Maryland 28-2 Saturday afternoon.
W. SOCCER from page 2 “I knew [the hat trick] was coming after she scored the second one,” Pecht said. “She had so many chances, I knew it was going to come.” Kerr tied the school-record for the most goals in a game, and this was Duke’s first hat trick since 2009. The junior now has nine NCAA Tournament goals, which is also a Blue Devil record. “My teammates put me in those situations,” Kerr said. “They played amazingly today. We were playing to feet and playing together really well so it was all their credit. We really have it together for this tournament and we’re excited
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for the next game.” The Blue Devils finished the game with 28 shots to the Greyhounds’ two, with none of Loyola Maryland’s attempts on target. The only low point for the Blue Devils was the injury Tabria Williford suffered midway through the second half. Pecht said, however, that this game was merely one of six games the team aimed to win. Both Pecht and Kerr stressed building momentum as the tournament progresses. “One of our themes going into this postseason is making our own momentum because we haven’t won six straight games yet this year,” Pecht said. “So we’re going to try to keep our momentum going and keep winning each game.”
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W. XC from page 3 For Ahn, who traveled to the national meet with the Duke team two years ago, the Regional win was bittersweet because it is her last year. “It’s kind of sad,” Ahn said, “but I’m glad we’re doing well this year. The experience gives me confidence. I’m excited to [go to nationals].” Senior Madeline Morgan, who at last year’s Regional meet was the only Blue Devil to gain entry into the NCAA Championships, finished just 30 seconds after Ahn in 39th. Sophomore Gabby Levac and senior Ashley Brasovan finished 55th and 73rd with times of f 21:53.75 and 22:07.11, respectively, rounding out the rest of the Duke team. Although the team is over the hurdle of qualifying for the Championships, the women are maintaining their combination of determined focus and laid-back philosophy. Without thinking too much about particular places or the pressure of competing at the national level, the runners are committed to improving individually, and consequently, as a team. “The goal is to do well next week,” Jermyn said. “My approach going into nationals is that we’re just going to go out there and try to be solid and race hard and not try to set anything that’s really... overreaching. When the competition rises you don’t always have to try hard, sometimes you just have to use a little finesse and be a little more relaxed... and let the competition bring 100 percent out of you.”
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Nailah Waterfield concluded her time playing at Cameron Indoor Stadium in the final home contest of the year, a five-set loss to Miami.
VOLLEYBALL from page 6 demeanor. She really wanted this match tonight. She was going to do everything in her power to get it done. That’s just how she plays.” Despite picking up a loss, Nagel was able to point out many positives in her team’s play. “We found a rhythm in our
service today and were more efficient. Our center made good choices and the hitters were aggressive.” This rhythm came from sophomore Kelsey Williams and junior Ali McCurdy. Williams distributed 44 assists to go along with a career high 21 digs while McCurdy led both teams with 27 digs. “It would be really easy to be discouraged or to maybe not give as great of
effort, time in and time out because we haven’t had as many ‘W’s’ as we would like to see,” Nagel added. “They continue to work hard every day in practice. They continue to challenge each other and support each other at the same time, which is a difficult thing to do. I think tonight was a great example of how this team has worked and I am proud of them for that.”
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