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the shots from midfielder Andi Sullivan and Campbell to propel Duke to its second College Cup semifinal in five years. “First, a big congratulations to a phenomenal program and team that Stanford has. [It is] obviously well coached and one of the top programs in the country,” Church told GoDuke.com. “We stayed organized the whole time. We were hard to break down. We worked

In response to student demands presented at the Duke Tomorrow forum Nov. 20, President Richard Brodhead sent an email last Tuesday to the students who organized the forum assuring them of his commitment to deal with the concerns they raised. The “Demands of Black Voices” document—which addressed bias and hate speech, racial and socioeconomic diversity, mental health and faculty unionization—called for an email to be sent to faculty and students by last Tuesday at 5 p.m. that included a signed statement by Brodhead, Provost Sally Kornbluth and Valerie Ashby, dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. The statement was not signed and publicly distributed, as per the student demands, but instead Brodhead’s email noted that the Task Force on Bias and Hate Issues will be responsible for considering many of the demands presented. He added that orientation programs and faculty diversity efforts— which were also included in the demands—are already in place. “We look forward to working with all members of the Duke community to make the University a better place,” Brodhead wrote in the email. Brodhead’s email directed further concerns and comments to Kelly Brownell, dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy, and Linda Burton, dean of

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Special to The Chronicle Sophomore goalkeeper E.J. Proctor made several key saves as the Blue Devils advanced to their second College Cup semifinal in five years.

Thanks to a standout performance from Proctor, third-seeded Duke beat top-seeded Stanford 3-2 in a penalty shutout at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium in Stanford, Calif. The Blue Devils and the Cardinal were tied 1-1 after 110 minutes of action and headed to the penalty spot in order to decide who was going to earn a trip to the Final Four. Three Blue Devils—junior captain Christina Gibbons, freshman Chelsea Burns and sophomore Casey Martinez— converted their strikes and Proctor blocked

Jesús Hidalgo The Chronicle Duke head coach Robbie Church said that the Elite Eight contest against Stanford was going to be a duel of goalkeepers. And when the Blue Devil sophomore E.J. Proctor faced Cardinal keeper Jane Campbell in the final round of penalty kicks Friday evening, she made sure to win that duel for Church and her teammates.

Community members upset about disruptive off-campus parties said Alisa Johnson, English professor at Meredith College and one of DNU’s leaders. “The parties involve alcohol, a lot of women and they shriek and scream and yell loudly,” said Kay Robin Alexander, Trinity ‘83. “The worst part is, sometimes after the police come and break up the parties, they’re out on the street making noise.”

Neelesh Moorthy The Chronicle Durham residents have voiced complaints regarding Duke and the city of Durham’s efforts to prevent off-campus fraternity parties from disrupting communities. In response to these disruptions, Durham Neighborhoods United has advocated for stricter enforcement of city ordinances applicable to fraternity houses and for the University to proactively address the issue. The group currently has a protocol directing community members to call representatives from the University, city and Durham Police Department to voice complaints, but these measures have not put a stop to the problem,

Duke’s response After receiving a complaint, representatives from the Dean of Students Office visit the houses in question and warn students that multiple complaints could lead to a disciplinary process, wrote Leslie Grinage, assistant dean of students, in an email. The University also has a “Knock and Talk” program during the first week of

each Fall semester. Staff from the Office of Student Affairs and the Duke University Police Department visit houses where students typically reside in order to “share University expectations for living in the community,” Grinage wrote. She noted that the University supports DNU’s protocol and regularly sends representatives to the group’s meetings. Johnson acknowledged that the University’s response time has improved, but added that the “Knock and Talk” program and visits to houses after receiving complaints have not fixed the problem. However, noise levels and party frequency have decreased at some houses, Johnson said. See PARTIES on Page 12

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Course scheduling constraints pose challenges for departments Rob Palmisano The Chronicle Students scheduling their courses for the upcoming semester must rush to beat their classmates to the best time slots, but faculty also face challenges when scheduling their classes. Prior to the close of the earliest registration window for any upcoming semester, each undergraduate and graduate department must submit a prospective layout of all courses it intends to offer and the days and times for those courses. Departments must also submit corresponding room requests to the University registrar, using the web-based Department Schedule Validator. The DSV—designed to eliminate the need for paper submissions—is one of many provisions of the Course Schedule Policy, which aims to distribute classes throughout the day and not just during highly requested times. Under the policy, a department is only allowed to schedule up to 50 percent of its courses within the most popular block of time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. “It is common across higher education institutions for there to be a strong desire for courses offered between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. However, only offering courses during ‘prime time’ would not be practical,” wrote Frank Blalark, assistant vice provost and university registrar, in an email. Blalark also explained that some of the challenges when scheduling classes include physical space limitations, competing time priorities and student curricular demands. Joseph Nadeau, director of undergraduate studies for electrical and computer engineering, wrote in an email that his department has had to reschedule multiple courses to different days and times in response to a shortage of classrooms, but added that relative consistency still prevails across terms. “Due to prerequisite structures and need to avoid course conflicts, there is not much change in days nor times year to year,” he wrote. Rey Chow, Anne Firor Scott professor of literature and director of the Program in Literature, wrote in an email that another challenge when submitting schedules is the

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size and type of the classrooms in question. “Seminars are sometimes assigned lecture rooms or [large] classrooms, and larger classes are sometimes given small classrooms,” Chow wrote. “Colleagues who teach film [sometimes] do not have classrooms with ideal acoustics, lighting, or AV equipment.” Departments can input the required characteristics for rooms in which a class will be taught. There is no limit to the number of characteristics that can be entered, but if there are no rooms that meet all of the criteria, then no room will be assigned. Elizabeth Bucholz, associate director of undergraduate studies for biomedical engineering, wrote in an email that conflicts can arise when two departments schedule large classes during identical times. “If other departments have scheduled their large classes at the same time as our large classes, someone has to move out of that time period as the Pratt School only has a certain number of large classrooms,” she wrote.

Bucholz added that the availability of lab space is a key constraint for engineering departments, as lab space is in high demand throughout the week. Richard MacPhail, associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in chemistry, wrote in an email that his department often works with other departments whenever potential conflicts or overlaps are expected to occur. Another Course Schedule Policy regulation requires at least 40 percent of all departmental course offerings to meet either three or more days per week or two days per week in the Monday-Wednesday, Wednesday-Friday or Monday-Friday pattern. Only up to 50 percent of classes can use the Tuesday-Thursday pattern. Mary Boatwright, chair of classical studies, wrote in an email that the DSV does not help smaller departments—including many humanities departments—because their courses end up scheduled at inconvenient times during the day. “In fact, the Validator is a killer for

many humanities departments and for other departments that offer courses and majors that are not seen as leading to a job,” Boatwright explained. “I often get the feeling that as much as a student might want to take ancient Greek or Roman history, for instance, [their] first priority is economics, pre-health and other courses that promise better job placement after Duke.” Boatwright added that courses held at the beginning and toward the end of the day “almost always under-enroll,” with the largest enrollment for these time slots often consisting of athletes who have to schedule around practices. “I am very happy to have courses for this great group,” she wrote. “But Duke administration wants us to enroll much more than seven students per class.” Departments also consider potential conflicts with student curricular and major requirements when submitting schedules for review. See SCHEDULING on Page 4

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Durham City Council passes resolution supporting Syrian refugees Sarah Kerman The Chronicle Although Governor Pat McCrory and many state lawmakers oppose allowing Syrian refugees into North Carolina, the Durham City Council has chosen to welcome them. In October, the Durham City Council unanimously passed a resolution—proposed by Steve Schewel, city council member and visiting assistant professor in the Sanford School feel as of Public Policy— strongly as in support resettling ever that we need of Syrian refugees to be welcoming in Durham, towards refugees putting the city at odds with from Syria. state leadership. — Steve Schewel Along with the governors of 26 other states, McCrory signed a letter in November asking President Obama to cease the resettlement of additional Syrian refugees until the background check process has been federally reviewed. Schewel said that he stands by the City Council resolution in light of the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris. “I feel as strongly as ever that we need to be welcoming toward refugees from Syria,” Schewel said. Schewel noted that the United States’ response to this crisis is increasingly important as the global refugee population is at its highest since World War II, including more than four million refugees from Syria. Unlike McCrory, the Durham City

statement welcoming refugees represents a step in the right direction, Schewel said. Because Durham has taken a welcoming stance toward Syrian refugees, community leaders face the task of effectively supporting them upon arrival to the Bull City, as the needs of refugees are often not adequately met by state and federal grantfunded programs. Adam Clark, office director of World Relief Durham—an organization that works with refugees who have recently moved to the city—noted that World Relief Durham assists with their transition by implementing federal and state grant-funded programs for refugee children. These programs meet basic needs such as housing, food and enrollment in Durham public schools, but do not provide other items such as school supplies and furniture. World Relief Durham relies on churches and community organizations for supplemental support—for example, volunteer support as well as material and financial donations that benefit the children, Clark noted. Clark explained that Schewel provided “big support” for the resolution and called it Chronicle File Photo a “good start”, but added that he would like Steve Schewel, city council member and visiting assistant professor in the Sanford School to see Durham’s commitment to refugees of Public Policy (middle), recently proposed a resolution that puts the city at odds with state matched by other cities in the country. leadership regarding the resettlement of Syrian refugees. “Part of the hope is that other Council was not convinced that allowing “We are deeply concerned that the communities across the state will echo refugees would pose a national security Islamic State of Iraq and Syria may have our support and push for a higher threat because refugees undergo a vetting exploited the generosity of the refugee number of Syrians to be allowed in the process that takes more than a year. system to carry out [the Nov. 13] terrorist U.S.,” Clark said. “If there is anything “No terrorist is going to go through an attack in Paris,” the letter states. else more impactful and specific we 18-month vetting process to get into the Schewel criticized some lawmakers’ could create and pass in support of U.S.,” Schewel said. reluctance to accept refugees, noting that Syrian refugees, I’d love to be a part of The letter signed by McCrory and that many people are playing on national that legislation as well.” other Republican governors holds the security fears in a harmful fashion. Chapel opposite view. Hill mayor Mark Kleinschmidt’s Nov. 17 Rachel Sereix contributed reporting.

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Fulya Keskin | The Chronicle Administrators did not send out an email to all students and faculty with a statement by the students who organized the Nov. 20 community forum—the first of many student demands.

RESPONSE from page 1 social sciences, the co-chairs of the Task Force on Bias and Hate Issues. Students who organized the event said they were not satisfied with the administration’s response and hope to reconvene this week to discuss future plans to engage administrators. “No one wants any drastic actions, but sometimes that might be the best way to do things,” sophomore Melody Iro said. “All we wanted was them to put a signature on a statement that said, ‘We are willing to listen to you and work with you.’” Despite the disruption of Thanksgiving break and the approaching end of the semester, Iro said that the group of students who organized the second forum will try not to lose any momentum and will prepare for next semester. The Task Force on Bias and Hate Issues

is slated to be “fully operational” in early January and will post regular updates to a website for the Duke community to access, according to Brodhead’s email. In the wake of the second forum, students discussed the demands using social media outlets such as Yik Yak and Facebook. Some of the demands most debated among students included the optional reporting of standardized test scores and the renaming of the West Union to Abele Union in honor of West Campus architect Julian Abele. “There will always be things people disagree on, and we knew that going into this,” Iro said. “We tried to cover as much as we could, but in the end we knew that people were going to get mad because you can never please everyone.” Faculty members have also joined in the support of the demands. As of Nov. 22, 23 faculty members had signed the “Demands of Black Voices” document to show their support

“When scheduling, we also consider our freshman, sophomore, junior and senior schedules and the most common second majors to prevent important required courses form conflicting with our scheduled classes,” Bucholz wrote. “For example, we schedule sophomore BME classes that don’t conflict with ECE 110L or ME 221L as most of our students take both the BME-required sophomore classes and the other department classes.” Faculty also noted the constraints imposed by the availability of teaching assistants and the scheduling flexibility of faculty members with young children. “It’s a pretty complicated jigsaw puzzle of moving pieces, and no matter how well we try to anticipate conflicts, inevitably conflicts arise,” Bucholz wrote. Students also commented on their own scheduling experiences for the upcoming semester. Freshman Jeffrey Wubbenhorst said it was important to him that all of his classes fit together with respect to proximity, and the times courses were offered often played a role as well. During the registration period for the 2016 Spring semester, seniors had one

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.—In a matchup of teams looking to snap long losing streaks, the Blue Devils finally got the monkey off their backs. Duke defeated Wake Forest 27-21 Saturday at BB&T Field, picking up its first win since a four-overtime victory at Virginia Tech Oct. 24. As was the case against the Hokies, senior Max McCaffrey caught a pair of touchdown passes from quarterback Thomas Sirk, and the Blue Devil defense forced three Demon Deacon turnovers to end the season with a win after four straight conference losses. Duke led 24-7 entering the fourth quarter, but was able to withstand a late comeback attempt from Wake Forest to secure a third straight winning season. “I think there’s no question that [the losing streak] eats at you, whether you’re a player or a coach,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “Anybody that says ‘Ah, we weren’t paying attention to it,’ you realize you’re listening to a guy that won’t tell the truth.” Sirk and backup Parker Boehme alternated series under center on the first three possessions, but Sirk separated himself and earned all the snaps from there on out. The redshirt junior led the Blue Devils (75, 4-4 in the ACC) down the field on the game’s first possession, but Ross Martin’s 39-yard field goal attempt sailed just wide of the right upright to deny Duke an early lead. Boehme’s first series resulted in a three-andout, and the redshirt sophomore did not see another snap. On Sirk’s next series, the Glen St. Mary, Fla., native again put the offense in the red zone and found McCaffrey on an out-andup route down the right sideline for the game’s first touchdown. Wake Forest (3-9, 1-7) answered immediately with a one-yard touchdown run by running back Tyler Bell, but Sirk countered with a 75-yard drive that culminated in a three-yard scamper for the Blue Devil signal-caller. Martin tacked on a 51-yard field goal—his seventh career boot of more than 50 yards—on the last play of the second quarter to give Duke a 17-7 halftime edge. Nine different Blue Devils caught passes

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Senior Max McCaffrey reeled in a pair of touchdown passes for the second time this season as Duke snapped its four-game losing skid Saturday afternoon.

Saturday, with McCaffrey leading the way with 93 yards and the two scores. Redshirt junior Anthony Nash and freshman T.J. Rahming added seven catches apiece and combined for 121 yards. “We were spreading the ball all around today. You saw so many different guys getting the ball, and they all did their jobs,” Sirk said. “If we can maintain drives and keep our defense off the field and they can get three and outs, that’s good for us. Duke held Wake Forest to just four first downs in the first half while picking up 18, all without the services of All-America strike safety Jeremy Cash. The Miami native was forced to sit out the first half after he was ejected from the Blue Devils’ 42-34 loss at Virginia last weekend for a targeting penalty. By rule, Cash spent the first half in the locker room away from the on-field action and so did not get to witness the stalwart defensive effort in person. But his teammates had a message for him during halftime. “Everybody was giving him a round of applause at halftime, saying ‘Fresh legs coming in the game,’” redshirt junior DeVon Edwards said. Wake Forest marched into the red zone in three plays on its first drive of the third

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Senior Carlos Wray and the Blue Devils held the Wake Forest offense to just four first downs in the first half as Duke built up a 10-point halftime lead.

quarter, unafraid to throw right at Cash, who returned to the lineup at the beginning of the third quarter. But the drive stalled after consecutive pass break-ups in the end zone by redshirt sophomore Phillip Carter and Edwards, who spent the afternoon playing cornerback instead of his usual safety position. Demon Deacon kicker Mike Weaver missed the ensuing 28-yard field goal attempt and the momentum swung back in Duke’s favor. The Blue Devils made the botched field goal hurt even more as Sirk engineered another long touchdown drive, again finding McCaffrey for a touchdown—this time from 28 yards out. Sirk completed all four of his passes on the drive and McCaffrey absorbed a hit from the Wake Forest defender right at the goal line to sneak across the plane. “I saw him come screaming in, so I knew I had to do a tight-body catch or else I was probably going to get separated,” McCaffrey said. “[Sirk] put it out there for us to catch and allowed us to make plays.” Sirk finished the day 26-of-39 for 275 yards through the air with three total touchdowns—two passing and one rushing. Wake Forest quarterback John Wolford kept things interesting, though, leading the

Demon Deacons on a 91-yard drive in less than four minutes to trim the deficit to 2414. The home team looked to be gathering steam after a Duke punt and two plays of 10-plus yards, but Wolford’s third turnover of the afternoon—a diving interception by cornerback Breon Borders with 7:12 left— allowed the Blue Devils to run precious time off the clock. Borders’ pick was the third takeaway of the game for the Blue Devil defense, following a Deondre Singleton fumble recovery and an Allen Jackson interception. The Duke offense, which struggled mightily with turnovers during the losing streak, held onto the ball all afternoon. “We didn’t do the things that we’ve been doing of late, and it made all the difference for us,” redshirt senior tight end Braxton Deaver said. “The past couple weeks have been pretty rough for us, and we got accustomed to winning there for a little bit. To get that taste of a win…it makes you remember what it feels like.” With seven seconds left, punter Will Monday booted the ball away one final time, and Wake Forest fielded the punt at its own goal line. In poetic fashion, the Blue Devils handled the kick coverage well and brought down the return man before he reached the 10 yard line, just less than a month after Miami’s eight-lateral kickoff return stunned Wallace Wade Stadium and kickstarted Duke’s four-game tailspin. “Flashbacks definitely come into your mind, but I was confident the whole time that we were going to get him down,” Borders said. Duke now awaits its postseason fate, as bowl selections will be determined Dec. 6. The Blue Devils will begin practice in earnest the following weekend, Cutcliffe said, but until then he plans on giving players like Sirk who have played through injury a chance to rest and get healthy. He also can feel a little bit better heading into the unknown after a victory instead of a fifth straight loss. “I’m going recruiting tomorrow and when I get up and go at 5 o’clock in the morning, I’m going to feel a bit better than I have the past couple of weeks,” Cutcliffe said. “I have no idea where we’re going [for a bowl game but] I know we’re going to get back to practice. We have a lot of work to get done.”

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Kennard’s career day sends Duke past Utah State Kennard’s hot start, energized Krzyzewski fuel Blue Devils

Ryan Hoerger The Chronicle After Wednesday’s win against Yale, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said that it would take time for each member of his team to develop the desired gamein, game-out consistency. Against the Bulldogs, it was Brandon Ingram’s turn to be on, but Sunday the stage belonged to Luke Kennard. Kennard scored a career-high 22 points on 7-of-9 shooting as No. 6 Duke used a monster run to open the second half to rout Utah State 85-52 Sunday at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The freshman had help as well in the form of Grayson Allen—who poured in 13 of his 22 points after halftime— and Amile Jefferson, who finished just shy of another double-double for the second straight game. After shooting 4-of-23 from downtown in his first six games, Kennard drilled his first two triples Sunday and finished the day 4-of-5 from downtown. “I met with [the coaches] and they said ‘It’ll come.’ As long as I keep doing the dirty work like getting rebounds, playing great defense, bringing energy to the floor, my shot’ll come,” he said. “When you make that first one, you look over at the bench and they’re going crazy, there’s a lot of energy. It gets you more into the game, gets your rhythm and flow going. That really helped me.” Duke (6-1) scored the first 16 points of the second half as its lead ballooned to 27 points. Allen keyed the surge, scoring the first four points for the Blue Devils and adding a wing 3-pointer after a missed free throw. When he subbed out, Kennard took over, making his first two shots of the second half to push the lead to 28. Jefferson set the tone early for Duke, taking the ball aggressively to the rim in the first half. The Philadelphia native poured in 10 points in the first half and finished with 13 to go with his

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Jennie Xu | The Chronicle Freshman Luke Kennard scored eight straight Duke points midway through the first half on his way to a career-best 22 points Sunday against Utah State.

nine rebounds. Kennard took control midway through the period, connecting on his first two 3-point attempts and finishing the half with 12 points. The Franklin, Ohio, native scored eight straight points midway through the first half, including an oldfashioned 3-point play with his off hand that earned him a visit with a fired-up Mike Krzyzewski heading into the under-eight media timeout. “He hit me on the chest and I was like, ‘Oh, okay,’” Kennard said. “I knew then that that’s the energy I needed to bring to the floor every single game.” The defensive attention given to Kennard and Jefferson diverted things away from Allen, who remained aggressive and scored nine points in the first half. On a day when Matt Jones’ streak of six consecutive doubledigit scoring performances ended, the Blue Devil backcourt was still in cruise control behind the hot shooting of Allen and Kennard. “[Kennard’s] been working so hard.

Jennie Xu | The Chronicle Sophomore Grayson Allen matched Luke Kennard with 22 points of his own, including seven during Duke’s game-defining 16-0 spurt to start the second half.

To see him get going like that was good,” Krzyzewski said. “I especially like Grayson’s reaction to Luke. It’s what I love about my upperclassmen. They could not be happier when a kid does well. I thought it picked Grayson up to see Luke starting to hit.” It took Utah State 5:08 to score in the second half before Shane Rector finally ended the drought with a step-back jumper. It did not help, though, as Jones drilled a 3-pointer on Duke’s next trip down the floor. The Aggies (4-1) shot just 25 percent from downtown and committed 13 turnovers, lacking the offensive fluidity necessary to stay in the game. Leading scorers Chris Smith and Jalen Moore arrived in Durham averaging a combined 30.1 points per game but managed just 21 points on 21 shots Sunday. Ingram returned to the starting lineup Sunday after his 15-point outing against Yale but did not make a field goal until 6:33 remaining in the game. The freshman replaced classmate Derryck Thornton, who struggled mightily against the Aggies. The Chatsworth, Calif., native finished 1-of-9 from the field, including a missed dunk on a fast break. After tinkering with the lineup twice last weekend in New York, Duke returned to the starting five that opened the season against Siena Sunday against the Aggies. “We have eight guys who are going to play that should all consider themselves starters. It all depends on how it’s going and what another team is doing as to who could be in the game,” Krzyzewski said. “We have an unselfish team so if another guy is doing well, they’re okay as long as Duke has more points than the other team. That’s a nice group to coach.” Duke hosts No. 13 Indiana Wednesday at 9:15 p.m. in the Big Ten/ ACC Challenge in the Blue Devils’ final marquee nonconference game.

Entering Duke’s contest against Utah State, freshman Luke Kennard—who developed a reputation as a sharpshooter in high school—was shooting a woeful 17 percent from beyond the arc. But from the moment he hit the floor Sunday, Kennard displayed an aggressive and attacking mentality that has been missing all season. The freshman scored seven straight points midway through the first half—a 3-pointer, a long jumper and an and-one on a right-handed floater in the lane leading into the under-eight media timeout. As he headed toward the bench, Kennard was congratulated near midcourt by the usual suspects—walk-ons Nick Pagliuca and Brennan Besser. But Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski was also waiting for him well away from the Blue Devil sideline. The 68-year old Krzyzewski met Kennard with a powerful two-handed push of the chest that seemed weeks in the making. “He said ‘There you go. That’s what we want,’” Kennard said. “I could tell when I looked him in the eyes, he was very excited with how I was playing, how I was attacking, the energy that I brought to the floor.” For the freshman, no two points he scores all season may be bigger than that floater. Kennard’s struggles from the floor have been a mystery all season, but the bump from Krzyzewski might be just what the Franklin, Ohio, native needed to jumpstart his season. “I know how hard he’s working,” Krzyzewski said. “I’m not sure if teachers do this when they finally get a good paper from a kid but I would hope they get excited when they see a student ‘get it.’ He was getting it and that’s exciting for me and I want him to see that excitement from me because I know how hard he’s worked for it.” Kennard made the free throw out of the timeout to extend his personal run to eight straight, which was just the start of a career performance. The freshman finished with a career-high 22 points in Duke’s 85-52 victory, knocking down four of his five attempts from distance and displaying the shooting stroke that made him the No. 24 prospect in the ESPN 100. Kennard’s hot shooting continued in the second half when he piled onto his total with a pair of 3-pointers and continued to stretch the floor on offense for Duke. With the freshman on the floor along with Matt Jones and Grayson Allen, the Blue Devils’ three potent perimeter shooters allowed the team to eventually run away with a big victory. The trio accounted for all eight of Duke’s 3-pointers and took 14 of the team’s 15 attempts. “Overall in the first five games my shot just wasn’t falling,” Kennard said. “Some See KENNARD on Page 8

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All the Blue Devils needed was a trip to one of the world’s most popular vacation spots to forget about their problems of the prior week. After a loss to then-No. 10 Texas A&M and the announcement that team captain DUKE 74 Amber Henson was leaving the team IDAHO 68 indefinitely last week, No. 15 Duke DUKE 86 capped off a three48 game tournament ISU with a resounding 85-34 victory DUKE 85 against Texas State 34 Saturday afternoon TSU at the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya in Cancún, Mexico, in the finale of the Cancún Challenge. Sophomore Azurá Stevens and redshirt sophomore Rebecca Greenwell combined for 26 points and 12 rebounds to lead the charge once again. Both Blue Devils were named to the Mayan AllTournament team, and Stevens garnered MVP honors for the tournament. After hanging on to defeat Idaho 7468 on Thanksgiving and routing Iowa State 86-48 Friday, the Blue Devils turned up the heat on the Bobcats Saturday. “We never broke outside of what we do and sometimes you can do that

when games are lopsided in that fashion where we have such an advantage,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie told GoDuke.com. “I think we played smart basketball. In the tournament overall, it is great for us to have that experience of having three games in a row.” After a Greenwell 3-pointer early in the opening quarter, Duke (6-1) surged out to a 15-5 lead and never looked back. The Blue Devils limited Texas State (2-4) to only 11 first-half points, resulting in a commanding 49-11 lead at intermission. Texas State shot only 15.4 percent from the field and turned the ball over 17 times in the opening half, and Duke punished the Bobcats in transition off of missed shots and steals. The Blue Devils held Texas State’s leading scorer, freshman guard Taeler Deer, in check throughout the game, as she finished with only three points after coming into the contest averaging 14.0 points per game. Deer made only one of her eight total shots and missed all three of her 3-point attempts. Instead, backcourt mate Toshua Leavitt paced the Bobcats’ offense, scoring nine of her team’s 34 points. Eight different Duke players scored in the first quarter alone, and 11 of the 12 Blue Devils scored—nine players registered at least six points. The balanced offense overwhelmed the

Ian Jaffe | The Chronicle Sophomore Azurá Stevens averaged 18.3 points per game during Duke’s three wins in Cancún, Mexico, on her way to tournamet MVP honors.

Bobcats, because as soon as they tried to stop one Duke player, another Blue Devil would step up and hit a big shot. Duke finished with 21 assists for the second straight game, highlighting its improved ball movement throughout the tournament. As a microcosm of the entire team effort for the Blue Devils, every member of the top-ranked recruiting class scored, led by Haley Gorecki’s 11 points. After sitting out Duke’s most recent home contest against Army with an ankle injury, the Palatine, Ill., native rediscovered her shooting stroke in Mexico, making all four of her shots against Texas State. In her third consecutive start, freshman Angela Salvadores just missed out on a double-double, as she registered nine points and eight assists. The Leon, Spain, native picked apart the Bobcat defense, finding open looks for Duke’s frontcourt players, and also added six rebounds. Stevens was one of many beneficiaries of Salvadores’ passing. The sophomore finished with 19 points and five rebounds, using her 6-foot-6 frame to make herself virtually unguardable in the post. Texas State’s tallest player stands 6-foot-1. The rookie backcourt tandem of Kyra Lambert and Salvadores combined for 12 assists—five more than Texas State had the entire game—and continued to grow more comfortable playing alongside one another. They also made their collective presence felt in the zone press, forcing many turnovers and helping hold the Bobcats to 5-of-34 shooting from 3-point range. “We are playing really good defense. It is the thing we practice the most. We know that to be a championship team, we have to play defense,” Salvadores told GoDuke. com. “It is our first thing in practice, in our games, and in our minds.” After finishing the Cancún Challenge with an undefeated record in roundrobin play, the Blue Devils head back to Durham to face Minnesota at Cameron Indoor Stadium Thursday night in the

ACC-Big Ten Challenge. “We are capable of playing with the highest teams and beating the highest teams, and we just have to come out and play our game and we will be good,” Stevens told GoDuke.com.

KENNARD from page 7 were just in and out, but shooters can have off nights. I had a few in a row to start the season, but we’re going to build off what we did today, we’ll keep working hard.” Kennard’s slow start was one of the biggest questions facing Duke in the early part of the season. Despite working for open looks, the guard simply could not get shots to fall. A big part of that may have been adjusting to the speed of the college game. Although most newcomers tend to rush too much when placed in a new situation, Krzyzewski said he thought Kennard was not playing fast enough. But extensive work with assistant head coach Jon Scheyer to improve speed and make plays off the curl appears to be paying dividends for Kennard. “He wasn’t shooting the ball at the speed the game was,” Krzyzewski said. “What I told him, I said ‘The game is the same speed at the free-throw line, so he’s 14-for-14 [at the charity stripe entering Sunday’s game].’ You’re not in the right lane anymore, you’re in the left lane.” The mid-court moment was just as important for Kennard as it was for Krzyzewski, who has stressed the need to be more outwardly emotional with his young team in the early part of the year. Although Duke had slowly begun to pull away from the Aggies, the basket seemed to propel the Blue Devils to another level for the remainder of the first half. The high intensity continued well into the second half as Duke used a 16-0 run to salt the game away. “Coach is in rare form right now,” senior Amile Jefferson said. “He’s at a great place with his fire, his intensity, his emotion…. He’s bringing it. If all our guys could bring it like Coach is right now, we would be a really dangerous team.”

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Duke plays spoiler against Tar Heels on Senior Day Peishu Li The Chronicle On a memorable Senior Day, the departing Blue Devils played the role of spoilers Saturday, firing on all cylinders to conclude the season with a dominant win against the Tar Heels. After trailing by one set early, Duke bounced back to upset No. 22 North Carolina in four sets (20-25, 25-15, 25-19, 25-16) at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Senior 1 outside hitter Emily UNC DUKE 3 Sklar racked up her double-double with 17 kills and 17 digs and redshirt senior setter Maggie Deichmeister dished out a game-high 49 assists and added 14 digs. “It’s really exciting to see them go out there and execute the way they did,” Duke head coach Jolene Nagel said. “To see the focus that they had out there and communication going in there, support for each other and the support for the whole team and the whole team to them was just tremendous and really special.” Senior outside hitter Breanna Atkinson and senior setter Christina Vucich both achieved season-high kills with 11 and seven, respectively, and senior outside hitter Laura Williams added 13 digs to update her season-high as well. The Blue Devils (17-13, 12-8 in the ACC) held a tight lead against the Tar Heels (20-9, 173) for most of the first set before North Carolina flipped the momentum after a Sklar attack error and mounted a 7-1 run to close the frame on a Victoria McPherson kill. Despite a lackluster .239 hitting percentage,sudoku_509A the Tar Heels posted 19

kills to Duke’s 11 and held the Blue Devils to just a .119 hitting percentage. But things started to go south for North Carolina’s attack in the next three sets, as Duke put up perhaps the best defensive performance all season to hold the Tar Heels’ hitting percentage below 0.020. In the fourth stanza, the Blue Devils shut down North Carolina entirely, blanking the Tar Heels with a .000 hitting percentage. North Carolina committed 30 attack errors and four service errors for the match, nine of which came in the decisive fourth frame. “We all knew after that first set that we were capable of much more, and that we kind of gave that set away with miscues on our block, miscues on defense and we had to straighten that out if we want a chance [to win],” Nagel said. “We adjusted a little bit with our block, a little bit with our timing, also making sure defensively everyone was on the same page…I’ve seen them playing defense like that in practice, when they really put their minds to it. It’s also human nature to be able to do that every time you step onto the court. Today everybody else got to see them play defense like that.” Duke hit the ball at a blistering .459 clip in the second frame and closed out the set by a 10-point margin. Junior middle blocker Jordan Tucker joined Sklar and Atkinson in double-figures with 13 kills, and freshman Leah Meyer added seven more. The balance all around the court allowed Deichmeister plenty of options as setter, and her 49 helpers paved the way for the Blue Devils to avenge their straight-set loss in Chapel Hill earlier this season. “We just had a lot of weapons out there

today,” Deichmeister said. “We were able to spread it out really well. [It was] just a solid team effort all around.” With exceptional performances both offensively and defensively, Duke dispatched the Tar Heels in the third set to go ahead 2-1. Despite a .125 hitting percentage in the frame, the Blue Devil defense rose to the occasion to finish the deal, 25-19. The Tar Heels tried to crawl back in the fourth set. Trailing 7-5, they seemed to have a chance to force a fifth and final set. But Duke never gave them the opportunity, rattling off a 10-0 run to seize control of the match. Meyer hammered down her seventh kill of the match to clinch the victory with a 25-16 set win. The Blue Devil victory derailed North Carolina’s hopes of sharing the ACC championship with Florida State and killed the Tar Heels’ 12-match winning streak. “It obviously wasn’t a perfect season by any means,” Deichmeister said. “But to go out with a win on Senior Day against Carolina on your home court, you cannot ask for anything better.”

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the middle of the term and are anywhere from the fourth week of class to the last week of class. Duke is not the only elite university to decline to standardize the administration of midterms, with the University of Pennsylvania following a similarly open academic schedule. However, Princeton’s calendar features one, single week in the middle of the semester dedicated

Editorial to the semester’s only midterm exams followed by a proper weeklong fall recess from classes. Further, Princeton, Harvard and Yale all offer reading periods of about a week before their final exam periods. Besides relieving student stress and enabling more deliberate studying, a longer reading period would allow professors to feel confident setting comprehensive finals. Final exams could be set to better reflect a semester-long exploration of material instead of being a dense rush of studying. The irregular midterm scheduling also risks doubly penalizing students who struggle with later course material. Late midterm exams and papers often do not come back with feedback soon enough for students to respond and correct before final exams

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n 1939, 937 Jews sailed from Europe aboard the St. Louis. It was six months after the Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass, when synagogues and Jewish businesses were desecrated across Austria and Germany. Jewish children had recently been barred from attending public schools. The SS had already opened concentration camps at Buchenwald and Mauthausen. These refugees

to wreak havoc in Paris two weeks ago. Under ISIS rule, religious minorities like the Yazidis are massacred and sold into sexual slavery. Women accused of wearing tight-fitting clothing face lashings from the morality police. No wonder four million Syrians have fled since the beginning of the civil war in 2011. They have seen what Hell is like and call it Syria.

Matthew King MAKE IT REIGN had good reasons to flee. When the St. Louis arrived in Havana, some of its passengers cabled President Roosevelt. They begged to disembark in Miami, to find refuge in the United States. As much as they believed in America, America did not believe in them. Public opinion was not on their side. Unemployment, nativism and anti-Semitism had boiled into a heady brew of intolerance. The American government feared that accepting Jewish refugees would mean letting Communists and Nazi spies into the country. Roosevelt, wary of taking on an unpopular cause as he was gearing up for a third presidential campaign, never replied to the passengers. It would not be the last time an American politician turned his back on refugees. The St. Louis returned to Europe. Of the 937 passengers who sailed for America, 254 would perish in the Holocaust. In 2015, it seems that we have forgotten the lessons of the St. Louis. As we live through the largest refugee crisis since the Second World War, America’s doors are once again swinging shut. Following the terror attacks in Paris earlier this month, a majority of Americans now oppose accepting Syrian refugees. We’ve been here before. For the refugees, this doesn’t end well. Who are the Syrian refugees? Many of them are educated professionals leaving what was once a middleincome country where they used to practice medicine or engineering. Some are children like Aylan. Most of all, they are ordinary people who found themselves trapped in unbearable circumstances, wedged between the brutal Assad regime and the expansionist Islamic State. Brutal is too weak a word to describe Assad. It was his decision to crack down on peaceful protests during the Arab Spring that precipitated armed resistance and civil war. His regime is responsible for more than 75 percent of civilian casualties this year in a war that has claimed over 200,000 lives. He is the first dictator since Saddam Hussein to gas his own people. Assad is the Islamic State’s most effective recruiter. ISIS has emerged as Assad’s most formidable adversary. The quasi-state controls a territory of 81,000 square miles astride Iraq and Syria and earns oil revenues of up to $600 million a year. ISIS propaganda is by far the most sophisticated and engrossing of any terror organization in history. Over 5,000 ISIS fighters come from Europe; a few of them returned

And now 10,000 of those four million are slated to arrive in the United States next year. They will be subjected to a rigorous screening process, waiting anywhere from 18 to 24 months for background checks to conclude. Many Americans are concerned over the possibility of terrorists slipping in through the refugee resettlement process, but as Nicholas Kristof rightly notes: “If a terrorist group wants to attack America, it won’t wait two years to try to infiltrate as refugees. It’ll send people in as students or tourists, use fake or stolen U.S. or European passports, or just pay a human smuggler to take their terrorists across the border from Mexico or Canada.” Besides, the best thing that can happen for ISIS recruitment is for America to turn away 10,000 Syrians, mostly Muslims, out of fear. ISIS wants to force Muslims to choose between their faith and the West. We must not let ISIS draw that false dichotomy. We also need to stop thinking about the decision to accept refugees as some kind of sacrifice. Refugees do not weaken America—they strengthen America. Refugees quickly find employment, take ESL classes, enroll their children in public schools, and contribute to their new communities. Albert Einstein, Gloria Estefan, Madeleine Albright and Wyclef Jean all came here as refugees. America’s openness to newcomers has been one of our country’s longest-lasting strategic advantages. It’s one of our greatest moral stands as well. Waves of fear arise in the sea of public opinion from time to time, and now we face a choice: keep our lighthouses shining and guide newcomers to our shores, or shut off the lights and leave them in the darkness, bobbing up and down in perilous waters. John Winthrop, himself a refugee fleeing religious persecution, once spoke of America as a “city upon a hill.” As fondly as we remember those defining words, we often forget what Winthrop said next: “The eyes of all people are upon us.” Winthrop’s sermon is not a paean to America’s virtue. It is a plea for Americans to act when conscience demands it. Once again the eyes of the world are upon us. Will we let our light shine in the darkness? Or will the darkness overcome it? Matthew King is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs on alternate Mondays.

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The roast of Monday Monday

o here we are: my last satirical column before my identity is unveiled next week. As we approach the end, I’ve gotten to thinking about my columns and have realised that there is something unfair in this set-up. Week after week, I get to target Duke and my fellow students and skewer them for their perceived foibles or missteps—but in so doing, I worry I’ve portrayed myself as in some way above it all. Of course, in reality I’m just as complicit in the ridiculousness and irrationality pervading Duke as anyone else. So this week, I have decided to level the playing field by falling on my own sword and how I relate to Duke. Welcome all to the roast

(read: how hellish it is) with others’ in a manner that closely resembles the business card scene in American Psycho. That competition isn’t restricted to academics, of course. Sex is an unclear example because I’d probably be doing it even if I weren’t at Duke, but the competitive impetus to have a regrettable hook up definitely increases when everyone else is leaving with someone. By this stage, my hook up history comprises so many dramas and incestuous links it reads like a Gabriel García Márquez novel. I like to think of myself as a good person, as one of those Duke students who has big ideas about things and who’ll eventually jet off into the

What interfaith means to me

he last time I managed to go a day without food and water, I ended up spending most of the day in bed. Much to the enjoyment of my roommate at the time, I could not function the way he was accustomed to during Ramadan, an annual holy month of fasting in the Muslim tradition that commemorates the first revelation of

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of Monday Monday! I’ll start with one of my worst vices: complaining. I moan about all kinds of minor Duke inconveniences. Take food, for example. I say there’re no food options here, but that perception may be less to do with Duke’s actual food availability and more to do with me choosing to eat the same five things every week. It’s hard for me to seriously say that I’m being forced to eat an austere, modest diet when there’s literally a food truck devoted solely to Belgian waffles visiting every week. I moan about other stuff too—like the buses. I often decry that Duke buses come far too infrequently, but of course that doesn’t stop me from refusing to run for the bus when it’s clearly about to leave or from standing around waiting for that much-hated bus even when walking would be quicker. And I blame the Duke administration for a litany of things they couldn’t possibly control, too. Don’t get me wrong: intimidating unionizers and maintaining shady endowment practices are things worth criticizing. But I think the mechanical failure of a water fountain in Perkins is better characterized as the product of Newton’s Second Law of Thermodynamics than it is administrative mismanagement. Another weird thing I do is that I compete needlessly. And it’s not the normal kind of competition where you try and have the best GPA, because obviously bragging about that would be poor form. It’s more like competing over how hard my life is compared with others’. Take the following normal conversation, reimagined for this column’s purposes as a Yu-Gi-Oh battle. Monday Monday: Yeah, I have work to do tonight. [Monday Monday’s places “Generic Homework” (ATK 500 DEF 500) into his Monster Zone.] Friend: Same, I have a five page paper due tomorrow. [Friend attacks Monday Monday’s “Generic Homework” with her “Five Page Paper” (ATK 1500, DEF 1000)] MM: FOOL! You activated my trap card! [Monday Monday’s “Generic Homework” transforms into “Ten Page Paper” (ATK 3000, DEF 2000); Friend loses 1500 Life Points.] Then there are ACES sign-ups. Every semester I compare my upcoming schedule

the Quran to the prophet Muhammad. I prepared for a week to align both my sleep and eating cycle with his, which incorporated waking up before sunrise to eat something before returning to bed. Even then, the result was not ideal—less energy, more tiredness, and because it was a hot Saturday in June, a license to enjoy the comforts of a chilly apartment. That day my purpose was not only expressly spiritual, but it had a deeper meaning for our friendship. Fasting became a brief moment of experiencing his religious practice and attempting through that open and authentic engagement to learn from each other in the process. Just as with this summer, I’m fasting this week for and with my friends to build examples of what it means to live in a pluralistic community that values interfaith engagement. What I mean by interfaith is engaging, learning and building community through service and authentic experiences across barriers of spiritual and religious or non-religious identities. Whether you participate in a faith tradition or identify as agnostic or atheist, you have some form of spiritual or faith identity, and that aspect of identity can be an important locus of growing inclusivity on campus and in the world around us. Often an aspect of identity we leave to the periphery of social justice circles is religious identity. Just as efforts to highlight racism and homophobia are active on this campus, so too should be the discussion of Islamophobia and the dangers of religious fundamentalism. It makes sense that we leave this aspect of identity out of spaces like Common Ground or in the broad set of demands that have been outlined by different student organizations over the past couple months. One can juxtapose Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Dorothy Day with the Westboro Apparently they’re gonna get Bruce Baptist Church, evangelical presidential Springsteen for next semester’s Monday Monday. candidates who fan the flame of antiI heard he has a niece here or something. Islamic fervor and picket lines outside of Planned Parenthoods and pride parades. In American society, it seems that faith has been the driving force behind marginalization as often as it has driven those who fight against that oppression. In a world that has become increasingly polarized politically and socially, the religious elements of that polarization are often forgotten, even when more than 83 perfect of the world’s population is religious (about 16 percent are unaffiliated) according to a Pew Research Center study. At the heart of many peace building and anti-oppression movements around the world, people of faith are active and engaged. We only need to walk out our front door to witness that religious leaders are the heart of the Moral Mondays real world and do great things. In the meantime I’ll do DukeEngage, maybe work at a non-profit for the summer, help the world become a better place, you know? But when someone says, “Hey Monday Monday, come picket unjust labor practices at the Marriot tonight!” I’ll immediately be like “lol sorry poverty and injustice can wait right now I have a thirty minute problem set due in six hours.” If I’m entirely honest, I’m really less a principled and visionary Duke student than I am a fierce and creative proponent of sitting in front of a laptop doing nothing for extended amounts of time. And of course, I lie aplenty. Not your classic “Oh no, I thought I sent the assignment earlier! Sorry, I’ll do it right now!” kind of lie though. It’s more like a “Oh yeah, I’m great!” when I’m actually about to peace out from a party without telling anyone kind of lie. I don’t enjoy speaking to my peers about my problems. If someone asks me how I am, I’ll usually respond with “Good, thank you!” rather than the less socially acceptable “God is dead and the Earth has turned to ashes.” But it’s odd; I don’t talk about my problems because it would make me seem fallible. But of course I am fallible and it’s bizarre that I front an image of emotional perfection when neither I nor anyone else is perfectly stable. So it is that rather than risk putting my emotions on display I’ll just sit in my room, silent, staring at the walls for hours on end. And yes, to that effect depression is exactly like the sensation of waiting for a pizza at The Loop. It’s almost satirically self-contradictory. I constantly complain about Duke and profess how bad my more superficial problems are; yet, I’m incapable of speaking to anyone about any of the problems that keep me up at night. I have such pride that I will speak about my problems only if they in some way advance my reputation. I’ll go to CAPS, but I’ll keep it on the down low. I’ll hide away all my difficulty because I fear that to show real humanity is to show weakness. I am not what I purport to be. But you know, that’s probably just me.

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movement in North Carolina. But as long as Ben Carson thinks a Muslim cannot be president, 40 percent of polled North Carolina Republicans think Islam should be illegal in the United States and presidential candidates can suggest to raucous applause that we should only accept Christian refugees from Syria or halt their entry altogether, the public image of faith will be one that highlights

the failures of interfaith engagement rather than its potential to strengthen and grow our communities. We’re asking the wrong questions when we ask “Should God be involved in a discussion of race?” or “Can a Muslim be President of the United States?” These questions simply lack any sense of nuance or common humanity. All they further do is highlight the divisions, which while important and valid in most religious contexts between specific traditions, should not have a place in our political or social dialogue. My faith background informs much about how I view and experience the world. The combination of a Catholic upbringing, non-denominational Christian perspectives and experience in the Black church has made me who I am. Our stories and our identities shape our experience and perspective of the world around us. Interfaith engagement is one that highlights the necessity of one’s story and the nuance of religious identity so that such a basis of commonality might lend powerful work to combat systems of oppression and individual bias. Fasting in and of itself is not unique to specific faith traditions; every major religion I have been exposed to incorporates some form of fasting into religious practice. In a sense, abstaining from food, water or a combination of the two for a period of time is a deeply spiritual and simultaneously grounding experience. In an attempt to gain clarity or connect with a higher being or sense of reality, we refuse the basic necessities which keep us alive for some period of time. In secular contexts, hunger strikes have been used in situations of powerlessness to give agency to those being imprisoned or oppressed. In the space of a fast, people from all and no faith background can come together to take a stand for an issue they care about whether that be climate change, racial justice or peace in the Palestinian territories. A couple years ago, some friends and I were meandering through the older neighborhoods of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, quite hungry and tired. We stumbled upon a Sikh temple and wandered in to explore. We were greeted, two Christians, an agnostic and a Muslim, with food and wonderful conversation about our faiths and the history of Sikhism. I’m fasting on Tuesday for interfaith communities because I have learned pluralist, peaceful societies are ones that have learned that faith can be a bridge and not a barrier to inclusivity and justice. I hope you will do the same for your own reason. Jay Sullivan is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Mondays.

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W. SOCCER from page 1 hard defensively to get back. I’m just very proud of our team and how [far] we have come during the season.” The battle between the goalkeepers started even before the opening whistle. Proctor and Campbell entered Friday’s match with only 0.61 and 0.53 goals against respectively—the 14th and seventh-best marks in the nation—and both had posted 10 shutouts this season. Proctor ended the game with seven saves in her pocket and Campbell registered five. In regulation time, Stanford (19-2-2) outshot Church’s squad 17-5 but it was the Duke team that took the early lead. The Blue Devils (13-5-5) broke the scoreless draw in the 14th minute, when Martinez put an inviting cross inside the 18-yard area from the right side of the pitch. Campbell and the Cardinal defense could not turn away the pass and the bouncing ball found junior attacker Toni Payne, who tapped it into an open net from five yards out for her third goal of the year. Twenty-five minutes later, Stanford midfielder Michelle Xiao equalized the contest with a low shot from 16 yards out that Proctor could not stop. “Scoring a goal early is always nice but at the same time it kind of puts more pressure to defend the rest of the game,” Proctor told GoDuke.com. “But throughout the season, the biggest thing is that we have improved every game from our technical abilities to just being able to fight to the end of the game. I think that’s why we came out with this [victory].” In the second half, the Cardinal manufactured nine shot attempts but Proctor posted four of her seven saves of the evening to keep the score even. The Blue Devils could have netted the goahead goal in regulation time but freshman Kayla McCoy missed the target when trying to finish a cross from Gibbons from inside the box.

The overtime action was more of the same, as the Cardinal outshot the Blue Devils 5-3 but Duke had the best opportunity to notch a winning goal. With three minutes to play in the first overtime period, sophomore midfielder Ashton Miller powered a shot that Campbell controlled off the goal line. Although it seemed that the ball had crossed the line completely, the referee deemed it did not. Campbell stopped a penalty kick from junior defender Rebecca Quinn, but Proctor’s two monster saves and the three Blue Devil goals paid Stanford back for Duke’s 1-0 loss against the Cardinal in the 2011 NCAA tournament final. After defending national champion Florida State blitzed Texas A&M 5-0 in one of the other four NCAA-tournament quarterfinals, the Blue Devils will battle the Seminoles Friday in Cary, N.C., looking to capture a spot in the national championship game. Duke and Florida State registered a two-overtime scoreless tie Sept. 20 at Koskinen Stadium in the teams’ ACC opener. “It is such an incredible experience to get to the Final Four, especially [after] not making [it to] the tournament last year,” Proctor told GoDuke.com. “It’s just such a cool feeling, even more so since it’s in Cary, only 20 minutes away from campus. That’s so exciting that we get to do it near home.”

PARTIES from page 1 “It stops for a while, and it springs back up,” she said. “None of the knock-and-talks seem to have been enough to convince students to look for other venues for parties.” Duke has taken action on similar issues in the past. In 2006, the University bought “party houses” located near East Campus and resold them to be used as single-family homes, said Jeffrey Potter, director of real estate administration.

Despite these efforts, some members of DNU have pointed to specific Duke policies as contributing to the persistence of off-campus disruptions. “I graduated from Duke in 1983, when there were still kegs on the quad at least four nights a week, every week,” Alexander noted. “In other words, the University had not yet pushed the ‘problem’ of student drinking off-campus.” City Council member Don Moffitt added that one potential policy change could be the institution of a “recall policy,” in which offcampus students could be recalled back to campus if they were found in violation of a code of conduct. He also noted that Duke’s threeyear on-campus residency requirement is a step in the right direction.

The Chronicle deal with, he added. “We have a lot of other problems,” Moffitt said. “It would be great if we didn’t have to focus resources on party houses.” Johnson noted that the deterrents in the ordinances currently are not effective enough to stop the problem, adding that DNU would like to see more aggressive enforcement of noise ordinances and underage drinking policies. DPD has been hesitant to charge students with underage drinking due to the far-reaching consequences of a criminal citation, Moffitt explained. Legal remedies DNU has recently worked with the Civil Legal Assistance Clinic at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law to explore potential legal solutions to the group’s problems, Johnson said. Erika Wilson, an assistant professor of law at UNC who worked with DNU at the clinic, explained that both the group itself as well as individual residents might be able to bring a private nuisance claim against the landlords or particular students for violating the legal right to enjoy their property. Johnson said the goal of a lawsuit would not be financial recompense, but rather to get students to cease their disruptive behavior. Although DNU does not currently have any plans to pursue legal action, Johnson said that many frustrated community members are continuing to look for potential solutions. “This is a situation that has been ongoing, and there are a lot of people who are deeply disturbed by it,” she said. “Legal remedies are there as a potential way to push it to a head. It wouldn’t surprise me as we move forward if we see a lot of people come up with creative ways to sue around this issue.”

The city’s response In addition to working with the University, Johnson said that DNU is looking into city ordinances that are applicable to off-campus fraternity houses. Bo Dobrzenski, planning supervisor at the Durham City-County Planning Department, wrote in an email that the two ordinances most relevant to off-campus fraternity houses are found in the Unified Development Ordinance. According to the UDO, no more than three unrelated people can live in one dwelling unit, and fraternity houses are required to have a minor special use permit in order to operate. Dobrzenski confirmed that two houses have been found illegally operating as fraternity houses but that such usage has been discontinued. He also noted that other houses with ties to fraternities that have chapters at Duke have been investigated. The city often “struggles to be effective” when investigating complaints because it is difficult to prove ordinance violations, “especially if landlords aren’t interested in the issue and students are willing to lie about it,” The Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and senior Moffitt said. Max Schreiber, president of the Interfraternity Council, Having to deal with “party houses” can also declined to comment on the issue. The Chronicle spoke be a distraction from other issues the city has to with Alexander by phone and by email.

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