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Chronicle staff Loss to Maryland shows success is fragile elects editor for 109th volume by Tom Gieryn THE CHRONICLE
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The Chronicle staff elected sophomore Danielle Muoio to serve as editor-in-chief of its 109th volume. In a staff-wide election Friday evening, Muoio, currently a Health and Science editor, was appointed editor of The Chronicle and president of the Duke Student Publishing Company, Inc., which publishes the inDanielle Muoio dependent student-run daily newspaper. She will succeed junior Yeshwanth Kandimalla for a one-year term beginning in May. As editor, Muoio will be responsible for determining the content of the newspaper and serving as the public face of The Chronicle. She will lead a staff of approximately 200 student reporters, editors, photographers, layout designers and additional contributors. In her platform, Muoio emphasized the need to balance a high quality of content with a strong online presence—working both on producing more investigative, analytical content and on making the news available in the most effective manner possible. “I’ll be working with all of the sections to make sure that they’re achieving their goals to reach their audience in the best way,” Muoio said. Muoio, an English and history major from Roslyn Harbor, N.Y., began her career at The Chronicle at the start of her freshman year, writing chiefly for the Health and Science department. She became a staff writer for the section that December, and Kandimalla promoted her to its leader last March. “I’ve been really impressed with her work this year,” Kandimalla said. “She’s grown tremendously as a journalist and a leader. I’m really confident that she’ll be able to do a great job.” Members of the Health and Science department, both past and present, expressed support for Muoio. Junior Ashley Mooney, current sports managing editor and last year’s Health and Science editor, noted that Muoio has been an eager and dedicated reporter since the beginning of her freshman year. Sophomore Andrew Luo, Muoio’s Health and Science co-editor, noted that she has always been enthusiastic and driven
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COLLEGE PARK, Md.—College basketball success is fragile. Ask Maryland head coach Mark Turgeon. Last weekend, his team dropped its sixth game out of 10, an 80-69 decision at home to Virginia. Just two weeks after a group of Maryland students began affectionately dressing like Turgeon—right down to the gray patch in his hair—for every game, Terrapin fans heckled Turgeon so badly that his 13-year-old son Will was forced to leave the Comcast Center. “It’s been a hard week on my family,” said Tuergon Saturday, fighting back tears after his Terrapins upset No. 2 Duke 83-81. “It was hard on my son. Last week he had to leave the gym because the fans were so hard on his dad.” Following the Virginia loss, he stripped his captains of their titles and suspended point guard Pe’Shon Howard—who outranks even prolific distributor Quinn Cook in assists per 40 minutes—for an undisclosed violation of team rules. None of this sounds like the sort of week a Terrapin coach would want to have in advance of a game against Duke, which had long since tipped the balance of power between the two schools back toward Durham by winning 13 of the last 14 matchups dating back to 2008. But success in college basketball is fragile. Ask Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski,
Mason Plumlee scored a season-low four points in Duke’s loss to Maryland while Terrapin center Alex Len racked up 19 points and nine boards to lead his team to victory.
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LDOCannouncement LDOC announcementreactions reactions Following the announcement of the 2013 Last Day of Classes lineup at midnight Friday, students shared their thoughts on the scheduled list of artists, which currently includes rapper Kendrick Lamar, DJ Steve Aoki and hiphop trio Travis Porter. LDOC is April 24. “I vaguely recognize the names, but the more I hear of them, the more excited I get.” —sophomore Stephanie Laughton “I’ve never heard of any of those people.” —freshman David Rieder “I thought that Aoki was the sauce that you put on sandwiches but now I know that it’s a singer guy” —junior Hannah Naughton “They’re both the level Macklemore was last year when they brought him, but he wasn’t the headliner. There’s no B.o.B.” —freshman Ryan Burns “I am excited to show Travis Porter how I bring it back. I would like to let him know that I am a top-notch b**tch, and I will let him hear me holler” —junior Lillie Reed, former columnist for The Chronicle
“I kind of like Aoki but I probably would’ve preferred Avicii.” —freshman Johnny Salinas
he’s very in demand.” —freshman Jacqueline Samy “I think it’s a diverse group of performers and I think they’ll do a great job.” —freshman Neel Desai
“I don’t listen to music.” —junior Taylor Elliott “Personally, I’m a huge Kendrick Lamar fan and think he’s the best rapper of the current day. I think it’s awesome that the LDOC Committee got him.” —freshman Lee Weisberger
“My brother gave me rave kandi—you should all wear it to the concert. But it’s spelled k-a-n-d-i.” —junior Bridget Meaney “The LDOC committee did a great job getting a group of big name performers that will appeal to a wide variety of musical tastes on Duke’s campus. I’m so excited!” —sophomore Mary D’Amico
“I just want to say I was really excited about Kendrick Lamar because I was trying to go see him at Wake Forest so me and my friends were really happy about that. I think it’ll be better because B.oB. was kind of disappointing last year.” —sophomore Kate Macadam
“Steve Aoki is the man! More than anything, I can’t wait to see him live!” —freshman Sarey Hamarneh
“Personally, I’m excited about Kendrick Lamar because I have a lot of friends who like him, but I could see how that would be disappointing. There’s not a wide variety in artists.” —freshman Hannah Hewitt “I love Steve Aoki but I don’t know who the other artists are. I don’t know how they managed to get him,
“I’m really excited about Steve Aoki. He’s really freaky, really weird, and his music’s really good. His performances are always really good, lots of lights and everything. It’s going to be crazy, plus, with the atmosphere on LDOC, people are going to be so psyched. It’s going to be insane. The other two guys I’m not really excited about.” —freshman Carl Cedarholm
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Write(H)ers seeks to train Nat. park advocates Duke’s feminist bloggers fight funding cutbacks by Marianna Jordan THE CHRONICLE
A new media activism program at Duke aims to help young women excel in writing about gender issues. This Spring, senior Samantha Lachman, media activism intern at the Duke Women’s Center, worked with Women’s Center Director Ada Gregory to launch Write(H)ers, an initiative to create a community of feminist-oriented writers. The 23 members of the program will participate in personal blogging and workshops with professional journalists to discuss gender issues in society and on campus. Senior Sarah Van Name, a member of Write(H)ers and a contributor to Duke’s feminist blog Develle Dish, said the program serves to train young women and better equip them to be activists when they need to be. “This program was a dream come true for me because I read a lot of feminist blogs and several of the women who write these blogs now have the opportunity to come to Duke and explain to this new community how to follow in their footsteps,” Van Name said. Each participant in the Write(H)ers program must attend workshop dinners with four visiting journalists and feminist bloggers including Jill Filipovic, Irin Carmon, Heather Havrilesky and Rebecca Traister. Lachman said Traister was the most famous of the four visiting journalists. In 2011, she wrote “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” which discusses
gender politics in the 2008 U.S. election. Each student must also contribute three blog posts over the course of the semester to either the Women’s Center blog or Develle Dish. “[The Women’s Center] wanted to create a space for students to write about their personal relationships with gender issues to dispel stereotypes and help diffuse the tension around gender on campus,” said Lachman, who also writes a column for The Chronicle. The program received more than 40 applications and accepted 23 students, including one male student. The goal, Lachman said, was to find writers who were feminist in outlook and already published in different capacities on campus. The students did not have to be involved with the Women’s Center or in gender violence prevention programming—which has become a large focus of the center in the past several years— but needed to show interest in discussing gender dynamics on campus, she said. Senior Nathan Nye, the only male student who applied to the program, expressed his excitement for being given the opportunity to participate. “This will be such a positive experience because it gives me a small window into the perspectives of several women involved in fields that still deal SEE BLOG ON PAGE 8
by Lisa Rein THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON — Advocates for the vast numbers of visitors to America’s national parks are pressuring Congress to prevent deep automatic spending cuts that would result in reduced hours and services across the country, from the Blue Ridge Mountains to Yellowstone. Few corners of the federal government directly touch the public as do the 398 parks, monuments and historic sites, which draw 280 million visits a year. The system would feel the effects immediately of a $110 million slash should budget cuts take effect March 1 — from a three-week delay of Yellowstone’s spring opening to save money on snow plowing, to shuttered campgrounds and visitor centers along the Blue Ridge Parkway. And 20 days before the cherry blossoms begin blooming on the National Mall, $1.6 million would be slashed from the park’s $32 million budget, cutting into law enforcement, tree maintenance, rangers and other services park employees provide for one of Washington’s biggest tourist attractions. “We’re going to have 1 million people in D.C. [for the cherry blossoms], whether sequestration happens or not,” said Diana Mayhew, executive director of the National Cherry Blossom Festival, the extravaganza scheduled for March 20 to April 14. The White House began sounding alarms last week about the threat to military readiness, border security and humanitarian aid of $85 billion in reductions known as a sequester. Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis is reviewing detailed contingency plans he ordered ev-
ery superintendent to submit last week. With talks on Capitol Hill to resolve an impasse over how to reduce the deficit, federal agencies are kicking their austerity planning into high gear. The prospect of dirtier restrooms, sporadic grass mowing and litter pickup, and a shortage of rangers to answer questions and patrol has set off a furious campaign by a coalition of park advocates, tourism officials and businesses from to Maine to Wyoming. Their plea: The reductions would not just set back conservation efforts but undermine local economies around the parks that rely on tourism. “The economic foundation the national parks provide for our businesses and communities is jeopardized by political maneuvering,” says a letter the nonpartisan National Parks Conservation Association plans to send to every member of Congress this week, signed by dozens of businesses. The advocates are finding that many of the most popular parks are in districts represented by conservative lawmakers, who say that while they love the parks, spending must be kept in line. “The reality is that we have an escalating debt crisis,” freshman Rep. Steve Daines, RMont., said. The sequester would have repercussions across the government, including delays to medical research and defense jobs, and scaling back air-traffic controllers. But the cuts to the parks, whose mission of preservation and recreation has changed little SEE PARKS ON PAGE 8
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Colbert likely to support sister’s SC campaign by Aaron Blake THE WASHINGTON POST
From the moment she announced her special-election campaign, Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch has been viewed as something of a novelty candidate. That’s the downside of being the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert. The upside, of course, is that her brother is probably going to help her raise lots of money at consecutive fundraisers next weekend and by mentioning her campaign on his Comedy Central television show. And despite many people dismissing her chances in a pretty conservative South Carolina congressional district, nobody should count her out completely. The 1st Congressional District, formerly held by Tim Scott, R-S.C., who was recently appointed to fill a vacant Senate seat, went overwhelmingly for Mitt Romney last year, 58 percent to 40 percent. It also gave Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a big win in 2008, 56 percent to 42 percent. Although that suggests a Republican will be favored, there are some factors that could well make Colbert Busch, director of business development for an environmental research institute at Clemson University, a competitive candidate. Typically candidates of the minority party in such districts are unable to raise enough money to compete, but that shouldn’t be a problem for Colbert Busch. She’s also locking down the support of organized labor and was endorsed Saturday by House Minority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C. The electorate in special elections is notoriously hard to predict and will be far
different than it would be on a normal election day. Colbert Busch is one of two Democrats running in the party’s primary for the seat; the Republican primary has attracted 16 hopefuls, including Mark Sanford, the former governor whose political career was tarnished by his affair with a woman in Argentina. Although he is considered a frontrunner for the seat, Sanford may not be the GOP’s best option. A poll from Democratic automated pollster Public Policy Polling in December showed his favorable rating at just 30 percent statewide, with 53 percent viewing him unfavorably. Sanford represented the district before he was governor, so voters there might be more forgiving than the rest of the state. He has also built inroads over the years with black voters, who comprise 20 percent of the district. Sanford said when he launched his campaign that his favorable rating in the district was higher than his unfavorable rating among Republicans, but it’s not clear whether that’s the case among all voters. Stephen Colbert, who is scheduled to host a fundraiser for his sister Friday in New York and attend a private fundraiser for her Saturday in Charleston, told the Associated Press that the race is about his sister, not him. “I want people to know this is her own thing. It’s not me doing anything,” he said. Colbert Busch should at least have the funds to compete, and her brother could have a lot of power in helping build a movement around her candidacy.
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The right question to ask Financial aid is an easy tant to crystallize the decipolicy not to question: sions being made and what Through fuzzy rhetoric like they imply about the Univer“100 percent need-blind” sity’s priorities. and “improving affordabilLike many of its peers, ity,” colleges and universities Duke maintains a need-blind often skirt close admissions polscrutiny of their icy for Amerieditorial programs. The can citizens reality is more complicated: and permanent residents but While financial aid is impor- not international students. tant to Duke and its peers, The chances of admission for the decisions behind it are international students who complex and, in many in- apply for aid are markedly stances, controversial. In this lower than their American two-part editorial, we explore counterparts. Six schools, some salient and divisive including Amherst College questions regarding finan- and Princeton University, ofcial aid. Today, we look at im- fer universal need-blind adplications for international missions. Director of Finanstudents, and Tuesday we will cial Aid Alison Rabil offered explore impacts on different two justifications for Duke’s socioeconomic classes. While policy. First, she argued that we do not claim to have any thanks to federal funding, clear solutions, it is impor- it is cheaper to provide aid
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I’m actually rather surprised that the LDOC committee would get something with as disgusting a music personality as Travis Porter. ...Why am I the only one disturbed by the choice of this excuse for a musician actually being allowed to address the student body?
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to Americans than international students. In addition, Rabil claimed the University had a commitment to prioritizing American admits in order to support the country’s economy and system of higher education. It is tough to find fault with the first argument. If it is less expensive per head to provide need-blind admissions for American students, that means the University through prioritizing Americans is able to provide a college education to more students. Since a primary metric of success of the financial aid system ought to be to help as many students— domestic or international—as possible, it seems fair to make this tradeoff, even if it means international students are not treated equally.
But Rabil’s second justification caused some debate. On one hand, Article 1 of our University bylaws contains a commitment to serving the state and the nation. Similarly, Duke receives federal funding, so it could be argued that taxpayer contributions should primarily be used to benefit American students. The idea that an American university has a commitment to prioritize American students in the admissions process, just as it does students from North Carolina, is key to this argument. On the other hand, Duke has made a point of prioritizing diversity in its student body, and international students play a key role in fostering a more interesting and lively student commu-
nity. If we take diversity in its broadest sense, treating the vast majority of the global population differently in admissions than a select nationality may run counter to some important institutional goals. It is difficult to reconcile Rabil’s view that Duke should increase its mix of international students with the idea that financial aid should prioritize Americans. All told, we were impressed with the efforts of the financial aid office to clarify its policies and allocate uncertain resources wisely. But we should not refrain from questioning some of the assumptions behind financial aid, and the discussion regarding international needblind admissions is not at all a bad place to start.
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ear Dookie, we ever lose to them, so … what rivalry? This being I’m a line monitor, and I’m worried that the case, it would probably be easier to get Duke since the UNC game is over, people will stop students to hate an inanimate object than to hate caring about Duke basketball. How do we keep stu- schools so irrelevant. I suggest we encourage Dukies dents excited about the Blue Devils? to hate basketballs themselves. Then, —Concerned Crazie they’ll attend games simply to see Dear Crazy, those orange bastards take a pummelIt’s strange to me that line moniing. YEAH, TAKE THAT BASKETtors would have trouble convincing BALLS. THAT’S WHAT YOU GET anyone to do anything. I mean, y’all FOR CONFUSING BLIND PEOPLE get upwards of a thousand people to WHO TRY TO READ YOU. forfeit their $56-a-night housing fee Another way to make students to sleep in mud. Still, I understand monday monday go to basketball games or anything your concern. At some point every else is to make it difficult. There’s dear dookie year, the Duke administration inevino better way to get people to think tably starts to fuss over game attenthat something matters than to make dance—which, as leaders of an institute of higher it hard to attain. Add the scent of competition to learning, is obviously their primary concern. something and Dukies will be there, ready to be the But that’s where I come in. A few disclaimers: I best at it. I mean, what did you think Tailgate was? may not be the best person to give this advice, as I’ve NOT a bonding experience where all of Duke got never tented—in part because I’m allergic to tarp, together to celebrate good friends and a school they but mostly because I’m not an idiot. Additionally, loved, that’s for sure. Like most things at Duke, it these tips will not work if the Duke basketball team was a ruthless competition, seeing who could accugets any whiter, becomes a regular NIT-attendee or if mulate the most beers on and in their person and you watch women’s basketball. Because let’s be real, still make it to a football game (or, you know, not, who outside of the Women’s Center cares? It’s not because football sucks). like THEY’VE ever beaten UNC. Pre-basketball game rituals are the exact same. EsSo how can we modern Machiavellis manipulate pecially for those students who aren’t succeeding in Dukies into caring about sports now that the UNC any other realms at Duke (I’m looking at you, engingame is in the past? For starters, engineer more ri- erds), tenting is an outlet to feel social or something. valries. As everyone at Duke is from New York, New You may not be able to work out your problem set, Jersey or Asia, approximately none of us cared about make friends or find someone who’ll handle your Vithe Duke-UNC “rivalry” before we came here. Yet enna sausage, but goddamnit you CAN sit in the cold within weeks of our arrival, we all know that people for six hours without a pee break. If we add a competiwho go to UNC are baby-hating, goat-banging, hash- tive nature to other games throughout the year, they slinging slashers. Is this reality? Of course not. UNC too would become high-status and fully attended. I say students are just like Duke students, except with we “Hunger Games” it. Compete and win basketball lower IQs, less money and better-looking faces. So tickets, or we’ll take away all your food points. This why do we hate them? Because when freshmen ar- way we not only guarantee full attendance, but we also rive on campus, everyone thinks it’s cool to make get to include all the girls out there who are already jokes about how much UNC sucks—mostly because playing the hunger games. If there’s one thing this they’re too awkward to think of much else to talk campus is good at, it’s anorexia. Keep doing what you about. As O-week goes on, they find that their new do ladies—none of us have any idea. “hatred” of Carolina is one of two things that they And that’s really all it takes. With the simple have in common with their classmates—the other mixture of directed hatred and competition, these thing being excruciating diarrhea as their body otherwise-intellectual Dukies can be entertained by adjusts to the food at the Marketplace. Our rivalry “student”-athletes bouncing a ball around for an hour with Carolina does not exist because we hate UNC, in exchange for free tuition. If you get the students exbut because it unites Duke. Crazies don’t go to the cited enough, maybe they won’t ask why Duke spends UNC game to watch sports—they do it to engage in millions of dollars to make semi-professional sports a three-hour student section group hug. teams and academic institutions the same thing. If line monitors want to increase game attendance, they should just try to make students hate After “Space Jam” set an early-childhood precedent, more things together. Perhaps a first step would the Dookie will only watch basketball games if they involve be Maryland or N.C. State, as the schools are con- aliens. Until the Duke program becomes more inclusive, the vinced (and agonizingly so, from our perspective) Dookie is boycotting. You can follow the Dookie on Twitter that Duke cares about them at all. But it’s not like @DearDookie.
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dangerous new precedent is being and foreign civilians is simply un-Amerset in modern warfare. The use ican. We cannot continue to blindly acof unmanned aerial vehicles, or cept a policy without even hearing the ledrones, has reached dizzying new heights, gal rational behind it. Ben Franklin once threatening the integrity of wrote, “Those who would our foreign policy and the give up essential liberty to safety of our constitutional purchase a little temporights. The New America rary safety, deserve neither Foundation, a non-partisan liberty nor safety.” Knowlthink-tank based in D.C., edge of the law and of our estimates that between 261 government’s justification and 305 civilians have been for its own action is one killed in targeted drone of those essential liberties. colin scott strikes since 2004. These Critics argue that revealthe view from carr ing such measures would strikes cross borders and span several combat zones jeopardize the operational from the wilds of the Pakistani tribal re- efficiency of our armed forces, but I fail gion to the shores of Yemen. American to see how justifying these strikes through officials have remarked on the useful- our countries legal framework could limit ness of Predator drones in the war on their effectiveness. terror, yet their legality remains opaque. Our country’s strength partially stems In May of last year, The New York Times from the openness of our institutions. reported, “Mr. Obama has placed himself To arbitrarily restrict such information is at the helm of a top secret ‘nominations’ a dangerous step in the wrong direction. process to designate terrorists for kill or This is a direction that threatens our morcapture, of which the capture part has al credibility in a geopolitically dangerous become largely theoretical.” In 2011, the world. How can we criticize totalitarian reprocess killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an Ameri- gimes when we refuse to justify processes can citizen turned radical Islamic terrorist like this to our own citizens? What right do in Yemen. In effect, our president ordered we have to protest the jailing of political the assassination of an American citizen. protestors in Russia or the religious prosHe ignored due process and the tenants ecution of the Falun Gong in China when of our constitution. Anwar al-Awlaki was we systematically place civilians in dana dangerous man whose teachings have ger? The scale of our misdeeds is certainly been connected to several terrorist plots, smaller but no less justifiable. including the shooting at Ford Hood This policy creates problems on the in Texas and an attempted explosion in ground as well, the Living Under Drones Times Square. But he was still an Ameri- Project found that the “capacity of the can citizen, with all the rights that entails. U.S. to strike anywhere at any time led Frequent attempts to uncover the to constant and severe fear, anxiety and legal justification behind the Predator stress, especially when taken together strikes have been stonewalled by both the with the inability of those on the ground Bush and Obama administrations. NBC to ensure their own safety.” Such condiobtained a Justice Department memo on tions are ripe for the breeding of a new Feb. 6, which concluded, in the words wave of terrorists and religious fanatics. of an NBC correspondent, “that the Some academics have questioned the U.S. government can order the killing utility of drone strikes. Charles Krauthaof American citizens if they are believed hammer of The Washington Post, for exto be ‘senior operational leaders’ of al- ample, wrote that drone strikes yield “no Qaida or ‘an associated force.’” While the intelligence about terror networks or termemo clarified some of the thought pro- ror plans” because “dead terrorists can’t cess that has dictated American policy for talk.” It seems ridiculous for Obama to the last six years, it is simply not enough. legitimize targeted killing but shun the There must be a national dialogue on the enhanced interrogations of the Bush age. use of UAVs and their place within the All this is to say that the American public armed forces. A frank and honest discus- deserves an explanation: a legal explanasion must occur about the legality of such tion grounded in the traditions of this measures and the ability of the president great country rather than the secrecy and to maintain a “kill list”—surely President oppression we are fighting against. Obama can understand the need for such a measure. The precedent set by the unColin Scott is a Trinity junior. His column warranted killing of American citizens runs every other Monday.
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ast October, Savita Halappanavar, now pay the costs out of pocket because was admitted to an Irish hospital with they are afraid that their employers or severe back pain. She was 17 weeks their spouse will find out. That’s the equivpregnant and in the process of miscarry- alent of almost one month’s rent at several ing. A little over a week later, she died from apartment complexes just off of Duke’s blood poisoning. Doctors maintained that campus. And since poor women are more their “hands were tied” by Ireland’s strict likely to terminate their pregnancies than anti-abortion laws. However, the leaked draft their middle class peers, this $450 cost report by the Irish health falls disproportionately on ministry indicates that docwomen who do not have tors failed to diagnose the the money to spend. infection for three days and, This may be cause for furthermore, that medical joy among pro-life activists, staff should have considered but as long as Roe v. Wade performing an abortion remains good law, it is true procedure even before Dr. that the cost of an abortion Halappanavar asked for one. effectively restricts these joline doedens Abortion is illegal in Irewomen’s ability to make wait a minute land under all circumstanchealth care decisions. If the es, except where there is a purpose of the Affordable “real and substantial” risk to the mother’s Care Act is to provide access to quality, aflife. The European Court of Human Rights fordable health care for all Americans, then ruled in 2010 that this law violated Ireland’s why should abortion, as long as it is legally own constitution as well as the European recognized as a private medical decision to Convention on Human Rights by failing to be made between a patient and her doctor, specify an effective procedure to determine be excluded from this aim? Why should whether a woman was sufficiently endan- states be entitled to dictate to insurance gered for termination to be legal. Even if providers what they can and cannot cover? a termination of Dr. Halappanavar’s pregMost importantly, the increasing number nancy was not technically illegal, her doc- of restrictions on access to abortion must be tors were at least hesitant to subject them- evaluated in light of the steadily increasing selves to the possibility of criminal liability. maternal mortality rate in the United States. Compared to its situation in Irish law, The U.S. currently ranks 50th in the world the legality of abortion in United States law for maternal mortality, despite the almost couldn’t be clearer. If there is one Supreme $98 billion spent every year on hospitalizaCourt case that reigns supreme in popu- tion for pregnancy and childbirth. Over the lar knowledge of American law, it is Roe past two decades, the rate has more than v. Wade. And regardless of an individual’s doubled, from 6.6 deaths per 100,000 live opinion of the decision, its message is clear: births in 1987 to 16.1 per 100,000 live births Abortion is legal. Moreover, according to in 2009. Perhaps most shocking is the fact an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released that black women are 3.2 times more likely last month, 70 percent of Americans op- to die during pregnancy or childbirth than pose overruling Roe v. Wade. white women. Yet pro-life activists received an unexDr. Halappanavar’s tragic story may be pected windfall in insurance exchanges particularly infuriating because of her docset up under the Affordable Care Act. tors’ explicit argument that the illegality States that choose to set up their own ex- of abortion prevented them from taking changes are allowed to dictate the rules the necessary steps to save her life, but sevfor insurers who participate. At least 21 eral states in this country are in danger of states are now developing regulations moving in effectively the same direction. that would prevent health insurers from By severely restricting insurance compacovering the cost of an abortion, thereby nies’ ability to cover the cost of abortion, effectively restricting a woman’s ability to these states are restricting access to abormake health care decisions. tion itself. Such constraints simply do not Since the Hyde Amendment already align with the larger purpose of the ACA prohibits the use of federal funds to pay to provide quality, affordable health care for abortions, additional state-specific re- to all Americans. Dr. Halappanavar’s case strictions on insurance coverage of abor- illustrates the danger of near prohibition tions make the procedure practically in- of abortion, and, in light of the increasing accessible. According to the Guttmacher maternal mortality rate in this country, we Institute, in 2009 the median charge for should take steps to ensure that economics a surgical abortion at 10 weeks was $470, does not determine a mother’s life. with the average being $451, since the majority of abortions are performed at faciliJoline Doedens is a first-year law student. Her ties with lower charges. In 2008, 60 percent column runs every other Monday. You can follow of women paid out of pocket; most women Joline on Twitter @jydoedens.
Mariah Hukins is a Trinity senior. You can follow Mariah on Twitter @thehukes.
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BLOG from page 3 with huge gender disparities,” Nye said. He said he initially became interested in gender issues because of inequities in the media. “I am fascinated by how women are portrayed and how different this portrayal is from the women I’ve known my entire life,” he said. Lachman said she has noticed gender inequities through her own personal experience with relationships and power dynamics between men and women in high school and college. She went to an all-girls high school but did not realize she was a feminist until college. Lachman credited her experience at Common Ground as being formative in her development as a feminist. After that, she looked for somewhere at Duke to apply both her interest in the media and her feminist outlook.
“For a lot of women, becoming a feminist is about realizing that discrimination does exist and you can do something about it,” Lachman said. “It doesn’t necessarily take much to make that leap, it just takes thinking about ways that you can overcome the patriarchy that exists in our society.” Although Write(H)ers is primarily for those who openly identify as feminist, another goal of the program includes reaching out to people who might be allies to the feminist movement but have never talked about gender issues openly, Van Name said. She added that day-to-day activism is about trying to look at the world in a different perspective. “There are a lot of people here who have never considered what it’s like to be a woman in that you’re constantly told that you have to be on the watch when you’re walking home by yourself, or watch what you’re drinking and wearing when you go out,” Van Name said.
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PARKS from page 3 since President Ulysses S. Grant made Yellowstone the first national park in 1872, have made the deficit battle very real for millions of Americans. “They’re a crown jewel, for crying out loud,” said Bill Berg, a business owner in Gardiner, Mont., with a population of 857 at the northern edge of Yellowstone, which would lose $1.8 million. “The parks go across party lines,” Berg said. “They’re an affordable destination. They’re the most compelling reason Congress ought to get its act together.” The Park Service’s dryly worded “Instructions for Sequestration Reduction Planning Template” calls for drastic measures if Congress does not avert the cuts. “We expect that a cut of this magnitude, intensified by the lateness of the implementation, will result in reductions to visitor services, hours of operation, shortening of seasons and possibly the closing of areas during periods when there is insufficient staff to ensure the protection of visitors, employees, resources and government assets,” Jarvis wrote in a memo obtained by the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees, which is working to rally the public against the cuts. The memo instructs park officials to plan for furloughs and eliminate most of the 9,000 seasonal employees who staff most visitor operations. “Everything would be reduced from what visitors expect when they come to a national park,” said Joan Anzelmo, former superintendent of Colorado National Monument. “We’re not an office that answers phones.” Even the White House visitor center and 82 acres surrounding 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. would be affected. The Park Service’s $2.2 billion budget would be sliced by 5.1 percent. The effect would be severe, former park officials and budget experts say, because the cuts would be made over the seven remaining months of the fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. With salaries making up 80 to 90 percent of their costs, parks have very few discretionary expenses. Few have been able to squirrel away money to prepare for sequestration. By March they will have spent more than 40 percent of their yearly budget.
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It’s not often that the Cameron Crazies fall silent, but they did just that when Duke standout point guard Chelsea Gray collapsed to the floor. The No. 5 Blue Devils (24-1, 14-0 in the ACC) narrowly escaped a motivated Wake Forest squad (1170 15, 4-10) Sunday in WF an 81-70 win, but DUKE 81 the victory came with a heavy price. With 8:07 remaining in the first half, Gray moved to attack the basket after an offensive rebound and drew contact from Wake Forest forward Dearica Hamby in an awkward fall. Several minutes passed as Gray writhed in agony before she could leave the floor with the assistance of team medical staff members, who took her to the locker room on crutches. Struggling off the court to an ovation from fans and players alike, the junior guard was careful not to put any weight on her right leg. After the game, Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie announced that Gray, who entered the game averaging 13.1 points per game and leading the ACC in both steals and assists, will miss the remainder of the regular season with a dislocated kneecap. If there are any ligament complications, she could miss even more time. “We’ll find out [more] after the MRI,� McCallie said. “It’s been dislocated, and they don’t know what that involves relative to ligaments. What we do know is that she’ll be out for the rest of the regular season.� Even before Gray’s injury, Sunday’s game was not going well for the Blue Dev-
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Chelsea Gray went down with 8:07 left in the first half and will miss the remainder of the regular season. ils. Wake Forest center Sandra Garcia led the Demon Deacons from the opening tip, scoring six quick points as Wake Forest took an early 8-0 advantage. Both Gray and Elizabeth Williams had slow starts for Duke, including several missed layups and some defensive lapses. “We weren’t ready out of the get-go,� McCallie said. “Wake did a great job com-
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After a last-place finish in the ACC and the resignation of head coach Sean McNally last year following a seven-year tenure, Duke baseball underwent a facelift, overhauling the entire coaching staff. And when the unranked Blue Devils (1-2) took down No. 13 Florida (2-1) in Gainesville, Fla. Friday, the shake-up paid off. Duke defeated the Gators 4-3 Friday before falling 4-2 Saturday and 16-5 Sunday 4 DUKE in the three-game 3 series at McKethan UF Stadium. DUKE 2 “We got a tremendous start from 4 UF Trent Swart,� Blue Devil head coach DUKE 5 Chris Pollard said of 16 Friday’s game. “He UF pitched six really strong innings and really kept [Florida’s] lineup in check.� Swart, a left-handed sophomore, held Florida to two runs in six innings before he was relieved by junior right-hander Robert Huber, who surrendered the Gators’ third run while recording five outs. Sophomore
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The No. 4 Blue Devils knew they would be in for a long match, going up against No. 2 Florida Sunday. In a rematch of last year’s NCAA tournament semifinal, in which the Blue Devils lost 4-3, Duke could hardly have asked for a more satisfying win. After a heartbreaking loss to North Carolina in the semifinals of the National Team Indoors last week, the women were eager to redeem themselves. The 4-0 win was Duke’s first-ever sweep against the Gators and only its fifth overall win against Florida in program history. Head coach Jamie Ashworth was extremely proud of the way his team played and believes it says a lot about Duke tennis. “So many teams play Florida and go out on the court and roll over because it’s Florida,” Ashworth said. “I told them if we go out there and fight and put pressure on them and make them come up with shots, we’d be in a good position because teams don’t do that to them. Other teams play the ‘Florida’ on their jersey rather than the ball.” On court three, the doubles team of junior Hanna Mar and sophomore Monica Turewicz took care of business quickly against Florida’s Danielle Collins and Olivia Janowicz. After breaking serve to open the set, Mar and Turewicz cruised to an 8-4 victory and put Duke’s first win on the board.
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Marianne Jodoin won the final singles match to secure the victory for Duke against No. 2 Florida. Duke’s No. 1 doubles team of senior captain Mary Clayton and sophomore Ester Goldfeld showed their endurance in a loss to Florida’s Lauren Embree and and Sofie Oyen. After being down 4-1, Clayton and Goldfeld fought their way back 4-5 with aggressive net play and strategic ball placement. But despite their efforts, the duo could not manage to hold off the Gators, losing 8-4. The doubles point came down to sophomore pair Marianne Jodoin and Annie Mulholland on court two. After being down 6-4, Mulholland recorded a powerful overhead smash down the middle of the court to tie it up at 6-6. Florida’s Brianna Morgan and Alexandra Cercone showed off potent net play, but Mulholland and Jodoin managed to hang on for a tiebreak at 8-8. After being down a mini-break, a forehand volley from Jodoin put the ball just out of Florida’s reach, clinching an 8-7 victory and the doubles point for the Blue Devils. “After watching Marianne and Annie compete so well and fight and win their doubles match, it gave us all so much confidence,” Goldfeld said. “I think that definitely carried over into singles and helped all of us.” No. 45 Goldfeld won her singles match against No. 9 Sofie Oyen in straight sets and Turewicz gave Duke a second SEE W. TENNIS ON PAGE 8
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COLLEGE PARK, Md.—In what might be the final ACC game Duke plays against Maryland on the road, the Blue Devils made their exit from the Comcast Center amid a sea of rowdy Terrapin fans. Unable to handle Maryland’s size and intensity on the glass, No. 2 Duke lost to the Terrapins 83-81 in what was likely the penultimate conference matchup between the two teams and potentially the Blue Devils’ last trip to College Park. The Blue Devils (22-3, 9-3 in the ACC), who did not hold a lead in the second half, made a late run, trailing by just two points with 38.7 seconds remaining. The Terrapins (18-7, 6-6) led by as many as 10 with 3:39 remaining, but Duke finally knotted it up at 81 with 17 seconds left when Rasheed Sulaimon nailed three free throws after getting fouled on an attempt from deep. But Quinn Cook fouled freshman guard Seth Allen with 2.8 seconds on the clock. Allen—who finished with 16 points playing the minutes vacated by suspended Pe’Shon Howard—made both free throws and Cook missed a last-second heave, prompting the Maryland faithful to storm the court. “Quinn took a great shot. I thought it was in, but sometimes it just doesn’t bounce your way,” Sulaimon said. “Maryland played a great game and I’m really proud of our team and how we fought, especially in a hostile environment like that, to have a chance to win the game.” Maryland held a decisive edge on the glass throughout the game, capitalizing on Duke’s smaller lineup and building a 40-20 rebounding advantage. “It’s one thing to play Duke close, it’s another thing to beat them,” Terrapin head coach Mark Turgeon said. “I thought our big guys were dominant, physically. Forty-totwenty on the boards— that’s pretty good.” Maryland dominated the inside, shooting 60.0 percent from the field and converting on easy opportunities inside the paint. National Player of the Year candidate Mason Plumlee was no match for the Terrapin center Alex Len. The 7-foot-1 Ukrainian dominated Plumlee on both ends of the floor en route to 19 points and nine rebounds in just 28 minutes of action. Maryland, utilizing a rotation of nine players, kept its big men rested by rotating them through the lineup, leaving the Blue Devils’ shallow frontcourt rotation exhausted in the second half. Plumlee managed just four points and three boards on the evening. Plumlee spent significant portions of the second half on the bench, yielding minutes to Josh Hairston and Alex Murphy. “There’s so much pressure on Mason to play outstanding,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “That wears on you as the season goes along. He didn’t look fresh tonight and Len played really well.” Seth Curry made his first six shots of the contest on the way to 14 first-half points for Duke and finished with a game-high 25. He did not attempt a 3-pointer until the 3:06 mark of the first half, but capitalized on jumpshooting opportunities from the
81 60% FG The Terrapins entered play making 47.2 percent of their shots from the field, but had no problem making easy buckets vs. Duke.
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Quinn Cook heaves a last-second attempt that ultimately rimmed out in Duke’s 83-81 loss to Maryland. wing and drove to the bucket for runners and easy layups. Despite Curry’s hot shooting to start the game, Maryland closed the first half on a 5-0 run to seize the game’s momentum and added an 8-0 run early in the second half to put the game firmly in their control. Maryland held a 49-41 advantage after forward Jake Layman converted on a transition layup and forward Shaquille Cleare added two free throws from the line. One of the bright spots of the first half for the Blue Devils was the play of Hairston, who was assertive down low and finished with 11 points—just two short of his career high—despite tearing a ligament in his right thumb in practice Friday. He showed strength in the post and on the defensive end where he drew three offensive fouls. The Terrapins struggled to take care of the ball, especially in the second half. The Blue Devils forced 26 Maryland turnovers, 16 of which came after halftime. This was the first time Duke had forced 26 turnovers in a game and lost since Jan. 10, 2007, when the team forced 28 turnovers in an 11-point loss to Georgia Tech. The Blue Devils have accomplished this feat eight times since then and won those games by an average of nearly 34 points. After Hairston picked up his fourth foul with 7:42 remaining in the game, the Blue Devils’ small lineup got even smaller. Just as it had in
the late stages of its win against North Carolina Wednesday, Duke featured four guards on the floor down the stretch against a much bigger and stronger Maryland lineup. The Blue Devils finished the game with Murphy playing center after Hairston and Plumlee fouled out in the game’s final minute. “We had five guards out here for a lot of the time. This has been an exhausting schedule for our team since N.C. State and we’re playing on fumes,” Krzyzewski said. “The lineups that we play, Murphy never plays center for us.... We don’t even have enough guys to practice with to try it.” Although the Blue Devils kept the game within reach throughout the second half, the Terrapins always seemed to answer. Maryland’s ability to get to the free-throw line helped to keep its lead safe. After attempting just three free throws in the first half, the Terrapins were 23-of-31 from the charity stripe in the second period. They were the beneficiary of 17 Duke fouls in the second half and were in the bonus for the game’s final 9:49. “There was a stretch in the second half where almost every possession, if they didn’t score they were getting fouled,” Sulaimon said. “They got in the bonus and every time we fouled them they were shooting two free throws and they did a great job at making their free throws. It was definitely tough but we just have to fight through it and learn to adjust to how the game is being called.” After a quiet start to the second half, Curry nailed back-to-back 3-pointers to trim Maryland’s advantage to 80-78 with 57.4 seconds remaining, but missed a jumper from the elbow early in the shot clock with a chance to tie the game. Layman converted the back end of his two free throws after Plumlee fouled out, leading to the final sequence in which Sulaimon’s three free throws ultimately proved too little, too late.
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Maryland dominated Duke on the boards, outrebounding the Blue Devils 40-20. The Terrapins capitalized on those second-chance opportunities en route to the victory.
gamenotes —>After the game, Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski disclosed that junior forward Josh Hairston—who finished two points away from his career high against the Terrapins—tore a ligament in his right thumb during Friday’s practice. “He got hurt yesterday and tore a ligament in his thumb. He can play the rest of the year, but it will have to be taken care of after the season,” Krzyzewski said. —> Following his team’s loss, Krzyzewski had some choice words regarding conference realignment and the Terrapins’ decision to leave the ACC
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The fragility of basketball success M. BASKETBALL from page 1 who gave Turgeon’s squad the praise it deserved after Saturday’s game at the Comcast Center in College Park. “We’re not this great basketball team,” Kryzyzewski said. “Our team has found a way to win with Ryan being out. And we have to continue to find that. It’s very fragile—you can see that tonight.” Perhaps the best definition of elite status in college basketball today is the ability to win even when a team fails to find that delicate balance in any given game. Duke looked like that sort of squad early in the season when Kelly was on the floor to lend a hand in many different facets of the game, but Saturday’s loss showcased the challenge that the Blue Devils face in getting all cylinders firing at once. Defensively, the Blue Devils did a fantastic job forcing turnovers against Maryland, racking up 12 steals—including four apiece by point guards Quinn Cook and Tyler Thornton—and converting the Terrapins’ 26 giveaways into 27 points. But their efforts wreaking havoc with Maryland ball-handlers were counteracted by subpar efforts protecting the rim. Turgeon used nine players against the Blue Devils. All nine took at least three shots, and only one—guard Logan Aronhalt, whose three shots were all 3-pointers—made fewer than half of his attempts. When point guard Seth Allen was able to avoid turning the ball over, he penetrated with ease, shooting 4-for-7 from the floor and earning eight trips to the free throw line, including the game-winning pair with 2.8 seconds to play after blowing by Quinn Cook close to midcourt. Allen’s critical free throws were two of 34 that Maryland earned in the game, a consequence of personnel mismatches— which Maryland exploited to greater effect than Duke—as well as whistle-happy officials who called 49 fouls in the game, including one on each of the last four possessions. “You just want to play,” senior guard Seth Curry said. “It seemed like both teams were playing well the whole game, but the game changed when they were stopping play every possession, so it’s frustrating. It’s not fun.”
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Success is fragile, as evidenced by the ups and downs of Maryland head coach Mark Turgeon, Gieryn writes. On offense, Curry brought his top shooting form, especially in the first half, when he swished numerous off-balance jumpshots en route to a 7-for-9 showing before halftime. But as unstoppable as he was at several key moments, Duke’s interior game weighed down Curry’s winning effort. A visibly exhausted Mason Plumlee managed just four points and three rebounds— season lows in both categories—against a smorgasbord of big Terrapin defenders. Plumlee struggled to establish consistent position in the post, and came up short on several hook shots when he did get the ball down low. Josh Hairston gave perhaps his best effort of the season, scoring 11 points on 4-of-5 shooting and drawing three offensive fouls, but Plumlee emphasized that the team cannot rely on others to keep its balance intact. “I’ve just got to show up,” Plumlee said.
“I didn’t think I showed up to play today, and I let my teammates down.” With a winning balance so difficult to come by, there comes a point in the season—especially in the ACC—where strategy and talent more readily take a backseat to emotion and fatigue. Challenges arise for every team, but the champions will be the teams that can keep the low points each game from getting too low, that can prove flexible and versatile and that can recover quickly from setbacks. Saturday, the Terrapins were better in those areas than Duke was, but for his part, Krzyzewski thinks he has the necessary ingredients in his own locker room as well. “I’ve got a bunch of winners in there. They don’t have positions,” Krzyzewski said. “There’s no strategy really in this. You’re trying to survive. You’re trying to get five guys out there to fight. There’s a lot of improvisation done in this game.”
DukevsMaryland for the Big Ten following next season. This could be the final ACC tilt between Duke and Maryland in College Park. “I have a great deal of respect for Maryland. If it was such a rivalry, they’d still be in the ACC. Obviously they don’t think it’s that important, or they wouldn’t be in the Big Ten. I respect their basketball program and the job their coaches have done and their players have done over the years. We’ve had some great games with them, but we have great games against a lot of people. A lot of people want to beat us, and they’re one of them,” Krzyzewski said. —Daniel Carp MELISSA YEO/THE CHRONICLE
Seth Curry scored 14 first-half points en route to a game-high 25, but said the game was difficult because the referees called the game so tightly.
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Saturday the weather was cold, but Duke came out even colder, surrendering the game’s first six goals to No. 3 Notre Dame (1-0) en route to an 8-1 halftime deficit and a 13-5 defeat. Although the No. 4 Blue Devils (2-2) mustered more fight in the second half, drawing within four 13 less than seven minND utes into the third DUKE 5 quarter, the Fighting Irish scored the MERC 3 next four goals to DUKE 15 quell any chance of a comeback. Duke looked entirely out of sync right out of the gate, committing unforced turnovers and failing to move the ball into position for good looks at the goal. The Blue Devils did not even attempt a shot until more than 11 minutes into the game. After the first period, the Fighting Irish led 2-0 while outshooting the Blue Devils 10-3. “We played a lot of defense in that first quarter,” head coach John Danowski said. “And even though we played a lot of defense it was only two-nothing, and we thought maybe we dodged a bullet.” The onslaught continued in the second quarter, and Notre Dame scored two more goals just over three minutes into the period. Danowski turned to backup goaltender Ben Krebs to provide a spark, but to no avail. The defense and goaltending, however, was hardly the only problem. For the half, the Fighting Irish outshot Duke 23-7, as the
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Duke goalie Dan Wigrizer spent some time on the bench after surrendering a number of early goals. Blue Devils tallied their lowest shot total for a half since a loss to Penn in February 2011. Although Danowski credited Notre Dame’s strong defense for forcing turnovers and preventing Duke’s penetration, he admitted that the team looked tentative on offense.
“I think we were disappointed with our effort the first half,” Danowski said. “Notre Dame is a terrific team, terrific defensively, but we thought we were tiptoeing around a lot in the first half.“ The Blue Devils appeared to shift momentum by scoring with just 39 seconds
left before halftime, but the Fighting Irish scored twice more in the final 13 seconds to build the lead to seven and effectively end the game at the half. Duke opened the second half with Wigrizer back in goal and showed some of the playmaking ability that led to a preseason top-10 ranking. Junior Jordan Wolf scored just 19 seconds into the quarter on a transition play, and the Blue Devils’ next goal came after they worked it inside to Josh Offit for a good look at the net. “When we scored that first goal [of the second half], it gave us a lot of life,” Danowski said. “I thought we got a lot of energy off of that. We created a bunch of turnovers and picked up a bunch of ground balls. It was a huge lead that Notre Dame had at that point for us to try to come back, but at least we fought to the end.” The brightest spot for Duke, though, was the play of Brendan Fowler, who was named last week’s ACC Defensive Player of the Week. Fowler won 15-of-22 faceoffs for the Blue Devils while collecting 10 ground balls. “Brendan is one of those young men that provides this real toughness,” Danowski said. “Now two weeks in a row he has really provided a spark and really been consistent for us.” Sunday the Blue Devils carried over some of the fight they showed in the second half against the Fighting Irish. Duke leapt to an 8-0 lead in the first half against Mercer (1-1) before cruising the rest of the way to a 15-3 blowout. Wolf and senior David Lawson scored four goals each to lead the Blue Devils against the overmatched Bears.
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fromstaffreports Duke men’s tennis falls in the ITA National Indoor semifinals to top-ranked Virginia Despite No. 9 Duke (10-2) looking good after winning the first doubles match against No. 1 Virginia (4-0), its lead was brief as the top-ranked Cavaliers went on to take a 4-0 victory in the semifinals of the ITA National Team Indoors. The tandem of freshman Michael Redlicki and sophomore Jason Tahir recorded the first win of the night at the No. 2 spot against Virginia’s Justin Shane and Julen Urlguen by a score of 8-3. Shane and Urglen rank No. 15 nationally while Redlicki and Tahir check in at No. 18. The Blue Devils were unable to capture the doubles point, however, as No. 2 Henrique Cunha and Raphael Hemmeler proceeded to drop their match, as did No. 33 Chris Mengel and Fred Saba. The loss for Cunha and Hemmeler snapped a streak of
BASEBALL from page 2 righty Andrew Istler took the mound in the eighth inning and finished the game, retiring all four batters he faced. At the plate, junior Mike Rosenfeld led the Blue Devils, going 3-for-5 with a double and triple, earning an RBI and scoring a run. Duke third baseman Jordan Betts added the game’s only longball, a two-run shot in the fourth inning. “We were opportunistic offensively,” Pollard said. “We
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Mike Rosenfeld keyed Duke’s season-opening win against No. 13 Florida, going 3-for-5 with a double and triple. took advantage of a couple mistakes that [Florida] made. Our guys competed really well.” Saturday, Marconcini recorded a two-run home run in the fifth inning, but the Blue Devils could not overcome their slow start. The Gators took advantage of Duke’s sluggish opening innings, knocking a three-run home run in the bottom of the first that proved to be the difference in the game. Duke went scoreless for the first three frames, and the Gators never trailed, adding an insurance run in the sixth inning. “[Marconcini] didn’t have a great first at-bat in Saturday’s game,” Pollard said. “But then he adjusted, got a pitch he could handle at a big spot and put us right back in the ball game.” In the final game of the set, Duke had a 3-2 lead at the bottom of the sixth inning. The Blue Devils’ hopes of earning another signature win were dashed as they fell apart in the final innings of the game, allowing 14 runs. “I give Florida credit for scoring 11 runs when they had two outs,” Pollard said. “They got key hits when they needed them.” Duke junior Matt Berezo provided an offensive spark for the Blue Devils in the series finale, going 2-for-3 with a single, double and two RBIs. “Matt is a great example of being patient until your number is called,” Pollard said. “You don’t have control as a player over when your number is called. All you can do is be ready....and Matt waited patiently, came in today and had really good at-bats.” The game wasn’t as lopsided as the score suggests, Pollard said. “We were just a pitch or two away from having a chance to win that ball game,” he said. The Blue Devils hope to build on the momentum of Friday’s success as they prepare to open their home slate this weekend against Bucknell for a three-game series.
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An injured Henrique Cunha suffered his first doubles defeat in 17 matches with partner Raphael Hemmeler.
16 consecutive victories. Cunha, who has been fighting injuries, was unable to compete in singles, bumping Redlicki up to play at the No. 2 spot behind senior Fred Saba at the No. 1 position. The 6-foot-7 freshman was defeated 6-3, 6-1 by Virginia’s Alex Domijan, who currently ranks No. 1 in the nation. Redlicki’s classmate Bruno Semenzato was able to take his competition with Cavalier Justin Shane to three sets but ultimately dropped the match 6-1, 3-6, 6-1 at the six position. Virginia’s Jarmere Jenkins took down Saba in three sets, and once those three matches were finished, play on the other three courts was cut short as the Cavaliers had already clinched the match. The Blue Devils have a few weeks off before they return to the court Tuesday, March 5 when they take on Virginia Commonwealth.
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Liston steps up in Gray’s absence W. BASKETBALL from page 2 not taken over the game. The sophomore sharpshooter tallied a career-high 29 points, including five 3-pointers. Wake Forest head coach Jennifer Hoover had high praise for the Illinois native’s contributions. “Obviously, Duke is a phenomenal basketball team,” Hoover said. “They’ve got a lot of balance, a lot of different weapons. When one goes down they have somebody step up and try to take over.… Tricia Liston did that today.” In addition to Liston’s exceptional production, Alexis Jones and Chloe Wells were key in filling the void left by Gray, combining for 14 points in 60 minutes of action. Coming off the bench, Richa Jackson also contributed eight points to the winning effort. “Richa plays fearless,” McCallie said. “She’s a smart player in that she loves to play and attack…. When she came into the game late she hit that three—which was a really important three—on the right wing.” Despite some streaky long-range shooting from guards Chelsea Douglas and Lakevia Boykin, the Demon Deacons were not able to keep pace with Liston and Duke’s supporting cast down the stretch. Liston and her fellow Blue Devils were urged onward throughout the second half by an injured Gray, who sat on the bench with her leg elevated, clapping and offering words of encouragement. “I love playing with Chelsea on the court, and [it was awesome] off the court to see her there cheering on,” Liston said. “In the timeouts I’d walk over there right before I went out, and she’d tell me something that I needed to do or look for on the court. She was there the whole game, and I think everybody felt her presence in the game, especially her coming out in the second half and being as strong as she was.” With several tough conference games remaining including a home game against North Carolina, Duke will have to find a way to win without Gray. “We’re going to keep doing what we do,” McCallie said. “It’s a great opportunity for [our players] to step up like you saw today.”
W. TENNIS from page 3 singles victory against Collins. On court six, No. 102 Jodoin dropped the first set to Janowicz 6-1, but managed to fight her way to a 6-4 victory in the second. Going into the third, all Jodoin was thinking about was playing her best to help her team win, and she clinched the fourth match for the Blue Devils with a 6-2 third set victory. “We played with so much emotion,” Jodoin said. “We gave it everything we had on every single court and the score tells it all.” Before Jodoin’s victory ended play, No.
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Tricia Liston scored a career-high 29 points off the bench in Duke’s victory against Wake Forest.
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Mary Clayton was in the middle of a hard-fought match before play was stopped in Duke’s win.
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Chloe Wells has been key off the bench for Duke and will now play a bigger role with Gray injured.
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Alexis Jones starts alongside Gray in the Duke backcourt and will now assume more responsibility.
64 Clayton had match point on her racket against No. 116 Cercone, to whom she dropped a three-hour marathon match in the NCAA semifinals last year. After dropping the first set 6-4, Clayton broke serve early in the second and went up 2-0, eventually taking the second set 6-1 and leading the third set 5-2. “She just kept fighting,” Ashworth said. “Never for a second did she shrug her shoulders or put her head down, the same as our entire team.” Beating the No. 2 team in the country required the all-out effort the Blue Devils put forth on all courts Sunday. “I was really proud of this team today,” Ashworth said. “We’ve had good results in the past couple years, but today, I was just proud of the way they handled themselves and happy for each one of them.”
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